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Trumps base wants the guillotine - Steve Bannon blasts news over election coverage · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: Across the country. Yesterday, thousands of Americans that you see
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  Speaker 1: on your screen took to the streets to protest against
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  Speaker 1: ICE and the Trump administration's harsh immigration crackdown. One of
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  Speaker 1: the largest demonstrations was in Portland, Maine, where protesters gathered
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  Speaker 1: in honor of twenty twenty five year old Johann Canetto,
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  Speaker 1: the second immigrant killed in an ICE shooting in just
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  Speaker 1: the past week. The demonstrations come as President Trump is
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  Speaker 1: urging ICE to keep up aggressive traffic stop operations despite
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  Speaker 1: the recent deadly shootings. At the same time, President Trump
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  Speaker 1: spent his week focused on reviving election conspiracy theories.
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  Speaker 2: His aim seems to be to lay.
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  Speaker 1: The groundwork to challenge the midterm election results if Republicans lose.
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  Speaker 1: But days after Trump's primetime address, which he promised would
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  Speaker 1: present overwhelming evidence of widespread voters hard the response from
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  Speaker 1: even much of his own party has been muted. Even
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  Speaker 1: Fox Knew largely steered clear of the president's election claims,
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  Speaker 1: a decision that has infuriated some of Trump's most loyal allies,
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  Speaker 1: including former advisor Steve Bannon.
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  Speaker 3: Fox News didn't cover any of that. As bad as
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  Speaker 3: it was, Fox News didn't do anything on the look
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  Speaker 3: the Murdochs or one hundred. They hate Trump, they hate Maga. Anybody.
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  Speaker 3: If you watch Fox and support that crap, you are
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  Speaker 3: part of the problem. They didn't do They had the
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  Speaker 3: fanity last night was embarrassing. On what they did after
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  Speaker 3: as they cut right away and went to the favorite topic,
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  Speaker 3: bombing Iran. We got to bomb Iran.
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  Speaker 1: Unbelievable joining us now, Angelo cotasan president of Media Matters,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for getting up early and heading to the table.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start right there. There was I mean, Fox News
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  Speaker 1: has seven hundred and eighty seven million reasons not to
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  Speaker 1: engage in more conspiracy theory lies. But on the larger
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  Speaker 1: ecosystem on the right, how did this land? How much
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  Speaker 1: were people actually talking about it?
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  Speaker 2: So it's true about the foxing and we should make
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  Speaker 2: it really explicit. I mean, after the speech ended, Brettbaar
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  Speaker 2: said that Fox just can't confirm anything the President said.
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  Speaker 2: Then they didn't talk about it in primetime. They didn't
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  Speaker 2: talk about it at all the next day. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: if you only watch Fox News, you think the big
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  Speaker 2: speech this week was Marco Rubio, you wouldn't know anything
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  Speaker 2: about Trump's speech. That's how much they ignored it. I
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  Speaker 2: mean they went out of their way to ignore it,
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  Speaker 2: and sometimes that's a way to help carry water. But
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  Speaker 2: I think the larger message has been penetrated, this idea
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  Speaker 2: that elections are to be doubted, and that gets to
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  Speaker 2: how to play broadly, because the audience wasn't it's not
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  Speaker 2: to convince America right, it is. Actually there were three
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  Speaker 2: groups that he was speaking to. It was the operators,
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  Speaker 2: like the Steve Bennons, It was the faithful, the people
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  Speaker 2: that are really diehard election deniers that have been waiting
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  Speaker 2: for him to make this a big thing and do something.
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  Speaker 2: And then impatient people that they want something more substantial,
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  Speaker 2: they want action like a national emergency or the Insurrection Act.
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  Speaker 2: Those people are excited. The impatient people are still impatient.
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  Speaker 2: But the rest of them got the message loud and clear,
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  Speaker 2: which is that this is the premiers, this is the
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  Speaker 2: starting gun. He just fired it, and they think they're
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  Speaker 2: off to the races. So broadly speaking, it was a
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  Speaker 2: total dut and they can be easily measured and disfected
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  Speaker 2: from that perspective. But to the key audience that he
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  Speaker 2: was speaking to, they're ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: The people who might need to take action or whether
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  Speaker 1: that's running action or rhetorical action from now that's right.
