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"Kash and Karry" (FTTxJT Fri 102326 hr4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: This is Independence from Virginia, again, first thing today, by
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  Speaker 1: Joe Thomas on the Taunt Media Network.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes I go out.
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  Speaker 3: On location this morning. No wonder Joe's always smiling.
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  Speaker 4: He only aims to please you. City Elders. We come
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  Speaker 4: to you here from here. Somebody, do I smell toast?
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  Speaker 4: What's going on? We come to you from our friends
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  Speaker 4: City Elders here in Virginia. They meet every week, but
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  Speaker 4: you don't have to. Some meet twice a month. It's
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  Speaker 4: about organizing and not being afraid of this argument that
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  Speaker 4: there's some mysterious separation of church from state, that we
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  Speaker 4: are people who want ethical people. And gosh, the news
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  Speaker 4: headlines couldn't be making a bigger case for that. We'll
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  Speaker 4: get back to our friend John Reed. It's podcast Friday here.
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  Speaker 4: We got Bob Good from the Good for America podcast
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  Speaker 4: and John Reed from the Reed Revolution. Yes, the issue
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  Speaker 4: is the highest or most powerful, I guess, not most well-known,
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  Speaker 4: but most powerful Democrat in the state of Virginia is
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  Speaker 4: in jail this morning. And here's Kash Patel about what happened.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, General.
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  Speaker 5: As alleged by the Attorney General, Ms. Lucas, for the
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  Speaker 5: last nearly five years, accumulated nearly $ 5 million in ill-gotten gains.
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  Speaker 6: Through her criminal enterprise.
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  Speaker 7: Ms.
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  Speaker 5: Lucas served in a position of trust for nearly four
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  Speaker 5: decades and served as the president pro tempore of the
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  Speaker 5: Senate for the Virginia State Senate for these last five,
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  Speaker 5: six years. During that time, as alleged in the indictment,
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  Speaker 5: her and her six co-conspirators, instead of serving the public,
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  Speaker 5: as was her job, manufactured and created a criminal enterprise
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  Speaker 5: to illicitly enrich themselves by procuring sales and stores and
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  Speaker 5: divisions through the marijuana and CBD enterprise.
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  Speaker 4: And there's so much more to go on from that,
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  Speaker 4: but really it's power run amok. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: You've heard that. That's why we need ethical people. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 4: the rains continue to fall on the Four Corners area,
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  Speaker 4: and the midterms loom 10 days from today. Many places
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  Speaker 4: doing early voting this weekend, so if it is available
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  Speaker 4: to you, Republicans need to get out, and that is
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  Speaker 4: the Secret is let's get out and get out the
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  Speaker 4: vote because people like me with a different mindset want
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  Speaker 4: to put people like Louise Lucas into power. And I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 4: I understand that there can be corrupt Republicans, but every
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  Speaker 4: time I hear a story about a corrupt Republican, it
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  Speaker 4: turns out that the indictment doesn't wind up getting fulfilled
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  Speaker 4: and they get exonerated. But our first things beyond the
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  Speaker 4: Louise Lucas saga, President Trump signed an executive order Thursday
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  Speaker 4: designed to bring down housing costs in the future, directing
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  Speaker 4: the Federal Housing Finance Agency to establish a pilot program
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  Speaker 4: under which mortgage insurance premiums could be canceled proactively once
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  Speaker 4: borrowers meet equity and other requirements based on their home's
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  Speaker 4: current market values. Anyone who has had to deal with
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  Speaker 4: those insurances knows that it's very hard to petition for that,
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  Speaker 4: but he's saying it has to happen automatically. The Internet
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  Speaker 4: may be very sick for the next few days as
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  Speaker 4: a hack into the Internet that they still have not
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  Speaker 4: been able to track down, though AI is both claiming
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  Speaker 4: that it fixed it and it caused it. But 70%
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  Speaker 4: of the world's websites are under attack right now, because
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  Speaker 4: a group has found a way to hack into the
