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Strikes in the Gulf, Curtains for Platner · The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated

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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the hu Hewitt Show. I'm guest host Kurt Schlichter.
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  Speaker 2: Let me tell you a little about myself as I
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  Speaker 2: sit here once again standing in for the great Hue Hewitt,
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  Speaker 2: who's off doing Hugh Hewitt things in Hugh Hewitt Land.
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  Speaker 2: Who am I want? A senior columnist at town Hall
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  Speaker 2: dot com. You can read my columns every Monday, Wednesday
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  Speaker 2: and Thursday. I've got a great one about Graham Platner
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  Speaker 2: today and how he shows that the Progressives, well, they're
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  Speaker 2: not the giant bugaboo that everybody thinks they are. I
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  Speaker 2: think they've got a glass job. We're going to be
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  Speaker 2: talking a lot about Graham Platner. What else am I? Well,
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  Speaker 2: I was a trial lawyer for thirty years here in
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  Speaker 2: Los Angeles. I'm a retired United States Army colonel of Infantry.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't a jag. I know my parents and I'm
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  Speaker 2: also went off. I'm an author of the Kelly Turnbull
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  Speaker 2: series of conservative action novels, and I've got a new
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  Speaker 2: series coming out, American Warlord, from Arc Press. You can
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  Speaker 2: November third. You can go get at Amazon or on
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  Speaker 2: the Passage Press website, but go pre order it. It's
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  Speaker 2: going to be amazing conservative action novels. They say people
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  Speaker 2: don't read anymore, My books put the lie to that.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of reading, I've been reading a lot about Graham Platner.
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  Speaker 2: Holy cow, we are going to talk a lot about
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  Speaker 2: that guy today. We've got some great guests to do.
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  Speaker 2: We got Marcapudo coming up. Larry O'Connor, my buddy, the
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  Speaker 2: Salem morning host, is going to be along a little later.
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  Speaker 2: That's going to be incredible. You may laugh yourself silly,
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  Speaker 2: because frankly, we are hilarious and nothing, nothing gives me
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  Speaker 2: more pleasure than Graham Platner. Now, among other things, I
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  Speaker 2: forgot to add my resume. For about five years there,
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  Speaker 2: I was a stand up I'm one of the few
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  Speaker 2: graduates of the United States Army War College who was
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  Speaker 2: also a stand up comic, although you might not know
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  Speaker 2: it from a judging by some of the folks that
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  Speaker 2: you may have seen in the news. But first I
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  Speaker 2: want to talk about Iraq or Iran. We're bombing him again,
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  Speaker 2: and I want to emphasize here, First of all, I
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  Speaker 2: do not have any inside knowledge. All opinions are of
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  Speaker 2: course solely my own. But here's what I see as
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  Speaker 2: a guy who's done some of this stuff in the
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  Speaker 2: past as a army officer, also a guy who has
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  Speaker 2: a guy who has been, you know, very focused on
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  Speaker 2: the news for about, oh, I don't know, fifty five years.
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  Speaker 2: I remember as a kid, I'd be watching Walter Cronk
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  Speaker 2: I talk about the Vietnam War on TV and I'd
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  Speaker 2: be critiquing their operations. So let's critique these What is
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  Speaker 2: going on in Iran right now? Well, we had the
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  Speaker 2: Memorandum of Understanding the MoU and there was a lot
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  Speaker 2: of heat about it. And I've got to give my patron,
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  Speaker 2: Hugh Hewitt some credit. He's one of the guys who
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  Speaker 2: didn't wet himself about it. He's one of the guys
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  Speaker 2: who didn't freak out about it. I didn't freak out
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  Speaker 2: about it. Either. A lot of people did a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people said, Trump's giving it all the way, Trump's
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  Speaker 2: giving up. We've lost the war. Sigh. That is the
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  Speaker 2: dumbest thing I've ever heard, and I'm trying to be charitable.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, we have not lost the war. The
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  Speaker 2: war continues. The war's going to continue. The war has
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  Speaker 2: gone on since nineteen seventy nine, when the mall has
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  Speaker 2: declared it on us. It was only under Donald Trump
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  Speaker 2: the first quarter of this year we started really fighting
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  Speaker 2: back and to topple a dictatorship that rules a giant country.
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  Speaker 2: It's apparently bigger than Texas, full of ninety three million people.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you can't snap your fingers and have it done.
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  Speaker 2: Everything's not going to get closed up with a nice,
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  Speaker 2: nice oh, like the latest episode of ncis Rancho kucka Maunga. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to take time.
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  Speaker 3: The people.
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  Speaker 2: People don't seem to understand what's really happening here. People
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  Speaker 2: don't seem to have a grasp of strategy. What is strategy? Strategy?
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  Speaker 2: Big national objectives? How to do them, the ways, the ends,
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  Speaker 2: the means towards obtaining these goals? What is our strategic
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  Speaker 2: goal here. Well, i'll articulate it for you because the
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  Speaker 2: President Trump has not and there's a very specific reason.
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  Speaker 2: Our strategic goal is to create an Iran that is
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  Speaker 2: not a problem. It's not problem to its neighbors. It's
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  Speaker 2: not problem to Israel, it's not problem to us, it's
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  Speaker 2: not problem to the state of horror moves. It's not
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  Speaker 2: a seething cauldron of jihadi fascism in our wards. It's
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  Speaker 2: regime change. And I know you're not supposed to say
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  Speaker 2: the word regime change. Regime change has a bad name,
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  Speaker 2: but you know what regime change comes from history, five
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  Speaker 2: thousand years of history. Regime change is the traditional way
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  Speaker 2: to end a war. You defeat the enemy, going you
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  Speaker 2: behead their king and he puts your own king on
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  Speaker 2: there and he sits on the throne and rules the
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  Speaker 2: way you want. That's what we want. But Donald Trump
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  Speaker 2: hasn't announced that because it's politically a challenge. Because ace
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  Speaker 2: that's a standard. You have to do it, and people
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  Speaker 2: are going to start going, why haven't you done it yet?
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  Speaker 2: Why haven't you done it yet? Second of all, regime
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  Speaker 2: change has a bad name because we've fumbled it in
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  Speaker 2: the last thirty years. Our track record up until Trump
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  Speaker 2: has been terrible at regime change. We've had big problems
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  Speaker 2: in Afghanistan, we had big problems in Iraq. It's not
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  Speaker 2: It just leaves Bay with a bad taste in their mouth,
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  Speaker 2: and it shouldn't. What Trump has given are actually military goals.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to degrade their nuclear forces, We're going to
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  Speaker 2: degrade their missile capabilities. We're going to degrade their air
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  Speaker 2: defense systems. We're going to raise their ability to conduct
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  Speaker 2: operations on water. And we've achieved all those military goals.
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  Speaker 2: All the military goals build to the strategic goal that
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  Speaker 2: is unspoken, and we've done those things. Now, have we
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  Speaker 2: completely newtered the Iranians. No, No, they can shoot back.
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  Speaker 2: They still have some weapon systems, they still have some
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  Speaker 2: targeting systems, they still have some intelligent systems. But mad
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  Speaker 2: look at their ability to cause pain to the United
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  Speaker 2: States and their neighbors, it's almost non existent. I mean
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  Speaker 2: they haven't managed have they managed even sink a ship.
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  Speaker 2: We've sunk a lot of ships. They can't sink a ship.
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  Speaker 2: They can throw a drone at they can damage it.
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  Speaker 2: They can scare some people from going through the straight
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  Speaker 2: horror moves now the Straight of Horror moves. For the
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  Speaker 2: people out there who are shocked and surprised that the
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  Speaker 2: Iranians might want to dominate this geographic feature that's right
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  Speaker 2: next to them, I gotta tell you who's not surprised,
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  Speaker 2: anybody who's paying attention. The military has been planning for
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  Speaker 2: the Iranians to try and croise the Straight of Horror
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  Speaker 2: moves for oh, I don't know, fifty years, and of
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  Speaker 2: course they tried to do it and they fail. We've
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  Speaker 2: gotten a bunch of people through and it is a
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  Speaker 2: depreciating asset. Why I say it's a depreciating asset, Sometimes
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  Speaker 2: the threat is greater than the reality. Right, the threat
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  Speaker 2: to close the Straight of Horror moves will send the
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  Speaker 2: stock market reeling. Then they actually try and do it.
