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Obama Previews Democrats’ Entire 2028 Strategy · The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson

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  Speaker 1: Welcome, it is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson
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  Speaker 1: with you, Senator. I can't believe we're saying this. We're
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  Speaker 1: barely a week out from Election Day. The midterms are
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  Speaker 1: finally here. We've got a lot going on with the midterms,
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  Speaker 1: by the way.
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  Speaker 2: Election Day is eight days away. I'm on the road nonstop.
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  Speaker 2: The candidates are on the road nonstop. The president is
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  Speaker 2: on the road nonstop. This is it. These are the
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  Speaker 2: final eight days. Before we get into any of that, though,
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  Speaker 2: we do need to stop and have a moment of silence.
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  Speaker 2: A moment of silence. a moment of reflection, because there
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  Speaker 2: are hearts that are heavy. There are hearts that are sad.
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  Speaker 2: There are little boys who cried themselves to sleep last night,
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  Speaker 2: yelling at the ceiling, why, why, why? Why me, God, why?
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  Speaker 2: And we are joined by one of those little boys
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  Speaker 2: who had a sleepless night last night. It seemed some
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  Speaker 2: very large men from Mississippi got on a plane and
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  Speaker 2: flew west and came to the mighty Austin, Texas. And
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  Speaker 2: those Mississippi fellas, they felt good. They were ranked the
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  Speaker 2: number seven football team in the country. A big, big deal.
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  Speaker 2: Number seven. And they were playing the measly number 19
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  Speaker 2: ranked Longhorns. The team that was number one two weeks ago. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: keep going. If my math does right, that's 12 spots
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  Speaker 2: lower in the rankings.
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  Speaker 3: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 4: And.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Julius Caesar said, winnie-witty-wicky, I came, I saw,
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  Speaker 2: I conquered. And old Miss, they don't really do Latin,
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  Speaker 2: so instead they did winnie-witty, I got my ass kicked. Benjamin,
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  Speaker 2: I am so, so, so not sorry. Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I was hoping we were just going to make it
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  Speaker 1: straight through that non-story to the midterms, but no, no,
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  Speaker 1: you had to just make sure you gloated a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: I was a little disappointed. I thought for sure I
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  Speaker 1: was going to get a text from you at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the game. And I was like, all right.
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  Speaker 1: I was ready for it. I was willing to take
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  Speaker 1: my beating. And then you said nothing. And I was like,
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  Speaker 1: he's plotting tomorrow mornings. He's plotting tomorrow morning. That's what
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  Speaker 1: you just did. That's how you play.
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  Speaker 2: I am being entirely honest and sincere. And I'm trying
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  Speaker 2: to reflect the pain. And to be fair, Texas, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we did have the Oklahoma game and the Florida game.
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  Speaker 2: So we have had some pain of our own.
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  Speaker 4: Yes. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And it's only right that we shared the love.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations. See, I can be a kind, sore loser.
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  Speaker 2: Congratulations. We will accept it.
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  Speaker 1: At home, you won a big game, and you used
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  Speaker 1: to be number one in the nation two weeks ago.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see where you land after this. So there's
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  Speaker 1: always the upside here.
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  Speaker 2: That's true. We may just switch rankings, which would be okay.
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  Speaker 2: That would be moving in the right direction.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 1: That being said, I'm going to move on.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk politics. Yeah, let's talk politics. And in particular,
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  Speaker 2: I want to say we got an interesting look in
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  Speaker 2: a crystal ball this week. Because Barack Obama came to
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  Speaker 2: the state of Ohio. And he came to campaign for
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  Speaker 2: Sherrod Brown, one of the most liberal senators ever to serve.
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  Speaker 2: Democrat who was beaten in 2022, but he's running again.
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  Speaker 2: He's running against John Husted and is a very, very
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  Speaker 2: close race. He's got a real chance of winning. I
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  Speaker 2: obviously hope Husted wins, but it's close. And Obama gave
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  Speaker 2: a lengthy speech. We're going to play a number of
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  Speaker 2: excerpts from that speech. The reason I say it's a
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  Speaker 2: crystal ball is I believe the speech Barack Obama gave
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  Speaker 2: in Ohio is a preview of what the 2028 presidential
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  Speaker 2: election will look like. He laid out the themes. He
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  Speaker 2: laid out what the Democrats are saying. And it's a
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  Speaker 2: real good ability to look into the future. This is
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  Speaker 2: what's coming. That's what we're going to dive into this podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, before we get to that audio, though, I do
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  Speaker 1: want to talk to you real quick about what is happening,
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  Speaker 1: especially since the fall of Roe v. Wade, and it
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  Speaker 1: was overturned. Abortion in America, it did not disappear, unfortunately.
