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Trump Issues New Iranian Deadline · Booker Scott: Truth Be Told

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  Speaker 1: It's 6 Eastern. It's 3 o'clock Pacific.
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  Speaker 2: This is a president of action.
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  Speaker 2: Around the world from the America Out Loud Talk Radio Studios.
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  Speaker 2: If he says he's serious about something, he means it.
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  Speaker 4: It's time for The Truth Be Told with Booker Scott.
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  Speaker 2: The art of the deal may be running out in
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  Speaker 2: the Middle East for Donald Trump. In a lot of ways,
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  Speaker 2: it seems like we were just here two weeks ago.
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  Speaker 2: We had a 48-hour ultimatum then, and we have one
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  Speaker 2: of those now. Tomorrow night, Tuesday night, 8 o'clock Eastern Time,
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  Speaker 2: that is when all hell breaks loose. will break loose,
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  Speaker 2: according to Donald Trump on Easter Sunday morning. I'm Booker.
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  Speaker 2: This is The Truth Be Told. It is a Monday night,
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  Speaker 2: and because of that, we have Matt Palumbo. He always
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  Speaker 2: joins us here for Mondays with Matt. Matt, it was
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  Speaker 2: a busy week. We have another one ahead of us.
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  Speaker 2: It looks like things are a little bit crazy, and
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  Speaker 2: we're going to get into the Iran stuff a little
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  Speaker 2: bit later. How was your Easter?
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  Speaker 1: I guess I'll start on a positive note with Easter.
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  Speaker 1: I had a very good Easter with the family. It
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  Speaker 1: was a nice break from the chaos of the news,
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  Speaker 1: even if it was just for a day. But I
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  Speaker 1: had a very good Easter. I hope you did.
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  Speaker 2: I did. I did. And as I was coming out
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  Speaker 2: of church Sunday morning, I get a text message, and
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  Speaker 2: it's from you. And it happens to be just what
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  Speaker 2: President Trump put out Sunday morning at about 8 o'clock
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  Speaker 2: about this deadline and what is coming on Tuesday night.
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  Speaker 2: That's what we're going to talk about here in just
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. But before we do, I want to
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  Speaker 2: talk about some good news, because there was some good
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  Speaker 2: news yesterday. in last week and over the weekend. Artemis
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  Speaker 2: II lifted off on the way to the moon. It's
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  Speaker 2: almost there. And it's really an incredible story when you
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  Speaker 2: look at Orion. They've had some problems with it. Everything
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  Speaker 2: is going well now with the exception of the toilet.
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  Speaker 2: And I think they may have. What's the problem with
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  Speaker 2: the toilets? We have the Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier.
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  Speaker 2: The toilets are messed up on it. And now we
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  Speaker 2: have Artemis II with a mess up there. But it's
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  Speaker 2: great to see America leading again, going to a place
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  Speaker 2: that no human has ever been, and that's on the
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  Speaker 2: dark side of the moon.
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  Speaker 1: Yep. Yeah, I think it's awesome. And liberals and this
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  Speaker 1: is actually also true during the first moon landing. The
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  Speaker 1: reaction from the left was one of why are we
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  Speaker 1: wasting money on stuff like this when we could be
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  Speaker 1: feeding the poor? It's any any advancement, any show of
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  Speaker 1: greatness is just reduced to why couldn't we instead just
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  Speaker 1: have the government waste the money? And I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: It's just to me is such a. loser-ish kind of view.
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  Speaker 1: If we all had that mindset, there would never be
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  Speaker 1: any scientific advancement, quite frankly, ever. And to make the
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  Speaker 1: obvious point, the problem with the poor in this country
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  Speaker 1: is actually they eat too much so that they're not
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  Speaker 1: being fed. So I don't know. It's just bizarre to
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  Speaker 1: see that kind of demoralization in response to what is
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  Speaker 1: such an amazing key of humanity.
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  Speaker 2: I was watching over the weekend. It seems that on
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  Speaker 2: the backside of the moon, the dark side of the
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  Speaker 2: moon from the Earth.
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  Speaker 1: Good album.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is an album, too, by Eric Clapton. I
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  Speaker 2: had it. I had it on cassette back in 1984,
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  Speaker 2: I believe. The Dark Side of the Moon, Eric Clapton.
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  Speaker 2: Look it up. Some good songs on that album. But
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  Speaker 2: there are a lot of craters on the backside of
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  Speaker 2: the moon because it sort of works as a shield
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  Speaker 2: to prevent Earth from being hit by asteroids in space.
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  Speaker 2: And it is that that they want to take a
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  Speaker 2: look at for building, you know, to go to Mars,
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  Speaker 2: to build a space station there on the moon in
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  Speaker 2: the future. And when it comes to exploration, I think
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  Speaker 2: that's the way humans are built. We're always looking for
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  Speaker 2: the next thing, for future. If we hadn't, America wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: even be here. People hadn't looked for a new world.
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  Speaker 2: It's just in our nature. It's not going to stop.
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  Speaker 2: So whether you're left or right, conservative or liberal, it
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  Speaker 2: really doesn't matter. That's human nature. It doesn't have anything
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  Speaker 2: to do with politics.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and the thing, too, about scientific advancement is you
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  Speaker 1: don't know what you're going to discover until you discover it. Like,
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  Speaker 1: the fruits of space exploration are things that are probably beyond, like,
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  Speaker 1: are just things that we're never going to be able
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  Speaker 1: to imagine you and I sitting here. But for people
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  Speaker 1: 100 years from now, are going to be things that
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  Speaker 1: are taken for granted. So, no, it's an awesome thing. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, good news last week.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. It was a good news. I'm a
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  Speaker 2: guy that grew up with Apollo. I was a little
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  Speaker 2: kid when Mercury was going on and Apollo as well.
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  Speaker 2: But I remember my mom taking me to see a
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  Speaker 2: Mercury space capsule that had gone to orbit the Earth
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  Speaker 2: and splashed down. And I got to see it in
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  Speaker 2: person and it made a huge impression on me. And
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  Speaker 2: I saw him walk on the moon the last time. So,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's a part of my life. I think
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  Speaker 2: that people my age are sort of a space generation
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  Speaker 2: because we grew up with it. And it was great
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  Speaker 2: to see Artemis II blast off, show American power, ingenuity,
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  Speaker 2: because in reality, that is one of America's greatest resources.
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  Speaker 2: Our dollar doesn't have to be backed by gold or
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  Speaker 2: anything else when we have incredible resources and ingenuity. And
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  Speaker 2: that was what was on display last week with Artemis,
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  Speaker 2: and we'll continue to watch that as they come back
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  Speaker 2: to the Earth here. But incredible pictures, too, of the Earth.
