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Anti-Trump Candidates Face Real Primary Tests · Booker Scott: Truth Be Told

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  Speaker 1: It's six eastern it's three o'clock pacific this is a
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  Speaker 2: If he says he's serious about something he means it it's.
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  Speaker 1: Time for the truth be told with booker scott.
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  Speaker 3: The dust has now settled on Donald Trump's trip to China,
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  Speaker 3: so it's time to take a look at it. Let's
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  Speaker 3: talk about that tonight. We'll also talk about Iran, but
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  Speaker 3: before we do all of that, we have to get
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  Speaker 3: into what is going on now, and that is the
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  Speaker 3: primary election season for the midterm coming up in November.
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  Speaker 3: We had an election on Saturday, and we have a
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  Speaker 3: big one coming up on Tuesday. Let's get into it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Booker. This is The Truth Be Told. As always
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  Speaker 3: on Monday, we have Matt Palumbo with us. He is
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  Speaker 3: a Newsmax contributor, also on Fox Business from time to time,
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  Speaker 3: a fantastic author of 11 books, and he's always with
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  Speaker 3: us on Monday night. Matt, welcome back for Mondays with Matt.
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  Speaker 4: Good to be back, of course, and get another eventful week.
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  Speaker 3: It was, they all are anymore if you pay attention
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  Speaker 3: to politics, but let's pay attention to this race that
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  Speaker 3: took place on Saturday night, and let's go to this
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  Speaker 3: clip from NBC to hear about it.
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  Speaker 5: NBC News is now declaring that Congresswoman Julia Letlow and
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  Speaker 5: Louisiana State Treasurer John Fleming have both advanced to a runoff.
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  Speaker 5: That runoff will be held on June 27th. Neither getting
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  Speaker 5: a clear outright majority tonight that would have won this
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  Speaker 5: primary on the spot. But significantly what that means. incumbent
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  Speaker 5: two-term Republican Senator Bill Cassidy, who was one of the
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  Speaker 5: few Republican Senate votes in 2021 to vote to convict
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  Speaker 5: Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial. Bill Cassidy has
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  Speaker 5: been defeated. He has been denied renomination. And in the process,
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  Speaker 5: he becomes the first elected incumbent senator in 14 years
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  Speaker 5: to be denied renomination by his party.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's a big story over the weekend that
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  Speaker 3: for the first time in 14 years, he didn't even
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  Speaker 3: get out of the primary. What does that say about
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump's power within the party or within the base
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  Speaker 3: to come out and have Bill Cassidy come in third place?
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  Speaker 3: There will be a runoff, as he mentioned in June. Letlow,
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  Speaker 3: a congressman from Louisiana, had about 47 percent of the vote,
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  Speaker 3: while the second place treasurer there for the state of Louisiana.
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  Speaker 3: He was just above Cassidy with about 25, 26 percent.
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  Speaker 3: So it looks like Letlow will eventually win the nomination
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  Speaker 3: for the Republicans and go on to the general election
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  Speaker 3: in November. But what are your thoughts there about Cassidy
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  Speaker 3: and the power still of Donald Trump?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's historic both because it was, as he said,
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  Speaker 4: and I was really hoping I could drop this stat because,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I was reading this story ahead of time.
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  Speaker 4: It was the first in 14 years. But it's, you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's more impressive than that in that, you know, as
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  Speaker 4: you were just saying as well, Cassidy got less than
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  Speaker 4: 25 percent of the vote. So, you know, in the
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  Speaker 4: past when senators have been primary, it was impressive. It's
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  Speaker 4: obviously a heck of a lot closer than that kind
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  Speaker 4: of blowout. Letlow only needs to bring over about 5%
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  Speaker 4: of the vote to win from Cassidy's people if they
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  Speaker 4: even turn out in the next round. The second round
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  Speaker 4: in really any primary tends to see a pretty significant
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  Speaker 4: drop off in turnout. So I don't think it'll really
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  Speaker 4: be a problem for Letlow. And yes, this was the
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  Speaker 4: second reminder in the past few weeks we've seen of
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  Speaker 4: Trump's influence in the party in Indiana. I remember when
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  Speaker 4: we reported on it, I kept saying Illinois for some reason.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was the last one.
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  Speaker 4: That was last week. And then I did it on
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  Speaker 4: another show after this.
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  Speaker 3: Good job, man.
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  Speaker 4: But I don't know what was wrong with me that day.
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  Speaker 4: But in Indiana, there was also Senate primaries. And all
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  Speaker 4: of the Senate, or not all of them, many senators
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  Speaker 4: that were being primaried had voted against redistricting in the state.
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  Speaker 4: The Mike Pence principles for a faction of the party.
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  Speaker 4: The principles basically being to let the left walk all
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  Speaker 4: over you as long as we can say we're superior
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  Speaker 4: or morally righteous or whatever. But But they basically all
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  Speaker 4: actually all but one got primary out of office. And
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  Speaker 4: the effect was so strong that there was actually one
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  Speaker 4: Republican up for reelection who did not vote or who
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  Speaker 4: did vote to redistrict. But I guess just kind of
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  Speaker 4: got caught up in the story and almost lost. But
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  Speaker 4: there was enough people who who correctly identified her as
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  Speaker 4: being someone who voted for redistricting and did keep her seat.
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  Speaker 4: But it was a close vote. So it did show
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  Speaker 4: the knives wore out in that election. And yes, listen,
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  Speaker 4: it is Trump's party now. The Republican Party, we're in
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  Speaker 4: a two-party system in this country, but the identity of
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  Speaker 4: the party has shifted drastically in that if we were
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  Speaker 4: a European country where there's five major competing parties and
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  Speaker 4: they're constantly splitting and re-merging and new ones are popping up,
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  Speaker 4: the Trump Party probably would be a different party from
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  Speaker 4: the Republican Party. And it would have a lot of
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  Speaker 4: overlap with fiscal conservatism of the prior GOP. But the
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  Speaker 4: identity of the Trump Republican Party is... I mean, there's
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  Speaker 4: obviously no comparison to the Bush type Republicans and McCain Republicans.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's the party has shifted so much. We
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  Speaker 4: don't even consider them to be Republicans anymore.
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  Speaker 3: And if you look at if you look at this
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  Speaker 3: race in Kentucky, too, that's taking place on Tuesday with
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  Speaker 3: Massey and Galvin, that is a whole different animal when
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  Speaker 3: it comes to Republicans and. the people that are supporting
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  Speaker 3: Thomas Massey from outside Kentucky 4, which we're going to
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  Speaker 3: get to that race here in a few minutes. Before
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  Speaker 3: we do, though, let's go to this clip with Jason
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  Speaker 3: Chavis having a conversation with Senator Cassidy before the polls
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  Speaker 3: closed on Saturday. Here, let's listen to this together.
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  Speaker 6: In the Congress for a little while. But my question
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  Speaker 6: for you is still about Donald Trump. I mean, knowing
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  Speaker 6: what you know now about the farce that was put
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  Speaker 6: forward to the American people and the Congress, knowing what
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  Speaker 6: you know now, would you still vote to actually convict
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  Speaker 6: Donald Trump of the charges that he was put up for?
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  Speaker 7: Reporters always love to ask that question.
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  Speaker 4: I'm a doctor.
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  Speaker 8: You give me all the information I can.
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  Speaker 3: I make a decision.
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  Speaker 9: I move on.