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  Speaker 1: According to the Guttmacher Institute, approximately 1,006,000 babies have been aborted.
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  Speaker 1: That's how many have occurred in America in 2023 alone. Now,
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  Speaker 1: that was a nearly 14% increase over 2020. and an
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  Speaker 1: estimated 65% for chemical abortions, which is commonly known today
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  Speaker 1: as abortion pills. Now, I want you to think about
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  Speaker 1: how much the landscape has actually changed. Roe fell, but
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  Speaker 1: abortion did not end. As laws and access have shifted
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  Speaker 1: from state to state, abortions have increasingly moved online, with
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  Speaker 1: abortion pills marketed as health care and made available through websites,
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  Speaker 1: including unregulated sites that allow women to order pills online.
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  Speaker 1: without physician oversight. Americans United for Life knows the fight
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  Speaker 1: AUL.org slash verdict. Senator, let's let's start again. You mentioned
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  Speaker 1: this Barack Obama. He this was you're right. A not
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  Speaker 1: just a campaign speech. It was a speech of what's
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  Speaker 1: coming if Democrats win, what their future they want for
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  Speaker 1: this country. And we're going to play a couple of different,
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  Speaker 1: we'll break in here, but it's important that you hear
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  Speaker 1: exactly what he said. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 4: So when you go through all this, the tally of promises,
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  Speaker 4: things have not worked out the way we might have expected.
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  Speaker 5: Although I must say, I did expect it. And let's
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  Speaker 5: be honest.
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  Speaker 4: Does anybody really think this guy in the White House
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  Speaker 4: right now is spending all that time thinking about these issues?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know if you've noticed, but he
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  Speaker 4: seems very focused on home renovations. He should be on HGTV.
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  Speaker 4: Guy's building a ballroom that's bigger than the White House.
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  Speaker 4: paved over the rose garden put a helicopter pad on
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  Speaker 4: the south lawn and and there's gold everywhere what's up
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  Speaker 4: with the gold.
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  Speaker 5: Everything more gold he's got the.
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  Speaker 4: White ass looking like saddam hussein opened a cheesecake.
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  Speaker 5: Factory just gold from meme coins.
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  Speaker 4: To taxpayer-funded contracts for his kids companies and this is
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  Speaker 4: someone who has become billions of dollars wealthier in office.
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  Speaker 5: And by the way, this is not disputed. I'm not
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  Speaker 5: making this up. It's all there.
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  Speaker 4: And not a single Republican in Congress has done anything
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  Speaker 4: to stop it.
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  Speaker 5: Not John Huston.
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  Speaker 4: Not any of the Republicans on the ballot here in Ohio,
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  Speaker 4: most of them have supported him every step of the way.
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  Speaker 4: So you remember that old thing about Drain the Swamp?
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  Speaker 4: The only thing that got drained was the reflecting pool
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  Speaker 4: in the National Mall after some no-bid contract got it
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  Speaker 4: all messed up. And then they tried to blame a
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  Speaker 4: three-time Olympian and say he vandalized it.
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  Speaker 1: Senator, it really is amazing that this is the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of their closing argument right now to voters about a
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  Speaker 1: week out.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yes and no. I would not dismiss what Obama
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  Speaker 2: is doing there. I think it's important to remember Obama
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  Speaker 2: may be the most effective Democrat politician of our lifetime.
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  Speaker 2: It's either Obama or Bill Clinton. And the two of
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  Speaker 2: them literally stand head and shoulders above every other Democrat
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  Speaker 2: we've ever seen. Head and shoulders above Joe Biden, above
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  Speaker 2: Kamala Harris. above John Kerry, above Al Gore. Obama's ability
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  Speaker 2: to communicate is really powerful. It's really dangerous, to be honest.
