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Normally Podcast: Iran Strikes, Hegseth & Rubio’s Case, Texas Primary Shockers, and a Major Supreme Court Win for Parents · Normally

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Speaker 1: I got back normally, it showed normally. Take in the
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Speaker 1: news year and I am Mary Katherine.
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Speaker 2: And I'm Calm Market. I'm Mary Catherine.
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Speaker 1: How's going, Oh, it's going all right. Getting through this week,
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Speaker 1: my hard week of having no dependence and going to
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Speaker 1: the gym and doing podcasts, eating by myself stressful.
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Speaker 2: I again loved my time at Hillsdale, so I hope
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Speaker 2: you're enjoying it as well. The kids are amazing. Are
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Speaker 2: you finding it smart?
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Speaker 1: Fun? Yes?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well dressed. Nobody at my college dressed like that.
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Speaker 2: Everybody in my school was in pajamas. They're all in
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Speaker 2: like business where.
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Speaker 1: I was so thankful that you told me that, because
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Speaker 1: I would have dressed medium to down had you not
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Speaker 1: warned me. And I get in there and they're all
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Speaker 1: professional looking and right have their hair nice when I
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Speaker 1: arrive and I'm like, oh goodness, we got to up
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Speaker 1: the anty hair.
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Speaker 2: Molly him, anyway, was the one who told me about
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Speaker 2: the fact that they dressed up, because I was planning
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Speaker 2: to be like jeans in a sweater, like not like
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Speaker 2: not nice. But you know what I saw My teachers
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Speaker 2: were in college.
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Speaker 1: Yep, No, they're they're good to go they're they're ready
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Speaker 1: for the real world.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I really more than most college students for sure.
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Speaker 3: All right, let's get into it. The war with Iran continues.
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Speaker 3: It's looking pretty good.
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Speaker 2: The Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and General Dan Caine gave
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Speaker 2: a joint press conference today, and I mean they said
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Speaker 2: some interesting stuff. I thought that Pete Hegseth remains somebody
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Speaker 2: that I think was just born for this role. Look,
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Speaker 2: I defended him when he was having a tough time
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Speaker 2: getting confirmed, and I really felt like he was the
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Speaker 2: guy for this job at this time, and I think
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Speaker 2: every day since then I have felt very good about it.
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Speaker 2: He's really is the guy here to bring our defense
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Speaker 2: capabilities to the next level, to get more enrollment, which
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Speaker 2: he has done significantly, and just to be a cheerleader
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Speaker 2: and praise the heroics of our military in such a
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Speaker 2: way that I just think we haven't seen in a while.
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Speaker 2: So we're going to roll. We're going to start it
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Speaker 2: off with a short clip of him talking today. We
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Speaker 2: have two short clips of him. Here's Pete Heegsath.
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Speaker 4: We sunk their prize ship, the Solomoni. Looks like Potus
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Speaker 4: got him twice. There Navy not a factor. Pick your adjective.
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Speaker 4: It is no more.
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Speaker 3: In fact.
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Speaker 4: Yesterday in the Indian Ocean and we'll play it on screen.
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Speaker 4: There an American submarine sunk an Iranian warship that thought
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Speaker 4: it was safe in international waters. Instead it was sunk
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Speaker 4: by a torpedo.
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Speaker 1: Quiet death.
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Speaker 4: The first sinking of an enemy ship by a torpedo
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Speaker 4: since World War II. Like in that war, back when
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Speaker 4: we were still the war depart we are fighting to win.
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Speaker 2: He just seems like he's having so much fun. He's like,
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Speaker 2: this is what I'm here to do.
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Speaker 1: I've been more skeptical of him, and I was very
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Speaker 1: excited for him on a recruiting front because I did
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Speaker 1: think that having been in combat and being a guy
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Speaker 1: who could relate to younger men that he was men
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Speaker 1: and women, that he was a person who could bring
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Speaker 1: more in the door. You can't argue with a lot
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Speaker 1: of the operational success of the military since he has
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Speaker 1: been at top. I love listening to General Kane as well.
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Speaker 1: He's so obviously got to meet him in December actually
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Speaker 1: briefly at the Travis Mannin Foundation Gallop and these guys
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Speaker 1: are impressive. I know that the press is like, oh,
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Speaker 1: he's just brown out up there. But here's the thing, good,
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Speaker 1: good bro out, Here's the thing. The press is attempting
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Speaker 1: to manifest operational failure from operational success, right, that's like, nope,
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Speaker 1: are US men's hockey teaming the strikes where they're like, no, no, no,
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Speaker 1: We're going to say that all of this is a
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Speaker 1: problem as it's happening, even though what you're actually doing
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Speaker 1: is creating air supremacy over the entire country of Iran
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Speaker 1: and doing pretty amazing things, bringing together coalitions that the
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Speaker 1: world has never seen. Right, who would have Who would
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Speaker 1: have thought five years ago if you said, well, yes,
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Speaker 1: the Arab States are going to join with the US
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Speaker 1: and Israel in backing the striking of Iran and the
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Speaker 1: killing of coming.
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Speaker 2: Open and yeah, because a lot of a lot of
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Speaker 2: times they do stuff behind the scenes, but they don't
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Speaker 2: do things quite as openly as they're doing it here.
