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Lock 'Em Up: Alcatraz 2.0 Is Coming (Ep.196) · V

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Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to Bungina Report Early Edition. It's
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Speaker 1: a good Monday morning. I'm a little more rested than
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Speaker 1: I was last week. I still went to bed late,
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Speaker 1: but I'm still feeling more rejuvenated. Michael and I are
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Speaker 1: moving right now, and we have been just so busy
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Speaker 1: unpacking boxes and giving things away and buying actual silverware
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Speaker 1: because we've just been renting in places where We didn't
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Speaker 1: have to, we had all of our stuff with us
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Speaker 1: that came with the apartment. Now we don't. So it
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Speaker 1: was a busy weekend, but I did have time to
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Speaker 1: actually go hit the tennis racket around with Haley. It's
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Speaker 1: a little weekend update. So Haley and I are becoming friends,
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Speaker 1: which is a lot of fun. We both work here.
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Speaker 1: We have the same job, but if you guys can
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Speaker 1: imagine when I come into work, it's early in the
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Speaker 1: morning and I'm gone by 10, 15. Haley comes in.
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Speaker 1: What does she come in at like five, Michael? like
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Speaker 1: 5 p.m., and she's done by 7.15. So we totally
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Speaker 1: miss each other. We never see each other. So we
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Speaker 1: got to hit the tennis racket a little bit and bond,
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Speaker 1: which was really great. I had a very good weekend.
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Speaker 1: I hope you guys did, too. Drop a comment what
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Speaker 1: you did this weekend so we can all kind of
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Speaker 1: stay up to date, keep this community going. I have
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Speaker 1: some headlines for you guys today, some good, very fun,
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Speaker 1: interesting headlines. Trump is deciding to reopen Alcatraz, the prison
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Speaker 1: off the coast of California. Illegals are arrested for a
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Speaker 1: brutal LA home invasion and murder. The DOJ is suing Colorado.
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Speaker 1: Good for the DOJ. Michael Waltz is ousted over an
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Speaker 1: alleged secret conversations that he was having with Netanyahu. An anti-U.S.
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Speaker 1: ally boycott bill is pulled from the House floor. AOC's
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Speaker 1: own side harasses her during a town hall. Jen Psaki
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Speaker 1: claims that she was just completely oblivious to Biden's mental
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Speaker 1: decline while she was at the White House. And non-Catholic
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Speaker 1: liberals everywhere are completely horrified by a recent Trump meme.
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Speaker 1: All this on Bongina Report, early edition. Perched like a
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Speaker 1: fortress in the icy waters of San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz
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Speaker 1: is more than just a rock. It's America's most legendary prison,
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Speaker 1: a place where the nation locked away its most dangerous
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Speaker 1: men and men and dared them to escape from 1934,
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Speaker 1: 1934 to 63. This isolated island was home to infamous
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Speaker 1: criminals like Al Capone, Machine Gun Kelly, the mysterious Birdman
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Speaker 1: of Alcatraz, all held under the watch of guards trained
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Speaker 1: to expect violence and to fear rebellion. Surrounded by treacherous
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Speaker 1: currents and fog-choked waters, the prison was designed to be inescapable.
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Speaker 1: The escape plots and ghost stories and strange occurrences gave
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Speaker 1: Alcatraz a chilling mythos in the American mind. strict, cold,
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Speaker 1: and mercilessly efficient, the penitentiary was a place of routine
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Speaker 1: and ruin, where silence often screamed louder than the prisoners themselves.
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Speaker 1: Since its closure in 1963, Alcatraz has been nothing more
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Speaker 1: than crumbling cells and echoing corridors where ghost tour visitors
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Speaker 1: go to get spooked. That is until now. Because yesterday,
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Speaker 1: last night, President Trump tweeted this. For too long, America
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Speaker 1: has been plagued by vicious, violent, and repeat criminal offenders,
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Speaker 1: the dregs of society who will never contribute anything more
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Speaker 1: than misery and suffering. When we were a more serious
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Speaker 1: nation in times past, we did not hesitate to lock
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Speaker 1: up the most dangerous criminals and keep them far away
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Speaker 1: from anyone they could harm. That's the way it's supposed
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Speaker 1: to be. No longer will we tolerate these serial offenders
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Speaker 1: who spread filth, bloodshed, and mayhem on our streets. That
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Speaker 1: is why today I am directing the Bureau of Prisons
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Speaker 1: together with the Department of Justice, FBI, and Homeland Security
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Speaker 1: to reopen a substantially enlarged and rebuilt Alcatraz to house
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Speaker 1: America's most ruthless and violent offenders. We will no longer
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Speaker 1: be held hostage to criminals, thugs, and judges that are
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Speaker 1: afraid to do their job and allow us to remove
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Speaker 1: criminals who came into our country illegally. The reopening of
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Speaker 1: Alcatraz will serve as a symbol of law, order, and justice.
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Speaker 1: We will make America great again. Very President Trump. Here
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Speaker 1: was the president yesterday. Where did you get the idea
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Speaker 1: for reopening Alcatraz?
