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USS Gerald Ford arrives in the Middle East · The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated

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Speaker 2: I'm going to jump right into it.
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Speaker 3: I'm going to jump right into it with one of
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Speaker 3: the best people in the Senate, Senator Jim Banks from
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Speaker 3: the great state of Indiana. Welcome to thee and show.
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Speaker 4: Hey, good to be with you, Kurt, Thanks for having
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Speaker 4: me back.
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Speaker 3: Well, let's get right to it. What the hell is
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Speaker 3: wrong with your state? Why do you have any Democrat representatives?
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Speaker 3: I know you fought against it, but what the hell
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Speaker 3: were they thinking.
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Speaker 4: Well, we're just about eight or nine weeks away from
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Speaker 4: the Republican primary in May, and we have more primaries
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Speaker 4: of state legislators.
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Speaker 5: Than I've ever seen before.
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Speaker 4: You all these state senators that voted against redistricting in
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Speaker 4: our state all have tough primary opponents that are endorsed
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Speaker 4: by President Trump and a lot of funding behind them
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Speaker 4: to help get better leadership.
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Speaker 5: In our state.
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Speaker 4: Senate at the State House pass the redistricting. The governor
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Speaker 4: was for it, I was for it. President Trump obviously
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Speaker 4: was pushing for it. But it was a small handful
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Speaker 4: of establishment Republicans in the State Senate who were against it.
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Speaker 3: Well maybe you guys don't know out there in radio land.
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Speaker 3: But because he's a workhorse and not a show horse,
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Speaker 3: Jim Banks has been fighting this battle for a long time.
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Speaker 3: I know that personally. And he's fighting another battle now,
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Speaker 3: one that Donald Trump brought up the other day at
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Speaker 3: the State of the Union, the battle to undo the
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Speaker 3: damage states like my beloved California have caused by giving,
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Speaker 3: if you can imagine it, licenses to drive big rigs
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Speaker 3: to illegal aliens. How are you working to stop that,
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Speaker 3: Senator Banks, Well, it's really easy.
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Speaker 4: You pass a law that bans CDLs for illegal immigrants
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Speaker 4: and take away the current existing CDLs. The states like California,
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Speaker 4: New York, and Pennsylvania with Democratic governors have given out
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Speaker 4: like candy to illegal immigrants. It keeps happening. In Indiana.
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Speaker 4: Last week we had sixty four year old Terry Schultz
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Speaker 4: who was killed by an illegal from from from India
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Speaker 4: who rammed into him and killed him. Two weeks ago,
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Speaker 4: we had four Amish men in Jay County, which is
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Speaker 4: a very rural area close to where I live, who
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Speaker 4: were killed by an illegal from Kyrgyzstan. We had, in fact,
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Speaker 4: a National Guard soldier back in September who was killed
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Speaker 4: by an illegal from the country of Georgia who was
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Speaker 4: given a CDL from the state of New York and
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Speaker 4: got behind the wheel of a semi semi truck with
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Speaker 4: a trailer and swerved and in that case, I don't
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Speaker 4: know what, I don't know what. He was driving a
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Speaker 4: large a large truck and swerved and sideswiped the hum
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Speaker 4: V and went off the side of the road. He
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Speaker 4: was he was a training exercise for these National Guard soldiers.
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Speaker 4: And these illegals never should be behind the wheel to
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Speaker 4: begin with, but they go to fake truck driving schools
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Speaker 4: in states like Pennsylvania. Then they get CDL licenses from
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Speaker 4: Democrat states. So the Delilah law. Delilah was a beautiful
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Speaker 4: seven year old girl who was in the gallery for
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Speaker 4: the State of the Union on Tuesday night, President Trump
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Speaker 4: acknowledged her and her father. When she was five years old,
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Speaker 4: she was hit in the state of California and seriously injured.
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Speaker 4: I mean she's still seriously hurt today, but an incredible
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Speaker 4: recovery over the last couple of years. And we're going
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Speaker 4: to call this the Delilah Law. President Trump called on
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Speaker 4: us to pass it. I immediately introduced it because Indiana
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Speaker 4: is the crossroads of America. We have the fifth highest
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Speaker 4: amount of freight that travels through our state on our highways,
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Speaker 4: and this keeps happening. I mean, almost every week, another
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Speaker 4: accident with an illegal behind the wheel. It's a national crisis.
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Speaker 4: We have to do something about it. I'm serious about it,
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Speaker 4: and that's why I introduced the bill yesterday.
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Speaker 2: Well, well, Center Banks. It's one of those things where
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Speaker 2: you hear it and a normal person's like, wait, isn't
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Speaker 2: that already illegal? How do you How do the.
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Speaker 3: People across the aisle in the Senate explain the necessity
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Speaker 3: in their view of keeping people who shouldn't be in
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Speaker 3: the country in the first place behind the wheel of
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Speaker 3: trucks that could weigh up to a maximum of eighty
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Speaker 3: thousand pounds.
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Speaker 2: It's insane to me.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, CURTYE would expose them and everything that they've done.
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Speaker 4: And they believe if they if they came out and
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Speaker 4: acknowledged that this is national crisis and a threat to
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Speaker 4: the safety of families on the road.
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Speaker 2: It's their fault.
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Speaker 4: They flooded the country with tens of millions of illegals
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Speaker 4: during the Biden years, a wide open border, and then
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Speaker 4: you have governors like Avenussom, who who thinks it's completely
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Speaker 4: okay to give a driver's license to these illegals. And
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Speaker 4: even though they can't read English, even though they can't
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Speaker 4: they don't know the customs from experience of driving on
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Speaker 4: our roads. Again, they go to fake truck driving schools
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Speaker 4: that are scams. They take in states like California, they
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Speaker 4: offer this the truck driver's licensed tests and over a
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Speaker 4: dozen different languages. And you should, you should, you should
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Speaker 4: only when you take that test. It should be conducted
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Speaker 4: in English already. But California completely caters to the illegal population.
