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Happy 250th Birthday, America · The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated

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Speaker 1: here do it. The reason that most of the country
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Speaker 1: takes Tomorrow off, the reason we sell off the fireworks
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Speaker 1: on Saturday and celebrate all day long, is that Saturday
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Speaker 1: marks the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of this in
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Speaker 1: Congress July fourth, seventeen seventy six, the Unanimous Declaration of
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Speaker 1: the thirteen United States of America, When in the course
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Speaker 1: of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to
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Speaker 1: dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another,
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Speaker 1: and to assume among the powers of the earth the
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Speaker 1: separate and equal station to which the laws of nature
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Speaker 1: and Nature's God entitle them. A decent respect to the
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Speaker 1: opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes
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Speaker 1: which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths
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Speaker 1: to be self evident, that all men are created equal,
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Speaker 1: that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights,
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Speaker 1: that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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Speaker 1: That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men,
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Speaker 1: deriving their powers from the consent of the government. That
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Speaker 1: whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends,
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Speaker 1: it is the right of the people to alter or
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Speaker 1: abolish it, And then the institute new government, laying its
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Speaker 1: foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such
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Speaker 1: forms that to them shall seem most likely to affect
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Speaker 1: their safety and happiness. Prudence indeed, will dictate the government's
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Speaker 1: long established should not be changed for light and transient causes.
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Speaker 1: And accordingly, all experiences shown that mankind are more disposed
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Speaker 1: of suffer while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves
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Speaker 1: by a polishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
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Speaker 1: But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing
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Speaker 1: invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them
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Speaker 1: under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty,
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Speaker 1: to throw off such government, and to provide new guards
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Speaker 1: for their future security. Such has been the patient's sufferance
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Speaker 1: of these colonies, and such as now the necessity which
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Speaker 1: constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The
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Speaker 1: history of the present King of Britain is a history
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Speaker 1: of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object
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Speaker 1: the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To
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Speaker 1: prove this, let facts be summoned to a candid world.
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Speaker 1: He has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome
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Speaker 1: and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his
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Speaker 1: governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless
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Speaker 1: suspended in their operation, to his assent should be obtained,
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Speaker 1: and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend
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Speaker 1: to them. He has refused to pass other laws for
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Speaker 1: the accommodation of large districts of people unless those people
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Speaker 1: would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a
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Speaker 1: right inessenable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He
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Speaker 1: has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and
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Speaker 1: distant from the depository of their public records, for the
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Speaker 1: sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
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Speaker 1: He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly for opposing, with manly
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Speaker 1: firmness his invasions of the rights of the people. He
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Speaker 1: has refused, for a long time, after such disillusions, to
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Speaker 1: cause others to be elected, whereby the legislative powers incapable
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Speaker 1: of annihilation have returned the people at large for their exercise.
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Speaker 1: The state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the
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Speaker 1: dangers of invasion from without and convulsions within, he has
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Speaker 1: endeavored to print the populations of these states for that purpose,
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Speaker 1: obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners, refusing to pass
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Speaker 1: others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the condition
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Speaker 1: of new appropriations of lands. He has obstructed the administration
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Speaker 1: of justice by refusing his assent to the laws for
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Speaker 1: establishing judiciary powers. He has made judges dependent on his
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Speaker 1: will alone for the tenure of their offices and the
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Speaker 1: amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a
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Speaker 1: multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers
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Speaker 1: who harass our people eat out their substance. He is
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Speaker 1: kept among us in times of peace standing armies without
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Speaker 1: the consent of our legislatures. He is affected to render
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Speaker 1: military independent of and superior to, the civil power. He
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Speaker 1: is combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction
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Speaker 1: foreign to our constitution, unacknowledged by our laws, Giving his
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Speaker 1: assent to the acts of pretended legislation, for quartering large
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Speaker 1: bodies of armed troops among us, for protecting, by a
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Speaker 1: mock trial file from punishment for any murders for which
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Speaker 1: they commit on the inhabitants of these states, by cutting
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Speaker 1: off our trade with all parts of the world, by
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Speaker 1: imposing taxes on us without consent, for depriving us, in
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Speaker 1: many cases of the benefits of trial by jury, for
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Speaker 1: transporting us beyond the seas to be tried, for pretended offenses,
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Speaker 1: for abolishing the free system of English laws and a
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Speaker 1: neighboring province, establishing in their arbitrary government and enlarging its boundaries,
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Speaker 1: so as to render it at once an example and
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Speaker 1: fit instrument, for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies,
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Speaker 1: For taking away our charters, abolishing their most valuable laws,
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Speaker 1: altering fundamentally the forms of our government, For suspending our legislatures,
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Speaker 1: and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us
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Speaker 1: in all cases whatsoever, He has abdicated government here by
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Speaker 1: declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.
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Speaker 1: He has plundered our sees, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns,
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Speaker 1: and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at
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Speaker 1: this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete
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Speaker 1: the works of death, desolation, and tyrannary tyranny already begun
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Speaker 1: with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the
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Speaker 1: most barbarous ages, totally unworthy of the head of a
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Speaker 1: civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow citizens, taken captive
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Speaker 1: on the high seas, to bear arms against their country,
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Speaker 1: to become ex executioners of their friends and brethren, or
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Speaker 1: to fall themselves by their hands. He has excited domestic
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Speaker 1: insurrections among us, and he's endeavored to bring on the
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Speaker 1: inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known
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Speaker 1: rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes,
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Speaker 1: and condition. In every stage of these oppressions, we have
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Speaker 1: petition for redress in the most humble terms. Our repeated
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Speaker 1: petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. Prince, whose
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Speaker 1: character is thus marked by every act which may define
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Speaker 1: a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of the
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Speaker 1: free people. Nor have we been wanting an attention to
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Speaker 1: our British brethren. We have warned them from time to
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Speaker 1: time of attempts by their legislatures to an extend and
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Speaker 1: unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them in the
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Speaker 1: circumstances of our emigration and settlement here we have appealed
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Speaker 1: to their native justice and magnanimy, And we have conjured
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Speaker 1: them by ties of our common kindred to disavow the
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Speaker 1: usurpations which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They
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Speaker 1: too have been death to the voice of justice and consanguity.
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Speaker 1: And consanguity, we must therefore acquiesce in the necessity which
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Speaker 1: denounces our separation, and hold them as we hold the
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Speaker 1: rest of mankind, enemies and war in peace. France. We, therefore,
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Speaker 1: the Representatives of the United States of America in General,
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Speaker 1: Congress Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the World
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Speaker 1: for the rectitude of our intentions, due in the name
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Speaker 1: and by the authority of the good people of these
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Speaker 1: colonies solely publish and declare that these United Colonies are
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Speaker 1: and of right ought to be free in independent states,
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Speaker 1: that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown,
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Speaker 1: and that all political connection between them and the State
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Speaker 1: of Great Britain is not to be totally dissolved, and
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Speaker 1: that it's free and independent states. They have full power
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Speaker 1: to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and
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Speaker 1: do all their acts and things which independent states may
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Speaker 1: have right to. And for the support of this declaration,
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Speaker 1: with a firm alliance on the protection of divine providence,
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Speaker 1: we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes,
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Speaker 1: and our sacred honor. It goes on to list the
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Speaker 1: signers of the declaration. Now our friends that the Americans
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Speaker 1: for Prosperity FP, they begun the declaration project, and they've
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Speaker 1: asked me to encourage you to do what I just
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Speaker 1: did on July fourth, the actual day, Go to the
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Speaker 1: National Archives. Print it out. It took eight minutes to
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Speaker 1: read out loud, and maybe you can pronounce consanguinity better
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Speaker 1: than I can. Eight minutes to do that. AFP is
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Speaker 1: in fact asking you to head over to a two
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Speaker 1: fifty toolkit dot com slash hugh a two fifty toolkit
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Speaker 1: dot com slash hugh and sign there the pledge to
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Speaker 1: do that a two fifty toolkit dot com slash hue.
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Speaker 1: When you do that, I mean when you sit around
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Speaker 1: and you do it, actually talk about it with your
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Speaker 1: friends and family, see if anything sits particularly well with them.
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Speaker 1: I have long told my law students that my favorite
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Speaker 1: part of the Declaration is in the indictment of George,
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Speaker 1: when he has called the task for sending out swarms
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Speaker 1: of officials to read up our substance. He has erected
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Speaker 1: a multitude of new offices and sent hitherous forms of
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Speaker 1: officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
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Speaker 1: That reminds me of the administrative state today. That's why
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Speaker 1: it's my favorite part of the Declaration. But maybe you
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Speaker 1: have a different one. You might like the beginning of
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Speaker 1: the end, you like the middle, or one of the phrases.
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Speaker 1: You might be able to pronounce consanguinity. But I encourage
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Speaker 1: you to go to a two fifty tool kit dot
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Speaker 1: com slash u, sign on to the Declaration project, and
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Speaker 1: do that on Saturday with family and friends before the fireworks,
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Speaker 1: the hot dogs, and the hamburgers. And then I also
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Speaker 1: encourage you to come right back to today Thursday July,
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Speaker 1: I have the second qu view at show. Welcome back
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Speaker 1: to America and go do it. Please welcome an old friend,
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Speaker 1: Fred Ryan. Fred is the president of the Reagan Foundation.
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Speaker 1: In the on civility and Democracy, I hold in my
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Speaker 1: hand the book, the Civility Handbook that the Foundation has
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Speaker 1: put out. Fred. Welcome. I began the show today by
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Speaker 1: reading the Declaration of Independence, and I had a note
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Speaker 1: because I knew you'd be on today, that it includes
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Speaker 1: in its first paragraph, a decent respect to the opinion
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Speaker 1: of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which
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Speaker 1: impel them to separate. A decent respect for the opinion
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Speaker 1: of mankind kind of the whole theme of the Civility Handbook,
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Speaker 1: Isn't it.
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Speaker 2: Exactly right?
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Speaker 1: Hugh?
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Speaker 2: And thanks, it's great to be back on your show.
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Speaker 2: Thanks for having me.
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Speaker 3: But we time that Civility Handbook to coincide with the
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Speaker 3: two fiftieth because it's a time for people to look
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Speaker 3: back and see how does our model of democracy work,
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Speaker 3: what does it require, and how can we keep it
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Speaker 3: perfecting it?
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Speaker 4: Going forward.
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Speaker 2: So we we put together a lot of things, as
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Speaker 2: you know you've seen it, and we have everything.
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Speaker 3: From quotes from Sandrade O'Connor to Snoop Dogg on ways
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Speaker 3: that we can age more civilly and respectfully with our
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Speaker 3: fellow Americans.
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Speaker 1: Let's run through some of the chapters. First of all, sure,
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Speaker 1: you call civility the cornerstone of democracy. That's because democracy
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Speaker 1: actually depends upon the free exchange of ideas. Why else
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Speaker 1: is it the cornerstone?
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Speaker 2: Well, it's just as you said.
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's not about democracy doesn't work if we
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Speaker 3: can't have disagreement. In fact, I think a disagreement is
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Speaker 3: an essential element democracy. But we find ourselves today too
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Speaker 3: often in a situation where if we disagree with someone
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Speaker 3: or if they have a bad idea, then they're a
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Speaker 3: bad person and we don't deal with them any longer,
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Speaker 3: and it precludes the opportunity for finding common grounds. So
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Speaker 3: what we've tried to say in the book, and just
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Speaker 3: back to your reference to the reading the Doctorates of Independence,
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Speaker 3: it wasn't just there, but our early our founding fathers
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Speaker 3: were worried about this. George Washington and his farewell address
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Speaker 3: talked about his fear that we would develop into factions
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Speaker 3: that were competing, factions that put their own interests ahead
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Speaker 3: of the of the country, and even that they would
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Speaker 3: try to exact revenge on other factions.
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Speaker 2: And I think we're seeing a little bit of that now.
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Speaker 1: So chapter two I love this one as well. The
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Speaker 1: power of humility and crucially curiosity, because yeah, you got
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Speaker 1: to be humble about yourself. I think that's that that
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Speaker 1: ought to be a given for any human being that
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Speaker 1: realizes not knowing what you don't not knowing what you
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Speaker 1: know don't know, knowing what you don't know is crucial,
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Speaker 1: but curiosity about what other people do know is essential.
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Speaker 2: Yes, it's it's it's it's part of the having a
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Speaker 2: good conversation.
