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Hegseth Shines at Hearing, a Shocking Child Rape Scandal in the UK & Biden Excuses Cuban Sponsored Terrorism · The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson

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Speaker 1: Welcome.
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Speaker 2: It is verdict with center, Ted Cruz Ben Ferguson with you,
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Speaker 2: Senator fireworks on Capitol Hill. We're gonna start with that
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Speaker 2: because it was a very big day for Pete Hedgseth.
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Speaker 2: Democrats tried to derail him. It did not work well.
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Speaker 2: The circuses in town.
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Speaker 3: Democrats were putting on a show today at the hearing
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Speaker 3: for Pete hegg Seth. The good news is he will
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Speaker 3: be confirmed. We're gonna break it down exactly what happened
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Speaker 3: at his confirmation hearing yesterday. And this is the beginning
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Speaker 3: of the confirmation hearings for the Trump cabinet. Tomorrow, we'll
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Speaker 3: have confirmation hearings. I'll participate in three. I'll participate in
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Speaker 3: the confirmation hearing for Pam Bondy as Attorney General, the
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Speaker 3: confirmation hearing from Marco Rubio as Secretary of State, and
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Speaker 3: I'll be chairing the confirmation hearing for Sean Duffy, a
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Speaker 3: Secretary of Transportation. We'll tell you what to expect on that,
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Speaker 3: and then we're going to talk about one of the
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Speaker 3: most shocking scandals that you've never heard of, and it
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Speaker 3: is the child rape gang scandal in the United Kingdom.
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Speaker 3: Thousands upon thousands of children were raped over decades, systematically, repeatedly,
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Speaker 3: and the British government, British prosecutors turned the other way
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Speaker 3: because of political correctness and multiculturalism. The shocks that the
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Speaker 2: start with Democrats game plan center. It was to do
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Speaker 2: everything they could to smear Pete. It was to try
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Speaker 2: to say he's unfit for office. It was to try
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Speaker 2: to say, well, he's not what we traditionally have in
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Speaker 2: this role in the past, and we must keep the
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Speaker 2: status quo. And then it went to personal attacks on
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Speaker 2: him as well.
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Speaker 1: None of it stuck.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, le le, let's start with the punchline. Pete hegseeth
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Speaker 3: will be confirmed. He is going to be confirmed as
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Speaker 3: the Secretary of Defense. I believe he will have at
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Speaker 3: least fifty votes in the US Senate, and today's hearing
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Speaker 3: is a big part of the reason why Democrats tried
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Speaker 3: to come after him, and frankly, in the course of
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Speaker 3: the hearing, I don't think they laid a glove on
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Speaker 3: him very effectively. Now, listen, you and I had talked
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Speaker 3: about this before. We had predicted it was going to
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Speaker 3: be a political circus, and there were clowns, there were
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Speaker 3: dancing bears that were ballerinas and trapeze artists. They went
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Speaker 3: after him, But.
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Speaker 4: It actually speaks volumes.
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Speaker 3: What did they choose to go after him on. They
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Speaker 3: choose chose to go after him on political smears to
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Speaker 3: personal smears, to drag him through the gutter, and based
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Speaker 3: on a whole series of allegations that the press has
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Speaker 3: covered breathlessly over and over and over again, almost all
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Speaker 3: of which are anonymous allegations. So you don't have anyone
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Speaker 3: coming forward being willing to say I was there, this
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Speaker 3: is what happened. They're all anonymous, given to left wing papers,
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Speaker 3: and there's no evidence to back any of them up.
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Speaker 3: And yet the Democrats, in any massive display of hypocrisy,
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Speaker 3: just went after and they were They were mean, they
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Speaker 3: were nasty, that they were personal. You know, look, you
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Speaker 3: look at Pete Haigs's background. First of all, he went
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Speaker 3: to Princeton and Harvard, which which I confess I'm kind
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Speaker 3: of partial to that particular comedy. I wonder why, by
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Speaker 3: the way, I learned this today reading through his bio.
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Speaker 4: Do you know what he did at Princeton?
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Speaker 1: I do not.
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Speaker 4: He played on the basketball team.
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Speaker 1: Well, then the next question is why have you guys
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Speaker 1: not played?
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Speaker 3: I found that out today. I'm but that's like twelve
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Speaker 3: hours ago. Usually says you already get a game together
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Speaker 3: in these cities. So I played hoops this afternoon. We
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Speaker 3: play old guys against young guys. Pete is forty four,
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Speaker 3: he's not not my age, but he still qualifies as
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Speaker 3: an old guy. So I was already laughing, going, all right,
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Speaker 3: I'm recruiting to me a ringer. He not only played
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Speaker 3: on the Princeton basketball team, he played in March Madness.
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Speaker 4: Uh, he played played in the tournament.
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Speaker 1: I had no idea. That is a very cool piece
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Speaker 1: of info there.
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Speaker 3: I learned it from Wikipedia today. So I have not
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Speaker 3: talked to about it today because I learned it like
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Speaker 3: three hours ago, and I was like, wow, that's really cool.
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Speaker 3: But Princeident Harvard and then he served active duty military, deployed,
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Speaker 3: deployed in combat, commanded troops in combat, was awarded the
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Speaker 3: Bronze Star. Was is a decorated combat veteran. And and
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Speaker 3: and then when when when he left active duty, uh,
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Speaker 3: he led two veterans organizations advocating on behalf of veterans
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Speaker 3: advocating on behalf of active duty troops. Pete someone I've
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Speaker 3: known a long time. He he is a strong leader.
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Speaker 3: He is he is a principal leader. And and and
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Speaker 3: what was really striking about the hearing all of the
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Speaker 3: Democrats they hate him like they hate Donald Trump, and
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Speaker 3: and every one of the Democrats on the committee is
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Speaker 3: going to vote against him. But you could see the
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Speaker 3: vitriol and hatred the fact that they had to go
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Speaker 3: to personal spears. What I think spoke volumes is they
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Speaker 3: didn't talk at all about the job that he is
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Speaker 3: going to do at the Department of Defense. And you
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Speaker 3: and I talked about this on the podcast the day
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Speaker 3: after Trump announced Pete hagg Seth, and we predicted on
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Speaker 3: this pod. So they're going to have they're going to
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Speaker 3: come after him, They're going.
