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It’s Columbus Day! · David Pollack Primetime

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  Speaker 1: Fourth of July 2020, rioters in Baltimore tore down a
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  Speaker 1: statue of Christopher Columbus and threw it into the harbor.
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  Speaker 1: Ronald Reagan had dedicated that statue in 1984. The city
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  Speaker 1: of Baltimore never put it back. Today, a replica of
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  Speaker 1: that statue, 13 feet tall and weighing a ton, stands
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  Speaker 1: on the grounds of the White House. John Pica of
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  Speaker 1: Italian-American organizations United put it this way. We are delighted
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  Speaker 1: the statue has found a place where it can peacefully
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  Speaker 1: shine and be protected. On Friday, the White House hosted
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  Speaker 1: a Columbus Day celebration.
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  Speaker 2: Look. I'll say a few words about a person that
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  Speaker 2: I assume you like.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't like, you're in the wrong room.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to be talking a little bit about a
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  Speaker 2: man named Christopher Columbus.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Christopher Columbus changed the future of humanity forever. And in
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  Speaker 2: this administration, we know that Christopher Columbus is, to us,
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  Speaker 2: he's a hero.
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  Speaker 3: He's a hero.
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  Speaker 1: I say proudly, somebody would say, oh, that's a terrible thing.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the fake news. Look at all of them
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  Speaker 1: back there. Happy Columbus Day. 500. 34 years ago today,
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  Speaker 1: three ships paid for by the Spanish crown sighted land
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  Speaker 1: in the New World. They had sailed out of Palos,
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  Speaker 1: Spain on August 3rd, 1492, under the command of an
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  Speaker 1: Italian from Genoa. When Columbus went ashore, he raised a cross.
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  Speaker 1: This year's presidential proclamation quotes what that cross meant. Your Highness,
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  Speaker 1: hold this land for your own, but chiefly as a
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  Speaker 1: sign of our Lord Jesus Christ. a man of faith
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  Speaker 1: who sailed west into the unknown, that's the man they
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  Speaker 1: want you to be ashamed of. This country has been
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  Speaker 1: celebrating that day almost as long as it's been a country.
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  Speaker 1: The first Columbus Day celebration in America was in New
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  Speaker 1: York City in 1792, the 300th anniversary. It was organized
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  Speaker 1: by the Tammany Society. Society's meeting place, Tammany Hall, went
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  Speaker 1: on to become the byword for Democrat machine politics in
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  Speaker 1: New York. The people who threw America's first Columbus Day
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  Speaker 1: party helped build the Democrat Party in that state. 100
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  Speaker 1: years later, Columbus Day became this country's answer to hatred.
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  Speaker 1: March 14, 1891, a mob in New Orleans lynched 11 Italians.
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  Speaker 1: Italy was angry. Benjamin Harrison paid the Italian government $ 25, 000,
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  Speaker 1: and for the next year, for the 400th anniversary, he
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  Speaker 1: proclaimed a national celebration of Christopher Columbus, the pioneer of
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  Speaker 1: progress and enlightenment. The Ma Museum calls it an olive
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  Speaker 1: branch to Italy and to Italian-Americans. That same year, America's
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  Speaker 1: schoolchildren were handed something new. The Pledge of Allegiance, it
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  Speaker 1: made its national debut in the official program for Columbus
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  Speaker 1: Day in public schools. I pledge allegiance to my flag
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  Speaker 1: and the republic for which it stands. One nation, under God.
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  Speaker 1: Remember that part? With liberty and justice for all, a
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  Speaker 1: Pledge of Allegiance was born on Columbus Day. Then came
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  Speaker 1: the Knights of Columbus. A Catholic fraternal order in a
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  Speaker 1: country where anti-immigrant groups had rejected this holiday because it
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  Speaker 1: was Catholic. The Knights lobbied hard. In the 1930s, Franklin
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  Speaker 1: Roosevelt made Columbus Day a national holiday. In 1968, Lyndon
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  Speaker 1: Johnson signed the law that made it a federal holiday.
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  Speaker 1: On the second Monday in October, Roosevelt and Johnson, two
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  Speaker 1: Democrat presidents, for most of American history, honoring Columbus was
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  Speaker 1: something both parties did. because it honored the Italians and
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  Speaker 1: the Catholics this country once treated as outsiders. Then, the
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  Speaker 1: left decided Columbus was a villain. In 2019, Maine, Vermont,
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  Speaker 1: and New Mexico replaced Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day.
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  Speaker 1: The next summer, the statues came down. In Boston, they
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  Speaker 1: beheaded one. In St. Paul, they dragged one off its pedestal.
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  Speaker 1: The city of Columbus, Ohio, took down its own. By 2021,
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  Speaker 1: according to an analysis by the Washington Post and MIT,
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  Speaker 1: at least 40 Columbus monuments had been dismantled across this country.
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  Speaker 1: AT LEAST 40 IN ABOUT THREE YEARS. A NATIONAL HERO
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  Speaker 1: PULLED DOWN BY MOBS AND CITY COUNCILS. ERASED. IN 2021,
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  Speaker 1: JOE BIDEN BECAME THE FIRST PRESIDENT TO PROCLAIM Then Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump came back in April of last year. He posted,
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  Speaker 1: I'm bringing Columbus Day back from the ashes. Last October
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  Speaker 1: at the cabinet table, he signed the proclamation look.
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  Speaker 3: Columbus Day, we're back. Columbus Day, we're back, Italians.
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  Speaker 1: We love the Italians. That proclamation named what this country
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  Speaker 1: watched happen. Left-wing radicals toppled his statues, vandalized his monuments,
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  Speaker 1: and then made it a promise. Then Trump made a promise.
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  Speaker 1: Under my leadership, those days are finally over. This year,
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  Speaker 1: he went further. On Friday, he hosted a Columbus Day
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  Speaker 1: celebration in the East Room and said it plainly. I
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  Speaker 1: resurrected Christopher Columbus. Then he put the city of Columbus,
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  Speaker 1: Ohio on notice. We demand that Christopher Columbus be put
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  Speaker 1: back into the heart of Columbus, Ohio. We want it back.
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  Speaker 1: PROCLAMATION THIS YEAR, WE ARE FOREVER INDEBTED TO HIS COURAGEOUS
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  Speaker 1: VOYAGE AND WE WILL NEVER ALLOW HIS LEGACY TO BE
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  Speaker 1: ERASED BY RADICAL EXTREMISTS. IT MAKES NO MENTION OF INDIGENOUS
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  Speaker 1: PEOPLE'S DAY. MEANWHILE, 15 SENATORS FROM THE DEMOCRAT SIDE OF
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  Speaker 1: THE AISLE SIGNED ONTO A RESOLUTION BACKING TODAY AS INDIGENOUS
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  Speaker 1: PEOPLE'S DAY AND CALLING FOR IT TO BECOME A FEDERAL HOLIDAY.
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  Speaker 4: WHAT?
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  Speaker 1: Bernie Sanders, Adam Schiff, Cory Booker, Elizabeth Pocahontas Warren, who
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  Speaker 1: has a special affinity for this occasion. The resolution says, quote,
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  Speaker 1: Columbus Day does not currently provide an opportunity to reflect
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  Speaker 1: on the stories and perseverance of the indigenous peoples. Elizabeth Warren, yes,
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  Speaker 1: that Elizabeth Warren, wrote the Treasury Secretary a letter last week.