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Speaker 3: If you start off by saying I know everything here,
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Speaker 3: I don't care to hear what you have to say. Uh,
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Speaker 3: and and you're and you're not you don't have enough humility,
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Speaker 3: you're not humble enough to actually listen. I think you're
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Speaker 3: you're not moving our collective interests forward, and you're probably
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Speaker 3: not serving yourself well because you figure you've already figured
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Speaker 3: it out and there's nothing more that you can hear
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Speaker 3: from anybody else.
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Speaker 2: But every one of us.
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Speaker 3: I know, we can all tend to find ourselves feeling
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Speaker 3: that we are the experts on this or that, or
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Speaker 3: we know better than others.
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Speaker 2: But just a little dose of humility helps Fred.
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Speaker 1: Just earlier this week we had the birthright citizenship decision.
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Speaker 1: I've been through all six opinions twice. Now I must
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Speaker 1: say Justice Kavana has me rethinking a little bit. But
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Speaker 1: I agree with the Chief Justice and his decision because
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Speaker 1: I think it's persuasive. But I found good arguments in
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Speaker 1: Justice Thomas's that proceed from his view of the fourteenth Amendment.
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Speaker 1: Justice Alito is concerned very much about the future. Everyone's
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Speaker 1: got something to offer, but you got to read it.
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Speaker 1: You gotta be curious about what their arguments are that
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Speaker 1: they would vote that way. And that applies to basically
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Speaker 1: every argument in America, right you.
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Speaker 3: I mean, how can we grow in our own opinions,
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Speaker 3: how can we improve our opinions, and how can we
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Speaker 3: find ways where despite our differferences, we.
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Speaker 2: Find common ground.
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Speaker 3: If we can't have the humility to listen to a
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Speaker 3: fellow American when they're sharing.
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Speaker 1: Their point of view about what's best for the country, well,
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Speaker 1: I first heard about the Civility Handbook. I was on
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Speaker 1: the panel the night you were on with Brett Baer
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Speaker 1: on his common ground segment and your chapter six in
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Speaker 1: this is fine common ground that's often easier said than done.
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Speaker 1: What's the recommendation on how to find common ground?
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Speaker 3: You know, and you and I have talked about this,
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Speaker 3: and going back to our years of friendship and your
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Speaker 3: role is commenting on the political landscape, is there were
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Speaker 3: times where this could be done.
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Speaker 2: And one example I know we've talked about is Ronald
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Speaker 2: Reagan and Tip O'Neil.
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Speaker 3: You had a conservative Republican governor from the West and
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Speaker 3: a liberal Eastern Democrat Speaker of the House. Politically they
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Speaker 3: were pretty opposite, but they could find that there were
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Speaker 3: areas where they could find common ground and they.
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Speaker 2: Could move things forward for the benefit of the country.
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Speaker 3: And the other lesson was I think they, despite feeling
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Speaker 3: that the other had bad ideas, they never said they're
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Speaker 3: a bad person, and I don't want to.
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Speaker 2: Deal with them.
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Speaker 1: I also want to hold up as an example of this,
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Speaker 1: a man you work with for a long time, very closely,
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Speaker 1: when you were publisher of the Washington Post and who
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Speaker 1: hired me at the Post Fred Hyatt. Now, Fred and
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Speaker 1: I probably agreed only about twenty five percent of the time,
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Speaker 1: but he was the most civil individual I think I've met,
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Speaker 1: at least the equal of any civil individual in Washington, DC.
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Speaker 1: It's a tragedy when he died young, but boy did
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Speaker 1: he try and make the pages balance, fair, equitable, and curious,
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Speaker 1: intelligible to all. He really is the personification from the
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Speaker 1: media world of the Civility Handbook. I agree with that
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Speaker 1: Fred was.
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Speaker 3: He was, for all the reasons you mentioned, a wonderful person,
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Speaker 3: and I was one of the things I was happy
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Speaker 3: was he was able to recruit you to be on
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Speaker 3: the team there.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you one lesson that I learned from
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Speaker 2: Fred Hyatt.
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Speaker 3: I try to apply and I think we could probably
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Speaker 3: in the next edition of the Civil Handbook we could
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Speaker 3: add this. He said, when you're critiquing somebody, and you're
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Speaker 3: debating somebody and you're criticizing them, criticize their strongest argument.
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Speaker 3: Don't find the weakest point and go after that because
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Speaker 3: that's easy. But pick the strongest one and critique that
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Speaker 3: and base your opinion on that. And I think that's
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Speaker 3: you know, I think a lot of us could learn
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Speaker 3: from that, you look at a lot of some of
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Speaker 3: the extreme patific sites on the platforms and even some
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Speaker 3: of the very opinionated cable channels, and you hear them
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Speaker 3: taking on criticizing an opponent, but they're picking the weakest,
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Speaker 3: lightest part of their argument, when I think all of
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Speaker 3: us will be more persuaded if they took on the
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Speaker 3: strongest part.
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Speaker 1: Of their argument, mowing down strong man, I call that.
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Speaker 1: Before I go back to the specific, how do people
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Speaker 1: get the Cibility Handbook, Fred, I want to make sure
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Speaker 1: people know they can get it.
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Speaker 2: Well you, thank you. It's available. It's free.
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Speaker 3: We made available through Civilityhandbook dot Com. We've had in
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Speaker 3: the last week, we've had over ten thousand requests for it.
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Speaker 3: They told me if it was a commercial book, it
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Speaker 3: would be a New York Times bestseller, but it's if
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Speaker 3: people go to Civilityhandbook dot Com, we will send it
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Speaker 3: to them. And we've had teachers reach out to us
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Speaker 3: asking for fifty copies for the students in their classrooms.
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Speaker 3: We've had universities asking for it. So that's the way
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Speaker 3: they get it Civilityhandbook dot Com. And they can also
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Speaker 3: get the digital version. So we will mail them this
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Speaker 3: a hard copy, but they can also get a digital
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Speaker 3: footbook they can see online.
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Speaker 2: Maybe even do it over the fourth of July weekend.
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Speaker 1: It would be great to have it in your desk
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Speaker 1: at school and pill pull it out and just go
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Speaker 1: to chapter seven Distinguish Facts from Opinion, and then chapter
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Speaker 1: thirteen social Media. So let's talk about distinguishing facts from opinion,
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Speaker 1: especially on social media. Fred, we got one minute left
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Speaker 1: to talk about the Civility Handbook.
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Speaker 2: Well, I mean you've nailed it there, you. I mean
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Speaker 2: social media.
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Speaker 3: More than half Americans say they get some of their
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Speaker 3: news from social media. And if you think about it,
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Speaker 3: social media has no journalists, they have no newsroom, they
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Speaker 3: have no editors, no fact checkers, and people are getting
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Speaker 3: their news they're forming opinions based on that. So it's
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Speaker 3: important to go to trusted sources, people like you, who
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Speaker 3: they know, do their homework and do their research, and
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Speaker 3: they can get the information firsthand and not rely on
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Speaker 3: social media where there's so much disinformation.
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Speaker 1: Fred, congratulations you and the Center on Civility and Democracy
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Speaker 1: at the Reagan Foundation. Remember Stabilityhandbook dot com. Get it
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Speaker 1: for yourself, get it for your clous welcome back to
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Speaker 5: They get started in West Virginia with our great friend
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Speaker 5: Senator Patricia Rucker, who's been on the show many times
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Speaker 5: with you, Hugh, and our whole ALEX State's fifty ALEX
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Speaker 5: two fifty initiative. This year has just been an incredible
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Speaker 5: opportunity to just remind everybody of an incredible opportunity we
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Speaker 5: have this year to go back and even read the
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Speaker 5: founding documents.
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Speaker 6: Hugh.
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Speaker 5: This is something that we've talked about everywhere we've gone,
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Speaker 5: is if you haven't spent the number of minutes that
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Speaker 5: it takes to go and reread the Declaration of Independence
20:23
Speaker 5: and get inside what the founders were thinking.
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Speaker 1: If we can't do it now?
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Speaker 5: When are we going to do it? Hugh right, and so,
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Speaker 5: whether it's the Civics education piece where we're having our
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Speaker 5: legislators go and make sure that that is being taught
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Speaker 5: properly with the original documents in public education. We have
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Speaker 5: a great Alec model resolution that states are introducing to
20:42
Speaker 5: commemorate our two hundred and fiftieth anniversary as a country.
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Speaker 5: But it's at the end of the day, this comes
20:47
Speaker 5: down to families and parents prioritizing us to say freedom
20:52
Speaker 5: is never more than one generation away from extinction. As
20:55
Speaker 5: Reagan reminded us, it has to be fought for us,
20:57
Speaker 5: not passed down into bloodline. So this is what an
20:59
Speaker 5: opportunity we have this week at America two fifty.
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Speaker 1: I began the show today with the declaration, Jonathan, but
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Speaker 1: I can't pronounce consan winning a team very well, so
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Speaker 1: I hope people practice that before they read the declaration.
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Speaker 1: Let's go to the job numbers today. Fifty thousand jobs
21:16
Speaker 1: created in June. April job numbers were advised up two
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Speaker 1: hundred and seventy seven. March job numbers were up to
21:22
Speaker 1: two hundred and two thousand. Wages are up three point
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Speaker 1: four percent. Year over year unemployment still low at four
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Speaker 1: point three. Do we expect the number to be revised
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Speaker 1: upward again like the last two months.
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Speaker 5: You know, that's a little bit of an aberration, as
21:37
Speaker 5: you know, Hugh. I mean, we spent several years during
21:40
Speaker 5: the Biden years seeing these major numbers on the headline
21:44
Speaker 5: and then downward revisions every single time. So this is
21:47
Speaker 5: a great, great change of pace when it comes to
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Speaker 5: upward revisions. I think it just you rattled off all
21:53
Speaker 5: of those great statistics. I mean, obviously the piece on
21:56
Speaker 5: gas prices in inflation higher than people would like, even
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Speaker 5: though they're starting to come down, especially here in Northern
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Speaker 5: Virginia in recent weeks. But I'll tell you this economy
22:06
Speaker 5: is resilient and a lot of those fundamentals are strong.
22:08
Speaker 5: And one of the reasons why I think that is
22:10
Speaker 5: and I think you do too, is here we are
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Speaker 5: one year later after the one big beautiful bill, the
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Speaker 5: Working Families Tax Cut Act, was signed into law and
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Speaker 5: just the permanency of the tax for the first time
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Speaker 5: in recent memory, those expensing provisions for businesses, the lower
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Speaker 5: burdens and the lower ability of individuals how to have
22:31
Speaker 5: more take home pay after the lower burdens, that all
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Speaker 5: is coming back to roost when it comes to these
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Speaker 5: strong economic numbers, even with everything else going on around
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Speaker 5: the world.
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Speaker 1: It's pretty impressive.
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Speaker 4: Just all of those things you just talked about.
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Speaker 1: And oiled down to sixty eight dollars and forty five
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Speaker 1: cents a barrel as we speak. One big beautiful tax
22:50
Speaker 1: built did in fact pass one year ago today, the
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Speaker 1: average tax saving for American thirty eight hundred dollars, more
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Speaker 1: than thirty eight hundred dollars. That's an increased standard induction
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Speaker 1: or for Bill. So I think a lot's going to
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Speaker 1: come together, John, including deregulation. That's not on our agenda
23:06
Speaker 1: for today, but I have to think that the myriad
23:09
Speaker 1: number of regulations that have been cut a resulting tens
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Speaker 1: of thousands of Americans doing things they otherwise would not
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Speaker 1: have been able to do. This year. Then when Donald
23:19
Speaker 1: Trump returned to office and that's freeing up the economy,
23:23
Speaker 1: well there's no doubt.
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Speaker 5: And you add what was being done at oirad Omb
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Speaker 5: right now. I'm just they've taken the first Trump administration's
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Speaker 5: efforts on deregulation and they've supercharged them in Trump two here,
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Speaker 5: and that's just been incredible. But I mean the other
23:37
Speaker 5: things that people forget about often of the one big
23:39
Speaker 5: beautiful bill is the massive amount of education choice that
23:43
Speaker 5: was included in it with the federal education tax credit, scholarship,
23:47
Speaker 5: the expansion of those popular five two nine plans, just
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Speaker 5: all kinds of benefits that fly under the radar of
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Speaker 5: the mainstream media as always.
