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"National Intelligence (and other oxymorons)" (FTTxJT Wed 102126 hr2) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 3: Music Thank you for letting us be of service to
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  Speaker 3: you this morning. 434-882-4217 is the phone number.
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  Speaker 4: That is how you get to us.
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  Speaker 5: And, of course, first let me tell you what went
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  Speaker 5: on last night, and then I will give you my
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  Speaker 5: analysis of it, certainly. But as that rolls around, Then
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  Speaker 5: I want to hear how it impacts you where you are.
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  Speaker 5: That's the key. That's the sweet spot because it's hitting
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  Speaker 5: Elise Slotkin coming after you. And I'm going to do
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  Speaker 5: something salacious here. Of course, we got into Alyssa, I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 5: Senator Slotkin. Yesterday, we had a clip. She was at
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  Speaker 5: some University of Chicago discussion in which she said she
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  Speaker 5: wanted to create a scenario where political opponents wouldn't suit
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  Speaker 5: up to be political opponents because of lawfare, because they
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  Speaker 5: would go after them legally. And now, you know, apparently
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  Speaker 5: she's going back down on it.
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  Speaker 6: Endless lawfare by Democrats. Our congressional correspondent, Bill Malujian, live
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  Speaker 6: here in Washington with the latest.
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  Speaker 1: Bill? John, good afternoon to you. Senator Slotkin really stirred
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  Speaker 1: up a hornet's nest with this one. President Trump and
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  Speaker 1: other Republicans are now blasting her as a, quote, lowlife
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  Speaker 1: over these comments.
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  Speaker 5: She's also facing an ethics investigation, congressional ethics, of course.
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  Speaker 5: oxymoronic in its statement.
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  Speaker 1: Made them while she was talking at a University of
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  Speaker 1: Chicago panel last week, but they really picked up steam
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  Speaker 1: this past weekend when they went viral.
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  Speaker 7: I want to look at these signature cases and not
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  Speaker 7: just focus on the president, but on the people who
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  Speaker 7: enabled him. I want young people coming out of school
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  Speaker 7: to say, should I go work for the Trump administration? Like,
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  Speaker 7: that sounds fun. I might get an opportunity. I want
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  Speaker 7: them to be like, Lord, that might be buying myself
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  Speaker 7: a ton of problems.
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  Speaker 5: That- Just like, you know, how the South Sudanese are told,
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  Speaker 5: don't go and support the wrong people because we'll blow
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  Speaker 5: up the market you're in. And yes, I will compare
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  Speaker 5: the two. We'll get into all of it. 153 people
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  Speaker 5: are dead this morning, added to a death toll that's
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  Speaker 5: already over 150,000 in a three-year civil war between two generals.
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  Speaker 5: in the Sudanese army in North and South Sudan over
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  Speaker 5: oil and the resources there. The drone attack on a
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  Speaker 5: market near an oil depot killed 153 this morning. Local
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  Speaker 5: officials blaming the Sudanese army and raising concerns of spillover
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  Speaker 5: from Sudan's more than three-year-long civil war. because they support
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  Speaker 5: the wrong side, and they've gone to the country that
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  Speaker 5: supports the wrong side. Meanwhile, in Canada, or as we
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  Speaker 24: And silver is down about 1% to $ 57.
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  Speaker 21: 30.
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  Speaker 23: Now, do you think.
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  Speaker 5: You know, and this is based on your experience. Now,
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  Speaker 5: we've talked about, you know, how they find their comfort points.
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  Speaker 5: Do you think that this is a comfort point that
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  Speaker 5: it could stay at for a while, you know, in
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  Speaker 5: between 4,000, 4,100, maybe 42, and it's just going to
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  Speaker 5: stay here for a long time? Or do you think
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  Speaker 5: that this is just sort of a rest stop?
