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Judge Napolitano · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: And Rye Bolt. Coming up next, a very happy guest
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  Speaker 1: this morning. I'm having trouble figuring out why. Let's see. Well,
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  Speaker 1: the price of Halloween candy is way too high. His
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  Speaker 1: costume's done. Oh, there it is. His New York Giants
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  Speaker 1: are in first place. The judge is next. Chuck Ingram
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  Speaker 1: on 55KRC, the talk station.
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  Speaker 2: See, I get the benefit of seeing Judge Napolitano's reaction
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  Speaker 2: to Chuck Ingram's comments. He's looking down. He's shaking his
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  Speaker 2: head back and forth like, what in God's name is
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  Speaker 2: this guy talking about? Welcome back, Judge Ananapolitano. It's that
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  Speaker 2: time of week. We get the benefit of your insight,
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  Speaker 2: constitutionally grounded wisdom. It's good to always have you on
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  Speaker 2: the program at this time. Judge, welcome back.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Brian. It's always a pleasure. And I love Ingram,
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  Speaker 3: no matter what he says. And the Giants are in
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  Speaker 3: first place. Surprise, surprise.
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  Speaker 2: They are indeed. Is that your team?
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  Speaker 3: Yes. How's Joe Burrow? Is he injured yet?
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  Speaker 2: No, don't say things like that. Now it's going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, I wish him well. I'm an admirer of his
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  Speaker 3: athleticism and I want my friends in Cincinnati to be
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  Speaker 3: happy unless they play the Giants.
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  Speaker 2: Well, OK, we'll take that caveat. And I agree with you.
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  Speaker 2: And he is one hell of an athlete. There's no
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  Speaker 2: doubt about it. Guy can throw a pass, man. Anyway,
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  Speaker 2: I loved your column. I refer to it as brilliant.
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  Speaker 2: America's deadly addiction to war. And it was sort of
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  Speaker 2: an objective oversight of the realities since 1950 that presidents
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  Speaker 2: have sort of just unilaterally waged war without sort of
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  Speaker 2: a defined objective. And the predicate for the various military
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  Speaker 2: conflicts we've been in is an agenda populace that's worried
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  Speaker 2: about some existential threat to our existence, only to find
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  Speaker 2: out when the bombs drop that we don't ultimately get
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  Speaker 2: the outcome we've hoped for. And that's when mission creep
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  Speaker 2: and changes come. And we find ourselves in a place
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  Speaker 2: like Afghanistan for 20 years, Only to pull the plug
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  Speaker 2: with terrible result. I know I'm just boiling down your
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  Speaker 2: brilliant column very quickly, but I don't know how anybody
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  Speaker 2: can disagree with you about the realities of what you write,
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  Speaker 2: Judge Napolitano. We do have a Constitution.
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  Speaker 3: You're nice to say that. We do have a Constitution
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  Speaker 3: totally obliterated, utterly ignored by a feckless Congress that would
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  Speaker 3: rather criticize from the sidelines than prevent these things from happening.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see what the Congress does if it's controlled by
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  Speaker 3: or dominated by the Democrats. I'm not looking for better
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  Speaker 3: things from the Democrats than the Republicans, but we'll see
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  Speaker 3: if they can put a brake on Trump's wars. So
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  Speaker 3: many people feel betrayed by a president who promised an
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  Speaker 3: end to endless wars, and here we are again. We're
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  Speaker 3: in the middle of two of them.
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  Speaker 2: The CIA is.
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  Speaker 3: finding targets in Russia for Ukraine to hit. We are
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  Speaker 3: funding the Israelis in Gaza. And of course, we're in
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  Speaker 3: a bit of a pause now, but every other day
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  Speaker 3: seems to be threatening to resume attacks on Iran so that, quote,
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  Speaker 3: it can't take out Los Angeles, an absurd, absurd threat
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  Speaker 3: that no serious military analyst believes is even possible, much
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  Speaker 3: less feasible.
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  Speaker 2: Well, do you actually expect the Democrats to do anything
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  Speaker 2: about this? Because I'm looking at your list, and I
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  Speaker 2: don't think it's a comprehensive one. Korea, Vietnam, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Ukraine, Iran, and, well, others.
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  Speaker 2: I don't recall any political party being the major challenger
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  Speaker 2: to those actions or stepping up and endeavoring to stop them.
