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The Real Socialist Agenda, Fauci's Bad Week, Mandani Doxxes the 'Rich' | Last Call · 3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Three Martini Lunch. Grab a stool next
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  Speaker 1: to Greg Corumbus of Radio America and Jim Garrity of
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  Speaker 1: National Review.
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  Speaker 2: Free Martini's coming up.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the last call of the week for the
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  Speaker 1: Three Martini Lunch. This is our weekly recap of the
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  Speaker 1: biggest stories of the week. In this edition, the socialists
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  Speaker 1: confirm their crazy agenda and the independents want nothing to
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  Speaker 1: do with it. Doctor Anthony Fauci pleads the fifth before
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  Speaker 1: Congress after his COVID diary proves he lied to the
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  Speaker 1: public about many things and that he's a massive meglomaniac.
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  Speaker 1: At Mayor mom Doni not only wants to raise taxes
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  Speaker 1: on the second homes of who he considers rich New Yorkers,
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  Speaker 1: but he's making their names and addresses public as well.
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  Speaker 1: And in our Chaser of the week, some on the
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  Speaker 1: left are losing their minds over donuts. That's right, donuts.
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  Speaker 1: But we begin with the socialists admitting what they would
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  Speaker 1: do if given enough power. Jim, let's start with socialism again.
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  Speaker 1: Socialism making the rounds on the Sunday morning chat shows.
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  Speaker 1: Shannon Briham, host of Fox News Sunday, Welcoming in Meghan Romer,
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  Speaker 1: who is the co chair of the Democratic Socialists of
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  Speaker 1: America and Shannon Briham simply went through the DSA platform
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  Speaker 1: and said, hey, do you agree with this? Do you
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  Speaker 1: agree with this? Do you really believe this? And here's
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  Speaker 1: how it went.
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  Speaker 3: So we're going to put up on the screen a
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  Speaker 3: few of the things that are part of your platform,
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  Speaker 3: and I want to ask you just give me sort
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  Speaker 3: of a true false on these.
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  Speaker 1: Abolish the Senate true okay.
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  Speaker 3: Replace the Presidency and Supreme Court as we now know them.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: Abolish ice. Absolutely, abolish borders, and give amnesty to anyone
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  Speaker 3: currently in the US illegally as a long term plan, yep.
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  Speaker 3: Defund the Pentagon. Absolutely, abolish prisons, at least in large part.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Again, that is part of a long term program.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, So no prisons, government or public ownership of
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  Speaker 3: most large corporations.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's head over to meet the press now,
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  Speaker 1: where Steve Kornacki was helping Kristen Welker understand some new
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  Speaker 1: numbers over there, particularly how democrats view socialism as opposed
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  Speaker 1: to independence.
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  Speaker 4: We've been seeing in the primary season socialists winning democratic
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  Speaker 4: primaries candidates from the far left. And look at this
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  Speaker 4: here among Democrats, this is that Fox pool a majority
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  Speaker 4: have a favorable view of socialism. Step outside the Democratic Party,
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  Speaker 4: it's a totally different world. Look at independence. Socialism deeply
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  Speaker 4: unpopular there.
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  Speaker 1: So the numbers were Democrats favor socialism fifty two to
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  Speaker 1: forty three, Independence of posts seventy seven seventeen. Jim, I
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  Speaker 1: think the bubonic plague is slightly more popular among independents.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, you go over that list that Shannon Brieman,
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  Speaker 1: the DSA lady were going over. Some of those are
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  Speaker 1: mainstream Democratic positions, abolishing ice, radically changing the Supreme Court
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  Speaker 1: as we know it. They hate the Senate. We've had
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  Speaker 1: plenty of op eds on how that's supposedly not fair.
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  Speaker 1: Good that it's on the record, and the where the
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  Speaker 1: Democrats have to try to run away from this, I
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  Speaker 1: guess the better. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, very good for Shannon Reem for asking
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  Speaker 2: these questions, just sitting her dead and like there's nothing,
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  Speaker 2: there's no gotcha there, this is all this is in
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  Speaker 2: your platform. Do you guys really believe this? Are you serious?
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  Speaker 2: And I suppose semi credit to the DSA representative there.