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  Speaker 2: If we didn't have the 22nd Amendment, it wouldn't surprise
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  Speaker 2: me if Obama spent the rest of his life in
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  Speaker 2: the White House. The guy is a political force. And
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  Speaker 2: he gives you a preview of what to expect, both
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  Speaker 2: what to expect January of 2027, but also what to
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  Speaker 2: expect in the 28th campaign. If the Democrats take one
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  Speaker 2: or both houses of Congress, you can expect hearing after
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  Speaker 2: hearing after hearing with a central focus on corruption. Corruption
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  Speaker 2: being the major theme that the Democrats are going to push.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to push corruption targeted at the president. They're
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  Speaker 2: going to push corruption targeted at the president's family. They're
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  Speaker 2: going to push corruption targeted at the cabinet and the sub-cabinet,
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  Speaker 2: everyone working in the administration. And part of their narrative
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  Speaker 2: that they're already laying out is they're going to push
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  Speaker 2: corruption tied to data centers and tied to cryptocurrency and
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  Speaker 2: try to loop all of that into it. By the way,
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  Speaker 2: if they succeed on using corruption to shut down all
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  Speaker 2: new data center construction, there's about $ 765 billion of data
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  Speaker 2: center construction plans that are scheduled to go into place.
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  Speaker 2: If that goes to zero, the economy will immediately go
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  Speaker 2: into a recession. That is driving and keeping the economy moving.
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  Speaker 2: And so if the Democrats succeed in crippling data center construction,
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  Speaker 2: the economy moves into a recession and the Democrats then
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  Speaker 2: blame all of that on Trump. Because the Democrats are
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  Speaker 2: rooting for a recession. They want the economy to go really,
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  Speaker 2: really badly the next two years because they believe if
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  Speaker 2: the economy is in terrible shape, That sets them up
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  Speaker 2: to win in 28. And understand, these Democrats, they don't
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  Speaker 2: care about your life. They don't care about whether you
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  Speaker 2: have enough money to pay your bills, to feed your kids,
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  Speaker 2: to pay your mortgage. They don't care about if you're safe. Remember,
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  Speaker 2: when they were in power, they released criminals and illegal
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  Speaker 2: aliens every single day. They didn't care about who was
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  Speaker 2: murdered by those criminals. They didn't care about the women
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  Speaker 2: who were raped. They didn't care about the children who
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  Speaker 2: were assaulted. And by the way, I say they didn't care.
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  Speaker 2: That sounds a little harsh. But we had hearing after
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  Speaker 2: hearing where I would bring up the names of the
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  Speaker 2: women raped, of the children assaulted, of the women murdered.
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  Speaker 2: And not a single Democrat would even acknowledge they exist.
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  Speaker 2: They wouldn't say their names. We had one where the
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  Speaker 2: parents of one woman who was murdered were there in
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  Speaker 2: the hearing room. And Dick Durbin, who is the senator
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  Speaker 2: of Illinois where it happened, would not even acknowledge the
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  Speaker 2: grieving parents. So they don't care. It does not matter
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  Speaker 2: to them. What matters to them is power. That is
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  Speaker 2: going to be one of the major themes. And look,
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  Speaker 2: what Obama does in this segment, the specific building projects
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  Speaker 2: that Trump is doing, I think are highly defensible and
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  Speaker 2: on the merits, very useful. If you look at the ballroom,
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  Speaker 2: the ballroom, much of it is under construction. I think
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  Speaker 2: every president for hundreds of years is going to thank
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump for building that ballroom. Right now, The White
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  Speaker 2: House does not have a meeting place for a large gathering.
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  Speaker 2: The largest gathering you can have in the White House
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  Speaker 2: for a seated dinner, for a state dinner, is the
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  Speaker 2: East Room. It's about 160 people. You can't have a
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  Speaker 2: gathering larger than that. Now, look, there are a lot
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  Speaker 2: of official events.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, let's just help you explain when you
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  Speaker 1: say this. If you've ever been to a rehearsal dinner
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  Speaker 1: where it was packed and it felt like the room
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  Speaker 1: was too small, that's how that room feels for almost
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  Speaker 1: every presidential event, whether it's Obama in there, Biden in there.
