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House of Horrors: Kids Rescued After Years of COVID Isolation (Ep.198) · V

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Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to Bongino Report. Early edition, siblings
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Speaker 1: in Spain are rescued by police from parents suffering from,
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Speaker 1: no joke, the woke mind virus. Venezuelan officials reportedly helped
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Speaker 1: smuggle Trente Aragua gang members into the United States. Trump
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Speaker 1: refuses to lift tariffs on Canada. Why Senator Tom Tillis
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Speaker 1: is a traitor to this country and needs to be
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Speaker 1: primaried ASAP? Trump announces a 100% tariff on foreign-made movies.
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Speaker 1: The Supreme Court allows for Trump's ban on transgender military
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Speaker 1: service members to take effect. And Columbia University lays off
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Speaker 1: 180 staffers after Trump cuts millions in federal funding for
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Speaker 1: the school. All this on Bongina Report, early edition. Imagine
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Speaker 1: catching glimpses of children through a curtained window.
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Speaker 2: Your neighbor.
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Speaker 1: The children next door. Two little ones. One a little
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Speaker 1: bit older. Together they're playing.
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Speaker 3: Laughter.
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Speaker 1: Faint but unmistakable on quiet afternoons. And then one day,
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Speaker 1: they're just gone. Days pass. And then weeks. Months turn
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Speaker 1: into years. There's no more sounds. No signs of life
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Speaker 1: from these children. You don't recall the family ever moving,
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Speaker 1: and yet the shutters stay closed. The gate never opens.
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Speaker 1: The children no longer come out to play. Locals begin
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Speaker 1: to whisper, something isn't right in the house on the
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Speaker 1: hill in Oviedo, Spain. It wasn't until a regional blackout
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Speaker 1: swept through northern Spain last week that the mystery cracked open.
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Speaker 1: Officers responding to a concerned neighbor's report visited the seemingly
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Speaker 1: abandoned home. And the woman who answered the door warned
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Speaker 1: them to be cautious. Her children, she said, were very sick.
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Speaker 1: And she then instructed police officers to wear three face
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Speaker 1: masks over top one another before entering her home. What
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Speaker 1: police found inside stunned them. Heaps of garbage. Shelves overflowing
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Speaker 1: with expired medication. Cribs instead of beds. Walls scrawled with monsters.
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Speaker 1: A seriously ill cat, which had seemingly not been taken
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Speaker 1: to the vet because the parents in the home feared
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Speaker 1: leaving their house. But the children inside were not ill.
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Speaker 1: In fact, they were prisoners. The three siblings, 8-year-old twins
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Speaker 1: and their 10-year-old brother, hadn't set foot outside since 2021. isolated, filthy,
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Speaker 1: overwhelmed by the outside world. They were so removed from
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Speaker 1: reality that they screamed in awe at a garden snail
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Speaker 1: when they were finally let out. Their parents, a German
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Speaker 1: man and an American woman, now sit behind bars without bail,
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Speaker 1: charged with child abandonment and psychological abuse. Now, why were
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Speaker 1: these children imprisoned in their own home since 2021? Spanish
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Speaker 1: investigators suggest COVID syndrome. The parents have to this day
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Speaker 1: continued to live in radical fear ever since the first
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Speaker 1: set of lockdowns. Fear, of course, is the most effective
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Speaker 1: instrument of social control, an invisible leash that wraps around
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Speaker 1: the mind. And that's apparently what happened here, to the
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Speaker 1: point where these parents abused their own children in an
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Speaker 1: unconscionable way, The narrative was simple, right? Trust the experts.
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Speaker 1: That's what we were hearing during the COVID panic. Obey
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Speaker 1: the orders. Surrender your autonomy for the greater good. But
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Speaker 1: in the process, reality itself became malleable. And some people
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Speaker 1: never got out of it. That was how restrictive and
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Speaker 1: all-encompassing the fear-mongering was during COVID. that some would be
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Speaker 1: driven to this day to keep their children in an
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Speaker 1: abusive situation in the name of COVID. Now, as the
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Speaker 1: grip of that fear loosens, others remain shackled, imprisoned not
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Speaker 1: by walls or bars, but by their own minds, by
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Speaker 1: an ideology. And on the flip side, countless of us,
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Speaker 1: countless sane, rational people, many of whom probably woke up
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Speaker 1: right away or never even needed to be woken up,
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Speaker 1: to the COVID scam, realize that they were lied to.
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Speaker 1: This story only solidifies what most of us already know,
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Speaker 1: that our institutions aren't worth a thing anymore. If it
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Speaker 1: can drive you to that kind of fear for years
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Speaker 1: on end, when there is no threat of COVID. And
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Speaker 1: that awakening is the moment that we are in right now.
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Speaker 1: It's a rejection moment. of the blind faith that once
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Speaker 1: I think was so prevalent in the West. Because the
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Speaker 1: people who claim to protect us have instead chosen to
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Speaker 1: scare in the name of control. And so they no
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Speaker 1: longer deserve our admiration or our trust. When fear grips
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Speaker 1: a nation, Control becomes easy. It seeps through borders, through minds.
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Speaker 1: And even though the cracks of sovereign, and even through
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Speaker 1: the cracks of sovereign nations, and even though there is
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Speaker 1: so much, I think, backlash from our institutions, that hasn't
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Speaker 1: prevented many of us from waking up. And that brings
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Speaker 1: me to my next story. A newly released intelligence assessment
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Speaker 1: revealed yesterday that corrupt Venezuelan government officials have been facilitating
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Speaker 1: the illegal immigration of members of the brutal Tren de
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Speaker 1: Aragua gang into the United States. The memo released by
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Speaker 1: the National Intelligence Council revealed that these officials aim to
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Speaker 1: destabilize governments and undermine public safety, weaponizing chaos just as
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Speaker 1: effectively as fear. So for years, Tren de Aragua has
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Speaker 1: been embedding itself among waves of migrants fleeing Venezuela's collapse.
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Speaker 1: Per the DHS, over 600 Venezuelan migrants with likely ties
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Speaker 1: to TDA crossed the U.S. border illegally during Joe Biden's presidency.
