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Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to Bungino Report, early edition and
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Speaker 1: a happy belated Mother's Day to all of the moms
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Speaker 1: in the chat and all the grandmas. There was a joke,
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Speaker 1: there was a meme going around from Tony Evers, the
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Speaker 1: governor of Wisconsin, to say happy birthing person day, happy
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Speaker 1: inseminated person day, like whatever the issue, whatever the the
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Speaker 1: wokey word is for it. But on this show, we
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Speaker 1: thank real mothers, true mothers, biological women, I can't even
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Speaker 1: believe this has to be said in the year 2025.
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Speaker 1: I called my mom yesterday and she had a great day.
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Speaker 1: She still had to work on Fox and Friends, but
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Speaker 1: everybody in the family made her a little happy Mother's
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Speaker 1: Day video and she played it on air, which was
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Speaker 1: really cute. And I'm on the phone with her for
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Speaker 1: a long time and I was just thinking, oh, well,
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Speaker 1: Michael can't even make a comment about me being on
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Speaker 1: the phone with my mom for a long time today
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Speaker 1: because it's Mother's Day. My mom and I can talk
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Speaker 1: for like hours and hours every single day on the phone.
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Speaker 1: And today is like the great, yesterday was the greatest
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Speaker 1: excuse for it because it's Mother's Day. You have to
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Speaker 1: call your mom. If you forgot to call your mom,
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Speaker 1: make sure you call her today. Let's get into some
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Speaker 1: of these headlines though. The Trump admin negotiates with Hamas
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Speaker 1: to bring home an American hostage. Amazing news yesterday. Trump
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Speaker 1: cuts prescription drug prices. We also have a trade deal
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Speaker 1: with China. Al Sharpton is deeply concerned about Unvetted immigrants
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Speaker 1: coming into this country. The difference is apparently these immigrants
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Speaker 1: are white, so they need extra verification. The FBI cracks
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Speaker 1: down on child predators after Biden's bureau neglected these cases
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Speaker 1: for years. And Pope Leo XIV plans to challenge AI's
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Speaker 1: threat to human dignity and flourishing. All this on Bongina Report,
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Speaker 1: early edition. I want to play for you guys a
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Speaker 1: video of Richard Nixon delivering a beautiful tribute to his mother.
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Speaker 1: This was shared by Jack Posobiec on X Yesterday. Truly
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Speaker 1: a lovely tribute. Let's play that.
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Speaker 2: Nobody will ever write a book, probably, about my mother. Well,
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Speaker 2: I guess all of you would say this about your mother.
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Speaker 2: My mother was a saint. And I think of her,
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Speaker 2: two boys dying of tuberculosis, nursing four others in order
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Speaker 2: that she could take care of my older brother for
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Speaker 2: three years in Arizona, and seeing each of them die.
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Speaker 2: And when they died, it was like one of her own. Yes,
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Speaker 2: she will have no books written about her. But she
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Speaker 2: was a saint.
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Speaker 1: So Richard Nixon's younger brother, just for some context here,
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Speaker 1: he died at just seven years old from tuberculosis, and
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Speaker 1: later his older brother, Harold, died of the same disease
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Speaker 1: at 24 after a long and painful struggle. So Nixon's mother, Hannah,
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Speaker 1: endured a lot of And these tragedies, they really left
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Speaker 1: a profound mark on her, as it would any mother.
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Speaker 1: And though few people today know the name Hannah Nixon,
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Speaker 1: as he notes, almost everyone knows her son. And it's
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Speaker 1: interesting that he talked about legacy and how good of
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Speaker 1: a woman she was, and yet nobody's going to be
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Speaker 1: writing any books about her. Nobody's remembering her. Even the
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Speaker 1: son or the mother of a president is not going
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Speaker 1: to have a ton of national memory around her. If you're,
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Speaker 1: you know, if you're, think right now, do you know
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Speaker 1: the name of your great-grandparents even? Are you remembered even
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Speaker 1: by your own family? It's an interesting question. I mean,
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Speaker 1: the memory usually for most people is lost very soon,
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Speaker 1: and a lot of good people that fall into that category,
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Speaker 1: very few are remembered for generations and years to come.
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Speaker 1: And I watched that video yesterday, and it was such
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Speaker 1: a heartfelt homage to His mother, and I think a reminder, again,
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Speaker 1: of how many remarkable people like Hannah are often lost
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Speaker 1: to history. Their love and sacrifice fade from memory, unrecorded
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Speaker 1: and uncelebrated. Like I said, if you think about your great-grandchildren,
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Speaker 1: they probably won't even know your name. Meaning, you know,
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Speaker 1: it's a pretty low chance. And it makes you sad
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Speaker 1: when we reflect on people in our lives who are
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Speaker 1: really good people, who deserve to be remembered. But I
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Speaker 1: also wonder if perhaps it's a blessing. Because Nixon's life
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Speaker 1: has been dissected in countless books. His legacy endlessly debated,
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Speaker 1: reduced to a single narrative that is repeated in classrooms
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Speaker 1: across the country that's rarely ever challenged or reconsidered. For Hannah,
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Speaker 1: at least, there is a peace in the quiet legacy
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Speaker 1: of love while she was alive, even if history forgets
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Speaker 1: her name. When most people think of Richard Nixon, especially
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Speaker 1: young people today, We do know who he is. We
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Speaker 1: remember him. The first words that come to mind are
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Speaker 1: probably scandal, corruption, Watergate. You might know that Watergate was
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Speaker 1: some kind of political scandal that brought Nixon down and
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Speaker 1: that it had something to do with a break-in at
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Speaker 1: the Democratic National Committee's offices inside the Watergate building in 1972.
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Speaker 1: Five men connected to Nixon's re-election campaign were caught breaking
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Speaker 1: into those offices, leading to a massive investigation. Some of
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Speaker 1: them went to jail, and Nixon eventually resigned before he
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Speaker 1: could be impeached, receiving a pardon from his successor, President
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Speaker 1: Gerald Ford, just a month later. For many, that's about
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Speaker 1: the extent of what they know, if even that. But
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Speaker 1: what most people don't realize is that just two years
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Speaker 1: before his resignation, Nixon won one of the largest electoral
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Speaker 1: victories in American history. In 1972, he carried 49 out
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Speaker 1: of the 50 states. Political landslide. Also DC, but they
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Speaker 1: don't count. They shouldn't even be voting. And this victory
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Speaker 1: seemed to cement Nixon's power and influence for another four years.
