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Swalwell Drops Out - Iran Talks Break Down · Booker Scott: Truth Be Told

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  Speaker 4: It's time for The Truth Be Told with Booker Scott.
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  Speaker 3: J.D.
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  Speaker 1: Vance and others came home from the Middle East with
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  Speaker 1: no deal with Iran. But Artemis did come home, and
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  Speaker 1: it was an incredible sight on Friday night. I'm Booker.
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  Speaker 1: This is The Truth Be Told. As always on Mondays,
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  Speaker 1: we have Mondays with Matt. Matt Palumbo is here. Matt,
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  Speaker 1: what did you think of Artemis when it came back
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  Speaker 1: to Earth?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it was really awesome. I love watching stuff like that.
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  Speaker 3: The video I saw online, too, of the re-entry from
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  Speaker 3: a perspective, you know, from the astronauts themselves recording it,
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  Speaker 3: it was one of the coolest things I've seen, and
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  Speaker 3: I will say, I really feel like there wasn't, I
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  Speaker 3: know there's a lot of coverage of it, but I
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  Speaker 3: feel like there really wasn't anywhere near as much as
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  Speaker 3: there usually is or should be. And I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if I'm reading into it that they thought maybe it
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  Speaker 3: would help Trump or his administration because it was objectively cool.
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  Speaker 3: But no, I thought, I wish the media talked about
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  Speaker 3: it more.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Trump should get some credit for this. He was
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  Speaker 1: the one that in his first term, he made Artemis possible.
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  Speaker 1: And some of this technology goes back 20, 22, 23 years.
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  Speaker 1: But it was Donald Trump that did that, and he
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  Speaker 1: also did the Space Force. So he was instrumental in
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  Speaker 1: making this happen. I wanted your perspective, though, from someone
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  Speaker 1: that's 32 years old. Do you remember the space shuttles
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  Speaker 1: and when that was going on, or are you too
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  Speaker 1: young even to remember that?
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  Speaker 3: I feel like I'm too young to remember that. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I remember there was one where– It disintegrated upon re-entry.
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  Speaker 3: I believe I was alive for that one. Obviously, Challenger
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  Speaker 3: is before my time. I'm landing a little bit more
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  Speaker 3: before my time as well.
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  Speaker 1: I would say you were probably 8, 9, 10 when
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  Speaker 1: Columbia happened.
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  Speaker 3: I do remember Columbia, yes.
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  Speaker 1: So that was about your age then, but What is
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  Speaker 1: your perspective on the space and Artemis and going to
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  Speaker 1: the moon to then go to Mars? Are you excited
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  Speaker 1: about it? What were your feelings like when you saw
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  Speaker 1: this happen?
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  Speaker 3: Very. And I've noticed a political divide on this issue
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  Speaker 3: where it's one naturally you wouldn't think there is one.
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  Speaker 3: But I saw some liberals and Grant, this is from
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  Speaker 3: the furthest left people, claiming that this is just like
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  Speaker 3: colonialism over again. And I'm thinking there's no people being colonized.
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  Speaker 3: It's a blank slate we're colonizing and they still have
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  Speaker 3: a problem with it. So there's something of the left
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  Speaker 3: that is fundamentally anti-science based. I'm an anti-progress, and I've
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  Speaker 3: also seen opinions that are like, well, we could have
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  Speaker 3: fed the hungry with this money and We spend far
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  Speaker 3: more on food stamps than we do on NASA, so
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  Speaker 3: I don't really understand where that argument is coming from.
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  Speaker 3: If we listen to these people that instead of scientific advancement,
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  Speaker 3: we always do some liberal pet project, we would never
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  Speaker 3: advance at all. And the thing, too, about scientific exploration,
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  Speaker 3: in addition to just being cool and I think– I
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  Speaker 3: think some things are worth doing just because they're awe-inspiring.
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  Speaker 3: We do get scientific achievements out of them, and they
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  Speaker 3: are achievements that we cannot even conceive of until they
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  Speaker 3: are discovered and things that change our lives. And that
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  Speaker 3: shouldn't be the only reason we do it, but we
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  Speaker 3: do get a lot back from it as well. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Even the technology that we get from creating the rockets
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  Speaker 1: and everything that it takes to get there, we get
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  Speaker 1: a lot of benefit from that as well. And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: that was a big thing with Apollo. We got so
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  Speaker 1: much technology from going to the moon the first time.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be interesting to see what we get here.
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  Speaker 1: You brought up something, though, that I want to hit on,
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  Speaker 1: and that was the political divide. As I watched Artemis
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  Speaker 1: come back and splash down in the ocean on Friday night,
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  Speaker 1: I thought, well, here is one thing that is not political.
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  Speaker 1: Artemis is making America great again. We should all have
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  Speaker 1: great pride in what we're watching now. The discovery, the courage,
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  Speaker 1: the ingenuity. You know, that is what America is. It
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  Speaker 1: always has been. And we should all be proud of that,
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  Speaker 1: regardless of whether we're left or right or conservative, Democrat.
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  Speaker 1: It just doesn't matter. And it shouldn't matter here. But
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  Speaker 1: then you say, well, I've seen some people on the
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  Speaker 1: left that are making political statements out of this.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, and this isn't new either. I was looking back.
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  Speaker 3: I was wondering to myself. Is this something new? And
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  Speaker 3: if you go back to the time of the moon landing,
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  Speaker 3: you can find old newspaper articles of famous leftists dismissing it,
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  Speaker 3: kind of bragging about how little they care. There was
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  Speaker 3: this iconic photo of a woman saying something like, I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to push the numbers, but it says something like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it costs us $ 8 a day to have
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  Speaker 3: an astronaut, to feed an astronaut in space. We could
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  Speaker 3: feed a kid on Earth for $ 4. And the woman
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  Speaker 3: who was holding a sign is comically obese, which is why,
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  Speaker 3: in my opinion, it's so iconic. But, you know, these
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  Speaker 3: sentiments are nothing new from the left. And thank God
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  Speaker 3: we have control right now.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's listen to astronaut Victor Glover. This was him
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday after Artemis came back to Earth.
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  Speaker 5: When this started on April 3rd, I wanted to thank
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  Speaker 5: God in public. And I want to thank God again.
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  Speaker 5: Because even bigger than my challenge trying to describe what
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  Speaker 5: we went through, the gratitude of.
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  Speaker 3: Seeing what we saw.
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  Speaker 5: Doing what we did and being with who I was with,
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  Speaker 5: it's too big to just be in one body.
