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Candace's Conspiracies Crumble, Trump & Iran, Illegals & Housing Costs | Last Call · 3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Three Martini Lunch.
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  Speaker 2: Greb A Stolen next to Greg Corumbus of Radio America
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  Speaker 2: and Jim Garritty of National Review. Free Martini's Coming Up.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to the last call of the week for the
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  Speaker 3: Three Martini Lunch. This is our weekly recap of the
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  Speaker 3: biggest stories of the week. In this edition, we discuss
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  Speaker 3: how the preliminary hearings into the Charlie Kirk murder trial
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  Speaker 3: are exposing the many conspiracy theories as complete nonsense, President
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  Speaker 3: Trump suggesting the Iran deal is dead, and how illegal
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  Speaker 3: immigration during the Biden years caused a huge spike in
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  Speaker 3: housing costs, and in our chaser of the week, what
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  Speaker 3: is going on with Senator Mitch McConnell. But we begin
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  Speaker 3: with the truth crushing conspiracy theories Jim. Obviously, events in
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  Speaker 3: Maine have kind of consumed most of our attention this week,
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  Speaker 3: and there's still a little bit of drama left there.
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  Speaker 3: But one of the other things that was going on
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  Speaker 3: this week out in Utah is the preliminary hearing to
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  Speaker 3: make sure there's enough evidence and boy is there to
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  Speaker 3: go to trial. As it concerns Tyler Robinson, the guy
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  Speaker 3: accused of murdering Charlie Kirk in September of last year
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  Speaker 3: at Utah Valley University. And so, you know, in addition
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  Speaker 3: to the fact that we want justice in this case,
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  Speaker 3: unfortunately Erica Kirk and her family and the people close
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  Speaker 3: to Charlie Kirk have had to deal with this maniacal nonsense,
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  Speaker 3: primarily from Candace Owens, but also from others who continue
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  Speaker 3: to chime in on social media and elsewhere, trying to
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  Speaker 3: blur the lines blatantly live what have you about what
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  Speaker 3: actually happened that day and who's responsible for it. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: Candace Owens has more purpse than Kennedy assassination conspiracy. So
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  Speaker 3: we've got a lot of clarification this week that I'm
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  Speaker 3: sure she's going to try to spin away in a
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  Speaker 3: number of different ways. But we also know that Tyler
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  Speaker 3: Robinson confessed three separate times to murdering Charlie Kirk. He
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  Speaker 3: confessed in a text message to his boyfriend, a guy
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  Speaker 3: named Lance Twiggs, who is now cooperating with the prosecution
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  Speaker 3: in exchange for limited immunity. He confessed in a discord chat.
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  Speaker 3: He confessed to law enforcement. And so despite all that,
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  Speaker 3: despite the DNA on the rifle. Despite the video, there's
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  Speaker 3: still you know, a thousand conspiracy theories blooming. But a
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  Speaker 3: guy on Twitter who's been following this, it goes by
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  Speaker 3: Florida Dad. This is just a non comprehensive list, he says,
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  Speaker 3: of Candace Owen's lies debunked in just the past forty
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  Speaker 3: eight hours. Candace Lie Robinson never on campus. Truth four times,
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  Speaker 3: multiple camera angles. Candace Lye Charlie had an exploding mic. Truth,
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  Speaker 3: bullet fragments were found in his neck. Candace Lye twigs
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  Speaker 3: messages are fake. Truth pictures were taken directly from the phone,
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  Speaker 3: and he admits authenticity. Lie Robinson couldn't possibly have jumped
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  Speaker 3: off the roof of that building. Truth, there's video of
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  Speaker 3: him jumping off the roof of that building. Lie, gun
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  Speaker 3: and ammo would have had an exit wound.
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  Speaker 1: Truth.
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  Speaker 3: The ammo he used was designed to break apart inside
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  Speaker 3: the target. Lie couldn't have sent messages already in custody.
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  Speaker 3: Truth sent messages an hour before. And on and on
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  Speaker 3: it goes, including supposedly that Robinson wasn't the right height
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  Speaker 3: for the person.