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Speaker 1: And yet, despite the historic win, Nixon was gone just
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Speaker 1: 18 months later. So what happened? Nixon wasn't just your
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Speaker 1: average politician. He had big plans to shake up the
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Speaker 1: way that Washington worked. He wanted to take power away
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Speaker 1: from the massive bureaucratic departments like the State Department, Treasury,
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Speaker 1: the FBI, bring control directly into the White House. He
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Speaker 1: wanted to create a super cabinet, which allowed him to
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Speaker 1: run things more efficiently and cut through the red tape
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Speaker 1: of federal agencies. Kind of sounds similar to someone else
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Speaker 1: in modern American political.
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Speaker 3: History.
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Speaker 1: And this made a lot of powerful people in Washington
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Speaker 1: very nervous, especially those who had built entire careers around
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Speaker 1: managing those bureaucracies. Nixon also didn't trust the FBI, believing
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Speaker 1: that they were leaking information to sabotage his administration. So
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Speaker 1: he set up his own investigation team to keep things secure.
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Speaker 1: But that only made things worse. Mark Felt, the second
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Speaker 1: highest official in the FBI who was passed over for
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Speaker 1: the top job, began secretly linking information to the Washington
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Speaker 1: Post under the name Deep Throat pushing the Watergate scandal
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Speaker 1: into the headlines week after week. This wasn't just some
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Speaker 1: random whistleblower. It was the FBI itself leaking information to
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Speaker 1: bring Nixon down. You hear that happening? Any other time?
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Speaker 1: Does it remind you of something? And they didn't leak
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Speaker 1: to just anyone. The guy who broke the Watergate scandal,
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Speaker 1: Bob Woodward, you probably know who he is. He was
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Speaker 1: not some well-established journalist, but a relative unknown. He began
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Speaker 1: his journalism career in 1971, and by 72, he somehow
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Speaker 1: landed with very high-level sources, one of the biggest political
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Speaker 1: corruption scandals, allegedly, in American history. Here's Tucker Carlson on
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Speaker 1: Bob Woodward.
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Speaker 4: If you look at what happened to Richard Nixon, which I,
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Speaker 4: of course, did not understand at all, Richard Nixon was
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Speaker 4: taken out by the FBI and CIA, and with the
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Speaker 4: help of Bob Woodward, who was a Washington Post reporter,
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Speaker 4: who had been a naval intelligence officer Working in the
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Speaker 4: White House, working in the Nixon White House. And then
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Speaker 4: he shows up like a year later and he's this
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Speaker 4: brand new reporter. He'd never been a journalist at all.
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Speaker 4: He's a naval intel officer. The famous Bob Woodward, we
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Speaker 4: all revere. And he's at the Washington Post and somehow
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Speaker 4: he gets the biggest story in the history of the
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Speaker 4: Washington Post. He's the lead guy in that story. Well,
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Speaker 4: I worked in a newspaper. I've been in the news
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Speaker 4: business my whole life. That is not how it works.
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Speaker 4: You don't take a kid like his first day from
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Speaker 4: a totally unrelated business and put him on the biggest story.
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Speaker 4: But he was. He was that guy. And who is
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Speaker 4: his main source for Watergate? Oh, the number two guy
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Speaker 4: at the FBI. Oh, so you have the naval intelligence
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Speaker 4: officer working with the FBI official. to destroy the president. Okay,
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Speaker 4: so that's a deep state coup. How would you describe that?
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Speaker 4: If that happened in Guatemala, what would you say? And
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Speaker 4: yet the way it was framed and the way that
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Speaker 4: I accepted for decades was, oh, this intrepid reporter fought power.
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Speaker 5: No, no, no.
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Speaker 4: This intrepid reporter, Bob Woodward, was a tool of power,
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Speaker 4: secret power, which is the most threatening kind, to bounce
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Speaker 4: the single most popular president in American history, Richard Nixon,
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Speaker 4: from office before the end of his term and replace
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Speaker 4: him with who? Oh, Gerald Ford, who sat on the
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Speaker 4: Warren Commission.
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Speaker 1: Warren Commission is, of course, the 1963 investigation into the
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Speaker 1: assassination of John F. Kennedy, which concluded that Lee Harvey
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Speaker 1: Oswald acted alone in the shooting, something that appears by
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Speaker 1: any reasonable evaluation to be completely impossible. Anna Polina Luna,
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Speaker 1: who's heading the investigation currently among members of Congress into
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Speaker 1: the JFK assassination, has said as much, that there seems
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Speaker 1: to be a second shooter and that the Warren Commission
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Speaker 1: was very off base for whatever reason. Richard Nixon's plans
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Speaker 1: to take power away from entrenched Washington networks failed. And
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Speaker 1: those same networks used every lever of power, media, the courts,
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Speaker 1: federal agencies, to drive him out of office, despite his
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Speaker 1: popularity with the people. The real story is that Richard
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Speaker 1: Nixon was a highly popular candidate, a populist candidate, who
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Speaker 1: was forced out by a system that saw his rise
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Speaker 1: as a threat to its control. Nixon did not orchestrate Watergate.
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Speaker 1: He simply didn't want the news of it to get out.
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Speaker 1: Not good, but the deep state contrived scandal pairs in
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Speaker 1: comparison to, I don't know, maybe Joe Biden's telling out
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Speaker 1: this country to American foreign adversaries through his son Hunter.
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Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton using Bleachbit to wipe her private email server.
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Speaker 1: Obama sicking the IRS on political conservatives. We could go
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Speaker 1: scandal after scandal in the years following Richard Nixon. And
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Speaker 1: there's always something worse beneath these candidates and politicians who
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Speaker 1: appear to be controlled by the administrative state. As long
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Speaker 1: as you are adherent to the right people, you're going
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Speaker 1: to be fine. It doesn't matter the scandal that you
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Speaker 1: get yourself wrapped up into. The state has a history
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Speaker 1: of deciding who lives and who dies in politics. The
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Speaker 1: people's will be damned. And there's a lot of similarities
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Speaker 1: between President Trump and Richard Nixon, both victims of a
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Speaker 1: weaponized state. of lawfare, of a corrupt media apparatus, all
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Speaker 1: converging to take them down, both tough on crime, dedicated
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Speaker 1: to disempowering the entrenched permanent state, men elected for and
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Speaker 1: by the people, making decisions that don't necessarily jive with
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Speaker 1: the systems of power. The difference is that President Trump
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Speaker 1: never retreated. After the Russia hoax, he kept going. He
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Speaker 1: dealt with the impeachment, a stolen election, 91 criminal charges.
