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Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to Bongino Report Early Edition live
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Speaker 1: here from the Washington DC Rumble studio. We have some
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Speaker 1: really big stories to get to today. My dad had
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Speaker 1: his Senate confirmation hearing, which I attended. We're going to
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Speaker 1: talk all about that. Trump facilitates a ceasefire, historic ceasefire
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Speaker 1: between Hamas and Israel. The FDA officially bans red dye
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Speaker 1: number three, Mike Pence, tries to thwart RFK Jr. 's confirmation.
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Speaker 1: Pete Hegseth proves that he is a man of true character.
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Speaker 1: And Trump unveils a historic inauguration portrait. All this on
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Speaker 1: Bongino Report, early edition. Today we are, like I said,
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Speaker 1: live from the Rumble Studio in Washington, D.C. And I
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Speaker 1: don't know about you guys, but I think this is
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Speaker 1: so much better than the red screen that I usually
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Speaker 1: have in the background. This is a real studio, a
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Speaker 1: real background, and it makes me so excited for our
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Speaker 1: new Bongino Studio to open up. So Um, stay tuned
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Speaker 1: for that. I'm looking forward to it. Just, this just
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Speaker 1: is giving me the excitement of finally having a real studio.
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Speaker 1: No more red screen. I have a lot to update
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Speaker 1: you guys on yesterday. I sat behind my dad, Sean
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Speaker 1: Duffy for his department of transportation, secretary confirmation hearing with
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Speaker 1: the Senate committee on commerce science and transportation. And I
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Speaker 1: was there with all of my siblings, almost all of them.
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Speaker 1: I'll say my brother, Jack, who his wife just had
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Speaker 1: a baby. He is dealing with the Los Angeles wildfires.
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Speaker 1: I told you guys he lives in California. He could
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Speaker 1: not make it, but all the rest of us could.
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Speaker 1: So it was all eight of my siblings and I
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Speaker 1: and my husband, Michael, all there to support my dad.
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Speaker 1: And the age range is pretty big, right? I'm 25.
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Speaker 1: My youngest sister, Valentina, is five. So a lot of
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Speaker 1: different kids there, a lot of different ages. And I'm
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Speaker 1: not going to lie to you guys. It was tough
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Speaker 1: getting all of them ready. It was pretty tough. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's tough just to get them ready for an event
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Speaker 1: like this, let alone having them sit still for nearly
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Speaker 1: three hours. It's a huge struggle. And my mom was
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Speaker 1: rushing to make sure that everyone got out the door
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Speaker 1: on time, looked really put together and nice, and I
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Speaker 1: think she did an amazing job. I'll also say the
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Speaker 1: kids were super well-behaved. It's kind of a hit or miss.
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Speaker 1: You never know if somebody's going to have a meltdown
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Speaker 1: And oftentimes, my mom says, in a family like ours
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Speaker 1: where there's so many different kids, so many different age ranges,
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Speaker 1: nobody's ever all happy at the same time. But the
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Speaker 1: kids were really well behaved. And Valentina was especially cute.
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Speaker 1: Here she was right before the hearing.
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Speaker 2: Hi. Hi.
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Speaker 1: Hi.
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Speaker 3: Let's go.
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Speaker 1: Are you ready?
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Speaker 4: I'm ready to go.
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Speaker 1: Ready to go. Ready to go.
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Speaker 2: Ready to go.
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Speaker 1: I'm ready to go. I'm ready to go. So she's
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Speaker 1: cheering on my dad. She's saying, ready to go, ready
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Speaker 1: to go, and waving at him. She doesn't know what's
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Speaker 1: going on, but she was obviously giving him a lot
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Speaker 1: of courage and confidence right before he stood before the committee.
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Speaker 1: And Valentina was honestly so good, too. She only had
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Speaker 1: to be taken out of the committee hearing a few times.
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Speaker 1: She was really well behaved. And before my dad went
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Speaker 1: into the hearing room with all of us, we actually
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Speaker 1: gathered together and we prayed. Here's what that looked like.
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Speaker 1: My dad dedicated his potential Secretary of Transportation position to
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Speaker 1: Our Lady of Guadalupe, who is the Queen of the Americas.