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  Speaker 1: In the video.
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  Speaker 3: That's been debunked as well, And so I'm sure the
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  Speaker 3: grift is going to keep going here, Jim. But it's
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  Speaker 3: good to know that the truth is lining up with
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  Speaker 3: what all the rational people thought all along.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I've seen some folks on x speculating, well, this
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  Speaker 4: is the end of Candas owns that this is going
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  Speaker 4: to be the end of.
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  Speaker 1: This crazy conspiracy theory.
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  Speaker 4: This is going to be such a thorough soup to
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  Speaker 4: nuts beginning to end, refutation of every crazy conspiracy theory
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  Speaker 4: that has come out of her mouth, and other podcast
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  Speaker 4: hosts as well, that this is going to destroy their
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  Speaker 4: credibility once for all and no one will ever listen
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  Speaker 4: to them. Sadly, I don't think that's necessarily going to
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  Speaker 4: come to pass. There's always going to be an audience
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  Speaker 4: for this. There's always going to be people who choose
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  Speaker 4: to believe in the really and exciting and dramatic conspiracy
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  Speaker 4: theory than in facts that are depressing but you know, accurate.
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  Speaker 4: But I was thinking about Greg, when's the last time
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  Speaker 4: you heard anybody talking about QAnon? You know, like this
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  Speaker 4: was a very big deal in Trump's first term. Uh
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  Speaker 4: tied into that nut job Pizzagate, the guy I went
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  Speaker 4: into the Comet pizzeria and this one, this is constantly, Oh,
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  Speaker 4: the storm is coming, and don't you wit Trump and
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  Speaker 4: the administry. There were this giant child abuse rings being
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  Speaker 4: run by celebrities and Hillary Clinton and all these other folks,
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  Speaker 4: and the only reason they hadn't been arrested yet was
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  Speaker 4: that Trump was getting all the pieces into place. It
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  Speaker 4: was going to be checkmate, you know. And then as
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  Speaker 4: Trump got closer to leaving office at the end of
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  Speaker 4: his first term with some bumps in the road, there
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  Speaker 4: was a strain like, well, don't you wait, it's common,
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  Speaker 4: It's common.
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  Speaker 1: And then he flew away on air Force.
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  Speaker 4: On the end of it, I was like, oh, oh,
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  Speaker 4: there isn't going to be a sweeping chain of arrests.
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  Speaker 4: Oh this enormous QAnon, as in anonymous did not know
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  Speaker 4: what they were talking about. There were not actually a
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  Speaker 4: highly placed source. And so here's like, you don't see
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  Speaker 4: a lot of people defending QAnon these days. You don't
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  Speaker 4: see anybody who's willing to say yes. I was a
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  Speaker 4: diehard believer in QAnon, and I was completely convinced that
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  Speaker 4: they're going to be sweeping crackdowns and routing up of
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  Speaker 4: some specs and all that kind of stuff. Everybody kind
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  Speaker 4: of just chose to forget about it. Some of us
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  Speaker 4: remember it, like, yeah, this was always nonsense. I think
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  Speaker 4: in a couple of years from now, everyone who could
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  Speaker 4: choose no one will ever be willing to admit Yes,
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  Speaker 4: I believe what Candace Owens was saying.
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  Speaker 1: I believe that there was a grand was.
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  Speaker 4: It French, the Israelis Marine, Emanuel mcron, you know, Elvis,
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  Speaker 4: all of them were all involved in this plot to
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  Speaker 4: kill Charlie Kirk. You know, in five years, everybody's like,
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  Speaker 4: there'll be the hardcore dead enders who are unreachable. But
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  Speaker 4: I think in the process like this will turn into
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  Speaker 4: something that nobody wants to remember. And you know, the
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  Speaker 4: only bad news is that Candace Owens is laughing all
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  Speaker 4: the way to the bank.
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  Speaker 3: No, she certainly is. But remember she's the only one
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  Speaker 3: who's truly concerned about Charlie.