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Speaker 1: He doesn't get pushed around. He has never given up.
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Speaker 1: This is important context for what is currently happening geopolitically.
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Speaker 1: A lot of people are saying that President Trump has
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Speaker 1: turned his back on Israel, that he is siding with terrorists.
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Speaker 1: This is a media narrative. I want to talk about
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Speaker 1: what's really going on right now geopolitically for some context.
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Speaker 1: For decades, the United States has been one of Israel's
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Speaker 1: staunchest allies, providing nearly $ 4 billion a year Just expected,
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Speaker 1: $ 4 billion a year in foreign aid to Israel. And
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Speaker 1: this is not including the additional billions funneled during times
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Speaker 1: of conflict, such as the ongoing war against Hamas. President
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Speaker 1: Trump has been one of the most pro-Israel presidents in U.S.
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Speaker 2: History.
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Speaker 1: He moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, recognized the Golan
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Speaker 1: Heights as Israeli territory, brokered the Abraham Accords, which weren't
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Speaker 1: just policy moves. These are signals of deep friendship. from
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Speaker 1: President Trump to Israel thrives on respect, I think, not
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Speaker 1: blind allegiance. This is important to understand that while we
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Speaker 1: can be friends of Israel and very staunch allies, it
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Speaker 1: doesn't mean that we don't act in the interest of
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Speaker 1: the American people. America's support for Israel has always been generous,
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Speaker 1: a lifeline when times were tough. But with the support
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Speaker 1: comes expectation. Like I said, respect. transparency, alignment. And lately,
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Speaker 1: those expectations have been tested. We recently covered reports that
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Speaker 1: Netanyahu was secretly meeting with Michael Waltz to push for
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Speaker 1: a pro-war agenda with Iran behind Trump's back. This is
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Speaker 1: why Michael Waltz was allegedly forced to resign. But just
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Speaker 1: think about that. While the White House has been actively
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Speaker 1: seeking diplomacy in the Middle East, Netanyahu was allegedly angling
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Speaker 1: for war with Iran. And Trump's administration, driven by populist ideals,
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Speaker 1: has made it clear that endless wars are not what
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Speaker 1: America wants. Not now, not ever. We've already lived through it.
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Speaker 1: Part of what separated President Trump from other Republican candidates
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Speaker 1: who were traditional neocons is that he recognized the war
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Speaker 1: in Iraq and Afghanistan were deeply, deeply misguided. And that
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Speaker 1: the American people were explicitly lied to about weapons of
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Speaker 1: mass destruction. that the military industrial complex and the people
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Speaker 1: who profit from it in systems of power in this
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Speaker 1: country have not been on the side of the American people,
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Speaker 1: have sent our men and women off to die in
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Speaker 1: a foreign country that was completely unnecessary. So with that context,
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Speaker 1: Trump is not angling for another needless war in the
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Speaker 1: Middle East. This past week, the Trump admin has been
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Speaker 1: negotiating with Iran, which has been controversial. But even more
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Speaker 1: controversial are talks with Hamas, reportedly without Israel's involvement. And
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Speaker 1: then came the news yesterday that US Special Envoy Steve
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Speaker 1: Witkoff successfully negotiated the release of American hostage Adan Alexander.
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Speaker 1: Trump's statement on the matter? He thanked Qatar and Egypt.
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Speaker 1: Israel wasn't even mentioned. Perhaps a recalibration, but it's definitely
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Speaker 1: a wake-up call. And it didn't stop there because President
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Speaker 1: Trump dropped the requirement for Saudi Arabia to normalize relations
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Speaker 1: with Israel. Communication between Netanyahu and the White House is
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Speaker 1: apparently all but frozen. And there's even talk that Trump
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Speaker 1: may recognize a Palestinian state and lift demand for Hamas
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Speaker 1: to disarm. Again, these are not confirmed. These are reportedly
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Speaker 1: things that the admin is considering. And Israel's response has
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Speaker 1: been resistance. Per Steve Witkoff, Israel is holding up hostage negotiations, saying,
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Speaker 1: this is per Witkoff, We want the detainees returned, but
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Speaker 1: Israel doesn't want to end the war. And meanwhile, President
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Speaker 1: Trump leaves for the Middle East today seeking to secure
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Speaker 1: a $ 1 trillion investment from Saudi Arabia into U.S. companies.
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Speaker 1: Here's Mike Huckabee on the U.S. negotiating with Israel. Again,
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Speaker 1: Mike Huckabee is a Christian Zionist, somebody who is a
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Speaker 1: deep friend and ally of the state of Israel. I
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Speaker 1: want you to listen to the context that he's giving
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Speaker 1: about the situation that's ongoing between the president in Israel.
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Speaker 5: Take a listen.
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Speaker 1: But it seems like.
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Speaker 4: In the end we're getting.
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Speaker 3: Obama-style deal with Iran 2.0. No, we're not at all.
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Speaker 3: And I'll tell you some big distinctive differences. Under the JCPOA,
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Speaker 3: Iran was sort of trusted to do the right thing.
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Speaker 3: Some inspectors would come in, but they really didn't have
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Speaker 3: the authority to inspect everything. When President Trump said he
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Speaker 3: will have talks He did not say that he would
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Speaker 3: compromise on nuclear aspiration. What people need to read into
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Speaker 3: this is something very simple. He would like to avoid
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Speaker 3: an all-out war that may not be contained. I mean,
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Speaker 3: if it was just the U.S. and Israel attacking Iran, okay.
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Speaker 3: But what if it starts involving all the other Gulf
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Speaker 3: states and Iranians shoot at Saudi Arabia and the UAE
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Speaker 3: and other Gulf partners? Then they have no choice but
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Speaker 3: to get in the middle of it. it could result
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Speaker 3: in something that is a bigger fire than we can
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Speaker 3: put out.
