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Joe Tacopina | Defense Attorney Unpacks Legal Implications of Dr. Fauci's Silence · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Here.
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  Speaker 2: He is my friend of forty eight years, the amazing
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  Speaker 2: defense attorney Joseph Tacopina.
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  Speaker 1: Attack of morning, buddy.
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  Speaker 3: How are you talk about angry? Don't ever introduce me
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  Speaker 3: with Lionel Richie again? Please?
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  Speaker 1: What do you nut? That's that Lionel Richie. That's the Commodoores.
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  Speaker 3: That's his stupid voice. Yeah, I know it's the Commodore's.
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  Speaker 3: I know, I know, I know, skinnered black crows, the
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  Speaker 3: dead whiskey myers. Even you want to get modern, but
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  Speaker 3: not the Commodore is not those. I'm sorry, that's a
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  Speaker 3: bad mood and I'm gonna bad moves that waited thirty
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  Speaker 3: five minutes of this call to race is common. I'm gonna.
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  Speaker 3: I'm getting to watch now for your.
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  Speaker 2: Birth No, no, well we run. No, here's the thing
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  Speaker 2: I told, the same as the bill of whiley. He
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  Speaker 2: finally got it. This is all planned because my numbers
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  Speaker 2: are great to the eight o'clock hour. It's a four
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  Speaker 2: hour show, so why want my nine o'clock hour to
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  Speaker 2: have numbers like the first three hours?
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  Speaker 1: So O'Reilly?
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  Speaker 2: Now he's on in the nine o'clock hour on Thursdays
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  Speaker 2: many times, tackle poena is on in the nine o'clock
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  Speaker 2: hour on Friday.
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  Speaker 1: So this is all planned because you get.
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  Speaker 3: Good rating low to your five listeners at nine o'co.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, do you know? No, it's
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  Speaker 2: a true story. We actually win you ready for this?
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  Speaker 2: Forget about the twelve plus demo. We win twenty four
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  Speaker 2: to fifty six for news talk radio nine to ten o'clock.
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  Speaker 3: How about that you kill every radio comfort. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: talking about that. I'm talking about all right, good morning.
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  Speaker 2: Ha ha a good morning. No, we'll be such a
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  Speaker 2: big deal on Fridays that we're looking for you to
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  Speaker 2: help us when Out Friday is shown and you get
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  Speaker 2: very good ratings when you're on. You know, people don't
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  Speaker 2: realize this. Every single segment we get ratings.
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  Speaker 1: Did you know that? No, it is every single segment.
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  Speaker 2: So I know that Joe Takopina on a Friday does
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  Speaker 2: exceptionally well, and I know people who don't do as
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  Speaker 2: well well.
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  Speaker 3: I also know that I've been approached by so many
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  Speaker 3: people strangers adopted the other day, who just come up
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  Speaker 3: with me and say I love you on said show.
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  Speaker 3: So that means one that they listen to your show regularly.
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  Speaker 3: I mean so many people do. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 3: on last Thursday instead of Friday, if you were cool
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  Speaker 3: because you was off Friday. That's right, my eye doctor.
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  Speaker 3: When I went in there, popped out of the room
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  Speaker 3: and said, I got nervous. I thought I was. I
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  Speaker 3: was going to work, you know on Friday when I'm
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  Speaker 3: off on Fridays. Because I was driving, I heard you
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  Speaker 3: on the radio and I was like, that's funny. So
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  Speaker 3: these people listen religiously and it's pretty amazing.
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  Speaker 2: I know it's so real to me. Joseph too, but
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  Speaker 2: believe me, believe me, it's so real.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll go back to this. I think we covered
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  Speaker 1: it last week too.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, this girl was just on Miller and
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  Speaker 2: her father was killed firefighter on nine to eleven, and
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  Speaker 2: she's okay with ma'm donnie being their wife.
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  Speaker 1: She said Democrats. She even admitted to me if she.
