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M and M EXTRA  MAY 13, 2026  Trump to China, Oval Office stories · The M&M Experience

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  Speaker 2: the other M Mike Gallagher, fresh off his broadcast, So
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  Speaker 2: what'd you do?
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  Speaker 3: What'd you do today, big fellow, Well, let me tell
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  Speaker 3: you something. We've we got it covered. You've got Texas covered.
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  Speaker 3: I've got South Carolina covered because there's two huge political
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  Speaker 3: you know, sort of tsunamis taking place here in South Carolina.
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  Speaker 3: It's redistricting and five recalcitrant Republicans I'll call them, many
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  Speaker 3: others are calling them rhinos, have defied President Trump. Egged
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  Speaker 3: on by the Senate Majority leader here in South Carolina.
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  Speaker 3: A fellow, a fellow who believes apparently that, And I
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  Speaker 3: saw this quote, and I thought, this is not possible.
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  Speaker 3: There's just no way. South Carolina is stronger when we
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  Speaker 3: have a vibrant Democratic Party. Well vibrants one way of
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  Speaker 3: putting it, I guess you could call, you know, shooting
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  Speaker 3: your opponents and throwing people down the steps and letting
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  Speaker 3: people burning people alive. Yeah, that's that's vibrant. So wait
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  Speaker 3: a minute, So I'm going to get to South Carolina.
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  Speaker 3: I mentioned John Corny and Ken Paxton. Holy moley, you'd
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  Speaker 3: have thought I lobbed, you know, a hand grenade into
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  Speaker 3: the into the tent, because people exploded with hot hot
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  Speaker 3: takes on that contentious race in your beloe state of Texas, Mark, because.
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  Speaker 2: Your guarantee that Paxton would win, did you run that
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  Speaker 2: up flag pole nationally?
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  Speaker 3: But most people agreed, although of the people who disagreed
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  Speaker 3: with me, they've got Ken Paxton out to be this dirty,
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  Speaker 3: rotten scoundrel. He's a terrible person, he's immoral, he's corrupt.
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  Speaker 3: So let's start there. I want to start with Texas
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  Speaker 3: because nobody does Texas better than Mark Davis and I'll
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  Speaker 3: proudly say, I don't think a few do South Carolina
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  Speaker 3: better than I do. So let's start at the lone
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  Speaker 3: star state. Because first of all, and I bounced this
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  Speaker 3: off of you, and I saw you roll your eyes
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  Speaker 3: this morning, and I said, tell me, your senator didn't
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  Speaker 3: really suggesting introduce a bill naming a highway in Texas
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  Speaker 3: for number forty seven. It's going to be Interstate forty seven.
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  Speaker 3: Get it?
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  Speaker 4: Get it in.
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  Speaker 3: Honor of Donald Trump, because apparently John Cornyn so desperately
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  Speaker 3: covets a Trump endorsement that he's willing to do that,
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  Speaker 3: probably knowing that this would be right up President Trump's alley.
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  Speaker 3: He'll love this, sure, So look to walk us through
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  Speaker 3: this contentious battle of this Texas Senate runoff between John
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  Speaker 3: Cornyn and Ken Paxton.
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  Speaker 2: Thirteen days from now, in May twenty six. It'll be
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  Speaker 2: the answer that Texas in the entire country are wondering
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  Speaker 2: about him, that is, is the era of John Cornyan
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  Speaker 2: over after twenty some years And the answer is a definite.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe.
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  Speaker 2: On my own show, after you and I were there
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  Speaker 2: and I caught your thoroughly well sourced and understandable confidence
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  Speaker 2: that the Paxton win. I said, I'll believe it when
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  Speaker 2: I see it, which is not skepticism, not at all.
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  Speaker 4: Please, I see the polls.
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  Speaker 2: I hear the calls from the people who say that
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  Speaker 2: that corner the corn's a dead man walking, that the
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  Speaker 2: time has come for for a new face, a new voice,
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  Speaker 2: someone we don't have to worry about how Trump loyal
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  Speaker 2: they're going to be, because Paxton has been for a decade,
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  Speaker 2: while Cornyn's Trump record has been.
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  Speaker 4: Shall we say, spotty.
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  Speaker 2: So as for this home stretch, where the polls have
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  Speaker 2: to be resonating in born in HQ, and he has
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  Speaker 2: to be wondering whether his time is coming to an end,
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  Speaker 2: He's going to do everything to try to convince what
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  Speaker 2: has been his base. Nobody's come close to beating Cornyan.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody has come remotely close in a primary forever. So
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  Speaker 2: this is the first time he's faced a real challenge
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  Speaker 2: in the primaries. So when you said this morning, it's
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  Speaker 2: an attempt to curry favor with Trump to get the endorsement,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that endorsement's happening. I don't think he
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  Speaker 2: thinks it's happening. What to bet so, I think what
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  Speaker 2: he is doing is currying favor with the the Trump
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  Speaker 2: loyal Republican voters who may be maybe the undecided voters
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  Speaker 2: who are thinking Paxton Cornyn's been pretty okay. He's been
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  Speaker 2: a real good soldier during Trump two point zero. Is
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  Speaker 2: that real or is it opportunistic? Is it bony? Is
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  Speaker 2: it something we can on? I asked Senator Cornyn on
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  Speaker 2: my radio show, will you be as Maga friendly as
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  Speaker 2: you seem to be now once you have won and
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  Speaker 2: even after Trump is gone? His reply to me, absolutely,
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  Speaker 2: And one either believes that or one does not.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So you said that you don't think Trump's gonna
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  Speaker 3: endorse either one of them? And I said, want to bet?
