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It's Official: We're Funding the Taliban (Ep.103) · V

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  Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to Bonduna Report Early Edition. Bill
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  Speaker 1: Clinton spreads some artful lies about Hillary's email server scandal.
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  Speaker 1: Antony Blinken admits we're funding the Taliban. Christopher Wray says
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  Speaker 1: he will quit as FBI director come January. The DOD
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  Speaker 1: says the New Jersey drones aren't foreign or domestic. ProPublica
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  Speaker 1: epically fails at smearing Pete Hegseth. A Canadian politician fears
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  Speaker 1: that Trump really will annex Canada. Google celebrates Christmas with
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  Speaker 1: a queer man dressed as a woman buying himself face cream.
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  Speaker 1: And Greta Gerwig sets out to destroy Narnia in the
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  Speaker 1: new Netflix remake. All this on Bongino Report Early Edition.
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  Speaker 1: On March 2nd, 2015, the New York Times published an
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  Speaker 1: explosive story. Hillary Clinton had used a private email server
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  Speaker 1: to communicate as Secretary of State under President Barack Obama.
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  Speaker 1: Two days later, the Select Committee on Benghazi subpoenaed any
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  Speaker 1: Benghazi-related emails contained on the private server. Upon learning of
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  Speaker 1: the document request, a technician for Clinton's computer service provider
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  Speaker 1: deleted approximately 30,000 of Clinton's emails using Bleachbit, a software
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  Speaker 1: that made the emails impossible to recover. Hillary claimed the
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  Speaker 1: deleted emails were just personal. By May of 2016, the
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  Speaker 1: State Department's Office of the Inspector General had released an
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  Speaker 1: 83-page report condemning Hillary's use of the private server. In
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  Speaker 1: this report, the State Department deemed more than 2,000 of
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  Speaker 1: Clinton's messages as classified, including 22 that that were upgraded
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  Speaker 1: to the most sensitive national security classification. That is top secret.
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  Speaker 1: At a press conference two months later, on July 5th, 2016,
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  Speaker 1: Comey announced that the FBI had completed its investigation and
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  Speaker 1: that while Hillary's handling of the classified information was extremely careless,
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  Speaker 1: he had referred the matter to the DOJ with a
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  Speaker 1: recommendation that no charges be filed. Comey took the same
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  Speaker 1: position when he testified before Congress, calling Clinton's conduct related
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  Speaker 1: to the server sloppy, but notably not criminal. Hillary never
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  Speaker 1: faced any consequences for her email server scandal, and we
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  Speaker 1: never found out what was contained in the 30,000 some
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  Speaker 1: deleted emails. And the big question is why? Why use
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  Speaker 1: a private server, and then why delete 30,000 emails when
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  Speaker 1: you're caught? We're gonna speculate in a second why Hillary
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  Speaker 1: did what she did, because her emails are back in
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  Speaker 1: the news. Here is Bill Clinton yesterday on The View.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think it would be wise of President Biden
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  Speaker 2: to preemptively pardon any potential targets?
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  Speaker 3: What about your wife, Hillary Clinton?
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  Speaker 1: She apparently is on Kash Patel's list.
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  Speaker 4: For what?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Well, they got a problem with her because first, she
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  Speaker 5: didn't do anything wrong.
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  Speaker 3: Of course.
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  Speaker 5: Second, she followed the rules exactly as they were written. Third,
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  Speaker 5: Trump's State Department, Trump's State Department found, remember how the
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  Speaker 5: emails were such a big issue in 2016? Trump's State
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  Speaker 5: Department found that Hillary sent and received exactly zero classified
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  Speaker 5: emails on her personal device.
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  Speaker 1: It was a made-up, phony story. So I watched that
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  Speaker 1: and I was incredibly confused. Michael, were you a little
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  Speaker 1: bit confused as well? What does he mean the State
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  Speaker 1: Department said she sent zero classified emails on the personal device?
