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Mark interviews political commentator Liz Peek. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Marximoni's back on seventeen wor.
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  Speaker 2: Well Liz Peak the brilliant column. This also has a
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  Speaker 2: great website, lizpeak dot com. All kinds of great stories
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  Speaker 2: and new stuff every day lizpeak dot com. You get
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  Speaker 2: a column there also at Fox News and The Hill,
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  Speaker 2: Liz Peak. How you doing.
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  Speaker 3: I'm well, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm delighted that the government is going to be up
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  Speaker 1: and running, hopefully within days.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I'm not. I keep it closed. We don't need
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  Speaker 2: these people back there. Clearly it was a I will
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  Speaker 2: say cave in a concession on the part of Democrats,
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  Speaker 2: and Schumer said I will oppose it. But obviously he
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  Speaker 2: gave the wink in the nod for eight people to
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  Speaker 2: jump ship. Right.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if he did.
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  Speaker 1: I think the Schumer has kind of lost his way, honestly.
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  Speaker 1: And look he is getting blasted again for allowing this
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  Speaker 1: vote to take place and for conceding for actually for
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  Speaker 1: winning nothing. That's the thing, mark, is that what did
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats get from all this? What did they get
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  Speaker 1: from endangering air travelers in America and throwing hundreds of
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  Speaker 1: thousands of government employees off their payrolls, and for causing
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  Speaker 1: snap beneficiaries to have a heart attack because they weren't
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  Speaker 1: going to get any snap payments.
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  Speaker 3: The answer is they got nothing zero.
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  Speaker 1: They're not going to get an automatic extension of the
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  Speaker 1: Obamacare subsidies that they were supposedly fighting for. They're not
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  Speaker 1: going to get a rollback of the reforms to Medicaid
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  Speaker 1: that they're so opposed to. They lost, and I think, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: for Schumer, this is a catastrophe. Look, their party is
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  Speaker 1: already eating their own. This is just giving them more
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  Speaker 1: defeast on.
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  Speaker 2: But correct me if I'm wrong. Nobody's ever gotten anything
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  Speaker 2: out of a shutdown. These shutdown caucuses like, oh for fourteen,
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  Speaker 2: aren't they?
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  Speaker 3: Haha?
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  Speaker 1: You know, I haven't gone back and looked at all
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  Speaker 1: the ones.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean, I sort of tend to
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  Speaker 3: agree with that.
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  Speaker 1: I can't really remember a time when either Republicans or
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  Speaker 1: Democrats won any big points from shutting the government down. Now,
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  Speaker 1: when the GOP does it, which they did in the
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  Speaker 1: Tea Party era because they wanted less spending. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: when you have the entire media world with very few
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  Speaker 1: exceptions on your side, as Democrats always do, you end
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  Speaker 1: up being the people. Then obviously the GOP looks like
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  Speaker 1: they're responsible and they're blamed for everything that goes wrong,
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  Speaker 1: so it's probably not surprising that they don't end up
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  Speaker 1: winning very much in this case. It really has been
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  Speaker 1: pretty astonishing to watch. I mean, I tweeted out something
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  Speaker 1: or exed out something yesterday, a paragraph from Axios saying,
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  Speaker 1: it's hard to blame the Democrats. It's hard for Republicans
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  Speaker 1: to blame the Democrats for the shutdown when after all,
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  Speaker 1: they control all three branches of government. It's like the
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  Speaker 1: author never heard to the filibuster. They don't know how
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  Speaker 1: it works. I mean, really, Mark, you got to say,
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  Speaker 1: that's pretty damn dishonest. And that is sort of the
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  Speaker 1: tone that the left wing media, meaning all the media
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  Speaker 1: except for you and me, has been treating this as
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's all the Democrats are the good guys.
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  Speaker 1: The Republicans are like Keem Jeffries is out there every
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  Speaker 1: two minutes going President Trump and the Republicans are trying
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  Speaker 1: to starve the American people and that's why they won't
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  Speaker 1: reopen the I mean, really, it's pretty appalling. You look
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  Speaker 1: at his look at his Twitter feed or ex feed.
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  Speaker 1: That's exactly what he's been saying.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know, people have to just accept the
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  Speaker 2: fact axios and Political Politico are as corrupt as those
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  Speaker 2: the networks are. They're just awful.
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  Speaker 3: Well, they're just dishonest.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know about corrupt, they're dishonest, and it's just
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  Speaker 1: a shame, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, at some point.
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  Speaker 1: I get so tired of Chris Murphy and Richard Blumenthal
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  Speaker 1: and all the usual suspects, Corey Booker, etc.
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  Speaker 3: Gavin Newsom just playing life, lying about stuff.
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  Speaker 1: They do it all the time, and I don't know
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  Speaker 1: about you, I just sort of I just think that's wrong.