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  Speaker 2: Lived in the boroughs, which she does, and she would
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  Speaker 2: vote for mom Donnie. I knew right away when I
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  Speaker 2: heard her on the news two days ago that this
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  Speaker 2: girl is not a Republican, She's not something, not a
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  Speaker 2: Trump and all those things. And I was proven right
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  Speaker 2: during that conversation. The lovely girl and she went through
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  Speaker 2: a very difficult time. That's no kid should go through
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  Speaker 2: at the age of six years old. But really angered
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  Speaker 2: a lot of my listening audience the fact that she
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  Speaker 2: is okay with this guy being there and her father
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  Speaker 2: is dead.
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  Speaker 1: What are your thoughts?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's she's can fall to her own opinion, right,
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  Speaker 3: She's entitled to green how she wants to grieve or
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  Speaker 3: or you know, take a position on this as she
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  Speaker 3: wants to. I mean, my thoughts, as you know, are
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  Speaker 3: in no uncertain terms. This piece of garbage should not
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  Speaker 3: be at the nine to eleven memorial. It should not
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  Speaker 3: be I mean, he again, let's go back to Hassan Piker.
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  Speaker 3: He sat there when his good buddy said nine eleven
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  Speaker 3: is something that America deserves, or to use this quote,
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  Speaker 3: America deserve. Reading the quote America deserved nine eleven, Dami
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  Speaker 3: sat there. He didn't push back it in insruptcy and
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  Speaker 3: condemned the statement. He let it pass. And that silence
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  Speaker 3: on a subject is morally reprehensible, as the murder of
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  Speaker 3: three thousand plus innocent Americans is disqualifying in my view,
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  Speaker 3: for you to be there with that stupid smug smile
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  Speaker 3: when you know, underneath it all, he's sitting there going
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  Speaker 3: this was a great day for me, you know. I
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  Speaker 3: mean that's how I feel. That's how I feel about it.
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  Speaker 3: I've lost friends of family members on nine eleven, so
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  Speaker 3: did you. And for people who have wreath lasses, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: like their fathers, their husbands, their sons, whomever. It is
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  Speaker 3: outrageous to think he is going to despite their very
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  Speaker 3: clear position that they do not want him at this
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  Speaker 3: nine to eleven, you know event, because families have concluded
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  Speaker 3: he has no place at this twenty fifth anniversary ceremony,
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  Speaker 3: and he's going to come anyway because he needs to
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  Speaker 3: be shown and he needs to have that super smile there.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he's going to make this, unfortunately, what it
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  Speaker 3: shouldn't be. It's not about politics, this is not about
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  Speaker 3: This is moral depravity in effect, and he shouldn't be
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  Speaker 3: there to hurt these people even more than they've been hurt.
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  Speaker 3: And that's how I feel about it. I feel so
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  Speaker 3: strongly about it. It's not about politics, it's not about religion,
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  Speaker 3: you know, It's about honoring the wishes of the grieving
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  Speaker 3: families on that sacred day. The twenty fifth Anniversity of
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  Speaker 3: September eleventh should be about the victims on a political controversy,
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  Speaker 3: and if your presence causes many of those families additional pain,
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  Speaker 3: the respectful thing to do would be a step aside
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  Speaker 3: for that one day, just one day.
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  Speaker 2: But he won't well said, excellent job, Joseph Tacapina. Let
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  Speaker 2: me send a quick shout out during this conversation to
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  Speaker 2: a man listening right now, happens to write security for
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  Speaker 2: all of us here at ABC, is a wonderful guy,
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  Speaker 2: great guy, Dom Alberday. Dom is celebrating a birthday today's
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  Speaker 2: with my friend Patty. They're both listening to you right now, Joseph,
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  Speaker 2: so very happy birthday to Dom, and Dom is going
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  Speaker 2: to be with me talking about nine to eleven.
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  Speaker 1: On nine to twelve, the day after.
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  Speaker 2: There's going to be about seven thousand cops from all
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  Speaker 2: over the country in the theater at Madison Square Garden.