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  Speaker 1: Over the weekend, the White House posted how Scott Besant
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  Speaker 1: signed off on his reply. A letter to Elizabeth Warren
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  Speaker 1: wishing her a happy Indigenous Peoples' Day. In California, Gavin
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  Speaker 1: Newsom proclaims Indigenous Peoples' Day every year. Last year, he
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  Speaker 1: posted that California celebrates the contributions, cultural vibrance, and adaptability
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  Speaker 1: of all Indigenous people who now call California home. And
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  Speaker 1: of course, Zoran Mundani posted three videos on his social
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  Speaker 1: media account celebrating today as Indigenous Peoples' Day.
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  Speaker 5: Look.
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  Speaker 6: For millennia, long before the Dutch arrived, we Lenape called
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  Speaker 6: this land home. Our ancestors thrived here in Manhattan, creating sophisticated, complex.
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  Speaker 3: Societies and culture. And the island had many Lenape villages.
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  Speaker 6: We Lenape were not visitors. We were and are indigenous
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  Speaker 6: to Lenapehaki, the Lenape territory that includes present-day New York City.
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  Speaker 1: And who could forget this gem? Back in 2019, when
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  Speaker 1: Ilhan Omar, she's having quite an interesting day today, went
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  Speaker 1: after the man himself, saying, Columbus didn't discover America. He
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  Speaker 1: never even reached the land that is now called the
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  Speaker 1: United States. What he did do is invade and conquer
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  Speaker 1: islands where indigenous people already lived. And the hatred goes
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  Speaker 1: beyond social media posts. In one final jab towards America
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  Speaker 1: and Italian-Americans, Mondani declined to march in today's Columbus Day parade.
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  Speaker 1: And they invited him, despite the fact that back in 2020,
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  Speaker 1: Mondani posted a photo of his middle finger aimed at
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  Speaker 1: a Columbus statue in Queens. The president of the foundation
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  Speaker 1: that runs the parade said, we feel cooperating is always
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  Speaker 1: the better path. That's grace, and it's more than the
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  Speaker 1: mayor showed them. So what is this really all about?
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  Speaker 1: It isn't about a sailor from Genoa. It's about whether
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  Speaker 1: you're allowed to be proud of how this country began,
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  Speaker 1: our heritage. For more than a century, Columbus Day told
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  Speaker 1: Italian immigrants and Catholics that they belonged in the American story.
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  Speaker 1: Basil Russo, who leads a national council of Italian-American groups,
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  Speaker 1: calls the Columbus statues symbols of pride and cultural identity
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  Speaker 1: for more than 18 million Americans of Italian descent. The
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  Speaker 1: left looks at the same day and sees a crime
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  Speaker 1: scene THIS PRESIDENT SEES A HERO AND HE PUT IT
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  Speaker 1: IN WRITING. SIX YEARS AGO, A MOB THREW CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
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  Speaker 1: INTO THE BALTIMORE HARBOR. TODAY, HIS STATUE STANDS AT THE
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  Speaker 1: WHITE HOUSE AND BY ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT, THE AMERICAN
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  Speaker 1: FLAG FLIES OVER EVERY PUBLIC BUILDING IN THE UNITED STATES
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  Speaker 1: IN HIS HONOR. and we continue to celebrate Columbus Day today.
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  Speaker 1: And no amount of radical temper tantrums and redefining of
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  Speaker 1: our history will make us forget who we are. Happy
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  Speaker 1: Columbus Day, everyone. Still ahead tonight, James Tallarico vanished from
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  Speaker 1: the campaign trail for 13 days. New allegations about where
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  Speaker 1: he actually was. And this one's interesting. The share of
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  Speaker 1: ninth grade girls who call themselves bisexual got cut in half.
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  Speaker 1: We have why. And hours after President Trump's diesel deal
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  Speaker 1: with Putin, a Russian fuel terminal went up in flames
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  Speaker 1: thanks to Zelensky. All that's coming up later. Don't go anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: INTERESTING CAMPAIGNS WITH STRANGE MEN FOR 13 DAYS. AND THE
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  Speaker 1: HOME STRETCH OF THE TEXAS SENATE RACE. THE DEMOCRAT NOMINEE
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  Speaker 1: VANISHED FROM THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL. AND WHEN JAMES TALARICO FINALLY
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  Speaker 1: RESURFACED ON FRIDAY, HE WAS JUST AT A MUSIC FESTIVAL. Now,
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  Speaker 1: September 26th was the last public event in Texas. Anyone
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  Speaker 1: who saw him two days later, he was in New
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  Speaker 1: York City at a private fundraiser featuring Robert De Niro,
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  Speaker 1: where I'm sure he just walked around and said, F Trump,
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  Speaker 1: because he doesn't do anything else these days. The next day,
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  Speaker 1: his campaign says he was diagnosed with the flu at
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  Speaker 1: an urgent care in Dallas. Now, pay attention to that. Now,
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  Speaker 1: on September 30th, he skipped an event in Edinburgh and
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  Speaker 1: sent a video instead and says, I'm running a fever
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  Speaker 1: and I'm at my most contagious right now. Then a
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  Speaker 1: civic group in Central Texas canceled his event with him.
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  Speaker 1: His campaign schedule showed no public events. His spokesman promised
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  Speaker 1: he'd be back on the trail that weekend.
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  Speaker 3: You haven't seen him in a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 1: I hear the guy's disappeared.
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  Speaker 7: Nobody knows.
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  Speaker 1: You know where he is?
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  Speaker 2: He's sick because he's been forced to eat meat for
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  Speaker 2: political reasons, and he's throwing up all over the place.
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  Speaker 3: He's sick.
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  Speaker 1: Friday, Tallarico turned up at the Austin City Limits Festival Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: According to CNN, he was in the front row of
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  Speaker 1: a Casey Musgraves concert in Dallas, and on Sunday he
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  Speaker 1: gave his explanation.
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  Speaker 8: Look, I just went to my primary care physician, but
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  Speaker 8: it wasn't anything worse than, you know, nasty case of
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  Speaker 8: the flu. And so I was in bed and you know,
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  Speaker 8: drinking like lots of liquids. Unfortunately, the campaign made me
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  Speaker 8: work from home so I didn't even get full days off.
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  Speaker 8: You know, didn't want to be out on the trail
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  Speaker 8: and didn't want to get anyone else sick.
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  Speaker 1: Last week, the report said urgent care. Now it's his
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  Speaker 1: primary care physician. He also said, unfortunately, the campaign made
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  Speaker 1: me work from home, so I didn't even get a
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  Speaker 1: full day's off. Well, then why were you posting on
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  Speaker 1: social media? Too sick to campaign for 13 days. And
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  Speaker 1: then you're back. Everything's just fine. Back-to-back music festivals. And
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  Speaker 1: then a really odd twist this weekend. Now, there was
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  Speaker 1: speculation about where he was. Was he getting mental health treatment? Well,
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  Speaker 1: a conservative commentator named Ryan Amateur released a recording of
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  Speaker 1: a phone call he made to the Lindner Center of Hope,
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  Speaker 1: a mental health facility in Ohio. Amateur called, asked if
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  Speaker 1: he was there, and he was told he was just
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  Speaker 1: discharged this evening. Silly later put out a statement claiming
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  Speaker 1: that Representative James Tallarico never received treatment from the Lindner
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  Speaker 1: Center of Hope. Campaign calls the story a lie designed
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  Speaker 1: to promote a pathetic conspiracy theory. Tallarico says he never
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  Speaker 1: been to Ohio. An amateur puts that call on Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: the day after Tallarico was photographed at the festival. So
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  Speaker 1: there are some questions about the timing. Former Trump fundraiser
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  Speaker 1: Caroline Wren also posted on X claiming that a private
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  Speaker 1: plane took off from Austin and flew to a tiny
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  Speaker 1: Hamilton airport in Ohio, which is 20 minutes from the
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  Speaker 1: Lindner Center, a private inpatient mental health treatment facility, and
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  Speaker 1: then turned around and flew back to Austin, landing yesterday
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  Speaker 1: morning at 1024, right before he reappears at the music
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  Speaker 1: festival that afternoon. NOW WITH REACTION IS CHRIS SALCIDO, CONSERVATIVE BROADCASTER, PODCASTER,
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  Speaker 1: AUTHOR AND POLITICAL ANALYST. CHRIS, WELCOME TO THE PRIME TIME.