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Speaker 2: Just an idea I've had, and I guess because the judges,
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Speaker 2: so many of these radicalized judges... They want to have
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Speaker 2: trials for every single— think of it— every single person
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Speaker 2: that's in our country illegally, that came in illegally. That
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Speaker 2: would mean millions of trials, and it's just so ridiculous
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Speaker 2: what's happening. And it's long been a symbol, Alcatraz, of
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Speaker 2: whatever it is. I mean, you know, it's a sad symbol,
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Speaker 2: but it's a symbol of.
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Speaker 1: Law and order.
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Speaker 2: And, you know, it's got quite a history, frankly. So
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Speaker 2: I think we're going to do that, and we're looking
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Speaker 2: at it right now.
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Speaker 1: So I love that he talked about symbolism in that clip.
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Speaker 1: And I think that is what makes this move so
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Speaker 1: brilliant because it doesn't just promise policy. It taps directly
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Speaker 1: into the American psyche. Alcatraz is more than a prison.
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Speaker 1: It is a symbol burned into our cultural memory of
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Speaker 1: what it means to take crime seriously, which we haven't
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Speaker 1: done in a long time. It conjures the idea of
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Speaker 1: of an uncompromising system that protects the innocent by making
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Speaker 1: the wicked vanish into cold steel and concrete, or if
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Speaker 1: they try to escape, icy waters. In an age where
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Speaker 1: blue cities let violent offenders roam free, where criminals walk
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Speaker 1: out of courtrooms with smirks on their faces and no bail,
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Speaker 1: Trump is sending a clear message that we are done pretending.
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Speaker 1: This is both literal and symbolic. It's about reclaiming not
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Speaker 1: just control, but seriousness. how we govern, how we protect,
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Speaker 1: how we punish. It speaks to that deep ancestral American
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Speaker 1: yearning for justice that actually feels like justice. And look,
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Speaker 1: the American people are scared and they're angry and they're
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Speaker 1: fed up, especially if you live in a blue city.
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Speaker 1: I lived in Chicago. I know what it's like. We've
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Speaker 1: experienced the invasion at our southern border, watched our cities
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Speaker 1: descend into lawlessness. They burned in 2020 and the Democrat
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Speaker 1: presidential candidate tried to bail out the people that were
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Speaker 1: destroying this country. We've seen our neighborhoods terrorized by criminals
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Speaker 1: who face zero consequences and on purpose. So Trump's Alcatraz declaration,
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Speaker 1: I think it's mythic. I think it's visceral. It's exactly
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Speaker 1: the kind of bold, unapologetic action that resonates with regular
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Speaker 1: Americans who just want to feel safe again. This is
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Speaker 1: restoration of order wrapped in the raw power of a
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Speaker 1: prison island legend. And by the way, we need it. Yesterday,
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Speaker 1: I mean, I give you guys this story and it's just,
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Speaker 1: I feel like I'm repeating myself every week because something
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Speaker 1: like this is constantly happening. Yesterday, three illegal immigrants from
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Speaker 1: Eastern Europe were arrested in connection with a violent home invasion, robbery,
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Speaker 1: and murder that took place in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles.
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Speaker 1: Losing my voice, you guys. The illegals reportedly entered the
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Speaker 1: home of a 47-year-old man They held him captive and
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Speaker 1: beat him to death. The suspects then stole his property
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Speaker 1: and then fled the scene. Here is this man's neighbor
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Speaker 1: on the local news discussing what happened, but also how
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Speaker 1: this is nothing new for this area.
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Speaker 3: Living two doors down from the murder is shocking.
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Speaker 1: I'm scared to go to sleep at night because what
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Speaker 1: if it's my house?
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Speaker 3: A valid concern after similar scares just over a week ago.
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Speaker 3: In Sherman Oaks, police say a family was forced to
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Speaker 3: hide inside a bedroom after intruders broke in, leaving the
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Speaker 3: injured mother crying on the curb with one of her kids.
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Speaker 3: In Hollywood, police say men barged in and maced a
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Speaker 3: person who was in the mansion before taking off with jewelry.
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Speaker 1: Mikey, if you had a moment to turn on my
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Speaker 1: feed here, that would be great. No worries if you've
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Speaker 1: got stuff going on, but He's busy.
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Speaker 2: I know.
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Speaker 1: We got here late and it's my fault, but I
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Speaker 1: don't have my feet. Anyways, like I said, this is
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Speaker 1: the same story over and over again. And every time
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Speaker 1: it is the law abiding citizens who suffer. It's why
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Speaker 1: people are glad that there's a reopening of Alcatraz, that
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Speaker 1: there's a president who is taking things seriously for once
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Speaker 1: because we're sick of our leaders continually protecting criminals. It's
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Speaker 1: why people are ready to support the admin, for instance,
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Speaker 1: suing the state of Colorado and city of Denver for
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Speaker 1: their sanctuary city policies that direct local law enforcement not
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Speaker 1: to work with federal immigration enforcement officials to deport criminal
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Speaker 1: illegal immigrants. In 2023, Colorado enacted a measure that this
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Speaker 1: is a quote, prohibits law enforcement from keeping people in
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Speaker 1: jail on immigration detainers, as well as another one from 2021,
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Speaker 1: that bars state employees from sharing people's personal information with
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Speaker 1: federal immigration officials. So just making it impossible to deport
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Speaker 1: illegals in the state of Colorado. Now, of course, last year,
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Speaker 1: Colorado made headlines. And this is why it's so interesting
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Speaker 1: that it's happening in Colorado. We're having this fight in Colorado.
