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Trump mulls negotiations with Iran and Spencer Pratt's attempt to wake LA up · The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated

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Speaker 1: status and negotiations with Iran, President Trump and Theoval.
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Speaker 2: It's like zero hour in LA, and I had a lot.
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Speaker 1: Of Spencer Pratt to play for you. People in LA
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Speaker 1: have to vote on Tuesday. The United States Senate. The
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Speaker 1: United States Congress has gone home after an epic blowout
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Speaker 1: in the Oval Office before I go to Spencer Pratt
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Speaker 1: in LA.
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Speaker 2: Here's the President in the Oval cut number one earlier today,
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Speaker 2: and they.
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Speaker 3: Keep their highly resist you.
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Speaker 4: No, no, we get the highly ed rich. We will
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Speaker 4: get it. We don't need it. If we don't want it,
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Speaker 4: we'll probably destroy it after we get it. But we're
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Speaker 4: not going to let them have it.
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Speaker 2: Not going to let them have it at all. Than
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Speaker 2: cut number two.
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Speaker 3: Right now when negotiating, and we'll see. But either we're
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Speaker 3: going to get it one way or the other. They're
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Speaker 3: not going to have a nuclear weapon.
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Speaker 4: You know when people hear it, because oftentimes they won't
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Speaker 4: put up the second part of the size of sentence
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Speaker 4: having to do with I'll say, this is more important
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Speaker 4: than anything that we have to talk about, and usually
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Speaker 4: they'll cut it off the fake news, they say, because
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Speaker 4: this is the nuclearization of a country that some people
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Speaker 4: would say is somewhat crazy.
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Speaker 3: And we cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. That's
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Speaker 3: all it is. We can't let it. You will have.
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Speaker 4: A nuclear war in the Middle East, and that war
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Speaker 4: will come here, that war will.
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Speaker 3: Go to Europe. We cannot let that happen, and it
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Speaker 3: won't happen. It's not going to happen.
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Speaker 4: That's more important than anything else that we can't think.
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Speaker 4: I can think of nothing that's more important than the
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Speaker 4: fact that we cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.
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Speaker 2: And we won't cut number three.
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Speaker 3: Your son's wedding. That's wisdom, by the way, he'd like
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Speaker 3: middy go.
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Speaker 4: But it's going to be just a small, little private affair,
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Speaker 4: and I'm going to try and make it. I'm in
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Speaker 4: the midst, I said, you know, this is not good
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Speaker 4: timing for me.
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Speaker 5: I have a thing called the rand and other things.
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Speaker 5: That's what I can't win on. If I do attend,
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Speaker 5: I get killed. If I don't attend I get killed
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Speaker 5: by the fake news. Of course I'm talking about no.
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Speaker 4: But he's got a very person who I've known for
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Speaker 4: a long time, and hopefully they're gonna have a great marriage.
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Speaker 1: Okay, I don't know if he can go to his
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Speaker 1: son's wedding this weekend. Cut number four on gas prices
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Speaker 1: the President.
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Speaker 4: That'll end soon, very soon, and when it ends, your
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Speaker 4: gasoline prices will go down lower than they were before.
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Speaker 4: You know, I left Iowa a few months ago and
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Speaker 4: Ghastley was at one dollar and eighty five cents a gallon.
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Speaker 3: And we'll be hitting numbers like that again, but we'll
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Speaker 3: be hitting them in a much nicer way.
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Speaker 4: By the way, we will be hitting them, and we
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Speaker 4: will have a country that will not have a nuclear weapon.
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Speaker 3: Yet.
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Speaker 1: Crude is down, by the way, a couple of bucks
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Speaker 1: on the speculation that we're getting close to a deal.
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Speaker 1: I'm very skeptical of that cut number for the President
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Speaker 1: the ovill.
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Speaker 4: I think if Democrats took control of the Congress, I
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Speaker 4: think that, and let's say took control of the country,
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Speaker 4: I think that this country's finished.
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Speaker 3: These people are sick.
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Speaker 4: They suffer from Trump derangement syndrome, but really they have
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Speaker 4: bad policy, they have horrible policy. They cheat on elections.
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Speaker 4: They get elected by cheating on elections. But you would
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Speaker 4: have two states. They'll terminate the filibuster immediately. Republicans should
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Speaker 4: do that. They'll terminate the filibuster. You'll have Washington, d C.