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Speaker 4: To go crazy. It's going to be a political circus.
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Speaker 3: But my take on him the day it was announced
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Speaker 3: is the same as my take on him now, which
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Speaker 3: is Pete hagg Seth will be a change agent. That
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Speaker 3: he was nominated and he's going to be confirmed to
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Speaker 3: go to the Department of Defense and to bring DoD
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Speaker 3: back to its core mission, to bring it back to
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Speaker 3: supporting the warfighter, to bring it back to being ready
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Speaker 3: and pair to defeat our enemies and to kill our enemies.
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Speaker 3: And we have seen the Department of Defense under Barack
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Speaker 3: Obama initially and even more so Inner Joe Biden get
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Speaker 3: mired into the games of political correctness and woke ideology
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Speaker 3: and and and they're more interested in transgender soldiers than
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Speaker 3: they are actually in defeating our enemies, and and and
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Speaker 3: and by the way, one of the consequences of it,
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Speaker 3: the military is suffering a recruitment crisis because it turns.
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Speaker 4: Out young men and women are not eager to.
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Speaker 3: Be part of some left wing political crusade. They are
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Speaker 3: eager to be heroes defending America. And a prediction that
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Speaker 3: I've made, I believe we will see recruiting and enlistment
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Speaker 3: love numbers rise significantly when Pete Hegsith is confirmed to
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Speaker 3: Secretary of Defense. Because young men and women, many of
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Speaker 3: them in the South. You get a lot of people
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Speaker 3: who enlist in the military from the South are going
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Speaker 3: to say, that's what I want to be a part
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Speaker 3: of I want to focus on defending our nation. I
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Speaker 3: thought Pete Hexas did a terrific job today.
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Speaker 2: One of the things that he said that I thought
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Speaker 2: was also really interesting is he talked about how we
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Speaker 2: hold the men and women that are in combat to
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Speaker 2: insanely high standards. But he said, we have too many
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Speaker 2: people that are in the bloated upper echelons of the
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Speaker 2: bureaucracy of the Pentagon that get as he described it,
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Speaker 2: these bigger roles even after big failures. And he said,
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Speaker 2: if you lose a war, you shouldn't be able to
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Speaker 2: get a better job after you lose a war. And
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Speaker 2: he said, we have way too many people that are
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Speaker 2: on the payroll and in general roles, for example, when
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Speaker 2: we don't need as many and when we won World
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Speaker 2: War Two, he compared it to how many we have today.
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Speaker 2: It is significant to see the idea, as you said,
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Speaker 2: about being change in it where he's like, look, we
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Speaker 2: need to put the fighters first, the soldiers first, and
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Speaker 2: not le readership first all the time.
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Speaker 3: Well, and and he also talked a great deal about
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Speaker 3: modernizing the military, developing weapons systems to fight tomorrow's war,
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Speaker 3: not yesterday's war. And and and in particular that's going
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Speaker 3: to involve all sorts of technology like drones and artificial
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Speaker 3: intelligence and hypersonics and and and modernizing the military. Look,
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Speaker 3: the job he's been nominated to is an insanely difficult job.
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Speaker 3: It is there three million people in d O D.
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Speaker 3: It's nine hundred billion dollars. Turning that battleship is not easy.
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Speaker 3: And and and and and I think I think Pete
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Speaker 3: is up to the task. It's not gonna be an
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Speaker 3: easy thing, you know. I want to focus on to
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Speaker 3: give you an example of the sorts of things that
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Speaker 3: democrats did not did not ask about, and we're not
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Speaker 3: concerned about it. I want to start by by his answer, uh,
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Speaker 3: concerning Israel and and and Hamas and and this is
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Speaker 3: when Tom Cotton was questioning him, and at the beginning
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Speaker 3: of Pete Haggis testimony, you had a couple of protesters
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Speaker 3: that stood up and screamed and disrupted, and so Cotton
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Speaker 3: gave him a chance to respond to the protesters.
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Speaker 4: Give a listen to Cotton's question, a hexcess answer.
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Speaker 5: Big audience here. Many of them seem to be patriotic
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Speaker 5: supporters of you, mister Heseath. Some of them seem to
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Speaker 5: be liberal critics of you. I would note that it's
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Speaker 5: only the liberal critics that have disrupted this hearing. As
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Speaker 5: was my custom during the Biden administration, I want to
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Speaker 5: give you a chance to respond to what they said
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Speaker 5: about you. I think the first one accused you of
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Speaker 5: being a Christian Zionist. I'm not really sure why that
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Speaker 5: is a bad thing. I'm a Christian, I'm a Zionist.
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Speaker 5: Zionism is that the Jewish people deserve a homeland in
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Speaker 5: the ancient Holy Land where they've lived since the dawn
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Speaker 5: of history. Do you consider yourself a Christian Zionist.
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Speaker 6: Senator, I support. I'm a Christian, and I robustly support
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Speaker 6: the state of Israel and it's existential defense and the
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Speaker 6: way America comes alongside the great.
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Speaker 5: Thank you because another protester, and I think this one
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Speaker 5: was a member of Code Paint, which by the way,
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Speaker 5: is a Chinese communist front group these days, said that
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Speaker 5: you support Israel's war in Gaza. I support Israel's existential
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Speaker 5: war in Gaza. I assume, like me and President Trump,
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Speaker 5: you support that war as well, don't.
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Speaker 6: You, Senator I do. I support Israel destroying and killing
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Speaker 6: every last member of Hamas, and.
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Speaker 1: I love that aspect of his answer.
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Speaker 4: Look, there is a clarity to it.
