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Hour 1: Pleading the fifth · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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Speaker 1: Why if the horrible weather we had on Tuesday, we
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Speaker 1: also had some rain and some isolated thunderstorms yesterday. And
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Speaker 1: the problem is when you have the river's already swollen
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Speaker 1: and you get even a little bit more rain after that,
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Speaker 1: you're going to have some flooding. And unfortunately in all
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Speaker 1: of this, over the last two days, five people in
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Speaker 1: New Jersey have died. There was a man that was
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Speaker 1: struck by lightning. Also in Cedar Brook and pin in Plainfield,
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Speaker 1: two people lost their lives when their vehicle was swept away.
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Speaker 1: That's been confirmed now. In the Passaic River just yesterday
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Speaker 1: one child was killed trying to swim in the swollen river,
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Speaker 1: and then another child is still missing and presumed dead.
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Speaker 1: So the severe weather over the last couple of days
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Speaker 1: and also knocked down trees. There's an old oak tree,
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Speaker 1: you may have seen the picture of it on the
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Speaker 1: news that fell and fell into a house, taking out
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Speaker 1: an entire deck. And this happened all over there. There
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Speaker 1: was reports of at least thirty two fallen trees, and
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Speaker 1: power was out for some time. As a matter of fact,
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Speaker 1: power was still out this morning for five thousand people
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Speaker 1: in New Jersey. So it was a huge storm Tuesday,
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Speaker 1: and the rain yesterday just exacerbated it all. So I
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Speaker 1: just wanted to let the people know in New Jersey
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Speaker 1: that are trying to get their power back on, that
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Speaker 1: are trying to rebuild their homes, that are trying to
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Speaker 1: get a new car because a tree fell in their car,
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Speaker 1: that you know, we're thinking about you, and we realized
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Speaker 1: how bad that weather was.
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Speaker 2: And luckily.
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Speaker 1: We're going to get at least one nice day squeezed
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Speaker 1: in over the next few days, so a little bit
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Speaker 1: of a respite on the whole thing.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, there was flooding in downtown Patterson, which always
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Speaker 2: happens when the Wassaic overflows. I don't know of a
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Speaker 2: time where that hasn't happened. The first wood up the hill,
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Speaker 2: down the hill, it's down hill. And then from the
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Speaker 2: day before Hawthorne where they have water under the ground.
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Speaker 2: See a lot of these communities there are streams, there
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Speaker 2: are waterbeds under the ground. We don't even think of that.
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Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden, when they get hit
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Speaker 2: with a heavy rain and that mixes with the water
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Speaker 2: that is already under the ground, it causes the streets
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Speaker 2: to buckle because it's almost like it pushes everything up.
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Speaker 2: It causes enormous problems. And again, as you had mentioned, Larry,
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Speaker 2: the old trees come down because the ground is so
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Speaker 2: soft from rain after rain after rainstorm, buckets of rain.
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Speaker 2: Then it knocks the electrical power lines down. Then it
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Speaker 2: knocks our power in a whole region or an area
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Speaker 2: as a result. And again I can't say it enough.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna have more of this because of extreme weather,
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Speaker 2: because of climate change. So why aren't we starting to
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Speaker 2: bury these power lines. It's just gonna happen more and more,
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Speaker 2: and a lot of these trees, you know, only because
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Speaker 2: I like to climb trees. You know, I'm a tree climber.
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Speaker 2: Wherever I see trees, I'm ready to climb them. From
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Speaker 2: India here throughout Central Park, Riverside Park, any chance I
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Speaker 2: had to climb trees. There have been a lot of
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Speaker 2: diseases that have affected the trees, that have like hollowed
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Speaker 2: them out. So those trees are not you know, like
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Speaker 2: we used to say, oh that's a solid old tree.
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Speaker 2: A lot of those trees are not that solid inside.
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Speaker 2: They're still alive barely, but boy, when a strong wind
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Speaker 2: comes by, or all of a sudden their roots are
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Speaker 2: pulled up out of the ground.
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Speaker 1: They come crashing down. In Patterson, I didn't know this
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Speaker 1: until just this moment. They had twenty five water rescues
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Speaker 1: in the streets. Yep, in the streets, people stuck in
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Speaker 1: their car right by the In Woodland Park, they had
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Speaker 1: to evacuate sixty people because of high water in Monroe Township.
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Speaker 1: That's where the lightning strike was. It was a thirty
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Speaker 1: two year old that was out just take for a
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Speaker 1: walk and got hit by lightning. So no what came through.
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Speaker 1: It turned out to be a deadly storm. And I'm
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Speaker 1: glad all of you survived it. But we're not alone.
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Speaker 1: This is happening not only across the country, it's happening
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Speaker 1: in Europe as well. Everybody's been dealing with horrible weather.