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  Speaker 1: So that's why she has to trash.
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  Speaker 3: His widow and his family, his co workers, the organization
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  Speaker 3: and so many other things. It's only her, only she
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  Speaker 3: is concerned about the truth here, whatever the truth is
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  Speaker 3: coming out in this courtA, I'm assuming this is going
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  Speaker 3: to be ruled more than enough evidence to go over
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  Speaker 3: for trial, and the amount of evidence of guessing will
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  Speaker 3: probably be enough to convict him as well. But let's
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  Speaker 3: not get the cart before the horse. But yes, getting
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  Speaker 3: truth out there after so much just absolute nonsense is
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  Speaker 3: On Wednesday, Jim and I discussed how President Trump seems
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  Speaker 3: to be finally running out of patients with I ran,
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  Speaker 3: President Trump is in Turkey and he's meeting with NATO
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  Speaker 3: members there and obviously of the last or so and
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  Speaker 3: really even before that, Iran's been firing on commercial ships
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  Speaker 3: again in the Persian Gulf, straits of horror moves the
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  Speaker 3: US responding. I think yesterday's response is probably more significant
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  Speaker 3: than anything we've seen in terms of this back and
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  Speaker 3: forth since the signing of the memorandum of understanding. Trump
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  Speaker 3: obviously fed up with Iran consistently violating the terms of
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  Speaker 3: the memorandum of understanding. He's not only firing back, but
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  Speaker 3: he's also basically stopped their ability to sell oil, at
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  Speaker 3: least for the time being. But he also thinks the
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  Speaker 3: MoU is mostly dead.
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  Speaker 1: The sea fire over, it's the seat fire. John, Is
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  Speaker 1: themou dead?
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  Speaker 5: It's a very interesting question to me. I think it's over.
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  Speaker 5: I don't want to deal with him with this scum.
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  Speaker 5: You know what scum is the scum there's sick people.
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  Speaker 5: They're led by sick people and the vicious, violent people,
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  Speaker 5: and if they had a nuclear weapon, they'd use it.
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  Speaker 5: As far as I'm concerned, it's over. I'll speak to
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  Speaker 5: our newotiators. They want to negotiate. They're good people, Steve Woodcuff,
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  Speaker 5: Jared Kusher, but they have to come back to me,
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  Speaker 5: sar as I'm concerned, it's just a waste of time
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  Speaker 5: dealing with them. They're liars. We make a deal, and
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  Speaker 5: if I make a deal with him, we have a deal,
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  Speaker 5: and he goes out, he talks, we make a deal,
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  Speaker 5: everyone's agreed, no nuclear weapon.
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  Speaker 1: We make a deal.
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  Speaker 5: They go outside talk to the press. They say, we
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  Speaker 5: never even talked about it.
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  Speaker 1: There's something wrong with them. They're cuckoo.
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  Speaker 5: Far as I'm concerned, You're over they're cuckoo.
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  Speaker 3: But they're also radical Islamis, and that's the problem there. So, Jim,
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  Speaker 3: do you think it is actually dead? I know how
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  Speaker 3: much regard you have for the Memorandum of Understanding, so
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure you'd be horrified if it did not come
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  Speaker 3: to fruition here. But of course the question after that
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  Speaker 3: is then what, so where do you see this?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I've heard the argument that, despite this latest outburst,
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  Speaker 4: the Memorandum of hers Understanding is not dead. It is
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  Speaker 4: merely pining for the fjords. Now it's not pining. It
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  Speaker 4: has passed on no more.
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  Speaker 2: It has ceased to be. It has expired and gone
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  Speaker 2: to meet its maker. Stiff, bereft of life, rests in peace.
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  Speaker 2: If you nailed it to the perch, it'd be pushing
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  Speaker 2: up the daisy. It's metabolic processes are now history. Off
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  Speaker 2: the twig, kick the bucket, shoveled up it's mortal coil,
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  Speaker 2: Run down the curtain.