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  Speaker 1: So I did some reading. I looked back at the
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  Speaker 1: reporting from Margo Cleveland, published at The Federalist. Margo is
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  Speaker 1: a great resource. And then I messaged my wonderful former
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  Speaker 1: boss at The Federalist, Molly Hemingway. And Molly explained that
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  Speaker 1: what we're dealing with is artful lies. Clintonian lies. The
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  Speaker 1: State Department didn't say that Hillary had sent any marked
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  Speaker 1: classified documents because that'd be impossible. She was using a
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  Speaker 1: private server with zero oversight. The emails did, of course,
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  Speaker 1: contain classified information. That's what the State Department did find.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said, 22 emails actually contained top secret information.
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  Speaker 1: Did you see how Bill Clinton twisted that statement? The
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  Speaker 1: State Department said that she sent zero classified emails on
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  Speaker 1: her personal device.
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  Speaker 3: True.
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  Speaker 1: There were no marked classified emails sent on her private
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  Speaker 1: server because that would be impossible. The whole point of
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  Speaker 1: the private server was to avoid classification, to avoid oversight.
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  Speaker 1: Hillary absolutely needs to be investigated for her email server scandal.
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  Speaker 1: The only reason why she wasn't is because Trump thought
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  Speaker 1: that we had some decorum in America. He said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it was probably inappropriate for my administration to prosecute my
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  Speaker 1: former political opponent. So he declined to look into the
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  Speaker 1: Hillary Clinton email server scandal. And then they went after Trump. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: in so many ways and in bogus ways. And now
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  Speaker 1: a precedent has been set and Hillary Clinton is no
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  Speaker 1: longer off the hook for her criminal behavior. And there
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  Speaker 1: are rumors right now that Biden is, of course, considering
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  Speaker 1: giving Hillary a preemptive pardon. To me, that's an admission
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  Speaker 1: of guilt. I think they know that she did something
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  Speaker 1: really illegal via those private emails. And she needs to
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  Speaker 1: be held accountable. Hillary Clinton is, of course, played a
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  Speaker 1: key role in shaping U.S. policy toward Libya and and
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  Speaker 1: the 2011 NATO-led regime change operation against Libyan leader Gaddafi.
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  Speaker 1: Just a couple years before Gaddafi was killed, he made
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  Speaker 1: a speech at the United Nations General Assembly where he
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  Speaker 1: explicitly criticized the United States and the CIA. He accused
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  Speaker 1: the U.S. intelligence apparatus of destabilizing nations with covert operations.
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  Speaker 1: At one point, he even suggested that the CIA in
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  Speaker 1: Mossad had killed JFK. Here's what happened to Muammar Gaddafi. So,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that is the land of unconfirmed records. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: we came, we saw, he died. Did it have anything
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  Speaker 1: to do with your visit? No, I'm sure it did.
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  Speaker 1: Gaddafi died a horrific death, and less than a year later,
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  Speaker 1: so did U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens, because, of course,
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  Speaker 1: that region was dangerous and destabilized by our own government.
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  Speaker 1: And throughout the entire regime change operation in Libya and
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  Speaker 1: the Benghazi consulate attack, Hillary was using her private email server.
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  Speaker 1: We know she was sending top secret information, and it's
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  Speaker 1: likely the worst of it, perhaps even criminal behavior, was
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  Speaker 1: in those deleted emails. At the very least, Hillary needs
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  Speaker 1: to be investigated. And frankly, so does Bill Clinton, who
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  Speaker 1: was a frequent clientele of Jeffrey Epstein. Bill rode on
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  Speaker 1: Jeffrey's jet, the Lolita Express, over 20 times, at the least.
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  Speaker 1: Epstein visited the Clinton White House at least 17 times.
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  Speaker 1: And can we just come back to regime change for
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  Speaker 1: a second? Because the reasons behind it are always corrupt. Greedy,
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  Speaker 1: nefarious intentions, squashing challenges to the U.S. currency or oil
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  Speaker 1: or minerals. Destabilizing a country via regime change makes that
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  Speaker 1: said country easier to exploit or perhaps to launder money through.