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Speaker 1: I think this is just really smart strategy on the
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Speaker 1: part of the Trump admin. And I don't think it's
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Speaker 1: about sidelining Israel, as the narrative is on social media
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Speaker 1: right now. This is about putting the United States first.
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Speaker 1: War with Iran is bad for us. It's bad for
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Speaker 1: the entire Middle East. War is destabilizing. It's not in
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Speaker 1: our best interest. This is what the president has determined.
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Speaker 1: Most of America agrees. It's also about respect. respect that
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Speaker 1: America deserves as a global leader and Israel's primary benefactor.
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Speaker 1: If Israel finds these expectations too burdensome, the answer is simple.
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Speaker 1: They can choose to forego federal aid. And to his credit,
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Speaker 1: I think Netanyahu has reportedly said as much yesterday that
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Speaker 1: the country needs to start handling its own defense and
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Speaker 1: stop relying on the United States because it comes with
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Speaker 1: these strings attached. This is the same reason why Harvard,
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Speaker 1: which receives massive amounts of federal funding, isn't in any
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Speaker 1: kind of position to resist the Trump admin's demands that
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Speaker 1: they drop DEI. They have no power in the situation.
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Speaker 1: If you take money from someone, then there are strings attached,
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Speaker 1: for better or for worse. Generosity between foreign powers always
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Speaker 1: comes with strings. It always does. It always will. This
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Speaker 1: isn't anti-Israel. This is pro-America. And it's pretty straightforward. End
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Speaker 1: needless conflict. Prioritize American prosperity. demand respect where it's due.
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Speaker 1: And we can have disagreements in the admin. Marco Rubio
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Speaker 1: is somebody who seems to side more with the Netanyahu
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Speaker 1: way of looking at dealing with Iran. And he has
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Speaker 1: not been thrown out of the admin. Like I said before,
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Speaker 1: he's allowed to have that opinion. He's expressed his it apparently,
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Speaker 1: reportedly in meetings with the president. The difference is he's
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Speaker 1: not going behind the president's back and having secret meetings
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Speaker 1: with a foreign leader. You can't do that. And frankly,
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Speaker 1: I think President Trump probably saw it as a betrayal
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Speaker 1: that Netanyahu would even consider having this kind of relationship
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Speaker 1: and meeting with a trusted advisor of him. We're supposed
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Speaker 1: to have a mutual relationship of respect, especially considering how
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Speaker 1: much we give them in foreign aid. And that just
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Speaker 1: wasn't happening. So there needs to be, I think, a
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Speaker 1: real reassessment. And that's what President Trump is doing. All right.
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Speaker 1: I want to talk a lot more about systems of
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Speaker 1: power today, systems of power and systems of influence in
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Speaker 1: our country that President Trump is really bucking. He is
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Speaker 1: not interested in playing by the traditional rulebook in any way,
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Speaker 1: and he's upsetting a lot of people, but I think
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Speaker 1: it's for the best. All right, let's talk about, again,
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Speaker 1: systems of power and what this admin is doing to
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Speaker 1: fight for the American people despite all the pressure not to.
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Speaker 1: This is what's happening with China. Yesterday, the U.S. and
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Speaker 1: China agreed to a trade deal. We were told the
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Speaker 1: economies are going to crash. The global economy is going
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Speaker 1: to crash. China is going to win this trade war.
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Speaker 1: America has no chance for whatever reason. Here was Scott
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Speaker 1: Besant just this morning discussing the deal.
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Speaker 5: To what was a very positive process, we have reached
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Speaker 5: the an agreement on a 90-day pause and substantially move
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Speaker 5: down the tariff levels. Both sides on the reciprocal tariffs
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Speaker 5: will move their tariffs down 115 percent. We had very
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Speaker 5: robust discussions. both sides showed a great respect.
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Speaker 1: Early this morning, right, like I said, the U.S. announced
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Speaker 1: that China and our country will each lower tariffs by
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Speaker 1: 115 percent. American tariffs on China will be at 30 percent.
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Speaker 1: Tariffs from China on the U.S. will be at 10 percent.
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Speaker 1: So We have more tariffs on them at this point
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Speaker 1: in time. Seems to be probably a step in the
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Speaker 1: right direction. This is not the end-all, be-all. But we're
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Speaker 1: moving forward in our negotiations with China. And by the way,
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Speaker 1: this comes after the admin unveiled a framework for a deal,
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Speaker 1: a trade deal with the UK last week. And like
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Speaker 1: I said, do you guys remember how many people lost
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Speaker 1: their minds over Trump's tariffs like two seconds ago? Democrats
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Speaker 1: and Republicans. preferred to do nothing over China exporting deadly
22:50
Speaker 1: fentanyl into this country, the currency manipulation, intellectual property theft,
22:56
Speaker 1: forced technology transfers, slave labor that made it impossible for
23:02
Speaker 1: the U.S. to compete with. The New York Post reported
23:06
Speaker 1: that by some estimates, annual Chinese IP theft from the U.S.
23:09
Speaker 1: is between $ 225 to $ 600 billion a year. I think
23:16
Speaker 1: anything is better than nothing when it comes to trade
23:18
Speaker 1: deals with China. We have to have a more reciprocal
23:23
Speaker 1: relationship with this country that has been gutting American industry
23:29
Speaker 1: and American technology. I mean, it's absurd that this was
23:32
Speaker 1: allowed to continue as long as it did. But American
23:36
Speaker 1: leaders would have preferred China continue victimizing the American working
23:40
Speaker 1: class because it's good for Wall Street, for multinational corporations.
23:45
Speaker 1: This is what I mean when I say Trump is
23:46
Speaker 1: bucking the system and is standing up against systems of power.
23:51
Speaker 1: This is what a good populist candidate does. This is
23:54
Speaker 1: what Richard Nixon attempted to do before they booted him
23:58
Speaker 1: out of office. Another power structure that President Trump is
24:02
Speaker 1: taking on is big pharma. Yesterday, Trump announced his plans
24:07
Speaker 1: to sign an executive order. Today, that will reduce the
24:10
Speaker 1: cost of prescription drugs and pharmaceuticals almost immediately by 30
24:14
Speaker 1: to 80%. This is what he wrote on X yesterday.
