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California Schemin’: Swalwell’s Political Dreams Go Down in Flames | Episode 266 · V

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  Speaker 1: Hey, everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to events on a Monday. It is so great
• 0:02
  Speaker 2: to be back with you after two days off. Thank
• 0:05
  Speaker 2: you very much for giving me the chance to do that.
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  Speaker 2: We closed out my daughter's spring break week with a
• 0:10
  Speaker 2: trip to New York City, which was pretty great, actually.
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  Speaker 2: I had a fantastic time visiting New York, despite the
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  Speaker 2: fact that a communist is trying to run it into
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  Speaker 2: the ground. More on that in just a second. We've
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  Speaker 2: got a huge show coming up. I need to talk
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  Speaker 2: to you about two gigantic issues, maybe three, maybe three.
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  Speaker 2: Let's do three today. One of them is Eric Swalwell
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  Speaker 2: just got shivved by the entire left. The establishment turned
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  Speaker 2: on him. They knew that this guy was a scumbag.
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  Speaker 2: They knew all about this record. And yet they decided
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  Speaker 2: to just deploy it just now because he's in the
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  Speaker 2: way of Democrat Party power. That's how these things work.
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  Speaker 2: They took out Eric Swalwell. I've got the details on
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  Speaker 2: all of that breaking news overnight. I've got the details
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  Speaker 2: this morning. And then we need to talk about the
• 0:53
  Speaker 2: developments in Iran over the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: As J.D.
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  Speaker 2: Vance goes, he's got 20 hours of negotiations with the Iranians.
• 0:59
  Speaker 2: And he leaves and he says, you know what?
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  Speaker 1: No deal.
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  Speaker 2: I'm heading out of here. Heads out of Islamabad. The
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  Speaker 2: president of the United States weighing in on all of this.
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  Speaker 2: We have that coming up as well. And then joining
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  Speaker 2: us today on the program, we'll have a guy who
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  Speaker 2: worked for President Trump. Theo Wald is going to be here.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to talk to him about some of these
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  Speaker 2: Republicans in Congress who are pushing for an amnesty? What
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  Speaker 2: the hell is going on? It's all ahead. On this
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  Speaker 2: edition of Vince, it is so great to be back
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  Speaker 2: with you.
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  Speaker 1: Hello, chat. Hello.
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  Speaker 2: Rumble.com slash Vince.
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  Speaker 3: Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Edwards says, I'm glad you're back safely from New York City.
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  Speaker 2: It was mostly safe. It was mostly safe. We saw
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  Speaker 2: a lot of police activity, though. We'll get to all
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  Speaker 2: of it coming up on the program. But first, I
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  Speaker 2: any disease. Yeah, it was a good trip to New York, actually.
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  Speaker 2: We really enjoyed it. It was nice. My daughter, we
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  Speaker 2: took her to New York when she was a baby,
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  Speaker 2: so it wasn't the age of cognition yet. So this
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  Speaker 2: is our first time back in many years. We go
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  Speaker 2: back together, and we had such a good time. Now, first,
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  Speaker 2: let me tell you, if you haven't been there in
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  Speaker 2: a while, I mean, even back in the old days,
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  Speaker 2: it's an expensive city. It costs a lot of money
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  Speaker 2: to do anything worth doing in the city, even just
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  Speaker 2: to get food and stuff. It's a very pricey experience.
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  Speaker 2: But we went and, you know, we hit a lot
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  Speaker 2: of the tourist sites. You know how when you go
• 3:45
  Speaker 2: visit a city, you visit all the tourist attractions, but
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  Speaker 2: if you live in the city, you never visit those attractions? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we did it all. We did the, you know, the
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  Speaker 2: Empire State Building. We went, we did the carriage ride
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  Speaker 2: with the horse in Central Park, which was awesome, actually.
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  Speaker 2: It was a really, really beautiful weather for us to
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  Speaker 2: do that. And we saw the 9-11 Memorial. Chat, have
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  Speaker 2: you been to the 9-11 Memorial? Have you? Have you
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  Speaker 2: seen the 9-11 Memorial? It is unbelievably well done. It
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  Speaker 2: is just remarkable. You enter this 9-11 Memorial Center, and
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  Speaker 2: then you go downstairs underground, and you can see the
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  Speaker 2: foundation of, I believe it's the North Tower. You can
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  Speaker 2: see what's left of it, just these slabs of concrete
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  Speaker 2: that are still underground, still there, preserved. And you can
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  Speaker 2: be there and see it up close and in person. Um,
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  Speaker 2: it is for the most part, what you would hope
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  Speaker 2: it would be. It's a solemn experience. I think mostly
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  Speaker 2: the crowds are very respectful. I saw some international visitors.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that appreciated how heavy that whole experience was,
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  Speaker 2: but man, I'll tell you what, just walking up on
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  Speaker 2: the nine 11 Memorial and seeing those gigantic fountains that
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  Speaker 2: they've built for both the North and the South towers
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  Speaker 2: where the water just pours down to that gaping hole
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  Speaker 2: into the earth. Um, I, I felt deeply affected by it,
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  Speaker 2: deeply affected by it, seeing that. And if you do
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  Speaker 2: one thing in New York, if you haven't been to
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  Speaker 2: New York City in a while or if you have
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  Speaker 2: never been there, I highly recommend this. Go to the
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  Speaker 2: 9-11 Memorial. Our original plan was to see the memorial
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  Speaker 2: and then to go up into the new Trade Center Tower,
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  Speaker 2: One World Trade Center, which is, remember, it's like 1776
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  Speaker 2: feet high. It's massive. We skipped it. I was in
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  Speaker 2: the Empire State Building. I kind of got the, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the bird's eye view of the city thing. I didn't
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  Speaker 2: need to do that again. Once we were done with
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  Speaker 2: the 9-11 memorial, I was like, you know what? That's enough.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's enough. I don't need to go see
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  Speaker 2: the new tower right now. But it was just so,
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  Speaker 2: it was such a heavy experience and so well worth
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  Speaker 2: it to do. And it was such a reminder, of course,
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  Speaker 2: of what happened on September 11th. You're walking through each
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  Speaker 2: of the minute-by-minute times inside. They kind of have like an...
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  Speaker 2: They have a bunch of exhibits, but then there's an
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  Speaker 2: interior exhibit where you go in and they say, no photos,
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  Speaker 2: no videos in here, because what you're about to see
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  Speaker 2: is all the heaviest moments of the day. It's the
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  Speaker 2: television broadcasts and the radio calls and the crushed fire
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  Speaker 2: trucks and ambulances and kind of burned-out remnants of 9-11.
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  Speaker 4: Boy, I.
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  Speaker 2: Can't I can't lie at all. I was very emotional
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  Speaker 2: going through there. And I just want to I just
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  Speaker 2: appreciate everybody who works there and who are keeping that legacy,
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  Speaker 2: that that important story alive. And and I kept looking
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  Speaker 2: around and thinking, oh, my gosh, so many of the
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  Speaker 2: people who are in the room weren't even born yet.
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  Speaker 2: Like or if they were, they just were not not
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  Speaker 2: at a level where they could even think about what
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  Speaker 2: was happening. And so as history goes on, as is
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  Speaker 2: always true. There are going to be fewer and fewer
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  Speaker 2: people who are capable of telling that story. So if
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  Speaker 2: you have young ones in your life, people who are
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  Speaker 2: younger than, that weren't even born at 9-11 like I do,
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  Speaker 2: be their tour guide. Take them through it and then
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  Speaker 2: remind them as you go through, this is what you
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  Speaker 2: were thinking. This is what was happening. I remember telling
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  Speaker 2: my daughter, I was like, we felt like the whole
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  Speaker 2: country was under attack. You saw those planes hit the towers.