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  Speaker 2: They got such a such a huge amount of people
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  Speaker 2: wanting to come to this at to move the venue,
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  Speaker 2: so Madison Square Garden is putting on this event the
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  Speaker 2: day after nine to eleven for the New York Pipes
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  Speaker 2: and Drums. Again, cops from all across the country. Guess
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  Speaker 2: who's hosting it.
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  Speaker 1: Me, big deal, So happy birthday down that's a very
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  Speaker 1: very cool thing.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, then I'll see you there too. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's something that is amazing how this countries
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  Speaker 3: come together. I'll never forget it's it. My office was
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  Speaker 3: right there. I saw that second plane hit the tower
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  Speaker 3: in my car, and I'll never forget that day because
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  Speaker 3: what nine to eleven did was show.
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  Speaker 2: Me, well, what were you exactly know before you what
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  Speaker 2: were you exactly in your car on the street? Where
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  Speaker 2: were you when that happened?
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  Speaker 3: West West Side Highway somewhere somewhere in the fifties, on
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  Speaker 3: the way to Federal Court in Brooklyn. I first thought was,
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  Speaker 3: this judge is going to hold me in contempt because
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  Speaker 3: I want to be so late. That's literally what it's going.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't think that was what it was at first.
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  Speaker 3: I thought it was maybe a movie, like you know,
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  Speaker 3: I said, wow, this is amazing how they make that
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  Speaker 3: look real. My second thought was once that second plane hit,
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  Speaker 3: was oh my god, he couldn't see the towers because
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  Speaker 3: of the smoke from the first plane accident. And that's
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  Speaker 3: like everything's going through ahead, the last thing going through ahead.
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  Speaker 3: That was not on purpose. When I realized it, and
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  Speaker 3: it was just it was really horrific. I remember, you know,
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  Speaker 3: Tish called me, get home, Get home. I'm like, I
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  Speaker 3: have to go to court. I have to go to court,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, as I and when it all sort
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  Speaker 3: of sank in, of course, I went home, was with
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  Speaker 3: the kids in the family, and it was just a horrific,
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  Speaker 3: horrific day. But what happened after that day, said to me,
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  Speaker 3: was what makes New York and Americans really what we are.
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  Speaker 3: It showed the true character of this country and these
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  Speaker 3: people and the people in this country. How we all
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  Speaker 3: came together, How how first responds from all over the
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  Speaker 3: country were in New York City, How how the country
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  Speaker 3: came together in a way that I've never experienced it
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  Speaker 3: and will never experience it again, hopefully, because it was
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  Speaker 3: just a brotherhood and a sisterhood of people coming together
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  Speaker 3: to evolve in the United States and to make sure
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  Speaker 3: the citizens understand that this tragedy is not going to
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  Speaker 3: go unanswered. And it wasn't. But we came together the community.
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  Speaker 3: I mean that this country was unbelievable when it came
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  Speaker 3: to that, It really was unbelievable. And I again I'll
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  Speaker 3: never forget it. I'll never forget the feelings, and I'll
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  Speaker 3: forget the people who sacrificed. I mean all those people.
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  Speaker 3: When I watched those documentaries, said the firefighters who went
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  Speaker 3: up there and the first responder who lost their lives,
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  Speaker 3: I still like, I shed tears. It's it's hard for
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  Speaker 3: me not to. I couldn't watch that for like literally
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  Speaker 3: like twenty years. Five years ago I started watching it.
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  Speaker 3: I started watching one of them, and I was, I was.
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't believe the reaction I had because of Burrow
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  Speaker 3: back to life, and it was really really horrible. And
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  Speaker 3: so and look, I'm a lot of the you know,
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  Speaker 3: you know my connection to the military, A lot of
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  Speaker 3: the Special Forces guys and the Special Operations community are
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  Speaker 3: going to be there as well at nine to eleven
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  Speaker 3: because those guys, in particular, those the Force Soldier guys
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  Speaker 3: I was talking about, they have a statue down there.