24:18
Speaker 1: For many years, the world has wondered why prescription drugs
24:21
Speaker 1: and pharmaceuticals in the United States of America were so
24:24
Speaker 1: much higher in price than they were in any other nation.
24:27
Speaker 1: The pharmaceutical drug companies would say for years that it
24:30
Speaker 1: was research and development costs and that all of these
24:32
Speaker 1: costs were and would be for no reason whatsoever borne
24:36
Speaker 1: by the suckers of America alone. Campaign contributions can do wonders,
24:40
Speaker 1: but not with me and not with the Republican Party.
24:43
Speaker 1: We are going to do the right thing, something the
24:45
Speaker 1: Democrats have fought for many years. Therefore, I am pleased
24:48
Speaker 1: to announce that tomorrow morning at the White House at
24:50
Speaker 1: 9 a.m. So already this morning, I will be signing
24:53
Speaker 1: one of the most consequential executive orders in our country's history.
24:56
Speaker 1: Prescription drug and pharmaceutical companies will be reduced. Pharmaceutical prices
25:00
Speaker 1: will be reduced almost immediately by 30 to 80 percent.
25:03
Speaker 1: They will rise throughout the world in order to equalize
25:06
Speaker 1: and for the first time in many years bring fairness
25:09
Speaker 1: to America. I will be instituting a most favored nations
25:13
Speaker 1: policy whereby the U.S. will pay the same price as
25:17
Speaker 1: the nation that pays the lowest price anywhere in the world.
25:20
Speaker 1: Our country will finally be treated fairly and our citizens'
25:23
Speaker 1: health care costs will be reduced dramatically. by numbers never
25:26
Speaker 1: even thought of before. It is a direct challenge to
25:30
Speaker 1: the pharmaceutical giants that have thrived on inflated American prices.
25:38
Speaker 1: The move not only levels the playing field for American consumers,
25:41
Speaker 1: but it disrupts big pharma's ability to set exorbitant prices
25:45
Speaker 1: without any kind of accountability. It's a populist stand against
25:49
Speaker 1: corporate influence, putting the needs of ordinary Americans over the
25:53
Speaker 1: interests of powerful lobbyists and industry giants. It's bound to
25:57
Speaker 1: trigger fierce resistance from the pharmaceutical industry. But frankly, I
26:01
Speaker 1: don't think this president cares. I really don't. And by
26:05
Speaker 1: the way, this comes after last month, Trump signed another
26:09
Speaker 1: executive order standardizing Medicare payments for prescription drugs, including those
26:15
Speaker 1: used for cancer patients on matter, no matter where the
26:19
Speaker 1: patient receives treatment. And per the White House, that order
26:22
Speaker 1: could lower prices for patients as much as 60%. This
26:25
Speaker 1: is huge. This is the kind of thing that matters
26:29
Speaker 1: to individuals. Medical debt is a huge problem in this country.
26:33
Speaker 1: The number one cause of divorce is financial stresses. Imagine
26:39
Speaker 1: you have cancer, and these are the concerns that you have.
26:43
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just horrible. Clearly, the system is broken.
26:46
Speaker 1: And President Trump is saying, no more of the American people.
26:49
Speaker 1: going to be paying outrageous prices when a country on
26:53
Speaker 1: the other side of the world, these aren't even American companies,
26:55
Speaker 1: is paying a fraction of that. It's absurd. The same
26:59
Speaker 1: story for deportations when we talk again about systems of power.
27:03
Speaker 1: Who benefits from mass illegal and frankly legal immigration? Massive
27:08
Speaker 1: corporations who can pay visa holders and illegals less than U.S. citizens.
27:16
Speaker 1: It devalues labor in this country. It saturates the labor market,
27:20
Speaker 1: meaning our work is worth less. And what's happening? The
27:24
Speaker 1: president is being smeared as a racist. He's an inhumane
27:27
Speaker 1: fascist for getting rid of illegal criminals in this country.
27:31
Speaker 1: He's not even getting rid of everybody, just the criminals,
27:33
Speaker 1: the ones who have raped and murdered and are of
27:35
Speaker 1: ties to Trend de Aragua or MS-13. And of course,
27:38
Speaker 1: the media is platforming and perpetuating the most ridiculous arguments.
27:42
Speaker 1: I want to play for you this segment on MSNBC
27:45
Speaker 1: with Al Sharpton. But first, some context here. President Trump
27:49
Speaker 1: is offering refugee status to white Afrikaners who have been
27:54
Speaker 1: slaughtered and robbed by the South African race Marxists. And
28:00
Speaker 1: Al Sharpton is deeply disturbed by this. I want you
28:03
Speaker 1: to take a listen to him discuss the new refugees
28:07
Speaker 1: and consider the context of of what's been happening over
28:10
Speaker 1: the last few years in terms of mass illegal immigration.
28:14
Speaker 1: Take a listen.
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Speaker 6: President Trump is saying to white Afrikaners from South Africa,
28:18
Speaker 6: I'll give you refugee status. So we're bringing in white
28:22
Speaker 6: Afrikaners who we don't know if they're criminal. We don't
28:25
Speaker 6: know what they went through in the legal process in
28:28
Speaker 6: South Africa. But people right here in Newark, we're going
28:32
Speaker 6: to assume they're all criminal. We're going to bring them out.
28:36
Speaker 6: And if the mayor wants to say, wait a minute,
28:38
Speaker 6: let's have due process, lock him up. He's trespassing.
28:41
Speaker 1: So unreal. You just watched Al Sharpton outrage that the
28:46
Speaker 1: Trump bad man would dare to allow supposedly unvetted white
28:49
Speaker 1: South Africans seeking refugee status into the U.S. Meanwhile, Biden
28:54
Speaker 1: let in millions of unvetted illegals to the point where
28:58
Speaker 1: a Venezuelan gang has been able to establish a criminal
29:01
Speaker 1: network spanning the entire continental U.S. But Al Sharpton doesn't
29:05
Speaker 1: care about that. No, suddenly, suddenly now he's deeply concerned
29:09
Speaker 1: about the vetting of white Africaners. And by the way,
29:14
Speaker 1: let's talk about the due process that Al Sharpton is
29:16
Speaker 1: so concerned about. Due process for people in this country illegally,
29:21
Speaker 1: most of them gang members and all with criminal records.