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  Speaker 2: You saw a plane hit a pentagon. the plane go
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  Speaker 2: down in Pennsylvania and you started thinking, where else are
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  Speaker 2: planes going to hit? You thought every, I think every
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  Speaker 2: community in America was on guard for it. It's everywhere. It's, um, it's, uh,
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  Speaker 2: it was a credible experience. So anyway, that, that, uh,
• 7:42
  Speaker 2: there was that, um, I'm getting some questions in the chat. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I had my bagels. I got, I got, I went twice.
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  Speaker 2: We got bagels. It was great. Got some New York pizza.
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  Speaker 2: We did everything you would expect in New York. It was,
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  Speaker 2: it was wonderful.
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  Speaker 5: Anyway.
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  Speaker 2: Um, Thank you. Thank you to the chat. And thank
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  Speaker 2: you to Haley Carania for filling in for me on Thursday,
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  Speaker 2: looking after the show. Appreciate her. She is great. And
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  Speaker 2: she's got a great program herself. So I appreciate her
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  Speaker 2: doing double duty on Thursday, taking over the show.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get into some of the news that just broke overnight.
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  Speaker 2: I've got to talk to you about Eric Swalwell. And
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  Speaker 2: I can't. Look, it couldn't happen to a worse guy.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Eric Swalwell definitely deserves all of this. But
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  Speaker 2: isn't it interesting? Isn't it interesting? that Eric Swalwell was
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  Speaker 2: just felled by a sex scandal that the entire left
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  Speaker 2: knew about, but refused to admit in public until they
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  Speaker 2: needed to get rid of Eric Swalwell. Let me just
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  Speaker 2: take you through the timeline so you can understand why
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  Speaker 2: this is happening. Because you may be like, why are
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  Speaker 2: they all turning on Eric Swalwell? Hasn't he been the
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  Speaker 2: most ridiculously loyal lieutenant to their insane ambitions to hurt
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  Speaker 2: Trump at every turn? The answer is yes. But the
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  Speaker 2: problem is his personal political ambitions ran up against the
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  Speaker 2: Democrat Party's ability to maintain a stranglehold on power. And
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  Speaker 2: when that happens, you're going to be destroyed right under
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  Speaker 2: the bus wheels, Eric Swalwell went. In California right now,
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  Speaker 2: there is a governor's race going on. You may know.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, This governor's race does not have any clear
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  Speaker 2: front runner among the Democrats and among the Republicans, the two,
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  Speaker 2: both of those guys are leading the field. Chad LoBianco
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  Speaker 2: and Steve Hilton are currently the front runners based on
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  Speaker 2: all available polling in the California governor's race. Now, in
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  Speaker 2: any other state in the union, this wouldn't matter as
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  Speaker 2: much in terms of the Democrats and their power ambitions.
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  Speaker 2: Because most other states have regular primary systems where the
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  Speaker 2: Republicans get to choose their candidate, the Democrats get to
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  Speaker 2: choose their candidate, and those two candidates square off on
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  Speaker 2: election day during the general election in November. Not true
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  Speaker 2: in California. California has a jungle primary system, which means
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  Speaker 2: that all of the candidates of every party all run
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  Speaker 2: together in the primary. You're thinking probably, Vince, that's insane. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: it's totally insane, but it's the way California works. That's
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  Speaker 2: the way they've set up this system. And so, Come
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  Speaker 2: June 2nd, which is the primary date, the two winners,
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  Speaker 2: the top two finishers in the primary go on to
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  Speaker 2: the general election. Now you can see what the problem is.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, there's two Republicans who are the front runners.
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  Speaker 2: I warned you about this months ago. There are two
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  Speaker 2: Republicans who are the front runners, which means if the
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  Speaker 2: jungle primary ends on June 2nd and the two Republicans
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  Speaker 2: are the front runners, they're the only two candidates on
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  Speaker 2: the ballot. There won't even be a Democrat on the
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  Speaker 2: ballot in November. And Democrats are freaking the out. They're
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  Speaker 2: freaking out. They don't know what to do other than
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  Speaker 2: to start stabbing their own people to death. which is
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  Speaker 2: what they just did to Eric Swalwell. Eric Swalwell has
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  Speaker 2: a massive pervert file that the left has been assembling
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  Speaker 2: on him for some time. Now, if you've ever looked
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  Speaker 2: at Eric Swalwell, you're like, how are you so compliant
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  Speaker 2: and ridiculous? How is it that you're always spreading the
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  Speaker 2: dumbest possible left wing conspiracies? Can't you think for yourself
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  Speaker 2: at all? Well, just realize the left was sitting on
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  Speaker 2: a blackmail file that kept him in line. So of
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  Speaker 2: course he said the dumbest possible thing at every turn.
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  Speaker 2: He wanted to stay in their good graces so that
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  Speaker 2: they wouldn't take him out. But suddenly he was standing
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  Speaker 2: in the way. So now he's been destroyed. And so
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  Speaker 2: here's how this happened. On Friday, the San Francisco Chronicle
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  Speaker 2: ran a piece alleging that Eric Swalwell had raped one
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  Speaker 2: of his own employees. This is heavy stuff. Here is
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  Speaker 2: what they said. An ex-staffer says Eric Swalwell, candidate for
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  Speaker 2: California governor, sexually assaulted her. Here's the original piece. And
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  Speaker 2: in it, they say a woman who worked for Eric Swalwell,
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  Speaker 2: a leading candidate for California governor, said she had sexual
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  Speaker 2: encounters with him while he was her boss and alleged
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  Speaker 2: he twice sexually assaulted her when she was too intoxicated
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  Speaker 2: to consent. That's another way of saying he raped her.
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  Speaker 2: Swalwell did not respond to any of the former staffer's
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  Speaker 2: specific allegations made in a series of interviews with the Chronicle.
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  Speaker 2: And then he provided a statement on Friday saying that
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  Speaker 2: the allegations are false. Let me get to the allegation
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  Speaker 2: by the woman. The woman said Swalwell began pursuing her
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  Speaker 2: within weeks after she was hired at age 21 to
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  Speaker 2: work in the Democrats district office in Castro Valley in 2019.
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  Speaker 2: Swalwell messaged her on Snapchat.
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  Speaker 6: Snapchat?
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  Speaker 2: He's an adult man.
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  Speaker 1: Why is he on Snapchat?
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  Speaker 2: Why is he on Snapchat? He sent her images of
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  Speaker 2: his genitals and sought nude pictures of her in return.
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  Speaker 2: She said Swalwell, who is married and 17 years her
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  Speaker 2: senior at age 45, tried to kiss her in her
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  Speaker 2: car when she drove him home from a donor meeting
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  Speaker 2: one night. Driving him to another event weeks later, she
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  Speaker 2: said Swalwell pulled out his penis in the car and
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  Speaker 2: asked her to perform oral sex on him. She said
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  Speaker 2: she did so in a parking lot. She did so
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  Speaker 2: in a parking lot. In September of 2019, the woman said,
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  Speaker 2: Swalwell invited her out for drinks and she became so
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  Speaker 2: severely intoxicated, she doesn't remember the rest of the night.
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  Speaker 2: She said she woke up naked in Swalwell's hotel bed
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  Speaker 2: and could feel the effect of vaginal intercourse. She said
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  Speaker 2: Swalwell distanced himself from her afterward and the relationship faded.
