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Epstein’s Pals Party at the Oscars—Still No Files (Ep.151) · V

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  Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to Bongina Report Early Edition. The
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  Speaker 1: Oscars opens up with a land acknowledgement. Pam Bondi attempts
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  Speaker 1: to explain last week's fake Epstein files debacle. European leaders
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  Speaker 1: consider putting boots on the ground in Ukraine. Pope Francis
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  Speaker 1: excludes Russians from his public prayer on X. Joy Reid
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  Speaker 1: butchers the message behind the Lord of the Rings. The
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  Speaker 1: Boston mayor condemns a hero off-duty cop. And Balenciaga... launches
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  Speaker 1: a wildly expensive and lame and ugly Kim Kardashian printed t-shirt.
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  Speaker 1: All this on Bongina Report, early edition.
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  Speaker 2: We gather in celebration of the Oscars on the ancestral
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  Speaker 2: lands of the Tongva, Tataviam, and Chumash peoples, the traditional
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  Speaker 2: caretakers of this water and land. We honor and pay
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  Speaker 2: our respects to indigenous communities here.
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  Speaker 3: And around the world.
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  Speaker 1: Predictably, last night at the Oscars opened up with a
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  Speaker 1: land acknowledgement. And what's interesting is that the Tongva, the
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  Speaker 1: tribe that they are referring to, likely descended from peoples
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  Speaker 1: who migrated into Southern California around 3,500 years ago, entering
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  Speaker 1: a region already inhabited by earlier native groups, which had
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  Speaker 1: been there possibly over 10,000 years before them. And this
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  Speaker 1: replacement very well may have been the result of a
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  Speaker 1: violent displacement. And that's kind of the history of Native Americans,
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  Speaker 1: actually kind of the history of the world, of humanity
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  Speaker 1: in general, but natives as well. The Iroquois Confederacy waged
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  Speaker 1: genocidal warfare against against the Great Lakes tribes. The Comanche
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  Speaker 1: displaced the Apache groups. Lakota Sioux displaced tribes from the Cheyenne, Crow,
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  Speaker 1: and Pawnee. This isn't just the history of native tribes.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, it's the history of, unfortunately, humanity. It
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  Speaker 1: is the conquest ethic. No one argues that it's a
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  Speaker 1: good thing, although I'd argue it was maybe a good
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  Speaker 1: thing with the Aztecs who were just ripping out human
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  Speaker 1: hearts and sacrificing them to demons. I am a Hispanic woman.
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  Speaker 1: I have native blood in me from Central America. And
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  Speaker 1: I will say, I'm so glad that my ancestors became Christians,
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  Speaker 1: thanks to the conquistadors, thanks to the Spaniards. I am
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  Speaker 1: really glad that civilization, where they cut out human hearts
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  Speaker 1: and were ripping off the nails of children before they
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  Speaker 1: sacrificed them so that their tears would wet the floor
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  Speaker 1: of the temple. Like, horrible, horrible, demonic, demonic practices from
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  Speaker 1: some of these cultures that I'm glad are gone, frankly.
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  Speaker 1: So cancel me, that's fine. But the point is that
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  Speaker 1: these land acknowledgements really are absurd. Each native tribe and
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  Speaker 1: every person on the face of this earth has had
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  Speaker 1: ancestors who at one point murderously displaced another group of people.
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  Speaker 1: And this is more really at its heart not about
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  Speaker 1: caring about Native American tribes or peoples or the struggles
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  Speaker 1: that they actually go through today. It is about America's
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  Speaker 1: racist and evil, and it's more just like left-wing slop propaganda.
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  Speaker 1: And frankly, I am more interested in actually helping Native
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  Speaker 1: Americans who currently live many in corrupt communist hellscapes, known
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  Speaker 1: as reservations, because their land is held in trust by
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  Speaker 1: the federal government. It is a system set up for
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  Speaker 1: them to live in despair. and alcoholism and abuse and
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  Speaker 1: all of these problems that come with, again, creating communist
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  Speaker 1: hellscapes and then having people live on them. Not cool.
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  Speaker 1: So a lot of these people virtue signal, do these
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  Speaker 1: land acknowledgements, and none of it is about meaningfully helping
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  Speaker 1: Native Americans alive today. By the way, we also got
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  Speaker 1: this at the Oscars. More, I can't believe I'm saying this,
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  Speaker 1: but more virtue signaling. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 4: Have a great night tonight, and for you people in Florida,
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  Speaker 4: we're gonna have a gay night.
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  Speaker 2: Gay, gay, gay!
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  Speaker 1: Yes, this is really going to make Hollywood a lot
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  Speaker 1: more relevant in the age of Trump. As America massively
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  Speaker 1: rejected all of wokeism in 2024. We just said, we're
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  Speaker 1: done with DEI. We're done with all the LGBTQ. We're
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  Speaker 1: just done with it. Then we got that. And these
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  Speaker 1: same people endorsed Kamala Harris. They all did. They came
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  Speaker 1: out in droves for her. And she lost the popular vote.