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Speaker 4: And you'll have Puerto Rico as the state, which will
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Speaker 4: be a disaster, which was before sentence seats. Tremendous numbers
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Speaker 4: of Electoral College votes you will have. You will have
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Speaker 4: the that's really bad, but you will have the destruction
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Speaker 4: of our country. They want to go to twenty one
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Speaker 4: Supreme Court judges.
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Speaker 3: That's a perfect number. They talk about thirteen.
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Speaker 4: But they want to go to twenty one, twenty one
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Speaker 4: Supreme Court judges. If they get in power, I think
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Speaker 4: this country would be maybe finished.
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Speaker 2: Now. I'll talk about Cube a little bit later.
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Speaker 1: I was on on Fox earlier today, asked about Graham
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Speaker 1: Plattner and his campaign in Maine. Here I am talking
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Speaker 1: with Bill Hemmer this morning, cutting number twenty two.
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Speaker 6: Hugh Hewett hosts the hu Huwit Show with Me now
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Speaker 6: with you. Good morning, j You, thanks for coming back.
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Speaker 6: This did not prevent Time Magazine from putting them on
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Speaker 6: the cover a party crasher here. I don't know when
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Speaker 6: the next comment goes public.
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Speaker 3: How do you think this campaign is going so far.
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Speaker 1: For platt h Good morning Bill. I think it's going
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Speaker 1: south fast. And I'll tell you it's not just the
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Speaker 1: cruelty and the violence and the lewd rhetoric. It's not
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Speaker 1: just as extremism now it's sadistic.
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Speaker 2: This is the APPO report.
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Speaker 1: That was done by Democrat Janet Mills when she was
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Speaker 1: dealing the race. It's the most toxic APPO report I've
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Speaker 1: ever seen, and they were just getting started. So I
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Speaker 1: think Graham Plattner, there's a reason that Chuck Schumer is
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Speaker 1: eager to talk on the floor but donemont answer questions
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Speaker 1: about him, while Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, who endorsed
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Speaker 1: him are back. In a way, he's plummeting because you're
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Speaker 1: up against Susan Collins, the most moderate member of the Senate, respected.
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Speaker 2: By both parties.
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Speaker 1: Chair of the Appropriations Committee, she has done things like
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Speaker 1: the Paycheck Protection Act and rural health Care to Maine.
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Speaker 1: She's done more than six hundred infrastructure projects up here.
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Speaker 1: She's a veteran, respected legislator of moderate temperament. And a
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Speaker 1: significant accomplishment. Then you've got this wild man, and I
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Speaker 1: mean stream. So I think he's troubled. I think he's
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Speaker 1: been troubled for a very long time. And while he
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Speaker 1: appealed to the fundraising consultants because you can get a
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Speaker 1: lot of clicks, you can get a lot of Act
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Speaker 1: Blue money, and you take a slice of that when
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Speaker 1: you're a consultant, his political campaign director quit. The next
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Speaker 1: one quit, the finance director that doesn't make the money
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Speaker 1: off the inflow of the cash quit. I think it's
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Speaker 1: it's over for this fellow. There are Grand Platiner signs
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Speaker 1: all around Maine. I've been up and back, but I
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Speaker 1: think it's over because sadism just doesn't work.
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Speaker 7: Here's the other problem.
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Speaker 6: Go ahead and roll this montage. These are Democratic leaders
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Speaker 6: being asked about him.
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Speaker 8: Watch here, do you recind your endorsement of Graham Plantner
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Speaker 8: after those lude posts on Reddit?
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Speaker 3: Senator?
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Speaker 8: Is Graham Plantner a reliability right now? For Democrats? After
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Speaker 8: those Reddit posts, the lude posts that just we're revealed,
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Speaker 8: mister leader, is Graham Platner a liability for Democrats? After
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Speaker 8: those d Reddit posts were exposed with full.
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Speaker 6: So the the problem is you're going to be asked
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Speaker 6: about this up until the midterms and the vote goes down.
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Speaker 7: So that's one thing in Maine.
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Speaker 6: Meanwhile, in Texas, there's a woman by the name of
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Speaker 6: Mariinga Lindo. She wants to be a congresswoman for Texas
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Speaker 6: Congressional District thirty five, and she posted this online on
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Speaker 6: her Instagram, which it might be a little hard to see,
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Speaker 6: but she's suggesting that you take all the detention facilities
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Speaker 6: for the migrants and put the American Zionists, that's her phrase,
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Speaker 6: into these detention facilities. Well, Jared Moscowitz, a member of Congress,
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Speaker 6: is on Fox and Friends a bit earlier quite offended
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Speaker 6: by this, and for good reason.
