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Sean Spicer | WABC Radio Host | 05-01-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 2: Sewan Spicer former political aid He did serve as the
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  Speaker 2: thirtieth White House Press Secretary and White House Communications Director
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  Speaker 2: on the President Trump in twenty seventeen. Was Communications director
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  Speaker 2: of the Republican National Committee from twenty eleven to twenty
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  Speaker 2: seventeen and its chief strategist from twenty fifteen to twenty seventeen.
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  Speaker 2: He does host Full Court Press with Shawn Spicer, which
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  Speaker 2: you can listen to right here every Sunday morning from
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  Speaker 2: ten to eleven. And best of all, Sean Spicer can dance.
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  Speaker 2: You think I forgot, Seawan, I didn't forget.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, that's important thing, and I don't know that I
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  Speaker 3: would agree that I can actually dance. I may have
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  Speaker 3: advanced in a dance competition because I think that was
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  Speaker 3: more of my campaigning skills. Than it was my assphole
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  Speaker 3: dancing skills.
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  Speaker 2: So listen, say what you want. The fact is twenty nineteen,
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  Speaker 2: right before COVID, I remember watching my friend Seawan Spicer
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  Speaker 2: on Dancing with the Stars. In fact, you came out
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  Speaker 2: with me and IP and ought to talk about it.
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  Speaker 2: You did a great job. That was good stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Well, thank you, said, I will say that the President
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  Speaker 3: called me the knight that I got eliminated from Dancing
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  Speaker 3: with the Stars and I had made despite my inability
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  Speaker 3: to actually have any rhythmic movements in my body. He said,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Sean, You're no Fred Astare And I said,
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  Speaker 3: mister President, you're right about that. So, like I said,
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  Speaker 3: I think campaign I got the votes to move on
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  Speaker 3: to the quarter finals week after week, but I think
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  Speaker 3: the judges made it very clear my skill set was
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  Speaker 3: not there on the dance floor.
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  Speaker 2: That's okay. You are great to in your position. When
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  Speaker 2: you served under Trump as the White House Press secretary,
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  Speaker 2: they busted your balls about the inauguration was so stupid.
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  Speaker 2: And I got to tell you, I become pretty good
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  Speaker 2: friends with Levitt now like her a lot, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: you look back at the last four years of the
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  Speaker 2: folks that had that position for Joe Biden at Kareem
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  Speaker 2: John Pierre, She's just dumb. Sorry, I'm sorry I said it.
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  Speaker 2: She's just dumb. Jen Saki wasn't dumb. I won't correct.
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  Speaker 2: You said, thank you, thank you, thank you. She was
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  Speaker 2: just dumb. Jen Saki wasn't dumb. She was just evil.
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  Speaker 2: But all in all, it was a ragtag bunch of losers.
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  Speaker 2: And then you guys, all of you, from you to
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  Speaker 2: Sarah Huckabee Sanders to Macananey to of course Levitt. Right now,
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  Speaker 2: all of you guys are winners. What do you think
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  Speaker 2: of Levitt? Right now? For President Trump?
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  Speaker 3: Look, here's the thing, and you mentioned the outside. I
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  Speaker 3: wrote this brand new book, Trump two point oh that
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  Speaker 3: just came out, and I have an entire chapter in
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  Speaker 3: there about the changes that Caroline made to the briefing room.
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  Speaker 3: And part of the reason I wrote Trump two point
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  Speaker 3: zero was to make sure that people that it just
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  Speaker 3: didn't get unnoticed. Caroline made some structural changes and how
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  Speaker 3: all of us get our news. So when I was
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  Speaker 3: Press Secretary, I brought Stipe into the room. I did
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  Speaker 3: all these things to help end the stranglehold that the
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  Speaker 3: NBC's and New York Times that had on what you saw,
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  Speaker 3: read and heard. I don't know that we have enough
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  Speaker 3: time to get into it, which is why it's always
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  Speaker 3: a great idea to buy the book. But what Caroline
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  Speaker 3: did is further and then by the way, and then
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  Speaker 3: what did you mentioned? Stack and Crange John Pierre. They
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  Speaker 3: cut cut the credentials for three hundred independent journalists, so
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  Speaker 3: for all us talk about the free press and all
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  Speaker 3: this stuff, that was what they did so that they
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  Speaker 3: could minimize any questions that Joe Biden would get. What
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  Speaker 3: Caroline then did when she came back is she revolutionized
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  Speaker 3: the briefing room. She allowed more media outlists in there
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  Speaker 3: from all sorts of stripes, conservative, liberal, independent, and that
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  Speaker 3: has been good for democracy. It's been good for our
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  Speaker 3: country written large, it's been good for journalism. And so
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  Speaker 3: these are the kind of changes that I document. And
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  Speaker 3: part of the reason I wrote the book so that
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  Speaker 3: there's a place to explain what I like to say
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  Speaker 3: is the why said, which is it didn't just happen.