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  Speaker 2: I've put out that like it's a long term plan. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so you do support it, You just you know, like
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  Speaker 2: nobody's got to stop watch out for you guys. Right,
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  Speaker 2: we kind of know this is where you want to
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  Speaker 2: take things to. The numbers actually are they don't totally
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  Speaker 2: shock me, the numbers on the Meet the Press Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: It's not surprising that a lot of people are upset
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  Speaker 2: with the status quo. I would argue, the cost of
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  Speaker 2: living never really got under control post pandemic. Yeah, the
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  Speaker 2: inflation rate is down significantly from the heights of the
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  Speaker 2: Biden administration, but people still feel like, you know, cost
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  Speaker 2: of living is too expensive. Gas prices are back up again.
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  Speaker 2: We're shooting it a ran, all that kind of stuff. So, Pete,
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  Speaker 2: there's this general dissatisfaction with the country, and it probably
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  Speaker 2: doesn't help the President Trump keep running around saying we're
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  Speaker 2: in a golden age. That said, upset the status quo
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  Speaker 2: does not automatically mean I want any alternative, including what
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  Speaker 2: these Democrats and the Democratic Socialists of America are putting
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  Speaker 2: on the table. If I'm a Republican candidate running against
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  Speaker 2: even a non DSA candidate, I'm saying too I'm putting
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  Speaker 2: that statement from the DSA saying we want to get
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  Speaker 2: rid of police, we want to get it in the military.
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  Speaker 2: We want to get rid of borders, right, we want
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  Speaker 2: to get rid of we want to go back to
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  Speaker 2: the Treaty of Westphalia and undo the concept of the
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  Speaker 2: nation state. That's how radical these folks are. Put that
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  Speaker 2: out there, and then I'd say to any non DSA
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  Speaker 2: Democratic candidate, what have you done to stand up against this?
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  Speaker 2: What have you done to oppose this? Because it's one
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  Speaker 2: thing to say, oh, I don't agree with it, but
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  Speaker 2: we know the next Congress, because of these primaries and
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  Speaker 2: these blue districts, they're going to have more DSA members.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to be an increasingly vocal voice in the party.
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  Speaker 2: So are you really willing to fight against that or
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  Speaker 2: are you going to have kind of a goal along
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  Speaker 2: to get along? Eh, we'll meet them halfway. We'll have
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  Speaker 2: some borders but not others. We'll have some military but
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  Speaker 2: not other mil You really can't go halfway with this
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  Speaker 2: vision of the of society and so or you you
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  Speaker 2: are basically on board with the DSA agenda. You just
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  Speaker 2: wanted to be longer term than they do. This is
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  Speaker 2: a good way to repel independence, and I do not
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  Speaker 2: think the socialist democratic base is enough to win the
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  Speaker 2: House of Representatives or the US Senate. We'll see how
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  Speaker 2: things shake out from here. But I are you upset
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  Speaker 2: with the status quo? That's a very winning question for Democrats.
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  Speaker 2: Do you want socialism as the alternative? Is a very
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  Speaker 2: winning proposition for Republicans?
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely right. And the Democrats still don't know how to
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  Speaker 1: handle this because you got Ram Emmanuel and I think
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  Speaker 1: it was The Atlantic last week that said we got
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  Speaker 1: to purge this whole thing out of the party or
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be a disaster. But Tim Kine over
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  Speaker 1: the weekend's like, who am I to tell them they
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  Speaker 1: can't be part of the big tent? So they still
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  Speaker 1: haven't figured out how to address this yet.
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  Speaker 2: I was gonna say, by the way, robm Emmanuel's op
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  Speaker 2: ed was in the Wall Street Journal, and I think
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  Speaker 2: if you're a if you're thinking of running for president,
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  Speaker 2: as Rob Emmanueal obviously, is the fact that he's pitching
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  Speaker 2: himself to the readers of the Wall Street Journal oup
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  Speaker 2: ed page a generally right of center audio. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's kind of interesting. I don't. It's a great path
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  Speaker 2: to to likely victory. But I do think it's kind
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  Speaker 2: of interesting that he is kind of he's kind of
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  Speaker 2: recognized he doesn't have a chance of appealing to the
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  Speaker 2: you know, the Nation or Jacobin or what are these other, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, far left audiences, and he's trying to basically say, hey,
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  Speaker 2: you know, independence centrists, Republicans, here's look at how reasonable
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  Speaker 2: I am. I too think that Bernie Sanders is the devil.