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  Speaker 1: And now they still think that they can force feed
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  Speaker 1: the masses Weimar Republic slop while pretending that it's high
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  Speaker 1: art or that they're cultural movers and shakers. No thanks.
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  Speaker 1: No one cares anymore. Also, this happened. Well, actually, first
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  Speaker 1: some backstory. In 2003, Adrian Brody won the Best Actor
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  Speaker 1: Award for his role in The Pianist at the Oscars.
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  Speaker 1: And he just spontaneously, as he went up on stage
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  Speaker 1: to accept this award, kissed Haley Berry, who was presenting
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  Speaker 1: this award to him in the midst. Oh, Hal, sorry.
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  Speaker 5: Sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Halle Berry. Guys, listen, these are old actors. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know who they are. I'm like, I'm 23. I
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  Speaker 1: was three years old when this happened. So, okay. Halle Berry.
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  Speaker 1: And so she's presenting this award and he just kisses
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  Speaker 1: her spontaneously. And it became this really kind of like
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  Speaker 1: iconic moment, I guess, at the Oscars in 2003. These
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  Speaker 1: two were not dating at the time. Don't remember this again.
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  Speaker 1: I was three years old. So last night, Halle Berry, who,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, is dating someone, decides to walk up
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  Speaker 1: to Adrian Brody and spontaneously kiss him again in front
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  Speaker 1: of Adrian Brody's girlfriend, Georgina Chapman. Here's what that looked like.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And she goes, I'm sorry, Georgina. and then she just
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  Speaker 1: makes out with this woman's boyfriend. Like, I just think
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  Speaker 1: it's so bizarre. I don't care if this is like
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  Speaker 1: a little throwback moment, like, oh my gosh, it's so cute. Like,
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  Speaker 1: it's just not appropriate. It's totally disrespectful on all sides. Like,
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  Speaker 1: and Adrian just grows with it too. Like, shame on
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  Speaker 1: him for that. Michael, if some chick comes up to you,
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  Speaker 1: tries to kiss you, I don't care how memorable this
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  Speaker 1: is supposed to be. Please, please shove her off. Like,
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  Speaker 1: it's Michael says that's what pepper spray is for. Like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I am, am I the only one who
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  Speaker 1: thinks that this is totally bizarre behavior? Like, I just
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  Speaker 1: don't care about whatever throwback this is supposed to be.
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  Speaker 1: It's just weird. Even if it's in memory of a
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  Speaker 1: pop culture moment decades ago, I just think it's really
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  Speaker 1: inappropriate to make out with somebody else's girlfriend or boyfriend,
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  Speaker 1: especially in front of the other, the significant other. So
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why this is a thing. But again,
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  Speaker 1: it really highlights how these people don't share our values.
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  Speaker 1: They don't. They're totally divorced from the norms and values
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  Speaker 1: of regular people. Ricky Gervais knows this. Here is his
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  Speaker 1: epic speech from a 2020.
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  Speaker 6: Spoiler alert, season two is on the way. So in
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  Speaker 6: the end, he obviously didn't kill himself. Just like Jeffrey Epstein.
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  Speaker 2: Shut up.
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  Speaker 6: I know he's your friend, but I don't care. Well,
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  Speaker 6: you say you're woke, but the companies you work for,
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  Speaker 6: I mean, unbelievable. Apple, Amazon, Disney. If ISIS started a
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  Speaker 6: streaming service, you'd call your agent, wouldn't you? So, if
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  Speaker 6: you do win an award tonight... don't use it as
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  Speaker 6: a platform to make a political speech right you're in
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  Speaker 6: no position to lecture the public about anything you know
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  Speaker 6: nothing about the real world most of you spent less
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  Speaker 6: time in school than greta thunberg so if you win
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  Speaker 6: right come up accept your little award thank your agent
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  Speaker 6: and your god.
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  Speaker 1: I wish so i wish that people would listen to
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  Speaker 1: this iconic speech that, like, everybody in the Oscars, like,
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  Speaker 1: the auditorium, nobody loved that. Everybody hated it. They were
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  Speaker 1: all super uncomfortable. You can see it on their faces.
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  Speaker 1: The rest of America, we were, it was like the
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  Speaker 1: greatest moment the Oscars has ever had. It's the most
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  Speaker 1: entertaining any of us have ever been in years at
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  Speaker 1: the Oscars. It hasn't, I have, nothing close has topped
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  Speaker 1: that since 2020. And, no, unfortunately, that did not happen
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  Speaker 1: last night. They didn't take his really sound advice of
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  Speaker 1: just shutting up, getting your award. thank your agent and
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  Speaker 1: walk off stage. You're not some sort of moralizer for
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  Speaker 1: the public. Nobody wants to hear any of that. So
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  Speaker 1: we got pro. Oh yeah, that was the Golden Globes,
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  Speaker 1: not the Oscars. Award speeches. We get all this pro-Israel
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  Speaker 1: content from the Oscars last night. Then we got pro-Palestine content.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care what your opinion is on these two issues.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, it's not appropriate for the Oscars. I just
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  Speaker 1: don't understand why we have to bring that into award shows.