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Speaker 1: They just had another tornado in Wisconsin. I mean, you
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Speaker 1: don't think of Wisconsin for tornadoes, but that's the fifth
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Speaker 1: one they've had in the last couple of weeks.
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Speaker 2: You know, it's interesting. We're gonna be talking Fauci all
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Speaker 2: morning long. There's so much from the Fauci hearings, But
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Speaker 2: when it came his time to cross examine Fauci, Republican
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Speaker 2: Senator Ron Johnson in Wisconsin before he even began his
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Speaker 2: public what can we call it cross examination intense as
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Speaker 2: it was, he apologized to the people Wisconsin. He said,
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Speaker 2: I'm coming. I know you've been hit by a bad tornado.
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Speaker 2: I'm coming. I'll be with you this weekend. So he
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Speaker 2: understood the devastation that transpired there. So it's gonna be
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Speaker 2: an old Fauci morning. But the weather has it's dominated
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Speaker 2: hear us and also, as you mentioned, in Europe, one
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Speaker 2: hundred and ten degrees in powers, so it's heated up.
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Speaker 2: The fires have slowed down a little bit, thank god,
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Speaker 2: because they were moving in on Madrid and more importantly
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Speaker 2: moving in on Bordeaux. But they got to be plagued
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Speaker 2: with that to the rest of the month of August.
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Speaker 2: And then remember the earthquake in Japan. So it just
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Speaker 2: seems July has been the months where Mother Nature says,
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Speaker 2: remember I control what goes on here. Yeah, you may
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Speaker 2: want to buck about me and be nice to be
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Speaker 2: because I can control a lot of what goes on,
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Speaker 2: not just you people down there.
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Speaker 1: I love that you mentioned Fauci, and I want to
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Speaker 1: play a little bit of Fauci right now because I
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Speaker 1: know people are thinking, wait a second, Fauci, Fauci, Fauci.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna be playing Fauci all morning and talking about
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Speaker 1: it all morning long. But because of the deaths and
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Speaker 1: because somebody affected it, because power is still out in
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Speaker 1: part of New Jersey, I just wanted to tell you
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Speaker 1: that we're thinking about you, and we understand that what's happened.
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, when your electricity goes out, when
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Speaker 1: a tree falls into your house, you don't care about Fauci,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Weather affects everybody, and.
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Speaker 2: So when you're in that kind of an emergency and
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Speaker 2: you need to find out what's going on in the
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Speaker 2: world because it goes you seventy two inch big screen TV,
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Speaker 2: you ain't getting no reception there. You got that sea
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Speaker 2: crane radio, I know. I will tell you.
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Speaker 1: I got a text and a photo from Natalie she
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Speaker 1: had her seacrane radio out.
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Speaker 2: I'm obsessed. I'm honestly obsessed with it.
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Speaker 3: I know I'm a radio geek, I get.
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Speaker 2: It, but I have the solar with the weather band.
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Speaker 3: The weather band was so amazing because you know, you're
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Speaker 3: watching your TV weather and they're going through every other
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Speaker 3: neighborhood in the world, which of course is important, but
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Speaker 3: I want to hear what's going on in my area.
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Speaker 3: The weatherband is so specific, so it was great.
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Speaker 2: I yeah, no, it's imperative that you have that, not
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Speaker 2: just for listening. I listened to the she Crane radio
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Speaker 2: because I love listening to talk radio, but for those emergencies.
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Speaker 2: My dad used to have shipped to shore radio, you know,
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Speaker 2: merchant seamen. They had to know what the weather was, remember,
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Speaker 2: or they could be down at Davy Jones's locker, the
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Speaker 2: maritime type. But this is as close to it as
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Speaker 2: you could get, and it's not huge like the old
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Speaker 2: maritime radios that my dad.
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Speaker 1: Well, the solar is about the size of a brick.
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Speaker 1: You can carry it around with you. You know what,
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Speaker 1: since we're talking about it, why don't we tell people
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Speaker 1: that they can go to c crane dot com that's
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Speaker 1: c c R A n E dot com to find
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Speaker 1: out exactly what I'm talking about.
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Speaker 3: You know, I've heard your commercials obviously a lot. The
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Speaker 3: reception is incredible because you know, you turned on an
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Speaker 3: old radio and it's like it's like, Okay, this isn't
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Speaker 3: so great.
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Speaker 2: It's crystal clear.
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Speaker 3: Just like And I know I shouldn't be surprised that
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Speaker 3: you're not telling you the.
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Speaker 1: Truth, but you thought I was as lying as that
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Speaker 1: one is.
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Speaker 3: I'm telling you, well, what he says is true, Natalie.
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Speaker 2: He didn't take the fifth, he didn't do a Fouci,
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Speaker 2: he didn't take the fifth. He told you straight what
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Speaker 2: it gives you.