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  Speaker 1: That's awesome. That is astronaut Victor Glover. Yeah, he's a
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  Speaker 1: great guy. And again, we should take pride in what
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  Speaker 1: this is and what it means. And in reality, as
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  Speaker 1: I was watching this space capsule come back down to
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  Speaker 1: Earth and the parachutes and, you know, those last three
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  Speaker 1: big parachutes, they intentionally open up slowly. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if you knew that. I think it would be helpful
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  Speaker 1: if they would tell you these things beforehand as I'm watching.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, open, open, open, please open. But they're done
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  Speaker 1: that way so that it slows it down gradually. And
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  Speaker 1: it's not just, bam, it slows it down from 100,000
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  Speaker 1: miles an hour to nothing in seconds. And that would
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  Speaker 1: be pretty rough if you're Victor Glover and the other
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  Speaker 1: astronauts inside. But this is what America is. And that
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  Speaker 1: is our resources, our ingenuity, our discovery, our brains, our
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  Speaker 1: get things done. And that is not, it doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: anything to do with politics. It is what really creates
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  Speaker 1: the value in the American dollar. And so many people
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  Speaker 1: miss that. They want to say, well, we got off
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  Speaker 1: the gold standard. It's a fiat dollar. No, it's that.
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  Speaker 1: That part of us is what backs the American dollar.
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  Speaker 1: And I think it was fantastic. It was great to see. Now,
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  Speaker 1: let's move over to Istanbul, where we had the talks
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend. And it was history, Matt, for the
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  Speaker 1: first time since 1979. Upper level administration people, J.D. Vance, Witkoff,
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  Speaker 1: Jared Kushner, they were there speaking to upper echelon members
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  Speaker 1: of the Iran government. It still brings me to the question,
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  Speaker 1: who is in charge? We got confirmation over the weekend
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  Speaker 1: that the no-leg actually has no leg, the son, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: of the Ayatollah Khomeini. He is, I guess, in charge,
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  Speaker 1: they say, but nobody's seen him. Nobody's heard from him.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know who's in charge. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: who we're negotiating with or why we're negotiating with Iran.
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  Speaker 1: I still don't know the answer to that question. Because
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  Speaker 1: to me, at the end of this, it appears that
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  Speaker 1: they've done the same thing that they've always done for
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  Speaker 1: 47 years. They use it to just push things back
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  Speaker 1: for a while. And then nothing ever changes. Before J.D.
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  Speaker 1: Vance was there in Istanbul, you had Donald Trump on
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  Speaker 1: Friday making some comments, and let's go to that. Let's
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  Speaker 1: listen to President Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I wish him luck.
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  Speaker 2: He's got a big thing. We'll find out what's going on.
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  Speaker 2: They're militarily defeated. And now we're going to open up
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  Speaker 2: the Gulf with them, with or without them. But that'll
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  Speaker 2: be open.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to be or the straight as they call it.
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  Speaker 2: And I think it's going to go pretty quickly. And
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  Speaker 2: if it doesn't, we'll be able to finish it off.
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  Speaker 3: One way or the other. It's going well.
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  Speaker 2: The The Navy's gone. The Air Force is gone. All
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  Speaker 2: anti-aircraft is gone. The leaders are gone. The whole place
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  Speaker 2: is gone. So we'll see how it turns out. So
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  Speaker 2: it's J.D., it's Steve, and Jared. You have a good team,
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  Speaker 2: and they meet tomorrow. We'll see how it all works.
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  Speaker 1: So that was Friday before they went over the weekend, J.D. Vance,
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  Speaker 1: and as he mentioned, Steve Widcott and Jared Kushner were there.
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  Speaker 1: And let's get one more from Trump on the tarmac there.
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  Speaker 1: You can hear the noise in the background. Let's get
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  Speaker 1: one more from him before the talks that took place
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend. Here's Donald Trump again.
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  Speaker 2: No nuclear weapon, number one. You know, I think it's
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  Speaker 2: already been regime change, but we never had that as
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  Speaker 2: a criteria. No nuclear weapon. That's 99% of it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but that'll open up automatically. Yeah, the answer is yes.
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  Speaker 2: But the Strait will open up. If we just left,
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  Speaker 2: the Strait's going to, otherwise they make no money. So
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  Speaker 2: the Strait's going to open. But what we have is
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  Speaker 2: no nuclear weapon, but we'll open.
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  Speaker 3: The Strait anyway.
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  Speaker 1: So that's something Donald Trump has said for years and years, Matt,
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  Speaker 1: that Iran can't have nuclear weapons. He's not alone. Most
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  Speaker 1: Democrats have said the same thing, but here we are
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  Speaker 1: all these years later, and they still have the capabilities
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  Speaker 1: possible of creating a nuclear weapon, and that's why all
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  Speaker 1: of this is happening. Finally, somebody is doing something about
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  Speaker 1: it and Donald Trump. Now, he mentioned a couple of
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  Speaker 1: things there. One thing I noticed, he mentioned the same
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  Speaker 1: thing that we talked about last week on the program,
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  Speaker 1: which is all America has to do is leave the
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  Speaker 1: Strait of Hormuz and it's open. Something else I want
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  Speaker 1: to bring to people's attention, though, is the amount of
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  Speaker 1: money that Iran has been making since this started because
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  Speaker 1: their tankers are getting through because they're letting them through.
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  Speaker 1: And a result of that is, you know, most of
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  Speaker 1: the time they've been selling oil for $ 120 a barrel
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  Speaker 1: compared to $ 80, which is what it was before all
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  Speaker 1: of this started. So they're making $ 40 more a barrel,
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  Speaker 1: and they're selling $ 1. 5 to $ 1. 6 million a day. So
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  Speaker 1: they're making a lot of money right now, and the
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  Speaker 1: Strait of Hormuz is not affecting them. Now, let's go
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  Speaker 1: to the Strait of Hormuz and talk about that, because
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  Speaker 1: now Donald Trump says— They are going to create a
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  Speaker 1: blockade there in the Strait of Hormuz with the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Navy and any help that we get from the other
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  Speaker 1: countries that have not showed up to help yet. That
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  Speaker 1: is the plan. Have you heard about that?
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  Speaker 3: No, but I'd like it more than turning to Allah
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  Speaker 3: for help. So it's a big improvement there.
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  Speaker 1: Well, a week makes a difference. And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: let's clean this up, too, because last weekend, when we
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  Speaker 1: did the show last Monday night, we talked about Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump putting that out on a post about cussing and
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  Speaker 1: praise be to Allah and all that thing. And, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I saw Hal Kemper talking, I guess, Monday or Tuesday
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  Speaker 1: night about this. And then it picked up some steam.
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  Speaker 1: I saw it some other places. This is the way
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  Speaker 1: the people in that culture in the Middle East speak.
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  Speaker 1: He was not talking to any of us on Easter
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  Speaker 1: morning with that. He was speaking specifically to them because
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  Speaker 1: that's all they understand. You remember Saddam Hussein, he says,
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  Speaker 1: the mother of all battles. You know, they're very dramatic
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  Speaker 1: and they cuss and they're very colorful in language. So
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  Speaker 1: that was something different to the leadership of Iran that
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  Speaker 1: they had never seen from an American president. And I
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  Speaker 1: think it was completely intentional. And I don't know. What
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  Speaker 1: do you think?
