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Tucker Loves Mother Russia, a Look into the Muslim Brotherhood & James Talarico 'Dangerous for America' Week In Review · The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to his verdict with Ted Cruz weekend review Ben
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  Speaker 1: Ferguson with you and these are the stories that you
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  Speaker 1: may have missed that we talked about this week.
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  Speaker 2: First up in a.
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  Speaker 1: Shocking new display of well insanity Tucker Carlson is now
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  Speaker 1: saying that he loves Russia more than the UK.
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  Speaker 2: What made him say it? We explain it.
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  Speaker 1: Up next, El-Sayed gets himself in serious trouble by claiming
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  Speaker 1: this family has no ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. The
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  Speaker 1: only problem is, that's not what his own family is saying,
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  Speaker 1: and we've got the receipts.
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  Speaker 2: And finally, a major.
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  Speaker 1: Race is happening in Texas between James Tallarico and Ken Paxton.
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  Speaker 2: Just how dangerous is Tallarico?
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  Speaker 1: We have the latest that he's had to say that
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  Speaker 1: is shocking everyone.
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  Speaker 2: It's the Week in Review, and it starts right now.
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  Speaker 1: There was another interesting point, and the Senator and I,
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  Speaker 1: we saw this, and it was another thing that went viral.
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  Speaker 1: One of the things that Tucker seems to be obsessed
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  Speaker 1: with is defending Russia and putting out propaganda about Russia
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  Speaker 1: and how great it is.
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  Speaker 3: We saw that in the Putin interview.
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  Speaker 1: We saw that in the weirdest thing I've ever seen
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  Speaker 1: him do, which was talking about how somehow Russia had better.
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  Speaker 3: Grocery stores, United States of America.
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  Speaker 1: We've talked about the Cold War, and we've talked about
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  Speaker 1: When the former leader of the USSR came to Houston, Texas,
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  Speaker 1: went to a grocery store and realized, like, we need this.
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  Speaker 1: We don't have this. And now he's out there saying, no, no, no, like,
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  Speaker 1: Russia's amazing. One other part of the interview that you
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  Speaker 1: guys did, he was trying to tell the world that
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  Speaker 1: Russia was somehow bigger and better than the UK.
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  Speaker 3: And I want to play that clip as well. Take
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  Speaker 3: a look at this.
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  Speaker 4: So let's explain why Russia would want to pick a
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  Speaker 4: fight with Britain. It's got a much... Larger economy than
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  Speaker 4: Britain's but I think.
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  Speaker 5: No no no no hasn't got a larger economy than
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  Speaker 5: Britain's got smaller economy than Britain's Larger military there's much
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  Speaker 5: larger economy.
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  Speaker 4: It has much more wealth and resources. It's a much
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  Speaker 4: larger manufacturing.
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  Speaker 5: GDP is smaller than the UK's.
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  Speaker 4: Is not I mean the only measure of an economy.
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  Speaker 5: It's a rush important measure of an economy.
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  Speaker 2: No the rush It's one measure Russia is Russia's.
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  Speaker 5: An economic failure That it could have a huge economy
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  Speaker 5: But it's got a small economy because it's deeply corrupt
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  Speaker 5: and it hasn't managed to use its resources effectively. And
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  Speaker 5: so although the population of Russia is bigger than that
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  Speaker 5: of the United Kingdom very significantly, its GDP per capita
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  Speaker 5: is so much lower that the total GDP of Russia
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  Speaker 5: is smaller than that of the United Kingdom. Right.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that's just pure propaganda from Russia at that point.
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  Speaker 5: It was an extraordinary thing for him to say. So
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  Speaker 5: simply factually wrong. And his apologists have tried to go
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  Speaker 5: on about purchasing power parity GDP. But I'm afraid purchasing
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  Speaker 5: power parity GDP doesn't pay your bonds.
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  Speaker 6: Well, and listen, Tucker has an objective. His objective is
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  Speaker 6: to say Russia and Putin are better than America. His
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  Speaker 6: objective also is to say Hitler and the Nazis are
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  Speaker 6: better than America and better than Britain. He is engaged
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  Speaker 6: in an effort to rehabilitate and indeed to celebrate some
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  Speaker 6: of the greatest villains of the world. Many have asked
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  Speaker 6: whether Tucker is being paid by Qatar and other Islamist sources.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know if he is, but I am a
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  Speaker 6: believer in Occam's razor. The simplest explanation is usually the
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  Speaker 6: right one. And there was a time not too long
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  Speaker 6: ago when Tucker wore bow ties and brought out pom-poms
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  Speaker 6: and was cheering on the Iraq war And almost every
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  Speaker 6: syllable of every word that came out of his mouth
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  Speaker 6: he has since repudiated. He keeps the pom-poms, but now
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  Speaker 6: they are reserved for Hitler and Putin. And he also engages,
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  Speaker 6: that shows another one of Tucker's methods, which is simply lying.