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Speaker 1: And that's just Joe Biden's presidency. This is bad, but
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Speaker 1: what's worse is the whole thing was apparently facilitated by
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Speaker 1: some elements of the Venezuelan government. Now, I say some
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Speaker 1: elements on purpose because The report states that this was
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Speaker 1: being done by some parts of the Venezuelan government, but
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Speaker 1: that the Maduro regime, this is a quote from the
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Speaker 1: Director of National Intelligence Office, the Maduro regime probably does
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Speaker 1: not have a policy cooperating with TDA and is not
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Speaker 1: directing TDA movement to an operations in the United States.
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Speaker 1: But even so, the fact that parts of Maduro's government,
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Speaker 1: some elements, were pushing for Tren de Aragua to overrun
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Speaker 1: this country was is enough to view that government as
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Speaker 1: a hostile foreign power, an enemy of this country. This
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Speaker 1: is a man who stole the election in Venezuela. There's
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Speaker 1: no democracy to be had here. He is a brutal
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Speaker 1: dictator who has oppressed his people. And usually I'm not
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Speaker 1: very interested in foreign dictators who oppress their own people.
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Speaker 1: I think it's really not any of our business that
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Speaker 1: we should work on making America great. Let's focus on
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Speaker 1: getting rid of dictators in this country. such as the
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Speaker 1: last admin, where they were putting pro-lifers and traditional Catholics
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Speaker 1: behind bars or infiltrating their communities. But at the same time,
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Speaker 1: if a foreign power is helping to facilitate an invasion
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Speaker 1: at our border, helping to root an illegal gang of
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Speaker 1: migrants in our country that have spread all across the
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Speaker 1: continental U.S., then it becomes a different story. then it
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Speaker 1: becomes an issue of defending the homeland, not an issue
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Speaker 1: of meddling in foreign affairs that have nothing to do
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Speaker 1: with us. Iraq and Afghanistan, the other side of the world.
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Speaker 1: Was that necessary for human lives to be lost in
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Speaker 1: those conflicts? Did we accomplish anything with those conflicts? The
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Speaker 1: answer is no. But when it comes to foreign powers
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Speaker 1: actually allegedly facilitating an invasion into our country by foreign terrorists...
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Speaker 1: This is a whole other story. We have, of course,
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Speaker 1: foreign-born federal judges now preventing this admin from doing its job.
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Speaker 1: We have to recalibrate how we think about foreign affairs,
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Speaker 1: I think. I don't like regime change. I don't like
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Speaker 1: what's become of regime changes in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan.
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Speaker 1: At the same time, we have to be honest about
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Speaker 1: when it's authentically a threat to this country and clearly
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Speaker 1: what the Venezuelan government or at least elements of it,
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Speaker 1: have done to our country is a serious threat that
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Speaker 1: is worth addressing wholeheartedly. And for some reason, federal judges
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Speaker 1: and members of Congress are against this, are against the
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Speaker 1: protection of their own people. And why would that be? Again,
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Speaker 1: we are an institution that in many ways, our government
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Speaker 1: crumbling around us. They don't have the most basic, the
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Speaker 1: most basic understanding of what their role is in this country,
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Speaker 1: which is to protect the American people, specifically from things
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Speaker 1: like foreign terrorists taking over our country. There's a massive disconnect.
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Speaker 1: and a sign that the system, the institutions are broken.
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Speaker 1: I've got a lot more to say about foreign affairs.
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Speaker 1: We have some terrorist talk to get to. A Republican senator,
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Speaker 1: we talk about institutions here and senators who, and members
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Speaker 1: of Congress who don't deserve to be here. This senator
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Speaker 1: needs to go. He needs to be fired. North Carolina,
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Speaker 1: anybody from North Carolina in the chat, you guys are
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Speaker 1: on notice. We're gonna talk about your state, but first
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Speaker 1: we have to talk about our wonderful sponsors, Okay, let's
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Speaker 1: come back to some foreign affairs, which are never a
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Speaker 1: dull moment under this admin. I want you to take
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Speaker 1: a listen to what transpired yesterday during President Trump's meeting
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Speaker 1: in the Oval Office with Canadian Prime Minister, new Canadian
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Speaker 1: Prime Minister, Mark Carney. Our president is no doubt a savage.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes I think I'm watching a reality show as I'm
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Speaker 1: getting these live feeds from the Oval Office. It's that funny.
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Speaker 1: Take a listen.
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Speaker 4: Seraphine Kennedy, is there anything he can say to you
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Speaker 4: in the course of your meetings.
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Speaker 3: Within today that would get you to lift.
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Speaker 1: Tariffs on Canada? No.
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Speaker 3: Why not?
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Speaker 5: It's the way it is.
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Speaker 6: No.
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Speaker 1: No. Now, the Trump amendment has, of course, placed tariffs
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Speaker 1: on Canada to pressure the country into addressing U.S. concerns
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Speaker 1: about illegal immigration, drug trafficking, especially fentanyl, and trade imbalances. Now,
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Speaker 1: Canada has worked with the U.S. on illegal immigration issues
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Speaker 1: and the drug trafficking, but not so much on the
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Speaker 1: trade reciprocity. So Trump wants Canada to reduce its trade
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Speaker 1: surplus with the U.S., particularly by lowering Canadian tariffs on
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Speaker 1: American goods like dairy and increasing imports to U.S. products
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Speaker 1: to create a more reciprocal trade relationship between the two
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Speaker 1: of us. So far, Canada has not complied, and in fact,
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Speaker 1: they still have retaliatory tariffs in place on U.S.
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Speaker 3: Goods.
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Speaker 1: Now, this is very stupid on Canada's part, and by
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Speaker 1: the way, there was no option for Canada to choose
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Speaker 1: a reasonable path here. The conservatives and the liberals in
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Speaker 1: this country seem to be hell-bent on opposing President Trump
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Speaker 1: and not cutting a deal here. Here's President Trump explaining
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Speaker 1: the situation that Canada finds itself in and why it's
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Speaker 1: so deeply stupid of them to continue on this unfair
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Speaker 1: trade path. How do you.
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Speaker 6: React if Canada decided not to shop in the American.
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Speaker 5: Store as much as before and decided to partner with
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Speaker 5: other countries?