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  Speaker 1: And even some of the DSA positions that aren't where
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats are, they're barely to the left of the Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: Like abolishing prisons. I don't think the Democrats want to
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  Speaker 1: abolish them, but they think way too many people are
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  Speaker 1: in prison. I think way too few people are in
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  Speaker 1: prison based on some of the things we're seeing.
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  Speaker 2: But I haven't seen a lot of Democrats up in
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  Speaker 2: arms about sorros prosecutors. Yes, I mean, they might be
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  Speaker 2: few and far between here, you know, the idea of
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  Speaker 2: you know, generally, at least historically, Democrats have not big
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  Speaker 2: fans of increased defense spending. Democrats have not been big
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  Speaker 2: fans of in course, enforced border security. And the difference
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  Speaker 2: this is that like the DSA wants to abolish the Senate.
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  Speaker 2: The Democrats want to complain about the Senate and argue
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  Speaker 2: that the states are gerrymandered.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, exactly right, exactly right, So they're not as
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  Speaker 1: far apart as the Democrats would like us to believe.
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  Speaker 1: the week of doctor Anthony Fauci. But for a guy
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  Speaker 1: that loves attention, it sure wasn't a very fun week
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  Speaker 1: for him, Jim. For the past couple of days, we've
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  Speaker 1: expected a pretty significant clash up on Capitol Hill as
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  Speaker 1: Rand Paul and Anthony Fauci square off yet again Fauci
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  Speaker 1: subpoena by Senator Paul, who is the chairman of the
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  Speaker 1: Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. But you know
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  Speaker 1: expected this intense back and forth all day long. That's
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  Speaker 1: not exactly what we're getting because in his opening statement,
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Fauci is basically saying, you know what, I'm playing.
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  Speaker 5: The fifth Given Senator Paul's obvious obsession with calling for
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  Speaker 5: my prosecution, his repeated slanderous comments about me, and recently
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  Speaker 5: his publicly releasing my unredacted personal diary aimed at embarrassing
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  Speaker 5: and intimidating me, the only conclusion I can reach is
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  Speaker 5: that the sole reason he is calling me before this
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  Speaker 5: committee is to get me to say something, anything that
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  Speaker 5: could vindicate his repeated public pledge. Is that I end
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  Speaker 5: up in his words quote behind bars unquote. Any reasonable
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  Speaker 5: person who has followed his unhinged obsession with me would
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  Speaker 5: readily come to the same conclusion. Therefore, although it pains
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  Speaker 5: me to do so because of the respect I have
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  Speaker 5: for the legislative branch of government and my decades long
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  Speaker 5: record of cooperating with Congress. Under the advice of my attorneys,
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  Speaker 5: I will invoke my right under the Fifth Amendment of
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  Speaker 5: the Constitution to refrain from answering your questions.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you well.
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  Speaker 1: He does that constitutional right, Jim. But he does have
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  Speaker 1: to stay there and listen to things like this, as
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  Speaker 1: ran Paul laid out a pretty stinging indictment of him.
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  Speaker 6: But officials across the country invoked your authority to justify
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  Speaker 6: these decisions, and you presented your recommendations not as judgments
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  Speaker 6: open to debate, but its dictates of science itself. Your
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  Speaker 6: own words demonstrate that you understood the influence you exercised.
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  Speaker 6: On March fourteenth, twenty twenty, you wrote that the task
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  Speaker 6: force recommendations were driven by me, yourself, deb and CDC.