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  Speaker 4: PHP language, which runs a little over 70% of the
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  Speaker 4: world's websites, and copy them and put them up online
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  Speaker 4: so that, say, you go to Amazon, you might be
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  Speaker 4: concerned that you're not actually shopping at Amazon. Supreme Court
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  Speaker 4: cleared the way Thursday for New Hampshire to fully ban
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  Speaker 4: the use of student identification in voting programs. Russia bombarded
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  Speaker 4: Kiev with ballistic missiles in an hours-long nighttime barrage. This
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  Speaker 4: is Steve Witkoff trying to arrange a three-way meeting between,
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  Speaker 4: at very least, Russian and Ukrainian leaders. Severe weather striking
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  Speaker 4: the Four Corners region, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, all facing heavy
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  Speaker 4: rains and tornadoes yesterday, knocking off roofs, downing power lines
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  Speaker 4: through the area. Tom Skerritt, Emmy-winning actor from Top Gun
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  Speaker 4: and Alien and Picket Fences on TV, has passed away
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  Speaker 4: at the age of 93. This could be connected to
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  Speaker 4: the issues with AI and the hack of the Internet,
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  Speaker 4: but the S & P 500 fell 1.2% driven by
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  Speaker 4: mainly the AI-related technology stocks. Also, the tech-heavy NASDAQ fell
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  Speaker 1: First Thing Today by Joe Thomas on the Talk Media Network.
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  Speaker 3: Breaking the law.
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  Speaker 1: Breaking the law.
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  Speaker 20: Breaking the law.
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  Speaker 1: Making the law.
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  Speaker 4: Is it breaking the law when you're making the law?
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  Speaker 4: And thus is the case of Louise Lucas. the head
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  Speaker 4: of Virginia's Democratic Party and has been for decades, really
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  Speaker 4: the Joe Biden or Lyndon Johnson of Virginia Democratic politics.
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  Speaker 4: And why do they always seem to be Democrats? Why
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  Speaker 4: do you never hear about these shadowy Republican power brokers
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  Speaker 4: that run everything? Because they don't exist. Because generally speaking,
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  Speaker 4: too many Republicans view this kind of behavior as bad.
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  Speaker 4: Louise Lucas cashed Patel yesterday.
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  Speaker 17: Ms.
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  Speaker 5: Lucas has many things to answer for on the allegation.
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  Speaker 5: The purpose of her enterprise included trafficking large quantities of
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  Speaker 5: illegal marijuana, creating generational wealth for members and associates of
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  Speaker 5: her criminal enterprise, recycling drug proceeds to expand the operation
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  Speaker 5: that she launched and created, and steering marijuana licenses to
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  Speaker 5: entities in which members held financial interest.
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  Speaker 4: And that last bit is important. So not only did
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  Speaker 4: she traffic in illegal marijuana, she trafficked in the legislation
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  Speaker 4: to make it legal marijuana and to make sure that
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  Speaker 4: she got first crack at all the licensed marijuana dispensaries.
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  Speaker 4: And is it the biggest crime and misdemeanor out there?
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  Speaker 4: It is, though, indicative of yet again, and we were
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  Speaker 4: talking about this, John Reed, the host of the read
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  Speaker 4: Revolution back on with us. And John, I appreciate you
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  Speaker 4: hanging on the line and to weigh in on the bigger,
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  Speaker 4: and I think truly the issues that I think people
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  Speaker 4: are missing in this. And I appreciate, is he not?
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  Speaker 4: All right, you know what? Bob is on as well,
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  Speaker 4: Bob Goode. host of the Good for America podcast. We'll
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  Speaker 4: find out what happened to John in a moment there
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  Speaker 4: as well. But Bob, I appreciate you hanging out with us.
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  Speaker 4: I appreciate anyone hanging out with us this morning and
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  Speaker 4: spending a little time out with us. We were talking
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  Speaker 4: about this as it relates to Washington, D.C. and Brandon
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  Speaker 4: Gill and this issue at the House Freedom Caucus, which
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  Speaker 4: you know a little bit about. But I wanted to
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  Speaker 4: Follow up with a different question, Bob, about Kevin McCarthy. So, Bob,
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  Speaker 4: go ahead. You know, you wanted to make an example.