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  Speaker 1: Clinton in there, Bush in there, it doesn't matter. Like,
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  Speaker 1: it feels crammed. You've been to several of these. I
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  Speaker 1: have as well. I mean, it is tight.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and look, 160 people. I think a wedding rehearsal
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  Speaker 2: is a good example. When Heidi and I got married,
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  Speaker 2: we had about 300 people at our wedding. We didn't
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  Speaker 2: have a particularly lavish wedding, but it was, you know,
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  Speaker 2: she invited her friends and family. I invited my friends
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  Speaker 2: and family. We had about 300 people. There are a
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  Speaker 2: lot of events happening. in politics and life that are
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  Speaker 2: much bigger than 160 people. And the new building, the
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  Speaker 2: new ballroom that's being built, will seat about 1,000 people.
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  Speaker 2: That means you can do a large event. That means
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  Speaker 2: a state dinner, head of state is in. You could
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  Speaker 2: invite a lot of people who need to be at
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  Speaker 2: that dinner, who would be valuable to have those interactions.
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  Speaker 2: And actually, Trump in all likelihood, will never get to
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  Speaker 2: use the ballroom. It's going to be completed the end
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  Speaker 2: of 2028. He may get one dinner in there on
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  Speaker 2: his way out the door, but he's literally building this
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  Speaker 2: for his successors because the construction is going to take
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  Speaker 2: the entirety of his presidency. I'll say also there is
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  Speaker 2: a massive security element to the ballroom. The ballroom goes very,
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  Speaker 2: very deep. Much of the building was digging this hole
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  Speaker 2: that goes way down. So they put a hospital down there.
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  Speaker 2: They put secure rooms. They put Secret Service has all
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  Speaker 2: sorts of rooms with weapons in it and secure locations.
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  Speaker 2: In the event of a military conflict, you've got to
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  Speaker 2: be able to get the president somewhere safe, somewhere he
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  Speaker 2: can survive a nuclear attack, somewhere if he's injured that
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  Speaker 2: he can be treated without having to leave the compound.
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  Speaker 2: The Secret Service was thrilled to be able to build
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  Speaker 2: it right, to be able to build a real secure
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  Speaker 2: facility that will protect future presidents. And again, let me
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  Speaker 2: underscore that. Almost none of that's going to benefit Trump.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be finished right when he leaves the White House.
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  Speaker 2: So it's the next presidents that will have the much
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  Speaker 2: more secure location. They're building the roof of the ballroom
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  Speaker 2: with extensive anti-drone technology. It's not complicated that the world
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  Speaker 2: of warfare, drones are a critical part of it. And
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  Speaker 2: I believe we are in an era where we are
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  Speaker 2: going to see drone assassinations. That that is one of
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  Speaker 2: the next steps of political violence is people using drones
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  Speaker 2: to assassinate someone they dislike. And the White House sees
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  Speaker 2: that as well, which is why they're putting anti-drone technology
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  Speaker 2: on the ballroom to protect the president, to protect members
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  Speaker 2: of the cabinet, members of Congress, and other foreign heads
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  Speaker 2: of state that are there meeting with the president. I
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  Speaker 2: think it is, on the merits, an entirely good renovation. Likewise,
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  Speaker 2: the Rose Garden. I was sort of joking with the president,
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  Speaker 2: the phrase paved over the rose garden sounds really kind
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  Speaker 2: of harsh and jarring. Like, wow, why would you do that?
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  Speaker 2: It is not actually accurate. So the roses are still there.
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  Speaker 2: They're still a rose garden. The difference is in the
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  Speaker 2: middle of the rose garden, there used to be grass
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  Speaker 2: and the grass when it rained would turn into mud.
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  Speaker 2: And so you'd do an event in the rose garden
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  Speaker 2: and everyone's shoes would stick in the mud. Women who
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  Speaker 2: were wearing high heels would like, really stick in the mud,
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  Speaker 2: the grass would get all ripped up. What the president
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  Speaker 2: did is he basically made it a patio, which is
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  Speaker 2: he put marble pavers down there into a patio. The
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  Speaker 2: roses are still there surrounding it, so the roses haven't changed.
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  Speaker 2: What's changed now is it's a really good place to
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  Speaker 2: hold an outdoor event where the marble works well. I've
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  Speaker 2: done multiple events in the Rose Garden, and it is
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  Speaker 2: objectively better. Likewise with the helipad. Now, as you know,
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  Speaker 2: as we talked about on the podcast, I got for
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  Speaker 2: the first time to ride on Marine One. I'd never
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  Speaker 2: done that before. I was really excited about doing it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, we've all seen the images on TV of
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  Speaker 2: the president, often the president, the first lady walking through
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  Speaker 2: the South Lawn to Marine One. That's just walking across
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  Speaker 2: grass is what it's been historically. And the president said
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  Speaker 2: the same problem was when it rained. Your shoes were
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  Speaker 2: covered in mud. If the first lady was wearing high heels,
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  Speaker 2: it was a real problem. They'd get stuck in the mud.
