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Princeton the One-Party Campus, Super Kamala to the Rescue plus James Talarico's so called 'Church' Week In Review · The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson

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  Speaker 1: Welcome, it is Verdict with Ted Cruz, Week in Review,
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  Speaker 1: Ben Ferguson with you, and these are the stories that
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  Speaker 1: you may have missed that we talked about this past week.
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  Speaker 1: First up, just how liberal are universities and how bad
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  Speaker 1: is it? Well, the faculty at Princeton, we now know
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  Speaker 1: what their giving was to Republicans compared to Democrats.
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  Speaker 2: The numbers, well, they're going to not.
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  Speaker 1: Shock you too much, you know they're liberal, but when
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  Speaker 1: we give them to you, you're not going to believe
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  Speaker 1: just how bad it really is. Up next, Kamala Harris.
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  Speaker 1: You haven't seen her on the campaign trail, well, pretty
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  Speaker 1: much anywhere. But all of a sudden, she made a
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  Speaker 1: big appearance this week to help Al-Said out. Is that
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  Speaker 1: because his campaign is in shambles? We'll break that down
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  Speaker 1: as well. And finally, James Tallarico. He's trying to run
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  Speaker 1: to the center and explain that he's really not a
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  Speaker 1: radical socialist communist Marxist.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: He's just a normal guy that is a pastor. Well,
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  Speaker 1: his pastor of the church he attends kind of threw
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  Speaker 1: him under the bus and told the truth about what
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  Speaker 1: they really believe. And you do not want to miss
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  Speaker 1: that audio. It's the Weekend Review, and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 1: We've been talking about this for a long time. Democrats
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  Speaker 1: were smart. They played the long game. They said if
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  Speaker 1: we can take over education at every level, we can
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  Speaker 1: control and change this country literally in a generation. We
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  Speaker 1: are now witnessing the fruits of their labor. And now
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  Speaker 1: we understand just how careful parents need to be before
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  Speaker 1: they send their kids to colleges. You need to look
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  Speaker 1: at who they are, what they believe in, what they're
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  Speaker 1: trying to indoctrinate your kids in, and what they may
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  Speaker 1: come out looking like or being like. And a great
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  Speaker 1: example of this happened in a story that should shock
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  Speaker 1: every American to their core.
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  Speaker 3: Well, a story came out this week about my alma mater,
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  Speaker 3: Princeton University. There are roughly 950 full-time faculty members at Princeton.
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  Speaker 3: Of those 950, what percent do you think in the
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  Speaker 3: years 2023 and 2024 contributed to even one single Republican?
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to give the number before I read the article.
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  Speaker 1: I would have said at least eight to 10% of
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  Speaker 1: the faculty would have given to a Republican. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: pretty pessimistic. So that was my number in my head
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  Speaker 1: before I read it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, look, you were within eight to 10% of the answer.
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  Speaker 3: The answer is zero.
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  Speaker 2: Goose eggs. Not one.
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  Speaker 3: Not a single member of the Princeton faculty. And by
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  Speaker 3: the way, if you want to understand why the Democrat
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  Speaker 3: Party has gone crazy, why we're seeing a Marxist and
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  Speaker 3: Islamist take over of the Democrat Party. In one sentence,
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  Speaker 3: the answer to that is that the center of gravity
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  Speaker 3: in the Democrat Party has moved from the union hall
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  Speaker 3: to the university faculty lounge. It used to be the
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  Speaker 3: Democrat was a blue-collar party. It was union bosses were
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  Speaker 3: at the core. The Democrats have abandoned blue-collar workers. Blue-collar
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  Speaker 3: workers now are voting Republican. And today's Democrat Party are
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  Speaker 3: these woke, blue-haired, transgender witches. And that's who they're listening to,
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  Speaker 3: that the kind of people who think Hassan Piker is
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  Speaker 3: just awesome. And so this article was an article that
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  Speaker 3: was written by Jonathan Turley, and I want to read
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  Speaker 3: a little bit of it because he really laid into Princeton.
