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Trump Makes His BEST Nominations Yet (Ep.85) · V

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Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to Bongina Report Early Edition. Matt
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Speaker 1: Gaetz is nominated.
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Speaker 2: To be Trump's Attorney General.
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Speaker 1: Tulsi Gabbard is named the Director of National Intelligence. NATO's
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Speaker 1: military chief says that Elon Musk is allowing too much
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Speaker 1: free speech on X. MSNBC seems to have a man
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Speaker 1: crush on Pete Hegseth. Sonny Hostin admits that Kamala is
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Speaker 1: just an idiot. A lesbian woman murders her father. in
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Speaker 1: an election night rage, a list of all the things
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Speaker 1: that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy can start cutting from
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Speaker 1: the federal budget, and Congress hosts a revealing hearing on aliens.
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Speaker 2: All this on Bongino Report, early edition.
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Speaker 3: The one thing I have to say Tamara Garland, Lisa Monaco,
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Speaker 3: Jack Smith, Tish James, Alvin Bragg, you wait. The hunted
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Speaker 3: are about to become the hunters.
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Speaker 4: Thank you very much.
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Speaker 2: I love that clip.
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Speaker 1: I just think that is exactly what's happening right now.
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Speaker 1: That was Steve Bannon, if you're listening, you didn't hear it,
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Speaker 1: who was recently released from federal prison after he refused
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Speaker 1: to comply with a subpoena from the House related to
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Speaker 1: January 6th. Bannon, Navarro, the Jay Sixers, Donald Trump himself,
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Speaker 1: they are all about to get retribution. The hunted have
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Speaker 1: become the hunters. Yesterday, Representative Matt Gaetz was selected to.
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Speaker 2: Be Trump's attorney general.
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Speaker 1: And here's a little summary of Matt Gaetz's opinion on
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Speaker 1: the permanent state.
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Speaker 5: It seems like every time I turn around they're engaged
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Speaker 5: in surveillance or list building or monitoring and I don't
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Speaker 5: care if it takes every second of our time and
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Speaker 5: every ounce of our energy, we either get this government
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Speaker 5: back on our side or we defund and get rid of,
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Speaker 5: abolish the FBI, CDC, ATF, DOJ, every last one of
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Speaker 5: them if they do not come to heal.
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Speaker 1: That, I mean, that's exactly who you want to be
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Speaker 1: the attorney general. That's the exact attitude we need in
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Speaker 1: this Trump admin. Matt Gaetz is a fierce Trump loyalist.
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Speaker 1: He's a fierce critic of the permanent state. He was
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Speaker 1: hypercritical of the Russia collusion allegations. He knew right away
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Speaker 1: that this whole thing was bogus. He defended January Sixers.
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Speaker 1: He questioned 2020 election integrity. He openly opposed Representative Liz
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Speaker 1: Cheney's stance on foreign wars. and supported efforts to remove
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Speaker 1: her from her leadership position in the House.
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Speaker 2: In other words, Matt Gaetz has been a longtime enemy
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Speaker 2: of the permanent state. And in March 2021.
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Speaker 1: An anonymously sourced report accused Matt Gaetz of sex trafficking
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Speaker 1: involving a minor. And this caused, of course, a media firestorm,
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Speaker 1: despite there really being a lack of evidence. Again, this
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Speaker 1: was sourced from an anonymous individual. 18 months later, The
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Speaker 1: DOJ declined to pursue charges. But of course, the initial
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Speaker 1: report and then subsequent media coverage had really lasting effects
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Speaker 1: on Matt's reputation. And it's pretty clear today that the
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Speaker 1: entire ordeal was one of many cases where the DOJ
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Speaker 1: and the FBI and the corporate media viciously attack, through
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Speaker 1: deceptive leaks and lies, anyone who threatens their power. And
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Speaker 1: it makes this entire appointment incredibly difficult. Trump appointed a
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Speaker 1: victim of DOJ smears to be in charge of his DOJ.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's awesome.
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Speaker 2: It's wonderful.
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Speaker 1: Here is a former assistant U.S. attorney for D.C., Glenn Kirshner,
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Speaker 1: just flipping out on MSNBC over this.
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Speaker 6: I see this, Joy, as calculated by Donald Trump to
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Speaker 6: send a message to the good people at the Department
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Speaker 6: of Justice, 110,000 strong, the men and women, and I
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Speaker 6: was proud to be one of them for decades, doing
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Speaker 6: the people's work. You know, attorneys and support staff who
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Speaker 6: care about honesty, integrity, ethics, the rule of law, and
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Speaker 6: allegiance to the Constitution. This is Donald Trump sending a
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Speaker 6: message to them. that y'all might as well just get
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Speaker 6: out now while the getting's good, because look at who
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Speaker 6: your boss may soon be, Matt Gaetz. And what self-respecting
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Speaker 6: federal prosecutor would want to work under a guy like
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Speaker 6: Matt Gaetz?
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Speaker 1: Everybody who was part of the problem in DC opposes
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Speaker 1: this nomination.
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Speaker 5: J.D.
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Speaker 1: Vance tweeted yesterday, The main issue with Matt Gaetz is
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Speaker 1: that he used his office to prosecute his political opponents
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Speaker 1: and authorized federal agents to harass parents who were peacefully
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Speaker 1: protesting at school board meetings. Oh, wait, that was actually
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Speaker 1: Merrick Garland, the current attorney general. And great point. And
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Speaker 1: what's really going on right now, even there's a lot
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Speaker 1: of Republicans who are opposing this nomination. What's happening is
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Speaker 1: that Trump is not going to repeat 2016. There will
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Speaker 1: be no internal coup. And so he's picking loyalists. because
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Speaker 1: loyalty is more important to Trump than how entrenched you
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Speaker 1: are in D.C. And in fact, if you're not entrenched
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Speaker 1: in D.C., it's kind of a plus. I really love
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Speaker 1: this nomination. Trump seems to not give an F this
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Speaker 1: time around. And the right is done tiptoeing around the
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Speaker 1: political left. There is a suck it attitude about every
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Speaker 1: one of these incoming nominations that is It's really just
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Speaker 1: kind of refreshing for me, something that we just don't
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Speaker 1: see on the right very often. Here is Tom Massey
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Speaker 1: yesterday when asked about Gates by reporters.