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  Speaker 2: I mean they see it as that as this is
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  Speaker 2: the moment to start to mobilize around not just you know,
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  Speaker 2: local polling stations, but in particular the story that people
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  Speaker 2: who should not be voting are going to be voting.
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  Speaker 2: So anything and everything is on the table, which is
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  Speaker 2: prepared for some type of armed presence at these polling stations,
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  Speaker 2: to doing your own independent investigations to track down people
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  Speaker 2: that shouldn't be voting. This was, for them, was the
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  Speaker 2: starting gun.
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  Speaker 4: His supporters were not disappointment.
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  Speaker 2: They were not They were not disappointed.
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  Speaker 5: A yeah, you mentioned three audiences. But before I get
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  Speaker 5: give you my question, let's play the exchange that our
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  Speaker 5: colleague Von Hilliard had.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Thursday night after.
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  Speaker 5: This, you know what? You know what video I'm about
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  Speaker 5: to show. If you don't know the video I'm about
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  Speaker 5: to show, watch now, do.
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  Speaker 2: You acknowledge that there were no votes changed in twenty twenty?
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  Speaker 6: I'm all I can acknowledge is with the intelligence shows, right,
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  Speaker 6: I only know the intelligence community has zero evidence that
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  Speaker 6: someone has flipped that a foreign power flip they vote
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  Speaker 6: in twenty twenty twenty two or twenty four, twenty twenty
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  Speaker 6: election was in fact the results as we of the
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  Speaker 6: American bot. I'm so researching, so let me let me
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  Speaker 6: have this is the first one. There's no intelligence yet,
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  Speaker 6: there's no intelligence at the election.
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  Speaker 2: I would have said that truck with the president, that's now, Angela.
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  Speaker 5: I wanted to show that because you mentioned the president
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  Speaker 5: was talking to three audiences, but I wonder if he
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  Speaker 5: if this was just one audience, but it was reversed.
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  Speaker 5: And this is something that I think Eugene brought up yesterday,
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  Speaker 5: that what if and I don't know if this was
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  Speaker 5: actually on air or dirty commercial pride. I apologize, but
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  Speaker 5: it had all the feel of his cabinet. These the
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  Speaker 5: people around him just letting him do this just so
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  Speaker 5: he could get it out of his system. And I
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  Speaker 5: say that because we don't have that. We played the picture,
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  Speaker 5: showed the picture yesterday. But it's the vice president, the
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  Speaker 5: chief of Staff, the acting Attorney General, the FBI director,
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  Speaker 5: the D and I acting D and I. They're all
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  Speaker 5: in that room as he spouts all these falsehoods and
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  Speaker 5: lies and relitigates the twenty twenty election. And that's why
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  Speaker 5: when Fox News decided we're going to show it, but
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  Speaker 5: we're not going to talk about it. Was this just
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  Speaker 5: a let's make the big guy feel feel good about himself.
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  Speaker 2: I think, yeah, I'm sure that's be's a part of it.
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  Speaker 2: But what I think we can't discounter our a few things.
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  Speaker 2: One that John Solomon guy, Yeah, he's bad news. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: he's an harborager of bad news. And it's worth remembering,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, especially in the context of that silly video,
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  Speaker 2: is that he is largely responsible for Donald Trump's first impeachment.
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  Speaker 2: He was the one that was pushing the Giuliani Ukraine
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  Speaker 2: stuff that Trump sort of ran with. This guy has
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  Speaker 2: a long track record. He is a sort of a
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  Speaker 2: pied piper of conspiracy theories and narratives that Trump is
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  Speaker 2: willing to run with. And the second thing is that
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  Speaker 2: it gets to the point that you're talking about the
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  Speaker 2: people around him. Let's talk about some of those people.