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  Speaker 6: He engages in debates in a fact-free environment where he
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  Speaker 6: makes assertions that are just wildly wrong on the assumption
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  Speaker 6: that he won't get called out.
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  Speaker 7: So he says in that discussion.
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  Speaker 6: well, Russia's economy is much, much larger than the UK's,
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  Speaker 6: to which your response was to laughingly say, well, no,
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  Speaker 6: that happens not to be true. And by the way,
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  Speaker 6: I just pulled out my phone and typed in really quickly,
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  Speaker 6: compare the GDPs of the UK and Russia. And here's
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  Speaker 6: what Google comes up with. The United Kingdom's GDP is
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  Speaker 6: $ 4. 26 trillion. That is ranked fifth globally. Russia's GDP is
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  Speaker 6: $ 2. 65 trillion, ranked ninth globally. So that means the British
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  Speaker 6: economy is nearly twice the size of Russia's economy. But
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  Speaker 6: more importantly, and this is a point, Sir Jacob, you emphasized,
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  Speaker 6: is GDP per capita. Because you rightly observed, Russia's a
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  Speaker 6: much bigger country geographically, but has a much bigger population
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  Speaker 6: than the United Kingdom. GDP per capita, The United Kingdom is.
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  Speaker 7: $ 61, 000 per person.
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  Speaker 6: That is a robust GDP per capita among the highest
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  Speaker 6: in the world. Russian GDP per capita is $ 18, 500 per person.
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  Speaker 6: So less than a third British GDP per capita. And
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  Speaker 6: the reason that Tucker so desperately wants to lie about
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  Speaker 6: this is he's not just trying to rehabilitate Putin. He's
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  Speaker 6: trying to rehabilitate communism. He's trying to rehabilitate the economic
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  Speaker 6: system that justifies the totalitarianism of Russia and before that
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  Speaker 6: the Soviet Union. And you quite rightly pointed out the
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  Speaker 6: Russian economy is an absolute disaster.
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  Speaker 7: It is a failure.
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  Speaker 6: And Ben made reference to the fact Tucker did a
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  Speaker 6: year or two ago a TV show where he went
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  Speaker 6: to Russia. He interviewed Putin and he went to a
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  Speaker 6: grocery store and he oohed and aahed that they had
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  Speaker 6: some bread on the grocery store shelves. And in his telling,
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  Speaker 6: the Russian grocery store was far nicer than any grocery
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  Speaker 6: store these uncivilized oafs in the United States might have.
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  Speaker 6: And I don't know that Tucker fully realized that he
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  Speaker 6: was at that point, he should have pulled on a
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  Speaker 6: clown suit because he was clowning reality. And Ironically, he
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  Speaker 6: was mimicking what had happened decades before when Boris Yeltsin
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  Speaker 6: came to my hometown of Houston and went to a
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  Speaker 6: local grocery store and walked through. This was not a
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  Speaker 6: grocery store we had singled out as like, oh, this
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  Speaker 6: is the grocery store to show the Soviets and prove that.
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  Speaker 6: It was just a standard grocery store that's sitting there.
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  Speaker 6: People went shopping.
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  Speaker 7: And he walked in and was utterly flabbergasted.
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  Speaker 6: At the 30 different kinds of bread and the fresh
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  Speaker 6: fruit and 40 different kinds of ice cream and everything.
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  Speaker 6: And he marveled at the time that there's no way
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  Speaker 6: we can compete with an economy that can produce this
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  Speaker 6: kind of abundance, this kind of variety. And going back
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  Speaker 6: to truth, free enterprise works. Communism doesn't. Socialism doesn't. Tucker
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  Speaker 6: is also engaged in an endeavor to defend socialism, to
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  Speaker 6: defend Zoran Mandami, to defend Abdul Al-Sayed, to defend Marxists
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  Speaker 6: and government control.
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  Speaker 7: And so.
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  Speaker 6: We should wrap up, Sir Jacob, but I want to
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  Speaker 6: ask a question, a general question.
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  Speaker 7: Two parts.
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  Speaker 6: One, why do you believe it is a good thing
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  Speaker 6: that the Allies won World War II? And number two,
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  Speaker 6: what is good and valuable and worth preserving about British
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  Speaker 6: culture and values and American culture and values?
