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The 6-13-24 edition of The View from the Front podcast. · The Stan R. Mitchell Show

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  SPEAKER_01: What is going on, guys?
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  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to this week's edition of The View from the Front.
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  SPEAKER_01: Each week, I do my best to cover the news in a sophisticated, balanced, and mature manner.
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  SPEAKER_01: And as you guys know, my overarching goal is to unify our country.
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  SPEAKER_01: This week, we've got a ton of great stories, as well as some motivation and encouragement at the end.
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  SPEAKER_01: And honestly, this week's edition is so packed, and I'm so excited to get into it.
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  SPEAKER_01: I want to start with a couple of political points,
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  SPEAKER_01: but if you can hang with me for just a moment you're going to see how this ties
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  SPEAKER_01: into a larger overall theme that I'm going to make in just a couple of minutes.
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  SPEAKER_01: As I am sure everyone heard,
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  SPEAKER_01: Last week, former President Trump was found guilty of 34 felony counts.
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  SPEAKER_01: 34 felony counts.
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  SPEAKER_01: On each of the charges, the jury was unanimous on each of them.
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  SPEAKER_01: 34 felony counts.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now,
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  SPEAKER_01: of course,
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  SPEAKER_01: he derided the decision and called it rigged,
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  SPEAKER_01: said that he couldn't possibly get a fair trial in New York,
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  SPEAKER_01: which is,
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  SPEAKER_01: of course,
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  SPEAKER_01: where he's from.
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  SPEAKER_01: He also blamed the Biden administration for using the Department of Justice to come
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  SPEAKER_01: after him,
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  SPEAKER_01: even though it was a local district attorney.
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  SPEAKER_01: So these were some of the main points he made.
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  SPEAKER_01: This week,
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  SPEAKER_01: in a similar situation,
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  SPEAKER_01: the president's son,
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  SPEAKER_01: Hunter Biden,
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  SPEAKER_01: was found guilty of three convictions himself,
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  SPEAKER_01: also in his original home state,
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  SPEAKER_01: by a jury that was unanimous on each of the three charges.
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  SPEAKER_01: One interesting part of this conviction is that the Biden Justice Department was
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  SPEAKER_01: actually who was behind the conviction.
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  SPEAKER_01: This wasn't a local attorney or district attorney.
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  SPEAKER_01: This wasn't a state attorney.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was the Biden Justice Department.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hunter Biden could face up to 25 years on these charges,
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  SPEAKER_01: which is far more than the four years that the former president is facing in his
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  SPEAKER_01: felony convictions inside New York.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let me make a couple of other points on this, because it bears noting.
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  SPEAKER_01: First,
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  SPEAKER_01: Hunter Biden also faces additional charges in California,
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  SPEAKER_01: which are also brought by the Biden Department of Justice.
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  SPEAKER_01: These are all by Special Counsel David Weiss.
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  SPEAKER_01: This was an individual who was initially appointed by former President Trump.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, it gets a little funny here, but even though former President Trump appointed this U.S.
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  SPEAKER_01: attorney who became a special counsel, he's also criticized him.
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  SPEAKER_01: In fact,
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  SPEAKER_01: in 2023,
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  SPEAKER_01: he criticized him and said that he had failed to bring proper charges after a
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  SPEAKER_01: four-year investigation.
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  SPEAKER_01: and that the special counsel was trying to move the case to a more Democrat-friendly venue.
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  SPEAKER_01: Those were the exact words of former President Trump in 2023.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now,
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  SPEAKER_01: I think it's worth noting that President Biden could have stopped all of this by
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  SPEAKER_01: granting a pardon before even the trial began.
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  SPEAKER_01: And this is something that we've seen in the past.
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  SPEAKER_01: In fact, we saw it just a few years ago with the predecessor to President Biden.
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  SPEAKER_01: Back when Trump was president,
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  SPEAKER_01: he granted a pardon way back before all the court dates happened and all the
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  SPEAKER_01: charges were fully vetted.
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  SPEAKER_01: He granted a pardon to Biden.