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  Speaker 2: For those flat Earthers out there, you know, you can't
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  Speaker 2: look at that picture and really believe that there is
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  Speaker 2: a flat Earth. And by the way... What about this
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  Speaker 2: missing general out in Nevada? Have you seen that at all?
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  Speaker 2: This guy that was involved with the aliens in Nevada
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  Speaker 2: for years?
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  Speaker 1: No, but I was going to comment on the Flat
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  Speaker 1: Earth conspiracy. No one's ever explained what the government has
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  Speaker 1: in it for them by covering it up. What would
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  Speaker 1: the government be protecting by hiding the fact that we
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  Speaker 1: have a flat Earth? It's never been explained.
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  Speaker 2: I think people just love conspiracy theories. And this missing
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  Speaker 2: general out there, he's retired now, but he was heavily
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  Speaker 2: involved in aliens. Area 51 for all of these years. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the conspiracy theorists on that side of things that believe
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  Speaker 2: that there are aliens, they think that he was abducted
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  Speaker 2: or something, or someone took him because he was going
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  Speaker 2: to release information. His wife has come out and said, well,
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  Speaker 2: he left his glasses here, he left his wallet, and
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  Speaker 2: he took a 38 with him. So he was leaving.
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  Speaker 1: Well, up until then, I was going to say, it
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  Speaker 1: sounds like an alien abduction based on those first two facts. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no. But let's stay here. Let's stay here
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  Speaker 2: with some good news, because Friday, F-15E was shot down
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  Speaker 2: in Iran in the conflict there. And quickly, within hours,
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  Speaker 2: the pilot was recovered. But then we had, for 48 hours...
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  Speaker 2: the colonel that was sitting behind the pilot, he was
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  Speaker 2: the weapons specialist there on that F-15. He was missing
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  Speaker 2: for 48 hours, and we had an incredible rescue over
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  Speaker 2: the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and the fact, too, that Like Iran couldn't get
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  Speaker 1: to a guy like that in their own country within
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  Speaker 1: two days of having time to try to take him
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  Speaker 1: out does also attest to the fact that they really
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  Speaker 1: have no standing in the war. They have no real
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  Speaker 1: ability to fight back against us. So I guess it's
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  Speaker 1: good news there, although, you know, we're going to have
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  Speaker 1: to transfer. You know, transition into discussing the fact that
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  Speaker 1: the conflict is going on quite a bit longer than
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  Speaker 1: I think any of us expected, and the costs are
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  Speaker 1: beginning to pile up to the fact where I think
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  Speaker 1: it is going to be damaging to us, unfortunately.
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  Speaker 2: The exact circumstances of the rescue, they still remain unclear. Evidently,
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  Speaker 2: he was injured somehow, but he also managed to get
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  Speaker 2: up about 7,000 feet onto a mountain. And there were
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  Speaker 2: hundreds of American troops that went in, a lot of planes,
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  Speaker 2: helicopters that went in to rescue them. We did lose
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  Speaker 2: a C-135 transport plane there. The American troops that were
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  Speaker 2: on the ground inside Iran, which this actually happened a
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  Speaker 2: lot further in in Iran than they thought. It was
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  Speaker 2: western Iran, close to Iraq, but yet it was a
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  Speaker 2: little bit further east than where everybody thought it was
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  Speaker 2: going to be. And there were hundreds of special forces,
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  Speaker 2: as well as dozens of U.S. fighter jets, helicopters. They
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  Speaker 2: were all involved on that. And we got the news
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  Speaker 2: early Sunday morning. President Donald Trump, he goes to social
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  Speaker 2: media and he says, we have rescued the seriously wounded,
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  Speaker 2: is the words that he used. and really brave F-15
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  Speaker 2: crew member officer from deep inside the mountains of Iran.
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  Speaker 2: And like I said, we don't know exactly how he's
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  Speaker 2: going to be, how injured he was, but we're going
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  Speaker 2: to find out over the next few days. But really,
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  Speaker 2: an incredible rescue mission, some good news there. I believe
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  Speaker 2: as we start this hour, we've got Artemis and we've
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  Speaker 2: got that. But I think, again, it shows the military
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  Speaker 2: force and capabilities. The CIA was involved here in rescuing
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  Speaker 2: this weapons specialist from the F-15. So another good news
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  Speaker 2: story here coming out of the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and now for some bad news.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we have to talk about it. I mentioned that
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  Speaker 2: coming out of church Sunday, you sent me a text,
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  Speaker 2: and you sent me the text that Donald Trump put
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  Speaker 2: out at about the same time that the women would
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  Speaker 2: have been at the tomb of Jesus 1,993 years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: I heard on Good Friday, in our sermon on Good Friday,
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  Speaker 2: that according to the calendars and research and a couple
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  Speaker 2: of guys that have done research on it, and written
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  Speaker 2: a book that it was actually April 3rd, which was Friday,
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  Speaker 2: and April 5th, 5th, Easter, would have been the day
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  Speaker 2: that the tomb was empty. So at about the same
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  Speaker 2: time the women were there, you know, discovering that Jesus
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  Speaker 2: was gone, Donald Trump puts out that post. And I
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  Speaker 2: have to tell you, when you sent that to me,
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  Speaker 2: you didn't say anything. You just sent a screenshot of
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  Speaker 2: the post. No, I said, oh, man. Oh, you did, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I read it probably three or four times, and
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  Speaker 2: it really bothered me. I have to say it bothered
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  Speaker 2: me a lot.
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  Speaker 3: It, um.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there are times Trump says things where I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: all right, this is going to be a challenge to defend,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm up for the task. This one is definitely
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  Speaker 1: a little more challenging than average. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: you want to read it first. And just to be clear,
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  Speaker 1: this is not like a parody thing. He actually said this.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Matt, I have this from Jake Tapper in CNN.
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  Speaker 2: And I want to warn everybody listening that if you
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  Speaker 2: have children around, I did not edit this. This, they're
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  Speaker 2: going to be the words of the president of the
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  Speaker 2: United States who put this out 8 a.m. on Easter Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Here is the piece from CNN.
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  Speaker 6: Children are watching. Be warned, the president did not use
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  Speaker 6: polite language. Quote, Tuesday will be power plant day and
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  Speaker 6: bridge day, all wrapped up in one in Iran. There
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  Speaker 6: will be nothing like it. Open the fucking straight, you
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  Speaker 6: crazy bastards, or you'll be living in hell.
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  Speaker 2: Just watch.
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  Speaker 6: We should note that destroying civilian power infrastructure is generally
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  Speaker 6: considered to constitute a war crime under international law, though
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  Speaker 6: the president could argue that the infrastructure has dual use and.
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  Speaker 2: Also is utilized by Iran's military. And we kind of
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  Speaker 2: talked about that last week, Matt, if he does go
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  Speaker 2: after these targets. I think this points to something else, though.