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  Speaker 2: Five years later, she attended an April 2024 charity gala
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  Speaker 2: where Swalwell was honored. The woman who was no longer
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  Speaker 2: working for him said they met for drinks afterward, during
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  Speaker 2: which she became so inebriated that she remembers only snippets
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  Speaker 2: of the night, including pushing Swalwell away and telling him
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  Speaker 2: no while he allegedly forced himself on her. The woman
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  Speaker 2: texted a friend three days later that she was, quote,
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  Speaker 2: sexually assaulted by Swalwell. She wrote in a series of messages,
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  Speaker 2: all reviewed by the Chronicle, that she had, quote, blacked out,
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  Speaker 2: but woke up once during it and even told him
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  Speaker 2: to stop at one point. quote, this happened one other
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  Speaker 2: time when I was working with him, but I convinced
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  Speaker 2: myself I was an equal party in it, even though
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  Speaker 2: same pattern. I blacked out and he had sex with me,
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  Speaker 2: she wrote, referring to the 2019 incident. So what she's
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  Speaker 2: describing is rape. She's describing as rape. Now, did they
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  Speaker 2: have a consensual relationship at any point during this? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: she agreed to perform a sexual act on him in
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  Speaker 2: a car at his request. But again, She's working for him,
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  Speaker 2: and this guy's a perv on Snapchat sending images of
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  Speaker 2: his junk to women? And she's not the only one. Suddenly,
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  Speaker 2: we get a whole bunch of other women who start
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  Speaker 2: coming out of the woodwork, as promised. Remember, I told
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  Speaker 2: you that the left was working this up in the
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  Speaker 2: form of a CNN report just within hours of the
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  Speaker 2: Chronicle report coming out. They say four women describe sexual
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  Speaker 2: misconduct by Eric Swalwell, including the former staffer who says
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  Speaker 2: he raped her. And they go on here and they
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  Speaker 2: start laying out woman after woman who is saying that
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  Speaker 2: this guy is a perv. He's a perv and he's
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  Speaker 2: constantly going after them and they say sexually assaulting them.
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  Speaker 2: CNN found corroboration for key elements of each of the
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  Speaker 2: women's claims, including the former staffer who said she was
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  Speaker 2: sexually assaulted. Two family members and a friend said in
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  Speaker 2: interviews with CNN that she told them about the alleged
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  Speaker 2: 2024 assault in the following days. And CNN also reviewed-
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  Speaker 2: messages she sent to friends describing her allegations at the
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  Speaker 2: same time. Quote, I was sexually assaulted on Thursday by Eric,
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  Speaker 2: she wrote to one of her friends. The woman also
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  Speaker 2: shared medical records related to her receiving STD and pregnancy
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  Speaker 2: testing after the assault. For the woman who connected online
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  Speaker 2: with Swalwell over Democrat politics, a family member and two
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  Speaker 2: friends confirmed she told them last year about the incident
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  Speaker 2: where she ended up intoxicated in his hotel room. CNN
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  Speaker 2: also reviewed messages between her and Swalwell, including a photo
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  Speaker 2: he sent her that matches footage of him during a
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  Speaker 2: CNN interview in her city on the night they met
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  Speaker 2: in person. So CNN literally has corroborating evidence because he
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  Speaker 2: appeared on their network wearing the same outfit that she
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  Speaker 2: had in a photo of him from that date in
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  Speaker 2: that city. The woman described a similar pattern of events. Swalwell,
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  Speaker 2: who is married and has three children, showed close interest
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  Speaker 2: in their lives when they were in their 20s and
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: finding their footing professionally, making them feel special and even starstruck. Then,
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  Speaker 2: they said, he would send them increasingly sexual messages. Many
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  Speaker 2: said they reciprocated and engaged with him in part because
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  Speaker 2: of his position of power. In some cases, those inappropriate
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  Speaker 2: exchanges escalated to alleged unwanted physical touch or sexual assault,
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  Speaker 2: often tied to episodes of heavy drinking.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And then there's the video. That's right. This weekend, video
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  Speaker 2: has emerged from two accounts, one from Martin Shkreli and
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  Speaker 2: the other from Jack Pasebik of Eric Swalwell engaged in
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  Speaker 2: hanky-panky with what is allegedly, they say a sex worker,
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: that's another word for a prostitute, in a room with
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: another scantily dressed woman and a man on the bed
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: with them as well at the same time. Here's the
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: viral video that's going around the internet right now. Yep,
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: there he is kissing on this woman. He's married, remember?
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: That's creepy. And then we have a second video of
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: him grabbing at her, pulling her down, And then some
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: dude in black Nikes, there's rampant speculation who the second
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: dude is. There's Eric Swalwell, again, married man, father of three,
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: wants to be the governor of California, wanted to be
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: president of the United States. All of this suddenly being
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: leaked by the left to destroy him, to take him out.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Swalwell is denying assault. Swalwell is denying assault. He says,
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: I didn't assault anybody. But he admits that he did
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: cheat on his wife a lot. Here's Eric Swalwell on
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: a video he just released this weekend.
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: Watch.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: A lot has been said about me today through anonymous allegations.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: And I thought it was important that you see and
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: hear from me directly. These allegations of sexual assault are
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: flat false. They're absolutely false. They did not happen. They
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: have never happened. And I will fight them with everything
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: that I have. They also come on the eve of
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: an election. where I have been the front-runner candidate for
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: governor in California. I do not suggest to you in
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: any way that I'm perfect or that I'm a saint.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: I have certainly made mistakes in judgment in my past.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: But those mistakes are between me and my wife. And
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: to her, I apologize deeply for putting her in this position.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: I also apologize to you if in any way you
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: have doubted your support for me. But I think you
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: know who I am. For over 20 years, I have
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: served the public. as a city councilman, as a member
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: of Congress, and as a prosecutor who went to court
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: on behalf of victims, particularly on behalf of sexual assault victims.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: That's who I am and have always been. This weekend,
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna spend time family and friends. And I appreciate
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: those who have reached out to me to show support.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: And I look forward to updating you very soon.
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Who told that guy to wear a silky porn shirt
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: while he filmed his video about how he didn't sexually
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: assault women? Who's giving him sartorial advice on how to
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: do that video? So there's Eric Swalwell saying, no, I
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: didn't sexually assault anybody, but I definitely cheated on my
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: wife a bunch. It turns out Fang Fang wasn't the
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: first and she certainly wasn't the last. And coming up,
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: I want to share with you just how quickly the
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: left moved on this guy. So in addition to releasing
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: all this information, all of the top Democrats in the
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: party immediately called for him to get out of the race.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: And now they may be moving even more swiftly to
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: kick him out of Congress. Got the details on all
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: of that coming up. Also, Theo Wald will be joining
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: us here in a few minutes. We'll talk to him
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: about what's going on in Congress, as some Republicans think
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: now's a good time to push amnesty.
