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Mamdani Calls Netanyahu War Criminal But Admits He Can't Arrest Him · 3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Three Martini Lunch.
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Speaker 2: Grab a stool next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America
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Speaker 2: and Jim Garrity of National Review.
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Speaker 3: Free Martini's coming up.
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Speaker 4: So glad you're with us for the Wednesday edition of
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Speaker 4: The Three Martini Lunch. A lot of insanity to get
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Speaker 4: to today, but we're going to start where we talked
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Speaker 4: about in our second Martini yesterday, where once again New
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Speaker 4: York City mayor'sz Aron Mamdani had been kind of throwing
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Speaker 4: it out there. Oh, we're going to do everything we
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Speaker 4: can to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if he comes to New
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Speaker 4: York City for the opening of the UN General Assembly
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Speaker 4: in September. And we talked yesterday, well, how's he going
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Speaker 4: to get out of this? Because he can't arrest him.
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Speaker 4: We know that he doesn't have that actual power to
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Speaker 4: do that. So is he going to slink away?
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Speaker 1: Then?
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Speaker 4: Now he's going to slink away? Now after a minute's
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Speaker 4: worth of Hamas propaganda about how Nettan Yahoo is supposedly
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Speaker 4: a war criminal, we finally got the actual point of
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Speaker 4: the message from Donnie yesterday, as well as as ongoing bluster.
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Speaker 5: As I've said, I agree with the ICC, the Benjamin Netanya,
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Speaker 5: who should be arrested and tried for his crimes, as
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Speaker 5: I do for anyone else charged by the ICC. My
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Speaker 5: administration has reviewed every avenue available under applicable law to
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Speaker 5: determine whether New York City could execute the International Criminal
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Speaker 5: Court's arrest warrant the Benjamin Nettane who came here. It
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Speaker 5: is clear that we do not have the independent legal
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Speaker 5: authority to enforce this warrant. The federal government, however, does,
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Speaker 5: and I call on them to join the ICC and
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Speaker 5: execute this warrant. And I want to be equally clear
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Speaker 5: Benjamin Netane, who is not welcome in New York City,
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Speaker 5: nor is any other war criminal at large. Well, we
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Speaker 5: cannot end the genocide on our own. We can decide
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Speaker 5: whether our silence will become another weapon, and we can
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Speaker 5: examine every tool we have to defend the humanity and
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Speaker 5: dignity of all people. That is my commitment to you.
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Speaker 4: Okay, I'm sure the Trump administration is going to get
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Speaker 4: right on that, Jim, given the president's truthshal response response
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Speaker 4: to what mcdonnie had to say earlier, you're not welcome here.
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Speaker 4: That's about as much as Mamdannie has in terms of
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Speaker 4: power here, which isn't much.
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Speaker 3: No, you know, the mayor of the city saying you're
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Speaker 3: not welcome here. He could say the same thing to
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Speaker 3: the San Antonio Spurs and they're still going to show
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Speaker 3: up to the game.
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Speaker 1: That that doesn't mean anything. I like this out. There's
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Speaker 1: a lead item in today's Morning Jolt newsletter.
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Speaker 3: And if you are not a knee jerk critic of
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Speaker 3: Israel and you think about this plan that, you know,
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Speaker 3: Dammi said several times during his campaign last year, there's
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Speaker 3: like you can think of like a half dozen problems. Right, Like,
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Speaker 3: there's no charge against Natanyahu in within the jurisdiction of
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Speaker 3: New York City. The UNITS government does not recognize the
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Speaker 3: authority of the ICC. Not only does it not recognize it,
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Speaker 3: the Trump administration to impose sanctions on it.
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Speaker 5: Right.
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Speaker 3: Marc Arrubio pledged that we're going to dismantle the ICC
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Speaker 3: brick by brick if necessary. Right, So, the New York
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Speaker 3: City government doesn't have any authority. What's more, trying to
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Speaker 3: enforce an ICC warrant is against federal law, the American
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Speaker 3: Service Members Protection Act, which basically said no agency or
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Speaker 3: entity of any state or local government, including any court
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Speaker 3: may cooperate with the International Criminal Court. Right, you're the mayor.