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  Speaker 2: To me, it looks like desperation. You know, is the
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  Speaker 2: art of the deal working with these people that have
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  Speaker 2: an ideology that only believe in putting fear in people
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  Speaker 2: and killing people, and they're doing it for a higher power, which,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, Jake Tapper didn't read this, but Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump put at the end of that post, all praise Allah.
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  Speaker 2: What the hell was that?
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  Speaker 1: Not smart.
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  Speaker 2: Not smart. I would say, Matt, that's how I would
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  Speaker 2: say it. Not smart at all because they take their
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  Speaker 2: religion very seriously to the point of chanting death to
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  Speaker 2: America for 47 years. Not only that, but it's very
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  Speaker 2: disrespectful to the Arab nations that happen to be our
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  Speaker 2: allies right now because they take that religion very seriously
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  Speaker 2: as well. I was not happy about it at all.
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  Speaker 2: I think Donald Trump is desperate here. He doesn't know
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  Speaker 2: how to get out of this. You mentioned earlier that
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  Speaker 2: we thought this was going to last four to six weeks.
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  Speaker 2: I still believe it's going to be over pretty quickly.
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  Speaker 2: I really do, Matt. But what's going to be left?
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  Speaker 2: What is going to be left? Because now everybody in
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  Speaker 2: the world is paying attention to Donald Trump and America
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  Speaker 2: and what we're going to do. If we leave quickly,
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  Speaker 2: the Strait of Hormuz is going to open. Would you
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  Speaker 2: agree with that? I mean, if we get out of
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  Speaker 2: the way, it's going to open.
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  Speaker 1: To be fair to Trump, when I saw gas prices today,
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  Speaker 1: I repeated what he said and said, open up the
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  Speaker 1: F-ing Strait of Hormuz already. So I see where he's
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  Speaker 1: coming from there. Yeah, I mean, I agree. It would...
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  Speaker 1: open up then. But no, I'm not really sure what
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  Speaker 1: the strategy is supposed to be. And I think it
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  Speaker 1: was on this show we were talking about when Trump
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  Speaker 1: pushed back the deadline. Was that because they're making progress,
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  Speaker 1: they have to iron out the details, or was he
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  Speaker 1: bluffing the first time and now we're trying to come
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  Speaker 1: up with something else? And I guess maybe there's more
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  Speaker 1: points to the second, unfortunately.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you may be right, but... I hope I'm not right. Yeah, well,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I sense that Donald Trump wants out.
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  Speaker 2: He knows that he needs to get out for gas prices,
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  Speaker 2: for the midterm election, because he knows he's going to
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  Speaker 2: be impeached if things don't turn out right. And we'll
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  Speaker 2: talk about the midterm election later in this hour. But
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  Speaker 2: I think he needs to get out, and I think
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  Speaker 2: he knows that. However, if you do not finish the
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  Speaker 2: job at this point in American history and world history,
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  Speaker 2: and you leave that regime there in charge, what they
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  Speaker 2: have learned, I believe, what they have learned is that
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  Speaker 2: they have more power in the Strait of Hormuz for
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  Speaker 2: the global economy than they would ever have with one
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  Speaker 2: or two nuclear weapons. They now know that all they
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  Speaker 2: have to do is shut down the Strait of Hormuz
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  Speaker 2: and the entire world gets rocked with their global economy.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think about that?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that is the unfortunate reality.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it is.
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  Speaker 1: Trump really does then have to use force to at
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  Speaker 1: least make their consequences for them doing that. So thank
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  Speaker 1: God I'm not in charge of foreign policy in this
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  Speaker 1: country or else it'll be screwed.
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  Speaker 2: It would be bad.
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  Speaker 1: I want to get out quickly, but also he needs
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  Speaker 1: to annihilate them in some way so they know those consequences.
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  Speaker 1: That's the strategy of both.
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  Speaker 2: And I think the regime has to be gone. And
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  Speaker 2: I think that they will have to come from the
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  Speaker 2: people of Iran. I've talked about that a lot. That's
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  Speaker 2: how it has to happen. But if that is not done,
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  Speaker 2: if that is not a consequence... of what America has
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  Speaker 2: done and what Donald Trump has done here in this action,
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  Speaker 2: then nothing is going to change. They can shut down
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  Speaker 2: the Strait of Hormuz whenever they want to. By the way,
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  Speaker 2: the spot oil last week, Brent, was up to 140.
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  Speaker 2: Spot is about a two to three week delivery. It's
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  Speaker 2: already on a tanker somewhere. It's waiting to find out
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  Speaker 2: where it needs to go. It's $ 140 for Brent. West
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  Speaker 2: Texas was at about $ 112, $ 115. So our prices are
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  Speaker 2: not coming down for a while, regardless of what happens here.
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  Speaker 2: And when it happens, it's going to be a while.
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  Speaker 2: And as you said, you said the same thing Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump did when you filled up gas. Gas is over
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  Speaker 2: $ 4 a gallon now. And not only that, but I
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  Speaker 2: was having a conversation with a brother-in-law over Easter. We
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  Speaker 2: were having dinner together. and he's a contractor, and he
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  Speaker 2: was talking about filling his gas up in his truck.
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  Speaker 2: Every day it's costing $ 200, but the price of a
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  Speaker 2: 2x4 has gone from $ 2. 75 to $ 4.
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  Speaker 4: 20.
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  Speaker 2: So inflation in everything is going to start coming up
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  Speaker 2: as a result of the higher gas prices. Donald Trump
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  Speaker 2: knows this, and everything that he's been working for economically–
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  Speaker 2: is in trouble as long as this continues. I think
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  Speaker 2: he is looking for a way out. I just don't
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  Speaker 2: think he knows how to right now. What do you think?
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  Speaker 1: I'm holding out hope he has a strategy or at
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  Speaker 1: least those around him do. But yeah, I still believe
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  Speaker 1: in that.
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  Speaker 2: And again, I don't want people to think that I'm blackpilling.
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  Speaker 2: It's just as a Christian, looking at that text that
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  Speaker 2: you sent me, walking out of church on Sunday morning,
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  Speaker 2: it really bothered me. It really bothered me that the
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  Speaker 2: president of the United States put that post out. It
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  Speaker 2: bothered me as a Christian. It bothered me for our
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  Speaker 2: allies there in the Gulf Arab nations. And I started
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  Speaker 2: this hour with the art of the deal. I think
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump has always bullied people. to get his way.
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  Speaker 2: And that is the art of his deal. You have
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: to have the leverage to negotiate. I don't understand why
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: we have ever offered to negotiate with these people to
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: begin with. We don't negotiate with terrorists has been our
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: motto forever. And since 1984, Iran has been a state
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: sponsor of terrorism. Every president agrees with that. And so
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: why do you think you can bully Iran and, at
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: this point, because they lie. That's what they do. And
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: it was very frustrating to see. But one more. I'm
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: going to play one more clip before we go into
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: the break. Because this was Leland Vedderd with, of all people,
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: John Bolton is their expert on Iran. I know John
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: Bolton has 18 counts against him for stealing classified information
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: and then transferring that classified information by email. That's John Bolton.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: He's waiting for a trial and he's going to prison.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: But yet, I guess News Nation sees him as a
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: credible voice. Anyway, he makes a point here. And let's
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: listen to Leland Vedert and John Bolton.