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Speaker 4: So I think back to Tuesday night and the speech,
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Speaker 4: the great speech the President gave. It was truly the
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Speaker 4: greatest State of the Union speech I've ever heard, and
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Speaker 4: he totally exposed the Democrats, and that one moment, that
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Speaker 4: one moment that will live on forever, when he said,
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Speaker 4: stand with me if you believe that it is the
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Speaker 4: duty of the American government to put our own people
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Speaker 4: first over the interest of illegals. Gavin Newsom and Josh
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Speaker 4: Shapiro and the other Blue state governors that are giving
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Speaker 4: out these drivers licenses and truck driver licenses to illegals
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Speaker 4: are obviously putting illegals interest over the safety of the
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Speaker 4: American people. I hear from so many families in Indiana
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Speaker 4: who are afraid to get in the minivan and go
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Speaker 4: out and take their young families on the road. Because
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Speaker 4: this is happening so often. We've got to put a
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Speaker 4: stop to it.
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Speaker 3: Well, Senator Banks, of course you were in the chamber.
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Speaker 3: You watch Trump's masterful speech, and I you know, as
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Speaker 3: a retired former trial lawyer, I just looked at it.
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Speaker 3: I was like, this guy's got it. This guy, this
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Speaker 3: guy knows how to talk to an audience. And the
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Speaker 3: audience was of course out in America. But you were,
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Speaker 3: you were in the room, and you've been up on
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Speaker 3: Capitol heill. How are the Republicans feeling about how the
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Speaker 3: speech went and how it'll play towards the midterms, and
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Speaker 3: how are the Democrats feeling? Well, I mean, as far
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Speaker 3: as Republicans go, there's so much to be optimistic about.
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Speaker 3: I mean, the economic numbers in Indiana. Early tax returns
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Speaker 3: for hoosiers is ten point nine percent more than it
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Speaker 3: was a year ago. Because of the historic tax cuts
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Speaker 3: we're working families that we passed a year ago. No
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Speaker 3: taxes on tips, no taxes on overtime. It's a big
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Speaker 3: deal for hoosiers. They're they're they're immediately they're already feeling
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Speaker 3: the benefit from it. I mean, I think, Kurt, what
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Speaker 3: what I noticed? I watch the Democrats mean, it's it's entertaining,
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Speaker 3: It's it's good, uh entertainment when you're when you're on
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Speaker 3: the floor and you're listening to President Trump give a
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Speaker 3: great speech like that, and they just sit there. They
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Speaker 3: they truly do not know how to react when when
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Speaker 3: Fetterman gets up and starts clapping, they all kind of
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Speaker 3: look at each other and they think to themselves, Fetterman.
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Speaker 3: They think, Fetterman's clapping, you know, what should we do?
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Speaker 3: Should we clap? And then they look over at at
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Speaker 3: h at Pelosi and the true leaders of their party
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Speaker 3: who are wagging their fingertelling them not to not to
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Speaker 3: show any support for President Trump.
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Speaker 4: They they are their own worst enemy. Again, they're they're not.
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Speaker 4: This is not my grandpa's Democrat Party. This is a
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Speaker 4: crazy Democrat party that that that truly does, truly does
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Speaker 4: believe it's okay to put the interest of illegals over Americans.
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Speaker 4: That President Trump exposed them for it.
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Speaker 3: Well, look, you you were there, Aaron. Of course, you're
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Speaker 3: a proud veteran in the United States Navy. So when
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Speaker 3: the fighter pilot Navy captain received his Medal of Honor,
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Speaker 3: you had to be sitting tall. But of course I'm
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Speaker 3: army and uh, Chief Warrant Officer five Slover. Holy cow,
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Speaker 3: what about that guy, Senator Banks?
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Speaker 4: What a real American hero? Yeah, a real American hero.
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Speaker 4: And and this is I just gave a speech on
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Speaker 4: the on the floor of the Senate before we close
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Speaker 4: the Senate for the weekend, and I talked about this.
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Speaker 4: I mean that President Trump talked about what makes America
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Speaker 4: great and the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of our country.
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Speaker 2: There's so much to be proud of.
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Speaker 4: His State of the Union speech didn't just talk about
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Speaker 4: how our union, our State of the Union is strong,
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Speaker 4: but he talked about American greatness, of what we're proud
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Speaker 4: of and the Democrats. The Democrats just sat on their hands.
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Speaker 4: They would they want to they want to get up
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Speaker 4: in cheer for America and that that's that's what the
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Speaker 4: that's who the modern Democrat Party is. They they would
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Speaker 4: they would rather sit on their hands while the rest
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Speaker 4: of us are cheering for what makes this country great.
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Speaker 4: And I'm so glad that Dald Trump is the president
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Speaker 4: for the two our fiftieth anniversary of this great country
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Speaker 4: because it makes us. He made us very proud on
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Speaker 4: Tuesday night. Thank you, Senator Jim Banks from Indiana. I'm
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Speaker 4: Kurt Schleickter, guest hosting for Hugh Hewitt. Stick around. We
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Speaker 4: got a lot more to come.
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Speaker 3: It's a real pleasure to be able to welcome Andrew
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Speaker 3: Colvett from TPUSA. Andrew, thanks for coming on the Hugh
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Speaker 3: Hewitt Show. The audience is, the audience is with you,
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Speaker 3: guys in the wake of that horrible murder. How is
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Speaker 3: TPUSA doing in general in the wake nearly six months later?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, thanks for having me on, Kurt.
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Speaker 7: I'm a huge fan of yours and all of your
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Speaker 7: various capacities, all the hats you wear. Wow, when you
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Speaker 7: listen all like that, it's it's pretty impressive. I will say, Kurt, listen,
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Speaker 7: you know, I don't know how you ever get over
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Speaker 7: something like losing Charlie the way we did. I don't
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Speaker 7: think you get over it. I think you just have
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Speaker 7: to sort of say, I'm never going to get over that,
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Speaker 7: and you got to have to move on knowing that
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Speaker 7: that's kind of what I've determined it at least. And
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Speaker 7: you know, the grief hits you as it hits you,
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Speaker 7: and it does come in ways. I still have days, Kurt,
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Speaker 7: where I wake up and I legitimately can't believe that
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Speaker 7: he's gone, and I have to pinch myself because it
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Speaker 7: still feels very, very.