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Speaker 3: Watch here on his.
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Speaker 9: Comment, I get threats on xt I get threats, phone
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Speaker 9: calls into the office. And obviously, now.
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Speaker 7: Things are so out of control that you.
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Speaker 9: Have Democratic candidates in Texas suggesting we bring back concentration camps,
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Speaker 9: and now we have American candidates literally wanting to bring
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Speaker 9: that to America. You know, my grandparents escape Nazi My
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Speaker 9: kids are not going to internment camps. So what we
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Speaker 9: got to do is everyone's got to speak up.
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Speaker 6: And you're seeing that all right, so that's a Jewish
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Speaker 6: American in Congress with his reaction, Hugh, Well, he's right.
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Speaker 1: It's got to be driven out of the Democratic Party.
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Speaker 1: Anti Israel, anti Zionism, just pure anti Semitism is on
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Speaker 1: the rise across the country on both the far left
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Speaker 1: and the far right. The Republicans are driving it out
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Speaker 1: of their party. That's one of the reasons, I think
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Speaker 1: a big reason that Tom Massey lost on Tuesday. He's
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Speaker 1: perceived as being anti Zionist, anti Semitic, and the Republican
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Speaker 1: President Trump has denounced this rhetoric repeatedly and Democrats, meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: I've embracing it. She is the leading candidate. She won
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Speaker 1: the first run, she won round one in Texas, and
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Speaker 1: so Democrats get your act together and start telling the
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Speaker 1: anti Semis to get lost. I'll be right back. Welcome back, America.
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Speaker 1: I'm Hugh hewittt with Virus Vic Mattis. I didn't know
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Speaker 1: that Vic Madis was now Virus Vic, but I listen
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Speaker 1: listen to the new Getting Hammered podcast this week, of
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Speaker 1: which is the co host with our friend Mary Catherine Hammond.
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Speaker 1: I realized that Vic's got a thing for viruses. Vic
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Speaker 1: when did you become like obsessed with ebola and monkey
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Speaker 1: pox and Margan's fever and all these different things.
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Speaker 7: You knew them all Man, Yeah, yeah, the Marburg virus. No,
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Speaker 7: I would say that in earnest. It was probably about
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Speaker 7: nineteen ninety five, Hugh.
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Speaker 10: And it was the summer night after I graduated from Georgetown,
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Speaker 10: and I'm still looking for a job, a lot of
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Speaker 10: time on my hands, and I picked up Richard Preston's
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Speaker 10: book The Hot Zone, and that hadn't be gripped. And
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Speaker 10: it's one of these things where it's like you don't
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Speaker 10: want to know, but you do, and you don't want
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Speaker 10: to turn the page but you gotta, and it's awful
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Speaker 10: and it lingers with you, and yet you know you
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Speaker 10: just can't get enough.
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Speaker 2: In a weird way.
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Speaker 10: But also, Hugh, when I was much younger, I was
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Speaker 10: a hospital volunteer, and sometimes you have to deliver some
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Speaker 10: of these samples, and it's not a pleasant job, but
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Speaker 10: somebody has to do it. So I've got a lot
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Speaker 10: of respect for all these people working in these hot zones.
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Speaker 1: Don't trip, number one, don't trip if you're delivering the sample.
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Speaker 2: Number two.
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Speaker 1: I was deeply impacted by the Great Influenza. George W.
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Speaker 1: Bush would carry that book around long before COVID. And
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Speaker 1: did you ever write The Great Influenza?
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Speaker 10: No, you know, I've only been able to read parts
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Speaker 10: of that, but yeah, I mean it's a huge thing,
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Speaker 10: and it stretches for such a long I mean, you know,
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Speaker 10: this worldwide epidemic. And even as you know, as a Catholic, Hugh,
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Speaker 10: we only just about a week or two ago we
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Speaker 10: celebrated the feast of our Lady of Fatima, and I
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Speaker 10: had gotten that two of two of the three they
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Speaker 10: died of Spanish influenza.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that many people the death rides it pale
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Speaker 1: or worse or whatever. That book it's about the fact
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Speaker 1: that nobody talked about it because it was just so ubiquitous.
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Speaker 1: People would just fall over dead at the bus stop
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Speaker 1: or at the train station, or the car or the
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Speaker 1: trolley line, and it was all a it was a nightmare.