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  Speaker 5: Thank you. Well, first of all, as an Englishman who's
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  Speaker 5: visited America from time to time, American supermarkets are a
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  Speaker 5: level above from British supermarkets. And we're not too impoverished here.
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  Speaker 5: But nonetheless, your supermarkets are on a scale that we
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  Speaker 5: simply don't see in this country, let alone in Russia.
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  Speaker 5: So to say Russian runs are better is just very,
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  Speaker 5: very deeply silly. What was the reason for fighting the
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  Speaker 5: Second World War? Well, of course, it was the fight
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  Speaker 5: of good against evil. It was the understanding that sovereign
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  Speaker 5: borders need to be respected. That is the foundation stone
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  Speaker 5: of the international order that we've had really since the
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  Speaker 5: Treaty of Westphalia in 1648. And it creates a stability
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  Speaker 5: that allows for prosperity. Because if you look at how
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  Speaker 5: prosperity comes about. It comes about because of free constitutions,
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  Speaker 5: where people have rights, where, in the words of John Fortescue,
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  Speaker 5: writing in the 15th century, so rightly put it, the
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  Speaker 5: king is under the law as well as everybody else.
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  Speaker 5: So if you make money, you keep it. Free societies
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  Speaker 5: become prosperous, but a free world is also more prosperous.
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  Speaker 5: The controlled dictatorial world has never managed to be very
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  Speaker 5: prosperous for very long. And so the Second World War
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  Speaker 5: was worth fighting on absolute principles, on the absolute moral
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  Speaker 5: principle of good against evil. And that was worth doing
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  Speaker 5: on and of its own because Hitler was a degree
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  Speaker 5: of magnitude more evil than other dictators. But it was
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  Speaker 5: also worth fighting because it was in the interest of
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  Speaker 5: prosperity and of freedom. So what do the United States
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  Speaker 5: and the United Kingdom give to the world? And I
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  Speaker 5: expect everyone you speak to from England always says the
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  Speaker 5: affection we have for America. I have a particular one
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  Speaker 5: because although you may think I sound very English, actually my...
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  Speaker 5: grandmother was American and very proud of being an American.
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  Speaker 5: She died when I was only eight or nine, but
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  Speaker 5: I was very fond of her as a child. So
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  Speaker 5: I have an American connection. What we have given to
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  Speaker 5: the world is this concept of freedom. I think two
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  Speaker 5: countries have beautiful constitutions, yours and mine, and they are
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  Speaker 5: different in one way. Ours is very easy to change.
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  Speaker 5: Yours is very difficult to change. Yours has the judges
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  Speaker 5: who have a degree of extra authority, and ours is
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  Speaker 5: a system where Parliament has all the authority. But the
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  Speaker 5: two systems have protected and preserved freedom and liberty, not
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  Speaker 5: just for our own citizens, but across the world. for
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  Speaker 5: the last 200 years, really. And we become friends fairly
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  Speaker 5: soon after the American Revolution. We patch things up. A
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  Speaker 5: lot of people in England recognized the rights of Americans
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  Speaker 5: as people who, had they been in England, would have
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  Speaker 5: had those rights. They're very sympathetic to the arguments being made.
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  Speaker 5: And so we put our differences aside relatively quickly. Certainly
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  Speaker 5: by the end of the Napoleonic Wars, we're getting on
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  Speaker 5: really very well. And we are the force for freedom globally,
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  Speaker 5: which has led to prosperity, living standards that are unimaginable
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  Speaker 5: to our forefathers. And that has been a phenomenal contribution
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  Speaker 5: to the world, but also to our own people. And
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  Speaker 5: I happen to think that if you put your own
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  Speaker 5: national security, your own way of life, your own civilization
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  Speaker 5: and culture first, you then help the rest of the world.
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  Speaker 5: And I think most of the time we've had it
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  Speaker 5: the right way around. Just one final thought on what
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  Speaker 5: you were saying about Mr.
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  Speaker 7: Carlson.
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  Speaker 5: Isn't it interesting that eventually that you become so right
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  Speaker 5: wing that you become practically a communist?
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 6: The horseshoe theory is powerful. We are seeing that overlap.
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  Speaker 6: And it does help to remember that truth is truth
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  Speaker 6: is truth and evil is evil is evil. Sir Jacob,
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  Speaker 6: thank you for joining us. This was a delightful conversation.
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  Speaker 6: I will say next time. We will have to do
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  Speaker 6: it in person and perhaps imbibe a bit of scotch
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  Speaker 6: and light up a cigar from my father's homeland.