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  Speaker 2: You know, think about it, Ben, at our houses. You know,
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  Speaker 2: our wives don't walk in the backyard in high heels
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  Speaker 2: like that. They just yell at you if you wanted
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  Speaker 2: them to do that. And you couldn't get to the
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  Speaker 2: helicopter without walking through the mud. And also, there is
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  Speaker 2: a new Marine One that is a bigger and more
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  Speaker 2: powerful helicopter. And the problem was when it landed on
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  Speaker 2: the South lawn, the downdraft from the blades was so
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  Speaker 2: strong that it was just tearing the grass up permanently.
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  Speaker 2: Like the grass was not strong enough to take that
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  Speaker 2: much wind. And so the helipad that the president built,
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  Speaker 2: it's a beautiful helipad. It has the seal of the
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  Speaker 2: president of the United States. And he also built a pathway.
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  Speaker 2: So now you can walk on a pathway and not
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  Speaker 2: have to walk through the mud to get to the helicopter.
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  Speaker 2: That too, all three of these, will be used and
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  Speaker 2: appreciated by future presidents. That being said, it's worth understanding
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  Speaker 2: what Obama is doing, and he's doing it very effectively.
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  Speaker 2: The real message here is he doesn't care about us.
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  Speaker 2: That he's doing home renovations, he's doing these projects that
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  Speaker 2: are vanity projects, that's what Obama's arguing, because your life
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  Speaker 2: doesn't matter to him. Now, the Democrats are very good
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  Speaker 2: at engaging in Freudian projection, which is what they are doing,
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  Speaker 2: they accuse you of doing. In this instance, we talked
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  Speaker 2: about how the Democrats don't care if we go in
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  Speaker 2: a recession. They want a recession. They don't care if
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  Speaker 2: innocent Americans are killed by illegal immigrants they release. They
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  Speaker 2: do it anyway. Not caring is, and putting power above everything,
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  Speaker 2: is how the Democrats operate. But what Obama's doing very effectively,
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  Speaker 2: and we're going to hear this for the next two years,
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  Speaker 2: is blaming Trump For not caring about Americans and putting
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  Speaker 2: himself first. That's a really strong preview of what's to come.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, real quick, let me just take a moment. I
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  Speaker 1: want to talk to you not only about the midterms
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  Speaker 1: about but also how you can have a difference every day.
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  Speaker 1: The stakes, we all know they couldn't be higher. We
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  Speaker 1: have a president and administration fighting hard for America first.
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  Speaker 1: But if we as conservatives lose focus, well, then we
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  Speaker 1: know what happens. The radical left is waiting to resume
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  Speaker 1: their destructive, progressive agendas. Now, protecting this momentum, it takes
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  Speaker 1: play part two. two of this as you were mentioning
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  Speaker 1: senator because this is where he gets into a lot
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  Speaker 1: of the the really intense rhetoric take a listen.
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  Speaker 4: The original rationale was we're going to go in there
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  Speaker 4: and get them to give up their nuclear program their
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  Speaker 4: nuclear weapons now the thing was iran didn't have nuclear
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  Speaker 4: weapons because I had put a deal in place.
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  Speaker 3: That everybody acknowledged kept them from getting nukes, and I
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  Speaker 3: didn't have to fire a missile to do it. I
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  Speaker 3: just had to engage in diplomacy. He pulled out of it,
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  Speaker 3: starts this war.
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  Speaker 4: Seven months later, six months after they declared victory, Because remember.
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  Speaker 5: They said, well, this is the best war ever. It's
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  Speaker 5: going great.
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  Speaker 4: So seven months later, how's that war going? Our allies
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  Speaker 4: and our bases have been attacked. Americans have been killed.
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  Speaker 4: Hundreds of Americans have been wounded. We have run down
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  Speaker 4: our stock of missiles. And Iran now has veto power.
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  Speaker 4: over the Strait of Hormuz where oil goes through to
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  Speaker 4: the world market. This is the reason why the price
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  Speaker 4: of oil is up. Nobody disputes that. This is the
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  Speaker 4: reason the price of diesel is up. This is the
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  Speaker 4: reason why the price of just about everything is up.