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  Speaker 3: You know, still not an ideal post, but yes, it
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  Speaker 3: does make more sense with that kind of content. It's
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  Speaker 3: funny because I remember you and my dad were both
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  Speaker 3: pretty bothered by it. Yeah, I was. I went on
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  Speaker 3: Matt Christensen's show and he's, you know, he's Christian, does
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  Speaker 3: a Bible study. He's like, he's going, oh, no, it
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  Speaker 3: was funny. So I was like, all right, I got
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  Speaker 3: every opinion on this.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, he thought it was funny. He thought it was funny.
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  Speaker 3: I was honestly not expecting. So I wasn't mixed opinions
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  Speaker 3: on this.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's go to J.D. Vance after he came back
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  Speaker 1: or as he was leaving Istanbul after having the talks
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  Speaker 1: with Iran all weekend. Twenty one hours.
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  Speaker 6: We've had a number of substantive discussions with the Iranians.
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  Speaker 1: That's the good news.
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  Speaker 6: The bad news is that we have not reached an agreement.
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  Speaker 6: And I think that's bad news for Iran much more
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  Speaker 6: than it's bad news for the United States of America.
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  Speaker 6: So we go back to the United States having not come.
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  Speaker 1: To an agreement.
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  Speaker 6: We've made very clear what our red lines are, what
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  Speaker 6: things we're willing to accommodate them on, and what things
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  Speaker 6: we're not willing to accommodate them on. And we've made
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  Speaker 6: that as clear as we possibly could. And they have
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  Speaker 6: chosen not to accept our terms.
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  Speaker 1: And Iran was wanting money. They were wanting $ 100 billion
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  Speaker 1: released to them. They want sanctions lifted. They have no
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  Speaker 1: position of leverage because they have no power. They have
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  Speaker 1: no reason to negotiate. And America really doesn't at this
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  Speaker 1: point either. So I'm not sure how this is going
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  Speaker 1: to end. Have you given it any thought?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, us permanently taking over the Strait of Hormuz
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  Speaker 3: and calling it like the Strait of Trump or something
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  Speaker 3: is maybe one idea. We can license that out.
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  Speaker 1: The Strait of America has a nice ring to it.
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  Speaker 3: What am I saying? The Strait of America, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That way it can stay straight of America after Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump is gone.
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  Speaker 3: We're saying their new leader is gay. We could rename
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  Speaker 3: it the Gay of Hormuz and force them to live
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  Speaker 3: with that.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, they say he's disfigured, too. Did you see that?
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  Speaker 1: This new Ayatollah is disfigured. He has no legs, and
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  Speaker 1: he's gay. So we're going.
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  Speaker 3: To find out he's a failed driver's ed. It's very
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  Speaker 3: high school rumor type stuff, but I think some of
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  Speaker 3: it's probably I.
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  Speaker 1: Think the legs are true and the disfigured. I saw
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  Speaker 1: that over the weekend. It seems credible. It seems like
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  Speaker 1: it's corroborated at this point. But, you know, that's not
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  Speaker 1: he's not a catch, is he? I don't know. He
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  Speaker 1: doesn't sound like a catch. Let's listen to John Fetterman,
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  Speaker 1: Pennsylvania senator. Here he is on Iran.
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  Speaker 7: I would like to remind people to every single Democrat
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  Speaker 7: running for president and every single Democrat in the Senate
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  Speaker 7: said we can never allow them to acquire a nuclear weapon.
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  Speaker 7: And now if you want to talk about a war crime,
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  Speaker 7: you know, Iran is a 47.
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  Speaker 3: Year old war crime, what they continue to behave.
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  Speaker 1: So, you know, I, as a.
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  Speaker 7: Democrat, I supported what president Trump did, you know, to
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  Speaker 7: actually call Iran accountable.
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  Speaker 3: And I think it's been successful.
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  Speaker 1: And let me point this out about Fetterman here. He
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  Speaker 1: talked there in the past tense because he has said
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  Speaker 1: he would not support voting for the War Powers Act
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  Speaker 1: if that comes up, if it's needed because we leave
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  Speaker 1: and then Donald Trump decides to go back. He says
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  Speaker 1: he wouldn't. Now, pay attention to John Fetterman because he
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  Speaker 1: talks a great game. And I see a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people on the right that love John Fetterman now. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm surprised by him as well. Don't get
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  Speaker 1: me wrong about that. However, look how he votes. He
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  Speaker 1: still votes the way you think he would vote 93%
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  Speaker 1: of the time, doesn't he, Matt?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that was the stat you're quoting for
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  Speaker 3: how often he would vote with Biden, which I just
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  Speaker 3: remember it being over 90 percent. So that's what you're quoting.
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  Speaker 3: He's mastered being a swing state senator. And then he
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  Speaker 3: goes on Fox News. He talks about the excesses of
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  Speaker 3: the left. He criticizes the type of leftist that would
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  Speaker 3: be a big story on Fox News. And, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I would like to pretend that faction of the left
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  Speaker 3: is five, 10 percent of the party and is conservative.
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  Speaker 3: just this activist class, but really they all vote in lockstep,
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  Speaker 3: so that can't be true. But he criticizes those types
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  Speaker 3: of people on Fox, and you feel like, wow, it's
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  Speaker 3: refreshing to hear a Democrat. you know, appear sane by
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  Speaker 3: just talking like a normal person. And then he will
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  Speaker 3: then go to the Senate and vote in lockstep with Tracy.
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  Speaker 3: So he does. I think he does defect the largest
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  Speaker 3: percentage of the time. But it's just that it's very
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  Speaker 3: rare that he does do it, that any Democrats do it.
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  Speaker 3: So in relative terms, he's the most conservative Democrat. But
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  Speaker 3: in absolute terms, he's pretty liberal.
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  Speaker 1: Now, he mentioned there that Democrat presidents have said Iran
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: is a threat with a nuclear weapon. Well, let's go
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: back to 2015. Let's listen to Chuck Schumer on the
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: Senate floor back then. This was all around the Obama
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: deal that he made with the Iranians and the Iranian
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: nuclear deal. Here is Chuck Schumer from the Senate floor.
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  Speaker 4: I examined this deal in three parts. Nuclear restrictions on
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: Iran in the first 10 years. nuclear restrictions on Iran
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: after 10 years, and non-nuclear components and consequences of the deal.
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: And in each case, I didn't ask, what is the
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: ideal agreement? We're not in that world. I asked, are
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: we better off with the agreement that we have before
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: us or without? In the first 10 years of the deal,
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: there are serious weaknesses in the agreement. First, inspections are
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: not anywhere anytime. The potential delay of as many as
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: 24 days before we can inspect undeclared suspicious sites is troubling.
