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An Attempted Assassination, Classified Documents, Crowdstrike, and More · Project 2028

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  Hello and welcome back to the fourth installment of Project 2028.
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  Thank you so much for tuning in to listen with us.
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  We have a very exciting lineup for today, including the attempted assassination of former
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  President Donald Trump, the RNC, and so much more.
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  As we've been experimenting with our format for our episodes, we're now going to have
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  one general episode and one deep dive episode, which will follow this general episode shortly,
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  and tune in to learn more about it.
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  Now let's dive right into our first topic.
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  The first topic we're going to be talking about is the attempted assassination of former
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  President Donald Trump.
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  The assassination attempt happened at a rally in Pennsylvania on July 13th.
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  The shooter was identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks.
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  In the days after the rally was announced, he made internet searches relating to Trump,
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  President Biden, and the former president's whereabouts on July 13th in the Democratic
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  National Convention.
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  He was a registered Republican voter, but donated $15 to a Democratic campaign.
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  At some point before the rally took place, Thomas Crooks flew a drone over the venue.
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  The Secret Service is being shamed because they should not have let Thomas in the premises
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  with a shotgun.
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  One person was killed, Cory Compertor, and two other than Trump were injured, David Dutch,
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  a 57-year-old man who suffered damage to his liver and broken ribs, and James Copenhaver,
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  who is 74, whose injuries are currently unknown.
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  Trump sustained a gunshot wound to the right ear that came less than a quarter inch from
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  entering his head and struck the top of his right ear.
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  The bullet track produced a two centimeter wide wound that extended down the cartilaginous
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  surface of the ear.
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  There was initially significant bleeding, followed by marked swelling of the entire
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  upper ear.
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  And just to add onto that, you know, with the bandage that he put over his ear at the
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  RNC and all that kind of stuff, it only furthered the sense that he's been pushing of martyrdom
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  within his own party and the fact that he's not doing it.
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  Now this is debatable on either side, but whether he's doing it for himself or doing
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  it for the good of the country, he's been pushing the narrative that he is sacrificing
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  himself, his health now, and his time just so he can further better the country.
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  And that's one of the main lines his campaign especially wanted to push in that, what we'll
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  talk about later, the first 15 minutes of his RNC speech.
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  But that was one of the campaign lines that they wanted to hit.
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  There are also many conspiracy theories and questions surrounding this event.
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  So some of them are, was this someone who was fiercely Democrat and really didn't like
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  the idea of a Republican candidate?
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  Another one is, was he just a young man who didn't like how the politics was going and
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  he wanted to get rid of another important politician?
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  Or some people are saying that it didn't happen at all, that it was faked.
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  So those are all just some interesting theories that are circulating on social media and the
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  news.
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  Then onto RNC night one, it was not very dramatic, but former President Trump did come in late
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  with his ear bandaged looking very subdued.
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  The thing that was most notable about the night, quite notable in fact, was his VP pick.
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  He was very late on this pick, mere hours just away from the nomination.
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  Nobody had any clue, including the VP candidates, of whether they were going to be up on that
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  stage later.
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  Rubio and Bergam were only notified less than an hour and a half before Trump's VP choice
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  and it was a last minute decision by Trump.
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  In 2016 he did almost the exact same thing with Pence, where he second guessed himself,
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  finally selecting Pence and then later publicly stated that he thought that might have been
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  the wrong move just days after.
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  JD Vance was finally selected.
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  He's one of Trump's final three, 39 years old, so he has some good credentials age wise.
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  He has had quite a pack to power with his hillbilly elegy, serving in the Marines, creating
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  a business and Donald Trump selecting him has been quite the rise for the Senator from
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  Ohio.
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  This is quite notable, but it's a small thing.
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  He is the first top ticket candidate in 75 years to have facial hair.
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  So VP or President to have facial hair, this was actually, they did a little op-ed in the
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  New York Times this week about why and how this has to do with politics and usually facial
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  hair makes it less revealing, but facial hair can also contribute to more of a rural look.
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  It's kind of an interesting thing, but it won't deal too much with actual polling and
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  politics of it.
