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One Leg Up on News - No Sane Person Would Confirm Matt Gaetz As AG 11-14-24 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Speaker 1: Here's your host, Alex Garrett. All right, well, I want
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  Speaker 1: to do this one leg up on news because the
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  Speaker 1: picks are coming in at rapid pace, and we all
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  Speaker 1: know the big controversial one than the one I don't
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  Speaker 1: understand is Matt Gates for President Trump's attorney General. That's right,
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  Speaker 1: Matt Gates, if you haven't heard already, was reportedly nominated
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  Speaker 1: by Trump to be the age. But I've got maybe
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  Speaker 1: a timfoil hat idea to this, because do you really
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  Speaker 1: think Trump's stupid enough to think Gates would be nominated
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  Speaker 1: and accepted by his peers in the Senate. No. I
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  Speaker 1: think there's a bigger play here, and I think the
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  Speaker 1: bigger play is simply this, And I might be going
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  Speaker 1: on I'm saying this, and maybe I'm a little conspiratorial,
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  Speaker 1: But what if Trump is playing, is doing one of
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  Speaker 1: his tricks here. What if he knows Gates can't get
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  Speaker 1: the nomination, won't be confirmed. Yep, makes him, you know,
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  Speaker 1: says I pick him. Blah blah blah blah. I mean
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  Speaker 1: Gates resigned right out of the gate after this was announced,
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  Speaker 1: resigned right out of Congress. So you're telling me he
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  Speaker 1: resigns from Congress if he doesn't get confirmed, I think
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  Speaker 1: his political career for now, because we all know political
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  Speaker 1: careers can resurrect themselves, but for now would be done.
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  Speaker 1: But what if that's Trump's way of getting him out
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  Speaker 1: of the government. You hang the carrot out there. He
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  Speaker 1: knows Trump does. Gates would jump at the opportunity, only
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  Speaker 1: to be rejected at the confirmation. Here there's no same
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  Speaker 1: person that would approve Matt Gates. But I will tell
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  Speaker 1: you what his picks are doing. It's showing Trump is
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  Speaker 1: bucking the establishment. Remember in twenty sixteen, when all these
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  Speaker 1: people were going to Trump Tower, I mean legacy politicians
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  Speaker 1: for a job in his administration. Remember the heat he
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  Speaker 1: got for picking Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State because
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  Speaker 1: Tillerson wasn't with the government, he was a CEO, a businessman.
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  Speaker 1: Now it didn't really work out as well, but I
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  Speaker 1: felt he was really being pushed into picking legacy politicians.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Session, for example, as Attorney general. Here he's been
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  Speaker 1: in Washington for those four years. He's been out of
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  Speaker 1: Washington for the four years, but he stayed connected, and
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  Speaker 1: he's really picked people that are not establishment. Isn't that
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  Speaker 1: what he ran on in eight years ago, draining the swamp,
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  Speaker 1: getting rid of the establishment. So I think he's really
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  Speaker 1: fulfilling that agenda idea here by these dare I say,
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  Speaker 1: off the wall picks except except for two people I
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  Speaker 1: think make most sense in the roles. They've been picked
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  Speaker 1: for Governor Mike Huckabee, former Governor Arkansas, as the ambassador
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  Speaker 1: to Israel because he's worked with a lot of organizations
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  Speaker 1: in Israel. He's a very pro Israel person and believes
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  Speaker 1: in the State of Israel, in the Nation of Israel,
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  Speaker 1: so that was a natural fit. And then I know
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  Speaker 1: I keep talking about her. There you go. Gabby Telsea
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  Speaker 1: Gabbard is the Director of National Intelligence, and I'm very
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  Speaker 1: excited that she is part of the administration because, as
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  Speaker 1: I said last night, the write vote counted, she's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be d and I and most likely confirmed in that role.
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  Speaker 1: No matter how much grilling she gets, she'll be confirmed.
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  Speaker 2: I believe.
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  Speaker 1: Secretary of State Marco Rubio that one doesn't really make
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  Speaker 1: sense because he doesn't seem to be like a Secretary
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  Speaker 1: of State type, So we'll see if he gets confirmed.