• 20:49
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  Speaker 6: All right.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: So all these allegations, the left sends them all out
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: the door to try and take the guy down. And
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: then all of the top lefties start calling for him
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: to get out of the race. You had Hakeem Jeffries
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: this weekend. You had the House Minority Whip, Catherine Clark.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: You had the Democrat caucus chair, Pete Aguilar, all say
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: that this was an incredibly disturbing case. And they were
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: demanding investigations into him in a joint statement that they released.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: They said, all perpetrators of sexual assault and harassment must
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: be held accountable, they declared. Meanwhile, Adam Schiff retracted his
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: endorsement of Swalwell. and urged him to end his campaign.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: Swalwell's house colleagues in California, Jimmy Gomez, Adam Gray, who
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: served as campaign co-chairs, they called on him to leave
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: the race as well. And then there were the staffers,
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: the oh so many staffers. I'm talking a lot of
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: people who all knew that Eric Swalwell was a scumbag,
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: but they waited until they could advance their own party's
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: power ambitions to tell the rest of the world about it.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: The San Francisco Chronicle with the piece, 55 of Eric
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Swalwell's former staffers called on him to resign. 55 of them.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: More than 50 former staffers of Representative Eric Swalwell called
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: on him to resign and suspend his campaign for governor
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: Sunday in response to the sexual assault allegations. The letter
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: signed by 55 employees of the Castro Valley Democrat is
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: the latest in a wave of calls for the congressman
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: to resign. in the wake of the allegations from a
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: former staffer who said he sexually assaulted her twice. The
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: former staffer is writing, the allegations reported by the San
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Francisco Chronicle and CNN are serious, credible, and demand accountability.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: We stand unequivocally with our colleague who showed extraordinary courage
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: in coming forward to share her truth. We believe her.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: You believe her? Well, what leads you to believe her?
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Did you identify these moral failings in the guy that
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: you were working for, all 55 of you on a
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: routine basis, and just decided never to tell anybody about
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: it up until the moment that your party called upon
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: you to advance their own ambitions? This is all about
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: the governor's race. This is all about the governor's race.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: And they've mobilized the usual suspects. Fat Alvin Bragg is
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: involved to try and take down Eric Swalwell. Alvin Bragg,
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: the Manhattan district attorney, is investigating Eric Swalwell now. This
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: all happened this weekend. Swalwell under investigation by fat Alvin Bragg.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: That's not the headline in Politico, but that is the takeaway.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: The Manhattan district attorney's office is investigating Eric Swalwell over
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: allegations he sexually assaulted a former staffer in a New
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: York City hotel room in April of 2024. Swalwell, who
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: had been gaining momentum in the race for California governor
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: in November, has seen his political profile come crashing down.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: And then they go on to say that they're urging
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: survivors and anyone with knowledge of these allegations to contact
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: the Special Victims Division. They have specially trained prosecutors on
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: the case, investigators, counselors are well-equipped to help you on
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: a trauma-informed, survivor-centered matter. So, fat Alvin Bragg, how far
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: are we from Letitia James getting involved?
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: In all of this.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Probably not, it's probably not going to happen anymore now
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: that they've got him out of the race. But one
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: more investigation for you that Eric Swalwell's under. This one's
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: from the feds. The feds say that Eric Swalwell has
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: been paying an illegal alien as a live-in nanny for
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: years now. The feds are investigating allegations as we speak
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: that Eric Swalwell paid an illegal Brazilian live-in nanny under
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: the table with campaign funds. With campaign funds. The guy,
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: what a Democrat. Democrat Representative Eric Swalwell, frontrunner, has been
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: accused of violating immigration and employment law to keep his
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: illegal live-in Brazilian nanny in the country, according to a
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: pair of recently filed complaints. Basically, he brings her in
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: on an au pair visa. The visa expires. He keeps
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: paying her and keeps taking campaign funds to do it.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: And there she is in a bikini. Constantly hanging out
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: with the family, New York Post with a piece. So
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: there she is with the kids, you know, going out trick-or-treating.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: So they've been... God, he's such an idiot.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: He really is.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: He's such an idiot.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Are you serious?
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: You're taking pictures of your junk and sending them to
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: women on Snapchat? That alone is a reason you shouldn't
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: be in elective office. Like, dude, control yourself. If he
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: succumbs to those temptations in his personal life that easily,
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: then in what world should he be in charge of
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: any important decision-making for the rest of us? So now
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: he's out of the race. Sunday night, he dropped out
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: of the race. He posted to X last night the following.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Here's the announcement from Swalwell. He says, I'm suspending my
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: campaign for governor. To my family, staff, friends, and supporters,
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: I'm deeply sorry for mistakes and judgment I've made in
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: my past. I will fight the serious false allegations that
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: have been made, but that's my fight, not a campaign's.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: So Swalwell is out. Now, who does that leave us with?
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: If you're in California, and certainly California has an impact
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: on the rest of the country, unfortunately, with Democrats running
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: into the ground, who does that leave us with? Crazy
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Katie Porter. Crazy Katie Porter is now one of the
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: leading contenders. Are you ready?
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: One, two, three. Yeah, that's right.
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: Fuck Trump.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: Psycho. Crazy Katie, a woman so psychotic, she dumped a
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: boiling pot of mashed potatoes on her husband's head and
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: then punched him when he disagreed with the way that
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: they were raising their children. She's a psycho. She's a
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: total psycho. And you think the file on Eric Swalwell
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: is deep? Katie Porter, man, she's an animal. She's a monster.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: And will they take her out as well? I guess
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: it depends. If Chad LoBianco and Steve Hilton continue to
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: dominate in the polls, just get ready for another one
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: of these Democrats to be destroyed by the left's machine.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: We'll keep our eyes on it. All right, coming up,
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: I want to talk about what's happening on the right
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: right now. There's a not.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: not small.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: If you've got 20 Republicans pushing it, it's not small.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: A push for amnesty among some of these idiot Republicans.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: We're going to explore this next with one of the
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: president's former guys, Theo Wald. He'll get into the details
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: of what this is all about, why these guys are
• 29:13
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  Speaker 2: language designed to push amnesty. For more on this, I
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  Speaker 2: Great to have you on the show today, sir.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, man. It's good to be with you, Vince. Thanks
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  Speaker 2: Of course. So the Dignidad Act, which is just the
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  Speaker 2: title alone, How insane is it that Republicans in Congress
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  Speaker 2: would even title legislation in a foreign language and then
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  Speaker 2: tell us it's good for us?
• 32:30
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I think the title says everything you
• 32:32
  Speaker 7: need to know about what's in the bill. This is
• 32:35
  Speaker 7: designed to benefit the people of other countries. And once again,
• 32:39
  Speaker 7: put Americans last. I think the most surprising part here
• 32:43
  Speaker 7: is really that Republicans still have not got the message.
• 32:46
  Speaker 7: They still do not understand that the bulk of the party,
• 32:49
  Speaker 7: not just the base, the bulk of the party wants
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  Speaker 7: Republicans in Congress to serve the interests of the American people.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: And this bill does anything, anything but that.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: So I want to get at why they're pushing it.
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: But first, let's just talk about what the bill does.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: That's probably the best place to start, which is we're
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: calling it an amnesty. And the bill's sponsor and all
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: the other co-sponsors are saying it's not an amnesty. It's
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: not an amnesty. In fact, this is the opposite of amnesty.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: It's the rule of law they're insisting. So Maria Salazar
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: is the primary author and sponsor of this, a Republican
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: from Florida. And she says it's not amnesty. Why is
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: she lying to us?
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is a hard question to answer, actually.
• 33:33
  Speaker 7: Having worked on these issues for President Trump in 45,
• 33:37
  Speaker 7: I'll say there's a lot of members of Congress who
• 33:39
  Speaker 7: think that amnesty is sort of like a magical term
• 33:43
  Speaker 7: of art.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: So if you say it's not an amnesty, it isn't.
• 33:46
  Speaker 7: In other words, that amnesty doesn't have a precise dictionary definition.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: And so Salazar keeps saying, well, it's not an amnesty.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: It's not an amnesty. We didn't design this for an amnesty.
