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Gregg Jarrett | Legal Commentator & Author | 04-29-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Now let's do it to me about ten minutes here
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  Speaker 1: with the great, great great legal mind over at Fox
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  Speaker 1: News and now with Sid Rosenberg. Babe and regular on
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  Speaker 1: this show, my buddy Greg Jarrett. Greg, Good, Wednesday morning, pal.
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  Speaker 2: How are you damn fine? Thanks? Happy to hear the
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  Speaker 2: tunes of one of my old favorite rock pop bands. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: you saw on concert many many years.
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  Speaker 1: Very good, Greg. You know, usually people just know roundabout
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  Speaker 1: but you just nailed that. That's very impressive.
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  Speaker 2: Well, listen, I'm an old timer and and I love
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  Speaker 2: the old rock.
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  Speaker 1: And roll me too. I am all about classic rock.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. I don't like rock. Sorry, I don't like
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  Speaker 1: any of the new music. I'm classic rock. I do
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  Speaker 1: like the old ballads, like there's a station light up
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  Speaker 1: m here in New York. Give me a little diamond
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  Speaker 1: Streisan Manelo once in a while. But I'm all about
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  Speaker 1: classic rock. I'm right with you, Greg. Let's let's get
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  Speaker 1: to this Jim call Me story. Look, it's silly they
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  Speaker 1: can ask them for this, and you know it's I
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  Speaker 1: hate Jim call Me. I hate him, and I do
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  Speaker 1: think he hates the President, and I do think he
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  Speaker 1: would not be upset if somebody actually murdered the president.
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  Speaker 1: I really believe that. But this is silly. But what
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  Speaker 1: it does for Todd Blanche is it says to President Trump,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to be exactly what Pam BONDI wasn't. And
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  Speaker 1: that's why maybe instead of Zelden or Pierol or Dylan,
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  Speaker 1: I'm the right guy for the job. What are your thoughts, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I don't disagree with your analysis. I think there's some
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  Speaker 2: motivation there as you've described it. I think the legal question,
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  Speaker 2: if it ever gets to a jury, is pretty straightforward.
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  Speaker 2: Under the statue, to comy intend to threaten the life
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  Speaker 2: of the president, in other words, was it willful? Interestingly,
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  Speaker 2: the second charge against comy, which is communicating it to
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  Speaker 2: the public electronically, that allows for a lesser standard of
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  Speaker 2: recklessly making a threat that you know disregards the risk
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  Speaker 2: of violence. Now you know the grand jury in North
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  Speaker 2: Carolina obviously thought this was a true threat. And yeah,
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  Speaker 2: at trial, the standard or proof, as we know, beyond
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  Speaker 2: a reasonable without is much higher than in a grand jury. However,
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  Speaker 2: don't discount the fact said that you know, this case
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  Speaker 2: would be tried in the Eastern District of North Carolina,
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  Speaker 2: with which I'm quite familiar. It's predominantly conservative, and those
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  Speaker 2: trial jurors may see it the same way.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, so this is completely different than New York and
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  Speaker 1: Washington d C.
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  Speaker 2: Oh Yeah, yeah. You know, a Democrat and a guy
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  Speaker 2: like James Cummy, they get to, you know, get out
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  Speaker 2: of jail free card if it's in Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 2: Or Virginia. But this is North Carolina. It's the Eastern District.
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  Speaker 2: It is very rural area. They're very conservative. So you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's a different dynamic. And you know, look, let's be honest.
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  Speaker 2: Comy's excuse is totally absurd. Gee whiz, I didn't know
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  Speaker 2: the meaning of eighty six forty seven. Of course he did.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, this is what James Commey which does
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  Speaker 2: when he gets caught engaging in wrongdoing. He feigns ignorance,
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  Speaker 2: He plays dumb. I've seen him do it over and
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  Speaker 2: over and over again in his testimony before Congress. But
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  Speaker 2: the truth is, you know, he's a smart guy who
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  Speaker 2: was the FBI director's deputy Attorney General's US attorney. He
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  Speaker 2: knows the law. He surely knows what that phrase is.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the FBI is deeply experienced in coded messages
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  Speaker 2: calling for violence. So for Comy to say, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know what that meant is utterly ludicrous.