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  Speaker 1: It never does it benefit the people from those respective
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  Speaker 1: countries nor the American people. It does nothing to promote
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  Speaker 1: world peace. People like Hillary Clinton, when she was Secretary
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  Speaker 1: of State, took our money and used it to sow
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  Speaker 1: chaos and violence abroad. This is why I'm against all
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  Speaker 1: foreign aid, particularly when our own border is not secure. Yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: we were reminded yet again that the U.S. is funding
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  Speaker 1: the Taliban. You guys know those guys who protected Osama
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  Speaker 1: bin Laden, killed thousands of U.S. service members? Here is
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  Speaker 1: Secretary of State Antony Blinken acknowledging that approximately 10 million U.S.
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  Speaker 1: taxpayer funds have ended up in the hands of the Taliban.
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  Speaker 2: And these agencies are funding the Taliban.
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  Speaker 4: Reports are saying between 40 and 80 million U.S.
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  Speaker 6: Tax dollars are given to the Taliban every dadgum week.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, is that acceptable?
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  Speaker 2: According to the report that I read and that Congressman
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  Speaker 2: referred to, the CIGARS report, of the approximately $ 8 billion
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  Speaker 2: that the international community, including the United States, has dedicated
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  Speaker 2: to Afghanistan, about $ 10 million of that, that is 0.1%,
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  Speaker 2: has no doubt gotten.
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  Speaker 1: To the Taliban.
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  Speaker 4: I don't care if it's a dadgum penny. I don't
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  Speaker 4: care if it's a penny.
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  Speaker 1: Notice how Blinken downplays the money. First of all, I
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  Speaker 1: highly suspect that the congressman is right, and it's a
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  Speaker 1: lot more than what we're being told. I highly suspect
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  Speaker 1: that through other various NGOs that aren't even being considered,
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  Speaker 1: it's a lot more than $ 10 million. But even $ 10
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  Speaker 1: million is too much. The Taliban shouldn't be getting a
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  Speaker 1: single cent from the U.S. taxpayers. And then you see
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  Speaker 1: Blinken literally hand wave the question about the government funding
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  Speaker 1: of the Taliban because it's such a little amount. $ 10
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  Speaker 1: million is a crap ton of money to most Americans.
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  Speaker 1: And Blinken's dismissiveness is disgusting and a sign that his
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  Speaker 1: budget is way too big. This guy cannot be gone
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  Speaker 1: soon enough. We're going to take a quick break. When
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  Speaker 1: we come back, I have some good news for once
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  Speaker 1: for you all. So don't go anywhere. Shout out to
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  Speaker 1: our sponsors for keeping the show free. After seven years
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  Speaker 1: of terrorizing the public and Trump, FBI Director Christopher Wray
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  Speaker 1: has decided to step down in January. And the announcement,
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  Speaker 1: of course, comes after Trump nominated Kash Patel to replace
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  Speaker 1: Christopher Wray. And Julie Kelly summed things up pretty well,
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  Speaker 1: summed up this man's tenure well. really well. Chris Ray's legacy,
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  Speaker 1: she writes, will be turning the world's most powerful law
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  Speaker 1: enforcement agency. I'm sorry. Chris Wray's legacy will be turning
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  Speaker 1: the world's most powerful law enforcement agency into a domestic
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  Speaker 1: terror operation that includes raiding the homes of the former
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  Speaker 1: president and trapping individuals into politically oriented hoaxes like the
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  Speaker 1: Whitmer Fed napping, colluding with big tech to protect the
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  Speaker 1: Biden crime family by censoring Americans, and using the FBI
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  Speaker 1: Counterterrorism Task Force to investigate, raid, and arrest nearly 1,600
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  Speaker 1: Americans who protested the 2020 election on January 6th. His
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  Speaker 1: failures include record crime, a bleeding southern border, out-of-control fentanyl crisis,
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  Speaker 1: and historic low trust in the FBI. Seems impossible, but
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  Speaker 1: the worst FBI director in U.S. history. The damage he
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  Speaker 1: caused to this country may never be fully repaired. And
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  Speaker 1: you guys just know the FBI is going to be
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  Speaker 1: shredding and deleting documents related to Ray and his tenure
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  Speaker 1: as the head of the FBI. But he's somebody else
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  Speaker 1: that needs to be investigated. And this is what they do.