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Speaker 7: Well, we don't do much business with Canada from our standpoint.
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Speaker 7: They do a lot of business with us. We're at
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Speaker 7: like 4%. And usually those things don't last very long.
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Speaker 7: You know, we have great things, great product. The kind
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Speaker 7: of product we sell, nobody else can sell. including military. Look,
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Speaker 7: we make the best military equipment in the world. And
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Speaker 7: Canada buys our military equipment, which we appreciate. But we
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Speaker 7: make the best military equipment in the world by far.
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Speaker 7: The missiles, the submarines, everything. Everything we have is really
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Speaker 7: top notch.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so Canada is in a really weak position because
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Speaker 1: it relies heavily on American markets. About 75% of its
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Speaker 1: exports go to the U.S., while like Trump said, Only
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Speaker 1: around 4% of U.S. exports go to Canada, giving the U.S.
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Speaker 1: far more leverage. One positive from yesterday was that the
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Speaker 1: Canadian prime minister said that Canada's government is prepared to
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Speaker 1: reorient itself on security spending and pay its full weight
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Speaker 1: in NATO. Trump tweeted this this week. Why is America
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Speaker 1: subsidizing Canada by $ 200 billion a year in addition to
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Speaker 1: giving them free military protection? So obviously, the prime minister
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Speaker 1: is responding to this. He seems to be at least
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Speaker 1: open to starting to finally pay their fair share. This
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Speaker 1: is what the tariffs are meant to do. They are
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Speaker 1: meant to actually get something out of these countries. He's
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Speaker 1: not removing them because he hasn't gotten fully what he wants.
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Speaker 1: And of course, Canada is not in any kind of
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Speaker 1: position to be really negotiating anything with President Trump. What
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Speaker 1: they should do is capitulate to this president because America
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Speaker 1: has an upper hand in these discussions. So again, this
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Speaker 1: is a step in the right direction that they're actually
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Speaker 1: going to start paying for their defense, providing their own defense.
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Speaker 1: But Trump is not going to lift these tariffs until
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Speaker 1: he has a lot more in concessions from a country
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Speaker 1: that really is in no position to square up to
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Speaker 1: the United States. What's more interesting than Canada is actually
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Speaker 1: what's happening with China. President Trump and Xi Jinping are
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Speaker 1: locked in this high-stakes trade war, and Xi is gambling
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Speaker 1: that Americans won't give up cheap Chinese goods while Trump
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Speaker 1: is banking on China's economy buckling under tariffs and on U.S.
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Speaker 1: companies relocating manufacturing in the long run. Now, what's interesting
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Speaker 1: is we recently learned that several toys, such as Barbie,
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Speaker 1: owned by Mattel, which have historically been made in China,
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Speaker 1: are now shifting production elsewhere. And toy prices, experts are saying,
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Speaker 1: are probably going to go up. But Trump is arguing
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Speaker 1: that Americans can tolerate fewer, slightly more expensive goods. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: China is struggling. Exports are falling. Factory activity has slumped.
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Speaker 1: And consumer confidence is very weak. And with millions of
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Speaker 1: Chinese jobs tied to U.S. exports, the loss of American
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Speaker 1: demand is painful and hard to replace. Our economy, on
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Speaker 1: the other hand, has remained actually relatively pretty resilient. We
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Speaker 1: got strong consumer spending, investment growth. So long-term, it looks
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Speaker 1: like we are in a very good position. Now, some
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Speaker 1: people are deeply disturbed by this idea that Barbie doll
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Speaker 1: prices may be going up. Apparently, cheap goods from China
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Speaker 1: is the American dream. Yeah, you heard that right. Cheap
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Speaker 1: goods from China is the American dream, allegedly. Here's Mike Pence.
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Speaker 3: We said that, uh, Cheap goods was not a part
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Speaker 3: of the American dream. Well, I'm somebody who spent almost
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Speaker 3: my entire life in public service. We lived on our
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Speaker 3: paycheck while we raised three kids and put three kids
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Speaker 3: through college. Cheap goods are a big part of it.
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Speaker 3: I think we ought to be candid about that.
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Speaker 1: Well, let me tell you what the American dream is,
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Speaker 1: Mike Pence. Owning a home. Owning a car. Sending your
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Speaker 1: kids to college. All on one income so your babies
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Speaker 1: aren't raised in daycare. That's the dream. That's a dream
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Speaker 1: that has been stolen from us.
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Speaker 3: U.S.
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Speaker 1: Leaders, both political and corporate, chose to pursue so-called free
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Speaker 1: trade deals that favored Wall Street and multinational corporations over
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Speaker 1: American workers. Manufacturing jobs, which once paid well and supported families,
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Speaker 1: were sent overseas to countries like China, where labor was cheap.
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Speaker 1: And environmental standards were low. And in return, Americans got
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Speaker 1: cheap stuff. TVs and clothes and toys. But they lost
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Speaker 1: the ability to build wealth through dignified, stable work. We've
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Speaker 1: gutted small towns and working class communities. The factories closed.
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Speaker 1: The wages have stagnated. So if today's version of the
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Speaker 1: American dream is just cheap goods from China, that's not
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Speaker 1: a dream at all. It's the consolation prize for a
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Speaker 1: system that's robbed working Americans of real economic independence and prosperity.
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Speaker 1: The more I learn in this world, the more I exist,
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Speaker 1: the more that I realize, and I'm figuring it out.
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Speaker 1: You guys, sometimes I make mistakes. I offer corrections. I
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Speaker 1: correct myself. You guys correct me. We're learning. And the
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Speaker 1: more that I learn, the more that I realize Pat
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Speaker 1: Buchanan was always right. Pappy Cannon has always been right.
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Speaker 1: Here he was years ago before anybody was talking about
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Speaker 1: what is happening right now with China.
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Speaker 8: I do believe this. We're going to have the American
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Speaker 8: unipolar world where we have a single last superpower. That
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Speaker 8: is definitely over. I think China is an emerging superpower
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Speaker 8: by 2020. Economically and militarily, it'll be the dominant power
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Speaker 8: in Asia. And I think an emerging superpower.