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  Speaker 6: The next day, you wrote that you had convinced Mayor
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  Speaker 6: Or Bill de Blasio to close the New York City schools,
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  Speaker 6: so you were involved. That same night, Governor Gavin Newsom's
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  Speaker 6: chief of staff told you that the governor had decided
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  Speaker 6: to close California schools, bars and restaurants after watching you
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  Speaker 6: on television. Presidents, governors, mayors, school boards, corporations, and congress
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  Speaker 6: all bare responsibility for the decisions they made. The COVID lockdown, however,
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  Speaker 6: could never have been inflicted without you aiding and abetting
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  Speaker 6: the crime. Children lost education, small businesses built over a
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  Speaker 6: lifetime disappeared, delayed cancer screenings and other medical care. Families
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  Speaker 6: were separated from dying relatives. Workers were ordered to accept
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  Speaker 6: a medical procedure or lose their jobs. Worship, assembly, employment, education,
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  Speaker 6: and travel were restricted in the name of science. Well,
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  Speaker 6: you did not impose every restriction, you used your public
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  Speaker 6: authority to justify them.
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  Speaker 1: And then he goes into Fauci, as we've already discussed
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  Speaker 1: this week, lying about the lab lik. So a couple
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  Speaker 1: of thanks here, Jim. First of all, it never looks
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  Speaker 1: great when you're invoking the fifth It is there for
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  Speaker 1: a reason in the Bill of Rights, but it never
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  Speaker 1: looks great. And then the fact that Faucio got how
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  Speaker 1: dare you use my writings in my diary to show
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  Speaker 1: that I was lying to you before? It's not the
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  Speaker 1: strongest case.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, I should point out I just checked
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  Speaker 2: the Joe Biden pardon of Anthony Fauci covers anything he
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  Speaker 2: did in relation to his duties from January first, twenty fourteen,
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  Speaker 2: through the date of the pardon, which was January nineteenth,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. So theoretically, if Fauci were to light
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  Speaker 2: to Congress or were to be in contempt of Congress
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  Speaker 2: or something like that, the pardon would not actually cover that.
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  Speaker 2: So he does have a certain amount of legal risk
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  Speaker 2: by testifying if he were to lie or something like that.
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  Speaker 2: I think this is undoubtedly frustrating for a lot of
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  Speaker 2: Fauci critics, but I think ultimately this is going to
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  Speaker 2: be seen as a useful day for the Fauci critics,
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  Speaker 2: and it's because you are Let's say, the diary excerpts
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  Speaker 2: came out over the weekend and really got digested on Monday,
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  Speaker 2: and if you're a Fauci fan, for the last couple
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  Speaker 2: of days, you've been probably been thinking, well, there's got
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  Speaker 2: to be some perfectly logical, reasonable reason that what Fauci
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  Speaker 2: said in his diary and personal writings and what he
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  Speaker 2: was telling the public were different. I can't wait to
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  Speaker 2: hear from him, to hear what that explanation is. And
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  Speaker 2: now you're not going to because I suspect there is
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  Speaker 2: no logical, reasonable explanation for this. I think you know
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  Speaker 2: Thatthony Fauci had some thoughts that he really conclusions he
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  Speaker 2: had come to, I e.
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  Speaker 1: This was not a.
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  Speaker 2: Virus that emerged from a wet market, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: but he went out and said, there's no evidence for
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  Speaker 2: the lab league, that's a crazy conspiracy theory, et cetera,
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  Speaker 2: et cetera. I think it is very It just became
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  Speaker 2: extremely hard to be the full throated Fauci fan that
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  Speaker 2: most of the media was during the pandemic. And I
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  Speaker 2: think the example exhibit A I'm going to point to
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  Speaker 2: is The Atlantic, which by the way, was like COVID
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  Speaker 2: panic central and Fauci cheerleading throughout the pandemic. The Atlantic
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  Speaker 2: magazine's Catherine mu article titled be on Making of Anthony Fauci.
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  Speaker 2: This is a largely sympathetic portrait of Fauci that apparently
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  Speaker 2: he did not sit down for an interview with. But
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  Speaker 2: there are certain sections where you could almost see the
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  Speaker 2: gears turning. We're going to plead guilty to him being
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  Speaker 2: an egomaniac who loved reading his own press flippings. We're
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: gonna plead guilty to him being a difficult boss and
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  Speaker 2: ruffling feathers and things like that, we're gonna plead guilty
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  Speaker 2: to that stuff, and we're going to hope to beat
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  Speaker 2: the rap on misleading the public on key points about this.