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  Speaker 2: After two days or three days of the latest round
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  Speaker 2: of bombings, I just looked at the stock market. It's up.
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  Speaker 2: It's actually up today. Whoa a depreciating asset? As people
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  Speaker 2: figure out ways around this problem, the ability of the
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  Speaker 2: Iranian mullas to dominate the Straight of Hormn moves becomes
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  Speaker 2: less and less important. Now the memo you what was
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  Speaker 2: that about? Well, let's remember what Klauswitz said, Klauswitz, Prussian
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  Speaker 2: military philosopher. He's the guy who said war is politics
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  Speaker 2: with other means. What's that mean? It means war is
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  Speaker 2: an element of politics. It means this isn't this is
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  Speaker 2: a political issue. War is just one of the ways
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  Speaker 2: we use to obtain or objective, but it's not the
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  Speaker 2: only one. Let me put it this way. If you
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  Speaker 2: go to the War College, which I did in twenty eleven,
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  Speaker 2: the US Army War College in Carlisle, they put it
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  Speaker 2: this way. Dime dime, It's an acronym. It's a cheat
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  Speaker 2: sheet for the elements of natural national power, diplomatic information, military, economic.
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  Speaker 2: I submit to you. Trump has used the dime, parallel,
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  Speaker 2: parallelic dime better than any one else because the guy's
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  Speaker 2: talking information, he's changing what people are talking about. He's
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  Speaker 2: using diplomacy to form an alliance of the Gulf States
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  Speaker 2: trying to get it's like herding cats. And economic Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he's using economic power. He's building up America's power because
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  Speaker 2: now we're selling the oil to China and the Iranians aren't.
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump has mastered strategy. That's my position. We're going
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  Speaker 2: to talk more about it here on The Hugh Hewitt Show.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Kurt Schlichter. Welcome back to the Hugh Hewitt Show.
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  Speaker 2: I'm guess Ho's Kurt Schlichter. You know me by my
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, just oh savor in it now. I am very,
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  Speaker 2: very excited to have my next guest. He's the White
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  Speaker 2: House correspondent for Axio. You can follow him at Mark
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  Speaker 3: Mark.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks for having me, Kurt.
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  Speaker 3: How are you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh? I'm doing great now. Mark, I'm going to say
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  Speaker 2: two words and I want you to go off. Those
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  Speaker 2: words are a Graham Platner.
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  Speaker 5: I mean to be said that you could be said
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  Speaker 5: that hasn't already been said. What I said last month
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  Speaker 5: on CNN. Sorry to name check myself in a prior
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  Speaker 5: media hit is He's a great example of just how
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  Speaker 5: modern day presidential races, or better said, modern day political
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  Speaker 5: races are marketing campaigns.
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  Speaker 4: And you get these.
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  Speaker 5: Slick marketers and consultants who decide to sell a candidate
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  Speaker 5: in the same way that maybe Coca Cola, cel soda
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  Speaker 5: or McDonald's hamburgers. They basically have the candidate as a product,
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  Speaker 5: and they find different ways to put them in front
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  Speaker 5: of the buyer and make them want to buy the voter.
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  Speaker 5: And so what they did is they just created this
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  Speaker 5: a lot gaborate story around a guy who had just
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  Speaker 5: like loads and loads of faults and flaws, and they
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  Speaker 5: were under the misimpression that voters didn't care. There was
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  Speaker 5: some truth to that, but they didn't do enough vetting
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  Speaker 5: of this guy, and there were just so many red
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  Speaker 5: flags that what makes Graham Platner unique is just the
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  Speaker 5: myriad number of issues. I mean, a Nazi tattoo he
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  Speaker 5: sort of lied about it, you know, allegations of being
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  Speaker 5: a bad boyfriend. Then allegations having raped a girlfriend or
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  Speaker 5: sexual assault her or whatever term people are going to use.
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  Speaker 5: It just went on and on, and finally it's making
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  Speaker 5: me sneeze. It was so of a sort of live slow.
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  Speaker 2: Motion in his favorite language, Germany.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just it's.
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  Speaker 5: Just really kind of astounding, And ultimately it's a good
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  Speaker 5: example of how the I don't want to rip on
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  Speaker 5: Brooklyn too, but how sort of the Brooklyn intellectual set
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  Speaker 5: had decided that this guy is an example of working
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  Speaker 5: class voters. When he really wasn't. And eventually all the
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  Speaker 5: scandals just became too much. And the bottom line here is, like,
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  Speaker 5: you know, maybe some traditional campaigning, traditional political party politics,
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  Speaker 5: and traditional vetting actually does make a difference.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Mark, tell me if you think I'm wrong.
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  Speaker 2: Here's my theory. My theory is all this stuff about socialists,
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  Speaker 2: a new socialists, that's also a branding exercise, because if
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  Speaker 2: you look at the politics between the socialists and the
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  Speaker 2: normal Democrats or the Democrats that the socialists are replacing,
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  Speaker 2: it's not too big a yeah, it's not a yawning chasm.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a branding exercise designed to have young people,
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  Speaker 2: give young people a path to essentially overthrow the Democrat
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  Speaker 2: gerontocracy exemplified by people like Nancy Peloe and all the
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  Speaker 2: other older Democrats who've held their places frankly, far too long.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think.
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  Speaker 5: I think that's true in some respects and other respects.
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  Speaker 5: The ones who are running is DSA candidates Democratic Socism
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  Speaker 5: of America, they are more leftists. And notably, the real
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  Speaker 5: bright dividing line here is Zionism is Israel. And you
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  Speaker 5: saw Platner really sort of embrace that.
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  Speaker 3: And that's a bit of a.
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  Speaker 5: Dog whistle for these leftist candidates and their leftist voters.
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  Speaker 5: And don't get me wrong, Israel is appolling less favorably
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  Speaker 5: than it has in my lifetime in fifty three, covered
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  Speaker 5: politics for thirty years, never seen anything like it. But
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  Speaker 5: that's sort of a dog whist, I think when you say, now,
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  Speaker 5: when you're a democratic socialist, by and large, those voters
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  Speaker 5: and those politicians tend to be rather anti Israel, and
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  Speaker 5: they use the word Zionist as a slur, as a
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  Speaker 5: derogatory word.
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  Speaker 2: I think these Democrat socialists have a lot of a
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  Speaker 2: lot of a kind of third world pinko academic nonsense
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  Speaker 2: of the kind that I've been dealing with since I
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  Speaker 2: was in college in the eighties. And you know, and
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  Speaker 2: I think you're right about the anti Semitism. So I mean, wait, wait,
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  Speaker 2: the guy who got himself a totin cuff tattoo doesn't
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  Speaker 2: like choose who want to thunk it? You know, starving.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, do you see a lane here for someone
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  Speaker 2: who is both young? And I'm writing about this a
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  Speaker 2: town hall Monday, so obviously I see a lane someone
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  Speaker 2: who is both young and who's not you know, gonna
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  Speaker 2: grab the twenty side of all these eighty twenty issues,
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  Speaker 2: like these DSA guys who've been very successful in their
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  Speaker 2: deep blue, the deep blue places where they've taken out Democrats.
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  Speaker 2: Do you see a lane for a normal Democrat?
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  Speaker 3: I do.
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  Speaker 5: I think this is what primaries are for, and we're
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  Speaker 5: going to see that play out. I know it's fashionable
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  Speaker 5: for folks on the right to hate on Alexandria Acossio Cortez. Yes,
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  Speaker 5: she is of the left, but she's demonstrated kind of
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  Speaker 5: a remarkable ability to work with other Democrats and not
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  Speaker 5: be so sort of leftist. I wouldn't count her out
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  Speaker 5: of the presidential conversation, not saying she's going to be
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  Speaker 5: the nominee, but she's gonna have to be part of
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  Speaker 5: the conversation. But in the end, I think the most
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  Speaker 5: recent poll on the Democrats side showed that Kamala Harris
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  Speaker 5: right now looks like the sort of nominal leader in
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  Speaker 5: a crowded field. And notably, back to the Israel issue,
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  Speaker 5: Harris just last week, as my colleagues had reported at Axios,
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  Speaker 5: began reaching out to pro Palestine demonstrators and activists critics
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  Speaker 5: of Israel to build some Bridges, So she sees that
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  Speaker 5: as being an important constituency that she snubbed during her
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  Speaker 5: brief bid in only twenty four But if she decides
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  Speaker 5: to run again, Kamala Harris is certainly going to recording
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  Speaker 5: them this time. How she walks that tyrope is another matter.