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  Speaker 1: WHAT A WEIRD TWIST. WE HEARD THIS RUMOR THAT HE
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  Speaker 1: WAS GETTING MENTAL HEALTH TREATMENT. I DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING SUBSTANTIAL
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  Speaker 1: TO REPORT ON IT. IT WAS SPECULATION. NOBODY KNEW WHERE
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  Speaker 1: HE WAS. THE ONE THING WE KNEW FOR SURE THAT
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  Speaker 1: HE WAS MISSING AND NOBODY KNEW WHERE HE WAS. NOW
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  Speaker 1: WE GET THIS AUDIO RECORDING FROM THIS MENTAL HEALTH FACILITY
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  Speaker 1: THAT SUGGESTS HE WAS DISCHARGED.
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  Speaker 3: First off, early loading starts on October 19th here in
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  Speaker 3: the great state of Texas. So it's, as you're right,
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  Speaker 3: it's right around the corner. And I think that your
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  Speaker 3: broader point on this is that James Tallarico and his campaign,
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  Speaker 3: they're hiding something. I mean, even Joe Biden from his basement,
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  Speaker 3: when they were trying to hide him from the general public,
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  Speaker 3: was putting out videos. You mean to tell me that
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  Speaker 3: seven days into his disappearance that he couldn't have said,
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  Speaker 3: you know, hey, I'm really feeling terrible. Here's a video
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  Speaker 3: from me, you know, proof of life. I'll be on
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  Speaker 3: the campaign trail. No, he didn't do any of that.
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  Speaker 3: He just went missing for two weeks. And what I
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  Speaker 3: also heard, and because I had Caroline Wren on my
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  Speaker 3: show today, the campaign itself, she talked to a couple
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  Speaker 3: of left-wing press outlets, the campaign itself went dark. For
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  Speaker 3: seven days, they couldn't reach anybody inside the campaign. Mark Penn,
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  Speaker 3: seasoned Democrat operative, said this is, he's never seen anything
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  Speaker 3: like this 45, 50 years of covering politics. He says
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  Speaker 3: he's never seen anything like this at all. It's because
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  Speaker 3: it never happens. Because they've been, as you noted, David,
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  Speaker 3: their story is changing constantly. First he was in New York,
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  Speaker 3: then he was at the ER in Dallas, then he
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  Speaker 3: was at his primary care physician in Austin. Well, which
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  Speaker 3: is it, man? We have no idea. They're all over
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  Speaker 3: the place. And so it opens the door for this
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  Speaker 3: kind of speculation. Lunatic Lena Hidalgo, who was a county
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  Speaker 3: judge in Houston, she actually came out and said, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: this is where I went. I had a mental breakdown.
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  Speaker 3: She was out for three weeks. And the reason why
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  Speaker 3: she admitted it is because she was trying to say, hey,
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  Speaker 3: I need some extra paid days off. So anyway, man,
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  Speaker 3: this is just crazy. And then they come up with
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  Speaker 3: the phone conversation of some alleged staff member admitting that
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  Speaker 3: he was there. And if you look at the statement,
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  Speaker 3: this is what the Lindner Center of Hope put out.
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  Speaker 3: Representative James Tallarico has never received treatment from the Lindner
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  Speaker 3: Center of Hope. Okay, well, what about anybody you're affiliated with?
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  Speaker 3: And Megyn Kelly's asking the question. I think it's a
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  Speaker 3: good one. Has he been at your facility? Because they
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  Speaker 3: didn't say he hadn't been there. They just said he
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  Speaker 3: hadn't received treatment from them. So we'll see where this goes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the whole thing is just, it's really odd. The planes...
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  Speaker 1: You know, the private jet that went to and from
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  Speaker 1: there with the timing. Again, the recording that says James
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  Speaker 1: Tallarico was discharged. Was it that James Tallarico? Was it
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  Speaker 1: a different James Tallarico? We don't know. The only thing
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  Speaker 1: we know for sure is that he, like you said,
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  Speaker 1: he was missing for two weeks. And the story about
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  Speaker 1: why he's missing is all over the place. And so
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  Speaker 1: really the takeaway here is, and I don't care. Look,
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  Speaker 1: I would have sympathy for a man if he broke down.
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  Speaker 1: And he needed to get treatment. There should not be
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  Speaker 1: a negative stigma placed on somebody getting mental health treatment.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, we want people to get treated. But at
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  Speaker 1: the same time, the fact that you're lying to your voters,
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  Speaker 1: the fact that you're not being honest about things that
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  Speaker 1: might be relevant when you're asking them to send you
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  Speaker 1: to Washington, the fact you're lying about where you were
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  Speaker 1: this close to an election, and the fact that you're
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  Speaker 1: not just being transparent, there's other things, too. This guy
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  Speaker 1: says he doesn't like meat. Then he's pictured with barbecue.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's just all over the place. Nobody knows
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  Speaker 1: who he is, what he's hiding, what issues he has.
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  Speaker 1: And this is a guy who wants to go and
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  Speaker 1: represent Texas in the Senate. I think that's the real
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  Speaker 1: issue here, right?
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  Speaker 5: No, it is.
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  Speaker 3: And you know what? What happens the next time he
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  Speaker 3: gets a hangnail? And God forbid, because I live in Texas,
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  Speaker 3: I would be harmed by this if this guy gets elected.
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  Speaker 3: The next time he gets a hangnail and he's out
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  Speaker 3: for two or three weeks, and then we need him
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  Speaker 3: there to do something on our behalf. He's not going
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  Speaker 3: to be there. So I think this is, and by
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  Speaker 3: the way, on the whole sympathy thing, I'm with you.
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  Speaker 3: If somebody has a mental issue, you want to get
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  Speaker 3: them the help. But that being said, you know, out
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  Speaker 3: of sympathy, that's not a reason to send them into
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  Speaker 3: an important job. Like if you said to somebody who
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  Speaker 3: was legally blind, hey, man, I really feel sorry for you.
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  Speaker 3: Let me give you a commercial pilot's license and get
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  Speaker 3: you on the next American Airlines flight. We wouldn't do
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  Speaker 3: that out of sympathy. The same thing should go for
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  Speaker 3: somebody who wants to serve in the United States Senate.
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  Speaker 3: Although I can feel sympathy for somebody who has mental
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  Speaker 3: health issues, I am not willing to sacrifice me and
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  Speaker 3: mine or the safety security of my state or my
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  Speaker 3: country based on that sympathy.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I mean, and really the relevant question is,
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  Speaker 1: who is James Talrico? And that's the question. Nobody knows
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: who he really is. Nobody knows what he's hiding. And
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: if this latest disappearance confirms that there's a lot more
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: questions than answers with respect to the James Talrico campaign.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: And that's what voters have to decide. You know, when
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: he goes, is he a socialist? Is he a Christian?
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Is he a pastor? Does he love trans kids? Does
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: he not? Does he have mental health issues? Does he not?
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Nobody knows anything about who this guy really is. That
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: is the problem, and voters really need to take that
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: into account when they go and step into the ballot
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: box in just a few days.