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  But during the eight years up until this and when he was a Senator and wrote Hillbilly
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  Elegy, he has had quite a dramatic change in his stance, highly dubious according to
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  a lot of Democrats and critics.
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  He described Trump as America's Hitler.
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  He said quite the amount of things, very critical of Trump seven or eight years ago.
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  He was called a never Trump conservative, but he has now publicly said that he has changed
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  his stance and he now believes in the mega cause, believes in all of the Trump rhetoric
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  and all that kind of stuff that brings, well right now, the Republican Party together.
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  His mother was at the RNC.
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  It's a really good story and I think it can appeal to voters.
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  She's a recovering drug addict, sober for 10 years.
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  So I think that's a thing that could appeal to a lot of Americans, sadly.
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  He took quite the hard line on immigration, kind of to the Democrats saying that America
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  welcomes newcomers, but quote unquote on our terms.
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  His wife actually is from two immigrants, so he has some experience.
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  He can talk a bit on that kind of thing, but he is very anti illegal immigrant.
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  He's shown a bit of willingness at least to break, say some of the party orthodoxy in
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  foreign policy, moving away from more of a full throated support for US military action
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  overseas.
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  He's kind of expressed the kind of America first policy that you're often seeing from
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  Trump and his allies.
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  So his opinions on foreign policy have been quite different from the Haley kind of moderate
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  takes trying to kind of build up NATO and more assistance for Ukraine where that is
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  kind of an issue that divides the Democratic party.
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  That's kind of all my takes on kind of that speech, what kind of person he is, and that's
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  kind of where I see it going right now.
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  So we have some more information on now Vice Presidential candidate JD Vance, and then
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  we'll go back to the RNC.
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  So JD Vance was born on March 2, 1984 in Ohio.
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  He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps after high school and was a public affairs
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  officer in Iraq.
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  Vance graduated from Ohio State University with a bachelor of arts and political science
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  and philosophy and earned his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School.
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  He worked at a law firm before joining a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley.
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  He then gained national attention with the publication of his memoir Hillbilly Elegy
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  which discussed his upbringing in Appalachia and explores the struggles of the white working
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  class.
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  The book became a bestseller and was adapted into a film directed by Ron Howard.
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  Vance has been involved in conservative politics advocating for issues such as economic opportunity,
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  addressing the opioid crisis and promoting family stability.
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  In 2021, he announced his candidacy for the United States Senate in Ohio running as a
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  Republican.
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  He also has very strong opinions on abortion and considers himself to be pro-life.
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  He is also the predicted vice president candidate so many people were prepared for this outcome
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  and yeah.
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  Onto the RNC night two.
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  The focus was on immigration and crime.
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  Not all facts were correct and have since been fact checked.
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  This is a quote from Eric Hov, Wisconsin's GOP candidate for Senate.
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  Quote, they've emboldened drug cartels to flood our streets with fentanyl killing over
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  100,000 Americans every year.
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  End quote.
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  On night three of the RNC, Vance gave a speech introducing himself, giving us background
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  and explaining how he plans on helping Trump and the nation.
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  It was also a night where Biden was heavily criticized specifically for removing troops
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  from Afghanistan in 2021.
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  The families of some of the 13 service members who were killed in a suicide bombing at Hamid
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  Karazi International Airport in Kabul during the United States' August 2021 withdrawal
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  from Afghanistan sharply criticized Biden's actions then and now.
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  Former Trump White House official Peter Navarro began his day in the Florida prison where
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  he spent the last four months jailed for refusing to cooperate with the house investigation
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  into the January 6th, 2021 insurrection.
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  Navarro ended it on stage at the RNC in Milwaukee where he received a standing ovation and cheers
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  of welcome home from Republicans who just a night earlier promised to restore law and
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  order to America.
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  On to night four of the RNC.
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  This is the last and final night and this is the night that Trump spoke.
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  He talked for over an hour going off the script that his team, his teleprompter, laid out
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  for him.
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  Trump said on Thursday night that he would only use Biden's name once.