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  Speaker 3: I don't keep on going back.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, what happened five years ago?
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  Speaker 7: I'm thinking about what's going to happen five years from
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  Speaker 7: now or tonight.
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  Speaker 10: Hang on, Jason.
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  Speaker 1: Let me finish.
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  Speaker 11: Let me finish, Jason.
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  Speaker 6: You just touted everything you've done for the last five years.
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  Speaker 6: Why can't you answer that question? Did you or did
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  Speaker 6: you not? I want you to answer that question. Would
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  Speaker 6: you or would you not actually vote to convict knowing
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  Speaker 6: what you know now? It's a simple question.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, Jason, you may go back and flagellate yourself over
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  Speaker 7: decisions in the past.
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  Speaker 4: I do not.
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  Speaker 3: I move on.
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  Speaker 7: By the way, what I'm talking about is not just
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  Speaker 7: the present.
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  Speaker 4: It is the future.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, the future.
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  Speaker 7: Also includes that if somebody wants somebody working for the
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  Speaker 7: state of Louisiana, for the future not fixated on the past,
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  Speaker 7: then polls close at 8 o'clock tonight.
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  Speaker 3: Get out there and vote. And the people of Louisiana
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  Speaker 3: clearly voiced their opinion to get rid of Senator Cassidy.
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  Speaker 3: I found that clip really interesting in that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: all these years later, he still cannot admit after all
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  Speaker 3: of the hearings that the Russian hoax was a hoax,
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  Speaker 3: that the perfect phone call to Ukraine that got Trump impeached,
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  Speaker 3: that none of that was reality. He cannot do that.
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  Speaker 3: And that's why he lost. That's why he got 24%
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  Speaker 3: of the vote after being an incumbent for 12 years.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean, he wouldn't answer the question because his
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  Speaker 4: answer is no, which I guess it's kind of a
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  Speaker 4: redeeming quality that he wouldn't, you know, be lying. But
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  Speaker 4: it also is still the wrong answer because he's still
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  Speaker 4: siding with a hoax. And the doctor analogy was so bizarre.
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  Speaker 4: If you and I were doctors and– We diagnosed a
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  Speaker 4: patient five years ago, and then all this evidence came
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  Speaker 4: out that it was fatally wrong. You better hope we
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  Speaker 4: then revise and go, oh, my God, knowing we know now,
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  Speaker 4: absolutely we should change the diagnosis. So it seems like, no,
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  Speaker 4: he doesn't actually think that– Anything should change and good
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  Speaker 4: riddance to him. Hopefully there's a chilling effect to other Republicans.
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  Speaker 4: I think we haven't said this yet, that there was
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  Speaker 4: 16 Republicans in the House and Senate combined that had
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  Speaker 4: voted in one of the two hoax impeachments to impeach,
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  Speaker 4: to indict Donald Trump or to convict rather. Was it
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  Speaker 4: 14 of them are gone in the Senate? It's only
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  Speaker 4: Collins and Murkowski remain. I can't remember the two in
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  Speaker 4: the House, but basically they're almost all gone.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, good thing. And I think it also shows that
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  Speaker 3: the base for Donald Trump, they have a memory like
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  Speaker 3: an elephant. They are not forgetting things that people did
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  Speaker 3: in Congress to go against Donald Trump. And Thomas Massey
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  Speaker 3: is another one of those that we will get to.
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  Speaker 3: But before we do, let's go to some losing speech
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  Speaker 3: comments that Senator Cassidy gave.
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  Speaker 8: This was not the result that I necessarily wanted, but
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  Speaker 8: I feel great.
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  Speaker 4: When you participate in.
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  Speaker 8: Democracy, sometimes it doesn't turn out the way you want
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  Speaker 8: it to. But you don't pout.
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  Speaker 4: You don't whine.
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  Speaker 8: You don't claim the election was stolen. You don't find
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  Speaker 8: a reason why. You don't manufacture some excuse. You thank
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  Speaker 8: the voters for the privilege of representing the state or
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  Speaker 8: the country for as long as you've.
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  Speaker 4: Had that privilege.
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  Speaker 3: He's oblivious to everything that has come out in hearings
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  Speaker 3: right there where he works over the last five years.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't think he's alone in the Senate. I
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  Speaker 3: think a lot of guys in the Senate and women,
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  Speaker 3: they are oblivious to all of the evidence that has
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  Speaker 3: come out over the last five years about the election
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  Speaker 3: in 2020. And they should at least be asking the questions.
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  Speaker 3: It seems like people like Senator Ron Johnson are really
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  Speaker 3: the only ones in the Senate that are asking the
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  Speaker 3: real questions about things that happened in 2020.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree entirely. And even if the fraud evidence
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  Speaker 4: isn't enough to overturn the election, you know, even if it's.
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  Speaker 4: It's a way smaller scale than we thought. It's still
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  Speaker 4: stuff we need to know to prepare against in the future.
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  Speaker 4: If you were an illegal alien in this country, there
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  Speaker 4: are a lot of states where– in fact, most blue states,
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  Speaker 4: you can get a driver's license as an illegal alien–
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  Speaker 4: And many of these states automatically register you to vote
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  Speaker 4: when you get a license. So what do you think happens?
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  Speaker 4: And in fact, like when you register to vote, if
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  Speaker 4: you if you are and I know this for a
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  Speaker 4: fact has happened. I am actually referencing actual cases. If
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  Speaker 4: you were an illegal alien on an American college campus
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  Speaker 4: and you see a register to vote booth. and you
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  Speaker 4: write down your name and apartment or wherever you're saying,
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  Speaker 4: you will be registered to vote and you can go
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  Speaker 4: to an election and vote. And there's no cross-referencing anywhere
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  Speaker 4: to check that you're actually a citizen. So, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I used to think that illegals, you know, if they
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  Speaker 4: were going to be mobilized to vote There would have
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  Speaker 4: to be a theft of identities and the legals have
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  Speaker 4: to impersonate them and try to pretend they're them. That's
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  Speaker 4: not the case at all. You can just it's so
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  Speaker 4: easy to register to vote and fraud. And I don't
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  Speaker 4: know which type of voter fraud will be exposed when
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  Speaker 4: more evidence comes out. But we want to know every
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  Speaker 4: single detail we can. And mocking election integrity after losing
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  Speaker 4: is a bizarre thing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, if we don't know the truth.
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  Speaker 4: It would have been hilarious if he tongue in cheek
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  Speaker 4: claimed the election was stolen. I would have given him that.
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  Speaker 3: If we don't know the truth about what happened, we
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  Speaker 3: can't fix what was wrong. And you dealt with the
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  Speaker 3: illegal immigration side of it. What about the drop boxes
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  Speaker 3: that we had in cities, in blue cities, where we
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  Speaker 3: know that people dropped off hundreds and hundreds of ballots,
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  Speaker 3: and we don't know who they were. We have evidence
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  Speaker 3: in Atlanta of all these pristine ballots that were all
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  Speaker 3: for Joe Biden. And we had at 2 a.m. a big,
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  Speaker 3: bunch of Joe Biden votes come in and Donald Trump
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  Speaker 3: went the other way. So we have questions. We should
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  Speaker 3: ask those questions. And people like Senator Cassidy, who are
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  Speaker 3: still oblivious to it, are not helping anything when it
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  Speaker 3: comes to election integrity. Let's go to this race that's
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  Speaker 3: happening Tuesday in Kentucky, Kentucky 4. Ed Galran is the
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  Speaker 3: candidate that Donald Trump has endorsed. He's trying to get
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  Speaker 3: rid of Thomas Massey, the libertarian there in Kentucky. He's
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  Speaker 3: been there for 14 years, since 2012. He won a
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  Speaker 3: special election and then won the regular election in 2012.
