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Mark's 11am Monologue. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: The Mark Simon Show on.
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  Speaker 2: Or Well, I'm back way too long a vacation. Every
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  Speaker 2: host was gone for two weeks. That today everybody back
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  Speaker 2: to normal. Everybody's back. You know, it's nice to get
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  Speaker 2: away a nice, quiet vacation. As I was saying, the
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  Speaker 2: President of the United States, Donald Trump, very unusual. Normally
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  Speaker 2: a president takes a break, a vacation. Bush would go
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  Speaker 2: to the ranch, the ranch, quiet, peaceful, roaring fire, quiet
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  Speaker 2: on the ranch, Joe Biden, would you know some billionaire
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  Speaker 2: oligarch would lend him the house on Nantucket? He goes,
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  Speaker 2: sit there on Nantucket? Is it Martha's vineyard? Even quieter?
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  Speaker 2: Martha's vineyard? Roaring fire, snow outside, quiet, Trump on vacation
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  Speaker 2: goes tomorrow a lago. That place Christmas Week is a
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  Speaker 2: billion people all crammed into. It's the most crowded, chaotic,
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  Speaker 2: noisy place you've ever seen. It's just a total circus
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  Speaker 2: going on there around the clock. Now that's the way
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  Speaker 2: he is. In fact, after two weeks there, I watched
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  Speaker 2: him last night fly back to the White House. The
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  Speaker 2: helicopter landed on the lawn and he walked into the
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  Speaker 2: White House. The White House for him is getting away.
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  Speaker 2: The White House was peace and quiet for him, compared
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  Speaker 2: to the unbelievably chaotic Mara A Lago, just packed with people.
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  Speaker 2: You hear all these people, you see them on Instagram.
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  Speaker 2: Who went tomorrow Lago for the New Year's Eve party
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  Speaker 2: or for Christmas dinner? Or you see him there in
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  Speaker 2: the dining looks so nice and beautiful, and you think,
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  Speaker 2: quite a wonderful Where do he actually go there? You know,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just pull up to the door and get
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  Speaker 2: out of the car in the valley whisks your car away.
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  Speaker 2: It's not that simple. You pull up like four blocks
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  Speaker 2: away to a checkpoint where the Secret Service, the FBI,
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  Speaker 2: guns big massive machine guns in their hand and dogs everywhere,
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  Speaker 2: take your car apart for twenty minutes. You have to
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  Speaker 2: open the hood, you have to open the trunk. They
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  Speaker 2: have to look They literally look through your engine. They
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  Speaker 2: inspect every inch of your car inside. They even get
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  Speaker 2: under your car. They have a long pole with a
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  Speaker 2: mirror that they slip under your car. They look at everything.
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  Speaker 2: This takes forever. This is not to mention frisking you,
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  Speaker 2: searching you, checking all your identity. This is like a
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  Speaker 2: forty minute process. It makes tsa at the airport look
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  Speaker 2: like a breeze. This is just to get into Borrow Lago.
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  Speaker 2: It's just it's a crazy place. But we're glad everybody's back.
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  Speaker 2: So the CBS Evening News has a brand new anchor
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  Speaker 2: and tonight was supposed to be his big debut. But
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  Speaker 2: then Saturday night, the Maduro capture takes place. This is
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  Speaker 2: big breaking news. So they decided the new anchor, I
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  Speaker 2: tell you his name, but who the hell can remember it?
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  Speaker 2: And why remember it? The last three anchors of the
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  Speaker 2: CBS Evening News actually in pay for the last five
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  Speaker 2: of them. Nobody remembers anyway. But he decided he would
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  Speaker 2: anchor the Saturday night Evening News, that he would move
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  Speaker 2: it up and that would be his debut, and it
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  Speaker 2: was quite shocking. You know. They got this new Barry
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  Speaker 2: Weiss who took over CBS News claims she's going to
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  Speaker 2: clean up the corruption is CBS News is the dirtiest,
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  Speaker 2: most corrupt, slanted, partisan, misleading, biased news organization. She claims
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  Speaker 2: she would clean it up. Well, there was evidence of that.