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Speaker 6: Recent, real.
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Speaker 7: And so I think the whole team is kind of
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Speaker 7: feeling that way from time to time. But in the
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Speaker 7: midst of that, we understand that we have a job
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Speaker 7: to do and we have a mission that Charlie left
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Speaker 7: us with, and he was very very clear in life
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Speaker 7: that Turning Point was going to be an institution that
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Speaker 7: stood the.
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Speaker 6: Test of time.
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Speaker 7: He took measures to do so and to make sure
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Speaker 7: that it was going to outlive him. Obviously, we thought
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Speaker 7: we were going to have fifty to sixty more years
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Speaker 7: with Charlie, but God has a plan and we don't
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Speaker 7: always have to understand it, we don't have to like it,
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Speaker 7: but we just have to say yes to when we're called.
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Speaker 7: And I would just say the whole team has rallied
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Speaker 7: such incredible ways, the amount of work output that this team.
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Speaker 6: Has been capable of.
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Speaker 7: I mean, we have the most ambitious Spring Campus tour
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Speaker 7: in our history.
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Speaker 6: We have the most ambitious tour in general.
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Speaker 7: We've got tours going on with pick Up the Mic tours,
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Speaker 7: we've got Make Kevin crowded tours, and we've got you know,
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Speaker 7: we did the halftime show, which probably we actually I
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Speaker 7: think I'm about ready to publish an official number from
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Speaker 7: a media partner, some of some sometimes these numbers take
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Speaker 7: forever to come in, but got over fifty million eyeballs
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Speaker 7: on the halftime show. And you know, we're still doing
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Speaker 7: the Charlie Kirk Show and trying to honor Charlie there
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Speaker 7: and so much more so. The work continues, the mission continues,
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Speaker 7: and that's not even mentioning everything that we're doing on
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Speaker 7: the action side. We're trying to build the Red Wall,
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Speaker 7: which was a mission Charlie had committed to before he
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Speaker 7: was assassinated and that's you know, we're staffing up. We
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Speaker 7: have over four hundred job openings right now in New Hampshire, Nevada,
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Speaker 7: and Arizona. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
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Speaker 7: So you know, our we're never going to like the
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Speaker 7: reality that we have to do any of this without Charlie,
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Speaker 7: but it is a sacred duty to continue on the
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Speaker 7: mission that he left us to do, so thank you
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Speaker 7: for asking.
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Speaker 3: Well, one thing our audience is very concerned about is
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Speaker 3: Erica and the family, especially in the wake of these gutless, disgusting,
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Speaker 3: despicable attacks by people who should damn well know better.
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Speaker 3: I'm going to keep it FCC compliant, folks, but I
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Speaker 3: gotta tell you, I see this stuff out there and
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Speaker 3: it makes me mad. It makes the audience mad. How
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Speaker 3: is Erica and the family holding up?
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Speaker 6: Yeah?
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Speaker 7: Well, And I love your passion, Kurt, and trust me,
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Speaker 7: you may not see it in public, but I share
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Speaker 7: it privately, and I appreciate what you said. Erica is
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Speaker 7: an amazing, amazing person. She just really is. You know,
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Speaker 7: Charlie on multiple occasions told me privately, said it publicly
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Speaker 7: multiple times in my hearing that you know, if anything
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Speaker 7: happens to me Erica's taken over and something she obviously
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Speaker 7: didn't ask for. You know, she didn't ask to have
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Speaker 7: to be a single mom and raise her kids.
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Speaker 6: She didn't ask to.
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Speaker 7: Be thrust into the spotlight like this and to run
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Speaker 7: an organization of this size and magnitude of importance to
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Speaker 7: you know, so many things that she's just been asked
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Speaker 7: to do, to you know, make sure his book, his
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Speaker 7: last book, was a success, and that enough people, as
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Speaker 7: many people as possible could read it. She's she's tried
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Speaker 7: to honor Charlie as best she can, and she's done
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Speaker 7: an amazing job.
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Speaker 6: And I will just tell you under her leadership.
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Speaker 7: I mean, if you think about what turning point was
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Speaker 7: with Charlie, it was, you know, a lot of the
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Speaker 7: day to day he wasn't, you know, involved in directly
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Speaker 7: all the time, right, he just couldn't be because he
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Speaker 7: was traveling and he was speaking, and he was doing podcasts,
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Speaker 7: and so he set it up in such a way
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Speaker 7: where there's lieutenants kind of running the different pieces of
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Speaker 7: the organization, but he was the spiritual center. He was
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Speaker 7: the heartbeat, the messaging, drumbeat of what happened, and.
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Speaker 6: He he loved it.
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Speaker 7: And he was so good at it, and so Erica
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Speaker 7: that she's just so well positioned and she's so naturally
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Speaker 7: gifted at being that same thing to the to the team,
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Speaker 7: and it's like when she walks into the room and
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Speaker 7: she gives the marching orders, I will tell you every
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Speaker 7: every eye is fixed and everybody's ready to go run
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Speaker 7: through a brick wall. She has done an amazing job,
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Speaker 7: and I wish people could see that behind the scenes,
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Speaker 7: and she's you know, tackling all that and being a
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Speaker 7: mom and being her own grieving process. She's just truly remarkable.
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Speaker 7: It really really is a remarkable thing to watch.
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Speaker 1: Well.