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  Speaker 3: And you just plowed ahead like you didn't even hear me,
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  Speaker 3: helloing on testing, testing, testing, testing. Want to bet, I'll
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  Speaker 3: I'll bet you he endorses one of them. And I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna I'm gonna wager a bet that he endorses Ken Paxton.
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  Speaker 2: I that would be the more characteristic one to make.
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  Speaker 2: But he's not going to put a shive in the
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  Speaker 2: ribs of a sitting United States senator who has been
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  Speaker 2: a good soldier during Trump two point zero.
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  Speaker 3: Now there's a highway, Now there's I forty seven. I mean.
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  Speaker 2: There will be I may have to eat this. I
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  Speaker 2: really may have to eat this. That there there, we
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  Speaker 2: would have had one. By now, there's thirteen days to go.
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  Speaker 2: There will be no Trump endorsement, and there should be
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  Speaker 2: no Trump endorsement.
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  Speaker 3: Should interesting.
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  Speaker 4: You should leave this too, should leave this to Texas.
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  Speaker 3: But let's make it interesting. Let's make it interesting. Oh lord,
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  Speaker 3: come up with the best steakhouse that you and Lisa
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  Speaker 3: love in in North Texas. Papa Huh Papa's, Papa's? Is that? That?
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  Speaker 3: Is that? It? All?
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  Speaker 5: Right?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 3: Right right?
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  Speaker 4: We're thirty five and loop well split you.
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  Speaker 3: Bet dinner dinner at Papa's.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're gonna keep coming in for that.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm going to be there for the donor thing
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  Speaker 3: coming up in a couple of weeks. Right, that's is
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  Speaker 3: that in June?
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  Speaker 4: So what it's a Monday in the middle of June,
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  Speaker 4: I believe.
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  Speaker 3: So by by then we'll know if Trump has endorsed anybody.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, we will, yeh will know.
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  Speaker 3: I will not. You want to you want to take
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  Speaker 3: my wager, I'll bet you dinner at Papa's that Trump
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  Speaker 3: is going to endorse not And I don't and again.
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  Speaker 2: I'll give you, I'll give you, I'll give you either one.
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  Speaker 2: I am so convinced there will be no endorsement. If
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  Speaker 2: he endorses either, can that you win?
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  Speaker 3: All right? And if he doesn't endorse, if he content
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  Speaker 3: because he said a week ago he's going to he said.
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  Speaker 4: Careful, careful, careful. No, He did not the question the question, listen,
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  Speaker 4: what do you say?
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  Speaker 2: The question was, I'm like, why haven't you endorsed or
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  Speaker 2: are you going to endorse?
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  Speaker 4: Indorse?
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  Speaker 2: His response was, I'll something along the lines of, I'll
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  Speaker 2: make a decision soon, one of those decisions, and the
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  Speaker 2: decisions could there are three decisions endorse Cornyn, endorse Paxton,
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  Speaker 2: or choose not to endorse. That is the decision he
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  Speaker 2: will make. He did not say I will endorse one
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  Speaker 2: of them or one or the other. He said, I'll
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  Speaker 2: make a decision soon, and his decision, his best decision,
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  Speaker 2: his likely decision.
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  Speaker 4: Is to stay out of it. I bet you literally.
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  Speaker 3: So so the decision. Oh so, I see what you're saying.
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  Speaker 3: He's kind of parsing his words when he says I'll
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  Speaker 3: make a decision. That's going to be a decision, not
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  Speaker 3: about who's to endorse, but whether to endorse, whether.
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  Speaker 4: To whether to endorse exactly?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, what's you know, and what's really wild, Mark,
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  Speaker 3: is how Trump has played kingmaker in Republican politics. Last
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  Speaker 3: night he was nine nine and zero in Trump endorsed
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  Speaker 3: candidates in West Virginia and in Nebraska nine and oh.
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  Speaker 3: He has endorsed so far, according to ballot Pedia, two
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  Speaker 3: hundred and eighty six candidates in Republican primaries across the country,
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  Speaker 3: including weighing in on thirty three primaries for US Senate.
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  Speaker 3: But he is staying out of this race. And I look,
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  Speaker 3: your instincts are great, and you know Texas politics as
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  Speaker 3: well as anybody in America. It just seems, frankly, it
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  Speaker 3: seems uncharacteristic of Trump to stay on the sidelines.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, but if Trump likes to endorse in
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  Speaker 2: a couple of ways, Number one, when there's one of
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  Speaker 2: them whom he clearly prefers at the willful exclusion of
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  Speaker 2: the other. All right, And I know I can fill
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  Speaker 2: the lines up on any given day on how unreliable
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  Speaker 2: Cornan has been over the years at times in his
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  Speaker 2: Trump loyalty, But lately he's been pretty golden and Trump
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  Speaker 2: doesn't want to give him a middle finger after some
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  Speaker 2: recent loyalty. So let's say that he rewarded that loyalty
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  Speaker 2: by endorsing Cornan, which people thought he was going to
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  Speaker 2: do for about ten minutes a month or two ago.