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Speaker 3: You don't get to overwrite federal law. I'm sure I'm
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Speaker 3: going to put on my Andy McCarthy hat here and
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Speaker 3: just point out that, like if you are if you
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Speaker 3: want to prosecute someone within a particular jurisdiction, you usually
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Speaker 3: need some way to tie that crime to your jurisdiction.
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Speaker 3: Either the crime has to be committed there, there has
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Speaker 3: to be some sort of harmful result from the crime
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Speaker 3: that occurred there, or it was intended to affect that state.
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Speaker 3: There is no tie between New York City and everything
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Speaker 3: in the ICC warrant, which is a you know, generally nonsense,
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Speaker 3: but I'll just kind of just say that you don't
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Speaker 3: have any way to say, ah, because of this you
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Speaker 3: tie to New York City.
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Speaker 1: We are the ones who get to make this arrest.
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Speaker 3: When traveling to or from the United Nations for the
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Speaker 3: Annual General Assembly, all foreign leaders are immune from arrest.
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Speaker 3: This is covered by the Convention on the Privileges and
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Speaker 3: Immunities the United Nations, adopted by the General Assembly back
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Speaker 3: in nineteen forty six. Also the Agreement between the Nations
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Speaker 3: the United States of America reguarding the headquarters. The noted
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Speaker 3: nations also bars state and local authorities from obstructing the
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Speaker 3: representatives of member nations traveling or two from the headquarters district. Finally,
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Speaker 3: net Yahoo travels with the shin bet Doabeestio. They're really
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Speaker 3: good at their jobs. Now the NYPD is also very
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Speaker 3: good at their jobs. But there's I went and found
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Speaker 3: coverage of a previous NETNYAO who visit to New York
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Speaker 3: City and it said he went to the bathroom the
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Speaker 3: twenty guys. This was in some restaurant or something like that.
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Speaker 1: So there's never going to.
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Speaker 3: Be a moment where net Yahoo is not guarded or
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Speaker 3: lightly guarded, and the NYPD, even with John McLean, could
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Speaker 3: be able to go in and grab netan Yahoo and
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Speaker 3: enforce this. So I also there's one other reasons I
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Speaker 3: thought about putting in there as a reason, and then
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Speaker 3: I kind of decided not to. There is this tradition
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Speaker 3: amongst in international law that heads of state and heads
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Speaker 3: of government are entitled to quote absolute personal immunity from
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Speaker 3: foreign jurisdiction unquote. Sounds compelling, but I could not reach
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Speaker 3: Nicholas Maduro Water, Orlando Hernandez Sodamossey slamon a Melosovic, John
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Speaker 3: bertin Iristad or Manuel Noriega for comment. So I think
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Speaker 3: that that's maybe a less solid argument the international law
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Speaker 3: experts than they might. But you you go through all
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Speaker 3: of that, think there's a whole bunch of reasons. You
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Speaker 3: might be like, well, why is this coming up now?
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Speaker 3: Net Yahoo? It sounds for reports in Israel intends to
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Speaker 3: attend the UN General Assembly in September. So I don't
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Speaker 3: know whether this was something you know, Nanya has been
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Speaker 3: there before. This might be something he'd always planned to do.
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Speaker 3: I kind of wonder if there's a sense of like, oh,
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Speaker 3: I have to go because I need to show that
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Speaker 3: I cannot be arrested, and then I'm not afraid to
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Speaker 3: go to New York City. But now it's it's a
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Speaker 3: now looks like it's coming to fruition.
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Speaker 1: Mom.
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Speaker 3: Damia is in the circumstance where he has to say
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Speaker 3: he had people might say, hey, wait a minute, you
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Speaker 3: promise you're going to arrest this guy.
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Speaker 1: What's going on?
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Speaker 3: So now he's suddenly discovered that he doesn't have the
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Speaker 3: authority after this this after further review, as they like
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Speaker 3: to say, with instant replay in the in the NFL.
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Speaker 3: I'm just gonna observe, like nothing changed between then and now.