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Speaker 1: We have these laws in Colorado because what happened in
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Speaker 1: Colorado last year? Trend de Aragua, took over an entire
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Speaker 1: apartment complex, booted out the management, and started charging people
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Speaker 1: rent at gunpoint. Do you guys remember those videos, like
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Speaker 1: how absurd it was? And sometimes I look back at
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Speaker 1: that story and I just wonder, how did this happen
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Speaker 1: in America? And people are starting to believe this is normal.
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Speaker 1: This is a new normal for us, I guess. And
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Speaker 1: by the way, the media, I can't let them off
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Speaker 1: the hook with that one. They refused to report on it.
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Speaker 1: And then when they did report on it, they gaslit
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Speaker 1: us into thinking it's no big deal that Trend de
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Speaker 1: Ragua took over an apartment complex and started charging people
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Speaker 1: rents at gunpoint. Here was J.D. Vance on ABC with
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Speaker 1: Martha Raddatz back in October. This is just too good
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Speaker 1: to forget. Take a listen. And what we're hearing, of course, Martha,
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Speaker 1: is that people are terrified by what has happened with
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Speaker 1: some of these Venezuelan gangs.
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Speaker 4: Senator Vance, I'm going to stop you because I know
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Speaker 4: exactly what happened. I'm going to stop you. The incidents
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Speaker 4: were limited to a handful of apartment complexes, and the
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Speaker 4: mayor said our dedicated police officers have acted on those concerns.
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Speaker 4: A handful of problems.
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Speaker 1: Only, Martha, do you hear yourself?
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Speaker 3: Only a handful of apartment complexes in America were taken
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Speaker 3: over by Venezuelan gangs.
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Speaker 4: And Donald Trump is the problem and not Kamala Harris's
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Speaker 4: open border.
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Speaker 1: There's only a handful, you guys. There's just a handful.
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Speaker 1: No big deal. Leftists view the world through the lens
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Speaker 1: of systemic oppression rather than personal responsibility. This helps you
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Speaker 1: explain everything that's happening. If you take away anything from
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Speaker 1: the show today, it's this. Leftists view everything through the
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Speaker 1: lens of semi-oppression, not personal responsibility. So criminals are seen
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Speaker 1: as products of a broken society, victims of poverty or
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Speaker 1: racism or inequality or borders, rather than agents of their
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Speaker 1: own actions. And this enables chaos. It punishes law-abiding citizens.
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Speaker 1: It tries to make people think that a Venezuelan gang
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Speaker 1: taking over an apartment complex is no big deal. I
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Speaker 1: want to talk about Who runs our country? Who's in
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Speaker 1: charge of things? Who should be allowed to make important
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Speaker 1: decisions about our day-to-day lives? The role of the president
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Speaker 1: is already and rightly reserved for natural-born citizens. Last week,
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Speaker 1: I made the case to the discomfort of some of
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Speaker 1: you listening. Not all of you, but some of you
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Speaker 1: listening gave me some pushback on this. I said that
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Speaker 1: we shouldn't stop there. We shouldn't stop with the president.
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Speaker 1: I said members of Congress wield enormous amounts of power
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Speaker 1: in this country. They write our laws, they allocate our resources,
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Speaker 1: decide whether our sons and daughters go to war. If
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Speaker 1: we trust only natural-born citizens with the presidency, we should
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Speaker 1: demand the same uncompromising standard for every federal office. This
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Speaker 1: isn't about exclusion. It's about national survival. A nation is
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Speaker 1: more than a set of laws or an economic zone.
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Speaker 1: It is a living culture, a shared memory, a common identity.
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Speaker 1: Those who were shaped entirely under another flag, another system,
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Speaker 1: another way of life, no matter how sincere their intentions,
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Speaker 1: cannot possibly bring the same depth of understanding, instinct, or
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Speaker 1: generational loyalty that leadership in this country demands. What a
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Speaker 1: lot of people don't seem to understand is that public
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Speaker 1: office is not a right. It is a solemn responsibility.
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Speaker 1: We do not owe holding public office to anyone. It
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Speaker 1: has to be earned, not just through paperwork and oaths,
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Speaker 1: but through lifelong belonging to the American story. We need
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Speaker 1: leaders who understand this nation in their bones, who were
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Speaker 1: raised with its history, who carry the cultural DNA passed
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Speaker 1: from one generation to the next. These are the people
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Speaker 1: who instinctively feel what's at stake when they legislate or govern.
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Speaker 1: We cannot hand the steering wheel to our republic, to
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Speaker 1: those who, however loyal, only recently arrived. Leadership in this
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Speaker 1: country has to come from those born into its struggles,
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Speaker 1: its triumphs, and its soul. Anything less risks severing the
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Speaker 1: sacred thread that binds us as a nation, and it's happening.
