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"Ike was Right" (Tuesday December 16 2025, Hour 4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: We're not violating any loss.
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Speaker 2: Avoiding prosecution isn't the standard that I was shooting for.
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Speaker 3: From the home of the First Amendment. First thing today.
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Speaker 4: Jew words that steal metem.
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Speaker 1: You have a day.
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Speaker 5: At least for work.
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Speaker 6: When the sun comes up, drops acute at the school.
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Speaker 7: Joe has agenda all the treasure said needs.
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Speaker 3: No one that Joe's smiled.
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Speaker 6: He only eggs.
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Speaker 3: Joe.
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Speaker 5: Bless you for letting me be of service to you
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Speaker 5: this morning.
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Speaker 2: We'll tell you what went on last night, and we'll
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Speaker 2: tell you what we see in and amongst the evidence field,
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Speaker 2: and then let you under the yellow crime scene tape
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Speaker 2: to tell us how it impacts you where you are.
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Speaker 5: And that's how it rolls. That's the whole program right there.
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Speaker 5: How do you do what you do? And it's I
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Speaker 5: don't know. I don't know how I do anything else?
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Speaker 2: After all this time, to your efforts here along the
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Speaker 2: both Americas within thirty miles of each other, the home
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Speaker 2: of both Americas, America version one and America Version two,
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Speaker 2: of course, Thomas Jefferson's home and James Madison's home in
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Speaker 2: the Charlottesville ad I and then Woodrow Wilson, the grandfather
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Speaker 2: of American technocracy and the authoritarian government movement. There in Stanton, Virginia,
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Speaker 2: where we own the flagship of our network. Here in
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Speaker 2: our mornings, they're with you and still a bastion of conservatism.
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Speaker 2: I ran into a friend of mine who said he
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Speaker 2: had been talking to the governor of West Virginia, and
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Speaker 2: I grabbed his shoulder. I said, are we going to
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Speaker 2: do Vexit? And he said, no, We're not going to
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Speaker 2: do Vexit there. Vexit is this movement and amongst states
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Speaker 2: that border West Virginia, thinking, you know, oh, if we
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Speaker 2: seceed from Virginia. His answer was actually funnier. He said
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Speaker 2: he said, we'd welcome West Virginia back into Virginia so
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Speaker 2: that we could win things over again. I said, oh, no,
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Speaker 2: West Virginia hasn't been a red state that long yet
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Speaker 2: to be reliably read. The progressives in the world could
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Speaker 2: flip it over. I had a great conversation about redistricting,
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Speaker 2: and man, all these people who were against redistricting five
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Speaker 2: years ago who are now all for it because Trump.
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Speaker 2: If there's an example of a mania, and we invented
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Speaker 2: a phrase for the program today it's called Trump derangement
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Speaker 2: derangement syndrome, and I think the President himself is suffering
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Speaker 2: a little bit of it. We were reading his tweet,
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Speaker 2: his social media post about Rob Reiner. But if there's
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Speaker 2: a place where you see Trump derangement on full display,
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Speaker 2: with flags and trumpets and everything, it is in this
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Speaker 2: redistricting battle.
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Speaker 5: Which everyone has got really quiet about.
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Speaker 2: Texas moving forward, courts have given the thumbs up and
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Speaker 2: all of that. Virginia, what are they going to do?
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Speaker 2: There's actually a couple of special elections districts that are
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Speaker 2: like and this is the funny thing, is that the
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Speaker 2: whole point of having a district and we should get
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Speaker 2: into this a little bit later on in the program
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Speaker 2: that's fifty points more Democrat or Republican than the other.
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Speaker 2: Was one of the premises behind the people who tried
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Speaker 2: to come up with the nonpartisan redistricting that one of
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Speaker 2: the things they were their goal was was to find
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Speaker 2: more competitive districts. And I don't know if you can
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Speaker 2: do that by the drawing of your boundaries. But our
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Speaker 2: friend Gary in Berlin, New Hampshire, has given me an
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Speaker 2: entree into a discussion that you've probably heard me have
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Speaker 2: before we'll also get into the President's investigations into the
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Speaker 2: operations of the higher education out there.
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Speaker 5: But our first things this morning.
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Speaker 2: Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino is reportedly going to make
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Speaker 2: a decision regarding whether he stays with the bureau within
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Speaker 2: the next few weeks. Two sources familiar with the consideration
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Speaker 2: report They say his departure is a possibility in the
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Speaker 2: near future, though they deny reports that his office at
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Speaker 2: the FBI headquarters has already been cleaned out. Defending sweeping
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Speaker 2: reforms that they have delivered against gains in public safety,
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Speaker 2: when the Director and I Bongino issued a statement. When
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Speaker 2: the Director and I moved forward with these reforms, we
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Speaker 2: expected some noise from the small circle of disgruntled former
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Speaker 2: Size higher education. You hear it a lot, the President
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Speaker 2: even going after it because knowledge is truly good. Whether
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Speaker 2: that's the good slogan for your college, you know, we
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Speaker 2: don't judge, but the president's compact with university set off
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Speaker 2: a maelstrom of controversy regarding what, you know, the president's
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Speaker 2: having over federal influence over these establishments. It really is
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Speaker 2: quite funny. Rick hess is on the Newsmaker's line with us.