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Speaker 9: Look, if they were not dead by 2025, I was worried.
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Speaker 8: Oh, 2025. What concerns me is is what's happening here
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Speaker 8: at home, that we seem to be disintegrating as one
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Speaker 8: nation under God, indivisible. All those things we had, it
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Speaker 8: seems to me we're losing. We are very much at
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Speaker 8: war with each other. And it's over ideology, politics, religion, philosophy, everything.
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Speaker 8: And the terms we're using on each other, I mean,
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Speaker 8: the term, I mean, I'm on cable as you are.
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Speaker 8: Every day somebody's calling somebody else a racist.
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Speaker 1: I think this is a great point because, and I
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Speaker 1: like that he brought up the race wars at the
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Speaker 1: end where he laid out the real threat of China.
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Speaker 1: The problem is, The real fight is the one between
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Speaker 1: working class and corporate elites who have gutted this country.
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Speaker 1: And while we argue over things like identity, Wall Street
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Speaker 1: has been shipping our jobs overseas, automates our labor, sells
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Speaker 1: our future for quarterly profits, and we're just left with
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Speaker 1: the scraps. Minimum wage gigs at Walmart, driving for Uber,
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Speaker 1: juggling side hustles with no ladder to climb, no pension
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Speaker 1: to earn, and no dignity to the work we're doing.
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Speaker 1: That is what's happened. And I believe in the culture wars.
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Speaker 1: I believe that what's happening culturally really matters. And at
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Speaker 1: the same time, a lot of the race wars, the gender,
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Speaker 1: and the sexuality conversations seem to get in the way
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Speaker 1: of where there's actually some authentic common ground between the
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Speaker 1: right and the left when it comes to the selling
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Speaker 1: out of the American people. It was leftists who were
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Speaker 1: protesting China's admission into the trade organization back in 1999.
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Speaker 1: It was the Bernie Sanders, the prequels to the Bernie Bros.
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Speaker 1: And now it's the Republicans who are talking about this,
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Speaker 1: and the Democrats have seemed to abandon this issue, but
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Speaker 1: it's something that I think we can come together on.
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Speaker 1: Here's Batia Ungar-Sargon on cheap toys.
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Speaker 10: All right, you know what this is kind of making
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Speaker 10: me think a lot about is the fact that every
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Speaker 10: rich person I know, their daughter has two or three dolls,
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Speaker 10: maybe a couple American girl dolls, two or three expensive
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Speaker 10: nice dolls, and no crap from China.
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Speaker 9: But if you go into a.
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Speaker 10: Broke person's house.
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Speaker 9: That floor is littered with broken toys from the dollar store.
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Speaker 9: So now we're shaming people. Barbie shaming. It's an opportunity
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Speaker 9: to make enough money to make the same decisions that
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Speaker 9: every rich person is already making and keeping the cheap
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Speaker 9: toys away from their kids. And the people braying the
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Speaker 9: loudest about this are the people who would never let
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Speaker 9: their kids buy those crappy toys. And it is so
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Speaker 9: offensive to me because when you talk to working class people,
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Speaker 9: they sound just like the president. They would love to
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Speaker 9: be buying high quality stuff for their kids instead of
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Speaker 9: a thousand cheap things that are going to break immediately
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Speaker 9: because that's what they can afford.
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Speaker 1: When real jobs and real wages return, thanks to tariffs
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Speaker 1: that protect American industry, People won't need to have a
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Speaker 1: pile of cheap breakable toys from China to feel like
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Speaker 1: good parents. They'll be able to afford fewer, higher quality
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Speaker 1: toys made with care and pride here, hopefully here in America,
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Speaker 1: just like the rest of what they can finally buy again.
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Speaker 1: What matters isn't the quantity. It's the dignity of knowing
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Speaker 1: that you earned it. The joy of giving your kids
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Speaker 1: something that lasts. The pride of being part of an
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Speaker 1: economy that values craftsmanship and self-reliance over mass-produced junk from,
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Speaker 1: by the way, a slave economy. These cheap toys that
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Speaker 1: are coming from China, do you think that they're going
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Speaker 1: home and having regular wages? No, I mean, this is
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Speaker 1: truly an evil economic setup that they have in China.
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Speaker 1: People are working for criminal wages there. By the way,
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Speaker 1: from a regime that is persecuting Christians, persecuting the Uyghurs,
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Speaker 1: putting people in internment camps for the smallest little infraction,
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Speaker 1: the smallest little semblance of dissent. Why do we want
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Speaker 1: to be tied to this economy? Which, by the way, is,
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Speaker 1: of course, gutting our own. I think, frankly, Mike Pence
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Speaker 1: can shove it. He has no idea what the American
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Speaker 1: dream is, clearly. And I'm glad that people like him
23:08
Speaker 1: are being excommunicated from this party. He has no right
23:12
Speaker 1: to have any say in who we are as Republicans anymore.
23:17
Speaker 1: The new right has taken over. Those people, they are
23:20
Speaker 1: completely irrelevant. Because you know what? They don't care about us. Like,
23:24
Speaker 1: it's obvious. If you watch that clip from Mike Pence,
23:26
Speaker 1: it's obvious. Mike Pence does not give a crap about
23:30
Speaker 1: the American people or our economy or our cultural identity.
23:34
Speaker 3: Right.
23:35
Speaker 1: Thank you, Michael. Did you say that out loud? Oh,
23:37
Speaker 1: he didn't. Sometimes Michael talks in my ear. And I
23:40
Speaker 1: think he's saying it to all of you, but he's
23:42
Speaker 1: just saying it to me. Michael, say that to everybody.
23:46
Speaker 7: That's not my concern.
23:48
Speaker 1: Do you guys remember that famous clip from Mike Pence?
23:51
Speaker 1: I think Tucker Carlson was asking him about forever wars.
23:54
Speaker 1: And he was just like, you know what? That's not
23:55
Speaker 1: my concern. And that's constantly what we're hearing from these people, right?
24:00
Speaker 1: That's not my concern. But you know what? America is
24:02
Speaker 1: not just an economic zone. We're not an economic zone
24:06
Speaker 1: for major corporations to thrive. We're not. We are more
24:11
Speaker 1: than that. We're deeper than that. What is America first
24:14
Speaker 1: is not just GDP growth, but it's are the American
24:17
Speaker 1: people themselves thriving? Is the middle class still a thing anymore?
