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"Beyond Just the Somali Fraud" (Tuesday, December 30 2025, Hour 2) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 1: There's no way that this kid walking around and covered
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Speaker 1: one hundred million dollars worth of fraud.
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Speaker 7: He only expa.
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Speaker 3: Joe, thank you for letting me be of service to
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Speaker 3: you this morning.
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Speaker 2: I want.
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Speaker 3: We'll tell you what went on in the news, and
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Speaker 3: then we'll tell you our analysis of it. Certainly, and
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Speaker 3: as you get on with your day, I want to
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Speaker 3: hear how it's impacting you where you are. Text message
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Speaker 3: a couple of quick notes. The Somali corruption and the
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Speaker 3: billions and billions of dollars that have gone down the
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Speaker 3: memory hole in this situation are the story. The story
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Speaker 3: is that it's a population that was brought here from
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Speaker 3: Africa to serve the white man. And I thought we
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Speaker 3: were against that. I thought that, and I thought the
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Speaker 3: Republicans were the ones that were in favor of It's funny, how,
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Speaker 3: you know, we get the band back together and we
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Speaker 3: do the same thing we did two hundred years ago,
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Speaker 3: but because it's progressive Democrats doing it now, we don't
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Speaker 3: bat an eye for it. At four three four eight
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Speaker 3: A two four two one seventy of folks on the line.
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Speaker 3: So before we get to them, let we throw our
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Speaker 3: first things together here so that we know what we're
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Speaker 3: talking about reference points. Russia and Ukraine continue to trade
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Speaker 3: name calling over drone strikes alleged to have happened at
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Speaker 3: the home of President Vladimir Putin of Russia. Ukraine has
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Speaker 3: denied it carried out any strikes, describing it as a
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Speaker 3: complete fabrication. Hamas has officially confirmed the deaths of five
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Speaker 3: senior leaders in a statement released on Monday. At the
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Speaker 3: group's armed wing, the is odd In al Cassam Bridges.
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Speaker 3: Hamas said that Mohmar al Sinhwar, the brother of former
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Speaker 3: Hamas leader Yaha al Sinhwar, was killed during Israeli military
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Speaker 3: operations in Gaza, along with just shy of a dozen more.
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Speaker 3: Several Republican lawmakers in Minnesota released a statement calling on
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Speaker 3: Democratic Governor Tim Waltz to resign in light of the
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Speaker 3: unfolding fraud scandal that has gripped his administration. Attorney General
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Speaker 3: Pam Bondi announced Monday that the Department of Justice has
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Speaker 3: already arrested and charged ninety eight individuals with fraud in Minnesota,
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Speaker 3: eighty five percent of Somali discent. What's more, the Attorney
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Speaker 3: General says there may be more coming. Denny Hamblin having
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Speaker 3: tragedy off the racetrack this morning after his father come
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Speaker 3: to catastrophic injuries suffered during a house fire on Sunday.
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Speaker 3: Dennis Hamlin passed away in the church in the hospital
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Speaker 3: where he had been taken with as I said, what
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Speaker 3: they called catastrophic injuries. His wife, Mary Lou Hamlin, has
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Speaker 3: so far survived the immolation. The People's Liberation Army of
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Speaker 3: China staged another day of military drills around Taiwan, unleashing
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Speaker 3: a live fire show as part of what it called
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Speaker 3: Justice Mission twenty twenty five. The United States is offering
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Speaker 3: Ukraine security guarantees, at least they were before the story
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Speaker 3: of the drone strikes may have derailed the process, but
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Speaker 3: as of yesterday afternoon, Ukraine was looking at getting fit
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Speaker 3: fifteen years of security from the United States against a
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Speaker 3: Russian invasion, but he said he would have preferred it
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Speaker 3: to see closer to fifty and Saudi Arabia bombed Yemen's
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Speaker 3: port city of Mukala on Tuesday, saying a shipment of
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Speaker 3: weapons and munitions were being brought in for a separatist
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Speaker 3: movement there. Good morning, you're on the air with Joe.
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Speaker 3: Who's this?
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Speaker 8: Good morning?
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Speaker 3: Good morning, Joel. How are you, my friend?