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Speaker 2: He says, he's the attorney general. Suck it up.
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Speaker 1: Throws his hands in the air. Tom Massey is the best.
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Speaker 1: I wish he had a role in this admin.
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Speaker 2: He's staying in the house. He's a good guy. Love
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Speaker 2: Tom Massey.
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Speaker 1: By the way, this is my favorite clip from Matt
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Speaker 1: Gaetz that I've seen so far.
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Speaker 2: Is it safe to.
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Speaker 7: Say that based off of your comments, you're suggesting that
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Speaker 7: these women at these abortion rallies are ugly and overweight?
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Speaker 6: Yes.
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Speaker 2: What do you say to people who think that those
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Speaker 2: comments are offensive?
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Speaker 8: Be offended.
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Speaker 1: Be offended.
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Speaker 2: That is so based. I love it. I absolutely love it.
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Speaker 1: Now, a bunch of senators who, by the way, voted
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Speaker 1: to make John Thune a Democrat in a Republican skin
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Speaker 1: suit their leader yesterday. They're now saying that they are
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Speaker 1: not going to confirm Matt Gaetz. Per Fox News, quote,
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Speaker 1: he will never get confirmed that a Republican senator granted
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Speaker 1: a nominee to speak freely. And then another senator said,
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Speaker 1: another senator's Republican source simply.
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Speaker 2: Said, ain't gonna happen.
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Speaker 1: Now, Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican, openly told reporters that she
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Speaker 1: does not think Matt Gaetz is a serious appointment. And
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Speaker 1: Federalist CEO Sean Davis shared on X in response that, quote,
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Speaker 1: Murkowski failed the bar exam four times and only got
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Speaker 1: to be a senator because her daddy gave her his seat.
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Speaker 1: So not sure she's qualified to opine about who's serious
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Speaker 1: or not.
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Speaker 2: And I agree. What a joke these senators are.
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Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk tweeted last night, if you voted for Garland
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Speaker 1: and won't vote for Gates, you will face an immediate
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Speaker 1: primary challenge.
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Speaker 2: And rumor has it that Elon Musk is.
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Speaker 1: Going to pour money into primarying every one of these
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Speaker 1: slimeball senators who get in the way of Trump's appointments
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Speaker 1: and agenda. Now, there is one legitimate, and I'll just
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Speaker 1: be honest with you guys, there's one legitimate problem with
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Speaker 1: this appointment. And I like Mike Gates. I just told you,
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Speaker 1: I like him a lot. But House Republicans currently have
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Speaker 1: 220 seats. You need 218 to have majority. And now
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Speaker 1: Trump has nominated three House members to his admin, Stefanik, Waltz,
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Speaker 1: and Gates. And I know what you're all going to comment, right?
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Speaker 2: But it's a red district. It's not a big deal.
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Speaker 2: We'll get a new Republican in there.
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Speaker 1: One, you have to remember what happened with Jeff Sessions'
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Speaker 1: ruby red seat. They can always flip. Just because a
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Speaker 1: seat is red doesn't mean it'll stay that way. especially
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Speaker 1: after a major Republican victory. Things can swing in the
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Speaker 1: other direction. So do not think that you're 100% safe
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Speaker 1: just because he comes from or she comes from a
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Speaker 1: red district. And the other thing I want to say
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Speaker 1: is that replacements take time. In New York, for example,
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Speaker 1: Kathy Hochul has the power to maximize delays. So a
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Speaker 1: replacement for Elise Stefanik could take up to three months
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Speaker 1: after the date that Elise Stefanik resigns.
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Speaker 2: And then there goes your first 100 days. So it's
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Speaker 2: no hate toward any of these individual appointments. They're all fine.
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Speaker 1: I like Matt Gaetz a lot. I just told you
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Speaker 1: guys that. But I fear that we are jeopardizing the agenda.
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Speaker 1: It's very risky what the Trump transition team is doing.
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Speaker 1: And I hope that they're considering that. By the way, Mikey,
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Speaker 1: let's throw up the list of senators who voted against
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Speaker 1: Rick Scott for the Senate majority leadership race.
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Speaker 2: Just scroll down through here. I mean, Mitch McConnell, we
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Speaker 2: know that. John Thune, we know that.
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Speaker 1: Okay. But there are some people in there who we
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Speaker 1: think are champions of the right, and they deserve to
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Speaker 1: be called out. There are tons of them who are frauds.
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Speaker 1: John Kennedy, Josh Hawley. These guys are people that you think.
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Speaker 2: Are on your side. Mitt Romney, yeah, that's not a shock.
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Speaker 2: Mitt Romney, we knew Mitt Romney sucks.
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Speaker 1: But there's a lot of these guys on this list.
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Speaker 2: I encourage you, if you're.
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Speaker 1: Listening on Apple or Spotify, to look up this list.
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Speaker 1: See if your senator is on there because they deserve
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Speaker 1: to be held accountable for this. I'm really concerned, again,
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Speaker 1: about the Trump agenda because we have such bad leadership.
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Speaker 1: Like I said, John Thune is a Democrat in a
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Speaker 1: Republican skin suit. This guy is not on our side.