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  Speaker 24: Yeah, you know, it's kind of one of those things
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  Speaker 24: that it's clear to see, you know, in hindsight after
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  Speaker 24: we say, oh, you know, we've been here for a
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  Speaker 24: few weeks now. We're starting to feel comfortable in this zone.
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  Speaker 24: And that's kind of how gold and silver go. Like
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  Speaker 24: you've like you've even said in the past price kind
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  Speaker 24: of plateaus and levels off for a little bit and
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  Speaker 24: they get comfortable on this channel that does typically last
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  Speaker 24: a few weeks to about a month where price, you know,
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  Speaker 24: just kind of chops back and forth. And that's exactly
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  Speaker 24: where we've been here. I think we're on a week
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  Speaker 24: three on, on these current levels for gold and silver.
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  Speaker 24: So we'll see where, how that lasts if we get
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  Speaker 24: another little breakout or if, if they continue to chop
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  Speaker 24: here in this channel.
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  Speaker 5: Well, just, you know, the important thing is to make
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  Speaker 5: to build up that position of gold and silver. I
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  Speaker 4: And you're a blessing to us all. James, you have
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  Speaker 4: a great morning, sir. Thanks, Joe. You too. Now, you
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  Speaker 4: get with us at 434-882-4222. 4-2-1-7. We were talking about control.
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  Speaker 7: On the president, but on the people who enabled him.
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  Speaker 7: I want young people coming out of school to say,
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  Speaker 7: should I go work for the Trump administration? Like, that
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  Speaker 7: sounds fun. I might get an opportunity. I want them
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  Speaker 7: to be like, Lord, that might be buying myself a
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  Speaker 7: ton of problems that I don't want. And so let
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  Speaker 7: me avoid participating in that.
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  Speaker 4: So she faces ethics issues.
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  Speaker 5: Congressional ethics investigation, laughable as that is, as oxymoronic as
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  Speaker 5: a congressional ethics hearing can be. I mean, it's been
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  Speaker 5: to the point Charlie Rangel, New York congressman for years,
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  Speaker 5: used to be the chair of the House Ethics Committee,
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  Speaker 5: and he holds the congressional record for being hauled in
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  Speaker 5: front of it the most time. Maybe that's how you
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  Speaker 5: become the chair of the House Ethics Committee.
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  Speaker 25: You know, Charlie, you're here every week for another charge.
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  Speaker 25: Why don't we just put you in charge of the
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  Speaker 25: thing and save you the trip? But the words she used, Joe,
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  Speaker 25: she was just talking to a room full of college students. No,
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  Speaker 25: she was saying, I want to weaponize the government to
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  Speaker 25: go after, to create a world of problems for political opposition.
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  Speaker 25: And I'm not sure which is a more stunning thing
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  Speaker 25: when the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps endorses Elissa Slotkin and
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  Speaker 25: all of her brothers and sisters in the Democratic Party
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  Speaker 25: and a few Republicans.
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  Speaker 5: Basically, if you oppose Trump, you're endorsed by the IRGC.
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  Speaker 5: And these are the people that hang dissidents in the
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  Speaker 5: town square. How far removed is Elisa Slotkin from the IRGC?
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  Speaker 17: I can hear you typing the text messages right now saying,
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  Speaker 17: oh my God, Joe, you've gone too far. But seriously,
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  Speaker 17: what is the implication of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
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  Speaker 17: when they hang And I think they said that there's
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  Speaker 17: something along the lines of their number is that they've
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  Speaker 17: hung 10,000 dissidents. The human rights groups say it's more
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  Speaker 17: like 100,000 dissidents. But the IRGC itself says, yeah, we've
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  Speaker 17: hung probably 10,000 dissidents in the streets for speaking out
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  Speaker 17: against the mullahs. How far removed is that from what
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  Speaker 17: Elisa Slotkin is talking about?
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  Speaker 5: 434-882-4217. I don't think it's far at all. But you
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  Speaker 5: may have a different view.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning. You're on the air with Joe first thing
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  Speaker 4: this morning. Who's this?
