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How Can We Trust Health Reports About Biden? · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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The news, opinions, commentary and interviews. You need to start your day,
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and you're listening to The West Carrol Morning Show. Thursday morning, eleventh
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day of January. I'm West Thanks for joining me. Eche our way closer
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to the weekend. Lot to process, lot to digest. As we're early
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into twenty twenty four and its an election year, and we have had a
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very interesting development take place in our upper levels of government, and now Peter
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Doucy in a White House press briefing has asked the million dollar question that he's
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done a really good job of being the guy to ask these kinds of questions.
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They've been a couple of others, not many that will ask these sorts
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of questions in White House press briefings, but he has asked the question that
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I don't think everybody thought to ask. But this is a big one,
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and it comes down to an issue of trust with our current president and his
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administration. So we know now something that wasn't known apparently by anyone in the
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White House, or if they did know, they weren't sharing the information.
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But our Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was secretly in the ICU. He had surgery
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on his prostate. They called it a minor surgery something that shit is not
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a big deal. It was a big deal. This is not a simple
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a surgery by any means. He's apparently been battling cancer, so they were
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removing his prostate, and then he had complications and he has been basically a
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wall from his post for a while. The White House claims they didn't know
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anything about it, and there's a lot of questions to come up. Let's
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go back before we dive into the Peter Doocy question, who of course is
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a correspondent White House correspondent for Fox News. Before we get to that,
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let's go back to the previous administration when Trump was in the White House,
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and let's go back to there were periods of time where even people who supported
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Trump were saying things and I'm not talking about the diehards, the people who
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absolutely worship at the foot of Trump, the cult of Trump, and there
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is that exists, by the way. I know, it's something that folks
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on the left throw around and they say, well, they have this cult.
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It's a religion for them, and I would argue that for some it's
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absolutely the case. And I've talked about that on this show. There are
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people that I know that once upon a time, pre Donald Trump, they
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would have talked a lot about their faith. They would have talked about how
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they believe that America is not going to complete ruin or the world isn't going
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to ruin because God is in control. And then I heard some of the
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same people make statements like, well, you know, we got Trump.
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Trump was keeping things on track, and we have to re elect Trump otherwise
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all hell is going to break loose on earth. And now some of the
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same people saying, well, it has to be Trump again or we're done.
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And I'm not talking about from a political standpoint. I'm not talking from
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a we need to get our economy back on track. I think I do
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think that if we don't elect a Republican this time, a true conservative Republican
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Trump who most recently had experience of getting us in a position where economically things
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were better. But there's a couple of others in the mix. I don't
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know that any of them have a realistic chance of actually getting the nomination,
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but there are a couple of others in the mix. And we're getting closer
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and closer to beginning this official season of primaries and caucuses. But I do
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think we're in a lot of trouble from a financial standpoint if this doesn't happen.
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I do think that that's a problem. But I haven't given up on
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the fact that God is in control, and I don't in any way think
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that any one politician is our only hope for fixing things. I understand there's
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a loyalty to Trump. There's a loyalty to Trump that we don't see often,
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especially not for Republicans. We certainly have seen it a number of times
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with Democrats. We saw it with Obama. That was a strong one.
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There were people who would have laid down and died for Bill Clinton. They
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didn't care what he was involved in. They didn't care what he was accused
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of. They were ready to stand by Bill Clinton no matter what, even
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when he admitted to wrongdoings. Ah, he really do anything, wasn't that
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bad? Who wouldn't cover up an affair, Who wouldn't cover up a rape?
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You know, people were making those kind of statements anyway, So we
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know that that's the case. There are people that would just lay down and
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die for certain politicians, and Trump is one of those. So I'm not
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going to pretend that there isn't this sort of cult of Trump that exists.
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There are also people who think that Trump is our best interest in getting the
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economy back on track just as a president, but doesn't think that he's the
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only shot and that he's the only thing that can fix America and all those
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sorts of things. So I think it is hyperbole to make it sound like
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everybody on the right feels that way, because that's it's not. There's a
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blend of those types of people, and then there's some who honestly just think,
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well, it was better with Trump, Let's go back with him.
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But during that administration, there were people who weren't cult of Trump, people
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who were cons earned that we were having issues with cabinet positions. There were
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people who weren't really doing their job necessarily because they were kind of caught up
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in controversies and they didn't like the way he did things. But for the
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most part, the people that Trump brought in, even when he butted heads
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with them, he brought them in because they were the most qualified, best
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person for the job. There was no We're going to bring in people that
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just represent this race, that race, this marginalized group if you will,
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there was no let's have a representation of LGBTQ. Plus. Some of this
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follows, by the way, right on the heels of our conversations about just
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the other day about the Golden Globes and about the fact that we're in this
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participation trophy era of things. So we have an administration now that's bragged about
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you know, we may not be getting the best people, but we're getting
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the best representation of people in some of these jobs. And I'm not going
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to speak specifically on that to the Defense Secretary. I'm just going to say
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that we know that, as is the case with the Golden Globes and as
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is the case in many times with sports, we're putting ourselves in a position
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where we're not getting the best quality necessarily because we're worried about representation. And
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I can't speak to the quality specifically and representation when it comes to our Defense
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secretary. Do I think he's done a great job. No, But I
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don't think anyone in this administration really I'd have to really put a lot of
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time into thinking on who's done a great job. So, but during the
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Trump administration, there were people that were you know, either being pushed out
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the door or were quitting. It seemed like he had cabinet people that were
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coming and going left and right, and people say, ah, better worried.