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  Speaker 21: Well, I will give you one high profile example where
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  Speaker 21: I'll name a name here. Jim Jordan was a founder
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  Speaker 21: of the Freedom Caucus or was a chairman of the
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  Speaker 21: Freedom Caucus 10 years ago. But Jim Jordan has long
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  Speaker 21: abandoned his position. true commitment to the principles or the
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  Speaker 21: purpose of the Freedom Caucus. During my four years in Washington,
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  Speaker 21: which goes back to beginning six years ago, as you know,
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  Speaker 21: he was never with us in any conservative fight. He
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  Speaker 21: was totally beholden to leadership. The story is that when
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  Speaker 21: Kevin McCarthy offered him the leadership of the judiciary committee.
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  Speaker 21: It was in exchange for him becoming an ally and
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  Speaker 21: a supporter of the establishment and the party leadership and
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  Speaker 21: so forth. And I saw that firsthand during my time
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  Speaker 21: in Washington.
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  Speaker 2: He was never with us in the fight.
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  Speaker 21: He would rarely come to Freedom Caucus meetings. When he did,
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  Speaker 21: it was usually to try to persuade us not to
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  Speaker 21: do what we were doing or to persuade us to
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  Speaker 21: support the leadership position. And I think his ambition is
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  Speaker 21: to try to become speaker or minority leader if we
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  Speaker 21: lose the House. But there is a classic example of
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  Speaker 21: someone who long ago left the Freedom Caucus. Just look
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  Speaker 21: at who he endorses and who he does fundraisers for
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  Speaker 21: and who he's appearing for. It's not for courageous conservative
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  Speaker 21: Freedom Caucus members or courageous conservative Freedom Caucus candidates. It's
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  Speaker 21: for establishment members like Jen Kiggins.
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  Speaker 4: Bob Good on with us. The Good for America podcast,
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  Speaker 4: and you find it goodforamerica.org is where you find him
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  Speaker 4: on this morning. And Bob, you mentioned Kevin McCarthy there.
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  Speaker 4: He's in the news, apparently, has made some rounds of
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  Speaker 4: the news desk saying, oh, GOP is going to get
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  Speaker 4: slaughtered in the midterms. Is this just him sowing that division,
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  Speaker 4: trying to drive down so that the nation will turn
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  Speaker 4: its lonely eyes to him for return to power?
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  Speaker 21: Well, I don't think he's going to be back in power.
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  Speaker 21: I don't think he's going to be back in power.
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  Speaker 21: There have been some rumors, and I don't know the
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  Speaker 21: credibility of this, but there's been some rumors that Susie
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  Speaker 21: Wiles is a short-timer in terms of chief of staff
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  Speaker 21: and that Kevin McCarthy might be a replacement candidate for her.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's a possibility.
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  Speaker 21: There was rumors that two years ago that Kevin McCarthy
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  Speaker 21: might be Trump's choice for chief of staff. I think
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  Speaker 21: that would be a terrible mistake for many reasons. I
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  Speaker 21: do think McCarthy is a pretty decent political agnosticator and
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  Speaker 21: a pretty good reader of political tea leaves. He certainly
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  Speaker 21: didn't violate his principles while he was in Washington, and
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  Speaker 21: that's because he didn't have any principles. His only principle
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  Speaker 21: is ambition and winning and power and having the majority,
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  Speaker 21: that sort of thing. Unfortunately, again, I think Republicans may
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  Speaker 21: suffer from a turnout shortage in a week and a
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  Speaker 21: half here when the midterms take place. Dems are going
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  Speaker 21: to be motivated. I don't see Republicans as motivated. I
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  Speaker 21: think that may be what hurts Republicans.
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  Speaker 4: That's dangerous. And I'm doing everything I can. I'm paddling
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  Speaker 4: against that. Bob, last question. Kevin McCarthy, Luis Lucas, how
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  Speaker 4: far removed aside from different parties are they? Obviously, nobody's
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  Speaker 4: looking to ask Kevin McCarthy to visit the FBI, but
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  Speaker 4: in the ethos of using your office for your own aggrandizement,
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  Speaker 4: how far apart really are they?