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  Speaker 1: There's an entire class of people who think that they
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  Speaker 1: are above the law, that they can persecute Trump, persecute
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  Speaker 1: anybody who is a fan of his, a voter of his,
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  Speaker 1: and they're completely above the law. And then they go
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  Speaker 1: on The View and they spew artful lies. All the
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  Speaker 1: ladies nod and smile. Speaking of lies, yesterday we covered
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  Speaker 1: the swarm of UAPs that appear to be drones flying
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  Speaker 1: all over New Jersey for weeks now. There were reports
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  Speaker 1: that the drones were coming from an Iranian mothership off
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  Speaker 1: the East Coast. That was yesterday. There were supposed reports
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  Speaker 1: of this. And it was a ridiculous idea. And even
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  Speaker 1: the Pentagon has denied these claims. And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: anytime you hear Iran, there are a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: in this country who would like us to go to
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  Speaker 1: war with Iran. They would like us to get involved.
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  Speaker 1: They would like us to, just like we got involved
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  Speaker 1: in Syria or in Libya, and we should avoid War
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  Speaker 1: with Iran like the plague. Iran doesn't have a reason
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  Speaker 1: to pick a fight with America. Iran has no interest
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  Speaker 1: in going to war with the United States. Let's just
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  Speaker 1: be clear about that. So that Iran would be flying
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  Speaker 1: drones into New Jersey is a ridiculous idea. Ridiculous. And again,
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  Speaker 1: the Pentagon said that it's not even true. Now, a
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  Speaker 1: couple of days ago, the FBI said that the drones
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  Speaker 1: are non-threatening, but also they have no idea who's operating
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  Speaker 1: them or what they're doing. And both those things cannot
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  Speaker 1: be true. And yet yesterday, the DOD said the exact
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  Speaker 1: same thing. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 7: So aware of those drone sightings that have been reported.
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  Speaker 7: At this time, we have no evidence that these activities
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  Speaker 7: are coming from a foreign entity or the work of
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  Speaker 7: an adversary. We're going to continue to monitor what is happening. But,
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  Speaker 7: you know, at no point were our installations threatened when
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  Speaker 7: this activity was occurring.
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  Speaker 1: Can you rule out that these are American drones or U.S.
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  Speaker 1: military drones?
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  Speaker 7: These are not U.S. military drones. Again, this is being
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  Speaker 7: investigated by local law enforcement. Our initial assessment here is
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  Speaker 7: that these are not drones or activities coming from a
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  Speaker 7: foreign entity or adversary.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, again, it cannot both be true that the drones
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  Speaker 1: are safe and that they don't know anything about them.
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  Speaker 1: And also, how are the drones not U.S. foreign or private?
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  Speaker 1: Not from private citizens, not from a foreign entity, not
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  Speaker 1: from the U.S. military. How can all those things be true?
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  Speaker 1: Are they aliens? Are we suggesting that they're aliens now? Which,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, I don't buy it when they make
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  Speaker 1: those suggestions. I think that that's always sort of a cover-up.
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  Speaker 1: We're definitely being lied to. The government knows exactly what's
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  Speaker 1: going on, and for some reason they're not telling us.
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  Speaker 1: Back in 2011, the U.S. Department of Defense bought something
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  Speaker 1: called the Space-Based Infrared System from Lockheed Martin. The technology
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  Speaker 1: is a global infrared surveillance system. Here's how it works.
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  Speaker 4: Global persistent infrared surveillance continues to be a critical national
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  Speaker 4: security space mission. The Cold War focus on strategic ICBM
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  Speaker 4: systems has expanded to include short and mid-range ballistic missile threats.