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  Speaker 3: Here is Donald Trump on Thomas Massey. We've got to
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  Speaker 3: get rid of this loser. This guy is bad.
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  Speaker 12: He's disloyal to the Republican Party. He's disloyal to the
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  Speaker 12: people of Kentucky. And most importantly, he is disloyal to
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  Speaker 12: the United States of America.
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  Speaker 3: And he's got to be.
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  Speaker 10: Voted out of office as soon as possible.
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  Speaker 3: And as soon as possible is Tuesday. And it's going
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  Speaker 3: to be an interesting to watch. If you pay attention
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  Speaker 3: to the polling early April. The Quantum Insights poll had
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  Speaker 3: Thomas Massey winning by seven or eight points. And then
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  Speaker 3: as early May, the Quantum Insights, the same poll, it
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  Speaker 3: came out with a larger sampling. I think the one
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  Speaker 3: in early April was about 407. The one in early
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  Speaker 3: May was about 900, a little over 900. So it
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  Speaker 3: was a bigger sampling size. And now it has Galvin
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  Speaker 3: ahead by 8%, which is a huge flip. And I
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  Speaker 3: don't know that I trust that. I don't trust it.
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  Speaker 3: I'll say that. And then you have the predictive markets
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  Speaker 3: also are now showing Galvin will win. I think it's
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  Speaker 3: 55-45 as of Sunday.
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  Speaker 13: Yep.
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  Speaker 4: That's what I got in front of me, which I
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  Speaker 4: was looking at. And the thing is, if the poll
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  Speaker 4: with with Gauvin had eight was accurate, the betting odds
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  Speaker 4: would be like 90, 10 in his favor. So the
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  Speaker 4: market doesn't seem to buy that poll. And I will
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  Speaker 4: say that state level polls. The margin of error is
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  Speaker 4: often like 5% to 10% in that Susan Collins tends
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  Speaker 4: to win her elections in an absolute blowout. In her
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  Speaker 4: most recent election, I think Quinnipiac had her losing by
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  Speaker 4: something comical like 10 points, and then she won by
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  Speaker 4: a blowout. For whatever reason, the state-level polling, maybe it's
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  Speaker 4: just the sample isn't big enough. It just doesn't seem
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  Speaker 4: to work that well, among many other issues with polling. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it seems to be about a coin flip right now.
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  Speaker 4: And Nasty is someone who I think wins his elections
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  Speaker 4: by 70. Huge, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Gets 70-plus percent of the vote.
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  Speaker 4: Right, 35 points, 40 points he usually wins. He's never
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  Speaker 4: been pressured. Where he is is a Republican area, but
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  Speaker 4: it does show he is incredibly popular there, or at
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  Speaker 4: least was. So I think this will be the biggest
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  Speaker 4: test of Trump's power, and it seems to be working
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  Speaker 4: so far.
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  Speaker 3: It is a litmus test, I think, for Donald Trump
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  Speaker 3: in this race. It's going to be one to watch
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  Speaker 3: for sure, but the thing that I'm seeing on social
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  Speaker 3: media that is very uncomfortable to me is the people, influencers,
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  Speaker 3: that are supporting Thomas Massie And if you say anything
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  Speaker 3: against Thomas Massey, these people, to me, are anti-Semitic, and
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  Speaker 3: they are coming at you because they believe that the
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  Speaker 3: Jewish people, AIPAC, completely control America, which is nuts to
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  Speaker 3: me that they believe that. And to me, it shows
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  Speaker 3: that the influence of Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and others
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  Speaker 3: has worked effectively on a large group of people in America.
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  Speaker 3: These people are not people that live in Kentucky for.
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  Speaker 3: They live all over the country. They are libertarians and loudmouths.
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  Speaker 3: And they go after people really hard on social media
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  Speaker 3: over Thomas Massey. And when you look at Thomas Massey's record,
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  Speaker 3: there isn't much there to see. And I wrote an
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  Speaker 3: article on this, Matt. I don't know if you read it.
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  Speaker 3: It's been out a couple of weeks ago. It's still
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  Speaker 3: going around, but basically Thomas Massey passed one piece of
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  Speaker 3: legislation for the people of Kentucky for, that was 12
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  Speaker 3: years ago in 2014. It had to do with the
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  Speaker 3: Ohio River and 276 miles along the Ohio River, which
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  Speaker 3: happens to be where his district is. Since then, he
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  Speaker 3: has passed nothing with his name on it to help
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  Speaker 3: his constituency. What he has done is found out in
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  Speaker 3: 2020 by doing what he did to bring everybody back
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  Speaker 3: to vote for the CARES Act, have them vote in
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  Speaker 3: person instead of by proxy and by voice over the phone,
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  Speaker 3: is that it worked in raising a lot of money.
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  Speaker 3: If you look at his fundraising, his fundraising since then
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  Speaker 3: has gone through the roof and continues, and they are
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  Speaker 3: still trying to raise money as of Sunday afternoon for
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  Speaker 3: this race that is Tuesday. This money is not for Tuesday.
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  Speaker 3: You can't spend it in a day. It can't be spent.
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  Speaker 3: So it's for something else. Either Thomas Massey loses the race,
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  Speaker 3: he keeps the money, creates a pack, And he lives
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  Speaker 3: off that for years as expenses, or he will save
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  Speaker 3: it for the general election, which in reality he's not
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  Speaker 3: going to need because it's never a race anyway. As
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  Speaker 3: you were saying, it's a 30, 40 point race. So
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  Speaker 3: he's still trying to fundraise off this grift to me
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  Speaker 3: is what it is because he has a popularity among
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: libertarians across the country. but not for his constituency in
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: Kentucky 4. That's the way I see this.
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah. You were saying, too, that if you criticize Massey,
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: his supporters, at least on social media, will claim that
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: his opponent's money is from Israel. I was Googling as
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: you said that. Massey's largest donor is a pro-Israel Jewish
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: billionaire named Jeff Yoss. So he obviously is also taking
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: money from Jewish... That's not... um really a component of
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: the race at all they're both taking money from uh
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: those people so his you know anyone making those claims
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: should know that about as for the amount of money
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: um yes you can use these packs as a slush
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: fund in fact i think it was mary palotta who
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: was a rep in alaska i think she beat sarah
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: palin and then lost after that um had announced she
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: was going to run for senate spent a bunch of
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: campaign funds she had that never actually ran for Senate,
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: but just the announcement enabled her to spend all the money.
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: Well, Adam Kinzinger in Illinois is a great example. He
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: announced that he was retiring from the House. He joined
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: the J6 committee, and he raised three times the amount
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: of money that he had ever raised in an election
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: cycle when he announced that he was retiring. And that
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: was only because he was on that J6 committee. So
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: something needs to be fixed there about what former politicians
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: can do with that money when they go out of office,
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: or we're going to continue to see things like this.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: It's going to be interesting to watch. Here's what I think, Matt.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: I think that Thomas Massey will actually win this race
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: in Kentucky 4, and I think he's going to do
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: it a little bit more than people think. I don't
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: think it's going to be as close. That's my gut
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: feeling on this from everything that I'm seeing, that I
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: believe that Massey is going to be safe, and he
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: will continue to be the obstructionist that he has become.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: He has won versus 434 in the House of Representatives,
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: and unfortunately, it doesn't do anything as You try to
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: progress the Trump agenda. That's the way I see it.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: It's going to be close. Nobody really knows. I don't
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: even know, but that's the way I predict it. Matt,
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: do you want to add anything to that?