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: National Security Advisor during Trump 1.0, Ambassador John Bolton.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Welcome back to the program, sir.
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: As President Trump describes it, the U.S. military can do
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: whatever it wants.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: Basically, we've achieved victory over the Iranian military.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Is that good enough?
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: Well, I don't think it is with the Strait of
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: Hormuz closed. I think the evidence that this threat, long-time
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: threat of closing the strait, closing the Gulf itself to
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: maritime traffic, when you see the real effect of it,
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: the dramatic impact on the global economy, this tells the
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: Ayatollahs and the Revolutionary Guard in Tehran that they can
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: do that any time they want.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Something else that's happening here is Iran is being watched
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: by Russia and China. They're going to see what happens here,
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: what Donald Trump does at the end of this conflict.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Is he going to see it through and finish it?
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Because they're paying attention to it because of Taiwan and
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: because of Ukraine. So it has many more implications than
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: just getting out of there. Donald Trump, I think, has
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: to do what he says he's going to do. The
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: bluff is not going to work. So we'll wait until
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Tuesday night to see that. Something else Jake Tapper said
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: a few minutes ago that when I played that clip,
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: he talked about the illegal acts that it could be
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: in blowing up the infrastructure. And of course, he said
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: that Donald Trump could make the argument that it has
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: dual purposes. And I think you made the same argument
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: last week. However, we have Pete Hexeth that has fired
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: 12 generals lately in the Pentagon. And this goes back
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: to taking illegal orders. I have seen talking heads over
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: the weekend that said, well, maybe there'll be some generals
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: that say, we're not doing that. We're not going to
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: blow up the bridges. We're not going to blow up
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: the electrical grid because that is against international law. And
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: we're not going to do that. And then that gets
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: me back to what I've talked about for months now
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: that The Seditious Six, and they did the video about,
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: you know, don't follow illegal orders. I believe that's the
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: impeachment play for Donald Trump coming up after the midterms
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: and after January next year. We're going to have more
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: of this conversation coming up in minutes.
• 20:29
  Speaker 7: We pray for rain and thank him when it's falling
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: because it brings a grain and a little bit of money.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: We put it back in the plate.
• 20:38
  Speaker 7: I guess that's why they call it God's country.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: More Truth Be Told with Booker Scott in minutes on
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: America Out Loud. Someone asked me the other day, how
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: do you even get a sense of what's going to
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: happen next? It's hard. I don't know that we can,
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: the way the news moves so fast. But you know
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: what I told them? I said, I've been checking out
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: Poly Market a little bit. It's extremely insightful. You're basically
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: watching how thousands of people are betting on outcomes. Political elections,
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: big policy moves, even events you wouldn't expect. It's kind
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: of like a live pulse on what the public actually believes.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: And you can see trends before they even happen and
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: before they even make the mainstream news. For me, it's
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: not about gambling. It's about understanding the probabilities and where
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: the momentum is shifting. If you like or love the
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: news like I do, maybe you're a news junkie, but
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: you want to take a little deeper look at what
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: people really think, go to Polymarket. It's a fascinating tool. Polymarket.com. Ooh.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Welcome back to The Truth Be Told. I'm Booker Scott
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: with Matt Palumbo here on a Monday night. A busy
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: week last week. We have more of that coming up.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: We talked about the birthright citizenship. We're going to get
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: into a conversation about that briefly here. That oral argument
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: took place last week. It was interesting. We're going to
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: talk about that. But before we do, let's talk about
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: Pam Bondi because it's something that we have talked about
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: for a long time, probably a year. I know I've
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: talked about it really since the name was mentioned by
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump. I never thought she would get the job done.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: She didn't get the job done. What are you reading
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: into this?
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Thank God it's happening. It should have been quite a
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: long time ago. I mean, the second she lied about
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: the whole Epstein files on my desk and did that
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: whole stunt where she gave binders to influencers and told
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: them to hold them up. And, you know, we were
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: supposed to get the impression the files had been released.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, just that stunt alone I thought was discrediting,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: and if she's going to lie about something like that,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: what else is she going to do? It seems that
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: the straw that broke the camel's back here was that
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: she had tipped off Eric Swalwell to the investigation or
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: the investigation to his associations with Feng Feng, the Chinese spy.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: So that, I mean, that too is disqualifying if you're
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: going to help the other side for obvious reasons, and
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: it is funny in that someone observed that to work
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: for Trump, you have to be like a bit of
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: a sycophant, but you can't be too much of a
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: sycophant or else he loses all respect for you. And
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: that basically perfectly describes the downfall of Marjorie Taylor Greene
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: and Pam Bondi. Took it a little too far, and
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: then we're also kind of betraying him at the same
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: time with that public face. It's a bizarre combination to
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: see from someone, but thank God they're both gone.
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: Oh, something else that happened at the end of last
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: week was Kristi Noem, who is another one that got
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: shipped out of DHS. I don't know what she's doing now.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: She's doing something in Central America, South America. Yeah, they
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: absolutely did. And by the way, last week, Corey Lewandowski
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: and her, they took a trip down there on a
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: government plane. Lewandowski, no longer a special government employee. As
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: he stretched that, you're only supposed to work 130 days
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: a year. Evidently, he was sneaking in in the car
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: of Kristi Noem and then you know, going around the
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: checkpoints to get around those 130 hours. So Lewandowski is out.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: Kristi Noem is still in, sort of. Meanwhile, her husband is... Uh-oh.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah. There's a big development here, folks. I'll let you
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: do the honors of explaining what exactly happened.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to do that. Okay.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: But it is.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: What did you call it? A big what? It's a
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: couple of big problems.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Bimbofication?
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, bimbofication. I had never heard of that word. Evidently,
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: it's a fetish. In the case of her husband, he
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: spent about $ 5, 000 with very, very large prosthetic breasts. He
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: did this online with the girl that was charging him
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: $ 20 a minute.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: You know, who turned out to be an illegal alien
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: who I don't know how she knew that was Kristi
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Noem's husband. But she she turned she revealed it to
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: get revenge against Kristi Noem for heading the DHS. So
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: I don't I don't know what the odds of some
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: like online bimbo Spanish person knowing who he is. Well,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: the odds that I was even I didn't know who
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: he was. No. So maybe, I don't know if she
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: just Googles every client she has or if he somehow
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: mentioned it or what.