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: It is true that declared sites will be monitored. That
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: is one of the positives of this deal. But if
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: Iran is going to cheat, it will not be at
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: a declared site with the eyes of the world watching.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: It will have it.
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: It seems to me when it comes to the nuclear
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: aspects of the agreement within 10 years, we might be
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: better off. We might be slightly better off with it. However,
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: when it comes to nuclear aspects after 10 years and
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: non-nuclear aspects, we would be better off without it.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: That's Chuck Schumer talking about that Iranian nuclear deal that
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Obama put in place that Donald Trump tore up. Very interesting,
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: isn't it?
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, on every anti-Trump cause of the left, there's clips
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: of Democrats 20 to 30 years ago saying exactly what
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: Donald Trump was saying. I mean, the most obvious example
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: is illegal immigration, where the rhetoric of Barack Obama was
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: pretty right-wing. Now, obviously, in practice, he was not, but
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: he was an improvement over Biden. But um the left
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: at least rhetorically pretended to be you know pro-sane immigration
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: back then and then once it became a a trump
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: policy they turned against it um and and you know
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: i wonder if they were being their their real selves
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: back then or now or are they willing to knowingly
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: uh take wrong positions to get elected and to hurt
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: trump that's the answer to that is probably yes so
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: uh Yeah, it's sad that we're ruled by people who
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: ultimately believe nothing when their brains are corrupted by TDS.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Let's go back to Artemis real quick. I have time
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: for one more clip about the spacecraft and NASA in general.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Senator Mark Kelly from Arizona, he was one of the
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: six seditious six. And here is something. he had to
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: say about this. This really blew me away. Listen to
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Senator Mark Kelly.
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  Speaker 8: When you're the commander, you get some say in who
• 19:56
  Speaker 8: your other crew members are going to be.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: So the last thing I would.
• 20:00
  Speaker 8: Want in a space shuttle crew would be seven white guy, U.S.
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  Speaker 3: Navy.
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  Speaker 8: Test pilots like me.
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  Speaker 1: It would be a disaster. Why would that be a disaster?
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: If I was going up in space, that's exactly who
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: I want. I want the test pilots from Air Force
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: and Navy taking me up there. And I also thought
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: about this, Matt, when I was watching all this. There's
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: not a chance in hell you would ever pry me
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: into that spaceship to blast off to begin with. And
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: you probably wouldn't even get me in the elevator to
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: take me up to it. And there's just no way.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: And then riding on the helicopter, they hoist you up.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't even do that. I'm just I'm just too
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: chicken to do any of it. But it was a
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: great sight to see. Eric Swalwell, he is in the
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: news big time running for governor in the state of California.
• 20:53
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• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Eric Swalwell, the poster boy of the left for many years,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: the guy that went after Donald Trump relentlessly for a decade.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Not just Trump either, but it was Kavanaugh. It was
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: one after the other. Well, guess what? Someone in the
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Democrat Party, they have decided to go after Eric Swalwell.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: They're doing it in a big way. To me, Matt,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: there was no other way to see this other than
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: it was a Democrat because we talked about this last week.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Currently in the governor's race in California, in the polls,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: there are two Republicans leading. The way they do their elections,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: the top two in a primary, they go up, which
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: means Democrats that it would have been a Republican as
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: a governor. Who's running in third place right now? It's
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Eric Swalwell. You knock his 14%, 15% out of it,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: he gets out of the race, doesn't run a campaign,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: he gets 2% or 3% because of his name, and
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: then a Democrat would come in second, and then the
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Democrat would win by 20 points. Somewhere there is a
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Democrat behind this. This story was started at the San
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Francisco Chronicle. I don't think it really takes a rocket
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: scientist to figure this out.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and the problem with questioning any accusations of sexual
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: harassment or assault against someone, the consequence is you're going
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: to look like a jerk for daring to question it.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: But I think it's worth summarizing what the accuser is
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: accusing Eric Swalwell of. And he's saying that back in 2019,
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: she was working for him for a few weeks. She
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: was 21 years old. I believe he was 38. He
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: was sending her naked photos on Snapchat of his genitals
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: and trying to solicit nudes from her in return. Now,
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: after that, there was a time where she is sitting
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: as a passenger in the passenger seat of his car.
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: He asked her for a blowjob and she said she
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: gave him. Now, after that, he invites her to go
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: drinking one night. They get drunk. She says she wakes
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: up in a hotel room bed naked with him and
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: has no memory but believes, you know, could feel that
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: they had sex. Okay. So, you know, those two cases
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: seem like, you know, more in regret territory. But you
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: could say to me, well, who are you to say that?
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: She felt coerced. She felt pressured. She was afraid. Okay,
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: fair enough. Now, Five years after the hotel encounter, she
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: runs into Eric Swalwell for the first time in five
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: years at a political event. And what do they do?
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: They go out drinking again and then have sex. And
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: then she said this too was sexual assault. So it's
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: just a little weird to put yourself in the exact
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: same situation five years later and go out drinking again.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: It just seems more like revenge against him. And When
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: it comes to these allegations against Swalwell, there's been a
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: number of journalists coming forward and saying, oh, this was
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: just an open secret. Everyone knew about this, but they
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: were afraid they might get sued by Swalwell. But I've
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: seen at least four or five journalists come forward and
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: admit for over a decade they've known of these sort
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: of allegations against Swalwell. And Swalwell, in his video addressing this,
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: he basically said, admits that, or he made a comment
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: that basically indicates that he had cheated on his wife,
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: but is rejecting the sexual assault or harassment allegations, which
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: I think is consistent with what I was saying. But
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: this is a targeted hit. And the reason why is because,
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: as you said, the primary in California is an all-party primary.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: Republicans are 30 or so percent of the electorate. So
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: if you have two Republican frontrunners, Every other candidate gets
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: knocked off in the general. So right now it's Steve
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: Helton and Bianca. Yes, the sheriff. And so that's happened.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: And then also Trump has endorsed Steve Helton, which I
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: think was ill-advised just because it's going to cost Bianca votes.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: That could lower his vote share and could kick him
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: down from second to third or lower. But Swalwell, it's
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: almost 20 percent of the vote is going to get
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: redistributed to other Democrats. And in the betting markets, Tom Steyer,
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: who ran for president in, I believe, 2020, is a
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: billionaire leftist. He's sort of like a George Soros type.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: His odds have now surged, I mean, by double digits
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: into being more than a 50% favorite to win the
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: whole thing. So this has all helped other Democrats at
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: the expense of Swalwell. And it's also interesting to note
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: in light of that, what I just said, that they're
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: all calling for him to drop out of the governor's race.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: No one is calling for him to resign from Congress.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: So what does that tell you?