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  Speaker 4: I said, there's no way he's going to do that.
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  Speaker 2: Paxton has been a loyal Maga Warrior friend for a decade.
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  Speaker 2: So the reason Trump has often said I like both guys.
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  Speaker 2: He has a reason to like both guys and no
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  Speaker 2: reason to antagonize either guy or the millions of voters
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  Speaker 2: who like them both.
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  Speaker 3: I'm loving the live comments on our YouTube page right now.
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  Speaker 3: Hal I'm extra and check it out. Scott just wrote,
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  Speaker 3: it really disgusts me when these politicians get ugly and
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  Speaker 3: make accusations and run dirty campaigns like John Cornyan is doing.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't voted for Cornan in the primaries. In three
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  Speaker 3: straight elections, Cornan has gone pretty negative, has.
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  Speaker 2: Any Oh lord, Well, there's negative and there's negative, which
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  Speaker 2: is which is why if the losing side is going
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  Speaker 2: to have to dust themselves off, put on their big
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  Speaker 2: boy pants, big girl pants, whatever kind of pants, and
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  Speaker 2: go vote for the other person, which will be hard
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  Speaker 2: because it's been really brutal because we got to prevent
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  Speaker 2: woke Opie James Talerico from becoming senator. The Paxton people,
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  Speaker 2: if they lose, they will have to shrug and go
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  Speaker 2: vote for somebody whom they who may believe to be
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  Speaker 2: insufficiently conservative ideally right. The Cornin people, if they lose,
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  Speaker 2: they are going to have to dust themselves off and
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  Speaker 2: go vote for Ken Paxton, whom they have been told
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  Speaker 2: is one of the worst human beings ever to walk
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  Speaker 2: the earth. Corning has gone in flooded the zone with
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  Speaker 2: all the personal stuff, which and Ken and I have
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  Speaker 2: been friends for a long time.
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  Speaker 4: It's not like it's false. Okay, so, but he has
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  Speaker 4: chosen to weaponize.
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  Speaker 3: This Wait a minute, but rewind rewind.
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  Speaker 2: The personal stuff. The corruption stuff is stupid. But but
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  Speaker 2: but Ken has has made problems for himself personally, and.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, you know what the public is the way we see.
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  Speaker 2: The divorce in progress, the charges of adultery, the the
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  Speaker 2: affairs is not good.
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  Speaker 4: But but but but here's the thing. But is it
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  Speaker 4: just qualifying?
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  Speaker 2: Apparently not in an era when and I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to I don't want to be lectured by any Democrat
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  Speaker 2: on this Bill Clinton's having sex in the actual oval
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  Speaker 2: office and remains one of the revered Democrats to this day.
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  Speaker 2: So I'll take no lectures about such things from Democrats.
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  Speaker 3: And not for nothing here. And I say this as
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  Speaker 3: a staunch Trump supporter. He ain't exactly mother, Teresa. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: this is true, but but that's way, that's way back.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it goes.
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  Speaker 2: Paxton stuff is more recent, and Clinton stuff was in
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  Speaker 2: the actual office while he was president, I know, and
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  Speaker 2: so and to explain that, because real quickly, the corning
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  Speaker 2: thing has been Hey, character matters.
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  Speaker 4: I believe character matters.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, we we all do, and yes, yes, yes, but
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  Speaker 2: here's here. Let me weave this and see if you
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  Speaker 2: think this works. Every Paxton voter, every Republican voter, everybody
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  Speaker 2: wishes that all of our standard bearers were blemish, free, wise, morally,
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  Speaker 2: upright philosopher kings. It's not always going to happen. So
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  Speaker 2: when it doesn't, the ultimate question is, and there's no
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  Speaker 2: this is the most important question, and there aren't very
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  Speaker 2: many more as important, and that is what kind of
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  Speaker 2: senator are you going to be? What kind of senator
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  Speaker 2: are you going to be?
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  Speaker 4: And so the.
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  Speaker 2: Desire for grassroots MAGA friendly Republicans in Texas to have
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  Speaker 2: a guaranteed Trump harmonious senator. In order to get that,
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  Speaker 2: they're willing to have a heaping helping of forgiveness for
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  Speaker 2: Attorney General Paxton. And I do not blame them if
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  Speaker 2: the thing I mean, don't blame them for having that attitude.
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  Speaker 3: And if the theme is indeed with President Trump, and
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  Speaker 3: I know the response to people who you know, attack
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  Speaker 3: him for or you know, multiple marriages, or you know,
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  Speaker 3: having any kind of alleged you know, improprieties. If the
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  Speaker 3: argument is we're not electing our pastor, and I think
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  Speaker 3: that is important. We would love to have, like you said,
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  Speaker 3: virtuous people in their personal lives, and we're not electing
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  Speaker 3: our pastor. What kind of job can you do for
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  Speaker 3: the American people? What can you do about the economy,
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  Speaker 3: What can you do about the border? What do you do?
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  Speaker 3: Do you support law enforcement or not? Do you support
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  Speaker 3: the US military? Well, that same standard has to apply
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  Speaker 3: to Ken Paxton, Well.
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  Speaker 2: It does, but also on religion, don't say what on
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  Speaker 2: religious issues? President Trump has not walked the same evangelically
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  Speaker 2: reliable walk that a lot of people have in public life.