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Speaker 2: And you mentioned air supremacy. Here's one more short clip
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Speaker 2: of Pete Hagsath talking about just that.
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Speaker 4: Starting last night and to be completed in a few
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Speaker 4: days and under a week, the two most powerful air
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Speaker 4: forces in the world will have complete control of Iranian skies,
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Speaker 4: contested airspace. I hope all the folks watching understand what
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Speaker 4: uncontested airspace and complete control means. It means we will
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Speaker 4: fly all day, all night, day and night, finding, fixing
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Speaker 4: and finishing the missiles and defense industrial base of the
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Speaker 4: Iranian military, finding and fixing their leaders and their military leaders,
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Speaker 4: flying over Tehran, flying over Iran, flying over their capital,
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Speaker 4: flying over the RGC, Iranian leaders, looking up and seeing
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Speaker 4: only US and Israeli air power every minute of every day.
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Speaker 4: Until we decide it's over in Iran, we'll be able
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Speaker 4: to do nothing about it.
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Speaker 1: B two S B fifty two s B.
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Speaker 4: Ones, predator drones, fighters controlling the skies, picking targets, death
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Speaker 4: and destruction from the sky all day long.
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Speaker 2: Just amazing, all day long.
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Speaker 1: I came across a line Derek Thompson of the Atlantic
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Speaker 1: was interviewing another Atlantic writer, A Kareem Sadriphor, and I
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Speaker 1: just want to note that that was him who said this,
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Speaker 1: because I think it's fantastic. He says, I think this
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Speaker 1: might be one of the few instances in modern history
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Speaker 1: where a greater percentage of the society being bombed was
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Speaker 1: supportive of military action than the society that was doing
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Speaker 1: the bombing, because the initial snap polling here has been
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Speaker 1: a little rocky for the administration, I think because a
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Speaker 1: lot of people just go, is this Iraq? I don't
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Speaker 1: want this to be Iraq?
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Speaker 4: Right?
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Speaker 1: But we have another hole a CBS poll that was
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Speaker 1: asked in a really interesting way. One. I think it's
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Speaker 1: worth noting that every bombing run you see videoed in
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Speaker 1: Iran is followed by laughing and clapping, so I think
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Speaker 1: carrying important important context. But the CBS poll asked, do
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Speaker 1: you approve or disapprove of military action against Iran if
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Speaker 1: you think the conflict conflict would last years, and the
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Speaker 1: number is thirteen percent, months forty six percent, days or weeks,
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Speaker 1: seventy six percent would approve. So this looks like they're
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Speaker 1: ahead of schedule in establishing what they want to establish
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Speaker 1: and that the outcome could be within weeks or months.
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Speaker 1: That's right, which would mean you're on the good side
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Speaker 1: of American public approval, which is what we've been saying
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Speaker 1: is that if Trump strikes and uses power quickly, efficiently,
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Speaker 1: and effectively, Americans are like great, great.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and look, things again appear to be going while
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Speaker 2: Iran's strikes are slowing down, they're running out of missiles,
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Speaker 2: et cetera. Yesterday, so we're recording this on Wednesday. On Tuesday,
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Speaker 2: the Israeli Air Force attacked Iran and destroyed another meeting.
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Speaker 2: They were having another in person meeting, Mary Catherine somebody
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Speaker 2: on x this account called the Salon Dawn tweeted even
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Speaker 2: Jamie Diamond, who is CEO of JP Morgan, would be
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Speaker 2: impressed by Iran's commitment to in person meetings. Yes, seriously,
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Speaker 2: the council is comprised of eighty eight religious leaders and
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Speaker 2: they were choosing the new Ayahtola and the Israeli Air
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Speaker 2: Force blew them up, you know, allegedly. It's just it's amazing.
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Speaker 2: It's amazing to watch two militaries who are really on
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Speaker 2: top of their game do this, and it's amazing to watch,
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Speaker 2: like you said, the other countries in the Middle East
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Speaker 2: participate on the side of the US and Israel. It's
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Speaker 2: impressive and it's a testament to what Donald Trump has accomplished.
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Speaker 2: I know people don't want to give him any credit,
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Speaker 2: but this is something that could only happen because Donald
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Speaker 2: Trump is a little different plays things completely differently than
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Speaker 2: other politicians have and is able to get people together
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Speaker 2: who would have never considered being together.
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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the alliance that should be coming to the rescue
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Speaker 1: of the Iranians, China and Russia, nowhere to be seen. China,
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Speaker 1: I believe, noted the other day that it was to
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Speaker 1: offer moral support, and Chinese air defenses apparently have been
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Speaker 1: found to be not at all helpful, as you can
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Speaker 1: tell by our air supremacy at this point. There is
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Speaker 1: an argument back home again, a lot of press about, okay, well,
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Speaker 1: what is the rationale for this war? And to me
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Speaker 1: it is To me it is well, they've been at
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Speaker 1: war with us since nineteen seventy nine and we have
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Speaker 1: never struck directly because we were worried about the capacity
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Speaker 1: that they had. During Obama years, the strong preference was
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Speaker 1: for appeasement. But you can make an argument that we're
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Speaker 1: appeasing because we're afraid of what they have. We're going
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Speaker 1: to extend this deadline. Right The Iran that exists right
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Speaker 1: now when this strike was planned, is a different Iran
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Speaker 1: and capabilities than it was at any other time since
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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy nine. It is laid bare. Thank you Israeli
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Speaker 1: strikes on their air defenses thank you Israeli and US
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Speaker 1: Intel and so dealing with it at this moment, particularly
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Speaker 1: if you have a chance to hit Kamani, because you
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Speaker 1: know where he is, seems like a pretty good shot
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Speaker 1: to take.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely. Another person who has been really impressive during
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Speaker 2: this time is obviously Secretary Marco Rubio, you know, longtime
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Speaker 2: fans here on normally. He also has had some really
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Speaker 2: amazing comments that he's made during this time. He said
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Speaker 2: something that was misconstrued by people on the internet on purpose. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: said that they took it to mean that Israel forced
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Speaker 2: the US to get into this war, which is ridiculous.