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  Speaker 5: Meanwhile, you got.
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  Speaker 4: The Defense Secretary, who's squarely focused Wait, wait, don't move.
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  Speaker 5: Wait, wait, wait. No, no, no.
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  Speaker 4: He's very focused on important matters like the jawlines.
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  Speaker 5: And testosterone levels of our troops.
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  Speaker 4: And live streaming executions because that's how he thinks you cultivate.
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  Speaker 5: That manly warrior spirit.
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  Speaker 4: How much time do you think this defense secretary spends
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  Speaker 4: looking at himself in the mirror in the morning? I mean,
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  Speaker 4: you know he's working his hair because that's how warriors look.
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  Speaker 5: These are not serious people. Yes, we need to end
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  Speaker 5: this war.
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  Speaker 4: If we don't return to some of those old-fashioned virtues,
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  Speaker 4: if our fundamental attitude to each other.
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  Speaker 5: Is to try and hurt other people.
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  Speaker 1: Senator, can we just go back in history and remind
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  Speaker 1: people about the pallets of cash that were sent by these, quote,
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  Speaker 1: serious people in the Democratic Party to appease the Iranian
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  Speaker 1: regime that chants death to America, that was clearly trying
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: to get a nuclear weapon, who says they want to
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: annihilate Israel, wipe them off the map. Because that's his
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: definition of a serious person who takes pallets of cash
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  Speaker 1: and sends it to them saying, please don't do that,
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  Speaker 1: here's money.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Ben, you're doing something that is not permissible
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  Speaker 2: with a Barack Obama speech, which is you're actually bringing facts.
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  Speaker 2: and substance. We can't have that. This is political oratory.
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  Speaker 2: This is rhetoric. This is partisan lies. You are, of course,
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  Speaker 2: exactly right. And this is a good example, A, of
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: how Obama has always done it, but B, where the
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Democrats are going to go the next two years, which is,
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: number one, just flat-out lie. So his lie is that
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  Speaker 2: Iran did not have nuclear weapons and it wasn't going
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  Speaker 2: to get nuclear weapons because the Obama-Iran nuclear deal was
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  Speaker 2: going to prevent them from getting nuclear weapons. That is
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  Speaker 2: an absolute lie. Now, it's a lie that begins by minimizing,
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: by ignoring the threat that Iran poses. You notice nowhere
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  Speaker 2: in Obama's speech was there any acknowledgement of the Ayatollah
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  Speaker 2: routinely leading mobs of thousands upon thousands of people chanting
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  Speaker 2: death to America. nowhere was any acknowledgment that the Ayatollah
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  Speaker 2: and the Islamic regime in Iran was responsible for murdering
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  Speaker 2: nearly a thousand Americans, mostly servicemen and women, that they
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  Speaker 2: have killed year after year after year. Nowhere was there
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  Speaker 2: any acknowledgment that Iran is the lead state sponsor of
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: terrorism on the globe, the lead funder of Hamas and Hezbollah,
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  Speaker 2: and that they have been actively waging war with Americans
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  Speaker 2: trying to kill us. Nowhere was there any acknowledgment that
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  Speaker 2: Iran has invested billions of dollars into developing not just
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  Speaker 2: nuclear weapons, but developing ICBMs. Now, an ICBM, ICBM stands
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: for Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. You don't need an ICBM to
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: get to Israel. An ordinary ballistic missile will go from
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Iran to Israel. You need an ICBM to take a
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: nuclear weapon from Iran to the United States. 100% of
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: the purpose of their ICBM program is to be able
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  Speaker 2: to to deliver a nuclear warhead and detonate a nuclear
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  Speaker 2: warhead in the United States, most likely New York or D.C.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: or Los Angeles, or for that matter, where you and
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: I live, Houston, all of those are cities Iran could target,
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  Speaker 2: and any one of which a nuclear weapon detonated above
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  Speaker 2: those cities could kill millions of Americans in a flash
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  Speaker 2: of an eye. None of that is acknowledged. The Obama-Iran
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  Speaker 2: nuclear deal was designed, inevitably, to allow Iran to get
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  Speaker 2: nuclear weapons. Barack Obama believes it is perfectly fine for
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: the Ayatollah to have nuclear weapons. He believes it is unfair,
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  Speaker 2: it is colonialist of America, to try to stop Iran
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  Speaker 2: from getting nuclear weapons. On the terms of the deal,
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: the terms of the deal carved out major sections of
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: Iran that were not subject to inspections. Anything that Iran
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: designated as a, quote, sensitive military facility was exempted from inspections. Well,
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: guess where they were doing all their nuclear weapons research?
