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Mark interviews columnist Liz Peek. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: Here's more Marks alone on sevent ten. Wo r Well,
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  Speaker 1: Liz Peak. Of course you see all of our television
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  Speaker 1: I's are on Cudlow last night and the great columns.
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  Speaker 1: You can read her columns at foxnews dot com. And
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  Speaker 1: she's got this wonderful site that you should sign up
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  Speaker 1: or check it every day. In fact, you can sign
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  Speaker 1: up and get free briefings news every day lizpeak dot com.
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  Speaker 1: P E e K lizpeak dot com. Check it out
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  Speaker 1: every day, Liz Peak. How you doing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm terrific, so much better for being with you.
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  Speaker 1: Mark. Well, thanks. I think everyone's a little shocked. I
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  Speaker 1: wake up this morning find out Prince Andrew has been arrested.
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  Speaker 2: But you know it's interesting. I mean, I'm sure you
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  Speaker 2: know it's not because he may have had sexual relations
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  Speaker 2: with underage girls. It's really because he may have passed
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  Speaker 2: secrets to Jeffrey Epstein. I mean, I think, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think the underlying story, what we're gonna hear more
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  Speaker 2: and more maybe him out from the Jeffrey Epstein revelations
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  Speaker 2: is that the guy was a master blackmailer and he
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  Speaker 2: you know, got people like Prince Andrew and who knows
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  Speaker 2: who else into compromising situations and then took advantage of that.
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  Speaker 2: You know that we've not really ever heard the explanation
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  Speaker 2: for Leon Black paying him tens of millions of dollars.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure there are other people who are going to
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  Speaker 2: be implicated in the same way. But what a horrible
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  Speaker 2: thing for the Royal family. I mean, I must say,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they've had their share of pretty tough hits
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  Speaker 2: in the last couple of years, with Kate Middleton having
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  Speaker 2: cancer and Charles having cancer, and now this is supreme embarrassment.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I have to say, my heart goes out
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  Speaker 2: to the family.
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  Speaker 1: I got to disagree a little let Royal family. They
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  Speaker 1: got more nonsense going on through these remember Fergie and
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff, and well that was Prince Andrew's their wife,
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  Speaker 1: but it was there's always some embarrassing stuff with that family,
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  Speaker 1: not as bad as this, but.
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  Speaker 2: No, this is this is pretty terrible. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think what's sort of tragic is that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Queen Elizabeth to me was a really outstanding, steady, tough person,
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  Speaker 2: no question, but you have to be pretty tough in
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  Speaker 2: her in her life, I think, and you know it's
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  Speaker 2: for next generation problems, right I mean, I think Charles
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  Speaker 2: is sort of a fool, uh and not a very
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  Speaker 2: well respected person. So then you go to the next
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  Speaker 2: generation and they've just had you know, I mean, to
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  Speaker 2: have Kate get Ill and all of that. It's just
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  Speaker 2: I think it's been a pretty tough couple of years.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, this is a whole new chapter and pretty
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  Speaker 2: disgraceful obviously.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I also I never thought I still don't buy
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  Speaker 1: that Epstein was such a blackmailer. He had a way
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  Speaker 1: of just luring these guys in with all kinds of
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  Speaker 1: you know, it wasn't just the women. If you I've
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  Speaker 1: been reading the file so carefully. He dangles celebrities in
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  Speaker 1: front of them up dinners with Woody Allen and this
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  Speaker 1: person and that person, and you know, you know, those
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  Speaker 1: guys are as starstruck as anybody in fall for that
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  Speaker 1: master manipulator.
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  Speaker 2: On the other hand, if you're Prince Andrew and you
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  Speaker 2: have that there are pictures of you with these underage girls,
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  Speaker 2: pretty much you'll do anything he wants you to.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So hey, State of the Union addresses coming up Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: As I said before, it's always an opportunity for Democrats
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  Speaker 1: to totally embarrass themselves. And yeah, now they're talking about
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  Speaker 1: having their own State of the Union somewhere else. Isn't
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  Speaker 1: that going to backfire on them? Well?
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  Speaker 2: What I almost tweeted about this and then I couldn't
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  Speaker 2: really figure out how to, you know, make it interesting.
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  Speaker 2: But they're calling their performance and honestly, when did Democrats
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  Speaker 2: become the performance party? But that's kind of what they've
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  Speaker 2: evolved into. They have no policies they want to talk about.
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  Speaker 2: All they do is hate Trump and then sort of
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  Speaker 2: showcase that hatred with endless filibuster speeches, etc. And that course,
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  Speaker 2: here's the newest one, which is a State of the
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  Speaker 2: Union for the people. Okay, Well, their biggest complaint about
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump is as a populist. What does that mean?
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  Speaker 1: Mark?
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  Speaker 2: That means he's of the people. Right, So, when you
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  Speaker 2: have a president elected by a majority of voters, this
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  Speaker 2: is no longer a fringe candidate. This is no longer
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  Speaker 2: someone who doesn't represent the will of the people. He
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  Speaker 2: clearly does. And so I think for that, you know, look,
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  Speaker 2: I think the Republicans have lost some important contests recently,
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  Speaker 2: some elections have gone the wrong way. Obviously, the country
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  Speaker 2: in the midterms, as usual is ready to sort of
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  Speaker 2: voice some discontent with what's going on. But the reality
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  Speaker 2: is this guy, Donald Trump is getting stuff done. He
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  Speaker 2: is fixing what's broken in the government. A lot of
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  Speaker 2: people are applauding that. So I think just resting your
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  Speaker 2: case on how vile the president is is pretty weak gruel,
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  Speaker 2: and I just cannot imagine that in the midterms people
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  Speaker 2: are going to turn out. Now, the risk to the
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  Speaker 2: GOP is that Trump voters just are not reliable voters.