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Speaker 2: So to clarify, he said this, Listen, let me.
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Speaker 5: Explain to you guys. This is simple English.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 5: Aroan is run by lunatics, religious fanatic lunatics. They have
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Speaker 5: an ambition to have nuclear weapons. They intend to develop
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Speaker 5: those nuclear weapons behind a program of missiles and drones
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Speaker 5: and terrorism that the world will not be able to
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Speaker 5: touch them for fear of those things. And this is
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Speaker 5: the weakest they've ever been. Now is the time to
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Speaker 5: go after them. The President made the decision to go
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Speaker 5: after them. Take away their missiles, take away their navy,
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Speaker 5: take away their drones take away their ability to make
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Speaker 5: those things so that they can never have a nuclear weapon.
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Speaker 5: That's why the President made this decision. It was the
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Speaker 5: right decision, and the world will be a safer place
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Speaker 5: when these radical clerics and a lot of them have
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Speaker 5: access to these weapons. You see how they're using them now,
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Speaker 5: imagine how they would use them a year from now
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Speaker 5: they had more of these.
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Speaker 1: By the way, this is a great argument that Iran
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Speaker 1: is making against itself, Yeah, is that they're randomly shooting
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Speaker 1: whatever they have at anyone, including actual allies of Theirs.
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Speaker 1: Cutter and Oman are like, wait, what's happening. I thought
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Speaker 1: we had a thing, but y'all don't have a thing.
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Speaker 1: They don't have a thing because these are lunatics. As
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Speaker 1: Rubio points out. Now, I will say I do think that,
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Speaker 1: and I know it's not Trump's style, and what you
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Speaker 1: get from Trump is the guy who will hit Iran.
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Speaker 1: So you don't necessarily get the sit down Oval office
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Speaker 1: resolute desk address. But I do think that is owed
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Speaker 1: to the American people. I think could go out and
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Speaker 1: make the exact argument that Rubio made quickly in an
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Speaker 1: Oval address office and that it's serious and this needs
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Speaker 1: to be taken seriously. Yeah, I would appreciate that, and
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Speaker 1: I think it would clear up some of this, but
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Speaker 1: it should the reporters can have brains in their heads.
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Speaker 1: And remember a couple months back after Midnight Hammer, when
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Speaker 1: Israel had jets flying over ran on their way and
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Speaker 1: Trump said stop and pull them back, and they did
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Speaker 1: because Trump is not This delegation is stupid, right, it's stupid,
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Speaker 1: this idea that Trump. Yeah, that Trump could be forced
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Speaker 1: into something. Come on, have you met them? They also
12:38
Speaker 1: chopped up Rubio's quote on purpose to mislead people, because
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Speaker 1: he was asked two separate questions why and why now?
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Speaker 1: And the why now was well, we had found this
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Speaker 1: target of opportunity together and Israel was going to take
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Speaker 1: it right, Like, that's how this works, guys. I also
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Speaker 1: think we're in a double bind where it's like, if
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Speaker 1: America acts alone, that's bad, but if America acts with
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Speaker 1: the other most capable intel and military, that's also bad.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, there was a piece in Axios. It was
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Speaker 2: Mark Caputo and Barack revied. Barack Revied is who gets
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Speaker 2: normally planted the stories from inside the administration of people
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Speaker 2: skeptical of military action. So it's kind of interesting that
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Speaker 2: he had this story, which was that last Monday, Israeli
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Speaker 2: Prime Minister Benjamin Ett, yeah who called President Trump with
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Speaker 2: a stunning tip Iran supreme leader and his top advisors
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Speaker 2: were all set to meet at one location in Tehran
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Speaker 2: on Saturday morning. They could all be killed in a
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Speaker 2: single devastating airstriken and yeah who told Trump and his team,
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Speaker 2: according to three sources briefed on the discussion, and obviously
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Speaker 2: Trump said, let's do it. Let's do it. Why wouldn't
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Speaker 2: they do it?
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Speaker 1: You know? What this reminded me of yesterday was was
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Speaker 1: Bush's attempt to reform social Security. I know that sounds weird,
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Speaker 1: but in the moment, it was a very politically unpopular thing.
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Speaker 1: But he thought it was the right thing to do.
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Speaker 1: He thought that it was necessary for the country's finances,
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Speaker 1: and had it happened, we would be in a much
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Speaker 1: better position now than we are, had he been able
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Speaker 1: to convince everyone and everyone not dug their heels in
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Speaker 1: about it. In foreign policy, the president has a lot
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Speaker 1: more power. So what Trump did is he took his
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Speaker 1: somewhat politically unpopular reform and risk and he did it.