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Speaker 2: He is senior Fellow and Director of Education Policy at
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Speaker 2: the American Enterprise Institute, just author to report the marketplace ideas,
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Speaker 2: marketplace of ideas in higher education, in the higher education
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Speaker 2: compact with the Trump administration and how this would help Rick,
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Speaker 2: So explain what you're talking about with this.
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Speaker 9: So for yeah, for folks who aren't tracking this closely,
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Speaker 9: like I mentioned that, you know, the concerns with higher
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Speaker 9: ed have really boiled up over the last ten fifteen years.
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Speaker 9: What you can do is you can track the collapse
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Speaker 9: of trust and higher ed starting really about twenty fourteen
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Speaker 9: twenty fifteen, again especially on the right, but more broad based.
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Speaker 9: One of the things things the Trump administration has obviously
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Speaker 9: tried to do, starting back in January was really push
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Speaker 9: especially selective colleges and famous research universities to step up
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Speaker 9: on their commitment to safeguarding a free discourse, to addressing
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Speaker 9: anti semitism on campus, to doing something about the kinds
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Speaker 9: of race based preferences, the kinds of unconstitutional race based
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Speaker 9: preferences that have really taken hold of the One of
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Speaker 9: the concerns, of course, about all of that is both
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Speaker 9: that it is primarily an attempt to combat some of
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Speaker 9: the most troubling excesses, and that it doesn't actually offer
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Speaker 9: any sense of, well, what would a healthier university federal
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Speaker 9: government relationship look like?
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Speaker 15: Giving what a huge share.
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Speaker 9: Of uh, you know, of spending at your elite universities
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Speaker 9: is either supported through federal loans, is augmented through federal
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Speaker 9: grants and aid, or is funded by billions in federal
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Speaker 9: research funds. So the compact which was issued this fall offered,
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Speaker 9: you know, was initially sent to eight or nine universities,
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Speaker 9: eight and then a ninth which offered some kind of
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Speaker 9: special preference on federal funds if they agreed to a
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Speaker 9: series of eight conditions. One of the we wound up
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Speaker 9: issuing this recent effort at AEI to build off of
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Speaker 9: the door that opened, because I think I think the
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Speaker 9: administration got it just right in raising concerns about the
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Speaker 9: state of free inquiry on campus, the ways universities are
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Speaker 9: taking college funds.
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Speaker 15: Great and costs.
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Speaker 9: But I think a lot of us who sympathize heartily
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Speaker 9: with what the administration is worried about, had real issues
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Speaker 9: with the kinds of remedies that were proposed that they
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Speaker 9: involved a whole lot of executive freelancing. They often seem
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Speaker 9: to either contradict statute or just invent new powers with
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Speaker 9: federal government. And so what we try to do is
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Speaker 9: get a whole bunch to get eight interesting, thoughtful conservatives
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Speaker 9: from the very hardest right to the more centrist right
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Speaker 9: to offer a vision of how do you pick up
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Speaker 9: the baton that the administration has kind of gotten in
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Speaker 9: motion here and maybe address these problems in ways that
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Speaker 9: are on sounder constitutional and legal.
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Speaker 2: Well, and I think this has been you mentioned that
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Speaker 2: Rick is on with us from the American Enterprise Institute.
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Speaker 2: Just great report on this compact with the American colleges
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Speaker 2: and why it seems to be struggling to get hold.
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Speaker 19: That.
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Speaker 2: Colleges in that ten year period, as you said, kind
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Speaker 2: of going back to twenty fourteen, more and more frequently
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Speaker 2: seemed to become adjunct to an aspirational rather than an
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Speaker 2: educational business model. Here's who we want to crank out
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Speaker 2: from this university, not who's out there looking to come
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Speaker 2: to this university. Here are the type of people or
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Speaker 2: the type of thinking we want them to do. And
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Speaker 2: it seems almost to be the paradigm shift in a university.
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Speaker 2: Although to be fair, Dwight Eisenhower was warning about it
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Speaker 2: in the fifties too, but it has the university system
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Speaker 2: lost the plot as it were, and are starting to
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Speaker 2: try to, you know, crank out do alumni that are
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Speaker 2: of a specific type, rather than looking for who's out
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Speaker 2: there and giving everyone a chance to achieve this, you know,
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Speaker 2: this kind of raw academic liberal arts, you know, dream
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Speaker 2: of theirs.