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  Speaker 18: Good morning, Joe. It's Kareem.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, Kareem. How are you doing?
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  Speaker 18: It's very different now.
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  Speaker 6: I'm just sitting still, so I'm able to enjoy the
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  Speaker 6: solitude and silence of a dark night, but soon to
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  Speaker 6: be running.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I saw that movie, The Dark Knight. It didn't seem
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  Speaker 5: quiet at all, but that could just.
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  Speaker 4: Be the use. Joker will do that to you.
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  Speaker 5: But Batman movie references, not aside, we're coming up on
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  Speaker 5: our news here. You lay out what you're calling about,
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  Speaker 5: and then we'll get into the details of it if
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  Speaker 5: you don't mind hanging on past the news.
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  Speaker 18: Sure.
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  Speaker 6: Chicken's coming home to roast, no new taxes, and we
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  Speaker 6: need more shows like yours on WTON.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, well, that's our flagship station for those who are
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  Speaker 5: sitting there saying, what's that? That's our flagship station calling
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  Speaker 5: out my programming acumen. there as well, because I also
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  Speaker 5: what that means when we get back from the news
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  Speaker 5: here at half past the hour.
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  Speaker 11: Did you know that healthy arteries make a gas? Yes,
• 22:07
  Speaker 11: actually three known gases. Hi, I'm Dr. Mitch, and nitric
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  Speaker 11: oxide is a gas that's readily made all day long
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  Speaker 4: You know, as.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm bracing myself. Kareem's on the phone with us
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  Speaker 5: The hierarchy of needs right now, people need to know
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  Speaker 5: what brought you to the program? You had a thought,
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  Speaker 5: but you also had a perspective. a critique or an
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  Speaker 5: encouragement regarding this program?
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  Speaker 18: Definitely an encouragement more than a critique, Joe.
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  Speaker 6: You open your phone lines to anybody to call me
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  Speaker 18: I think it's admirable. I think more shows need to
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  Speaker 6: And any day I can get Plug Your Station, even
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, and just as a, as a point
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  Speaker 5: It is hard to do that and still keep it
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  Speaker 5: your show because people tune in because they like what
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  Speaker 5: I do. And it's not my ego talking. That is
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  Speaker 5: Joe does. So, so, In and amongst that, it's not
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  Speaker 5: just by rote that I want to hear from you.
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  Speaker 4: I actually want to hear from you.
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  Speaker 5: And I think that's the difference is that a lot
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  Speaker 5: of other programs view the callers as wild cards or
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  Speaker 5: they have screeners pick and choose so that they only
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  Speaker 5: get callers that make their point for them.
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  Speaker 4: And that's fine. It's fine.
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  Speaker 5: You know, Monty Python knew what the punchline was before
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  Speaker 5: they said no one expects the Spanish Inquisition. But that's
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  Speaker 5: just not how I roll. I find it to be
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  Speaker 5: much more interesting. And over 40 years, I've found that
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  Speaker 5: other people find this to be interesting as well. So anyway,
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: so on to the news of the day. And and
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: what is your thought? Am I wrong to draw a
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  Speaker 5: line in between what Alyssa Slotkin said? and what the
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  Speaker 5: IRGC does, and that they seem to endorse her candidacy anyway?
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  Speaker 6: It's a brick in the road, especially for her. She
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  Speaker 6: knows what she's saying. Her career was a CIA analyst
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  Speaker 6: on the ground. She speaks Arabic and Swahili, so she's
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  Speaker 6: got talent, but her words are not in vain, and
• 31:16
  Speaker 6: they're not just hot air. Going back to Chicken's Coming
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  Speaker 6: Home to Race comment that I had.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Essentially what the CIA does is it seeks formant control
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  Speaker 6: of other nations and takes control, and then.
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  Speaker 18: We have these color revolutions.