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  Speaker 2: Saturday Night, the CBS Evening News with the new guy.
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  Speaker 2: I think his name is David something, who the hell
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  Speaker 2: knows but he took over, and the big story that
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  Speaker 2: consumed the whole half hour newscast was the Maduro capture.
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  Speaker 2: And of course it's CBS News, you know the way
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  Speaker 2: they write the news there, it's kind of slanted, implying
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  Speaker 2: that this was something that shouldn't happen, this Maduro capture.
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  Speaker 2: But then he said, with us live now is Secretary
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  Speaker 2: of Defense Pete Hegzith. And then he put hexithon and
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  Speaker 2: let him talk for seven minutes. They had to do commercial.
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  Speaker 2: He said, can you hold on and come back with us?
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  Speaker 2: And then they brought him back in the next segment
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  Speaker 2: for seven minutes, and then at the end they said
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  Speaker 2: we have to go, but for commercial, can you hang
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  Speaker 2: on again? And he hung on through the second commercial
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  Speaker 2: break and was back for a third segment. Now, this
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  Speaker 2: is the major spokesman of the Trump administration on this matter,
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  Speaker 2: the Secretary of Defense. So this is quite a change
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  Speaker 2: for CBS News to give him airtime and let him
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  Speaker 2: give his point of view in the administration's point of
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  Speaker 2: view for about twenty minutes. You never would have seen
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  Speaker 2: that on the old CBS News. So if this is
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  Speaker 2: an indication of change, if this guy tonight is going
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  Speaker 2: to keep doing that. Make it actually a fair, unbiased newscast.
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  Speaker 2: That'll be interesting. See what now, it could be a
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  Speaker 2: formula really works. It'll take a while for word to
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  Speaker 2: get around. It's not so corrupt anymore, but who knows,
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  Speaker 2: it may take off in viewership.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: The other thing is apparently Trump knew that they're going
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  Speaker 2: to clean up the CBS Evening News because the Maduro
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  Speaker 2: raid took place in the middle of the night and
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  Speaker 2: it was secret. Congress nobody got told about the raid.
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  Speaker 2: It was total secrecy when it happened. But CBS News
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  Speaker 2: was given the story first by the administration. They broke
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  Speaker 2: the story before anybody because the administration gave it to them.
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  Speaker 2: That's a pretty big thing for a news organization to
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  Speaker 2: be handed that big story before anybody else. But the
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  Speaker 2: President did it, so apparently he has some faith in
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  Speaker 2: CBS News. Now, the Sunday morning shows, they went right
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  Speaker 2: back to total corruption. They went right back to putting
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  Speaker 2: on people you shouldn't put on. Chuck Schumer has no
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  Speaker 2: business being put on any Sunday morning show. He's not
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  Speaker 2: going to run for reelection. He's totally irrelevant. He's a sad,
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  Speaker 2: tired old Willie Lowman kind of an old politician on
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  Speaker 2: his way out, but there he was huffing and puffing
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  Speaker 2: on the morning shows.
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  Speaker 4: If they want to do what's good for the American people,
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  Speaker 4: it should not be some escapade in Venezuela. It should
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  Speaker 4: be focusing on lowering the cost of living that Americans
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  Speaker 4: are struggling with every week and tell us it's the
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  Speaker 4: most important issue they face.
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  Speaker 2: Well, actually, he has been lowering the cost every week.
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  Speaker 2: The actual statistics back that up. And an escapade getting
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  Speaker 2: rid of this drug terrorist kingpin Narco. It's not an escapade.
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  Speaker 2: And we do have video. I think it's up on
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  Speaker 2: my Twitter if you want to look at it. For
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  Speaker 2: the last few years, Chuck Schumer has been demanding we
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  Speaker 2: get rid of Maduro. He's been screaming that we have
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  Speaker 2: to get rid of Maduro. The whole thing is comical. Now.