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Speaker 1: Back in March, I shared with you all that a
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Speaker 1: third of all U.S. district judges were not born in
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Speaker 1: the United States. And of course, D.C. is the source
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Speaker 1: of many of the cases interfering with President Trump's authority
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Speaker 1: to deport illegal criminals. Every day, my point seems to
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Speaker 1: be more and more important. I want to show you
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Speaker 1: all a clip. This is a clip of Ilhan Omar
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Speaker 1: that has recently resurfaced during a 2022 trip to Somalia,
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Speaker 1: where Ilhan Omar revealed that her true political goal is
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Speaker 1: to move back to Somalia and after she's done using
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Speaker 1: her political power here in America to build up her
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Speaker 1: home country. And now in this video, she's of course
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Speaker 1: speaking Somalian, Somali, and I'm going to read the translation
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Speaker 1: out loud for you all, but just know that she's
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Speaker 1: actually speaking in the background. Mikey, if you could go
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Speaker 1: ahead and play that. I am an American immigrant in
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Speaker 1: the U.S.
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Speaker 3: Congress.
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Speaker 1: But I am a Somali girl, a girl with your language,
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Speaker 1: with your religion. That was a young child taken away
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Speaker 1: from her country that misses her country and wishes to
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Speaker 1: live there and share with its people. I am hopeful
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Speaker 1: in the future that me and my children will be
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Speaker 1: able to raise our kids in this land where I
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Speaker 1: was born and raised. To make that possible, there is
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Speaker 1: a lot of work that we need to work on
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Speaker 1: together to make our land a more stable and prosperous place.
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Speaker 1: That is felt by all. This is exactly what I
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Speaker 1: am talking about. The sitting member of the U.S. Congress...
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Speaker 1: openly stating while speaking in Somali that her ultimate dream
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Speaker 1: is to return home to Somalia and that her identity,
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Speaker 1: her lineage, her language, and mission are centered around that
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Speaker 1: foreign country. Her allegiance at its core is not to
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Speaker 1: the United States, but to another country entirely. This isn't
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Speaker 1: just symbolic. It's a direct contradiction of the very purpose
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Speaker 1: of American public service. Federal office is meant to serve
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Speaker 1: America first. and always America first. When someone uses that
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Speaker 1: position as a stepping stone to advance the interests of
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Speaker 1: a foreign nation, it is a betrayal of the trust
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Speaker 1: and responsibility that that office demands. Simply put, we can't
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Speaker 1: trust this woman to act in the best interests of
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Speaker 1: our country. She isn't loyal to it. Did you listen
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Speaker 1: to the clip? She's not. She's a Somalian woman. She's
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Speaker 1: acting in the interest of Somalia. Her language, her lineage,
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Speaker 1: her religion, her whole soul is rooted in Somalia, not America.
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Speaker 1: She's Somalian. I think she should go back there. But
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Speaker 1: by her own admission, that's her dream. If she won't
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Speaker 1: go back, then at the very least, let's not allow
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Speaker 1: her to run our lives. And I think this is
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Speaker 1: something that the new right is coming to agree on.
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Speaker 1: Last week, Mike Waltz, was removed from his position as
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Speaker 1: national security advisor. Trump nominated him to be the UN
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Speaker 1: ambassador instead. And I waited to cover this last week
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Speaker 1: because I wanted to have more information come in to
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Speaker 1: figure out what's going on. And I'm going to be
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Speaker 1: real with you guys. We aren't going to know everything
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Speaker 1: for certain. This is a decision made behind the scenes.
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Speaker 1: The Trump admin hasn't really given any official excuse for
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Speaker 1: why he's been removed for his decision. This news obviously
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Speaker 1: comes after Mike Waltz reportedly added the Atlantic's editor-in-chief to
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Speaker 1: the infamous Signal chat discussing strikes on Yemen. But according
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Speaker 1: to a Washington Post report, that's not the only reason
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Speaker 1: that President Trump removed Waltz. The president was reportedly angered
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Speaker 1: by Waltz allegedly engaging in, quote, intense coordination with with
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Speaker 1: Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on military options to destroy
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Speaker 1: Tehran's nuclear program. So in other words, start a war
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Speaker 1: with Iran. And these conversations were happening before Netanyahu met
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Speaker 1: with President Trump back in February. Now, after the Washington
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Speaker 1: Post reported this story out, Netanyahu's office denied the allegations, saying,
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Speaker 1: and this is a quote from the office, that he
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Speaker 1: did not have intensive contact with Mike Waltz on Iran.
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Speaker 1: which is interesting phrasing because it doesn't mean that Michael
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Speaker 1: Waltz didn't coordinate with Netanyahu, but they are simply saying
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Speaker 1: that they weren't intensive, which is obviously a subjective term, right?
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Speaker 1: So you had conversations with him. Who's to say whether
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Speaker 1: it was intensive or not? Netanyahu's office says it wasn't.
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Speaker 1: The Washington Post is reporting that it was. It's up
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Speaker 1: to the interpretation of you all listening. Now, if you'll remember,
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Speaker 1: last month, Trump put a stop to reportedly put a
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Speaker 1: stop to Israel's planned strike on Iran's nuclear sites, thanks
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Speaker 1: to Tulsi Gabbard, Pete Hegseth, and J.D. Vance teaming up
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Speaker 1: to oppose another massive war in the Middle East, which
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Speaker 1: this would obviously ignite. And Mike Waltz was actually supportive
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Speaker 1: of these strikes. So he pushed back in these internal conversations, allegedly.