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  Speaker 2: Well in white universe, is the Democrat Party going to
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  Speaker 2: not pick a black woman of color with a leftist
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  Speaker 2: credentials and instead go with you know, California's own Patrick Bateman,
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  Speaker 2: I don't see it. It's got to be Kamala Harris.
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  Speaker 2: There's literally no one else. The question is whether Alexandra
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  Speaker 2: Casio Cortez is going to be vice president.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: One of the things I've learned is don't judge a
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  Speaker 5: primary too much before it happens. He not even through
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  Speaker 5: the midterms. But yeah, certainly, and certainly in the social
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  Speaker 5: media space, which demon which demonstrates, or is a place
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  Speaker 5: to demonstrate, a lot of the activist basis views the
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  Speaker 5: fact that Kamala Harris, a black woman's going to make
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  Speaker 5: it a little very difficult at least among those voters
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  Speaker 5: and those influencers and those people on social media among
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  Speaker 5: them to run. If you happen to be a white male.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not saying it cancels them out. I'm not saying
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  Speaker 5: that Gavin Newsom won't be the nominee. But they're gonna
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  Speaker 5: have to, really, just as Kamala Arison is gonna have
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  Speaker 5: to carefully walk that tightrope between the sort of pro
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  Speaker 5: and anti Israel sides, the white male candidate, should they run,
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  Speaker 5: are going to have to figure out if she's the
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  Speaker 5: candidate that they're running against, how to message and how
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  Speaker 5: to conduct themselves. That also is going to be a
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  Speaker 5: very difficult thing to watch. And well, we're going to
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  Speaker 5: be covering every step of the way.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we only got about fifteen twenty seconds left. Do
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  Speaker 2: you think the Republicans are competent enough to use Graham
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  Speaker 2: Platner as a bat to beat Democrats around the around
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  Speaker 2: the skull for the next four months or do you
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  Speaker 2: think they're going to blow it as usual?
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  Speaker 5: Well, objection to the form of the question, but I
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  Speaker 5: think I think certainly Platner is going to be part
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  Speaker 5: of the conversation for a while.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, outside out of mind.
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  Speaker 5: Chevalier, the Democratic Socialist candidate.
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  Speaker 3: For Congress in New York, is probably going to.
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  Speaker 5: Occupy a lot of headspace of Republican consultancy candidates.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you, Mark Apudo, he is the Axios White
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  Speaker 2: House Correspondence. Join us here on the Hugh Hewitt Shoe.
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  Speaker 2: I'm guess host Kurt Sleector. You need to stick around.
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  Speaker 2: We've got a lot more mockrative Graham Platner. To come boys,
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  Speaker 2: bad boys. What's he going to do? What's he going
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  Speaker 2: to do when they come for you?
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  Speaker 6: Bad boys?
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Hugh Hewitt Joe. I'm guess host
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  Speaker 2: Kirch Schlichter, Senior calmness over at town hall dot com.
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  Speaker 2: Check out my columns. I got a great one about
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  Speaker 2: Graham Platner today, and i'd like to welcome my next guest,
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  Speaker 2: Eleanna Johnson, editor in chief of the Washington Free Beacon.
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  Speaker 2: Follower at eleianna E l I A n A y
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  Speaker 2: A Johnson, Eleanna, I'm just gonna throw two words out
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  Speaker 2: there for you. I've been doing this and I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: do it all day. Graham Platner, go.
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  Speaker 7: Broad you need if you need a one word reply,
• 18:56
  Speaker 7: if that's the game we're playing, I mean, Kurt, what.
• 18:58
  Speaker 8: Can I say?
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 19:01
  Speaker 7: Not surprised by this outcome given that progressive political operatives
• 19:05
  Speaker 7: literally went to Maine in search of a candidate they
• 19:09
  Speaker 7: could sell as a man of the people, and they
• 19:12
  Speaker 7: found a boarding school Expellee. I would say, drop up,
• 19:16
  Speaker 7: but you know, he got kicked out and then tried
• 19:19
  Speaker 7: to repackage him and sell him as a working class
• 19:25
  Speaker 7: when he you know, working class oyster farmer, when he
• 19:29
  Speaker 7: is the grandson.
• 19:30
  Speaker 8: Of a world renowned architect.
• 19:33
  Speaker 7: He went to a Tony boarding school and then to
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: a private high school, to George Washington University, one of
• 19:39
  Speaker 7: the most expensive colleges in the country, and came back
• 19:42
  Speaker 7: to Maine with a hobby oyster farm, where his business
• 19:46
  Speaker 7: partner brags about having a liminal experience with seafood at
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: the age of four years old and drinking Forge spring water.
• 19:54
  Speaker 7: So let's just say, you know, he is not the
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: man he was casting himself as on the campaign trail.
• 20:02
  Speaker 7: So this is not really a surprising outcome. But I
• 20:04
  Speaker 7: think what it really took for Democrats to ditch him
• 20:07
  Speaker 7: was polling showing that he was not all that competitive
• 20:12
  Speaker 7: against Susan Collins, who has typically pulled you know, nine
• 20:15
  Speaker 7: to ten points behind where she ends up on the ballot.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Well, Eleana, look, I'm a guy and I was an
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: arm in the army for a long time. I know
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: who this guy is. I took one look at him
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: and go, this is the guy I had. This is
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: part of the ten percent of the guys who I
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: had to spend ninety percent of my time dealing with. Okay,
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: and I think a lot of guys got that. But
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: if you look at the b roll behind Platinum Ways
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: on board or on platform, you know it's all these
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: gray haired women in their sixties smiling broadly. You know,
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: you know, it looks like they, you know, just took
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: a break from operating their local peculium emporium. My question
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: is to you, a woman who identifies as a woman,
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: because I guess we're doing that now in society, why
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: do women fall for this guy?
• 21:13
  Speaker 8: I am the wrong woman to ask that question. Well,
• 21:18
  Speaker 8: I really am.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: I asked her and she almost cut me.
• 21:22
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I am the wrong woman to ask that question.
• 21:25
  Speaker 7: But I think what you see in those crowds, and
• 21:28
  Speaker 7: particularly on the right side of that first video you played,
• 21:32
  Speaker 7: you know, you see a lot of downwardly mobile young
• 21:36
  Speaker 7: people with nose piercings and tattoos, and I do think
• 21:40
  Speaker 7: that's the crowd he attracts, because that's what he is.
• 21:42
  Speaker 7: You know, in three generations, his family went from a
• 21:45
  Speaker 7: world renowned architect his grandfather designed windows on the world
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: and chairs that sell for tons of thousands of dollars,
• 21:52
  Speaker 7: to his father, an ivy league educated lawyer, to Graham Platner,
• 21:57
  Speaker 7: who dropped out, you know, is out of boarding school
• 22:01
  Speaker 7: and I don't believe finish college at George Washington University
• 22:05
  Speaker 7: and now you know, lives off veterans benefits. Because I
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: think we can see he's a compulsive liar and mentally
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: damaged in serious ways. He's an incredibly damaged individual who
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: is trying to take the people of Maine and the
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: Democratic Party for a ride.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: So what do you think the Democrats in Maine are
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: going to do? Are they going to you know, get
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: a pee hustle too, in the form of this Troy Jackson,
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: who's got his own allegations about dealing with women out there.
• 22:35
  Speaker 8: Or are they bottle throwing?
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Bottle throwing? And you know there's worse, you know, if
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: all you know is about the bottle throwing, that's like
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: the iceberg, right, A guy who throws bottles at women,
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: does like worse things to women. I think that's a
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: safe bet. But if you or might they go for
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: Janet Mills, you know, one of these ancient geriatric retreads
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: that they're comfortable with. What do you think they're going
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: to do?
• 23:04
  Speaker 7: You know, I actually think the party is in a
• 23:05
  Speaker 7: tough position because for all of Platner's flaws, he actually
• 23:09
  Speaker 7: was a real political talent. He's charismatic, he had some
• 23:14
  Speaker 7: real he had real verbal dexterity on the stump, fielding questions,
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: and he energized voters as you saw in those videos.
• 23:23
  Speaker 7: And he was able to unite the far left of
• 23:27
  Speaker 7: the Democratic Party and the DSA, you know, Israel hating
• 23:31
  Speaker 7: lunatic wing, and eventually the establishment wing. And I think
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: the party's going to have trouble finding another figure who
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: can raise money and energize the party in a similar way.