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  Speaker 21: Well, I never heard or saw any reports or any
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  Speaker 21: accusation of Kevin McCarthy doing anything that was anything close
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  Speaker 21: to being illegal, uh, along the lines of what Louise
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  Speaker 21: Lucas is being accused of. So I certainly wouldn't put
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  Speaker 21: them in the same boat from that regard. Uh, Kevin
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  Speaker 21: McCarthy and I have great disagreements politically and, and, uh,
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  Speaker 21: in terms of policy and principle and so forth. And
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  Speaker 21: we were on far ends of the Republican spectrum in
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  Speaker 21: that regard. But, uh, Louise Lucas is being accused of
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  Speaker 21: very serious crimes, which sounds like the evidence is overwhelming.
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  Speaker 21: It sounds like, again, she might be in some real
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  Speaker 21: legal jeopardy.
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  Speaker 4: What's coming up this week on the Good for America podcast?
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  Speaker 4: Any of this, or are you going to look into
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  Speaker 4: this whole attempt to get Ukraine and Russia to stop?
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  Speaker 4: What's coming up?
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  Speaker 21: Well, we're going to talk about midterms, and we are
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  Speaker 21: going to talk about the riots in France, and we're
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  Speaker 21: going to talk about the Russia-Ukraine situation. And so there's
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  Speaker 21: lots to talk about. No shortage, as you know.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely, sir. Well, thank you very much. God bless you, sir.
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  Speaker 4: We're all afraid to speak the truth.
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  Speaker 24: And the more afraid we get, the more we hate
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  Speaker 4: So I mentioned this and that Kareem found this. as
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  Speaker 4: agents are the ones that they're pointing to connected to
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  Speaker 4: this hack. Microsoft says China is aligned with the group
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  Speaker 4: attempting to access 2,250 Microsoft 365 tenants. And I guess
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  Speaker 4: using AI, four compromised app credentials generated 200-plus sign-ins under
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  Speaker 4: four minutes. Yeah, there's nothing to do. So this is...
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  Speaker 4: So this is the issue you're going to be facing today.
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  Speaker 4: and she was having a difficult time getting logged on
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• 29:55
  Speaker 4: going to say, why is my Internet so wonky today?
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  Speaker 4: From what I understand, it's not the networks, all the
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  Speaker 4: different ones and zeros providers. It is with the computers.
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  Speaker 4: So these hacks have impacted your computer and put it
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  Speaker 4: on their payroll, as it were. They've hacked in, and
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  Speaker 4: now they're using your computer to mine Bitcoins. But there's
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  Speaker 4: a deeper subtext. If it is a Chinese connected thing,
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  Speaker 4: this goes back into the fear mongering I was talking
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  Speaker 4: sky is falling stuff is going to get out of
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  Speaker 4: control with this internet hack that was used by China
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  Speaker 4: to get in and actually spoof internet sites. And then
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  Speaker 4: I buy my, you know, I order groceries or I
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  Speaker 4: order car parts, whatever it is. But in truth, it
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  Speaker 4: was a spoof. And there are ways, I guess, your security...
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  Speaker 20: Earlier in the week.
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  Speaker 4: It appears to those who surf to it that your
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  Speaker 4: of creates, that security system, what they call the HTTPS protocol,
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  Speaker 4: the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure. And that security certificate isn't there.
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  Speaker 4: They can't spoof that when they spoof the Internet. So
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  Speaker 4: I guess they tried to spoof WTONradio.com. That's our flagship
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  Speaker 4: station's website. But they are working on closing the exploits
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  Speaker 4: of it. And what these hackers, these China-backed hackers allegedly...