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah. hypocritical at the very least it's hypocritical now it
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: was Swalwell that said you have to believe them when
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Blasey Ford came out against Brett Kavanaugh you have to
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: believe them he said so now he's on the other
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: side of this I don't think it'll change Eric Swalwell
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: One thing that has been brought to my attention, I
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: don't know how factual this is, they say that it's
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: too late to drop out of the governor's race in California,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: so his name would still appear on the ballot. I
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: guess if he just doesn't campaign, maybe it doesn't make
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: a difference. Other than that's why earlier I mentioned maybe
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: he gets two or three or four percent if he's
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: not actually campaigning. But he won't get the whole 15
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: to 20 percent that he's getting right now. Let's go
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: to CNN. Let's listen to their breakdown and story on
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: this story about Eric Swalwell.
• 27:55
  Speaker 9: Four women are accusing Congressman Eric Swalwell with sexual misconduct,
• 28:00
  Speaker 9: including a former staffer who says he raped her. The
• 28:03
  Speaker 9: allegations against the prominent Democratic candidate for governor range from
• 28:07
  Speaker 9: inappropriate messages and pictures to unwanted kissing and touching and
• 28:11
  Speaker 9: in one case rape from a woman we spoke to
• 28:13
  Speaker 9: on camera in shadow to protect her identity due to
• 28:16
  Speaker 9: professional retaliation concerns. She is a former Swalwell staffer. She
• 28:21
  Speaker 9: says it began when she was 21 years old. There
• 28:25
  Speaker 9: were two very serious sexual assault allegations. She made one
• 28:28
  Speaker 9: in 2019 as a staffer, the other from 2024 once
• 28:32
  Speaker 9: she left his office. She also described inappropriate messages and
• 28:36
  Speaker 9: nude images with the congressman using Snapchat with disappearing messages.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Okay, Matt, that is a little bit about what you
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: were talking about there on some background with CNN. And
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: I have one more clip here, and this is the voice.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Or maybe an actress, I guess, that did her voice.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure how they did this. But maybe it
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: is just her voice has been changed. Here she is
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: telling the story.
• 29:01
  Speaker 9: After the first incident where she said she woke up
• 29:04
  Speaker 9: in his hotel room as a staffer naked after a
• 29:06
  Speaker 9: night of heavy drinking, she told us about what she
• 29:09
  Speaker 9: says happened several years later in 2024 after she left
• 29:13
  Speaker 9: his office. And I want to warn you, what you're
• 29:15
  Speaker 9: about to hear is graphic.
• 29:18
  Speaker 10: I decided to ask him to meet me for a drink.
• 29:21
  Speaker 10: I did this because I was so far removed from
• 29:25
  Speaker 10: what had happened in 2019. I felt safe because I
• 29:30
  Speaker 10: was established. I had a partner. I felt more secure
• 29:37
  Speaker 10: that I could have a strictly professional relationship with this person.
• 29:41
  Speaker 10: After that bar closed, we went to another. I went
• 29:44
  Speaker 10: to the bathroom and I don't remember anything after that.
• 29:49
  Speaker 9: You don't remember anything?
• 29:50
  Speaker 10: I remember the next day. I can see flashes of
• 29:55
  Speaker 10: that evening of him on top of me, me pushing
• 29:58
  Speaker 10: him off. him grabbing me, it was a lot more aggressive.
• 30:06
  Speaker 10: It was aggressive.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: It was aggressive, she says. I have a lot of
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: questions there. Would you have any questions of that female?
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: I know we have to believe them. That's what Eric
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Swalwell said. So we have to believe what she says.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Do you have any questions for her, though, in her
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: decision-making and choices? Well, I mean.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: You know, asking Euripus out for coffee isn't something I'd
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: ever recommend to anyone. It was just bizarre. In fact,
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: when I was explaining to you in the audience the story,
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: I had thought it was Swallow who asked her to
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: meet up. I actually overlooked the fact that she's the
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: one who originated that. Yeah. No, it makes no sense.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: I mean, she cheated on her. I guess I don't
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: know why she's a partner. I assume she means husband
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: or boyfriend, but I guess cheated on them and also
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: was trying to cover for that and have an excuse.
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: It's bizarre behavior. And also to clarify, yes, the woman
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: that you just played is the woman you mentioned before.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: That's one in the same a little bit. I think
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: there's four accusers total now.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, four total. And we'll see where this goes. Does
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: he pull out, just quit campaigning in California? And does
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: it have the effect that whoever is behind this, whether
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: it's Tom Steyer, I look at someone like Katie Porter.
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: She ran for the Senate against Adam Schiff a couple
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: of years ago. She's a nasty person. You know, she
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: has a terrible reputation in the House of Representatives with
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: her staffers. I could see her doing something like this,
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: paying these people to come forward and do this. It's
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: kind of been weird to me, though, to see the
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Democrats turn on Swalwell as fast as they have. It's
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: like they don't even know what to do. But it's
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: also in the mainstream media. It's on Capitol Hill. It's everywhere.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: They've all turned on Swalwell. And I would caution conservatives
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: and Republicans. And I tried to do this over the
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: weekend with a post on X. Be careful, because if
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: he gets out of the race, it's actually hurting you.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: We're going to have a Republican governor in California for
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: the first time since Arnold Schwarzenegger if those two Republicans
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: can get at the top of the ticket in the primary.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: So in some ways, by destroying the story on the right,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: the conservative people, they are destroying the chances for a
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Republican actually winning because no matter what Democrat wins or
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: comes in second or first in the primary, they're going
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: to win by 20 points.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: The Democrats have 10 million people registered. Republicans have about 5.3 million.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: And there are a bunch of independents as well. So
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: it's a two to one. Democrats to Republican. The Democrats
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: will win by 20 points if you get rid of
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: Eric Swalwell. And then a Republican comes in third or
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: fourth place.
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, people should remember, and I think this
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: is probably obvious to your audience, that whenever Democrats are
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: seemingly doing the right thing and all coming together to
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: do that, and the media is giving them a helping hand,
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: it's because the end goal is to help the Democratic Party.
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: In this case, for the reasons we explained in California's race,
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: it's reminiscent of when After Joe Biden's disastrous debate with
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: Donald Trump in 2024, it was as if everyone just
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: finally got a green light where they went, OK, we
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: can't cover this up anymore. So now we're going to
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: pretend that we're doing the noble thing and getting him
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: out of the way and blah, blah, blah. But obviously,
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: it's because they knew Biden couldn't win. So it's the
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: same thing. They don't care about doing the right thing.
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: They've known about this for a long time. Well, over
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: a decade, it seems. I think, you know, I will
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: say I don't know if I buy that he's committing
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: sexual assault against his women. I think he's a womanizer.
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: He's maybe pressuring women and it's shooting on his wife.