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Speaker 1: And so did Marco Rubio, who still has his job
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Speaker 1: and is reportedly going to serve as national security advisor
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Speaker 1: in the interim before, as well as secretary of state
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Speaker 1: until Trump makes a new nomination to replace Michael Waltz.
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Speaker 1: So note that it's not Mike Waltz has a different
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Speaker 1: opinion on how to handle Iran. That's allowed. In fact,
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Speaker 1: Trump is known for bringing people together with different opinions
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Speaker 1: to get a lot of perspective so he can make
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Speaker 1: the most informed decisions. The problem here is circumventing the
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Speaker 1: president and coordinating with a foreign leader. Mike Waltz works
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Speaker 1: for Donald Trump, who in turn works for the American people.
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Speaker 1: If these reports are accurate, It's a clear and necessary
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Speaker 1: reminder of what the new right is all about. Loyalty
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Speaker 1: has to flow to the American people and to the
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Speaker 1: president that they elected, not to foreign governments or overseas agendas.
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Speaker 1: It's one thing to offer advice or debate strategy internally,
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Speaker 1: but it's a whole other thing when an advisor starts
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Speaker 1: bypassing the president to push foreign military actions in secret.
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Speaker 1: That's not diplomacy. It's insubordination. And it opens the door
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Speaker 1: to foreign interference in American decision making. If we're going
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Speaker 1: to have a government that serves our interests, we cannot
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Speaker 1: tolerate back channel deals with foreign powers, no matter how
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Speaker 1: friendly they are. I think this signals that President Trump
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Speaker 1: understands you don't preserve national sovereignty by outsourcing critical decisions
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Speaker 1: to foreign leaders behind closed doors. He brings in diverse views, yes.
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Speaker 1: But ultimately, he's the one elected to weigh those views
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Speaker 1: and decide the path forward. Trump is doing the right
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Speaker 1: thing by putting his foot down and making it clear,
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Speaker 1: if you want to serve this administration, your loyalty better
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Speaker 1: be to America, not Tel Aviv, not Brussels, not Riyadh,
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Speaker 1: doesn't matter, to America and to him more directly because
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Speaker 1: we elected him. And on that note, I want to
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Speaker 1: talk about a bill that was set to be voted
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Speaker 1: on today. It's called the Intergovernmental Organization or IGO Anti-Boycott Act,
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Speaker 1: which would have, which would fine Americans up to a
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Speaker 1: million dollars and potentially sentence them up to 20 years
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Speaker 1: behind bars for participating in or supporting a boycott of
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Speaker 1: a U.S. ally that's endorsed by organizations like the U.N.
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Speaker 1: or the E.U. So the boycott endorsed by the U.N.
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Speaker 1: or the E.U. So a million dollar fine. and 20
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Speaker 1: years in prison for boycotting a foreign country. And by
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Speaker 1: the way, the only country that this would apply to
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Speaker 1: is the state of Israel, because no other US ally
22:36
Speaker 1: is being boycotted by an intergovernmental organization. The bill was
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Speaker 1: pulled from the Monday schedule, so today, because Americans rightfully
22:46
Speaker 1: stood up and said, hell no, this is crazy. Marjorie
22:49
Speaker 1: Taylor Greene tweeted this yesterday before the vote was canceled.
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Speaker 1: I will be voting no. It is my job to
22:54
Speaker 1: defend America's right to buy or boycott whomever they choose
22:57
Speaker 1: without the government harshly fining them or imprisoning them. Again,
23:01
Speaker 1: this is why the America First movement is so necessary.
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Speaker 1: This bill isn't about defending American security or protecting our economy.
23:11
Speaker 1: It was about criminalizing Americans for refusing to economically support
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Speaker 1: a foreign country. No American... should face the threat of
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Speaker 1: prison because they choose to withhold their dollars based on
23:22
Speaker 1: their conscience. You aren't, by law, required to have the
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Speaker 1: same foreign policy positions as the federal government. You have
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Speaker 1: this thing called the First Amendment, freedom to believe what
23:34
Speaker 1: you want, to use your money in the way that
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Speaker 1: you choose. Our laws should exist to protect the American people,
23:41
Speaker 1: not to insulate foreign allies from criticisms or economic pressure.
23:44
Speaker 1: And I think it's heartening to know that so many
23:47
Speaker 1: Republican members of Congress and Democrat recognized this as such
23:52
Speaker 1: an infringement on basic rights of the American people. We
23:56
Speaker 1: can support our allies, including Israel, but when our sacred
23:58
Speaker 1: constitutional rights become collateral in that supposed support, the line
24:02
Speaker 1: has been crossed. By the way, speaking of Israel, AOC
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Speaker 1: was interrupted by a pro-Palestine protester during a town hall
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Speaker 1: event in Jackson Heights, Queens. where the activists accused her
24:14
Speaker 1: of failing to act against the genocide in Gaza. And
24:17
Speaker 1: for some quick context here, AOC has tried really, really
24:22
Speaker 1: hard to carefully signal that she is sort of pro-Palestine
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Speaker 1: by tweeting out concerns for human rights abuses against Gazans.