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  Speaker 1: And I think everybody overreacting to all of these pics
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  Speaker 1: in general need to understand one thing. Just because it's
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  Speaker 1: a Republican led Senate now doesn't mean all these picts
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  Speaker 1: are you get confirmed. I think Trump's just throwing it
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  Speaker 1: out there, seeing how even the Republicans will react, and
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  Speaker 1: then maybe he'll take back a few of these nominations.
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  Speaker 1: I like Ratcliffe, John Ratcliffe because actually he was the
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  Speaker 1: former d n I head under Trump. Now is CIA pick?
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  Speaker 1: I like that. I don't think we've got a new
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  Speaker 1: FBI pick, which means he might stick with Chris Ray
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  Speaker 1: or better or for worse. Ray was also disappointed the
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  Speaker 1: first term and it's stuck around. But the Gates thing
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  Speaker 1: is fascinating because I think Rudy's too old to be
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  Speaker 1: an Attorney general. We know that the ags in the
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  Speaker 1: past have really sparred with Trump. I mean Bill Barr
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  Speaker 1: wrote the book one damn Thing after another after his
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  Speaker 1: term as the AG under under President Trump. It was
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  Speaker 1: quite a lot. But but what I will say is
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  Speaker 1: there has to be a younger voice as Attorney General.
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  Speaker 1: Merrick Garland's been establishment forever and honestly, good riddance. You know,
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  Speaker 1: this border crisis was on the rise, and what did
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  Speaker 1: the DOJ do? They didn't give justice to the New
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  Speaker 1: Yorkers here. They didn't really go after any of the
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  Speaker 1: migrants that were violent. Now they went out to Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: And I still think that backfired on this Biden administration
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  Speaker 1: because look how many states Trump won. But it just
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  Speaker 1: so happens. I was asked on Today's Joe Piscobo Show
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  Speaker 1: this question about who I thought would be a good
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  Speaker 1: attorney general in this trumble administration.
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  Speaker 2: Take a listen, and Donaltrea goes Matt Gates for attorney general.
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  Speaker 2: I'm thinking Matt Whittaker. You know, I like Matt Whitaker.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good guy, a very smart guy. And something
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  Speaker 2: in and Matt, and then Alex Garrett, you said, who
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  Speaker 2: else did you were you thinking for attorney general? You
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  Speaker 2: had have thought as well, all that Pauletta.
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  Speaker 1: You think he's a little too extreme or would he
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  Speaker 1: be a good one because you referenced him yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not sure. Yeah maybe, But but the thing
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  Speaker 2: with with Gates, and I saw it immediately. It's like,
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  Speaker 2: it's just this is why I will trust Donald Trump
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  Speaker 2: in his choices and how he wants to do it.
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  Speaker 1: And Joe went on to explain more you can find
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  Speaker 1: out on the link below. But I do think this
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  Speaker 1: Mark Poletta, who might be viewed as extreme, but he's
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  Speaker 1: actually doing again something Trump promised the American people, because
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  Speaker 1: here was what he tweeted out a couple of days ago.
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  Speaker 1: This Mark Poletta, the Trump transition team lawyer. He warned
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  Speaker 1: career DJ lawyers that those who refused to advance Trump's
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  Speaker 1: agenda should resign or face the possibility of being fired.
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  Speaker 1: I know, on the onset that looks like a guy
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  Speaker 1: who says, well, if you don't if you want to
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  Speaker 1: prosecute Trump while Trump's an office blah blah blah blah,
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  Speaker 1: which is not usually practicing for the DJ as we've
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  Speaker 1: been hearing about. But the idea of getting career, you know,
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  Speaker 1: members of the government out is Isn't that why doage
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  Speaker 1: was created the Department of Government Efficiency. We haven't even
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  Speaker 1: gotten to the vivek Any law Musk tandem there, and
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  Speaker 1: I think that's that's you know, we do need to
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  Speaker 1: get out of government waste. Now. I've been telling my
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  Speaker 1: family this and I feel strongly about this too. You know,
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  Speaker 1: last term, I woke up every day having to find
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  Speaker 1: myself defending the guy. And I don't know if I
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  Speaker 1: have the energy to do that eight years later because
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  Speaker 1: I did that every damn day when when he was
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  Speaker 1: in present. But I will report when the media is
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  Speaker 1: misreporting things and point out things the media is not
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  Speaker 1: talking about. But I still want to keep this podcast
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  Speaker 1: more about one leg on adaptability, accessibility, accountability, and that
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  Speaker 1: also includes holding government agencies accountable even under a Trump presidence.