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Speaker 3: I support Israel destroying and killing every last member of Hamas.
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Speaker 3: That is exactly right. And yet you cannot imagine Joe
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Speaker 3: Biden or anyone in the Biden administration uttering those words.
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Speaker 3: Why because they don't support that. And in fact, at
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Speaker 3: every stage on and after October seventh, the Biden administration
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Speaker 3: has been urging Israel stop killing the terrorist, stop killing
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Speaker 3: the terror and there's a reason the Democrats didn't want
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Speaker 3: to talk about the job he was nominated to and
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Speaker 3: instead wanted to go to personal spheres. And it is
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Speaker 3: that clarity. I also want to play another clip where
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Speaker 3: he was talking about he was talking about the service
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Speaker 3: members who were kicked out because of the COVID vaccine.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a big flash point and a big
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Speaker 2: question you and I have talked about for a long time,
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Speaker 2: which is should the people that were kicked out get
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Speaker 2: their jobs back?
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Speaker 1: Should they get back pay?
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Speaker 4: Well, he answered that, and give a listen to his answer.
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Speaker 6: We haven't even talked about COVID and the tens of
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Speaker 6: thousands of service members who were kicked out because of
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Speaker 6: an experimental vaccine. In President Trump's Defense department, they will
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Speaker 6: be apologized to, They will be reinstituted, reinstituted with pay
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Speaker 6: and rank.
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Speaker 1: Center.
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Speaker 2: This goes back to what you said a minute ago
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Speaker 2: about you think that recruitment's going to go up.
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Speaker 4: Yep.
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Speaker 2: Part of that recruitment's going to be I think a
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Speaker 2: lot of men women that were kicked out that are
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Speaker 2: going to want to come back and serve under this
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Speaker 2: type of leadership as well.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, look that is absolutely right.
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Speaker 3: And look at a time that we've got huge recruitment challenges,
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Speaker 3: what did Joe Biden the Democrats do. They threw out
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Speaker 3: tens of thousands of servicemen and women because they declined
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Speaker 3: to get the COVID vaccine. It was asinine, it was irrational,
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Speaker 3: it was arbitrary, and I believe the reason they did
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Speaker 3: so is precisely because they recognized that many of them
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Speaker 3: were conservatives, and it was an excuse to purge conservatives.
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Speaker 3: By the way, they did the same thing as the
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Speaker 3: Department of Justice at the FBI as a border patrol.
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Speaker 3: And this is an issue as you know that I've
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Speaker 3: been leading the fight on in the Senate for the
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Speaker 3: past several years. I led the fight successfully to end
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Speaker 3: the vaccine mandate in the military, so it's no longer
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Speaker 3: a current mandate. But I've introduced legislation, the Americans Act,
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Speaker 3: that would mandate that those who were thrown out of
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Speaker 3: the military be allowed back in, reinstated with backpay and rank,
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Speaker 3: and the Democrats have systematically blocked it. Pete hagg Seth
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Speaker 3: just promised to do that. That is the right thing
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Speaker 3: to do. I'll tell you I knew he was going
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Speaker 3: to say that, because when I sat down and met
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Speaker 3: with him, I asked him that very directly, and he
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Speaker 3: made that commitment to me in our meeting, and I'm
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Speaker 3: glad he now made it publicly at his confirmation hearing.
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Speaker 3: And that's the sort of clarity that frankly, the Democrats
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Speaker 3: don't want at the Department of Defense. But that's also
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Speaker 3: why he's going to be confirmed, and that's a very
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Speaker 3: good thing.
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Speaker 2: Let's finally talk about accountability. One other thing he said
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Speaker 2: that I think should make headlines. I don't think the
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Speaker 2: media is going to cover it, but it should was
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Speaker 2: his thoughts on the withdrawal in Afghanistan.
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Speaker 1: Here's what he said.
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Speaker 6: There's been no accountability for the disaster of the withdrawal
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Speaker 6: in Afghanistan. And that's precisely why.
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Speaker 5: We're here today.
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Speaker 6: Is that leadership he's been unwilling to take accountability. It's
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Speaker 6: the time to restore that to our most senior ranks.
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Speaker 2: I love how they were trying to cut him off
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Speaker 2: when he was saying that Democrats did not want that
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Speaker 2: out there.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that was Jack Reid, who's the ranking member of
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Speaker 3: the senior Democrat on the Armed Services Committee. He's interrupting
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Speaker 3: excus no, no, don't get into that, and it is shocking.
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Speaker 3: The disaster of Afghanistan was the first major foreign policy
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Speaker 3: screw up of the Biden administration, and it foreshadowed all
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Speaker 3: the other disasters because it told our enemies this commander
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Speaker 3: in chief was weak and ineffective and it was embarrassing.
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Speaker 3: And I'll tell you the servicemen and women I've talked
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Speaker 3: to who fought in Afghanistan, they're angry. They're angry at
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Speaker 3: the disgrace and debacle of that withdrawal. And nobody lost
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Speaker 3: their job, not as Secretary of Defense didn't lose his job,
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Speaker 3: The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs didn't lose his job.
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Speaker 3: To the best of my knowledge, no general lost his job,
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Speaker 3: no civilian lost his job. Nobody did because in the
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Speaker 3: Biden administration, no one gets fired ever, and there are
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Speaker 3: no consequences.
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Speaker 4: And that needs to be assessed.
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Speaker 3: What were the mistakes that led to one of the
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Speaker 3: most humiliating and disastrous military retreats in US military history that,
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Speaker 3: at least to date, there's been zero accountability for.
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Speaker 2: So let's move to what people are going to see Wednesday,
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Speaker 2: and that's going to be these three confirmation hearings that
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Speaker 2: you're involved in, Bondi, Duffy, and Rubio. Let's start with
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Speaker 2: Pam Bondy first. What can people expect and what should
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Speaker 2: they be looking for?