• 33:56
  Speaker 7: But technically, an amnesty is whenever you forego the enforcement
• 34:01
  Speaker 7: of law against individuals who have broken a law or
• 34:04
  Speaker 7: committed an offense. And that's precisely what this bill does,
• 34:07
  Speaker 7: at least in 15 different places worldwide. Do they forego
• 34:11
  Speaker 7: the enforcement of already established immigration law to allow illegal
• 34:15
  Speaker 7: aliens to remain in the United States? So by the definition,
• 34:20
  Speaker 7: by the dictionary definition, it's an amnesty. By its own terms,
• 34:23
  Speaker 7: it's an amnesty. So it's another one of those games
• 34:26
  Speaker 7: that members of Congress play where they'll say, look, if
• 34:28
  Speaker 7: I can just keep repeating the same thing over and
• 34:30
  Speaker 7: over and over again, maybe a certain percentage of the
• 34:33
  Speaker 7: voting populace will believe me.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: So and the other thing it does is it hands
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: out to some some Some immigrants under this category, some
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: illegals under this category, it makes them legal permanent residents.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: It gives them a green card. And a green card
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: is a pathway to citizenship. Somehow this escapes all of
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: our debates. But if you're given a green card, you
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: then have a pathway to citizenship in the United States.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: So stop lying to us that it's not a pathway
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: to citizenship. You include that in the bill.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's exactly right.
• 35:05
  Speaker 7: I mean, again, it's one of those frightening things where
• 35:07
  Speaker 7: people who are working on reconstructing our entire immigration architecture
• 35:11
  Speaker 7: don't seem to understand that an LPR, which is the
• 35:15
  Speaker 7: technical term, long-term permanent resident, is the same as a
• 35:19
  Speaker 7: green card. And a green card is just five years
• 35:23
  Speaker 7: until you're eligible for naturalization.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: So yeah, it is a pathway to citizenship.
• 35:27
  Speaker 7: I think the other thing though that hasn't been talked
• 35:29
  Speaker 7: about as much about with this bill is that it
• 35:32
  Speaker 7: actually deconstructs a number of the significant achievements of the
• 35:36
  Speaker 7: 1996 Immigration Reform Control Act that Republicans passed in conjunction
• 35:42
  Speaker 7: with Bill Clinton when he was president. So one of those,
• 35:44
  Speaker 7: for example, the three in 10 bar, which prohibits illegal
• 35:47
  Speaker 7: aliens who are here from then if they are deported
• 35:50
  Speaker 7: or removed or they willingly remove themselves from the country,
• 35:52
  Speaker 7: then being eligible to apply for any kind of legal
• 35:55
  Speaker 7: status adjustment later on for three or 10 years.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: And this bill would remove that.
• 36:00
  Speaker 7: So some of the sort of bulwarks of immigration enforcement
• 36:04
  Speaker 7: or protections for American citizens from illegal aliens, this bill
• 36:07
  Speaker 7: also takes those out of the law and discards them.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: All right. Guys, I want to take this full screen
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: because I want to show Theo this. This is from
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: Maria Salazar's website. This is the list of endorsing organizations
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: for this. And I think this gets at why these
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: Republicans are even a part of this. It's because they've
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: got donors in business interests who are shoving it like crazy.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: There's a huge list of names here. One of them
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: that stands out to me, by the way, in addition,
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: they all stand out, but the American Legion, why the
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: hell is the American Legion supporting this? Americans for Prosperity
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: supports this amnesty bill. Americans for Prosperity. The Anti-Defamation League
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: is here. You've got the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: is here supporting this amnesty operation. There's Basically, you know,
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: and like and then, of course, you got like the
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: Center for American Progress, like all these these lefty groups.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: So what is this, Theo? Is this the engine that's
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: powering this kind of corruption? Is this why I'm seeing
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: 20 Republicans joining in on this? Because they're just trying
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: to represent donors.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's precisely right.
• 37:14
  Speaker 7: I mean, look, we worked on something that would have
• 37:17
  Speaker 7: reformed a lot of our legal immigration laws in 45.
• 37:21
  Speaker 7: We couldn't get any of these groups to support it
• 37:23
  Speaker 7: because its instincts, the origin of the bill was conservative.
• 37:28
  Speaker 7: It would have doubled down on removing illegal aliens, on
• 37:31
  Speaker 7: restricting some of the fraud and the abuse in the
• 37:34
  Speaker 7: legal immigration visa system. And the Chamber of Commerce, Americans
• 37:38
  Speaker 7: for Prosperity, the American Roofing Association, the American Fast Food
• 37:42
  Speaker 7: Association wanted nothing to do with our proposal in 45,
• 37:45
  Speaker 7: but they support this. I think the other thing that's
• 37:47
  Speaker 7: worth noting here is The absolute insanity of some of
• 37:51
  Speaker 7: these provisions in this bill make it so that you
• 37:55
  Speaker 7: get Democrat support. And this should be a real strong
• 37:58
  Speaker 7: sign for all of the Americans, voters who say, well,
• 38:02
  Speaker 7: I'm kind of a moderate, I'm kind of an independent,
• 38:04
  Speaker 7: I really want Republicans to work with Democrats.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: So in order to work with Democrats.
• 38:08
  Speaker 7: What you have to have is an amnesty for about
• 38:11
  Speaker 7: 35 million people. You have to have provisions that would
• 38:14
  Speaker 7: set aside criminal convictions for rape, murder and violent physical
• 38:19
  Speaker 7: assault so that you can remain in the United States.
• 38:21
  Speaker 7: You have to have provisions for law that would say
• 38:23
  Speaker 7: if you're a lawyer and you represent a rapist who
• 38:26
  Speaker 7: is engaged in further sexual assault crimes, who's pending removal
• 38:30
  Speaker 7: from the country, if you successfully represent him, you can
• 38:33
  Speaker 7: get your law school debts removed. So that's the kind
• 38:36
  Speaker 7: of crazy stuff that Democrats insist you have in a
• 38:39
  Speaker 7: piece of legislation in order to get their support. So
• 38:42
  Speaker 7: The trade associations want a giant amnesty. And the Democrats
• 38:45
  Speaker 7: basically want to gut law and order provisions and really
• 38:49
  Speaker 7: a large portion of our immigration enforcement architecture.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: And this comes at the expense of American workers. The
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: whole point is to import a cheap, low-paid foreign workforce
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: in order to undercut American workers, thus leaving them suffering.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: So I'm looking at like one of the operations that
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: supports this that I flagged is the African-American Farmers of California.
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: How does giving amnesty to massive numbers of illegals benefit
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: Black Americans? How does that work exactly?
• 39:23
  Speaker 7: Look, I have no idea who the African American Farmers
• 39:26
  Speaker 7: Association of California is or are. I can tell you, though,
• 39:31
  Speaker 7: that the evidence now is fairly substantial over the last
• 39:34
  Speaker 7: 40 years, where any number of well-respected economists have said
• 39:39
  Speaker 7: that the importation of mass exploitable labor operates to the
• 39:43
  Speaker 7: detriment of the lowest rung workers in the American economy,
• 39:48
  Speaker 7: in particular African Americans as they work in both retail
• 39:52
  Speaker 7: and trade-related sectors. So there's no question anymore that the
• 39:56
  Speaker 7: importation of mass exploitable workers operates to the detriment of
• 40:01
  Speaker 7: the American worker, diminishing educational opportunities, diminishing socioeconomic mobility opportunities.
• 40:08
  Speaker 7: The other thing here, though, again, that hasn't been talked
• 40:10
  Speaker 7: about with this bill that I think it's worth mentioning
• 40:12
  Speaker 7: As Salazar gave an interview just a few days ago,
• 40:14
  Speaker 7: and the podcast host asked her, really put her through
• 40:17
  Speaker 7: her paces. I think she thought this was going to
• 40:19
  Speaker 7: be sort of a friendly interview and said, look, you know,
• 40:21
  Speaker 7: I'm looking at all the provisions of the bill. And
• 40:23
  Speaker 7: the one question I just have is, how do you
• 40:25
  Speaker 7: administer something like this? You give it essentially 18 to
• 40:28
  Speaker 7: 24 months for USCIS, which is the visa granting program.