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Speaker 1: But well, thanks for saying that about Sea Crane, And
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Speaker 1: I'm glad it came in handy when we have when
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Speaker 1: we we I don't get to use c crame when
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Speaker 1: there's a storm. I don't get to use it because
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Speaker 1: my son carries it around with him. You remember the
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Speaker 1: of the old movie Radio the guy, the guy that
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Speaker 1: carried around a radio with him a lot. That's my
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Speaker 1: son during a storm and giving us all reports. So again,
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Speaker 1: Ceacrane dot com, c c R A n E dot com,
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Speaker 1: you talked about me taking the fifth. Let's give a
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Speaker 1: little tease of what's to come throughout the show. And
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Speaker 1: Josh Hawley, of course was one of the stars, and
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Speaker 1: Fauci of course played the fifth one hundred and eleven times.
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Speaker 1: Here is Josh Hallie responding to Fauci taking the fifth.
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Speaker 4: On the Advisive Council, I respectfully declined to answer based
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Speaker 4: upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.
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Speaker 2: Let's just get one thing straight.
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Speaker 5: You don't have any rights under the Fifth Amendment because
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Speaker 5: you've been pardoned, as you very well know, as a
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Speaker 5: Supreme Court has been clear for a century and more,
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Speaker 5: Brown versus Walker eighteen ninety six. When he has been pardoned,
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Speaker 5: he may not stand upon his privilege. You know that
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Speaker 5: your lawyer are sitting behind you now shifting nervously in
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Speaker 5: their chairs.
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Speaker 1: They know it.
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Speaker 5: This isn't about the Constitution, This isn't about the law.
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Speaker 5: This is about contempt, contempt for this body and contempt
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Speaker 5: for the American people.
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Speaker 2: Man, was he good. It's a gatling gun, a verbal
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Speaker 2: gatling gun. And the lawyers were fidgeting, they were nervous
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Speaker 2: for whatever reason. But he picked up on that right away,
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Speaker 2: and then he asked a series of questions that made
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Speaker 2: a fool out of Fauci really did well well throughout
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Speaker 2: the morning. We'll be playing it to you. But I
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Speaker 2: can not fathom somebody in an open publicing, public congressional
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Speaker 2: or Senate hearing taking the Fifth Amendment over one hundred times.
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Speaker 2: If you would have said that would have happened in
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Speaker 2: my lifetime. I just said, nah, come on, especially somebody
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Speaker 2: who has appeared before. He's been like it. What twenty
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Speaker 2: two congressional hearings. We remember his jousting with Rand Paul
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Speaker 2: over and over. It was some of the best congressional
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Speaker 2: hearings ever. And then all of a sudden to be
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Speaker 2: like the Sphinx and just sit there and keep repeating
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Speaker 2: that over and over again.
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Speaker 1: I heard from and attorney why he did that. We
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Speaker 1: have to get to the next segment, but I'll leave
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Speaker 1: that as a tease. There is a good reason that
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Speaker 1: he took the fifth We couldn't figure it out yesterday,
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Speaker 1: but now it all makes sense. We'll have that coming up.
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Speaker 2: Well, anyway, we want your talkbacks on that. I know
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Speaker 2: many of you were transfixed as we were hearing it
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Speaker 2: here at seven ten WR. Maybe you saw a footage
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Speaker 2: of it, you know when you you checked your click,
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Speaker 2: or maybe actually watched it live. But it was historical.
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Speaker 2: I've never seen anything of that magnitude before, where the
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Speaker 2: whole world should have been watching, because remember, what Fauci
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Speaker 2: did affected the entire world. We were we are the
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Speaker 2: straw that stirs their drink. When it comes to health
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Speaker 2: and healthcare in the word, they look to the United States,
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Speaker 2: and they were looking to the guy that they thought was.
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Speaker 1: Their god right right, doctor Fauci. We're gonna have much
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Speaker 1: more of that throughout the morning. We're gonna have that.
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Speaker 1: We're also coming up next. Curtis told us about this
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Speaker 1: a German toilet that's considered a smart toilet because it
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Speaker 1: can diagnose you, which is fascinating that they can do
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Speaker 1: it just from you sitting with your pants off.
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Speaker 2: in World War Two, the Japanese on the German and
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Speaker 2: they am pioneered the toilet bowl technology that some of
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Speaker 2: us desire. Remember, the Japanese came up they combined the
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Speaker 2: bidet with the toilet seat that warmed up and then
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Speaker 2: we'll give you a little tinkle to wash you off.
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Speaker 2: And everybody said, oh.
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Speaker 3: Oh, when you really think about it, the toilet hasn't
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Speaker 3: changed tremendously in the past.
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Speaker 2: You know, one hundred years about time there was an upgrade,
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Speaker 2: I guess so. But the Japanese actually pushed that for it.