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  Speaker 2: The other thing they tried arguing is this process argument
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  Speaker 2: that because it is it's totally legal, you can go
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  Speaker 2: in there and seize Maduro. We did it with Noriega,
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  Speaker 2: we did it with in fact, let me see, there's
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  Speaker 2: a whole list here, how many times every president, every
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  Speaker 2: single president has run these sort of operations you don't
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  Speaker 2: need there's nothing to do with the War Powers Act.
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  Speaker 2: You don't need to get congressional approval. You don't even
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  Speaker 2: need to notify them. You can go through the whole list.
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  Speaker 2: Jimmy Carter Iran nineteen eighty Remember the operation in the
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  Speaker 2: middle of the night landing the helicopters going in to
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  Speaker 2: capture the hostages and get them back. That was Jimmy Carter,
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  Speaker 2: and didn't notify Congress. Ronald Reagan bombing of Tripoli, bombing
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  Speaker 2: of Benghazi, you didn't have to notify Congress. George H. W.
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  Speaker 2: Bush Panama invasion, Iraq airstrikes. You didn't need to get
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  Speaker 2: any approval or notify them. Bill Clinton did it in Bosnia,
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  Speaker 2: he did it in Iraq, he did it in Kosovo.
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  Speaker 2: George W. Bush launched drone strikes at invasions in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia.
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  Speaker 2: Didn't have to inform Congress. Barack Obama did it in Libya, Syria, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen.
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  Speaker 2: Joe Biden did it in Syria, Somalia, and Yemen. In
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  Speaker 2: fact were still there with the astor. See, you don't
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  Speaker 2: need to inform anybody, You don't need to deal with
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  Speaker 2: Congress on it. You don't. The War Powers Act was
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  Speaker 2: created in the seventies by a bunch of left wing people,
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  Speaker 2: and basically it says, you can do whatever the hell
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  Speaker 2: you want for ninety days. After ninety days, you're supposed
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  Speaker 2: to inform us. Schumer again, I.
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  Speaker 3: Still have not been briefed. We've had some content with
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  Speaker 3: the administration in that we've asked them for the Gang
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  Speaker 3: of Eight briefing and the oil congressmen and all senators briefing,
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  Speaker 3: but we've gotten no information from them.
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  Speaker 2: Who the hell would brief you, Why would it be
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  Speaker 2: brief you? Who would even talk to you, to look
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  Speaker 2: at you? And it was not an invasion, you know
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  Speaker 2: the CBS and ABC though Sunday Morning shows it's an
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  Speaker 2: invasion of Venezuela. Rubio just fought back.
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  Speaker 5: It wasn't necessary because this is not an invasion. We
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  Speaker 5: didn't occupy a country. This was an arrest operation. This
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  Speaker 5: is a law enforcement operation. He was arrested on the
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  Speaker 5: ground in Venezuela by FBI agents, read his right and
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  Speaker 5: removed from the country.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, President Trump, Congress as the tendency to leak, this
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  Speaker 2: would not be good if they leaked.
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  Speaker 1: General I think it would have been maybe a very
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  Speaker 1: different result.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, could you imagine briefing? Can you imagine would you
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  Speaker 2: trust Hakim Jeffries. You remember when Pete Hexath went on
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  Speaker 2: signal and they said this is dangerous discussing an upcoming
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  Speaker 2: military operation on signal. Why somebody could find out what
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  Speaker 2: would be more dangerous putting on signal chat or telling
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  Speaker 2: Hakeem Jeffries about it. But remember, the Democrats have demanded
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  Speaker 2: four years. They have demanded. You can go to my
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  Speaker 2: Twitter the videos all up there of all the Democrats
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  Speaker 2: demanding the Trump removed Maduro.
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  Speaker 1: I did have conversations with him, and I said, and
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  Speaker 1: he also, he didn't just remove me.
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  Speaker 2: Gave Maduro many, many many chances to leave on his own.