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  Speaker 3: It's entitled, The Purge. Princeton faculty reach perfect zero in
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  Speaker 3: support for Republicans. We recently discussed how Yale faculty reached
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  Speaker 3: academic nirvana after years of purging departments of conservatives and Republicans.
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  Speaker 3: the university finally showed zero political donations to Republicans. So
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  Speaker 3: Yale got there first, but Princeton, you know, Princeton was
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  Speaker 3: happy to catch up. Now Princeton can claim it has
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  Speaker 3: succeeded in a similar cleansing, according to a new study
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  Speaker 3: by Princetonians for free speech. The study shows that 98%
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  Speaker 3: of political donations went to Democrats or Democrat-affiliated groups, and 0%
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  Speaker 3: went to Republicans or affiliated groups. Political contributions are one measure, uh,
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  Speaker 3: And the study does not mean that we can assume
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  Speaker 3: that the number of academics with conservative or libertarian values
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  Speaker 3: is zero. There are obvious outliers, such as Robbie George.
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  Speaker 3: Robbie was my thesis advisor in college, is a great friend,
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  Speaker 3: is a great conservative. And he is the one outspoken
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  Speaker 3: conservative on the Princeton faculty. But look, Robbie was teaching
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  Speaker 3: when I was there. He's not getting any younger. And
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  Speaker 3: when Robbie does retire, it's not clear to me there'll
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  Speaker 3: be even one who's willing to speak out in support
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  Speaker 3: of conservative values. And, you know, I will tell you, Ben,
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  Speaker 3: by the way. All right, so there are 100 senators.
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  Speaker 3: How many senators do you think have their undergraduate degree
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  Speaker 3: from Princeton?
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to guess 23.
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  Speaker 4: 23.
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  Speaker 3: Much like your other prediction, you were off just a little.
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  Speaker 3: You're off by 22. There is one. I am the
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  Speaker 3: only Princeton undergraduate who is in the Senate. I think
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  Speaker 3: one or two have a graduate degree, but none have
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  Speaker 3: an undergrad degree. And the simple reality is my alma
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  Speaker 3: mater is embarrassed of me. They cannot stand that a
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  Speaker 3: conservative somehow escaped there. That's a simple reality. It was
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  Speaker 3: actually very funny a few years back, the Princeton Alumni Weekly,
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  Speaker 3: which they're really good at sending to all their graduates
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  Speaker 3: because they're really effective in chasing down donations. And I've said,
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  Speaker 3: I actually am safe from ever being stranded on a
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  Speaker 3: desert island because the Princeton alumni folks seeking donations will
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  Speaker 3: track you down just to send you the Princeton Alumni Weekly.
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  Speaker 3: But they did a listing, this is several years ago,
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  Speaker 3: of the 25 most influential Princeton grads. And they had
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  Speaker 3: a bunch of left-wing whack jobs on it. They did
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  Speaker 3: not include me on the list, which was fine. But
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  Speaker 3: what was very funny is in the article, they had
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  Speaker 3: a couple of paragraphs explaining, you may have noticed that
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  Speaker 3: we left Ted Cruz off the list. And they said, well...
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  Speaker 3: He could have made this list if he had the
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  Speaker 3: courage to stand up and attack Donald Trump. But because
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  Speaker 3: he agrees with President Trump, he does not merit this list. Instead,
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  Speaker 3: we come up with these communists. And by the way,
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  Speaker 3: of the 25, quote, most influential, half of them I'd
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  Speaker 3: never heard of. So, I mean, it really was a
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  Speaker 3: self-parenting list. And I sort of laugh that if you're
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  Speaker 3: making a list and have to explain why you left
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  Speaker 3: someone off.
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  Speaker 2: It's probably not a good list.
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  Speaker 3: That does. I don't think I've ever said a word
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  Speaker 3: about it until now. It just made me laugh. Like
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  Speaker 3: when I read the article, I just started laughing.