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: I'll just be a contrarian and say he'll lose.
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: Well, that's fine. We can have something to talk about
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: next week. Yeah, we'll have something to talk about next week. Yeah,
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: you like Spencer Pratt. Yeah, I went against him as
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: well in Los Angeles.
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's a one in four chance if the
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: odds are to be believed, but it's still not, you know,
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: it's bad, but not terrible.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: Donald Trump went to China. We're going to talk about
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: that next.
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• 21:07
  Speaker 3: to The Truth Be Told here on a Monday night,
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: visiting with Matt Palumbo, as we always do. Matt, you
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: told me before we started the show tonight that your daughter,
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: by the way, is coming up on one in November.
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: So what is she, nine months now? Six months. Six months. Okay,
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: my math is terrible. She has started crawling. Congratulations.
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: Backwards only, though.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: Backwards only.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: So I don't know if that means she's halfway there
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: or is 100% in the wrong direction.
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it means you're going to have your
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: hands full is what that means. Yeah, I would take
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: that as an omen if that's the case. Okay, Donald
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: Trump goes to China. What do you make of the
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: trip to China?
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: One of the things where I learned that it was
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: happening on this show with you and then proceeded to
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: not watching because I was too busy with my daughter.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: Watching her walk backwards. You were watching her walk backwards
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: is what you were doing. Crawl backwards. I'm sorry.
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: As the country was hopefully moving forward.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: I think this trip, you know, I think it was
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: about semiconductors. I think it mainly was about artificial intelligence
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: and that 21st century arms race. I believe that's what
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: it was. And, you know, maybe there were more things.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: I know that Trump is trying to put some pressure
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: on Xi to put pressure on Iran so that he
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: can end that because that also needs to come to
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: an end. But, you know, there were some things that
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: have some of the base of Trump upset coming back
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: from that meeting and conversations with Brett Baier and also
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: on Hannity when it comes to 500,000 students in America
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: from China. I don't know that his answer there was.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't like that answer.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: Although, Let's listen to the clip and then we can
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: talk about it. In case somebody missed it like you,
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: then let's listen to it.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: I did see that one clip.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: Here it is.
• 22:58
  Speaker 10: I would assume I'm in Beijing if I wanted to
• 23:01
  Speaker 10: buy property near one of their military installations. I don't
• 23:06
  Speaker 10: think President Xi... It's not that I love it. You
• 23:10
  Speaker 10: want to see farm prices drop? You want to see
• 23:12
  Speaker 10: farmers lose a lot of money? Just take that out
• 23:14
  Speaker 10: of the market. But they've... Had a lot of land
• 23:19
  Speaker 10: for a long time. Obama did nothing about it. They
• 23:23
  Speaker 10: bought a lot of it during the Obama administration. He
• 23:26
  Speaker 10: did nothing about it. As far as the students, it's 500,000
• 23:30
  Speaker 10: students they come, good students. I could tell them I
• 23:38
  Speaker 10: don't want any students. It's a very insulting thing to
• 23:42
  Speaker 10: say to a country.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: I don't have a problem with insulting our number one adversary.
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: Do you, Matt?
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: No, and there are a ton of colleges in this
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: country where between 30% and 50% of the population of
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: them is foreign-born, meaning if we didn't have international students,
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: these de facto indoctrination factories would completely collapse. We probably
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: have way more colleges than we need. And part of
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: the reason they can charge what they charge, and Trump
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: has actually fixed this by capping how much money you
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: can borrow, at least in part. But a large part
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: of the reason it's so expensive is because there is
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: endless demand for it. So yeah, if you reduce the demand,
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: you can reduce the price as well. I think there
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: should be fewer colleges. They should maybe merge or consolidate
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: or whatever. When it comes to Trump, though, talking about
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: the 500,000 Chinese college students, He actually has drastically already
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: reduced the number of foreign students coming. So I think
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: he's sort of balancing rhetoric and policy where he's trying to,
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: I don't know, appease China in making a statement like that.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: But the actual reality is, and I don't know if
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: the numbers I've seen are for all foreign students, they
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: are down significantly. Trump has also done this with illegal
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: immigration and that the administration has publicly pushed a narrative
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: that they're going after criminal illegal aliens first. And I mean,
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: every illegal aliens are criminal, but by criminal, they mean,
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: you know, people who've committed offenses and presumably violent offenses
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: in addition to being here illegally. And I think they're
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: pushing that narrative because it's just what, you know, that has,
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: you know, 90, whatever percent approval. No one disagrees with that,
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: even though we get rid of all the legals. But
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: in actual practice, they're just supporting anyone they can, which
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: is obviously what we want. But it's another case where
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: there's a public perception versus what's actually happening thing where
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: they're trying to balance both, where the right thing to
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: do is, I would say, no foreign college students. The
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: popular thing is that, in this case with China, is
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: to say you're letting them in. And with illegal immigration,
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: everyone's for– even most Democrats are for getting rid of
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: ones that have committed other crimes But in reality, we
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: need all of them gone, and that's what they're doing.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: Hannity started that questioning off with land being bought by
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: Chinese here in America. And I think Trump sort of
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: brushed that off. But in reality, when you look at it,
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: Canada owns more land in America than anyone else at 15.4
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: million acres. China is way down that list. The problem
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: I have with the land that China owns, and it's
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: not China, the government, it's companies and individuals that own
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: property in America, is where that land is, which it
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: happens to be really close to military bases. Let's go
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: on with this clip here from Donald Trump, because I
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: think he's going to get into a little bit about
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: what you were just talking about, schools collapsing if He
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: did not allow, you know, 500,000 Chinese students in America.
• 26:46
  Speaker 10: They would then immediately go out and start building universities
• 26:49
  Speaker 10: all over China. But if you don't have those students,
• 26:52
  Speaker 10: good students, by the way, if you don't, and we
• 26:55
  Speaker 10: do another thing, you know, if they're good and they
• 26:57
  Speaker 10: want to stay in America, we won't give them a
• 26:59
  Speaker 10: green card and things like that. You know, and not
• 27:02
  Speaker 10: only them, but other countries. But if you want to
• 27:06
  Speaker 10: see a university system die, take a half a million
• 27:10
  Speaker 10: people out of it.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, maybe we should, Matt, to your point. I
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: don't think that that's a bad thing. I think that
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: some of these colleges are a hoax at this point.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: I don't think that we need as many as we have.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: It's become such a huge business. And I just don't know.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: Let's go to another clip here of Donald Trump with
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: Brett Baier. This took place last night.
• 27:32
  Speaker 10: We talked a whole night about that issue. I think
• 27:35
  Speaker 10: I know more about Taiwan right now than I know
• 27:37
  Speaker 10: about almost.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: Any country that dominated the.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: The talk.
• 27:43
  Speaker 10: It's always been his most important thing.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: The reason why it's the most important thing for Xi,
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: the reunification with Taiwan, is the semiconductors, which has to
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: do with artificial intelligence. And again, I believe that's why
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: Donald Trump went. You know, one thing a lot of
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: people on the left were doing is they were saying, well,
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: he's taking all these CEOs, Elon Musk and all these others.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: Did you happen to see any of that conversation, Matt?