• 40:33
  Speaker 7: a legal status granting entity at dhs to review close
• 40:36
  Speaker 7: to 30 million would-be illegal alien applicants under the terms
• 40:40
  Speaker 7: of this bill how are they going to administer 30
• 40:44
  Speaker 7: 000 illegal immigrant applications a day which is about what
• 40:47
  Speaker 7: the math would work out to be and she says
• 40:50
  Speaker 7: you know that's not for me to legislate that's for
• 40:53
  Speaker 7: dhs to figure out and i'll just say you know
• 40:56
  Speaker 7: your viewers Look, there's not a single conservative piece of
• 41:00
  Speaker 7: legislation out there that would say, hey, we're fine with
• 41:04
  Speaker 7: the EPA regulating coal power or clean water. We're not
• 41:09
  Speaker 7: going to tell them how to do it. They'll figure,
• 41:11
  Speaker 7: the bureaucrats, the deep state will figure out how to
• 41:14
  Speaker 7: administer this. A conservative piece of legislation would draw specifics.
• 41:18
  Speaker 7: It would detail how the program itself should be administered.
• 41:22
  Speaker 7: And that's how you know this is a liberal bill
• 41:24
  Speaker 7: in orientation. Let the deep state, let the civil bureaucracy
• 41:28
  Speaker 7: run this. And regardless of whether or not they can
• 41:30
  Speaker 7: actually do it, which the simple answer here is there's
• 41:32
  Speaker 7: no way you could vet and clear 30,000 illegal immigrant
• 41:37
  Speaker 7: applicants a day over the course of 18 months.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: It's impossible.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: It's an entire class of people who have been violating
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: our nation's laws. And then you're saying, well, we're just
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: going to take them at their word that they got
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: here before a certain date. The whole thing's insane, actually.
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: And it's Republicans who are pushing it. And it needs
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: to die, this thing. Now, the White House has not
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: come out and condemned this legislation yet. My White House correspondent,
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: Reagan Reese, asked the White House last week if they've
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: taken a position. And Caroline Levitt said she would get back.
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: She said, we'll take a look at it. I don't
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: have anything for you today, but I'll get back to
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: you on that. I haven't seen them take a position
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: yet on the subject. My hope is that they're going
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: to enthusiastically dunk on this. What do you think they
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: should do here, Theo?
• 42:25
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I think they should obviously reject this
• 42:29
  Speaker 7: and just with no equivocation. And whoever is advising Republicans,
• 42:34
  Speaker 7: either in Congress or in the White House, that the
• 42:38
  Speaker 7: sort of suggestion or the you know, toe tap dance
• 42:41
  Speaker 7: with amnesty is somehow electorally viable for Republicans where it
• 42:46
  Speaker 7: adds voters to the column.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: They are obviously being deeply, deeply misinformed.
• 42:52
  Speaker 7: This bill from the word go is so unpopular and
• 42:56
  Speaker 7: it's unpopular, I think, in a unique way. American citizens,
• 43:00
  Speaker 7: voters are now well aware at how our country is
• 43:03
  Speaker 7: being exploited by foreign nationals, whether it's the fake childcare centers,
• 43:08
  Speaker 7: whether it's the hospice centers in Los Angeles. What they
• 43:11
  Speaker 7: want to see Republicans in Congress tackling, what they want
• 43:14
  Speaker 7: to see the White House doing, is working on ferreting
• 43:17
  Speaker 7: out the fraud and preventing the theft of Americans' hard-earned
• 43:21
  Speaker 7: tax dollars by foreign nationals, the citizens of Somalia, the
• 43:25
  Speaker 7: citizens of Guatemala or Mexico. And so the idea that
• 43:29
  Speaker 7: instead of doing that, we would say, hey, let's allow
• 43:32
  Speaker 7: more and more foreign nationals to take up residence in
• 43:34
  Speaker 7: your neighborhoods so they can continue to rob from your children.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: That's an albatross. That's a total election loser.
• 43:42
  Speaker 7: So I hope the White House in no uncertain terms
• 43:45
  Speaker 7: says that you know, whether it means we lose a
• 43:47
  Speaker 7: seat in Miami for Congresswoman Salazar, I guess too bad,
• 43:50
  Speaker 7: so sad.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: I think we can do a lot better picking up a.
• 43:54
  Speaker 7: More American first minded congressman or congresswoman in other places
• 43:58
  Speaker 7: in the country.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: And it'd be a total betrayal of what the president
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: was elected on, which was to get control of our
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: nation's borders and to restore it for Americans. That was
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: obviously why he was elected. One of the many reasons
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: it was too big to rig. Um, Before I let
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: you go, Theo, one other thing I want to ask
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: you about is birthright citizenship. There was just a big
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: case in the United States Supreme Court on this subject,
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: oral arguments, and many of us were very troubled by
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: what sounded like the justices kind of being okay with
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: the status quo, that illegal aliens could come here, give birth,
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: and then suddenly have American citizens in their family, which
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: is in no way what the writers of the 14th
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: Amendment meant before. for that amendment that was designed explicitly
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: for slaves, former slaves and their children. Theo, I know
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: you were a part of drafting the first birthright citizenship
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: executive order in the first administration. Tell me your thoughts
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: on this subject and what are the chances that the
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: Supreme Court does the right thing here?
• 44:59
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think the simple thing for folks who are
• 45:02
  Speaker 7: not lawyers, who are not legal geeks, I think the
• 45:05
  Speaker 7: simple sort of thesis here is exactly as you described.
• 45:08
  Speaker 7: The debates at the time of ratification of the 14th Amendment,
• 45:12
  Speaker 7: in particular, the discussions that surrounded the Citizenship Clause of
• 45:15
  Speaker 7: the 14th Amendment, and then similarly situated statutes, statutory enactments
• 45:21
  Speaker 7: following the Civil War, including the Civil Rights Act of 1866,
• 45:24
  Speaker 7: make plain that the Citizenship Clause was really designed to
• 45:28
  Speaker 7: deal with the issue of recently freed slaves and their children,
• 45:33
  Speaker 7: to regularize their status under American law It had nothing
• 45:37
  Speaker 7: to do with what we would call transient foreign nationals,
• 45:40
  Speaker 7: transient individuals who were passing through the United States, either
• 45:43
  Speaker 7: on short-term labor visas or who would enter the country illegally, which,
• 45:48
  Speaker 7: to be honest, I think a lot of folks pointed
• 45:50
  Speaker 7: out there really was no notion of illegal entry or
• 45:53
  Speaker 7: illegal aliens entering our economy or entering our society in
• 45:57
  Speaker 7: the 19th century. So I think all the source documents
• 46:00
  Speaker 7: all indicate really that there's really only one intelligible outcome here,
• 46:05
  Speaker 7: But as far as the argument itself, I'm hesitant to
• 46:09
  Speaker 7: sort of forecast the doom and gloom, which is my
• 46:11
  Speaker 7: natural disposition. I will say the questions that were being
• 46:15
  Speaker 7: asked by a number of the Republican appointed justices, in
• 46:19
  Speaker 7: particular Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Barrett, and Roberts, they're not hopeful. And
• 46:26
  Speaker 7: I think, obviously, I think the chief is really disinclined
• 46:30
  Speaker 7: Chief Justice Roberts is disinclined to read into the 14th
• 46:34
  Speaker 7: Amendment what many of us think is so obvious. And
• 46:37
  Speaker 7: then you have Justice Gorsuch, who seemed to think that
• 46:41
  Speaker 7: Wong Kim Ark, a case from the 19th century that
• 46:43
  Speaker 7: dealt with Chinese nationals who were under short-term visas here
• 46:48
  Speaker 7: and had a child, that that case controls, but not
• 46:51
  Speaker 7: in the way that most people read that case, that
• 46:55
  Speaker 7: actually its outcome would suggest that the children of illegal
• 46:57
  Speaker 7: aliens could have status. And that leaves you Justice Barrett
• 47:00
  Speaker 7: and Justice Kavanaugh. Justice Barrett asked a lot of sort
• 47:03
  Speaker 7: of technical administrability questions.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: What do you do with foundlings?