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  SPEAKER_01: campaign advisors,
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  SPEAKER_01: and top political staff members,
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  SPEAKER_01: including Paul Manafort,
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  SPEAKER_01: Roger Stone,
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  SPEAKER_01: Michael Flynn,
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  SPEAKER_01: Steve Bannon,
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  SPEAKER_01: and even George Papadopoulos.
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  SPEAKER_01: All of these were granted pardons.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I think,
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  SPEAKER_01: even without being biased one way or the other,
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  SPEAKER_01: you have to say that President Biden deserves applause for not intervening in this case,
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  SPEAKER_01: and he has now already stated he will not intervene after convictions have been dropped,
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  SPEAKER_01: nor is he going to intervene in the case in California.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think you can also, without bias, give him credit and props for not attacking the investigation.
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  SPEAKER_01: He has not been talking about it day after day, as Trump did with his trial.
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  SPEAKER_01: President Biden has been silent about the entire thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I think any fair observer would say that was the correct way to handle it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let's get to one of the bigger points that I wanted to make.
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  SPEAKER_01: After the convictions came down against Hunter,
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  SPEAKER_01: the folks on the right had no idea how to handle it because everyone was so
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  SPEAKER_01: convinced that this was a jury situation or some kind of a fake trial and that he
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  SPEAKER_01: would never be found guilty.
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  SPEAKER_01: Charlie Kirk, who is clearly a very big voice on the right,
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  SPEAKER_01: even went so far as to call it a fake trial that would try to make the justice
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  SPEAKER_01: system appear,
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  SPEAKER_01: quote,
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  SPEAKER_01: balanced.
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  SPEAKER_01: And Charlie Kirk said, don't fall for it.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I was thinking after I saw that comment that I'm pretty sure that if you were
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  SPEAKER_01: Hunter Biden,
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  SPEAKER_01: you really would have loved for this to have been a fake trial because there's
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  SPEAKER_01: nothing fake about it at all.
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  SPEAKER_01: He is facing up to 25 years.
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  SPEAKER_01: He won't get that much.
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  SPEAKER_01: He may not get too much at all,
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  SPEAKER_01: but it will complicate the trial in California because he's going to have previous convictions.
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  SPEAKER_01: And over there, he's facing years and years of jail time as well.
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  SPEAKER_01: So this case is going to impact that case.
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  SPEAKER_01: So there's nothing fake about this at all.
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  SPEAKER_01: What has happened is that the conviction has helped turn on its head the argument
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  SPEAKER_01: from some on the right that there's some kind of rigged justice system.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I say all of this because I think we take for granted the jury system that we have.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think we forget how just amazing our justice system is so that you can get a
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  SPEAKER_01: trial in front of a jury of your peers.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's not just some judge who's deciding whether you're guilty or not.
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  SPEAKER_01: You get a chance to present justice.
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  SPEAKER_01: A defense, an evidence, and a chance to even testify should you choose.
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  SPEAKER_01: We take that for granted,
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  SPEAKER_01: and it's just frustrating seeing the attacks on our justice system on,
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  SPEAKER_01: honestly,
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  SPEAKER_01: almost a daily basis.
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  SPEAKER_01: But back to one of the larger points I was trying to make.
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  SPEAKER_01: You would think after seeing this conviction of Hunter Biden,
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  SPEAKER_01: after for more than a year saying it wouldn't happen,
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  SPEAKER_01: obviously I have pointed out former President Trump had criticized the selection of
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  SPEAKER_01: where the trial would take place.
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  SPEAKER_01: After all the criticism and after the conviction, instead of saying, wow, we were wrong,
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  SPEAKER_01: many on the far right immediately leaped into an even deeper conspiracy.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm going to share a clip from Congressman Andy Ogles,
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  SPEAKER_01: who's actually from Tennessee,
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  SPEAKER_01: partly why I'm playing it,
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  SPEAKER_01: who was on with Maria Bartiromo,
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  SPEAKER_01: and they were on Fox Business.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I want you to just hear this crazy conspiracy that they're sharing,
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  SPEAKER_01: which I've heard others say,
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  SPEAKER_01: but I can't believe they're still saying this all the way into June.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that being said,
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  SPEAKER_00: I think it also creates an opening for Democrats to slip someone like Michelle
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  SPEAKER_00: Obama in here.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Biden family can say,
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  SPEAKER_00: hey,
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  SPEAKER_00: we're going to take care of our house,
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  SPEAKER_00: we're going to take care of our son,
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  SPEAKER_00: and then allow Michelle Obama to come in and run.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because again,
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  SPEAKER_00: Joe Biden can't win this election,
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  SPEAKER_00: and they know that,
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  SPEAKER_00: and they are desperate for another candidate.