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  Speaker 2: But you know what he is, and you know what
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  Speaker 2: people like Paxton will be. They will be an m
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  Speaker 2: One Abrams tank, plowing through the woke garbage that threatens
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  Speaker 2: all of our religious freedom, threatening to marginalize and even
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  Speaker 2: criminalize that's right Judeo Christian beliefs. So that is why
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  Speaker 2: the evangelical support will not will not subside.
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  Speaker 3: It's not because evangelicals know that President Trump has done
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  Speaker 3: more on behalf of religious liberty than just about any
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  Speaker 3: other president that can come to mind. He's done an
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  Speaker 3: extraordinary job of protecting the rights of Christians and people
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  Speaker 3: of faith. There's just and again, he is an imperfect vessel.
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  Speaker 3: I'm never going to accuse Look, I've always said this.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know on the number of occasions I've been
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  Speaker 3: able to sit down with him and talk to him,
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  Speaker 3: or interview him, or you know, I've been very lucky
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  Speaker 3: to go to the Oval office a few times. He's
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  Speaker 3: a delightful guy to be around in person. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: If he's somebody who I would typically be a friend with,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know. You know, who knows what?
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  Speaker 4: Would I'd hang with him? I'd hang with him all day.
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  Speaker 3: He's a lot of fun. He's a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 3: And he's and he is the funniest guy in the world.
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  Speaker 3: Speaking of funny, I got to tell a quick story
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  Speaker 3: about you mentioned Bill and Ma like in the Oval Office,
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  Speaker 3: and you and I were very very privileged and very
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  Speaker 3: blessed to be invited to the Oval Office to meet
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  Speaker 3: with George W. Bush. And I was. I got to
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  Speaker 3: go a couple of times. And I don't think this
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  Speaker 3: was your visit, but one of the visits I was there,
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  Speaker 3: President Bush actually gave us a tour of the the
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  Speaker 3: Oval Office area, including sort of the outer sanctum. And
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  Speaker 3: right off the Oval Office is a little room. It's
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  Speaker 3: a study. Okay, now it is you. It's a study,
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  Speaker 3: all right. And and and when we were there, President
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  Speaker 3: Bush took us in there to show what was in
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  Speaker 3: that room. And what was in that room, incidentally, was
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  Speaker 3: a collection of George Bush bobbleheads, which was really funny.
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  Speaker 3: And then there was a giant revolver in a glass
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  Speaker 3: case and President Trump, our President Bush rather lifted up
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  Speaker 3: that case and was showing us it was the gun
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  Speaker 3: that Saddam Hussein had with him in the in the
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  Speaker 3: spider hole he was he was cool an ear man's
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  Speaker 3: and that was presented to President Bush as as as
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  Speaker 3: a token of thanks. Anyway, while he's standing there holding
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  Speaker 3: this glass case with the and he's looking at it,
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  Speaker 3: he's looking down at it. One of his aides and
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  Speaker 3: I forget, for the life of me, I can't remember
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  Speaker 3: who said it, but they said, in a very loud voice, hey, fellas,
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  Speaker 3: you know what this room is, don't you now? The
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  Speaker 3: room is known as the Ante Room, and it's again
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  Speaker 3: it's a private room right off the Oval Office. And
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  Speaker 3: of course I knew the answer to that. The guy says.
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  Speaker 3: There's a long pause, and Bush is just looking down,
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  Speaker 3: kind of smiling, and the guy says, in a loud voice,
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  Speaker 3: this is the room where Bill and Monica spend some
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  Speaker 3: good quality time together. And President Bush continued to just
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  Speaker 3: look down and not respond. I kept looking at him
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  Speaker 3: for a reaction, and finally the man says, in a
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  Speaker 3: loud voice, we had to give this room a real
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  Speaker 3: good scrubbing down when we first moved into the Oval
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  Speaker 3: offe imagine, and we're all breaking out after and Bush.
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  Speaker 3: President Bush just looked down and he chuckled softly. He
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  Speaker 3: didn't say anything. He didn't want to But remember but
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  Speaker 3: President Bush said to us, were you were? We were
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  Speaker 3: there for that one.
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  Speaker 2: We were there just December fourteenth, two thousand and eight,
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  Speaker 2: or excuse me, or January fourteenth. January fourteenth, two thousand
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: and nine. He was six days from being an ex president.
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: It was said that it was one of the last
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: media encounters he had with anybody in the Oval office.
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: And you and I were part of a very lucky group.
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: Who was out was it Mark Levin?
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: Mark Levin, the great Neil Boorts, Michael medved Uh.
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: I think that gentleman was right.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: Guy from North a guy who somehow has achieved talk
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: show prominence with a show in no with a show
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: in North Dakota, and yet he was noteworthy for being
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: an Upper Midwest kind of all.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: Scott Hennan, Scott Hennan.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he lost like three hundred pounds. Remember that guy,
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: He lost a lot of weight. Wow.
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: I didn't know that.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he was a big friends anyway. But there was
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: a hand of us and it was just a what
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: a what? And again you talk about wanting to hang
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: out with somebody, you want to hang out with George W. Bush.