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  Speaker 7: But fear not, if we do that, we shall burn
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  Speaker 7: the evidence. Very good.
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  Speaker 6: I am thankful for your erudition. I am thankful for
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  Speaker 6: your courage. I am thankful for your good spirit. And
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  Speaker 6: let me say, God save the king.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you very much. And may I say, God bless America.
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  Speaker 4: Amen.
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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 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So let's get back into this story. And again, there's
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  Speaker 1: the scary part is there's even more to this.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: So in 2018, there was a documentary that showed El-Said
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  Speaker 6: asking filmmakers to keep his living room bookshelf out of
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  Speaker 6: the frame to, quote, keep the shot secular. So, now
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  Speaker 6: what do you think that bookshelf held that he was
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  Speaker 6: trying to keep out of the documentary because he didn't
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  Speaker 6: want people to see? By the way, this is not
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  Speaker 6: just a book he had somewhere that he proudly displays
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  Speaker 6: in his living room.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Well, it included works by Abu Aminah Bilal Phillips, who
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  Speaker 6: is a 1993 World Trade Center bombing unindicted co-conspirator. It
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  Speaker 6: also included books by Brotherhood member Muhammad Al Ghazali. a
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  Speaker 6: Jamaat al-Islami member, and also by Shaqul Islam ibn Taimiyah,
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  Speaker 6: whose writings both Al-Qaeda and ISIS cite. His campaign later said,
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  Speaker 6: this was not Abdul's bookshelf. It was apparently another bookshelf
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  Speaker 6: someone smuggled into his living room against his wishes. And
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  Speaker 6: they said, a background book is, quote, not an endorsement.
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  Speaker 6: This is, again, apparently someone mysteriously is putting books in
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  Speaker 6: his living room. Now, I want to stop and go
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  Speaker 6: back to a foundational question. The evidence is overwhelming that
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  Speaker 6: Abdul Al-Sayed is a supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood, that
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  Speaker 6: his family, as his sister says, have long been Muslim
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  Speaker 6: Brotherhood supporters. But let's stop for a second and say,
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  Speaker 6: what is the Muslim Brotherhood? Should we be worried? I mean, look,
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  Speaker 6: Brotherhood is nice, right? What's wrong with Brotherhood? So let's
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  Speaker 6: do a little bit of background as to what the
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  Speaker 6: Muslim Brotherhood is. The Muslim Brotherhood, whose technical name is
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  Speaker 6: Al-Ikwan Al-Muslimun, is a transnational... Sunni Islamist movement founded in
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  Speaker 6: Egypt in 1928 by schoolteacher Hassan al-Banna, whose stated aim
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  Speaker 6: was government by Sharia and ultimately a global Islamic order.
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  Speaker 6: The Muslim Brotherhood's motto declares, quote, the Quran is our constitution.
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  Speaker 6: Jihad is our way. Death for the sake of Allah
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  Speaker 6: is is our wish. Al-Banna's doctrine of tamkeen, which means empowerment,
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  Speaker 6: lays out a stage path for reforming individual Muslims to
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  Speaker 6: building loyal communities to taking state power. Brotherhood members assassinated
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  Speaker 6: Egyptian Prime Minister Mahmoud al-Nakrashi in 1948. and tried to
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  Speaker 6: kill Egyptian president Nasser in 1954. And the writings of
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  Speaker 6: Brotherhood ideologue Sayyid Qutb later supplied the theological framework for
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  Speaker 6: both Al-Qaeda and ISIS.
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  Speaker 2: The theological framework. Let's say that just again.
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  Speaker 1: The theological framework is one of the, is one of
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  Speaker 1: the people involved in the Muslim Brotherhood for ISIS and Al-Qaeda.
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  Speaker 8: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: The Brotherhood operates through national branches that adopt their tactics
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  Speaker 6: to local conditions. Hamas is, by its own 1988 charter,
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  Speaker 6: the Brotherhood's Palestinian branch. The Lebanese branch of the Muslim
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  Speaker 6: Brotherhood fought alongside Hezbollah. Qatar serves as the movement's chief
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  Speaker 6: state patron. In Egypt, the Brotherhood briefly held power under
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  Speaker 6: President Mohamed Morsi, from 2012 to 2013, before he was
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  Speaker 6: removed and the group was banned as a terrorist organization.
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  Speaker 6: In the United States, the Brotherhood built a network of
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  Speaker 6: public-facing 501c3 and 501c4 organizations. In the Muslim Brotherhood's 1991
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  Speaker 6: explanatory memorandum, which was seized by the FBI and entered
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  Speaker 6: into evidence in the Holy Land Foundation trial, It describes
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  Speaker 6: its U.S.