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Speaker 2: And now a from the Germans, they have combined in
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Speaker 2: medical science that a lot of Americans, including my dad, had,
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Speaker 2: which was the ar trilio fibrillation where your your heartbeat
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Speaker 2: is not beating at its normal pace l right, and
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Speaker 2: a lot of times they got to put you under
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Speaker 2: and shock you back. They had to do that to
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Speaker 2: my dad twice. But you sit on the new toilet
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Speaker 2: seat of the German toilet and in thirty seconds, it
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Speaker 2: can tell you if you have an irregular heart beat
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Speaker 2: that twelve million Americans suffer from in thirty seconds. So
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Speaker 2: it used to be you'd meet a magazine. I mean,
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Speaker 2: they always had the magazines there. Now you scroll, you know,
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Speaker 2: on your iPhone while you're sitting there, this will tell
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Speaker 2: you in thirty seconds, Hey pal, think you better go
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Speaker 2: see your doc get a further check because you have
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Speaker 2: an irregular heart beat. This isn't and you have to
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Speaker 2: go there. We at least once said day exactly.
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Speaker 3: It's not more right, I mean, because like you said,
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Speaker 3: this is something you're going to be doing at least
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Speaker 3: two or three times a day. Unlike if you have
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Speaker 3: to go and check your heart, you know you gotta
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Speaker 3: take an extra step.
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Speaker 2: You're already there, especially if you're eating taco bell like
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Speaker 2: I do, then there ten day you're a medically sealed
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Speaker 2: to the toilet. Didn't know. This is incredibly great because
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Speaker 2: I remember the problems that my dad went through. He
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Speaker 2: goes and I don't really feel anything different, courtis I
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Speaker 2: accompanied him the Saint Francis Hospital in Long Eye them
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Speaker 2: where they did the precedure they put you under. I
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Speaker 2: think even George Bush had to have that procedure, remember
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Speaker 2: where they had to have Dick Cheney in charge temporarily
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Speaker 2: because they had to put him under. But it's something
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Speaker 2: that a lot of Americans have, and quite frankly, it's
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Speaker 2: a hell of a lot cheaper than going to the
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Speaker 2: doctor and having to pay for that chick.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's called a cardio version. My husband had that
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Speaker 3: done too. It's you know, it's it's a very common
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Speaker 3: procedure now.
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Speaker 2: And so you're the closest here in a German right, yes,
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Speaker 2: so are you going to get this a couple of
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Speaker 2: generations away? But are you going to get this turlet cheat? No,
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Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. I'll give you a teas for tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: I found an American toilet.
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Speaker 2: Well it's better than.
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Speaker 1: The German toilet. Hey, because I'm all fully American now,
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Speaker 1: I was born here. Don't try to deport me. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's a little bit better. We'll talk about it tomorrow
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Speaker 1: because I do want to get to some talkbacks. We'll
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Speaker 1: bring we'll do the You got this smart toilet. I
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Speaker 1: got the smart toilet.
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Speaker 2: Referred to as doctor Mengela. Oh, there's a lot of
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Speaker 2: people were starting to feel that way.
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Speaker 1: No, and I think it was pent up anger that
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Speaker 1: was finally allowed to vent yesterday. I mean, everybody kept
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Speaker 1: it in them because they were told they were wrong,
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Speaker 1: they were told they were silly, and now they're finding out.
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Speaker 2: No, No, you were right. I hope I'm not paying
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Speaker 2: for that skunk's lawyers now because he cost a dear
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Speaker 2: friend of mine to die by himself in a hospital. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I think he's retired, so I don't think you're paying
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Speaker 1: for his attorneys. I'll look into that. That's a great question.
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Speaker 2: Money he made from the patents. I never knew that.
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Speaker 2: When you're the director of the National Health shows, the
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Speaker 2: money can go directly to you for any brand new
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Speaker 2: patent on a medical product or a farmer product.
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Speaker 1: You know. Publicly they said he made twelve million dollars.
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Speaker 1: I think it's a lot more than that. Maybe we'll
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Speaker 1: find out in some lawsuits in the future, because he's
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Speaker 1: not immune to lawsuits. Let's get the news now at
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Speaker 1: six point thirty with Daria Aubinger.
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Speaker 6: Dry Yet morning, guys, Authorities in New Jersey, say a
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Speaker 6: recovery mission we'll resume at dawn for a ten year
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Speaker 6: old girl who's missing in the Passaic River. She was
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Speaker 6: among three kids who went into the river last night
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Speaker 6: and were swept away. The body of a ten year
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Speaker 6: old boy was found. His eleven year old sister made
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Speaker 6: it back to shore. Kentucky Republican Rand Paul wants to
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Speaker 6: send it to vote next week to hold doctor Anthony
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Speaker 6: Fauci in contempt of Congress. The retired public health official
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Speaker 6: took the fifth more than one hundred times yesterday as
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Speaker 6: he testified before the Homeland Security Committee about his response
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Speaker 6: to COVID nineteen. The US launched more strikes on Iran
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Speaker 6: last night, sent Com posting on x that they were
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Speaker 6: in response to Tuesday nights attacks by Iran on US
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Speaker 6: forces in the Middle East. And are you worried about you?
