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Speaker 1: I think this is good news.
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Speaker 2: Anybody that has listened to me for any length of
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Speaker 2: time knows that I have a great relationship with Jim Jordan,
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Speaker 2: and he just won the House vote to become the
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Speaker 2: Republican minority leader. I think even Linda is happy about
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Speaker 2: this one. Am I correct about that, at least?
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Speaker 3: I love Jim Jordan. I was all for him when
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Speaker 3: he was running for Speaker.
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Speaker 4: Great guy.
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Speaker 1: Thank goodness.
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Speaker 2: Thank goodness. We have an area of agreement. I don't
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Speaker 2: know what they're going to do in the Senate. I
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Speaker 2: can tell you this, that if they don't get their
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Speaker 2: act together, I actually think that nobody should be selected
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Speaker 2: unless they agree to corral every current senator and bring
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Speaker 2: them back. There is a window of opportunity here. where
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Speaker 2: Republicans can, for example, fund the Department of Defense. They
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Speaker 2: can do a reconciliation bill. There is enough time. The
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Speaker 2: sad part is I think they're planning on leaving November 18th.
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Speaker 2: They just got back from a long vacation. It is,
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Speaker 2: you know, I think it's probably the sore point of
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Speaker 2: all sore points for many of us because we don't
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Speaker 2: have the luxury of working half the year the way
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Speaker 2: they do. What is so frustrating about a lot of
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Speaker 2: elected officials is their job in Washington will be the
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Speaker 2: best job they will ever have in their lives, the
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Speaker 2: highest paying. And unfortunately, that puts them in a rather,
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Speaker 2: you know, not not the typical compromise position, but it
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Speaker 2: puts them in the position that their number one priority
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Speaker 2: is to get reelected. And that means that the number
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Speaker 2: one priority, which should be serving the people, we the people,
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Speaker 2: goes out the window, which is very frustrating to me.
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Speaker 2: And it should be frustrating to all of you. But anyway,
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Speaker 2: so the House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan will be
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Speaker 2: President Trump's top defender in Congress next year after winning
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Speaker 2: a closed-door election for minority leader. Jordan defeated majority leader
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Speaker 2: Steve Scalise. currently the number two leader in what was
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Speaker 2: believed to be a narrow race. Jordan received 106 votes,
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Speaker 2: Scalise 73 votes, according to some reports that I'm reading.
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Speaker 2: And we're going to need people that are going to
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Speaker 2: fight and people that will take a stand. I hope
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Speaker 2: the Senate, I think there should be a litmus test
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Speaker 2: for who would be the minority leader in the Senate.
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Speaker 1: And the litmus test is pretty simple.
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Speaker 2: And that is, are you able to get currently serving
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Speaker 2: senators back in town and get them to vote on
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Speaker 2: important issues like funding the Department of War and funding
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Speaker 2: the government and and and extending the debt ceiling before
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Speaker 2: the Democrats take control? I think that would be unfinished
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Speaker 2: business that they need to get done. But again, I
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Speaker 2: think maybe especially people that lost are going to be
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Speaker 2: a bunch of sore losers and not want to serve
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Speaker 2: the American people, which which frankly is is is such
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Speaker 2: a disappointment. You know, when I when I have been
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Speaker 2: taking calls from many of you in this audience and
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Speaker 2: you call and you say you're disappointed in Republicans and.
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Speaker 2: This is just, you know, just more bad news on
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Speaker 2: top of it. This is why you feel the way
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Speaker 2: you do. This is why when people would call and
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Speaker 2: explain it to me, I'm like, yeah, I really can't
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Speaker 2: disagree with you.
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Speaker 1: I feel the same way.
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Speaker 2: And it's frustrating and it should happen. And before anybody
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Speaker 2: is elected to any leadership role, I think that should
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Speaker 2: be the top priority for all of them. By the way,
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Speaker 2: on some of the radical extreme points of view, we
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Speaker 2: have an update, uh, Crazy Abdul, he says, you can
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Speaker 2: call me Senator. I think we'll just call him crazy.
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Speaker 2: He declared that Michigan is now the capital of Arab America,
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Speaker 2: described his home state as the capital of Arab America
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Speaker 2: during remarks at the Connect Arab American Empowerment Summit in
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Speaker 2: Virginia outside of D.C. And then he gave, you know,
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Speaker 2: the Arabic name that he never used on the campaign
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Speaker 2: trail again. And I'm honored to be the next U.S.