• 23:43
  Speaker 7: You saw even the popular sitting governor of the state,
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: Janet Mills, who's seventy seven years old, Schumer's pick, could
• 23:50
  Speaker 7: not really mount a primary bid against Platner. So the
• 23:54
  Speaker 7: challenge is to find a successor candidate who has some talent,
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: who can unite both wings of the part and who
• 24:00
  Speaker 7: can raise real money that's not actually easy, and Susan
• 24:04
  Speaker 7: Collins is a formidable competitor with a lot.
• 24:06
  Speaker 8: Of money behind her.
• 24:08
  Speaker 7: I'd much rather be the Republicans and the Democrats right now.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Well, I agree with you. Do you think we've seen
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: the last a grand Platner? Or is he going to
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: launch his own podcast with a visit to Candice Owens
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: to complain how the Jews are to blame?
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 24:24
  Speaker 7: I suspect the next place he turns up is Tucker Carlson.
• 24:28
  Speaker 7: And I think we know he was talking about when
• 24:30
  Speaker 7: he blamed them, you know, they them the establishment.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I do you think that Democrats are gonna be
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: able to get out of their swamp of moronic anti Semitism.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: I mean it's it's so embarrassingly stupid and morally bankrupt.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: You would think that somebody would stand up and say no,
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: we're not doing this. And I don't see that person.
• 24:56
  Speaker 8: You know, it's interesting.
• 24:59
  Speaker 7: Watching the Senate debate on Tuesday, I think it was
• 25:01
  Speaker 7: Tuesday Night between Abdul Lsied and Hailey Stevens in Michigan.
• 25:06
  Speaker 7: While the candidates who are claiming and who the New
• 25:09
  Speaker 7: York Times tells us are capturing the economic anxieties of
• 25:14
  Speaker 7: left wing voters. There's a whole lot of talk about
• 25:17
  Speaker 7: Israel and Apak and Jewish money, and that is what
• 25:21
  Speaker 7: Abdul lsied hammered home again and again and again. Whatever
• 25:25
  Speaker 7: the question, whatever the subject matter of the question was,
• 25:28
  Speaker 7: his answer was about a pac and Israel. And what
• 25:33
  Speaker 7: we haven't seen is the leadership of the Democratic Party,
• 25:37
  Speaker 7: Chuck Schumer or Keem Jeffries.
• 25:39
  Speaker 8: Come out and say this isn't what we stand for.
• 25:42
  Speaker 7: It's unacceptable, we won't tolerate it in our party.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Sadly, Eleianna Johnson of the Free Beacon, I think it
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: is what they stand for, and I think they're happy
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: to tolerate it if it gets the power. It's disgrace
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: soon and embarrassing. I'm guess hos Kirk Schlichter stick around
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: for more than you human too. I'm joined by one
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: of my favorite people in the business, Indiana Senator Jim Banks.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: Senator Banks, I'm going to give you it's got to
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: be a tough date for you today because you're not
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: going to be able to spend the rest of your
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: term with you. Fellow fellow Senator Graham plattn or how
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: do you feel about that?
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: Well, we all knew he was a dirt bag. The
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: Democrats knew he was a dirt bag. I think the
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: most of the voters in Maine knew he was a
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: dirt bag. But I think a lot of us were
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: looking forward. Tom Cotton, myself, a Tim Sheehy, a lot
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: of the Afghanistan Iraq veterans who are currently serving in
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: the Senate. We were ready to go to Maine and
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: campaign against maybe one of the biggest dirt bags Democrats
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: have ever nominated. The guy had a Nazi tattoo. I mean,
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: all of the markings were already there that this guy
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: was unfit to be a United States Senator. Not to
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: mention Kurt that he told one Purple Heart veteran that
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: he didn't deserve to live. He called our ice officers,
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: our federal law enforcement officers, he called them names and
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: taunted them. Wanted to defund the defund ice and our
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: federal police. He would have been a dream candidate for
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: any any Republican in the country to run against, especially
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: Susan Collins, who wins every six years in Maine. She's
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: a survivor. She would have beat She would have beat
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: Platiner by a lot. She's going to beat whatever Democrat
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: they put up against her because she's effective and she
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: knows how to win in a tough state. So I
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: was ready to go to Maine and campaign against Platiner.
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: I'm not going to have to do that now, but
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: we're still going to cheer for Susan Collins to do
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: everything we can to help her. Help her win.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: Well, maybe you could go to Michigan to campaign against
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: was his name, Outsie the soon to be a Democrat
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: nominee for the Senate seat from Hamas.
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: That's right, Michigan, or the really wacko Democrat candidate down
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: in Texas who I think is going to lose bad
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: The media has hyped this guy up. I think he's
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: going to lose badly. I mean, the guy is very
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: bizarre and weird as well doesn't belong to the United
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: States Senate. I have a feeling court, I mean, I'm
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: feeling better and better about November every single day that
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: we're going to keep the majorities in the House and
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: the Senate. There are lots of good signs, but the
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: best signs come from these wacko candidates that the Democrats nominate.
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: In these states who are left wing, not just left wing,
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: they're communist candidates. They're being nominated all over the country.
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: It shows the contrast between us and them, and the
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: biggest contrast, by the way, and polling just out over
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: the last couple of weeks nationally, only twenty nine percent
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: of Democrats say they are proud to be to be Americans.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: America two fifty This is the great country in the
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: history of the world. And that's the difference between us
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: and them. They don't love America. We believe America is great.
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: America is the greatest country and the history of the
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: world on this this milestone anniversary of the founding of
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: our country. That's the difference. That's that's fundamentally the difference
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: between us and them. And when you see numbers like that,
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: you have to you have to have a sense that
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: November can go very well for Republicans.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: We use there's Republican Senator Banks. You've got to be
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: excited about running against people whose platform is I hate
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: America and the Jews. I mean I mean that, I
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: mean that's it. All they talk about is, you know, Israel,
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: which is code for the Jews, and and and how
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: America stinks. I mean, you got you guys have to
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: be like just like rubbing, you know, tinting your fingers
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: together like mister birds in anticipation running against these creeps.
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the creep creeps, wackos, communists. I mean this, We've
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: never seen anything like this. And and of course, you know,
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: President Trump is so good at helping Republicans ramp up
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: for these elections. He's going to be out on the
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: campaign trail delivering the Trump voters. We have to do
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: our part too, though, And that's why I'm well aware
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: that Republicans have to fight harder for the Save America Act.
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: We have to fight harder for President Trump's agenda. Gas
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: prices are down, we have to keep them going down
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: and costs of living going down. But we are working
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: on that and focused on that with President Trump. And
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: as we accomplish that, and the difference has become so
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: much clearer between Republicans and Democrats, there are signs that
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: the election November can go very well for Republicans and
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: keep these majorities.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: Well center banks. There there are some there are some
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: obstacles to the Republicans, which are of course some of
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: the Republicans for one thing. We have a health crisis
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: with Senator McConnell. Do you have any inside information on
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: how he's doing. There's a lot of talk because we
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: just haven't seen him.
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know anything more than you do or
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: what's been publicly reported. As a Christian, I pray for
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: Mitch McConnell's full and quick recovery. I hope he gets
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: out of the hospital. I also pray that he will
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: support the Same America Act when he gets back, and
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: that he will support President Trump and the Republican agenda
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: for his last six months in the United States Senate.
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: But I hope that I hope he will recover. I
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: hope he leaves the hospital. We go back into session
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: on Monday in the Senate after two weeks back in
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: our states for the Fourth of July holiday, and we
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: have a lot to do. I mean, we have a
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: lot of President Trump's nominees to confirm for important offices.
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: We have to start looking at the spending bills, the
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: appropriation bills to fund the governments so there's not another
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: avoiding government shut down as we go into October into
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: the campaign season. We have the NDAA. We have to
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: we have to extend Faiza, we have the Farm Bill.
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: There's a lot of work to do between now and
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: the October. The August and the October recesses. I'm offer
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: canceling recesses if we need to to get all of
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: that done, especially the Save America Act and the upcoming
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: Reconciliation Bill of Pentagon requesting three hundred and fifty billion
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: dollars to replenish our munitions, to do what we have
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: to do, to rebuild the defense industrial base in America,
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: to keep America's military strong as we face adversaries like
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: Iran and China. We have a lot to do, and
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: we need all fifty three Republicans there to get it done.