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  Speaker 6: Anybody can look up the pictures of Victoria Nuland handing
• 31:36
  Speaker 6: out cookies in Ukraine back in 2014 as the government
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  Speaker 6: was being toppled. But setting that aside … Lisa Slotkin
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  Speaker 6: won her Senate seat by 22,000 votes in 2024 against
• 31:49
  Speaker 6: Mike Rogers, who is right now in a very bad
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: race against Saeed. And that was in the same race
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  Speaker 6: where Trump won it by almost 100,000 votes in the
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  Speaker 6: state of Michigan, which he overperformed like normal Republicans. So
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  Speaker 6: right now she's saying these things as more people are
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  Speaker 6: going towards El Saeed and away from conservative Republican values. Joe,
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  Speaker 6: the part about no new taxes, the more Trump keeps
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  Speaker 6: saying Iran doesn't need a nuclear device, we'll never have
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  Speaker 6: a nuclear device.
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  Speaker 18: It's like George H.W. is saying, read my lips, no
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  Speaker 18: new taxes. Because as it is.
• 32:26
  Speaker 6: Now, they've already enriched the uranium to 90%. So the IRGC,
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  Speaker 6: their wish is to be as strong and powerful as possible.
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  Speaker 6: And they were the ones pushing for a nuclear weapon.
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  Speaker 18: Previous Ayatollah said no.
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  Speaker 6: And that stuck until the recent one who lost the
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  Speaker 6: previous one, most of his family and half his body.
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  Speaker 18: And they've already enriched it to 90%.
• 32:49
  Speaker 6: They will go further if they haven't already done so.
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  Speaker 6: And all we keep doing is nudging and nudging. So
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  Speaker 6: I do see, I do agree it's a brick on
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  Speaker 6: the road, especially what they want to do here. But
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  Speaker 6: they've already been doing what she said to do. We
• 33:04
  Speaker 6: can look at our civil rights division. Almost 400 attorneys
• 33:07
  Speaker 6: left in the first year. They're still recruiting to replace
• 33:13
  Speaker 6: those numbers, but they are having issues. Before that, Jones Day,
• 33:19
  Speaker 6: was it Jones Day? There was another law firm that
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  Speaker 6: Trump sued and he had a settlement with because of
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  Speaker 6: the welfare against him.
• 33:29
  Speaker 18: And I keep pointing out Jeff Clark, former acting AG.
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  Speaker 6: He still has. Six years later, he's still having issues
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  Speaker 6: with that. They come after him, and they have it stopped. So, Joe,
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  Speaker 6: after– go ahead.
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  Speaker 5: And you make a– I want to hear your coda there,
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  Speaker 5: so hang on to it. But one of the things
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  Speaker 5: that you point out I think needs to be brought back,
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: the weaponization of government against and the misapplication of an
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  Speaker 5: intelligence agency. And this is Mission Creep 101. So when
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  Speaker 5: our spies, and we had spies trying to figure out
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  Speaker 5: where Cornwallis was going. So it's not like intelligence gathering
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: is something we invented in Langley, Virginia in 1947. But
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  Speaker 5: the idea that if we just made friendly countries, it
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  Speaker 5: would be easier, I think has been proven to be
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  Speaker 5: a fool's errand. And I go back to one of
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  Speaker 5: the two most important generals in the history of mankind
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  Speaker 5: when it comes to liberty anyway, George Washington, warning us
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  Speaker 5: over both faction and international entanglements. Remember, we sat down,
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: we were talking about keeping our promises and living by
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  Speaker 4: And an email, where is it? There it is.
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: Steve wrote in about the US promise to defend Ukraine
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  Speaker 5: once they gave up their nuclear missiles that were left
• 35:11
  Speaker 5: over from the Soviet Union. And I said, yeah, that
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  Speaker 5: was because of our NATO alliances, because NATO wanted to
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: continue punishing Russia as if Russia was the Soviet Union.