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Speaker 1: And I do think in twenty years we will be
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Speaker 1: much safer as a result. That's absolutely we will have
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Speaker 1: a better world order because the head of this snake
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Speaker 1: was lopped off, and even if you don't get perfect
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Speaker 1: freedom in the aftermath in Iran, it is hard to
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Speaker 1: get worse than what we had.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's absolutely right. And the thing is we won't
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Speaker 2: see it that way, or since it that way, what
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Speaker 2: we could only see when it's worse. Right, I can
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Speaker 2: only see that the social not privatizing what was it,
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Speaker 2: five percent of social security has ended up being a
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Speaker 2: bad thing for us. It's much tougher with a situation
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Speaker 2: like Ran to be like, oh, well we feel safer,
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Speaker 2: we are safer, but we will be safer and that's
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Speaker 2: the reality of it.
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Speaker 1: Well, I think some people are resistant to believe that
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Speaker 1: these far off dangers cause problems for us. But the
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Speaker 1: alliance of Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, especially with those
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Speaker 1: couple in our backyard, very dangerous. Yeah, very dangerous. I
15:23
Speaker 1: would also note there was an update on this front
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Speaker 1: of Machado's, who is the opposition leader in Venezuela, says
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Speaker 1: she's coming back to Venezuela soon and there is the
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Speaker 1: suggestion that there will be elections, so that is moving
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Speaker 1: in the direction of the Venezuelan people making decisions about
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Speaker 1: that country. So we hope the best for both of
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Speaker 1: those countries and that for it to work out in
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Speaker 1: that way.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, Eventually, Iran, their Ranian people are going to have
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Speaker 2: to kind of rise up and do their own thing
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Speaker 2: and decide what kind of government they're going to have,
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Speaker 2: and America role is to secure that for them, but
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Speaker 2: then they have to take over.
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Speaker 1: Can I on the note that this of course comes
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Speaker 1: with very serious risk. We now have the names of
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Speaker 1: four of the American troops who died in Kuwait. Those
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Speaker 1: killed according to PBS, and this is from the Pentagon
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Speaker 1: where Captain Cody Cork thirty five of winter Haven, Florida,
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Speaker 1: Sergeant first class Noah T. Tins excuse me for not
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Speaker 1: knowing how to pronounce that forty two of Bellevue, Nebraska,
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Speaker 1: Sergeant first class Nicole Amore thirty nine of White Bear Lake, Minnesota,
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Speaker 1: and Sergeant Decland Cody twenty of West des Moines, Iowa.
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Speaker 1: I know that Nicole Amor was a mom of young kids.
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Speaker 1: Decland Cody had become an Eagle Scout in twenty twenty,
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Speaker 1: which if you become an Eagle Scout in the Year
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Speaker 1: of our Lord twenty twenty year the best among us. Right,
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Speaker 1: if you were able to get that done. They all
16:43
Speaker 1: devoted their lives to their country, and please lift up
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Speaker 1: their families because they're in very real pain right now
16:49
Speaker 1: as this moves forward.
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Speaker 2: There's absolutely a cost, and these people paided for all
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Speaker 2: of us. Okay, we're going to take a short break
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Speaker 2: and be right back with some primary news. There was
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Speaker 2: a primary last night and we're going to talk about it.
17:07
Speaker 2: We are back on normally where a number of primaries
17:10
Speaker 2: happened last night, with the biggest one being the US
17:14
Speaker 2: Senate race primary Democratic primary in Texas, where James tell
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Speaker 2: Rico won the Democratic nomination over Representative Jasmine Crockett. She
17:24
Speaker 2: had entered the race with so much fanfare that I
17:27
Speaker 2: believe he almost dropped out, And it was funny that
17:31
Speaker 2: that was the case, because she ended up losing by
17:35
Speaker 2: quite a bit. It wasn't particularly close, and James tell
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Speaker 2: Erco wanted outright. Meanwhile, on the Republican side in Texas,
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Speaker 2: Senator John Cornyn and Attorney General Ken Paxton are heading
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Speaker 2: to a runoff since neither got a majority in that race.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that Jasmine Crockett didn't run a campaign.
17:54
Speaker 1: She ran an identity and her Instagram account. Yeah, that's
17:58
Speaker 1: what she ran. And her idea and some of the
18:02
Speaker 1: activists who supported her was that we were just going
18:04
Speaker 1: to do twenty twenty again, which is scream at you
18:07
Speaker 1: about how you must support a black woman and if
18:09
Speaker 1: you do not, then you are a racist. And I
18:12
Speaker 1: have to say, even though she would be a more
18:14
Speaker 1: vulnerable general election candidate for Republicans that I am appreciative
18:19
Speaker 1: that this tactic did not work because they saw some
18:23
Speaker 1: I think unfair and nasty stuff at Tall Rico. And
18:26
Speaker 1: although it's fun to watch Democrats pay the price of
18:28
Speaker 1: their own resks from twenty to twenty, I'm glad it
18:32
Speaker 1: didn't work for her because I don't think we want
18:34
Speaker 1: to be encouraging the types of candidates who are just
18:38
Speaker 1: identity first vibes. Only she didn't have a campaign manager,
18:42
Speaker 1: she didn't run ads, And I know we're in a
18:45
Speaker 1: new era, but like you come, I have, you have
18:49
Speaker 1: to have a campaign, not just yell at people. And then,
18:52
Speaker 1: of course, as she loses, she blames Republicans for her loss,
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Speaker 1: which doesn't make any sense because Republican goaded her into
19:01
Speaker 1: a running because we thought she'd be easier to be
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Speaker 1: and b to the extent we were meddling, it was
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Speaker 1: to vote for her, not against her, or suppress her
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Speaker 1: vote at all.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, come on, now, there are two kinds of people.