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Speaker 1: Now, I had the bank Ramaswami on yesterday. He was
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Speaker 1: telling me his platform for a while. I think he's
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Speaker 1: going to win. He wants to become Texas Tennessee, in
24:03
Speaker 1: Florida North. He didn't add South Carolina. Should he be
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Speaker 1: adding South Carolina to his objective for modeling. They got
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Speaker 1: down to a two point five percent flat tax. He
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Speaker 1: was the first guy to say that. But they got
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Speaker 1: a way to go. One minute. What's so great about
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Speaker 1: South Carolina?
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Speaker 5: Well, I was with them at the White House this
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Speaker 5: week you and it just happened that Governor McMasters signed
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Speaker 5: into law their massive red tape production and deregulation bill
24:28
Speaker 5: that our great friends there, Speaker Smith and others have
24:30
Speaker 5: been working on. It includes rains as Ax style reform,
24:35
Speaker 5: Chevron deference, and of course add that to the tax
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Speaker 5: cuts I'm moving towards a one point nine to nine
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Speaker 5: percent flat tax, as well as a total elimination of
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Speaker 5: the personal income.
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Speaker 1: Tax that was already passed. And you add that to
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Speaker 1: just the amazing in migration.
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Speaker 5: That South Carolina has seen, even beating Florida in raw
24:52
Speaker 5: numbers in this last year. I'm very bullish on the
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Speaker 5: future of South Carolina, especially if they keep down this trajectory.
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Speaker 1: I think Allan Wilson, we'll do that. But we got
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Speaker 1: to watch the Ohio South Carolina competition in New Year ahead, Jonathan,
25:05
Speaker 1: I think the Buckeye State will win. Have a great
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Speaker 1: turn and fiftieth fourth, Jonathan, It's always a pleasure working
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Speaker 1: with you and all my friend at ALEX, the American
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Speaker 1: see us in Florida. In Orlando July twenty seconds to
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Speaker 1: twenty fourth, I'll be broadcasting live are station Quarterback of America.
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Speaker 1: I'm Hugh Hewett, joined now by the editor in chief
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Speaker 1: of the Washington Free Beacon. Usual participant in the commentary
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Speaker 1: podcast Eleanna Johnson follow on Exit Eleana Y Johnson listened
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Speaker 1: to on the commentary podcast Eleana Happy turning fiftieth to
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Speaker 1: you and yours. Before we get there, let me read
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Speaker 1: you six names. Daria Lisa Ela Chevalier, New York, Adam Hamawi,
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Speaker 1: New Jersey, melt Tiros, Colorado, Land. You're in New York,
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Speaker 1: Clara val Daz, New York. Scott Wiener, California. Those are
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Speaker 1: six new Marxists. There are other fifteen Marxists already, or
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Speaker 1: nine other Marxists in Congress. What happens if we have
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Speaker 1: fifteen Marxists in the Democratic Congress and they're in the majority, Well.
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Speaker 7: Hugh, I think we've already seen the squad have an
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Speaker 7: outsize impact. You know, we saw must be in twenty eighteen,
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Speaker 7: twenty nineteen, the House would not pass the resolution to
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Speaker 7: condemn anti Semitism because of Ilhan Omar's protest.
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Speaker 8: Now we have a new squad that we can call
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Speaker 8: the cell.
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Speaker 7: These are al Qaeda friendly, to say the least, folks
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Speaker 7: on their way in and they're going to be an
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Speaker 7: enormous headache for Hakeem Jeffries when if the Democrats take
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Speaker 7: the House, and even if they don't, they are expanding
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Speaker 7: their footprint and certainly socialists and Marxists, our ascendant in
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Speaker 7: the Democratic Party. They have proven this is where the
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Speaker 7: energy is in the Democratic base.
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Speaker 8: They can win in blue districts.
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Speaker 7: I think the question that remains, Hugh, is in statewide
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Speaker 7: elections in Maine where Graham Platner is running with the
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Speaker 7: ESA backing, in Michigan where Abdul l Sayed is running
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Speaker 7: with the ESA backing, and these far left wing candidates
27:23
Speaker 7: are trying to win in swing states.
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Speaker 8: Can they take this revolution statewide?
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Speaker 1: So Ellie, if you're Mike Johnson or the National Republican
27:31
Speaker 1: Congressional Committee, or you're Johnthone and the National Republican Senatorial Committee,
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Speaker 1: do you try and nationalize this election around the Democratic
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Speaker 1: Marxists because that's what they are. Tom Cotton made that
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Speaker 1: point yesterday. Democrats are being taken over by Marxists. We've
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Speaker 1: never seen this in America before we actually turned fifty years,
27:50
Speaker 1: We've never had a Marxist party that was serious.
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Speaker 7: Now we do, right Well, you know, Hugh, every Republican
27:58
Speaker 7: was asked to account for every last thing Donald Trump said,
28:01
Speaker 7: and I think something similar should be asked of these
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Speaker 7: Democrats in terms of what their star.
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Speaker 8: Candidates are saying.
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Speaker 7: And one thing that's striking is we haven't seen Democratic
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Speaker 7: leaders disavow the most controversial anti American things that these
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Speaker 7: candidates have said.
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Speaker 8: In fact, we've seen the opposite.
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Speaker 7: We've seen Hakeem Jeffries come out and congratulate these candidates
28:25
Speaker 7: on their victories. And we've seen Chuck Schumer come out
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Speaker 7: and say the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is happy to
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Speaker 7: support Graham Plattner and presumably whoever wins the Michigan primary
28:37
Speaker 7: in their races. So we've gotten silence from Democratic leadership
28:42
Speaker 7: who are afraid of.
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Speaker 8: These people and presumably preparing to be steamrolled by them
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Speaker 8: if they win.
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Speaker 1: I do want to say a good word for Adam Smith.
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Speaker 1: He's a Democrat from Washington state chairman, actually ranking minority
28:54
Speaker 1: member of House Armed Services. He's very upset about the
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Speaker 1: march of the Marxist and he talks bluntly about it.
29:01
Speaker 1: John Fetterman talks bluntly about it. But that's not enough.
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Speaker 1: Do you think it's a winning strategy for Republicans to
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Speaker 1: just say these are Marxists, they will destroy our economy,
29:11
Speaker 1: in our way of life, and your civil liberties.
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Speaker 8: Well, I think it's a winning strategy.
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Speaker 7: Strategy to make clear what these people believe in which
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Speaker 7: I don't think are views that are popular with the
29:24
Speaker 7: broad middle of the electorate, which are no borders, no police,
29:29
Speaker 7: and vile hatred for America. We're about to celebrate our
29:33
Speaker 7: great inheritance, the country's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary, and
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Speaker 7: these are people who openly sneer at our inheritance and
29:43
Speaker 7: hate this country.
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Speaker 1: Only in your home state, Peggy Flanning in as he
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Speaker 1: head lieutenant governor, She's probably going to be the nominee
29:52
Speaker 1: along with Lsaiad. Those are August primaries in Michigan and Minnesota, respectively.
29:57
Speaker 1: Are people talking about First Principles in Minnesota? I mean,
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Speaker 1: are they really Peggy Flanagan as a Marxist? Do people
30:02
Speaker 1: talk about that? Oh?
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Speaker 7: Hugh, I have to say Minnesota has long been a
30:09
Speaker 7: lost cause. As we've seen Republicans win in Wisconsin, in Iowa,
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Speaker 7: in Michigan, all of the surrounding states.
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Speaker 8: Minnesota, with its long history of a DFL.
30:21
Speaker 7: Party, is one of the only states where the Democrats
30:25
Speaker 7: have continued to hang on. We'll see if twenty twenty
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Speaker 7: six is the year that changes.
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Speaker 1: All right, this would never fly with my generation or
30:34
Speaker 1: your father's generation. What about your generator? Are they the
30:37
Speaker 1: youngs are droving Kiros in Denver? The people are under thirty.
30:41
Speaker 1: What about your generation, which are ten to fifteen years
30:44
Speaker 1: older than them, Are they rejecting Marxism? Is it just
30:47
Speaker 1: the thirty and under?
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Speaker 7: I think where we really see this is kind of
30:52
Speaker 7: the eighteen to thirty four generation in both parties. Frankly,
30:57
Speaker 7: you know there's a meeting of the minds on the
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Speaker 7: far left and the far right. And I have to
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Speaker 7: say you, I think the kids under eighteen who experienced
31:04
Speaker 7: the long reach of government during COVID have better heads
31:08
Speaker 7: on their shoulders than do the generation just above them,
31:11
Speaker 7: the Darya Liza Chevalier generation who have been in college
31:16
Speaker 7: in grad school for fifteen years or whatever she has been.
31:20
Speaker 7: But I have a sense that the generation coming up
31:23
Speaker 7: out of college right now or in high school right
31:26
Speaker 7: now have a better view on the world and more
31:30
Speaker 7: since than our current crop of political candidates twenty somethings
31:34
Speaker 7: and early thirty somethings, the Zoron Mom Donnie generation.
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Speaker 1: Last question, a Leana, I know you're busy and you've
31:41
Speaker 1: got a lot of reporters to send to a lot
31:43
Speaker 1: of places. Has anyone figured out what Daria Liza the
31:46
Speaker 1: Ila Chevalier has been doing for fifteen years. I mean
31:49
Speaker 1: I've known some PhD students who took seven even eight
31:52
Speaker 1: years they were grad students. They lived in three people apartments.
31:58
Speaker 1: What has she been doing for fourteen years? How do
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Speaker 1: you live for fourteen years as a grad student?
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Speaker 8: Well, the Free Beacons.
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Speaker 7: I think she's been eight or nine years in grad
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Speaker 7: school after of course doing her undergraduate studies at Columbia
32:12
Speaker 7: and spending some time to date the al Qaeda lawyer
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Speaker 7: who's working for Zorn mom Donnie went right into the
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Speaker 7: mom Donnie administration, both of them Columbia graduates.
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Speaker 8: But the Free Beacons.
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Speaker 7: John Levine did a wonderful story on the classes that
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Speaker 7: she's teaching at CuNi.
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Speaker 8: Where she is a graduate student, on you.
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Speaker 1: Know, intersectionality of intersectionality.
32:34
Speaker 7: Intersectionality words you can't pronounce. So I think that's how
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Speaker 7: she's been spending most of her time, as well as
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Speaker 7: attending rallies on October eighth, twenty twenty three, where she's
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Speaker 7: cheering on the Hamas invasion of Israel.
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Speaker 1: Boy, are the Democrats in for a root awakening? When
32:50
Speaker 1: these people a right, they'll win. They're in deep blue
32:52
Speaker 1: Democratic giftrict. They won the nomination with less than twenty
32:55
Speaker 1: percent of registered Democrats, but they're going to congression. Wow,
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Speaker 1: Eleana Johnson, you have a terrific Jordan and fiftieth for
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Speaker 1: Eleana Y. Johnson on Xtreebeacon dot com and the commentary
33:09
Speaker 1: podcast I'm Here Hewett joined by Ben Domini. She is
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Speaker 1: the opinion editor at The Daily Wire, Fox News contributor,
33:16
Speaker 1: host of the Big Ben podcast, and friend of the
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Speaker 1: program Ben. I got a lot to cover with you,
33:21
Speaker 1: but I want to start with the red Card. Last night,
33:24
Speaker 1: I did not watch it live. I was watching it
33:27
Speaker 1: online because there were twenty people in my basement and
33:30
Speaker 1: I can't stand that much noise. So tell me what
33:34
Speaker 1: you thought when it happened.
33:37
Speaker 9: So, Hugh, I was watching it live, and I was
33:41
Speaker 9: watching it home by myself, and I yelled loudly enough.
33:46
Speaker 9: My wife said client.
33:49
Speaker 1: And she'd like me upstairs hearing the mob.
33:53
Speaker 9: As you might expect, what I yelled is not appropriate
33:57
Speaker 9: for your airways, so immediately my phone blew up with
34:02
Speaker 9: I actually have a number of friends, including one of
34:06
Speaker 9: my best friends, Vanessa Santos, who is within the DC sphere,
34:12
Speaker 9: who is a former soccer, quite accomplished soccer player herself,
34:16
Speaker 9: and the text chains immediately fired up of this is obscene,
34:21
Speaker 9: this is ridiculous. Everybody's learning now how corrupt FIFA is,
34:26
Speaker 9: you know, and that kind of thing. I've never that.
34:30
Speaker 9: It's such a blatant non call. It is so bad.
34:34
Speaker 1: And the fact that they.