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  Speaker 1: Like stop moralizing about political issues that are irrelevant to
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  Speaker 1: the movies that you have just created, nobody wants to
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  Speaker 1: hear it. And then we got this from Daryl Hannah
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  Speaker 1: last night. Slava Ukraine. It wouldn't be the Oscars without
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  Speaker 1: Virtue Sidley, you guys. I mean, that's kind of like
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  Speaker 1: the whole point of it. That's kind of like the
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  Speaker 1: whole The whole point of the Oscars is an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: for these celebrities to get up on stage and then
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  Speaker 1: lecture the public. And we're going to come back to
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  Speaker 1: Ukraine in a moment because I have a lot to
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  Speaker 1: cover on that front. We're going to take a quick
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  Speaker 1: break for a second. But before we go to Ukraine,
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  Speaker 1: I do want to cover Jeffrey Epstein because these guys,
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  Speaker 1: they're all his pals. Everybody at that event last night,
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  Speaker 1: these are all his buddies. And I really hoped that
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  Speaker 1: there would be some sort of a reckoning, that we
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  Speaker 1: would have the Epstein files. We would know exactly who
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  Speaker 1: was on the list. We would know who was operating
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  Speaker 1: the blackmail ring behind the list that Jeffrey Epstein created.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that we would have disclosure. Maybe that's naive.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I'm just young. And I thought that this was
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  Speaker 1: actually going to happen. We don't have the files. And Hollywood,
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  Speaker 1: last night at the Oscars, was allowed to just continue.
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  Speaker 1: continue being obnoxious and virtue signaling and had no accountability
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  Speaker 1: for the fact that these guys are besties with pedophile
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein, many of them. So that was really disappointing.
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  Speaker 1: And I do want to cover Jeffrey Epstein. First, let's
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  Speaker 1: take a break. Okay, we got a comment from Allie Red.
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  Speaker 1: Epstein list is never coming out. We have a lot
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  Speaker 1: of other issues. We need to move on. Allie, I'm
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  Speaker 1: calling you out. I am calling you out, Ali. We
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  Speaker 1: are not moving on.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 1: No, we are not. I'm not moving on. This is
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  Speaker 1: the issue. This is what we have to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: If we're going to move on as a country, if
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  Speaker 1: we're going to have genuine reform, we need to know
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  Speaker 1: who to hold responsible. If we want to rebuild trust
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  Speaker 1: in our system, we need to know what happened in
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  Speaker 1: that cell. We need disclosure. This is the issue. This
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  Speaker 1: is the important issue. I'm not moving on. We are
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  Speaker 1: not moving on. I do not want Jeffrey Epstein to
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  Speaker 1: get lost in this news cycle. That's why there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of talk about Ukraine right now. And I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to cover Ukraine. We're going to talk about it. But first,
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  Speaker 1: we are going to keep talking about Jeffrey Epstein. How
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  Speaker 1: many of the people at that Oscars award show last
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  Speaker 1: night the Hunger Games capital, the elite of this country,
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  Speaker 1: how many of them were friends with Jeffrey Epstein? How
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  Speaker 1: many of them knew what he was up to? Perhaps
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  Speaker 1: participated in Epstein's child exploitation operation?
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  Speaker 2: A lot.
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  Speaker 1: You want to know why? Because Epstein targeted the rich
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  Speaker 1: and the powerful. Why did he do that? Because his
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  Speaker 1: operation very clearly wasn't created... solely for the sick joy
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  Speaker 1: of exploiting innocent children, although that was part of it.
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  Speaker 1: This was a blackmail ring. Why did U.S. Attorney for
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  Speaker 1: the Southern State of Florida, Alexander Acosta, reportedly say Epstein
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  Speaker 1: belonged to intelligence? Not to mention the deep ties Epstein
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  Speaker 1: had to the CIA and Mossad. The first person to
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  Speaker 1: give Jeffrey Epstein a job was Bill Barr's dad, Donald Barr,
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  Speaker 1: a former OSS agent Pretty strange. And then Epstein's girlfriend,
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  Speaker 1: Ghislaine Maxwell, is the daughter of a known Israeli intelligence asset.
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  Speaker 1: Also pretty weird. Last week, we were promised Epstein files.
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  Speaker 1: And instead, we saw influencers, innocent influencers, I might add,
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  Speaker 1: getting dragged through the mud for being handed Epstein binders
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  Speaker 1: that seemed to include new information, but actually within the
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  Speaker 1: binders were no new information whatsoever, just stuff we already knew.
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  Speaker 1: And then we got an angry letter from Pam Bondi
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  Speaker 1: saying the Southern District of New York FBI is hiding
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  Speaker 1: information from her after she said on Jesse Waters' show
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  Speaker 1: that she had the Epstein files and that the information
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  Speaker 1: was explosive, or at least she seemed to suggest that.
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  Speaker 1: So Pam Bondi has finally responded. She's come back, and
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  Speaker 1: she's trying to correct the record of what exactly happened
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  Speaker 1: last week. I would say she didn't really correct the record,
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  Speaker 1: but I'll let her speak for herself. Here's Pam Bondi
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  Speaker 1: breaking her silence. after last week's disaster on Mark Levin Show.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, Mark.