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Speaker 2: There are the kinds of people that would love to
19:15
Speaker 2: see a Jasmine Crocket win because she'll be a potentially
19:18
Speaker 2: an easier person to be in the general. And I
19:20
Speaker 2: think you and I are the opposite, where we want
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Speaker 2: the more serious candidate to win just in case, just
19:27
Speaker 2: in case they pull off an upset, just in case.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I think tell A Rico is also fairly
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Speaker 2: far left to be real, but he's not Jasmine Crockett left.
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Speaker 1: So that's like he puts in some work, right, I
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Speaker 1: don't buy it.
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Speaker 2: I don't buy the youth pastor in the back of
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Speaker 2: a pickup game. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I don't like how he just massages his Christianity and
19:48
Speaker 1: it satisfies any of his progressive views that need to
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Speaker 1: be satisfied, because I don't think that's a correct way
19:54
Speaker 1: of doing that. I think the speech she gave that
19:56
Speaker 1: includes the sentence, God is nine non binary, is really
19:59
Speaker 1: going to I'm back to bite him in a general election?
20:03
Speaker 2: Yeah.
20:03
Speaker 1: Yeah, But this is a bit of a tough scenario
20:06
Speaker 1: for Republicans for sure, because Ken Paxton has a lot
20:09
Speaker 1: of baggage. He is the anti establishment candidate. He will
20:13
Speaker 1: be going up in twelve weeks against Cornan, the four
20:16
Speaker 1: time incumbent senator, and Trump did not endorse in the
20:21
Speaker 1: three way primary to start this. Will he endorse for
20:25
Speaker 1: the runoff, which would make it easier for Republicans because
20:29
Speaker 1: then your runoff wouldn't cost so much money, and these
20:31
Speaker 1: two people wouldn't beat the ever loving crap out of
20:33
Speaker 1: each other until they go up against teller each It's
20:36
Speaker 1: going to cost a lot of money. It's already cost
20:38
Speaker 1: sixty million plus to get corn where he is.
20:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going to be a question. Do you think
20:45
Speaker 2: Trump would endorse Cornyn? I mean that's the I think
20:48
Speaker 2: some are urging that what the president of the party
20:51
Speaker 2: would normally do, but Paxton is more trumpy. It's really
20:55
Speaker 2: it's kind of a tough question.
20:57
Speaker 1: Yes, it is a tough question. I think some are
20:59
Speaker 1: urging him to endorse Cornyn. I think many in the
21:02
Speaker 1: base would be upset, but the base doesn't say it
21:05
Speaker 1: stay upset with Trump for very long?
21:07
Speaker 2: That's right?
21:07
Speaker 1: And where do those Wesley Hunt was also in this primary,
21:11
Speaker 1: who I really like. I might have ended up a
21:13
Speaker 1: Wesley Hunt voter if I were there. Where do his
21:15
Speaker 1: voters go? I think there's a couple hundred thousand of
21:17
Speaker 1: them and we will see what he ends up doing
21:20
Speaker 1: as well. But this has the potential to suck up
21:24
Speaker 1: a lot of money and be a lot closer than
21:26
Speaker 1: Republicans want to be.
21:27
Speaker 2: Yeah. The other notable race from last night, Dan Crenshaw
21:31
Speaker 2: lost his primary. He was the GOP incumbent representative also
21:36
Speaker 2: in Texas to state Rep. Steve Toth. It was an upset,
21:40
Speaker 2: and I don't think I didn't realize that was a possibility.
21:43
Speaker 2: There's very few polls in these races, so I think
21:46
Speaker 2: it was a surprise to a lot of think it was.
21:49
Speaker 2: I believe Trump did not endorse in that race either. Again,
21:52
Speaker 2: it does the Trump endorsement matter in primaries? I say, yes,
21:56
Speaker 2: it still does.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And Crenshaw had been openly more Trump critical and
22:00
Speaker 1: the base decided that they wanted someone else in that slot. Yes,
22:04
Speaker 1: this is a surprise and I think whereas I was
22:09
Speaker 1: on the lookout for the Left getting itself in trouble
22:12
Speaker 1: with more base satisfying candidates than general election satisfying candidates,
22:18
Speaker 1: I think the Republican Party is also in some danger
22:21
Speaker 1: of doing that. That doesn't mean that these guys can't
22:23
Speaker 1: pan out in the h Yeah, but you may build
22:27
Speaker 1: a harder road for yourself, that's right.
22:30
Speaker 2: Yeah, we do this sometimes, build that harder road for ourselves. Yeah. Look,
22:35
Speaker 2: in my life, I have always voted for the most
22:37
Speaker 2: conservative candidate in the race. That's not what this is
22:40
Speaker 2: all the time. It's not always the most conservative candidate.