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Speaker 1: COVID was nothing compared to it. Well, the Who was
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Speaker 1: in our Secretary of States sides today. Here's what Secretary
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Speaker 1: Rubio had to say about the Who today, Kuttnamber nine,
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Speaker 1: I told us a two.
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Speaker 11: Days ago when you sat by the bullpen, that who
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Speaker 11: was a little late, were your words. I think in
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Speaker 11: identifying this train. The WHO chief has now responded. He said,
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Speaker 11: it might be because you don't understand the global health
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Speaker 11: policy system.
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Speaker 12: You ever found that the World Health Organization has unfortunately
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Speaker 12: not done well around the world.
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Speaker 4: I think they've failed.
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Speaker 12: Miserably during COVID they covered for China, and that's how
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Speaker 12: we're getting out of it. That said, we're going to
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Speaker 12: work with anybody who wants to fix that problem. Our
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Speaker 12: number one objective on Evola before anything else, and we
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Speaker 12: think it's terrible. It's happening ore of the people.
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Speaker 2: We've been very involved with.
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Speaker 12: DRC on the peace deal with Rwanda and so forth.
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Speaker 12: But our number one thing has to be we can't
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Speaker 12: have it effect the United States. We can't have ebola
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Speaker 12: cases coming here. So you saw we're now not allowing
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Speaker 12: people to come in. In fact, I think we had a
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Speaker 12: flight last night, had it to Detroit, that was diverted
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Speaker 12: because we have to protect the American people. So objective
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Speaker 12: number one is to make sure that Obola never reaches
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Speaker 12: the United States.
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Speaker 1: All right, So big madis, what do you think of that?
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Speaker 1: I think that's one hundred percent correct, But what do
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Speaker 1: you think.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 10: I mean again, generally we're being told not the Panics,
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Speaker 10: certainly in this country because ebola, unlike COVID, is a
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Speaker 10: lot harder to transmit from one person to another.
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Speaker 7: It's by bodily fluids. It's not an airborne virus per se.
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Speaker 10: But you can sneeze on somebody, you can cry on somebody,
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Speaker 10: and you know that's a bodily fluid.
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Speaker 7: And as you know, we're talking about.
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Speaker 10: Now one hundred and thirty, one hundred and forty, maybe
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Speaker 10: one hundred and fifty deaths that are linked to ebola.
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Speaker 10: So it's getting around. We can't afford to have one
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Speaker 10: here because the trick of it. And I think the
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Speaker 10: Secretary of State is right about this. If there's even
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Speaker 10: a slight suspicion, it needs to be diverted and the
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Speaker 10: possibility of quarantine for whoever might have been in an area,
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Speaker 10: which now is on the show I'm getting hammered. I
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Speaker 10: mentioned that this involved is a democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda,
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Speaker 10: and Kenya.
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Speaker 7: Now they're talking southern Sudan, so it is spreading.
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Speaker 10: And again these are very poorous borders in a lot
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Speaker 10: of these regions, it's mountainous Jungles.
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Speaker 7: It's hard to contain in that sense.
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Speaker 10: So on the one hand, it's harder to contract as
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Speaker 10: opposed to COVID.
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Speaker 7: On the other hand, you have one person here.
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Speaker 10: People often don't like to admit they're feeling sick when
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Speaker 10: they go from one country to another.
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Speaker 7: It's a hassle.
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Speaker 10: I get it. But I think we'd be playing with
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Speaker 10: fire if we were to be laxed. So I think
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Speaker 10: we really need to be stringent on that.
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Speaker 1: When I heard you and Mary Catherine, Am'm talking about it,
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Speaker 1: and I did not know it had gone to Kenya.
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Speaker 1: If it gets into Kenya's massive slums, which are the
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Speaker 1: equal of any terrible living conditions anywhere in terms of
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Speaker 1: overcrafts like India, some people know what I'm talking about,
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Speaker 1: there's no stopping it because it becomes a hot zone.
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Speaker 1: And the thing about a bull is it usually burns
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Speaker 1: itself out in a remote location. By burning itself out,
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Speaker 1: that sadly means people die. But I think the Secretary
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Speaker 1: of State is right about that. Now, Vick, I want
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Speaker 1: to ask you about what he also said. He said, Hey,
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Speaker 1: the carrier's there, and they are a national security threat
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Speaker 1: to ES. The nimits are there because it can make power.