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Speaker 3: This is the exact same set of circumstances. And you know,
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Speaker 3: I compare this to the middle school, you know, student
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Speaker 3: council president who says I'm going to replace a school
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Speaker 3: lunch with McDonald's and Chick fil A, and I'm going
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Speaker 3: to ban homework, and we're you know, we're gonna have
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna double the reseat.
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Speaker 1: You don't have the authority to do any of those things.
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Speaker 3: And that's kind of who Mom Damie was. But the
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Speaker 3: other thing is I talked about boom bait for Bubba's
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Speaker 3: in yesterday's edition. I think in the end, like New
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Speaker 3: York City progresses, they like being lied to. They like
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Speaker 3: being told these promises that have no realistic chance to
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Speaker 3: be They much rather have that than deal with the
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Speaker 3: reality that nobody is gonna arrest them.
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Speaker 1: Who if and when he comes to New York City.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's probably right. You know, you always
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Speaker 4: got people either hedging towards the left or on the
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Speaker 4: left extolling international law. I remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg talking
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Speaker 4: about that Anthony Kennedy once sited international law for why
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Speaker 4: he reached the conclusion he did. And we have a constitution,
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Speaker 4: we've got federal law, we've got state law, we've got
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Speaker 4: local law. As a lot of folks have pointed out
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Speaker 4: on X and other places, you know, Mamdani basically is
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Speaker 4: acting like a mini president or trying to in New
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Speaker 4: York City and acting like he has all his power.
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Speaker 4: And in the end, it's got some power, obviously as
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Speaker 4: the mayor of New York City. But in the end,
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Speaker 4: you know, he's there to make sure the garbage gets
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Speaker 4: picked up, make sure the potholes, and hopefully crime is
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Speaker 4: down and test scores and schools are up. But in
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Speaker 4: terms of stuff like this, it's just wish casting. All right, Well,
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Speaker 4: case of mistaken identity here in our second Martini, New
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Speaker 4: Jersey Democratic Congressman Josh Gotttheimer he's not with the Republicans
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Speaker 4: too often, but he does support Israel, and he was
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Speaker 4: responding to a tweet several days ago by Van Jones
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Speaker 4: about how Van Jones, hey, I'm a guy on the left.
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Speaker 4: I'm a progressive, but I'm not with these socialists, And
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Speaker 4: so Gottenheimer is basically echoing that. He says, I'm glad
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Speaker 4: to see other Democrats reiterating what I've been saying all along.
9:16
Speaker 4: The DSA are not Democrats, they're socialists who want to
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Speaker 4: hijack the Democratic Party. The Democrats have a big tent.
9:22
Speaker 4: That's our strength. We embrace a range of ideas, but
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Speaker 4: there's no room for anti American bomb throwers who oppose
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Speaker 4: our ideas, values, and leaders. Well, that led to quite
9:33
Speaker 4: a dust up. Summer Lee is a Democrat from Pennsylvania.
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Speaker 4: She is a member of the squad, and she says, well,
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Speaker 4: what about Democrats who sign bombs and vote to drop them?
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Speaker 4: And that led to a quick response from Josh Gotttheimer saying,
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Speaker 4: you know, that's the other Jewish guy named Josh right,
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Speaker 4: meaning Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, who had signed a shell
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Speaker 4: and made it a plange in Pennsylvan. I think he
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Speaker 4: was there with folks on the Biden administration a couple
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Speaker 4: of years ago.
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Speaker 3: Yes, twenty twenty four, with a tour, giving Zelensky a tour. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: he signed a artillery show.
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Speaker 4: And so then Ilhan Omar jumps into the fray and
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Speaker 4: says he signed the bombs that you voted to. Drop
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Speaker 4: hope this helps. Then Gottenheimer and maybe a staff do
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Speaker 4: a little research, and their next to it is il Han.
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Speaker 4: You know who else voted for it? You so a
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Speaker 4: little bit of hypocrisy, a little bit of cluelessness on
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Speaker 4: who they're even dealing with. The squad once again, Jim,
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Speaker 4: they're not sending us their best.