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  Speaker 5: So our commitment to NATO forced us to take this
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: lead role with the Ukrainian independence that I don't know
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  Speaker 5: if it was the right thing or the wrong thing
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  Speaker 5: to do. I believe independent countries should be allowed to
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  Speaker 5: govern themselves. And we did in this deal promise to
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: defend Ukraine if they gave up their nukes and Russia
• 35:49
  Speaker 5: promised not to invade. A lot of parts of leading
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: up to that deal were because NATO needed a bad guy.
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  Speaker 5: At that point, NATO should have already been standing down.
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  Speaker 5: This was not a NATO deal. It was a UN deal.
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  Speaker 5: And I know the UN was part and parcel of it,
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  Speaker 5: but the United States was dragged into the Russia-Ukraine thing
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  Speaker 5: because of our international commitments to NATO, which.
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  Speaker 4: Had outlived its purpose because it had won the war.
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: It won the war, but insisted on keeping its armies
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  Speaker 5: in theaters. because it had committed a lot of its
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  Speaker 5: resources to that. So when you talk about the CIA
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  Speaker 5: and its statecraft, that is a perversion of what their
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: intent and what any intelligence-gathering body is under this corruption
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  Speaker 5: of sloth. It's easier if we can make rather than
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  Speaker 5: to create allies or alliances. You get what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 18: I do, Joe.
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  Speaker 6: And there are a lot of parts I agree with. Again,
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  Speaker 6: I'm thinking 46 days ago. There's a lot I agree with.
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  Speaker 6: There's just a little bit of parts I'd like to
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  Speaker 18: Sure. We could look at Harry Truman.
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  Speaker 2: First thing today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 12: Take a ride to.
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  Speaker 27: The land inside.
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  Speaker 4: That's what we do. Like in a democratic thought. On
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  Speaker 4: this Ted's D morning. I want to do that.
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  Speaker 5: I want to play with your mind, just playing with
• 45:04
  Speaker 5: your head, as George Carlin once said. But let's gameplay
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  Speaker 5: this out, Kareem and his point on statecraft and how
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  Speaker 5: many times we've tried versus how many times we've allowed
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  Speaker 5: for And I think Clark's brought this up on occasion.
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  Speaker 5: You look at who our three biggest allies are in
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  Speaker 5: the world right now. Britain, Germany, and Japan. I think
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  Speaker 5: we've spent some time in the battlefield against those. So
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  Speaker 5: why at the end of the Cold War did we
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  Speaker 5: not extend the same effort to the fallen Russian government?
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  Speaker 5: to the fallen Russian people. We were too still busy
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  Speaker 5: with the expected career of statecraft in proxy countries rather
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  Speaker 5: than actually putting those down and walking in and saying, hey,
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  Speaker 5: the same way we did with Germany, We didn't come
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  Speaker 5: in there and say, we must punish you forever.
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  Speaker 4: Well, we did after World War I, and you see
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  Speaker 4: where that got us.
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  Speaker 5: We intentionally detonated Big Boy I and Big Boy II
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  Speaker 5: at altitude so that the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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  Speaker 5: wouldn't be permanent.
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  Speaker 4: Now, if you look at those two cities....
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  Speaker 5: But we needed to get the emperor to realize we
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  Speaker 5: weren't going to give up any more than they were,
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  Speaker 5: and we needed to come to an accord. This is
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  Speaker 5: why the emperor was still on the Chrysanthemum throne in 1950.
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  Speaker 5: When my dad served in Korea, we were already using
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  Speaker 5: bases in Tokyo and We had already become such allied
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  Speaker 5: with the Japanese. So why did we not do that
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  Speaker 5: with the Soviet Union? And going back to Washington's concerns
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  Speaker 5: about international entanglements, his concern was that we would not
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  Speaker 5: make good choices, we would make choices we had to make.
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  Speaker 5: We would make choices not necessarily on what is good
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  Speaker 5: for an American citizen, but what is good for our alliances.