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  Speaker 8: Mission, the U.S.
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  Speaker 6: Mission of the Muslim Brotherhood, as, quote, a kind of
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  Speaker 6: grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within.
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  Speaker 6: And it lists the Islamic Society of North America, which
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  Speaker 6: Abdul Al-Sayed's father-in-law was one of the founding members of,
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  Speaker 6: the Muslim Student Association, and the North American Islamic Trust
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  Speaker 6: as among, quote, our organizations. This is the Muslim Brotherhood
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  Speaker 6: saying these are our organizations. After Hamas's founding, and in
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  Speaker 6: an effort to derail the Oslo Accords, the U.S. Brotherhood
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  Speaker 6: created a, quote, Palestine Committee in 1993. This group of
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  Speaker 6: Brotherhood officials raised money for Hamas's under the banner of
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  Speaker 6: an American C3 known as the Holy Land Foundation. The
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  Speaker 6: Holy Land Foundation's leaders were convicted in 2008 on all
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  Speaker 6: 108 counts of funneling roughly $ 12 million to Hamas, and
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  Speaker 6: prosecutors named Kerr and Isna and Nayet as unindicted co-conspirators.
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  Speaker 6: A federal judge ruled in 2009 that the government has produced, quote,
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  Speaker 6: ample evidence linking CARE, ISNA, and NAIT to the Holy
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  Speaker 6: Land Foundation and to Hamas. Since then, President Trump, via
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  Speaker 6: Executive Order 14362, has begun the process of designating certain
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  Speaker 6: Muslim Brotherhood chapters as foreign terrorist organizations and specially designated
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  Speaker 6: global terrorists. By the way, that's something I have been
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  Speaker 6: fighting for for years, to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as
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  Speaker 6: a terrorist organization, which President Trump has taken major steps
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  Speaker 6: to do, and also designating CARE as a terrorist organization,
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  Speaker 6: which has not happened yet, although the state of Texas
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  Speaker 6: has done so.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't it amazing, Senator, that just you and I sitting
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  Speaker 1: here can spend a half hour exposing exactly how he
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  Speaker 1: has connected the Muslim Brotherhood to But in 12 seconds,
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  Speaker 1: NBC News does the job for the entire media of
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  Speaker 1: saying there is no Muslim Brotherhood there.
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  Speaker 2: There's no fire. There's no smoke. He already denied it.
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  Speaker 2: It's done.
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  Speaker 3: It is fact.
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  Speaker 2: We can move on.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, but look, NBC is covering up for him, but
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  Speaker 6: you don't see ABC covering this or CBS or CNN
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  Speaker 6: or MSNBC. None of them are covering this because at
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  Speaker 6: this point, these are institutions where you've got many leaders.
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  Speaker 6: in the leadership there want the Democrats to win. And listen,
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  Speaker 6: I think the evidence is overwhelming that Abdul Al-Sayed's family
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  Speaker 6: is directly connected to the Muslim Brotherhood, that they have
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  Speaker 6: financial ties to the Muslim Brotherhoods. and that they have
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  Speaker 6: been vocal supporters. If you do not believe me, believe
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  Speaker 6: his sister who says, our family have long been Muslim Brotherhood.
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  Speaker 6: That's his own sister. And yet, Abdul Al-Sayed is lying
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  Speaker 6: about it. By the way, the evidence is very clear
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  Speaker 6: that Abdul Al-Sayed has long supported the Muslim Brotherhood. He
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  Speaker 6: has written in support of the Muslim Brotherhood over and
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  Speaker 6: over and over again. The largest donor to the super
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  Speaker 6: PAC supporting his campaign is his father-in-law, who is a
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  Speaker 6: founding member of an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land
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  Speaker 6: Foundation case. The evidence is clear, and understand the threat.
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: I want to close where we started. If Abdul Al-Sayed wins,
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: by virtue of being a senator, he will have access
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: to classified information, classified information about what the United States
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: government is doing to stop the Muslim Brotherhood, what the
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: United States government is doing to prevent terrorist attacks by
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: the Muslim Brotherhood, to prevent terrorist attacks by the Muslim
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  Speaker 6: Brotherhood against the United States, against U.S. servicemen and women,
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: against civilians in American cities. And I believe if Abdul
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  Speaker 6: Al-Sayed has access to that classified materials, that it will
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  Speaker 6: endanger the lives of servicemen and women, American servicemen and
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: women serving overseas, and that it will endanger the lives
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: of U.S. intelligence operatives serving overseas. This is a profound danger.