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  Speaker 3: The only thing they'll do is, because they detest him personally,
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  Speaker 3: is try to make Trump's life miserable for him.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But many of the Democrats... probably secretly, I'm not a shrink,
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  Speaker 3: I can't tell you what, compare what they say publicly
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  Speaker 3: to what they think inwardly, support all this military activity
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  Speaker 3: for the reasons articulated in the piece. It gives them
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  Speaker 3: a feeling of power. It enriches the military-industrial complex. The
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  Speaker 3: military-industrial complex is all over the United States. in many, many,
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  Speaker 3: many congressional districts. They don't want those people to lose
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  Speaker 3: their jobs, even if their jobs are based on borrowed
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  Speaker 3: dollars going to the Pentagon.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm glad you said this. The next place I
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  Speaker 2: was going to go, you read my mind. You mentioned funding. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: people are all pissed off. We fund Israel. Fine, you're
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  Speaker 2: either against it or you're for it. But our money,
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  Speaker 2: taxpayer borrowed dollars, goes to Israel for the purpose of what?
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  Speaker 2: Acquiring arms, which money goes back to the U.S. manufacturers
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  Speaker 2: of arms benefiting the military-industrial complex. But that's the way
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  Speaker 2: it is in any country that we give money to
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  Speaker 2: for the purpose of acquisition of arms. It's buying from
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  Speaker 2: our U.S. companies and building up and keeping their profitability. Correct.
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  Speaker 3: In the case of Israel, much of the money goes
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  Speaker 3: directly to the arms manufacturers so that Israel doesn't have
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  Speaker 3: to wait. So those huge military planes that carry cargo,
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  Speaker 3: I forget what they're called, they land two or three
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  Speaker 3: times a day in Israel with the gear right there.
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  Speaker 3: In the case of Ukraine, it's an actual cash transfer.
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  Speaker 3: The Europeans are paying American manufacturers who are then shipping
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  Speaker 3: supplies either directly to Ukraine or to the Pentagon to
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  Speaker 3: replace the what the Pentagon is shipping to Ukraine, if
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  Speaker 3: all of this makes sense to you. In both cases,
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  Speaker 3: it is the federal government borrowing money, paying for wars
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  Speaker 3: that have nothing to do with American national security, but
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  Speaker 3: your children and your grandchildren and your great-grandchildren, as yet unborn,
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  Speaker 3: will be paying higher taxes to pay back the debt
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  Speaker 3: that was created by this borrowing.
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  Speaker 2: And the corollary being they will also be living in
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  Speaker 2: a less free society because Lord knows if we are
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  Speaker 2: under any form of threat, existential, created or otherwise, if
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  Speaker 2: you gin up enough concern over it, then that's when
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  Speaker 2: your civil liberties are eradicated and you find out the
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  Speaker 2: NSA is literally listening to every phone call you've ever made.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the NSA is listening to every phone call you
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  Speaker 3: and I have made since 2001 because of 9-11. even though,
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  Speaker 3: according to the federal government, everybody that caused 9-11 is
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  Speaker 3: either dead or incarcerated in Cuba. But the feds took
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  Speaker 3: the power that the Congress gave them in October of
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  Speaker 3: 2001 and retained it. And that power expires every five years,
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  Speaker 3: and every five years, there's this narrow, narrow, narrow vote
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  Speaker 3: in the House of Representatives, and it passes by one
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  Speaker 3: or two votes.
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  Speaker 2: You don't think that's planned?
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  Speaker 3: Of course it's planned. Congressman Johnson, Mike Johnson, who's the
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  Speaker 3: Speaker of the House, was a fierce opponent of the
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  Speaker 3: NSA when he was a just congressman. Now that he's
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  Speaker 3: Speaker of the House and receives periodic private visits from
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  Speaker 3: the intelligence community, gee, I wonder what they're showing him.
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  Speaker 3: He comes out in favor of all the spying. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: this happened literally last time. when he left the Speaker's
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  Speaker 3: chair to go on the floor and cast a vote.
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  Speaker 3: And the reauthorization of the spying authorities passed the House
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  Speaker 3: by one vote.
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  Speaker 2: Again, you don't think that was.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, what is our friend Thomas Massey going to be
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  Speaker 3: doing in January? Do we know?