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  SPEAKER_02: I got to tell you,
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  SPEAKER_02: I am increasingly thinking that Joe Biden withdraws from this race by the time
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  SPEAKER_02: November 5th comes along.
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  SPEAKER_02: I am buying into what you're saying there because I agree that the Democrats are desperate right now.
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  SPEAKER_02: They are very worried.
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  SPEAKER_01: I just have to laugh at that.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's insane, honestly.
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  SPEAKER_01: First of all, Biden has already run through the primary, received tons of votes, he's been nominated.
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  SPEAKER_01: This isn't something he can just suddenly step down easily.
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  SPEAKER_01: Political parties haven't been nominating people going all the way back to the 70s.
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  SPEAKER_01: So Biden will be the choice, Trump will be the choice.
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  SPEAKER_01: No one wants to really accept that, but that is the reality.
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  SPEAKER_01: Furthermore, Michelle Obama hates politics.
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  SPEAKER_01: She absolutely hates it.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you read her biography,
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  SPEAKER_01: if you read Obama's biography,
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  SPEAKER_01: if you read half of the interviews she's put out there,
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  SPEAKER_01: she didn't even want Obama to run for president either of the terms.
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  SPEAKER_01: She hates politics.
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  SPEAKER_01: She barely even enjoyed or pulled off the duty of being First Lady.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was service to the country.
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  SPEAKER_01: She did not enjoy it.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's crazy that someone would throw out that she's going to suddenly just jump in,
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  SPEAKER_01: as if all these other Democrats,
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  SPEAKER_01: such as Governor...
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  SPEAKER_01: Gavin Newsom or the Vice President herself, Kamala Harris.
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  SPEAKER_01: You'd think these people wouldn't absolutely lose it if they just suddenly put Michelle Obama.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's just the amount of crazy stuff that's put out there.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's just mind-blowing.
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  SPEAKER_01: I bring all of this up,
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  SPEAKER_01: and I want to try to,
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  SPEAKER_01: I know I've gone into this a little bit deep,
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  SPEAKER_01: but I had to set it up.
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  SPEAKER_01: I bring all of this up because we have to start getting serious as a country,
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  SPEAKER_01: and we have to get serious as informed citizens,
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  SPEAKER_01: as informed voters.
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  SPEAKER_01: The reality is, is within the past week, one-fifth of House Republicans voted to defund NATO.
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  SPEAKER_01: I mean, that is off the charts crazy.
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  SPEAKER_01: That is completely loony.
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  SPEAKER_01: NATO has been one of the most effective cornerstones of peace and deterrence, bar none.
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  SPEAKER_01: NATO helped us in Afghanistan.
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  SPEAKER_01: European soldiers deployed to Asia.
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  SPEAKER_01: Wealth.
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  SPEAKER_01: hundreds and thousands of miles from their home to help us in Afghanistan.
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  SPEAKER_01: And people are talking about defunding NATO?
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  SPEAKER_01: People are talking about,
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  SPEAKER_01: not just talking about,
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  SPEAKER_01: people are voting to defund NATO when you've got Russia on the march?
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  SPEAKER_01: Are we crazy?
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  SPEAKER_01: Why are we allowing this kind of stuff to happen?
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  SPEAKER_01: We have to take this stuff way more serious than we've been taking it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Almost as crazy as that, Speaker Mike Johnson said,
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  SPEAKER_01: The leader of the House is finally facing some pressure for appointing two people
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  SPEAKER_01: to the House Intelligence Committee who absolutely should not be on that committee.
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  SPEAKER_01: They bypass numerous Republicans who have had far more experience and should be on
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  SPEAKER_01: that committee,
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  SPEAKER_01: but all because former President Trump told Mike Johnson to do it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Mike Johnson appointed two people who...