24:24
Speaker 1: That's what matters. That's what America first means. A lot
24:27
Speaker 1: of people in our party seem to be confused about that.
24:29
Speaker 1: And if they are confused, then they shouldn't be in
24:31
Speaker 1: the party. And somebody else who should be exercised from
24:34
Speaker 1: this party should be excommunicated from this party. If you're
24:37
Speaker 1: from North Carolina, you know who he is. GOP Senator
24:40
Speaker 1: Tom Tillis, let's get this guy out of Congress ASAP.
24:45
Speaker 1: So GOP Senator Tom Tillis said he won't back Ed Martin,
24:50
Speaker 1: Trump's pick for the top D.C. prosecutor, because of Martin's
24:54
Speaker 1: work defending January Sixers. Like I said, North Carolinians, come
25:02
Speaker 1: and get your man. Send him home. This is the
25:05
Speaker 1: most shameful thing I've ever seen. Take a listen.
25:09
Speaker 5: I met with Mr. Martin. He seems like a good man.
25:14
Speaker 5: Most of my concerns related to January 6th. I think
25:17
Speaker 5: anybody that breached the perimeter should have been in prison
25:19
Speaker 5: for some period of time. Whether it's 30 days or
25:21
Speaker 5: three years is debatable, but I have no tolerance for
25:25
Speaker 5: anybody who entered the building on January 6th, and that's
25:28
Speaker 5: probably where most of the friction was.
25:29
Speaker 3: If Mr.
25:30
Speaker 5: Martin were being put forth as a U.S. attorney for
25:33
Speaker 5: any district except the district where January 6th happened, the
25:37
Speaker 5: protests happened, I'd probably support him.
25:40
Speaker 1: So Ed Martin was one of the few voices consistently
25:43
Speaker 1: fighting for the January 6th defendants. He was raising awareness.
25:46
Speaker 1: He was organizing legal support. He was exposing the government's
25:49
Speaker 1: misconduct in these cases, such as hiding evidence from the
25:53
Speaker 1: defendants' lawyers. And here's Tom Tillis opposing this nominee because
25:59
Speaker 1: he actually liked Biden's J6 wish hunt. That's what he's
26:02
Speaker 1: saying in that clip. J6 prosecutions were transparently used simply
26:10
Speaker 1: to punish Trump supporters, to intimidate political dissent in this
26:14
Speaker 1: country under an authoritarian Biden regime. And now Tom Tillis
26:19
Speaker 1: is saying that was actually great. And I'm mad at
26:21
Speaker 1: this Trump pick because he opposed the weaponization of our
26:24
Speaker 1: government under Joe Biden. That clip, it's not just a
26:28
Speaker 1: portrayal of his own party. It is support of the
26:33
Speaker 1: weaponization of the state on the part of a Republican senator.
26:39
Speaker 1: And to add salt to the wound, Tom Tillis voted
26:42
Speaker 1: to confirm none other than Biden's Attorney General Merrick Garland,
26:46
Speaker 1: probably the most corrupt AG in American history. And not
26:50
Speaker 1: only did he vote for Merrick Garland, Tom Tillis enthusiastically
26:56
Speaker 1: voted for him. This is what the senator wrote in
26:59
Speaker 1: a press release back in 2021. Merrick Garland has an
27:03
Speaker 1: outstanding record serving our country and has a deep understanding
27:07
Speaker 1: of the law. His experience reflects his extensive legal knowledge
27:11
Speaker 1: and unbiased application of the law and his longstanding reputation
27:15
Speaker 1: of bipartisanship has earned the respect from both Democrats and Republicans.
27:19
Speaker 1: After talking to him and participating in his confirmation hearing,
27:23
Speaker 1: I have no doubt he will serve our country well.
27:28
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? And I
27:33
Speaker 1: don't need to remind you guys, but Merrick Garland's DOJ
27:36
Speaker 1: labeled concerned parents at school board meetings domestic terrorists, sat
27:41
Speaker 1: on its hands during violent left-wing protests, did nothing when
27:44
Speaker 1: pro-life pregnancy centers were being firebombed, but he tried to
27:48
Speaker 1: orchestrate pro-lifers being thrown behind bars, FBI raids on their homes,
27:54
Speaker 1: coordinated with big tech to suppress right-wing speech. presided over
27:58
Speaker 1: the FBI's raid on President Trump's home while slow-walking investigations
28:02
Speaker 1: into Hunter Biden, stealing the Biden family from any kind
28:04
Speaker 1: of scrutiny because they were selling out our country to
28:08
Speaker 1: places like Ukraine and China, infiltrated traditional Catholic communities. Here's
28:16
Speaker 1: all I'll say about this for now. North Carolina, please
28:21
Speaker 1: retire Tom Tillis. This man needs to go yesterday. You're done.
28:26
Speaker 1: We're done with people like this. We're done with Mike Pence.
28:29
Speaker 1: We're done with Tom Tillis and all of these rhinos
28:33
Speaker 1: who are in Congress acting against the mandate that the
28:37
Speaker 1: American people voted for when they voted for President Trump.
28:43
Speaker 1: You don't have a right to serve anymore. You're done.
28:46
Speaker 1: You don't have a place in this party. The new
28:48
Speaker 1: right is here. We have a whole different set of values.
28:52
Speaker 1: And by the way, the values are actually putting America first.
28:55
Speaker 1: And whatever this is from Tom Tillis, he can take
28:57
Speaker 1: it home. He can retire. He's old enough. If you
28:59
Speaker 1: look at his face, you can tell. He's like a thousand.
29:02
Speaker 1: So go home and sit down. Let somebody else take over.
29:05
Speaker 1: You're done. Something else that needs to go, I think,
29:09
Speaker 1: is the view. I don't know how they still have ratings.
29:11
Speaker 1: I don't know how people are tuning into the show.
29:13
Speaker 5: They do.