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Speaker 1: So it was a really beautiful moment. And he did
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Speaker 1: that with his congressional race, too. He dedicated it to
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Speaker 1: Our Lady of Guadalupe, and he first ran for office
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Speaker 1: back in 2010. Now we're on to bigger things. The
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Speaker 1: stakes are even higher, and he's still looking to Our
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Speaker 1: Lady of Guadalupe for inspiration and for her guidance as
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Speaker 1: he does this new job. And the hearing itself was
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Speaker 1: pretty remarkable. My dad was introduced to the committee by
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Speaker 1: both Wisconsin Republican Senator Ron Johnson and Wisconsin Democrat Senator
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Speaker 1: Tammy Baldwin. They both have committed to supporting my dad,
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Speaker 1: and it appears that he's going to get A lot
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Speaker 1: of bipartisan support come the actual confirmation vote. So I
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Speaker 1: also could not have, I don't think, had such a
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Speaker 1: great bipartisan support had we not had such a beautiful
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Speaker 1: moment with Valentina and Tammy Baldwin. She kept hugging. Tammy Baldwin,
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Speaker 1: before we went into the hearing room and calling her pretty,
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Speaker 1: she was grabbing her dress and saying, oh, you look
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Speaker 1: so beautiful, so pretty, which was just, she didn't, I mean,
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Speaker 1: Valentina doesn't know who Tammy Baldwin is, but she was
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Speaker 1: definitely buttering up the Democrats before we went into the
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Speaker 1: hearing room. Here's my dad explaining.
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Speaker 3: And she's very friendly. So when Senator Baldwin came into
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Speaker 3: the ante room, she's very bipartisan, too. So she went
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Speaker 3: up and was hugging Senator Baldwin. And then the senator
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Speaker 3: was very kind and hugged her back. And they had
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Speaker 3: a break, and then she's like, that wasn't enough. We're
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Speaker 3: going to hug again. And so they had a second hug.
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Speaker 3: So just to put a point on that, anyone who
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Speaker 3: has that diagnosis, I would just tell you they're wonderful,
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Speaker 3: beautiful children, and they will bring happiness and joy to
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Speaker 3: your life.
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Speaker 1: The diagnosis he's talking about is Down syndrome. Valentina, of course,
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Speaker 1: has Down syndrome. And a lot of people choose not
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Speaker 1: to carry Down syndrome babies to term. and my parents
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Speaker 1: viewed it as a blessing, and she has been one
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Speaker 1: of the greatest blessings. I mean, my mom always says,
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Speaker 1: Valentina is the only thing that this family can agree on,
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Speaker 1: and it's pretty true. Now, it wasn't just Tammy Baldwin
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Speaker 1: who was showing the love to the Duffy kids. Ranking
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Speaker 1: committee member Senator Maria Cantwell was also wonderful to my
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Speaker 1: dad and all of my siblings. My brother said, my
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Speaker 1: brother John Paul said that, Outside the hearing room, she
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Speaker 1: praised all the children for being well-behaved and then gave
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Speaker 1: them Skittles. And the line of questioning was also very positive.
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Speaker 1: It was not aggressive. It was not combative. As some
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Speaker 1: other hearings we've seen, it was a really, really successful day.
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Speaker 1: And you're probably wondering, what's going on? How is this
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Speaker 1: Trump nominee getting so much support from Democrats? Is that
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Speaker 1: a bad sign?
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Speaker 5: Maybe.
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Speaker 1: And I'll say a couple things about what's happening here
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Speaker 1: behind the scenes. Transportation is a pretty bipartisan area. This
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Speaker 1: isn't DNI or DOD or DHS or HHS or DOJ.
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Speaker 1: It's just a comparatively lot less partisan and a lot
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Speaker 1: less contention around this sector. So transportation lends itself to
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Speaker 1: Democrats and Republicans working together. And in fact, when my
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Speaker 1: dad was in Congress, he famously worked with Democrat Senators
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Speaker 1: Tammy Baldwin and Amy Klobuchar to get a bridge between
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Speaker 1: Minnesota and Wisconsin built. It's called the St. Croix Crossing Bridge.
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Speaker 1: It's still standing today. It's a great success and a
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Speaker 1: testament to bipartisanship in this area. But here's the second
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Speaker 1: piece to this. My dad's a nice guy. He is.
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Speaker 1: And when he was in Congress forming relationships with a
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Speaker 1: lot of the people who he stood before on this committee,
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Speaker 1: he was known as a very Midwest, nice kind of dude.
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Speaker 1: And he's kind of somebody who he might not always
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Speaker 1: agree with you. He's not going to compromise on his
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Speaker 1: core values, but he's a kind person. And that was
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Speaker 1: something he was always And it was a lesson that
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Speaker 1: he has taught and continues to teach to all of
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Speaker 1: my siblings and myself. Life is sweeter when you are,
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Speaker 1: when you are sweet. And my dad is always kind,
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Speaker 1: always very genuine with other people. And even Democrats will
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Speaker 1: respond really well to that. And I don't personally, I mean,
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Speaker 1: you guys probably have noticed, I have a little bit
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Speaker 1: of a combative personality. I can get pretty upset, especially
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Speaker 1: with people on our own side. When they do bad things,
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Speaker 1: I call them out. And that's a good thing. It's
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Speaker 1: a positive thing. And we need that. We need fighters.
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Speaker 1: But there's also something to be said for being kind.