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  Speaker 4: And join the bleeding choir invisible. This is an ex
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  Speaker 4: memorandum of understanding. Credit to Monty Python for the parrot sketch. So,
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  Speaker 4: on the one hand, good this does leave me wondering
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  Speaker 4: what the point of it all was From the very beginning,
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  Speaker 4: from the beginning of the conflict, I've pointed out time
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  Speaker 4: and time again that the Iranian regime has broken every
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  Speaker 4: treaty and every deal it's ever signed. So they're just
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  Speaker 4: this inherently duplicitous, untrustworthy regime. And you know, putting aside
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  Speaker 4: the fact that I'm not a huge fantas Steve would
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  Speaker 4: CoV you know, I'm a slightly higher opinion of Jared Kushner.
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  Speaker 4: But these guys did not seem like they like The
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  Speaker 4: whole concept was, why would you assume a regime that
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  Speaker 4: always breaks the word is going to keep its word
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  Speaker 4: in this circumstance, particularly when it appears, you know, for
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  Speaker 4: obvious reasons gas prices, et cetera.
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump does not.
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  Speaker 4: Want the war to continue, wants the war to be
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  Speaker 4: done with over in the rear view mirror, and to
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  Speaker 4: try to get, you know, back to a more normal
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  Speaker 4: energy price and economic environment. So on the one hand,
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  Speaker 4: I'm glad for this, I kind of wish we had
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  Speaker 4: not had the president not just touting this but also
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  Speaker 4: talk about how remember how rational the Mullas were, how
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  Speaker 4: they were so much better than the previous one. Somebody
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  Speaker 4: was saying earlier today on X like, you know we
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  Speaker 4: DoD Trump all these exaggerates. Yeah, yeah, we know that
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  Speaker 4: Trump always exaggerates. And if you want to say, we
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  Speaker 4: have good reasons, you know, we understand the history, but
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  Speaker 4: we have reasons to think that these are good. Like, okay, fine,
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  Speaker 4: you know when Trump goes on and on about how
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  Speaker 4: rational and good and how much these you know, the
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  Speaker 4: Iranian leaders love their country and all that stuff, and
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  Speaker 4: then a few weeks letter has to come out and say, oh,
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  Speaker 4: these guys are nuts.
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  Speaker 1: They they like, I think he just looks naive.
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  Speaker 4: I think he just looks, you know, like he's just
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  Speaker 4: in denial of the realities of the regimes. I don't
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  Speaker 4: think there is a way for a serious peaceful co
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  Speaker 4: existence between this regime and the United States or our
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  Speaker 4: allies or are you really the rest of the Middle East.
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  Speaker 4: They are who they say they are. They begin every
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  Speaker 4: day with death to America. There's no mutual coexistence, no
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  Speaker 4: mutual understanding to be reached. There, so I think this
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  Speaker 4: means the conflict is back on now. How intensely the
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  Speaker 4: US wants to continue this is an open question, but
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  Speaker 4: I think you could genuinely. We gave them, the Iranians
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  Speaker 4: by far, the best deal they could ever conceivably ever
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  Speaker 4: hope for, and they they still kept shooting at chips
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  Speaker 4: in the Persian Gulf and going through the straight offoor moves.
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  Speaker 4: They're not interested in peace, so let's stop pursuing it
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  Speaker 4: with them. Let's recognize that there's no way to get
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  Speaker 4: around this other than all out conflict that leaves the
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  Speaker 4: regime no longer in power. We gave peace the best shot,
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  Speaker 4: and it did not work. I don't think I don't
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  Speaker 4: think there's many alternatives there.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Well, the Iranians obviously keep procrastinating. They really
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  Speaker 3: Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas working paper estimates the record
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: surge in illegal immigration during the Biden administration boosted employment
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  Speaker 3: on this episode. The total weighted mean increase in housing
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  Speaker 3: prices and rents over this period were twenty two point
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  Speaker 3: four percent and twenty two point six percent, respectively. Putting
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  Speaker 3: these together for the average, they can explain approximately thirty
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  Speaker 3: percent of the total increase in house prices and twenty
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  Speaker 3: percent of the total increase in rents Jim. That's not
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  Speaker 3: a small increase. That's massive inflation. There are other inflationary
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  Speaker 3: factors that are already driving these things up. But the
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  Speaker 4: kind of separate factors. The question is like, if you're
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  Speaker 4: wanting why are housing prices going up or going down? Well,
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  Speaker 4: how's the housing supply going and how's the housing demand going.