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, and I've got to give a hat tip to
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: Ken Paxton, the Attorney General, the most conservative Attorney General
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: in the United States, and his campaign, because unlike Robert
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: Francis Betta O'Rourke, Mr. Talafrig show, he actually has a
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: voting record that we can look at. And so on
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: all of these issues, raising taxes, institutionalizing an income tax
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: in the state of Texas, being for trans kids, trying to...
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: There's a super PAC out there that is saying he's got...
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: He voted for a bill that would have thrown parents
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: in jail if they denied their kids what we've classified
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: in Texas as child abuse, this... trans-surgery nonsense, that the
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: idea that you could change a girl into a boy
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: or a boy into a girl, it's physically and genetically
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: and scientifically impossible. But we call it child abuse in Texas,
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: and this guy is all for it. So kudos to
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: the Ken Paxton campaign for at least doing the best
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: to out-shout the left-wing media filter to basically put this
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: guy's record out there. And when you start doing a
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: deep dive into what this guy is all about, a
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: lot of Texans aren't going to like what they see.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's the takeaway here. Nobody knows who he is,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: and what we do know about him, we don't like.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: And Ken Paxton's a great guy, by the way. I mean,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: he's done an amazing job for Texas, and he's going
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: to be an amazing senator. Chris, thank you so much
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: for being here. Give us your take on this.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: My pleasure.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Coming up, the Washington Post says the number of teens
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: identifying as gay or bisexual is in free fall. Conservative
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Ant joins me on what's taking its place. Hint, hint, communism.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: That's coming up next.
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  Speaker 1: This is a weird one. Last week, the Washington Post
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: ran this headline. The number of teens who identify themselves
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: as gay or bisexual is in free fall. Apparently, in
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: four years, the share of ninth grade girls who call
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: themselves bisexual has been cut in half, 26% in 2021,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: 13% last year. The post's numbers come from an analysis
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: of the CDC's National Youth Survey by Jean Twenge, a
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: psychology professor at San Diego State University. Now, lesbian or
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: bisexual combined, 30% of ninth grade girls in 2021, 17%
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: in 2025. She told the post, it really does look
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: like a free fall. Now, remember what came before it
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: in 2015. 8% of the American high schoolers told the
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: CDC they were lesbian, gay, or bisexual. By 2021, it
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: was more than 15%. Post says the big jump among
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: girls came after the pandemic shutdowns, nearly double in six years.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Older teens have held steadier, but among the youngest kids,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: it's falling fast. So what happened? The professor who found
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: it told the Post, it's a mystery. I don't think
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: it's much of a mystery. Those numbers took off when
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: kids were basically pulled out of school, cut off from
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: their friends and handed a screen and were indoctrinated with
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: whatever social media wanted to think or feel. Of course,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: once the schools reopened and life came back. the labels
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: started falling. That same CDC survey shows the share of
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: high schoolers reporting persistent sadness dropped from 40% to 33%
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: between 23 and 25. And it isn't only gay and bisexual.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Twenge looked at a major national survey of young adults
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: and found transgender identification among 18 to 22-year-olds cut in
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: half between 22 and 24. Her words, it turns out,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: identifying as transgender is also in a free fall among
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: the young in the U.S. So is identifying as non-binary.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Professor Eric Kaufman, who tracks these numbers, calls the trans
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: trend largely a contagion of fashion. FOCUSED ON THE FAMILY'S
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: GLENN STATTON CALLS THE WHOLE TREND SOCIAL CONTAGION. FASHIONS FADE.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: THE PEOPLE PUSHING THEM ON THE YOUNG AMERICANS DON'T GO AWAY, THOUGH.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: THEY CHANGE THE PRODUCT. AND LOOK AT WHAT THEY'RE SELLING NOW.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: LAST MONTH, GALLUP FOUND 43% OF AMERICANS HAVE A POSITIVE
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: VIEW OF SOCIALISM. THAT'S THE FIRST TIME IT HAS Among Americans,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: 18 to 34, it's 57%. A Cato Institute poll last
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: year found 62% of Americans under 30 view socialism favorably,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: and 34% say the same about communism. Cato's Emily Atkins
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: says the pitch to young people goes like this. DEMOCRATIC
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: SOCIALISM CAN MAKE IT CHEAPER. NEW YORK CITY ELECTED A
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST MAYOR LAST YEAR ON THAT EXACT PITCH. SO
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: IF YOU'RE RAISING KIDS, YOU'VE WATCHED THE SALES PITCH CHANGE
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: IN REAL TIME. A FEW YEARS AGO, IT WAS A LABEL. 2021,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: 30% of ninth grade girls say they were lesbian or bisexual.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Last year, 17% did. And today, 57% of Americans under
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: 35 think socialism is great. What's going on here? Is
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: the social messaging strategy evolving? Joining me now to answer
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: that question, conservative commentator, social media personality, conservative aunt, Anthony,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: welcome back. David Pollak, prime time. Look, this is kind
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: of weird, right? I saw this story pop up and
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: I'm like, this is really interesting. Let me dive in
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: because it really shows how effective these social engineering campaigns
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: are between using social media and pop culture. to basically
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: just move the tide of whatever's in trend towards whatever
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: ideology they're pushing at the time. And it's crazy to
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: me how people, I mean, it's not like people are
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: becoming less gay. It's just they're identifying as less gay,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: and now they're identifying as more socialist. What do you
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: think's going on here?
• 25:59
  Speaker 7: I know it's like frustrating, right, when you think about it.
• 26:04
  Speaker 9: This is the kind of stuff I've been talking about
• 26:06
  Speaker 9: for probably 10 years now. The gay community has been hijacked.
• 26:11
  Speaker 9: But the reason it's been hijacked is because you have
• 26:14
  Speaker 9: social justice warriors or parents that, for some odd reason,
• 26:20
  Speaker 9: want to implement this fad, being the gay community and pronouns,
• 26:25
  Speaker 9: onto their children, but they don't know that they're being
• 26:28
  Speaker 9: sold a box of rocks.
• 26:29
  Speaker 7: And then once they get this box of rocks and
• 26:32
  Speaker 7: they open.
• 26:32
  Speaker 9: It, and they start to identify as gay, lesbian, trans.
• 26:37
  Speaker 7: they had.
• 26:38
  Speaker 9: No idea what they were getting themselves into because then
• 26:41
  Speaker 9: the OG gay community was like.
• 26:43
  Speaker 7: Girl, we don't even talk like that. So they're like, oh, okay,
• 26:48
  Speaker 7: I guess this isn't cool anymore. So it just crumbles.
• 26:51
  Speaker 7: There's no mystery behind it.
• 26:53
  Speaker 9: The mystery is we don't know why they did this
• 26:55
  Speaker 9: to them in the first place.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Well, maybe we do though. And I've always theorized that
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: no matter which you know, thing it is, no matter
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: which T-shirt they're wearing, no matter which pre-printed sign they
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: hand them, whether it's No Kings, whether it's BLM, whether
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: it's trans rights, whether it's communism, it's all the same
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: sort of process, right? It's in order to take them
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: and give them a label CAUSE SORT OF THIS STRIFE
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: BETWEEN THIS LABEL AND THE COMMUNITY, AND THEN SAY, SEE,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: THIS IS A COMMUNITY THAT DOESN'T ACCEPT YOU FOR WHO
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: YOU ARE. AND IT WENT FROM BEING GAY TO WHEN
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: WE'RE LIKE, WE DON'T REALLY HAVE A PROBLEM WITH GAY PEOPLE, LIKE, OKAY, COOL,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: THEN WE'RE COMMUNISTS. THEY DON'T LIKE YOU BECAUSE YOU'RE COMMUNISTS.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: IT JUST SEEMS LIKE THEY'RE JUST MOVING THE BALL, ESSENTIALLY,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: THE GOAL POST, WHATEVER ANALOGY YOU WANT TO USE, TO
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: TAKING PEOPLE, YOUNG PEOPLE, AND JUST CONVINCING THEM THAT THERE'S
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE WON'T ACCEPT, RIGHT?