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: In sensitive military facilities. Even the non-sensitive facilities. The deal
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: that Obama signed contemplated Iran inspecting itself. Iran sending its
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  Speaker 2: own inspectors to go in. It's a little bit like,
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: you know, if you're in the movie Scarface. the police
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: calling up Tony Montana going, hey, Tony, you have any drugs? No, man, no, man,
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: I got no drugs. I got no drugs at all,
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  Speaker 2: nothing at all. Okay, Tony, thank you, thank you, I
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: appreciate that. All right, fully inspected. That was basically the
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  Speaker 2: Obama-Iran nuclear deal. Call the Ayatollah, ask if he has nukes.
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  Speaker 2: If he says no, trust him. And finally, with the
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  Speaker 2: weakest strictures possible, even those strictures... under the Obama deal,
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: all went away in 15 years. The entire deal sunsetted
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: in 15 years, which means in 15 years, Obama was saying,
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: then you could most definitely develop a nuclear weapon completely
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: free of sanctions. You can build it in the open
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: and we will say nothing and do nothing to stop you.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: It was a disastrous deal. The single most important decision
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: President Trump made in his first term was to rip
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: up the disastrous Iran nuclear deal. That made America much,
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: much safer. That was a decision I very vigorously urged
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: the president to do. He agreed with me and he
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: did that. This also illustrates how Obama and the Democrats
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: are going to combine their lies about Iran, minimizing the threat,
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: claiming falsely that the Obama deal had any threat neutralized.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: They're going to use it, though, to connect it to
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: every bit, 100% of the economic pressure, the very real
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: economic pressure people are feeling. Look, inflation is real. And
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: inflation is real because we had four years of Joe
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Biden where inflation was out of control. Now, inflation has
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: dropped dramatically. It is much more manageable now than it
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: was under the Biden administration, but that doesn't mean prices
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: have gotten cheaper. Under Biden, they rose massively. They're now
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: rising more slowly, but they're rising from the higher base
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: of four years of Biden inflation baked in. And this
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: is the Democrats' entire strategy. They're trying to say everything
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: you pay more for. Yes, gasoline at the pump. Yes, diesel. Yes,
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: jet fuel. But also, yes, food. Yes, homes. Everything they
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: are going to blame on President Trump and the Iran war.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: This is a real foreshadowing of 100,000 TV commercials that
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: are coming today. of hearing and hearing and hearing and
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: candidate after candidate after candidate, all of whom are going
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: to echo Barack Obama's messaging right here.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, by the way, to his closing statement and what
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: he said.
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  Speaker 5: If our fundamental attitude to each other.
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: Is to try and hurt other people so they don't
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: hurt us first, we're driven by fear instead of by hope.
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: if we think it's okay to snatch children from parents
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: or cut programs for the aged or the infirm so
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: the powerful can get whatever they want, we will continue
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: to fester in anger and division. And I don't know
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: about you, but I'm tired of being angry. And I'm
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: tired of being divided. I want to reach out and
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: shake my neighbor's hand. I want to get to work
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: doing something for somebody else. We didn't get into this
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: moment overnight. We won't get out of it overnight. And
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: none of us should pretend that any single person in
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: any single office is somehow going to save the day
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: for us and that the rest of us can just
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: go back to acting the same way. We're gonna have
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: to all make some changes, but Ohio, here's what I know.
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: This election can be a start. This election can be
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: an inflection point. This election can be a course correction
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  Speaker 4: in America's.
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  Speaker 5: Long journey toward a more perfect union.
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: Because if we're willing to turn out in big numbers
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: here in Ohio and across the country, if we're willing
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: to vote for change and vote for Democrats up and
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: down the ballot, then this election might just mark the
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: moment this country began moving.
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: In a better direction.
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: When we leave our worst impulses behind and start aligning
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: our politics with our highest ideals, Ohio, you and I
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: have proved before that it is hard to stop a
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: change whose time has come.
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: In ten days, you have a chance to do it again.