29:14
Speaker 1: I don't watch the show, but I tune in every
29:16
Speaker 1: once in a while with clips on X. and I'll
29:19
Speaker 1: just see what crazy crap they're saying. And I'm shocked
29:22
Speaker 1: every time. I'm just like, I can't believe this is
29:23
Speaker 1: a show on air. Honestly, maybe that's why it's entertaining,
29:26
Speaker 1: because the view is so bad that we're sitting here
29:28
Speaker 1: listening to it, just shocked that these things have been said.
29:31
Speaker 1: So for some context, before I play for you this clip,
29:34
Speaker 1: President Trump made a new tariff announcement this week. It
29:38
Speaker 1: was that a hundred percent, he's having a, he is
29:40
Speaker 1: levying a 100% tax on movies made outside the United States,
29:45
Speaker 1: which by the way, is a big deal and a
29:47
Speaker 1: big problem because Hollywood is choosing to shoot their films
29:51
Speaker 1: outside of the U S taking a lot of jobs
29:53
Speaker 1: out of this country. My brother lives in Los Angeles.
29:56
Speaker 1: He's actually One of these guys who said, yeah, there's
29:58
Speaker 1: a lot less work than there used to be in
30:00
Speaker 1: the past because all of these movies, they're just going
30:03
Speaker 1: on to other places. And these jobs that actually matter,
30:06
Speaker 1: you're a PA, you're a camera guy, you're a sound engineer,
30:10
Speaker 1: you work on lighting, you don't have those opportunities anymore
30:13
Speaker 1: because they're just not coming to America. Now, the big
30:16
Speaker 1: movie studios, they still make money, but ultimately, the guys
30:21
Speaker 1: who have working class jobs in Hollywood trying to make
30:24
Speaker 1: a living, they're losing a lot of opportunities. So here
30:28
Speaker 1: is Whoopi's reaction to this Trump tax.
30:34
Speaker 2: Okay, look. You can't do that because what that equates
30:44
Speaker 2: to is you're going to tell me how to write
30:46
Speaker 2: the story I want to write if it happens in Europe.
30:49
Speaker 2: You're telling me that if my book comes out and
30:52
Speaker 2: I want to write it, You're telling me how to
30:55
Speaker 2: write it. You're telling me you're going to charge me
30:57
Speaker 2: for that.
30:58
Speaker 9: Well, you know, I.
31:00
Speaker 1: Okay, so honestly, I think this is a great idea
31:04
Speaker 1: because she's suggesting that Trump is trying to control movies.
31:07
Speaker 1: And I actually think maybe perhaps Trump should be approving
31:10
Speaker 1: movie scripts too. Not only should we have this tax
31:13
Speaker 1: to say, hey, you guys have to have your movies
31:14
Speaker 1: here in America if you're going to make them, but
31:17
Speaker 1: also let's have Trump approve movie scripts.
31:20
Speaker 9: Imagine.
31:21
Speaker 1: a gilded pen in hand, Diet Coke fizzling on the desk.
31:26
Speaker 1: He's slipping through pages of overindulgent wokeness and CGI plot holes,
31:31
Speaker 1: and then he'll squint at yet another crappy remake. And
31:35
Speaker 1: he'll just be like, this needs more America in it.
31:38
Speaker 1: And less of whatever this is. I think Trump is really,
31:40
Speaker 1: he's an entertainer at his heart. He knows branding. He
31:43
Speaker 1: knows how to get people's attention. It would honestly be
31:48
Speaker 1: the best thing ever for Hollywood. Here is Melissa Farah Griffin.
31:53
Speaker 4: A lot of states have tax incentives to shoot there.
31:55
Speaker 4: Georgia's kind of become the Hollywood of the South because
31:57
Speaker 4: they make it cheaper to make movies there. That makes sense.
32:01
Speaker 1: 100% tariff.
32:01
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm thinking more TV shows, but like Emily
32:04
Speaker 4: in Paris. Is it going to be Emily in Paris, Texas?
32:07
Speaker 4: Or like White Lotus, Mar-a-Lago edition? The stories will be
32:10
Speaker 4: very limited if you can only shoot here.
32:12
Speaker 1: Michael was like, I'm too libertarian for Trump to be
32:14
Speaker 1: approving movie scripts. And I'm like, it's a joke. It's
32:17
Speaker 1: a joke. But I mean, it would be great. Honestly,
32:19
Speaker 1: it would be great. And I would 1000% watch White
32:22
Speaker 1: Lotus Mar-a-Lago edition. That would be the most amazing show
32:25
Speaker 1: I've ever heard of. Like I would, the last season
32:27
Speaker 1: of White Lotus, not so great, was not a fan. Ultimately,
32:30
Speaker 1: I thought it was not as good as the first two.
32:32
Speaker 1: White Lotus Mar-a-Lago, I would watch that. I think we've
32:37
Speaker 1: got to make him a producer, producer in chief at
32:39
Speaker 1: this point. And in all seriousness, Hollywood was once a beacon,
32:44
Speaker 1: a shimmering beacon of storytelling and creativity. And now what
32:48
Speaker 1: do we have? We just have a bunch of reboots,
32:50
Speaker 1: soulless sequels, annoying political lectures, the magic of cinema, the
32:56
Speaker 1: ability to captivate, to transport, to inspire. It's really been
33:00
Speaker 1: traded for virtue signaling and for checkbox casting. Imagination suffocated
33:05
Speaker 1: under the weight of this forced messaging. Hollywood truly needs
33:09
Speaker 1: some kind of revolution division. I think producer-in-chief Trump would
33:14
Speaker 1: be an excellent idea of how to fix this. And
33:16
Speaker 1: I'm sure the view would flip out, oh my goodness,
33:18
Speaker 1: Trump's trying to control movies, but the movies would be
33:20
Speaker 1: better for it. By the way, speaking of Trump actually
33:24
Speaker 1: taking on broken institutions, I got two stories for you guys.