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and the reason they took Elon Musk is because
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: Elon Musk does an enormous amount of business in China,
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: so it would make sense to bring someone like him.
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: And I think it was the CEO of NVIDIA he
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: brought as well, and again, that's the biggest chip company
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: on the planet, so it makes perfect sense he'd bring them.
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: Well, he brought a lot of CEOs, and the left
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: was going nuts about it. They they say that the
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: CEOs did nothing. They couldn't get anything from China. So
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: it was a failure. So which one do you want?
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: Which way do you want it? Him not taking them
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: or them going and not getting anything. You know, it
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: just doesn't make any sense. I would say this, that
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: the last time a president went to China was Donald
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: Trump in 2017. And he had more CEOs with him then.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: than he did on this trip. And nobody seemed to
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: talk about it then. Let's continue on with this clip
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: about Taiwan and the chips that Donald Trump was talking
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: about with Brett Baier.
• 29:01
  Speaker 10: I've known him now 11 years, 12 years. It's always
• 29:05
  Speaker 10: been the biggest thing for him, Taiwan. Now, with me,
• 29:08
  Speaker 10: I don't think they'll do anything when I'm here. When
• 29:11
  Speaker 10: I'm not here, I think they might, to be honest
• 29:13
  Speaker 10: with you. I'm not sure that they'd do anything if
• 29:16
  Speaker 10: it remained as is. But they have somebody there now
• 29:20
  Speaker 10: that wants to go independent. Well, it's a very risky
• 29:22
  Speaker 10: thing when you go independent. You know, they're going independent
• 29:25
  Speaker 10: because they want to get into a war and they
• 29:26
  Speaker 10: want to. They figure they have the United States behind them.
• 29:30
  Speaker 10: I'd like to see it stay the way it is.
• 29:32
  Speaker 10: And I'll tell you something. I'll make a little news.
• 29:35
  Speaker 10: I'd like to see everybody making chips over in Taiwan
• 29:37
  Speaker 10: come into America, because to be honest with you, I
• 29:39
  Speaker 10: think it's the greatest thing you can do. Because it's
• 29:42
  Speaker 10: a heated situation. There's no question about it. And as
• 29:46
  Speaker 10: you know, we have massive amounts of chip companies now
• 29:49
  Speaker 10: from Taiwan already coming in. We expect to have 40
• 29:52
  Speaker 10: to 50 percent of the world chip business by the
• 29:55
  Speaker 10: end of my term.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: And that is so important. If you go back to
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: the first trip Donald Trump took as president, he went
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: to the Middle East. He brought back trillions of dollars,
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: Saudi Arabia, UAE and others. And that money was for
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: semiconductors and chips here in America. A lot of it
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: was probably half of that money of those trillions were
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: for that reason. Now we have all these data centers
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: going up and things like that. But if you are
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: able to create the chips and the semiconductors here in
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: America for the intelligence explosion that we are at the
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: dawn of, then you take away China's desire for Taiwan.
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: which alleviates that problem. So that's another key thing to
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: this trip, and I really believe it was the reason
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: for this trip. There were other things along the way,
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: and I guess that Xi has agreed to buy soybeans
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: and LNG and oil from America, which would be great
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: if it ever happens. I would remind everyone again that
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: it was Xi that agreed to buy more soybeans from
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: America last year, when there was the tariff and the
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: trade war going on, he agreed to buy $ 14 billion
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: worth of soybeans. China actually bought $ 2 billion. So again,
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: China cheats, lies, and steals. They don't believe anything that
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: they actually say because it probably won't come to pass.
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: So that's the way I see this Chinese trip. And
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: I do have a couple of other clips. Let's go
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: to ABC. Actually, that's Iran. So let's save Stephanopoulos here
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: for a few more minutes. And let's go to this
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: with Bret Baier, another follow-up clip with Bret Baier.
• 31:35
  Speaker 10: You know, when you look at the odds, China's a very,
• 31:38
  Speaker 10: very powerful big country. That's a very small island. It's,
• 31:43
  Speaker 10: think of it, it's 59 miles away, 59 miles. We're 9,500
• 31:49
  Speaker 10: miles away. That's a little bit of a difficult problem.
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: This answer sort of bothered me a little bit also.
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: And again, I don't know if that's one of those
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: answers that you were talking about that just take some
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: pressure off of China and Xi, but I don't know
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: that you want to give up the leverage of defending
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: Taiwan when you're 59 miles away from China, the big
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: country with the big military.
• 32:14
  Speaker 10: With all of that being said, you know, if you
• 32:18
  Speaker 10: look at the history of Taiwan, Taiwan was developed because
• 32:24
  Speaker 10: we had presidents that didn't know what the hell they
• 32:25
  Speaker 10: were doing, because if they would have put tariffs on
• 32:28
  Speaker 10: chips coming in, they would have never left. Everything was
• 32:30
  Speaker 10: about intel. And everything was about our chip companies. They
• 32:34
  Speaker 10: stole our chip industry. So I've said that for years.
• 32:38
  Speaker 10: I said, you know, for years they stole our chip.
• 32:40
  Speaker 10: If we would have had one of our presidents just say,
• 32:43
  Speaker 10: we're going to say, we're going to put 100 percent chip.
• 32:45
  Speaker 10: You can leave. You can build in Taiwan, but we're
• 32:47
  Speaker 10: going to you sell it back into the United States.
• 32:49
  Speaker 10: We're going to put 100 percent or 200 percent tariff.
• 32:52
  Speaker 10: We would have never lost a chip. We lost the
• 32:54
  Speaker 10: chip industry. It's all coming back. And I do say this.
• 33:00
  Speaker 10: Taiwan would be very smart to cool it a little bit.
• 33:05
  Speaker 10: China would be very smart to cool it a little bit.
• 33:07
  Speaker 10: They ought to both cool it.
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: He wants them both to cool it, Matt. And another
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: part of this trip was about Iran, too. And let's
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: get to Iran. It looks like this thing is just
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: not really going anywhere.
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: Unfortunately, yeah. It seems like we're going to have $ 8
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: gas pretty soon at this rate.
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's $ 4.
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: 50.
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: That's going to have an effect on what happens in
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: the midterm if that doesn't come down. And you and
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: I have both consistently said this from the beginning of
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: this conflict, that when it is over and the Strait
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: of Hormuz is opened up, the gas prices are going
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: to come down really quick and really low. There's a
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: lot of oil. From what I understand, Iran is pumping
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: oil on the ground now, so they're trying to keep
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: those rigs pumping. They don't want to turn them off
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: because they may not ever come back on. But let's
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: listen to this clip here of former Defense Secretary Robert
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: Gates saying, who was on a Sunday show. He was
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: on CBS with Margaret Brennan.
• 34:02
  Speaker 14: The last time we spoke, last spring, we were just
• 34:05
  Speaker 14: weeks away from that U.S.-Israeli strike on the three nuclear
• 34:10
  Speaker 14: sites in Iran. You said at that time, it was May,
• 34:15
  Speaker 14: when you were defense secretary, you were concerned that a
• 34:17
  Speaker 14: strike on the nuclear program would just buy time, a
• 34:21
  Speaker 14: year or two, but it would not solve the problem.