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  Speaker 3: They're the first ones to go into Afghanistan after nine eleven.
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  Speaker 3: The fifth group from the Special Forces community o DA
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  Speaker 3: five times five, and those guys are the ones who
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  Speaker 3: opened up that distillity I went to in Kentucky, the
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  Speaker 3: Horse Soldier Bourbon, those guys are going to be there.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this is this is a coming together to
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  Speaker 3: celebrate our resolve at the Americans. Of course to to
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  Speaker 3: to it's a memorial and it's a solemn day, but
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  Speaker 3: it's also a data celebrate our resolve. And that's why
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  Speaker 3: I do not want this. You know, this hater there,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's he's he is not someone who who
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  Speaker 3: loves the country. I mean if you look at those
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  Speaker 3: affiliations and he would look at all the people he's
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  Speaker 3: he's supported. Let's start with the Sundpiker preally at America
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  Speaker 3: hating individual jihadist right, anyone who could ever actually say
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  Speaker 3: the words America deserved nine one one, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 3: deserves to be summarily executed like I wouldn't. I would
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  Speaker 3: absolutely destroy him if I saw him in I really was.
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  Speaker 1: I love that.
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  Speaker 2: Another person that you're down on on they ga done
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  Speaker 2: as much as Ma'm Donnie not even close. But he
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  Speaker 2: done on him is Pete hag sat when he got
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  Speaker 2: rid of Chris Donnie Hue and now he did the
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  Speaker 2: same thing to the Minnesota National Guard captain this week.
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  Speaker 2: And it looks like President Trump finally, No, Trump's out
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  Speaker 2: of rough week, he's lashed out at my friend Jineying Piero.
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  Speaker 2: He's lashed out at my friend Bobby Kennedy. Now he's last,
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  Speaker 2: I think against Haig set too. So it looks like
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  Speaker 2: this is not the week to get into what Trump's crosshairs.
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  Speaker 2: But on a serious note, you've been pretty critical of
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  Speaker 2: an honest conversation about Pete hag Seth for quite some time,
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  Speaker 2: So none of this surprises you, right.
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  Speaker 3: No, it doesn't surprise me, and it's still again, it
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  Speaker 3: doesn't doesn't satisfy me that I've been right. It makes
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  Speaker 3: me upset because this is our military, right, this is
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  Speaker 3: the United States Armed Forces, the greatest arm forces in
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  Speaker 3: the world. We now have a situation where we are
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  Speaker 3: in a mess in ouran and that's I'm sorry. You're
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  Speaker 3: the Defense secretary. You want to take credit for all
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  Speaker 3: the good things that happen, you take credit for the
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  Speaker 3: ones that didn't go right well, and so far this
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  Speaker 3: has been a disaster. And Pete Hegseth, you know, for
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  Speaker 3: some reason, he's decided to cut our military's top leaders.
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  Speaker 3: I'll just focus on the army because that's all I
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  Speaker 3: really know. What he's done to our army as far
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  Speaker 3: as destroying generational talent and taking them out and replacing
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  Speaker 3: with someone who is never going to be confirmed by
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  Speaker 3: the Senate because he has no qualifications to do that.