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  Speaker 1: That's almost a bigger badge of honor than making the list,
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  Speaker 1: in my opinion. I'd rather have it the way you
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  Speaker 1: had it than the other way around.
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  Speaker 2: It's incredible.
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  Speaker 1: This is what's happening on college campuses. When I go
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  Speaker 1: out and speak now and they ask, like, advice, kids,
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  Speaker 1: you do this all the time, and you'll get questions
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  Speaker 1: from the audience.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, look at where you're going.
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  Speaker 1: What they're going to be teaching you and ask yourself,
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  Speaker 1: do I need to pay them to indoctrinate me?
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  Speaker 3: And let me read a little more of what Turley
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  Speaker 3: wrote because it's important. Turley wrote, professors often express shock
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  Speaker 3: at the thought that there would be any political or
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  Speaker 3: ideological litmus test for hiring. I have also opposed such measures. However,
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  Speaker 3: the hypocrisy is crushing. Today's faculty are responsible for a
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  Speaker 3: near complete ideological purging of their ranks. They have created
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  Speaker 3: a hostile environment for anyone with conservative or libertarian viewpoints,
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  Speaker 3: including students who rarely have the opportunity to hear from
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  Speaker 3: a professor from a center-right perspective at most schools. Most recently, 40%
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  Speaker 3: of college faculty admitted they would vote against any Trump
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  Speaker 3: supporter seeking an academic position regardless of their scholarship or
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  Speaker 3: teaching ability. Keep in mind, that this is only the
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  Speaker 3: professors willing to admit such bias. Turley continues, Recently, I
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  Speaker 3: discussed the example of Fordham University School of Law professor
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  Speaker 3: John Pafaf, who called for repercussions, quote-unquote repercussions, for professors
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  Speaker 3: who do not, quote, recant their view that the 14th
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  Speaker 3: Amendment does not protect birthright citizenship. So he's explicitly calling,
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  Speaker 3: we will punish, and by punish I assume he means
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  Speaker 3: throw off the faculty, anyone who dares disagree with our
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  Speaker 3: left-wing ideology. That it is, Turley continues, not long ago
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  Speaker 3: I debated Professor Randall Kennedy at Harvard Law School about
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  Speaker 3: the school's lack of ideological diversity. I respect Kennedy and
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  Speaker 3: I do not view him as anti-free speech or intolerant.
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  Speaker 3: Yet when I noted the statistics on the vanishing number
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  Speaker 3: of conservative students and faculty in comparison to the nation,
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  Speaker 3: Kennedy responded that Harvard, quote, is an elite institution, sorry,
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  Speaker 3: is an elite university and does not have to, quote,
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  Speaker 3: look like America.
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Now, by the way, these are the same leftists who
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  Speaker 3: want to discriminate based on race because they say it
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  Speaker 3: must look like America and in fact be overrepresented. But
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  Speaker 3: when it comes to ideologies, You know, if you must
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  Speaker 3: exclude anyone who disagrees from your views, what you're telling
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  Speaker 3: everyone is that your views are weak, that they cannot
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  Speaker 3: withstand challenge, they cannot withstand contest. Look, I will tell you,
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  Speaker 3: I was an open conservative in college. I was an
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  Speaker 3: open conservative in law school in both places. I was
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  Speaker 3: in the very distinct minority, but it does make you tougher.
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  Speaker 3: It makes you better. You know, my dad joked that
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  Speaker 3: I went to Princeton and Harvard and learned to speak liberal.
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  Speaker 3: But when you're constantly being attacked, I had, particularly at
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  Speaker 3: law school, multiple of my classmates, lots of my professors
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  Speaker 3: were open communists. So I have, you know, When we're
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  Speaker 3: seeing the communists taking over the Democrat Party, this is
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  Speaker 3: not the first time I've seen it because they took
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  Speaker 3: over the faculty lounges first. And that is having massive
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  Speaker 3: consequences for the Democrat Party and sadly for the country.