34:35
Speaker 9: Made it is going to make this next game, this
34:38
Speaker 9: next match, So it's going to be difficult. But let's
34:42
Speaker 9: hope that they play with even even more spirit. But
34:46
Speaker 9: it was great to see them perform a man down
34:48
Speaker 9: and look, you know, we know from Henry that's bet
34:51
Speaker 9: the fewer men in the greater share of honor.
34:53
Speaker 1: So why I saw you post that? But now my
34:55
Speaker 1: Division three playing daughter in law tells me soccer reps
35:00
Speaker 1: are not like football reppers. They don't make good. They
35:04
Speaker 1: don't know when they blow one in an NFL game
35:07
Speaker 1: you can normally count on to make good. Do you
35:09
Speaker 1: take that what carry over into the FIFA world?
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Speaker 9: I do not think it will And d crecch She's
35:17
Speaker 9: completely correct, they do not do that. And and frankly,
35:21
Speaker 9: I actually appreciate that a little bit about the NFL
35:23
Speaker 9: because at least in the days before we had the
35:26
Speaker 9: kind of review that was possible from the NFL headquarters.
35:30
Speaker 3: Uh.
35:30
Speaker 9: You know, I think that there's so many calls over
35:32
Speaker 9: the years where they were just like, ah, we screwed
35:34
Speaker 9: that one up, and then you know you might get
35:36
Speaker 9: one later on or at least argue one that was
35:39
Speaker 9: that was iffy in this situation, I don't I think
35:43
Speaker 9: that this. Look, the one thing that FIFA needs to
35:45
Speaker 9: understand is this is the kind of thing that can
35:49
Speaker 9: determine whether an enormous number of American potential fans become
35:53
Speaker 9: invested in your sport or not. One of the things
35:56
Speaker 9: that I mean, we still remember some of those calls
35:59
Speaker 9: you know that.
36:00
Speaker 1: Had been made nineteen seventy two Olympic Basketball.
36:02
Speaker 9: Game, Yes, and that you know, absolution refs that the
36:06
Speaker 9: complaints from the Cowboys and the complaints from the Seahawks
36:11
Speaker 9: in that Packers game, that the whole like, we remember
36:14
Speaker 9: these calls and the NFL works to fix them. In CIFA,
36:18
Speaker 9: nothing like that really happens.
36:20
Speaker 1: You know what the analogy is, Ben, It's what's happening
36:23
Speaker 1: to Caitlin Clark. The w NBA is going to destroy
36:26
Speaker 1: itself if they don't stop that, and faith is going
36:30
Speaker 1: to blow up a chance.
36:31
Speaker 9: I have to say something too, who knew the w
36:34
Speaker 9: NBA had a potential? It caused a massive race war there? Yeah,
36:38
Speaker 9: where did that come from? Who did that on their
36:40
Speaker 9: big o card? I just I mean, you know, the
36:42
Speaker 9: colcling market on that had to be low. The thing,
36:45
Speaker 9: the stuff with Caitlyn Clark is absolutely ridiculous and it's
36:48
Speaker 9: and it's offensive. And what's more, I think this is
36:53
Speaker 9: really a scenario where they have a star who is
36:56
Speaker 9: so big that if she wanted to leave that league
36:59
Speaker 9: there would there would be massive repercussions for them, and
37:02
Speaker 9: they need to I think they're planning with more fire
37:05
Speaker 9: than they actually I.
37:05
Speaker 1: Think she had assignment that Cavaliers could use her in
37:09
Speaker 1: third point range. Man second story on my not yet
37:13
Speaker 1: important story, Lebron back to clevelanders are going to be
37:16
Speaker 1: a Warrior, which would disappoint all of Ohio forever.
37:21
Speaker 9: If he decides to go to the Warriors, it would
37:23
Speaker 9: be not just a disappointing thing for Ohio, I think
37:25
Speaker 9: it would be a disappointing thing for all of us
37:27
Speaker 9: who are fans of sport. Like I mean, this is
37:30
Speaker 9: not that type of decision, is it is Craven and
37:36
Speaker 9: it is you know, it is at odds with the
37:39
Speaker 9: kind of narrative that he should want at this point
37:42
Speaker 9: in his career about himself. And I think that if
37:46
Speaker 9: he decides to do that, I think he will be
37:48
Speaker 9: judged for it and it will be thought of as
37:50
Speaker 9: a major, major mistake at the end of his career.
37:54
Speaker 9: He needs to go back to Cleveland. That is, That
37:56
Speaker 9: is the story that makes sense. It's the arc that
37:59
Speaker 9: makes sense. And for a guy who's concerned about his image,
38:01
Speaker 9: it shouldn't even be a question.
38:03
Speaker 1: Yeah, Cleveland is blessed with Jose Ramirez is the classiest
38:06
Speaker 1: guy in American baseball. Doesn't speak English very well, doesn't
38:10
Speaker 1: answer in English, but he committed to Cleveland. He stays
38:12
Speaker 1: in Cleveland, takes half the money to stay in Cleveland.
38:15
Speaker 1: I wish professional athletes and understand when you commit to
38:18
Speaker 1: a city, they commit to you in ways that you'll
38:20
Speaker 1: never underappreciate. You'll always be appreciated.
38:24
Speaker 9: Especially stars, especially stars who you know, in this day
38:27
Speaker 9: and age, are going to make more money when they're
38:30
Speaker 9: not playing than they do when they're actually playing. They're
38:33
Speaker 9: going to make more money from endorsements, from from everything
38:36
Speaker 9: that comes after from everything that's going on simultaneously. And
38:39
Speaker 9: that's and that's just the honest, god truth. Now, I
38:42
Speaker 9: think in Lebron's case, he's made all the money, he's
38:44
Speaker 9: got the rings, he's got everything. Finish the story, right,
38:48
Speaker 9: don't do don't make the mistakes that you know, time
38:50
Speaker 9: and again we've seen old quarterbacks make or something like that,
38:53
Speaker 9: going to a franchise that makes no sense, you know,
38:56
Speaker 9: just you know, seeking another payday, as so many NBA
38:59
Speaker 9: players have done over the years. Look, he's got to
39:02
Speaker 9: go back. And I think that it's important enough, you know,
39:05
Speaker 9: as you know my conspiracy theories about the NBA. I
39:08
Speaker 9: think it's important enough that the NBA needs to need
39:11
Speaker 9: to whatever they can to make sure.
39:13
Speaker 1: Well, let me tell you the basketball problem. And Terry
39:16
Speaker 1: Pluto is the finest sports writer in Ohio, and he
39:18
Speaker 1: was doing this podcast on this he said, Okay, it's
39:21
Speaker 1: the end of the game. You've got three Hall of
39:23
Speaker 1: famers Donovan Mitchell, James Harden, and Lebron James. They all
39:26
Speaker 1: think they had to take over the game. Meanwhile, Jarrett
39:29
Speaker 1: Alan and Evin Membley don't think they're a slouch either.
39:32
Speaker 1: How do you manage the minutes and the end of
39:34
Speaker 1: the game, even if Lebron is self sacrificing, can you
39:37
Speaker 1: really run a team with three Hall of Famers.
39:40
Speaker 9: I think that's going to be the test. But I
39:42
Speaker 9: think that you got to try. And I mean, you know,
39:43
Speaker 9: if it doesn't work out, it doesn't work out. But
39:46
Speaker 9: you know, again, look, I know the Warriors and then Windhorse,
39:50
Speaker 9: you know over at ESPN, you know it was on this.
39:52
Speaker 9: You know from the get go. The Warriors moved, you know,
39:55
Speaker 9: you know, in terms of their in their own cap
39:57
Speaker 9: situation to make some room for this. So clearly they
40:01
Speaker 9: think they have an opportunity. Clearly they wanted those jersey sales.
40:05
Speaker 9: But we can't let this happen. It's not I mean,
40:08
Speaker 9: it's bad. It's bad for the NBA, it's bad for
40:11
Speaker 9: fandom to see someone like that have the ability to
40:14
Speaker 9: go back to his hometown, be on a competitive team,
40:17
Speaker 9: you know, write a great end to his story, and
40:19
Speaker 9: instead choose now, I'm going to go to somebody, you know,
40:22
Speaker 9: go to a team that is Steph Curry's team, that
40:25
Speaker 9: is absolutely Stefph Curry's team, and we'll be remembered as such.
40:28
Speaker 9: That's not the way you should go out, though, I
40:30
Speaker 9: will say credit Lebron Dad of the Year for waiting
40:34
Speaker 9: until his son's yes contracted to announce this.
40:40
Speaker 1: Next question fiftieth. I began the show by reading the declaration.
40:45
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm not in DC for the summer. I
40:48
Speaker 1: go to both coach because I can't stand it. So
40:50
Speaker 1: I am been to the Great American State Fair.
40:52
Speaker 9: For you been down there seven degrees here today?
40:54
Speaker 1: Oh gosh that people ask me why I've got asthma,
40:59
Speaker 1: and I just I'm I'm too old to deal with that.
41:01
Speaker 1: Have you been down to the Great American State Fair?
41:03
Speaker 1: Is it fun?
41:05
Speaker 7: So?
41:05
Speaker 9: I have been down there multiple times. I've done some
41:07
Speaker 9: Fox hits from there, and I've walked around a bit.
41:10
Speaker 9: I got to be honest with you, Hugh, I think
41:12
Speaker 9: this could have been a lot better. And the reason
41:14
Speaker 9: that I say that is I think that what happened
41:17
Speaker 9: a little bit was this is it actually looks great
41:20
Speaker 9: and there's a lot more people. People on the liberal
41:23
Speaker 9: networks are like, oh, there aren't people that know. There's
41:25
Speaker 9: actually tons of people around, and there's tons of tourists,
41:28
Speaker 9: which is good, and a lot of tourists actually are
41:31
Speaker 9: going to the rodeo which is an impressive scene, you know,
41:33
Speaker 9: right there in front of the Jefferson Memorial. You know,
41:36
Speaker 9: there's plenty of folks down there. The thing that I
41:39
Speaker 9: think is kind of the major botch of this is
41:41
Speaker 9: actually something that almost no one is talking about. The
41:44
Speaker 9: food's bad. The food is not impressive, and I wish
41:49
Speaker 9: that they had had like import whoever is at the
41:52
Speaker 9: Iowa State Fair, the Texas State Fair, the food as
41:55
Speaker 9: you know at state fairs, Oh, the.
41:57
Speaker 1: Minnesota State Fair. I broadcast from a dozen times French
42:01
Speaker 1: fried chocolate, chip, cookies, butter everything. It's fabulous.
42:06
Speaker 9: Like you needed to have like a major investment in
42:09
Speaker 9: that side. It's totally absent from that. And that is
42:12
Speaker 9: a criticism from my perspective, because it would have been
42:14
Speaker 9: an opportunity to kind of have a shmartest board of
42:16
Speaker 9: like the most amazing, ridiculous, over the top fried snickers.
42:20
Speaker 9: You know, whatever you want to get is kind of
42:21
Speaker 9: thing that only exists at these state fairs. Show it off,
42:25
Speaker 9: you know, have fun with that, and I think that
42:27
Speaker 9: that's something that just was a miss. It has been
42:31
Speaker 9: very hot, which they can't control. I suggested to the
42:33
Speaker 9: Agricultural Secretary yesterday, who had ran into brook rawlins that
42:37
Speaker 9: they really should have just put a tent over the
42:39
Speaker 9: middle of that, over the green park, even if it
42:41
Speaker 9: was visually less impressive, just because there's a lot of
42:44
Speaker 9: moms pushing around babies and strollers in you know, ninety
42:49
Speaker 9: seven degree hundred.
42:50
Speaker 1: It's really one hundred and seven today, it's not really Yea.
42:53
Speaker 3: It peaked.
42:54
Speaker 9: It peaked at one hundred and seven today. It was
42:56
Speaker 9: one hundred and two last time I checked. So the
42:58
Speaker 9: thing that is that is very, very troublesome about it
43:02
Speaker 9: is that, like there's a lot of families who are
43:05
Speaker 9: here who quite frankly, are just not out there on
43:07
Speaker 9: the field on the mall because they're going to the
43:10
Speaker 9: museums because the museums have air conditions. It's also good,
43:13
Speaker 9: Like that's good. You know, they're coming to DC and
43:15
Speaker 9: they're seeing the stuff that they should be able to see,
43:17
Speaker 9: and some of the stuff that's in there is incredibly impressive.
43:20
Speaker 9: You know, there's collections that they brought together, the National
43:22
Speaker 9: Gallery of Art, everything else like that. It's really good.