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  Speaker 3: This is general need. You know, when you talk about
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  Speaker 3: replacing General Randy George, who was the Chief Staff the Army,
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  Speaker 3: that's the top ranking officer in the United States Army,
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  Speaker 3: who was a transitional leader, a legendary leader, you know,
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  Speaker 3: really like you know, an iconic person in our army
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  Speaker 3: who was really working on the armies transitioning into this
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  Speaker 3: modern era with AI, with drones. He wrote a book
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  Speaker 3: on it. He was working very closely with our great
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  Speaker 3: Secretary Dan driscoll and and you know, in the middle
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  Speaker 3: of that, in the middle of that, p takes At
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  Speaker 3: decided he was going to fire him for no reason,
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  Speaker 3: not clause, for no reason other than there's a personal
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  Speaker 3: than dead with Lenive and this Randy George. And he
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  Speaker 3: could not cite a reason, you know, there was no cause,
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  Speaker 3: reason given, as he did with some others. Then he
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  Speaker 3: goes and takes out General Donney, who was a generational
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  Speaker 3: talent by all accounts, By all accounts, I mean, he
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  Speaker 3: was our number one general in the United States Army,
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  Speaker 3: our greatest warrior, our greatest leader, one of the great
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  Speaker 3: people come to I mean, to me, he's I call
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  Speaker 3: him family because it's that's close to me. But but
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  Speaker 3: he was one of our greats. And he was replaced
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  Speaker 3: because p Tex said took him out because General Lennieve
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  Speaker 3: didn't like him or they had a personal thing. When
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  Speaker 3: he was fired by General Donniyue, General Donne who has
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  Speaker 3: more qualifications than any even being in the world. So no,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not high on Pete. Heexath right now because he's
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  Speaker 3: not running this military the way he should be running.
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  Speaker 3: He's hurting on military. And then when you see what's
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  Speaker 3: going on with Iran. You know President by By and
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  Speaker 3: I've heard this firsthand, he wanted answers from Haigseeth over
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  Speaker 3: the extreme munition shortages. That what you've.
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  Speaker 1: Been talking up. You've been saying this to me. I
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  Speaker 1: gotta get you caught up. In two months you.
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  Speaker 2: Say, guess what, Iran they got weapons us not so much.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's threatening our options with Iran. I mean
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  Speaker 3: we now have announced just now production agreements are some
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  Speaker 3: of the most critical munitions right like Patriotier Defense missiles,
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  Speaker 3: which is the most vital or or. But these munitions
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  Speaker 3: themselves take said they take years two years at a
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  Speaker 3: minimum to produce, so there's no immediate relief in sight
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  Speaker 3: for the shortages. And you know what we did in
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  Speaker 3: that first month, the first month I'm fighting in around Loan,
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  Speaker 3: we fired off more than eight hundred and fifty table
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  Speaker 3: cruise missiles and more than a thousand Patriots and internal
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  Speaker 3: high Altitude Area defense system missiles. So we've used more
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  Speaker 3: than thirteen hundred of the army's taxaballistic missiles in the
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  Speaker 3: first two weeks of fighting in Iran. So we're down.
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  Speaker 3: We are very down ammunitions. We don't we're not saying
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  Speaker 3: that publicly, of course, And now I understand Haanks SSS
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  Speaker 3: isout blaming fine Bergs his deputy for not ensuring we
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  Speaker 3: had those those those weapons ready to roll. But you
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  Speaker 3: know it's a dangerous thing. It really is, because this
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  Speaker 3: is what and by the way, it also what it
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  Speaker 3: also does, and this is this is important as well.
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  Speaker 3: It really limits our options completely in the rest of
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  Speaker 3: the world. I mean, it's it's it like for instance,
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  Speaker 3: in the in the East we now have you know,
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  Speaker 3: East Asia. It's more dangerous because as a result of
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  Speaker 3: the missile shortages. It's really putting a strain on other
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  Speaker 3: commands in East Asia as well. So the problem is
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  Speaker 3: very acute. It's very acute, and it don't go away. No,
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  Speaker 3: so we you know, and then and then here we
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  Speaker 3: are again again another cease fire. I know, maybe we
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  Speaker 3: have another deal, but but but we have to stop it.
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  Speaker 3: Go agree honestly, you know we it's a it's a
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  Speaker 3: it's an on loop, right, massive attacks coming Wait never mind?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well right, yeah, to watch the game.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's you know, it's just if.
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  Speaker 1: Yankees are playing the Dodgers. I mean, I gotta watch
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  Speaker 1: the game.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, give me sixty seconds on excellent work, Jolse. You's
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  Speaker 2: been right about this thing all along. I love our
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  Speaker 2: private conversations. You put them on there. You've been great.