• 27:47
  Speaker 7: Yeah, well, look at what happened in New York, right?
• 27:49
  Speaker 9: Mondami got all of these, you know, I guess Gen Z,
• 27:53
  Speaker 9: the population of the Gen Zers to vote for him
• 27:56
  Speaker 9: or be on his side when it came to the whole,
• 27:58
  Speaker 9: you're going to get free bus rides, you're going to
• 28:01
  Speaker 9: get free apartments.
• 28:02
  Speaker 7: Well, guess what?
• 28:03
  Speaker 9: Economically, that doesn't work. But they at least got that
• 28:07
  Speaker 9: generation to vote for them, or any generation, really, they
• 28:12
  Speaker 9: gave them endless promises. And look at where we're at now.
• 28:15
  Speaker 9: His own people are going after him because guess what?
• 28:19
  Speaker 9: It doesn't work.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, and that's exactly right. Socialism doesn't work. Communism
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: doesn't work. It's never worked. And the reason why they're focused,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: I think, so much on America this year. And I
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: think they're exploiting the division, but I think they're responsible
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: for the division is because as long as America exists,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: as long as people like you, Anthony, that have a
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: successful business that they built themselves from the ground up,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: as long as the promise of capitalism, the American dream exists.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: THE FALSE PROMISE OF SOCIALISM FAILS BECAUSE ALL THEY HAVE
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: TO DO IS GO, WAIT A SECOND, WHAT DO YOU
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: MEAN COMMUNISM IS GREAT? I'M STARVING, AND IN AMERICA THEY'RE
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: DOING JUST FINE. SO AMERICA HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE TARGET.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: IT'S BEEN THE TARGET IN THE 1950s AND BEYOND BECAUSE
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: AS LONG AS AMERICA EXISTS, SOCIALISM WON'T SUCCEED. AND SO
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: THEY'RE TARGETING US, AND THEY'RE FOCUSING ON OUR CHILDREN, THEY'RE
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: FOCUSING ON THE MINDS OF OUR CHILDREN, AND REALLY ALL
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: IT IS IS ABOUT DIVISION AND TAKING ISSUES. and trying
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: to make those issues divisive issues to keep us really
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: fighting with each other. And that's what, and you know,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: the sad thing, and you said it perfectly in the
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: first answer here, you talked about the fact that the
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: gay community was basically hijacked and this messaging was being used.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: And it really is just one group at a time,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: whether it's BLM, it was the black community they were using,
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: whether it's ICE and Hispanic communities. And the Hispanic community
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: is like, wait a second, we have no problem deporting
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: illegal aliens. They're making it harder for us. And then
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: the black community IS LIKE, YEAH, WE ACTUALLY LIKE TRUMP.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: WE'RE VOTING FOR TRUMP. AND THEN THE GAY COMMUNITY IS LIKE, YEAH,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: WE LIKE TRUMP TOO. AND SO THEY KEEP LIKE, OKAY, FINE,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: WE'LL JUST PICK A NEW COMMUNITY TO MARGINALIZE AND THEN
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: TAKE OUR KIDS AND TELL THEM THAT'S WHO THEY ARE
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: AND THEN DIVIDE US, RIGHT? AM I SEEING THIS CORRECTLY?
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: NO, YOU'RE 100% RIGHT.
• 29:58
  Speaker 9: Yesterday was a national coming out day or whatever it was,
• 30:01
  Speaker 9: I guess.
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: You don't need a day. I didn't get an invitation.
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 30:05
  Speaker 7: It got lost in the mail. I'm so sorry. You
• 30:08
  Speaker 7: don't need a day to come out, okay? And here's
• 30:10
  Speaker 7: the thing. They've glorified all of these things, right?
• 30:13
  Speaker 9: When we talk about communism, we talk about the LGBT movement.
• 30:16
  Speaker 9: We talk about the riots with George Floyd and all
• 30:20
  Speaker 9: the BLM and all that stuff. What they do is
• 30:21
  Speaker 9: they glorify these things. It's not cool to be gay,
• 30:25
  Speaker 9: and here's why. Coming out is an emotional rollercoaster that
• 30:28
  Speaker 9: the individual has to deal with. Coming out is not easy,
• 30:32
  Speaker 9: all right? Because it's a decision that you have to
• 30:34
  Speaker 9: make within yourself as a human being, as an adult,
• 30:38
  Speaker 9: to be like, yeah, I guess I actually am, I
• 30:40
  Speaker 9: have to come out. So they've made it so that
• 30:42
  Speaker 9: everybody can just say they're coming out like it's some cool, groundbreaking,
• 30:50
  Speaker 9: break-the-glass-ceiling type of situation, And it's just not, it's not
• 30:54
  Speaker 9: a cool thing.
• 30:55
  Speaker 7: It's an emotional thing.
• 30:57
  Speaker 9: It's something that people who actually came out years ago
• 31:00
  Speaker 9: had to deal with.
• 31:02
  Speaker 7: And so here we are now, right? You have people
• 31:04
  Speaker 7: who are like, oh, it's dropping.
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: What a mystery.
• 31:06
  Speaker 7: Well, I wonder why. Yeah.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: Well, and then it's an excellent point. You know, I
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: know a lot of people that have been in the
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Republican party and Republican politics a really long time and
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: they were outed, you know, decades ago, they were outed.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: It ruined their careers or ruined their family. Exactly like
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: you're saying, coming out or being outed was, like you mentioned,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: everybody I spoke with who's been in the gay movement
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: a long time, they have struggled with it. And yet
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: to see people just take it and act like they
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: can add a pin to their backpack or something and just, oh, yeah,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: this is cool. They haven't suffered like a lot of
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: the people who suffered in the movement that people struggled
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: with to fight for equal rights and things like that.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: And I think it's probably better that the gay community
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: is now not being manipulated for political purposes. Now we
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: can move forward, and I feel bad for whatever community
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: they come after next. So, Conservative Van, I appreciate you
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: so much, your friendship, and coming on. Congratulations on your
• 31:58
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• 32:01
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• 32:06
  Speaker 6: Thank you.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for being here, and I look
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: forward to talking to you again real soon, my friend.
