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Pothole Pete Blames Plane Crash in Canada on Trump (Ep.142) · V

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Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to Bongina Report Early Edition. The
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Speaker 1: media blames a plane crash in Canada on President Trump.
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Speaker 1: The internet search trends in Washington, D.C. incriminate the swamp.
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Speaker 1: Elon Musk uncovers massive Social Security fraud. The Pentagon is
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Speaker 1: caught funding programs capable of manipulating conversations and potentially engaging
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Speaker 1: in psychological warfare. European leaders threaten to deny Trump the
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Speaker 1: Nobel Peace Prize if Trump brings peace to Ukraine. Lindsey
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Speaker 1: Graham wants to skip peace negotiations and just straight up
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Speaker 1: bomb Iran. And indigenous New Zealanders interrupt the Auckland pride
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Speaker 1: parade with the Haka war dance. All this on Bongina Report,
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Speaker 1: early edition. Everybody in the comments, drop a comment, give
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Speaker 1: Michael a a happy birthday. It is Michael's birthday today.
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Speaker 1: He is 25 years old. We celebrated a couple weekends ago,
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Speaker 1: but his birthday is actually today. He is 25, so
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Speaker 1: make sure you wish him a happy birthday. We're going
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Speaker 1: to do something special to celebrate tonight as well as
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Speaker 1: what we did a couple weekends ago. All right. A
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Speaker 1: Delta Airlines jet crash landed at Toronto Pearson Airport yesterday,
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Speaker 1: flipping upside down during this incident. It was very dramatic.
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Speaker 1: There were 80 passengers aboard the flight which originated from Minneapolis-St.
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Speaker 1: Paul International Airport. There were 18 injuries. Luckily, no fatalities.
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Speaker 1: And it appears that harsh winter weather may have played
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Speaker 1: a role in this crash. We're not exactly sure yet.
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Speaker 1: There was an investigation underway. Here is some on-the-ground footage
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Speaker 1: from this dramatic scene.
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Speaker 2: We're in Toronto.
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Speaker 3: We just landed.
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Speaker 4: Our plane crashed.
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Speaker 1: The plane is upside down. Fire department's on site. And
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Speaker 1: you see the passengers, they're just running out away from
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Speaker 1: the airplane, trying to get away on the tarmac.
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Speaker 4: We're all getting off.
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Speaker 1: It looks like they're spraying something on the plane. I
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Speaker 1: did see some footage and reports that it was actually
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Speaker 1: on fire, if you can imagine, as it flipped over
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Speaker 1: when it crash landed. There was probably fire or sparks
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Speaker 1: or something. And so the first responders were there right
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Speaker 1: away putting out those flames. All right, so I want
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Speaker 1: you to take a guess in the comments. Who do
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Speaker 1: you think took the blame for this plane crash in Canada?
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Speaker 1: Drop a comment. Tell me who you think the corporate
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Speaker 1: media is blaming. Here was NBC yesterday putting all the
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Speaker 1: blame on, somehow, President Trump.
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Speaker 3: I did want to, you know, underscore, to pick up
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Speaker 3: on the conversation you were just having, though, in terms
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Speaker 3: of the recent string of aviation incidents, Tom. This is
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Speaker 3: going to, yet again, raise the concern about FAA staffing,
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Speaker 3: air traffic control staffing. Now, this is a Canadian air
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Speaker 3: traffic control tower, and this is under Canadian authority once
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Speaker 3: it crosses the border. And yet, as you know, there
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Speaker 3: has been this talk about maybe staff cuts at the
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Speaker 3: FAA as a part of President Trump's effort to trim
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Speaker 3: down the federal workforce. And yet, as you also know,
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Speaker 3: the FAA has been complaining for years that they are
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Speaker 3: understaffed in critical job positions, especially air traffic control. I
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Speaker 3: was having a conversation with somebody today about whether air
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Speaker 3: traffic control in America is being affected by the staff cuts.
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Speaker 3: So far, not to their knowledge. And yet other positions
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Speaker 3: related to maintaining critical equipment appear to have been cut.
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Speaker 3: So this is going to feed into all of these
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Speaker 3: recent incidents. And the safety of the total air traffic
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Speaker 3: system is going to be very much a part of
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Speaker 3: the conversation as we go forward, at least on this
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Speaker 3: side of the country of the board.
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Speaker 1: It's going to feed into a discussion about President Trump
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Speaker 1: because you guys are making it about President Trump. But
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Speaker 1: even he admits in that statement, he's like, it's President
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Speaker 1: Trump's fault, but also it's in Canada and it's under
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Speaker 1: Canadian's version of the FAA. It's just silliness. It's under
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Speaker 1: Transport Canada, not our FAA. But no tragedy can go
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Speaker 1: unexploited by the media or Democrat politicians. Here was Eric
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Speaker 1: Swalwell yesterday. No president has had more plane crashes in
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Speaker 1: their first month in office than Donald Trump. And this
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Speaker 1: is a really fascinating assertion. And Michael actually brought this
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Speaker 1: up to me this morning. He said, gee, Evita, it
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Speaker 1: seems like there's just a lot of plane crashes right now.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if it's DEI pilots or what's going on,
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Speaker 1: but maybe there's something going on here that we're not
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Speaker 1: aware of, that that's changed. And that's a really fair
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Speaker 1: question because there's been a lot of media attention around
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Speaker 1: plane crashes, especially in the wake of that horrible, awful
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Speaker 1: tragedy with American Airlines when a few weeks ago when
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Speaker 1: those dozens of people were actually killed when the plane,
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Speaker 1: the commercial airline crashed with a military helicopter. This assertion
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Speaker 1: from Eric Swalwell and this media lie that NBC is
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Speaker 1: trying to repackage with every single crash is straight up false.