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  Speaker 1: I want to be I know you don't want to
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  Speaker 1: be right, but you want to be done. I know,
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  Speaker 1: I know, I know.
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  Speaker 3: I'm very furious with Wade.
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  Speaker 2: I know, I have these conversations with the k t
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  Speaker 2: mcfalland she's always talking about the economic side of this,
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  Speaker 2: and which is fantastic oil prices and all that is.
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  Speaker 2: If that's the real barometer of other winning the war
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  Speaker 2: and not, of course it's not.
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  Speaker 1: But you know that's that's where she comes from.
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  Speaker 2: It last thing, sixty seconds ran Paul yesterday was great again.
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  Speaker 2: I know this is going to be a quick one
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  Speaker 2: because I already know the answer trying to hold Fauci
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  Speaker 2: contempt in court. Let's face it, eighty five years old.
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  Speaker 2: They waited for some reason. A good friend of mine
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  Speaker 2: told me this. For some reason, they waited for their
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  Speaker 2: statue limitations to run out. They could have done this too,
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  Speaker 2: Anthony Fauci two or three years ago. Why they waited
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  Speaker 2: till now doesn't make any sense. So what it basically
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  Speaker 2: means is there'll be no repercussion, right.
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  Speaker 3: No repercussions. I mean, unfortunately, you know he's and you're
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  Speaker 3: so right about that. I mean, look, this is a
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  Speaker 3: congressional hearing that that really demands answers, right, congresses of
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  Speaker 3: duty is ob taen answers about the pandemic response, NIH
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  Speaker 3: funding decisions and the COVID origins. They haven't damn duty
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  Speaker 3: right and in both in the Fifth Amendment sort of
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  Speaker 3: h I was gonna use a horrifically crude term. I'm
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: not going to use that term, but blocks blocks our
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  Speaker 3: ability to get those legitimate questions answered. They deserve further investigation.
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  Speaker 3: So now because Fauci's taken the Fifth, you know we're
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: not going to be able to grill down on him
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  Speaker 3: and get those answers. So, you know, it's fury and
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: fury to me, especially because this guy held himself out
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  Speaker 3: of the you know, America's savior and hero when he
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: was the furthest thing from that. Okay, that being said,
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  Speaker 3: he can invoke the Fifth all day long. He's to
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: hold him in content all you want. Nothing about that
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  Speaker 3: is going to go anywhere, because the Fifth Amendment is
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: a constitution protection and unfortunately it's it's he's able to
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: use it because why there are state investigations ongoing. So
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: the fact that he was pardoned by Biden in this
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  Speaker 3: sort of narrowly tailored federal inquiry does not alleviate his
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: fifth a member of privileges because you know, he can
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: only parn in the present several offenses if testimony could
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: provide evidence relevant to a state prosecutor or investigation, the
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: Fifth Amendment privilege is alive and kicking. So so he
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: did what he had to do. Unfortunately, he's not putting
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: the country first again. But but whatever, and you know,
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: he's uh, he really needs to just go away and
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: fade away because this is we'll never getting the answers
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: we need here. He's never getting to the corporate he's
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: never gonna have to really answer to any of this thing.
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: So being held in contempt by Congress, big deal. What
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: to do really doesn't at the end of the day,
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: it's not going to do a damn thing.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: There you have it.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: You got eighteen minutes because it came on in the
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: nine o'clock hour. That would have been eleven or twelve
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: minutes late eight o'clock hour. Here you got eighteen minutes
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: of pined on four different things. You were magnificent and
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: that's a home run for my nine o'clock ratings.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: So thank you. I love you more. You're really really great.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: They're always great. Great job this morning, Joseph, Thank you
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: so much.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
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  Speaker 2: Joseph Tacopina, the best defense attorney anywhere in the world,
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: dear friend of mine for forty eight years. And we
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: know some guys that were killed in those buildings at day.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: We all do me Joseph and I, all of us
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: polyprep guys.
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