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Speaker 3: One of the last communications I had with Charlie was
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Speaker 3: I was trying to get him on a show that
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Speaker 3: I was guest hosting because he had he was one
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Speaker 3: of the people who had really raised my consciousness about
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Speaker 3: young Americans and how it's very look, I'm a gen
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Speaker 3: X guy. I was actually born the last week of
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Speaker 3: the baby boom. I'm set, I'm done, but there the
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Speaker 3: young people today are facing challenges that guys like me
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Speaker 3: can't image. And it was Charlie who said, hey, way
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Speaker 3: a minute, you older guys, you need to listen and
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Speaker 3: hear we had a State of the Union message this week.
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Speaker 3: As someone in touch with younger Americans, you've got conservatives
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Speaker 3: who are coming up. Did that speak to them? And
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Speaker 3: what more can be done to make sure that we're
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Speaker 3: taking care of the next generation.
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Speaker 6: Yeah?
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Speaker 7: I give the President really high marks on that speech.
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Speaker 7: I was actually in the gallery and there were a
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Speaker 7: couple of things I really really wanted to hear him
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Speaker 7: talk about, and that was affordability, the housing crisis, blocking
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Speaker 7: institutional investors, foreign investors from buying up single family homes.
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Speaker 7: He hit that, and he hit the banning stock trading
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Speaker 7: thing really hard.
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Speaker 6: I think that was key.
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Speaker 7: There was a Fabrizio poll that was going around and
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Speaker 7: the week before the speech, and we have to understand
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Speaker 7: Trump doesn't get enough credit for closing the border. That's
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Speaker 7: an existential threat to the country. He did it overnight,
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Speaker 7: but the polling says that people it's not getting through anymore.
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Speaker 6: Okay, So what needs to be messaged and it's these.
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Speaker 7: Populist conservative wins, these totem poles that we can hang
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Speaker 7: a hat on that Normy Americans that aren't clued into
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Speaker 7: the u Hewitt Show or the Charlie Kirk Show can
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Speaker 7: understand in a single sentence.
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Speaker 6: Right.
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Speaker 7: This is why no tax on tips, no tax on overtime,
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Speaker 7: no tax on Social Security, or powerful messaging items because
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Speaker 7: they cut through the noise. I don't even necessarily think
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Speaker 7: those are the most important things to saving America, but
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Speaker 7: they work.
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Speaker 6: They work as.
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Speaker 7: Messaging items because normal people understand them, and they understand
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Speaker 7: them instantly. That's why banning stock trading for Congress, massive
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Speaker 7: hitting big insurance companies, getting the money right to people
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Speaker 7: to make healthcare more affordable. Those things work. They cut
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Speaker 7: through the noise, and he hit that really hard. I
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Speaker 7: think ultimately it's going to come down to two things.
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Speaker 7: The economy in Epstein with young people. I know that's crazy,
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Speaker 7: but I hit it today on the show. You know,
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Speaker 7: the NPR came out with this big blockbuster. They get
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Speaker 7: so called that Trump is, you know, was leaving documents
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Speaker 7: out of the Epstein files.
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Speaker 6: That's not true.
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Speaker 7: So the but TikTok doesn't know that, and you know
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Speaker 7: Instagram doesn't know that. So we have to message harder
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Speaker 7: on the fact that Trump was the first, you know,
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Speaker 7: one of the first prominent people to communicate with the FBI.
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Speaker 7: He has been vindicated at every turn. If the Democrats
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Speaker 7: had something, don't you think they would have dropped it.
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Speaker 6: There's so many different things.
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Speaker 7: But you know, the big NPR dump was or bombshell,
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Speaker 7: was that they were withholding documents.
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Speaker 6: That turns out it's not true.
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Speaker 7: The DOJ has been taking documents out of the files
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Speaker 7: and replacing them when they get complaints that personally identifiable
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Speaker 7: victim information has been included in the document dump, So
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Speaker 7: they take it out and then they put it back.
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Speaker 6: They take it out and they put it back.
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Speaker 7: There's thousands and thousands of documents that have been flagged
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Speaker 7: by council or by victims themselves, So they take those concerns,
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Speaker 7: they fix them, and they put them back out. So
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Speaker 7: the whole thing was a hit job, a drive by
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Speaker 7: on the day of the State of the Union. But
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Speaker 7: I will tell you what, you kids are not getting
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Speaker 7: that message. They're still convinced that, you know, a child
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Speaker 7: eating pedophile Cabala is running Washington and Trump is implicated
18:07
Speaker 7: in that, and so we have to message about it,
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Speaker 7: even though you know he's been vindicated at every turn.
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Speaker 3: Well, thank you Andrew Clovid of TPUSA. Keep doing that
18:15
Speaker 3: good work. Us older guys, we need to back up
18:18
Speaker 3: these young folks. It's their time. I'm Kurt Schlichter. This
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Speaker 3: is the Hugh Hewitt Show. Got back on Hugh Hewitt Show.
18:34
Speaker 3: I'm guess Ho's Kurt Schlickter. That's the damned with Smash
18:37
Speaker 3: it Up. Kind of my motto. If I had a
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Speaker 3: tramp stamp, that's probably what would be etched on my cocksix. Well,
18:44
Speaker 3: I am a bomb thrower. I've been hardcore all my
18:49
Speaker 3: conservative career, which is about forty years. But it's important
18:52
Speaker 3: that we talked to our normy KHN friends. We talked
18:55
Speaker 3: to Mary Catherine Ham the other day. She's about as
18:58
Speaker 3: normal as they get. And her partner Vic Mattis, who's
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Speaker 3: the free Beacond Weekend culture editor and who joins Mary
19:05
Speaker 3: Catherine Ham on the Getting Hammered podcast which I listen to,
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Speaker 3: is joining us.
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Speaker 2: Now, Hi, Beck, how you doing?
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Speaker 5: I'm doing great, Kurt? How are you?
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Speaker 2: I'm doing fine?
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Speaker 3: I you know, I said, had the same conversation with
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Speaker 3: Mary Catherine. I see you around at events, but I
19:21
Speaker 3: don't think we've ever hung out and done shots or anything.
19:26
Speaker 8: You know, our paths somehow have never crossed. You're doing
19:30
Speaker 8: more important things and I'm pretty much stuck behind a
19:32
Speaker 8: desk or at the bar, one or the other.