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  Speaker 4: did was they figured out, well, let's not hack the
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  Speaker 4: individual website. Let's hack the language that all the websites
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  Speaker 4: use to secure themselves. Once we've hacked that, the rest
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  Speaker 4: went to the vault and just took all the money
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  Speaker 4: out of there. And it seems like that's what this
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  Speaker 4: hack has done. But there's a bigger implication as the
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  Speaker 4: story will unwind into the narrative that AI is the
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  Speaker 4: new pandemic. And AI has got to be stopped. And
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  Speaker 4: you need to go off the internet. And the government
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  Speaker 4: needs to control the internet. And the government needs to
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  Speaker 4: shut down things when these things happen. It didn't work
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  Speaker 4: in Europe where they do control the internet. So don't
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  Speaker 4: tell me that. You can't sell me that bag of
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  Speaker 4: bovine excrement because Europe is the place that it hit
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  Speaker 4: the hardest because they do rely on the governments to
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  Speaker 4: protect their internet sites. So how'd that work out for you?
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  Speaker 4: So the hack is going to be used in the
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  Speaker 4: next few days to again make the case that China
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  Speaker 4: and the data centers and all of these things need
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  Speaker 4: to be Vote it out of America. Get these things
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  Speaker 4: the authoritarian West of Europe and the other parts of
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  Speaker 4: the world that faced this hack. And individuality is actually
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  Speaker 4: how you fight off these hacks. So if you have
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  Speaker 4: a computer that works very judiciously through the Internet... I
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  Speaker 4: think you find yourself less likely to find your computer hacked.
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  Speaker 4: And you'd know if you did. It's all clunky and
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  Speaker 4: it's because it's running subroutines mining for Bitcoin somewhere because
• 34:29
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  Speaker 4: But if China were to decide to do this, it
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  Speaker 4: get the Internet and AI and everything else out of
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  Speaker 4: the United States. So watch for this. Watch for China
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  Speaker 4: to come out and say, yes, we found these folks out. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: and we're going to punish them worse than we punish
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  Speaker 4: the Uyghurs. No, they wouldn't say that. But you get
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• 35:43
  Speaker 4: again because they really were just set up to be
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: the fall guys for it. But what the CHICOMs will
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: say is, but we caught them because we're so good
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• 36:01
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  Speaker 23: So I got an email earlier.
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  Speaker 10: We found John Reed.
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  Speaker 19: We're going to finish up and talk a little bit more.
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  Speaker 24: About the grander abstract of this Louise Lucas story.
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  Speaker 4: But earlier we were talking about the anniversary of the
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  Speaker 4: Beirut bombings. And Dr. Clark said something that echoes something
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  Speaker 4: I've said, that this is not.
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  Speaker 10: A new war.
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  Speaker 4: Unfortunately, everyone else in the media keeps referring to it
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  Speaker 4: as a new war. So we're weird. Or as is
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  Speaker 4: often the case, when people hear something they haven't heard
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  Speaker 4: anywhere else, their first inclination is we're wrong. We're ill-informed.
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  Speaker 4: points or some other such thing. And sometimes, like Kareem
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  Speaker 4: sent us that note about Microsoft and finding China at
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  Speaker 4: the other end of this massive Internet crippling hack. You know,
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  Speaker 4: that's fine. Something we may not have seen can be
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  Speaker 4: entered into the fray, and we're not afraid to say
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  Speaker 4: we didn't see something. But Margie writes in, listening to
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  Speaker 4: us this morning in Colorado Springs, and I appreciate you, Margie,
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  Speaker 4: those tickets. But she heard us talking about Beirut, and
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  Speaker 4: she said, Joe, Beirut is not in Iran. How are
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  Speaker 4: you making the case that this is the same war?