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Speaker 1: If they turn over the government threat, we'll go in
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Speaker 1: there and we'll light up Cuba and the capital will
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Speaker 1: flow in. Do you think the Cuban people would like
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Speaker 1: us to do that?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think most definitely, Hugh.
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Speaker 10: I mean, obviously we know how a lot of people
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Speaker 10: feel in Florida, for example, and in Miami you have
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Speaker 10: all these Cuban exiles who have been coming here since
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Speaker 10: you know, the first stage of Fidel Castro, and they
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Speaker 10: still have a lot of family who are in Cuba
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Speaker 10: and they're in touch with them. They can't express themselves,
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Speaker 10: they can't protest against the government.
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Speaker 7: We know that. But this is a much closer situation.
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Speaker 10: Than Iran is, and so I think we would have
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Speaker 10: a better control over that situation. And I think it
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Speaker 10: is very important that we have a military presence there.
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Speaker 7: I don't know if we're going to.
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Speaker 10: Pull off what the timetable is a Maduro situation, if
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Speaker 10: that even happens. I mean, Raoul Castro is retired, per se.
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Speaker 10: He's significantly older than Nicholas Maduro is. So I'm not
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Speaker 10: sure about the logistics or the circumstances. But as you know,
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Speaker 10: this oil Embarco is really having a very serious impact
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Speaker 10: on Cuba, so things could fall apart quickly. And I
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Speaker 10: think there are a lot of people who are ready
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Speaker 10: to turn over that regime.
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Speaker 7: They're sick and tired of it.
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Speaker 10: And if we can get the mate through the Catholic
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Speaker 10: Church for other nonprofit organizations, that would be a good thing.
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Speaker 1: All right now, Vic Mantis, I don't normally ask you
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Speaker 1: for breaking news, but you're there in the Beltway and
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Speaker 1: I'm not today, and it turns out that there was
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Speaker 1: a shotting match between I think Attorney General Todd blanche
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Speaker 1: and the Senate Republican conference over the make good Fun
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Speaker 1: for people who suffered weaponization when everyone went home, what's
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Speaker 1: the what the heck happened?
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Speaker 10: I think that a lot of senators, Republicans included, might
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Speaker 10: not have the stomach to go through with this if
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Speaker 10: they don't have the exact answers as to who qualifies,
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Speaker 10: who doesn't qualify, who this is meant for. I mean, honestly,
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Speaker 10: the Vice President and he did a press conference just
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Speaker 10: the other day and he said, you know, this is
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Speaker 10: open to anybody. It's not just Republicans, but Democrats, anybody
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Speaker 10: who feels like they've been targeted by the Department of Justice.
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Speaker 10: That still seems very weird for me for the size
18:29
Speaker 10: of the amount of money that's involved without specifics. I
18:33
Speaker 10: think folks like John Thune again, the Senate majority leader,
18:36
Speaker 10: they do not have the stomach to go through with this.
18:39
Speaker 10: I think they'd rather spend most of the time talking
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Speaker 10: about the DNC autopsy report, frankly, than talking about themselves
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Speaker 10: in this thing.
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Speaker 1: Well, they've got to get I got fifty three votes.
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Speaker 1: Reconciliation needs fifty. They can lose three. But it was
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Speaker 1: my understanding that it's more than half the conference is
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Speaker 2: Is that you're understanding, Yeah, it's not good.
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Speaker 10: And again I think Attorney General Blanches has been putting
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Speaker 10: sort of in a very tricky situation over here.
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Speaker 7: He's the acting Attorney General. He's doing what he can.
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Speaker 7: But I think they're just going to have to move
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Speaker 1: I'm you you and Josh Krasauer joins me, the editor
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Speaker 1: in chief of Jewish Insider. So, Josh, that's what the
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Speaker 1: President said this morning. Since then, the internet is full
21:14
Speaker 1: of rumors of a deal that would not be that.
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Speaker 1: What's your reporting, tellers?
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Speaker 13: Look, the negotiations, what I understand, are real. We've had
21:25
Speaker 13: negotiations in person before Pakistan. There's been active effort from
21:30
Speaker 13: the Gulf States to encourage the Trump Trump administration to
21:34
Speaker 13: re engage. I don't get the sense from the leaks
21:38
Speaker 13: and the reporting that I'm seen that Iran is offering
21:41
Speaker 13: any meaningful concessions to reopen the straight of horror moves.