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Speaker 5: But we'll have to amend that.
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Speaker 3: I'm literally doing nothing of importance. But I appreciate that.
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Speaker 6: Vic.
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Speaker 2: Like I said, you are a Norman Ka.
19:45
Speaker 3: You take pride in not being well crazy of looking
19:50
Speaker 3: at things like like like a.
19:52
Speaker 2: Regular person would.
19:55
Speaker 3: I'm comfortable in the role of, you know, super hyperbolic advocate.
20:00
Speaker 3: But you guys, you guys see things like regular folks.
20:06
Speaker 3: How did you see the State of the Union and
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Speaker 3: the concurrent fake and real scandals and uproars surrounding it.
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Speaker 8: Well, I tell you, Kurt, it was really interesting. There
20:18
Speaker 8: was a lot of hype going into the State of
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Speaker 8: the Union. There was a lot of trepidation that this
20:23
Speaker 8: thing was going to go into three hours, and once
20:26
Speaker 8: you sort of mentally prepare for that possibility, when Trump
20:29
Speaker 8: starts talking in the grand sweeping terms, even my eighteen
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Speaker 8: year old son.
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Speaker 5: Said he's wrapping it up. He said, this is it.
20:36
Speaker 5: It's over. I said, what you're kidding me?
20:37
Speaker 8: And he was right about that, because that's usually how
20:40
Speaker 8: he ends these things. He gets right back to the teleprompter.
20:43
Speaker 8: All things considered, I thought Trump was very disciplined. There
20:47
Speaker 8: was a lot of taunting. It was like, you know,
20:49
Speaker 8: questions for the Prime Minister in Parliament. You could hear
20:52
Speaker 8: them in the chamber, and he didn't take that bait
20:56
Speaker 8: other than to say these people are nuts. And I
20:58
Speaker 8: think there were a lot of people why watching the
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Speaker 8: State of the Union who felt the same way. If
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Speaker 8: you can't stand up for whether it be the hockey
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Speaker 8: team or these terrible, terrible victims of these awful crimes,
21:09
Speaker 8: or the people who are receiving medals of honor, then
21:13
Speaker 8: there's probably something wrong with you. And guess what they're
21:16
Speaker 8: going to use you in a clip come November. So
21:20
Speaker 8: I think by and large, the President did very well.
21:23
Speaker 8: The economy is doing great. I just saw that mortgage
21:28
Speaker 8: rates are down below six percent now for the first
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Speaker 8: time in a very long time.
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Speaker 5: So things are going in the right direction.
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Speaker 8: And again I think the polling indicates that a lot
21:36
Speaker 8: of Americans who watched the State of Union liked what
21:39
Speaker 8: they saw.
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Speaker 3: Well, we just had Trafalgar poll come out today. It
21:43
Speaker 3: has Trump at fifty point eight percent approval versus forty
21:48
Speaker 3: seven point six disapproval. Now it's Strafalger, it's Republican leaning,
21:52
Speaker 3: and other polls go in different directions. But I saw
21:55
Speaker 3: that speech and I didn't know how Trump was going
21:57
Speaker 3: to do. I was hoping to see discipline and showman Trump,
22:02
Speaker 3: which we saw as opposed to walk out, grab his
22:04
Speaker 3: groin and you know, I got your state of the
22:06
Speaker 3: Union right here. Uh, growing Trump, and I think he's
22:13
Speaker 3: I think he's fixing it. As as Dwayne says, normal
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Speaker 3: Trump versus abnormal Democrats for the nationalized midterm race.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, as crazy as that sounds, I think that's how
22:28
Speaker 8: it's shaping up.
22:29
Speaker 5: You and Duayne are right about that.
22:30
Speaker 8: I mean, every time they flash to the Democrats seated there,
22:33
Speaker 8: you see people like elan Omar, you know, yelling out
22:37
Speaker 8: and in tears and hysterical, and of course her partner
22:41
Speaker 8: in crime, Rashida Tulaib with the unspeakable kin on her lapel.
22:46
Speaker 8: And those are the choices that you can make. You're
22:48
Speaker 8: either with them where you're with the other side. And
22:50
Speaker 8: I already saw a clip from the Republican saying that
22:52
Speaker 8: they represent you know you and these other people are
22:55
Speaker 8: insane essentially, So I think that's good. But I think
22:59
Speaker 8: a lot of Americans are beginning to see the differences now,
23:02
Speaker 8: I mean Trump has been going out, Jade Vance is
23:04
Speaker 8: going out across the country on this economy tour, and
23:08
Speaker 8: people are beginning to realize that, yeah, you know what,
23:10
Speaker 8: prices are beginning to go down. Obviously gas is already there,
23:14
Speaker 8: but in other areas as well. And again Trump at
23:18
Speaker 8: the speech, he pretty much stuck to the script. There
23:23
Speaker 8: are a few moments he gets overly dramatic. I mean,
23:25
Speaker 8: he really loves to ham it up.
23:26
Speaker 5: Right before the.
23:27
Speaker 8: US Ben's hockey team descended those stairs, he becomes almost
23:31
Speaker 8: a parody of himself.
23:32
Speaker 5: But you're like, okay, what's going on?
23:34
Speaker 8: And it turns it kind of into the show, like
23:37
Speaker 8: I mentioned on the podcast, like this is your life.
23:40
Speaker 5: You don't know who's walking out that door. It's going
23:43
Speaker 5: to be the girl's father, the Venezuelan politician.
23:46
Speaker 8: You don't know who's coming out, And it turns it
23:48
Speaker 8: strangely into this must see TV.
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Speaker 5: But he's obviously very adept at that.
23:52
Speaker 3: Well, look, I'm very old. I don't know if you're
23:55
Speaker 3: as quite as old as me, but I remember Ronald Reagan.