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  Speaker 2: He gave him plenty of the exit packages that were
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  Speaker 2: quite the pro profitable for him, but he turned him
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  Speaker 2: all down.
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  Speaker 1: I did have conversations with him, and I said, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you got to surrender. And I actually thought he was
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  Speaker 1: pretty close to doing so, but now he wished she did.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Now here's a couple of things. You know what's interesting.
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  Speaker 2: All the Democrats, of course, being just children. They're all
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  Speaker 2: just childish knee jerk, you know, whatever Trump does, they
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  Speaker 2: hate it. They start screaming and whining and pouting, and
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  Speaker 2: they did that all you know who didn't say a
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  Speaker 2: word about this Maduro thing. You know who's not even
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  Speaker 2: mentioned it. Gavin Newsom, who is appears to be the
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  Speaker 2: leading candidate in twenty twenty, and he's kept quiet about it.
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  Speaker 2: He knows to stay out of it. Now he is
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  Speaker 2: going to be the big guest. If you're a left
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  Speaker 2: wing cook, this is a big night for you because
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  Speaker 2: tonight and they're announcing it all day long tonight on
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  Speaker 2: Rachel Madow. Exclusive. It says right there on the screen
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  Speaker 2: right now, it says coxclusive interview with Gavin Newsom. Exclusive
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  Speaker 2: interview with Gavin Newsom. I can't go five minutes without
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  Speaker 2: seeing Gavin Newsom on a radio show, a podcast, a
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  Speaker 2: TV show. He's on forty thousand shows a day. But
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  Speaker 2: this is an exclusive with Gavin Newsom. Now let's see
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  Speaker 2: if she asked him about Maduro and he's forced to
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  Speaker 2: comment about it. Now, here's the problem. Tim Waltz is,
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  Speaker 2: as Howie Carr said, sleeping with the fishes. Tim Waltz
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  Speaker 2: is dead politically, he's gone. He will not seek reelection.
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  Speaker 2: He announced that an hour ago. He will not seek reelection.
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  Speaker 2: He can't run for reelection. His political career is over
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  Speaker 2: because of the Somalia fraud, which is massive. Everybody says
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  Speaker 2: Gavin Newsom has the same problem about to explode in California,
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  Speaker 2: and if that's the case, he'll suffer the same fate
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  Speaker 2: that Tim Waltz suffered. He will not be able to
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  Speaker 2: run and that'll be the end of him. So this
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  Speaker 2: is going to be interesting to keep an eye on.
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  Speaker 2: Now when it comes to Venezuela. The only scary part
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  Speaker 2: when the Trump administration says, well, we'll run of Venezuela,
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  Speaker 2: and everybody's, oh my god, this is a rack all
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  Speaker 2: over again. This is a raq. We're gonna get bogged. Now.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of differences here, many differences. First of all,
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  Speaker 2: it's not a rack. This country does not resemble a rack.
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  Speaker 2: When we took over Iraq, we had destroyed every inch
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  Speaker 2: of government. There was nothing there. In the case of Venezuela,
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  Speaker 2: the government is still fully functioning. Government still exists. We
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  Speaker 2: just took out one guy, We did not touch the government.
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  Speaker 2: It's still there, still functioning. The other difference is a raq,
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  Speaker 2: the chaos came from the warring factions, the different tribes,
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  Speaker 2: the different groups all fighting with each other the civil war.
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  Speaker 2: This is not the case in Venezuela. There's only one
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  Speaker 2: group of people. There aren't different tribes. There's unity in
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  Speaker 2: the population. That's the other year.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: The other difference is people in Iraq, believe it or not,
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  Speaker 2: they loved Sadam Hussein. People in Venezuela hated Maduro. They're
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  Speaker 2: all thrilled that he's gone. The other difference is in Iraq,
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  Speaker 2: we were there on the ground occupying the country. There's
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  Speaker 2: no such thing. In Venezuela. We are not there. We
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  Speaker 2: don't have a single soldier on the ground there. We're
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  Speaker 2: doing it from offshore on lots of ships. We got
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  Speaker 2: lots of planes, drones, missiles. Also that we can do
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  Speaker 2: whatever we need to from there. We're not on the ground.