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Speaker 1: He's not Trumpian. He's not new right. He's going to
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Speaker 1: be a problem. And there are a lot of senators
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Speaker 1: who we think are good guys who voted against Rick Scott.
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Speaker 1: So really disappointing. I hope that these guys face retribution
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Speaker 1: from their constituents. Now, the second big announcement yesterday was
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Speaker 1: that Tulsi Gabbard has been named director of national intelligence,
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Speaker 1: which is amazing because the intelligence apparatus has been illegally
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Speaker 1: spying on Tulsi Gabbard and the DHS has specifically put
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Speaker 1: her on a terror watch list.
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Speaker 2: We've covered this on the show.
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Speaker 1: Ridiculously, the CIA is furious about this. Representative Abigail Spanberger
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Speaker 1: wrote on X that, as a former CIA case officer,
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Speaker 1: I saw the men and women of the U.S. intelligence
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Speaker 1: community put their lives in line every day for this country,
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Speaker 1: and I am appalled at the nomination of Tulsi Gabbard
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Speaker 1: to lead DNI. Not only is she ill-prepared and unqualified,
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Speaker 1: but she traffics in conspiracy theories and cozies up to
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Speaker 1: dictators like Vladimir Putin.
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Speaker 2: And there are literally.
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Speaker 1: Tons of people saying that Tulsi Gabbard is somehow a
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Speaker 1: Russian spy. David Frum tweeted yesterday, why not cut out
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Speaker 1: the middle woman and just name Putin as director of
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Speaker 1: national intelligence? But you want to know really why the
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Speaker 1: permanent state is freaking out about Tulsi Gabbard? It's because
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Speaker 1: Tulsi Gabbard gets it. She's under no illusions about how
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Speaker 1: this permanent state works.
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Speaker 2: Take a listen.
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Speaker 9: President Biden has not been the guy calling the shots.
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Speaker 9: He has not been the guy making the decisions, nor
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Speaker 9: has it been Kamala Harris, for that matter, nor will
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Speaker 9: it be if she is elected president. It is this
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Speaker 9: cabal of the Democrat elite, the woke warmongers made up
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Speaker 9: of the likes of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama and
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Speaker 9: Tony Blinken and Jake Sullivan and people who are in
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Speaker 9: the military industrial complex, people who profit from us being
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Speaker 9: in a constant state of war. It is those in
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Speaker 9: the administrative state, in the national security state, who derive
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Speaker 9: more authorities and ability to take away our liberty when
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Speaker 9: we are in a heightened state of crisis or war.
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Speaker 9: It is their friends and billionaires and people in media
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Speaker 9: who all derive their power from being able to have
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Speaker 9: a figurehead that essentially they can control.
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Speaker 1: Exactly what's going on. Tulsi Gabbard gets it. And do
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Speaker 1: I agree with Tulsi Gabbard on everything? I think, you know, infamously,
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Speaker 1: she's pro-abortion. I don't agree with her on that. That's
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Speaker 1: not really a concern for DNI. She is going to
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Speaker 1: be in charge of our intelligence apparatus. And she's going
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Speaker 1: to do a great job. Because like I said, she
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Speaker 1: understands how things work. She knows what we're up against,
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Speaker 1: and she's on our side.
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Speaker 2: She's on our side.
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Speaker 1: Here is another reason why the permanent state does not
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Speaker 1: like Tulsi Gabbard. It's because she is an authentically pro-peace individual.
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Speaker 1: I want you to take a listen to Tulsi telling
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Speaker 1: Putin and Zelensky to embrace the spirit of aloha.
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Speaker 9: Presidents Putin, Zelensky, and Biden.
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Speaker 7: It's time to put geopolitics aside and embrace the spirit
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Speaker 7: of aloha, respect and love for the Ukrainian people by
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Speaker 7: coming to an agreement that Ukraine will be a neutral country,
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Speaker 7: no military alliance with NATO or Russia, and therefore alleviate
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Speaker 7: the legitimate security concerns of both US and NATO countries
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Speaker 7: as well as Russia, because there'd be no Russian or
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Speaker 7: NATO troops on each other's non-Baltic borders. This would allow
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Speaker 7: the Ukrainian people to live in peace.
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Speaker 10: Aloha.
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Speaker 1: Can we just contrast Tulsi with Mike Pence for a second?
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Speaker 1: Just take a listen to this and let me know
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Speaker 1: if you notice a difference in rhetoric here.
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Speaker 11: Along the way, the Biden administration has been slow in
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Speaker 11: providing military support. Make no mistake about this. We promised
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Speaker 11: them 33 Abrams tanks in January. I heard again two
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Speaker 11: weeks ago in Ukraine, they still don't have them. We've
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Speaker 11: been telling them we'll train their F-16 pilots, but now
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Speaker 11: they're saying maybe January. We'll let somebody transfer some jets.
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Speaker 12: I'm sorry, Mr.
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Speaker 8: Vice President.
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Speaker 13: I know you're running for president. You are distressed that
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Speaker 13: the Ukrainians don't have enough American tanks. Every city in
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Speaker 13: the United States has become much worse over the past
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Speaker 13: three years. Drive around. There's not one city that's gotten
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Speaker 13: better in the United States. And it's visible. Our economy
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Speaker 13: has degraded. The suicide rate has jumped. Public filth and
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Speaker 13: disorder and crime have exponentially increased. Your concern is that
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Speaker 13: the Ukrainians, a country most people can't find on a map,
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Speaker 13: who've received tens of billions of U.S. tax dollars, don't
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Speaker 13: have enough tanks. I think it's a fair question to ask, like,
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Speaker 13: where's the concern for the United States in that?