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Speaker 2: senator from the great state of Michigan. He said, obviously,
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Speaker 2: Washington is the capital of the U.S., but Michigan is
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Speaker 2: the capital of Arab America, seemingly just wanting to poke
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Speaker 2: people in the eye. Now, there was this horrible event
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Speaker 2: that we told you about this weekend where DSA Democrats,
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Speaker 2: you know, were out there. And there has been, you know,
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Speaker 2: thank goodness. And Linda, this is, you know, your home
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Speaker 2: turf where you Did it yourself grow up a backlash
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Speaker 2: against this boycott ride that was targeting pro-Israel and Jewish
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Speaker 2: local restaurant owners? I mean, it is you know, they
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Speaker 2: were literally threatening Jewish store owners. Now, this is the
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Speaker 2: party whose closing argument in 2024 was Nazi, fascist, racist.
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Speaker 2: And now the backbone or the foundation of this Democratic
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Speaker 2: Party is the DSA.
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Speaker 1: They are the intellectuals.
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Speaker 2: Power behind the Democratic Party no elected Democrat in the
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Speaker 2: Senate but for John Fetterman would dare speak up against
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Speaker 2: them anyway these left-wing protesters targeted at least six restaurants
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Speaker 2: by name uh in Philly's Rittenhouse Square uh Linda you
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Speaker 2: were following this very closely because it's near and dear
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Speaker 2: to your heart and you know apparently they got thrown
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Speaker 2: out tell us what happened Yeah, no, it was actually amazing.
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Speaker 3: You know, the city of brotherly love was not having
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Speaker 3: their hate, and I kind of love it. And of course,
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Speaker 3: they were so tough. They showed up with their faces covered,
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Speaker 3: their hands covered, so you couldn't tell any markings or
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Speaker 3: what they look like. Because when you stand behind something
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Speaker 3: and you believe in it, there's nothing that tells us
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Speaker 3: that more than you pretending that you need to hide
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Speaker 3: yourself at every given moment. The people, however, that came
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Speaker 3: down to support those Jewish businesses were lined up for hours.
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Speaker 3: They were there long before those morons showed up on
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Speaker 3: their stupid bikes, and they were there to support. And
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Speaker 3: when those idiots came down the road and they were
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Speaker 3: there and they were ready, they were not having it.
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Speaker 3: They were flipping them off and they were screaming at
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Speaker 3: them and they were at it. So when all of
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Speaker 3: those free Palestine, I hate Jews people showed up, they
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Speaker 3: were not met with people that were afraid. They were
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Speaker 3: met with their own level of anger by people who
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Speaker 3: were on the right side of the argument saying the
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Speaker 3: whole hate has no home here sign that you have
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Speaker 3: on your front lawn should actually mean something. Maybe you
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Speaker 3: should just pedal your ass on down the road and
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Speaker 3: keep it moving because we're not here for it. So
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Speaker 3: it was fantastic.
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Speaker 2: Remember, the same left took out of context the remarks
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Speaker 2: of Donald Trump. Oh, there were some good people, but
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Speaker 2: there were some horrible people. They forgot that part of
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Speaker 2: what he said. And now they're a part of it.
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Speaker 2: And nobody in the legacy media mob even wants to
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Speaker 2: cover the story. It's almost been buried. And the DSA
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Speaker 2: now runs the Democratic Party. By the way, one lighthearted
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Speaker 2: moment when UFC CEO Dana White, you know, addressing the rumors.
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Speaker 1: People started writing me in droves over the weekend.
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Speaker 2: Did you see that Donald Trump is recruiting Dana White
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Speaker 2: to be the next White House press secretary? I'm like, oh, man,
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Speaker 2: how stupid are some people? They'll fall for anything sometimes.
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Speaker 2: But it was rather entertaining. And anyway, he made the
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Speaker 2: appearance at the briefing to address reports that he had
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Speaker 2: reached out to the White House for the role following,
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Speaker 2: you know, a difficult news cycle. We were having a
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Speaker 2: very bad press day. He said, I don't know why
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Speaker 2: I thought of this name, but he's been a friend
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Speaker 2: for a long time. You know, I think I'm going
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Speaker 2: to get Dana White to be my new press secretary.
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Speaker 2: I said it to the group in the press.