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  Speaker 5: So as you know, we released about 120 pages of documents.
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  Speaker 5: And I started asking for these documents right when I
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  Speaker 5: came into office. and before Kash Patel was in there.
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  Speaker 5: So I ended up getting about 120 pages. We carefully
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  Speaker 5: redacted them, of course, to be sure that 254 young girls,
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  Speaker 5: women who are victims of sex crimes and sex trafficking,
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  Speaker 5: their personal information was redacted and out of there to
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  Speaker 5: protect them. So I'm going through it and I kept saying,
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  Speaker 5: there has to be more, there has to be more.
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  Speaker 5: I'm assured that's it. Kash, ask the same questions. Assured
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  Speaker 5: there's no more. I found out this week that a
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  Speaker 5: source told me New York, SDNY, they're sitting on thousands
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  Speaker 5: of pages of documents regarding Epstein. Thousands, thousands. And of course,
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  Speaker 5: you've seen the very strong letter. We will get everything.
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  Speaker 1: We will have it in our possession.
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  Speaker 5: We will redact it. Of course, to protect grand jury
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  Speaker 5: information and confidential witnesses, but the American people have a
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  Speaker 5: right to know.
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  Speaker 1: All right, look, this would be a lot easier for
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  Speaker 1: me to buy if Pam Bondi hadn't led the public
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  Speaker 1: to believe that she had some smoking gun on Jesse Waters,
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  Speaker 1: and then it turned out that she had absolutely nothing.
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  Speaker 1: She's telling us she had nothing. Why didn't she tell
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  Speaker 1: us she did? Representative Annapolina Luna signaled that even the
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  Speaker 1: Congressional Task Force... is wildly confused and blindsided by this
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  Speaker 1: promise for a smoking gun and then getting nothing but
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  Speaker 1: a strongly worded letter, another strongly worded letter. And I
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  Speaker 1: think that this has really eroded public trust. Somebody said, Evita,
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  Speaker 1: you'll be 80 by the time we see the Epstein files.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, maybe, maybe, but you know what? I definitely
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  Speaker 1: will never see them and neither will any of you
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  Speaker 1: If we just drop it and don't care, the public
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  Speaker 1: has to care. The Trump administration responds to pressure. They
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  Speaker 1: respond to people who are angry and voicing their, their
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  Speaker 1: opinions and their desires on social media. They do. This
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  Speaker 1: is a highly plugged in administration. One that pays very
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  Speaker 1: close attention to what is happening on the internet. So
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  Speaker 1: it matters. Our voices do matter. Pam Bondi also said
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  Speaker 1: this in that interview.
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  Speaker 5: And I will find out who withheld it and they
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  Speaker 5: will not be working for us anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Hmm. They won't be working for you anymore? Okay, but
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  Speaker 1: how about prosecuting them for the crime of withholding or
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  Speaker 1: potentially destroying documents declassified and demanded by the President of
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  Speaker 1: the United States? There has to be consequences or this
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  Speaker 1: will continue. If Pam Bondi is telling the truth, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to assume that she is, There is a
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  Speaker 1: civil war underway in the DOJ, as well as the
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  Speaker 1: entire federal government. We need consequences for bad behavior. By
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  Speaker 1: the way, there's something else that's crucial that I was
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  Speaker 1: kicking myself for not mentioning last week, Friday. I brought
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  Speaker 1: it up to Michael. I was like, I can't believe
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  Speaker 1: I didn't mention this. But okay, we're just talking about EPSI.
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  Speaker 1: What about JFK, RFK, MLK, 9-11? All of these JFK, RFK,
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  Speaker 1: MLK should really have no review process at all. This
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  Speaker 1: happened decades ago. Everyone involved is dead. There are no excuses.
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  Speaker 1: And Pam Bondi hasn't said any offices are holding up
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  Speaker 1: information on any of those topics, so why are we waiting?
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  Speaker 1: Just release them. And when I covered this last week,
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  Speaker 1: some of you agreed with me. Some of you said
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  Speaker 1: I'm being too harsh on Pam Bondi, so I got
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  Speaker 1: a mixed bag. It's not my job to run PR
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  Speaker 1: for the DOJ. We need disclosure to rebuild trust in
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  Speaker 1: the government and also to accurately reform it. Who was
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  Speaker 1: behind Jeffrey Epstein? We can't make informed decisions about the
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  Speaker 1: future of this country as a people if we don't
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  Speaker 1: know who was behind the largest known child sexual trafficking
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  Speaker 1: blackmail ring. The exploitation of American children in this country.
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  Speaker 1: We need to know how a man was seemingly murdered
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  Speaker 1: in a high-security federal prison with the DOJ. For some reason,
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  Speaker 1: going along with all this and all the indications of
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  Speaker 1: foul play, they just didn't care. One day before his death,
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  Speaker 1: his cellmate is removed. No replacement is assigned. Why? He
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: was on suicide watch, apparently. They just remove his cellmate
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  Speaker 1: and then don't replace it with anyone? Apparently, there were
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  Speaker 1: screams heard from within his cell that were completely ignored.