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Speaker 11: Well, it's not my concern. Tucker, I've heard that routine
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Speaker 11: from you before, but that's not my concern. I'm running
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Speaker 11: for president of the United States because I think this
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Speaker 11: country's in a lot of trouble.
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Speaker 2: That's not my concern.
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Speaker 1: I am so glad that we are purging tools like
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Speaker 1: Mike Pence from our party. What an embarrassment he is.
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Speaker 1: Can you imagine that that guy thought he was going
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Speaker 1: to represent us as president of the United States? Now,
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Speaker 1: Tulsi's rhetoric about Ukraine has landed her on a Ukrainian
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Speaker 1: enemies list as a, quote, accomplish of Russian war criminals
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Speaker 1: and occupiers and a spreader of false information. And by
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Speaker 1: the way, Tucker Carlson and Elon Musk are.
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Speaker 2: Also on this list.
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Speaker 1: Basically, it if you support peace in Ukraine, you are
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Speaker 1: labeled an enemy of Ukraine. And our own government views
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Speaker 1: it that way too, because again, unfortunately, we have a
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Speaker 1: lot of, I think, monetary interests in Ukraine. And there's
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Speaker 1: money laundering and there's corruption. Ukraine is famously one of
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Speaker 1: the most corrupt countries in the entire world. And unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: Tulsi is one of very few non-hawkish appointments that Trump
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Speaker 1: has made so far, which has me concerned. Trump did
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Speaker 1: unfortunately announced that Marco Rubio will be his Secretary of State.
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Speaker 1: We've already covered that Marco Rubio is a neocon. He
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Speaker 1: is not to be trusted. So that's very unfortunate. And
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Speaker 1: while Tulsi's nomination really makes me optimistic, like I said,
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Speaker 1: I am concerned.
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Speaker 2: I'm not sure.
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Speaker 1: Marco will be able to oppose and be strong enough
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Speaker 1: in the face of things like this. Here is NATO's
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Speaker 1: military chief, Rob Bauer, saying Elon Musk is allowing Too
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Speaker 1: much freedom of.
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Speaker 2: Speech on X.
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Speaker 10: So in terms of disinformation and cyber attacks and all
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Speaker 10: the things that are happening, influencing elections, I think it's
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Speaker 10: a serious problem. And I think the use of social
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Speaker 10: media is basically amplifying everything that is being done by
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Speaker 10: bot factories. And I'm very much in favor of freedom
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Speaker 10: of speech. but I'm not necessarily convinced that what Mr.
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Speaker 10: Musk is doing on X is the right approach. I'm
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Speaker 10: very much in favor of freedom of speech, but there
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Speaker 10: is a lot of things on Twitter that is not
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Speaker 10: helping our societies at all.
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Speaker 1: We pay that guy's salary. The United States is the
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Speaker 1: biggest funder of NATO. Michael, I don't know if you
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Speaker 1: want to look up exactly how much we give to them,
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Speaker 1: but it's ridiculous that he would have any comments about
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Speaker 1: free speech in the United States.
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Speaker 2: We have a First Amendment. You have no right to
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Speaker 2: comment at all, sir.
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Speaker 1: You can sit down. We pay for your salary. Now,
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure Marco Rubio will be able to stand
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Speaker 1: up to a guy like that. I really, I don't
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Speaker 1: have a lot of confidence in him. I do think
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Speaker 1: that new Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth would be able
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Speaker 1: to put this man in his place.
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Speaker 2: Here's Pete on how.
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Speaker 1: He was explicitly prohibited from serving during January 6th.
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Speaker 14: I was deemed an extremist because of a tattoo by
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Speaker 14: my National Guard unit in Washington, D.C. And my orders
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Speaker 14: were revoked to guard the Biden inauguration. Jerusalem cross tattoo,
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Speaker 14: which is just a Christian symbol.
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Speaker 8: Is that the.
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Speaker 12: This is the one.
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Speaker 8: Is that the tattoo? Right here.
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Speaker 14: This one is what got me disinvited. I've never had
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Speaker 14: orders revoked before. I mean, listen, it's a standard deal.
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Speaker 14: You remember after January 6th, everyone was in Washington, D.C.
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Speaker 14: Like Nancy Pelosi had the parking garages full of National Guardsmen.
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Speaker 14: My commander called me a day before, tepidly, and was like, Major,
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Speaker 14: you can just stand down. We don't need you.
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Speaker 6: We're good.
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Speaker 15: I'm like, what do you mean?
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Speaker 8: Everybody's there.
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Speaker 14: He's like, no, no, no, we're... He couldn't tell me.
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Speaker 14: When I was writing the book, I reached out to
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Speaker 14: somebody in the unit who could confirm... with 99.9% certainty
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Speaker 14: because he was in the meetings and on the emails.
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Speaker 5: Nope, someone inside the D.C.
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Speaker 14: Guard trolled your social media, found a tattoo, used it
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Speaker 14: as an excuse to call you a white nationalist, an extremist,
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Speaker 14: and you were specifically by name orders revoked to guard
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Speaker 14: the inauguration because you were considered a potential threat.
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Speaker 15: How is that?
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Speaker 5: It's a cross.
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Speaker 1: So he was deemed, Pete Hegseth was deemed an extremist.
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Speaker 1: and told to stand down by the National Guard. And
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Speaker 1: now he's Secretary of Defense. And I'm pretty confident, Tulsi
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Speaker 1: is going to get to the bottom of how many
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Speaker 1: intelligence assets and agents were undercover on January 6th. I
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Speaker 1: think Pete is going to help with that. But why
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Speaker 1: was Pete blocked out? I mean, these are questions that
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Speaker 1: we deserve to have answers to. I think our military
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Speaker 1: is is purposely purging out red state boys, people that
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Speaker 1: they deem to be conservative. I think part of why
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Speaker 1: they went so hard on the vaccine mandate is because
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Speaker 1: they knew that conservatives were more likely to oppose it.