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Speaker 1: And that was it. I was kidding. And then they
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Speaker 1: wrote the story as though I wasn't kidding.
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Speaker 5: We were having a very bad press day. And I said,
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Speaker 5: I don't know why I thought of his name. He's
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Speaker 5: been my friend for a long time. I said, you know,
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Speaker 5: I think I'm going to get Dana White to be
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Speaker 5: my new press secretary. I said it to a group
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Speaker 5: of the press.
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Speaker 1: And that was it. I'm sort of kidding.
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Speaker 5: And then they wrote the stories, though I wasn't kidding,
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Speaker 5: and you were inundated, and I was inundated, and he
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Speaker 5: was here anyway. We thought we'd have a little fun,
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Speaker 5: and we brought Dana here. He would be fantastic.
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Speaker 2: Well, it would be entertaining. He wouldn't take any crap
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Speaker 2: from anybody. Names that I am hearing a lot about Ben.
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Speaker 2: What's his name? Ben Ferguson. I'm hearing a lot. Also,
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Speaker 2: Scott Jennings name. I've been hearing a lot. I don't
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Speaker 2: know for sure, but I think they may be the
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Speaker 2: two final finalists in the search for a press secretary.
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Speaker 2: which I think under Donald Trump is very hard to do.
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Speaker 2: I think he speaks enough for himself that he doesn't
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Speaker 2: really need a lot of people to speak for him.
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Speaker 1: But we'll see what happens here.
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Speaker 2: But so in the final hour of today's program right now,
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Speaker 2: it is scheduled for about 530 Eastern. We expect there's
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Speaker 2: going to be a vote to impeach Pete Hegseth in
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Speaker 2: the House of Representatives. This is a Tom Massey agenda
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Speaker 2: as he's now leaving Washington. And there will be other Republicans,
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Speaker 2: I think, that go along with it. I don't think
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Speaker 2: they're ever going to get a conviction. They probably will.
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Speaker 2: If I had to guess, probably the impeachment will take place.
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Speaker 1: Place. It is a farce. It is a stunt.
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Speaker 2: It is a waste of time, but it's also a
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Speaker 2: preview of coming attractions. If you think this is going
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Speaker 2: to be the last impeachment vote that we're going to
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Speaker 2: be covering, you are dreaming. I think this is, The
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Speaker 2: left in this country, they live for this. The fact
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Speaker 2: that Republicans also are involved in it is repulsive to me.
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Speaker 2: But anyway, it's a resolution. They outline eight articles of impeachment.
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Speaker 2: Thomas Massey is probably the angriest guy in Washington. He
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Speaker 2: was defeated. He will be leaving very soon. And this
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Speaker 2: is his last dig. But anyway, so he he's claiming
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Speaker 2: on X that Hegseth the Secretary of War committed impeachable
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Speaker 2: acts eight times. And his acts include going to war
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Speaker 2: without Congress and Iran, which is a crock. There is
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Speaker 2: somebody called the Commander-in-Chief, and that would be President Trump.
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Speaker 2: And trust me, there will be impeachments against him, too.
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Speaker 2: If you go on the betting markets, I'm sure you
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Speaker 2: can bet on this sort of thing. But no, the
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Speaker 2: president in his first term He took out Soleimani, took
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Speaker 2: out Baghdadi and associates. He defeated the ISIS caliphate. Similarly,
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Speaker 2: he dropped the mother of all bombs on Afghanistan and
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Speaker 2: nobody got impeached for it. But anyway, so that would
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Speaker 2: be issue one, ignoring laws that minimize civilian casualties. That
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Speaker 2: is just an outright lie. That's not true. Quote, extrajudicial killings.
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Speaker 2: suppressing free speech, kidnapping of a sovereign foreign leader, by
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Speaker 2: the way, who was under indictment, unlawful war in Yemen,
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Speaker 2: according to the impeachment resolution. And we're going to play
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Speaker 2: Pete's press conference from earlier today. Now, the Democrats are
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Speaker 2: going around threatening a lot of people with impeachment and
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Speaker 2: investigation throughout the program.
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Speaker 1: We're going to play for you.