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: He's a blast to hang out with. These he's folks. See,
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: I mean, he puts those boots up on the table
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: and you know, just just told stories. And as we
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: were leaving, as we were filing out of the Oval
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: office after our meeting with him, he stopped us. He said, guys,
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: I want to just say one thing to you. He said,
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: you know, Barack Obama is about to occupy this office.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: I know it's it's going to be your job to,
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: you know, to to challenge him and to and to
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: and do it and to criticize him. Give the guy
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: a chance. It's the hardest job in the world. There
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: is no there's nothing like having the weight of this
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: country on your shoulders. Just try to be fair and
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: give Obama a chance. Now we can look back at
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: that in retrospect and say it was misguided or it
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: was I always thought that was such a classy George
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: Bush type of a mes.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Was it was very very typical. Do you want the
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: adjunct to were you did we all walk out together
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: onto the frosty front lawn on that January morning? Were
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: we all together? Were you within earshot of Mark Levin
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: as we walked out the front door and off to
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: Pennsylvania Avenue. Because the rest the rest of the here,
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: we here with everybody, you know what.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: The news is. So we're all walking out and similar theme.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: I think one of us, I don't know who it was, said, well,
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: that's a good thing we got in there, because in
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: a few days we ain't gonna be welcome back at
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: the Oval Office anymore. Another Obama reference, and a woman
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: named Ellen Rattner with the talk radio news service, Remember
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: that they they're there no matter who the president is,
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: providing audio clips to talk shows and news departments and
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: stuff like that. She was walking out behind us and
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: she told all of us gathered. Conservative talk show host said, guys,
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: don't be so sure.
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: I've been in.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Touch with some of these incoming Obama people and uh
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: and I think they they really might very well reach
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: out to you guys for a similar kind of gathering.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: And there was a moment of silence, and shattering the silence,
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: Mark Levin said.
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: Screw it, you can save my plane.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: Fair, I don't need to be brought here to be
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: told how great socialism is.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: That's Mark Levin was so awesome and and you're right,
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: and his voice just pierced the air. That does it
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: already does right, And then, and gosh is he in
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: the thick of it right now with things Megan Kelly
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: and they're just going going nut. By the way, look
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: at that. We got over one hundred and some people
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: on the YouTube channel today. It's kind of bussy. I like, look,
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: I'm looking at I'm looking at comments. I mean, here's
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: James writes. I think that the Paxton team should hit
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: Cornan's refusal to actively get the save back past by
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: refusing to pressure Thoon. That's a winning approach in the
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: last day.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: The Cornyn's entire approach is keep me. I have clout.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: I know you know how the field is striped. If
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Paxton doesn't even know where the bathroom is in the
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Senate experience experience experience, to which a good retort is, Hey,
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: if you've got so much experience and so much clout,
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: why couldn't you drag the Save America Act across the
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: finish line?
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: Huh?
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: So you know, show me something in a remaining minute
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: or two of oval office, would you do something? And
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: I actually would like to know what it meant to you.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: I've been there precisely once, you've been there precisely twenty times,
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: and I think I.
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: Was trying total up the other day. I think nine
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: I think are nine times.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: And it totally never gets old. Can we take a
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: couple of minutes, because I if I were driving around listening,
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: if I'm just a minute on whoever the president is,
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: because I will never forget what what it is like
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: to walk in and sit down. And because when President
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Bush was talking, and he was I think he ran
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: along with us and did you have listeners, Go hey,
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: you need to tell him that the bailouts were wrong.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: To stop it. You don't go in there. He's six
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: days for You're not going to argue with the president
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: the office.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: You don't remember when I asked him about pardoning one
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: of the border patrol agents and he got mad at
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: me and he said, were you there for that?
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: Was?
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: That? Was that your visit?
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: Okay, wait a minute, Wait a minute, wait, okay, there's history.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: And maybe there was a there was a border patrol
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: agent who was being charged criminally because he shot an
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: illegal and there was a big, big hue and cry,
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: and and there was a belief that President Bush could
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: commute or his sentence or pardon him. Well, I thought, well,
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: I'll bring it up. I don't know any better?
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: What are you saying?
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: I said, President Bush, is there any chance that you
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: might considering I forget his name, the border patrol agent,
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: but it was a big cause celeb. And I said,
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: is there any chance you might considering partnering or commuting
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: his sentence? And I remember the other host looking at
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: me like, you idiot, you can't find it. I mean,
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: I'm well, well, some of them, but Mark Levin probably did.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: And he looked like, what in the world are you doing?
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: And after a long pause, and President Bush looked down,
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: he looked up at me and he said, surely you're
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: not going to be the guy that walks into the
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: Oval office and actually asks the President of the United
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: States in advance as to whether or not he will
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: commute or pardon uh somebody. I wanted to crawl like
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: under the rug.
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: Believe I do remember that if there was.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: A hole that I could have climbed. I was so embarrassed.
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Fine, but the whole thing, as he was talking and
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: everybody was involved in a variety of Q and a
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: I couldn't keep from his words were still in my ear.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: I was still paying attention. I wasn't zoning out you
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: can't not look around and just go what's happened in
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: this room? And I don't mean what you were talking
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: about earlier. Good thing of history has happened in this
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: in this room. How many world leaders and commanders in
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: chief and other people have sat where I am sitting,
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: have seen the trappings that I'm now surrounded with. It
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: was just mind blowing to Eddy.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: I mean, you think about Kennedy and Ronald Reagan and
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: these huge monumental decisions and the anguish that was and
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: and you're you're so right. I've shared this many times
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: and taught every single time I've gone. I get it's
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: so easy to be so distracted. Yeah, and you and
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: you don't listen to President Trump, you know, you don't
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: even listen to Or I was, I was in there
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: like looking.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: Around, or can I get you something?