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: And I pray that Mitch McConnell will recover and be
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: back in his position very soon, if not on Monday.
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: Well, Senator Banks. One of the problems I've noted, and
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: a lot of people have noted, is there are some
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: Republicans who are going to be leaving the Senate, whether
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: they lost a primary or decide not to even run,
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: who seem to be making spectacles of themselves. Suddenly they
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: have developed, Suddenly they have decided that all the things
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: they were telling the voters before, they don't actually believe
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: they're going in a different direction. Have some of the
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: Republicans taken these guys aside and said, wait a minute,
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: you can't do that. You need to be part of
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: the team, even though you didn't get what you wanted.
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: It is disappointing. It's disappointing when you hear a Republican
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: or see a Republican vote differently than what they said
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: they were for for in some cases decades of their
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: time in the Senate just I think in an effort
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: to poke President Trump in the eye because they lost
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: their primary, or they retired because they didn't want to
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: face President Trump and the Trump voters any longer. So again,
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: we have a lot to do in six months, and
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: our voters sent us to Washington to fight for them.
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: And I'm, frankly, I'm glad that some of these Republicans
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: are retiring. They've been they've been in Washington for way
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: too long. My experience so far in a year and
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: a half in the Senate is we have some Republican
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: senators who don't they don't want to fight, they don't
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: want to fight for this agenda, and that we need
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: to replace those Republicans public with Republican senators who will fight.
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: And we have a good crop of new senators that
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: are going to come in after this November election. Kevin
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: Hearn from Oklahoma, who took my place as Republican Study
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: Committee Chairman. Harriet Hageman, who did the country such a
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: great service when she defeated Liz Cheney yes six years ago.
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: She's going to be the new senator from Wyoming. She's
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: going to be a great Senator. Ashley Henson in Iowa,
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: Andy Barr in Kentucky. You have a fresh crop of
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: Republicans who have been fighting the fight in the House,
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: who are going to come and help us shake it
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: up in the Senate. And that's what we desperately need.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: Well, Senator Banks, we got about fifteen seconds. Would you
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: call yourself optimistic about the midterms?
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: I'm more optimistic today than I've ever been.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: Oh, I love to hear that. I'm Kurt Schlickter. That
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: was Senator Jim Banks of the Great State of Indiana.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: This is the Hugh Hewitt Show, and we've got a
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: lot more to come. Stick around from common lot.
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: He was not afraid to die.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Hugh Hewitt Show on the day
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: of the Great Chickening out, the chickening of Grand Point
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: playing spam alot? Are you bringing me on with spam
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: a loot? Oh my gosh, that voice you hear is
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: Larry O'Connor, one of my bestest buddies, the morning host
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: here on Salem and a guy who I knew we
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: had to have to talk about, Graham Platner.
• 35:46
  Speaker 9: That's right. Oh what a guy. What a guy. He's
• 35:49
  Speaker 9: a perfect Democrat.
• 35:50
  Speaker 10: By the way, for everyone watching on Salem News Channel,
• 35:53
  Speaker 10: I've already done my time this morning with my jacket
• 35:56
  Speaker 10: and tie, so I don't watch you yelling at me.
• 35:57
  Speaker 10: All right, this is how I dress when I'm not
• 35:59
  Speaker 10: on the I'm a townhall dude, townhall swag going everywhere.
• 36:03
  Speaker 9: I got my town hall cup.
• 36:05
  Speaker 10: Because I'm on with Kurt Schlickter, senior columnist, a town
• 36:07
  Speaker 10: hall dang it.
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: Literally, no town hall swag at all. I'm swag.
• 36:15
  Speaker 9: How you're you're in West Coast space. It's because you're
• 36:18
  Speaker 9: West Coast space?
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah. Can I just say do racism?
• 36:23
  Speaker 10: We might be curtain, I might be weird, but for us,
• 36:27
  Speaker 10: the Nazi tattoo was enough. We were done at that point.
• 36:31
  Speaker 10: It was no even considering it. Yes, but for some
• 36:35
  Speaker 10: reason it took a lot more for others.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: Well, you run a morning show, so you're talking every
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: single day about Grand Platner. How do we talk about
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: Graham Platiner and do injustice when we have to remain
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: FCC compliant.
• 36:47
  Speaker 9: It's it has.
• 36:48
  Speaker 10: Been the biggest challenge of my professional career, especially considering
• 36:52
  Speaker 10: you and I. I mean, I'm pretty good friends with
• 36:54
  Speaker 10: Lindsay Feifeld, the young woman at the center of the
• 36:56
  Speaker 10: New York Times article when the New York Times tried
• 36:59
  Speaker 10: to bury this a few weeks ago.
• 37:01
  Speaker 9: And I don't know about you, Kurtlis.
• 37:03
  Speaker 10: I sort of ticked off a couple of my fellow
• 37:06
  Speaker 10: conservative commentators when I I what happened here is exactly
• 37:10
  Speaker 10: what I wanted to happen. I know a lot of
• 37:12
  Speaker 10: people are like, no, wait until after he's stuck on
• 37:15
  Speaker 10: the ballot and then we'll dump all this stuff on him. No, no, no,
• 37:18
  Speaker 10: I don't want him even to have a chance to
• 37:21
  Speaker 10: get into the US Senate.
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  Speaker 9: I'm glad he's gone. I'm so glad that he's out
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  Speaker 9: of there.
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  Speaker 2: So what do you think his next move as I
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: asked Ileana Johnson a little earlier, do you think it's
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: to go on with candas to explain why the Jews
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: did it?
• 37:36
  Speaker 9: Oh?
• 37:36
  Speaker 10: No, this has Tucker Carlson written all over it. Tucker's
• 37:39
  Speaker 10: from Maine too, he lives in Maine. I think that's
• 37:43
  Speaker 10: a better bet than Candace. Besides the Charlie Kirk pretrial
• 37:47
  Speaker 10: is going on, so Candace is fully occupied with that nonsense.
• 37:51
  Speaker 9: Yeah. Yeah, well, j think it'll be Tucker.
• 37:52
  Speaker 10: And by the way, let's not discount Tucker as a
• 37:56
  Speaker 10: potential nominee for the Democrats. I mean, you know, he
• 37:59
  Speaker 10: aligns pretty well with a lot of the things they
• 38:01
  Speaker 10: stand for these days, frighteningly.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: So yeah, that's uh that. That's been an interesting transition.
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: The the evolution of Tucker Carlson's been quite the thing. Wow.
• 38:15
  Speaker 10: Honestly, I think the Bruce the Bruce Jenner transition has
• 38:18
  Speaker 10: been less surprising to me than the Tucker Carlson transition.
• 38:22
  Speaker 9: But either way, there's some similarities there.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: Kurt, Well, look, do you think do you now now
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: attention's going to shift from Maine as uh they put
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: up some uh uh clown to be knocked over by
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: Susan Collins. Attention is going to shift to Texas, where
• 38:40
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 10: on our cruise. That's a big difference.
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  Speaker 2: Well, as a free benefit, we're also allowed within a
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  Speaker 10: So this is which you cannot say about the Bulwark crew.
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  Speaker 2: That's I think it's linked project at the very least.
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  Speaker 9: Oh that's right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well it got other. How'd you like how a
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  Speaker 2: on the got out on the edge of the limits,
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  Speaker 2: start sawing it off behind them. That was glorious.
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  Speaker 10: This is what makes town Hall Media and our website
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  Speaker 9: Over at town Hall.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I love town Hall because I can write, you know,
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  Speaker 9: You're not there.
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  Speaker 9: Kurt.
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  Speaker 10: I'm sorry, and I love interviewing you whenever you come
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  Speaker 9: Have you ever been to those places?
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  Speaker 2: I have not been to Kozamel, but I have been
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  Speaker 9: Is a very real benefit for Kurt.
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  Speaker 10: Sector Although I was told that you would be bringing
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  Speaker 10: Cayman with you. We're going to do the Mitt Romney
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  Speaker 10: Offshore Banking Tour. It's going to be phenomenon. I cannot wait.
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  Speaker 10: Highlight of the cruise. But unlike a Mitt Romney family reunion,
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  Speaker 10: we're going to be a diverse crew. Well, yes, and
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  Speaker 10: we will not serve may I be sandwiches, So.
• 43:12
  Speaker 9: I don't hold that against him necessarily.