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: Well, it just dawned on me. Maybe she saw him
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: in the hearing that Kristi Noem was in. And it
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: was a few weeks ago and he was behind her.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: And then maybe that's how she put it together. She said, well,
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: wait a minute. That's the guy with the big boobs.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: And there's really no other way to say it, unfortunately.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: But that's what he did. That's what he was into.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: And that, you know, I put this out on a
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: post over the weekend. If you had this on your
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: bingo card. that Kristi Noem's husband would have a better
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: rack than she would, then you win it. You win
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: all of the conspiracy theories because nobody saw that one coming.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: Let's get back.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: I had a parlay on Kristi Noem's husband being into
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: bifurcation and Trump praising Allah on YouTube. So I turned
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: a dollar into $ 10 million.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: I would imagine that would pay that kind of money.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Praising Allah, our president, praising Allah. Don't get me going
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: back there. Because I did pretty good. I was hot
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: about it Sunday on Easter, and I think I've calmed
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: down a little bit the last 24 hours.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: My dad was pretty bothered by it, too.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Was he really?
• 26:42
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: It was just very, I don't know what the guy
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: was thinking, but trouble's making. Me either.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: I get the phone out of his hand sometimes. Absolutely.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: This was uncalled for, but we're going back there. I
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: want to stay here on Pam Bondi. That's where we're
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: talking about things. Who's in? Who's going to be the
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: new Attorney General? Right now, we have Todd Blanche, and
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Blanche has 210 days is how long an acting Attorney
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: General can be in that job. Trump did this before
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: when Jeff Sessions left. He named Matt Whitaker as a
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: temporary before he got Bill Barr as the Attorney General. Hopefully,
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: we don't get anybody like Bill Barr again, but We
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: have Todd Blanche there. Now we have Harmeet Dhillon. And
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: one of the first names that pops up is Lee Zeldin,
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: who is in the EPA. Yeah, I do too. And
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: I think he would be good. The problem is he's
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: done a hell of a job right where he is.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: The deregulation that he has done 10 to 1 in
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: that agency is going to make a huge difference. I
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: think we're going to start seeing it the back half
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: of this year. As a guy in administration, he's done
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: a phenomenal job. His experience as an attorney was a
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: JAG attorney in the reserves in the military for 20 years.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: I don't know if that translates to attorney general, but
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: I love Lee Zeldin. I think he did a great
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: job in the House. I think he ran a great
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: race against Hochul last time. He was within three points.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: It's unheard of in New York.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: In New York.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: And he also took along about five seats in the House.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: When he ran such a good race in New York.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: So I like Lee Zeldin a lot. I just don't know.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: You know, the name that pops up for me is
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: the name that I've mentioned for well over a year.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: And that's Andrew Bailey. And Andrew Bailey is the deputy
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: director of the FBI now. He was the attorney general
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: in Missouri that had incredible success in suing Joe Biden.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: If not for Andrew Bailey, so many of the things
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: that Joe Biden was trying to accomplish would have been accomplished.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: But it was him. It was Andrew Bailey. And before him,
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: it was Eric Schmidt, who is now a senator out
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: of the state of Missouri. And I don't think he's
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: going to be considered for because he just won a
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: race for six years, two years ago. So he's got
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: four years to go. I don't think he's going to
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: get out to, to wrestle with that. But Andrew Bailey
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: would be a good one. I think what are other
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: names that you're considering or thought about? Has anything popped
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: into your head?
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah. My number one pick is Matt Gates. Yeah, sure.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: He still has to get confirmed, you know?
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Nevermind that. Well, I think I'm acting for a hundred,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: 130 something days. That'll be good. Um, No, I actually
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: haven't given it very much thought. But whoever it is,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: we need someone who's kind of like a nut job
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: or at least is. But when I say nut job,
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: like someone who is like rhetorically speaking about like locking
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: up our enemies just to the left nose, like they
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: spent a decade doing it to us. There needs to
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: be some sort of. pushback finally. And we haven't really
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: seen anything near as much as I think we actually want.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: We haven't really had the success as we want. So like, yeah,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: I want a scorched earth kind of guy.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: We've had no success, Matt, when it comes to the
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: Department of Justice. And I think that we are seeing
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: that in all of these elections. I think Donald Trump's
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: base is frustrated. Things have not gone like they thought
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: they would. There is no accountability for John Bolton, for
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: John Brennan. And by the way, those are still under
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: investigation in the grand jury down in South Florida. Jack
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: Smith and Arctic Frost, all of that is happening in
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: South Florida in a grand jury. But something needs to
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: happen before the midterms. Somebody needs to be perp-walked and
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: leg-shackled like Biden's DOJ did to Donald Trump's former people
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: like Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon. That needs to happen
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: because that will energize the base again for Donald Trump.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: I think he knew that, and I think that's part
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: of the reason why Pam Bondi is gone at this point.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: I think he knew, we've got to get some wins here.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: Nothing is working. Letitia James was a slam dunk. Should
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: have been easy, and it, you know, wasn't. James Comey
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: was another one. It should have been easy, but it wasn't.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: There were missteps there by Pam Bondi with Halligan, Lindsay Halligan,
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: in appointing her. So I think the base needs some
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: wins here. And I think that a good attorney general
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: and I don't know who it is. I think Andrew
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: Bailey would be a good one. I thought when he
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: went into the FBI, I thought maybe he was there
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: as a placeholder for when Donald Trump got ready to
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: do this. Evidently, Susie Wiles, you know, contrary to what
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: had been reported, she was supportive of getting rid of
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: Bondi a while ago. And that came out recently, and
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: you remember her Vanity Fair interview. She put a lot
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: of it on Pam Bondi just like we did with
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: the Epstein files. I really believe the Epstein files would
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: not have been a noose around Trump's neck for the
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: last year if it was not for Pam Bondi doing
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: what she did on Fox News with John Roberts and
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: then what you talked about with the influencers, the conservative influencers,
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: giving them binders of stuff everybody already knew. It didn't
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: help anything, and I think that the base needs some accountability.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Speaking of the Binders, Mike Cernovich said he was part
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: of that. He got invited in with him and the Binders,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: and he said they were told by Bondi there was
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: no new information, even though they were all supposed to
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: be getting this impression that it was. So... It's just
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: a bizarre thing to give them the binders and go, OK,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: by the way, I really summoned you here for no reason.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: There's no new information, but go ahead and pretend there is.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: It was just a total disaster. And now we're in
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: this news cycle where if Trump attacks Iran, then the
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: narrative becomes it's a distract from the Epstein files. And
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: it's ironic because the Epstein files are becoming the distraction themselves.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: Did I send you that meme of an F-15 that
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: had been downed in the desert? and it had Epstein
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: files stacked up. Okay, I wasn't sure if I said
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: that to you or not. Pam Bondi, by the way,
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: she went to Stetson Law in St. Petersburg, Florida, where
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: I am. And local news here, they are going after
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: Pam Bondi. They want Stetson Law to come out and
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: denounce her. Here's a news story from Tampa Bay. Pam Bondi,
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: out as U.S. Attorney General.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: And now pressure continues to mount on the campus of
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: Stetson Law in Gulfport.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: Where Bondi earned her law degree in 1990.