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Speaker 2: You know, the likes of the incoming chair of the
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Speaker 2: House Oversight Committee, Robert Garcia, promising to go after pretty
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Speaker 2: much everybody, including people that were in the administration that
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Speaker 2: left the administration. Chris Van Hollen, by the way, is
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Speaker 2: considering a run against Schumer for Senate Majority Leader. I
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Speaker 2: would say the odds go down hour by hour that
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Speaker 2: Chuck Schumer ever gets that position, but we'll see. Jamie
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Speaker 2: Raskin claiming the media is trying to drive a narrative
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Speaker 2: that incoming Democrats like Adam Hamilton from Kansas will be
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Speaker 2: disappointed spending two years investigating the Trump administration. AOC wouldn't
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Speaker 2: even give Chuckie Schumer a vote of confidence and dodged
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Speaker 2: the question when she was asked about that. Ted Cruz
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Speaker 2: saying about Hegseth that if Hegseth is impeached in the Senate,
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Speaker 2: After January, Schumer will spend weeks or months prosecuting opposition
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Speaker 2: to the Iranian war, if you want to call it
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Speaker 2: a war, and pushing, you know, themes of corruption and
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Speaker 2: predicting also that Hegseth will resign, be fired or impeached
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Speaker 2: in the House. I don't know if that's going to happen.
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Speaker 2: But this is the beginning of what I have told
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Speaker 2: you is going to happen. I said it on election night,
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Speaker 2: and that is the beginning of overreach. And that also
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Speaker 2: is the start of buyer's remorse because Americans are going
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Speaker 2: to see that the word affordability meant nothing to Democrats
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Speaker 2: and doing anything productive for you, the American people, was
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Speaker 2: never a top priority for them.
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Speaker 1: That's just the bottom line.
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Speaker 2: Well, you know, I always say that Republicans form circular
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Speaker 2: firing squads and finger pointing never stops.
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Speaker 1: Interesting.
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Speaker 2: It's also happening on the left. New York Post has
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Speaker 2: a report today. Members of the city's Democratic Socialists of
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Speaker 2: America think their roster is, quote, too white and are
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Speaker 2: considering an anti-oppression task force to recruit minorities and actual
14:26
Speaker 2: working class New Yorkers. Well, aren't there working class people
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Speaker 2: in all backgrounds and races, et cetera, et cetera? Anyway,
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Speaker 2: and I thought they would be united by the same philosophy.
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Speaker 2: But anyway, the New York City chapter, this group will
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Speaker 2: consider this resolution stuff with, you know, politically correct messaging
14:49
Speaker 2: at its convention on Saturday that would create a task
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Speaker 2: force to promote equitable organizing culture. and force their leaders
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Speaker 2: to get diversity training. Linda is going to be attending
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Speaker 2: on behalf of this show.
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Speaker 1: Is that correct?
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Speaker 3: Are you kidding me? I'm leading the conference. I got
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Speaker 1: Can't wait.
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Speaker 2: that would be 2 o'clock on the West Coast, 5
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Speaker 2: o'clock on the East Coast. The vote to impeach Pete Hegseth,
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Speaker 2: which we've been going over in great detail. I mean,
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Speaker 2: it is a bunch of nonsense. You can thank Tom Massey,
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Speaker 2: the idiot from Kentucky, for this, but whatever. There will
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Speaker 2: be people, including other Republicans. I want to know who
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Speaker 2: they are. I think it's important we know. And, you know,
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Speaker 2: I said something during the election that there is a time—
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Speaker 2: and that there is a place to get better quality candidates.
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Speaker 2: And that would be during primaries and getting the right
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Speaker 2: people to run for different races. We will pay more
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Speaker 2: attention to that as we approach two years from now.
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Speaker 2: Probably within a year, we'll start trying to identify people
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Speaker 2: that might be stronger conservatives, principled conservatives to run for office.
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Speaker 2: especially running against rhinos or weak Republicans or people that
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Speaker 2: are just, you know, they're good for basically nothing. By
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Speaker 2: really sure, and I don't want to get too distracted today. I,
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Speaker 2: for the life of me, cannot understand this level of
19:08
Speaker 2: obsessive compulsive hatred that exists for a father who and
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Speaker 2: for a husband who was assassinated, and we all know
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Speaker 2: his name, Charlie Kirk. I will never for the life
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Speaker 2: of me be able to understand the mindset of somebody
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Speaker 2: that would want to harass his children, his wife, while
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Speaker 2: they're mourning the loss of their father and husband. I
19:38
Speaker 2: don't get it. I don't understand it. I'll never understand it.
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Speaker 2: You know, a lot of it to me is just
19:44
Speaker 2: very dark. and evil and horrible and disgusting and despicable.