43:25
Speaker 1: All right, I'm ben going to stick around for the
43:27
Speaker 1: next two segments Off air, We're going to talk about
43:29
Speaker 1: zoron Mondani and what he has unleashed. And then on
43:32
Speaker 1: the other side, we're going to talk about the march
43:33
Speaker 1: of the Marxist from East to West, and what's going
43:36
Speaker 1: to happen to the Democrats and how later soon and
43:39
Speaker 1: Speaker Johnson ought to organize the NRCC and the NRSC
43:44
Speaker 1: to come back the March of Marxism and the Democrats.
43:47
Speaker 1: Stay tuned. I'm back with Ben Dominic's during the break
43:50
Speaker 1: and after the break, Ben, I'll run through the names
43:52
Speaker 1: for the audience of the Marxists who are running in
43:54
Speaker 1: the Senate and the House. They're going to have a
43:56
Speaker 1: crazy problem on their hand. But I want to zero
43:59
Speaker 1: in on Zoron. I'm Donni for a moment. Yesterday he
44:01
Speaker 1: told New Yorkers to keep their thermostat at seventy eight.
44:04
Speaker 1: That's so Stalinist. I mean, he didn't demand that the
44:07
Speaker 1: secret place aren't coming it, but it's central control. What
44:10
Speaker 1: is he going to be a disaster like they think
44:13
Speaker 1: he's going to be. I think it's going to be
44:14
Speaker 1: an utter fiasco.
44:16
Speaker 9: Well, the thing with Donnie, of course, is that he's
44:19
Speaker 9: already played this game with the deferred payments on pensions
44:23
Speaker 9: to maintain that he's fixed the budget problem that he's
44:26
Speaker 9: actually only made worse. I think that there's going to
44:28
Speaker 9: be a lot of slight of hand here. But I
44:30
Speaker 9: think that one of the things about that seventy eight
44:32
Speaker 9: degree thing which is interesting is that the socialists, you know,
44:36
Speaker 9: they're not sending the secret police yet, but they're using
44:39
Speaker 9: public shaming. What does that feel like, you, Hugh to me,
44:43
Speaker 9: it feels like this is a lesson they took from COVID.
44:47
Speaker 9: This is a lesson that they took from the experience
44:50
Speaker 9: of forcing people to wear masks and basically using the
44:54
Speaker 9: power of individual Americans screaming at each other in order
44:59
Speaker 9: to achieve a love of legal enforcement that they couldn't
45:02
Speaker 9: do under the law. You know that they essentially created
45:05
Speaker 9: a circumstance where, well, if you didn't set your thermostat
45:08
Speaker 9: to seventy eight degrees, you know, you know, I visited
45:12
Speaker 9: my friend the other day and his thermostat was at
45:14
Speaker 9: sixty nine. He's a horrible person, now, you know that
45:17
Speaker 9: kind of thing. And I think that what they're counting
45:19
Speaker 9: on is this climate that existed during COVID, where you
45:24
Speaker 9: know that was furthered quite frankly by a lot of
45:27
Speaker 9: I believe villainous members of our media, you know, who
45:30
Speaker 9: turned this into a you know, kind of a morality
45:34
Speaker 9: play of if you aren't doing everything that we say
45:36
Speaker 9: at this particular moment, you know, on the latest CNN update,
45:41
Speaker 9: then you are killing grandma. And that's something that I
45:43
Speaker 9: think these socialists looked at and learned from and are
45:46
Speaker 9: now applying and I think are going to continue to apply.
45:49
Speaker 9: Now that's that's something that I think has to be resisted.
45:52
Speaker 9: I think it will be resisted. I think most New
45:54
Speaker 9: Yorkers are not going to turn their thermit's status to
45:56
Speaker 9: seventy eight degrees because that would be crazy. But look,
45:59
Speaker 9: we are not. We have to push back against this
46:01
Speaker 9: because they are serious about this, and you don't know
46:04
Speaker 9: the point at which they try to make this, perhaps
46:06
Speaker 9: not illegally enforceable, but to penalize people who break these
46:11
Speaker 9: kinds of laws, or not laws, but these kinds of
46:15
Speaker 9: victims handed down from on high by people like mom. Donnie.
46:18
Speaker 1: You'll do alternative pricing. Then that's what they do in
46:21
Speaker 1: California on water, they if you use above X water,
46:26
Speaker 1: you get charged three x for the water that you use,
46:29
Speaker 1: even if it's abundant. Even in places where water is
46:31
Speaker 1: about it. Before we come back from break your click
46:33
Speaker 1: taking the Supreme Court's exit, they had seven major decisions,
46:36
Speaker 1: of course, capping it off with we got one minute?
46:39
Speaker 1: Were you happy? Sadder?
46:40
Speaker 4: In between?
46:42
Speaker 9: Well, on all the between the one and so I
46:45
Speaker 9: agree with you on the outcome of the birthright citizenship decision.
46:50
Speaker 9: I disagreed with some parts of the opinion, but I
46:53
Speaker 9: also thought that this was an inevitable consequence of deciding
46:57
Speaker 9: to do what they did via an executive order and
47:01
Speaker 9: not working to try to do something via Congress as
47:04
Speaker 9: well that would help define this and a and you know, look,
47:07
Speaker 9: we needed to have this defined. I personally am in
47:09
Speaker 9: favorite birthright citizenship. I do not want a bunch of
47:12
Speaker 9: stateless kids wandering around. But we have a completely different
47:15
Speaker 9: and unprecedented situation that we've never had before, Hugh, in
47:17
Speaker 9: terms of the level of organized birth tourism that's going
47:20
Speaker 9: on in this country. That's a problem that needs to
47:22
Speaker 9: be addressed.
47:23
Speaker 1: And that's a visa problem. I agree with you, and
47:25
Speaker 1: it's a pregnancy visitor problem. I come right back with
47:28
Speaker 1: Ben Dominicic, don't go anywhere America. Welcome back America. I'm
47:34
Speaker 1: huge here with Ben Dominis's time to get them the
47:36
Speaker 1: serious uff. Ben, I'm going to read you a post
47:39
Speaker 1: I put up on X earlier today. If Democrat House
47:42
Speaker 1: nominees Daria Liza Vila Chevelle in New York, Adam Hamawi
47:47
Speaker 1: in New Jersey, me lot Kiros in Colorado, Brad Lander
47:51
Speaker 1: in New York, Clare Vale Does in New York, and
47:54
Speaker 1: Scott Wiener in California joined the radicals already in Congress,
47:58
Speaker 1: and I named the nine of them Dexter, Frost, Jaya,
48:02
Speaker 1: Paul Omar. There a bunch of them. And if radicals
48:05
Speaker 1: shared Brown and Ohio, I'll do Lsi Ed in Michigan.
48:08
Speaker 1: Peggy Flanagan in Minnesota, Graham Platner in Maine, and James
48:11
Speaker 1: tell Rico in Texas joined the radicals already in the Senate.
48:14
Speaker 1: We know they are Kris Van Allen and Elizabeth Warren,
48:17
Speaker 1: Sheldon White House, Bernie. The Democrats will be run by
48:20
Speaker 1: Marxist I mean, they'll have the balance of power. How
48:23
Speaker 1: alarming is this development, It's never happened in American politics before.
48:28
Speaker 9: Well, well, Hugh, I'm glad that you're putting it that way, because,
48:31
Speaker 9: if anything, I feel like I've been saying that this
48:34
Speaker 9: is alarming until I'm blue in the face, in the
48:37
Speaker 9: sense that the people that I think are running the
48:40
Speaker 9: Republican Party have actually been kind of playing with it
48:43
Speaker 9: at something that was funny or amusing or that you
48:46
Speaker 9: could mock, or that would play to their political benefit.
48:49
Speaker 9: I think that they're underestimating the fact that the energy,
48:52
Speaker 9: the organizing energy, the activist class of the Democratic Party
48:55
Speaker 9: is firmly behind this all of this, and that the
49:00
Speaker 9: Democratic leadership is sclerotic, it's aging, it's not in control
49:04
Speaker 9: of their own coalition anymore. Keem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer
49:09
Speaker 9: do not run their party and the energy. If these
49:12
Speaker 9: folks all get elected, and most of them will, I think,
49:15
Speaker 9: you know, you will end up with a situation where
49:18
Speaker 9: all of the energy, all of the focus, and the
49:20
Speaker 9: priorities of one of the major parties in America is
49:23
Speaker 9: going to be set by a bunch of people who
49:26
Speaker 9: think that capitalism is evil, that it needs to be destroyed,
49:30
Speaker 9: that toys with the idea that you know, billionaires, and
49:33
Speaker 9: that just the executive class even generally needs to be
49:37
Speaker 9: hauled out and you know, I mean killed at the
49:40
Speaker 9: worst extent you know, you know, that's something that a
49:42
Speaker 9: lot of Democrats excuse when you ask them in polling,
49:45
Speaker 9: which is amazing. But it's one of these things where
49:47
Speaker 9: the entire idea that we would enter a stage where
49:52
Speaker 9: one of the two major parties would essentially reject any
49:56
Speaker 9: kind of pro business, pro capitalist, pro and instead adopt
50:01
Speaker 9: this type of Marxism in mass It's a very real possibility, Hugh,
50:06
Speaker 9: and I think that Republicans and Conservatives have dramatically underrated it.
50:09
Speaker 1: So here's the tough question. Mike Johnson. The Supreme Court
50:13
Speaker 1: cleared away the way for the parties to actually collect money,
50:17
Speaker 1: and anyone who's out there listening, you should send your
50:19
Speaker 1: money to the RNC, the NRCC or the NRSC and
50:22
Speaker 1: they can control it. John Thune can control the Senate
50:25
Speaker 1: Fund along with Tim Scott. We've got Speaker Mike Johnson
50:28
Speaker 1: and the NRCC chairman. It's not Tom m or anymore.
50:31
Speaker 1: Kim Marood? Is this right now? They can control the messaging.
50:35
Speaker 1: What should the messaging be that they're Marxists, that they're
50:38
Speaker 1: anti Semitic? How do you message? Can you nationalize this
50:42
Speaker 1: race and turn it into whoever you are, wherever you
50:44
Speaker 1: are vote Republican because they're insane.
50:47
Speaker 9: Well, I think that that should be a part of
50:49
Speaker 9: the Republican message, but it can't be the only part,
50:52
Speaker 9: and I think unfortunately they've leaned on it a little
50:55
Speaker 9: bit too heavily. One of the big things that I
50:57
Speaker 9: think has to be done is to folks on their
51:01
Speaker 9: law and order or lack thereof, I should say, agenda
51:04
Speaker 9: when it comes to destroying the police, when it comes
51:07
Speaker 9: to destroying the actual institutions of America. I think that
51:11
Speaker 9: needs to be a bigger part of this talk, because
51:14
Speaker 9: I think people hear socialism and they have been brainwashed
51:18
Speaker 9: by our education system and our media unfortunately, to the
51:23
Speaker 9: point where they think that means affordability.
51:25
Speaker 1: They think it means Norway. They think it made Sweden.
51:28
Speaker 1: It's not Norway.
51:30
Speaker 9: It does not, it does not look you know. I
51:34
Speaker 9: think that there is there is an element of this too,
51:38
Speaker 9: Q And this has been something that I've kind of
51:40
Speaker 9: beat the drum on over the years. This is this
51:44
Speaker 9: is the true stage of America becoming a Latin America
51:49
Speaker 9: politics adopting that entire approach where you see sort of
51:54
Speaker 9: the strong man politician who comes in to clean things
51:58
Speaker 9: up and make big changes and then people. But then
52:02
Speaker 9: there's problems when it comes to oligarchs, and it comes
52:05
Speaker 9: to corruption, and it comes to all these other things
52:08
Speaker 9: that communists come along and demonize. Then the communists get
52:12
Speaker 9: elected and they bring in crime, and they bring in,
52:14
Speaker 9: you know, all sorts of upheaval and chaos and people.