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  Speaker 1: Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation,
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  Speaker 1: you can go back and listen to the full podcast
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  Speaker 1: from earlier this week.
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  Speaker 2: Now on to story number two.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Senator, so let's get to this really interesting moment.
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  Speaker 1: I agree with you completely, by the way. If you're
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  Speaker 1: bringing in Kamala Harris, you've got a really big problem.
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  Speaker 1: And that is either people aren't excited about you or
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  Speaker 1: you're desperate for funds or all of the above. Or
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  Speaker 1: maybe even, I guess, Kamala Harris is more mainstream than
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  Speaker 1: you are, El-Said. So therefore, you're like, all right, let's
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  Speaker 1: bring her in and maybe I won't look as radical
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  Speaker 1: as many are afraid that I actually am.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, look, I think Abdul thinks Kamala moves it more
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  Speaker 3: to the middle, which really speaks volumes. But, you know, look,
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  Speaker 3: if you think about where the country is and what
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  Speaker 3: the country is longing for, if the very first thing
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  Speaker 3: on your list of what the country is longing for
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  Speaker 3: is more DEI, That we were just not woke enough
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  Speaker 3: at peak wokeness. We need DEI everywhere. And by the way,
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  Speaker 3: we're not talking Berkeley. We're not talking Vermont. We're talking Michigan.
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  Speaker 3: We're talking a swing state. We're talking a state that
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  Speaker 3: voted for Donald Trump twice.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And if you're saying, well, what the people of Michigan
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  Speaker 3: want is more DEI, well, that was the central point
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  Speaker 3: of the roundtable. So Kamala Harris... said that any criticism
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  Speaker 3: of DEI, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives, is a, quote,
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  Speaker 3: attack on maternal care. And here was her quote. Quote,
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  Speaker 3: the attack on DEI is an attack on maternal care,
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  Speaker 3: including the need to protect black women in connection with
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  Speaker 3: their pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum care. She says in a
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  Speaker 3: roundtable event with El Saeed on black maternal health. Quote,
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  Speaker 3: These are the facts when we talk about what is
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  Speaker 3: at stake in this moment as it relates to these
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  Speaker 3: midterms and who occupies seats in one of the most
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  Speaker 3: important bodies in our nations, if not the world, which
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  Speaker 3: is the United States Senate. Now, there are several things
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  Speaker 3: that are interesting. Do you know in 2024 who El-Said
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  Speaker 3: backed for president?
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to guess it was Joe Biden slash Kamala Harris.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you would think so, but if you were guessing that,
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  Speaker 3: you'd be wrong. So El-Said was part of the uncommitted
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  Speaker 3: movement in Michigan. And these were the Islamists who were
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  Speaker 3: so radical that they were furious with Joe Biden because
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  Speaker 3: he wasn't anti-Israel enough. Now, mind you, Joe Biden is
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  Speaker 3: the most anti-Israel president this country has ever seen. And yet,
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  Speaker 3: the Dearborn, Michigan radicals, he wasn't—he was not— full-throatedly pro-Hamas.
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  Speaker 3: And so there was this whole movement, uncommitted in Michigan,
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  Speaker 3: to say, we're not going to vote for the Democrats
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  Speaker 3: because they are not as anti-Israel as we want them to.
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  Speaker 3: And one of their key leaders was Abdul El-Sayed. And
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  Speaker 3: so I want you to listen to this exchange because
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  Speaker 3: El-Sayed gets very unhappy when he gets asked about his
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  Speaker 3: support for the uncommitted movement and not supporting Joe Biden
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  Speaker 3: and Kamala Harris. Here, give a listen.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, in fact, Senator, we've got two clips. The first
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  Speaker 2: one I'm going to play for you.
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  Speaker 1: This goes back to the uncommitted movement and what he
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  Speaker 1: had to say back in 2024. So here's El-Sayed then
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  Speaker 1: proudly saying, I'm in this uncommitted group.