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Speaker 3: So it'll be a circus too. Bondi will be one
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Speaker 3: of the hotter ones. It won't be quite the circus
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Speaker 3: that Haig Seth was, but it's going to be a show.
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Speaker 3: We're going to have two days of hearings for Pam Bondy. Look,
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Speaker 3: I don't think they're really going to go after her.
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Speaker 3: They don't have a lot of shots at her personally.
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Speaker 3: She's clearly qualified. She's she's a veteran prosecutor. She was
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Speaker 3: she was the elected Attorney General of Florida. She's got
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Speaker 3: a lot of experience. So I don't think they're really
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Speaker 3: going to go after her. But what they are going
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Speaker 3: to do is go after Trump. They hate Trump, and
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Speaker 3: so their attack for the next two days is going
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Speaker 3: to be your Trump's lackey. And their attack is also
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Speaker 3: going to be you're going to weaponize the Department of Justice. Now,
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Speaker 3: I'm confident that she's going to respond and say no,
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Speaker 3: we're not We're going to follow the law and restore
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Speaker 3: integrity to doj But I expect the attacks to be
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Speaker 3: very much not attacking her directly, but using her to
18:22
Speaker 3: attack Trump, and I think she'll she'll respond very effectively.
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Speaker 3: The other two. The Rubio hearing is going to be
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Speaker 3: a love fest. Marco's going to be confirmed easily. It
18:33
Speaker 3: would not surprise me if Marco gets ninety five votes
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Speaker 3: or more. I think all the Republicans are going to
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Speaker 3: vote for him, and I think most, if not all,
18:42
Speaker 3: the Democrats are going to vote for him, and so
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Speaker 3: I think it will be.
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Speaker 2: Surely abnormal in the political times right now. It used
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Speaker 2: to not be this way back in the day. You
18:50
Speaker 2: could actually get a lot of people through with this
18:52
Speaker 2: significant number of votes. So this is going to be
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Speaker 2: maybe one of the abnormal ones that Trump puts up.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Look, Secretary's of State, that sometimes happened. One of
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Speaker 3: the very first votes I ever cast was was I
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Speaker 3: was elected in twenty twelve. Twenty thirteen was the beginning
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Speaker 3: of the second Obama term, and he nominated John Kerry
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Speaker 3: to be Secretary of State. John was obviously a former
19:15
Speaker 3: senator and was known by everyone there. And Carrie was
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Speaker 3: confirmed ninety seven to three, and I was one of
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Speaker 3: the three. And I got to tell you, when I
19:25
Speaker 3: cast my vote, I was a brand new baby freshman,
19:28
Speaker 3: still down in the little basement office that they stick
19:31
Speaker 3: brand new senators in, and when I cast the vote
19:35
Speaker 3: that there was an audible gasp in the well of
19:37
Speaker 3: the Senate because freshmen weren't supposed to do such a thing.
19:41
Speaker 3: And it was actually at the time people it was
19:43
Speaker 3: regarded as as like courageous, which I thought was bizarre.
19:46
Speaker 3: I'm like, John Kerry has been wrong on every foreign
19:49
Speaker 3: policy issue every day of his life. Systematically, what a
19:54
Speaker 3: train wreck of a nomination. Now he proved to be
19:56
Speaker 3: a train wreck of a Secretary of State, and yet
20:00
Speaker 3: ninety seven of my colleagues happily voted for.
20:03
Speaker 1: Well, let's go backwards just for a second.
20:06
Speaker 2: What are these confirmation hearings look like beforehand? How does
20:11
Speaker 2: the decision be made if it's one day or two day?
20:14
Speaker 2: Because you mentioned Bonnie's over two days. And then let's
20:17
Speaker 2: go and explain to people how prep works for the
20:21
Speaker 2: candidate nominee for this, because I've actually gotten to be
20:25
Speaker 2: a part of that before and the prep and it's
20:28
Speaker 2: very interesting to see how you get ready for what
20:31
Speaker 2: you're about to.
20:31
Speaker 3: Face, so it varies committee by committee, and that they
20:34
Speaker 3: typically follow precedent. So, for example, at the beginning of
20:38
Speaker 3: the heg Seth hearing, there was a back and forth
20:40
Speaker 3: skirmish where the Democrats wanted multiple rounds of questioning and
20:45
Speaker 3: Roger Wicker, who's the Republican chairman, said no, we're going
20:48
Speaker 3: to follow the same precedent we followed for Lloyd Austin,
20:52
Speaker 3: Biden's Secretary of Defense, which is one round of questioning,
20:56
Speaker 3: seven minute questions for each person. And that's what the
20:59
Speaker 3: Senate Armed Service Committee had done. It's also what they
21:01
Speaker 3: did for Jim Mattis, who was Trump's first Secretary of Defense,
21:05
Speaker 3: and so so that's how that committee decided it. Uh
21:10
Speaker 3: the Attorney General and Judiciary, it's not unusual for that
21:13
Speaker 3: to be a two day hearing. I don't know some
21:15
Speaker 3: of it, as lawyers are long winded, I guess, but
21:19
Speaker 3: but that also has been the tradition of the committee
21:21
Speaker 3: that that that it takes considerable time. Each chairman decides
21:26
Speaker 3: when to notice various hearings. So Sean Duffy, the third
21:29
Speaker 3: one that I'm going to participate in tomorrow, is nominated
21:32
Speaker 3: to be the Secretary of Transportation. He'll be confirmed. I
21:35
Speaker 3: think he'll be confirmed easily, and I think with bipartisan votes.