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Speaker 3: Well, I'm going to make two points. First of all,
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Speaker 3: if you are Joshmo, if your public profile is less
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Speaker 3: in any Democratic nomination anywhere, despite the handicap of not
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Speaker 3: actually existing. If you use you know, people shoot their
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Speaker 3: mouths off on social media all the time. Fine, if
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Speaker 3: you're a member of Congress, I think you have a
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Speaker 3: bit more of an obligation to pause. Think you have
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Speaker 3: this half remembered thing in the back of your mind.
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Speaker 3: It just takes it usually a quick Google search. Am
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Speaker 3: I remembering this accurately, was Josh Gotttheimer, a guy who
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Speaker 3: signed bombs, presumably being sent off to Israel in Summer
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Speaker 3: Lee's angry up you know, upset Tyrad.
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Speaker 1: No, No, he was not. You're thinking of a different guy.
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Speaker 3: Now, Look, do we sometimes mix up people with the
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Speaker 3: same name. Sure, I've had a whole conversation with people
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Speaker 3: who I'm pretty sure thought I was Jim Treacher or
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Speaker 3: Jim Shudo or Jim Acosta. Halfway to the conversation, You're like,
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Speaker 3: this person thinks I'm a completely different person, and there's
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Speaker 3: no easy way to extricate yourself from that. I get that,
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Speaker 3: all right, But if your Summer Lee, you should have
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Speaker 3: done that Google, and you saved yourself the embarrassment.
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Speaker 1: She did not do this.
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Speaker 3: The tweet is still up there, by the way, there
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Speaker 3: is no Oh my god, I'm so sorry. I was
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Speaker 3: thinking of Josh Shapiro, Josh Gotthheimer. You and I have
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Speaker 3: our disagreements, But that's an unfair No, none of that
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Speaker 3: from Summer Lee. She just leaves in at nothing, you know,
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Speaker 3: and then ilhan Omar, sharp as a butter knife, jumps
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Speaker 3: in and is like, well, you know, he's signed that yeah, yes,
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Speaker 3: but like you're thinking of Israel and Hamas, this was
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Speaker 3: not about that. This is about Russia and Ukraine, which,
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Speaker 3: for all of her many and many other flaws, ilhan
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Speaker 3: Omar supports, or at least she reported support and sending
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Speaker 3: those munitions to Ukraine. So neither one of these really
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Speaker 3: knows what the heck they're talking about. And I just
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Speaker 3: like I found myself, we can jokingly say they're not
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Speaker 3: sending their best, you know, quoting the President when he
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Speaker 3: was talking about Mexico back in twenty fifteen, like why
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Speaker 3: does it not bother you that you don't know what
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Speaker 3: you're talking about? And I can only conclude that too, Summerly,
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Speaker 3: and perhaps ilan Omar as well. All Jewish guys named
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Speaker 3: Josh look alike, and they can't play. They're all the same,
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Speaker 3: They're all warmongers.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't really matter, you know.
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Speaker 3: Like that's racism, that's anti semtism. That is when you
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Speaker 3: basically believe that all members of a group are indistinguishable
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Speaker 3: from each other and have no individuality. Like that might
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Speaker 3: apply to the Boorg, it might apply to the Galactic
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Speaker 3: Empire's clone army, It does not apply to human beings.
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Speaker 1: Joshapiro and jo Gottheimer are not the same guy. They may,
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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure.
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Speaker 3: Actually they probably have some disagreements if you know, you
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Speaker 3: look deep enough, but they can't be bothered with any
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Speaker 3: of that.
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Speaker 1: They're morons. They're absolute moral And here's the.
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Speaker 3: Thing what gets me is like, ah, you know, okay,
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Speaker 3: every member that you know, every party has got some
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Speaker 3: nut jobs. Every party's got Okay, they represent really deep
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Speaker 3: blue districts, so you know, Democrats and you can say
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Speaker 3: the same thing to Republicans and deep red district Why
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Speaker 3: not the best If you know this seat is going
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Speaker 3: to be occupied by a member of your party, why
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Speaker 3: not find somebody better than these you know, dimble morons
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Speaker 3: who keep going up there and can't tell the difference
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Speaker 3: between two Jewish lawmakers. It's an absolute embarrassment. And it's
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Speaker 3: just like, you know, what are we doing here? Why
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Speaker 3: are you in Congress? Why are you wasting your time?