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Speaker 1: And my dad has really drilled that home with us kids,
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Speaker 1: that you have to treat people well. And what goes
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Speaker 1: around comes around. There's a lot of truth to that.
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Speaker 1: How you treat people does matter. And I think this
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Speaker 1: is something that he learned, being one of 11 children,
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Speaker 1: having to get along with all of his siblings coming
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Speaker 1: from this massive family from the swing state of Wisconsin,
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Speaker 1: I might add, where people have very different viewpoints, right?
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Speaker 1: It's a very purple state, and it's purple in his
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Speaker 1: own family. My grandparents are Bernie bros. None of his sisters,
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Speaker 1: I think, would identify as politically conservative. And so he's
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Speaker 1: learned how to get along with people, how to compromise,
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Speaker 1: in ways that are compromisable without, you know, compromising his
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Speaker 1: core values. And I think it served him really well.
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Speaker 1: And I'm really grateful for the example that he's given
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Speaker 1: myself and all of my siblings. And by the way,
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Speaker 1: at the end of the hearing, one of the best
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Speaker 1: moments was when Valentina decided that she was going to
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Speaker 1: testify before Congress as well.
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Speaker 6: Thank you take care listening she's.
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Speaker 1: Just she's just like talking into the mic and she
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Speaker 1: kept doing it she she's copying my dad obviously.
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Speaker 5: She wants to.
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Speaker 1: To be part of the hearing too. She wants to
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Speaker 1: testify as well. So that was a very cute moment.
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Speaker 1: She is the best. I'll also say some people were commenting.
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Speaker 1: I posted about it yesterday on Instagram and asked people. saying, oh,
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Speaker 1: it was so funny looking at your brother's face the
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Speaker 1: whole time. My little brother Patrick was sitting on my lap.
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Speaker 1: We were right to my dad's. If you're looking at
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Speaker 1: the camera, we were right to his right. And yeah,
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Speaker 1: he was making a lot of funny faces. And it's
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Speaker 1: actually my fault that he was making a lot of faces.
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Speaker 1: Because in the hearing room, to the left and the right,
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Speaker 1: there was a screen showing what the camera was projecting.
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Speaker 1: And so I pointed it out to him. I said, Patrick, look,
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Speaker 1: you're on camera. You can see yourself. He noticed. He
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Speaker 1: was like, oh, this is really great. And then he
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Speaker 1: decided to make a lot of very silly faces throughout
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Speaker 1: the entire hearing. So it was kind of my fault.
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Speaker 1: It was also kind of cute. And it wasn't that disruptive,
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Speaker 1: I don't think. It didn't bother my dad because he
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Speaker 1: couldn't see. But yeah, if you notice Patrick's face, That
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Speaker 1: would be my fault. I probably shouldn't have pointed it
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Speaker 1: out to him. Okay, now for some major news. Thanks
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Speaker 1: to President Trump, Israel and Hamas have agreed to a
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Speaker 1: multi-phase ceasefire in Gaza, marking an end to the devastating,
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Speaker 1: bloody 15-month conflict. The agreement's first six weeks will see
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Speaker 1: Israel withdraw from much of the Gaza enclave and release
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Speaker 1: hundreds of of Palestinian prisoners, including convicted mass murderers, I
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Speaker 1: might add, in exchange for Hamas releasing 33 captive Israelis,
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Speaker 1: some living, some dead. We don't know the breakdown yet
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Speaker 1: of who is living, who is dead of those 33.
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Speaker 1: Should everything go as planned, we will then see the
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Speaker 1: release of the remaining Israeli hostages and the reconstruction of
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Speaker 1: Gaza in the deal's second and third stages. And this
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Speaker 1: deal actually is basically what Biden himself laid out in
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Speaker 1: May of 2024 in And it's a deal that Hamas
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Speaker 1: has been on board with for a long time. And
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Speaker 1: the only holdout so far has been Netanyahu. But Trump, amazingly,
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Speaker 1: he sends one envoy, Steve Witkoff, and this thing gets
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Speaker 1: agreed on. It's a done deal. Now, we don't know
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Speaker 1: all of the details yet. We don't. And I want
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Speaker 1: to emphasize this. It's possible that there are some unknown
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Speaker 1: pluses for the Israelis, perhaps the annexation of the West Bank.
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Speaker 1: Maybe this is something that's unsaid that will happen in
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Speaker 1: the future. We don't know. And if that is the case,
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Speaker 1: more violence could ensue. That would obviously be very provocative.