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  Speaker 2: I do not know. He's probably going to go back
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  Speaker 2: to enjoying the benefits of his multiple patents and the
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  Speaker 2: income he generates off of that, enjoy life on his
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  Speaker 2: successful off-the-grid farm where he is raising his own beef
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  Speaker 2: and having it slaughtered locally for local consumption. And of course,
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  Speaker 2: he's continuing to ask the question, why can't local farmers
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  Speaker 2: butcher their own beef? He's got a new bill out
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  Speaker 2: that hoping to advance that common sense reality. Why can't
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  Speaker 2: we Why do we have to go to some major
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  Speaker 2: corporate-owned slaughterhouse to have beef processed at a significant increase
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  Speaker 2: in cost to you and I?
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  Speaker 3: Because Congress can regulate interstate commerce, and therefore it can
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  Speaker 3: regulate anything that affects interstate commerce. And therefore, according to
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  Speaker 3: Justice Clarence Thomas, it could regulate a Tupperware party if
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  Speaker 3: it wanted to. This is absurd. Congressman Massey is 100% correct.
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  Speaker 3: The government should have nothing to do with this.
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  Speaker 2: Agreed. Well, that's why he introduced the Red Meat Inspection
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  Speaker 2: Exemption Act. So what bell is rung can be unrung
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  Speaker 2: in the name of freedom and liberty and common sense,
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  Speaker 2: for that matter. Let's free it up. And I think
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  Speaker 2: he'll still be hard at work and maybe not, of course,
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  Speaker 2: in a representative capacity. But because he has experience, knowledge,
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  Speaker 2: and he's been such a profound advocate for these free market,
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  Speaker 2: freedom-loving principles, he'll continue to work towards those efforts. I'm
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  Speaker 2: just confident he will. He can't give up. He's a
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  Speaker 2: man of principle, Judge Napolitano.
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  Speaker 3: Correct. Correct. Absolutely. I'd love to see him as the
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  Speaker 3: governor of Kentucky or as the junior senator from Kentucky.
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  Speaker 3: Imagine Rand Paul and Thomas Massey as your senators.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: I'd write a check in support of that campaign. I
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  Speaker 2: write very few checks in support of campaigns. Judge Ed Napolitano,
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  Speaker 2: Judging Freedom is the podcast. You can find it wherever
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  Speaker 2: you find your podcasts, including iHeartMedia. Judge Napolitano, standard cast
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  Speaker 2: of characters on a Wednesday, or you got someone different today?
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  Speaker 3: I do have Jeff Sachs, Professor Sachs, to analyze what
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  Speaker 3: we hope is a result in the Israeli elections. Otherwise,
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  Speaker 3: Pepe Escobar from Thailand and Phil Giraldi.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're still waiting on that outcome. It looks like
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  Speaker 2: it was... basically tied.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it does look like a tie. And whoever is
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  Speaker 3: going to form a new government is going to have
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  Speaker 3: to deal with the Arab parties who have a huge number.
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  Speaker 3: They have three times the numbers in the new Knesset
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  Speaker 3: than they do in the present one. This is going
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  Speaker 3: to cause a lot of head scratching.
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  Speaker 2: It is. And they're both sides are a little bit
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  Speaker 2: worried about forming a coalition with those Arab factors. But
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  Speaker 2: isn't it remarkably interesting for those who think that only
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  Speaker 2: Jewish people and Jews are capable of getting elected to
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  Speaker 2: higher office in Israel? There you go. They have Arab
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  Speaker 2: coalition and they have Arabs in positions of power in Israel.
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  Speaker 3: One of the members of the Arab coalition is a
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  Speaker 3: Jewish Israeli. Go figure.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: As Yogi Berra would say, only in America.
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  Speaker 2: Is that cognitive dissonance or a Stockholm syndrome kind of thing?
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  Speaker 2: I guess we'll have to worry about and wonder about
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  Speaker 2: that psychological diagnosis. DSM-5, probably. Judge Ed Napolitano will do
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  Speaker 2: this again next Wednesday on the 55 KRC Morning Show.
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  Speaker 2: I always appreciate your columns. Get a copy of it
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  Speaker 2: after midnight tonight, America's Deadly Addiction to War. God bless you, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Have a great week.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Brian.
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  Speaker 1: All the best.
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  Speaker 2: It's 841.