• 34:24
  Speaker 14: Do you still believe that?
• 34:26
  Speaker 15: I think the only way that we are likely to
• 34:29
  Speaker 15: get the enriched uranium out of Iran and bring about
• 34:36
  Speaker 15: an end to their nuclear aspirations is through a negotiation.
• 34:42
  Speaker 14: Is it possible for the president of the United States
• 34:45
  Speaker 14: to walk away and leave this for the Israelis to settle?
• 34:50
  Speaker 15: No, I don't think he can walk away. And no,
• 34:53
  Speaker 15: I don't think the Israelis can settle it. I don't
• 34:57
  Speaker 15: think as powerful as they are, they don't have the
• 35:00
  Speaker 15: kind of power the United States has. And I think
• 35:04
  Speaker 15: the president seems to have been very consistent and very
• 35:07
  Speaker 15: clear that under no circumstances can Iran ever have a
• 35:11
  Speaker 15: nuclear bomb. Well, the only way you get to that
• 35:14
  Speaker 15: objective is resolving this issue of the enriched uranium and
• 35:20
  Speaker 15: any future plans for enrichment.
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: You know, Matt, a lot of people have different ideas
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: about former Defense Secretary Robert Gates. But if you listen
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: to him, he sounds like he is on board with
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: what Trump has done. The decision has been made. He's
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: gone in there. We have done what we have done.
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: And he's saying we have to finish it. And I
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: have a little bit more from him in that same interview.
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: But what are your thoughts there on Robert Gates and
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: his comments to Margaret Brennan?
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: Well, he's right that we have to finish it. If
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: we were to half-ass it or outsource it to Israel
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: or some other country, it shows an enormous amount of
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: weakness on our part, and it makes everything Trump did
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: look like a bluff. So there is no choice but
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: to continue.
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: Well, let's let him finish up, because he talks about...
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: the good things that Donald Trump and this mission has accomplished.
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: And he thinks that what Donald Trump has said from
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: the very beginning was very clear, contrary to what Margaret
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: Brennan and the left want you to believe about Iran
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: and Donald Trump and his administration. Listen to former Defense
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: Secretary Robert Gates here.
• 36:28
  Speaker 14: It's a big enough problem that was clearly not going
• 36:30
  Speaker 14: to be settled in four to six weeks, which was
• 36:32
  Speaker 14: the timestamp that the American people were told to expect
• 36:35
  Speaker 14: in terms of the duration of conflict.
• 36:37
  Speaker 15: I think that there were some unrealistic expectations.
• 36:41
  Speaker 14: Have you heard a clearly articulated sort of center of
• 36:44
  Speaker 14: gravity of this operation, an end goal, a strategy?
• 36:49
  Speaker 15: Well, I think some of the justifications have changed over time.
• 36:52
  Speaker 15: But one thing, I think there have been a few
• 36:54
  Speaker 15: things that have been consistent from the very beginning.
• 36:57
  Speaker 13: One is.
• 36:59
  Speaker 15: To eliminate Iran's ability to have a nuclear weapon. Another
• 37:04
  Speaker 15: is to eliminate their military capabilities to attack their neighbors.
• 37:12
  Speaker 15: The third is to eliminate the capability to support their surrogates,
• 37:16
  Speaker 15: the Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis, to sink their navy. I think
• 37:24
  Speaker 15: those have all been articulated as objectives of this operation.
• 37:28
  Speaker 15: And although the nuclear program has been dramatically damaged and
• 37:34
  Speaker 15: set back a long time, I think those other things,
• 37:38
  Speaker 15: a lot has been accomplished.
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: I think I agree with him on everything that he said.
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: I see it the way that he does. I think
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: that the mission has been pretty clearly stated. No nuclear weapons.
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: We want to do some damage to what they could
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: do to the other Arab nations, including Israel. And they
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: have done that. They sunk the Navy. Those things have
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: been done. And I think Robert Gates is right on
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: track there with what he just said.
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: I mean, there's no denying we've made enormous amount of progress.
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: I mean, the unfortunate reality for Trump is that we
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: can't show people what the counterfactual is. We can't show
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: them from the perspective of God, turn back the clock
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: and say, OK, here's what the world would look like
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: if Trump didn't do this. And guess what? 20 years
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: from now, they launch a nuclear weapon and hundreds of
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: thousands of people die. The thing is, when you prevent
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: a tragedy down the road, No one knows you prevented
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: a tragedy. So from the perspective of voters, it's just
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: high gas prices and chaos. You don't get to see
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: the counterfactual, and that's unfortunate.
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: I want to go to a report that the New
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: York Times put out, and it is being repeated in
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: other publications now. They said that intelligence findings from early
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: May show Iran... has regained operational access to most of
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: its missile sites, including 30 of the 33 missile sites
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: along the Strait of Hormuz, citing people familiar with the assessments.
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: The newspaper said Iran still possesses roughly 70% of its
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: pre-war missile stockpile and mobile launchers. And I don't know
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: how in the world... That's even possible. So consider the
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: source there in the New York Times. Watch for that
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: narrative to come from the mainstream media. But know that
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: Robert Gates agrees with what Donald Trump is saying and
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: what he is doing. And I think we just have
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: to have patience here. Continue to have patience. The gas
• 39:29
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• 39:32
  Speaker 3: will pray for a resolution quickly. Amen.
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• 40:46
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• 40:51
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• 40:54
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• 40:56
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• 40:59
  Speaker 3: on Monday night. Let's get into Cuba. Matt, you remember
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: when Venezuela happened and Maduro was captured, brought back to
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: New York, where he now will face the jury and
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: the judge and probably spend the rest of his life
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: in a jail somewhere in America. Well, we turned our
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: attention to Cuba because they got all of their oil
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: from Venezuela. They have no oil and they have no electricity.
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: And we saw Jayapal a couple of weeks ago where
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: she announced that she is trying to help the Cuban
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: country going against a 60-year embargo that has been in
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: place forever when That's a whole other story. We really
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: didn't touch on that at the time, but it happened.
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: Let's go to this News Nation report that was filed
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: Friday night, and Listen to this about Cuba, what is
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: going on there.
• 41:47
  Speaker 11: Cuba is facing extreme fuel shortages and growing unrest and
• 41:52
  Speaker 11: a rare visit from the CIA director as pressure on
• 41:56
  Speaker 11: the communist government intensifies. CIA director John Ratcliffe traveled to
• 42:00
  Speaker 11: Havana on Thursday for meetings with Cuba's interior minister and
• 42:04
  Speaker 11: the intelligence chief. Ratcliffe putting pressure on Cuban officials to
• 42:07
  Speaker 11: stabilize the country's economy and work with the Trump administration
• 42:11
  Speaker 11: on security and economic issues. The talks come as the
• 42:13
  Speaker 11: Trump administration continues ramping up the pressure on Cuba, including
• 42:17
  Speaker 11: what Politico has described as a de facto fuel embargo
• 42:20
  Speaker 11: following the U.S. operation targeting former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro
• 42:24
  Speaker 11: earlier this year. Cuba is now dealing with several diesel
• 42:28
  Speaker 11: shortages and widespread blackouts, with some parts of Havana reportedly
• 42:32
  Speaker 11: losing power for more than 20 hours a day. The
• 42:34
  Speaker 11: crisis is spilling into the streets. Protesters in Havana have
• 42:37
  Speaker 11: been banging pots, blocking roads, and demanding electricity as frustration
• 42:41
  Speaker 11: grows over the collapsing power grid. We talked with a
• 42:44
  Speaker 11: former U.S. intelligence official who says that the threat that
• 42:48
  Speaker 11: Cuba is posing is only growing.