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Speaker 1: while also not being too vocal. She's like, Israel has
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Speaker 1: a right to exist, but also the Palestinians, I'm worried
24:36
Speaker 1: about them. And so here she is getting screamed at,
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Speaker 1: at this town hall, by the very people that she
24:43
Speaker 1: is hoping to rely on and rally with for potentially
24:47
Speaker 1: a presidential run. Take a listen. It's going to be
24:50
Speaker 1: hard to defend.
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Speaker 5: And you don't even know what you're doing about the.
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Speaker 1: Genocide in Gaza.
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Speaker 3: You're a whore.
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Speaker 6: You're a whore.
24:59
Speaker 1: You're a whore. Okay, so this woman's just screaming. It's
25:20
Speaker 1: kind of hard to tell what she's saying. She's obviously
25:22
Speaker 1: trying to just like disrupt and destroy this event, which
25:24
Speaker 1: is what leftists do a lot of times. AOC can't
25:27
Speaker 1: even get a word in. And what's interesting about this
25:30
Speaker 1: exchange is that again, AOC clearly wants to run for president.
25:35
Speaker 1: And even as she's trying to toe the line, acknowledging
25:38
Speaker 1: Palestinian suffering without outright denouncing Israel, she's still shouted down
25:42
Speaker 1: by activists who demand total ideological purity on this issue.
25:47
Speaker 1: And this is the same dynamic that makes her dreams
25:49
Speaker 1: of higher office, especially the presidency, deeply, I think, unrealistic.
25:53
Speaker 1: I think the Democratic Party is completely frayed because they're
25:56
Speaker 1: overrun by purists. The hard left has built a political
26:01
Speaker 1: culture that devours its own unless you're willing to go
26:05
Speaker 1: all the way unconditionally, unapologetically. And if you don't, they
26:08
Speaker 1: will brand you as a sellout. So AOC's calculated moderation
26:15
Speaker 1: on this issue, the toeing of the line, might appeal
26:18
Speaker 1: to a few mainstream Democrats, but it alienates the very
26:21
Speaker 1: base that she desperately needs to energize. And by the way,
26:25
Speaker 1: this is hardly a new phenomenon. Left-wing purity tests have
26:28
Speaker 1: a long history of cannibalizing their own movements. From the
26:31
Speaker 1: French Revolution to the new left of the 1960s and
26:34
Speaker 1: even within modern activist spaces, movements driven by radical ideals
26:39
Speaker 1: frequently fracture from within. And the moment someone in the
26:42
Speaker 1: movement shows even a hint of moderation, compromise, strategic restraint,
26:47
Speaker 1: they're cast out as traitors or not radical enough. And
26:50
Speaker 1: this endless cycle of purging and self-policing doesn't strengthen the cause.
26:55
Speaker 1: It paralyzes it. What starts as a coalition of change
26:58
Speaker 1: becomes a circular firing squad. where no leader is even
27:01
Speaker 1: pure enough to survive. So for Americans who want strong,
27:05
Speaker 1: principled leaders focused on fixing our broken systems at home,
27:10
Speaker 1: this kind of self-destruction is proof that the future can't
27:12
Speaker 1: be built on movements that eat their own. By the way,
27:17
Speaker 1: another characteristic of the left is, of course, lying, which
27:20
Speaker 1: brings me to Ms. Jen Psaki, who just claimed on
27:25
Speaker 1: a podcast with Semaphore that she had no idea that
27:29
Speaker 1: President Joe Biden was suffering from mental decline. Zero idea.
27:32
Speaker 1: Take a listen.
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Speaker 5: I left in May of 2022, just for the facts here.
27:37
Speaker 5: And I have seen Biden once since then, when I
27:41
Speaker 5: took my daughter to the holiday party this last December
27:44
Speaker 5: after he had lost. And so I hadn't seen him
27:48
Speaker 5: in person during that period of time. I never saw
27:51
Speaker 5: that person, not a single time. And I was in
27:54
Speaker 5: the Oval Office every day that was on that debate stage.
27:58
Speaker 5: I'm not a doctor. Aging happens quite quickly. Were things
28:01
Speaker 5: that people saw during that period of time that were
28:04
Speaker 5: similar to that or would have been in a category
28:06
Speaker 5: of that?
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 6: Possibly.
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Speaker 3: Right.
28:08
Speaker 5: And all these books are going to tell.
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Speaker 6: Do you think that they were were they actively covering
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Speaker 6: it up? Were they sort of in denial or was
28:13
Speaker 6: it or is it or was that just a bad debate? Like,
28:15
Speaker 6: what is your read on that?
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Speaker 5: Well, this is what I mean about cover up is
28:19
Speaker 5: a very loaded term, I think.
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Speaker 6: Well, it means you knew that it was really bad
28:23
Speaker 6: and you're pretending otherwise versus you're deluding yourself, which I
28:25
Speaker 6: think is what people do a lot.
28:26
Speaker 5: Well, I understand, but I still think it's like cover
28:29
Speaker 5: up is often like a crime, right? We're talking, when people.
28:32
Speaker 6: Use that term- They say it's worse than the crime.