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  He used it twice, once to describe Biden as the worst president in history and again to
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  say it would only it would be the only time it was used.
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  So Donald Trump's team after the assassination coming into the RNC, especially on day four,
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  they had a lot of ideas of kind of the thing that they wanted to project, right?
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  I mean, you're going to look at the first 15 minutes of that speech and that is all
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  about unity and how anybody can be accepted to the Republican Party.
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  You just need to help vote and you need to help kind of promote the cause and that you
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  can change the cause from being in that Democratic Party.
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  In that 15 minutes he also, you know, vividly recounts and he says he only do it once his
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  assassination which was extremely powerful I think for a lot of Americans.
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  And obviously his team that first 15 minutes of speech, they really studied median voter
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  theory where if you can get the one voter who bisects every single policy group, you
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  can most likely win an election.
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  Trump said quote, I'm not supposed to be here tonight.
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  Then someone shouted yes you are and he said no really I'm not.
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  This was in referral to his attempted assassination just five days prior.
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  And that the almost the feeling and the energy at that thing was just a bit of euphoria that
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  they had such strong candidate compared to Biden in the polls because Biden had been
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  doing worse and worse and we'll talk about that later.
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  But there was also a sense of just I talked about earlier the martyrdom and like the new
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  allegiance to Trump in that for 15 minutes of speech that the median voter theory, that
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  was what really took Trump's team.
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  And I think if you had kept it there maybe added five or 10 more minutes of unity in
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  joint policy and saying that you're going to represent all Americans which is one of
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  the things he said not just that 50% the vote for him.
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  I think that could really transform that campaign and there were a lot of people said Biden
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  might have dropped out that night if Trump had done something like that.
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  But instead he goes on for another hour and 15 minutes rambling in Trump fashion.
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  He's going to Gabe his teleprompter engineer but he did not go on script at all.
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  His team was probably pretty used to this but probably not the best place to go off
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  script.
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  His team, I mean they were promoting the change man look and Trump did not show that in the
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  last hour 15 minutes.
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  He was regular Trump.
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  He veered off and then the convention got bored.
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  People were checking their phones.
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  People left a lot of people left.
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  And in the end longest convention speech in history.
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  So that first 15 minutes perfect got the median voter theory.
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  You got that kind of stuff where you're getting those voters that you know they're bisecting
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  all policy groups you're inviting them in.
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  But that last hour 15 was just not what was going to win you in the elections.
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  What's going to kind of appeal to the people at the RNC and that their median voter there
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  that bisects all the policy groups there is going to be a lot different than the one that
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  you're trying to appeal to in more of a general election sense.
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  So we now have to talk about something not necessarily political but more of a social
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  problem and that is regarding CrowdStrike.
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  On Friday morning of the 19th some of the biggest airlines TV broadcasters banks etc.
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  Central Services mostly came to a massive outage.
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  It brought blue screen of death which is like the window thing it has to restart and it
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  is linked to a software update that was pushed by CrowdStrike.
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  CrowdStrike basically plays an important role in finding companies that helping companies
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  find and prevent security breaches viruses all that kind of stuff.
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  It pushes software updates like this routinely daily hourly usually and one of these updates
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  got it was an update to the Falcon system which is a thing that prevents tampering and
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  malware within the computer and prevents from security breaches and issues.
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  It has 29,000 customers it represents around 1% of the windows base which is the base that
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  was represented by this and with more than 500 of those customers of the 29,000 on the
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  list of the fortune 1000 and I mean you're talking about major airlines major banks that
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  kind of thing.
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  The July 19th outage is like mostly going to be related to a real time monitoring system
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  we were talking about earlier but the faulty software is just quite unacceptable.
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  Their stock plunged nearly 11% and the problems have only been getting more concerning as
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  you have to either have a manual installation or you have to get really lucky and reboot
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  your PC like 15 times to redo it.
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  Ironically the CEO of CrowdStrike also who used to be the CEO of McAfee security when
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  he was there at his tenure in McAfee he also had a security problem so he doesn't have
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  the best track record.