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Speaker 6: Four to one K After yesterday's free fall on Wall Street,
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Speaker 6: the financial experts on YouTube say, hold off for now,
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Speaker 7: Can you explain to the committee, well, the story of
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Speaker 7: the day, the story of yesterday, the story of the today.
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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a big story for a long long time.
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Speaker 1: Is Anthony Fauci appearing before the Senate and Rand Paul
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Speaker 1: his arch enemy. So he was there and he had
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Speaker 1: to make an opening statement, and in his opening statement,
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Speaker 1: what he was explaining was exactly what he was going
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Speaker 1: to say from there on out, and he blamed Rand Paul.
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Speaker 1: Ran Paul was the chairman of the hearing. Rand Paul
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Speaker 1: has been taking on Fauci famously for years now. They've
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Speaker 1: had some incredible back and forths. He has uncovered more
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Speaker 1: on Anthony Fauci than any other human being, and all
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Speaker 1: of it bad. And so Fauci used that in his
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Speaker 1: opening statement.
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Speaker 4: The sole reason and he is calling me before this
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Speaker 4: committee is to get me to say something, anything that
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Speaker 4: could vindicate his repeated public pledges that I end up,
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Speaker 4: in his words, quote behind bars.
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Speaker 1: And because of that he said he was going to
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Speaker 1: take the fifth, which he ended up doing one hundred
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Speaker 1: and eleven times. Now, at this point, his attorney, David Schertler,
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Speaker 1: moved up to try to explain further why he was
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Speaker 1: going to take the fifth. Now, I have to tell
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Speaker 1: you that ran Paul told the attorneys to sit in
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Speaker 1: the front row, and he did seem to be in
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Speaker 1: the front row for a while. He just moved his
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Speaker 1: chair up a little bit and he was sitting almost
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Speaker 1: right next to him. As a matter of fact, when
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Speaker 1: rand Paul said I told you you can't be at
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Speaker 1: the desk, he put his arms up like, no, no, no,
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Speaker 1: I'm still in the front row. And he was obviously
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Speaker 1: not in the front row because he could lean over
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Speaker 1: and get to the microphone, and you can't do that
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Speaker 1: from the front row. So it was a stupid little game.
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Speaker 1: They were going back and forth, and finally ran Paul
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Speaker 1: had enough.
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Speaker 7: The attorneys are not recognized. In fact, the attorney was
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Speaker 7: told not to sit at the table and he's not
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Speaker 7: obeying that recommendation. There's a row behind you, sir, that's
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Speaker 7: where you were told to sit, and you're not, and
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Speaker 7: now you're disrupting the proceedings. And so look, this is
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Speaker 7: the way Anthony Fauci wants to be remembered. For a
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Speaker 7: lawyer not listening to the rules, that's the way you
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Speaker 7: want to be remembered, and that's what you're going to do.
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Speaker 7: You are not recognized, Sir of security, Please remove in
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Speaker 7: from the room.
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Speaker 1: Now, let me set that up a little bit. The
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Speaker 1: rules are set by the chairman. He gets to set
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Speaker 1: the rules, and if he doesn't want an attorney to speak,
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Speaker 1: he doesn't let the attorney sit at the table. They
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Speaker 1: can be there to advise, and they can sit in
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Speaker 1: the front row right behind their client, but he doesn't
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Speaker 1: want them in front of a microphone. He wants to
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Speaker 1: hear just from the witness, not from their attorneys. He
21:58
Speaker 1: gets to set the rules. They knew that ahead of time.
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Speaker 1: This guy tried to cheat. The problem is he tried
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Speaker 1: to speak. His microphone was off, so you couldn't hear
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Speaker 1: him right then. But he was speaking right then, so listen,
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Speaker 1: you heard the applause in the background. He had every
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Speaker 1: right to send him out.
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Speaker 2: Of the room. Well, that was all choreographed. So he
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Speaker 2: had Fauci had six attorneys. This was the lead attorneys,
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Speaker 2: so he sat right next to one of the other
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Speaker 2: attorneys immediately behind them. I think there was Fauchi's wife
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Speaker 2: there and we also saw from the Fox News channel
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Speaker 2: if you remember, as she was peering in. I'm sure
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Speaker 2: she had a bird's eye view or Ingram, that's wry Ingram.
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Speaker 2: So we saw everybody there, but you know this was
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Speaker 2: choreograph because they knew, as you said, the rules in advance.