33:27
Speaker 1: First one is yesterday, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump
33:31
Speaker 1: administration to begin executing its ban on on transgender military
33:36
Speaker 1: service members. The justices, this is a huge deal, guys,
33:40
Speaker 1: the justices blocked a lower court order that temporarily halted
33:44
Speaker 1: the ban's enforcement. Now, this is a big deal because,
33:50
Speaker 1: for a lot of reasons, but first let me just say,
33:52
Speaker 1: healthcare costs for transgender service members, particularly those who undergo
33:58
Speaker 1: transgender surgeries on the taxpayer's dime, increase military medical expenditures
34:07
Speaker 1: by up to $ 8. 4 million a year. This is completely unnecessary,
34:12
Speaker 1: a waste of taxpayer resources. And no one knows where
34:17
Speaker 1: to put these individuals. There's an interpersonal problem too with transgenders.
34:22
Speaker 1: Do you put them with the men? Do you put
34:24
Speaker 1: them with the women? It sows a lot of chaos
34:28
Speaker 1: on matters which should be very clear, right? If you're
34:32
Speaker 1: a man, You go with a men's unit, female, female unit.
34:36
Speaker 1: Now we've just got these people who are problems. And then,
34:39
Speaker 1: of course, there's the fact that the military needs to
34:42
Speaker 1: be focused on effectiveness and readiness. You can get denied
34:46
Speaker 1: because your eyesight is poor, because you're flat-footed. There's zero
34:52
Speaker 1: reason for mentally ill, gender-confused people to be serving. It's inappropriate.
34:58
Speaker 1: They should be getting help. I have sincere sympathy for
35:01
Speaker 1: people who suffer from this. But their role is not
35:04
Speaker 1: to be serving this country because it's a risk to
35:08
Speaker 1: the military, to the people that they serve with. You
35:10
Speaker 1: can't have mentally ill people having roles in the military
35:15
Speaker 1: which require you to be of sound mind. So this is,
35:17
Speaker 1: of course, a major win for the admin on that front. Again, rejuvenating, revitalizing,
35:23
Speaker 1: restoring your institutions. Another institution that the admin is attempting
35:27
Speaker 1: to reform is the university system. Now, I saw this
35:31
Speaker 1: headline yesterday, and I was really excited. So apparently, Columbia
35:34
Speaker 1: University has fired 180 staffers after the Trump admin cut
35:39
Speaker 1: $ 400 million in federal funding from the school. Now, again,
35:43
Speaker 1: I was ecstatic when I heard this. And if you
35:45
Speaker 1: listen to the show, you will know why. And then
35:47
Speaker 1: I read into this a little more, and I'm pretty upset,
35:50
Speaker 1: pretty annoyed about these 180 people who were fired. So
35:55
Speaker 1: per a letter shared with NBC News, Columbia, the people
36:01
Speaker 1: who were fired from Columbia were working in whole or
36:04
Speaker 1: in part on impacted federal grants, meaning the firings do
36:10
Speaker 1: not address the broader issue at play here, which is
36:14
Speaker 1: to combat administrative bloat. The reason that college is so
36:18
Speaker 1: expensive and a huge reason why college is so politicized
36:22
Speaker 1: is because of the administrators. The administrators at universities are
36:27
Speaker 1: more left-wing than than the professors. There are studies proving this.
36:32
Speaker 1: At Columbia, there are about two administrators for every three students.
36:37
Speaker 1: At some schools, there's more administrators than there are students.
36:40
Speaker 1: It's completely unnecessary. It's a bureaucratic hellscape. And it's why
36:45
Speaker 1: college is so expensive these days. And again, it's also
36:48
Speaker 1: why it's so radically left-wing. Since 2012, there has been
36:52
Speaker 1: a 54% increase in full-time students administrators at Columbia. The
36:57
Speaker 1: university's core mission of education and research is an afterthought
37:02
Speaker 1: in this bureaucratic nightmare. So if Trump's cutting funding, stopping
37:07
Speaker 1: the taxpayer-funded fueling of these schools, the hope is that
37:15
Speaker 1: they'll fire some of these administrators. But instead of firing
37:17
Speaker 1: the administrators, oh, they're firing people related to the grant money.
37:20
Speaker 1: So it's not getting at the real problem here. You're
37:22
Speaker 1: not addressing the systemic issues. The university's decision to lay
37:26
Speaker 1: off research staff only fuels the politicization of the campus,
37:32
Speaker 1: considering that the administrators, like I said, are even more
37:34
Speaker 1: left-wing than the faculty. I think if the Trump admin
37:38
Speaker 1: wants reform, they have to demand that these schools, if
37:42
Speaker 1: they want to have federal funding, fire like 95% of
37:45
Speaker 1: these administrators, which again are driving the radicalism at often times.
37:49
Speaker 1: The Trump admin has to have an administration decrease part
37:56
Speaker 1: of their demands to these schools. It's what's necessary if
37:59
Speaker 1: we actually want reform. And we've been talking a lot
38:02
Speaker 1: about broken institutions today. We talked about it yesterday. Most
38:08
Speaker 1: of these institutions seem beyond repair. But I think some
38:12
Speaker 1: are too important to abandon. We need to protect freedom,
38:15
Speaker 1: maintain order, keep the principles that make a nation strong.
38:20
Speaker 1: And so I called my yaya last night, my yaya
38:23
Speaker 1: meaning my grandmother, and I was asking her about an
38:26
Speaker 1: institution much older than the United States. I was asked
38:29
Speaker 1: to hear about the papacy and the upcoming papal conclave,
38:33
Speaker 1: which begins today. This is where the cardinals gather to
38:37
Speaker 1: elect a new pope for the Catholic Church. And Maia
38:39
Speaker 1: told me that she's praying very diligently for a conservative pope.
38:45
Speaker 1: Maia is old. She's seen a lot of change in
38:49
Speaker 1: the Catholic Church. Some of it's heartbreaking, right? Dramatic changes
38:52
Speaker 1: to the liturgy, a Marxist pope recently. hostility toward tradition,
38:57
Speaker 1: the sex abuse scandal and cover-up. It's been some time.
39:02
Speaker 1: The church has been through some things over the last
39:04
Speaker 1: few decades. But she's never considered leaving. And she reiterated
39:09
Speaker 1: that to me when she was discussing her prayer for
39:14
Speaker 1: this conclave. Because the papacy isn't just about faith. It
39:20
Speaker 1: is about faith. But it also has a role in civilization.