52:19
Speaker 9: They never deliver on their promises, and so people respond
52:22
Speaker 9: in kind by electing another stronomy man. And that's the
52:24
Speaker 9: kind of thing that you see time and again in
52:26
Speaker 9: Latin American politics. I think. Unfortunately, you know, in America,
52:31
Speaker 9: we are looking more and more like that on a
52:33
Speaker 9: daily basis. And that's something that the communists think, and
52:37
Speaker 9: they really are communists, they're not socially they think benefits
52:40
Speaker 9: them and they're going to try to and run on
52:43
Speaker 9: that agenda. Republicans need to understand that they have vulnerabilities
52:46
Speaker 9: on this point, especially when it comes I think, to
52:48
Speaker 9: the anti corruption language that they're going to use. They're
52:51
Speaker 9: going to go after the president's family, they're going to
52:53
Speaker 9: go after all the business deals, they're going to go
52:55
Speaker 9: after all these different things, and they're going to paint
52:58
Speaker 9: themselves as being crusader for the working man against a
53:02
Speaker 9: group of rich people who are distant, who don't care
53:05
Speaker 9: about them. They're going to play all the clips of
53:08
Speaker 9: the president, you know, saying things that he doesn't care about,
53:11
Speaker 9: or lower or saying that, you know, housing isn't a
53:13
Speaker 9: priority right now, inflation, you know, et cetera. They're going
53:16
Speaker 9: to use all of that, and they're going to use it.
53:18
Speaker 9: I think the great effect if Republicans don't come up
53:20
Speaker 9: with a response to it.
53:21
Speaker 1: Well, that's that's what I'm most worried about. The consulting class.
53:26
Speaker 1: They've never confronted this before. Yeah, the Republican consulting class.
53:31
Speaker 1: And nobody admires Carl Road more than me. And Carl
53:34
Speaker 1: gets it, but he's not in the game anymore. I
53:36
Speaker 1: don't know that there's a generation. I mean, the ruthless guys.
53:39
Speaker 1: They kind of know the language and the music. Does
53:42
Speaker 1: anyone else though, that actually makes a living off of
53:45
Speaker 1: this know how to sell the fact that Marxism is
53:49
Speaker 1: a disaster and it never is not a disaster.
53:53
Speaker 9: So I have not you know, Look, I talk to
53:56
Speaker 9: a lot of consultants. I think there are some very
53:58
Speaker 9: smart ones who are out there. I don't think they
54:01
Speaker 9: have found the message that will actually tie that in
54:06
Speaker 9: yet that will connect with people because of so many
54:09
Speaker 9: decades of you know, indoctrination again by our education system
54:15
Speaker 9: that said that all this stuff was harmless and that
54:17
Speaker 9: these people just want you to have free healthcare and
54:20
Speaker 9: free everything, et cetera, and does not actually deal with
54:24
Speaker 9: the realities of what would be the consequences of their agenda.
54:28
Speaker 9: That has to change, and Republicans need to understand generally
54:32
Speaker 9: that they are facing a different animal here than they
54:34
Speaker 9: have faced before, and it is far more extreme, far
54:37
Speaker 9: more radical. And the difference is a lot of these
54:40
Speaker 9: people who came before. We've said this before, a lot
54:42
Speaker 9: of these people who came before were silly, They were
54:44
Speaker 9: on the edge. They never were really going to exercise
54:47
Speaker 9: any kind of power. These people are going to be powerful.
54:52
Speaker 9: They have enough of them. If they form you know,
54:54
Speaker 9: a consistent you know, caucus within the Democratic Conference in
54:59
Speaker 9: the House, they will be able to affect policy to
55:01
Speaker 9: a greater degree than ever before. The leader they will
55:07
Speaker 9: control everything. And I think that people are underestimating the
55:11
Speaker 9: fact that this Democratic leadership is the weakest it's ever
55:14
Speaker 9: been in our lifetime. Nancy Pelosi is no longer in
55:16
Speaker 9: control of this situation, you do not have people to
55:19
Speaker 9: keep people in line. She knew how to keep the
55:21
Speaker 9: squad in the box, even though she let them in,
55:24
Speaker 9: and I think that that was, you know, something that
55:27
Speaker 9: was a mistake to do, of course, but she kept
55:29
Speaker 9: them in the box. She gave them things that they
55:31
Speaker 9: could run and chase. She said, go off and make
55:33
Speaker 9: your case for your green new deal. And by doing so,
55:36
Speaker 9: she basically made them. Shek newtered their ability to actually,
55:39
Speaker 9: you know, affects policy within the Democratic Conference to a
55:42
Speaker 9: great degree. That's going to change, and that's going to
55:45
Speaker 9: be a major difference than anything that we've seen, certainly
55:47
Speaker 9: in my lifetime.
55:48
Speaker 1: It certainly does make Susan Collins race and Maine and
55:52
Speaker 1: Mike Rogers race in Michigan the most important races in
55:55
Speaker 1: the United States. I mean, I want John Houston to
55:57
Speaker 1: be old shared Brown is kind of Joe Biden but
56:01
Speaker 1: getting bad faster than Joe Biden did. And I want
56:04
Speaker 1: to beat awesome. But we really have to reelect Collins
56:07
Speaker 1: and have Mike Rogers winning Michigan brand. Have a great
56:10
Speaker 1: two hundred and fiftieth. Always a pleasure to spend time
56:13
Speaker 1: with you fall him on exit be Dominich, listen to
56:15
Speaker 1: the Big Ben podcast, and of course read the Daily
56:18
Speaker 1: Wires opinion pages. In the Interview of the Week on
56:21
Speaker 1: Saturday's Taking America, Welcome Back America, I'm kew Hewett. Josh
56:27
Speaker 1: Crashawer joins me Joish editor in chief. Josh. We talked
56:31
Speaker 1: a lot about the Democrat's hard left turn already this year,
56:35
Speaker 1: and we'll talk about it through November. But this week
56:38
Speaker 1: me lot Kiros and Colorado became the sixth radical Democrat
56:42
Speaker 1: to join the ranks. Daria Lisa Elis LVA is nominated,
56:47
Speaker 1: Adam Home a movie is nominated, Brad Lander, Claire VLDS
56:51
Speaker 1: and Scott Wiener. Scott Wiener is not as anti Israel,
56:55
Speaker 1: He's Jewish as the rest of them, but they're all very,
56:59
Speaker 1: very radical. Have the people that you cover notice this
57:04
Speaker 1: and like normy Democrats, notice what's happening in their party?
57:08
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, I mean, look, it is something that was
57:12
Speaker 10: a concern a year ago, got more deeply worrying six
57:17
Speaker 10: months ago.
57:17
Speaker 4: And now that these very.
57:20
Speaker 10: Radical, openly you know, extremist candidates have actually been nominated
57:24
Speaker 10: and are going to be headed to Congress.
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Speaker 4: You know, there are a lot of folks on the record.
57:27
Speaker 10: There are a lot more that are quietly whispering about
57:30
Speaker 10: how concerned they are about the direction of the party.
57:34
Speaker 10: But look, the big tests are coming up in the
57:38
Speaker 10: summer and then in the fall with with Abdulla l
57:40
Speaker 10: sa Ed got the endorsement of Alexandria Casio Cortes today,
57:45
Speaker 10: and that Michigan Senate race is a real proxy for
57:47
Speaker 10: these same forces. But also the general we haven't really
57:51
Speaker 10: seen how these extreme DSA line candidates or socialist candidates
57:56
Speaker 10: are going to fare in a general election. And if
57:58
Speaker 10: you have Graham Platner in Maine and Abdul lsay it,
58:00
Speaker 10: if he gets the nomination in Michigan, I mean that
58:03
Speaker 10: is going to be the ultimate test. And look, I
58:05
Speaker 10: think that is the more important test ultimately, because if
58:08
Speaker 10: Democrats lose the Senate majority and lose these very winnable
58:12
Speaker 10: races because of that extremism, I think they will get
58:15
Speaker 10: the message that they need to do something to confront
58:17
Speaker 10: the anti Israel extremism and the anti Semitism and the radicalism.
58:21
Speaker 10: If somehow even one of the two just to win,
58:24
Speaker 10: that might send them a different message, and that that
58:26
Speaker 10: would be a very disturbing message.
58:28
Speaker 1: I do see polling showing Susan Collins has gone ahead
58:32
Speaker 1: in one public poll of Graham Plattner. I think he's
58:35
Speaker 1: falling like a rock. Domestic abuse is one of those
58:37
Speaker 1: acid acting issues that destroy a candidacy even though people
58:44
Speaker 1: don't say things about it. Elsa, Yeah, is just so
58:46
Speaker 1: far out there. And Mike Rodgers is such a normy
58:49
Speaker 1: that I think he'll win. But in the House, they've
58:52
Speaker 1: already got nine radicals in the House Democrats, and I
58:54
Speaker 1: could run through them, but you know, AOC and everybodies
58:57
Speaker 1: they're nine radicals. If they get six more that fifteen,
59:01
Speaker 1: there's no way. I think the Democrats come out of
59:03
Speaker 1: these House elections with a majority of greater than ten
59:07
Speaker 1: or twelve, so they're gonna be in charge of the House.
59:09
Speaker 1: Do you think Hakeem Jeffries controls that.
59:13
Speaker 4: Well, you nailed the Matthew.
59:15
Speaker 10: The math that I'm going to be looking at come
59:17
Speaker 10: November is whether the number of DSA affiliated Democrats is
59:21
Speaker 10: a larger number than if Democrats do take the majority,
59:24
Speaker 10: then is it larger than Hakeem Jeffries, You know, majority margin.
59:27
Speaker 10: I think it's a good chance it will be. When
59:29
Speaker 10: you look at the cook political report you look at,
59:31
Speaker 10: you know, kind of an expected you bught like a
59:34
Speaker 10: fifteen seed pickup that would that would put you know,
59:37
Speaker 10: that number kind of in the same ballpark. So it's
59:40
Speaker 10: going to be a hell of a time for Hakim
59:42
Speaker 10: Jeffries to be speaker. It's going to be very much
59:45
Speaker 10: like Kevin McCarthy faced in twenty twenty two. I've heard
59:49
Speaker 10: from some Democrats they're going to kind of play the
59:51
Speaker 10: card of how dare you oppose someone who would be
59:54
Speaker 10: the first black speaker to Hakim Jeffries. And I think
59:58
Speaker 10: it could get ugly if it really is a fight
1:00:00
Speaker 10: for the speakership, But that's the card I think that
1:00:02
Speaker 10: the establishment is going to play. But I don't think
1:00:05
Speaker 10: that the very radical, very anti I mean these folks,
1:00:08
Speaker 10: and we've talked about this que but you know, they
1:00:11
Speaker 10: make sort of the type of extreme candidates who I've
1:00:14
Speaker 10: talked about as exotic or unelectable in both parties in
1:00:17
Speaker 10: the past. Chevalier is an out and out self declared communist.
1:00:21
Speaker 10: You know, the candidate in Colorado, Kiros.
1:00:25
Speaker 4: Who who just got nominated.
1:00:26
Speaker 10: She would not declare the fire bombing that killed people
1:00:31
Speaker 10: Jewish people trying to raise awareness of the hostages being
1:00:33
Speaker 10: held by Hamas she wouldn't declare the terrorist attack.
1:00:36
Speaker 4: As anti Semitic.
1:00:38
Speaker 10: I mean, this is a whole new level of extremism,
1:00:41
Speaker 10: and I think it's going to have some very serious
1:00:42
Speaker 10: consequences in a negative way for the Democratic Party.
1:00:45
Speaker 1: So, Josh Roshaw, you played center field and political journalism.
1:00:49
Speaker 1: I'm wondering the Republican National Republican Congressional Committee, National Republican
1:00:54
Speaker 1: Senatorial Committee. Evidence to you yet any kind of coherent
1:00:58
Speaker 1: strategy for going into the fall trying to nationalize the
1:01:01
Speaker 1: race around the Democrats march to Mark Sisan.
1:01:06
Speaker 10: Well, look, they we have Platinum Mattig Maine, and the
1:01:11
Speaker 10: nomination of Plattner might might become a nationalized play given
1:01:15
Speaker 10: just how prominent he has become and how problematic. Even
1:01:19
Speaker 10: Democrats who are pretty progressive and they realize that this guy,
1:01:25
Speaker 10: it may not be viable in the long term.
1:01:27
Speaker 3: Right.
1:01:27
Speaker 10: I think the Trio rights he that there was the
1:01:28
Speaker 10: first poll, the Fox Pole came out this week showing
1:01:30
Speaker 10: him down for the first time in a public poll,
1:01:33
Speaker 10: and then the New York Times poll showed him only
1:01:35
Speaker 10: up by two points. But if you talk to Democrats
1:01:37
Speaker 10: who were looking under the hood of those numbers. Not
1:01:40
Speaker 10: a lot of good trend lines for Platiner, a lot
1:01:42
Speaker 10: of real, real red flags. So I still think that'll
1:01:44
Speaker 10: be a competitive race. But Platiner does look like damaged goods.