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Speaker 2: And they were more than happy to say, okay, fine,
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Speaker 2: get out of the military.
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Speaker 1: And we are going to see a major shift in
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Speaker 1: the way that the military treats its enlisted guys, in
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Speaker 1: the way that it has become politicized and woke. Pete
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Speaker 1: is going to do an amazing job at fighting that,
20:35
Speaker 1: making us stronger, making us more lethal. Because again, and
20:39
Speaker 1: this is, Pete has said this before, diversity is not
20:41
Speaker 1: our strength in the military. You want to be united
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Speaker 1: as a unit, as an armed forces. You don't want
20:49
Speaker 1: to be talking about all the things that we don't
20:50
Speaker 1: have in common because that makes it really difficult to
20:52
Speaker 1: unify and fight a common enemy. So I'm really optimistic
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Speaker 1: about Pete. I'm really optimistic about Tulsi. And I think
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Speaker 1: we're finally going to get some answers and see some change. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: MSNBC is still reeling over this Pete Hegseth nomination.
21:07
Speaker 2: And this soundbite is absolutely hilarious. Take a listen.
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Speaker 16: It hasn't come up yet that concerns me in terms
21:13
Speaker 16: of his policies is that he's if he's not a
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Speaker 16: Christian nationalist, he's one of their best warriors. I mean,
21:19
Speaker 16: he sees the military at this point as a flaming
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Speaker 16: sword for Christ.
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Speaker 8: One of the other things that he sort of pushes
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Speaker 8: on outside of misogyny and DEI is anti-Muslim bigotry. Part
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Speaker 8: of the appeal to Trump to him is how he looks.
21:32
Speaker 8: I watched 650 Trump rallies, and very few of them,
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Speaker 8: and almost all of them, did he talk about one
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Speaker 8: or two men in the audience that were big, beautiful,
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Speaker 8: and muscular. And what he sees in Hegseth is sort
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Speaker 8: of an alpha man and is like an essential casting,
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Speaker 8: an ideal character. And Hegseth knows that and leans into
21:49
Speaker 8: that role. And so a part of what he's going
21:52
Speaker 8: to be designed to do is to sell what Trump's vision,
21:56
Speaker 8: what Trump is doing to the very audience that just
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Speaker 8: elected Trump, that's hopped up on the Russian misinformation and
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Speaker 8: other misinformation that they are sort.
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Speaker 16: Of being pickled in there.
22:05
Speaker 8: And he's going to be their, their sort of public
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Speaker 8: figure for that. So that to me is the times
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Speaker 8: that he could actually be on the surface, a very
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Speaker 8: effective sort of vanguard for the scariest of Trump's policies.
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Speaker 1: Michael just said that he thinks it sounds like that, that, that, uh,
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Speaker 1: MSNBC commentator is jealous of Pete Hegseth, that he's threatened
22:24
Speaker 1: by Pete Hegseth because he is such a beta. I
22:27
Speaker 1: think it kind of sounded like he had a man
22:29
Speaker 1: crush on Pete Hegseth. Let me just read to you
22:31
Speaker 1: guys some of these.
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Speaker 2: Little snippets.
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Speaker 1: If he's not a Christian nationalist, he's one of their
22:38
Speaker 1: best warriors. Sees the military as a flaming sword for Christ.
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Speaker 2: Big, beautiful, and muscular. Alpha male. Out of central casting.
22:46
Speaker 2: It's just amazing.
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Speaker 1: It literally sounds like this guy was fawning over Pete Hegseth.
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Speaker 1: It's like he's trying to sell Pete to the people
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Speaker 1: by saying, he's big and he's beautiful and he's awesome. Also,
22:56
Speaker 1: he's a, he's a disinformationist and he's scary, but like
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Speaker 1: he's a mouth of mail.
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Speaker 2: It's just, it's hilarious.
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Speaker 1: Somebody needs to check up on MSNBC because they seem
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Speaker 1: to have a man crush on Pete Hegseth. Speaking of
23:07
Speaker 1: the media, here is Sunny Hostin admitting that she tried
23:12
Speaker 1: giving Kamala Harris a softball question that Kamala Harris turned
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Speaker 1: into an earth-shattering campaign disaster.
23:20
Speaker 2: You all are going to remember this moment. Take a listen.
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Speaker 14: Remind people what the question was.
23:23
Speaker 2: It was, what would you have done differently?
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Speaker 17: I asked the vice president what she would do differently
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Speaker 17: in a Biden, in a Harris administration as opposed to
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Speaker 17: a Biden administration.
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Speaker 13: And what if she, if anything, she wishes she could
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Speaker 13: have done differently in the past four years?
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Speaker 17: Something like that.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 17: I followed up because I was surprised at the answer. Look,
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Speaker 17: I think it wasn't so much about the question, but
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Speaker 17: it was really more about the answer.
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Speaker 3: Not a thing comes to mind.
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Speaker 17: Not a thing comes to mind, and that's why I
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Speaker 17: followed up with, is there anything that you would do differently?
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Speaker 17: And the reason I followed up is because, you know,
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Speaker 17: that wasn't a gotcha question. That was a layup, really.
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Speaker 13: It was an important question, and I think one she
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Speaker 13: should have expected.
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Speaker 17: That's what I thought. I actually thought it was a
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Speaker 17: chance for her to explain to all the people who
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Speaker 17: are saying, I want a change agent, for her to
24:18
Speaker 17: explain that, of course, she has a different lived experience
24:21
Speaker 17: from President Biden. But they did have one of the
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Speaker 17: most successful administrations in our country.
24:28
Speaker 15: Well, that's the tricky part.