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: Thanks, brother.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Still ahead, President Trump says Ukraine might need
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: a new president, and Moscow still hasn't signed on to
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Trump's energy ceasefire. George Papadopoulos is here with reaction. Then
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Hurricane Isaias, I don't know how you actually say the name,
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: it tore through the Gulf Coast with 105-mile-an-hour winds, possibly higher.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: our Maha Monday's own Heather, Heather McIsaac. She took a
• 32:38
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  Speaker 1: FRIDAY AFTERNOON, PRESIDENT TRUMP GETS OFF THE PHONE WITH VLADIMIR
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: PUTIN WITH A DEAL TO GET RUSSIAN DIESEL MOVING AGAIN. 300,000
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: TONS RIGHT AWAY. MORE NOVEMBER. THAT NIGHT, A FUEL TERMINAL
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: IN SOUTHERN RUSSIA, IT EXPLODES THANKS TO UKRAINIAN DRONES HITTING
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: AN OIL LOADING TERMINAL. AND NOW THIS IS ABOUT 2.5
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: MILLION TONS OF FUEL THAT MOVES THROUGH THAT TERMINAL AND
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: NOW IT'S ON FIRE. HOURS AFTER THE PRESIDENT'S DEAL. It
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: was burning. He had already told Zelensky, hit Russia wherever
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: you want, but leave the refineries alone.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: Look.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: And I said to him, do what you want. Don't
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: hit refineries. There's plenty of targets. Don't hit refineries.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: And he went out and he hit.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: And he's not going to affect our farmers. And he's
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: not going to affect our ranchers. And he's not going
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: to affect the rest of the world. So he better
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: damn well stop.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: And why does the president care about a refinery in Russia? Well,
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: because we're paying for it. I know a lot of
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: people want to blame Iran for the high price of
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: diesel in Iran. Diesel is averaging more than $ 6 a
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: gallon because of the war between Ukraine and Russia. Now,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: of course, as you know, diesel moves to trucks and
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: runs the tractors that stock the grocery store shelves, take
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: Russian diesel off the world market. And everybody here pays more.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: And so on Saturday, the president went further.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: And let me go a step further. If I were president,
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: you wouldn't have ever had that war. That war would
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: have never started. There was no reason that that war
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: with Ukraine and Russia started. It started due to incompetence.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: It should have never started. You wouldn't have lost 30%
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: of your country already. You've lost 30% of your country,
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: and you've had over a million people killed. Between the
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: two of them, over 2 million people killed. That's a
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: war that should have never started, and I think it's
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: time for Ukraine to get a new president.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: Now, Zelensky says he'd be ready to work on elections
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: after at least a 60-day full ceasefire. His term expired
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: in May of 24. Elections are suspended under martial law,
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: and now is conditioned for holding an election run slew
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin, apparently agreeing to a ceasefire. Now, the Kremlin
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: has rejected it. Putin's spokesman says Kiev wants those 60
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: days to gather their strength, heal their wounds, and continue
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: the war. So on Sunday, the president drew a line
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: for both sides. He says, effective immediately, there is an
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: energy ceasefire in the war between Russia and Ukraine. He
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: says both parties have agreed not to break it. Now,
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Zelensky agreed, but apparently Russia didn't because overnight they hit
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: gas production facilities in Ukraine anyway. And it kept firing
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: on people. On Sunday, the day the president announces the
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: energy ceasefire, Ukrainian police say a Russian strike outside a
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: small town there killed three people, including a 16-year-old. This morning,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: a drone tore through a high-rise as well, injuring 23 people,
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: two of them children. Today in Kiev, a drone hit
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: a 25-story apartment building as well. A woman died there.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: The president's ceasefire applies to Moscow just as much as Kiev,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: but apparently there's no ceasefire at all. So what's next?
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: Putin wants sanctions relief. Zelensky needs American weapons and intelligence.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: Both men need something only Washington can give. Yet it
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: doesn't seem either side is willing to give anything for it.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: Joining me now, former Trump campaign foreign policy advisor and
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: author of Deep State Target, George Papadopoulos. George, is this
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: war ever going to end?
• 37:09
  Speaker 10: Hi, David. Thanks for having me. Well, look, this is
• 37:11
  Speaker 10: a very significant escalation that comes at a very unfortunate time.
• 37:17
  Speaker 10: shortly before the midterms, and as the Trump administration is
• 37:20
  Speaker 10: working arduously to come to some sort of long-term peace agreement.
• 37:25
  Speaker 10: But the bigger picture here is that Ukraine, under the
• 37:29
  Speaker 10: Zelensky regime, has basically gone from a potential function of U.S.
• 37:36
  Speaker 10: foreign policy to an outright liability to U.S. national interests,
• 37:42
  Speaker 10: to the global energy markets. and one would argue international
• 37:46
  Speaker 10: peace and security, because the Trump administration and President Trump
• 37:52
  Speaker 10: himself have basically made the case that it's Zelensky who's
• 37:57
  Speaker 10: torpedoing efforts to come to some sort of temporary ceasefire
• 38:02
  Speaker 10: to then eventually have a long-term peace agreement. And the
• 38:08
  Speaker 10: president has even come out and said that Ukraine.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: Deserves a new leader.
• 38:11
  Speaker 10: Now, These are incredibly strong words that the president has
• 38:16
  Speaker 10: just used recently. So unless the money stops going to
• 38:21
  Speaker 10: Ukraine and intelligence sharing and weapons go to Ukraine, I
• 38:25
  Speaker 10: don't see Zelensky, who was once emboldened by the Democrats
• 38:29
  Speaker 10: for so many years and the Europeans, from ever stopping
• 38:32
  Speaker 10: these aggressive tactics against Russia, which are leading to the
• 38:37
  Speaker 10: current energy crisis that the president is trying to ameliorate
• 38:42
  Speaker 10: here in the United States. So as long as the
• 38:45
  Speaker 10: pressure does not continue on Zelensky, this will continue. If
• 38:50
  Speaker 10: the pressure goes on Zelensky, I do see some sort
• 38:53
  Speaker 10: of ceasefire come to effect and hopefully a long-term solution
• 38:58
  Speaker 10: to ending this war once and for all.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: Now, here's the two things I see, and tell me
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: if I'm right or wrong in my observations. I mean,
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: first you have this oil deal announced, and then Ukraine
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: strikes the place we need to get the oil from.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: I don't know if he's being antagonistic. But then, two,
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: he says something really interesting. He says, yeah, I'll hold
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: another election if there's a ceasefire for 60 days. So
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: putting those two things together, it seems that Zelensky's tenure
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: is contingent upon this war continuing. And so if he
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: ends the war, well, then he won't be president anymore,
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: and it doesn't seem he wants that. Do you think
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Zelensky is kicking this can down the road just so
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: he can stay president?
• 39:39
  Speaker 10: Well, Zelensky was used to over $ 200 billion in U.S.
• 39:44
  Speaker 10: taxpayer money and over 100 billion euros from European taxpayer money.
• 39:49
  Speaker 10: money going to fill the coffers of one of the
• 39:53
  Speaker 10: most corrupt regimes on the European continent. So given the
• 39:58
  Speaker 10: situation that Zelensky and his very corrupt ministers, I mean,
• 40:02
  Speaker 10: we obviously know of the vast graft in Ukraine and
• 40:08
  Speaker 10: how many ministers have been forced to resign. Some have
• 40:12
  Speaker 10: been arrested for corruption.
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: So it's not in.
• 40:16
  Speaker 10: Zelensky's interest to actually see a ceasefire because, of course,
• 40:21
  Speaker 10: I believe that overwhelmingly the Ukrainian people would like to
• 40:25
  Speaker 10: see some sort of agreement with their Russian neighbors to
• 40:28
  Speaker 10: stop the killing. Because the longer this war has gone on, unfortunately,
• 40:32
  Speaker 10: the more territory and men, women, and civilians Ukraine has lost.
• 40:37
  Speaker 10: So the only person that seems to be benefiting from
• 40:40
  Speaker 10: from this war now entering almost five years is Zelensky
• 40:43
  Speaker 10: and his cronies, not the Ukrainian people, not the European taxpayers,
• 40:47
  Speaker 10: and most importantly, not the American taxpayers either.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: Now, there's people on the other side of this who
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: would say, well, Russia started this war. Why should Zelensky
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: concede anything? You know, they're just defending themselves and they
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: have the right to do that. How do we square
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: that argument?
• 41:03
  Speaker 10: We just have to use the same analogy in the
• 41:06
  Speaker 10: United States. Will the United States ever permit Ukraine a
• 41:10
  Speaker 10: renegade force in Mexico or Canada that had basically irredentist
• 41:17
  Speaker 10: claims on American territory from assembling itself and launching attacks
• 41:25
  Speaker 10: against citizens in states like California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas,
• 41:33
  Speaker 10: which they believe.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: Was part of old Mexico.