23:58
Speaker 3: I remember nineteen eighty and the big really starting with
24:01
Speaker 3: the American Miracle on ice A, giant hockey victory. We're
24:06
Speaker 3: coming out of a terrible economy from a one term
24:09
Speaker 3: incompetent Democrat. And you know, back then we had Ronald Reagan,
24:14
Speaker 3: who famously sunny disposition. This is sunny Trump, this is
24:19
Speaker 3: orange man glad. This is a positive message versus you know,
24:26
Speaker 3: the whole mass of gripes, complaints and snits of the left.
24:33
Speaker 3: And I think he's just going to run him over
24:35
Speaker 3: like a steamroller.
24:38
Speaker 5: Yeah.
24:39
Speaker 8: I mean, obviously, traditionally, historically speaking, the odds are against
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Speaker 8: him and the power you know, whoever's in the White
24:45
Speaker 8: House when it comes to the midterm. So it's going
24:48
Speaker 8: to be quite a feat if they can somehow hold
24:50
Speaker 8: on to the House. I think they have obviously a
24:53
Speaker 8: better chance at the Senate. But he's certainly in the
24:57
Speaker 8: right going down the right path right now by being
24:59
Speaker 8: more of this positive Trump unless you know, the fewer
25:03
Speaker 8: tweets about what happens to Rob Reiner and his wife,
25:06
Speaker 8: the better that sort of a thing and get out
25:08
Speaker 8: there and you know, deliver results and people want a
25:13
Speaker 8: reason to vote for I think him and Republicans and
25:16
Speaker 8: you just have to give that to them. I mean,
25:18
Speaker 8: it's right there in front of you. So and again,
25:23
Speaker 8: I think most of the majority of Americans are with him.
25:25
Speaker 8: They don't think that there was something sinister going on
25:29
Speaker 8: when he said what he mentioned the women's hockey team
25:32
Speaker 8: in the locker room on the phone. Jimmy Carter was
25:35
Speaker 8: on the phone with the team in nineteen eighty I
25:37
Speaker 8: know you know that, and Walter Mondale was there too.
25:39
Speaker 5: So, I mean there's obviously president for that.
25:42
Speaker 8: And the idea that you might have a problem chanting USA, well,
25:46
Speaker 8: I think that's.
25:47
Speaker 5: More your problem and not our problem.
25:49
Speaker 9: Yeah.
25:49
Speaker 3: I think it's especially in the two hundred and fiftieth
25:53
Speaker 3: anniversary of the United States of America, you know, having
25:59
Speaker 3: as a key playing in your platform, this is a
26:01
Speaker 3: country built on genocide and occupying stolen land. Probably not
26:07
Speaker 3: a winning message outside of a faculty lounge somewhere.
26:12
Speaker 8: Yeah, no, nobody gets that, let alone the Land acknowledgments
26:15
Speaker 8: before any of these sort of lefty meetings. I often
26:18
Speaker 8: joke around with Mary Catherine when we would tape here
26:21
Speaker 8: in the studio in the Home of the Free Beacon,
26:23
Speaker 8: I said, Land acknowledgment, This whole office was once USA today.
26:30
Speaker 3: Well, Vic, do you think there's any chance and we
26:34
Speaker 3: only got about fifteen seconds left.
26:36
Speaker 2: Any chance at all, Trump.
26:38
Speaker 3: Who's a second non consecutive term president for the first
26:41
Speaker 3: time in one hundred and so years, might actually be
26:44
Speaker 3: able to pull off a net gain in the House
26:48
Speaker 3: of Representatives.
26:51
Speaker 5: It's possible. It's a lot's going to depend on what
26:53
Speaker 5: happened in the next couple of weeks.
26:55
Speaker 8: In foreign policy, the biggest challenge of his life is
26:57
Speaker 8: coming up.
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Speaker 3: Well, let's take those all us out of the picture
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Speaker 3: and settle that. Another thank you to Jimmy Carter.
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Speaker 2: Hugh.
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Speaker 3: I'm Kurt schliter. This is the Hugh Hewittt Show stick Around.
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Speaker 2: I'm Kurt schlicker back guest hosting for the great Hugh Qwitt.
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Speaker 3: I'm joined now by my great friend and fellow Pennsylvanian. Well,
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Speaker 3: I'm Pennsylvanian roots Selena Zito from The Washington Examiner and
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Speaker 3: the author of Butler. Hi, Selena, let me, let me
27:29
Speaker 3: set the stage. I played journey fun song. Great, it's
27:34
Speaker 3: from another time, a time when we had a hockey
27:37
Speaker 3: team come to a gold medal victory, when we had
27:39
Speaker 3: a president with a sunny disposition come in clean up
27:42
Speaker 3: after a failed one term president and start cutting taxes,
27:46
Speaker 3: getting the economy move and making America strong again? Question,
27:50
Speaker 3: are we in the new eighties?
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Speaker 10: And we could be in the new eighties?
27:56
Speaker 11: Nineteen eighty was that November was the year that Ronald
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Speaker 11: Reagan won, and it's set off eight years of growth
28:04
Speaker 11: and optimism that we have largely missed.
28:09
Speaker 10: Beginning at the.
28:10
Speaker 11: End of Gerald Ford's presidency and through alt Jimmy Carter's presidency.
28:16
Speaker 10: He called he called the American public in the.
28:21
Speaker 11: State of malaise, right like, talk about setting the tone
28:26
Speaker 11: for the country, not like.
28:29
Speaker 10: I'm going to take you to a better place.
28:32
Speaker 8: Now.
28:33
Speaker 10: You guys are malaized, and there we are. We're no
28:37
Speaker 10: wondering lost.
28:39
Speaker 3: Well, Selena, you've got your finger on the pulse of
28:41
Speaker 3: normal Americans. I certainly don't. I live in Los Angeles,
28:45
Speaker 3: but I see Trump go out there. He's Orange man, glad,
28:50
Speaker 3: he's sonny, he's positive.
28:52
Speaker 2: He's looking at the Democrats.
28:54
Speaker 3: He's not calling him names except crazy, because there's stuff
28:57
Speaker 3: is crazy.