39:26
Speaker 1: For centuries, strong church leadership has preserved culture, defended against tyranny,
39:31
Speaker 1: shaped moral order. Today, the church seems flooded with leaders
39:36
Speaker 1: who reject its own history and tradition. Abandoning it now,
39:40
Speaker 1: I think, and she believes, would mean surrendering one of
39:43
Speaker 1: the last true pillars of faith and reason in a
39:46
Speaker 1: world that is starved for truth. And that's why faithful Catholics,
39:51
Speaker 1: and really Christians everywhere, should work to restore it, not
39:55
Speaker 1: tear it down. This is what conservatives do. We don't destroy,
39:59
Speaker 1: we rebuild. And right now, that's exactly what the world needs.
40:05
Speaker 1: Even simply with your prayers for this conclave that starts today,
40:08
Speaker 1: we need a strong church for what we're up against,
40:11
Speaker 1: a conservative pope. And like I said, we are up against... Frankly,
40:19
Speaker 1: religious persecution left and right. It's not as bad as
40:22
Speaker 1: China or maybe what's happening in Congo or Syria, but
40:26
Speaker 1: we're seeing it here in the United States as well.
40:29
Speaker 1: The state of Washington is now under federal investigation by
40:32
Speaker 1: the Trump admin for the state's newly signed law that
40:36
Speaker 1: orders priests to break the seal of confession by reporting
40:41
Speaker 1: confessions related to child abuse or face jail time. Now,
40:46
Speaker 1: in the Catholic Church, we have something called Confession. What
40:48
Speaker 1: is confession? You go and you tell your sins to
40:51
Speaker 1: a priest, and he, standing in for Christ, absolves you.
40:54
Speaker 1: It's a very beautiful sacrament. It provides not only forgiveness,
40:57
Speaker 1: but also accountability and guidance. And a huge part of
41:00
Speaker 1: confession is that priests are sworn to secrecy. They are
41:05
Speaker 1: not to repeat the sins to anyone. But this new
41:07
Speaker 1: bill demands that Catholic priests violate their faith, violate that vow.
41:13
Speaker 1: Trump's DOJ has opened a civil rights investigation into Washington
41:16
Speaker 1: state's new law They argue that the law specifically targets
41:20
Speaker 1: clergy by removing their right to privileged communication, unlike other professionals,
41:25
Speaker 1: and violates the First Amendment's guarantee of religious freedom. And
41:29
Speaker 1: this is clearly just a brazen attack on religious liberty.
41:32
Speaker 1: For Catholics, the confessional is a sacred space of absolute confidentiality.
41:36
Speaker 1: So forcing priests to absolve what is shared in confession
41:39
Speaker 1: is not just a legal intrusion, it is a profound
41:42
Speaker 1: violation of of religious practice that has been respected for centuries. Again,
41:46
Speaker 1: the Catholic Church is institutional. It's civilizational. And the intention
41:50
Speaker 1: to fight child abuse sounds noble. And that's the whole point.
41:55
Speaker 1: It's meant to back people into a corner. Oh, so
41:58
Speaker 1: you like child abuse then? That's what the argument will be.
42:02
Speaker 1: It's like when you support the Second Amendment and they say, oh, well,
42:05
Speaker 1: you must like school shootings. It's a non-argument. It's manipulative.
42:10
Speaker 1: And it's anti-Catholic bigotry from the people who actually were
42:14
Speaker 1: deeply offended not that long ago for Trump hilariously joking
42:18
Speaker 1: about becoming the next pope and posting a meme of himself.
42:20
Speaker 1: Like the same people who are saying, oh, we got
42:22
Speaker 1: to have priests violate the seal of confession are the
42:26
Speaker 1: ones saying, oh my gosh, it was deeply offensive that
42:28
Speaker 1: Trump posted a meme. I just don't want to hear
42:31
Speaker 1: it from these people.
42:32
Speaker 3: I don't.
42:33
Speaker 1: Especially because of what is going on in California. You
42:37
Speaker 1: want to tell me the Democrats care about children? And
42:39
Speaker 1: then you have the story from California. When Democrats in
42:44
Speaker 1: the assembly in California are currently opposing making it a
42:47
Speaker 1: felony to solicit sex from minors in California. So Democrats
42:52
Speaker 1: are resisting legal penalties on child sex trafficking because of
42:57
Speaker 1: its supposed impact on LGBTQIA plus individuals and older teens
43:01
Speaker 1: in relationships. It's both absurd and alarming and somehow not
43:05
Speaker 1: surprising at all. The institutions that once guarded innocence and
43:08
Speaker 1: virtue have been hollowed out. That's what I'm telling you guys.
43:11
Speaker 1: That's what I've been saying this whole show. Weaponized against
43:14
Speaker 1: those who dare to speak truth or to live by principle.
43:18
Speaker 1: From our borders, to our schools, from our churches, to
43:20
Speaker 1: our courts, the rot is clear. And yet for every
43:23
Speaker 1: example of corruption, for every betrayal of those meant to
43:26
Speaker 1: protect and serve, there's a growing wave of people who
43:30
Speaker 1: see it for what it is. Maybe it's true what
43:35
Speaker 1: they say, that light shines brightest in the darkest places.
43:39
Speaker 1: And maybe that's exactly what we're beginning to see, that
43:41
Speaker 1: people are waking up and they're starting to question everything
43:44
Speaker 1: that they once accepted without a second thought. The whispers
43:47
Speaker 1: are getting louder. And the answer is not to abandon
43:50
Speaker 1: these institutions entirely, but to reclaim them, to remember what
43:55
Speaker 1: they were meant to be before, before the bureaucrats and
43:59
Speaker 1: the ideologues got their hands on them. Because if enough
44:01
Speaker 1: people decide that they've had enough, if enough people stop
44:04
Speaker 1: surrendering their autonomy to empty promises, then maybe the walls
44:07
Speaker 1: are going to come down and we can actually rebuild
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Speaker 6: I think a lot of people are underestimating the Trump
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Speaker 6: I'm on the ballot. Why is he saying that? You
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Speaker 6: think he doesn't know what he's doing? That is the
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Speaker 6: X factor. Folks, elections are a math issue.
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Speaker 6: This is not a football game. If you vote, we
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