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Speaker 2: And so the lead attorney he gets up a huff
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Speaker 2: and a puff, takes his time packing his police in
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Speaker 2: front of everybody, and then slowly is escorted out by
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Speaker 2: the I guess you could call him the sergeant of arms,
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Speaker 2: the police, the Capitol police. But you see, you know
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Speaker 2: what's gonna happen. Fauci will then claim not ineffective assistance
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Speaker 2: of counsel, which generally you do one you want new council,
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Speaker 2: you claim, oh, the ineffective assistance a council, and your
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Speaker 2: attorneys agree, yeah, we weren't able to properly represent them.
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Speaker 2: In this case, it'll be I didn't have proper counsel
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Speaker 2: at my becking quote, which is a lie. Obviously, any
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Speaker 2: of the five behind him, as the chairman mentioned, could
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Speaker 2: have easily discussed with their client separately what was going
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Speaker 2: on and then come back and begin answering questions. It's
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Speaker 2: just they wanted the theater so watch. I don't think
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Speaker 2: personally it was choreographed. But I understand why you do.
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Speaker 2: Your explanation was really good. I don't think it was choreographed.
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Speaker 2: I think that in the past have been able to
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Speaker 2: get away with that. It's many many hearings where they
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Speaker 2: tell the attorney you can't speak, get they get the appetunities.
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Speaker 2: Even if it wasn't, let's just say it happened on
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Speaker 2: the fly. Yeah, you know it was fluid. You know
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Speaker 2: that Fauci's gonna be milking this. You saw that before
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Speaker 2: any of the testimonies started. I wasn't even entitled to
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Speaker 2: my lead counsel. You know this is all because this
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Speaker 2: is gonna be ongoing. Like you pointed out, this is
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Speaker 2: a battle royale. These guys have tangled before in these
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Speaker 2: congressional hearings. They've been masterful. And see what makes Fauci
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Speaker 2: look bad at this point is he could give It
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Speaker 2: wasn't like he was a victim like it just he
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Speaker 2: was a powder puff getting pounded by ran Paul. They
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Speaker 2: would exchange back and forth. That's what made it so
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Speaker 2: enjoyable to watch because you could hear Fauci's point, you
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Speaker 2: could hear ran Paul's point. Now it says if Fauci
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Speaker 2: decided that he was just gonna go into the corner
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Speaker 2: and he was gonna do a Muhammad Ali ropid doope
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Speaker 2: and not answer any questions.
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Speaker 1: At all, because if he answers any questions, he'd look.
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Speaker 1: I don't think that's the bad part of it. I
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Speaker 1: think the bad part is him killing a million people
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Speaker 1: around the world. Oh, No, I think we've learned a
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Speaker 1: whole lot about Anthony Fauci. Where he cannot open his mouth.
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Speaker 1: I don't think we're going to hear from again. You
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Speaker 1: think he's going to say, Look, they didn't even let
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Speaker 1: my counsel talk. I don't think we're going to get
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Speaker 1: a peep from him.
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Speaker 2: Not even a friendly interview somewhere. No, I don't think
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Speaker 2: at all.
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Speaker 1: I think his attorneys are telling him, you just shut up.
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Speaker 2: It's funny.
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Speaker 1: Yesterday one thing I didn't know, and I heard an
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Speaker 1: attorney talking about this. An attorney said, which I had
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Speaker 1: forgotten about. He has a case pending against him in Florida.
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Speaker 1: That pardon doesn't pardon you from state law. So his attorneys, rightfully,
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Speaker 1: so rightfully so said don't say anything incriminating, So just
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Speaker 1: take the thing.
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Speaker 2: Because the pardon would never cover you for a state prosecution.
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Speaker 2: That's a brilliant, brilliant or something. And I'm sure there
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Speaker 2: are other states that would follow and suit. Oh sure, sure.
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Speaker 2: But in Florida, you remember they've been after him from
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Speaker 2: the very beginning, and they handled their nursing homes well,
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Speaker 2: oh down there, they had times better than half in
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Speaker 2: the bag Murphy and Angel evilized Cromo did up here,
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Speaker 2: and they have more nursing homes per capita because you
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Speaker 2: know what Florida is right exactly to the waiting.
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Speaker 1: Room for God. Yeah, they moved people out, they moved
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Speaker 1: people to hospitals, which they wouldn't do in New York state.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you have to give them credits.
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Speaker 2: AJD.
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Speaker 1: They did everything the opposite of New York. I guess
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Speaker 1: that was that was the way you should handle things.
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Speaker 1: Whatever New York was doing, you do the opposititis was brilliant.