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  Speaker 2: But then a lot of the Democratic coalition isn't reliable either.
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  Speaker 2: Young people don't always vote in the midterms, and minorities
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  Speaker 2: don't always vote in the midterms. So we'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 2: But the more that they embarrass themselves by acting out
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  Speaker 2: by the way, Hakim Jeffries, the Minority leader, has asked
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  Speaker 2: Democrats not to do this because I think he's aware
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  Speaker 2: that it just embarrasses them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the President's done a great job foreign policy economies,
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  Speaker 1: but Democrats create this fake narrative, this affordability crisis. So
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  Speaker 1: isn't this a big opportunity for him to just the
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  Speaker 1: hole public will be watching and he can lay out
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  Speaker 1: the actual facts on inflation wages. So won't that change everything?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I don't know if it'll change everything, because of
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  Speaker 2: course you'll have commentators immediately fact checking everything he says.
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  Speaker 2: But if he sticks to the facts, mark, yes, if
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  Speaker 2: he claims growth, we're you know, if he claims we're
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  Speaker 2: striving for fifteen percent growth, no.
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  Speaker 1: That's not going to work.
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  Speaker 2: But we don't need to make up exaggerated numbers. We
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  Speaker 2: don't need to talk about stuff that's not real, because
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  Speaker 2: the story right now is extremely persuasive. And I must say,
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  Speaker 2: the Fed minutes are just really sort of make my
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  Speaker 2: head hurt. Because Bloomberg did a piece this morning on
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  Speaker 2: the FED notes that were made public yesterday. I was like, well,
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  Speaker 2: they may have to raise rates because of inflation, you know,
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  Speaker 2: not being where they wanted to be. Inflation numbers just
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  Speaker 2: recently were extremely good, very beneficial, two point four percent.
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  Speaker 2: It is coming down a lot of people think that
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  Speaker 2: actual inflation right now is closer to one percent. If
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  Speaker 2: you stop measure during rent and household expenditures in a
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  Speaker 2: sort of mixed up way. It's the numbers on inflation
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  Speaker 2: are actually pretty good. Are they good enough? Maybe not,
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  Speaker 2: but you're not you're certainly not about to embark on
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  Speaker 2: a rate hiking cycle. But I mean, it's such a
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  Speaker 2: typical Bloomberg or MSNBC or whatever description. Just make it
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  Speaker 2: sound as bad as it possibly can be. So to
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  Speaker 2: your point, Donald Trump has an opportunity on Tuesday night
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  Speaker 2: to talk to the American people about what's happening in
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  Speaker 2: our economy. We have an investment boom, Housing starts are up.
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  Speaker 2: Affordability on housing, by the way, is getting better because
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  Speaker 2: mortgage rates have come down. I mean, there is a
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  Speaker 2: whole slew of positive developments that have come out, just
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  Speaker 2: even in the last few weeks. And here's another thing.
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  Speaker 2: I talked about this on Area yesterday a couple of
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  Speaker 2: times aoc an inner terrible appearance in Munich, and then
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  Speaker 2: the explanation afterwards talks about the central thing that Democrats
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  Speaker 2: want to impress upon the American people, the fact that
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  Speaker 2: income inequality is so terrible and the richer getting richer,
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  Speaker 2: and blah blah blah. It is not true. The Economist,
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  Speaker 2: a very left wing magazine, devoted an entire cover story
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  Speaker 2: this week to the fact that actually, because of progressive
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  Speaker 2: taxes such as we have here in the United States,
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  Speaker 2: income inequality has been going down not only in the
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  Speaker 2: US but also in Europe. So their whole narrative is wrong.
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  Speaker 2: It's wrong. They're wrong on marijuana, they're wrong on gender surgeries,
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  Speaker 2: and they're wrong on economic inequality. And you know they'll
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  Speaker 2: never admit it, but the truth is they're wrong. And
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  Speaker 2: so you know, I think that bleeds into reasonable and
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  Speaker 2: wise critiques of people like Mamdani who's trying to force
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  Speaker 2: all this tax hikes and stuff down the ridge because
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  Speaker 2: of income inequality, wealth inequality and stuff, and people rightly
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  Speaker 2: are putting back, pushing back and saying, hey, you're going
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  Speaker 2: to kill your own city. So it's stupid, but b
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  Speaker 2: your narrative is just false.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, Liz Peak brilliant as always. Now everybody should
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  Speaker 1: check out her website. We can get a lot of
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  Speaker 1: great stories, news analysis and her column It's lizpeak dot com.
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  Speaker 1: columns and we'll see all over TV. Liz Peak, thanks
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  Speaker 1: for being with.
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  Speaker 2: Us, well, thank you for having me, and thank you
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  Speaker 2: for that pump on my on my website.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. I check it every morning lizpeak dot com.
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