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  Speaker 5: Look, in all of the states that you named, they
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  Speaker 5: did not have the kind of tumultuous 2024 election season
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  Speaker 5: that we had in Michigan. And as folks know, if
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  Speaker 5: you look back to 2024, one of the hardest issues
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  Speaker 5: to deal with was the genocide in Gaza. And I
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  Speaker 5: was proudly supportive of Uncommitted because I understood that I
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  Speaker 5: wanted the party to understand that this was going to
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  Speaker 5: be a devastating situation for a lot of folks.
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  Speaker 1: So you listen to that, Senator, and now let's go
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  Speaker 1: to that clip you were mentioning where El-Sayed loses it
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  Speaker 1: when he was pressed about his support for the 2024
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  Speaker 1: uncommitted movement, even though in that last clip he was
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  Speaker 1: totally proud of it.
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  Speaker 2: Here he is in his own words now. Can you
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  Speaker 2: explain what uncommitted was? What was it about?
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  Speaker 5: And who was the president we were uncommitted to? Is
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  Speaker 5: Vice President Harris the same as President Biden?
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  Speaker 2: Wait, wait, wait, wait.
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  Speaker 5: Was Vice President Harris running for president at the time
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  Speaker 5: we were uncommitted?
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  Speaker 4: Answer the question.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, ask a fact-based question and then I'll answer
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  Speaker 5: your question. No, no, but who are we uncommitted to
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  Speaker 5: who was the actual leader of the presidential ticket?
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  Speaker 2: Who was that?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: So we were uncommitted to President Biden and then he
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  Speaker 5: did what? What did he do?
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  Speaker 6: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: What did he do?
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  Speaker 5: You're asking a question based on false premises. So I'm
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  Speaker 5: just getting you to clarify your premise. What did he do?
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  Speaker 5: He dropped out of the race, correct? And then there
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  Speaker 5: was a new person running for president, right? So factually,
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  Speaker 5: is the premise you're basing this question on actually a
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  Speaker 5: real premise?
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Next question.
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  Speaker 1: He was not happy there, Senator, at all. Goes back
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  Speaker 1: to the point you were making.
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  Speaker 2: He was furious. He was even having to answer the
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  Speaker 2: question at all.
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  Speaker 3: Well, look, he was, in his own word, proudly supportive
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  Speaker 3: of the uncommitted movement when the ticket was Joe Biden,
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  Speaker 3: Kamala Harris. He was like very proud to say we
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  Speaker 3: ain't voting for her. And the dumpster fire is so bad,
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  Speaker 3: he's like, hey, you know, the person that I wasn't
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  Speaker 3: willing to vote for, now I really need her help. Now,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's interesting. You know that it's a problem
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  Speaker 3: when even the New York Times admits it. I'm just
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  Speaker 3: going to read this headline from the New York Times.
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  Speaker 3: Many Democrats are avoiding Kamala Harris. Abdul Syed welcomed her.
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  Speaker 3: The former vice president wants to help her party in
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  Speaker 3: the midterms, but not many are taking her up on
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  Speaker 3: the offer, except for the Senate nominee in Michigan, who
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  Speaker 3: appeared with her on Tuesday. When even the New York
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  Speaker 3: Times is saying, wow, this Kamala character, I'm not sure
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  Speaker 3: she's going to help in a whole lot of these races.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe he ought to, like, if she calls and offers,
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  Speaker 3: it ought to be, new phone, who dis? Sorry, wrong number.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: But, if you want to know why, if you want
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  Speaker 3: to know why, Abdul El-Sayed says, well, maybe Kamala will
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  Speaker 3: help moderate me, help me seem more in the middle.
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  Speaker 3: I want you to think, and I want you to
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  Speaker 3: listen to this bizarre discussion at their roundtable. I'm just
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  Speaker 3: going to play it and then we'll comment afterwards here.
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  Speaker 3: Give a listen. This is this week, Kamala Harris and
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  Speaker 3: Abdul Syed. And I'm going to give you a preview.
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  Speaker 3: They're just like you. They relate to you and your
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  Speaker 3: family just like anyone else would.