• 42:50
  Speaker 9: It's quickly becoming a threat to the U.S., not only
• 42:53
  Speaker 9: from a military standpoint, but also because the infrastructure is
• 42:58
  Speaker 9: falling apart. We may have and we may see something
• 43:02
  Speaker 9: somewhat of what we saw in the early 80s, a
• 43:04
  Speaker 9: mass exodus of humans trying to reach the US. They
• 43:08
  Speaker 9: may claim that the US is the bad guy, but
• 43:12
  Speaker 9: for many years, for 67 years, It's been a communist
• 43:16
  Speaker 9: country that has denied Cubans freedom to elect who they
• 43:20
  Speaker 9: want to be their politician.
• 43:22
  Speaker 11: But Cuba's ambassador to the U.S. is pushing back, saying, quote,
• 43:25
  Speaker 11: we are not a threat to the U.S. We are
• 43:27
  Speaker 11: a small island that wants only to be left alone
• 43:30
  Speaker 11: to decide our future.
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: But if illegal aliens come into America from Cuba, then
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: it is a national security risk. Matt, what do you
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: make of this in Cuba? We kind of called it.
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: We knew this was coming. I really thought it would
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: have already happened, but it seems like everything happens a
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: little bit slower than I wanted or predicted. Either way.
• 43:48
  Speaker 4: Well, you know, we had a policy for many decades
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: in this country where if a Cuban just showed up
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: on our soil, we would take them in because we
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: assumed they were a political refugee or something of that sort.
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: They were fleeing communism. It was actually Joe Biden who
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: ended that policy. And it seems crazy. Like, why would
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: the guy who opened up America's borders to the entire
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: rest of the world do then for some reason deny
• 44:16
  Speaker 4: it to Cuba? Well, you look at how they vote
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: in Miami and it makes quite a lot of sense,
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: but it was entirely politically motivated. You knew that if
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: they became citizens down the line, they would break 60-40
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: or 70-30 Republican and then got rid of that. So
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: I guess for once, we can thank Joe Biden for
• 44:33
  Speaker 4: potentially helping us on a border issue. But the argument
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: I hear a lot that And these are liberals justifying
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: illegal immigration. They'll say things like, well, we messed up
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: their home country, so they had no choice to come here.
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: My response is always, OK, first of all, cite me
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: the example of the country we screwed up and how
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: many people we brought in. Second of all, what, their
• 44:55
  Speaker 4: neighbors couldn't take them in? There's almost, I mean, there's, what,
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: 180 plus countries? Less than 200. But there's a lot
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: of countries in the world that that they could go
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: to besides the U.S. And third of all, we're allowed
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: to say no. Even if it was objectively the case
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: that we caused a refugee crisis in a country, logically speaking,
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: why would you want to take in a population that
• 45:18
  Speaker 4: hates you because of what you did? So I just
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: don't buy their arguments for that reason. And I don't
• 45:24
  Speaker 4: think we're going to see a humanitarian crisis if we
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: try to fix Cuba. I mean, you can't get worse
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: than communism.
• 45:30
  Speaker 14: No.
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: And people on the left, they seem to forget the
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: Cuban Missile Crisis and what was happening way back then.
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: Let's go to Marco Rubio and some comments he made
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: on Cuba on Air Force One recently. Let's listen to this.
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: In the case of Cuba, it's a very different situation.
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: There is no economy in Cuba. To the extent there's
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: any wealth in Cuba, it doesn't go, forget about it
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: doesn't go to the people, it doesn't even go to
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: the government. The wealth is controlled by a private, by
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: a company owned by military generals. They take all the money,
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: they're sitting on billions of dollars. This is a country
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: where people are literally now eating garbage from the streets.
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: But they have a company that controls all of the
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: money making there that's sitting on 15, 16 billion dollars.
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: So it's a broken, non-functional economy.
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: And then you have to ask the question, what will
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: happen when it finally does collapse? Who is going to
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: be in charge there? You hear a lot of different things.
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: You know that the people of Cuba want to create
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: their own government, but then you could end up with
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: another Haiti. Let's be honest about it.
• 46:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, in the Haitian example, though, they murdered the entire
• 46:37
  Speaker 4: host population that knew how to run the place. So
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: they kind of shot themselves in the foot there. You know,
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: I can't think of any examples of a communist country
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: giving up communism and then things getting worse. The only
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: sort of exception would be, you know, there being a
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: rocky transition for a few years where there's going to
• 46:56
  Speaker 4: be turbulence, where certain government agencies, you know, no longer exist.
• 47:00
  Speaker 4: And those people don't have jobs for a few months
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: or years or whatever. But in the long run, you know,
• 47:05
  Speaker 4: 10 years out, things are always way better.
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: I think America is ratcheting up the pressure on Cuba
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: right now because there is an indictment coming for the
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: brother of Fidel Castro. He's now 94 years old. His
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: name is Raul Castro. Let's listen to this from News Nation,
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: another part of that report I played earlier.
• 47:23
  Speaker 11: Intentions may grow even more as the U.S. is eyeing
• 47:27
  Speaker 11: an indictment against former Cuban president Raul Castro, saying it's
• 47:33
  Speaker 11: tied to the 1996 downing of humanitarian aid planes in
• 47:37
  Speaker 11: the country. Now, it's not clear on the timing of that,
• 47:40
  Speaker 11: but people familiar with it say that it's imminent and
• 47:43
  Speaker 11: could happen any time.
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: Have you heard anything about that, Matt, or is that
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: news to you?
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: I heard that it's both imminent and could happen at
• 47:50
  Speaker 4: any time.
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: It's very good to clarify.
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: I saw that as well. I think it's almost comical
• 47:57
  Speaker 4: that we're going after a 94-year-old, but it shows that
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: we don't forget. You really cannot escape us. We're not
• 48:03
  Speaker 4: going to let anyone get away with anything.
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: Well, it's a 30-year crime, allegedly, but Is it more
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: for messaging here for the people of Cuba? I think
• 48:12
  Speaker 3: that's what it is. That's why I said kind of
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: set it up that way, that this is about something
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: more than just indicting a 94 year old who happened
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: to be president of Cuba at one time. This is messaging.
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: This is decapitating the top. This is doing an end
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: to the Castros who brought in communism into the country.
• 48:33
  Speaker 4: I don't mean to imply that 90-year-olds, the laws don't
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: apply to them.
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: No, I didn't take it that way, but you're right.
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: You made a good point, but I just think that
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: it means more than, hey, by the way, we're going
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: after 94-year-old Castro here. There is a message here in
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: this indictment. I believe that's why the DOJ is going
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: to do this indictment. So watch for that. As she said,
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: it's imminent. So look for it this week. Who knows
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: when that will come? Let's remember the Keystone Pipeline for
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: a moment. And way back when Obama was president. And
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: you had Doug Burgum, who had just become the governor
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: of the state of North Dakota when this happened. Do
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: you remember all of that happening? It's been a while.
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: It's been 10, 11, 12 years ago. Well, fine. Yeah.
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: Do you remember it?
• 49:17
  Speaker 4: That was like the environmental issue of the Obama era.
• 49:21
  Speaker 4: That was just the recurring thing they were obsessed with
• 49:23
  Speaker 4: more than anything.