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: But I don't think I haven't seen not seen evidence
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: that he's a rapist or anything like that.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah. No, me either. But be careful if you're a conservative,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: you're on the right side. You're a Republican. When you
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: see these things that Matt and I are talking about,
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: don't help them. Don't pile on. Don't help them with
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: their story because ultimately they are doing it for a
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: reason to help themselves, not help you. So just keep
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: that in mind as we move forward in this political season.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: Let's stay in California, though, because there's a lot of
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: fraud there. Did you keep up with the fraud that
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: was coming out last week in California?
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw their AG's press conference and it was infuriating.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: He was trying to act like You know, we've you know,
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: Trump is trying to make fraud a political issue, but
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: we've been targeting fraud since the 70s. What was Trump
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: saying about fraud back then? And I'm thinking he wasn't
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: politically involved. Why would Trump have been talking about California
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: fraud in the 70s? But it was a very bizarre
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: press conference. And I think they recovered. had found it was,
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: what is it, $ 250 million in fraud or something? Yeah,
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: but then they were bragging they recovered an entire 10%
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: of it. And I'm thinking, that's it? Where the hell
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: did the rest of the money go? It's just an
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: odd thing to, I don't know, be trying to claim
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: the moral high ground against Trump or something. And this,
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: by the way, came after weeks of Gavin Newsom attacking
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: Nick Shirley for finding fraud.
• 35:12
  Speaker 11: I don't know.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: They can't really keep the narrative straight. Is it good
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: to identify fraud? Is it bad? I guess it depends
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: on who's the one finding it. These people believe nothing,
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: as I just said earlier.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: If it's somebody on the Trump team that is finding fraud,
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: then it's a bad thing. If it's them, it's a
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: good thing. When you go back to PPP and unemployment
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: during COVID, that was $ 500 billion to a trillion dollars
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: in fraud. So far, the last time I checked, we
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: have collected about $ 100 million of that. That's it. That
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: is it. About 10%. Not many people have been prosecuted.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: They are trying, but they're not going to get anywhere
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: near the trillion or $ 500 billion. It just won't happen.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: That's your neighbor, American people that are stealing from you.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: By the way, I saw that refund checks, we had
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: talked about this back a couple of months ago. I
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: know Scott Besant was making a big deal out of
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: the refund checks. It's going to be a lot more money.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: It is up 11.1%. It's gone from $ 3, 200 last year
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: in refunds from the IRS when you do your taxes,
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: and it's up now to about $ 3, 550. So it's about $ 350. Unfortunately,
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: we are spending that money in our gas tank because gas.
• 36:21
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• 36:23
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• 37:22
  Speaker 1: I'm Booker Scott along with Matt Palumbo. By the way,
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: Matt has written 11 books. He's written some you've heard of, too.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: Let me go through a few of them. You have
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: Spygate that he wrote with Dan Bongino. You have Fact-Checking
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: the Fact-Checkers. You have Man Behind the Curtain about George Soros.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: And The Heir about Alex Soros, George Soros' son. You
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: can find all of those on Amazon. Just go to Amazon,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: put in Matt Palumbo, and you'll find all of the
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: books that he has written. So, Matt, let's talk a
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: little bit about the primary coming up and the way
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: the Democrats are positioning things here for a few minutes,
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: because I see James Carville and I don't know if
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: you've seen his videos, but this guy is he's not right.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: He's never really been right. He's the type of guy
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: that I would probably like to go have a beer with.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: But I think he's off his rocker at this point.
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, as you were mentioning him, I was just doing
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: a quick Google search to make sure I was remembering
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: a book he wrote in 2009. The title is 40
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: More Years, How Democrats Will Rule the Next Generation. I
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: know it's That was about a year before the Tea
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: Party revolution and all that. No, he wasn't right there,
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: although he is married to a Republican strategist. So he
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: must have some level of self-awareness and also do a
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: character version of himself.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: Maybe.
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: Unless I don't understand how the relationship works at all.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: But no, he's really not right. Well, when he's right
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: about things, he's still wrong. Like he'll attack. the left
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: for going too far woke in one breath, and then
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: in the next breath go, God, why do these Republicans
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: care about trans kids in sports? Who cares? And I'm thinking,
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: all right, so you're assessing the problem correctly, but you're
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: also part of it.
• 39:02
  Speaker 10: Right.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: Let's go to something he said. Here's a recent video
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: from James Carville. By the way, he's married to Republican strategist.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: You don't see her much anymore. Her name is Mary Matlin.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: Here he is.
• 39:13
  Speaker 12: I do not want that man to die. I want
• 39:16
  Speaker 12: to watch him suffer. And I can't watch a dead
• 39:19
  Speaker 12: person suffer. So I want him to be fully cognizant
• 39:23
  Speaker 12: come November.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: That's James Carville. He's talking about Donald Trump there, Matt.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: He doesn't want him dead. He wants him to suffer.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: That's what he's looking for.
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: What a great guy. No, I mean, this is, by
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: the way, it's just 90% of the left. They're not
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: all going to come out and say it, but this
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: is how most of them think. We saw it after
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: Charlie Kirk's death, where it was not only was going
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: after Kirk not enough, but had it then targeted the widow,
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: but Trump actually was killed in Butler. Do I even
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: have to tell people what the response would be? They'd
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: be celebrating every single day for the rest of their lives. So, no,
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: these are sick people.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: Well, you bring up Charlie Kirk. Let's go back and
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: visit last week in the courtroom. Tyler Robinson was there.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: His next hearing is coming up April 18th. I don't
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: know if you saw that. Did you keep up with
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: that last week at all? There was more.
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: Evidence that came out where he admitted to it for
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: the 900th time.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah.
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah. About the letter and the gun. And he was
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: trying to go pick it up. There were text messages
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: between him and his trans lover. And all of that
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: came out last week. And there are still people that
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: believe Candace Owens, that it was Israel that was behind it.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: And you have tailplane numbers from Egypt. And that's crazy.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: Tucker Carlson is crazy. Alex Jones is crazy. You know,
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: Alex Jones has rarely been right about anything. And now
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: he is going after Donald Trump. I don't know if
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: you saw his video over the weekend. He's never been right, really,
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: about anything. But people love him and they follow him
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: and they believe what he says. And I don't have
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: any idea why they still do.
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: I always thought Alex Jones was funny as a sort
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: of internet meme type character. But I could never imagine
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: actually trusting his news analysis on everything. It is certifiable insanity. It's,
• 41:17
  Speaker 3: you know, reptilian overlord tier stuff. And that's what Candace
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: is sort of doing, the true crime version of that.
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: That's right. I just don't get what the motivation behind
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: this narrative is, because we've been talking for decades about
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: how violent the left is, but they want to kill
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: their political opponents. And then they do it. And then
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: we squander all that goodwill we could have used to
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: actually enact change and descend to these conspiracies of it being,
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: for some reason, Israel was going to kill one of
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: their biggest supporters in America for a goal that makes
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: no sense. Right.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: But people believe it. And, you know, and then it's
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: causing a divide on the conservative side of things in politics. And,
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: you know, we have Michelle Obama out there. She's making
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: videos on podcasts. If anybody cares, here she is with this.