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  Speaker 2: Give a listen.
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  Speaker 4: And that's what the people of Michigan need from you.
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  Speaker 4: from our leaders. That's what black women and black birthing
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  Speaker 4: people need in order to move themselves forward, their families forward,
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  Speaker 4: the communities forward, the state forward, and this country forward.
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  Speaker 1: Senator, birthing people. They haven't let that go, have they?
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  Speaker 1: With these birthing people. So that's a dude who's acting
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  Speaker 1: like a chick that they want you to believe can
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  Speaker 1: get pregnant if we're translating what a birthing people are.
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  Speaker 3: So look, I'm just going to say right now, if
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  Speaker 3: you have ever used the phrase black birthing people unironically,
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  Speaker 3: like actually to describe something, you know what, you probably
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  Speaker 3: ought to vote for Abdul. You are clearly a whacked
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  Speaker 3: out nut job. But for the rest of us, this
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  Speaker 3: really does tell you how extreme these people are. They're
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  Speaker 3: unable or unwilling to say the word mother anymore. Like, mom.
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  Speaker 3: And I will tell you, several years ago, we had
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: a hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee where one of
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: the Senate Democrats made a reference to birthing people. And
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: I pulled him aside afterwards on the Senate floor and
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: I said, is your party's base really that whacked out
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: that you can't say mom? And he just looked at
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: me and nodded and said, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Like, I mean, that's a staffing call, right?
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: That's somebody in the staff's like, hey, you can't say
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: that anymore.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: You got to say birthing people.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: And that'll give us cover with the with the with
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  Speaker 1: the hardcore primary radical lefty voters.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's a political decision.
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: This is six weeks out from the general election. This
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: is when they're trying to pivot to the middle. And
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: their campaign is we are fighting for black birthing people.
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  Speaker 2: That's how extreme they are.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: By the way, everybody listening to this, if you go
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: watch the clip, we've got this one up on YouTube,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: this episode. You can watch. No one's shocked by what
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: was said there in that moment. It was as normal
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: as it's saying, welcome, good Tuesday morning. It's so good
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: to have you here at this Harris-El-Saeed event.
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  Speaker 2: Like, there was no pause. Like, what are they talking about?
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: What is she saying? Why are we going here?
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Like, this was check the box, radical leftist organization 101 stuff.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: Look, this is embodying something we've talked about on Verdict
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: for a long time, which is the power center. the
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: center of gravity of the Democrat Party has moved from
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: the union hall. It used to be in the FDR era,
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: the union guy was the heart of the Democrat Party.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: It's moved from the union hall to the faculty lounge.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: And birthing people is the sort of thing that.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: Woke communists in the Ivy League or Berkeley say, it's
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: the kind of thing, you know, people who snap instead
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: of applauding, or who hiss if you dare deviate from
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: their orthodoxy, those are the people who say black birthing people,
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: and that is Abdul. That is especially Abdul's sister, who
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: is a professor at the University of Chicago, who says
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: she hates the University of Chicago, hates Thanksgiving, hates the
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: Fourth of July, and hates America. And that is Kamala
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: Harris as well, By the way, that's how you get.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Tenure now, isn't it? Isn't that how you get tenure
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: at one of these universities? You just tell them you
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: hate them and you hate everything about this country.
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  Speaker 2: They'll give you a job for life.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: You know, it is sad.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: It is extreme.
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: It is radical. Now, I'll tell you what, though. Unfortunately,
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: the radical is not exclusively on the left. Listen, the
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: Democrat Party is facing a hostile takeover from the Islamists
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: and the communists. And that's something that we have to
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: fight back and defeat.