• 33:20
  Speaker 8: If we're going to invest in the long-term value of
• 33:22
  Speaker 8: our degrees and the standing of our law school, the
• 33:27
  Speaker 8: dean of the law school needs to make a public
• 33:30
  Speaker 8: comment at this point.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: They want a public comment from the dean at Stetson
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: Law about Pam Bondi. It's sort of amazing. I have
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: my opinion about her. I have since the beginning, but
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: it wouldn't go that far. What's the big deal about having...
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: an opinion from the dean at Stetson Law, say anything
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: about Pam Bondi? What does that do?
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Well, they're going to try to get him to denounce her,
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: and then if it does, then he becomes a target,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: and he knows that, so he's incentivized to denounce her,
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: I guess, is the, I don't know, the angle there
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: from there. It's just like cultural revolution type stuff, where
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: you endlessly have to get people's opinions on things as
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: a form of purity test.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: Well, you mentioned Eric Swalwell. I have a clip of
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: him coming up here in just a minute talking about
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: how Donald Trump is weaponizing the Department of Justice, which
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: is gold to me. And before we do, I want
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: to play this meme. It's a short one. It's about
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: 30 seconds. But this is Donald Trump singing about releasing
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: Pam Bondi.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: Another one bites the dust. Another one bites the dust.
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: Another one goes and another one goes.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: Another one bites the dust.
• 34:46
  Speaker 9: You remember when she made that comment in the hearing?
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: I thought that was funny. So Pam Bondi is gone.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump says she's moving on to private practice that
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: will really help the administration. I think that's just being nice.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: But let's go to Eric Swalwell because He is talking
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: about the weaponization that Donald Trump is doing with the DOJ.
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: And it's not just all that's going to come out
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: on Epstein. It's all going to come out on how
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: they've weaponized the Department of Justice against the president's political opponents.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: And so to the.
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: FBI agents who are being asked to break the law
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: every single day, what we want to make clear, and
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: I know this comes from Jamie Raskin and Robert Garcia,
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: who will have the subpoena power next Congress, you will
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: be protected if you come forward right now. If you
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: do not come forward right now and you enable more
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: corruption on Epstein or the weaponization, you will be before
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: Congress and it will all come out.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: What evidence do you have that the FBI agents are
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: being asked to break the law every single day? Listen
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: to his answer.
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: This Washington Post reporting and New York Times reporting. that
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: they are being asked to essentially collude with the Chinese
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: government to interfere in the California governor's race. We've heard
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: about the efforts to fire FBI agents.
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: And, Matt, that's been the damn problem with the Democrats
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: ever since 2017 and the impeachments of Donald Trump. Their
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: only evidence, and they did this January 6, too. The
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: only evidence they use is the New York Times or
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: the Washington Post. They're not using real evidence that is corroborated.
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: But here he is trying to find another Eric Caramella
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: to come forward and be protected at all costs, to
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: be a whistleblower, to go against Donald Trump after the
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: Democrats take power a year from now in January 2027. Yeah,
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: and isn't he running for governor of California?
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: He is. He is, okay. Well, it's not to go
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: off topic, but he mentioned that. The way it works
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: in California is they're having a primary right now, and
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: the top two winners advance to the general election. But
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: when the California Democrats designed the system, they kind of
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: assumed it would always just be two Democrats that win
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: the primary and then go face off against each other.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: So Right now, the two frontrunners are actually Republicans, and
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: they're only getting like 16 or 17 percent of the poll.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: There's 28 people running. There's so many people running.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: Because it's like 10 people running. So the Democrat vote
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: is split, is so fractured that two Republicans are actually
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: right now looking like they're favored to win with less
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: than 20 percent of the vote each. And then you
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: have a California governor's race where it's two Republicans against
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: each other because California never made it. So the primary
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: is specific by like which party is first or second.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: So it is possible that it's going to be two
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Republicans versus like some right off Democrat in that race.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: But to go back to his point, so that's a
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: funny aside. I, you know, if Trump is weaponized in
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: the Department of Justice, God, I hope Swalwell is right
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: that he is because. That is what we voted for.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: And as we were saying in the last segment, that's
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: exactly what the base wants.
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: Well, at this point, if he is weaponizing the Department
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: of Justice, he sucks at it because nobody has been arrested.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: Nobody has been put in leg shackles. Nobody has been convicted.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: So if that is the case, then he sucks at it.
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: And getting back to that California race, Steve Hilton is leading.
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: Sheriff Chad Bianco is second right now. Those are the
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: two Republicans that are leading the California primaries in the
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: polls right now. It may not end that way. Eric Swalwell,
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: we were just talking about him. He is in third
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: right now in those same polls. We have more of
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: the conversation coming up. We're going to get into birthright citizenship.
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• 39:47
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• 39:54
  Speaker 2: Booker Scott here with Matt Palumbo. Matt, we talked about
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: birthright citizenship last week. We heard the oral arguments last week.
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: What do you think coming out of that? What's your
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: gut tell you?
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: Well, I thought Trump's lawyers did a good job. I
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: thought Katonji Brown Jackson once again made a fool of herself.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: I thought the ACLU lawyers declamed themselves, but... The consensus
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: seems to be the opposite, that based on the questions
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: the judges were asking and the responses, that they are
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: going to uphold birthright citizenship. I mean, Amy Coney Barrett,
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: which I thought was depressing, had concerns about how complicated
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: it would be for people who are– like how complicated
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: it would be if you were born here to illegals
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: or if you were someone who was just born and
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: got citizenship. How would that work out? And all these
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: things that I think are kind of irrelevant to– whether
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: or not it should exist. And then on polymarket, it's
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: basically right now 96% that birthright citizenship gets upheld, which
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: is an insane percentage. So it's very depressing because it
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: is one of the most destructive policies we have in
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: effect right now. And we've talked about in the past
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: why we don't think it's in the Constitution. One of
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: the men who crafted the 14th Amendment himself said that
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: it's not.
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: Supposed to apply to people whose parents are not citizens.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: And I don't know what the court's ruling is going
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: to be when they win or if they uphold it.