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Speaker 1: But if Trump's envoy was successfully able to pressure Netanyahu
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Speaker 1: to accept a ceasefire, and we're looking at the full
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Speaker 1: picture here, and the violence and the aggression and, frankly,
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Speaker 1: just the devastation has genuinely come to at least a pause,
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Speaker 1: this is an incredible victory for President Trump. It is,
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Speaker 1: like I said, a horrific bloodshed on both sides of
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Speaker 1: this conflict. And on the flip side, this is an
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Speaker 1: unbelievably humiliating moment for Joe Biden. Of course, Joe Biden
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Speaker 1: is currently trying to take credit for the ceasefire and
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Speaker 1: the hostage release deal. Here's Joe Biden.
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Speaker 5: Very good afternoon. Because at long last, I can announce
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Speaker 5: a ceasefire and a hostage deal has been reached between
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Speaker 5: Israel and Hamas. For more than 15 months of conflict,
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Speaker 5: It began with Hezbollah's brutal massacre on October the 7th.
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Speaker 5: More than 15 months of terror for the hostages, their families,
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Speaker 5: the Israeli people. More than 15 months of suffering.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys caught that, but he said,
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Speaker 1: I can announce a ceasefire and a hostage deal has
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Speaker 1: been reached. And then he says 15 months of conflict
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Speaker 1: that began with Hezbollah's brutal massacre on October the 7th.
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Speaker 1: He says Hezbollah, not Hamas. He's taking credit for what
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Speaker 1: Trump did. Everyone knows it. And he can't even get
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Speaker 1: the names straight of the people who are involved in
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Speaker 1: this conflict. The man is such an embarrassment. Now, this
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Speaker 1: is an official statement from the office of the prime
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Speaker 1: minister of Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke this evening
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Speaker 1: with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and thanked him for his
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Speaker 1: assistance in advancing the release of the hostages and for
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Speaker 1: helping Israel bring an end to the suffering of dozens
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Speaker 1: of hostages and their families. End quote. Notice that Biden
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Speaker 1: is not mentioned in that official tweet at all. Not mentioned.
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Speaker 1: It's just Trump. This is a quote from the Israel Times.
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Speaker 1: Trump envoy swayed Netanyahu more in one meeting than Biden
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Speaker 1: did all year. Trump in more than one meeting than
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Speaker 1: Biden has all year.
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Speaker 4: I mean.
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Speaker 1: By the way, Miss Alyssa Farah is going to have
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Speaker 1: to make good on her promise, her promise to wear
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Speaker 1: a MAGA hat on The View. Take a listen.
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Speaker 4: Single thing, a five-alarm fire. If he does good, if
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Speaker 4: he gets the Israeli hostages out, I promise I will
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Speaker 4: wear a MAGA hat for one day on the show
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Speaker 4: and say, thank you for doing it. She'll knock it
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Speaker 4: right off my head. You have to be able to
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Speaker 4: cheer for wins when they happen and then call out
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Speaker 4: relentlessly the wrongdoing.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so... She's going to have to wear the MAGA hat.
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Speaker 1: She's going to have to wear the MAGA hat. I
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Speaker 1: look forward to seeing Alyssa wearing that MAGA hat on
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Speaker 1: The View, donning the red she promised us. Now, Trump
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Speaker 1: said we would get tired of winning. He said, we're
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Speaker 1: going to get tired of winning. Are you guys tired
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Speaker 1: of winning yet? Because we are already beating big food.
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Speaker 1: The FDA has officially banned red dye number three because,
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Speaker 1: you know, it likely causes cancer in addition to being
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Speaker 1: completely unnatural for people to consume. Red number three has
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Speaker 1: been banned for almost 35 years in cosmetics. For some reason,
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Speaker 1: it's been totally fine for people to consume via our food.
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Speaker 1: So it's not fine to put on your face, but
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Speaker 1: you can consume it. I mean, it's just ridiculous policy.
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Speaker 1: And this is, of course, in reaction to RFK Jr.
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Speaker 1: and Maha, Make America Healthy Again. The Biden admin wants
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Speaker 1: to look like it's at least somewhat interested in ending
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Speaker 1: the mass poisoning of the American populace before Maha officially commences.
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Speaker 1: You have to think about it. If Biden was actually
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Speaker 1: interested in fighting big food, he would have done this
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Speaker 1: years ago. But he didn't. He waited until after Trump
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Speaker 1: was elected. And frankly, I don't care. If this is
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Speaker 1: a Biden pride move in response to President Trump, it's
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Speaker 1: a good decision. It's a long overdue decision. And ultimately,
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Speaker 1: we all know that it's thanks to President Trump. And
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Speaker 1: everyone wants to paint RFK Jr. as this divisive character.
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Speaker 1: He's so controversial. He's so bad. I actually think RFK Jr.
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Speaker 1: is incredibly unifying. It's simply that really powerful, very wealthy
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Speaker 1: people in big pharma and big food don't like him.
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Speaker 1: And that's why this narrative that he's so divisive is
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Speaker 1: being driven in the media. RFK Jr. has, in my family,
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Speaker 1: literally brought left-wing extended family members into the Trump camp
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Speaker 1: because they care about health and fitness of the country.