28:34
Speaker 5: People use that term as they relate to Watergate or
28:37
Speaker 5: the covering up of not sharing public information about a war.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm not accusing anybody of a crime here.
28:42
Speaker 5: I understand, but other people have used that term and
28:45
Speaker 5: I think it's a bit of a dangerous term.
28:47
Speaker 1: It's a bit of a dangerous term. Yeah, it's dangerous
28:50
Speaker 1: for her. It's dangerous for her and her reputation. Because
28:54
Speaker 1: we all know that Jen Psaki lied and colluded with
28:57
Speaker 1: the left-wing political machine to cover up Joe Biden's mental
29:00
Speaker 1: decline by gasping the American people into believing that slurring
29:03
Speaker 1: your words and falling up the stairs is something that healthy,
29:06
Speaker 1: normal people do. But again, guys, lying in the name
29:10
Speaker 1: of progress has become a, or really always has been,
29:15
Speaker 1: a defining tactic of the institutional left. Whether it's covering
29:18
Speaker 1: for policy failures, rewriting history, shielding leaders from accountability, truth
29:23
Speaker 1: becomes secondary to maintaining narrative control. Jen Psaki stood at
29:28
Speaker 1: the White House podium day after day, watching his slips, stumbles,
29:32
Speaker 1: confusion firsthand. That wasn't ignorance. You saw the clip. That's
29:37
Speaker 1: willful deception. It's part of a broader pattern where the
29:40
Speaker 1: left treats honesty as optional so long as the lie
29:44
Speaker 1: serves the greater good, which usually means keeping power and
29:48
Speaker 1: suppressing dissent. And of course, acknowledging Biden's decline would raise
29:51
Speaker 1: hard questions. Who was really in charge? Who's been making
29:56
Speaker 1: decisions behind the scenes? And why was the American people
30:00
Speaker 1: misled for so many years? And this is exactly why
30:03
Speaker 1: trust in government and media is collapsing. America First is
30:06
Speaker 1: not just about policy, it's about rejecting this entire culture
30:09
Speaker 1: of dishonesty, where elites lie with a straight face and
30:13
Speaker 1: expect you to thank them for it. Can you believe
30:16
Speaker 1: that podcast? She said it so brazenly. And she had
30:19
Speaker 1: the gall to tell the interviewer, I think it's dangerous.
30:23
Speaker 1: for you to suggest that I should have seen Biden's
30:26
Speaker 1: mental decline grow. I could see it. I'm not even
30:28
Speaker 1: in the White House. I was watching him. I watched
30:31
Speaker 1: him fall off the stairs, fall off his bike, read
30:34
Speaker 1: the prompter out loud. He would read out loud, pause,
30:38
Speaker 1: and then he would continue on because the guy couldn't read.
30:43
Speaker 1: The Let's Go Brandon thing, do you guys remember that clip,
30:45
Speaker 1: the Let's Go Brandon clip where he was being interviewed
30:48
Speaker 1: and somebody said, let's go Brandon at the end. And
30:52
Speaker 1: he was like, yeah, let's go Brandon because he's not there.
30:55
Speaker 1: He's just mentally completely unable to function as a normal
31:04
Speaker 1: human being, but especially as the president of the United States.
31:07
Speaker 1: And that Jen Psaki would sit there and lie to
31:09
Speaker 1: our faces about it so brazenly just shows you how
31:12
Speaker 1: easy lying comes to these people. All right. So let's
31:16
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Pope Francis. I want to talk about
31:18
Speaker 1: Pope Francis for a second because there's a lot of
31:22
Speaker 1: lying going on around about the Catholic Church right now
31:24
Speaker 1: as well. We've had to do some fact checking on
31:26
Speaker 1: this show. What is the conclave? What's happened? Who can
31:29
Speaker 1: be Pope? There's some questions about, oh, can Trump become Pope?
31:32
Speaker 1: Trump's not a Catholic, so President Trump cannot become Pope.
31:36
Speaker 1: But technically, any man who is a Catholic can theoretically
31:39
Speaker 1: become the Pope. You don't have to be a priest
31:42
Speaker 1: or a bishop or a cardinal to be elected Pope. Now,
31:46
Speaker 1: people are furious at President Trump because he recently said
31:48
Speaker 1: that he actually wanted to become Pope, which again, he
31:52
Speaker 1: cannot do, but it's still kind of funny. And he
31:55
Speaker 1: decided to then follow up with this interview where he
31:57
Speaker 1: said he wanted to become Pope by posting an AI
31:59
Speaker 1: image of himself as the Pope. And suddenly, all of these,
32:03
Speaker 1: if we could throw that image up there, Mikey, that'd
32:05
Speaker 1: be great. Suddenly, all these non-Catholics, oh, we have a
32:10
Speaker 1: Let's Go Brandon video? All right, let's play the Let's
32:13
Speaker 1: Go Brandon video of Joe Biden. We'll get to this
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Speaker 1: in a second. We're standing by.
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Speaker 5: Let's go, Brandon.
32:28
Speaker 6: Yeah, I hope you guys have a wonderful Christmas as well.
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Speaker 4: Merry Christmas and let's go, Brandon.
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Speaker 1: Let's go, Brandon.