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: Well, there are a couple of things here. And I've
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: said for a year that I did not think that
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: this was going to work. I thought that this would
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: be one of the few, and it's interesting that it
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: is one of the few that Donald Trump would lose
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: because his record in the Supreme Court, 24 wins, four losses.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: That's pretty good. And I point that out because so
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: many people get frustrated at judges like Boasberg and all
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: these activist judges, and they think the judicial system is
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: not working. I think it is working because that 24-4
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: record that Donald Trump has in the Supreme Court, ultimately
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: the Supreme Court has to decide. Everything is not black
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: and white in law, and I think people think that
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: it is. If it were, you wouldn't need a Supreme Court,
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: if it was that simple, because there is interpretation. And
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: I think the interesting part about this birthright citizenship argument
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: is typically the conservative justices, they really rely on what
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: the previous courts have said, the precedents. What has the
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: precedent been? And the precedent in the court has been
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: that if you're born in America, you are an American.
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: So you're going to ask them to go against what
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: they normally do. But also, ironically, the liberal judges are
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: going directly by the word of the 14th Amendment, which
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: normally they stretch and go the opposite direction and create
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: their own. So it's kind of weird that these justices
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: are doing the opposite or being asked to do the
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: opposite of what they normally would do in this case.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I am going to be curious to read the
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: court's ruling to see what did I miss and I
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: got it wrong. I really just thought it was so
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: clear cut. There's no way this could be upheld.
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: Let's go to some sound. Let's listen to Justice Alito here.
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: He's in this birthright citizenship oral argument. And here he
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: is with the Solicitor General, John Sauer of the White House.
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: Hello.
• 43:10
  Speaker 7: Normally, you would think that a person who is subject
• 43:14
  Speaker 7: to arrest at any time and removal could not establish domicile.
• 43:20
  Speaker 7: But we have an unusual situation here because our immigration
• 43:25
  Speaker 7: laws have been ineffectively and in some instances unenthusiastically enforced
• 43:34
  Speaker 7: by federal officials. So There are people who are subject
• 43:42
  Speaker 7: to removal at any time if they are apprehended and
• 43:46
  Speaker 7: they go through the proper procedures. But they have, in
• 43:52
  Speaker 7: their minds, made a permanent home here and have established roots.
• 43:58
  Speaker 7: And that raises a humanitarian problem. And I wonder if
• 44:02
  Speaker 7: you could address that.
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: If I may, one legal and one humanitarian.
• 44:06
  Speaker 10: The legal point is if you look at those cases,
• 44:08
  Speaker 10: for example, Carson against Reed, Park against Barr, this court's
• 44:11
  Speaker 10: decisions in Elkins and Toll against Marino, they talk about
• 44:14
  Speaker 10: the legal capacity to create a domicile excluding someone who
• 44:19
  Speaker 10: may have the subjective intent, which otherwise would be determinative
• 44:24
  Speaker 10: as being excluded. On the humanitarian point, I would point out,
• 44:26
  Speaker 10: as I said at the beginning, Justice Alito, that the
• 44:29
  Speaker 10: United States rule of nearly unrestricted birthright citizenship is an
• 44:32
  Speaker 10: outlier among modern nations. It's a very small minority of
• 44:36
  Speaker 10: nations that.
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: Have that rule.
• 44:37
  Speaker 10: For example, every nation in Europe has a different rule,
• 44:42
  Speaker 10: and the notion that they have a huge humanitarian crisis
• 44:45
  Speaker 10: as a result of not having unrestricted birthright citizenship I
• 44:48
  Speaker 10: don't think is a strong argument. And I point out, obviously,
• 44:53
  Speaker 10: for reliance-related reasons, this executive order applies only prospectively, and
• 44:57
  Speaker 10: we ask the court to rule only prospectively.
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: What do you make of that, Matt? What do you
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: think of that argument?
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: Well, the part where he's pointing out that it's not
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: really seen anywhere else in the rest of the world.
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I mean, it's... Does that matter? Does it
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: matter what the rest of the world does?
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: Well, that is the thing. I mean, because they always
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: do that on the left with guns. Like, you know,
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: no one in Europe would have our gun laws. And
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't care. We're not Europe. It's... You know,
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: it is one of those cases where I'm a hypocrite
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: and that I do think that, yes, we should be
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: like Europe in that regard. But it's not because they're Europe.
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: It's because I think the policy is just common sense.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: They're not up for citizenship. And also, as European countries recognize,
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: like they are. And you also see this in the
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: Scandinavian countries that are more like quasi-socialists that have very
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: big welfare states. They're actually very tough on immigration. Even
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: the Social Democrats in Denmark are deporting migrants. And not
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: only are they deporting migrants, they are confiscating goods from
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: migrants to fund the deportations.
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: Well, unlike America, they know that they can't keep allowing
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: them in and have their systems work.
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: These are countries where, for some reason on the right,
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: people will say like, you know, those policies work in Scandinavia,
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: but it's because they're small countries or homogeneous, blah, blah, blah.
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't say they work. I would say they're the
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: best case scenario. But Sweden, for instance, is a country
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: where the lowest tax bracket or the lowest tax rate,
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: and this applies to your first kroner of income, and
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: they have no standard deduction. It's 32%. The sales tax
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: in Norway, Sweden, Denmark is 25%. So you can be
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: a minimum wage worker and you're paying over half your income. Now,
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: why this is relevant is because the fund, the sort
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: of cradle to grave welfare states they have in Northern Europe,
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: You don't have very much room for error. And that
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: if you have a single migrant come in who pays
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: a grand a year in taxes and takes 30 grand
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: a year out of the system, the whole thing just
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: collapses and they recognize that. So I do think we
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: can learn from their– You know, acceptance of fiscal reality,
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: because no one in our country, none of the left
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: in our country will acknowledge that it is people on
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: the left in those countries will acknowledge it. So that
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: is something we can learn. But you are correct when
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: it comes to whether or not the Supreme Court should
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: decide one way or another. What Europe has to say
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: doesn't really matter.
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree. I don't care what Europe has to
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: say at all. Because I want to talk about NATO, too,
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: before this hour is up, if we have enough time.
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: Stay here on this birthright citizenship, because another concern is China.
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: And we talked about that case from 1898. It's something
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: I've referenced for about a year now. And that was
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: that ARC case. They brought it up many times in
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: oral arguments. But there are many companies in China that
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: are bringing people here to America to only have the babies.
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: And they're becoming dual citizens. So in my mind, I'm thinking, well,
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: China always plays the long game. Are we going to
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: have a president one day that has a dual citizenship
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: in China and America? You know, 50 years from now,
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: who knows?
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, that's the thing. Maybe one way we can
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: explain this to liberals, because it's not just China. Russia
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: and China are both known for doing the sort of
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: birthright citizenship tourism, where they'll come here on vacation, eat
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: while it's pregnant. And I actually saw on Twitter the
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: other day, someone posted a graph of it was births
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: in America by ethnicity. And Chinese births went down something
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: like 50% during COVID, while for every other group, it
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: was like 10% or 15%. Now, obviously, this includes Chinese
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: people that are in America legally as citizens giving birth.