22:43
Speaker 2: It's sometimes the most bombastic or the most angry, or
22:46
Speaker 2: that kind of thing that doesn't play quite as well
22:49
Speaker 2: in a general And I think we need to be
22:51
Speaker 2: careful of that. And I say this to you because
22:54
Speaker 2: I know you agree with me. But the rest of
22:55
Speaker 2: the party, I don't know do they agree with us
22:57
Speaker 2: on this. I think they kind of like the bombastic.
23:00
Speaker 1: No. I mean, electability is not a sexy argument.
23:03
Speaker 2: It's really not. Yeah, I don't care. Yeah.
23:07
Speaker 1: It's also worth noting there was a really high turnout
23:10
Speaker 1: for Talla Rico in Latino majority counties. That in many
23:15
Speaker 1: cases Republicans would of course like to stick around as
23:19
Speaker 1: Republican voters. In this primary, you could go either way.
23:21
Speaker 1: You can vote Republican or Democrats. So maybe they just
23:24
Speaker 1: found the Democratic primary more interesting, a little more spice.
23:26
Speaker 1: You wanted to vote for Talla Rico, which is what
23:29
Speaker 1: a lot of those counties did at about sixty percent,
23:32
Speaker 1: and heavily Latino counties. But it should be of interest
23:35
Speaker 1: and perhaps concern to Republicans that a lot of these
23:39
Speaker 1: counties that they hoped would stay Republican are looking like
23:42
Speaker 1: they're enthusiastically coming out for a Democratic primary. Yeah, we'll
23:46
Speaker 1: see sign something for the fall.
23:48
Speaker 2: Texas is you know, I say this Texas is the
23:52
Speaker 2: whale for Democrats, but you know Virginia used to be
23:56
Speaker 2: the whale for Democrats. That used to be the state
23:58
Speaker 2: that I was like, that's never blue. Yeah, so it's
24:02
Speaker 2: always got to be careful and I never say ever.
24:05
Speaker 1: Well, there will be a ton of runoffs and we
24:07
Speaker 1: will keep you posted on those. But also in North Carolina,
24:11
Speaker 1: a big one expected results. Roy Cooper, who is the
24:14
Speaker 1: former governor of North Carolina, will be the Senate candidate
24:17
Speaker 1: for the Democrats and Michael Watley, former R and C chair,
24:19
Speaker 1: the candidate for Republicans. Watley is not super well known
24:23
Speaker 1: in the state despite having been the rn C chair.
24:26
Speaker 1: Cooper is popular, even though he shouldn't be because he
24:29
Speaker 1: was terrible during COVID and then terrible during Hurricane Helene. Nonetheless,
24:35
Speaker 1: he is a person who has gotten a lot of passes.
24:38
Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens there. That is for Tom
24:40
Speaker 1: Tillis's seat.
24:41
Speaker 2: Yeah. Meanwhile, tom Beach County in Florida is on the
24:45
Speaker 2: verge of going red in terms of voter registration. This
24:49
Speaker 2: is crazy because pom Beach County was traditionally a Blue
24:52
Speaker 2: county in Florida. Very few Blue counties left in Florida,
24:56
Speaker 2: Mary Catherine, So you know you have your pick of
24:59
Speaker 2: county should you choose to make the move.
25:03
Speaker 1: You know, I'm going to be a Panhandle gal. Yes
25:07
Speaker 1: to Florida.
25:07
Speaker 2: There, I've never been to the Panhandle. Can we go together?
25:11
Speaker 1: I'm going to be stuck in what really is just
25:13
Speaker 1: South Georgia and South Alabama.
25:16
Speaker 2: I love it. Let's go, let's go visit family trips.
25:19
Speaker 1: You know it's gorgeous. It's gorgeous with the you got
25:21
Speaker 1: the moss off the old oak trees is gorgeous.
25:25
Speaker 2: Yeah. So Ron DeSantis retweeted that Palm Beach County's Democrat
25:29
Speaker 2: advantage collapsed from one hundred and thirty eight thousand to
25:34
Speaker 2: a little over twelve thousand, and it could tell by
25:37
Speaker 2: the boat by mail numbers that a lot of those
25:40
Speaker 2: Blue voters are snowbirds. There was a way to get
25:43
Speaker 2: snowbirds to not be eligible to vote in Florida. I
25:46
Speaker 2: would certainly be for that.
25:50
Speaker 1: Can I point out just on the voter turnout and
25:52
Speaker 1: flipping states and what have you. Scott Presler, who of
25:55
Speaker 1: course has done very energetic on the groundwork in Pennsylvania,
25:59
Speaker 1: New Jersey over the place, he just tweeted this the
26:01
Speaker 1: other day, and I just want to acknowledge growth in
26:04
Speaker 1: this position, in this mission for him, because this is
26:07
Speaker 1: good stuff. We've identified sixteen hundred and fifteen Farsie speaking
26:10
Speaker 1: voters in Pennsylvania. Out of those, nine hundred and twenty
26:13
Speaker 1: are registered Democrats. Early Vote Action will have peer to
26:16
Speaker 1: peer text messages shortly for you to communicate a beautiful
26:19
Speaker 1: Persian specific message to them. The Republican Party has their
26:22
Speaker 1: backs like that is not even anything on the table
26:27
Speaker 1: it is they going to do it going straight to
26:29
Speaker 1: those people and saying, hi, guests, who just killed Kamani? Right, Look,
26:34
Speaker 1: it is a very compelling argument. By the way, have
26:37
Speaker 1: you seen that there's these a viral sound of a
26:40
Speaker 1: DJ having come Yeah, oh yeah, yeah is dead? Yeah
26:45
Speaker 1: so good. Yeah, this is the new world.