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  Speaker 4: The Defense Support Program maintains the legacy Cold War monitoring
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  Speaker 4: to warn of ICBM missile launches against the U.S., The
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  Speaker 4: replacement program is the Space-Based Infrared System, or CIBRS, which
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  Speaker 4: has already provided two infrared sensor payloads in Highly Elliptical Orbits,
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  Speaker 4: or HEO. The CIBRS program is also deploying multiple spacecraft
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  Speaker 4: into Geosynchronous Earth Orbit, or GEO. Each has two independent
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  Speaker 4: infrared sensors. One is a scanner dedicated to missile warning
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  Speaker 4: with full Earth monitoring. The other sensor is a taskable
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  Speaker 4: starer that can focus on selected regions. Each pair of
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  Speaker 4: sensors acts simultaneously and independently of each other, providing a robust,
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  Speaker 4: taskable infrared platform.
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  Speaker 1: For over a decade, the U.S. government has had eyes
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  Speaker 1: on the entire world. You think privacy exists? It doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: It's getting increasingly sophisticated. There's no way to avoid the
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  Speaker 1: government having eyes on you. And to me, what this
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  Speaker 1: says is clearly the government knows what's going on with
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  Speaker 1: these UAPs all over New Jersey. And they're not telling us.
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  Speaker 5: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Comedian Tim Dillon made a really funny but good point yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: The government isn't even trying to make their lies believable anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 3: Remember, it's like when Epstein died and they came out
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  Speaker 3: and they were like, the guards fell asleep.
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  Speaker 5: Remember that?
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  Speaker 3: It was like their whole, they were like, the guards
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  Speaker 3: fell asleep.
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  Speaker 5: They were tired.
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  Speaker 3: And you go, wait, but there's cameras. Well, they stopped working.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, they used to put so much work into
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  Speaker 3: lying to us. Now there's no work being put into
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  Speaker 3: the lies. That should offend you the most. The roof
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  Speaker 3: was sloped. What do you expect us to do? It's like, wait,
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  Speaker 3: hold on. That's the fuck... It's really amazing that they
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  Speaker 3: don't put any work into the lying. They don't put
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  Speaker 3: any work into the fucking lying anymore. Man, they used
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  Speaker 3: to really come up with fucking good lies. It would
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  Speaker 3: take years and journalists to unravel these lies. Now they just,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's like, it's just completely insane what they'll
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  Speaker 3: get away. The cameras stopped working and everybody fell asleep.
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  Speaker 3: That's what happened. The roof was sloped.
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  Speaker 1: Move on. He's right. They aren't even trying to make
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  Speaker 1: their lives believable anymore. The Epstein murder, or suicide, I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: not a murder, suicide, suicide. The Trump assassination attempts, the
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey drone invasion. It says that the permanent state
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  Speaker 1: is just as corrupt and abusive as ever, but stupider.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe we blame DEI for that. They have not as
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  Speaker 1: qualified people running the show. It could also be that
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  Speaker 1: they just know that everybody already doesn't trust them and
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  Speaker 1: they don't care. And instead of trying to orchestrate elaborate,
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  Speaker 1: believable lies, they're just turning to full tyranny, censoring speech,
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  Speaker 1: brainwashing children with partisan media literacy programs, and labeling the
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: Constitution itself a threat to democracy. That's what the corporate
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: media is doing. And then you have actually in the
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: National Archives, I don't know if you guys know this,
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  Speaker 1: There's a content warning label sign at the National Archives
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  Speaker 1: on the Declaration of Independence. It's an outrage. Even the
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: state's media PR team has become wildly sloppy. Yesterday, West
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  Speaker 1: Point's Public Affairs Office incorrectly informed ProPublica that Pete Hexeth,
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  Speaker 1: Trump's Secretary of Defense nominee, did not apply to the Academy.