29:24
Speaker 1: That's who Trump is currently prioritizing the deportation of. I'm
29:27
Speaker 1: sick of people telling me to feel bad for MS-13
29:31
Speaker 1: gang members. I don't feel bad for them. No amount
29:34
Speaker 1: of TDS of Trump derangement syndrome could ever make me
29:38
Speaker 1: sympathize with illegal rapists, murderers, traffickers, domestic abusers, and drug
29:42
Speaker 1: dealers who terrorize American citizens. I'm sorry, you can't make
29:46
Speaker 1: me feel bad for them. But do you see the
29:49
Speaker 1: power structures coming out and gaslighting us and thinking that
29:53
Speaker 1: it's somehow a moral good to keep illegals in this country,
29:57
Speaker 1: particularly criminals, tied to MS-13 in Trendy, Aragua. By the way,
30:03
Speaker 1: speaking of locking up criminals, this is a tough-on-crime admin, which,
30:07
Speaker 1: by the way, Richard Dixon was as well, and for
30:10
Speaker 1: some reason people had a problem with that. We have
30:13
Speaker 1: an FBI update from Dan Bongino over the weekend. He
30:16
Speaker 1: wrote this on X yesterday. The workforce has been working
30:20
Speaker 1: overtime on task force operations to remove dangerous illegal aliens
30:24
Speaker 1: from the country. If you came here illegally to prey
30:27
Speaker 1: on our citizens, your days here are numbered. Crimes against
30:31
Speaker 1: children are a priority for the workforce. Operation Restoring Justice,
30:36
Speaker 1: where we locked up child predators and 764 subjects in
30:40
Speaker 1: every part of the country, is just the beginning. We
30:42
Speaker 1: are going to take your freedom if you take away
30:44
Speaker 1: a child's innocence. This is huge news because if you'll remember,
30:49
Speaker 1: during the Biden admin, FBI agents were, according to whistleblowers,
30:54
Speaker 1: taking off child sex abuse cases, and human trafficking cases,
30:58
Speaker 1: and redirected to focus on January 6th. They literally, Biden said, oh,
31:02
Speaker 1: you guys who are working on dealing with child rapists,
31:05
Speaker 1: I want you to just drop that, leave it aside
31:08
Speaker 1: for a second, come over here, put this grandma who
31:11
Speaker 1: stood outside the Capitol on January 6th, try to get
31:14
Speaker 1: her in solitary confinement. That's what they were focused on.
31:17
Speaker 1: The priority is completely whack. And I have to imagine
31:21
Speaker 1: that Dan is dealing with a lot of backlog right now.
31:23
Speaker 1: There has to be a lot of these cases that
31:25
Speaker 1: have just been abandoned, not paid attention to for the
31:29
Speaker 1: last four years. There's a lot on their plate when
31:32
Speaker 1: it comes to the trafficking and the abuse of children
31:34
Speaker 1: because we explicitly got information from whistleblowers saying that agents
31:38
Speaker 1: were being taken off those cases and focused on political
31:41
Speaker 1: persecution of Biden's opponents. The FBI has essentially negated the
31:48
Speaker 1: abuse of children for four years in the name of
31:50
Speaker 1: locking up Republicans. locking up J6ers as a symbol that
31:55
Speaker 1: you are not allowed to express any kind of dissent
31:58
Speaker 1: in the new world order that, of course, we got
32:01
Speaker 1: rid of in 2024. Dan also had some updates on disclosure. Now,
32:08
Speaker 1: Dan has been getting a lot of heat recently. Jim
32:10
Speaker 1: has been covering this. Jim Verity has been covering this
32:13
Speaker 1: a lot more than I have. But people are furious
32:15
Speaker 1: at him and at the entire admin and President Trump
32:18
Speaker 1: for not doing enough when it comes to disclosure. So
32:21
Speaker 1: Dan wrote this. In just a couple of months since
32:24
Speaker 1: we've sworn in, we've responded to requests for information on
32:28
Speaker 1: the attack on Representative Scalise and members of Congress, the
32:31
Speaker 1: Nashville attack, Crossfire Hurricane, the COVID cover-up, and more. We
32:35
Speaker 1: are working with the DOJ on the Epstein case, and
32:38
Speaker 1: as the AG stated, there are voluminous amounts of downloaded
32:40
Speaker 1: child sexual abuse material that we are dealing with. There
32:43
Speaker 1: are also victim statements that are entitled to specific protections.
32:47
Speaker 1: We need to do this correctly, but I do understand
32:50
Speaker 1: the public's desire to get the information out there. Now,
32:54
Speaker 1: the Epstein case has also been in the news, and
32:57
Speaker 1: I think I understand why Dan might be addressing this,
32:59
Speaker 1: because last week, Kash Patel said something that people have
33:03
Speaker 1: been pretty upset about. Take a listen.
33:06
Speaker 4: Did Jeffrey Epstein hang himself or did somebody kill him?
33:11
Speaker 5: Senator, I believe he hung himself in a cell in
33:13
Speaker 5: the Metropolitan detention center.
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Speaker 1: Um, I don't believe that personally. I don't think Jeffrey
33:18
Speaker 1: Epstein killed himself. I'm not sure if Cash truly believes
33:22
Speaker 1: that or not. But I feel like I should address
33:24
Speaker 1: the elephant in the room here because I really care
33:27
Speaker 1: about disclosure. I really do. And I've been talking about
33:30
Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein for a long time. It's a story that
33:32
Speaker 1: I have been covering for years. I've been calling for
33:35
Speaker 1: disclosure alongside members of Congress and members of the media
33:39
Speaker 1: and virtually every American across the political aisle for a
33:42
Speaker 1: long time. And that said, I want to clear up
33:46
Speaker 1: any confusion when it comes to my reporting on this
33:48
Speaker 1: issue and this show. Dan Pongino is a friend of mine,
33:52
Speaker 1: and I trust him. That's the truth. Since his departure
33:56
Speaker 1: from this company and as he's joined the FBI, we
34:00
Speaker 1: have not discussed anything related to my work at Silverlock
34:04
Speaker 1: and related to his work at the FBI. This is
34:06
Speaker 1: not something that's taken place. And so there's a clear
34:09
Speaker 1: separation line here. And so it's important to recognize, I think,
34:14
Speaker 1: as we're talking about this issue and whenever I'm talking
34:18
Speaker 1: about Jeffrey Epstein, that Dan Bongino is neither the president
34:22
Speaker 1: nor is he the director of the FBI. Disclosure is
34:26
Speaker 1: not actually in his hands. Objectively, it's not. If you
34:30
Speaker 1: want to know Dan Bongino's thoughts about Jeffrey Epstein, there
34:32
Speaker 1: is no shortage of soundbites out there.