28:58
Speaker 2: And their whole, their entire argument is Donald.
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Speaker 3: Trump is bad, and by extension, everybody who supports Donald
29:05
Speaker 3: Trump is bad. I think it's a losing proposition. I'm
29:09
Speaker 3: starting to think we may actually not lose the midterms.
29:13
Speaker 3: I think we may gain seats. What do you think,
29:18
Speaker 3: you know, it's quite possible.
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Speaker 11: I have always said since the beginning of heading into
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Speaker 11: this midterm election that the only thing that is going
29:28
Speaker 11: to keep the Democrats from winning seats, whether it's one
29:31
Speaker 11: or forty, is themselves. And if this jump start from
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Speaker 11: the beginning of the years, any indication that they have
29:40
Speaker 11: not learned anything from twenty twenty four, they just might
29:46
Speaker 11: not win the midterms and we might have a reversal
29:50
Speaker 11: of fortune in terms. I mean, I think the last
29:53
Speaker 11: time sitting party in power won seats and was two
29:58
Speaker 11: thousand and two.
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Speaker 10: And that had a lot to do with the aftermath
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Speaker 10: of nine to eleven. And the Democrats have just it
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Speaker 10: is stunning to me that.
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Speaker 11: They don't understand how disjointed they are from the American public,
30:17
Speaker 11: even with from people within their own party. They don't
30:21
Speaker 11: understand what this thing is about. Let's just put aside politics.
30:27
Speaker 11: What's this thing about culture? Where you can't even celebrate
30:32
Speaker 11: of the hockey teams, both the men and the women's
30:35
Speaker 11: hockey teams, we can't celebrate it.
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Speaker 10: We went into the Olympics.
30:40
Speaker 11: Talking asking players of all sorts of sports about politics.
30:45
Speaker 10: And we ended on.
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Speaker 11: Not celebrating their win because they went to the White House.
30:53
Speaker 11: All teams go to the Whitehouse, like it's not unprecedented,
30:57
Speaker 11: it's what we do and so and and my profession
31:04
Speaker 11: keeps like shows they're even more out of touch, and
31:08
Speaker 11: they keep extending the pain for the Democrats because every
31:12
Speaker 11: day there's a new story about how awful the Olympic
31:16
Speaker 11: team is.
31:17
Speaker 3: Well, Celia Zito, it seems to me that the Democrats
31:21
Speaker 3: and the regime media.
31:24
Speaker 2: Have this rule that you know, Donald Trump doesn't Donald.
31:28
Speaker 3: Trump may have won the election, but he doesn't actually
31:31
Speaker 3: yet to be president.
31:32
Speaker 2: And by extension, you people.
31:34
Speaker 3: Who voted for him, you don't actually get to have
31:38
Speaker 3: your interests protected and your cause advanced. There's there's some
31:43
Speaker 3: special we win or you lose, and I.
31:47
Speaker 10: Get never mind that you just don't get to have fun.
31:51
Speaker 2: Yes, you can't have fun.
31:52
Speaker 10: You're not going to have fun.
31:54
Speaker 11: Everything you do is going to be scolded because it's
31:56
Speaker 11: seen through the prism of how you voted.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean, I'm surprised that Abigail Spamberger, who
32:04
Speaker 3: looks like everybody's ex wife, including those of us who
32:07
Speaker 3: have only been married once. She gives off this vibe
32:11
Speaker 3: like she's about to drop a land acknowledgment and tell
32:14
Speaker 3: you to use your inside voice. I don't think that's
32:16
Speaker 3: going to resonate with normal people. But you're the expert
32:19
Speaker 3: on normal people.
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Speaker 11: I was still too busy celebrating hockey.
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Speaker 10: I you know, I lasted. I mean, I know her
32:31
Speaker 10: speech didn't go that long. I was really annoyed by
32:35
Speaker 10: the controlled clapter. I know it shouldn't, but it really
32:39
Speaker 10: annoyed me.
32:40
Speaker 9: It was like.
32:42
Speaker 10: And that is like cheerleaders, right, and it just it
32:47
Speaker 10: just annoyed me. Look that that is a bankless.
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Speaker 11: Job to do that speech, ask Marco Rubio. But but
33:00
Speaker 11: you know, I don't think she gives off the warm fuzzies.
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Speaker 10: Right, Look, I got the president.
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Speaker 11: I watched the speech in a bar, which is how
33:11
Speaker 11: I always watched nikes.
33:13
Speaker 10: And what I why do I do that? Because I
33:15
Speaker 10: like to watch people. Well, there's that. I like to
33:22
Speaker 10: see how they how they react, how they talk to
33:25
Speaker 10: each other, what do I think moves them?
33:27
Speaker 9: Right?
33:28
Speaker 10: I try to like step back and take in the room.
33:32
Speaker 10: I will tell you I've never been at a at
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33:37
Speaker 11: When when people have given a President the standing ovation ovation.
33:43
Speaker 11: But I did when President Trump said you people were crazy, So.
33:50
Speaker 3: I mean you're telling me among regular folks, normal folks,
33:55
Speaker 3: that's resonating. Is there anything that Democrats can do? Maybe
33:59
Speaker 3: channel John Fetterman. We got about fifteen seconds.
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Speaker 10: He doesn't care what you think he's going to.
34:12
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34:17
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34:21
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34:27
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Speaker 3: Well, considering I grew up with a mom from western Pennsylvania,
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Speaker 9: And I will answer that question colonel, but I have
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Speaker 9: She just can't get it right.