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Speaker 1: I think RFK Jr. is an awesome pick, but he
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Speaker 1: has somebody very interesting working against him right now, and
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Speaker 1: that someone is none other than former Vice President Mike Pence,
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Speaker 1: whose organization Advancing American Freedom is opposing the Senate confirmation
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Speaker 1: of RFK Jr. for the role of, of course, Health
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Speaker 1: and Human Services Secretary. Here's why Mike Pence is trying to,
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Speaker 1: in his own words, thwart RFK Jr.
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Speaker 7: I might have been the first to call on Republicans
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Speaker 7: in the Senate to reject the nomination of RFK Jr.
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Speaker 7: as Secretary of Health and Human Services. You know, there
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Speaker 7: are many aspects of the government that bear upon the
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Speaker 7: issue of life, none more important. than Health and Human Services.
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Speaker 7: It was one of the reasons why during our transition
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Speaker 7: in 2016 and 2017, all of our candidates, first and foremost,
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Speaker 7: were supporters of the right to life. Ultimately, our nominee,
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Speaker 7: Secretary Tom Price, would move forward and advance the cause
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Speaker 7: of life. And we made great progress. As you know,
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Speaker 7: you were directly involved in a number of those issues.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so he says, because RFK Jr. is pro-abortion, he's anti-life,
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Speaker 1: This disqualifies him from leading HHS. And this would be
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Speaker 1: a fair and fine point from pretty much anyone I
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Speaker 1: know who is pro-life. I mean, Michael, you're pro-life. Maybe
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Speaker 1: that's something that might make you take a pause from
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Speaker 1: RFK Jr., maybe. But here's why I reject it wholesale
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Speaker 1: from Mike Pence. This man isn't pro-life, certainly not in
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Speaker 1: his actions. Here is the War Room's Natalie Winters, who
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Speaker 1: we previously had on the show. on why Mike Pence
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Speaker 1: is not pro-life. Mike Pence.
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Speaker 8: I'd like to bring you back to a little date
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Speaker 8: called January 6, 2021, where you, sir, were directly responsible
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Speaker 8: for ushering in. Now, you probably thought I was going
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Speaker 8: to say the most illegitimate regime in the United States history.
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Speaker 8: But no, probably the most radical crazed pro-abortion regime that
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Speaker 8: has ever existed on the face of this earth. So
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Speaker 8: spare me the moralizing. the pro-life ivory towerism from you,
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Speaker 8: when in reality, I would put money on it, more
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Speaker 8: money than you're probably receiving from Pfizer and Moderna, but
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Speaker 8: they are paying you hand over fist to shill against
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Speaker 8: RFK Jr.
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Speaker 1: You know why else Mike Pence is not pro-life? The
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Speaker 1: man is obsessed with sowing death and destruction abroad, specifically
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Speaker 1: in Ukraine. He's obsessed with it. The guy loves war.
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Speaker 1: Remember that moment when Tucker Carlson destroyed Mike Pence's chances
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Speaker 1: at even getting half a percent in the primaries when
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Speaker 1: Mike Pence was under this delusion that he's going to
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Speaker 1: actually become president of the United States? Take a listen.
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Speaker 2: You are distressed that the Ukrainians don't have enough American tanks.
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Speaker 2: Every city in the United States has become much worse
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Speaker 2: over the past three years. Drive around. There's not one
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Speaker 2: city that's gotten better in the United States. And it's visible.
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Speaker 2: Our economy has degraded. The suicide rate has jumped. Public
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Speaker 2: filth and disorder and crime have exponentially increased. And yet
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Speaker 2: your concern is that the Ukrainians, a country most people
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Speaker 2: can't find on a map, who've received tens of billions
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Speaker 2: of U.S. tax dollars, don't have enough tanks. I think
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Speaker 2: it's a fair question to ask, like, where's the concern
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Speaker 2: for the United States in that?
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Speaker 8: Well, it's not my concern.
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Speaker 1: Not his concern. The American people aren't Mike Pence's concern,
20:43
Speaker 1: and neither are the Russian and Ukrainian men who are
20:44
Speaker 1: being slaughtered. Not his concern. Now, it could also be
20:49
Speaker 1: that Mike Pence is concerned RFK Jr. will uncover some
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Speaker 1: wrongdoings when Pence was the White House Coronavirus Task Force leader,
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Speaker 1: which of course heavily enabled Anthony Fauci, the guy who
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Speaker 1: is responsible for funding the creation of the pandemic in
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Speaker 1: the first place. Either way, no one cares what Mike
21:07
Speaker 1: Pence has to say. He is a vindictive little man,
21:11
Speaker 1: probably getting kickbacks from who knows where. He hates Trump.
21:15
Speaker 1: He hates Trump's team. And he wants to destroy them.