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  Speaker 4: I don't think we said Beirut is in Iran. This
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  Speaker 4: was an attack by radical Islamists on Americans in a
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  Speaker 4: foreign land. And it's the same point I made about
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  Speaker 4: the Barbary pirates. Of course the Barbary pirates weren't sailing
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  Speaker 4: from Tehran, although they probably terrorized folks in the Strait
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  Speaker 4: of Hormuz just as much, just probably not that much
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  Speaker 4: traffic there as there were out by Libya where they
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  Speaker 4: were sailing from. But it's the radical Islamist who's moved
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  Speaker 4: their base of operations here, there, and everywhere. These are
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  Speaker 4: the folks that we're fighting the war against. And currently,
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  Speaker 4: their sugar daddies are in Tehran. It's the mullahs. It's
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  Speaker 4: the council of experts. It's the Ayatollah Jr. And that's
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  Speaker 4: for the speaker. That's for our friend Marshall, who just
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  Speaker 4: said some good stuff. That round of applause was not
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  Speaker 4: for me. So, Margie, I appreciate you thinking that you
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  Speaker 4: needed to correct us that we thought somehow Beirut was
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  Speaker 4: in Iran or something. Believe me, Marines know where Beirut is.
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  Speaker 4: And on this anniversary of it, a reminder, this is
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  Speaker 4: not starting a new war. It's trying to end the
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  Speaker 4: oldest one in American history anyway. Meanwhile, in Portsmouth... those
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  Speaker 4: looking for anything from Louise Lucas's dispensary, which Jerry writes
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  Speaker 4: in reminding me, Joe, wasn't this the dispensary that got
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  Speaker 4: caught selling THC-laced candy bars not all that long ago?
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  Speaker 20: Yeah, I think it was.
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  Speaker 4: They were like Fruit Loops or one of those breakfast
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  Speaker 4: cereals had been turned into a bar. and they caught
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  Speaker 4: him THC-laced and smack on the wrist there. But John Reed,
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  Speaker 4: host of the Reed Revolution podcast, former aide to Reagan
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  Speaker 4: and George Allen, and news anchor in Richmond, covered Louise
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  Speaker 4: Lucas most of her 34 years, I think. Isn't this, though,
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  Speaker 4: indicative of a corruption that comes from each year greater
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  Speaker 4: and greater violence power is given to these political offices?
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  Speaker 2: It's an odd thing. Look, I'm a partisan. I'm a Republican.
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  Speaker 2: I admit it.
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  Speaker 10: But you've got to scrutinize the people you're sending to
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  Speaker 10: the Capitol, and you have to hold them accountable. For
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  Speaker 10: that behavior, whether they whether they're sitting on a huge
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  Speaker 10: pile of money personally already. And a lot of people
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  Speaker 10: show up at the Capitol are already rich or whether
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  Speaker 10: there's somebody who is a climber and wants to secure
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  Speaker 10: a good life for themselves.
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  Speaker 2: It can't be off the back of the people of Virginia.
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  Speaker 2: And it can't. I mean, think about this. If this
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  Speaker 2: woman was actually running.
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  Speaker 10: Uh, you know, drug trafficking, marijuana, and she's a powerful
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  Speaker 10: state Senator. Think of all the young black men. I'm
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  Speaker 10: just going to say black men. It could be white people,
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  Speaker 10: Latino people who, who have gone to jail for, for,
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  Speaker 10: you know, selling illegal marijuana. I mean, this is, this
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  Speaker 10: is pretty gross to behave this way when so many
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  Speaker 10: other people have suffered real consequences. I used to say
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  Speaker 10: that about, you know, Hollywood stars who would get caught
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  Speaker 10: with a bag of Coke in their Mercedes, and then
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  Speaker 10: the judge would let them go to rehab treatment center
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  Speaker 10: and then just kind of wash their hands of it. Like,
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  Speaker 10: why does the Hollywood star not suffer the same consequences
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  Speaker 10: as some inner city kid who gets caught with drugs?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we really should hold elected officials accountable.
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  Speaker 4: What's the old joke? Without double standards, they wouldn't have
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  Speaker 4: standards at all.
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  Speaker 2: You got it.
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  Speaker 4: John Reed on with us. So do you think she
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  Speaker 4: does any time for this? Because everyone wants to see
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  Speaker 4: Louise in an orange jumpsuit, probably accentuating that shock of
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  Speaker 4: white hair.