21:44
Speaker 7: It's and then in.
21:45
Speaker 13: A lot of the outlines of any conversation, any diplomacy,
21:48
Speaker 13: I'm seeing it doesn't even address some of the more
21:51
Speaker 13: significant issues with Iran's ballistic missiles, their nuclear program, They're
21:56
Speaker 13: you know, funding for terror proxies. So I'm not sure
21:58
Speaker 13: if this is going to go anywhere. I do big picture, Hugh,
22:03
Speaker 13: I feel like we're kind of in groundhog Day every day,
22:05
Speaker 13: where we're kind of speculating whether Trump is going to
22:08
Speaker 13: re engage militarily against Iran, whether we're going to go
22:11
Speaker 13: to the diplomatic route, or whether we're just going to
22:13
Speaker 13: have another.
22:13
Speaker 7: Day of stalemate.
22:16
Speaker 13: It does seem like we're in a holding pattern, sort
22:19
Speaker 13: of a purgatory. And I look, politically, I don't the
22:25
Speaker 13: gas prices aren't going to go down by doing nothing
22:28
Speaker 13: that Maybe the administration feels like an active diplomatic route
22:32
Speaker 13: is the way to go, but it doesn't let anywhere
22:34
Speaker 13: Sar and I don't think that's the pathway to really
22:38
Speaker 13: addressing the core core challenges with this conflict.
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Speaker 1: All right, I don't know anything that anyone else doesn't
22:47
Speaker 1: already know. I'm not on the inner circle. I don't
22:49
Speaker 1: believe there's a deal in the offering. I don't believe
22:52
Speaker 1: there's a breakthrough. I don't believe any of these report
22:56
Speaker 1: from Arab media. I don't believe it because the President
22:58
Speaker 1: keeps saying things that are inconsistent with the reporting. Is
23:02
Speaker 1: that a fair statement that the president keeps saying things
23:05
Speaker 1: that are inconsistent with reportings of a deal.
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Speaker 13: Well, I think that's a good maxim Hue. Don't believe
23:11
Speaker 13: everything you read on the internet. I think there's been
23:13
Speaker 13: a lot of leaks, strategic leaks that actually are not
23:16
Speaker 13: not the case. They don't end up transpiring to reality.
23:21
Speaker 13: What I will say is it does not seem like
23:23
Speaker 13: Trump is eager to going back to using military force
23:26
Speaker 13: against Iran. Now I've been wrong about the you know,
23:29
Speaker 13: in the past when it came to ramping up for
23:32
Speaker 13: previous military engagements. But we do have two For Number One,
23:37
Speaker 13: the ceasefire period is I think now longer than the
23:40
Speaker 13: actual war itself, So we're now in a very extended
23:43
Speaker 13: ceasefire period where nothing's really changed on the ground. Number Two,
23:47
Speaker 13: we've seen these threats and these leaks that there's going
23:50
Speaker 13: to be imminent military action on a couple of occasions
23:53
Speaker 13: during the ceasefire, and at the last minute, we've learned
23:57
Speaker 13: the Pakistanis came up with a diplomatic overture the guitar
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Speaker 13: or reason, the Saudi's came up with the last minute
24:02
Speaker 13: diplomatic overture, and Trump seems all too willing to at
24:05
Speaker 13: least explore that route. So it doesn't seem like the
24:08
Speaker 13: President is in any rush to make a decision whether
24:10
Speaker 13: to re engage militarily or to continue to see what
24:13
Speaker 13: can be done diplomatically.
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Speaker 7: It's a holding pattern.
24:15
Speaker 13: It's been that way for quite some time now.
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Speaker 1: Now, josh, I look at it this way. If Americans
24:21
Speaker 1: put up with the higher gas prices and they have
24:23
Speaker 1: no choice but to unless the president caves, we got
24:27
Speaker 1: a pillow over Iran's mouth. They're getting nothing. They have
24:31
Speaker 1: no internet and they have no incoming and no revenue.
24:35
Speaker 1: They can't run a country that way. Do you think
24:38
Speaker 1: we might be watching and hearing things that we're not
24:42
Speaker 1: telling people about.
24:44
Speaker 13: Well, it does seem that there's something of a staring
24:47
Speaker 13: contest going on and hoping that the Iranian by blockading
24:51
Speaker 13: the Strait and trying to prevent a Ran from making
24:53
Speaker 13: any money off of you know, ships that go through
24:57
Speaker 13: the Strait, that that's pathway to having them blink first.