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  Speaker 1: And when asked for comment by ProPublica, Pete stopped the
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  Speaker 1: hit piece in its tracks. Stopped before it could even
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  Speaker 1: be published. Pete wrote on X, We understand that ProPublica,
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  Speaker 1: the left-wing hack group, is planning to publish a knowingly
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  Speaker 1: false report that I was not accepted to West Point
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  Speaker 1: in 1999. Here is my letter of acceptance, signed by
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  Speaker 1: West Point Superintendent Lieutenant General Daniel Christman, U.S. Army. And
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  Speaker 1: attached is an image of his acceptance letter. After Hexeth
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  Speaker 1: provided his letter from 1999, ProPublica chose not to publish
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  Speaker 1: the story, and West Point has since apologized for their
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: supposed administrative error. How many of you guys think that
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  Speaker 1: that was an administrative error? ProPublica never did any digging
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  Speaker 1: into any of Tim Walz's stolen valor allegations. Why did
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  Speaker 1: West Point give false information to a partisan outlet like
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  Speaker 1: ProPublica intent on smearing Pete? who prompted ProPublica to pursue
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  Speaker 1: this story in the first place. As the New York
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Post editorial board writes, you have to wonder if some
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  Speaker 1: insider at the school or higher up the command chain
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  Speaker 1: didn't suggest ProPublica chase the story. The Pentagon leadership is,
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  Speaker 1: of course, terrified of Pete Hexeth, terrified of him de-wokifying
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  Speaker 1: the military and firing bad generals and making decisions based
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  Speaker 1: on what's actually best for America. instead of the permanent state,
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  Speaker 1: which continually destabilizes the world and then inevitably us. And
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: despite all these egregious smears on Pete, here was Pete
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  Speaker 1: yesterday on Capitol Hill.
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  Speaker 8: What do you hope to talk to Senator Collins about today?
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  Speaker 8: What do you hope to talk to Senator Collins about today?
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  Speaker 8: This is how we're feeling today, right here.
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  Speaker 5: Feeling great.
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  Speaker 8: Do you feel confident that you're going to get to
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  Speaker 8: a confirmation process, get to the hearing?
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  Speaker 1: I'll go with that, Mikey. If you're listening, Pete said,
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  Speaker 1: this is how we're feeling right here. And then he
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  Speaker 1: flashed the inside of his coat jacket, which is lined
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  Speaker 1: with the American stars and stripes. The military that Pete
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: fought under is attempting to destroy him professionally, personally, all
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: behind the scenes. And yet Pete is still a patriot.
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  Speaker 1: That's how you know he's the right man for the job.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: This man needs to get confirmed ASAP. Now, apparently the
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: incoming Trump admin doesn't just have permanent Washington stressing. Canada
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: is freaking out as well. Do you remember that Trump has,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: in recent weeks, threatened to annex Canada and turn it
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: into a U.S. state if they refuse to comply with
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: his fair trade agenda? Here is Canadian Green Party leader
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Elizabeth May saying that Trump's joke about Canada becoming the
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: 51st state makes her increasingly nervous.
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  Speaker 9: Trump on his true social this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Greeted the prime minister as the governor of the 51st state.
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  Speaker 4: Something along that line. Have you seen that?
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Do you have any thoughts about that? About the dynamics
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: of the relationship?
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  Speaker 9: I haven't seen that. So I probably should comment just
• 22:29
  Speaker 9: that with the truth social post of of Donald Trump
• 22:34
  Speaker 9: planting a Canadian flag on a Canadian mountain. I have
• 22:36
  Speaker 9: to say that to the extent that this 51st state
• 22:40
  Speaker 9: thing was a joke, it's not funny. And I find
• 22:43
  Speaker 9: that pursuing it on social media makes me increasingly nervous.
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  Speaker 5: Mr.
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  Speaker 9: Trump has, we have to be very, very careful with
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  Speaker 9: the president-elect, and we have to pull together.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: All opposition party leaders. Stop soliciting now.