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Speaker 1: As Federalist CEO Sean Davis posted yesterday, the NTSB's official
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Speaker 1: database of aviation accident investigations states there have been 50
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Speaker 1: accidents since Trump was inaugurated. By contrast, NTSB recorded 94
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Speaker 1: aviation accidents during Biden's first month in office in 2021.
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Speaker 1: So Eric Swalwell just straight up lied. The media is
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Speaker 1: reporting on all these crashes post the unprecedented and harrowing
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Speaker 1: American Airlines tragedy as if this is something new. This
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Speaker 1: has never happened. planes crash. They were happening just as often,
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Speaker 1: if not more, under Biden. That's a really hard thing
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Speaker 1: to talk about, but it's the reality. And it's probably
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Speaker 1: a sign that we need to make safety a bigger priority.
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Speaker 1: And that's something my dad is working out at the
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Speaker 1: Department of Transportation. But we have to be honest about
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Speaker 1: the numbers here and not distort the narrative because we're
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Speaker 1: giving more attention to plane crashes now than we ever
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Speaker 1: did under Biden. And this comes down to, really, ultimately,
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Speaker 1: not just Trump derangement syndrome, but in opposition to Trump's
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Speaker 1: actions of rooting out abuse and waste. They'll say, look,
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Speaker 1: there's all this abuse and abusive waste being rooted out
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Speaker 1: by Doge. Therefore, planes are falling out of the sky
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Speaker 1: and we have to stop Doge. That's the argument here,
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Speaker 1: or that we have to stop Trump from cutting federal workers.
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Speaker 1: As the AP's Pentagon correspondent Tara Kopp wrote on X,
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Speaker 1: FAA staff fired over the weekend, including personnel, that worked
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Speaker 1: radar landing and navigation aid maintenance, among others. Hundreds were
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Speaker 1: fired just weeks after a fatal mid-air collision in D.C.
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Speaker 1: that killed 67. One employee said they were harassed on
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Speaker 1: Facebook by Doge prior to being fired. And again, this
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Speaker 1: is more lies. Carolyn Levitt corrected the record, writing on X, one,
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Speaker 1: Doge doesn't have a Facebook page, so I'm not sure
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Speaker 1: how she was being harassed on Facebook, and two, no
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Speaker 1: air traffic controllers nor any professionals who perform safety-critical functions
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Speaker 1: were terminated by Trump. Do you see how they're weaponizing
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Speaker 1: the situation, weaponizing the actions of this admin to cut
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Speaker 1: out waste and abuse as somehow anti-safety, as now the
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Speaker 1: reason we're having planes fly out of the sky? And
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Speaker 1: this is a real banger. This is from Mayor Pothole
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Speaker 1: Pete himself. He decided to weigh in on this. He wrote,
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Speaker 1: the flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were
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Speaker 1: just fired? What positions and why? Pretty dramatic stuff. So
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Speaker 1: my dad, the transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, wrote, and I'm
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Speaker 1: going to read this to you guys because it's an
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Speaker 1: excellent tweet. I'm just going to read the whole thing.
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Speaker 1: Mayor Pete failed for four years to address the air
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Speaker 1: traffic control shortage and upgrade our outdated World War II
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Speaker 1: era air traffic control system. In less than four weeks,
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Speaker 1: we have already begun the process and are engaging the
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Speaker 1: smartest minds in the entire world, including Doge. Here's the truth.
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Speaker 1: The FAA alone has a staggering 45,000 employees. Less than
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Speaker 1: 400 were let go, and they were all probationary, meaning
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Speaker 1: they had been hired less than a year ago. Zero
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Speaker 1: air traffic controllers and critical safety personnel were let go.
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Speaker 1: Mayor Pete chose to use this amazing department that is
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Speaker 1: so critical to America's success as a slush fund for
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Speaker 1: the green news scam and environmental justice nonsense. Not to
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Speaker 1: mention that over 90% of the workforce under his leadership
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Speaker 1: were working from home, including him. The building was empty.