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: And Obama was encouraging it. He was putting his finger
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: on it. He was using people like Greenpeace. Well, there
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: was a big court trial and Greenpeace was fined $ 345
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: million over that. And that's how long it takes for
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: justice to come to America. For those of you who
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: are giving up on the 2020 election and the Russian hoax, well,
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: here's an example of something that took 10 years. Let's
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: go to this. This is Bill Hammer on Fox News
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: with Doug Burgum. You were governor of North Dakota at
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: that time. What do you remember?
• 50:00
  Speaker 13: Well, Bill, I took office on December 15th of November 16th,
• 50:04
  Speaker 13: and at that time there was thousands of protesters camping
• 50:07
  Speaker 13: illegally on federal land. This protest, there was a separate
• 50:11
  Speaker 13: trial that showed that the Obama administration, which was still
• 50:15
  Speaker 13: in office at that time, was putting their thumb on
• 50:17
  Speaker 13: the scale on the side of the protesters. And this
• 50:23
  Speaker 13: hurt the tribe. It hurt their casino. It hurt their revenues.
• 50:27
  Speaker 13: The local ranchers and farmers were being terrorized. The law
• 50:30
  Speaker 13: was being broken every possible which way, not just trespassing,
• 50:34
  Speaker 13: but human trafficking, sex trafficking, drug trafficking, ATF issues, arms issues.
• 50:40
  Speaker 13: I mean, this place was a toxic mix of protests
• 50:44
  Speaker 13: all in there, grifting and trying to grab national attention.
• 50:48
  Speaker 13: And I'd say today's ruling is really for the rule
• 50:51
  Speaker 13: of law. I mean, in North Dakota, we understand free speech.
• 50:54
  Speaker 13: We support free speech. But there's a difference between free
• 50:57
  Speaker 13: speech and violence. And I think this is a timely
• 51:01
  Speaker 13: and appropriate outcome from the jury.
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: Again, it was $ 345 million that the judge put on
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: Greenpeace for that. Do you remember all of that when
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: that was going on, Matt?
• 51:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah. As I was saying, it was kind of like
• 51:16
  Speaker 4: the number one climate issue of the day back then.
• 51:21
  Speaker 4: I don't even remember what ended up happening. Didn't Trump
• 51:23
  Speaker 4: end up giving it a green light?
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: Well, the Keystone Pipeline, from what I understand now from
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: the people I talk to in the oil and gas industry,
• 51:32
  Speaker 3: it's probably too expensive to make it effective in actually
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: working and bringing oil from the Alberta region of Canada.
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: The Alberta region of Canada, having talked to people there
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: on this show before, they are trying to find a
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: company that will bring it back. Donald Trump has said
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: if we can find a company that wants to do
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: it again and can make it cost effective for bringing
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: the oil to America, by all means, we'll do it.
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: But I know Donald Trump is working on deregulating things
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: so that we can pump the oil that's in our ground.
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: We have a lot of it. Let's go to something
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: AOC said. By the way, she happens to be the
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: frontrunner for 2028 for the Democrats. That's scary. That's scary.
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: Here's what she said about gerrymandering. Quote, it is time
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: for the North to pull up to the South. It
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: is time for New York to pull up to Alabama.
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: It is time for all of us to come to Georgia,
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: to Louisiana, to Tennessee, to Mississippi, and let them know
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  Speaker 3: exactly what they have uncorked with this injustice. The injustice
• 52:37
  Speaker 3: was the way that the maps were previously gerrymandered in racism.
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  Speaker 3: And this is just amazing to me that AOC is
• 52:47
  Speaker 3: speaking these types of things. And she's not alone. It's
• 52:50
  Speaker 3: everybody on the left. And she is, I guess, now
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: the leader of the Democrat Party.
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  Speaker 13: Is she?
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  Speaker 4: Seemingly so. There's this quote that I used to see liberals.
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  Speaker 4: Cite a lot. And I think it was actually originally
• 53:02
  Speaker 4: a Thomas Salk quote, and they didn't realize. But when
• 53:05
  Speaker 4: they would lecture us about racism, they would say things like,
• 53:08
  Speaker 4: you know, when you're accustomed to special treatment, equality seems
• 53:12
  Speaker 4: like oppression. And they were trying to, like, shame white
• 53:15
  Speaker 4: people that were against Black Lives Matter. But it's just
• 53:18
  Speaker 4: such a funny quote, because that also applies to every
• 53:22
  Speaker 4: scene they come up with, like affirmative action or or
• 53:25
  Speaker 4: having racially gerrymandered districts where we're literally just saying, no,
• 53:29
  Speaker 4: you can't rig elections based on race, and they're saying
• 53:33
  Speaker 4: that's racism. Well, no, what you were doing was the racism.
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  Speaker 4: We're the ones undoing it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's nuts, isn't it? Let's go to your senator
• 53:40
  Speaker 3: there in New Jersey, Cory Booker. He had a nice comment,
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: and maybe you didn't see this. We're coming up on
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: the end of the hour, but I want to sneak
• 53:48
  Speaker 3: this in here real quick. Senator Cory Booker says... Marijuana
• 53:53
  Speaker 3: is safer than McDonald's french fries. He argues that fast
• 53:58
  Speaker 3: food is heavily addictive and causes serious health problems. Yet,
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: cannabis is the one that gets banned. That is your senator,
• 54:08
  Speaker 3: by the way. That's Senator Cory Booker. He is making
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: big headlines there in Washington, D.C. as he does things
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  Speaker 3: for people like you sitting there in New Jersey. He's
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: a joke, and I think he also wants to be
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: on that presidential stage today. there's no chance he's ever
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: going to get there. I also hear that Kamala Harris is,
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: you know, she's still in the background. She still thinks
• 54:28
  Speaker 3: her time is coming in 2028. Matt, I know that
• 54:32
  Speaker 3: you and I both believe that will not happen, that
• 54:34
  Speaker 3: it's going to be somebody else I picked a long
• 54:36
  Speaker 3: time ago, I said, as a dark horse, Andy Beshear
• 54:40
  Speaker 3: out of Kentucky. Well, he's moved from 2% to 4%,
• 54:44
  Speaker 3: so don't give up on your bet there on your
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: predictive market. But, Matt, we're to the end of this hour.
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: What do we look for this week? What are you
• 54:51
  Speaker 3: thinking is going to come up? We have this big
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: race in Kentucky on Tuesday with Thomas Massey and Ed Galran.
• 54:57
  Speaker 3: It's going to be interesting to watch. It will be
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: a litmus test for this upcoming primary season.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I guess to totally steal your answer, I mean,
• 55:05
  Speaker 4: the Thomas Massey race is what I was going to say.
• 55:08
  Speaker 4: So that, and then Iran, Iran, Iran, which I say
• 55:11
  Speaker 4: every week.
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: Everybody does. Everybody's talking about Iran. And China is in
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: the rearview mirror now. Let's go forward. Let's stay concentrated
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: on this primary season and then the general, the midterm
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: election coming up in November. Matt, have a great week.
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: We'll do it again next Monday night. Thank you so much,
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: as always, for coming on the program. I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll see you all next week.
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: And don't forget that you were told 2,000 years ago
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: that you are the salt of the earth. And salt
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: without flavor, it has no value. So whatever you do,
• 55:42
  Speaker 3: keep being salty. Have a great night.
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