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Speaker 17: And I thought she would then say, I would build
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Speaker 17: on the wins that we've had.
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Speaker 2: Can you guys imagine? You're Sonny Hostin, but trying to
24:40
Speaker 2: give Kamala Harris, in your own words... A layup in.
24:45
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris is so low IQ that she completely bombed.
24:50
Speaker 1: And then Sonny's out here wondering still to this day,
24:52
Speaker 1: why so many people voted for Trump? She admitted it
24:55
Speaker 1: herself that Kamala Harris is dumb as a doorknob. This
24:59
Speaker 1: woman could not even handle Sonny's layup question, and Sonny.
25:04
Speaker 2: Just admitted it herself.
25:07
Speaker 1: Now, on the topic of The View, ABC is reportedly
25:10
Speaker 1: scrambling to to bring in pro-Trump voices to the show.
25:15
Speaker 1: And it's almost like they should have already had this done.
25:18
Speaker 1: They should have already had a pro-Trump voice ages ago.
25:23
Speaker 1: Their token conservative on The View is never authentically right-wing,
25:28
Speaker 1: let alone a pro-Trump person. And their ratings and their
25:31
Speaker 1: relevance have really suffered for it. Now, the ladies of
25:34
Speaker 1: The View aren't the only ones losing it over this election,
25:38
Speaker 1: aren't the only ones devolving into just complete derangement and frankly, psychosis.
25:45
Speaker 1: Here is Don Lemon announcing that he is leaving X
25:49
Speaker 1: via a post on X yesterday.
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Speaker 11: Hi, everyone.
25:53
Speaker 3: I have loved connecting with all of you on Twitter
25:57
Speaker 3: and then on X for all of these years, but
25:59
Speaker 3: it's time for me to leave the platform. I once
26:02
Speaker 3: believed that it was a place for honest debate and discussion,
26:05
Speaker 3: transparency and free speech, but I now feel it does
26:08
Speaker 3: not serve that purpose. In addition, starting this Friday, November 15th,
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Speaker 3: X is implementing new terms of service, which, among other things,
26:18
Speaker 3: states that, quote, all disputes be brought exclusively in the U.S.
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Speaker 3: District Court for the Northern District of Texas or state
26:25
Speaker 3: courts located in Tarrant County, Texas, end quote. The full
26:29
Speaker 3: terms of service can be found on my written statement
26:32
Speaker 3: or on the X website. Now, as the Washington Post
26:34
Speaker 3: recently reported on X's decision to change the terms, this, quote,
26:39
Speaker 3: ensures that such lawsuits will be heard in courthouses that
26:42
Speaker 3: are a hub for conservatives, which experts say could make
26:46
Speaker 3: it easier for X to shield itself from litigation and
26:50
Speaker 3: punish critics. I think that speaks for itself. You can
26:54
Speaker 3: find me on YouTube at The Don Lemon Show or
26:57
Speaker 3: on TikTok and Facebook at Don Lemon. and on Instagram
27:01
Speaker 3: and Blue Sky at Don Lemon Official. I hope you
27:05
Speaker 3: will join me there. Thanks.
27:08
Speaker 1: Michael said that he thinks Elon Musk should just run
27:11
Speaker 1: that as an advertisement for X. Go to X.
27:14
Speaker 2: You won't get any Don Lemon. He's gone. He's left.
27:16
Speaker 2: It's kind of funny.
27:18
Speaker 1: I think that was a super brain-dead reason to leave X.
27:22
Speaker 1: If you want to sue X, you apparently now have
27:24
Speaker 1: to do it in Texas.
27:25
Speaker 2: And who cares?
27:27
Speaker 1: Why wasn't Don Lemon complaining when old Twitter made users
27:30
Speaker 1: sue in San Francisco?
27:32
Speaker 2: Drop a comment.
27:33
Speaker 1: Pretty sure there's more bias in California courts compared to Texas.
27:37
Speaker 1: Don Lemon is such a joke. And really, this is
27:40
Speaker 1: his loss. X is the only platform with some authentic
27:44
Speaker 1: free speech. Certainly when it comes to the written word,
27:46
Speaker 1: it is the premier platform. Here at Rumble, we have
27:49
Speaker 1: free speech, but we're video. We're different entities. And it's
27:54
Speaker 1: really strange to me that so many people on the
27:56
Speaker 1: left don't want to be a part of that, don't
27:58
Speaker 1: want to be a part of the conversation where the
28:00
Speaker 1: conversations are really happening. And I really think a lot
28:03
Speaker 1: of us, especially the left, could use X because it
28:06
Speaker 1: exposes you to different perspectives. And some people really do
28:09
Speaker 1: not know how to handle political disagreements anymore, and it's
28:12
Speaker 1: tearing us apart. And with that, I want to share
28:15
Speaker 1: with you guys a really disturbing story. A lesbian woman
28:20
Speaker 1: married to a trans-identifying man, an LGBT activist, who apparently
28:25
Speaker 1: wrote for the Daily Beast, has been charged with first-degree
28:29
Speaker 1: murder this week. And the woman butchered her father with
28:34
Speaker 1: an ice axe on election night after a breakdown following
28:37
Speaker 1: Trump's victory. The woman told cops that the killing was
28:41
Speaker 1: meant to help people change their attachment to their parents
28:46
Speaker 1: and had to happen today. And she told them this was,
28:50
Speaker 1: and she told them as her face was, I guess,
28:52
Speaker 1: covered in her father's blood. That was according to court documents.
28:56
Speaker 1: The woman had been upset about the election results, and
28:59
Speaker 1: then she just snapped when her father refused to turn
29:02
Speaker 1: off the lights. And then she then went upstairs, grabbed
29:06
Speaker 1: an ice pickaxe, tripped her father, strangled him, and struck
29:10
Speaker 1: him repeatedly with the blunt and sharp ends of the tool.