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  Speaker 9: Premiers, all elements of the Canadian political establishment such as
• 23:02
  Speaker 9: we are, better pull together to make sure we don't
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  Speaker 9: create any cracks that allow Fox News or Mr. Trump's
• 23:08
  Speaker 9: social media to exploit us and say things about Canada
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  Speaker 9: that aren't true.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Michael pointed out that she looks like Liz Cheney.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: She kind of does look like Liz Cheney, but like
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: a high version of Liz Cheney. And so she's worried
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: that Trump is going to annex Canada. And she's also
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: accusing Fox News of exploiting and lying about Canada. Frankly,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: I think a lot of Canadians would welcome President Trump.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Canadians in the chat, what do you say? You guys are,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: apparently we have a lot of Canadians listening to this show,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: which I did not know. And they all got mad
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: at me because I said that Canada is communist. And again,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: I will remind you guys that Justin Trudeau is definitely
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Fidel Castro's son. I mean, they look exactly alike. Please
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: do not tell me that they're, I will rescind this
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: statement when he does a DNA test or something, because
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: this entire, the guy is clearly his son. Now, Canadians
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: in the chat, are most Canadian politicians as hysterical as
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Elizabeth May? That's what I want to know, because what
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: a ridiculous statement to make. And to be fair, American-run
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Vanity Fair is also just as crazy. They ran a
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: hit piece titled, Donald Trump Just Can't or Won't Stop
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Belittling Canada. Like, can nobody take a joke? Can nobody
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: in this entire political landscape take a joke? We've been
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: dealing with Trump for, what, eight years now, and you
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: guys still can't find him funny? Still have to take
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: it all seriously? Oh my gosh, this bastard is going
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: to annex Canada. And I'll also say that fair trade
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: has always made sense to me. All these free market
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: absolutists are kind of ridiculous. We can't have free trade
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: if foreign nations are taxing our goods, but we tax
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: none of theirs. then it's just a sick deal for
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: everybody except us. Also, all the Canada hysteria is another
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: reminder that the left cannot meme. The zeitgeist is trending
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: in our direction. And there's a reason internet humor is
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: right-wing and Trump performed so well with 18 to 24-year-olds.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Even the left is recognizing that they just aren't cool anymore.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Here is Biden-Harris Digital Director Rob Flaherty.
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  Speaker 6: I think as, you know, the center left and left
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: are getting disillusioned with the mainstream media. That will get built,
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: that's gonna happen I think. I see that happening particularly
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: under the Trump administration, or at least starting, I don't
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: think we're.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Gonna fix the problem then.
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: But I think it's important because, I said this in
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: the earlier session, I mean the quote that to me
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: defines this political moment is Steve Bannon channeling Andrew Breitbart
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: where he says, politics is downstream from culture. The right
• 25:48
  Speaker 6: is getting really good at setting culture with anti-institutional voters.
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: And those are those persuadable voters. And that is a problem.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: The Steve Bannon credit in that soundbite is so deserved.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Steve is one of the most insightful people in this movement.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: And Rob is correct. The right is channeling anti-establishment sentiment.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: The political right has morphed into a populist movement. thanks
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: to the guidance of people like Steve Bannon. Thank you, Mikey.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: They do. They look exactly alike. But it's not anti-establishment
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: for the sake of being punk or being countercultural. The establishment,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: meaning the legacy media, the permanent state, academia, crony capitalists,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: corporate America, the big banks, they're all rotten. And they
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: are serial abusers of the public. And the public is revolting. Frankly,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: what the gentry class produces for the masses is insulting.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: It's a slight at our dignity. I want you guys
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: to take a look at Google's new Google Shopping Christmas ad.