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Speaker 8: I'm okay, good. It's hard when you're add to want
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Speaker 8: to pick the subjects that's in your brain. But I
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Speaker 8: wanted to say this. I mean, most of this stuff
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Speaker 8: is as I wrote you kind of sarcastically. The word
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Speaker 8: for today, kids is deflection. Sure, you know you have
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Speaker 8: purposely Why do you think China is doing this? They're
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Speaker 8: doing it because they know we have almost all like
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Speaker 8: maybe thirty percent of our navy in the in the uh,
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Speaker 8: you know, off of our western hemisphere near Venezuela, and
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Speaker 8: and and the and the Atlantic and the you know,
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Speaker 8: part of the Pacific, Okay, And and then and then
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Speaker 8: the Russian deflection is, uh, we're also stopping Russia's oil
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Speaker 8: to Cuba, and you know, stopping the profits to Russia
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Speaker 8: for you know, for for the Venezuela and oil and
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Speaker 8: and also uh, China is getting cut off on that too.
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Speaker 8: And so to say that that, uh, it was an
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Speaker 8: attempt to kill Putin, I mean, he's the master of
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Speaker 8: a deflection in disguise, you know, the agent that I
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Speaker 8: mean all this stuff. And then within our own internal
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Speaker 3: thank you, sir, man, keep your arms and legs inside
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Speaker 3: the ride until it comes to a complete stop. Right.
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Speaker 22: Absolutely, I'm going to hang on as we go through
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Speaker 3: That's the show. Well absolutely, so you have a great morning,
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Speaker 3: happy happy Tuesday.
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Speaker 22: Thanks show you too.
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Speaker 3: And I understand the point of gold and silver isn't
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Speaker 3: knowing it's never going to be zero, which is what's
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Speaker 3: happened in Tehran. Their their currency has cratered under their
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Speaker 3: their sanctions that have been imposed upon them. And this
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Speaker 3: leadership of a country needs to choose its leaders. I
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Speaker 3: know there are other countries that don't think that way,
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Speaker 3: but our foundational principles and understand that all of this.
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Speaker 3: You say, well, just get the win, Joe, how with
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Speaker 3: the constitution, hell with a bill of rights? Just get
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Speaker 3: the win. Get rid of the Somalis. Whether there's a
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Speaker 3: quick stick a pin in the Somali story for a second,
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Speaker 3: because there's more going on here, again under the banner
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Speaker 3: of distraction, but as the Declaration clearly lays out, governments
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Speaker 3: it is the essence of human rights to overthrow said government.
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Speaker 3: our problem is sometimes we have our own people in Congress,
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Speaker 3: Luckily gases come down considerably, so at least there's that.
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Speaker 3: And this is what they're trying to tag Trump for.
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Speaker 20: Bomb bomb, bom bom bomb.
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Speaker 3: This even came up yesterday in the commentariats that that's
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Speaker 3: a little bit. But the the the the idea that
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Speaker 3: allowing ran to collapse under its own power is it
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Speaker 3: is okay to look at, but we need to have
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Speaker 3: the plan, the plan that we didn't want to involve
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Speaker 3: ourselves in as Russia was falling. Because when Russia fell in,
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Speaker 3: Yeltsin's on the hood of the tank and the whole
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Speaker 3: thing went pear shaped in a few hours. Really, I
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Speaker 3: mean it was weeks in the brewing, but by the
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Speaker 3: What are you going to do with them? You're already
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Speaker 3: facing rebukes at home. The administration is for paying attention
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Speaker 3: to these countries in the world rather than America supposedly.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, GDP's up four point eight percent
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Speaker 3: and gas prices are down. Some states in the Union
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Speaker 3: President Trump in the administration isn't paying attention to America.
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Speaker 3: That's what his political opponents. Those are the people who
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Speaker 3: want to win the midterms, get a majority and start
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Speaker 3: unending impeachment proceedings on the president. So you need to
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Speaker 3: have a plan to help the Iranian people establish a
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Speaker 3: free government that's of their choosing. Now understand, they have
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Speaker 3: in exile a parliamentary government that was there. And this
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Speaker 3: prime minister getting elected, and it was at fifty four
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Speaker 3: British because he wants to keep the revenue from Iran's
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Speaker 3: oil fields and Britain hasn't done getting its it hasn't
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Speaker 3: finished with its colonialism just yet. And there were reasons Britain.