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Speaker 1: When we finally get a full accounting of his mismanagement,
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Speaker 1: I look forward to hearing from him. In the meantime,
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Speaker 1: I will not rest until I return the Department of
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Speaker 1: Transportation and its incredible employees to its mission of efficiency
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Speaker 1: and safety. Shots fired. Excellent tweet. But do you guys
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Speaker 1: see how these lies are being spun? How the tragedies
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Speaker 1: are being exploited? Zero air traffic controllers and critical safety
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Speaker 1: personnel were let go. Zero. There have been more crashes
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Speaker 1: under Biden compared to Trump's first month in office. Pothole
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Speaker 1: Pete has talked more about transportation issues since he's begun
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Speaker 1: running for governor than his entire time as the Secretary
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Speaker 1: of Transportation. It is incredible. Especially considering the fact that
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Speaker 1: Mayor Pete worked an exorbitant amount of time from home.
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Speaker 1: So who knows how much work he even did at DOT.
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Speaker 1: And ultimately this isn't about air safety. They're saying, look,
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Speaker 1: Trump is trimming the fat and now planes are falling
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Speaker 1: out of the sky. We can't have doge. We can't
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Speaker 1: have any efficiency. We can't fire anyone. We all know
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Speaker 1: what they're really saying because they don't want to trim
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Speaker 1: the fat. That is at the heart of these lies.
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Speaker 1: And this is what makes me so great for new media.
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Speaker 1: I mean, that I have this platform, that Dan has
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Speaker 1: his platform, that so many others can speak on these issues.
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Speaker 1: And it's not just NBC News controlling the narrative. Or
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Speaker 1: imagine if X was de-boosting and banning anyone who told
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Speaker 1: the truth because it was still controlled by the federal
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Speaker 1: government as it was under Biden. Somebody says, Pete cares
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Speaker 1: more about racist bridges. Yeah, thank you, Anita. He does
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Speaker 1: care more about racist bridges. The priorities were completely backward.
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Speaker 1: And now he's going to swoop in and push this
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Speaker 1: narrative that somehow President Trump is making air safety less safe.
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Speaker 1: It's just, it's ridiculous. And again, you guys, we're going
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Speaker 1: to talk more about this today because it's super important.
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Speaker 1: What is at stake is truth itself. And that's why
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Speaker 1: our leaders are so scared of Doge and J.D. Vance
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Speaker 1: signaling to the West that America no longer supports internet tyranny,
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Speaker 1: why they are having massive revolts against X and European
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Speaker 1: nations wanting to get rid of it to ban it.
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Speaker 1: Authentic freedom and authentic accountability for their corruption is terrifying.
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Speaker 1: And that's not just a guess. This week, Zero Hedge
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Speaker 1: actually did a really interesting piece on internet search trends
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Speaker 1: in Washington, D.C., The results of this are shocking. We're
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Speaker 1: going to take a quick break. When we come back,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you exactly what the swamp creatures
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Speaker 1: in Washington, D.C. were searching for. It tells you a lot,
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Speaker 1: a lot about how much corruption and frankly, criminal activity
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Speaker 1: was going on pre-President Trump. Shout out to our sponsors.
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Speaker 1: As always, they keep this show free. All right. So
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Speaker 1: this is an amazing story. I can't even believe when
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Speaker 1: I read that. I mean, I should, I believe it.
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Speaker 1: And I also, I'm still shocked by it. So Zero Hedge,
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Speaker 1: did a piece on internet search trends in Washington, D.C.
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Speaker 1: metro area, and the results were stunning. So as Doge
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Speaker 1: is slashing the CIA's slush fund USAID, as well as
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Speaker 1: other parts of the federal government, WikiLeaks discovered that Washington, D.C.
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Speaker 1: searches soared for Swiss Bank, Offshore Bank, and Wire Money. Hmm,
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Speaker 1: I wonder why. Coincidence, right, coincidence. Thank you, Michael, coincidence.
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Speaker 1: And it gets even crazier. These search trends are wild.
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Speaker 1: They were also, you also saw a spike in search terms, wipe, erase,
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Speaker 1: and wipe hard drives. All those terms also skyrocket. Wipe
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Speaker 1: hard drives. Why would somebody want to wipe their hard drive?
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Speaker 1: And then we got, if you guys remember the Hillary
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Speaker 1: Clinton email scandal, we also are getting searches for bleach bit, lawyers,
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Speaker 1: and statute of limitations. Why do we need to know
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Speaker 1: about the statute of limitation?
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Speaker 3: For what?
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Speaker 1: Bleach bit? Why do you need bleach bit? Or lawyers? Again,
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Speaker 1: these people were engaged in criminal activity. It's so obvious.
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Speaker 1: This is why we're creating lies that planes are falling
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Speaker 1: out of the sky because of doge and firing people
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Speaker 1: who have been there for less than six months and
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Speaker 1: anything to do with critical infrastructure or safety. This is
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Speaker 1: where the lies are coming from. Because people in D.C.
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Speaker 1: who have connections in media, in corporate media, in the
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Speaker 1: federal bureaucracy, are terrified of their criminal behavior being uncovered
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Speaker 1: by this admin, finally held accountable for their crimes. That
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Speaker 1: is what this is about. And they should be scared because,
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Speaker 1: for example, every day we're hearing more about the kind
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Speaker 1: of corruption and abuse that's exposed by Doge, but this
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Speaker 1: one was incredible. Elon Musk uncovered significant discrepancies in the
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Speaker 1: Social Security Administration's database suggesting widespread fraud. Elon posted this chart.