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: But there must have been so many also coming along
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: from China because of 50% decline during COVID. Yeah. Yeah,
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: these are major problems. And one of the other things
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: I think we talked about on a different show was,
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: you know, if you and I got a work from
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: home job or, you know, did the show from another country,
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: we still have to pay taxes to America because we're U.S. citizens,
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: even if we move to France or something. Yeah. babies
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: born here at Birthright Citizenship who then go back to
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: their home countries, their real country, are they paying tax
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: to the U.S.? And it's one of those things where
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: basically every single one of them is probably committing some
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: form of tax evasion that will never hold them accountable for,
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: in addition to all the other problems at Birthright Citizenship.
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: Let's go to Justice Roberts, Chief Justice Roberts. He's talking
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: about this again with the Solicitor General, John Sauer. It's
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: a great question.
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: No one knows for sure.
• 49:49
  Speaker 10: There's a March 9th letter from a number of members
• 49:51
  Speaker 10: of Congress to DHS saying, do we have any information
• 49:54
  Speaker 10: about this? The media reports indicate, estimates could be over
• 49:58
  Speaker 10: a million or 1.5 million from the People's Republic of
• 50:02
  Speaker 10: China alone. The congressional report.
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: That we cite in... He's talking about babies born here
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: in America. 1 million to 1.5 million from this. Let's
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: keep going.
• 50:13
  Speaker 10: Our brief talks about certain hotspots like Russian elites coming
• 50:17
  Speaker 10: to Miami through these birth tourism companies. And here's the
• 50:21
  Speaker 10: facts about it that I think is striking. Media reported
• 50:24
  Speaker 10: as early as 2015 that based on Chinese media reports,
• 50:28
  Speaker 10: there are 500, 500 birth tourism companies in the People's
• 50:32
  Speaker 10: Republic of China whose business is to bring people here
• 50:36
  Speaker 10: to give birth and return to to that nation.
• 50:40
  Speaker 4: Having said all that, you do agree that it has
• 50:43
  Speaker 4: no impact on the legal analysis before us?
• 50:46
  Speaker 10: I think it's, I'd quote what Justice Scalia said in
• 50:48
  Speaker 10: his Hamdan dissent, where their interpretation has these implications that
• 50:53
  Speaker 10: could not possibly have been approved by the 19th century
• 50:57
  Speaker 10: framers of this amendment. I think that shows that they've
• 51:01
  Speaker 10: made a mess, their interpretation has made a mess of
• 51:03
  Speaker 10: the provision.
• 51:03
  Speaker 8: Well, it certainly wasn't a problem in the 19th century.
• 51:07
  Speaker 10: No, but of course, we're in a new world now,
• 51:09
  Speaker 10: as Justice Alito pointed out to you, where 8 billion
• 51:11
  Speaker 10: people are one plane ride away from having a child
• 51:14
  Speaker 10: who's a U.S.
• 51:14
  Speaker 4: Citizen.
• 51:15
  Speaker 8: Well, it's a new world.
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: It's the same Constitution.
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: Bam. And I think that goes to what I said
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: when we started talking about this. The conservative justices usually
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: go with court precedent. And that's what he's referencing there.
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: Because of that, I think this is going to be
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: a 7-2 decision. I think you're going to have Alito
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: and Thomas sitting out and dissenting on this. And I
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: think the rest of them, they're going to uphold it.
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: And so you can't do this executive action here, Donald Trump.
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: What do you think? What do you think the number
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: will be?
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: What I'm reading as well. And yes, the whole of
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: the new world, but same constitution. I mean, you and
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: I have probably said something very similar when it comes
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: to liberals talking about the second amendment saying, oh, they
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: never could have imagined the types of guns that would
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: exist today, you know, as if that is, you know,
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: wouldn't have realized that, yes, guns get more advanced every year.
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure they were able to witness that
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: when they were alive. I just, I really just never,
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: I really just don't believe that the fourth amendment is
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: supposed to enable and was preferred citizenship. So I don't know.
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to see why I'm wrong if I am.
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: It'll be interesting to read it when it comes out.
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: I agree with you. I would love to see this,
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: you know, be approved for Donald Trump, but I just
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: don't think that it is on the legal question. And
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: sometimes we forget it's about a very narrow legal question.
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: And then the other part of it is if they
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: were to decide to go along with Donald Trump, what
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: do they do for a 90-year-old that has been an
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: American citizen that was born here 90 years ago, but
• 52:48
  Speaker 2: his parents were from another country? He is now no
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: longer an American citizen. How do you put that paste
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: back in the tube?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't know if it would be retroactive or
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: just apply to future roofs. I assumed for optics purposes
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: they wouldn't try to repeal it retroactively.
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  Speaker 2: But then you have 15 million that are in here illegal.
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  Speaker 2: There's more than that, but just the last four years
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  Speaker 2: you have 10 to 15 million illegal. And that's what
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: this is all about in addition to China and Russia.
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: Real quick about... Go ahead, Matt.
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  Speaker 1: The way to do it smart would just be to
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: have a cutoff of if you were born here as
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: an anchor, maybe after such and such year. Yeah. And,
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: you know, something that's sympathetic or something. But yes, because
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: the problem is if there was one single anchor, maybe
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: who's now 90 years old that got supported, that will
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: be the number one media story for the next three or,
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: you know, for the next year or whatever, all midterms.
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  Speaker 1: They'll never set up about it.
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: Well, there needs to be legislation. That would be the
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: answer to it. That is never going to happen in
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: this Congress. Real quick about NATO, though. I am fed
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: up with NATO. What do we need them for at
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: this point? We are 60% of their budget.
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: We are NATO.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we are NATO. We have 100,000 boots on the ground. Actually,
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: someone corrected me and said, well, everybody's got two feet.
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: It's 200,000. That's correct. There's 200,000 boots on the ground
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  Speaker 2: in Europe right now spending the night. I'm done with NATO.
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: I'm done with a lot of stuff right now, Matt.
• 54:17
  Speaker 2: I really am. But let's pay attention to what happens
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: in about 24 hours from right now, because that is
• 54:24
  Speaker 2: the deadline Donald Trump put on Iran to come to
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: the table. If they don't, bombs away, bridges down. infrastructure,
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: electrical grids. That's what's coming to us now, and we'll
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: pay attention to that. We'll get together next week and
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: talk about that.
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: And also praise Allah. No, just kidding.
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  Speaker 2: Praise Allah.
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: Great. Yeah.
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: We'll leave this hour with that. Praise Allah. That's the
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: perfect way to end this hour. Matt, thank you so much.
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: Have a great week. We'll see you next Monday night.
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: And don't forget, you were told 2,000 years ago that
• 54:56
  Speaker 2: you are the salt of the earth. And salt without flavor,
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: it has no value. So whatever you do, keep being salty.
• 55:03
  Speaker 2: Have a great night. There is only one truth. You've
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