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  Speaker 1: That's what other inmates said. It was a low drop
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  Speaker 1: hanging from a bunk bed and a cramped cell that
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  Speaker 1: makes his unusual severe neck fractures pretty impossible to explain.
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  Speaker 1: And then of course the cameras weren't working and the
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  Speaker 1: guards fell asleep. I mean, are you kidding me? Like
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  Speaker 1: all of these different factors that we're just going to say, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: let's move on. Whatever. We aren't going to drop this. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for the dark mode, Dan. I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I've ever reached full dark mode, Dan,
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  Speaker 1: but maybe this is as close as you're going to
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  Speaker 1: get because I want the Epstein files, you guys. And
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  Speaker 1: we're going to keep pushing for transparency on this show
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  Speaker 1: and disclosure that we were promised. I don't want any
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  Speaker 1: more strongly worded letters. I want the files. I want
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  Speaker 1: the truth. And then I want justice so that we
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  Speaker 1: can start to authentically rebuild this country.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about Ukraine, which is what everybody wants us
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: to talk about right now. But I want to still
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: talk about Epstein, but we're going to talk about Ukraine
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: because it is important. President Trump hosted Zelensky at the
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: White House. And this was over the weekend and things
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: got wildly heated. Trump and J.D. were cordial. Everything was
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: going fine. Zelensky actually had two explicit verbal commitments from
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Trump that he was going to continue arming Ukraine. This
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: was like really important. There were some real diplomatic movement events.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: in favor of Ukraine, really good for Ukraine. And then
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: just snap, 40 minutes into this conversation, in front of
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: the media, Zelensky has a literal meltdown, just totally undermines
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: any negotiation process that was in the works. And the
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: media is saying, well, Zelensky, he was ambushed by Trump
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: and J.D. And it's like, give me a break, you guys.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Did anybody watch the full negotiation, the full conversation in
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: the Oval Office? Because I did. And let me tell
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: you what, Trump and J.D. were blindsided by Zelensky. They
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: were ambushed by his behavior 40 minutes in to a
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: very cordial conversation. Take a look for yourself.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: For four years in the United States of America, we
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: had a president who stood up at press conferences and
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: talked tough about Vladimir Putin. And then Putin invaded Ukraine
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: and destroyed a significant chunk of the country. The path
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: to peace and the path to prosperity is is maybe
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: engaging in diplomacy.
• 21:26
  Speaker 7: He killed our people, and he didn't exchange prisoners. We
• 21:30
  Speaker 7: signed the exchange of prisoners, but he didn't do it.
• 21:34
  Speaker 7: What kind of diplomacy, J.D., you are speaking about? What
• 21:39
  Speaker 7: do you mean?
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: I'm talking about the kind of diplomacy that's going to
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: end the destruction of your country.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Mr.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: President, with respect, I think it's disrespectful for you to
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: in front of the American media. Right now, you guys
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: are going around and forcing conscripts to the front lines
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: because you have manpower problems. You should be thanking the
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: president for trying to bring it into this conflict.
• 22:00
  Speaker 7: Have you ever been to Ukraine that you say what
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: problems we have?
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 22:04
  Speaker 7: First of all, during the war, everybody has problems.
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: Even you.
• 22:08
  Speaker 7: But you have nice ocean. And don't feel now. But
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: you will feel it in the future.
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: God bless.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: What does that mean? God bless.
• 22:16
  Speaker 7: God bless.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: You will not have a war.
• 22:18
  Speaker 8: Don't tell us what we're going to feel.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: We're trying to solve a problem.
• 22:21
  Speaker 8: Don't tell us what we're going to feel.
• 22:23
  Speaker 7: Because you're in no position to dictate that.
• 22:26
  Speaker 8: You're in no position to dictate what we're going to feel.
• 22:31
  Speaker 7: We're going to feel very good.
• 22:34
  Speaker 8: We're going to feel very good and very strong. You're
• 22:38
  Speaker 8: right now not in a very good position. You've allowed
• 22:40
  Speaker 8: yourself to be in a very bad position, and he
• 22:43
  Speaker 8: happens to be right about that. You're not in a
• 22:45
  Speaker 8: good position. You don't have the cards right now. With us,
• 22:50
  Speaker 8: you start having cards. Right now, you're playing cards.
• 22:54
  Speaker 9: You're playing cards.
• 22:55
  Speaker 8: You're gambling with the lives of millions of people. You're
• 22:58
  Speaker 8: gambling with World War III. You're gambling with World War III.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: That was incredible. That was the most amazing thing that
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: I have seen from this admin. in terms of diplomacy,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: like that exchange. And you know what? It signals that
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: he's on our side. Like president Trump saw that, that
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: statement from Zelensky, which by the way, the ocean comment, right?