• 43:14
  Speaker 10: There's other things to pick apart there, but sure, sure
• 43:17
  Speaker 10: you bettion it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh well, Larry, we've only got about thirty forty more seconds.
• 43:23
  Speaker 9: You are in Washington kicking me off.
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: Well, yes, you you have your finger on the pulse
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  Speaker 2: of Washington because you are a swamp dweller. How do
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• 43:34
  Speaker 9: I am in the Beltway, but not of the Beltway.
• 43:36
  Speaker 9: Let me just say this.
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  Speaker 2: more to come. Welcome back to here, huge show. I'm
• 44:07
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  Speaker 2: of Mega Death and their cover of the sex pistols
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  Speaker 2: anarchy in the UK better than my following guest Vic Mattis.
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  Speaker 2: Free Beacons. Free Beacons Weekend at Culture editor and also
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  Speaker 2: half of the Getting Hammered podcast. Follow him at Victorino
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  Speaker 2: Mattis on the Twitter Machine, Dick, how you doing, Welcome
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: to a show.
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: I'm doing. I'm doing great, Kurt, thank you for having
• 44:37
  Speaker 3: me today.
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: Well, you know, I always like to start off with
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: a little little punk rock to kind of get the
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: vibe down, and I want to continue the vibe by
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: asking you the question. Well, it's not really a question,
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: it's just sort of a a contention, I guess.
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: Vick.
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: I'm going to give you two words, and I want
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: you to react.
• 44:59
  Speaker 9: Graham.
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: I'm going to give you two words.
• 45:04
  Speaker 11: Kurt, Ralph Northam, I'm very disappointed, and I'm very disappointed,
• 45:08
  Speaker 11: and Graham Plattner deciding to pull out, and really it's
• 45:12
  Speaker 11: not really surprising because he should learn from president and.
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: The president is had he stuck it out, I think
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: somehow they would have been like the Democrats would have
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: been like, well, he's not leaving. Maybe we can just
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: pretend it didn't happen and support the guy who you know,
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: had the yearbook meeting Ralph Northam with the you know,
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: the blackface and the ku Klux klansmen, and we don't know,
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: we may never know what will happen. And in this
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: case with the Grand Platner, of course, he still denies
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: that he had raped a sexually assaulted Jenny Rassico. So
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: it's not like he's saying, well, they got me. I
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: have a real serious drinking problem and PTSD. I need
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: to get out of this race. No, he was so
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: defiant that he decided that you know, look, it's not
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: my fault. They forced this on me. Blame the Democratic
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: establishment and other people. Uh, and really it's kind of
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: bizarre that he took this approach. I think it should
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: have been one or the other. So I have what's
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: he going to do next? I don't know, but obviously
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: he still hasn't officially withdrawn. He has till Monday at
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: five pm.
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: I guess, well, Vic, I've been saying this all along,
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: you know, follow the game theory. What's he what's he
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: got to gain by getting out? I mean, he's now
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: that rapist guy who dropped out. He could have been senator,
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: that rapist guy who didn't drop out.
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's exactly right. You know, there was an opportunity
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: for him. Some people, some pundits were saying, oh, he's
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: got to leave now because he has no leverage. He
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: had all the levels, yes, this is everything that he had,
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: and now he has nothing, and no one wants to
• 46:46
  Speaker 3: go anywhere near him. He's toxic. Nobody wants the endorsement again.
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: And this is it's worth pointing out that the Democrats
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: are not out of out of the woods obviously, because
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: they still have to pick somebody in a rather undemocratic fashion.
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: They mean, they had a primary, the manors had their choice.
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: They chose Grand Platner decisively over Janet Mills. And now
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: they're going to have some sort of a party convention
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: in which the local pubas get to decide who they
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: think will best represent whatever the Democratic Party is right now,
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: over Susan Collins. And you have a lot of the
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: establishment people who are very defiant and they're like, see,
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: we told you so, this was a mistake. And then
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: you have all the Grand Platner supporters, how many of
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: them are left saying there's no way we're going to
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: have an establishment candidate because we tried it and it
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: didn't work. So they're in a mess right now. But
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: whatever Grand Platiner, whatever power and influence he had, he
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: just lost it. He can Linger. I have no idea
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: what he's going to do next. It's not like, you know,
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: he can use his endorsement as some sort of be
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: a king maker. That's not exactly going to help the Democrats,
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: and nobody wants that, so I mean, really, it's kind
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: of a pathetic end to the whole saga.
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: Well, look, I think he's one step away from going
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: on Tucker Carlson and explaining how the Jews did it.
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: But here's the thing. I know what the Democrat establishment thinks.
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: They think he couldn't win against Susan Collins. So suddenly,
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: you know, the guy who was you know, at the
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: Nazi tattoo and the outhouse owningism and all the rest
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: of it, Suddenly, Okay, we finally crossed the line here.
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: I don't think the base. I'm not convinced the base
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: thinks that. I'm not convinced that the base the uh
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: blue haired nose pierced fail Son trust fund kids and
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: the Patulli setted boomer women who supported this guy. I
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: don't think they weren't him replaced.
• 48:45
  Speaker 12: No.
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: I think that's right, Kurt, Because right now, if you're
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: looking at a race, let's say hypothetically, between Susan Collins,
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: the Republican versus Ganet Mills, the governor and the establishment choice.
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: To them, it's good to seem like the same person.
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: So why bother go out to the polls and vote
• 49:01
  Speaker 3: for Janet Mills when they are basically thinking that she's
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: not that all different from Susan Collins. And the Democratic Party,
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: of course, wants you to badly believe that Susan Collins
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: is Trump's best friend, but I think most maners know
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: that's not the case. It's bizarre, but you're right. I
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: would have loved to have seen the internal polls from
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: the Platner campaign asking their supporters what they felt about
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: the latest allegations that came out about Jenny Rassico, because
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: clearly a lot of those Democrats, whether it be his
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: supporters or endorsers like Rocanna, had no problem with the
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: allegations against Lindsey Fifield because they said, oh, she's a
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: Republican operative and you know it's her word versus his. Well,
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: it's still her word versus his, but I guess they'll
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: never know.
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: Look, vic, I think that the struggle here we talk
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: about the establishment, we talk about the DSA socialists. I
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: think that's all branding because frankly, there's about that much
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: difference in policy between the social alleged socialists and alleged
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: establishment types. I think it is really a battle of generations.
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: I think the young people have branded themselves socialists as
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: a way to try and wrestle power from the gerontocracy
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: that's dominated the Democrat Party.
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: What do you think, Yeah, I mean there's definitely a
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: generational gap, and they're tired of you know, folks like
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: Chuck Schumer or Janet Mills for that matter, or Shu's
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: in Collins for that matter, or Joe Biden for that matter,
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: and they want somebody who's young and understands their needs
• 50:39
  Speaker 3: and their problems. And of course socialists will tell them
• 50:43
  Speaker 3: everything they want to hear about the rent being too
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: high in the Medicare for all. I mean, they're not
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: going to get it, obviously. They don't have any knowledge,
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: a lot of these young people about the effects of socialism.
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: And again you look at the voting blocks in New
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: York for example, and how these DSA candidates wont they
• 51:00
  Speaker 3: won on the backs of white liberals because minorities, particularly Hispanics,
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: they know what socialism is. They know it doesn't work
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: in places like Cuba and Venezuela, and they're not going
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: to have their support. But there's definitely a generational gap
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: problem among the Democrats Republicans less. So Donald Trump is
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: very unique. But what happens to the Democrats now, we'll
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: have to wait and see.
• 51:25
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  Speaker 6: You can say my name however you want, colonel, aren't
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  Speaker 6: He seemed.