• 42:03
  Speaker 13: We talk about how do you feel about the country?
• 42:05
  Speaker 13: You know, there are versions of the country that happen.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 42:10
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 42:11
  Speaker 13: And the new version doesn't make the old one bad.
• 42:14
  Speaker 13: It's necessary for growth. And I think we're in just
• 42:18
  Speaker 13: a janky version, right?
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, janky's right. It's a janky version right now. What
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: does that mean, Matt? What is a janky version of America?
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: What is a version of America? What is she talking about?
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: She's very much like Kamala Harris. She doesn't make much
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: sense to me. And something else, I don't know if
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: I've ever shared this with you. I have shared it
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: with the audience. She is a right speaker. And what
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: I mean by that is he uses right in a
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: rhetorical way that makes you think, me too, I cannot
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: stand it. And I call it a linguistic tie-down. It's
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: to continue the conversation so that you feel like an
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: idiot if you think the opposite of the way that
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: person is talking, right? So they just keep saying right
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: after everything they say, and then the conversation moves, and
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: you're like, well, wait a minute. You know, typically right
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: is used in this type of way.
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: Matt.
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: Michelle Obama really doesn't make any sense, right?
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: Right. Yeah, liberals can't make up their, like, whenever Trump
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: does something they don't like, they say it's anti-American, and then, like,
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: when they argue against guns or something, they go, well,
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: the founding fathers, I mean, they were a bunch of
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: slave-owning racists. I'm like, okay, so is America good or bad? Like,
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: you at least pick one and then stick there. What
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: came to mind was Bill Burr, the comedian who used
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: to be funny during the Obama administration, was complaining about
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: how visible Michelle is, and he's like, All right, listen, like,
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: let's put it this way. If, you know, I need
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: a plumber and his wife comes by and says a lecture,
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: I'm going to go, you know, I'm sure you're a
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: nice lady, but you're really not the person we need
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: right now. It's the exact same thing. Why do we
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: care what she has to say about anything?
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: Did you see Trump going after Alex Jones, Tucker Carlson
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: and Candace Owens on a post over the weekend?
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: It was the best guest host I've ever seen.
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: It was something. He said he hopes Candace Owens loses
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: her lawsuit against the fine wife of McCrone.
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: Far better looking. Which is, I guess, true. I mean,
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: she's old, but.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, she is better looking than Candace Owens. Let's
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: go to more of this Michelle Obama. May I curse Mrs.
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: Obama?
• 44:22
  Speaker 12: You may.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she's jank right now.
• 44:23
  Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: It's super jank.
• 44:25
  Speaker 10: Yes.
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: He's not going to be happy with that. But I
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: couldn't find another adjective.
• 44:31
  Speaker 13: I couldn't find another similar metaphor here. But with each version,
• 44:36
  Speaker 13: we learn something about ourselves as a country. And, you know,
• 44:41
  Speaker 13: right now, I'm kind of digging the way— folks are
• 44:46
  Speaker 13: beginning to respond, right? I mean, Minnesota, powerful stuff. I mean,
• 44:53
  Speaker 13: it was a powerful reminder of what a community of
• 44:56
  Speaker 13: people can do and are willing to do to protect
• 44:59
  Speaker 13: one another.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: What is she talking about? I still don't know. I
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: don't know. I don't have a clue. What is she
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: talking about? A different version of America and what happened
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: in Minnesota was fantastic. What is she talking about?
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: I was hoping that clip would go in longer so
• 45:16
  Speaker 3: I would have time to figure out what you were
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: talking about. I don't think it would have helped.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: We have dodged a bullet by staying away from the woke,
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: radical left. That's what we did in the last election.
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: That's what scares me about coming up in the primary
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: in November, which we'll talk about that more as we
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: get closer to it. There's a lot to be worried
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: about with that. And while I'm talking about that, let
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: me also tell everybody in the audience that I will
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: be speaking at the Tampa Bay Trump Republican Club coming
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: up April 21st at Muggs just off of Olmerton. So
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: come on out to that. They're a huge club. They've
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: had a lot of great speakers through the years. I
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: think General Flynn has been there about five or six times.
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: But I'll be there April 21st. We're going to talk
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: about some specific strategies that can be done for this
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: upcoming year. that we have. And so if you're in
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay area, come on out and join us
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: for that. Now, let's go to Kamala Harris. We talk
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: about dodging a bullet for the Democrats. This could have
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: been your president right here.
• 46:19
  Speaker 13: They kind of.
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: Rather act like a mob boss. So then he's kind
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: of legal.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: This is her Trump impression. This is, yeah, here we go.
• 46:28
  Speaker 13: Well, you know, you take Eastern Europe, I'll take the
• 46:35
  Speaker 13: Western Hemisphere.
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: She sounds more like she just took a big drag off.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: It doesn't sound like Donald Trump at all. It sounds
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: like she's smoking pot to me.
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: Everyone thinks they can do a Trump impression.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: She can't. Well, let's go. Let's listen to the former
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: vice president of the United States.
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: And then you over there, you get Asia.
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: There she is again.
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: Instead of understanding historically, America has always been about our
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: global leadership.
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: Imperfect though we have been.
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: Right speakers kill me. I just cannot stand it, Matt.
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: But again, I don't know what she's talking about either.
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: None of these people make any sense to me, and
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: we're going to get to Canada here in a few minutes,
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: but come on in on Kamala Harris. Is her career over?
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: Is she done? Because when you look at polls, she's
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: leading for the top spot for the Democrats in 2028.
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: Maybe they're just hoping they can get their own Trump-like comeback, but...
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: I don't know, it would be far less impressive because
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: they really threw every possible thing at Trump, including trying
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: to murder him, and it didn't work. So, no, it's just,
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: I don't know, she has no aura. She's just... I mean,
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: she didn't even win the Democrat primary. She had to
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: be in Seoul. And I think it is questionable that
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: she would have even won that. Didn't she get less
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: than 1% of the vote in the 2020 primary?
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, she bailed out way early, before there was ever
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: one vote. She bailed out before Iowa.
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. She pulled it below 1%. Correct. Yeah.
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: She doesn't even have a brain. Let's be honest. How
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: did she get where she got? I have no idea.
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: We'll never know.
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: Well, I think we know. I think both of us
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: have an idea.
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: I think we have a general idea of the working
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: theory for how that happens.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: There was a guy named Willie in California. We'll tell
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: you about that some other time.
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. When the kids are asleep, we'll both go through.
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: That story. Let's go to our friends, the communists in Canada.
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: And I don't know if you've kept up with what's
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: going on in Canada, but these people up there, they
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: are whacked out. They have a line.