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Speaker 2: I agree.
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Speaker 1: Hey, by the way, we're... It's so bad. I agree.
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Speaker 1: And if you keep watching the clip, Jill is so
32:42
Speaker 1: uncomfortable because she knows what let's go, Brandon means. She
32:45
Speaker 1: doesn't have Alzheimer's or Parkinson's or whatever the hell he has.
32:49
Speaker 1: And so she's just like sitting there uncomfortable. He has
32:53
Speaker 1: no idea that he's being completely clowned on. And he
32:56
Speaker 1: just kind of rolls with it. But this is the
32:58
Speaker 1: problem with Joe Biden. I mean, he made a fool
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Speaker 1: of himself for four years. And somebody who's his spokesperson,
33:06
Speaker 1: like Jen Psaki, would know that intimately, probably more than most.
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Speaker 1: And she's sitting there telling us, I didn't notice anything.
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Speaker 1: I thought he was totally fine. There's no problem here.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, I know that there was a problem. I'm
33:17
Speaker 1: not even in the White House. I watched him as
33:19
Speaker 1: an outsider, as an American citizen, and I could tell.
33:22
Speaker 1: And I could tell before he even was elected. This
33:24
Speaker 1: crap was happening in the lead up to the 2020
33:26
Speaker 1: election repeatedly. All right, I want to come back to
33:31
Speaker 1: the Pope here, because let's drop that image of the
33:32
Speaker 1: Pope again, Mikey, if you would. So suddenly, all of
33:37
Speaker 1: these Catholics and priesters, priesters meaning people who attend Mass
33:43
Speaker 1: on either Easter or and on just Easter and Christmas,
33:49
Speaker 1: they are deeply offended that President Trump posted this AI
33:54
Speaker 1: image of himself as the Pope. Kathy Hochul is one
33:58
Speaker 1: of them. The governor is one of them. So she
34:00
Speaker 1: tweeted this. This is deeply offensive to me and my
34:04
Speaker 1: fellow Catholics around the world as we continue to mourn
34:07
Speaker 1: our beloved Pope Francis. So just, you know, the deeply offended,
34:10
Speaker 1: we're so upset. How could Trump do this? He's so
34:13
Speaker 1: disrespectful to Catholics as in, as if any of these
34:16
Speaker 1: people are authentically Catholic. And Michael Knowles had a great response.
34:19
Speaker 1: He said, call me crazy, but as a fellow Catholic,
34:22
Speaker 1: I was more offended by the supposedly Catholic president who
34:25
Speaker 1: sued nuns, spied on Catholic parishes, tried to redefine marriage,
34:29
Speaker 1: which is a symbol of Christ and his church, and
34:30
Speaker 1: promoted the slaughter of millions of babies. And I would
34:33
Speaker 1: tend to agree with that. Because you guys know the
34:35
Speaker 1: drill here. It's all opportunistic outrage from people who suddenly
34:40
Speaker 1: remember religion when it serves their narrative. It's obviously... a
34:45
Speaker 1: satirical meme from President Trump. And pretty much everyone who
34:48
Speaker 1: is mad has been silent or complicit when actual Catholic
34:53
Speaker 1: doctrine was under siege, under attack by the Biden admin.
34:59
Speaker 1: The Biden admin that sued nuns over birth control. That
35:01
Speaker 1: was under Obama. Targeting traditional Catholics as extremists. Infiltrating Catholic communities.
35:08
Speaker 1: Dismantling the moral fabric of the church from inside out.
35:12
Speaker 1: Their piety is hollow and selective. It's all just so
35:17
Speaker 1: performative and shallow and backward. And Trump, probably unintentionally with
35:20
Speaker 1: his meme, reminded all of us that the left doesn't
35:23
Speaker 1: care about faith or tradition or moral order. They care
35:26
Speaker 1: about control. From the phony moral outrage of a meme
35:30
Speaker 1: to sanctuary states harboring violent criminals to a congresswoman dreaming
35:35
Speaker 1: of serving a foreign nation. This is what happens when
35:38
Speaker 1: you hand our culture over to phonies. Trump gets it instinctively.
35:42
Speaker 1: He gets that symbolism matters, that leadership is cultural as
35:46
Speaker 1: much as it is political, and that sometimes a meme
35:49
Speaker 1: can say a lot more than a press release ever could.
35:52
Speaker 1: This is a man who lives in the culture. Look
35:56
Speaker 1: at his mugshot, the face that he made when he
35:59
Speaker 1: had his picture taken in the midst of all this lawfare,
36:03
Speaker 1: the way that he's saying, I'm going to open Alcatraz,
36:06
Speaker 1: this prison that has such a a a methodic theme
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Speaker 1: in in the american mind the way that he is
36:16
Speaker 1: able to use symbolism to his advantage as he's fighting
36:19
Speaker 1: a cultural movement that i think instinctively understands it better
36:22
Speaker 1: than most conservatives do and i think it's a very
36:25
Speaker 1: smart way of moving forward i don't know if we'll
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Speaker 1: ever have another but what i'll say is to all
36:29
Speaker 1: these fake catholics freaking out over a meme i see
36:33
Speaker 1: you i know who you really are and you can
36:35
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