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Speaker 1: Let's throw that up, Michael. And this chart from the
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Speaker 1: social security administration database shows that approximately 21 million people
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Speaker 1: are aged over a hundred enlisted as alive in the
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Speaker 1: United States by the social security administration. Now, according to
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Speaker 1: the U S census in 2020, only 80,000 Americans were
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Speaker 1: aged 85 and older.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Liberal math. Thank you, Michael. So already it doesn't add up.
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Speaker 1: But okay, maybe there's probably some people who are over 100,
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Speaker 1: certainly not 21 million, but probably some people over 100.
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Speaker 1: But how about people over 200? Are there people over 200, Michael?
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Speaker 1: Because social security data shows that over a thousand people
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Speaker 1: are over the age of 220 living in the United States,
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Speaker 1: with one aged over 360.
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Speaker 4: What?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you, Michael. Older than America?
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Speaker 5: What, what, what, what?
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Speaker 1: Elon also wrote on X, maybe Twilight is real and
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Speaker 1: there are a lot of vampires collecting social security because
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Speaker 1: in Twilight, the theme was of this, these vampires are
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Speaker 1: hundreds of years old, but they stay looking young and hot.
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Speaker 1: So maybe Edward Cullen is real, but I have a
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Speaker 1: feeling that Edward Cullen is not real. And there are
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Speaker 1: no people in America who are verifiably alive in over
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Speaker 1: 120 to 200 to 300 years old. It's not possible.
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Speaker 1: Those people are dead. Those people are dead. Now, Elon
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Speaker 1: suggests it's about 80% incompetence and laziness and about 20% fraud.
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Speaker 1: And 20% fraud in one of the largest agencies, one
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Speaker 1: of the largest sectors of the deficit, is a lot
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Speaker 1: of fraud. Elon says it likely exceeds the combined sum
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Speaker 1: of every private scam you've ever heard of by far.
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Speaker 1: And Democrats... have rushed to, I guess, protest Elon Musk
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Speaker 1: uncovering massive fraud against the American people. Not protesting the fraud, no,
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Speaker 1: just protesting Elon Musk finding out about it. Fetterman posted
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Speaker 1: on X that Elon wants to save billions of your
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Speaker 1: money and make our government more efficient, but rummaging through
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Speaker 1: your personal shit is not that. So essentially he's suggesting
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Speaker 1: that Elon Musk is improperly accessing people's information for nefarious purposes.
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Speaker 1: And Elon Musk rightfully hit back at John Fetterman and
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Speaker 1: pointed out that if he wanted to access Americans' personal information,
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Speaker 1: he could have done that really easily as the CEO
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Speaker 1: of PayPal. But that wasn't really an interest of his.
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Speaker 1: Per Elon, Democrats are upset that he's exposing Social Security
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Speaker 1: from marking Americans alive before America even existed as a
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Speaker 1: country because many Democrats are using our taxpayer money as
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Speaker 1: handouts to attract and retain illegal immigrants, which are their
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Speaker 1: future voters. And that's certainly a huge part of it.
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Speaker 1: I think that's a really great really great assessment of
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Speaker 1: what's happening behind the scenes here. They don't want anyone
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Speaker 1: sniffing around entitlement programs, even to uncover fraud, because it
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Speaker 1: is their sacred cow. And things actually get worse. The
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Speaker 1: whole thing is a monstrosity to untangle. Elon wrote on
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Speaker 1: X that the logic flow diagram for the social security
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Speaker 1: system looks insane. No one person actually knows how it works.
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Speaker 1: And the payment files that move between social security and
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Speaker 1: treasury are have significant inconsistencies that are not reconciled. By
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Speaker 1: the way, Democrat states have sued over Doge accessing government
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Speaker 1: systems and facilitating mass firings across the government. And anti-Trump
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Speaker 1: radical judge Tanya Chutkin, of all people, just said that
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Speaker 1: the Democrat states have failed to provide adequate evidence to
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Speaker 1: block Doge's efforts. What's scandalous to me is the Democrats
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Speaker 1: are angry at Doge and not the massive fraud perverse
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Speaker 1: in our entitlement programs, as well as the rest of
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Speaker 1: the government. It is absurd. And this next story is
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Speaker 1: just as absurd. You guys, I mean, everything that Doge
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Speaker 1: is uncovering is just incredible. Do you guys remember how
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Speaker 1: last week we did a story on how Doge exposed
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Speaker 1: a DOD-funded $ 9 million large-scale social engineering program? And I
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Speaker 1: was like, hmm, that's pretty weird. That sounds like not
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Speaker 1: something that the American people want to be funding, a
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Speaker 1: large-scale social engineering program. But we weren't sure exactly what
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Speaker 1: this program was doing. Now we know. We have some
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Speaker 1: more details. The Federalist has uncovered documents showing how the
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Speaker 1: program developed a network of fraudulent social media accounts and
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Speaker 1: was pitched as a tool to detect and disrupt internet scams.