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Speaker 1: And remember he didn't do six feet, he didn't do
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Speaker 1: mandatory mass. They didn't close their schools. And notice a
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Speaker 1: public school system, now how much bety it. Remember it
26:44
Speaker 1: was always thought a horrible public school Edit, no more. No,
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Speaker 1: there was a horrible effect on kids, and he had
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Speaker 1: less deaths. But let me play your rand, Paul, because
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Speaker 1: this is an important part. This is why they're going
26:56
Speaker 1: to have hearings again next week.
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Speaker 7: The Chairman has denied your assertion the privilege and directed
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Speaker 7: you to answer them, but you nonetheless refuse and stand
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Speaker 7: on privilege despite the existence.
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Speaker 2: Of the pardon.
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Speaker 7: The committee will have to consider after this hearing what
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Speaker 7: appropriate action should be taken against you for the failure
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Speaker 7: to testify after being directed to do so. It's against
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Speaker 7: the law to obstruct an investigation of Congress. There will
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Speaker 7: be repercussions to your refusal to testify today.
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Speaker 1: He will be charged with contempt and possibly obstruction next week,
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Speaker 1: and then this is going to go to court after that.
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Speaker 1: Then we'll get an explanation as to why he took
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Speaker 1: the fifth when we come back. Speaking of the fifth,
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Speaker 1: there are some other famous people in history that have
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Speaker 1: taken the fifth. We have the list and the reasons
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Speaker 1: coming up next.
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Speaker 2: So fifth Amendment. I don't think anybody in public has
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Speaker 2: taken in as many times as Fauci did yesterday. But
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Speaker 2: there was the deposition of a citizen Trump at that
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Speaker 2: time in between Stintzer's president and his son eric O.
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Speaker 2: Can you lay it out for us because it was
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Speaker 2: that nonsensical prosecution by Attorney General Tish James of New York.
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Speaker 1: You might in when he paid all the money back
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Speaker 1: with interest and nobody complained, there were no victims, It
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Speaker 1: didn't hurt the people of New York, and yet they
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Speaker 1: wanted to go after him just because he was Donald Trump.
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Speaker 1: No that Letitia James had the deposition and listen to this.
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Speaker 1: It was important you said that many times in public
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Speaker 1: because wait, how many times Donald Trump took the Fifth
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Speaker 1: He invoked the Fifth Amendment four hundred and forty times
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Speaker 1: during a four hour deposition. This was way back in
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. Then his son wanted the one up
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Speaker 1: his dad. He took the Fifth more than five hundred
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Speaker 1: times during a six hour deposition under that fraudulent case.
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Speaker 1: By the way, you'll remember, he had to pay a
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Speaker 1: half a billion dollars. That penalty was thrown out by
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Speaker 1: the Supreme Court. Now, they were cowards. They didn't take
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Speaker 1: out the judgment, which they should have. I watched those hearings.
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Speaker 1: They should have taken out the judgment. They did take
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Speaker 1: out the penalty. I'm sure that's all Trump cared about it. Yeah, well,
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Speaker 1: remember it was a double team.
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Speaker 2: He was Tiss James from the state point of view,
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Speaker 2: and then Alvin Bragg on that ridiculous case of what
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Speaker 2: was her name? Mcgannel claimed that she had been violsing
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Speaker 2: Jeremy Daniels. No, no, well that was one. Let's Stormy Daniels.
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Speaker 2: He did. I never had sex with that woman. He
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Speaker 2: did come on and that's where Michael Cohen came in
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Speaker 2: and the payoffs and that. But the very famous time,
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Speaker 2: in fact, I rode up with him on an Amtrak train.
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Speaker 2: I never knew he was from upstate Olie, North. We
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Speaker 2: happen to be on the same Amtrak. We had a
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Speaker 2: great conversation. But he took the Fifth Amendment forty times
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Speaker 2: in a closed door hearing during Iran contra. So even
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Speaker 2: though those hearings were televised, remember it was a combination
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Speaker 2: of the House and the Senate that were having those hearings,
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Speaker 2: his time was behind closed doors forty times he took it.
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Speaker 2: The one that was very public was the Enron collapsed.
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Speaker 2: They had the chairman Kenneth Lay that was public in
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Speaker 2: the Senate. He said, gentlemen, let me make this very simple.
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Speaker 2: Every question you asked me, I'm taking a Fifth Amendment,
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Speaker 2: the Fifth Amendment at everything, and he really they didn't
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Speaker 2: really push it after that because he realized that he
30:33
Speaker 2: was going to be a sphinx. And then there was
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Speaker 2: Mark McGuire. Remember they had the congressional hearings about steroid use,
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Speaker 2: and he sort of did the dance. He didn't necessarily
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Speaker 2: say Fifth Amendment, but he avoided He said, well that
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Speaker 2: was in the past, that was then. I'm not answering that,
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Speaker 2: you know, that kind of boy. That did him a
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Speaker 2: lot of harm. And then there was a whole bunch
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Speaker 2: of other baseball players that we knew were all roided up.