21:17
Speaker 1: He wants them to fail. Because he's angry. And I'm
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Speaker 1: a radically pro-life woman. Seriously. I mean, my sister has
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Speaker 1: Down syndrome. 95% of people with Down syndrome are aborted.
21:30
Speaker 1: I think in Denmark it's 99%. And RFK Jr. 's
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Speaker 1: abortion stance is something that has, I think, prevented me
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Speaker 1: from even considering him as a presidential candidate. back when
21:44
Speaker 1: there was still sort of a chance for him to win, right?
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Speaker 1: I just, I never even thought about it. But Mike
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Speaker 1: Pence's aims here are transparently not about the pro-life issue.
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Speaker 1: It's personal, it's vindictive, and this guy just needs to
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Speaker 1: leave us all alone while we try to save America.
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Speaker 1: Can he just step off? All right, now I want
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Speaker 1: to discuss Pete Hexeth's hearing. You guys have seen all
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Speaker 1: the clips. You guys have talked about it now, I'm sure,
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Speaker 1: and you know how this man was treated in But
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Speaker 1: I want to show you all the moment that had
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Speaker 1: the greatest impact on me. The whole purpose of this
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Speaker 1: hearing was to smear Pete. That's, of course, the purpose
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Speaker 1: of it, right? And in the most personal ways possible.
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Speaker 1: Senator Tim Kaine, in particular, took direct aim at Pete's
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Speaker 1: infidelity issues and marriage failures to the point where he
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Speaker 1: frankly dehumanized Gwendolyn, a daughter of Pete, who he had
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Speaker 1: through an affair with his now-wife, Jen. Take a listen.
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Speaker 9: Completely cleared. Can you so casually cheat on a second
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Speaker 9: wife and cheat on the mother of a child that
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Speaker 9: had been born two months before, and you tell us
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Speaker 9: you were completely cleared? How is that a complete clear? Senator,
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Speaker 9: her child's name is Gwendolyn Hope Hegseth, and she's a
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Speaker 9: child of God, and she's seven years old. And you
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Speaker 9: cheated on the mother of that child less than two
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Speaker 9: months after that daughter was born, didn't you?
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Speaker 1: Those were false charges.
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Speaker 9: It was fully investigated and that was completely cleared.
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Speaker 1: I know Gwendolyn. I babysat for all the Hegseth children,
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Speaker 1: including her. Speaking of life and integrity with Mike Pence,
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Speaker 1: Pete Hegseth is a real pro-life man and he's proved it.
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Speaker 1: It would have been so easy for someone in Pete's
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Speaker 1: position with his marriage and his job and his reputation
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Speaker 1: all on the line to turn to abortion. It would
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Speaker 1: have been a no-brainer for a lot of men in
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Speaker 1: Pete's position, but he didn't do that because he recognizes
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Speaker 1: the humanity and the value of his little girl, now
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Speaker 1: and when she was preborn. And again, speaking of intentions,
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Speaker 1: Senator Tim Kaine is a close friend of serial cheater
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Speaker 1: Bill Clinton, and he voted to codify Federal recognition of
24:08
Speaker 1: gay marriage. So Tim Kaine is not a defender of
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Speaker 1: traditional marriage in any sense. Quite the contrary. I want
24:18
Speaker 1: to play for you guys the video edit where you
24:21
Speaker 1: have all of the female senators interrogating Pete. And I
24:25
Speaker 1: think this demonstrates a broader point about what we witnessed
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Speaker 1: in that hearing. Take a listen.
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Speaker 2: Okay. The purpose of this hearing was to anger Pete.
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Speaker 2: That was the purpose.
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Speaker 1: If you're listening, you didn't see that whole, you couldn't
24:37
Speaker 1: visually see that video. You had all of the senators
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Speaker 1: around Pete who is edited in the middle and Pete's
25:00
Speaker 1: just looking just exhausted. He's sick of it. He's tired
25:03
Speaker 1: of it. And these women are just yelling at him,
25:07
Speaker 1: acting completely deranged. And they wanted to act deranged to
25:12
Speaker 1: get a rise out of Pete. They wanted Pete to
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Speaker 1: lose his cool. And he didn't. I not only thought
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Speaker 1: that Pete was calm and collected, I thought he was charming.
25:23
Speaker 1: I thought he was respectful. I thought he came off
25:26
Speaker 1: like a sympathetic character. I don't think I could maintain
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Speaker 1: my composure in that kind of a situation. It was
25:33
Speaker 1: nothing short of remarkable and a testament to Pete's character.
25:37
Speaker 1: And like I said, the Democrats needed an outburst from Pete.
25:41
Speaker 1: They needed an excuse to pull from his already tight numbers.