• 47:07
  Speaker 7: Those are children that are left at someone's doorstep or
• 47:10
  Speaker 7: orphanages whose parents are unknown. What do you do with
• 47:13
  Speaker 7: stateless individuals who show up in our international airports? And
• 47:17
  Speaker 7: all of those kind of practical administrability questions seem to
• 47:21
  Speaker 7: suggest that she thinks there's a reliance interest here that
• 47:24
  Speaker 7: cannot be disturbed. And then Justice Kavanaugh was sort of
• 47:27
  Speaker 7: all over the map. Now, obviously, the three liberal justices
• 47:30
  Speaker 7: went into this argument. They're already hardwired, totally hard baked
• 47:36
  Speaker 7: as being opposed to this argument. And so I think,
• 47:39
  Speaker 7: you know, look, we're looking at probably a 7-2, maybe
• 47:44
  Speaker 7: at best a 6-3 outcome.
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: That doesn't sound good. That doesn't sound good. This seems
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: kind of existential to me. So lastly, if we do
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: get an outcome like that, where should the political pressure
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: go to? I mean, it sounds like we might need
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: a constitutional amendment. to clarify all of this, if we
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: really wanted to go for the gold, where should our
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: political pressure go?
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, two things.
• 48:12
  Speaker 7: And it ties right back into our previous conversation about
• 48:14
  Speaker 7: Representative Salazar, Representative Lawler, and these other folks who are
• 48:17
  Speaker 7: designing this mass amnesty Trojan horse, which is Republicans in
• 48:20
  Speaker 7: Congress could be working diligently on a statutory fix. There's
• 48:26
  Speaker 7: room for Congress to weigh in on what the meaning
• 48:29
  Speaker 7: of the 14th Amendment is, number one.
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 48:31
  Speaker 7: And number two, it may be actually time to take
• 48:35
  Speaker 7: up this idea of amending the Constitution. And I raised
• 48:38
  Speaker 7: this previously a couple weeks ago, and a lot of
• 48:40
  Speaker 7: folks said, oh, we'll never get the Constitution amendment.
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: The bar is too high, and liberal states are opposed
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: to this.
• 48:46
  Speaker 7: And I honestly think that if you really wanted to
• 48:49
  Speaker 7: knit together some of the best parts of the America
• 48:52
  Speaker 7: First movement with sort of that boomer-oriented Tea Party 2010 moment,
• 48:58
  Speaker 7: It's to get the American citizen animated by the idea
• 49:00
  Speaker 7: that there are liberal justices, some of whom were appointed
• 49:04
  Speaker 7: by Republican presidents, and there are do-nothing members of Congress
• 49:08
  Speaker 7: who want to prevent solutions to an obvious existential problem.
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: Like the ability of high-ranking members.
• 49:15
  Speaker 7: Of the CCP to come to places like Hawaii or
• 49:18
  Speaker 7: the CNMI, have children, and then get a passport and
• 49:21
  Speaker 7: a U.S.
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: Visa, right?
• 49:22
  Speaker 7: So if you want to address that, get out, turn
• 49:24
  Speaker 7: out the vote, and amend the Constitution. I think actually
• 49:27
  Speaker 7: it would be a great exercise in energizing the American
• 49:31
  Speaker 7: people to take control of their own government. And I
• 49:34
  Speaker 7: think that may be the only, the only silver bullet
• 49:37
  Speaker 7: we have left.
• 49:38
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: And it also could be electoral fuel to help for
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: everything else down ballot. I mean, this is why Democrats
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: routinely put weed referendums on ballots and just to get
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: people to turn up, you know, just so they can
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: get more power. That's what that's that's it. Just you
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: got to think about these tactics. Theo Wald, thank you
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: very much. Great to have you with us today. Appreciate you.
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: Thanks for having me. It's good to be with you.
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Theo. There's Theo Wald. Great rundown of everything
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: we got going on.
• 50:04
  Speaker 3: Right now.
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: Just madness. It really does matter to our country how
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: a U.S. citizen is created. I happen to think it
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: should be just American citizens who give birth to American citizens,
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: and then we naturalize when we feel like it. We're like,
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: you know what? You can become a citizen. We're very
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: selective in that. I don't think that legal immigrants, as
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: nice as you are if you're illegal, that's fine. But
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: you're not an American citizen, so why should your kid
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: become an American citizen? And especially illegal aliens.
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: What?
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: You just pour into our country, have a baby, and
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: now you've got an American citizen? That doesn't make any
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: sense to me. You know, if we're going to protect
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: this country, we have to protect the way we have
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: new American citizens, obviously. Let me get to Iran now
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: with you. J.D. Vance just wrapped up a big round
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: of negotiations directly with the Iranians in Islamabad. And he
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: walked out, he announced after 20 hours, no deal, cut seven.
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: Here's the vice president of the United States.
• 51:04
  Speaker 5: We've been at it now for 21 hours and we've
• 51:08
  Speaker 5: had a number of substantive discussions with the Iranians.
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: That's the good news.
• 51:13
  Speaker 5: The bad news is that we have not reached an agreement.
• 51:15
  Speaker 5: And I think that's bad news for Iran much more
• 51:17
  Speaker 5: than it's bad news for the United States of America.
• 51:19
  Speaker 5: So we go back to the United States having not
• 51:22
  Speaker 5: come to an agreement. We've made very clear what our
• 51:25
  Speaker 5: red lines are, what things we're willing to accommodate them
• 51:28
  Speaker 5: on and what things we're not willing to accommodate them on.
• 51:31
  Speaker 5: And we've made that as clear as we possibly could.
• 51:34
  Speaker 5: And they have chosen not to accept our terms.
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: They've chosen not to accept our terms. So where do
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: we go from here? Where do we go from here? Well,
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: the president of the United States shares some messages on
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: Truth Social yesterday saying that, well, that's it. Iran refuses
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: to back off of its nuclear ambitions. So we're going
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: to have to take things to the next level. Now,
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: as you know, right now, a ceasefire is in effect
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: going through, I believe, next week. So that's the plan
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: at the moment. Negotiations, the hope of negotiations continues to
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: be somewhat alive. But in the meantime, the president has
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: announced that he will be issuing, starting a blockade of
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: the Strait of Hormuz. beginning at 10 a.m. Eastern time today.
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: So by the time you hear this podcast, if you're
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: listening to it on delay, it may very well have
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: already begun. 10 o'clock a.m. Eastern time, the blockade of
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: the Strait of Hormuz begins. Here's the president announcing this
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: last night. Cut four, watch.
• 52:38
  Speaker 6: I would say it's holding well. Their military is destroyed.
• 52:45
  Speaker 6: Their whole.
• 52:48
  Speaker 6: Navy is underwater, you know that.