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  It mainly happened in the morning in Australia because usually they update these kind of
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  things overnight in the United States just for United States customer base and that was
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  when stuff started realizing you know red admins that kind of stuff.
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  Microsoft says the European Union is to blame for the world's biggest IT outage on Friday
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  following a faulty security update.
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  A 2009 agreement insisted on by the European Commission meant that Microsoft could not
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  make security changes that would have blocked the update from cyber security firm CrowdStrike
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  that caused the estimated 8.5 million computers to fail.
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  Most of US flights were cancelled and more were grounded including ones from major airlines
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  such as United Delta and American.
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  So just to add to this CrowdStrike is one of the few vendors that is allowed to have
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  some access to the kernel part of the Windows computer that part is the most inner part
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  of the computer.
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  It has some of the most deep things in it.
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  Microsoft only allows certain services that are confirmed to be reputable to have access
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  to this.
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  Basically the European Union was like no Microsoft can't be the only person with access to this
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  and so they had to let people like CrowdStrike and other cloud services into that little
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  suite and now you can build it up like Apple and they have their own plugin APIs to kind
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  of prevent this kind of thing and that's why it kind of didn't happen to Apple but it is
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  kind of an evolving problem that they are fixing at least trying to fix very quickly.
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  Alright so next up on our little list is going to be classified documents.
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  So I got to go to Camp Moore because there was so much news and the fact that this is
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  fifth on our list is kind of beyond me.
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  Classified documents case has been officially dismissed.
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  It was often thought of as the easiest case for the prosecutors to prosecute but Trump
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  his lawyer filed like a salvo of motions at Judge Cannon.
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  One stuck and it was kind of a technicality.
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  He was regarding the constitutionality of the prosecutor Jack Smith's appointment.
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  He's formerly from the hog.
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  So basically what it says in the constitution is that appointments the appointments clause
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  of course it's going to require the president to appoint and with the Senate to approve
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  and confirm all and I'm quoting here officers of the United States except for inferior officers
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  or inferior officers are going to be people controlled by the more executive officers
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  and the inferior officers don't have to be approved.
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  Jack Smith claims he's an inferior officer as he's kind of under you know Merrick Garland
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  all those kind of guys that would obviously need to be approved but Judge Cannon does
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  not agree.
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  She said that the legislation does not apply and suggests broad kind of unsupervised powers
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  given the special counsels may make him you know more of a superior officer.
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  The legality of Smith's appointment kind of turns on a certain characterization of his
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  role in kind of laws authorizing the use of an as an inferior officer.
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  This is going to make Jack Smith have to appeal to the 11th Court Circuit of Appeals which
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  he will have to take a long time.
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  He's got to mount a case of why he is the inferior officer and from there he is going
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  to have to then prosecute the case all over again maybe in front of a new judge maybe
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  not can might get the case again and it is very likely at this point to end up in the
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  Supreme Court.
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  The final thing we're going to be talking about in the general recap is the recent news
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  that has been found out about tampons and pads and other forms of menstrual products.
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  A new study led by a UC Berkeley researcher has found levels of 16 metals arsenic barium
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  calcium cadium cobalt cronium copper iron manganese mercury nickel lead selenium strodium
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  vanadium and zinc and 30 tampons from 14 different brands.
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  Metals have been found to increase the risk of dementia infertility diabetes and cancer.
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  They can damage the liver kidneys and brain as well as the cardiovascular nervous and
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  endocrine systems.
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  In addition, metals harm maternal health and fetal development.
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  Metals could make their way into tampons a number of ways.
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  The cotton material could have absorbed the metals from water air soil through a nearby
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  contaminant for example if a cotton field was near a lead smelter or some might be added
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  intentionally during manufacturing as part of a pigment whitener antibacterial agent
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  or some other process in the factory producing the products.
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  This is obviously an issue for many people.
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  These raise serious health concerns and it also leaves the bigger question, are we not
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  doing enough to promote women's health?
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  So lots to think about and...
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  That concludes this week's political recap and foreign policy recap episode.
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  The deep dive will be coming out shortly so please stay tuned for that.
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