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  Speaker 10: I think these are serious charges. I think it is
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  Speaker 10: very possible that she can be found guilty. I think
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  Speaker 10: if she's got a jury trial. The behavior of some
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  Speaker 10: juries of late always make me concerned about whether you're
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  Speaker 10: really going to deliver justice. But I do need to stress,
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  Speaker 10: part of this is my sense of let's be fair
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  Speaker 10: to everyone.
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  Speaker 2: I've certainly been guilty. Well, not guilty. I've been the
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  Speaker 2: victim of people who have made things up about me,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't want to do that to somebody else.
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  Speaker 10: So does any of this surprise me based on what
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  Speaker 10: I have heard and observed over the years?
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 10: But we do need to offer her the opportunity to
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  Speaker 10: defend herself and to go to court and hopefully receive
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  Speaker 10: a fair trial.
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  Speaker 2: One thing that's interesting, and I don't know whether.
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  Speaker 10: This happened to you or not, you know, Louise Lucas has.
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  Speaker 10: Used lawfare to silence a lot of people when the
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  Speaker 10: Confederate statue was coming down in her community. And she
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  Speaker 10: was caught on tape telling the police that the statue
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  Speaker 10: was going to be spray painted and it was nothing
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  Speaker 10: the cops could do about it. And she was charged
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  Speaker 10: with public corruption there.
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  Speaker 4: Misuse of office.
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  Speaker 10: She went after everyone who She went after everyone who
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  Speaker 10: reported on.
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  Speaker 2: It, and that had a chilling effect. The press is
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  Speaker 2: scared to talk about her.
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  Speaker 10: Lawyers are scared to cross her because of her powerful
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  Speaker 10: position in the Senate.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's something wrong.
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  Speaker 10: When everyone who should normally be able to comment on
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  Speaker 10: issues is scared to open their mouth.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 4: And the business community. It's like Chicago in the 30s.
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  Speaker 4: The business community is afraid. And I think anywhere where
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  Speaker 4: you see a machine... In politics, look for the corruption
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  Speaker 4: under it. Read Revolution, John, where's the best place? Should
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  Speaker 4: people follow you on Spotify or Apple Podcasts?
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  Speaker 10: I have tried to get the Read Revolution on every platform.
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  Speaker 2: That's out there.
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  Speaker 10: You can find us on Facebook and X and, of course,
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  Speaker 10: everywhere you get your podcasts.
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  Speaker 4: That's the question that consumes us, isn't it, this morning?
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  Speaker 4: It's why they've buried the Bill of Rights and the U.S.
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  Speaker 4: Constitution under a pile of laws they've written to help themselves.
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  Speaker 4: But beware of this being a feature, not a flaw
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  Speaker 4: in our systems. that these are people who have corrupted
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  Speaker 4: an otherwise good system. Don't throw out the baby with
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  Speaker 4: the bathwater. Till Saturday morning or Monday, so long and
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  Speaker 4: thanks for all the fish.
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  Speaker 20: My name is Bobby.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a veteran and lost my leg to a roadside bomb.
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  Speaker 6: My victory was going from a wheelchair to becoming a
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  Speaker 6: weightlifting champion.
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  Speaker 15: I'm Sam.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a veteran.
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  Speaker 21: My victory was finding a career I can be proud
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  Speaker 21: of and supporting my family.
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  Speaker 7: America's veterans are on their most important tour. the tour
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  Speaker 20: I'm a veteran.
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  Speaker 1: My victory was going from homeless to home.
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  Speaker 7: At DAV, we're on a mission to help veterans get
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  Speaker 15: I'm a veteran, and my victory was finishing my education.
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  Speaker 7: DAV offers veterans of all generations a lifetime of support.
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  Speaker 7: for victories great and small.
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  Speaker 20: My victory was proving that disability is not a limitation.
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  Speaker 15: My victory was getting my service dog a new best friend.
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  Speaker 7: We help more than a million veterans every year as
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  Speaker 16: My victory is being able to be there for my family.
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  Speaker 7: When America's veterans win, we all win. Help us support
• 53:47
  Speaker 7: more victories for veterans.
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  Speaker 4: Go to DAV.org.