21:39
Speaker 3: I also think that will be something of a love fest,
21:42
Speaker 3: because you've got a bunch of senators on the Commerce Committee,
21:45
Speaker 3: which I chair, who are all wanting the Secretary of
21:48
Speaker 3: Transportation to to spend highway funds and transportation funds in
21:52
Speaker 3: their states and and so they're they're particularly incentivized to
21:56
Speaker 3: be nice to him, and so I think that will
21:58
Speaker 3: be a pretty easy hearing to And look, one of
22:01
Speaker 3: the dynamics of being a senator, these are all going
22:03
Speaker 3: on simultaneously. So I will start the day at nine thirty,
22:07
Speaker 3: which is when the Pambondi hearing gabbles in, and I'll
22:10
Speaker 3: be in my chair at nine thirty. And the reason
22:12
Speaker 3: is in judiciary, if you're in your chair at gavel,
22:17
Speaker 3: then you reserve your questioning order in order of seniority.
22:20
Speaker 3: And I'm pretty high up the list of seniority in judiciary,
22:24
Speaker 3: So that means if I'm in the chair at gavel,
22:27
Speaker 3: I get to be one of the first Republicans to
22:29
Speaker 3: question her. If you're not in your chair at gavel,
22:31
Speaker 3: if you're anywhere else, and sometimes you can't be then
22:34
Speaker 3: you you basically speak last and and so I'll be
22:37
Speaker 3: in the chair at gavel, But then right after we
22:40
Speaker 3: gavel in, I'll leave because at ten I have to
22:44
Speaker 3: gavele in the confirmation hearing for Sean Duffy, and I'm
22:47
Speaker 3: charing that one. So I'll spend most of the day,
22:52
Speaker 3: most of the morning at least hiring the Duffy confirmation
22:55
Speaker 3: hearing in At some point i'll leave that hearing. I'll
22:58
Speaker 3: go back to Judiciary and question Pambondi. At another point,
23:02
Speaker 3: I will leave the hearing and go to Senate Foreign
23:04
Speaker 3: Relations Committee, where I'll question Marco Rubio. I will not
23:07
Speaker 3: be at the chair at gavel for that because it
23:09
Speaker 3: gabbles in at ten also, and I've got to be
23:12
Speaker 3: charing Transportation then, so I'll drop in the Rubio hearing
23:17
Speaker 3: at some point closer to the end when i can
23:21
Speaker 3: get up. And that's part of being a senator. Sometimes
23:23
Speaker 3: you have multiple hearings and you have to run from
23:26
Speaker 3: one committee room to the other. But all of those
23:29
Speaker 3: will happen tomorrow, and again all of those I believe
23:31
Speaker 3: will get confirmed. And my prediction is every one of
23:34
Speaker 3: the Trump cabinet members will be confirmed.
23:36
Speaker 1: Wait, wait, wait, say that again. That's the most important thing.
23:40
Speaker 3: I believe every one of the Trump cabinet members will
23:44
Speaker 3: be confirmed, all of them.
23:45
Speaker 1: That is good news, That is very very good news.
23:48
Speaker 2: I want to move to another story you mentioned earlier,
23:51
Speaker 2: and this is a story that on face value, it's
23:56
Speaker 2: something that's in the UK, and there's somebody would say, well, like,
24:00
Speaker 2: this is the UK, why does this matter to me?
24:02
Speaker 2: And I want to connect it to what has happened
24:05
Speaker 2: in this country because of our open borders and the
24:09
Speaker 2: number of miners that we have released in this country
24:12
Speaker 2: to non family members through the Biden Harris program, and
24:18
Speaker 2: when we go back to check on them, they are
24:20
Speaker 2: nowhere to be found. There are tens of thousands of.
24:25
Speaker 3: Children over three hundred thousand, not tens of thousands, over
24:29
Speaker 3: three hundred thousands that's in the United States that the
24:33
Speaker 3: Biden administration has lost, that they do not know where
24:36
Speaker 3: they are, that they came as unaccompanied miners and they
24:40
Speaker 3: were handed over to adults and they have no idea
24:43
Speaker 3: where they are, and many of them are no doubt
24:45
Speaker 3: being abused. And the corrupt corporate media could not care less,
24:50
Speaker 3: The Democrats could not care less. I don't know a
24:52
Speaker 3: Democrat senator who's ever asked about the three hundred thousand
24:56
Speaker 3: children that this administration lost. They don't care about it.
24:59
Speaker 3: But look, I want to say, what's happened in the
25:02
Speaker 3: UK and is happening right now is horrifying and it's
25:06
Speaker 3: a real warning sign here. I want to start by
25:10
Speaker 3: reading from an article in the Free Press because it
25:13
Speaker 3: sums it up really effectively. It's entitled the biggest peacetime
25:18
Speaker 3: crime and cover up in British history. The grooming and
25:23
Speaker 3: serial rape of thousands of English girls by men of
25:27
Speaker 3: mostly Pakistani Muslim background over several decades is the biggest
25:32
Speaker 3: peacetime crime in the history of modern Europe. It went
25:36
Speaker 3: on for many years, it is still going on, and
25:40
Speaker 3: there has been no justice for the vast majority of
25:43
Speaker 3: the victims. British governments, both conservative and labor, hoped that
25:48
Speaker 3: they had buried the story after a few symbolic prosecutions
25:52
Speaker 3: in the twenty tens, and it looked like they had
25:55
Speaker 3: succeeded until Elon Musk read some of the court papers
25:59
Speaker 3: and tweeted his disgusted and bafflement on X over the
26:03
Speaker 3: new year. Britain now stands shamed before the world. The
26:09
Speaker 3: public's suppressed wrath is bubbling to the surface in petitions,
26:14
Speaker 3: calls for a public inquiry and demands for accountability. The
26:18
Speaker 3: scandal is already reshaping British politics. It's not just about
26:22
Speaker 3: the heinous nature of the crimes. It's that every level
26:25
Speaker 3: of the British system is implicated in the cover up.
26:30
Speaker 3: Social workers were intimidated into silence. Local police ignored, excused,
26:37
Speaker 3: and even embedded pedophile rapist across dozens of cities. Senior
26:43
Speaker 3: police and Home Office officials deliberately avoided action in the
26:47
Speaker 3: name of maintaining what they called quote community relations. Local
26:52
Speaker 3: councilors and members of Parliament rejected pleas for help from
26:57
Speaker 3: the parents of raped children. Charities, NGOs and labor MPs
27:03
Speaker 3: accused those who discussed the scandal of racism and islamophobia.