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Speaker 1: But in reality, instead of disrupting internet scams, The program
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Speaker 1: enabled the government to construct a sprawling web of fake
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Speaker 1: online personas capable of gathering user data, manipulating conversations, and
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Speaker 1: even potentially engaging in psychological warfare. Per Logan Washburn in
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Speaker 1: The Federalist, the project, dubbed Active Social Engineering Defense, involved
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Speaker 1: major institutions like Carnegie Mellon, Northrop Grumman, UC Berkeley, all
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Speaker 1: contributing to AI-powered deception systems with ominous names like Nemesis
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Speaker 1: and Piranha, and Siena. And these programs, they weren't just
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Speaker 1: designed to ensnare cybercriminals. They had the potential to suppress
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Speaker 1: speech and target so-called disinformation, which we all know really
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Speaker 1: means just inconvenient truths that the regime doesn't like. The
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Speaker 1: one such program, Siena, which I mentioned, used AI-driven bots
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Speaker 1: to engage users online, build trust, and extract information, all
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Speaker 1: while feeding fake narratives. Another, Prana, Scanned messages and social
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Speaker 1: media posts using AI to flag threats, which we kind
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Speaker 1: of talked about this before. We're trying to flag threats,
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Speaker 1: flag people who are problematic. Kind of sounds a lot
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Speaker 1: like pre-crime, flagging certain people and certain content as threatening.
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Speaker 1: before any laws have been broken. It's a way to criminalize, really,
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Speaker 1: ideology before, again, they've done anything that's broken the law.
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Speaker 1: So essentially, this wasn't just an experiment in cyber defense.
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Speaker 1: It was a taxpayer-funded exercise in mass social deception. A
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Speaker 1: digital army of of government-controlled bots designed to manipulate public discourse,
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Speaker 1: gather intelligence, and potentially target dissent. And remember how I
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Speaker 1: said that digital freedom is so essential? These are George
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Speaker 1: Orwell-style speech policers using our tax dollars for sincerely evil purposes.
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Speaker 1: I want to know, what role does this program play
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Speaker 1: in the COVID lies, Hunter Biden laptop scandal, the Russia
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Speaker 1: collusion hoax? or countless other media left-wing government narratives that
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Speaker 1: have been pushed on the public, or true stories, facts
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Speaker 1: that have been suppressed. Imagine, for instance, if this program
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Speaker 1: was still going on, how it would have handled the
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Speaker 1: aviation lies coming from the media and Democrat politicians right now.
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Speaker 1: And this is why I said yesterday that there are
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Speaker 1: so many ways that we are just as bad as
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Speaker 1: Europe when it comes to censorship, if not worse. Our
21:01
Speaker 1: government has to be a little less brazen about it
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Speaker 1: because we have the First Amendment, because there's a perception
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Speaker 1: that America is pro-free speech, but we're still committed to
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Speaker 1: total internet tyranny. Biden was the worst offender of directly
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Speaker 1: and indirectly censoring dissent in this country. And we have
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Speaker 1: to be honest about that reality and know that there
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Speaker 1: are still going to be people within our government and
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Speaker 1: people who have been fired, who are the sidelines who
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Speaker 1: want to come back, who are committed to internet tyranny,
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Speaker 1: both here and abroad. Meanwhile, the Polish foreign minister is
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Speaker 1: now threatening Europeans, threatening that Europeans will deny President Trump
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Speaker 1: the Nobel Peace Prize if he ends the war in Ukraine.
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Speaker 1: You guys see how that's a little bit crazy? If
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Speaker 1: you end the war in Ukraine, you will not get
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Speaker 1: the Nobel Peace Prize. Yes, that is seriously what he said.
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Speaker 1: Take a listen. What would you say to Donald Trump,
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Speaker 1: Minister Sikorsky? We have more chairs.
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Speaker 5: I would tell him three things. Number one, Joe Biden
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Speaker 5: was your successor and predecessor, but he planted the flag
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Speaker 5: of the United States in downtown Kiev and declared on
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Speaker 5: behalf of the United States that the U.S. will be
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Speaker 5: with Ukraine for as long as it takes to until
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Speaker 5: Ukraine secures its independence. Therefore, the credibility of the United
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Speaker 5: States depends on how this war ends. Not just the
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Speaker 5: Trump administration, the United States itself. I would secondly tell
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Speaker 5: him that if you allow Putin to vassalize Ukraine, that
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Speaker 5: will send a message to China that you can recover
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Speaker 5: what you regard as a renegade province. And that would
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Speaker 5: have direct consequences for U.S. grand strategy, for the U.S.
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Speaker 5: system of alliances, and possibly for the future of Taiwan.
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Speaker 5: And I would thirdly tell him that we Europeans control
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Speaker 5: the Nobel Peace Prize. If you want to earn it,
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Speaker 5: the peace has to be fair.
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Speaker 1: Very clear. Yeah, if you want to earn it, the
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Speaker 1: peace has to be approved by us, is actually what
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Speaker 1: he's saying. First of all, I just want to address,
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Speaker 1: our credibility is not in jeopardy. We don't have to
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Speaker 1: carry out Biden's terrible ideas just for the sake of
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Speaker 1: optics in Europe. That is stupid. This is a new admin.