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  Speaker 6: And so, listen, I hope Election Day is a great
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  Speaker 6: election where Republicans keep the House and Senate, where we
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: grow our majorities. That would be a very good outcome.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah. But what I.
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: pray is that at a minimum, Abdul Al-Said is not
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  Speaker 6: elected to the Senate and James Tallarico in Texas is
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: not elected to the Senate. These two are radicals and
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  Speaker 6: they're dangerous for our country. And I hope that everyone
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: involved between now and election day does everything they can
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  Speaker 6: to prevent that danger to our servicemen and women, our
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: intelligence operatives serving abroad and protecting this nation.
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  Speaker 1: As before, if you want to hear the rest of
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: this conversation on this topic, you can go back and
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: download the podcast from earlier this week to hear the
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: entire thing. I want to get back to the big story,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: number three of the week you may have missed. We
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: started by talking about there's two of the most dangerous
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: candidates in America, El Saeed.
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  Speaker 2: And then James Tallarico.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: James Tallarico is a guy that is so extreme that
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: It is one of those where you go back to
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: his record and the record is just incredible. One of
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: the things in his record is his obsession with transing children.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: And he was asked about it at the CNN town
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: hall and it shows you who he really is.
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  Speaker 8: Well, Tallarico is extreme.
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  Speaker 6: As I said, he and Al Saeed are the two
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: most extreme candidates running today. Uh, Tallarico is also tied
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  Speaker 6: in the Texas Senate race. It is a dead heat.
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: He and Ken Paxson are tied. The news just broke
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: that James Tallarico raised $ 64 million in the third quarter,
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  Speaker 6: which is the largest third quarter of any Senate candidate
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: in history. So no Senate candidate in the history of
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: America has raised more money in the third quarter before
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: Election Day. That brings his total to more than $ 134
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: million that he has raised. So all across the country,
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: leftists are flooding money into Tallarico's campaign because they understand
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: he's one of them.
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  Speaker 8: He is a Marxist. He is an Islamist. He is
• 23:33
  Speaker 8: a radical.
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: And understand, he is a young guy. He literally came
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: of age as a woke social justice warrior. So all
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: of the idiocies of woke... this guy believes. So he
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: says things like God is non-binary. He says things like
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: there's six different genders. He says things like our immigration
• 23:51
  Speaker 6: policy should be a welcome mat on our southern border
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  Speaker 6: to welcome.
• 23:55
  Speaker 7: Illegal immigrants into America.
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  Speaker 8: And he believes this stuff, but you're right.
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  Speaker 3: Believes it through and through.
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  Speaker 6: He is particularly obsessed with transgender issues and wanting to
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: do transgender surgeries kids. He has been one of the
• 24:09
  Speaker 6: most vocal and aggressive defenders of sterilizing and mutilating kids
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: in support of the transgender ideology. Listen to him talking
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: about this issue.
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  Speaker 9: And this discussion is a difficult one. It's one that
• 24:26
  Speaker 9: requires nuance and thoughtfulness. In the state legislature, the Republican
• 24:32
  Speaker 9: majority tried to pass an extreme ban that would go
• 24:37
  Speaker 9: after all kinds of different forms of health care, not
• 24:40
  Speaker 9: just gender reassignment surgeries.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Not just gender reassignment surgeries, which he wants you to
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: believe is mainstream, but he says it is extreme to
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: actually want to stop mutilation of children and sterilization of children.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: You and I have said this a lot. We keep
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: saying it. When they tell you what they believe and
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: who they are, you need to believe them.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, this topic is not a difficult one. It's not
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: a complicated one. It's not a nuanced one. It is
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: a simple question for a little boy, for an eight-year-old boy.
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: Should you be able to cut his testicles off? I
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: find the answer to that very easy, very simple. No,
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  Speaker 6: you do not have the right to cut the testicles
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  Speaker 6: off of an eight-year-old boy. You do not have the
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: right to take an eight-year-old girl and to sterilize her,
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: to engage in surgery or use chemicals that make her
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: for the rest of her life unable to bear children.
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: An eight-year-old child lacks the emotional maturity to make those
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: kind of decisions for herself or himself. And any adult
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: doing that is child abuse. But in Tallarico's world, do
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: you know what the child abuse is? It is not
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: sterilizing your kids. And he has advocated, if you refuse to...
• 25:50
  Speaker 6: Put your child under the knife if your child believes
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: that he or she is transgender, that you are abusing
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  Speaker 6: your kids. That is radical. And that's who this guy is.
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: I want you to listen to his views now on
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: amnesty and that he wants. I'm going to spoil the headline.