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Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah, I think there's real concerns.
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Speaker 9: Again, like we mentioned a few moments ago, there's you know,
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Speaker 9: four thousand and four year colleges and universities in this country,
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Speaker 9: and the lion's share of them aren't selective. They're just
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Speaker 9: there to take money from and hopefully educate whoever shows up.
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Speaker 9: And I think they have significant problems, but they're different
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Speaker 9: from the problems at say, the couple hundred most famous
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Speaker 9: research institutions.
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Speaker 15: You know, at these.
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Speaker 9: Institutions that the administration offered the compact to. Yeah, I
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Speaker 9: think there's several, you know, just enormous problems. One is
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Speaker 9: that they have lost the plot when it comes to
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Speaker 9: educating students. For all of the talk about equipping the
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Speaker 9: next generation of young Americans to be leaders and thoughtful citizens,
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Speaker 9: the faculty at these institutions barely teach.
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Speaker 15: When they teach, they nail it in.
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Speaker 9: Students are given remarkably little work. The average full time
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Speaker 9: four year college student today is doing maybe a twenty
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Speaker 9: three or twenty four hour work week.
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Speaker 15: Wow, which is yet, you know, I mean it's fun.
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Speaker 9: Well, we ask whether it makes sense for taxpayers to
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Speaker 9: be financing basically a four or five year extended ocation.
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Speaker 9: It should raise big questions. Students aren't being challenged. Great
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Speaker 9: inflation is run amok to the point where students.
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Speaker 15: Don't feel any meaningful.
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Speaker 9: Pressure to do work while there's extraordinary accommodations around timelines
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Speaker 9: and deadlines, so there's real questions about just what students
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Speaker 9: are learning while they're on campus. There's also the question
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Speaker 9: about admissions, the degree to which, especially as colleges have
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Speaker 9: moved away from admissions testing, and as grade inflation in
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Speaker 9: K twelve as well as higher ed has distorted the
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Speaker 9: ability to use grades and meaningful ways. So much of
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Speaker 9: the emissions process is now a mother may I dance
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Speaker 9: where students try to write the most heartrending and politically
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Speaker 9: correct essay possible in the hope that the folks who
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Speaker 9: staff these admissions.
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Speaker 15: Offices will give them a golden pifket oh I.
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Speaker 25: To and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our
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Speaker 2: want to pick up on the subsidy of education because
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Speaker 2: But I think what you were just talking about is
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Speaker 2: but the impetus to make better product, in this case,
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Speaker 2: if the universities have you mentioned, professors mailing it in,
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Speaker 9: Now, Yeah, yeah, and in fact only say professors are
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Speaker 9: I think it's probably when these professors say, well, we
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Speaker 9: And if somebody likes writing boring articles about gender fluid
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Speaker 15: So I think that's the kind of trade off we
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Speaker 2: Well, let's look at that for a second, because when
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Speaker 2: when you become that reliant on the government for your money,
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Speaker 2: The government has leaned on the scales. Everyone was mad
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Speaker 5: Here's what I want America to be.
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Speaker 2: And I know that I'm old enough to remember when
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Speaker 2: into college. When that failed a lot of people, it
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Speaker 2: seems so, so is are there bastions of places.
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Speaker 5: That you know have avoided this.
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Speaker 2: A lot of people talk about Hillsdale College taking no
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Speaker 2: money from the government so they're allowed to be independent.
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Speaker 2: Are there other places where independence still range? And if
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, one of the funny things is that
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Speaker 9: do with the tax payer money when you borrow it.
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Speaker 9: This is why something like pell grants and student loans have.
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Speaker 15: Held long been held up as a model in K twelve.
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Speaker 9: But the one of one of the realities, of course
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Speaker 9: one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to go get a
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Speaker 15: Them pay off their loan. Right, so it's you know,
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Speaker 9: Hilldale approach is pretty and one of the great things
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Speaker 15: They're entirely unapologetic.
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Speaker 9: That, hey, this is a place for students who want
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Speaker 9: historically branded themselves like that. Saint John's in Annapolis is another,
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Speaker 9: although I think questions have been raised about whether there's
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Speaker 9: pressure for these guys to accommodate a you know, a
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Speaker 9: the mental health burdens of being asked to do their work.
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Speaker 9: And that's part of what's going on is, for instance,
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Speaker 9: And so there was a push to uh re reset
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Speaker 5: So Shames. Stevie doesn't listen to those lyrics.
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Speaker 5: Julius is it. Malema led the.