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Speaker 9: He knows the regime is more insecure than it's ever
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Speaker 9: been in fifty years. I think these negotiations are not
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Speaker 9: aimed at the mullas you know Trump does not miss
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Speaker 9: the obvious Kurt. He knows the Mulas are not going
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Speaker 9: to agree to what he wants. I think he's aiming
38:44
Speaker 9: it at the guys in military caps, and I think
38:47
Speaker 9: the message he's sending them is, look, if you play
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Speaker 9: ball with us, you can survive, and you probably can
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Speaker 9: keep some of the loot that you've had, and if
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Speaker 9: you don't, neither of those things is going to be true. Now,
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Speaker 9: I don't think it's going to work right now. I
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Speaker 9: think we're going to attack, But after we attack, after
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Speaker 9: the protesters come out, it might work. And I think
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Speaker 9: that's what the strategy is. Uh so, but I think
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Speaker 9: we're going to have to attack, and I think they're
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Speaker 9: going to go after the ballistic missile system of the
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Speaker 9: architecture and the missiles themselves and the launchers number one,
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Speaker 9: and then after that IRG Command and Control, and then
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Speaker 9: after that who.
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Speaker 3: Knows well, cenator talent. I'm going to bring up some
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Speaker 3: sun sou here. We know what the jang is, which
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Speaker 3: is the part of the picture that everyone sees in
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Speaker 3: the open that the enemy focuses on arounds. Looking at
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Speaker 3: this giant flotilla, look at this at array of aircraft
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Speaker 3: looking over at Israel, and that's what it sees. But
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Speaker 3: there's also the chi the thing that you don't see coming,
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Speaker 3: the hit that you don't expect that closes the deal,
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Speaker 3: like the famous flank sweep in Desert Storm, where I
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Speaker 3: was thirty five years ago.
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Speaker 2: Right now I'm wondering, what are we not seeing?
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Speaker 9: You mean with the Iranians? Yes, well, look, what we're
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Speaker 9: not seeing is although we can we can speculate and
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Speaker 9: when we can infer that it's pretty likely true the
40:23
Speaker 9: extent in which the to which the Israelis have penetrated,
40:28
Speaker 9: the intelligence that they've got, and that they're giving us.
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Speaker 9: The number of these i RG commanders, now, a lot
40:34
Speaker 9: of them are fanatics, but a lot of them are
40:36
Speaker 9: just just grifters. I mean, the regime has been around
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Speaker 9: long enough that the percentage of true believers versus grifters
40:44
Speaker 9: has gone way down. And so and we don't we
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Speaker 9: don't know who over there is talking amongst themselves about
40:52
Speaker 9: maybe it's time to get rid of the eighty six
40:54
Speaker 9: year old guy who's who's already driven the country drout down,
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Speaker 9: but worse, from their point of view, is going to
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Speaker 9: take the whole power structure down, So we don't know that,
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Speaker 9: and if we did, it would tell us about how
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Speaker 9: likely the president may be thinking, or what the president's
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Speaker 9: thinking in terms of how likely this is going to
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Speaker 9: work in terms of regime reconfiguration or realignment, if not
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Speaker 9: regime chain.
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Speaker 2: Well Cenatter Tallon.
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Speaker 3: I expect that when things are about to go off,
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Speaker 3: a lot of Iranian generals are going to get a
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Speaker 3: phone call. And that phone call is going to be high.
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Speaker 3: Would you like to live because you got about it?
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Speaker 3: Because you better decide right now? And I think a
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Speaker 3: lot of them will.
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Speaker 9: And you know, I'm talking to an Army war college grad,
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Speaker 9: so I don't have to say this to you. But
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Speaker 9: our people, of course are envisioning what their leaders are thinking.
41:53
Speaker 9: I mean, imagine sitting in these bunkers after the last
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Speaker 9: year in particular, and and waiting and waiting and sweating
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Speaker 9: and sweating when you know that the Israelis know very
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Speaker 9: probably know exactly where you are, exactly when you're going
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Speaker 9: to go someplace else, and that they're giving us all
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Speaker 9: that intel now you know, Yeah, if you're one of
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Speaker 9: these guys who thinks if I go down, I'm going
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Speaker 9: to go to heaven, and all the virgins will be
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Speaker 9: waiting for me. That's one thing. But if you're just
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Speaker 9: a guy who's in it for what he can, you know,
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Speaker 9: lift out of the till that's another. And having said
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Speaker 9: all this, I think we're going to have to attack
42:33
Speaker 9: after that though, and the protesters are going to come
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Speaker 9: out in greater force. After that. We may get some
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Speaker 9: changes in Tehran.
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Speaker 2: Sarator talent.
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Speaker 3: Let's one last thing before I moved to the state
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Speaker 3: of the Union. What would you think about seizing carg
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Speaker 3: Island and holding it to embarrass and delegitimize the regime
42:55
Speaker 3: while also strangling their oil capacity.
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Speaker 2: That's a two for.
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Speaker 5: In my view.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, and you ewit's talked a lot about about just
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Speaker 9: taking out Carg Island. I doubt the President's going to
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Speaker 9: want to put forces on the ground for any extended
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Speaker 9: period of time. I mean a special ops mission like
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Speaker 9: we did in Venezuela. That's one thing I think for
43:18
Speaker 9: a lot of reasons, he's not going to want to
43:21
Speaker 9: put our guys in there. It's an intriguing idea. Now
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Speaker 9: I think it's I think it's going to be precision strikes.
43:29
Speaker 9: How many sorties over the course of about a week.
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Speaker 9: We can do what about fifteen hundred easily, Colonel two thousand,
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Speaker 9: Maybe the Israelis. The Israelis come in, and if they
43:43
Speaker 9: don't come in at the beginning, they're going to come
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Speaker 9: in when the Iranians attack them. So it's going to
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Speaker 9: be US and the Israelis. That's the way I figure it.
43:52
Speaker 9: And then Trump will see what happens because he knows
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Speaker 9: how insecure this regime is, and I think what he's
43:58
Speaker 9: aiming for is what he's I think getting in Venezuela
44:01
Speaker 9: and what he wants to get in Cuba, which is
44:04
Speaker 9: sure overthrow of the whole regime if he can, but
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Speaker 9: if not, a regime that'll play ball with us.
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Speaker 3: Well, thank you, Senator Jim Tallitt, Senior Fellow, Reagan Institute's
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