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Speaker 1: This is how democratic republics work. We don't have one
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Speaker 1: guy in charge forever. This is a new admin with
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Speaker 1: new priorities. And just because we don't do whatever stupid
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Speaker 1: idea Biden had doesn't mean that now our credibility is
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Speaker 1: in jeopardy. No one will be able to trust. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's right. We're going to do something different now. Biden's
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Speaker 1: out of office. And second, if Trump facilitates peace in Ukraine,
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Speaker 1: where hundreds of thousands of men have died, That means
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Speaker 1: that Trump doesn't deserve the Peace Prize because, I guess,
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Speaker 1: because he worked with Putin to facilitate that peace. It
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Speaker 1: is ridiculous and an at-its-face, absurd assertion to make. And
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Speaker 1: the reason that they feel that way is not only
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Speaker 1: because this war is really a NATO proxy war against Russia,
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Speaker 1: but because Trump bruised a lot of egos. when he
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Speaker 1: announced that he had held a call with Russian President
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Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin without consulting European elites to discuss bringing this
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Speaker 1: war to an end. They could not stand that. They
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Speaker 1: could not stand that Trump was willing to say, I'm
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Speaker 1: going to go over all you warmongers in Europe who
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Speaker 1: want to keep this war going, and I'm just going
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Speaker 1: to go to Putin myself, and we're going to facilitate
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Speaker 1: peace and bring this thing to an end. They couldn't
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Speaker 1: stand it. They loathe this admin for not continuing Western
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Speaker 1: tyranny packaged as defending democracy as well. This has everything
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Speaker 1: to do with the values of Europe that no longer
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Speaker 1: are shared by the United States under the Trump admin.
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Speaker 1: They hate this admin's radical shift in favor of authentic
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Speaker 1: American values. And they aren't just going to go down
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Speaker 1: without a fight, resign themselves to President Trump and J.D.
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Speaker 1: Vance's vision. for the West. Now, this pushback that I'm
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Speaker 1: going to tell you guys about, it is both open
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Speaker 1: and secretive. European elites are openly calling for the banishment
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Speaker 1: of X because free speech is now defined as a
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Speaker 1: threat to democracy. But also, they're partnering behind the scenes
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Speaker 1: with left-wing authoritarians here in America who have been momentarily
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Speaker 1: pushed out of power by President Trump. So for instance,
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Speaker 1: this is more in the open, While J.D. Vance was
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Speaker 1: in Munich representing the United States, so was Democrat Representative
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Speaker 1: Jason Crow and others on their own accord. Here is
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Speaker 1: Representative Crow explaining why he was in Munich.
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Speaker 2: Alex, the Trump administration's policies are changing not by the day,
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Speaker 2: but by the hour. And I think that's a reflection
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Speaker 2: of the fact that they have no policy. There's no doctrine.
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Speaker 2: There's no policy. They'll put out a tweet, then they'll
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Speaker 2: pull it back an hour or two later. The problem
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Speaker 2: with that is that none of this is funny. None
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Speaker 2: of this is comical because it has really real consequences
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Speaker 2: to our partnership, to our allies.
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Speaker 1: I don't think that was the right piece of that clip,
26:55
Speaker 1: but that's okay. He essentially says, I'm here because I
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Speaker 1: need to represent America. Trump's not doing a good job.
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Speaker 1: Trump is not authentically representing American values. So he is
27:06
Speaker 1: undermining this admin on purpose, going to Munich and saying, no,
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Speaker 1: you guys can talk to me. We'll work things out
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Speaker 1: behind the scenes. You don't need to deal with this
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Speaker 1: Trump admin that's totally rogue and anti-democracy. I want you
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Speaker 1: to listen to what Mike Benz explains is happening behind
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Speaker 1: the scenes, because what he calls this is a shadow democracy. diplomacy.
27:28
Speaker 1: It's really important to understand as we look to these
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Speaker 1: next four years, because this is going to be a
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Speaker 1: major roadblock to this admin, the shadow diplomacy. Take a listen.
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Speaker 6: Mark my words, you are going to see an exodus
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Speaker 6: from Tony Blinken's State Department, and they are going to
27:43
Speaker 6: go straight into civil society jobs at Brookings, at the
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Speaker 6: Atlantic Council, at CSIS, at the Council on Foreign Relations,
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Speaker 6: at the Penn Biden Center, at Stanford University, at the
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Speaker 6: Harvard Belfer Center, and You name it. They are all
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Speaker 6: going to get their little purchase there and they're going
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Speaker 6: to take that residual influence and they're going to be
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Speaker 6: making back channel deals with NATO, with the European Union,
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Speaker 6: with the governments in Brazil, in Australia. And they are
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Speaker 6: going to try to do that Brazil strategy that they
28:10
Speaker 6: were able to successfully do under Brazil and to make
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Speaker 6: it so that the only platforms that are allowed to
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Speaker 6: have global dominance on social media are the ones who
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Speaker 6: do not allow their political enemies to have a voice.