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  Speaker 2: There's another argument where they repeat this sense of like, look,
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  Speaker 2: at no point did Fauci order any schools to be closed. Now,
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  Speaker 2: as you just saw on the clip from Rand Paul.
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  Speaker 2: If you are the mayor of New York City or somebody,
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  Speaker 2: and you go out and you talk to Fauci, and
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  Speaker 2: Fauci says, yeah, I'm really worried about the spread in schools,
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  Speaker 2: and then they announced that they are closing down the schools.
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  Speaker 2: That like, you can't say, oh, I left no fingerprints.
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  Speaker 2: I had nothing to do with this. This clearly was
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  Speaker 2: influenced by Fauci's decisions. And if Fauci ever thought closing
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  Speaker 2: the schools was a mistake, he'd never said so. Like
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  Speaker 2: the entire country was treating him as the Oracle of
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  Speaker 2: Delphi and that he had everything he said was going
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  Speaker 2: to be you know, basically his word was I. By
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  Speaker 2: the way, he never actually said I am the science,
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  Speaker 2: but he did say I am science, right, which is
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  Speaker 2: kind of going. But It's one of those things where
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  Speaker 2: like there was this enormous public trust in him, and
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  Speaker 2: if he thought these moves were a mistake, he didn't
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  Speaker 2: say so. Although I guess we can now say now
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  Speaker 2: that we know the diary entries, we know that he
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  Speaker 2: actually was not in the business of telling the public
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  Speaker 2: what he actually thought exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Because while he may not have made the official decision,
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  Speaker 1: because that's the job of the governor, the mayor or whoever,
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  Speaker 1: he was lobbying him pretty hard to shut it down.
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  Speaker 1: But since he didn't actually make the decision, he could
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  Speaker 1: go on later and go I never told him what
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  Speaker 1: to do, but he was obviously pushing pretty hard. Hat
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  Speaker 1: tip Graby in here. From July twenty fifth through July
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  Speaker 1: twenty eighth, here's how the media has handled this, no surprise.
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  Speaker 1: Fox News Channel has spent an hour and thirty nine
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  Speaker 1: minutes and twelve seconds on the Fauci diaries. CNN one
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  Speaker 1: minute and fifty one seconds, CBS News nothing from.
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  Speaker 2: Tapper, huh honey.
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  Speaker 1: It's CBS News thirty three seconds, ABC News, NBC News
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• 18:40
  Speaker 1: been a few days since we've talked about Zoorn Mamdani,
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  Speaker 1: and thankfully I've been pretty thankful for the break. But
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: he's at it again here. Of course, he still wants
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: to soak the rich and right now he's touting his
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: peda tear tax. Sounds very formal, but basically, if you
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: own two residences in New York City, you're going to
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: get nailed on the second one here, but here's the
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: New York Post story. Mayor Zoron Mumdani's administration has published
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: a searchable database of big apple properties that could fall
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: under the state's new peda tare tax, effectively dosing thousands
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: of wealthy New Yorkers. The city's Department of Finance uploaded
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: the comprehensive list, which purports to cover all unoccupied non
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: primary residences in the five boroughs worth north of one
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: million dollars, including the full names and addresses of every
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: property owner. Council Minority Leader David Carr from Staten Island
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: says it is a reckless and foolish move, especially considering
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: there are potentially thousands of properties on this list that
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: do not qualify as second homes or whose owners will
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: successfully dispute their inclusion so jim. Some might argue that
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: this is just a public records Hey, check out to
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: see if this is going to affect you. Others are saying, no,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: this is putting a bullseye on the rich. How do
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: you see it?
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: So, first of all, pete is actually a good way
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: to describe a lot of New Yorker's reaction to this.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Anytime your tax comes with a franch fancy French name
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: that sounds like an order, you know, excuse me, so
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: would you like a pe to tear? Then then it's
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: probably a bad sign. They said, oh, this is gonna
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: be on houses worth home's worth five million, that are
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: unoccupied tree. You know, this is actually a variation of
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: kind of what Florida does if you have a vacation
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: home down there and you spend less than a half
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: the year, they you know, property taxes go through the
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: zoo because hey, what are you gonna do vote against them?