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: Hard? Well? When President Bush too, because if you remember,
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: the door was propped open, and those damn dogs were
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: coming in and out of the over the office. He
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: had those little tear you remember that, And I thought,
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: and I remember thinking, first of all, and I'm not
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: trying to get anybody in trouble here talking to school,
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: but the carpet was dirty which I thought was astounding.
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: And by the way, the carpet ain't dirty in the US.
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: A bit of a germophobe.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: Now, I will say this about Trump's modifications to the
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: Oval Office. It kind of looks like Versailles on steroids.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: I mean, there's gold, gold lead. If you you if
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: you don't like gold, you'll break out in hives and
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: you go to the Oval Office. These days, the president
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: likes his gold. And in fact, have you seen the
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: gold Like the kurtsif sign outside the Oval Office it
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: says the Oval.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: Office, as if people need clarity on where they are.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: But he put one up. He put it up.
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: It's it's tremendous.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: It starts it's something I don't know, tremendous, but that's okay.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: But but you get distracted and and you're watching. I
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: was watching the dogs come in and out, and I
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: was also I was also very intrigued by the bad
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: acoustics in the room. I mean it's an oval it
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: is the Oval Office. Yeah, and the sound doesn't it's
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: not dead. It's like really weird. Your voice bounces around
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: in there kind of strangely. But you're right, Mark. You
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: think about how blessed we have been to get to
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: go to that seat of power that is crazy arguably
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: the most famous room in the world, the Oval Office,
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: and to have been there on a number of occasions.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: All right, let's let's talk about if we can. I
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: want to talk China, because this is three years ago.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: We were at a low point within our relationship with China,
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: a bunch of you know, diplomatic disputes and you know,
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: worries about Taiwan. The Biden administration. The way Axios tells
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: the story, the Biden administration decided to pull out all
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: the stops to try to build a rapport between Biden
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: and Xijingping. But it didn't come together. I mean, you know,
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: Biden didn't know what he had for breakfast, so that
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: that wasn't going to work. So the way some reporters
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: are describing this, Trump, Trump and g are are engaged
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: in a bid for a grand bargain between the two superpowers.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: That this visit the President Trump is on right now
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: is one of the most incredible opportunities for America and
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: for China. Now we have this love hate weird relationship
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: with China, and I get that, and I acknowledge it,
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: but I saw somebody point something out about those who
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: are accompanying President Trump to Beijing, and I want to
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: share this with you. This is astounding. This is why
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: this is so epic. Mark. So, in addition to you know,
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: the normal delegation and the security and the reporters and
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: all that, there are a number of world leaders CEOs,
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: some of the biggest CEOs in the world, Bard air
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: Force one. We're talking the CEOs of Tesla, Navidia, Apple,
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: black Rock, Boeing, Goldman, Sachs, City Group, ge quailcom Micron, Blackstone, Cargill.
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: They're all on they were all on Air Force one.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: Trump confirmed that many other undisclosed CEOs are on the plane. Mark,
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: this is the largest corporate delegation ever to accompany a
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: city US president, which I think about.
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: The guy I was referring to is Elon. Elon on
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: the plane tweeted Air Forces on the plane as well.
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: And why do you and what do you think is
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: the message of that?
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: Well, first of all, the ask is that she will
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: open China's market to US business, and he'll do it
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: directly and with great pomp and circumstance on camera, you know,
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: in front of the world. Twelve of the world's most
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: powerful CEOs in the world in the room with him
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: at the time, the combined market cap of the companies represented.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: You want to put that on paper, and if there's
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: a deal announcement, if there is something like that, and
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: every CEO on the plane needed some need something specific
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: from China. They need KIP licenses, they need manufacturing access.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: If she says yes to even half of what they want,
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: the trade war framework changes immediately overnight, nothing marked, nothing
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: like this has ever happened in the history of US
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: China relations.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: It would be it would be magnificent. And I just
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: got to ask, and what and what does China get?
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: As they know, fools China, what are we going to
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: have to give them?
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: Well, that's the concern, and the freak break on the
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: tear how about a break on the tariffs, that terriff.
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: Of course you start there. But the worry is that
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: whatever we give them, and you're so right, they're going
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: to have an exp of something in return. We got
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: to be and Trump's got to be very careful not
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: to compromise national security, not to give away because look,
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: China is I mean, do you describe them as an
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: ally or an adversary.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: Oh, they're not an ally in any way, shape or form.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: They are a trading partner, and that just means money.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: Traveling in that way does not at all. An ally
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: implies goodwill. It implies friendship, which there can be moments
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: of in which I hope there are moments of during
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: this visit, But ally means allied.