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  Speaker 1: So I will do my best to do that and
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  Speaker 1: holding the media accountable at the same time, because we
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  Speaker 1: got to cut through the bs and find out what
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  Speaker 1: the real thing is, even though that means we're talking
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  Speaker 1: with people who are on the ends of these different places.
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  Speaker 1: But Mark Pauletta was certainly talking like he wanted to
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  Speaker 1: be the ag and root out the waste that could
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  Speaker 1: be career politicians. And one of those guys is Jack Smith.
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  Speaker 1: And isn't it funny that Jack Smith, the Special Council dude,
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  Speaker 1: has now haul that his appeals in Florida against Trump
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  Speaker 1: and is going to retire because he knows the rankings
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  Speaker 1: on the wall. It's going to be a very interesting time.
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  Speaker 1: But this time around, these picks are not chaotic, They
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  Speaker 1: are strategic, and they show a man who has more
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  Speaker 1: understanding of how the game works in Washington than he
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  Speaker 1: did in twenty sixteen, his first transition. Nobody's gonna come
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  Speaker 1: in begging, hand and hat for a job, because Trump's
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  Speaker 1: not gonna let that happen. He's already got to play
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  Speaker 1: it in money. And I'd rather that than the chaos
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  Speaker 1: that was. Well, what appointment is going to do today?
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  Speaker 1: What he knows, he's on track. He is on point,
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  Speaker 1: and I think we need that kind of organization, don't
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  Speaker 1: we as a country. Don't we crave that kind of organization.
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  Speaker 1: How it hands out after January twentieth, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: But for now he's got his team in place, and
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  Speaker 1: that's far more than I can say the first time around,
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  Speaker 1: when everything was really it felt like up in the air,
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  Speaker 1: And of course you want to hire a team for
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  Speaker 1: your cabinet that's not going to resign a few months in.
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  Speaker 1: Remember it was like a revolving door that first year.
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  Speaker 1: There was Sessions gone and Matt Whitaker took over. It
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  Speaker 1: was Tillerson, and then you know another guy in secretary.
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  Speaker 1: I mean Tillerson didn't last long either. Those two come
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  Speaker 1: to mind because they resigned fairly early on in the administration.
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  Speaker 1: But this one. It might be a loyalty thing quote
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  Speaker 1: unquote with Trump, but but it's also a I'm not
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  Speaker 1: gonna let Washington tell me who I'm gonna pick. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna make these picks myself. And that show of independence
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  Speaker 1: away from the establishment voices will play into a into
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  Speaker 1: his second term way better than when he listened to
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  Speaker 1: estallagment voices like dare I say Anthony Fauci in twenty twenty,
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  Speaker 1: that's the biggest assallagine voice he listened to, and that
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  Speaker 1: caused chaos. And I think Trump's learned from that alone
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  Speaker 1: to not listen to these people who we pay tax
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  Speaker 1: dollars too. He's saying, you know how we're gonna make
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  Speaker 1: the tax dollars work by picking people I know can
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  Speaker 1: run the country best. And Tom Holman talking tough, but
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  Speaker 1: at least we're getting something from the borders are. And
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  Speaker 1: I haven't said this on there anywhere yet, but I
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  Speaker 1: will say it here on my own podcast. First, wasn't
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  Speaker 1: Kamala Harris a borders are in name only? And wasn't
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  Speaker 1: she just more bizarre than the borders are? I'll let
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  Speaker 1: you think about that. On the wall that got network,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Alex Garrett. Trump picks fast and furious, but not
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  Speaker 1: not in a disorganized way. He's wrapped up. He is
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  Speaker 1: much organized than he was in twenty sixteen, and that
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  Speaker 1: could only be better for this country. I won't keep
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  Speaker 1: an eye on it for you. I'm Alex Garrett. I
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  Speaker 1: have a great night.