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  Speaker 4: they move to get further away from their family. It's
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  Speaker 4: kind of tough to figure out exactly what the housing
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  Speaker 4: you know, demand is because it's always changing.
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: But a lot of people want to live in an area.
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: Housing demand is up, housing supplies stays the same or
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: is only going up very gradually. Housing prices are going
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: to go up significantly. This is just assuming you know,
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: the the people being born, people dying remain the same,
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: more people live alone than they did a while ago.
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: All these things can play into it. But when you
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: add seven million people in a fairly short period of time,
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: what do you think is going to happen? Because those
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: people aren't you know, some of those people might be
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: sleeping on the streets, some of those people might be
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: sleeping in tents or something. But a lot of those
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: people are going to want and need housing somewhere, and
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: maybe they're going to be in a shelter somewhere. But
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: you know, but it's more of those things like you
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: can't put that much demand into the system and not
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: not without a corresponding increase in supply, and not expect
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: housing prices to go up? Now, are there other factors? Nimbiism,
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: stuff like that. Sure, you know, this is not what
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: I's going to say. The sole reason that your house
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: prices are going up is because of illegal immigration. But
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: it was a factor. Oh, by the way, while all
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: this was going on, Greg, what was what was the
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: Biden administration doing to the money.
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: Supply artificially increasing it.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: Right huge to a couple trillion and spending us.
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: So we're gonna make you know, at the same time
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: we're increasing demand for housing, and at the same time
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: we're going to keep the level of housing either the
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: same or increasing only very slowly. We're gonna make the
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: value of the dollar go down. What do you think
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: that's going to do to housing prices? What do you
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: think that's going to do to rental prices and all
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: that kind of stuff. Look, I'm sure there are some
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: good folks in that seven million, but they did not
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: have a right to enter the country. They did not
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: have a right to stay. Do you really want you
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: want to get out of trouble, go home to your
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: home country, apply legally, go through the process.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: Ye.
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: I know it's a pain in the neck, but you
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: know what, we have the right to determine who comes
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: into this country.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: Up next, the mystery surrounding Senator Mitch McConnell. Jim, yesterday
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: you and Craig talked about the mystery of Mitch mc connell.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: You know, ambulance came to his house. We think we
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: have the recording. Cardiac arrest CPR. Obviously a very serious situation.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: Nobody's seen him. He's still in the hospital. Some people
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: are reporting that he's brain dead and being kept alive
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: past August third, so there's not a special election to
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: bridge the gap between him and the general election in November.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: But there are others who are saying no, he's slowly
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: getting better. His staff has admittedly been incredibly cryptic about this,
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: but yesterday others in leadership, John Thune, the majority leader,
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: John Barassa of Wyoming also in the leadership, saying no,
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: we had conversations with him. Also saying he had a
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: conversation with McConnell is Scott Jennings, the radio host, podcast
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: host and CNN commentator, who made it clear that, at
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: least based on what he experienced yesterday, Mitch McConnell's very
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: much alive.
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: He called me this morning before I did my radio show.
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: We talked for about seventeen minutes. He talked a lot
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: about the situation with Iran, talk a little bit of
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: about Ukraine and what's going on in Europe. I told
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: him I had been to the Teddy Roosevelt Library. We
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: talked a little bit about the history of the vice
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: presidency and how Roosevelt had transformed that in the modern presidency.
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: Little history of the Senate. I mean, it was a
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: you know, it was a wide ranging conversation. I talked
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: to him often. I hadn't talked to him since he'd
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: been in I'd gotten a few text messages from but
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: I hadn't spoken to him. So it was good to
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: hear his voice. Voice sounded strong and sounded like he
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: was keeping up with the news to me.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: Did you ask him how he was feeling, Yeah.