1:01:47
Speaker 10: I think the question is for else. I had to
1:01:49
Speaker 10: starting to get negative hit attacks on his record starting now,
1:01:52
Speaker 10: the air wars are already beginning, And I think the
1:01:55
Speaker 10: question is, and I think you raised a good point
1:01:57
Speaker 10: Hugh earlier, that it really was the sexual abuse abuse
1:02:01
Speaker 10: allegations that's documented in the New York Times that really
1:02:03
Speaker 10: sank Graham Plattner's campaign.
1:02:05
Speaker 4: It actually wasn't the neo Nazi tattoo.
1:02:07
Speaker 10: It wasn't the fact that he watched Hamas terrorists in
1:02:10
Speaker 10: a in a video killing Israeli soldiers and praising the video.
1:02:14
Speaker 4: It was it was the sexual abuse that really did
1:02:17
Speaker 4: him in.
1:02:19
Speaker 10: With with l Sayed, he's you know, made a number
1:02:21
Speaker 10: of anti israel I would call anti Submitic comments in
1:02:25
Speaker 10: recent in recent months. But is that enough in a
1:02:28
Speaker 10: state like Michigan to creator his candidacy.
1:02:30
Speaker 1: I'm not sure.
1:02:31
Speaker 4: I think that's gonna be the big political question this year.
1:02:33
Speaker 1: Well, the good news he's a Republican is Mike Rogers
1:02:36
Speaker 1: is an army and Susan Collins is in army. They're
1:02:39
Speaker 1: not running marginal candidates, which might make them vulnerable. I
1:02:44
Speaker 1: do wonder though about the math, and you just ran
1:02:46
Speaker 1: through it. King Jeffreys is cowering. He's not out there
1:02:50
Speaker 1: trying to elect moderates. He's not AOC is out there endorsing.
1:02:55
Speaker 1: El sayed that that she's the leader of the party
1:02:58
Speaker 1: in the House. Mam Donnie is the leader of the
1:03:00
Speaker 1: National movement right now. I don't know. You know, Nancy
1:03:04
Speaker 1: Pelosi held onto power for so long she did not
1:03:07
Speaker 1: really allow Hakim Jeffrey to develop an independent stature, right
1:03:12
Speaker 1: or wrong?
1:03:12
Speaker 10: You got a minute, JAHI well, that is, you asked
1:03:16
Speaker 10: me about what I'm hearing from a lot of more
1:03:18
Speaker 10: moderate mainstream Democrats alarmed at the direction of where this
1:03:21
Speaker 10: party is headed.
1:03:22
Speaker 4: And it is how quickly party leaders.
1:03:26
Speaker 10: Accommodated uh these DSA aligned members of how Hakim Jeffries,
1:03:32
Speaker 10: I know, has got to be just very concerned about
1:03:35
Speaker 10: an on and out communist whinning in his backyard in
1:03:38
Speaker 10: New York City and Austin a well respected incumbent in
1:03:41
Speaker 10: the Spayat but a day later, or maybe two days
1:03:45
Speaker 10: after the election, he praised that that candidate Chevalier and said.
1:03:49
Speaker 4: You hope you can work with her and fighting right
1:03:51
Speaker 4: wing extremism. So talk about Kutzba. That's a pretty good
1:03:55
Speaker 4: example of that.
1:03:56
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1:07:00
Speaker 1: and get your reaction. If Democratic House nominees Daria Liza
1:07:05
Speaker 1: of Ilischevay a New York, Adam Hallane in New Jersey,
1:07:10
Speaker 1: Malotte Keiros in Colorado, Brad Lander in New York, Clare
1:07:14
Speaker 1: Vale Dez in New York, and Scott Wiener in California
1:07:17
Speaker 1: join representative ballot Democrat from Vermont, AOC from New York,
1:07:23
Speaker 1: Dexter from Oregon, Maxwell Frost from Florida, Roald dah I
1:07:27
Speaker 1: can't say the name, Grahalabai I guess from Arizona, Jaipaul
1:07:32
Speaker 1: from Washington, Ilan Omar from Minnesota to leave from Minnesota,
1:07:36
Speaker 1: Michigan to meet Anaiah Presley from Massachusetts, and the radicals
1:07:40
Speaker 1: running for Senate Shared Brown and Ohio, Abdulsa in Michigan,
1:07:44
Speaker 1: Flanagan and Minnesota Grand Platner in Maine, Talla, Rico and
1:07:48
Speaker 1: Texas join with Ed Markey, Merkley, Bernie Sanders, Chris van
1:07:52
Speaker 1: hollend os Off, Elizabeth Ward, and Sheldon Whitehouse. Then the
1:07:56
Speaker 1: Democratic Party will be controlled in both houses bi radical caucus,
1:08:01
Speaker 1: the likes of which we've never seen before, and the
1:08:04
Speaker 1: party will be captured in a way we'd never considered before.
1:08:08
Speaker 1: Am I overstating it?
1:08:09
Speaker 11: You are not, Although I got to say, Hugh, for
1:08:11
Speaker 11: a while, I thought this was Christmas Mass, where so
1:08:15
Speaker 11: and so who begat so?
1:08:16
Speaker 3: And so?
1:08:17
Speaker 6: Who forgat so and so?
1:08:18
Speaker 11: You were doing the lineage, you know, Bernie, who begat
1:08:23
Speaker 11: AOC who begat Chevalier and.
1:08:27
Speaker 2: All of that stuff.
1:08:27
Speaker 3: Not like.
1:08:29
Speaker 11: It very much feels like we are in this era
1:08:33
Speaker 11: of a swinging pendulum, and each time the pendulum swings
1:08:37
Speaker 11: a little bit further right. The Trump like Trump was
1:08:42
Speaker 11: indoubtedly a response to the two terms of Obama, and
1:08:45
Speaker 11: the entire MAGA movement was this sense of frustration with
1:08:49
Speaker 11: quote unquote establishment, republicanism or whatever you want to call it.
1:08:53
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, we get Trump. The Democrats like, oh my god,
1:08:56
Speaker 11: he really means what he says. This is crazy, and
1:08:58
Speaker 11: they go further to the left. Is the AOC era Democrats?
1:09:03
Speaker 11: You know, the Democrats, particularly under Biden, are too far
1:09:06
Speaker 11: to the left of the American public, and they swing
1:09:08
Speaker 11: back to Trump. And now you're getting Trump unleashed. I
1:09:11
Speaker 11: think you'd agree with me that second term Trump is
1:09:13
Speaker 11: a different guy from first term Trump, and it.
1:09:15
Speaker 1: Is first much into Article two powers.
1:09:17
Speaker 11: Yes, right, so now you've got and this is now
1:09:21
Speaker 11: twice the Democrats have lost to a guy who they
1:09:24
Speaker 11: thought was absolutely unelectable the first time. And this is
1:09:28
Speaker 11: now a crisis. This is now something that really can't
1:09:30
Speaker 11: be done. So clearly it cannot be solved with someone
1:09:33
Speaker 11: like Michael Bennett, the Colorado senator who just lost the
1:09:37
Speaker 11: gubernatorial primary out there.
1:09:39
Speaker 4: He's too milk toast.
1:09:40
Speaker 11: Allegedly he's not a fighter because he hasn't punched anybody
1:09:44
Speaker 11: out or something like that. Right, we need people who
1:09:46
Speaker 11: are fighters, and that's why you're getting folks like Chevalier,
1:09:50
Speaker 11: who's you know, very much believes that she's hoping in
1:09:52
Speaker 11: the Senate she will turn America into a country in
1:09:56
Speaker 11: which there are no murders. Now, I wish her every
1:09:59
Speaker 11: success in that endeavor, but I don't think it's going
1:10:02
Speaker 11: to happen, because there's never been a human society that
1:10:04
Speaker 11: didn't do that.
1:10:05
Speaker 4: And my sneaking.
1:10:06
Speaker 11: Suspicion is that what separates us from that immanitized escaton,
1:10:11
Speaker 11: to quote William of Bluckley, is not that we don't
1:10:13
Speaker 11: have Chevalier in the House. I don't think she's going
1:10:15
Speaker 11: to make that much of a difference when it comes
1:10:16
Speaker 11: to the homicide rate in the United States, other than
1:10:19
Speaker 11: probably making us want to kill somebody everyone every time
1:10:21
Speaker 11: we have to listen to her as some hobby pinko
1:10:25
Speaker 11: speech of the House of Representatives.
1:10:27
Speaker 1: But I'm going to go a little bit. I think
1:10:29
Speaker 1: your announces what happened is correct because Democrats are shocked
1:10:33
Speaker 1: by the esthetic Donald Trump, the intellectual approach of Donald Trump,
1:10:38
Speaker 1: and the pragmatic steps that Trump takes, which can sometimes
1:10:42
Speaker 1: be brutal like the border wall. However, to come up
1:10:45
Speaker 1: with the dsa ors March, Chevalier, hano'mi, Kiros Ladner, Valdez,
1:10:51
Speaker 1: Wiener and all the other radicals out there, Grand Platinir
1:10:54
Speaker 1: Flaning again especially and else, I had maybe the most
1:10:59
Speaker 1: radical of them Michigan.
1:11:01
Speaker 11: All there was a national socialist.
1:11:05
Speaker 1: Not a communist, but he is a self described commedy
1:11:08
Speaker 1: short nickname for that, yeah, himself described commun When they
1:11:13
Speaker 1: nominate people like this, is it possible for the Republicans
1:11:17
Speaker 1: to nationalize the race? About what power in that caucus?
1:11:21
Speaker 1: Let's just call it the radical left caucus in the
1:11:25
Speaker 1: both houses of Congress. Can the race be nationalized in
1:11:28
Speaker 1: November around.
1:11:29
Speaker 11: That, Yeah, I have a feeling that between now and
1:11:32
Speaker 11: November enough Americans will be frustrated with Trump, enough Americans
1:11:36
Speaker 11: will be frustrated with the state of the country in
1:11:38
Speaker 11: the direction of things, and they'll say, we're gonna it's
1:11:40
Speaker 11: time for a change. We're going to vote for Democrats.
1:11:42
Speaker 11: Democrats are going to win the House. Don't know how
1:11:44
Speaker 11: the Senate is going to shake out, It'll probably be
1:11:46
Speaker 11: close either way. But what I do kind of think
1:11:47
Speaker 11: would very well happen is that this is you know,
1:11:50
Speaker 11: if it's not JD. Vans, if it's not Marco Rubio,
1:11:52
Speaker 11: whoever the Republican nominee is, you are there is a
1:11:56
Speaker 11: few people can change their opinions really fast. And in
1:11:59
Speaker 11: twenty twenty two, the country did not actually give Republicans
1:12:02
Speaker 11: the big red wave that people were expecting. They stuck
1:12:04
Speaker 11: with Oba, with they stuck with Biden. There was other
1:12:07
Speaker 11: than Florida. There was kind of the sense of Republicans underperformed,
1:12:10
Speaker 11: and then as Biden accelerated into those last two years,
1:12:12
Speaker 11: there's a real sense of, you know what, we did
1:12:15
Speaker 11: not put the check on his power the way we wanted.
1:12:17
Speaker 11: He's really getting older and swapping out Kamala Harris didn't.
1:12:20
Speaker 4: Do any good.
1:12:21
Speaker 11: So my sneaking suspicion is is that Democrats will still
1:12:24
Speaker 11: have a good midterm and that once these folks are
1:12:27
Speaker 11: no longer the outsiders with this very like every outsider,
1:12:31
Speaker 11: every challenger, has the easiest message. Things stink, Elect me
1:12:34
Speaker 11: and I'm going to make them better. But my sneaking
1:12:37
Speaker 11: suspicion is in twenty twenty seven, twenty twenty eight, when
1:12:40
Speaker 11: things don't feel dramatically better in the country with a
1:12:43
Speaker 11: Democratic House and perhaps a Democratic Senate, probably the people
1:12:47
Speaker 11: will be like, well, wait a second. You guys said
1:12:48
Speaker 11: you were going to deliver, you know, the end of murder,
1:12:51
Speaker 11: and everybody would be having socialists. You know, we're supposed
1:12:54
Speaker 11: to have free grocery stores and free buses in New
1:12:57
Speaker 11: York City.
1:12:58
Speaker 4: Hew.