• 41:37
  Speaker 10: That's something, of course, that the United States would never allow.
• 41:40
  Speaker 10: That's really what the Trump doctrine is all about. It's
• 41:44
  Speaker 10: about protecting American hegemony, American interests and security in the
• 41:48
  Speaker 10: Western Hemisphere, and assuring that our neighborhood is free and
• 41:53
  Speaker 10: safe from any threats. It's a similar situation in between
• 41:57
  Speaker 10: Ukraine and Russia. Russia believed that a NATO expanded into
• 42:02
  Speaker 10: Ukraine or other parts of Eastern Europe or American or
• 42:06
  Speaker 10: NATO weapons or forces or radar systems or ballistic missiles
• 42:09
  Speaker 10: or potentially nuclear weapons stationed in Ukraine was an existential threat.
• 42:14
  Speaker 10: There were various promises that that annexate, that membership would
• 42:19
  Speaker 10: not include Ukraine. Those promises were broken, of course, under
• 42:22
  Speaker 10: the Obama and the Biden administrations. Money and weapons will
• 42:26
  Speaker 10: float into Ukraine. Civilians were killed on both sides and
• 42:29
  Speaker 10: the war started. As President Putin and President Trump said
• 42:33
  Speaker 10: a million times before, If President Trump was elected last election,
• 42:37
  Speaker 10: this war would have never started. This was always a
• 42:39
  Speaker 10: Democrat problem. This was always a globalist problem. And unfortunately,
• 42:43
  Speaker 10: the men, women and children of Ukraine and Russia have
• 42:47
  Speaker 10: suffered irreparable harm as a result. But fortunately, President Putin
• 42:53
  Speaker 10: and President Trump would like to see an agreement. And
• 42:55
  Speaker 10: as long as there's pressure on Zelensky, I do believe
• 42:58
  Speaker 10: we'll finally have a long term solution. to this very
• 43:01
  Speaker 10: intractable conflict which has caused so much death and disruption, David.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we're all hoping for a conclusion fast
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: as well. I wanted to ask you about Saudi Arabia
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: and the Houthis. I'm out of time. I'm going to
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: have to have you back on to talk about that.
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: That is a very interesting developing situation where the airports
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: in Saudi Arabia are being attacked now. American citizens are
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: being attacked. It's something that we're going to have to
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: watch very closely. George Papadopoulos, thank you so much for
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: being here and all your advice, or sorry, your expert
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: opinion on the Russia-Ukraine situation because it has gone on
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: way too long.
• 43:31
  Speaker 5: It has.
• 43:31
  Speaker 10: Thank you so much for having me, David.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Coming up, trees were split in half. There's
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: farms in ruins. Well, and there's price gougers circling with chainsaws.
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: Heather McIsaac, our Maha Monday's own Heather McIsaac, she lived
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: through Hurricane Isaiah, and she joins me by phone next
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: with an update about all the damage.
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• 44:35
  Speaker 1: Friday night, Hurricane Isaiah came ashore near Destin, Florida, with
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: 105 mile an hour winds. Gusts hit 116 at Santa
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: Rosa Sound. By Saturday morning, nine out of every 10
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: homes and businesses in Santa Rosa County were in the dark.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: Nearly 900,000 homes and businesses lost power across Florida, Alabama
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: and Georgia. More than 170,000 in Florida were still without
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: it by Sunday night. At least four people are dead.
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: Three of those deaths involved trees. In Escambia County, a
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: tree came down on a woman's home and killed her.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: In Birmingham, a tree fell on a house. And the
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: AP reports an Escambia County man died of carbon monoxide
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: from a generator in his garage. If you're running one,
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: keep it outside. In Milton, an apartment complex lost its roof,
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: and the high school gym was destroyed. In Pensacola, a
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: hotel roof blew off in Houston County. Alabama, every road
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: was closed by downed trees and power lines Saturday morning.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: And by Sunday, what was left of Isaiah's was flooding.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: West of North Carolina, the same mountains Helene tore apart
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: two years ago. It hit right in the middle of harvest. Cotton, peanuts, pecans, soybeans.
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: Alabama's Extension Service opened a damage survey for farmers today.
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: People on the ground are telling people small farms have
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: been wiped out. Trees are split in half. You can't
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: find a chainsaw to buy and sell service. And Internet
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: service is spotty at best. And then, of course, the
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: sharks come, the vultures. And no, not actual sharks and
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: not actual birds. Florida's price gougers and Florida's price gouging
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: law specifically covers tree removal. And the attorney general has
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: a message for anyone thinking about taking advantage of Floridians.
• 46:26
  Speaker 5: I'm Florida Attorney General James Uthmeyer. We've got a historically
• 46:30
  Speaker 5: low crime rate and we aim to keep it that
• 46:32
  Speaker 5: way now that the storm has passed. Loot during this
• 46:35
  Speaker 5: emergency and Florida law bumps your charge up a full degree.
• 46:39
  Speaker 5: Break into a home and you're facing a first-degree felony
• 46:41
  Speaker 5: and up to 30 years behind bars. And bad guys,
• 46:44
  Speaker 5: this is a proud Second Amendment state. Floridians have every
• 46:47
  Speaker 5: right to defend their homes and families. Steal from storm
• 46:51
  Speaker 5: victims and you might lose more than your freedom. You
• 46:54
  Speaker 5: will be caught.
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: You will be prosecuted.
• 46:56
  Speaker 5: Florida will stay safe.
• 46:58
  Speaker 6: Thank you.
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: His office says a handful of reports have already come in,
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: along with texts offering tree service in coordination with your
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: insurance company. His warning, these appear to be scams. Do
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: not respond. Florida's chief financial officer, Blaise Angolia, says do
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: not sign with any tree crew until they're vetted. They
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: hit 100,000 homes. I'm sorry. They hit 100 houses and
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: then they just take off to another state. But the
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: storm also brought out the best in this country. On Sunday,
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: the United Cajun Navy handed out supplies at a church
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: in Pensacola with hundreds of cars lined up around the block.
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: Southern Baptist volunteers have served 2,000 meals in Pensacola and
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: are setting up chainsaw and roof-tarping crews. Samaritan's Purse says
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: it's ready to respond as well. President Trump approved emergency
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: declarations for Florida, Alabama, and Georgia. And Florida has about 5,000
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: National Guard members already working in recovery. If you ever
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: cleaned up after a storm, you know the first week
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: is when you find out who your neighbors are. These
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: are the people who show up with chainsaws before anyone
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: even has to ask. Governor DeSantis says nearly everyone should
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: have power back by tomorrow night. The tree cleanup and
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: the farm recovery, that'll take a lot longer. Joining me
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: now by phone, Air Force veteran and Maha advocate Heather
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: Heather McIsaac, who was hit directly by Hurricane Isaiah's. Heather,
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: welcome back. You're dealing with a lot over there in
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: the panhandle. How are you guys doing? I heard you
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: just got power back. We still have Internet trees down everywhere.
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: You lost a few structures, right?
• 48:31
  Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, I just want to say first and foremost,
• 48:34
  Speaker 11: our house is good. Our vehicles have minimal, minimal damage.
• 48:39
  Speaker 11: And the family's good. The animals are good. And so
• 48:42
  Speaker 11: it's like everything that is important is good. We lost
• 48:48
  Speaker 11: a large lean-to shed. We had another shed tipped over.