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: He said, you know, he said, was feeling okay. You know,
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: obviously well enough to call me on the phone, and
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: obviously well enough to talk to Brasso and fun. Now, look,
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: I'm not qualified to discuss any medical issues or give
• 19:41
  Speaker 6: you any information about that. That's really for him.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Or his his staff to do.
• 19:45
  Speaker 6: But you know, I talked to him from time to time,
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: and I see him from time to time, and you know,
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: we had a conversation today about the things that we
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: normally talk about, which are news today political stuff.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: Did you come away feeling like he's still capable of
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: serving the people of Kentucky as senator?
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: I came away feeling that he was staying on top
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: of the news. Again. I look his condition and why
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: he's in the hospital or when he might come out
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: or look, that's.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: Do you know why? And are just saying you're got
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: a liberty to share.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: I do not know why.
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: I only know frankly what has been reported or what
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: his office has said.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: So, Jim, if he is, you know, on life support,
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: Scott Jennings's credibility shot. But then so is fun in Brassa.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: So the fact that there's multiple people saying he's capable
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: of holding a conversation would suggest that the life support
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: contention is not necessarily the case. However, if you've ever
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: known anyone who's been lucky enough to survive cardiac arrest,
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: the recovery from that is very intense. Might not even
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: make it after weeks or months, but it's still a
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: very very difficult come back. And so then the question
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: becomes is he is he able to serve? And so Farth,
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: But a lot has happened since you and Craig talked
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: about it yesterday.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: What's your take on the latest?
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, if Scott Jennings says he's talked to him, I
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: believe that, not just because I you know, I would
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: say I have Scott Jennings, well, but I've chatted with
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: him a couple of times, and I think lying about
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: something like this would be psychotic, and also for him
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: to like if Mitch McConnell is in a coma and
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: Scott Jennings is making up this story and fun is
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: making up this story, and then they're all crazy and
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: they're all you know, so like, I look this, I'll
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: count this as proof of life. I do think it's
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: troubling that we're not being told what ailment has him
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: in the hospital. He's been in the hospital for more
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: than three weeks now. Mitch McConnell is eighty four years old,
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: and we saw him freeze up right. We knew he
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: was having health challenges heading into this. I think that
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: you are obligated as a public official to keep the
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: public when you are when you can't be in your job.
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: If you did not show up at Radio America for
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: three weeks, people including myself, would be very, very worried
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: and would want to know what's going.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: On with this.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: It was interesting that Jennings said he did not know
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: why he's in the hospital. That seems like one of
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: the first things you talk about, Oh my god, senator,
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: how are you doing?
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: What happened?
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: Maybe he doesn't feel comfortable talking about it, or he
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: feels like the you know, that should come from the
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: senator or his office. But I think the people have
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: a right to know what happened because this was not
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: a minor issue. Clearly, if you are still in the
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: hospital three to four weeks later, then this is something significant.
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: The recovery time could be significant. And people, you know,
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: he's obviously he's not voting, he's not able to be
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: in Washington. How you doing, Mitch, let us know how
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: it's going, and like it. I know that we don't
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: want a Democratic governor to appoint it. Like really in
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: the end, coming right on the heels of Tom Keen Junior,
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: coming right on the heels of everybody in the Biden
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: administration saying, oh Biden's.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Got so much energy, I can't keep up with them.
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: It just doesn't look good for elderly lawmakers to say, yeah,
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: we're dealing with a health issue, but we're not going
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: to tell you what it is, and we don't know
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: what he's going to be out of the hospital, and
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: you're just going to have to learn no, no this.
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: You say you're a public servant, you really need to
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: serve the public with updated accurate information about whatever ailment
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: you're dealing with.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: And again, I hope he lives to be one hundred.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: I hope you know.
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: I think very well the guy, but you really have
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: an obligation to your to your constituents to reveal stuff,
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: and that's not happening right now.
• 22:54
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