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Speaker 3: And when you make an embarrassing mistake like that, apologize
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Speaker 3: and take down the tweet. Don't leave it up there
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Speaker 3: and hope that nobody notices, because trust us, we noticed.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I don't want to spend a lot of time around
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Speaker 4: either one of them. But if I did, I'd want
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Speaker 4: to play clue because Summer Lee is saying it was
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Speaker 4: Josh Gottheimer in New Jersey with munitions aimed for Israel
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Speaker 4: or headed to Israel to use against Amas, when in
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Speaker 4: fact it was Josh Shapiro in Pennsylvania with munitions headed
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Speaker 4: to help Ukraine. So they'd be really really bad at clue.
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Speaker 3: Greg, I'm just gonna observe a couple of years. By
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Speaker 3: World Cup just wrapped up. I was thinking a lot
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Speaker 3: about the time I volunteered to be an assistant coach
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Speaker 3: on my son's soccer team because they were really desperate
14:47
Speaker 3: for coaches, and they like, do any dads have any experience?
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Speaker 3: And like I could be an assistant and set up
14:51
Speaker 3: cones and all that stuff. If I could tell the
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Speaker 3: difference between Aiden and Drayden and Brayden and Caiden, I
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Speaker 3: think it was like a Maiden and Anaden and a Flayateen.
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Speaker 1: You know, I Jaden.
15:03
Speaker 3: There was definitely a Jaden, right, you know, thanks Will Smith.
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Speaker 3: If I could tell the difference between all those kids,
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Speaker 3: you can tell the difference between two Josh's.
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Speaker 1: That's exactly right.
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Speaker 4: If you're an assistant coach you just make them run.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 3: The other team was like all cities in Texas, Austin, Dallas, Beaumont,
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Speaker 3: they're all you know, I don't.
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Speaker 1: Know what's going on with these kids. Names the Jim Garritty.
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Speaker 4: He's available for coaching. Again. I'm not sure accept the job.
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Speaker 3: But oh bad coaching. Yeah, you know, we were. They
15:34
Speaker 3: were just trying to start imposing the off sides rule.
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Speaker 3: Our kids could not get it.
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Speaker 1: But here's the thing.
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Speaker 3: Now, we watched the World Cup. I don't understand the
15:42
Speaker 3: off sides rule either. They call it whenever something exciting happens.
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Speaker 4: That's exactly That's exactly it.
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Speaker 4: you know, they've got all the exhibits over time. But
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Speaker 4: they've also had an interesting number of papers come out
17:32
Speaker 4: about how they go about their work, and one of
17:36
Speaker 4: them dealt with signs of whiteness, signs of white culture
17:41
Speaker 4: or even white supremacy. And so Brandon Gill, who is
17:44
Speaker 4: a Congressman from Texas and is amazing at dissecting these
17:47
Speaker 4: people from NPR now down to the Smithsonian, just asking
17:52
Speaker 4: a very simple question which led to fun, excuse.
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Speaker 6: Me, sir, is it important to be polite?
17:58
Speaker 2: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 6: It's also interesting because the same mass action toolkit that
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Speaker 6: your organization has been promoting references politeness as a defining
18:09
Speaker 6: characteristic of white supremacy culture. Ma'am, are you a white supremacist? No,
18:15
Speaker 6: sure you're not. Can you help me square why your
18:20
Speaker 6: organization says that being polite is part of being a
18:23
Speaker 6: white supremacist.
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Speaker 2: I'm not exactly familiar with that passage of the mass
18:30
Speaker 2: action toolkit, which.
18:31
Speaker 6: Is not I can show you the mass we develop.
18:33
Speaker 4: You here, And of course, one of the few things
18:35
Speaker 4: she's good for. Nancy Mace also at this hearing. Check
18:38
Speaker 4: out this exchange.