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Like you guys have an ocean between you, but you're
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: going to feel it pretty soon. You're going to, is
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: that a threat? What does that mean? And I think
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: president Trump took that as a threat, rightfully so. And
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: he put him in his place. And again, you can
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: see from that exchange that JD is saying, well, we
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: need to have peace and negotiation. That's the way to go.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: And then for some reasons, Lenski just interjects and he's like,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: what kind of peace can we have with Putin? And
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: it's like, dude, what are you doing right now? Why
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: are you derailing this entire conversation? And they rightfully stood
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: up for the American people and our dignity as a
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: country that has given billions to Ukraine. This is America first.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: This is competent leadership. So after this meeting, Trump said,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: I have determined that President Zelensky is not ready for peace.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: You can throw that up there, Michael. He disrespected the
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: United States of America and the cherished Oval Office, and
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: he can come back when he is ready for peace.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Kind of like a parent. You can go to your room,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: then you can come back at the dinner table when
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: you're ready to eat your food, when you're ready to behave.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: It's very... He's what he had to do. I mean,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: you saw Zelensky in that meeting. Zelensky's like this. He's
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: like a child. He's like a child pouting, like a
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: little brat. And Trump and J.D. are like, whoa, sir,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: like a spoiled kid who has been treated with no
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: discipline whatsoever by this last admin. And they just come
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: in there and they say, sir, please, you owe the
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: American people a thank you. We're going to start having
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: peace negotiations. We're not going to be lectured in our
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: own Oval Office by a man who has received the
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: world from the people of the United States. We're not
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: going to be treated like that. You're not going to
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: come into this office and threaten us by your little
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: ocean statement. You might feel it pretty soon here. Even
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham criticized Zelensky's behavior during this meeting. That's how
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: bad it was. Here's some recent polling. of American citizens
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: from February on how Americans' opinions have changed since the
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: start of this war in Ukraine. Holy Toledo.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: Look at this trend line here.
• 25:43
  Speaker 7: U.S.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Support for Ukraine is too much.
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: Back when the war began back in February of 2022,
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: it was just 7%.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Up like a rocket ship.
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: My goodness. Up now in February of 2025 to 41%.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: And the clear majority of Republicans, and of course, Republicans
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: are in charge of the U.S. government now, 62% of
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: Republicans say that the U.S. support for Ukraine is too much.
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: What a difference from just three years ago. I can remember, John,
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: all those backyards in the United States with those Ukrainian flags.
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: Far fewer of them today as Americans' opinions on Ukraine
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: have changed dramatically.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Dramatic shift. It's true. And for a good reason. I mean,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: look at the way that man behaved in our Oval
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: Office a couple days ago. So yesterday, in response to
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: this total breakdown of negotiations, European leaders gathered in London
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: to reaffirm their support for Ukraine. Leaders from the EU, NATO, France, Britain, Ukraine, Poland, etc.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: agreed to begin drafting a ceasefire plan that will apparently
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: be presented to the United States. They also agreed to
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: a military aid package of 1.6 billion pounds for 5,000
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: air defense missiles and a commitment to consider further military
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: support like boots on the ground. And this is pretty
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: incredible because Keir Starmer, whose Labour Party, by the way,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: tried to interfere in the 2024 election against President Trump,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Keir Starmer wants to put UK boots on the ground
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: in Ukraine, apparently. And you know what the UK is
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: like these days? You know what it looks like when
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: you go to London? There is zero chance that Keir
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Starmer could mobilize a war effort against Russia. The reason
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: I say this is this video right here. You guys
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: live in the UK? Yeah, we do. Would you join
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: the military? No, we're not from this country. If they
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: say it's compulsory, what would you do?
• 27:39
  Speaker 9: I'll just go back to Egypt.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Go back to my country. I'll just go back to
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: my country.
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: First of all, I'm not a UK citizen.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: I'm an immigrant.
• 27:47
  Speaker 9: I'm Welsh.
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: No, unfortunately not. I'm not from this country originally.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: Where are you from?
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: Brazil.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Do you live here?
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Would you go to war for this country?