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: He wants to grant mass amnesty to tens of millions
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: of illegal immigrants.
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  Speaker 8: Give a listen.
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  Speaker 9: And then lastly, I think we have to build a
• 26:17
  Speaker 9: pathway to citizenship. for our neighbors who have been here
• 26:19
  Speaker 9: for years and decades. They should pay a fine.
• 26:22
  Speaker 8: They should pay back taxes.
• 26:23
  Speaker 9: They should learn English. And if they can do all
• 26:26
  Speaker 9: those things, I think they deserve a shot at joining
• 26:29
  Speaker 9: our communities as full citizens.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: There it is. Let's just give him amnesty. I love how,
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: by the way, he's like, oh.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: They should learn English.
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: 20 to 30 million illegals. 20 to 30 million illegals.
• 26:38
  Speaker 6: He wants to make them all citizens. Understand there's one
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: reason for it. He believes the illegals will all vote Democrat.
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: You think things are bad now. You think the Democrats
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: are voting for Marxist and Islamist now. With 20 to
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: 30 illegals, Texas turns blue. The country is lost. And
• 26:53
  Speaker 6: he's being very explicit. That's what he's going to fight
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: to do.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: Now I want you to listen to what he wants
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: to do to oil and gas. You know, Texas, oil
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: and gas is a monster industry. Millions of jobs in
• 27:04
  Speaker 6: Texas depend on oil and gas.
• 27:06
  Speaker 8: Well, you know what?
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: James Tallarico wants to destroy those jobs for millions of Texans.
• 27:10
  Speaker 7: Listen.
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  Speaker 3: I think the thing.
• 27:12
  Speaker 9: That frustrates me is the false equivalency. We say, well,
• 27:15
  Speaker 9: no energy source is perfect.
• 27:19
  Speaker 10: Except renewables maybe are more variable, but then fossil fuels
• 27:25
  Speaker 10: are destroying the planet. And so it's like, are those
• 27:27
  Speaker 10: two things on equal footing? I guess my only point
• 27:32
  Speaker 10: is I want Texas to be number one in renewables
• 27:35
  Speaker 10: going forward in the 21st century. Right now it feels
• 27:38
  Speaker 10: a little bit like we're the number one supplier of
• 27:42
  Speaker 10: cassette tapes in 1988.
• 27:43
  Speaker 7: It's time to.
• 27:44
  Speaker 10: Transition, because that's not going to last very long. I
• 27:48
  Speaker 10: guess I just don't know where the hostility comes from
• 27:50
  Speaker 10: in trying to figure out a safer, cleaner, greener path forward.
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  Speaker 3: This is as radical as it gets.
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  Speaker 6: And by the way, for those of y'all who are
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: not watching online, this is one that's worth watching on YouTube.
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: Because he's in a legislative hearing. He's in a legislative hearing.
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: He's wearing his mask. It's very cute. You can see
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: the other people in the hearing are not wearing their masks.
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: So this is late. This is after COVID. But, you know,
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: it's a virtue signal. And by the way, to this day,
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: you still see people walking through airports wearing masks. And
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: I'm grateful for that because it's like self-identifying. It's like
• 28:23
  Speaker 6: holding up a sign going, I'm mentally ill. I'm a
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: crazy person and I'm like, I'm glad. Thank you for
• 28:29
  Speaker 6: putting that display on. I know you're a crazy person.
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: I'm going to give you a wide berth and you
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: can be worried about all the things that frighten you.
• 28:37
  Speaker 8: Well, little James Tallarico, he's wearing.
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: His mask saying that oil and gas is destroying the
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: world and we have to transition away from it with
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: no care that millions of jobs in the state of
• 28:50
  Speaker 6: Texas would be obliterated.
• 28:51
  Speaker 8: He's happy to take away your job.
• 28:54
  Speaker 6: Not only that, maybe you say, okay, not everyone works
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: in oil and gas in Texas. Some people work in ag.
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: Some people work in, say, cattle. We're a massive cattle producer.
• 29:05
  Speaker 8: Well, you know what?
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: If you're a cattle producer, if you're a rancher, he
• 29:08
  Speaker 6: wants to destroy your livelihood, too. Listen to him talking
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: about how much he hates meat.
• 29:14
  Speaker 9: But we have, I think, heard more and more issues
• 29:18
  Speaker 9: of animal welfare. I think not just because it's the
• 29:20
  Speaker 9: right thing to do and the moral thing to do.