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Speaker 2: Do you believe that men can become women? Ma'am? As
18:44
Speaker 2: the director of the museum, that's not relevant in this case.
18:47
Speaker 2: It's very relevant. You've got men dressed up as women
18:51
Speaker 2: and you have them on displays in front of kids.
18:53
Speaker 2: Do you think men can become women?
18:55
Speaker 6: Yes?
18:55
Speaker 2: Or no? So RuPaul's drag race, which is the.
18:58
Speaker 5: It's a man pill is a man who dresses like
19:01
Speaker 5: a woman.
19:02
Speaker 2: Literally, what is a woman? Doctor Hartig? As a director
19:07
Speaker 2: and as a historian, it's not my opport you sexualize
19:11
Speaker 2: the American History Museum.
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Speaker 5: So this is a fair question.
19:13
Speaker 2: What is a woman? So at the museum, what is
19:17
Speaker 2: a woman? We strive to represent and not categorize?
19:21
Speaker 4: And that mace cutter off and they went on to
19:23
Speaker 4: something else, but dodging the question. The Democrats still can't
19:26
Speaker 4: handle this issue. We thought they learned their lesson, maybe
19:29
Speaker 4: after the twenty twenty four elections, but no. Also on
19:32
Speaker 4: the Smithsonian list of aspects and assumptions of white culture,
19:36
Speaker 4: besides being polite, individualism, nuclear family, rational, linear thinking, working
19:42
Speaker 4: before you play, planning for the future, protecting property, avoiding conflicts,
19:48
Speaker 4: and managing time. I think that's more racist than any.
19:52
Speaker 3: I was just about to say the same list you
19:55
Speaker 3: can find on the a poster on the wall of
19:59
Speaker 3: your local claim chapter. Like that's like I'm trying to
20:02
Speaker 3: think of anything more insulting to minorities than to say
20:05
Speaker 3: they're just not capable of doing these things. My question
20:09
Speaker 3: asking Mount Rushmore is going to have Detective Columbo, the
20:14
Speaker 3: legendary lawyer Vincent Gambino for the trial down South Perry Mason,
20:20
Speaker 3: and now Brenda Gill. I think he just rounds it
20:22
Speaker 3: out very nicely with the just very basic, simple You
20:25
Speaker 3: can just see him laying out the bear trap.
20:28
Speaker 1: He puts out the.
20:29
Speaker 3: Bait, and the witness almost always steps in it, and
20:32
Speaker 3: that's they find themselves in trouble. I have seen these
20:35
Speaker 3: sorts of controversies bubble up, particularly like the reaction to
20:38
Speaker 3: them since twenty twenty four. And there's Katain Rosenfield over
20:42
Speaker 3: at the Free Press has written a bunch about this, this Listen,
20:44
Speaker 3: Ah my god, you know, well it was it was.
20:46
Speaker 3: It was twenty nineteen, twenty twenty. It was the woke era,
20:50
Speaker 3: Black Lives Matter. There's a lot of craziness going on.
20:53
Speaker 3: It was, you know, you can't hold us responsible for that.
20:56
Speaker 3: And you know you saw Kamala Harris constantly saying, well,
21:00
Speaker 3: that position I had a couple of years ago, I
21:02
Speaker 3: don't have anymore, so I shouldn't be judged by it anymore.
21:05
Speaker 3: If there is now a broad bipartisan consensus that the
21:09
Speaker 3: era from whether you want to do the entire Trump
21:12
Speaker 3: first term, whether you want to say, particularly around twenty twenty,
21:15
Speaker 3: if the ad there was massssaria and that people were
21:18
Speaker 3: endorsing policies and viewpoints that they no longer do and
21:22
Speaker 3: that look like just jaw droppingly irrational from the perspective
21:26
Speaker 3: of today, then what I like, I like an official
21:29
Speaker 3: declaration of that. I would like everyone to say these
21:31
Speaker 3: were bad policies, these were bad ideas, This was crazy nonsense,
21:36
Speaker 3: and no one should ever adopt these philosophies ever again.