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Trump is a terrible president because these people aren't all just staying put in
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these jobs. In some cases, it was people that he brought in to
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sort of be special counsel in certain things, or to be some kind of
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an advisor. I'm a Rosa, remember that they brought her in, and
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what do you know? She and Trump didn't get along, just like they
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didn't get along on The Apprentice or whatever. But those kinds of things happened,
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and people were concerned, Oh my gosh, we need to be worried
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about it. There was never a point that I'm familiar with where he had
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anyone in his administration that in his cabinet that fell ill and just didn't tell
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anybody and was just off the grid for a while. So in this particular
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press briefing that just happened yesterday morning, I think the John Kirby from the
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White House was there and he was being asked questions about the Defense Secretary not
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being there, and he said, well, he was still able to do
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his job. The things that were carried out were carried out by orders that
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he had given that we had you know, done some missions that were carried
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out, and he acknowledged that there were some problems with all of it,
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but he did say, hey, look this didn't carry out the way that
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it should have, but he was still able to They were able to do
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things that he had approved before he went a wall, before he was off
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the grid. I think that's a concern first of all. I mean,
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shouldn't there be a final is this a go? Before they go? But
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I know these are sensitive things as they pertained to terrorists, so maybe that's
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not the case. But you kind of assume that there is something in place
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that's gonna give one last or be sure is this a definite go? And
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we kind of know the president is a little bit and it feels certainly feels
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like he sort of checked out, right, So you need these people around
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you to be clued in. And we've had presidents like George W. Bush,
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who you know, famously people thought well, he's maybe he's not fully
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you know, the best option for the job, but he put people around
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him who were that were trustworthy and that could you know, handle things and
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whether any of that was accurate or true. Who knows as far as him
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being able to do it, but he certainly had very qualified people around him.
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This wasn't a participation trophy administration. That's not what he had. That's
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not what Trump had, even though people did come and go, but they
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come and go in all administrations. But anyway, so here's Peter Doucey now
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asking a question, and this is an important couple of minutes, but this
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is him asking first a question about trust in the White House and then the
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big question that he follows it up with. And this is him again talking
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with John Kirby, why should we believe anything that this administration tells us about
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anything? Ever? Again, I think we all recognize, and I think
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the Pentagon has been very very honest with themselves about the the challenge to credibility
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by by what has transpired here and by what and by how how hard it
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was for them to be fully transparent with the American people. I think we
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all recognize that and not just give me a second now, I know you've
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got another one coming here, but we all recognize that this didn't unfold the
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way it should have on so many levels. Not just the notification process up
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the chain of command, but the transparency issue. We all recognize that,
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and I think we all want to make sure we learn from that. It's
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up to you and your colleagues, and it's up to the American people to
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determine how much they're going to ascribe what happened here to our credibility and every
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single issue. But in every way, Secretary of Austin has been an exceptional
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Defense Secretary, and he still has the full faith and confidence of the Commander
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in chief. He has led the department at an incredibly dangerous time for our
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national security interest in those are our allies and partners. But all right,
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now here comes the question. And Kirby could see something coming. He didn't
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know what it was exactly, and he probably wished that he was a little
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more prepped. But here it is. If the administration is going to go
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to such great lengths to keep secrets about the Defense Secretary's help, how can
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anybody be certain that the administration would not go to the same lengths to keep
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secret problems with President Biden's help in the future. If if you could logically
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argue, and you can't, but if you could logically argue that one years
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old. Wait a second, Just give me a second here, bub,
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I'll get there. If if the administration made some sort of Machiavelian effort across
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the board just to keep this from getting public, then I think your question
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has merit and certainly is a fair one. I don't think it's a fair
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one because that's not what happened here, Peter. What happened here is the
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Secretary of Defense for whatever reason, I can't answer the question why that information
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wasn't shared. Wasn't shared? Why be in the department? And it certainly
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wasn't shared with you. It's not good. It's certainly not good, which
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is why again, we want to learn from this. We want to make
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sure that it doesn't happen again. And he's asking a great question. There
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Is it worse that they didn't know? Or is it? Would it be
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worse if they were covering it up? And I asked that question from time
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to time when I say are they being intentionally manipulative or are they just dumb?