27:09
Speaker 3: The media mostly ignored or downplayed the biggest story of
27:13
Speaker 3: their lifetimes. Zealous in their incuriosity, much of Britain's media
27:18
Speaker 3: elite remained barnacled to the bubble of Westminster politics and
27:22
Speaker 3: its self serving priorities. They did this to defend the
27:28
Speaker 3: failed model of multiculturalism and to avoid asking hard questions
27:33
Speaker 3: about failures of immigration policy and assimilation. They did this
27:38
Speaker 3: because they were afraid of being called racist or Islamophobic.
27:43
Speaker 3: They did this because Britain's traditional class snobbery had fused
27:48
Speaker 3: with the new snobbery of political correctness. All of which
27:53
Speaker 3: is why no one knows precisely how many thousands of
27:59
Speaker 3: young girls were raped in how many towns across Britain
28:02
Speaker 3: since the nineteen seventies. What we do know is that
28:06
Speaker 3: the epicenter was in the post industrial mill towns of
28:09
Speaker 3: England's North and Midlands, where immigrants from Pakistan and Bangladesh
28:14
Speaker 3: settled in the nineteen sixties. White locals say the grooming
28:18
Speaker 3: and rapes began soon after. In Rotherdam, the run down
28:23
Speaker 3: Yorkshire city where the scandal first broke. Local police and
28:28
Speaker 3: counselors were notified about systematic grooming and sex abuse by
28:32
Speaker 3: two thousand and one. The first convictions did not occur
28:37
Speaker 3: until twenty ten, when five men in Pakistani background were
28:40
Speaker 3: jailed for multiple offenses against girls as young as twelve
28:45
Speaker 3: years old. The breadth of what occurred is staggering, and
28:51
Speaker 3: the systematic willingness to look aside is truly horrific.
28:58
Speaker 1: And let's be clear.
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Speaker 2: The reason why they look the other way you mentioned
29:01
Speaker 2: it is really from a pr standpoint. They wanted to
29:04
Speaker 2: have quote good relations and not have a stigma related
29:09
Speaker 2: to people that were coming from the Middle East that
29:11
Speaker 2: were there. So they said, all right, we'll just look
29:13
Speaker 2: the other way and that'll make it easier.
29:15
Speaker 3: It's actually less Middle East than real primarily Pakistan Pakistan,
29:19
Speaker 3: and it's Pakistani Muslims and what we've seen, so we
29:25
Speaker 3: have seen since the nineteen seventies the grooming and serial
29:29
Speaker 3: rape of thousands of children. And the issue is in
29:36
Speaker 3: particular relevant because Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, was England's
29:43
Speaker 3: Director of Public Prosecutions between twenty eight and twenty thirteen,
29:48
Speaker 3: and so he was actively involved in looking the other
29:52
Speaker 3: way and a right So let's break down a little
29:57
Speaker 3: bit of the facts of what happened, because the story
30:00
Speaker 3: sounds so extreme as to not be be credible. But
30:07
Speaker 3: the child sex rapes weren't just individual instances done by
30:14
Speaker 3: rogue individuals. Rather, in nearly all the cases, there were
30:17
Speaker 3: groups of mostly Pakistani men that cooperated and conspired to
30:23
Speaker 3: groom and sexually abuse girls over decades, and they targeted
30:31
Speaker 3: mostly vulnerable girls poor orphans, children in care homes.
30:38
Speaker 4: They raped the girls.
30:39
Speaker 3: They passed them around network, so raping them one after
30:42
Speaker 3: the other after the other. Some of these child rapists
30:47
Speaker 3: had roles in local governments. The leader of one of
30:50
Speaker 3: the rape gangs in Oldham, individual named Shabir Ahmed, worked
30:56
Speaker 3: for the local council as a quote welfare rights officer
31:00
Speaker 3: and ran his gang from the council's welfare office. And
31:06
Speaker 3: let me give you some of the facts because they're
31:08
Speaker 3: just just horrifying. One of the victims, a girl named
31:13
Speaker 3: Victoria Agaglia. Victoria was a fifteen year old teenager and
31:20
Speaker 3: she was subject to the governments round the clock caretaking,
31:22
Speaker 3: but she went missing nineteen times in three months, from
31:27
Speaker 3: up to two weeks at a time. Instead of trying
31:29
Speaker 3: to find her, the welfare worker simply messaged her saying
31:33
Speaker 3: when are you coming back?
31:34
Speaker 1: Wow.
31:35
Speaker 3: It turns out she was forced into a Pakistani sex
31:39
Speaker 3: ring by older women who raped her in exchange for cash, alcohol,
31:43
Speaker 3: and hard drugs. She was sometimes abused by up to
31:47
Speaker 3: twenty five men in a single night. Victoria wrote wrote
31:53
Speaker 3: a heartbreaking letter to the police documenting her abuse, but
31:55
Speaker 3: it was ignored and eventually ignored when she was found
32:01
Speaker 3: dead from a fatal dose of heroine given by an abuser,
32:06
Speaker 3: and she was repeatedly drugged and raped the night she
32:09
Speaker 3: was killed. I'll give you another example, Charlene Downs in Blackpool.
32:14
Speaker 3: In two thousand and three, fourteen year old Charlene Downs disappeared.