25:47
Speaker 1: And I don't think that they succeeded. It appears that
25:49
Speaker 1: despite all these vipers, he's going to get confirmed. Here's CNN.
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Speaker 6: That Hexeth acquitted himself extremely well. And he plans to
25:59
Speaker 6: move very quickly on this nomination. And it's moving quickly.
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Speaker 6: We expect the Senate Armed Services Committee to have a
26:04
Speaker 6: vote as soon as Monday, Inauguration Day. That is according
26:08
Speaker 6: to the chairman of the committee, Roger Wicker, who told
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Speaker 6: me that he believes that he'll get the support of
26:12
Speaker 6: all Republicans and be able to push this through.
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Speaker 1: That's a great report. I love to hear it. Still
26:20
Speaker 1: see your prayers for Pete. Like I said, it's positive.
26:22
Speaker 1: We're hearing good things. I think he's going to get confirmed.
26:25
Speaker 1: He still needs our prayers. You never know what can
26:28
Speaker 1: happen behind the scenes here. All right. Last story, you guys.
26:33
Speaker 1: Last night, Trump's inauguration portrait was unveiled. And I want
26:37
Speaker 1: you to take a look at this. You're going to see,
26:40
Speaker 1: if you're listening, I mean, it's this black and white
26:44
Speaker 1: epic photo of Trump. His mouth is closed. It's almost
26:47
Speaker 1: like a glare. And it's very similar to Trump's mugshot
26:52
Speaker 1: taken in August 2023 after he was indicted in Georgia.
26:56
Speaker 1: This is an incredibly different portrait from Trump's first term. Before,
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Speaker 1: he had this toothy smile. He looked really optimistic. Almost,
27:06
Speaker 1: I would say, naive for what's to come. And now
27:10
Speaker 1: things are different. Think about what this man has been through.
27:14
Speaker 1: And Trump is all about the dramatics and the symbolism.
27:17
Speaker 1: We know what he was trying to convey with that photo.
27:20
Speaker 1: It's as if he's saying, via the picture, I see
27:25
Speaker 1: it all clearly now. I've lived through the lies, the corruption,
27:28
Speaker 1: the manipulation, and now I know. The Russia collusion hoax,
27:32
Speaker 1: the laptop cover-up, the mass censorship, the lab-leaked virus funded
27:36
Speaker 1: by taxpayers thanks to Fauci, the BLM riots engineered to
27:41
Speaker 1: stoke division, racial division in this country. He's witnessed it all.
27:45
Speaker 1: He's frankly been the victim of it all. He's endured,
27:49
Speaker 1: emerged wiser, and now he carries a very clear mandate.
27:55
Speaker 1: And this time he surrounded himself with loyal, principled allies
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Speaker 1: committed to the cause instead of putting his faith in
28:01
Speaker 1: swamp rats. I mean, that's what he initially did. He
28:04
Speaker 1: thought that he would come to D.C. and he would
28:07
Speaker 1: put in people who are from D.C., who usually take
28:10
Speaker 1: these positions. A lot of times these roles are recycled through.
28:15
Speaker 1: And he's learned his lesson now, and he's got some
28:18
Speaker 1: really unconventional picks, but I think they're good picks, and
28:21
Speaker 1: I think they're loyal picks, and they're going to actually
28:23
Speaker 1: enact change in this country. I want you to contrast
28:27
Speaker 1: this Trump photo and what it represents with Biden. The
28:33
Speaker 1: Trump-led Israel Hamas ceasefire is an unmissable blow to Biden,
28:39
Speaker 1: a staggering humiliation on the world stage. But it doesn't
28:43
Speaker 1: stop there. Look at even the infernos that have raged
28:47
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. They're living, burning symbols of left-wing mismanagement
28:53
Speaker 1: and failure. I want you all to listen to what
28:56
Speaker 1: Biden had to say in his very sad and frankly
29:00
Speaker 1: telling farewell address.
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Speaker 5: Information and disinformation enabling the abuse of power The free
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Speaker 5: press is crumbling. Editors are disappearing. Social media is giving
29:13
Speaker 5: up on fact-checking. The truth is smothered by lies told
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Speaker 5: for power and for profit. We must hold the social
29:22
Speaker 5: platform accountable to protect our children, our families, and our
29:27
Speaker 5: very democracy from the abuse of power.
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Speaker 1: He's furious. He's furious that his own censorship regime is crumbling.
29:39
Speaker 1: crumbling around him. He abused power and the public by
29:45
Speaker 1: directing the censorship of content disfavorable to his regime. And
29:48
Speaker 1: the public is so done with it, so done. We
29:52
Speaker 1: have rejected the destruction and assault on the First Amendment wholesale.
29:59
Speaker 1: Even the social media companies have had to reverse course
30:03
Speaker 1: in the wake of this Trump mandate and the will
30:05
Speaker 1: of the people finally shining through on this issue. It's
30:10
Speaker 1: Biden's lies that have crumbled, not fact-checking and truth and honesty.
