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Elon Musk put on BLAST by Corey Booker · Elon Musk Podcast

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  Senator, thank you for taking my question.
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  My name is Daria Richberg. I'm a senior vice commander of
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  the Disable American Veterans in Bergenfield who chose them.
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  And I'm not getting I'm married when I heard when I heard Donald
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  Trump say that John McCain was a hero because it's captured
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  without saving. And I don't understand why any
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  veteran or any currently serving military person has anything to
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  say about this person. Well, the amazing thing is 65%
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  of veterans. Voted.
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  For him, I don't get it. And if that 65% had been
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  flipped, we would have the first woman president.
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  I think you are my guest to talk together.
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  And every time I see a veteran in the street, every time I talk
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  to any veterans, I try not to be political about it because like
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  you said, it's not a right or left think it's a right or a
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  wrong thing. And veterans should not be
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  voting for this type of government that we have right
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  now. So I'm asking for every citizen.
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  I know where you stand for veterans.
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  I know where everybody here stands for veterans.
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  I know where all American or most of America stands for
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  veterans, but the people, the veterans, 65%, they're not
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  hearing it. They're only hearing the
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  rhetoric and the bullshit, excuse me, that they get that
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  they get from right wing media. We have to get the message to
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  those veterans. I said when I was talking to
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  some of my veterans in my DNA group, I'm able to get through.
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  To that. So we need everyone to get, if
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  you know a veteran, if you know a friend who knows the veteran,
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  talk to them and ask them why they are not getting this
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  message that they and we have to stop them from stunning ECA.
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  I'm sorry. No, don't be sorry.
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  You earned that right. You earned your right from your.
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  Service. Absolutely.
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  Thank you, Sir. Thank you, Sir.
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  Thank you. And, and, and I'm going to say
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  one thing because this is what I've noticed about New Jersey
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  veterans is when I say thank you for your service to a man like
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  you, it's not just your service. What what both of you about
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  Veterans of New Jersey is they come home and they keep serving
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  like you are. They keep serving other
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  veterans. They keep volunteering in the
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  community and they keep bleeding.
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  And so I'm going to mention this a lot, what he is doing with
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  80,000 layoffs in the VA with all the layoffs he's doing.
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  And by the way, folks, New Jersey should notice, when I was
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  mayor of my city, I cut the size of my government.
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  It was difficult, but we, we didn't have the power to print
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  money. We cut Newark's government size
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  down 25%. We laid off one out of every
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  four of our employees. We made a lot of our departments
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  a lot more efficient. I'm not saying that the federal
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  government, God, the federal government needs to be more
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  efficient and more effective, but the way that Elon Musk is
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  going about this dashing, he's like, he's like ready fire.
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  And maybe I'll aim later. But the way he is eliminating
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  entire agencies, divisions and through critical services that
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  the majority of Americans, Republicans, Democrats really
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  want is outrageous. And with no accountability, not
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  one oversight hearing it is wrong.
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  So sterner, I'm going to fight for veterans who fought for me.
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  I'm going to stand with people that fell for me everywhere
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  possible, and this is the. Bad.
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  This is the political advice I didn't take from my County
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  Executive who said, Corey, stop it, stop.
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  And he begged me to stop this because every time somebody from
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  Bergenfield speaks, I'm still trying to to prosecute the fact
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  that my last high school game I lost to Bergenfield and I'm
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  upset about it. So I love you, Sir.
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  I love the town of Bergenfield. Except for the 1987 football
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  team. We are better than that in all
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  of the can. Go, go ahead.
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  Also. Where are you, my friend?
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  Back here? You're right.