• 27:57
  Speaker 6: No.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: I'm Pakistani, sir. No loyalty to the UK because they're
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: not British people. This is the fruits of mass immigration.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: These people aren't going to fight for the UK and
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: some sort of mass existential threat to the nation because
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: this isn't their home. The consequences of mass immigration. You're
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: full of people with no love or affinity to the land.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: And the really British people are so beaten down, I
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: think you'd have a hard time getting them to fight too. Frankly,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: it is a national security threat. And this is what
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: we're facing here in the United States of America. This
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: is what JD was talking about in Munich. Mass immigration,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: let me just say this to you. Mass immigration is
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: a far greater tangible and existential threat to this country
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: and the West than Putin. I promise you, mass immigration
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: is a way bigger threat than Vladimir Putin. And you
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: know what? Here's the deal. Every single member of NATO,
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: besides the United States, has hate speech laws. We covered
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: last week that Romania, with the support of EU elites,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: just annulled a presidential election and threw the candidate that
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: won in jail out. after Romanians elected a Romania-first man
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: who likes Trump and doesn't want war with Russia. What
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: do we really have in common with the war hawks
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: in NATO? Senator Mike Lee says it's time to leave NATO.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Sean Davis writes, NATO is no longer an institution focused
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: on global peace and stability. Instead, it is a massive
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: drain on the American economy and military, which makes the
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: world and America less secure and less stable, designed to
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: prevent another world war It now seems intent on provoking one.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: It is long past time for America to leave NATO.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: This will have the dual benefit of freeing up resources
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: better deployed to protecting America and forcing Europe and its
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: collection of hapless welfare states to pay for their own
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: security and fully reap the harvest of their own choices
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: for once. I couldn't agree more. And let's talk about
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: this on a human level for a moment, because human
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: level for a moment, because Ukraine does not have the
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: manpower to win this war. There are reports that elderly
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: and even disabled men are being thrown into World War
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: I-style trenches to fight for Ukraine. Hundreds of thousands dead
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: on both sides, and none of this was necessary. The
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: West literally helped stage a coup in Ukraine in 2014
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: and install a pro-NATO leader and an antagonizer of Russia
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: as UChicago professor John Mearsheimer, who I love, Said back
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: in September of 2015, the West is leading Ukraine down
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: the primrose path. And the end result is that Ukraine
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: is going to get wrecked. Ukraine has been wrecked. Why
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: are we going to let it continue? By the way,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: we all know that Pope Francis has been pretty ill
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: these last few days. Apparently he has taken a turn
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: for the better, however. And so we tweeted this yesterday.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: kind of in response to people's prayers for him and
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: to the chaos that's ensuing around the world. He said,
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: I pray for you too. I pray above all for
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: hashtag peace. From here, war appears even more absurd. Let
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: us pray for martyred Ukraine, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Myanmar, Sudan,
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: and Kivu. I gotta tell you guys, this tweet really
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: upset me. Especially, let me just, in war, always, but
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: especially in modern warfare, modern industrialized conflicts, authoritarian regimes, the soldiers,
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: the individuals are just tools of violence. And this goes
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: back to the just war tradition rooted in St. Augustine
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: and St. Thomas Aquinas. Do you think most of these
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Russian soldiers had a choice? These are conscripts who face imprisonment,
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: economic ruin, or worse, for refusing to fight for Putin.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Russian soldiers, like Ukrainian soldiers, are victims of a system
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: that overrides their agency. And sure, they're victims of Zelensky
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: and Putin, respectively, but actually they're also victims of NATO,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Western war hawks, and it's really shameful that the Holy
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Father of all people would seemingly deny the innocence of
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: forcibly conscripted Russian soldiers who are being slaughtered alongside Ukrainians. Yeah,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: this is a good Winston Churchill. You guys know I've
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: criticized Winston Churchill in the past, or just the Churchillian
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: mythos that has pushed us into constant warmongering since World
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: War II. But he did say this, and it's an
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: important quote. Churchill said, old men make war young men
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: fight and die. This is the reality of especially modern
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: warfare with vast empires and people who really have no
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: skin in the game but are forced into these games
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: with the cost of human life. And I think of
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: all people, the Pope should know that this is the
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: reality of the situation. Another statement that really annoyed me
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: recently was came from Joy Reid. We canceled her show.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: It's gone, but we still keep hearing from her. And
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: let me just preface by saying that right now, Zelensky
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: has suspended elections. Romania just straight up annulled theirs because
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: a populist was elected. Democrats are continuing to screech, and
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: despite all this, that Trump is a dictator worse than anyone,
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: than Hitler himself. And they... saying that he's now declared
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: himself a king and he's just totally autocratic and the
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: world is going to end. So here was Joy Reid's,
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: in that vein, Joy Reid's tweet recently on the liberal
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: version of X called Blue Sky. She wrote in reference
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: to Trump, we will never be a monarchy. Know that.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: To quote the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Gondor has
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: no king. Gondor needs no king. I cannot... Does the
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: chat get it? Can I emphasize enough how patently stupid
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: and insane that statement is? Does anybody get it? Maybe not.
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: No, maybe we don't have a ton of Lord of
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: the Rings fans in the chat. But in Gondor, from
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Lord of the Rings, the absence of the king is
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: a period of decline. And Aragorn, who is the rightful
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: true king, his eventual return in the book Return of
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: the King, is a restoration of order in The Lord
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: of the Rings. The king heals the land and the people.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Tolkien was a traditionalist, a Catholic medievalist, with a sort
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: of a mythical appreciation for kingship done right. And that
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: Gondor has no king, Gondor needs no king, that was
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: said by Boromir. Who else, Mikey? and Denethor, his father.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: And it was a moment of pride. It was not
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: a good moment in the book. Basically, the good king
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: and Lord of the Rings, Aragorn, is celebrated as a
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: solution to chaos. And he's kind of a Christ-like figure
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: in Lord of the Rings. Christ the king came and
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: redeemed the world, and he's going to return to Earth
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: one day. And this is kind of some of the
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: biblical themes that Tolkien really famously was drawing from. And
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: Joy Breed just clearly never read Lord of the Rings.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: She totally missed the point of the story. But that
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: makes sense because the left really has been always agents
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: of chaos. They love chaos and they don't understand the traditionalist, medievalist,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Christian background that Tolkien was writing those books from. What
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: were you saying, Mikey? Yeah, she forgot to read the
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: end of the book, apparently. It was just like, so
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: that this woman had a show. I mean, I'm here
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: with my podcast, like in a little, little closet of
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: a studio with my husband and talking about Lord of
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: the Rings. She can't get anything right about it. Like
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: she had a whole show in the corporate media and
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: she's lecturing us with Lord of the Rings quotes. And
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: she clearly hasn't read the book. Of course, people don't
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: watch these outlets anymore. Of course, people are turning away
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: because it is retarded. I'm sorry. It's so dumb. Which
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: brings me to my next story. in terms of left,
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: in regard to the left as being agents of chaos.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: Over the weekend, an off-duty Boston police officer fatally shot
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: a man who was attacking others with a knife inside
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: a Chick-fil-A restaurant. And in response to this situation, Boston
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: Mayor Michelle Wu and District Attorney Kevin Hayden offered condolences,
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: not to the victims who were attacked by this this
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: knife-wielding assailant. No, they offered condolences to the knife-wielding maniac's family.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Take a listen.