30:16
Speaker 1: We know disinformation just means information inconvenient to powerful people.
30:21
Speaker 1: Mark Zuckerberg, once a tool of the establishment, has pivoted.
30:27
Speaker 1: On the nation's largest podcast, he effectively threw Biden under
30:30
Speaker 1: the bus, with Meta now abandoning political censorship and phony fact-checking.
30:34
Speaker 1: Across the board, the tide is turning. Mexico is adopting
30:39
Speaker 1: policies to curb mass immigration. Companies like Costco, Meta, McDonald's, Walmart, Ford,
30:46
Speaker 1: they're ditching divisive DEI programs and policies. Modern leftism hasn't
30:53
Speaker 1: just faltered. It's seemingly collapsed under the weight of its
30:57
Speaker 1: own failures. The American people have rejected en masse leftism.
31:05
Speaker 1: The demoralization of, frankly, the Obama years, years defined by
31:10
Speaker 1: policies that put America last and fracture our national unity
31:13
Speaker 1: along racial lines, is finally behind us. For the first
31:17
Speaker 1: time in decades, people of all races— are coming together
31:21
Speaker 1: under this banner of America first. And Biden, he's really tragic.
31:28
Speaker 1: An deteriorating man who allowed himself to become Obama's pawn.
31:32
Speaker 1: And as a reward, he's now the reluctant face of
31:36
Speaker 1: dying leftism, a relic of an era Americans are eager
31:39
Speaker 1: to leave behind. The Biden admin has concluded by saying,
31:46
Speaker 1: The complete alienation of young leftists, thanks to the TikTok
31:49
Speaker 1: ban and what countless young people perceive as a genocide
31:52
Speaker 1: in Gaza, permitted by Biden himself, who they have dubbed
31:56
Speaker 1: Genocide Joe. We have a disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, with Democrats
32:01
Speaker 1: continuing to defend forever wars abroad. Trump has tapped into populism,
32:07
Speaker 1: shifted the zeitgeist, and potentially destroyed the Democratic Party. There's
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Speaker 1: so much to be, I think, thankful for right now.
32:15
Speaker 1: A new dawn is rising in America, and there is
32:18
Speaker 1: an energy and a hope and an optimism unlike anything
32:22
Speaker 1: in recent memory, certainly not in my own. And it's
32:25
Speaker 1: not a blind patriotism, but a deeper commitment to authentic truth,
32:29
Speaker 1: to the truth. I think finally we're going to uncover
32:32
Speaker 1: what's been hidden for way too long, from 9-11 to
32:35
Speaker 1: Epstein to JFK, MKUltra. The pursuit of truth is becoming
32:40
Speaker 1: a priority. And we aren't couching language anymore today. about
32:44
Speaker 1: mass immigration or forever wars and warmongers themselves who, again,
32:48
Speaker 1: put American economic prosperity and lives last. The people's voice
32:52
Speaker 1: now resonates in the executive branch. The outsider has become
32:58
Speaker 1: the insider. Truth is prevailing, and with it, I think
33:02
Speaker 1: prosperity is returning. Radical progressivism is fading in a brighter,
33:08
Speaker 1: freer future. is taking its place. And that is all
33:12
Speaker 1: I have for you guys today. Again, we are here
33:14
Speaker 1: live in the Rumble studio in DC, which I think
33:17
Speaker 1: very grateful to Rumble for hosting us. And I think
33:19
Speaker 1: this is such a good sign that we're, yes, shout
33:23
Speaker 1: out to Dylan. Thank you, Dylan. We, I mean, this is,
33:25
Speaker 1: we just put this together, right? I mean, this is
33:27
Speaker 1: not our normal studio. He helped get this all figured
33:29
Speaker 1: out for us. So we're really grateful to Dylan, to
33:31
Speaker 1: Rumble in general, and also to Michael, who I love,
33:35
Speaker 1: and who made this all really possible as we're running
33:38
Speaker 1: around like chickens with their heads cut off in the
33:40
Speaker 1: midst of this entire inauguration week. So there'll be more
33:45
Speaker 1: Rumble shows. There'll be more road shows. Unfortunately, we'll be
33:48
Speaker 1: back in the studio mid-next week. So I will see
33:51
Speaker 1: you all tomorrow.
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Speaker 7: The U.S.
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Speaker 2: I'm your host, Megan Klingenberg, and I am super stoked
33:59
Speaker 2: to be joined by Daryl Dike.
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Speaker 1: Arguably, your most impressive quality cannot be measured. You're a
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Speaker 9: Injuries have ended plenty of careers, but instead you decided
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Speaker 4: Welcome to the show, Daryl.
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Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
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Speaker 6: That's a good intro right there.
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