26:48
Speaker 2: It really is. To talk about the twenty twenty eight
26:54
Speaker 2: primary for a second. Gavin Newsome was at a book
26:58
Speaker 2: event in Los Angeles and he said some things about
27:02
Speaker 2: Israel that I think are being portrayed a little bit
27:05
Speaker 2: harsher than I actually heard them, and I listen, I
27:08
Speaker 2: don't give Newsom any credit at all, but yah Surelie tweeted.
27:11
Speaker 2: Newsom said that those who say Israel's at a part I
27:14
Speaker 2: had stayed are doing so quote appropriately. Newsom said Israel
27:17
Speaker 2: has been unable to resolve the Hamas issue over the
27:20
Speaker 2: past couple of years, so how could it possibly get
27:21
Speaker 2: into the regime change business in Iran. He also alluded
27:24
Speaker 2: to concerns about Israeli influence on US government decisions. I
27:28
Speaker 2: hear that, but listening to that clip, it was a
27:32
Speaker 2: very lefty I just don't like the net and Yahoo
27:36
Speaker 2: administration kind of clip. I didn't hear anything super new there.
27:42
Speaker 2: But I still think that it's going to be interesting
27:45
Speaker 2: to see if the Democrats are really going to be
27:49
Speaker 2: turning on our main very capable ally in order to
27:54
Speaker 2: run in their primary. And this could easily be the
27:57
Speaker 2: beginning of that, you know, being the case where they're
28:00
Speaker 2: all going to raise their hands and say they oppose
28:04
Speaker 2: any future alliance with Israel because it's not about the support, right.
28:08
Speaker 2: I know a lot of people talk about how much
28:10
Speaker 2: money we give Israel for its defense. All of that
28:13
Speaker 2: money is spent on American defense systems. No president wants
28:18
Speaker 2: to cut that is the is the reality of it.
28:20
Speaker 2: Israel could easily go it alone. The US does not
28:23
Speaker 2: want them to. And when Newsom says, you know, Israel
28:25
Speaker 2: has been unable to take out Hamas mostly because we've
28:30
Speaker 2: tied their hands and the world has tied their hands,
28:32
Speaker 2: they could absolutely take out Hamas if they did not they.
28:37
Speaker 1: Out, he's also sort of ignoring the idea that, like
28:41
Speaker 1: Hamas is living next to the governor's mansion, if we
28:44
Speaker 1: were to do the analogous situation. So taking out this
28:48
Speaker 1: this enemy while your hands are being tied is a
28:52
Speaker 1: very very tough logistical ask when it's right on your
28:56
Speaker 1: border attacking you daily, that's right, it's really tough to
29:00
Speaker 1: I think I do appreciate so much having been to Israel,
29:04
Speaker 1: and I think others should try to visit, because once
29:06
Speaker 1: you see how close everything is together, you get a
29:08
Speaker 1: new appreciation for why, right, why the defenses need to
29:12
Speaker 1: be what they are.
29:13
Speaker 2: Yeah, when they were like, well, you're going to the
29:15
Speaker 2: north today, Okay, two hours later we're in the north.
29:17
Speaker 2: You're going to the south today. Two hours later you're
29:19
Speaker 2: in the south.
29:19
Speaker 1: Like yeah, yeah, But I do think I think you're
29:23
Speaker 1: right that, you know, using this kind of language like
29:26
Speaker 1: aparth that is going to become Normaldard, which, by the way,
29:30
Speaker 1: if you ever have been to Israel or talk to
29:32
Speaker 1: anyone who's from there, it's not it's not at all.
29:36
Speaker 1: So it's just untrue. So saying untrue things about Israel
29:40
Speaker 1: is probably going to be the part for the course
29:42
Speaker 1: moving through the twenty twenty eight primary.
29:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, unfortunate, and I hope the Republicans don't succumb to
29:49
Speaker 2: the same thing. I think the numbers still are overwhelmingly
29:53
Speaker 2: pro Israel no matter what the Tuckers of the world want.
29:56
Speaker 2: But we'll see, we'll see what jd Vance is saying
29:59
Speaker 2: closer to that time.
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Speaker 1: A quick note that actually fits with twenty twenty eight
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Speaker 1: as well is the up and coming governor Abigail Spamberger
30:07
Speaker 1: of Virginia, whose Democratic run state legislator has been proposing
30:14
Speaker 1: all sorts of insane things. She had a chance to
30:17
Speaker 1: moderate last week. She had a chance to moderate because
30:21
Speaker 1: a forty one year old woman, Stephanie Mentor, was murdered
30:24
Speaker 1: at a bus stop in northern Virginia. And she was
30:27
Speaker 1: murdered by an illegal alien who's been in the US
30:30
Speaker 1: for fifteen years, and during that his time in Northern
30:33
Speaker 1: Virginia has been arrested on thirty offenses, many of them violent,
30:38
Speaker 1: including malicious wounding and forcible rape. And he has been
30:43
Speaker 1: let go or not charged or on the streets every
30:46
Speaker 1: single time because there is a Soros funded prosecutor in
30:50
Speaker 1: Fairfax County who doesn't like to prosecute named Steve Discano.