28:21
Speaker 6: And there will be a constant fight between the Trump
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Speaker 6: administration's diplomatic efforts through the government and the blobs censorship
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Speaker 6: diplomatic efforts in the shadow government.
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Speaker 1: Okay. So all the people who lost in November aren't
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Speaker 1: just resigning from their bad behavior. It is going to
28:37
Speaker 1: continue on. There are active efforts happening right now and
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Speaker 1: will happen throughout this admin to undermine Trump and therefore
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Speaker 1: the will of the American people. I want to cover.
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Speaker 1: Iran warmongering, because this is also going to be a
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Speaker 1: consistent problem in these next four years for the Trump admin.
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Speaker 1: Senator Lindsey Graham has publicly advocated for military action against
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Speaker 1: Iran's nuclear facilities this week. Here was Graham at a
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Speaker 1: press conference in Israel.
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Speaker 4: This week saying really scary stuff.
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Speaker 1: Trump administration is going to have.
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Speaker 4: To make a decision here very soon about the Iran
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Speaker 4: nuclear program. There are two paths to take. A military
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Speaker 4: path where we help Israel deliver a decisive blow against
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Speaker 4: Iran's nuclear infrastructure. I prefer that path. The second path
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Speaker 4: is to negotiate with Iran to try to get them
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Speaker 4: to abandon their nuclear ambitions. If that path is chosen,
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Speaker 4: it needs to be limited in time. We should put
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Speaker 4: it on the clock and we should define what success
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Speaker 4: looks like.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 1: Michael really wants me to talk about that last part.
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Speaker 1: So when he says we're going to define what success
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Speaker 1: looks like, has Lindsey Graham ever called to define what
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Speaker 1: success looks like? when he advocated for other conflicts, every
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Speaker 1: single war that he's advocated for, there has been no
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Speaker 1: defined success. There has been no definition of victory. And
30:12
Speaker 1: on that note, has there ever been a war that
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Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham has not supported? Every time he goes on TV,
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Speaker 1: he's calling for us to bomb someone, not one. just
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Speaker 1: advocated for the United States to support Israel in bombing
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Speaker 1: Iran rather than pursue peace negotiations. Don't even try negotiating
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Speaker 1: peace with Iran. Let's just bomb them. That's what he said.
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Speaker 1: That's his preferred plan. Real leaders always view civilian deaths
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Speaker 1: and war as a last resort. It is the last resort.
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Speaker 1: That is what good leaders do. The Middle East has
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Speaker 1: had enough bloodshed for the last nearly year and a
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Speaker 1: half with the war between Hamas and Israel. War with
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Speaker 1: Iran would be devastating for Israel, for the United States,
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Speaker 1: for the entire region. Peace negotiations are always preferable to
31:12
Speaker 1: just bombing another country and inciting a war that could
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Speaker 1: cost countless lives, including American lives. I think Lindsey Graham
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Speaker 1: is one of many people in Washington who views human
31:22
Speaker 1: life very flippantly. People who have ulterior motives, kickbacks, donations,
31:29
Speaker 1: backdoor deals with defense contractors and others who stand to
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Speaker 1: gain from any given conflict. But neocons don't really exist
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Speaker 1: in the wild anymore. And what I mean by that
31:38
Speaker 1: is that they really only exist in Washington, D.C. People
31:43
Speaker 1: like Lindsey Graham, Mitch McConnell, Dan Crenshaw. He's probably the worst.
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Speaker 1: One of the worst. Regular Americans don't share those values.
31:52
Speaker 1: People are done with the warmongering. And I hope the
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Speaker 1: Trump admin is able to avoid pressure from war hawks
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Speaker 1: who have no regard for human life. All right, this
32:03
Speaker 1: next story is going to make every socially conscious liberal's
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Speaker 1: mind explode, seriously explode. A Christian fundamentalist group in New
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Speaker 1: Zealand clashed with police after it protested a pride parade
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Speaker 1: while performing the haka. And the haka... is a traditional
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Speaker 1: Maori dance. The Maori people are, of course, a group
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Speaker 1: of indigenous people to New Zealand. Members of Brian Tamaki's
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Speaker 1: Destiny Church held up the parade in central Auckland while
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Speaker 1: wearing t-shirts with the words Man Up written across them.
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Speaker 1: Here is what that protest, that haka protest, looked like.
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Speaker 1: So they're doing the traditional dance. They've got their tongues
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Speaker 1: out and they're kind of making these aggressive facial expressions.
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Speaker 1: The parade is coming and police officers are sort of
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Speaker 1: standing between. No one knows what to do. You can
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Speaker 1: tell everyone is very uncomfortable with this situation because aren't
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Speaker 1: you supposed to support the indigenous people? It's a fascinating moment.
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Speaker 1: We're good with that, Michael. So Mr. Tamaki, Tamiki, I'm
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Speaker 1: not sure how to pronounce his name. He wrote on
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Speaker 1: X after the protest, our radical young people have had enough.