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Speaker 2: They all tried a different way to dance around it.
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Speaker 2: Chef sheff Field with the Queen. You know, I got
31:04
Speaker 2: the Queen from Barry Bunch, you know, I mean it
31:07
Speaker 2: was so much. The one was from Texas. I'm trying
31:10
Speaker 2: to remember his name. Oh my god. He blamed everything
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Speaker 2: but himself for taking steroids. He was a home run
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Speaker 2: hitting machine at that time. Palmeo Palmaro, Yeah, yeah, I
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Speaker 2: mean they all tried a different defense, but they were
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Speaker 2: all guilty, but not all of them had any ramifications
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Speaker 2: against them. I would have loved to have seen a
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Speaker 2: rod Up there, but he wasn't and then what broke
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Speaker 2: my heart. A lot of people can relate to this.
31:40
Speaker 2: Larry You, from time to time have mentioned Rizzo, the
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Speaker 2: former police commissioner and mayor of Philadelphia. Law in order, right,
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Speaker 2: Frank Rizzo. Before there was Rudy Julian.
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Speaker 1: He was the police commissioner first, then he became.
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Speaker 2: Theyor, and Rudy was very much like I knew both
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Speaker 2: of them. He was look at a god in nineteen
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Speaker 2: seventy three. Who would have been Mayor Mario Biagi, the
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Speaker 2: most decorated police officer in the history of the NYPD
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Speaker 2: twenty five shootouts can you imagine? And he survived while
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Speaker 2: in Central Park he stopped a runaway horse back then
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Speaker 2: you could ride a horse, and he got injured. So
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Speaker 2: he retired. He ran for Congress, and so he's on
32:23
Speaker 2: his way to become the mayor after John Lindsay, the
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Speaker 2: hopelessly ineffective liberal. He was law and order like Rudy Giuliani.
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Speaker 2: He had movie star looks. The woman were just swoon
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Speaker 2: over him. And he was an FDR Liberal Democrat. Perfect combination. Right,
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Speaker 2: You're not gonna lose. He took the Fifth Amendment fourteen
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Speaker 2: times in a grand jury hearing about accepting payoffs, and
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Speaker 2: that all came to the surface, and that destroyed his
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Speaker 2: mayoral run in seventy three, which would have actually been
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Speaker 2: better for us than Abe being who brought us right
32:58
Speaker 2: into virtual bankruptcy and almost the destruction of New York City.
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Speaker 1: If we go back into the fifties, you remember the
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Speaker 1: McCarthy which hunt going after communist and several people took
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Speaker 1: the fifth from both Hollywood and academia, and in Washington.
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Speaker 1: Here's what's really interesting about it, they went after Albert Einstein,
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Speaker 1: and Albert Einstein famously advised persecuted intellectuals during the McCarthy
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Speaker 1: hearings to refuse to testify, don't invoke the fifth because
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Speaker 1: that gives it credence. So he just sat there silent
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Speaker 1: the entire time they tried to question him, So he
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Speaker 1: never really invoked the Fifth. He just wouldn't answer any questions,
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Speaker 1: refused to and he almost was threatening them to arrest
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Speaker 1: the most famous scientists in the world exactly, and they didn't.
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Speaker 2: Well, you know, genter edgesting, he came from Europe. He
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Speaker 2: was a hard core socialist. He never changed a socialist.
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Speaker 2: The day he died, So when people get all wrapped
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Speaker 2: up socialism, facciots communism. I stop him in that chat.
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Speaker 2: I said, you love Albert Einstein? Oh yeah, you know
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Speaker 2: he was a hardcore socialist, never changed. He was a
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Speaker 2: socialist still the day he died. Really, I said, yeah,
34:18
Speaker 2: you know, the different people who have different political philosophies.
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Speaker 2: You know, one size doesn't fit all. It's sort of
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Speaker 2: like Trump is not a fascist, Mondamie is not a communist.
34:29
Speaker 2: Mondamie is a socialist, and Trump is a conservative East Maga.
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Speaker 2: It's a different kind of conservatism, but neither is a
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Speaker 2: fascist or a communist.
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Speaker 1: I think it's fascinating with Einstein now, I'm reading more
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Speaker 1: about this, and I find it fascinating. He got the
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Speaker 1: idea from Gandhi. That style of resistance, just not saying
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Speaker 1: a thing was what Gandhi did and Einstein did, and maybe.
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Speaker 2: We should we should evoke that.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, just sit there and be quiet. We can't do
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Speaker 2: that talk radio. Well, I'm not You're not under persecution
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Speaker 2: right now. Up nex to the White House.
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Speaker 1: Correspond to John Decker, who'll have a lot to say
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Speaker 1: about what happened yesterday. That's after the seven o'clock