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  Speaker 1: You're right, but I got to tell you, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: a lawyer like you or call me. I'm married to
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  Speaker 1: a gorgeous lawyer, and a lot of my friends are lawyers,
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  Speaker 1: from you to Tacopinat, to White Donald, to Dorshiwitz Tobaias.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a lawyer, but just kind of overseeing all
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  Speaker 1: these looking at all these stories, it seems to me
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  Speaker 1: that the better case to be prosecuted, then call me
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  Speaker 1: is Letitia James. Why is she skating?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? You know, it has been a tough roadho and
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  Speaker 2: a lot of it is because judges have blocked the
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  Speaker 2: attempts to bring people like Leticia James and others who.
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  Speaker 3: Allegedly lied and lied rather blatantly on loans mortgages, you know,
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  Speaker 3: deceiving banks about their purpose and their intent.
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  Speaker 1: You know, hold on what second. I know that you're
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  Speaker 1: trained to say allegedly, And you'll appreciate this, Greg. Many
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  Speaker 1: times on this show, I'll say something, and my wife,
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  Speaker 1: who listens every day, we'll say, will you please say allegedly?
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  Speaker 1: But the truth is. Those are not allegations. She did
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  Speaker 1: lie on that on that piece of paper, did she not?
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  Speaker 2: Well, she says it's not an intentional deception or a lie,
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  Speaker 2: but rather a clerical mistake or a communications error between
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  Speaker 2: herself and whoever filled out the form. That to me
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  Speaker 2: is preposterous. But nevertheless, you know, I still use the
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  Speaker 2: word allegedly, And you're right, just like your wife, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're trained to be cautious in that regard.
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  Speaker 1: It's smart, and I do it all the time. I
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  Speaker 1: have to come back from break sometimes and go, hey,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, what I just said, that's an allegation.
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  Speaker 1: I want to get to Jimmy Kimmel. Kimmel did something
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  Speaker 1: that was grotesque. It doesn't matter that it was a
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  Speaker 1: couple of nights before. He's trying to explain it away.
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  Speaker 1: He was talking about age, not assassination. It doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: It was in poor taste. He gets no ratings, his
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  Speaker 1: revenue is down. I have no idea why ABC is
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  Speaker 1: loyal to the guy, other than ABC likes the fact
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  Speaker 1: that their talent, Bash is President Trump. Now, look you
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  Speaker 1: know this, Greg, nobody pushes the First Amendment more than
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  Speaker 1: I do. Okay, I'd be an idiot to want any
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  Speaker 1: restrictions on the First Amendment the way I talk on
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  Speaker 1: my show. But when I rend this morning that the
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  Speaker 1: FCC may be looking into doing something with ABC's license,
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  Speaker 1: it made me happy. What are your thoughts on that legally?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, look, I agree with you that Jimmy Kinnell should
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  Speaker 2: be kicked off the air because he's no good at
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  Speaker 2: his job, not because of what he said necessarily about
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  Speaker 2: in a Milania Trump, which which was deplorable and you
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  Speaker 2: have to have hideous judgment to say such a thing.
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  Speaker 2: So the fact that he's a guy possessed of poor
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  Speaker 2: judgment and seems riven with hate toward Trump classic TDS syndrome.
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  Speaker 2: But most of all, you know, he's not funny, he's
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  Speaker 2: not entertaining, he's not remotely interesting. He doesn't do interesting interviews.
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  Speaker 2: The guests are all stacked one way, and as a result,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, his audience share is abysmal. You know, his
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  Speaker 2: ratings have been in the toilet for a long time,
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  Speaker 2: and how and why ABC sustains this and the affiliates
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  Speaker 2: haven't revolted is astonishing to me.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you.
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  Speaker 2: Want a lead, good lead out from your local news
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  Speaker 2: with the nighttime, you know, talk show, and that's just
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  Speaker 2: about the worst. So if I were an affiliate, I'd
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  Speaker 2: say get rid of this knucklehead.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree. I want to get to the shooting
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday. Greg, you were one of the many guests
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  Speaker 1: that was on Box News Sunday morning, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think it terrific. You're great, and I think you're
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  Speaker 1: great on Sunday. But there's a lot of questions, Greg
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  Speaker 1: about the Secret Service. As I've been saying for a
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  Speaker 1: couple of days, I like Trump feel badly crushing his people.
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  Speaker 1: He actually returned my text Sunday morning early the president.
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  Speaker 1: I said, thank god, you're okay, and he said, yes, see,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for checking in. And the Secret Service did
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  Speaker 1: a great job. That's what President Trump texted me at
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  Speaker 1: seven twenty three am Sunday. But that doesn't stop people
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  Speaker 1: from just lamp basing them. And look, they certainly did
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  Speaker 1: make some and if they continue to operate like this,
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  Speaker 1: he's going to get killed one day. But but they've
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  Speaker 1: gone seventy five days without a paycheck. Here's the second thing.