32:18
Speaker 3: Police had a lead that Charlene's body had been dismembered
32:21
Speaker 3: and disposed of at a kebab shop in Blackpool. Police
32:26
Speaker 3: uncovered evidence that Charlene had been the victim of child
32:29
Speaker 3: sexual exploitation after being groomed by a gang. The criminals
32:33
Speaker 3: have not been found and her body is missing. Twenty
32:36
Speaker 3: years later, Lucy Lowe in Telford, an individual named azar
32:42
Speaker 3: Ali Mahmood groomed Lucy Lowe from the age of twelve
32:47
Speaker 3: and impregnated her at fourteen. He burned her alive in
32:53
Speaker 3: her own home with her mother, her disabled sister, and
32:59
Speaker 3: her unborn second child, also fathered by Mahmood. Mehmood was
33:04
Speaker 3: jailed for life in two thousand and one for murder,
33:07
Speaker 3: not for the sex crimes.
33:08
Speaker 5: For murder.
33:09
Speaker 3: Reports indicated that South Asian men were targeting teenagers in
33:14
Speaker 3: Telford since the nineteen eighties.
33:15
Speaker 4: I'll give you one other example. Sophie.
33:18
Speaker 3: In Oldham in two thousand and six, a twelve year
33:21
Speaker 3: old girl named Sophie entered a police station and reported
33:24
Speaker 3: that she had just been molested in a graveyard by
33:27
Speaker 3: a man named Ali. A desk officer told her to
33:31
Speaker 3: come back with an adult when she was sober. Mind you,
33:34
Speaker 3: she was twelve. Two men accosted her in the police station,
33:40
Speaker 3: joined by a third. They raped her in their car.
33:44
Speaker 3: When they dumped her on the street, she asked a
33:47
Speaker 3: man named Sarwar Ali for directions. He took her to
33:52
Speaker 3: his home, raped her, and gave her money for bus
33:55
Speaker 3: fare home. Sarwar Ali was arrested and remanded to prison
33:59
Speaker 3: over attack on Sophie. However, he was then released following
34:03
Speaker 3: a bail application to a judge, despite being an illegal
34:07
Speaker 3: immigrant in the United Kingdom. He subsequently failed to attend
34:10
Speaker 3: his appointment with the Immigration Service and is still at large.
34:15
Speaker 3: Then a man named Shaquille Chowdery pulled up in his
34:20
Speaker 3: car and offered to take Sophie home. He abducted her,
34:26
Speaker 3: took her to a house, fed her alcohol. Soon after,
34:29
Speaker 3: he and four other men repeatedly raped her. Only Shaquille
34:33
Speaker 3: was convicted six years in prison. During his trial, Chowdery
34:37
Speaker 3: named two of the other men involved in the rapes
34:39
Speaker 3: of Sophie as part of his mitigation, but these were
34:41
Speaker 3: not followed up by police at the time. One of
34:45
Speaker 3: the men named by Chowtery was subsequently convicted in two
34:47
Speaker 3: thousand and nine of the attempted.
34:50
Speaker 4: Murder of his wife.
34:52
Speaker 3: This pattern happened over and over and over again, and
35:00
Speaker 3: the numbers are staggering. We are talking about thousands of
35:05
Speaker 3: girls systematically, repeatedly raped and the entire British government looked
35:12
Speaker 3: the other way for decades.
35:14
Speaker 2: So sata the question that I'm sure everyone listening is
35:17
Speaker 2: thinking to themselves like, A, has anything changed now?
35:21
Speaker 1: And B what should happen? The fact that now this
35:24
Speaker 1: is all out in the.
35:25
Speaker 3: Open, Well, what has changed is Elon Musk has started
35:30
Speaker 3: tweeting about it, and Elon has over two hundred million followers,
35:34
Speaker 3: and it has drawn attention to it in a way
35:36
Speaker 3: that is really important, and it has become, thankfully a
35:40
Speaker 3: political crisis in the United Kingdom. But I want you
35:45
Speaker 3: to listen to Keir Starmer, this is just about a
35:47
Speaker 3: week ago addressing this crisis and and and listen to
35:51
Speaker 3: what he had to say, This is the Prime Minister
35:52
Speaker 3: of the United Kingdom.
35:54
Speaker 7: I'm when politicians and I mean politicians who government for
36:00
Speaker 7: many years a casual of our honesty, decency, truth and
36:06
Speaker 7: the rule of law, fooling for inquiries because they want
36:10
Speaker 7: to jump on a bandwagon of the far right, and
36:14
Speaker 7: that affects politics because a robust debate can only be
36:19
Speaker 7: based on the true facts.
36:22
Speaker 4: So there you have it.
36:23
Speaker 3: The sitting Prime Minister is saying that if you're concerned
36:27
Speaker 3: about the ongoing rape of thousands of girls in the
36:31
Speaker 3: United Kingdom and the complicity of government, he says, you're
36:35
Speaker 3: jumping on the bandwagon of the far right that continues
36:40
Speaker 3: to be the multiculturalism political correctness that he does not
36:43
Speaker 3: want to acknowledge. And by the way, he was the
36:46
Speaker 3: chief prosecutor for many of these years. He was the
36:49
Speaker 3: one who was directly involved in looking the other way,
36:54
Speaker 3: so naturally he doesn't want an inquiry. Now I'll give
36:58
Speaker 3: you the response of Nigel Farrad one one of the leaders,
37:01
Speaker 3: and actually Nigel Farage we've had had on the on
37:04
Speaker 3: this podcast. He's been a guest on this podcast before.
37:06
Speaker 3: Nigel Farage obviously led the fight for Brexit in the
37:11
Speaker 3: United Kingdom, and and listen to Nigel Farage's response to
37:14
Speaker 3: what kier Starmer said.
37:16
Speaker 8: Well, so much talk over the last few days about
37:18
Speaker 8: grooming gangs or should I say rape gangs, and Kirstarmer's
37:21
Speaker 8: today is saying that anyone is calling for a full
37:24
Speaker 8: public inquiry is jumping on the bandwagon of the far right,
37:28
Speaker 8: wrong prime minister. The vast majority of people in this
37:31
Speaker 8: country are absolutely mortified by what has gone on, but
37:35
Speaker 8: even worse the cover up we've had from the police,
37:39
Speaker 8: social services and both Conservative and labor governments. The inquiries
37:44
Speaker 8: that have happened so far have been nothing more than
37:46
Speaker 8: a whitewash. There needs to be a full public inquiry.