21:38
Speaker 3: And two, what are you, let's say, you actually, oh,
21:41
Speaker 3: I was cuckoo for Coca puffs, that I just I
21:43
Speaker 3: don't know what I was doing.
21:44
Speaker 1: I was, you know, I was swept up in the moment.
21:46
Speaker 3: What are you doing right now to make sure that
21:49
Speaker 3: you don't do it again? What have you learned from that?
21:53
Speaker 3: Next time somebody comes along with a really crazy idea
21:57
Speaker 3: and something happens, whether you want to say it was
21:59
Speaker 3: George Floyd, whether you want to say it was COVID.
22:01
Speaker 3: If something comes along that makes things feel really impassioned
22:05
Speaker 3: and emotional and people getting swept up in the hysteria,
22:09
Speaker 3: what are you doing to make sure you don't make
22:11
Speaker 3: that mistake again. I hear nothing about that. I think
22:14
Speaker 3: it's just it's just a matter of time until the
22:17
Speaker 3: next big crisis comes along, and then somebody's gonna say, oh, well,
22:20
Speaker 3: that's why we need to do X Y and Z
22:22
Speaker 3: when X Y and Z are absolutely bonkers, and so
22:24
Speaker 3: this kind of this like, ah, you know, everybody wants
22:27
Speaker 3: to do an Emily lttella.
22:28
Speaker 1: Everybody wants to shake the take it. It's an Etra sketch.
22:30
Speaker 1: We're just gonna shake it. It's gonna disappear. No, that's
22:32
Speaker 1: not you.
22:33
Speaker 3: There need to be consequences for your bad decisions then,
22:36
Speaker 3: and getting grilled in Capitol Hill is one of those consequences.
22:39
Speaker 4: Yeah, you've heard a few people, you know, walk away
22:42
Speaker 4: from that and say, yeah, that was too far and
22:44
Speaker 4: this not where the party should be. You also hear
22:47
Speaker 4: a few people now saying, oh, yeah, Biden was his
22:50
Speaker 4: border policy. It's terrible, it was destructive, and that was really,
22:53
Speaker 4: really not good. These people said nothing at the time,
22:56
Speaker 4: which tells you that if the Democrats are back in
22:58
Speaker 4: the White House at some points and we're going to
23:00
Speaker 4: get the exact same policies.
23:02
Speaker 3: Greg, did you know that the lab leak is not
23:03
Speaker 3: a crazy conspiracy theory?
23:05
Speaker 1: Right?
23:06
Speaker 3: Like we keep getting proven right and everybody says, a boy,
23:10
Speaker 3: what go figure? Oh well, and they just got to
23:12
Speaker 3: move on from it, learning nothing and never recognizing those
23:17
Speaker 3: crazy conservatives, those crazy.
23:18
Speaker 1: Keeps me saying these things.
23:20
Speaker 3: What happens if we keep turning out to be right
23:21
Speaker 3: over and over again? Yeah, yes, yes, listeners, every now
23:24
Speaker 3: and then I'm wrong, but not.
23:25
Speaker 1: Often they get caught.
23:26
Speaker 4: They know the issue is a loser for them, but
23:28
Speaker 4: they'll still do it if they get powered, and.
23:30
Speaker 3: Then they quickly forget that anybody ever held that position.
23:33
Speaker 4: Yes, exactly, all right? When we come back, a plea
23:37
Speaker 4: to the Trump administration that's falling on deaf ears, all right, Jim.
23:45
Speaker 4: In the last few days, the United Kingdom, which now
23:48
Speaker 4: has a new Prime minister, but that's got nothing to
23:50
Speaker 4: do with this story. They're trying to extradite the Tate brothers,
23:54
Speaker 4: Andrew and Tristan Tate. They have added thirty eight new
23:58
Speaker 4: sex crime charges against the brothers as it relates to
24:01
Speaker 4: rape and human trafficking, and now there's a total of
24:04
Speaker 4: fifty nine counts against them. They're also indicted on separate
24:08
Speaker 4: sex crime charges in Romania back in twenty twenty three,
24:11
Speaker 4: and the brothers are hoping that the Trump administration will
24:14
Speaker 4: help to stop the extradition to the UK. That is
24:17
Speaker 4: not going to happen. There are two people who can
24:20
Speaker 4: do something about this. One is Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
24:23
Speaker 4: The other is President Trump. Marco Rubio is not inclined
24:26
Speaker 4: to help. According to Axios quote, Marco thinks these guys
24:30
Speaker 4: are scum. And so President Trump has been advised and
24:34
Speaker 4: I think might be his instinct anyway, that he's not
24:36
Speaker 4: about to step in and tell Rubio to do anything differently.