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  SPEAKER_01: Any reasonable, rational person would look at their backgrounds and say these two people are too much.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're too much of firebrands.
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  SPEAKER_01: I won't even get into the past and all the reasons they shouldn't.
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  SPEAKER_01: But they are just political hotheads who should not be on the House Intelligence
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  SPEAKER_01: Committee seeing the absolute most top secret intelligence that's out there.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the worst part is,
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  SPEAKER_01: is Speaker Mike Johnson didn't even tell the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.
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  SPEAKER_01: He was given no advance warning.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just completely was blindsided because former President Trump wanted his two people there.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let's not forget that the Democrats did save Speaker Mike Johnson and keep him.
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  SPEAKER_01: in the position he's in because once he finally brought a ukraine vote to the floor
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  SPEAKER_01: following a six-month delay of course but they helped save his job but now it
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  SPEAKER_01: appears he's once again kind of going back to acting irresponsible not acting like
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  SPEAKER_01: a leader who does have a lot of power
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  SPEAKER_01: So I think you may see more repercussions because of this irresponsible behavior
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  SPEAKER_01: that Speaker Mike Johnson has taken.
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  SPEAKER_01: We'll just have to see on that.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I hear you out there.
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  SPEAKER_01: You say, why Stan?
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  SPEAKER_01: Like, why does it really matter?
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  SPEAKER_01: It's just politics.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's just, you know, Trump's the head of his party.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's no big deal if you put these two people on.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're loyal to him.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're pretty well locked inside the GOP.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like, how big a deal is it if you put a couple of hotheads on there?
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  SPEAKER_01: Let's put this in perspective and this is the top point that I've been building up to.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is why this matters.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is why I have led up to this point because this point I'm about to make right here,
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  SPEAKER_01: this is what it's all about.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is how high the stakes are.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'm not going to use my words on this, but I'm about to play a clip for you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just imagine if we could have prevented World War II.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you might say, well, Stan, how would we have prevented World War II?
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm going to play a clip that I think is pretty convincing on how we could have prevented World War II.
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  SPEAKER_01: All the gas chambers.
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  SPEAKER_01: All the hundreds of thousands that have served in the United States and all the other countries.
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  SPEAKER_01: The dropping of two atomic weapons.
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  SPEAKER_01: Am I suggesting that could have possibly been prevented?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'm not the only one suggesting it.
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  SPEAKER_01: I want you to listen to this clip.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is why we have to take this stuff serious.
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  SPEAKER_01: And when we don't,
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  SPEAKER_01: You just allow pressure and bad things to build until it's so big you have to
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  SPEAKER_01: completely go all out to try to put out the fire.
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  SPEAKER_01: Listen to this incredible clip.
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  SPEAKER_01: This clip is from Timothy Snyder.
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  SPEAKER_01: He's an American historian who specializes in the history of Central and Eastern Europe,
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  SPEAKER_01: also the Soviet Union,
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  SPEAKER_01: and also the Holocaust.
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  SPEAKER_01: Listen to what this professor at Yale University said just a few weeks ago.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't feel like his words got enough attention, so I'm sharing them now.
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  SPEAKER_03: We're about to be in 1939.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm going to agree with you in a certain way.
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  SPEAKER_03: My comparison would be 1938.
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  SPEAKER_03: This is 1938 that Czechoslovakia has chosen to fight.
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  SPEAKER_03: In that world where Czechoslovakia resists, there's no Second World War.
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  SPEAKER_03: The Czechs had a good army.
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  SPEAKER_03: They could have held the Germans back.
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  SPEAKER_03: It was largely a bluff on the German side.
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  SPEAKER_03: If the Czechs resist, then the French and the British and maybe the Americans eventually start to help.
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  SPEAKER_03: There would have been a conflict, but there wouldn't have been a Second World War.
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  SPEAKER_03: When Germany invaded Poland in 1939,
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  SPEAKER_03: it was invading Poland with the Czech armaments industry,
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  SPEAKER_03: which was the best in the world.
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  SPEAKER_03: It was invading with Slovak soldiers.
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  SPEAKER_03: It was invading from a geographical position that it only gained because it had destroyed Czechoslovakia.