30:53
Speaker 2: Yeah.
30:54
Speaker 1: And after this murder, Abigail Spamberger was asked, as the governor,
30:58
Speaker 1: would you honor an ice detainer for this man? And
31:01
Speaker 1: she said, no, go get a warrant. Oh, he has
31:05
Speaker 1: to commit another crime. I guess in order for them
31:10
Speaker 1: to come pick up this is just a no brainer.
31:12
Speaker 1: And there was a Biden former staffer who was like,
31:16
Speaker 1: this is not passing the test for a modern democrat, Like,
31:19
Speaker 1: you cannot signal that this is a hard decision for you.
31:22
Speaker 1: You have to go pick this guy up.
31:24
Speaker 2: And she's the quote unquote moderate.
31:27
Speaker 1: She's the moderate.
31:28
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think so.
31:29
Speaker 1: Nope, she's mom Donny Wing. Guys. Yeah, doesn't matter how
31:33
Speaker 1: her suit looks, how boring it is. She's mom Donny Wing.
31:40
Speaker 2: Right, Ay, right, we'll be right back with more on normally.
31:47
Speaker 1: All right, we are back on normally with some good
31:49
Speaker 1: news out of the Supreme Court, where they gave some
31:53
Speaker 1: relief to parents who objected to California school systems transitioning
31:59
Speaker 1: so uly their children without notifying them. And they said, hey,
32:04
Speaker 1: we feel like this violates our parents' rights and our
32:07
Speaker 1: religious rights. And the Supreme Court was like, indeed, this
32:10
Speaker 1: is Amy How writing at the Scotis Blog. The Supreme
32:14
Speaker 1: Court on Monday granted a request from a group of
32:16
Speaker 1: California parents to reinstate a ruling by a federal district
32:19
Speaker 1: court that prohibits schools in that state from misleading parents
32:22
Speaker 1: about their children's gender presentation, and that require schools to
32:26
Speaker 1: follow parents' instructions regarding the names and pronouns that children
32:29
Speaker 1: use there and a seven page order the majority explained
32:31
Speaker 1: that the parents were likely to prevail on their claim
32:33
Speaker 1: that California's policies violate the parents' rights to freely exercise
32:37
Speaker 1: their religion and their right to quote direct the upbringing
32:40
Speaker 1: and education of their children. Thank you very much.
32:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was told this never happens. This never happens.
32:47
Speaker 2: Schools never transition kids behind their parents' backs. And yet
32:50
Speaker 2: this is a case that reached all the way to
32:52
Speaker 2: the Supreme Court saying yeah, it does happen. The underlying
32:57
Speaker 2: case is going to continue through the lower courts, meaning
32:59
Speaker 2: that this legal fight is actually not over yet because
33:02
Speaker 2: the injunction is just preliminary. But still it's a big
33:06
Speaker 2: move to say this is not acceptable, and I think
33:09
Speaker 2: that that's what the Supreme Court should be should be
33:12
Speaker 2: saying when people are doing things against the wishes of
33:16
Speaker 2: the parents.
33:17
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's discouraging, both in this case and the Maryland
33:22
Speaker 1: Montgomery County School's one that you have to go all
33:24
Speaker 1: the way to Supreme Court to get relief on your
33:29
Speaker 1: totally common sensical parents' rights to raise your children as
33:34
Speaker 1: you see fit. But this is where we are, and
33:36
Speaker 1: this is how the progressive creek creep into everything and
33:41
Speaker 1: then make things that were formerly just totally understood by
33:45
Speaker 1: everyone as cultural norms. They're like, oh, no, that's not
33:48
Speaker 1: real anymore because we're fighting a culture war and you
33:50
Speaker 1: got here late. So go to the Supreme Court and
33:53
Speaker 1: try to get your parents rights back.
33:55
Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, I hope they win, and I hope that
33:58
Speaker 2: sanity prevails. I feel like we're moving in the right
34:01
Speaker 2: direction on this. I don't think that the Democrats are
34:04
Speaker 2: going to be running on boys can be in girls'
34:07
Speaker 2: locker rooms this time around, although we'll see, right who
34:09
Speaker 2: knows what they're going to run on. The primary moves
34:13
Speaker 2: them all further to the left before they try to
34:15
Speaker 2: make a bolt for the center and the general. I
34:18
Speaker 2: hope they get called on all the crazy things that
34:20
Speaker 2: they believe, and you know, I have to actually state
34:23
Speaker 2: what those insane things are.
34:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, tell Rico is a signal. I think that they
34:28
Speaker 1: are interested in moving to the center, to someone, or
34:31
Speaker 1: at least extricating themselves from twenty twenty tactics and beliefs
34:34
Speaker 1: to some degree. But also God is non binary, so
34:37
Speaker 1: you know that's right both, He's got both things going on.
34:41
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