1:12:58
Speaker 11: It turns out the warmth of collect activism is that
1:13:00
Speaker 11: you can't set your thermostatule a seventy eight.
1:13:02
Speaker 1: I know, and that's something now, poor people in New York.
1:13:07
Speaker 1: Before I get to the red card last night, because
1:13:09
Speaker 1: I saw you were watching as I was the red
1:13:11
Speaker 1: card controversy. Those fifteen radical members of the House. It's
1:13:17
Speaker 1: the nine who are there and the six who are
1:13:18
Speaker 1: coming in. They are communists. They might not call themselves communists,
1:13:22
Speaker 1: they are communists. Is there any way to warn people
1:13:26
Speaker 1: about what that means that's effective in the era of Trump,
1:13:30
Speaker 1: because there is the title chart of American political history,
1:13:34
Speaker 1: which is that goes out on the sixth year of
1:13:35
Speaker 1: a presidency, whether it's Trump or Bush or Reagan, they
1:13:39
Speaker 1: get slaughtered or Obama, they get slaughtered. But these fifteen
1:13:43
Speaker 1: they're not going to pick up more than sixteen seats.
1:13:47
Speaker 1: They're down six right now. They're not going to win
1:13:50
Speaker 1: with redistricting thrown in, they're not going to win twenty
1:13:53
Speaker 1: three Hawking Jeffreys is going to need those people. So
1:13:57
Speaker 1: do we warn Can the NRSC in the NRCC nationalize
1:14:02
Speaker 1: those races or at least the Senate races to protect
1:14:05
Speaker 1: the country.
1:14:06
Speaker 11: It will be challenging when the likes of CNN White
1:14:08
Speaker 11: House correspondent Caitlin Collins keep insisting, well, Trump's calling them communists,
1:14:13
Speaker 11: but they're really if you look at the Leninist Marxist history,
1:14:16
Speaker 11: the Hugh this is there's two weird things about labels
1:14:21
Speaker 11: in the in the midterms so far so Hugh. How
1:14:24
Speaker 11: many times in your career do you think you've been
1:14:26
Speaker 11: called a Nazi?
1:14:27
Speaker 1: A lot?
1:14:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, probably too many to.
1:14:29
Speaker 1: Count, right, Yeah, well a but I normally bleed them out.
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Speaker 11: Anybody to the right of Lincoln Shafey has been called
1:14:39
Speaker 11: a Nazi plenty of times in the course of their career,
1:14:41
Speaker 11: you know, years of arguing about politics. The one person
1:14:44
Speaker 11: who the left is absolutely certain is not a Nazi
1:14:48
Speaker 11: is the guy who had the s S Totenkoff tattooed
1:14:50
Speaker 11: onto his heart. He's the one guy they're absolutely certain
1:14:53
Speaker 11: is not a Nazi.
1:14:54
Speaker 3: Right.
1:14:54
Speaker 11: Well, in this case, we have people who, by any
1:14:56
Speaker 11: definition they're talking about seizing the means of production, or
1:14:59
Speaker 11: they have past comments where they said that they were
1:15:02
Speaker 11: a Nazi of Chevalier and Plattner, and you say, oh, no,
1:15:04
Speaker 11: that was the ancient history, that was four or five
1:15:07
Speaker 11: years ago. I'm a totally different person now. Right now,
1:15:10
Speaker 11: think about all the times Trump gets called fascist. Kamala
1:15:13
Speaker 11: Harris called Trump fascist. Right So there's this very odd
1:15:17
Speaker 11: policing of political labels in which, oh, you can't call
1:15:20
Speaker 11: this Democrat running for Congress a communist because they don't.
1:15:24
Speaker 11: They only checked fourteen of the fifteen boxes and all
1:15:26
Speaker 11: that stuff. And you know they aren't really calling for
1:15:29
Speaker 11: gulags now, they're merely calling for work camps for you know,
1:15:32
Speaker 11: all that stuff.
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Speaker 1: Well, Cotton so by Sarah Cotton yesterday called them Marxist,
1:15:36
Speaker 1: and I may, I may agree with him. That's the
1:15:38
Speaker 1: best way that We've never had a Marxist majority in
1:15:41
Speaker 1: Congress or a Marxist majority making caucus in Congress. So
1:15:45
Speaker 1: what do we if you're Mike Johnson, and you're johnthone,
1:15:49
Speaker 1: and you're in charge of the National Republican Congressional Committee,
1:15:52
Speaker 1: the National Republican Senatorial Committee, what do you say about
1:15:55
Speaker 1: these people in every district? Because John Podhortz yesterday he
1:15:58
Speaker 1: said you can nationalize the Senate racis, but not the
1:16:01
Speaker 1: House racist. What do you say in every house district
1:16:03
Speaker 1: in America about the vote people are casting.
1:16:06
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's tougher, But one of the things I would
1:16:08
Speaker 11: say is, you know, when you would these people who say, oh,
1:16:10
Speaker 11: I'm not a communist, I'm only a democratic socialist, what
1:16:13
Speaker 11: part of communism do you not agree with? Is it
1:16:16
Speaker 11: the sac is it? You know it was it the
1:16:19
Speaker 11: uh uh, the forced famine in Ukraine. What part of
1:16:23
Speaker 11: the Soviet Union do you look at that and say
1:16:25
Speaker 11: I don't want that part? Because Chafalier genuinely believes she's
1:16:28
Speaker 11: going to create in America where.
1:16:29
Speaker 4: No one murders each other, right, so you know.
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Speaker 11: And then the next question is if you're a Democrat
1:16:33
Speaker 11: who says, oh, I'm not DSA, where and how will
1:16:36
Speaker 11: you fight your DSA colleagues?
1:16:38
Speaker 1: My sister oh good questions that is the good that
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Speaker 1: that might be for the non crazy racist, which you're
1:16:46
Speaker 1: going to win to get to the district. Where and
1:16:48
Speaker 1: how will you fight your DSA Marxist colleague bad? That's
1:16:53
Speaker 1: all we have. Garrity, that's what we call them, indispensable
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1:17:29
Speaker 1: in today's information is about Germany and its free armament
1:17:32
Speaker 1: about which I was unaware. Philip, When did mister Murrs
1:17:36
Speaker 1: finally begin to deliver on Germany's pledge?
1:17:41
Speaker 6: You, first of all, happen forth? And secondly, the discount
1:17:45
Speaker 6: is Hugh is Hugh h You're right?
1:17:49
Speaker 1: Okay, yes, So I.
1:17:50
Speaker 6: Just want to make sure that the listeners and viewers
1:17:53
Speaker 6: get that right. So this is a really really interesting
1:17:58
Speaker 6: story and an important one to you. So Germany is
1:18:02
Speaker 6: re arming for the first time in eighty years since
1:18:06
Speaker 6: the end of World War Two. The Chancellor has promised
1:18:11
Speaker 6: that Germany will reach three point five percent of gross
1:18:15
Speaker 6: domestic product or GDP going for defense spending by twenty
1:18:20
Speaker 6: twenty nine. They're in the mid twes right now. I mean,
1:18:26
Speaker 6: sho should we be worried about this? I think that's
1:18:29
Speaker 6: the question that people might want to ask, and I
1:18:32
Speaker 6: would say yes, but not because Germany has any evil intentions.
1:18:37
Speaker 6: They don't. It's really about the introduction of more instability
1:18:44
Speaker 6: into the world by all this arm spending. So why
1:18:47
Speaker 6: is Germany doing it? If they're doing it for two reasons.
1:18:49
Speaker 6: One the war in Ukraine. They're scared of Russia and
1:18:54
Speaker 6: they really believe that Russia will eventually invade Europe, of
1:18:59
Speaker 6: the main body of Europe. And then the other reason
1:19:01
Speaker 6: is the Trump administrations pulled back from NATA, which as
1:19:05
Speaker 6: all of the European countries, you know, scared because they've
1:19:09
Speaker 6: been relying on us for eighty years and now they
1:19:12
Speaker 6: realize that maybe they can't, and so they're all scrambling
1:19:17
Speaker 6: to spend more.
1:19:19
Speaker 7: So.
1:19:19
Speaker 6: Germany is the large economy in Europe, most powerful country,
1:19:24
Speaker 6: but it's been a past this nation. After the end
1:19:27
Speaker 6: of the war, Germany just basically said no more, no
1:19:31
Speaker 6: more fighting, no more killing, no more invading, and they
1:19:35
Speaker 6: had very little military and they never sent their troops overseas.
1:19:39
Speaker 1: Now Philip Murders, who's the chancellor, is a CDU Christian
1:19:44
Speaker 1: Democratic Union and he's got a party to his right,
1:19:47
Speaker 1: the AfD. Does the af D support this or does
1:19:51
Speaker 1: he need the socialists to assist him in getting the
1:19:53
Speaker 1: devent spending up.
1:19:55
Speaker 6: They're on board. They're on board.
1:20:00
Speaker 1: The left is on Boing. What about the AFT, oh.
1:20:05
Speaker 6: The a FD, they support it also, maybe not as
1:20:09
Speaker 6: much as Murs wants to spend, but they are supporting
1:20:14
Speaker 6: the military spending, and I mean obviously different perspective.
1:20:19
Speaker 1: They're sending troops to the Baltics.
1:20:23
Speaker 6: They sent a combat brigade to Lithuania of about forty
1:20:29
Speaker 6: five hundred troops, first time they've ever done that. Germany,
1:20:33
Speaker 6: and so they're right there on the front line. I mean,
1:20:37
Speaker 6: Germany is not the front line. Poland is the front
1:20:40
Speaker 6: line of the Baltic states. Of course, Ukraine goes without
1:20:44
Speaker 6: saying they are the front line, the real fighting front line.
1:20:50
Speaker 6: So if Russia were to invade the Baltics, Lithuania, Lafia Estonia,
1:20:55
Speaker 6: then the German brigade would be right there, and then
1:20:59
Speaker 6: of course that would trigger all kinds of other things.
1:21:03
Speaker 6: You know, God forbid that that would ever happen. But
1:21:06
Speaker 6: I mean it's it's possible. I mean, you know, it's
1:21:08
Speaker 6: really interesting here if you look at the great World
1:21:12
Speaker 6: War two powers and where they are today in terms
1:21:15
Speaker 6: of military spending. So Russia spends seven and a half
1:21:21
Speaker 6: percent of their GDP even with the war. It's it's
1:21:26
Speaker 6: not maybe as high as you would think. Ukraine is
1:21:29
Speaker 6: forty percent. Forty percent of their economy is devoted to
1:21:34
Speaker 6: military spending. The United States is three point one, the
1:21:41
Speaker 6: UK is two point four, France is two, China's one
1:21:47
Speaker 6: point seven. In Japan is at the very bottom and
1:21:50
Speaker 6: the military spending at one point four percent. But Japan
1:21:55
Speaker 6: the other access power, of the other major access power,
1:21:59
Speaker 6: not counting Italy, they are in the process of beginning
1:22:03
Speaker 6: rearmament as well under the new prime minister.
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Speaker 1: Do you happen to know what they're building, because right
1:22:11
Speaker 1: now Ukraine has shown us you can go to forty percent.
1:22:14
Speaker 1: Now bet half of that forty percent drones and manpower.
1:22:17
Speaker 1: At least, what is Germany going to invest in. We
1:22:20
Speaker 1: don't really need leopard tanks anymore.
1:22:24
Speaker 6: Well, I'm sorry to tell you that they are investing
1:22:27
Speaker 6: in tanks, and maybe they're not leopards. I think there's
1:22:29
Speaker 6: a new tank that is being built by a company
1:22:32
Speaker 6: in the Netherlands. It's a kind of a joint effort
1:22:36
Speaker 6: with France and maybe another country. But they are building tanks,
1:22:41
Speaker 6: fighter jets and of course thrones, artillery shells, men and
1:22:47
Speaker 6: women and uniforms and rifles and bullets, and I mean
1:22:51
Speaker 6: everything that it takes, you know, radar systems, intelligence systems.
1:22:58
Speaker 6: That's the other thing Germany is doing is they are
1:23:02
Speaker 6: greatly increasing their intelligence capabilities because in all these years
1:23:06
Speaker 6: since World War Two, they've completely relied on the US
1:23:10
Speaker 6: for intelligence share. So we have all these phenomenal capabilities
1:23:14
Speaker 6: from you know, eavesdropping to human intelligence CIA activities. We
1:23:21
Speaker 6: give a lot of that to the Germans in the
1:23:23
Speaker 6: French and our other allies.
1:23:26
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