• 52:50
  Speaker 4: 158 ships are gone. Their navy's gone. Most of their
• 52:55
  Speaker 4: mine droppers are gone. We have a lot of people.
• 52:59
  Speaker 4: As you know, at 10 o'clock tomorrow, we have a
• 53:01
  Speaker 4: blockade going into effect. That'll be 10 o'clock tomorrow. Other
• 53:05
  Speaker 4: nations are working so that Iran will not be able
• 53:08
  Speaker 4: to sell oil. And that would be very effective.
• 53:12
  Speaker 6: But what we want to do is we want to.
• 53:15
  Speaker 4: And again, we don't need it.
• 53:17
  Speaker 6: What we notice and what we see and.
• 53:19
  Speaker 4: What I think is... Maybe my idea, maybe not. I
• 53:22
  Speaker 4: don't know. But there are many boats heading toward our
• 53:26
  Speaker 4: country to fill up with oil and then go and
• 53:29
  Speaker 4: take it. So they're not going to go through the
• 53:30
  Speaker 4: Hormuz Strait. And ultimately, that'll be corrected. But in the meantime,
• 53:36
  Speaker 4: they're using us. We have more oil because of Drill
• 53:40
  Speaker 4: Baby Drill.
• 53:41
  Speaker 6: We have more oil than Russia and Saudi Arabia put together.
• 53:46
  Speaker 6: So if you look at Russia.
• 53:48
  Speaker 4: And Saudi Arabia, two big ones, we have much more
• 53:51
  Speaker 4: oil than.
• 53:52
  Speaker 8: They have put together.
• 53:53
  Speaker 6: And what's happening is boats are.
• 53:55
  Speaker 4: Coming over here, filling up.
• 53:57
  Speaker 6: We don't have to.
• 53:57
  Speaker 8: Go through the Hormuz.
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: The Strait of Hormuz. Now, I want to get into
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: some of the specifics here. One, this is going to
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: increase the leverage that the United States has over Iran
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: in order to get a deal. And here's how. Remind
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: you of the big numbers. 40% of China's oil and
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: natural gas comes through the Strait of Hormuz. It's a lot.
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: 50% of India's crude oil and 90% of their liquefied
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: petroleum gas, their LPG, comes through the Strait of Hormuz.
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: There's a massive amount of energy on the line. These
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: countries will be desperate to get the Strait of Hormuz
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: fully and freely open. This will increase the chances that
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: they place pressure on Iran to come to a deal. Remember,
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: the fact that we even got to a negotiation phase
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: included China pressuring Iran to sit down with the United States.
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: The White House confirmed that China did get involved. So
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: there's going to be a lot more pressure on Iran
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: now from a lot of different angles in order to
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: get a deal here. Another piece of this, what does
• 55:04
  Speaker 2: this blockade look like? What are they actually blockading? Is
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: the whole Strait of Hormuz going to be shut down?
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: No ships are going to move to the Strait of Hormuz? No,
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: that's not what this is. Central Command announced in its
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: details that they're going to be enforcing this blockade on
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: Iran specifically. It'll be enforced impartially, meaning it doesn't matter
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: what ship you are or who you're with, against vessels
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: of all nations entering or departing Iranian ports and coastal areas.
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: Central Command has added that the United States will not
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: impede freedom of navigation for vessels who are transiting the
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: Strait of Hormuz to and from non-Iranian ports. So it's
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: specifically for Iranian ports. Any ship that wants to go
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: or leave Iran To and from Iran, you can't do it.
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: Now with the United States Navy there having this blockade
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: starting at 10 a.m. Eastern this morning. So this is
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: the president's latest effort to try and bring this thing
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: to a resolution. and just keep your eyes on that. Now,
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: why didn't they get a deal? What was the shortcoming
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: of the deal? Well, the president said the most important
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: thing is nuclear, and we didn't get there on the
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: important issue. There was a lot of progress made, but fundamentally,
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: at the end, the Iranians didn't want to give up
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: their nuclear ambitions, so we don't have a deal. Cut five.
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: Here's President Trump explaining to Maria Bartiromo how it went down.
• 56:31
  Speaker 8: We're going to be blockading. It'll take a little while,
• 56:33
  Speaker 8: but it'll be effective pretty soon. And we had meetings yesterday. They,
• 56:39
  Speaker 8: as you said, lasted 21 hours. That was a long meeting.
• 56:43
  Speaker 8: We had some very, very good representatives, as you know, J.D.
• 56:46
  Speaker 8: and Steve and Jared. So we were well represented, but
• 56:50
  Speaker 8: we didn't get there on the important issue. They want
• 56:52
  Speaker 8: to have nuclear weapons. They're not going to have nuclear weapons.
• 56:55
  Speaker 8: I've been saying that for 30 years. I would never
• 56:57
  Speaker 8: allow that to happen before I was in politics. and
• 57:00
  Speaker 8: that country will not have nuclear weapons. Most countries shouldn't
• 57:03
  Speaker 8: be allowed to have, but that country will not have
• 57:06
  Speaker 8: nuclear weapons.
• 57:08
  Speaker 6: So, Mr.
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: President, was that the red line there?
• 57:10
  Speaker 3: Can you explain to us what went on in these talks?
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: What did the United States ask of Iran, and how
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: did they react?
• 57:18
  Speaker 8: Well, they reacted, you know, it was very interesting. It
• 57:21
  Speaker 8: started off weak. They came in like they had the cards,
• 57:25
  Speaker 8: but they don't have the cards. Their army and their
• 57:27
  Speaker 8: whole military is obliterated. The whole place is obliterated. And,
• 57:32
  Speaker 8: you know, as you know, levels of leaders are gone.
• 57:35
  Speaker 8: They're literally gone. Comedi's gone. The whole thing is gone.
• 57:39
  Speaker 8: The whole place is gone. They have one thing that
• 57:41
  Speaker 8: they can do. They can say, well, gee, we're going
• 57:43
  Speaker 8: to put a mine someplace in the, just a mine.
• 57:46
  Speaker 8: We'll drop one mine, two mines, ten mines. And that will,
• 57:50
  Speaker 8: if you have a ship that costs a billion dollars,
• 57:52
  Speaker 8: you say, well, you know, I prefer not getting whacked
• 57:54
  Speaker 8: by a mine, losing my ship or damaging it badly,
• 57:57
  Speaker 8: at least. And so that's a little bit of a
• 58:00
  Speaker 8: thing that they could do. Military might and military power
• 58:04
  Speaker 8: don't do it, but, you know, it's extortion. And they're
• 58:07
  Speaker 8: extorting the world. You know, we don't get our oil
• 58:09
  Speaker 8: from there. We have so much oil. And one thing
• 58:12
  Speaker 8: you said, and I don't know if anybody heard it well,
• 58:16
  Speaker 8: but we have boats pouring up to the United States.
• 58:19
  Speaker 8: They'll be filling them up, and they'll be leaving, and
• 58:21
  Speaker 8: they're going to be packed with the best oil you
• 58:24
  Speaker 8: can get.
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: The best oil you can get. right from the United
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: States of America. But the president said, fundamentally, it came
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: down to nuclear. You know, it doesn't matter how much
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: progress we made on all these other points. You know,
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: Iran's looking for sanctions relief. They want access to money again.
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: Your future could be very bright. Just do the one
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: thing that the president is asking for. Give up the
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: nuclear ambition. Give that up. The rest is done. The
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: rest is done. You ready for that? No? Okay, we'll
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: keep playing this game until you are. The blockade begins
• 58:54
  Speaker 2: 10 a.m.
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: Eastern.
• 58:57
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• 59:00
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• 59:02
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