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: So dry. This winter dryness is not it, especially when
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: I have so many holiday looks to pull off.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Thankfully, I know just the thing. And it's in stock nearby.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Hydrated skin is a gift to everyone. No wrapping needed.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Happy holidays to me. Okay, so this is, if you're listening,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: this is a man dressed in women's clothing. It's unclear
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: if this is a trans individual or if he's just
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: a gay man. First of all, happy holidays. Gross. Say
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Merry Christmas or shut up about it. Second, how does
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: a queer man dressed like a woman buying himself face
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: cream have anything to do with Christmas? There's literally nothing
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: about that that has anything to do with Christmas. He's
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: not even buying a gift for somebody else. He's buying
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: it for himself. And the entire thing, it's just insulting.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: It's the biggest companies in America spitting on American mores
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: and force-feeding us soulless woke propaganda. And it feels like
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: anything good and beautiful in our cultural heritage, they have
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: to somehow pervert. That feels like the goal. Like, for instance, C.S.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Lewis's Narnia. Greta Gerwig, a rabid feminist and the director
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: of the Barbie movie, is set to remake Narnia with Netflix,
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: and she begins filming in July 2025. According to Amy Pascal,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: who will also be producing Narnia alongside Gerwig, the upcoming
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: series of Narnia is going to have a new take.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: That's the quote. It's all about rock and roll, says Amy.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: I don't know what that means, but what I do
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: know is that Narnia has a really special place in
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: my heart. Actually, it was the first book series that
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: I read all the way through as a child. And
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: for all the complaints about Disney as of late, they
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: really did do a good, beautiful job of adapting a
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: few of those books into movies a few years back.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: And we don't need this remake. Nobody's asked for it.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Nobody wants it. And I know that remakes are lucrative,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: but there seems to be something unsettling about all these
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: woke adaptations of classic works, such as even Amazon's reimagining
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: of The Lord of the Rings. J.R.R. Tolkien's masterpiece was
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: a deeply Catholic Western epic, rooted in timeless values. Similarly, C.S.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Lewis crafted Narnia as a direct reflection of New Testament stories.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Yet it seems that whenever a piece of Christian cultural
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: content endures through the ages, there's a concerted effort to
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: either dismantle it or to reshape it to serve the
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: left's political agenda. Greta Gerwig's Lady Bird, a semi-autobiographical film,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: was Openly critical of the main character's Catholic upbringing. Why
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: would a filmmaker with such a clear antagonism toward Christianity
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: be entrusted with adapting a C.S. Lewis work, if not
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: to distort its essence? The same can be said of
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: recent trends in big-budget movie and TV adaptations. The visuals
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: may be grand, but they often feel hollow. Films and
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: shows today, despite their enormous budgets, seem to lack the
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: emotional depth and authenticity that once defined storytelling throughout all
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: of human history. Take the new Snow White trailer. While
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: the imagery is colorful, it feels artificial, as if it
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: was designed by AI rather than authentic human creativity. Wade
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Scott's aptly describes this sensation as technicolor sludge that barely
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: grazes the senses. There's something almost inhuman and formulaic to
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: the point of soulless about big-budget modern films and TV shows,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: and the root of this issue lies in a fundamental disconnect.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: If you set out to remake Snow White or adapt
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Tolkien's Cimmerillion, but you harbor disdain for the original source material,
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: the final product will inevitably suck. The creative spirit behind
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: these works, shaped by Christianity and the Western tradition, is
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: lost when those values are disregarded. And though the creators
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: know that many will watch these adaptations out of love
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: for the original works, this is not an act of homage,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: but a cynical attempt to capitalize off of that affection.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: And this pattern of cultural appropriation, and yes, I'm using
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: that phrase, cultural appropriation, it's abusive. It's an insult to
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: our cultural heritage, which again, our leaders detest. This is
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: why our leaders lie to us on a daily basis,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: put content warning signs on the Constitution and the Declaration
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: of Independence in the National Archives, spread the black legend,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: encourage little collegiate Marxists to tear down statues of George
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Washington and Christopher Columbus. Our leaders are hellbent on dismantling
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: the very foundations upon which this culture was built, replacing
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: them with ideologies that seek to erase the past. And frankly,
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: we shouldn't pay them to do it. So my recommendation
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: is don't watch Greta's Narnia remake. And that is all
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  Speaker 8: I'm your host, Megan Klingenberg, and I am super stoked
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  Speaker 1: Arguably your most impressive quality cannot be measured. You're a
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