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  Speaker 3: Caroline didn't just come up with these ideas. She's a
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  Speaker 3: smart woman, don't get me wrong. But part of it
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  Speaker 3: was she had time, just like President Trump did to
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  Speaker 3: go out and talk to me. She talked to Sarah.
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  Speaker 3: She talked, what would you do differently about your job?
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  Speaker 3: What changes could I make to make improvements? And then
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  Speaker 3: she wrote them all down and she laid them all
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  Speaker 3: out so she had and also the America First Policy Institute.
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  Speaker 3: I note this in the thing. They interviewed all of
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  Speaker 3: us from like the senior position and the Trump one
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  Speaker 3: point zero, and they gave our successors, including Caroline and
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  Speaker 3: Stephen Trump, a copy of this report and said, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: here's what your predecessor said that they would do differently.
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  Speaker 3: Now did they take every recommendation? Probably not. But at
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  Speaker 3: the end of the day, these guys got the ability
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  Speaker 3: to start Hump two point zero in a very different position.
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  Speaker 3: And I had this conversation with the President just the
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  Speaker 3: other day and I said, it's not not one better
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  Speaker 3: than the other. That's not the point of Trump two
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  Speaker 3: point out. It's to explain the why, why is it different?
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  Speaker 3: And the reason is because those intervening four years sit.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if you you know a lot of
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  Speaker 3: Americans don't fully appreciate this. There's only been two presidents
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  Speaker 3: in our entire history that have had two terms that
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  Speaker 3: weren't consecutive, and Donald Trump's the first one in modern history.
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  Speaker 3: And the reason that I go into detail on this
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  Speaker 3: is because what he and his team did in the
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  Speaker 3: intervening four years is everything to do with why they
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  Speaker 3: are so successful.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, God, you are soul right showing Spicer, you
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  Speaker 2: got to buy this book, Trump two point zero, The
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  Speaker 2: Revolution that will prominently transform America. And you know, I
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  Speaker 2: speak to the President every now and then. I'm like you, okay,
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  Speaker 2: But we texted each other Sunday after they try to
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  Speaker 2: kill him again on Saturday night. He's on this show
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  Speaker 2: every couple of months. But those four years when he
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  Speaker 2: was sitting at mar Lago and steing okay. And I
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  Speaker 2: can tell you about meetings I had with him at
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  Speaker 2: the golf course at Marlago, great conversations. A year before
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  Speaker 2: he even won. We sat together at the golf course
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  Speaker 2: and he was talking to me as if he was
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  Speaker 2: still president. He knew exactly what he was going to do,
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  Speaker 2: when in fact, he beat Harris. At the time, I
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  Speaker 2: thought it'd be Biden. But when he was gonna win,
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  Speaker 2: So he didn't sit there for four years, right and
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  Speaker 2: just play golf. And no, no, he sat there for
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  Speaker 2: four years, stewing because he thought he won and they
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  Speaker 2: screwed him, and on top of it, preparing himself for
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  Speaker 2: the next four years.
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  Speaker 3: Yeahg can I respectfully tweak your word. I don't think
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  Speaker 3: he just stewed. They planned, they plotted. Yeah, so all
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  Speaker 3: of this they used that time. And I know that's
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  Speaker 3: what you're getting, I said, but I mean I think
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  Speaker 3: for listeners to fully appreciate it. And that's literally why
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  Speaker 3: I wrote the book. And when I had this conversation
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  Speaker 3: with him the other day, he missed a president. What
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  Speaker 3: you guys did in those four years in between. You
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  Speaker 3: just mentioned you're going to the Yankees. I'm sorry that
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  Speaker 3: you can't go to a Red Sox game, but I
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  Speaker 3: guess in New York that's the best you guys can do.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you just fired your manager because you're so bad.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we just updated the roster. I mean.