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: You don't live here, you know. So on the one hand,
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: you could say this is a fairly standard move. On
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: the other hand, this was gonna be on homes worth
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: at least five million ohles it's a condo or a
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: or a co op. And then if it's worth one million,
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: now you might be saying, oh, okay, it's a million dollars. Look,
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  Speaker 2: a million dollars goes less far in New York City
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  Speaker 2: than just about anywhere else in the country and arguably
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: on Earth, a whole bunch of people who don't think
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: of themselves as being super rich, who just happened to
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: have owned purchased a condo or a or a A
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: co op. Co op is when like you own a
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: share of the building and usually at your share aligns
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  Speaker 2: with the amount of space that your apartment takes in
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: the building. It's one more complicated, but you get the
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  Speaker 2: idea short versus a whole bunch of people who don't
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: think of themselves as being rich. Now they're rich by
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: national standards, but they're not rich by New York City standards.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Are look at this and saying, wait, why the heck?
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Why am I getting targeted? I thought you're gonna tag
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: the rich, those billionaires over there. Why are you hitting me?
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: The second thing that's kind of interesting about this is that,
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: again this need to put this information all out in public,
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: a lot of people feel like this is you know,
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: vaguely bane in Gotham City and the dark Knight rises
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  Speaker 2: this sense of like, here are the rich people who
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: you know, I'm hoping to get this, you know, this
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: resentment We already saw mom Don speaking of Gotham City.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: We saw mom Donnie with that weird you know, knocking
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: the screen people of some people of Gotham Joker video,
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: you know, taped directly in front of Ken Griffin's very
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: expensive condo in downtown Manhattan. Look you look at this,
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: and this is you know, this is you know, more
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: class warfare, more resentment of the rich. Resident's already pay
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: an enormous amount of New York City taxes and stuff
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: like that. I one hand, we're caught in this tension
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: here because there's an unprecedented concern about doxing, right, you know.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: On the one hand, you know, when people have their
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: home addresses. We've talked about the protesters outside the homes
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: of Supreme Court justices. Lots of people have had swatting
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: type incidents. So now you have this thing like I
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: strugg I'm pretty darn sure that if you look hard
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: enough on my name you can find where I live.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: It's not super duper terrific because you know, property tax
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: records are public are public records. On the other hand,
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: I don't want everyone knowing where I live. That's why
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: I refer to as authenticity Woods. And it's one of
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: those things where if you keep putting this in from like,
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: we're gonna have to have a reckoning on whether property
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: tax records and property records should be public records, or
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: whether the idea of knowing where someone lives has just
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: inherently becomes something dangerous that the general public cannot be
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: trusted with because there's so many nut jobs out there
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: who believe that, you know, if I go out and
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: I kill somebody, I'll make the world a better place.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: I'll kill that healthcare health insurance company ceo. The Louis
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: is a movement and all that kind of stuff. This,
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: you know, Mamdanmi is a rhetorical arsonist. He pours gasoline
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: on the fire. And this clearly was meant to say
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: to all of these people, you are on the list,
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: you are targeted. You could think there's absolutely no reason
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: for the city to put this out unless they're trying
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: to stir up public sentiment and intimidate these people.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: It's just absolutely ridiculous. But that's what the left does,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: right They divide, They divide, They divide, They divide over gender,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: they divide over race, they divide over class, they divide
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  Speaker 1: over income, they divide you know, gay versus straight. Everything
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: everything is is a culture war with them and divide, divide,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: divide is their strategy, and that's exactly what you're seeing
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: from Zorn Mumdani. So I don't know what kind of
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: reaction you're going to get. I mean, I guess the
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: majority of people in the city don't own property of
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  Speaker 1: that muchly not second residence, So I don't know how
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: much of a backlash there will be politically for this.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: But if one of these people actually ends up getting hurt,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: then you will see a massive backlash I think against Mamdani,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: and certainly it'll be deserved, but it's even deserved if
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: there's not.
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: That or we need to wait for that, Greg cal
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: we jump ahead to that part, to the backlash. You know, yes,
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: how about some preventive backlashes? How does that sound?