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  Speaker 6: change after he was accused of roughing up his ex
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• 54:21
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  Speaker 2: Like the weirdos who write to guys on death Row,
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  Speaker 6: This is what's happening is basically, the Democrats have chased
• 54:38
  Speaker 6: out men. They've chased out the value of masculinity. Masculinity
• 54:43
  Speaker 6: is toxic according to them, and so the only men
• 54:46
  Speaker 6: left are the kinds of people who ran Graham Platner
• 54:50
  Speaker 6: like this, Morris Katz and Daniel moraf these very effeminate,
• 54:55
  Speaker 6: vocal fry dsa types who are the opposite of tradition
• 55:00
  Speaker 6: masculinity and don't know any men, and don't know any
• 55:03
  Speaker 6: working class people, and they think working class people are
• 55:07
  Speaker 6: Nazis and rapists. So they went out and found a
• 55:11
  Speaker 6: guy who they thought would appeal to the working class,
• 55:15
  Speaker 6: to bring the working class and bring men back to
• 55:17
  Speaker 6: the Democrat party. A guy who's like actually has a
• 55:20
  Speaker 6: Nazi tattoo and is actual alleged rapist. And we're like, look,
• 55:25
  Speaker 6: we're gonna use him because he is working class. Of
• 55:28
  Speaker 6: course he's not working class. He lives off the government
• 55:31
  Speaker 6: and off of his wealthy parents. Working class people look
• 55:34
  Speaker 6: at this guy and they just see what I see,
• 55:35
  Speaker 6: which is a total scumbag. So it's a completely perfect
• 55:39
  Speaker 6: encapsulation of everything that's wrong with the Democratic Party. But
• 55:43
  Speaker 6: as you point out, it turns out some of the
• 55:45
  Speaker 6: women there are so desperate for a real man that
• 55:48
  Speaker 6: they'll settle for this.
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: Oh it's so gross. I mean, I'm look, I was
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: an army colonel. One look at him, and I know
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: he's part of the ten percent of the unit that
• 56:02
  Speaker 2: I have to spend ninety percent of my time cleaning
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: up after. I mean, there's just no question. You look
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: at him and talk to him for two minutes and
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: you know what kind of dirtbag he is. But I
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: don't think you know. And while the establishment seems to
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: have soured on him, I think in large part due
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: to polls, I think the established, I think the base
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: is still probably saying, you know, I don't think he's
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: that bad. I think he's kind of okay. I don't
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: know what the big deal is, do you think the
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: I think he's one step away from going on with
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: Tucker Carlson to you know, capitalize on this by blaming
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: it on the Jews.
• 56:45
  Speaker 6: I would be very surprised if he had not been
• 56:48
  Speaker 6: invited onto the Tucker Carlson Show, either before this or since,
• 56:53
  Speaker 6: the Tucker crossing net will cut out a statement that
• 56:55
  Speaker 6: was very similar to Graham Plattner's own self pitying blame
• 57:00
  Speaker 6: the establishment statement after every one of his scandals came out.
• 57:06
  Speaker 6: Graham Platner blamed APAK. I don't know how APAK goes
• 57:09
  Speaker 6: back in time five years and forces you to rape
• 57:12
  Speaker 6: your girlfriend. But okay, so this is of course the pattern.
• 57:16
  Speaker 6: Bernie Sanders, about twenty minutes after the story about Graham
• 57:19
  Speaker 6: Platiner broke, put out a tweet saying APAC is buying
• 57:22
  Speaker 6: our elections and so forth. There's two ways this goes,
• 57:26
  Speaker 6: Colonel Okay, and I don't know which one is going
• 57:28
  Speaker 6: to actually happen. I'm hoping the former, but it might
• 57:30
  Speaker 6: be the latter. The first way it goes is is
• 57:33
  Speaker 6: the stench of Graham Platner and the team who gave
• 57:37
  Speaker 6: us Graham Platner, who are also the team behind Abdula L.
• 57:40
  Speaker 6: Sayeed in Michigan and a whole bunch of other socialists
• 57:43
  Speaker 6: and far left candidates, that that stent really carries over
• 57:47
  Speaker 6: to the voters who realize who these DSA types really are.
• 57:52
  Speaker 6: They hate the working class. They hate working class values.
• 57:55
  Speaker 6: They want everyone to get welfare, which working class people hate.
• 57:58
  Speaker 6: They hate Israel on vanity morals like abolish ice and
• 58:02
  Speaker 6: free Palestine, which is utterly anaphema to where working class
• 58:06
  Speaker 6: Americans are at. So they're speaking to elite Nepo babies
• 58:10
  Speaker 6: like themselves. Abdul Sayad. The guy on the screen right
• 58:12
  Speaker 6: now is a millionaire, which is why he won't release
• 58:14
  Speaker 6: his tax forms. Okay, that's the DSA profile right there.
• 58:19
  Speaker 6: So scenario one is the stench of Grand Platner has
• 58:22
  Speaker 6: a real impact and people flee having realized what this
• 58:27
  Speaker 6: actually is, which is just a defense for Nazi tattoos, right, Okay.
• 58:31
  Speaker 6: Scenario number two is is that the progressive movement closes
• 58:35
  Speaker 6: ranks around itself. They're like, Okay, we lost one, but
• 58:38
  Speaker 6: we're doing pretty good, and continues to blame the establishment
• 58:42
  Speaker 6: and blame the Jews and blah blah blah blah blah,
• 58:45
  Speaker 6: and actually is able to, because it has its own
• 58:48
  Speaker 6: media ecosystem and because it has its own politicians, is
• 58:51
  Speaker 6: able to further draw that line between itself and the
• 58:55
  Speaker 6: democratic establishment that voters really have lost a lot of
• 58:58
  Speaker 6: faith in and that this actually does fuel more success
• 59:01
  Speaker 6: for them. They really have. They're a very self enclosed ecosystem.
• 59:07
  Speaker 6: Drop Site News, which is one of these leftist news organizations,
• 59:12
  Speaker 6: literally put out a story blaming or seeming to blame
• 59:16
  Speaker 6: Graham Platner's alleged rape victim for her own rape because
• 59:19
  Speaker 6: she sent him a text earlier in the night saying
• 59:21
  Speaker 6: she needs a massage, followed quickly by do not come over.
• 59:26
  Speaker 6: This is what passes for journalism on the left, you know.
• 59:29
  Speaker 6: So it is a very self reinforcing little ecosystem, but
• 59:33
  Speaker 6: to me is just so disgusting and anathema to what
• 59:36
  Speaker 6: actual voters want and care about and need. So I'm
• 59:40
  Speaker 6: hoping for scenario one.
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: Well, Atra, do do you believe that the DSA type
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: candidates and I think this is an intermural fight between
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: generations because I don't think there's that much policy difference
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: between the alleged establishment and these leftists. We've seen the
• 59:58
  Speaker 2: DSA types take out fellow leftists associated with the establishment
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: in deep blue districts. Do you think these DSA types
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: can play in purple or even red areas.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 8: I really don't.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: I really don't.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 6: There was a universe in which the left wing populists
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 6: came up with an agenda that actually appealed to the
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 6: working class, which is very simple to do the things
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 6: working class people want. They only want three things. They
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 6: want much less immigration, much higher wages, and much more
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 6: access to healthcare. So if these DSA types, if they
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 6: came out and said, look, the right was right on immigration,
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 6: we're going to be closed borders, support ice, support the police,
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 6: law and order. We're going to have an agenda that
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 6: raises wages, that creates better jobs, and we're going to
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 6: be Medicare for all. That would have been a bomb
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 6: agenda that would have really given the Republicans an for
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 6: their money with the working class, because the Republicans really
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 6: don't have much of an agenda when it comes to
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 6: healthcare and the jobs thing. It's difficult right now because
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 6: prices are so high. But instead, what did the DSA do, well, Colonel,
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 6: as you know, they unseated four candidates who also supported
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 6: Medicare for all.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: Okay, yes they did, but hey, great move Democrats.