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Speaker 3: We talked about this some months and months ago, and
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Speaker 3: I received an email from a friend who said that
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Speaker 3: you're missing the point. Britain had very little still going
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Speaker 3: the oil revenue coming from places like Iran. British petroleum
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Speaker 3: big supporters in there and getting all the oil and
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Speaker 3: then selling it, and Iran's Prime minister said, no, we
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Speaker 3: want to control that, we want a new deal. And
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Speaker 3: the story has become almost commonplace to talk about the
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Speaker 3: state craft that was engaged in between m I five
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Speaker 3: mostly but at the request CIA was called in. They
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Speaker 3: had better assets than such. And what does this have
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Speaker 3: to do with intelligence, you say, well, nothing, It didn't
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Speaker 3: have to do with intelligence gathering. It had to do
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Speaker 3: with state craft. It had to do with getting somebody
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Speaker 3: who was on the team into power in Tehran. And
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Speaker 3: so they elevated the Shah, and the Shah without a
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Speaker 3: mandate from the people, started cracking heads and cracking down.
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Speaker 3: And it lasted for a while, twenty year, twenty odd years,
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Speaker 3: but eventually the deposed religious leaders in Iran, the Ayatola,
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Speaker 3: was able to turn an economic collapse into a return
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Speaker 3: to power. And we are so this seed of the
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Speaker 3: Persian empires was powerful then too. You know, people forget
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Speaker 3: that in the fifties the Islamic world was led in
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Speaker 3: a lot of ways by Iran even then, because it
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Speaker 3: was it was ironically this image of how West and
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Speaker 3: East could coexist, how West Eastern philosophy Eastern religious adherents
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Speaker 3: could live in a Western world. And maybe that was
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Speaker 3: a dog and pony show. But as Iran blows up
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Speaker 3: in the late seventies, by the early nineties, Russia is collapsing,
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Speaker 3: we have another opportunity to help and our alliances with
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Speaker 3: NATO and China to a degree, And don't forget we
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Speaker 3: counted on China to be a very big trading partner
35:17
Speaker 3: and they didn't want us helping Russia. They saw that
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Speaker 3: a collapse Russia gives them the field to be the
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Speaker 3: world's number two behind the United States, and since we
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Speaker 3: were buying everything from them anyway, what's really number two?
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Speaker 3: So don't discount although Nigel Farage makes a compelling cases
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Speaker 3: to why NATO should have led the way in helping
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Speaker 3: Russia up rather than saying, aha, I mean, kick some
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Speaker 3: dirt on you. There sucks to be you now, doesn't it.
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Speaker 3: And so we have opportunity and in what will we
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Speaker 27: Here are the Tuesday headlines that we're chasing. While the
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Speaker 27: The Celtics did lose to Portland. Brown can at that
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Speaker 3: Business news for Bangkok. European shares opened in Bangkok mixed
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Speaker 3: be one of those midterms races, and he had to
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Speaker 3: step out of the race for family reasons. But another
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Speaker 3: one who's continuing to hold their feet to the fire
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Speaker 3: while still protecting things like your right to keep in
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Speaker 3: bare arms, our right to free speech. But you actually
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Speaker 3: have to use the speech. You have to push back,
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Speaker 3: you have to show up and argue. Oregon, you know,
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Speaker 3: we've talked to some of the conservative leaders in Oregon.
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Speaker 3: That's starting to happen now, especially in the light of
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Speaker 3: the Summer of Love in twenty twenty. New York conserves
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Speaker 3: are starting to stand up. Granted, some of them are saying,
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Speaker 3: let's let New York become its own state. They want
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Speaker 3: to This is New York conservative's idea of It's like,
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Speaker 3: just let New York City and Long Island become their
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Speaker 3: own state, and then we'll be done with you and
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Speaker 3: we can have a Republican governor and Republican senators. We
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Speaker 3: tried that in Virginia. Washington, d C. Is supposed to
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Speaker 3: be a square footprint and the entire Arlington, Virginia area,
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Speaker 3: so we used to have a campaign called make DC
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Speaker 3: Square Again. We were gonna will we were willing to
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Speaker 3: trade that for DC's statehood because you take that enclave
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Speaker 3: out of our voting roles, Paul Man, Republicans would actually
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Speaker 3: start to win. But the first thing Republicans need to do,
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Speaker 3: like in Minnesota, is stand up. Hi.
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