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  SPEAKER_03: So if the Ukrainians give up,
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  SPEAKER_03: or if we give up Ukraine,
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  SPEAKER_03: then it's a different Russia making war in the future.
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  SPEAKER_03: It's a Russia making war with Ukrainian technology,
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  SPEAKER_03: Ukrainian soldiers,
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  SPEAKER_03: from a different geographical position.
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  SPEAKER_03: Then we're in 1939.
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  SPEAKER_03: We're in 1938 now.
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  SPEAKER_03: In effect, what the Ukrainians are letting us do is they're letting us extend 1938.
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  SPEAKER_01: There you go.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think that's pretty persuasive.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's probably better said than any of the arguments I've heard in the past about
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  SPEAKER_01: how Neville Chamberlain in the United Kingdom kept letting Hitler just take steps,
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  SPEAKER_01: take steps,
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  SPEAKER_01: because by then it was too late.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is one of the stronger arguments I've heard, so I wanted to make sure you heard that.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I can hear some of you out there.
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  SPEAKER_01: Some of you still aren't convinced.
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  SPEAKER_01: Throwing out a World War II analogy is a very big, very wide, massive thing to throw out there.
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  SPEAKER_01: I hear you.
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  SPEAKER_01: I see what you're putting down.
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  SPEAKER_01: I hear what you're saying.
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  SPEAKER_01: Here's just a smaller thing that I think we all can agree on.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just in the past few days, eight suspected terrorists
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  SPEAKER_01: with possible ISIS ties, were arrested by the FBI in New York, L.A., and Philadelphia.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's like a pretty big deal.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think everyone can agree that's a pretty big deal.
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  SPEAKER_01: I bring that up because in 2023, a lot of folks on the right were saying we should defund the FBI.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's another just completely irresponsible, crazy thing to say.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just as crazy, though, I will beat up the left for a moment.
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  SPEAKER_01: These eight men came across the southern border.
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  SPEAKER_01: And the thing that frustrates me is we all get in our echo chambers on the right or
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  SPEAKER_01: on the left,
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  SPEAKER_01: and when one side makes a good point,
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  SPEAKER_01: for instance,
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  SPEAKER_01: the right has been talking about the border for years,
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  SPEAKER_01: but because they haven't been consistent and honest about other subjects,
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  SPEAKER_01: the left and many people in the middle have just said,
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  SPEAKER_01: we're not going to listen to that anymore.
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  SPEAKER_01: Same thing from the other side.
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  SPEAKER_01: The left has tried to make some good points.
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  SPEAKER_01: People on the right don't want to hear it.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm just saying from a larger perspective,
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  SPEAKER_01: we've got to start taking this stuff way more serious than we have in the past.
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  SPEAKER_01: We've got to quit giving either side, even if it's our own party or your party, quit giving them a pass.
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  SPEAKER_01: They are all falling short.
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  SPEAKER_01: Our debt is horrific.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're going to have to start getting serious about that.
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  SPEAKER_01: We've got to start getting in alignment on so many topics.
• 18:51
  SPEAKER_01: It's just time we start taking this stuff way more serious than we have.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's way too much at stake to not do so.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're going to take a short break,
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  SPEAKER_01: but when we come back,
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  SPEAKER_01: we've got lots of news out there that I want to make sure you guys are aware of,
• 19:08
  SPEAKER_01: most of which you probably haven't heard.
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  Thank you.
• 19:19
  SPEAKER_01: Hey guys, just a quick reminder.
• 19:21
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• 19:42
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• 19:52
  SPEAKER_01: The first topic I want to cover is a quick update on a story we've been covering for a few weeks.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_01: This involves that floating pier that was going to be used to bring in humanitarian aid into Gaza.
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_01: obviously just south of Israel, that has been connected again.
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  SPEAKER_01: It has been reopened,
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  SPEAKER_01: and on its first day alone,
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  SPEAKER_01: a total of 492 metric tons,
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_01: which is more than a million pounds,
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_01: 1.1 million pounds of humanitarian assistance was delivered through that single
• 20:27
  SPEAKER_01: floating pier.
• 20:28
  SPEAKER_01: So they've got it put back up, and as...
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_01: I said a week ago I was a little critical about some of the challenges,
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_01: including Israeli settlers stopping some of the aid.