• 29:22
  Speaker 9: But also it's, as all of you know, necessary to
• 29:25
  Speaker 9: fight climate change. It is now existential that we try
• 29:29
  Speaker 9: to reduce our meat consumption and that we try to
• 29:32
  Speaker 9: respect animals in all aspects of society. And so I
• 29:36
  Speaker 9: am proud to say that our campaign has officially become
• 29:40
  Speaker 9: a non-meat campaign. So we have, we are only buying
• 29:46
  Speaker 9: vegan products from our local vegan businesses. Some of you
• 29:49
  Speaker 9: may know Big Nona's, they were little Nona's and then
• 29:52
  Speaker 9: they opened up a brick and mortar, so they're Big Nona's,
• 29:54
  Speaker 9: but we just got our pizza from there today. The
• 29:58
  Speaker 9: point is, I think all of us, not just policymakers,
• 30:02
  Speaker 9: but everyone has to take personal responsibility in this effort.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing says woke like a vegan campaign where you got
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: your vegan pizza in a state that has like massive
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: pride in our ranchers in Texas.
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  Speaker 2: But you know what? You go all vegan, buddy. Knock
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: yourself out.
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  Speaker 6: Well, and again, the video. Tallarico is, of course, wearing
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: a mask while he's saying yes. And by the way,
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: you go to his campaign rallies now, and he's got
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: people showing up wearing masks in 2026.
• 30:28
  Speaker 8: Are you serious?
• 30:41
  Speaker 6: To reduce meat consumption. If you are a farmer, if
• 30:44
  Speaker 6: you are a rancher, he wants to destroy your way
• 30:47
  Speaker 6: of life. And by the way, one of the challenges
• 30:48
  Speaker 6: in the midterms is a lot of farmers and ranchers
• 30:51
  Speaker 6: are not happy right now, are pissed off right now.
• 30:53
  Speaker 6: And listen, the cost of diesel is too high, the
• 30:56
  Speaker 6: cost of fertilizer is too high. There are reasons that
• 30:58
  Speaker 6: farmers and ranchers are unhappy. I'll tell you what, if
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: James Tallarico of Texas gets a senator, who wants to
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: destroy oil and gas and destroy cattle ranching.
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  Speaker 8: That is millions and millions of jobs.
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: And by the way, this show is listened to all
• 31:12
  Speaker 6: over the country. It turns out some of the rest
• 31:15
  Speaker 6: of us like meat. We like hamburgers. We like steaks.
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: There's a lot of cattle ranching across the country. Although
• 31:21
  Speaker 6: I will tell you, it's interesting. There are parts of
• 31:23
  Speaker 6: the country. So for example, Mississippi, do you know what
• 31:26
  Speaker 6: they call the process of raising cattle?
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: You know what?
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: I'm actually embarrassed because of my ties to Ole Miss
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: that I don't know this answer. I'm hoping as soon
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: as you said I'm like, oh, yeah, that's it. So
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: tell me.
• 31:38
  Speaker 6: So Cindy Hyde-Smith, senator from from Mississippi, who used to
• 31:41
  Speaker 6: be the ag commissioner in Mississippi, she she in our
• 31:44
  Speaker 6: Senate lunch, she described she says she spends a lot
• 31:47
  Speaker 6: of time defending cattle farming.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: Yes, okay.
• 31:51
  Speaker 6: And the rest of us look at her and we're like,
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: cattle farming? What the hell is cattle farming? Do you
• 31:56
  Speaker 6: guys like plant them in the ground and put fertilizer
• 31:59
  Speaker 6: on them? Like in Texas, we do cattle ranching. We
• 32:01
  Speaker 6: don't farm our cattle. We ranch our cattle and we farm...
• 32:05
  Speaker 6: soybeans and cotton and things you actually plant, but.
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: It's very weird.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: She's going back to the pig farms. That's where she
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: gets it from, the pig farming.
• 32:12
  Speaker 6: I'm just saying the Southeast, they do cattle farming. The
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: rest of the country, they do cattle ranching. Either way,
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: I'm for the farmers. I'm for the ranchers. And this zealot,
• 32:23
  Speaker 6: wants to destroy your job. If you have a job
• 32:25
  Speaker 6: in oil and gas, he wants to destroy your job.
• 32:28
  Speaker 6: If you have a job in ag, he wants to
• 32:29
  Speaker 6: destroy your job. If you have a job in manufacturing,
• 32:32
  Speaker 6: he wants to destroy your job. And your kids, he
• 32:35
  Speaker 6: wants to make it against the law for you not
• 32:38
  Speaker 6: to mutilate your kids. He's a radical candidate. He's got
• 32:41
  Speaker 6: to be defeated.
• 32:42
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• 32:45
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• 32:58
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