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  Speaker 1: How about doing these events not in a hotel where
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  Speaker 1: there are thousands of guests walking round, So to me,
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  Speaker 1: the bigger issue than the Secret Service, Greg was the venue.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree, and you know I've I've been to
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  Speaker 2: that venue for I can't recall if it was for
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  Speaker 2: that event or or similar event involving the president, because
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  Speaker 2: there have been different Association dinners here with the President
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  Speaker 2: of yours. And I've been going to these things since,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the Reagan hero that was the first White
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  Speaker 2: House correspondence dinner I went to. And I'm obviously dating myself,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, when I have gone, I don't go
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  Speaker 2: to them anymore. I hate them. They are a lot
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  Speaker 2: of self important journalists who were patting themselves in the back,
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  Speaker 2: prancing and preening around on it. It's nauseous, stop because
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  Speaker 2: most journalists are nauseous, uh inherently, but you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: always worried me. Uh you know that that that is
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  Speaker 2: a vulnerable venue. And I you know, I think the
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  Speaker 2: President is right to point out that his you know,
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  Speaker 2: under construction ballroom in the White House solves the problem.
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  Speaker 2: And I was happy to see, you know, Rand Paul
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  Speaker 2: say he's going to introduce a bill to expedite the
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  Speaker 2: the finished construction of the ballroom and and cut through
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  Speaker 2: all the red tape, and of course, predictably, you know,
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  Speaker 2: liberals sued the President over the whole thing. I was
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  Speaker 2: at the White House in November and he was showing
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  Speaker 2: me the uh, the model of the ballroom and so forth,
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  Speaker 2: and it's it's going to be impressive and it will
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  Speaker 2: be able to house win top security, you know, all
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  Speaker 2: kinds of events so that they won't have to take
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  Speaker 2: place at vulnerable venues like this one. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think you're right. You know, the President has to say, gee,
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  Speaker 2: thank you Secret Service for saving my life because they
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  Speaker 2: protect them every day, every hour, every day. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: they made mistakes, there's no question about it. And they
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  Speaker 2: need better protocols.
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  Speaker 1: That's the bottom line, better protocols. So just to wrap
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  Speaker 1: this up in a nice little bowl like we always do, Greg,
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  Speaker 1: to return to the initial story, Jim call me, I
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  Speaker 1: saw what by saying, it's kind of silly, you said, Well,
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  Speaker 1: so down a second. I get what you're saying, but
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  Speaker 1: especially that second charge. So if you're out there and
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  Speaker 1: you're hoping there is some retribution here, Jim call me.
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  Speaker 1: You're saying all hope is not lost.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say that, And look, I mean It's
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  Speaker 2: not an easy case to bring against Comy. For prosecutors,
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  Speaker 2: there are hurdles first and foremost. You know he's going
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  Speaker 2: to claim free speech is a defense, although, as I
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  Speaker 2: pointed last night out on Hannity, is Supreme Court has
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  Speaker 2: made it abundantly clear the First Amendment does not protect
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  Speaker 2: threats against the president. So you know Comy's going to say, ah, gee,
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  Speaker 2: it was satire, hyperbole, a joking statement which runs, of course,
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  Speaker 2: contrary to what he said or the ass outset when
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  Speaker 2: he said, well jee, I didn't know what it means.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, Komey's going to do a dance, I
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  Speaker 2: will say. I ha to think prosecutors in the FBI
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  Speaker 2: had a lot more evidence against Comy than is identified
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  Speaker 2: in the three page indictment. You know, the acting age
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  Speaker 2: Todd Blanche referred to witnesses and documents. Do they contradict
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  Speaker 2: Comy's phony story? Maybe? And if so, you know James
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  Speaker 2: Comy is not as clever as he thinks.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, fantastic. I got to tell Greg you come on
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  Speaker 1: every time. You're amazing, not good, great, Thank you for
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  Speaker 1: these ten eleven minutes this morning, as always, spectacular job.
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  Speaker 2: All right, pal, take take care and play a little more. Yes, okay,
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  Speaker 2: I love this.
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  Speaker 1: Next time you're back with Shiva feeling will be very
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  Speaker 1: very quickly we'll get into the yes classic for you.
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  Speaker 1: Greg Jarrett, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: Shout up boy, Thanks all right, take care.
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  Speaker 1: I love that guy, I do. I love them Greg Jarrett,
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  Speaker 1: the brilliant legal mind from Fox News.
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