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  Speaker 1: And I really think it's kind of astonishing that more
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  Speaker 1: Americans don't rebel against that.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, if we had honest media, wouldn't they ask a Democrat,
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  Speaker 2: if it's the Affordable Care Act, if it's so affordable,
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  Speaker 2: why would you need a subsidy to pay for it?
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  Speaker 3: That?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, when it is pretty ironic, you take a
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  Speaker 1: step back. If this thing all came down to the
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  Speaker 1: extension of kind of emergency premium subsidies so that people
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  Speaker 1: can afford Obamacare, what does that say about Obamacare? What
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  Speaker 1: it says is that it's a failed program. It never worked.
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  Speaker 1: The minute that the Supreme Court struck down the individual mandate,
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  Speaker 1: you knew it was a catastrophe because the whole concept
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  Speaker 1: of Obamacare was that you were going to have millions
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  Speaker 1: and millions, tens of millions of Americans enrolled, including young,
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  Speaker 1: healthy Americans, and you would insist on their enrolling even
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  Speaker 1: if they didn't want to, because you had this individual mandate,
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  Speaker 1: and they were going to carry the costs basically of
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  Speaker 1: the older, sicker Americans who really had to have health
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  Speaker 1: insurance and also signed up for Obamacare. When those young
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  Speaker 1: when that young cohort, the young healthy cohort, heard that
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  Speaker 1: they no longer had to buy Obamacare because the Supreme
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  Speaker 1: Court says it's against our constitution to make somebody buy something.
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  Speaker 1: Then the program was done, but the Democrats never admitted it.
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  Speaker 1: But now, excuse me, now they are faced with the
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  Speaker 1: reality that it doesn't work without that individual mandate.
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  Speaker 2: That's a perfect explanation of the problem.
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  Speaker 3: And of course it's true.
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  Speaker 2: Of course we should have actual media that reports all
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  Speaker 2: that explains all that, but they don't. So the mom
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  Speaker 2: Danni administration is forming. It looks like a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people from the Deblasio administration, so that's not I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's bad, but we got through eight years at de Blasio.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get through this, all right, won't.
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  Speaker 1: We We'll get through it, but it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a pretty unpleasant time. And I think probably the X
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  Speaker 1: factor in all of this is the anti semitism. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm look, progressives are going to fail because their policies
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  Speaker 1: are bad.
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  Speaker 3: Eventually we'll get rid of this guy. But it's the
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  Speaker 3: cozing up to.
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  Speaker 1: People like the unindicted co conspirator in the World Trade
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  Speaker 1: Center bombings that really makes me anxious.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but again, we got through eight years of the Blasio.
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  Speaker 2: Well what does it mean. What does it mean for
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  Speaker 2: the Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Now, but he wasn't like a Muslim friendly with terrorists, right,
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  Speaker 1: that's a pretty new thing for New York City mayor.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he was pretty bad member honeymoon in Cuba. He
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  Speaker 2: was seen with the cop killing a terrorist down there
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  Speaker 2: in chesh Myers's true. Yeah, so that is true. Well,
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  Speaker 2: what does this mean for the midterms? If macdonne takes
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  Speaker 2: over by you know, fall of next year, it's a
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  Speaker 2: mess in New York that will affect the midterms, won't it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think that the more that he comes up
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  Speaker 1: with really crackpot ideas and tries to implement them and
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  Speaker 1: they fail. Yes, the Republicans you use that as an example,
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  Speaker 1: But by the way, I'm sorry the having this coffee attack.
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  Speaker 1: We're already seeing Democratic Socialists attack and now challenging Hakeem Jeffries.
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  Speaker 1: My guess is AOC is going to primary Chuck Schumer.
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  Speaker 1: There's going to be an awful lot of moderate traditional
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  Speaker 1: Democrats under the gun as we approach the midterms. Is
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  Speaker 1: that going to be good for them or for us?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it's very good for Democrats, and you
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  Speaker 1: really do sort of see this civil war taking place
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  Speaker 1: in their party. An awful lot of money is going
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  Speaker 1: to be spent, I think protecting incumbents in the Democratic
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  Speaker 1: Party like Schumer, who you know, is not popular. But
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  Speaker 1: I think most funders are going to say, well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I really don't want AOC as my senator. So I
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  Speaker 1: think they've got big problems going into the midterms. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Ma'm Donnie is the face of that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, imagine if John F. Kennedy came back to life
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  Speaker 2: and looked at his party and said, what the hell
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  Speaker 2: did you do to my Democratic Party? Unbelievable.
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  Speaker 3: He would not recognize that mark. He would not recognize it.
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  Speaker 2: Really, well, everybody check out Liz Peak's columns at The
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  Speaker 2: Hill or Fox News, but go to her website. There's
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  Speaker 2: always a lot of great stories and analysis. Lizpeak dot com,
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  Speaker 2: lizpeak dot com, Liz Peak, thanks for being with us.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much for having me.
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  Speaker 2: Have a great day, all right, take care and yeah, well,
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