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: That sounds great? That sounds great. Well, the more he does,
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  Speaker 1: I assume you like donuts. I don't know anybody that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't like donuts. And Tim Horton's up in Canada, but
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  Speaker 1: they got a lot of locations in the United States too.
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  Speaker 1: and enchanting and exclusive partnership has formed between Harry Potter
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  Speaker 1: and Tim Hortons. So they're gonna have Harry Potter themed donuts.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Who wouldn't love to get Harry Potter themed donuts? Well,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: of course that's a problem, CBC News in Canada. The
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  Speaker 1: reaction online is perhaps not as magical as Tim Hortons
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  Speaker 1: had hoped. But when the coffee chain announced its new
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Harry Potter menu and merchandise on Monday, a celebration of
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: the beloved movie franchise is twenty fifth anniversary, the backlash
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  Speaker 1: from the two s LGBTQ plus community and allies was
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: swift quote. As a brand that is synonymous with Canada,
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  Speaker 1: Tim Hortons and their partnership should reflect Canada, a country
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  Speaker 1: that is inclusive and proud of its diversity on quote.
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  Speaker 1: According to advocacy group Egale Canada, the partnership contributes to
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: a brand associated with a person whose public advocacy has
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: contributed to anti trans narratives, and they roll back of
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: trans rights around the world. This is all, of course,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: because JK. Rowling, who wrote Harry Potter, has been very
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: public in recent years as a feminist and saying that men,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: real men who claim to be women do not belong
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: in women's locker rooms and sports and so forth. Her quote,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: trans women aren't women. If that hurts your feelings, be
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: grateful you live in society where you as are just
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: as free to espouse gender ideology as I am to
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: speak the truth. So jim their donuts. I don't see
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  Speaker 1: what the big flap is here, but some people just
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  Speaker 1: refuse to be happy.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: First of all, Greg two s BLTQ was my favorite
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: droid and Star Wars. Second, you've heard back in you know,
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  Speaker 2: the Great Recession or the Wall Street meltdown, the idea
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  Speaker 2: that some banks and some institutions were too big to fail,
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  Speaker 2: that if they, you know, they were so integrated with
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: the rest of the economy, the federal government had no
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: choice but to bail them out. Harry Potter is too
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: big to cancel that. I know that these people would
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: like to cancel it. They'd like to make it controversial,
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: they'd like to make it. Oh, I can't associate with that.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: This is a kid to Chick fil A, where like
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  Speaker 2: you know, ah, you know, you can't you can't eat
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: those those chicken sandwiches are homophobic, but they're just so
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: darn good that people could not stop eating them. It's
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: probably because they're made with love, given to you by
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: just suspiciously friendly teenagers who appear to have been brainwashed
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: in some way. But if I were, if I'm president,
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  Speaker 2: I'm putting Chick fil A in front of in charge
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: of the country's education because they just stepfordized teenagers and
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  Speaker 2: turned them into the nicest, politest, happiest people you've ever seen,
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: at least while they're behind the counter. And then finally
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: I've looked it up as we were getting ready for this.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: Harry the Less Harry Potter novel was in two thousand
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: and seven, so we're coming up on twenty years of this.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: So it's interesting that, like, it's not just that Harry
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: Potter is still very popular and that it Shane like
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: Tim Hortons wants to introduce now magic wand don't it
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: whatever whatever flavors that are putting in there. A lot
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: of stuff like this is still popular. Enough that this
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: you know, fairly big, you know, Chain wants to be
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: associated with the Harry Potter brand. HBO is like remaking
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: all the movies, and they just kind of like but
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: there's not like anyone's like, oh, there's anything wrong with
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: the old movies. It's just like, hey, Harry Potter's popular,
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: let's just remake it. You know. They decided like it.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Like so it's one of those things where like, you know,
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: next to maybe bud Light, I know that like conservatives
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: like to say, you know, get woke, go broke, and
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: it doesn't always work out that way. But in this case,
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: there has been this concerted effort to cancel JK. Rowling
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: and the Harry Potter series and it has utterly failed.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: And just kind of a recognition that some institutions are
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: just too big, too popular, and too beloved for to
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: be canceled over culture war issues.
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