24:39
Speaker 4: And so, you know, these guys were kind of cast
24:41
Speaker 4: as the masculine culture that we need. Tucker Carlson gave
24:46
Speaker 4: him a big tongue bath on his show and other
24:49
Speaker 4: people have tried to say that, you know, they're the
24:52
Speaker 4: new masculinity that we need in this country. Rational people
24:55
Speaker 4: know that's not the case, especially when you know their
24:57
Speaker 4: track record here and so good that that's not persuasive
25:00
Speaker 4: at all inside the Trump administration.
25:03
Speaker 3: Greg we should point out that the Tate brothers, particularly
25:05
Speaker 3: Andrew Tate, really some people arguing they got off easy
25:08
Speaker 3: because they have not been indicted for wearing the same
25:12
Speaker 3: lavender capri pants as Blanche did on The Golden Girls.
25:16
Speaker 3: And frankly, you know, never like really like US police
25:20
Speaker 3: and British police are bad enough, but the fashion police,
25:23
Speaker 3: once they get their hands.
25:23
Speaker 1: On them, are really gonna going to rip into it,
25:25
Speaker 1: because remember, this is the icon of masculinity. This is
25:28
Speaker 1: the man's man.
25:29
Speaker 3: Who's who's wearing stuff from your grandmother's closet. Look, I've
25:33
Speaker 3: never liked Andrew Tate, and there was I didn't like
25:35
Speaker 3: the first intervention that made the charges in Romania go away.
25:39
Speaker 3: I also, it's not we can't really put Tate at
25:42
Speaker 3: the feet of Maga's you know, he's sort of MAGA affiliated,
25:47
Speaker 3: but it's really kind of more the like furthest fringes
25:50
Speaker 3: of the red Pill manisphere, and there even guys in
25:52
Speaker 3: the manisphere who are not you know, like he's going
25:54
Speaker 3: to bridge too far, so they kind of there's always
25:57
Speaker 3: this sense of like, why does this guy, who, by
26:00
Speaker 3: the way's Muslim? That doesn't get mentioned very much. You know,
26:03
Speaker 3: I know you'd be shocked that a Muslim man would
26:05
Speaker 3: treat women badly. I know that's so out of character
26:07
Speaker 3: for you know this this, this is gonna get me banned.
26:10
Speaker 3: But anyway, so Tate does this somehow the charges from
26:13
Speaker 3: Romania get you know, disappear, ge get taken care.
26:16
Speaker 1: Of, comes back apparently does it all over again.
26:18
Speaker 3: When people are saying, oh, Trump is gonna save them,
26:20
Speaker 3: who do you think executed the warrant here? This had
26:24
Speaker 3: to be signed off by the US Department of Justice
26:26
Speaker 3: and by the US State Department. No, there is no
26:28
Speaker 3: pardon from Donald Trump. It's coming along. There's no rescue
26:31
Speaker 3: from Donald Trump. Coming along. Took a little while, but
26:33
Speaker 3: the Trump administration is out of the business of defending
26:36
Speaker 3: Andrew Tate or his brother and it couldn't have come
26:38
Speaker 3: a minute too soon. Chip, Chip, Pierry, ho on your
26:41
Speaker 3: way over to the UK. Tate brothers, good luck with
26:44
Speaker 3: that trial. Not too much good luck.
26:46
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's get him out of here as soon as possible.
26:49
Speaker 1: The London still open right.
26:53
Speaker 4: That would be fitting. Have a great day, Jim say
26:55
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