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: My condolences and all of our thoughts are with the
• 37:49
  Speaker 5: family of the individual whose life has been lost.
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: Our thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: of the individual who's been lost.
• 38:03
  Speaker 7: Our condolences go to the individual who was killed tonight.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: And you wonder why people in blue cities are just
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: being set on fires in subways and robbed and punched
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: and harassed and no one steps in. Why do you
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: think nobody steps in? Because our leaders, these blue leaders,
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: insist on constantly promoting and protecting evil people while punishing
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: good ones. Why do they want social chaos? And I
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: think the sickness is deeper. than a lot of us
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: are willing to acknowledge. I think that this is spiritual.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: I come back to this a lot, you guys. Balenciaga
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: just launched a Kim Kardashian printed t-shirt for $ 825 a piece.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Steep price for something completely devoid of beauty. Throw those
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: up there, Mikey. But then again, Balenciaga isn't in the
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: business of beauty anymore. It was once a house of
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: artistry and elegance, and it now traffics in grotesque, debased,
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: profane products. This is what it used to look like.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: I mean, gorgeous silhouettes, dresses, classy, beautiful. In November of 2022,
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Balenciaga unveiled its Balenciaga Gift Shop holocaust. campaign featuring young
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: children posing with teddy bear handbags dressed in BDSM-inspired outfits,
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: leather harnesses, fishnets, and bondage. I'm not going to show
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: up for a reason. It's completely inappropriate. In a separate
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: spring 2023 campaign, With Adidas, a handbag was photographed atop
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: court documents referencing United States v. Williams, a Supreme Court
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: case that upheld laws against the promotion of child pornography.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: Another image from that campaign featured a woman posing before
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: a stack of books, one written by a Belgian painter
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  Speaker 1: whose work fixates on children, at times depicting them smeared
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  Speaker 1: in blood consuming severed limbs. Yet to question the existence
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  Speaker 1: of global networks of depravity, ones that exploit the innocent,
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  Speaker 1: ones that wield power in ways both seen and unseen,
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  Speaker 1: is to be cast a conspiracy theorist. You're a crazy
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  Speaker 1: if you talk about it. And so we're told or
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  Speaker 1: conditioned to look away, move on, keep scrolling. But should we?
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  Speaker 1: In a world ordered rightly, fashion is a form of
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  Speaker 1: beauty and beauty is a reflection of the divine. But
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  Speaker 1: today we are force-fed the perverse and told that it's art.
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  Speaker 1: We are made to celebrate the grotesque and call it fashion.
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  Speaker 1: We are asked to shrug at the corruption of children
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  Speaker 1: and call it progress. Our leaders count on our exhaustion.
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  Speaker 1: They bet on our indifference. They assume that if they
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  Speaker 1: bury the truth beneath enough noise, that we'll forget. We'll
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  Speaker 1: forget the Epstein client list and the blackmail operation behind
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  Speaker 1: it to fade into history, Balenciaga's campaigns, reduced to a
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  Speaker 1: monetary scandal for just a moment in the news cycle.
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  Speaker 1: They don't want us to keep questioning JFK or 9-11
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  Speaker 1: or the forces truly shaping our world. But we don't
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  Speaker 1: have to forget or ignore. These are flare guns lighting
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  Speaker 1: up the rot. They remind us that something deeply wrong
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  Speaker 1: festers beneath the surface. So keep demanding disclosure. If we
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  Speaker 1: don't know who's pulling the strings, if people aren't held accountable,
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  Speaker 1: how do we begin to repair what has been broken?
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  Speaker 1: How do we rebuild a country or a world worth
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  Speaker 1: believing in? Because that's what we need. A world restored.
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  Speaker 1: A world redeemed. A world where beauty is beauty again
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  Speaker 1: and innocence is protected, not sold. And that's all I
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  Speaker 9: I think a lot of people are underestimating the Trump
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  Speaker 9: effect in this midterm. You've heard it yourself. Act like
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  Speaker 9: I'm on the ballot. Why is he saying that? You
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  Speaker 9: think he doesn't know what he's doing? That is the
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  Speaker 9: X factor. Folks, elections are a math issue.
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  Speaker 7: That is it.
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