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And I really sometimes don't know which is worse, And in this particular
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case, them not knowing or them I think intentionally would be worse. In
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this case, it is bad just to not know. But this is an
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administration who promised at the beginning they would bring transparency and truth back to the
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White House because again they felt like the Trump administration was not transparent and truthful.
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And this is what you get. And it's a great point. You
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have an eighty one year old president who's running for reelection. Are they going
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to be honest and forthcoming with us if there's a health problem with him,
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even in the next year. Do we think that they're honestly going to tell
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us what's going on? Or if he somehow gets reelected, are they going
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to be forthcoming about the situation with his health? That is a great question.
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And I don't know that the American people can trust it. I don't
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know that there really is any and I don't know that it matters to people
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on the far left. They don't care. They know he's not really running
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things right now anyway. I mean, I assume that they know that it's
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the people left of center, and it's the people right in the middle that
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have these questions right now and should have these questions right now, and they
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need to stop and think about it. Are they going to be forthcoming,
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are they going to tell us and how many decisions are getting made without the
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person who needs to actually make the decision being involved, because again the Defense
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Secretary, whether he approved a mission before he went a wall, before he
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was basically out of commission having complications from his surgery and unable to do his
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job. How many more decisions can get made without the person who's supposed to
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make the decision there to actually make the call. And does that tell us
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what's going on in the big chair? Does it give us some indication of
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dccolumbus dot com more West Carol Morning Show. Right after the break, did
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you see the story about Rob Low? Apparently, and if your goal for
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the new year is to, you know, get healthy and hang on to
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some youthful looks, you should pay attention to this because every now and then
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there's a famous person that just seems to stay looking reasonably young and not using
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but apparently Rob Low and his being able to just stay looking youthful.
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He attributes he turned sixty by the way this year, and he says he
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has an embarrassing amount of sleep that he gets and that's how he hangs onto
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his youthful looks. He says, I get tons of sleep, like an
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embarrassing amount. I don't want people to think something's wrong with me. It's
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a lot of sleep, not twelve hours. But if there's ever twelve hours
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to be had, I'm taking it. Apparently, when he's working, I
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guess he sneaks away on set to grab naps. He goes to his SUV
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to take naps. He says, I've got it down to a science.
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I have an eyemask, the noise canceling headphones, and I'm gone. So
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getting an embarrassing amount of sleep is apparently one of the things that you should
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do if you want to maintain a youthful look about you. I'm screwed in
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that department. I don't know. People tell me that I don't look my
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age, which I consider flattering, and I can tell you this, I
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don't get a lot of sleep, so I suppose it's going to all catch
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up with me at once. Maybe does your pet have your personality? A
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new survey found sixty five percent of pet owners believe they adopted pets in form
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because all the similarities between their pet and themselves. In fact, pet owners
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are so in tune with their pets. Forty four percent of them have created
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resolutions for themselves and their pets more exercise, cutting back on treats, eating
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healthier, getting more sleep. No, they also want to spend more time
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outside, take better care of their health throughout the upcoming year. Personality wise,
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not at all, not with our pet. That's not the case at
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all. We don't have a dog that acts like either of us really,
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me or Jill or the boys. But you know, just looking at it
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from a now, our previous dog would have been closer. But yeah,
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and it probably personality is not going to quite work for us because we tend
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to get Jack Russell's and neither of us have a Jack Russell personality. Speaking
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of exercise, in the new year, a biotech company called Barren Bio has
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come out with gem leggings. They say that shock you while you are working
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out. The leggings have a we stem. It's wearing electrical stimulation technology that's
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sewn into the seams and it zaps your muscles as you exercise and supposedly helps
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speed up muscle gain. According to the company, their workout clothes enhance cell
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vitalization signaling metabolic activity and blood flow inducing movement of ions and molecules with cells.
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Boy, that's a mouthful. They claim the leggings can improve workout performance
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by thirty percent, reduce muscle fatigue by six percent and more, and can
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actually accelerate recovery. And if it can do all that, if it can
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accelerate your recovery without making your head grow like you know, like Barry Bonds
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big, it's good. A right recovery is a key key part of all
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of that. You have to have the recovery. Finally, Girl Scout cookie
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season officially started this week. If you don't want to be tempted to buy
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boxes of thin Mints or samoas, then you should avoid going to stores.
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Are already out, aren't they. The kids are out in the grocery stores
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standing in front or you know, you probably have a coworker that's trying to
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tell you that you can buy them. But by all means, support the
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The Girl Scouts are sticking with classics thin mints, dosey does tag alongs.
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The Raspberry rally from last year quickly sold out and people apparently are already
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out of luck and they're having to buy them on the secondary market. That's
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interesting. The Raspberry rally. Basically, there you go, get your girl
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Scout cookies. Now, now's the time to do it. So that'll do
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