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  Speaker 2: That's more of a house. I mean, give me clear,
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  Speaker 2: you guys could barely beat the seventy six ers. This
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  Speaker 2: is not the morning showt to be talking about Boston sports.
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  Speaker 3: All right, good point, good point, good point. Okay, okay,
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  Speaker 3: So but but here's the thing is that those intervening
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  Speaker 3: four years literally matter like what they did, the plots
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  Speaker 3: of the plans. Tom Holman didn't start this administration and
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  Speaker 3: randomly go to cities. They knew exactly where to go,
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  Speaker 3: what cities to choose, how to implement the policies. They
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  Speaker 3: knew what they were doing. And that's the important thing
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  Speaker 3: to understand and why I wrote Trump two point zero.
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  Speaker 3: And I'll tell you this right now because a lot
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  Speaker 3: of people ask me, I'm coming to New York by
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  Speaker 3: the way to do a couple of book signings up there.
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  Speaker 3: But if people in the BBC listening world say, hey,
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  Speaker 3: I'd love a signed book for Mother's Day, because most
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  Speaker 3: full said, I don't know if you know this, Reiters,
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  Speaker 3: If so, Gallop all have done a huge poll that
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  Speaker 3: said that Trump two point zero is a number one
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  Speaker 3: gift mothers are asking for from other people. So if
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  Speaker 3: you want it signed, all you have to do is
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  Speaker 3: take a screenshot of your Amazon purchases in it the
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  Speaker 3: contact at Sean Fleisher dot com and I'll send you
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  Speaker 3: a personalized book plate to put into the book.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I can tell you this. I can tell you
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  Speaker 2: this before we move any further. My mother, Naomi, who
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  Speaker 2: just turned ninety one, we share a birthday. I was
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  Speaker 2: born on my mom's birthday. So last Sunday, April the nineteenth,
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  Speaker 2: I turned fifty nine and my mother, Naomi turned ninety one.
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  Speaker 2: She loves the president. The president knows it. Every now
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  Speaker 2: and then he'll come on. I'll play a message from
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  Speaker 2: my mother. Everything Trump she loves. So Naomi Rosenberg would
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  Speaker 2: love as signed showing Spicer book love it. Well, I
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  Speaker 2: guess we're not getting it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no, I was gonna say. I just I
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  Speaker 3: was in shock. I was thinking to myself, how do
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  Speaker 3: I I don't know how we can do this. But Naomi,
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  Speaker 3: you're getting a book, I said, And by the way,
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  Speaker 3: I know how well, John CASSIMKEI just pays you. I
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  Speaker 3: think you should get one for the entire family. Go
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  Speaker 3: to Amazon right now, order that, send it, send the
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  Speaker 3: receipt and contact at Sean Spicer dot com. But that's
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  Speaker 3: going on either the ABC credit card or I don't
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  Speaker 3: really care. But just I would act now so that
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  Speaker 3: you don't want to disappoint naomis do not want to
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  Speaker 3: do that? You know that?
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  Speaker 2: No, I know that, trust me, I know that. And
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  Speaker 2: why she's gonna love this book too is while the
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  Speaker 2: levettbast conversation was fascinating because you did that job. That's
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  Speaker 2: actually really cool that you guys sat down and all
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  Speaker 2: spoke with her. You talk about the tariffs, you talk
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  Speaker 2: about NATO, you talk about DOGE, you talk about the
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  Speaker 2: American health. You know what a great job that Bobby
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  Speaker 2: Kennedy and all those folks are doing. Obviously, you talk
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  Speaker 2: about all the wars that he's stopped, all the conflicts
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  Speaker 2: eight or nine at this point. So this is a
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  Speaker 2: correct me if I'm wrong, but a pretty comprehensive look
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  Speaker 2: at this second term for President Trump.