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Speaker 2: Organization for over a decade now and one of the
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Speaker 2: things that brings up is districting. So they try to
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Speaker 2: get elected into office under the Marxist reparational go get
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Speaker 2: the white guy's land that they used in South Rhodesia
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Speaker 2: that led to economic collapse because what happened was Robert Mugabi,
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Speaker 2: much like I believe this Molina guy to be cut
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Speaker 2: from the same polt to fabric. When he gets all
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Speaker 2: the white farmers farms, he'll give them to his buddies,
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Speaker 2: and his buddies will crash them and then the economy
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Speaker 2: will crash with it. So far, and I was looking
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Speaker 2: at the totals in the ten years in South Africa
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Speaker 2: and their National Assembly, they've managed to earn thirty nine
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Speaker 2: out of four hundred seats.
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Speaker 5: In the Assembly.
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Speaker 2: Collecting I think the cap now is fifteen one point
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Speaker 2: five million votes, but that only turns into just under
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Speaker 2: forty seats. They're down. In twenty nineteen they were much
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Speaker 2: more popular. They had forty four out of four hundred
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Speaker 2: seats in the National Assembly. In the National Council of
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Speaker 2: Provinces only ten of ninety seats there, which I believe
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Speaker 2: is their version of our Senate. Maybe not, but you
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Speaker 2: look at the size of that representative body, the National Assembly,
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Speaker 2: four hundred seats in that in a country that's about
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Speaker 2: as populous. Let's be generous and well, you know what,
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Speaker 2: let's try to be accurate. I don't need the hater's
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Speaker 2: got to hate this close to Christmas South African population
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Speaker 2: and I'll get it. But there are four hundred seats.
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Speaker 2: We have four hundred and thirty five and it will
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Speaker 2: guarantee you regardless of what South Africa's actual population is.
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Speaker 2: It isn't close to three hundred and thirty million people,
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Speaker 2: but it's it speaks to having a more vibrant representation.
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Speaker 5: For see, this is my problem.
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Speaker 2: Unlike my kids who can type and talk, can have
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Speaker 2: a conversation about something else completely while they're typing another thing.
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Speaker 2: I'm like, I can't do that, all right. So it's
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Speaker 2: sixty four million, so roughly, what is that one fifth
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Speaker 2: of our population? Yet they have almost as many representatives
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Speaker 2: in their General Assembly.
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Speaker 5: And you see what it did here. What it does
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Speaker 5: here is though they get a.
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Speaker 2: Lot of run this economic freedom fighters whatever, they're limited
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Speaker 2: in their scope because.
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Speaker 5: Of the number of seats that are available in their
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Speaker 5: Assembly of four hundred.
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Speaker 2: So they've managed to in a country with worse poverty
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Speaker 2: issues than we have, and still a much more recent
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Speaker 2: vestige of apartheid and the horrible behaviors of the Western civilization,
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Speaker 2: and we have to call out, we have to call
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Speaker 2: out things like apartheid because you know, not just because
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Speaker 2: it's of course you do, but there are too many
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Speaker 2: people in the United States right now that say, if
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Speaker 2: I don't want to take everything from everyone else and
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Speaker 2: redistribute it it evenly to the population, then I'm a
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Speaker 2: puppet of the oligarchy.
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Speaker 5: And I want you name the rhetoric, whether it's Rhodesian
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Speaker 5: or Irish or.
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Speaker 2: Wherever the revolution has been some French Greece, they all
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Speaker 2: look at people like you and me and say, oh,
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Speaker 2: you just don't want Do I want reforms on how
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Speaker 2: people grow and and and generate wealth?
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Speaker 25: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: I think we have cronied up our wealth generation system.
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Speaker 2: I can be honest about that. But I don't hear
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Speaker 2: that from guys like Bernie Sanders and gals like AOC.
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Speaker 2: They're not talking about that. They're they're much more akin
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Speaker 2: to this eff the economic freedom front. And you've got
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Speaker 2: to be careful because the rhetoric is there. The rhetoric
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Speaker 2: is there the economic freedom fighters. Sorry, but if you
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Speaker 2: have enough representation in your legislative body, like the South
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Speaker 2: Africans do, four hundred legislators for sixty four million people,
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Speaker 2: or roughly one fifth of our population, with almost the
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Speaker 2: same General Assembly. But you have isolated these eff members
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Speaker 2: to the minority that they should be because they don't
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Speaker 2: speak for a majority of the people, so therefore they
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Speaker 2: should be legislatively a minority. Not the way it is
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Speaker 2: here in the United States right now with our sclerotic representation. Anyway,
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Speaker 2: I think we've made enough of a ruckus this morning.
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Speaker 2: We'll pack it up and be back to you tomorrow morning,
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Speaker 2: five Eastern. I am Joe Thomas. Until tomorrow, so long
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Speaker 2: and thanks for all the fish.
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Speaker 16: Hi.
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