29:14
Speaker 1: And she sat down next to him and watched him die.
29:17
Speaker 1: and then went around the house and smashed all the windows,
29:20
Speaker 1: in which she described as an act of liberation. And
29:24
Speaker 1: when cops arrived, she was, quote, clapping because she was
29:28
Speaker 1: so happy. And this is a really extreme example. Obviously,
29:32
Speaker 1: this woman is mentally ill.
29:35
Speaker 2: She's possessed. There's something wrong here. Nobody does that.
29:39
Speaker 1: But and is a normal human being. But we're seeing
29:43
Speaker 1: a lot of derangement from leftists right now.
29:47
Speaker 2: Even ones on TV.
29:48
Speaker 1: We've been covering how The View yesterday told people you
29:51
Speaker 1: should disown your Trump voting family to somehow protect yourself.
29:56
Speaker 2: This is not normal.
29:57
Speaker 1: This is not cohesive for a society. We have mothers
30:02
Speaker 1: saying that they're going to divorce their husbands because their
30:06
Speaker 1: husband dared to vote for Trump.
30:08
Speaker 2: The insanity needs to stop.
30:10
Speaker 1: And I firmly believe that it is being driven largely
30:14
Speaker 1: by the media. Switching gears here, you guys. Elon Musk
30:19
Speaker 1: and Vivek Ramaswamy, of course, have been tasked with cutting
30:21
Speaker 1: down federal spending under the new Department of Government Efficiency Act.
30:26
Speaker 1: And the New York Post came up with an incredible
30:28
Speaker 1: and frankly frightening list of places where Elon and Vivek
30:31
Speaker 1: can start the cutting. In 2023, the federal government shipped $ 1. 3
30:37
Speaker 1: billion in checks to dead people from the IRS, Medicare,
30:41
Speaker 1: and Assorted Veterans Groups. In 2021, the National Institute of
30:46
Speaker 1: Health awarded... $ 549, 000 to a Russian lab performing experiments on cats,
30:52
Speaker 1: including removing parts of the cat's brains and seeing if
30:56
Speaker 1: they could still walk on a treadmill, which, by the way,
30:58
Speaker 1: that's horrific and should not be happening, let alone funded
31:02
Speaker 1: by the American people. The NIH also funded a study
31:05
Speaker 1: on monkeys and gambling. The State Department awarded $ 20, 000 in
31:08
Speaker 1: 2022 to a center in Ecuador used monkeys for 12
31:14
Speaker 1: drag theater performances in a two-minute documentary.
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Speaker 2: $ 20, 000 for some drag performances in a documentary.
31:23
Speaker 1: And of course, the government spent several million dollars on
31:26
Speaker 1: the Wuhan Institute of Virology's bat coronavirus research, which ended
31:31
Speaker 1: up costing the United States $ 20 trillion. So maybe stop
31:35
Speaker 1: funding dangerous gain-of-function research.
31:37
Speaker 2: We can start with that as well. By the way, Dr.
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Speaker 1: Anthony Fauci, the guy whose agency Greenlit funding the lab
31:43
Speaker 1: and who covered up the lab leak theory, he's receiving
31:46
Speaker 1: $ 15 million worth of security detail a year, despite being retired.
31:52
Speaker 1: $ 15 million the American people are paying to protect Anthony Fauci.
31:58
Speaker 1: That needs to end immediately. That guy should be in jail,
32:02
Speaker 1: not protected by the American people. You know what else
32:05
Speaker 1: I hope we get answers on? I hope we get
32:08
Speaker 1: answers on Aliens.
32:10
Speaker 2: Yes, I want to know about Epstein. I want to
32:13
Speaker 2: know about.
32:13
Speaker 1: The moon landing and JFK and 9-11, but I also
32:16
Speaker 1: want some transparency on UFOs. We know that unexplained objects
32:21
Speaker 1: are violating U.S. airspace, and Congress wants answers. Yesterday, the
32:25
Speaker 1: House Oversight Committee hosted a hearing titled Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena
32:32
Speaker 1: Exposing the Truth, and members spoke to several witnesses. Here
32:36
Speaker 1: is Luis, uh, Elizondo, a former U.S. Defense Department researcher,
32:43
Speaker 1: being questioned by Representative Nancy Mace.
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Speaker 15: Has the government conducted secret UAP crash retrieval programs, yes
32:49
Speaker 15: or no?
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Speaker 6: Yes.
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Speaker 15: Okay, were they designed to identify and reverse engineer alien craft,
32:53
Speaker 15: yes or no?
32:54
Speaker 3: Yes. Does the U.S.
32:55
Speaker 15: Government have any reverse, okay, we already asked that question
32:58
Speaker 15: about retrieval programs. Do any U.S. contractors have the same?
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Speaker 4: I would prefer to address on a closed session, ma'am.
33:06
Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 15: In your book, you mention government employees who've been injured
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Speaker 15: by UAPs, placed on leave, and receiving government compensation for
33:13
Speaker 15: their injuries. Is that correct?
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Speaker 4: That is correct.
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Speaker 15: How can the government deny we have recovered craft if
33:18
Speaker 15: they're paying people because they've been injured by a recovered craft?
33:22
Speaker 4: Ma'am, that's a great question. That's why I think we're
33:24
Speaker 4: here again, because I've seen the documentation by the U.S.
33:27
Speaker 4: government for several of these individuals who have sustained injuries
33:31
Speaker 4: as a result of a UAP incident.
33:37
Speaker 1: We are paying for government employees who have been injured in, quote,
33:41
Speaker 1: UAP incidents. But we aren't even officially told that UAPs exist.