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  Speaker 1: As before, if you want to hear the rest of
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  Speaker 3: Well, listen, I think the two most dangerous and the
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  Speaker 3: most radical and extreme candidates in the country are Abdul
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  Speaker 3: Al-Sayed and James Tallarico. They are both Democrat nominees in
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  Speaker 3: Michigan and Texas, respectively, and they're both extreme. Now, they're
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  Speaker 3: trying to pretend not to be for the general election voters. Tallarico,
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  Speaker 3: in particular, he tries very hard to claim that he's
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  Speaker 3: a moderate. The big thing he tries to do is
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: by saying that he is a Christian minister. And that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, if he's a Christian, that's great. He can't
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  Speaker 3: be that extreme. And I will say every week more
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: facts about his record, about his saying God is non-binary,
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: about his saying there are six different genders, about his
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: saying he wants to welcome Matt on the southern border
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  Speaker 3: not only that, the church that he has attended for many,
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  Speaker 3: many years is a church in Austin that is more
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  Speaker 3: radical than any church I have ever seen. And one
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: of the senior pastors there is this woman who's a
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: lesbian who was caught on undercover film Now look, I
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: am reluctant to question someone else's faith. That is not
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: for me to do. That is a question for God
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: to judge. But I will say, if you say you're
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: a Christian, the absolute heart of Christianity, the Gospels, you
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: can actually find it in John 3.16, For God so
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son,
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  Speaker 3: that whoever believes in him shall not perish, but have
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: everlasting life. That is the essence of Christianity, that Jesus came,
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: died on the cross for our sins, and that if
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: we accept his forgiveness, if we accept his salvations, our
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: sins will be forgiven. All of the rest of it,
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: you can have doctrinal disputes, but that's the absolute heart
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: of what it means to be a Christian. Now, I
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  Speaker 3: want you to listen to James Tallarico's pastor and what
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: she and the folks at their church believe.
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: Do we really believe that like a virgin gave birth
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: to a baby? Yeah.
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: I just don't want to offend my own common sense.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: No, don't. Yeah.
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: Absolutely don't. Part of what we encourage here is for
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: people to think for themselves. Yeah. And take what makes sense.
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: It's kind of like what they say in 12-step programs.
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: Take what you want and leave the rest. And I
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: know that that would greatly offend your relatives who want
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: to hang on to these archaic rules. Mary and the
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: virgin birth comes out of the pagan belief that the
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: gods came down and impregnated people, that people were still
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: hanging on to. During that time, we have no way
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: of knowing if Jesus really existed any more than we
• 26:53
  Speaker 6: have of knowing that the original Buddha ever existed. And
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: whether or not Jesus existed doesn't really matter to me.
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: The fact remains that that message that was delivered by
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: someone named Jesus, supposedly, and it could have all been
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: made up for all I know. And the God in
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: the Old Testament is not a loving God. It's a vengeful,
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: killing people kind of God. This is a lot of mythology.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: Jesus was political. Jesus was put.
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: On that cross not to save us. Jesus was put
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: on that cross because Rome hated him. And they thought
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: he was a threat to their domination of that area.
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: And so they killed him. He didn't die to save
• 27:45
  Speaker 6: our sins.
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: So he died more as a kind of a social
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: justice warrior in some sense.
• 27:50
  Speaker 6: Yes. So that makes a whole lot more sense to
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: me than to say that some God would kill his
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: son for us. That doesn't make sense.
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: It never made sense.
• 28:01
  Speaker 6: How does that make up for all the things I
• 28:03
  Speaker 6: can do?
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: No, it doesn't. So look, that is a whole lot
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: of things, but that is not Christianity. When a supposed
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: Christian pastor says, whether or not Jesus existed doesn't matter
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: to me.
• 28:21
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: When she says... that it makes no sense that God
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: would send his son to die for our sins. That
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: is what it means to be a Christian. You could have, look,
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: there are doctrinal disputes. Is baptism dunking or sprinkling?
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Okay, fine.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: People can disagree about that stuff. But if you reject
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: the heart of the gospel, you don't even care if
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: Jesus existed, You may be a left-wing philosopher, you may
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: be a left-wing radical activist, but what you are not
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: is a Christian. And that is the world from which
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: James Tallarico comes. And and we have every reason to
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: believe that that that reflects his belief as well.
• 29:10
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