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  Speaker 2: This week, JD Vance went on Joe Rogan's podcast and
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  Speaker 2: said that Spencer Pratt is the legitimate mayor of Los Angeles,
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  Speaker 2: that the election was stolen, so they may not want
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  Speaker 2: to carry water for Venezuela or China. Sealing the election
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  Speaker 2: or some kind of Italian satellites involved switching vogus. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: this is not Maybe they don't want to carry water
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  Speaker 2: for those stories, but they are willing to push the
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  Speaker 2: idea that the election is being stone. They're willing to
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  Speaker 2: push the predicate that something big is here and requires
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  Speaker 2: increased action. And it's not just Vance. The people around
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  Speaker 2: that are in key positions, like you know Heather Hunting,
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  Speaker 2: who's DHS, who use he was an election denier that
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  Speaker 2: now she's a government official. But my point is these
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  Speaker 2: people don't need to storm the Capitol anymore. They were
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  Speaker 2: given they were your badgist. They're part of the government.
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  Speaker 2: So the audience isn't small, but the actors are significant.
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  Speaker 4: There are a lot of election deniers all across the
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  Speaker 4: Trump administration. Heather Honey is working, Yeah, Heather Honey is
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  Speaker 4: working on election integrity within the DHS. John Soloman, the
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  Speaker 4: former journalist who now works on the task force.
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  Speaker 2: For the Election.
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  Speaker 4: But I want to go back to what you were
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  Speaker 4: saying that his supporters were not disappointed by this speech,
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  Speaker 4: because I was talking to a former Trump administration official
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  Speaker 4: who said that the present he created a base that
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  Speaker 4: loves the guillotine. Yeah, that was what this former official said.
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  Speaker 4: And so this official was essentially skeptical that his base
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  Speaker 4: would be happy with this speech because there were no
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  Speaker 4: charges that were brought as a result of it. So
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  Speaker 4: do you think that, even though maybe in the immediate
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  Speaker 4: they are pleased with what the president did, that if
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  Speaker 4: they don't see any real action, they're going to not
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  Speaker 4: turn out for public observation.
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  Speaker 2: That that third category of the impatient, that's the largest audience,
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  Speaker 2: they're done with this. They don't care about the details anymore.
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  Speaker 2: They're sold. You don't need to sell them now. They
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  Speaker 2: want they want charges, they want action. And it's worth
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  Speaker 2: keeping in mind that this is not taking place in
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  Speaker 2: a vacuum. That audience is already disappointed about all the
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  Speaker 2: Epstein stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: They're tired of them constantly doing this long con. Next week,
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  Speaker 2: next week, we're going to do something and not getting
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  Speaker 2: any action. And they have blood lust. They want they
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  Speaker 2: have blood lust, And so you're right, there's very very
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  Speaker 2: short shelf life here for him to actually take action.
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  Speaker 2: And the singular action that they want is a national
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  Speaker 2: emergency and a massive crackdown. And I think that's where
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  Speaker 2: you see that tied in a little bit with the
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  Speaker 2: ice actions this week. I think part of the reason
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  Speaker 2: why he sort of overturned that that sort of pause
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  Speaker 2: on these stop actions because he knows his audience is
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  Speaker 2: they're impatient, they want something, and even though they're not
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  Speaker 2: exactly together, they are a little bit connected. And so
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  Speaker 2: that is going to be the real to term. It's
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  Speaker 2: either going to be a total flop and he's going
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  Speaker 2: to upset his audience even more, or it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be that impatience is going to actually lead to acceleration
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  Speaker 2: and increased activity.
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  Speaker 5: Are they going to get what they want the impatient?
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  Speaker 2: Do you think in the end? I do. I think
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  Speaker 2: that they are going to go for a national emergency.
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  Speaker 2: I think all the pieces are there, all the players
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  Speaker 2: are there. And I think one of the things about
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  Speaker 2: that came out of that haberm book about Vance is
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  Speaker 2: I was struck by how many times Vance is the
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  Speaker 2: first one in the room to say National Emergency Insurrection
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  Speaker 2: Act the people. Any of the speed bumps of the
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  Speaker 2: friction that would stop this is not And I think
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  Speaker 2: from Trump's perspective, he has nothing to lose to go
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  Speaker 2: for it is that he keeps pushing it. It's going
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  Speaker 2: to prove that the thing he's saying, even if it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't work out. When it's all over, he gets to
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  Speaker 2: continue to attack the elections. And that's what they want,
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  Speaker 2: right They want to undermine and continue to run confidence
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  Speaker 2: in it so that they can actually break it.
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  Speaker 5: Assass