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Speaker 2: We have a couple of recent examples. There's this woman,
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Speaker 2: Jennifer Welch, and I guess her co-host, I don't know
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Speaker 2: what she is, or guest, Angie Sullivan. They literally start
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Speaker 2: laughing after reading a tweet. What does the tweet say?
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Speaker 2: Or the ex-post?
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Speaker 1: It's mocking... Charlie Kirk's death. Listen.
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Speaker 7: Brandon Sweets, make sure you open that up on Sundays
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Speaker 7: from here on out, Chick-fil-A. No more Sunday school homophobes.
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Speaker 7: No more. No more megachurch Sunday school homophobe. Dead Morose says,
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Speaker 7: we're digging up Charlie Kirk and doing it again.
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Speaker 1: I'm zooming into the fox.
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Speaker 7: No comment.
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Speaker 1: No comment. Linda, can you put an explanation to that?
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Speaker 1: Because I can't.
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Speaker 3: I think if I can explain that, you should be
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Speaker 3: really afraid and be wondering why I understand it.
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Speaker 6: They're really sick.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I really hated a lot of people on
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Speaker 3: the left, and I hated them. I didn't dislike them.
21:11
Speaker 3: but I wasn't wishing them to die or their families
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Speaker 3: to die or if they died, you know, I mean, it's,
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Speaker 3: it's just, it's, it's demonic.
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Speaker 2: You know, I pointed this out when president Trump went
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Speaker 2: back into office and he gave that joint session speech
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Speaker 2: and Lake and Riley's family was there and Rachel Moran's
21:32
Speaker 2: family was there and little Jocelyn Nungary's family was there. And,
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Speaker 2: Democrats wouldn't even stand and recognize families that lost their
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Speaker 2: loved ones. In the case of Rachel Morin, she's a
21:44
Speaker 2: mother of five. In the case of Lakin Riley, she's
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Speaker 2: out jogging. She's a nursing student. She has her whole
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Speaker 2: life ahead of her. In the case of little Jocelyn Nungary,
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Speaker 2: she's 12 years old, brutally, repeatedly raped and then dumped
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Speaker 2: and murdered and dumped in the Rio Grande.
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Speaker 1: But can I add.
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Speaker 3: One more to that point? Like, not only do they
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Speaker 3: not stand for them, but remember, we had Irina Zerutska's
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Speaker 3: mom there. And Irina Zerutska's mom and her family were
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Speaker 3: actual refugees seeking asylum during what happened in Ukraine, came here,
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Speaker 3: living in North Carolina. She's murdered by a repeat offender who,
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Speaker 3: as of this moment, has still not stood trial because
22:27
Speaker 3: he's unwell. Too unwell to stand trial, but plenty well
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Speaker 3: to murder somebody in cold blood while they An entire
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Speaker 3: bus full of people sat and did nothing. I mean,
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Speaker 3: they didn't even stand for her, her poor mother. That's
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Speaker 3: not political. And they didn't stand for her.
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Speaker 2: Listen, I'm going to stay true to what I have
22:47
Speaker 2: always stayed true to my entire career. I'm not calling
22:50
Speaker 2: for these voices to be canceled. I don't call for boycotts.
22:57
Speaker 2: I don't get involved in that movement anymore. because I
23:00
Speaker 2: think it's dangerous ultimately for freedom of speech, and we
23:04
Speaker 2: make our living with freedom of speech. And if people
23:06
Speaker 2: choose to listen to that vile, disgusting, evil, you know,
23:12
Speaker 2: on a podcast, that's their choice.
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Speaker 1: We believe in freedom of speech.
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Speaker 2: But organically, I think they lost 25 advertisers, according to
23:23
Speaker 2: one report today. I don't know if that's true, but
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Speaker 2: I wouldn't be surprised at all. I don't know anybody
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Speaker 2: that would want to be associated with that craziness. And
23:34
Speaker 2: then they apologized, but not for what they said, which
23:38
Speaker 2: maybe makes this worse.
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Speaker 7: Listen, when we apologize for laughing at a joke on
23:43
Speaker 7: our podcast, that wasn't for you. That was for us
23:46
Speaker 7: because somebody I love very much died from gun violence
23:51
Speaker 7: two years ago.
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Speaker 1: And I just didn't feel good about that.