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  Speaker 2: You remember they always all weekend they're bringing up the
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  Speaker 2: pottery barn rule. That was Colin Powell that started that.
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  Speaker 2: When we went into a Raq, you know, or we invaded.
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  Speaker 2: He always said, you got to remember the pottery barn rule.
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  Speaker 2: You break it, you own it. If you break it,
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  Speaker 2: you own it. He kept talking about this pottery barn rule.
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  Speaker 2: It was all a myth. He just made that up.
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  Speaker 2: There's no such thing. You know, if you go into
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  Speaker 2: pottery barn today and accidentally break something, you don't have
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  Speaker 2: to buy it. There's no pottery barn rule that if
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  Speaker 2: you break something in the store you own it. The
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  Speaker 2: rules fall it never ever ever existed. Hey, the Giant
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  Speaker 2: season is over. The Jets season is over. Thank god. Now.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how I got swept up in this,
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  Speaker 2: but everybody kept talking about the Bills Jets game yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: New York Jets, Buffalo Bills. Bruce Blakeman, who should be
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  Speaker 2: the next governor. He's the best choice for governor, Bruce Blakeman.
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  Speaker 2: I'm watching his Instagram. He's I'm flying up to Buffalo.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't realize he's such a big Buffalo fan, has
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  Speaker 2: been for years. In fact, he was wearing this Buffalo
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  Speaker 2: T shirt that his sun bought him years ago. He
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  Speaker 2: was such a Buffalo fan. But he flew up there
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  Speaker 2: for the game and all these people telling him to
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  Speaker 2: the Buffalo Bills and the New York Jets big game. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I'm all hyped up. I can't wait to watch as well.
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  Speaker 2: I got home late. I had to miss the first
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  Speaker 2: half of the game, so I put it on quickly. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I want to watch this game. I forgot it's the Jets.
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  Speaker 2: What the hell am I rushing home for? Soon as
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  Speaker 2: I put it on in the middle of the game,
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  Speaker 2: it's like thirty eight nothing, Buffalo Bills are a head.
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  Speaker 2: It's the Jets. They're not gonna what game. There was
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  Speaker 2: nothing competitive by the end. I think the Jets got
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  Speaker 2: one touchdown. It was like seventy five to two or something.
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  Speaker 2: This game. The Jets the worst team in the world.
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  Speaker 2: Woody Johnson is a wonderful guy. He's a great guy.
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  Speaker 2: I know him. I love Woody Johnson. Worst owner in
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  Speaker 2: the history of sports, single worst owner ever in the
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  Speaker 2: history of sports. I've never seen anybody so bad at
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  Speaker 2: running anything. It's Woody Johnson and the Jets. It's just horrible.
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  Speaker 2: And there are plenty of people saying a mechanism needs
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  Speaker 2: to be created in the NFL to take a team
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  Speaker 2: away from an owner if he's ever this bad, and
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  Speaker 2: taking away would mean force him to sell, which is fine.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he paid six hundred million for the team.
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  Speaker 2: It's now worth like nine billions, so if he took
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  Speaker 2: it away and made him sell it great. He'd make
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  Speaker 2: a great profit, be better for everybody. And then the
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  Speaker 2: Giants they're a little better. They didn't have a good season.
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  Speaker 2: What were they four and eleven and four and thirty
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  Speaker 2: or something like that, but they won the last couple
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  Speaker 2: of games. Big mistake. They should have lost them deliberately,
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  Speaker 2: because now you would have had a first choice in
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  Speaker 2: the draft. Now you got like fourth choice in the draft.
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  Speaker 2: So anyway, we'll take some calls. Next eight hundred three
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  Speaker 2: two one zero seven ten is the number. Eight hundred
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  Speaker 2: three two one zero seven ten