25:01
Speaker 13: But boy, we have a pretty volable political situation of
25:04
Speaker 13: our own here here in the US where Trump has
25:08
Speaker 13: seen his job approval numbers decline and a lot of
25:10
Speaker 13: attacks from Democrats amp up as a result of the
25:14
Speaker 13: high gas prices. I agree with you, Hugh, that you
25:16
Speaker 13: know he you you deal with the short term pain
25:20
Speaker 13: of gas prices to actually have a significant natural security win.
25:24
Speaker 13: Uh though I think if that was I'm a little
25:27
Speaker 13: bit surprised, frankly.
25:30
Speaker 7: If the goal is to take out.
25:33
Speaker 13: The defeata Ran, take out their ballistic missile capability to
25:36
Speaker 13: a greater extent.
25:37
Speaker 7: To deal with the.
25:38
Speaker 13: Nuclear challenge, you may have to go back into Iran militarily.
25:43
Speaker 13: And by delaying things and by exploring all these different,
25:46
Speaker 13: so far unsuccessful diplomatic off ramps, it only extends the
25:50
Speaker 13: pain at the pump and it actually delays any resolution
25:53
Speaker 13: to the conflict.
25:54
Speaker 1: Well, I told when this happened, when this started, Guy
25:57
Speaker 1: Benzon I on in exchange, and so he will have
25:59
Speaker 1: to be the careerate this and I said, this is
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Speaker 1: not going to be over until June. Don't count on
26:04
Speaker 1: it being over until June. Because it's a big country
26:06
Speaker 1: with a lot of reserves and a lot of crazy
26:09
Speaker 1: people in it, and we took out all their leadership,
26:11
Speaker 1: but it's they have no command in control. I am
26:14
Speaker 1: an optimist, medium and long range, short range.
26:18
Speaker 2: I just don't know.
26:19
Speaker 1: I have no idea, and politics is politics, and I
26:23
Speaker 1: don't think people are going to make up their minds
26:25
Speaker 1: on out of vote until October. Do you This is
26:29
Speaker 1: one of those most fluid periods of American politics of
26:32
Speaker 1: which I'm aware.
26:34
Speaker 13: Yeah, you know. I think there's a lot of a
26:36
Speaker 13: lot of exit. Boy, the Democratic Party's brand is in
26:38
Speaker 13: the toilet themselves so that they run against Trump, and boy,
26:43
Speaker 13: I look at everypolet that came out this past weekend.
26:46
Speaker 13: Democrats are facing the internal divisions and real worry about
26:50
Speaker 13: the direction that their party is going in. So it's
26:52
Speaker 13: a box at all houses these days, Hugh. On the
26:56
Speaker 13: political front, though, I think there's logic. You know, when
26:59
Speaker 13: you're dealing with a tough decision, you just almost have
27:01
Speaker 13: to rip the band aid off it and take the
27:03
Speaker 13: political short term pain for long term gain. And I
27:06
Speaker 13: think what I worry maybe happening with the ceasefire is
27:09
Speaker 13: you know, Trump was facing political heat when he ended up,
27:12
Speaker 13: you know, pausing the military action and Israel paused their
27:15
Speaker 13: military engagement. But when we're not getting the benefits of
27:18
Speaker 13: lower GATS prices, we have the straight up wr moves
27:20
Speaker 13: still blocked and that's.
27:22
Speaker 7: Got to be resolved somehow.
27:23
Speaker 13: So you know it may take re re re, you know,
27:28
Speaker 13: going back to the war against Iran, but that that
27:30
Speaker 13: that almost feels pulled more polantly costly to restart things
27:33
Speaker 13: at this point.
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Speaker 2: And that's the challenge the.
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Speaker 1: White high the way quick question, I think Graham Platner
27:38
Speaker 1: is finished, do you?
27:41
Speaker 3: I hope?
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Speaker 13: Well, let's I I know that there's a lot of
27:45
Speaker 13: operables that to be bigger than authorready out there that's
27:47
Speaker 13: did the work.
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Speaker 1: We'll ye General, when Elizabeth Warren and Chuck Schumer are
27:52
Speaker 1: rushing by reporters rather than talking about Graham Plattner, Uh,
27:56
Speaker 1: turn him.
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Speaker 2: Over, ready to talk to Josh Crush. Thank god, the
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Speaker 2: man