23:54
Speaker 2: I didn't feel good about it. How about what you
24:00
Speaker 2: did and what you said and the people that you hurt?
24:02
Speaker 2: And here's the worst part of it for Erica Kirk
24:05
Speaker 2: and her two children. And I wish people would just
24:09
Speaker 2: leave them alone. Leave them alone. Leave this family alone.
24:14
Speaker 2: They have suffered enough. And now the judge is set
24:19
Speaker 2: a trial date for the middle of of twenty twenty eight.
24:26
Speaker 2: I mean, why does this family have to wait that long?
24:29
Speaker 2: How is that even possible? It's unimaginable to me. And,
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Speaker 2: you know, and it went on and I played yesterday,
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Speaker 2: Dave Chappelle and what he was saying, so on and
24:39
Speaker 2: so forth.
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Speaker 1: But I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I just find there's a certain, you know, the Bible
24:45
Speaker 2: says in the last days, the love of man shall
24:48
Speaker 2: grow cold. And man, if that's not cold, I don't
24:52
Speaker 2: know what is. That is just as heartless as, as
24:55
Speaker 2: cold as I could ever think it would be. Now,
25:01
Speaker 2: we're awaiting the Hegseth vote on impeachment. That's going to
25:05
Speaker 2: happen later today. We're also going to play. He gave
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Speaker 2: a very powerful 15-minute talk today and then took some
25:11
Speaker 2: questions afterwards. Let me just play a little bit of him,
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Speaker 2: kind of a preview of what we'll get to later,
25:19
Speaker 2: of him talking about the impeachment effort against him as
25:23
Speaker 2: a farce and a stunt.
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Speaker 8: Listen.
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Speaker 9: What one disgruntled and defeated congressman is attempting is not oversight,
25:32
Speaker 9: and it's not accountability. It's a political spectacle, a personal
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Speaker 9: manifesto driven by ego and resentment. Time for one man's
25:41
Speaker 9: final days in Congress to try to do damage to
25:44
Speaker 9: this president, this country, and most irresponsibly, the warriors who
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Speaker 9: defend it. It's a farce, and it's a stunt. And
25:54
Speaker 9: everybody knows it. You see, we've seen this show before.
25:59
Speaker 9: They impeached President Trump over a perfect phone call. They
26:03
Speaker 9: impeached him again in his final week in office. Both
26:06
Speaker 9: times they failed. Both times he came back stronger. And
26:10
Speaker 9: the American people sent him back to the White House.
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Speaker 9: Now they're trying a third time, this time against a
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Speaker 9: member of his cabinet. They will fail again. And if
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Speaker 9: standing with President Trump puts me in that company, I'll
26:24
Speaker 9: take that company every day of the week.
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Speaker 1: Very strong, very defiant, very justified.
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Speaker 2: Ted Cruz went out there and he did this on
26:38
Speaker 2: his own podcast. predicting that Hegseth will resign, be fired,
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Speaker 2: or be impeached in the House. I think he's going
26:46
Speaker 2: to be impeached in the House is where this is
26:48
Speaker 2: headed today.
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Speaker 8: Massey is very unhappy as his foreign policy has long
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Speaker 8: been very isolationist. And so he wants to see Hegseth removed.
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Speaker 8: And as I said, the reason the Speaker sent everyone
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Speaker 8: home is they were counting votes. They didn't have the
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Speaker 8: votes to stop a Hegseth impeachment. I think we're going
27:08
Speaker 8: to see that teed up. very, very quickly. And one
27:13
Speaker 8: of two things is going to happen. Either Hegseth is
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Speaker 8: going to step down, either he will resign voluntarily or
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Speaker 8: Trump will fire him. Or if that does not happen,
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Speaker 8: I think it is extremely likely, if not certain, that
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Speaker 8: the House will impeach him because on the face of it,
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Speaker 8: the votes are there.
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Speaker 2: Now, it only takes a majority to impeach. But it
27:34
Speaker 2: takes 67 votes to convict. I don't see him getting convicted.
27:39
Speaker 2: I hope that's the case. All right, Chris in Texas.
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Speaker 2: God bless Texas. Chris, I know troubled times there. Glad
27:46
Speaker 2: you called, sir.
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Speaker 4: Sean, you're a great American. How are you doing today?
27:50
Speaker 1: Hanging in there, my friend. What's going on?
27:54
Speaker 4: I'm calling in about the Pete Hegsack thing going on.