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, I don't. I think that enemy might
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: be overstated.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: Rival works very well. Adversary I think works pretty well,
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: and that's why anything we do. I don't trust them
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: as far as we could throw them, and as far
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: there was a story that broke this past week, past
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: few days, there's something I absolutely don't want. But midd
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: all these business deals traveling back and forth, and these
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: deals that might be of benefit to American companies, I
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: think that's great. But I think what China also wants
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: to do is invest about a trillion dollars in the
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: acquisition of enormous amounts of American property to start businesses
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: in America, which any other country we'd say great. Invest
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: in America, I actively do not want trillions of dollars
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: of Chinese business foothold on American soil. So I don't
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: know how we gracefully say no.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: To that well, or should we? Should we?
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: Do?
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: You agree?
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: Now? The outcome of President Trump's historic visit to China
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: could move markets more than any FED meeting or any
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: decision about interest rates you ever do. And this is
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: what I did on the show today, And I want
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: to close today's episode by bouncing this off of you,
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: my friend. I have this strange, overwhelming feeling of optimism
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: about the next six months. I've just got this feeling
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: that this war in Iran is going to end, that
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: the strait of horror movez is going to open, that
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: there is going to be a breakthrough, remarkable result from
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: Trump's China visit, which is also going to help the
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: economy because right now, let's face it, everything is affordability. Affordability, affordability.
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: That's the challenge that the Trump administration is facing right now.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: And you know, I've been talking to a number of
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: people on Capitol Hill and people who quietly tell me
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: with great confidence, and a lot of them are saying
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: it publicly. You watch and see what happens to gas
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: prices when the straight of Horn moves reopen. Yeah, buddy,
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: it's gonna be dramatic.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: Okay, it won't be instantaneous, and it doesn't have to
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: be back down to three dollars. But if it's at
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: four fifty, if it goes to four sixty or four
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: to seventy before we're done, if it drops fifty cents
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: in two weeks, at least, everybody will have the feeling
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: that it's boring in the right direct.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: But it won't be enough. It won't be enough. And
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: what I'm being told is it's going to go way
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: below four dollars, three dollars three?
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: How quickly?
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: Quick quick? Senator Lindsey Graham told a local reporter the
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: other day, you will be stunned at how quickly it drops.
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: So look, and I've just got this funny feeling. Mark,
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: I'm just I don't know. The Pannikins are everywhere. The
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: people that are are are beating their chest and saying
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: it's all coming to an end. It's all. They're right now,
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: they're wrong, And I've just got this great optimistic belief. Look,
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: I don't I don't know that it's I want to
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: play Harry Ain for you here before we go. This
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: is important. This is what I love about not having
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: any time in strains. We can we can go at
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: it here. We can take some time because this is
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: really really good stuff. I want to share with you
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: what the numbers guru. He did a deep dive Harry
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: Anton and John Berman last night CNN poll, a new
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: CNN poll revealing the Democrats are in big trouble. Check
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: out this deep dive that they did on CNN.
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: But I think this poul serves as a big time
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: reality check for Democrats, and that is it ain't over yet,
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: especially with the redistrict thing. When we look ahead to
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: the twenty twenty six race or Congress, you would have
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: thought that the Democrats lead would expand on the generic
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: congressional ballot. It didn't happen. Look in March, Democrats are
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: up by six points. Look at this now, Democrats are
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: up by three points. And I want you to note
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: the yellow lettering no clear leader. It is within the
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: margin of error. So despite all of the talk about
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: Donald Trump's on popularity, the fact is Republicans very much
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: remain in the game when it comes to the congressional midterms,
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: which are occurring in what six or seven months at
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: this point. Yes, and don't call me Shirley, So a
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: lead of three points in the generic ballot test. Here
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: does that get the job done?
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: No?
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: No, it might not actually get the job done. And
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: I love any reference to airplane, I will say, and
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  Speaker 5: Leslie Nielson, look at this. Okay, take a look here.
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  Speaker 5: Democrats in the national House vote margin a coin. To
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  Speaker 5: my estimate, what they need for control with redistricting in
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  Speaker 5: terms of the national popular vote is somewhere of a
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  Speaker 5: win between three and four points. What's CNN's current poll
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  Speaker 5: with no clear leader, It's a three point advantage. If
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  Speaker 5: this were in fact the actual result come election day,
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  Speaker 5: the race for Congress, the race of the House, would
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  Speaker 5: be basically a toss up. And that is why the
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  Speaker 5: redistricting efforts that have been happening are so important. Because
• 35:12
  Speaker 5: before the redistricting happened, Democrats essentially just needed to win
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  Speaker 5: the national House popular vote in order to win control
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  Speaker 5: of the House of Representatives. But now with the redistricting
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  Speaker 5: their ladder they had to climb ever higher, and a
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  Speaker 5: three point win may very well not do it. This
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  Speaker 5: is well within the realm of possibilities. Could be Democrats
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  Speaker 5: take back the House. You know, if Democrats outperform the
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: CNN pull by a few points they take it back,
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  Speaker 5: but they could underperform as well, and that would be
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: big time trouble. As I said this at the start here,
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  Speaker 5: this game is most certainly not over Republicans very much
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  Speaker 5: in the race for the House of Representative. In that game,
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: all right, I was saying, you know, the President's.
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  Speaker 3: Approval on that concludes I like our chances.