37:50
Speaker 8: Let us find out the truth of the scale of this.
37:52
Speaker 8: I'm told that in up to fifty British towns these
37:56
Speaker 8: gang rapes were going on. I believe the public need
37:59
Speaker 8: the truth. We must have an inquiry.
38:02
Speaker 1: Sanat.
38:02
Speaker 2: You hear the frustration there from Nigel, But it also
38:06
Speaker 2: and this is where I say, let's bring it back
38:08
Speaker 2: to the US. I worry that we're going to have
38:11
Speaker 2: this same type of conversation yeap in the not too
38:15
Speaker 2: near distant future. About all the children that we've lost
38:18
Speaker 2: in this country.
38:19
Speaker 3: So the answer to both needs to be the same,
38:21
Speaker 3: which is there needs to be an inquiry. That needs
38:23
Speaker 3: to be transparency. In the United Kingdom, you know, Nigel
38:28
Speaker 3: Farage mentioned that there their allegations of up to fifty
38:32
Speaker 3: towns where these rape gangs were ongoing for years and years.
38:36
Speaker 3: That's a staggering scale. So there needs to be full transparency,
38:41
Speaker 3: the opposite of a whitewasher, a cover up, but real transparence.
38:44
Speaker 3: In the United States, the over three hundred thousand children
38:47
Speaker 3: that the Bide the administration lost, we need full transparency.
38:50
Speaker 3: We need to find those kids, those kids who are
38:52
Speaker 3: being abused right right now. We need to get them
38:55
Speaker 3: out of harm's way and sunlight and transparency is power power.
39:00
Speaker 3: But there also needs to be accountability for those who
39:03
Speaker 3: are culpable.
39:04
Speaker 1: Amen to that.
39:05
Speaker 2: Finally, I want to just get your reaction to a
39:08
Speaker 2: shocking headline that may not be as big.
39:11
Speaker 1: Of a deal in just a few days as it
39:13
Speaker 1: could be, and.
39:14
Speaker 2: That is Joe Biden waiting for the very last moment
39:17
Speaker 2: to remove Cuba from the list of state sponsors of terror.
39:25
Speaker 2: Why because he says, well, they haven't been involved in
39:29
Speaker 2: sponsoring terrorism in the last six months, So now they're
39:32
Speaker 2: all good.
39:33
Speaker 1: Don't worry about him.
39:34
Speaker 3: Your reaction to that, well, until today, Cuba was one
39:39
Speaker 3: of four designated state sponsors of terrorism. The four were
39:43
Speaker 3: North Korea, Iran, and Syria, and their designated pursuant to
39:48
Speaker 3: determination from the Secretary of State that those countries have
39:51
Speaker 3: quote repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism. Cuba
39:57
Speaker 3: was designated in twenty twenty one by the Trump administration.
40:00
Speaker 3: The designation noted that quote for decades, the Cuban government
40:04
Speaker 3: has fed, housed, and provided medical care for murderers, bomb makers,
40:09
Speaker 3: and hijackers, while many Cubans go hungry, homeless, and without
40:13
Speaker 3: basic medicine, and the Biden administration today delisted them even
40:21
Speaker 3: though Cuba is today a sponsor of terrorism right now,
40:26
Speaker 3: So Cuba is right now refusing requests by Colombia to
40:32
Speaker 3: extradite ten members of the National Liberation Army after the
40:35
Speaker 3: group claim responsibility for a twenty nineteen bombing of a
40:39
Speaker 3: Bogata police academy, killing twenty two people. Cuba also harbors
40:44
Speaker 3: several American fugitives wanted on or convicted of charges of
40:48
Speaker 3: political violence or murdering police officers. Cuba also supports fark
40:54
Speaker 3: terrorists and props up the Maduro regime in Venezuela. And
41:00
Speaker 3: all of those facts are are clear, they're indisputable. The
41:04
Speaker 3: Biden administration doesn't dispute them. Today's decision was just politics.
41:10
Speaker 3: It was left wing politics of the very worst sort.
41:15
Speaker 2: And thank goodness, Donald Trump will be here in just
41:18
Speaker 2: a few more days.
41:19
Speaker 3: Forget, and I believe, and I believe this determination will
41:22
Speaker 3: be reversed next week. I fully expect next week. And
41:28
Speaker 3: in fact, I think one of Marco Rubio's very first
41:32
Speaker 3: acts when he is confirmed as Secretary of State, and
41:35
Speaker 3: my prediction is I think Marco will be confirmed on
41:38
Speaker 3: January twentieth, the same day that President Trump is torn
41:42
Speaker 3: into office. It would not surprise me if Marco on
41:45
Speaker 3: January TWENTIETHS lists Cuba again. So understand what this is.
41:50
Speaker 3: This is not going to be a fundamental shift in
41:53
Speaker 3: US policy. This is just Biden saying screw you on
41:56
Speaker 3: the way out, and the Biden White House saying, number one,
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Speaker 3: we stand with communists. We like the Cuban communist. You know,
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Speaker 3: when we were in college, we had posters of Tchaegovar
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Speaker 3: on the wall, and we find communists. We just think
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Speaker 3: they're really cute and lovely, and it's consistent with their
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Speaker 3: pattern of kissing up to communists across across the world.
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Speaker 3: But number two, this is yet another manifestation of Biden
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Speaker 3: and Harris's and and and democrats contempt for democracy. In
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Speaker 3: the closing hours, they're trying to do everything they can
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Speaker 3: to make it difficult for the Trump administration, and and
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Speaker 3: and and to just say screw you to the voters
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Speaker 3: in November who gave a clear and unequivocal mandate, that
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Speaker 3: there's an arrogance and contempt for the voters, that this
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Speaker 3: is just just one of the most one of the
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Speaker 3: latest and one of the most shocking manifestations of.
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