34:34
Speaker 6: Go look.
34:35
Speaker 1: You can hear what he's had to say about it.
34:38
Speaker 1: And I'm going to continue talking about this story because
34:40
Speaker 1: it's really important to me. But I wanted to set
34:42
Speaker 1: the record straight on that. But I haven't spoken to
34:44
Speaker 1: Dan about any of this. I've been deliberately trying to
34:46
Speaker 1: keep some distance when I cover the story and not
34:49
Speaker 1: mention Dan's role at the FBI, frankly, because I don't
34:51
Speaker 1: think it's relevant because he's not in charge of disclosure.
34:54
Speaker 1: He won't make that call. But given questions that have
34:58
Speaker 1: come up, I felt that it was important to clarify
35:01
Speaker 1: where I stand here. If you think Dan has sold
35:04
Speaker 1: his soul, or something in the last few months, you're crazy.
35:09
Speaker 1: That's not happened. We can call for disclosure. And we
35:12
Speaker 1: can also keep in mind that ultimately, our guy Dan
35:14
Speaker 1: Bongino is not calling the shots. There's a process. There
35:18
Speaker 1: are other people. He's in a supportive role. And again,
35:21
Speaker 1: haven't spoken to him on this. These are just my
35:24
Speaker 1: personal thoughts that I needed to clear up with all
35:26
Speaker 1: of you listening, because there has been some confusion. I
35:29
Speaker 1: trust Dan Bongino. I'm also somebody who cares a lot
35:32
Speaker 1: about disclosure. I'm still going to be pushing for it.
35:34
Speaker 1: But I think the context of who he is as
35:36
Speaker 1: a person and who I know him to be is
35:38
Speaker 1: really important whenever we're having these conversations. All right, I
35:41
Speaker 1: want to end with Pope Leo XIV and an update
35:45
Speaker 1: from him and a signal, I think, to who he's
35:49
Speaker 1: going to be as a person. We talked about last
35:50
Speaker 1: week just how concerned people are that we're going to
35:53
Speaker 1: get a Pope Francis 2.0 with Pope Leo XIV. And
35:59
Speaker 1: he clarified recently why he selected the name Leo. which
36:04
Speaker 1: I think is really enlightening for the type of Pope
36:06
Speaker 1: he's going to be. It makes me really optimistic. If
36:09
Speaker 1: you remember from last week, on Friday, Chris Bedford gave
36:12
Speaker 1: this whole Pope Leo XIII rundown. So the Pope Leo
36:16
Speaker 1: before Pope Leo XIV, Pope Leo XIII was this avid anti-communist,
36:21
Speaker 1: but he also recognized that capitalism without Christian charity can
36:26
Speaker 1: be just as bad. And so in response to the
36:29
Speaker 1: Industrial Revolution, Pope Leo XIII introduced Catholic social teachings. So
36:36
Speaker 1: Pope Leo feels he is taking over the church during
36:39
Speaker 1: the emergence of a new human revolution, just like his
36:43
Speaker 1: previous namesake. And he said over the weekend, I chose
36:48
Speaker 1: to take the name Leo. There are different reasons for this,
36:51
Speaker 1: but mainly because Pope Leo XIII, in his historic encyclical,
36:55
Speaker 1: addressed the social question in the context of the first
36:57
Speaker 1: great industrial revolution. In our own day, the church offers
37:01
Speaker 1: to everyone the treasured the treasury of their social teaching
37:06
Speaker 1: in response to another industrial revolution and to developments in
37:09
Speaker 1: the field of artificial intelligence that pose new challenges for
37:13
Speaker 1: the defense of human dignity, justice, and labor. So he
37:18
Speaker 1: is signaling that AI represents not just a shift in
37:23
Speaker 1: labor or industry, but a fundamental challenge to human dignity itself.
37:28
Speaker 1: This is a is willing to tackle this. It is
37:34
Speaker 1: probably the biggest issue of our day, the emergence of
37:38
Speaker 1: AI and how it is going to completely fundamentally change
37:42
Speaker 1: everything about our day-to-day lives in the future. I mean,
37:45
Speaker 1: it already kind of is, but it's going to get
37:47
Speaker 1: even more dramatic. And Pope Leo, he's a young guy, 69.
37:51
Speaker 1: He is going to be presiding over the global Catholic
37:55
Speaker 1: church as we enter this new technological revolution. AI is
38:00
Speaker 1: a big deal. It threatens to erode the meaning of,
38:04
Speaker 1: he threatens to erode meaningful work, commodify human thought, manipulate truth,
38:09
Speaker 1: devalue personhood in favor of algorithmic efficiency. It's a new
38:13
Speaker 1: form of power that could strip away the essence of
38:16
Speaker 1: human creativity and moral agency. And the Pope is preparing
38:19
Speaker 1: to challenge AI. And look, AI is not just a
38:24
Speaker 1: technological revolution. It's a financial empire. Trillions of dollars flowing
38:29
Speaker 1: into AI development from Silicon Valley giants, global tech firms,
38:34
Speaker 1: state-backed initiatives in China and beyond. The stakes are staggeringly high.