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  Speaker 3: Well, but again, like I do, mention everything I talk about,
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  Speaker 3: Here's the thing I just whenever I look at something,
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  Speaker 3: maybe it's twenty seven years in the military, is that
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  Speaker 3: when we do an exercise, we look at what went
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  Speaker 3: well and what didn't, and we do a hot wash
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  Speaker 3: at the end of everything we do. It's just ingrained
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  Speaker 3: in military thinking. And so part of what I wanted
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  Speaker 3: to do is to say, Okay, NATO just didn't decide
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  Speaker 3: to pay their two percent obligation. These other countries, aren't,
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  Speaker 3: you know, giving up the tariffs and the non terror
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  Speaker 3: farriers for entry to their country. The Kennedy Center didn't
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  Speaker 3: just become the Trump Kennedy Center. Things mattered. I'll tell
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  Speaker 3: you a quick funny story. Said so in twenty twenty,
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  Speaker 3: after President Biden came in office, I had been appointed
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  Speaker 3: to the board of US Naval Academy by President Trump.
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  Speaker 3: Biden sent me his head of personnel sent me an
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  Speaker 3: email in September of twenty twenty and said, at five
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  Speaker 3: o'clock today, either resigned from your position or will fire you?
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  Speaker 3: And I'm irish. So I sent back a simple message no.
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  Speaker 3: And then even Miller's group America First Legal, said would
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  Speaker 3: you like to sue the Biden administration? And they said,
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  Speaker 3: but here's the king. We want to lose. And I
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  Speaker 3: was like, okay, I want the law, law and order,
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  Speaker 3: but I've never realized that you try to lose. And
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  Speaker 3: he said, we want them to go to court and
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  Speaker 3: argue in the affirmative that the president has the ability
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  Speaker 3: to fire anybody, because I had been sworn into a
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  Speaker 3: term of three years. And so we quote lost that case.
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  Speaker 3: And then when President Trump won, guess what everyone at
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  Speaker 3: the Kennedy Center when they got fired said on the
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  Speaker 3: record to the Washington Post. We can't do anything about
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  Speaker 3: it because of Spicer, the Biden and none of that
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  Speaker 3: would have happened had it not been for the intervening
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  Speaker 3: actions of those four years that America Verse Legal came
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  Speaker 3: up with that case, they paid for that case, and
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  Speaker 3: it's given President Trump the ability in Trump two point
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  Speaker 3: zero to go out there and make sure that he
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  Speaker 3: has the right people fighting for the America First agenda. So,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, all of these things happened, and because we
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  Speaker 3: live at Trump Time, which is, you know, NonStop, as
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  Speaker 3: Peter Navarro likes to say, part of this is so
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  Speaker 3: that people understand the why, like it's not just random
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  Speaker 3: that this is happening. We file the lawsuit, we quote
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  Speaker 3: lost the lawsuit. But President Trump is now able to
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  Speaker 3: govern his administration the way he wants because of these
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  Speaker 3: actions that were taken by America First policies, to by
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  Speaker 3: the Heritage Foundation, because of the Project twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 3: because of America First Legal. All of these things matter
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  Speaker 3: as to the success of Trump two point zero. And
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  Speaker 3: the whole point of the book Trump two point zero
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  Speaker 3: is to make sure people understand that why.
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  Speaker 2: Trump two point oh, the revolution that will permanently transform
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  Speaker 2: America by a great friend, what a talented guy, showing Spicer.
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  Speaker 2: You can listen to Shawan on this radio station every Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: He hosts Full Court Press with Shawn Spicer. Ten to eleven, Am, Seawan,
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  Speaker 2: congratulations on this amazing book and I think you're right.
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  Speaker 2: Great gift for Mother's Day and you and I will
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  Speaker 2: talk again very very soon. Congrats.
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  Speaker 3: All right, congratulations Naomi. I'm sorry that we just gave
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  Speaker 3: away your gifts, but you know, hopefully Sid get you
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  Speaker 3: a little something out.
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  Speaker 2: You're great, Sewan, thank you so much. Thank you. Sean
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  Speaker 2: Spicer right there, get that book. Go get it today
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  Speaker 2: for your mom. And of course ten to eleven, like
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  Speaker 2: I said, every Sunday Press with my buddy Sean Spicer.
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