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: So I'm asking you, are you fired up? Are you
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: ready to go? Let's make Amy Acton governor. Let's make
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: Sheryl Brown senator. Let's get on the path to making
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: America better.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you. I love you. God bless you.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: By the way, I love how he fires them up
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: at the end. He says, let's make America better instead
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: of make America great. That kind of made me laugh.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: Well, look. That entire closing reminds you of the power
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: of Barack Obama. Part three of this speech was 100%
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: hope and change. And don't underestimate hope and change. This
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: guy is the best P.T. Barnum, sell one thing and
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: deliver another that I think politics has ever produced. He's
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: very good at the hopey-changey stuff. Like it, I'm inspired.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: I'm tired of being angry. I want to reach over
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: and shake the hand of my neighbor. Like that's good stuff. Now,
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: mind you, it's an absolute lie. Barack Obama doesn't want
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: to shake anyone's hands. Look, when he was president, I
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: was in the Senate when he was president. He is
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: so arrogant and aloof. It actually limited his effectiveness because
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: he could not be bothered to talk to senators or
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: House members or really anybody that everyone was beneath him.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: And Democrat senators would complain about this. Like when Obama
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: was president, he wouldn't talk to them. It wasn't a
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: partisan thing. He just thought that like he was from
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: a higher plane and all the rest of us were
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: subjects that he was there to rule. I mean, he
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: really did think he was King Barack. And in terms of,
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: you know, he wants to shake the hand of his neighbor. Well,
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: you know, interestingly enough, he had an opportunity to do that.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: He had an opportunity to shake the hand of his
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: neighbor during the Joe Biden presidency. And that was when,
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: you'll recall, I suggested, actually filed legislation to change the
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: port of entry for illegal immigrants to Martha's Vineyard and
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: Nantucket and the Hamptons and all of, and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware,
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: which is where Biden vacationed. And if they were going
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: to allow 12 million illegal immigrants to invade our nation,
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: They should actually have to see those illegal immigrants that
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: they're inviting to our country and care for them. And
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: you'll recall Ron DeSantis in Florida implemented the idea that
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: I had proposed, and he put together a plane full
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: of illegal immigrants, and he flew them to Martha's Vineyard.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: And at the time I had filed my legislation, the
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: county executive at Martha's Vineyard, the equivalent of the mayor,
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: had put out a public statement. And he blasted me
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: for filing this legislation. He said, Cruz doesn't understand. He
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: doesn't understand immigration. And he said, if illegal immigrants came
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: to Martha's Vineyard, we would welcome them here. Well, they
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: did come because Ron DeSantis sent them. And what happened
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: within 24 hours, that very same county executive declared an emergency.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: And within 72 hours, they had forcibly removed every single
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: one of the illegal immigrants from Martha's Vineyard. Understand, Barack
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: Obama and Michelle Obama have a palatial mountain, a palatial
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: mansion in Martha's Vineyard. Did Barack Obama reach out and
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: shake the hand of his neighbor? Did he say, hey,
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: these illegals, I've got, you know, 57 rooms or I
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: don't know how many rooms he has. I've got a
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: lot of rooms in my mansion. Why don't we set
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: up some cots and put some of these illegals in
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: my house? No, no, no, no, no. Obama didn't say
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: a word. He didn't want to shake their hand. He
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: just sat there while they declared an emergency and removed them. Because, look,
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: if you're a rich liberal, you've got Chardonnay to sip.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: You've got cheese to poke with your little toothpick. And
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: you cannot be bothered to get around the dirty masses.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: You know, you have instead what you do. is you
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: dupe the masses. Instead, you do what Obama does, which
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: is you lie to them. You say, listen, we've got
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: to be nice. We've got to be kind. We've got
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: to be loving. And that would be more effective if
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: we didn't have eight years of Obama's presidency, because during
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: that presidency, he wasn't kind. He wasn't loving. He was hateful.
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: He hated his opposition. He demonized his opposition. He went
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: after them viciously. But he's very good at selling it
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: as something that it's not. And so I want all
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: of y'all just to reflect. This podcast is the crystal
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: ball podcast. It is telling you exactly what to expect
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: in all of 2027 and all of 2028. This is
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: where the Democrats are going, and we need to be
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: ready to counter it.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: All right, I want to take a moment and talk
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: to you real quick about Election Day. Between work, errands,
• 36:00
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