• 1:01:24
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  Speaker 2: The Welcome back to Hugh Hewitt. You are retired colonel
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 2: Army Colonel Kirk Schlichter. I'd like to introduce you to
• 1:03:17
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• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: Force retired colonel. He was a B one weapons officer,
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: and I think that's very, very appropriate for what we're
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: talking about today in Iran. He's Rob Manis and he's
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: author of a new book, What You Can Do About It.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: It's right there over his shoulder. Hi, Rob, Hi, Welcome
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: to the show.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 13: Hey, Kurt, I almost had to stand at attention there.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 2: So a little Air Force him just for you. Hey,
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: we're all watching, We're all watching what's going on in Iran,
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: and you've been in on this from the beginning. You
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: were in the Pentagon on nine to eleven. You commanded
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: a B one unit. They conducted operations against the people
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 2: who attacked us and against our enemies in Iraq. Obviously,
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: we're not going to talk about anything super secret or
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: anything we shouldn't, but as a military guy, what is
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: your perspective on the current air campaign against Iran.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 13: Well, I'm glad to see that everybody's recognized what liars
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 13: they are right now and they have no honor, as
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 13: the President of the United States rightly pointed out, I
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 13: guess yesterday. But we're now going after targets that we've
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 13: watched them reconstitute from the first part of Operation Epic
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 13: Fury Plus. We are going after those infrastructure targets that
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 13: the President left on the table because he didn't want
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 13: to have to rebuild every single thing, you know, some
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 13: of the power grid stuff, bridges, those kind of things,
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 13: and most importantly, I think the most important targets truck
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 13: in the last forty eight hours or the bridges the
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 13: land bridge is coming from China and from the Kazakhstan area,
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 13: because those have been being used we know for overland
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 13: resupply efforts so the Iranians could reconstitute their weapons systems
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 13: and keep feeding their people. And you've got to cut
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 13: those supply lines off so they can no longer a reconstitute,
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 13: but more importantly, continue to fire weapons pretty much at
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 13: will that they are going to run out of now.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 13: Now they won't be able to replenish those Their food
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 13: is going to run out. It's going to be a
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 13: really hard time for them and the IRGC. They're just
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 13: nuts kurt, so they're not going to drop to their knees.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 13: We've just got to continue to crush them every single
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 13: day until eventually the right people take over.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: Well, Rob, you and I are both graduates of various
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 2: war colleges. Meet the Army War College, you the Naval
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 2: War College, and I think you were Air Force War
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: College as well. We learned about strategy there and we
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 2: had what was called the din P paradigm dime Diplomatic, Information,
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: Military and Economic. Here's here's my contention, you evaluate it.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: I think Donald Trump executes strategy using the DIN paradigm
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: all the levers of national power better than almost anybody
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 2: in a couple generations.
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 13: Yeah, and I think he does it instinctively too. You
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 13: know the MoU process, the little talks that were attempted there.
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 13: Obviously you and I know that's part of the diplomatic issue.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 13: But what I think he was doing was he brought
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 13: the regime to the level of the first top two
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 13: layers had been killed and now the third layer of
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 13: the IRGC and the regime are going to take control.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 13: And he wanted to see, are you ready to talk
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 13: so that we don't have to destroy every piece of
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 13: infrastructure in your country and completely obliterate all that you
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 13: have to do, things like generate power, provide water for
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 13: your people, get food for your people. We don't really
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 13: want to destroy those things if it's not absolutely necessary.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 13: So the dying part of it, the diplomat part, and
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 13: the informational part are the two big things you've been
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 13: seeing since this ceasefire was put into place and the
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 13: MoU process started. But obviously now the Iranians that are
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 13: now layer three have demonstrated that they're not any better
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 13: than layers two and one, and we are back into
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 13: kinetic operations. And this is not a single strike set.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 13: The first night we hit eighty targets. I think last
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 13: night sent comset, we hit ninety targets. We're hitting these
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 13: bridges that are coming in from overland. We're going to
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 13: hit the ports off of the Caspian Sea that the
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 13: Russians have used to put some resupply in to the Iranians.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 13: So we're going to disrupt and stop that resupply effort
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 13: and slowly and gradually strangle the irgc off to where
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 13: it can no longer pay its people, it can no
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 13: longer eat, it can no longer get revenue from the oil.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 13: You know, we waved the oil revenue sanctions for just
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 13: a few days to see if they would do the
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 13: right thing. Well, they did the right thing at first
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 13: with the MLU signing, so we waved it. Then they
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 13: immediately attacked commercial shipping in the straight of horror moves.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 13: So we've rolled that back too, and we've cut off
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 13: the forty million barrels of oil imports there so they
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 13: could get revenue out of it. So we're going to
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 13: probably re implement the blockade. I haven't seen confirmation that
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 13: he's going to do that yet, but I know he's
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 13: talked about it publicly, and that will also add to
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 13: this mix, and it's a strategic effort. There may be
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 13: discussions still ongoing behind the scenes. He alluded to that
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 13: day before yesterday and the NATO press conference that you know,
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 13: his good people, you know with cough and Jared Kusher
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 13: could continue to talk if the Iranians still want to talk.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 13: But their scum, he said, and they have no honor,
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 13: and the ceasefire is over.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 9: So like that.
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: Oh well, hey, I want to talk to you about
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: your book what you can do about it, which you
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 2: can get on Amazon. It's over there up above your
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: left shoulder. I've read it and there's a lot of
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: stuff about nine to eleven, a lot of stuff about
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: some of the other things you've done in your life.
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: But I think the most important thing, and I think
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: that anybody who has a leadership position needs to read,
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: is the section on when you took command of a
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: troubled unit and we only have about a minute left.
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 2: How does somebody come into an organization, military or business
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 2: and take it over and fix it?
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 13: Well, you got to come in with a plan already set,
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 13: that's for sure, and start from the very first minute,
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 13: you know. I describe in the book how usually when
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 13: a new commander in his family or her family comes
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 13: in and takes command that afternoon. It's usually an afternoon off.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 13: It's an easy but I decided not to do that.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 13: Because this unit had failed two nuclear surety inspections in
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 13: a row. I was asked to go in and get.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 9: It back on track.
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 13: So I called my leadership in right after the change
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 13: of command ceremony that afternoon. I already had a set
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 13: of briefing slides, so it was very simple. I gave
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 13: them what their mission was. It was a nuclear operations.
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 13: I described it. There's nothing unusual or unique about that.
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 13: I used old Strategic Air Command General slides to build
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 13: my own well right, and I told them what they
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 13: needed to do to fix it. And within six months
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 13: we passed an NSI, and six months after that we
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 13: passed another NSI.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: Well, look, if you are going to be a leader,
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 2: I really recommend Rob Mannis's book What You Can Do
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 2: About I'm Kurt Schlichter. This is a Hugh Hewitt Show,
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: stick Around. Welcome back to the hu Uit Show. I'm
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 2: guess host Kurt Schlichter. What do we look at for
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: in Iran? Right now? We know that the Israelis have
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: we know that the Israelis have sent a a. You
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: know information in the United States about another plot against
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump. We know that the Golf Cooperation Council is
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 2: launching attacks. We now understand that there are missile launches
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 2: from Kuwait. Might be American systems, might be Kuwaiti systems
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: or not sure. What are we looking for here with
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 2: the Iran situation, Well, first of all, we are looking
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: at the fact that the stock market has gone up today.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: The new level conflict has been priced into the market.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 2: That was their leverage against us. They never had military
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 2: leverage using the dime paradigm again, they had. The Iranians
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: had information leverage where threatening the golf straight up, and
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: economic leverage by actually threatening it and forcing people want
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 2: to go through it. Those things have been neutered. Those
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 2: things are done. We are Donald Trump is systematically removing
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 2: Iran's ability to resist in support of what I believe
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 2: is the ultimate strategic objective, which is the overthrow of
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 2: the Mullas, which will come about by basically allowing Iran
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 2: to degenerate into chaos because they can't feed themselves. I
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 2: think that's what's gonna happen. Is it gonna happen soon?
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: I don't think so. What's going to happen in the
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 2: short term. Well, Donald Trump's already said, Hey, they've come
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 2: begging me to take them back. They've come begging me
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 2: to negotiate. And I don't think I'm going to. I
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 2: don't trust him. I don't think I'm going to. Oh,
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 2: he's playing KOI, he's owning them. It's you know, and
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 2: it couldn't happen to a bunch of nicer guys. Look,
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 2: the Iranians are going to do what the Iranians do,
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 2: which is they're going to start, uh, you know, at
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 2: least the ones talking to us are going to start
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 2: saying things we want to hear. Other ones are going
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: to attempt to win the information fight by uh, you know,
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: remaining rebellious and defiant so that they're kind of doing
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 2: too many they're kind of manipulating us diplomatically, trying to
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: win the information war by saying, no, we haven't lost,
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: you've lost. I'm not losing, you're losing. I don't think
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 2: it's gonna work. I think Donald Trump's had it. I
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 2: think he's now leveraging the full range of American power
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 2: to bring them to heal. And I gotta say it's
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 2: good to see. I knew this was coming. You knew
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 2: this was coming. We didn't panic when the MoU came.
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: We knew what was going to happen. This was inevitable.
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 2: As there is our victory. I'm Kurt Schlichter. This is
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 2: the Hugh Hewitt shoe. I'll be here tomorrow and you
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 2: should be here to audious way.
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 3: I can't war.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 14: Way, I can't wear it. I should get away.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 4: No way