• 48:52
  Speaker 11: We lost dozens of trees along our property. We have
• 48:55
  Speaker 11: about seven acres in Santa Rosa County. And when I
• 48:59
  Speaker 11: went out the next morning, it literally looked like a
• 49:01
  Speaker 11: bomb had gone off in my front yard. Right before
• 49:04
  Speaker 11: I hopped on this call, I was clearing limbs as
• 49:09
  Speaker 11: my husband was using the chainsaw to cut one of
• 49:12
  Speaker 11: the very many trees that went down. But you know,
• 49:15
  Speaker 11: we fared very well. Everything's cosmetic and is just going
• 49:20
  Speaker 11: to take some elbow grease. The problem with this hurricane,
• 49:23
  Speaker 11: because I'm seeing a lot of commentary online, one, I'm
• 49:26
  Speaker 11: seeing that, oh, it's not that big of a deal.
• 49:28
  Speaker 11: And the damage is minimal. It was just a small
• 49:31
  Speaker 11: cat three. That is so not the case in Santa
• 49:35
  Speaker 11: Rosa County, which is inland from the coast, about 20
• 49:38
  Speaker 11: to 25 miles pending where. It's a very rural place
• 49:42
  Speaker 11: in Florida. Lots of farmers, cotton and peanuts are big
• 49:46
  Speaker 11: industries here. And the peanut processing plant was flattened. The
• 49:53
  Speaker 11: farm that I get my raw milk from that feeds
• 49:56
  Speaker 11: the entire community, their farm got destroyed, you know, and
• 50:02
  Speaker 11: it's all these little kind of small businesses that are
• 50:06
  Speaker 11: going to get hit the most. And that's what people
• 50:08
  Speaker 11: don't realize. And that's the big thing. And what a
• 50:11
  Speaker 11: lot of people are saying, and I'm not a meteorologist,
• 50:13
  Speaker 11: but it's the sting jets, which is a type of
• 50:16
  Speaker 11: air that's very, very compressed. If you think about compressed
• 50:19
  Speaker 11: air or an air compressor and how powerful it makes it,
• 50:22
  Speaker 11: basically what it does is mother nature makes a big
• 50:25
  Speaker 11: air gun that is strong enough to cut a oak
• 50:28
  Speaker 11: tree in half. And that is why Santa Rosa County
• 50:32
  Speaker 11: has had so much damage was the spring jets And,
• 50:35
  Speaker 11: you know, people are saying, well, everyone should have a
• 50:37
  Speaker 11: chainsaw and this and that. Some of these trees that
• 50:40
  Speaker 11: have gone down are 300-year oaks that have been through
• 50:43
  Speaker 11: dozens or hundreds of hurricanes throughout their span. And unfortunately
• 50:49
  Speaker 11: for these spring jets, you know, people are– it's not
• 50:52
  Speaker 11: just one tree down on a road. It's multiple trees.
• 50:56
  Speaker 11: We had a neighbor who had a circular driveway there.
• 50:58
  Speaker 11: Two trees came down on each one on top of
• 51:01
  Speaker 11: two trees cutting off the road on either side of
• 51:04
  Speaker 11: her driveway.
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: She was trapped.
• 51:05
  Speaker 11: And this is what's happening all over rural Florida and
• 51:08
  Speaker 11: the panhandle. So, you know, I just keep us in
• 51:11
  Speaker 11: your prayers. I know the death toll isn't large, and
• 51:14
  Speaker 11: I know that, you know, there wasn't the sensational videos
• 51:17
  Speaker 11: of flooding along the coast like we're accustomed to seeing.
• 51:21
  Speaker 11: But every single person, and I'm newer to Florida. I've
• 51:23
  Speaker 11: been here four years. But we have neighbors that have
• 51:26
  Speaker 11: lived here all year. 75 years of their life. And
• 51:29
  Speaker 11: they're all saying that this, it looked like a tornado
• 51:32
  Speaker 11: more than a hurricane, like an EF2 is what a
• 51:35
  Speaker 11: lot of people were saying it looks like it went
• 51:37
  Speaker 11: through because of the spring jets from the storm.
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: Now talk about the recovery, because look, I'm a Floridian,
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: and I've noticed that since Governor DeSantis has been our governor,
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: storm response has been so rapid. I mean, you used
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: to be out without power for weeks, Since DeSantis, it
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: seems like he stages so many linemen that it's a
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: day or two where you're out of power. So you
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: have your power back. A lot of people have their
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: power restored. And we're talking about a million people now
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: getting their power restored, hopefully by tomorrow. And this is
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: with trees just destroying the power lines. What sort of
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: a response are you seeing from organizations like the Cajun
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: Navy and Samaritan's Purse and linemen? And what kind of
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: response are you seeing?
• 52:18
  Speaker 11: A great response. And that is one thing is even
• 52:21
  Speaker 11: though there's devastation, just like you said, community comes together.
• 52:24
  Speaker 11: Our little rural spot was completely blocked in with trees.
• 52:29
  Speaker 11: All of the men in my neighborhood got together and
• 52:32
  Speaker 11: they removed the trees to open the roads.
• 52:34
  Speaker 9: We didn't wait.
• 52:35
  Speaker 11: We didn't have to wait on anybody. And it was great.
• 52:37
  Speaker 11: Not everybody's like that in terms of what's in their community. And,
• 52:41
  Speaker 11: you know, there's a lot of elderly people that are
• 52:43
  Speaker 11: in Santa Rosa County. There's a lot of disabled veterans.
• 52:46
  Speaker 11: People aren't necessarily mobile. the average person, right? And so
• 52:52
  Speaker 11: there's a lot of that, but the response has been great.
• 52:54
  Speaker 11: I have to say, I have been through natural disasters,
• 52:57
  Speaker 11: many of them in California, and I will take a
• 53:00
  Speaker 11: DeSantis-run natural disaster any day of the week over the
• 53:04
  Speaker 11: way that it's handled in California.
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: I just have to say, I had my.
• 53:09
  Speaker 11: Power on within 30 hours, I think.
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: It was a very, very.
• 53:14
  Speaker 11: Quick, I think it was actually almost less than 24
• 53:16
  Speaker 11: hours we had our power back. and my neighbor's a lineman, actually,
• 53:21
  Speaker 11: and he's working. They're all working 16-hour days, you know,
• 53:27
  Speaker 11: seven days a week until this is done. And what
• 53:29
  Speaker 11: they're running into, this is, again, it's not a typical
• 53:32
  Speaker 11: hurricane where it's flooding, you're waiting for the waters to recede,
• 53:36
  Speaker 11: assess the damage. There are so many power lines and
• 53:40
  Speaker 11: internet lines and everything entangled in massive pine and oak
• 53:45
  Speaker 11: trees in our area. And that's the thing is getting through,
• 53:49
  Speaker 11: clearing out the trees just to put the power back.
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is. I mean, it was a tremendous storm
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: and I've seen the pictures you've posted, the videos. And,
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: you know, it's sad that we've lost a few people. But, yeah,
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: I'm glad to hear that the community is coming together.
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: And that really is what I always remember about the
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: storms is after the storms are over, the neighbors come together,
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: the community comes together to help each other out. I'm
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: glad that's still going strong. I'm glad you're OK. I'm
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: glad your family's OK. I'm glad your chickens are OK.
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: And we'll see you back next Monday for another Maha Monday.
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: But until then, you need to take care of yourself
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: and your family. And I appreciate you joining. I'm glad
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: you're all right.
• 54:24
  Speaker 5: Will do.
• 54:25
  Speaker 11: And thank you, everyone, for sending donations and prayers and
• 54:28
  Speaker 11: all of that. You know, there's a lot of people
• 54:30
  Speaker 11: out there that are needing items. And, you know, I'm
• 54:34
  Speaker 11: watching needs get met and I'm watching people come from
• 54:37
  Speaker 11: out of our area as well to help, you know,
• 54:41
  Speaker 11: put our little community back together. So thank you for
• 54:43
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