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  Speaker 2: I was going to say, do you do you officially
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  Speaker 2: like our chances? That is incredible? On the on the
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  Speaker 2: already established premise that the clock has no meaning, can
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: I borrow like two minutes to do this? That there
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: is a feature There's a feature that I've had in
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  Speaker 2: mind that I could that I could have done any day,
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  Speaker 2: and we just never got to it because we just,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we just didn't. And I'll tell you what
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  Speaker 2: it is. It could be fun on many days, and
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  Speaker 2: the reason I haven't is because we're just doing so
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  Speaker 2: much other stuff. There is no end to the stuff
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  Speaker 2: we can do now. On the eminem radio experience, I
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: always lead in frequently with a musical birthday, right, and
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: I'm by which.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, can I say, can I can I?
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  Speaker 3: Can I say? For the first time since we've known
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  Speaker 3: each other for many years. Yeah, I'm so tired. I
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  Speaker 3: stopped doing.
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  Speaker 4: Well.
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  Speaker 3: First of all, I think it takes time away from
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: you and me.
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  Speaker 4: Fifteen minutes, what's thirty seconds of James Taylor.
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: It's different, you love. You're more plugged in and probably
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: a better reflection to the audience than I am. You're
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: more plugged into musical stuff like that than I am.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not. I'm just not the abusic that you are.
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  Speaker 3: You right, you writ you reel off names of bands,
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  Speaker 3: and I don't know who the hell you're talking about.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, all right, go ahead, I'm sorry. I just get
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: off on my beat. But then then here's the good news.
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  Speaker 4: Here's your good news.
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  Speaker 2: In my search, in my search of birthdays and stuff
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  Speaker 2: like that, through the history, there there are such a
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: thing as other birthdays, some other parts of show business,
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  Speaker 2: some politics, blah blah blah. So here real quick, quick,
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  Speaker 2: blam bam bam. Here's a musical birthday you'll care about.
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  Speaker 2: It is one, especially since you're in South Carolina. How
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: about of Hooty and the Blowfish fame, the great Darius Rucker,
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: who has a country career as well. He is sixty.
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  Speaker 2: We'll let that go. Because that's musical. H Were you
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  Speaker 2: a fan of Maud the Great? Be the Great b
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  Speaker 2: Arthur born this date nineteen twenty two.
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: You know she was?
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: She was Edith's cousin, right, she was just cousin Maud.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: The episode of All in the Family where she shows
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: up and there's instant tension between her and Archie. Absolute
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  Speaker 2: TV history. Just great be Arthur born this date nineteen
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  Speaker 2: twenty two, passed away in nine. Hey, here's one. You
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  Speaker 2: were eighteen for this? Do you remember the Jonestown massacre,
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  Speaker 2: the whole nine hundred people. That's where drinking the kool
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: aid comes from, right, obviously? Jim Jones born this date
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  Speaker 2: nineteen thirty one, died obviously nineteen seventy eight. I mean
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  Speaker 2: I was a kid for a young adult for that
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  Speaker 2: as well. The congressman where a lot of these people's
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: temple people were from. He went down there to investigate.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: They killed him, Leo Ryan, they killed him on the
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  Speaker 2: airstrip and not two years later, not two years later,
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  Speaker 2: circa nineteen eighty, the wonderful actor Powers Booth is on
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  Speaker 2: a CBS two part mini series called Like Guyana Tragedy
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: or something like that. It's burned absolutely burned into my brain.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: Forgotten Republican John Kasik is seventy four today, great actor
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: Harvey Kayitel, a pulp fiction reservoir Dogs copp Land. Harvey
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: Kayitel is eighty seven. It's acting, you like acting?
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: Oh well, is he through yet? Is he? I want
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: to know when John k six's birthday is? What? But
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: this is a birthday thing. This is a phenomenon because
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: I hate I don't even care about birthdays. Who forget yours?
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: You forget you guys, didn't forget mine last year. But
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: I'm terrible at birthdays. But I don't know. Look, here's
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  Speaker 3: what I want to do. Let's wrap by reading some
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: comments from the YouTube page, because we go.
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  Speaker 4: We've got a couple hundred people in there listening to.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: This is cool, first faith story, hearing about your visits
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: to the Oval office, Scott, Mike and Mark. I'm really
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: loving the new eminem extra here on YouTube. And finally
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: from Mad Mike of Jacksonville, Florida. The image of Mike
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: on the eminem logo page is downright scary. Now he
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: has been put that up because somebody that love designed.
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: A little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Well, she did well, My wonderful Bride, official graphics consultant
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: of eminem Extra. What she provided was pictures of us,
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: gave them to I want to say chat GPT.
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: We talked about the purple.
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  Speaker 2: Backgrounds and that's kind of our motif and that's what
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: it yielded.
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  Speaker 3: And I thought, I think we looked. I think we
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: looked really looks bad. My left poler is like sticking
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: out like a fag. If you get her to sharpen
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: that fang a little bit. File that baby downs and
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: the and the two giant microphones on either.
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  Speaker 4: Side, just offering over our shoulders.
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: But you know what, but in tribute to Lisa, we're
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: never losing that logo.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: No no no no no no no no no no
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: last thing on the YouTube back and forth page. Here
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  Speaker 2: here's a guy who says I was an amateur radio
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: operator and spoke with someone in Jonestown at the compound.
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: Oh god, wow wow.
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: Alrighty, So thanks for everybody on YouTube. Thank you. Never
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: drink the kool aid.
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: Never drink the kool aid and join us every day
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: for the eminem Extra. Have a great one, see y'all,