27:57
Speaker 4: And all I can say, I did 22 years in
27:59
Speaker 4: the Navy, and I also retired from civil service. And
28:04
Speaker 4: all I can say is this is a complete farce.
28:07
Speaker 4: It's inaccurate to a T. Congress, if you remember many
28:12
Speaker 4: years ago, enacted the same thing on all federal workers
28:17
Speaker 4: and military members about going out on social media and
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Speaker 4: posting their beliefs and avoiding, you know, limiting everybody's First
28:26
Speaker 4: Amendment rights. It's called the Hatch Act. And they all
28:29
Speaker 4: want to forget about that. But I cannot tell you
28:32
Speaker 4: how many times I was warned about, hey, you are
28:35
Speaker 4: in violation of the Hatch Act. You need to Stop
28:37
Speaker 4: doing that or you face possible disciplinary actions. It's a farce.
28:44
Speaker 4: So the only thing that he actually did was he
28:46
Speaker 4: brought our military back to standards that we have not
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Speaker 4: seen in a heck of a long time, and God
28:52
Speaker 4: bless him for it.
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Speaker 2: Why didn't they ever impeach Bill Clinton when he used
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Speaker 2: the military and used military action?
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Speaker 1: Why didn't they do it to Barack Obama? Why only
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump? Why only... His secretary of war. You already
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Speaker 1: know the answer, right?
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Speaker 4: It's called hypocrites.
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Speaker 1: Correct. Well said.
29:17
Speaker 4: And the last thing I want to say is to
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Speaker 4: all my brothers and sisters out there, happy 251st Marine
29:21
Speaker 4: Corps birthday.
29:23
Speaker 2: By the way, my buddy Captain Howie and all his
29:26
Speaker 2: friends are celebrating today. He writes me, I think we're
29:29
Speaker 2: going to have a lot to drink, maybe a bite
29:31
Speaker 2: to eat, but probably just a lot to drink to celebrate.
29:34
Speaker 1: So Semper Fi to all the Marines out there.
29:37
Speaker 2: And, you know, you think of and this is something
29:42
Speaker 2: I think we all have to remember as as we
29:46
Speaker 2: now are in a battle for the heart, the soul,
29:49
Speaker 2: the future trajectory of this country. is we're not asking
29:55
Speaker 2: anybody to put on a uniform and carry a gun
29:58
Speaker 2: and go into a war zone and step over IEDs
30:03
Speaker 2: and or any of the above. We're just asking Americans
30:07
Speaker 2: to see the danger that this radical group of Democrats
30:13
Speaker 2: now pose to the country. You know, like they want
30:16
Speaker 2: to it's all there in writing. They want to abolish
30:20
Speaker 2: the Senate. They want to pack the courts. We know
30:23
Speaker 2: they want to defund the Department of War. We know
30:27
Speaker 2: they want to abolish prisons and abolish police. And, you know,
30:33
Speaker 2: and they want no borders and amnesty for everybody. And
30:38
Speaker 2: there's by the way, Senator Thune was reelected as GOP leader.
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Speaker 1: Wonder if that vote is public.
30:46
Speaker 2: I think it would have been better to get a
30:48
Speaker 2: promise that they would bring back whoever was going to
30:50
Speaker 2: be the leader there or minority leader. If they got
30:53
Speaker 2: a promise to bring everybody back and finish the agenda
30:59
Speaker 2: while they have the opportunity, that means fund the Department
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Speaker 2: of War.
31:03
Speaker 1: That means to fund the government.
31:05
Speaker 2: That means to raise the debt ceiling, all the things
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Speaker 2: that now Democrats will be in charge of when they
31:11
Speaker 2: control the purse strings.
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Speaker 1: And it's going to be much more difficult.
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Speaker 2: And, you know, those are the irresponsible things that I
31:18
Speaker 2: think they're going to be prone to.
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Speaker 1: Straight from the source.
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Speaker 6: Sean Hannity talks to the people involved in the big
31:30
Speaker 6: news stories every day. Sean Hannity.
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Speaker 1: I won't come back.
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Speaker 2: One Democrat that is very, very unhappy. with the DSA
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Speaker 2: takeover of his party. We are also in this show
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Speaker 2: awaiting the impeachment vote on Pete Hegseth, Secretary of War,
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Speaker 2: and we'll cover that live.
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Speaker 1: We'll get your calls in as well.
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