38:39
Speaker 1: This is not just about innovation. It is about social control,
38:43
Speaker 1: control over data, control over truth, over the very way
38:46
Speaker 1: we perceive reality. Algorithms can dictate the flow of information,
38:49
Speaker 1: the sway of markets, and even the narratives that shape
38:52
Speaker 1: public opinion. So Pope Leo is going to need to
38:54
Speaker 1: be brave if he's going to take this on. We
38:57
Speaker 1: need brave men. Pope Leo is a guy, a guy
39:02
Speaker 1: who hopefully is being blessed with grace, but he is
39:06
Speaker 1: still human. I think some people have this misconception that
39:10
Speaker 1: the Pope is a God to Catholics. This is not
39:12
Speaker 1: true at all. He's still a regular man. Hopefully a man,
39:15
Speaker 1: like I said, who people are praying for and who
39:18
Speaker 1: is blessed by God and who is being led by
39:21
Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit, but he's still a man. And the
39:24
Speaker 1: same goes for the president of this country. imperfect like
39:28
Speaker 1: all of us, but he has been brave. For the
39:30
Speaker 1: first time in forever, we are securing the border. We
39:33
Speaker 1: are promoting manufacturing independence, tackling big pharma, ignoring the neocons.
39:38
Speaker 1: I think in this world, especially this time, courage is
39:40
Speaker 1: not optional. It is essential. And history may not look
39:44
Speaker 1: kindly on truly great men. We talked about Richard Nixon
39:47
Speaker 1: and the goals that he had and the support he
39:49
Speaker 1: had and what happened to him and his legacy today. Yesterday,
39:55
Speaker 1: I came across this photo featuring Pope Leo visiting the
39:58
Speaker 1: Valley of the Fallen in 2003. And I felt so optimistic,
40:05
Speaker 1: even more than the AI quote. I felt so optimistic
40:08
Speaker 1: seeing this photo. The Valley of the Fallen in Spain
40:11
Speaker 1: is a sacred monument honoring those who fought and died
40:15
Speaker 1: defending their faith against the communists during the Spanish Civil War.
40:20
Speaker 1: You all listening to this show probably know a thing
40:22
Speaker 1: or two about the Spanish Civil War, but most Americans don't,
40:25
Speaker 1: and if they do, it's pretty bad history. See, modern
40:28
Speaker 1: Marxists have gotten away with lying about the true history
40:30
Speaker 1: of the Spanish Civil War for decades. It's one of
40:33
Speaker 1: the very few conflicts recounted by the losers. The Spanish
40:36
Speaker 1: Catholic nationalists, however, the Spanish Civil War, were really great
40:41
Speaker 1: men and women, and yet they've been demonized. for overthrowing
40:45
Speaker 1: the communist government and reclaiming Christian civilization amid church burnings,
40:49
Speaker 1: the raping of nuns, mass executions of Catholic clergy and laypeople.
40:54
Speaker 1: They should be honored and remembered, especially by the Catholic Church,
40:58
Speaker 1: because the sides here are not vague and gray, but
41:03
Speaker 1: they've been distorted. One side declared war on Christ and
41:08
Speaker 1: his church, and that side apparently are the good guys
41:12
Speaker 1: in the view of history. They illegally seize property. They
41:15
Speaker 1: squash any ideological dissent to the point of severe persecution.
41:20
Speaker 1: So I think Pope Leo's visit to the Valley of
41:21
Speaker 1: the Fallen is perhaps a sign that the church is
41:24
Speaker 1: going to once again be proud of its anti-communist legacy
41:29
Speaker 1: and the martyrs who gave their lives during the Civil War.
41:31
Speaker 1: But even if the church forgets them and the world
41:34
Speaker 1: hates them still, What matters is what they did in
41:38
Speaker 1: their time. What matters is how they were judged while
41:41
Speaker 1: they were alive. A lot of what we say and
41:44
Speaker 1: do now could and probably will be remembered poorly. I
41:48
Speaker 1: think all the time about how it would have been
41:49
Speaker 1: really easy for me to feel ashamed of my Catholic
41:52
Speaker 1: nationalist great grandparents because of the lies spewed about the
41:55
Speaker 1: Spanish Civil War that I heard in school. I wonder,
41:58
Speaker 1: will my great granddaughter one day be really embarrassed of
42:01
Speaker 1: me because of My politics and what I said and
42:05
Speaker 1: did while I was here on earth, like living and
42:08
Speaker 1: breathing and standing for it, I think that that's a
42:10
Speaker 1: real possibility because I know how corrupted the school system is.
42:13
Speaker 1: I know how entrenched Marxists have become in education just
42:17
Speaker 1: in general. But as Christians, we're called to do what's
42:20
Speaker 1: right even if the world despises us for it, even
42:23
Speaker 1: when history is twisted by those in power to make
42:26
Speaker 1: us feel ashamed. I think when the systems of power
42:31
Speaker 1: are out to get you, your great grandchildren probably will
42:37
Speaker 1: cringe at your legacy and that kind of sucks, but
42:39
Speaker 1: you gotta live like none of that matters and be brave.
42:44
Speaker 1: That I think is the lesson that we've seen repeatedly
42:48
Speaker 1: throughout human history. It doesn't really matter how you're remembered,
42:52
Speaker 1: but more what you actually did while you were alive.
42:55
Speaker 1: And I look back at Richard Nixon, I think, okay,
42:57
Speaker 1: it's really important that we correct the record on these
42:59
Speaker 1: issues and the way that his legacy has been distorted
43:02
Speaker 1: in American history. And we also have to do that
43:05
Speaker 1: in real time. We also have to correct the record
43:07
Speaker 1: in real time, like I just did today on all
43:09
Speaker 1: these issues that President Trump is being demonized for in
43:12
Speaker 1: the media, for going against systems of power that have
43:15
Speaker 1: an interest in spewing out lies and distorting public opinion.
43:21
Speaker 1: We have to stay committed to the truth. And that's
43:24
Speaker 1: all I have for you guys today. Thank you so
43:25
Speaker 1: much for tuning in, for being here with me today.
43:28
Speaker 1: Michael said that the Countdown And the stream might have
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Speaker 1: some issues today. If you had any problems with the
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Speaker 4: I'm your host, Megan Klingenberg, and I am super stoked
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Speaker 4: to be joined by Daryl Dike.
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Speaker 1: Arguably, your most impressive quality cannot be measured. You're a
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Speaker 1: guy who is the definition of grit.
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Speaker 4: Injuries have ended plenty of careers, but instead you decided
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Speaker 4: yours would only be a chapter instead of the ending.
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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show, Daryl.
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Speaker 5: Thank you so much. That's a good intro right there.
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Speaker 5: That's good.
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