33:46
Speaker 2: I want you to listen to this clip where several
33:48
Speaker 2: witnesses are asked what they believe these UAPs actually are.
33:55
Speaker 3: What do you believe UAPs could be or are?
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Speaker 14: Strong evidence that they're non-human, higher intelligence individuals.
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Speaker 4: I echo my colleague's comment, sir.
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Speaker 10: Genuinely do not know.
34:13
Speaker 8: Don't know, but we must find out.
34:18
Speaker 2: I take this really seriously, actually.
34:21
Speaker 1: Countless whistleblowers have come forward and said that we are
34:24
Speaker 1: encountering technology and non-human intelligence that far surpasses our own,
34:29
Speaker 1: and the government is lying to us about it.
34:30
Speaker 3: Why?
34:32
Speaker 2: The people deserve to know what our tax dollars are.
34:35
Speaker 5: Funding?
34:36
Speaker 1: What kind of experiments and research is being done related
34:42
Speaker 1: to UAPs? What is our government encountering in the airspace?
34:47
Speaker 1: Are we under some kind of threat?
34:49
Speaker 2: What is it?
34:50
Speaker 1: I tend to think there is a spiritual element to
34:53
Speaker 1: aliens throughout all of human history. People have been documenting
34:58
Speaker 1: otherworldly encounters from Moses and the burning bush to Jesus's
35:02
Speaker 1: resurrection or a lady of Guadalupe. And we have never
35:05
Speaker 1: interpreted these encounters as anything other than spiritual.
35:10
Speaker 2: Only until very recently.
35:11
Speaker 1: Did we label these encounters as extraterrestrial. And either way,
35:16
Speaker 1: the people deserve to know what is going on. And hopefully,
35:19
Speaker 1: maybe Tulsi Gabbard can help us get to the bottom
35:21
Speaker 1: of this. That would be awesome. And she's probably going
35:24
Speaker 1: to face a lot of resistance. And this is really
35:26
Speaker 1: the point of today's show. A second Trump admin will
35:30
Speaker 1: face resistance. formidable resistance from the entrenched federal bureaucracy, which
35:35
Speaker 1: is accustomed and has been for decades now to operating
35:40
Speaker 1: outside the direct oversight of elected officials. These bureaucrats have shown,
35:45
Speaker 1: as they did in 2016 with Buster Collusion, that they
35:47
Speaker 1: are willing to undermine the will of the people. The
35:51
Speaker 1: permanent state, reinforced by legacy media, NGOs, academia, is a
35:57
Speaker 1: powerful opponent to Trump and everyone in his admin. But
36:02
Speaker 1: the experiences gained over these last few years, the Twitter files,
36:06
Speaker 1: Russia collusion, Hunter Biden laptop, all the lawfare, they provide
36:11
Speaker 1: us with a clear understanding of the internal workings of
36:14
Speaker 1: the federal system. Trump's political comeback from the fallout of
36:17
Speaker 1: January 6th defied expectations. He demonstrated extraordinary resilience. And incredibly,
36:25
Speaker 1: this is an amazing clip, in 1992, Trump himself predicted
36:27
Speaker 1: that that he would need to lose everything to reveal
36:34
Speaker 1: true loyalty.
36:38
Speaker 8: Then how are you different than you were three or
36:40
Speaker 8: four years ago?
36:41
Speaker 18: Well, I used to say, and in fact, I think
36:43
Speaker 18: I said in my first book that, and maybe this
36:45
Speaker 18: was foolish, but I really meant it, that someday I'd
36:48
Speaker 18: like to maybe lose everything for a period of time
36:51
Speaker 18: to see who's loyal and who's not loyal. And I frankly,
36:54
Speaker 18: I found.
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Speaker 8: Out a lot of things.
36:55
Speaker 1: Did you find out who's loyal and not loyal?
36:57
Speaker 18: I tell you what.
36:59
Speaker 2: It's almost like a prophecy.
37:01
Speaker 1: And this time he has selected loyalists prepared to confront
37:04
Speaker 1: the entrenched deep state. Few in his circle are naive
37:08
Speaker 1: about the challenges, although we have some figures like Marco
37:11
Speaker 1: Rubio who may present some vulnerabilities. This administration, however, appears
37:16
Speaker 1: resolute on the whole in pursuing serious reforms, potentially even
37:22
Speaker 1: dismantling certain agencies like CISA under the DHS. I hope
37:28
Speaker 1: that the Trump team considers, including some figures like Ron
37:32
Speaker 1: and Rand Paul in advisory roles. We need some more pro-peace,
37:37
Speaker 1: anti-interventionist voices countering some of the neoconservative voices that are
37:43
Speaker 1: on the Trump team. But I really believe that Trump
37:47
Speaker 1: and the admin that he's assembling could become one of
37:49
Speaker 1: the most disruptive and positive forces literally since 1776. What
37:54
Speaker 1: we are witnessing is truly nothing short of revolutionary change.
37:59
Speaker 1: And it makes me very optimistic. And that is all
38:01
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38:10
Speaker 1: I will also, I think I'll be hosting the radio.
38:13
Speaker 2: Is that right, Mikey? I'll be on the radio tomorrow
38:15
Speaker 2: as well. See you guys then. The Dan Bongino Show.
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Speaker 12: I think a lot of people are underestimating the Trump
38:21
Speaker 12: effect in this midterm. You've heard it yourself. Act like
38:25
Speaker 12: I'm on the ballot. Why is he saying that? You
38:27
Speaker 12: think he doesn't know what he's doing? That is the
38:30
Speaker 12: X factor. Folks, elections are a math issue.
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Speaker 16: That is it.
38:35
Speaker 12: This is not a football game. If you vote, we
38:39
Speaker 12: will win. It is not complicated.
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