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Speaker 1: Our man up men have had enough. Destiny Church has
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Speaker 1: had enough. The debauchery in the rainbow parade has gone
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Speaker 1: on far too long. Auckland has long been overrun with
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Speaker 1: this woke rainbow agenda. And no surprise, the boys in
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Speaker 1: blue were there again protecting their beloved rainbows. Tamaki added
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Speaker 1: that this was only the beginning, and in reference to
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump's Make America Great Again slogan, he added, let's
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Speaker 1: make New Zealand great again. The group also protested a
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Speaker 1: drag show for children at a local library. We have
33:49
Speaker 1: a lot of those here in America. Here's what that
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Speaker 1: looked like. They're in a library. They've got signs. They're
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Speaker 1: doing the haka. You can see that some Pride people,
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Speaker 1: some Pride supporters, are trying to interfere. They're kind of
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Speaker 1: getting in their faces with cameras to intimidate them. But
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Speaker 1: it's not really working because the haka is a very
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Speaker 1: intimidating dance. I think they're a lot more intimidating than
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Speaker 1: those who are trying to detract from the protest. And
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Speaker 1: you see the rainbow flags all across the wall behind them.
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Speaker 1: We're good with that, Mikey. So why would the liberal
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Speaker 1: heads explode by this entire situation? because their precious pride
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Speaker 1: agenda was thwarted by indigenous people, a protected class, doing
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Speaker 1: the haka, which is like the liberals love the haka,
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Speaker 1: which is more sacred, the racial minorities or the gender minorities.
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Speaker 1: This clash in New Zealand with a Christian group protesting
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Speaker 1: a pride parade while performing a haka highlights how fractured
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Speaker 1: and contradictory the left's cultural narratives are. The protest wasn't
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Speaker 1: just about opposing a parade. It exposed the tensions between
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Speaker 1: what is considered sacred or protected in society, racial minorities
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Speaker 1: versus gender minorities, and how those dynamics play out when
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Speaker 1: the lines are blurred. For leftists, this must have been
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Speaker 1: a super uncomfortable moment. Their cherished rainbow agenda was thwarted
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Speaker 1: by a group that, on paper, should have been seen
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Speaker 1: as part of their progressive coalition, the indigenous Maori people.
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Speaker 1: But this contradiction reveals the absurdity of the mental gymnastics
35:28
Speaker 1: required to uphold these agendas. Suddenly, it wasn't just about
35:32
Speaker 1: who was being marginalized, but about which groups' rights or
35:35
Speaker 1: identities were more sacred. And this irony extends far beyond
35:39
Speaker 1: a single protest. We've seen tragedy after tragedy, like the
35:43
Speaker 1: American and Delta Airlines crashes, become a backdrop. with the
35:47
Speaker 1: political and media machinery to shift the conversation, often bending
35:53
Speaker 1: the truth to fit a narrative. Whether it's misleading claims
35:56
Speaker 1: about air traffic control staffing or straight-up Trump derangement syndrome,
36:00
Speaker 1: it's clear how easily the truth is manipulated to serve agendas.
36:06
Speaker 1: These distorted narratives blur the lines between reality and fiction,
36:09
Speaker 1: and in an era where facts are often secondary to
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Speaker 1: the stories we want to tell, Our understanding of truth
36:15
Speaker 1: becomes increasingly compromised. We're no longer just debating issues. We're
36:19
Speaker 1: fighting over the very narrative that will shape how those
36:23
Speaker 1: issues are remembered. That's why this Hakka story is so amazing.
36:28
Speaker 1: It breaks down all of these narratives that the left
36:31
Speaker 1: has about reality and class and race and gender and oppression.
36:37
Speaker 1: And as we've seen with the Delta airline story, the
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Speaker 1: distortion of truth has become an art form weaponized to
36:42
Speaker 1: steer public perception. And I'm not talking about bad faith
36:45
Speaker 1: activists and corporate media hacks. I'm not just talking about them.
36:49
Speaker 1: The DOD's active social engineering defense program funded by taxpayer
36:53
Speaker 1: dollars created an expansive network of AI driven bots designed
36:59
Speaker 1: not just to allegedly catch cyber criminals, but to manipulate
37:03
Speaker 1: public discourse, influence opinions, and probably suppress dissent. And with
37:09
Speaker 1: these systems designed to flag and target threats, often equating
37:12
Speaker 1: to inconvenient truths, it's clear that digital freedom is under siege.
37:17
Speaker 1: The answer to false narratives isn't the Pentagon deciding what
37:20
Speaker 1: is true, but free discourse. The Social Engineering Defense Program
37:24
Speaker 1: is a chilling reminder of how far-reaching the forces of
37:27
Speaker 1: speech policing have become, blurring the lines between national security
37:31
Speaker 1: and public control. Curving misinformation or defending democracy really means
37:36
Speaker 1: crafting a reality that fits a predetermined agenda. So in
37:41
Speaker 1: this environment, the need for honest, unfiltered information has never
37:46
Speaker 1: been more urgent. Trump or no Trump, we have to
37:49
Speaker 1: continue fighting for the ability to discern and speak the
37:52
Speaker 1: truth in a world designed to obscure it. And that's
37:55
Speaker 1: all I have for you guys today. Thank you so
37:57
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38:15
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38:20
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38:24
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38:26
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