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: Oh, the NDP conference you're talking about?
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: Well, just in general. Oh, this is my favorite story.
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: This is my favorite story from last week. I'm glad
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: you asked.
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: But in general, Canada is gone, except for Alberta.
• 48:52
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: Now, this story comes out of Ottawa, so let's go
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: to it. It's really interesting. I never knew that— well, I'll
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: play it, and then we'll talk about it.
• 49:02
  Speaker 9: They provided $ 0.
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: To deal with the ongoing genocide of MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA +.
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: What? That's the password to my Wi-Fi router.
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: That's the password. That's the password of your router. That's awesome.
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: Let's go— the clip I thought you were going to play,
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: but I had seen this. And I was saying to
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: you before the show about it, like, this stuff is
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: so stupid, but it is impressive that anyone could remember
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: that acronym and recite it effortlessly. So at least, I mean,
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: I don't think these people have a brain, but they
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: somehow have a brain power to do that. So good
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: for them.
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: Well, it starts off with M-M-I-W. And that is.
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: Here's the thing. The M stands for murdered. So if
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: you get murdered, you're now part of the LGBTQ community.
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: You're part of that group.
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: We'll throw you in that group.
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: There's no N.
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: No choice. That group is getting so big. We started
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: off with gays and lesbians, and then we added trans.
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: And then, you know what did it for me is
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: when they started adding the pluses. And I said it
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: way back then. I said... This is so they can
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: keep adding letters.
• 50:08
  Speaker 11: Yes.
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: And that's what this is. And they don't take away
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: the pluses because they'll continue to add letters.
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: Forever.
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: This is missing murdered indigenous women is what that is.
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: Listen to this again.
• 50:20
  Speaker 12: 2SLGBTQQIA +.
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: What?
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: It makes my head spin.
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: If you're a missing indigenous woman and you become not missing,
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: if you get found and you're no longer in the club,
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: there's a lot of rules that need to be clarified.
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know what the left is ever doing.
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: I can't keep up with them. Matt, we're coming to
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: the end of the hour. What do we look for
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: this week? I think Iran is going to be the
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: big topic. We're going to have to watch the markets.
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: What are they going to do in response to what
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: happened over the weekend with really no deal from the
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: negotiation that took place in Istanbul? I don't know what's
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: going to happen with the oil prices. Oil prices came
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: down one day last week. They were down to $ 70
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: a barrel. They're back up in that 80, 90 range,
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: which is close to where they were before all of
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: this started. It's going to take some time before the
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: gas prices come down. I think that we're going to
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: see oil go down lower, but we'll just have to
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: wait and see how this goes because, as Donald Trump says,
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: we're going to open up the Strait of Hormuz with
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: a blockade, meaning we're going to block everybody, including Iran's
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: ships that have been continuing to operate and you know,
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: allow them to sell 1.5 million barrels of oil every day,
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: they're going to cut them off, that will, you know,
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: choke them. And financially, they're not going to have any
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: resources then, which by the way, their inflation in that
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: country is at 54%. The inflation number came out for
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: America last week, we were higher than expected, it was 3.3%.
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: But if you look at the core number, it was
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: still down at 2.7%. So that looks pretty good. 30
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: year mortgage rates, they are down around six, which is
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: much lower than they were. So things are becoming more affordable.
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: I talked about the taxes in the IRS. The refunds
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: are greater by $ 350 per refund this year. So things
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: are looking up. And I think as the deregulations that
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: have been taking place over the last 14, 15 months
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: since Trump came into office, I think they're going to
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: start kicking in. We're going to feel it the second
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: half of this year, which is going to be really
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: important for, to the midterm election in November.
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: Yes, all that. And also, there's a special election this
• 52:27
  Speaker 3: week in NJ11. This is to replace Mikey Sherrill's old seat,
• 52:31
  Speaker 3: the Democrat rep who is now governor of New Jersey.
• 52:34
  Speaker 3: Her seat for a very long time was Republican-leaning, a
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: very reliably Republican seat. She won by a small margin,
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: I believe, in 2018. And then the district, the lines
• 52:47
  Speaker 3: were redrawn. And it's still my district, but it's gone
• 52:50
  Speaker 3: from being a Republican district to– around Democrat plus nine
• 52:55
  Speaker 3: or so. So they, you know, they rigged it in
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: their favor, but there's a special election this week to
• 52:59
  Speaker 3: replace Mikey Sherrill. See the front runner Democrat is named
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: Anna Lillian media. And if she wins and right now,
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: based on the early voting and the vote by mail,
• 53:10
  Speaker 3: it's she'll probably win by 20 points or even more,
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: which is pretty frightening. Um, She is going to be
• 53:18
  Speaker 3: part of the squad Democrats. She's a Democratic socialist endorsed
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: by the DSA. During the debate she had with her
• 53:26
  Speaker 3: Republican challenger, she was arguing that Jesus was a socialist,
• 53:30
  Speaker 3: supports universal health care, but– I mean, I watched her debate.
• 53:36
  Speaker 3: She's insufferable to listen to, spoke over her opponent the
• 53:40
  Speaker 3: whole time, constantly interrupted him. And then at one point
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: he says to the moderators, like, guys, are we going
• 53:45
  Speaker 3: to do anything about this? Then interrupts him again and
• 53:48
  Speaker 3: talks about how angry he's getting and his temperament. And
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: his temperament was exactly as I just said five seconds ago.
• 53:55
  Speaker 3: He was just kind of asking the moderators to maybe
• 53:58
  Speaker 3: do their jobs. But unfortunately, it seems like we're probably
• 54:01
  Speaker 3: going to get another AOC in Congress debate. She's going
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: to have to then run again in November because it's
• 54:08
  Speaker 3: just her eight months or so, however long it is
• 54:10
  Speaker 3: until November. So hopefully she's out of there quickly. But
• 54:14
  Speaker 3: it seems like we're going to be adding a new
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: Democratic socialist to Congress this week. And I have not
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: seen this beginning that much coverage, unfortunately. And if you
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: look at the numbers, too. I think there's now like 40,000
• 54:25
  Speaker 3: more Democrats than Republicans in the district. And even then,
• 54:29
  Speaker 3: only 7% of Republicans have voted so far. About 15%
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: of Democrats have. So in theory, if the Republicans all
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: decide to turn out, they actually could win it. But
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: it seems like it's going to be a plus 20
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: point swing for the Dems, which is pretty horrifying.
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: What is that congressional district again?
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: New Jersey 11.
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: 11. 11 in New Jersey. So that's coming up Tuesday.
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: So watch that. Matt, thank you so much for joining
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: us this week and every week. Always a pleasure to
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: visit with you. I enjoy it so much. Thank you.
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: You're welcome. See you next week.
• 55:04
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• 55:07
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• 55:10
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• 55:13
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