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  Speaker 5: And fulfilling your debts, if somebody has helped you out,
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  Speaker 5: if the French helped us out, we didn't send troops
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  Speaker 5: in during the French Revolution to protect Louis.
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  Speaker 4: We didn't.
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  Speaker 5: And I don't believe it's not because they didn't ask.
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  Speaker 5: But we didn't get involved there. Why didn't we get
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  Speaker 5: involved in France? They had just helped us beat Britain.
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  Speaker 5: We were a country only because France finally came around
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  Speaker 5: and stopped turning our Indian neighbors against us and actually
• 48:41
  Speaker 5: sailed into Yorktown Harbor. So why didn't we go and
• 48:49
  Speaker 5: help King Dwee put down the less miserables, huh? because
• 48:57
  Speaker 5: we understood that we can't fight everyone's wars for them.
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  Speaker 5: And it's a fixable thing. And I think this is
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  Speaker 5: one of the things that makes the traditional Washingtonians, and
• 49:14
  Speaker 5: by that I mean the capital city, mad about Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 5: This is why they pay for Tucker Carlson to go
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  Speaker 5: on his podcast and tell his rapidly diminishing crowd of sycophants,
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  Speaker 5: no new wars.
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  Speaker 4: This isn't a new war.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, besides the fact that this isn't a new war,
• 49:36
  Speaker 5: it's a war we've been dancing around and playing patty
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  Speaker 5: cake with for 230 years but beyond that it's it's
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  Speaker 5: about bringing Iran which at one point was one of
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  Speaker 5: the most Western countries in the Middle East back to
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  Speaker 5: the family and is it too late to repair the
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  Speaker 5: damage that was done at some point Putin's not going
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  Speaker 5: to be there what happens then because he's a strong
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  Speaker 5: man authoritarian and When he leaves, there'll be a vacuum
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  Speaker 5: that may not be as egregious as what happened when
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  Speaker 5: the Soviet Union collapsed.
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  Speaker 4: But it might be considerable.
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  Speaker 5: And given that there is no reason that the United
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  Speaker 5: States can't be friends with Ukraine and Russia and China,
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  Speaker 5: as long as we understand that there are people who
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  Speaker 5: would want the United States to fall, and we understand
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  Speaker 5: that through our intelligence. So I'm not against an intelligence community.
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  Speaker 5: I'm against the idea, and I am at a local level,
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  Speaker 5: law enforcement, flock cameras, surveillance, data center surveillance, that kind
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  Speaker 5: of thing. Anything that falls under the heading of stopping
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  Speaker 5: crime from happening before it happens, I'm against. Not because
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  Speaker 5: I'm pro-crime, but I'm pro-freedom, which means that somebody has
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  Speaker 5: to be free up until the point they violate somebody
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  Speaker 5: else's rights, then throw not just the book, but all
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  Speaker 5: the books at them. Because you've committed the unforgivable American sin.
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  Speaker 5: You've violated somebody else's rights. But the CIA is built
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  Speaker 5: on the international global premise that a lot of our
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  Speaker 5: law enforcement is built on, which is stopping crime from
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  Speaker 5: happening before it happens. And yes, we recall we ignored
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  Speaker 5: the German invasions of all of our friends, much of
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  Speaker 5: it based on Washington's insistence of international entanglements funny how
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  Speaker 5: we had that in the 30s as Germany started invading
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  Speaker 5: all these places there's a simple doctrine you don't get
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  Speaker 5: to invade someone else's country how about that one and
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  Speaker 5: I know I'll get the Russia emails the people saying
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  Speaker 5: Ukraine isn't its own country and it's always been part
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  Speaker 5: of Russia and all the other things I hear But
• 52:36
  Speaker 5: Ukraine's independence was established. Everyone signed off on it, including Yeltsin.
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  Speaker 5: So you don't get to invade another country. And we
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  Speaker 5: start there. And then how much statecraft do we need?
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