• 20:40
  SPEAKER_01: It looks as though that has been handled,
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_01: so congrats to those in the military,
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_01: those in the State Department.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_01: Also, U.S.
• 20:48
  SPEAKER_01: aid is one of the programs being used to help oversee this situation.
• 20:54
  SPEAKER_01: And they're also working alongside with U.S.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_01: CENTCOM.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_01: There's a lot of people involved.
• 20:59
  SPEAKER_01: Big congrats to them because they are helping people that absolutely need this food.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it appears that,
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_01: at least for the moment,
• 21:07
  SPEAKER_01: it is back under control and delivering a lot of much-needed supplies.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_01: Let's move from that topic to some news about Ukraine and Russia.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_01: First big story out of Ukraine I want to make sure everyone is aware of is Ukraine has said and the U.S.
• 21:27
  SPEAKER_01: intelligence folks have now said that it does appear that the Russian assault on Kharkiv has stalled out.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_01: As just a refresher, a week ago, the U.S.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_01: said that Ukraine could start using American weapons to strike targets inside Russia,
• 21:44
  SPEAKER_01: and that appears to have had a devastating effect and completely taken the air out
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_01: of the Russian assault.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_01: In fact,
• 21:53
  SPEAKER_01: if you look on social media,
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_01: you can now see videos of Ukrainian units,
• 21:58
  SPEAKER_01: including police units,
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_01: that are retaking ground that the Russians had seized.
• 22:04
  SPEAKER_01: So that is certainly great news for our friends in Ukraine and for the West that
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_01: was wanting to stall and stop that advance from Russia.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_01: On that new front,
• 22:14
  SPEAKER_01: reminder Kharkiv is in the northern east part of Ukraine,
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_01: and Russia had advanced from Russian territory where there had not been fighting on
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_01: the ground in the past.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_01: It was kind of a surprise attack, if you will.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_01: In other Ukraine news,
• 22:34
  SPEAKER_01: Ukraine was very successful the past week and has managed to destroy two very
• 22:41
  SPEAKER_01: expensive radar systems that Russia has inside occupied Crimea.
• 22:47
  SPEAKER_01: Of course, that's the Crimean Peninsula that Russia is very keen to hold on to.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_01: Ukraine destroyed a Russian S-300 and a Russian S-400 radar.
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  SPEAKER_01: Those are two of the most advanced anti-air systems that the Ukrainians have.
• 23:04
  SPEAKER_01: These were big,
• 23:06
  SPEAKER_01: successful attacks for Ukraine,
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  SPEAKER_01: and it's going to help open up the airspace so that when F-16s arrive,
• 23:13
  SPEAKER_01: they're going to have more room to operate.
• 23:16
  SPEAKER_01: These S-300 and S-400 radar systems have incredible range.
• 23:23
  SPEAKER_01: In fact, the S-300...
• 23:25
  SPEAKER_01: Has a range of 93 miles.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_01: 93 miles.
• 23:31
  SPEAKER_01: That really dominates the space or the airspace around one of those defensive launchers.
• 23:38
  SPEAKER_01: The missiles on them are huge.
• 23:40
  SPEAKER_01: They fly at Mach 6.
• 23:43
  SPEAKER_01: They're very long.
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  SPEAKER_01: The warhead is 150 kilograms, which is more than 300 pounds.
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  SPEAKER_01: These are very serious weapon systems.
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  SPEAKER_01: The S-400 is even more advanced than the S-300.
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  SPEAKER_01: It is listed as a range...
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_01: Of course,
• 24:02
  SPEAKER_01: it's the Russians saying this,
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  SPEAKER_01: so no one really knows the exact range.
• 24:06
  SPEAKER_01: But they list the range as up to 250 miles.
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_01: 250 miles.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_01: Again, very large weapon system worth at least $500 million.
• 24:20
  SPEAKER_01: They sell them or export them to other countries...
• 24:24
  SPEAKER_01: at $1 billion.
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_01: That's how valuable these weapon systems are, or at least the S-400 is.
• 24:30
  SPEAKER_01: The S-300 is a little bit less expensive,
• 24:33
  SPEAKER_01: but they're very effective weapon systems,
• 24:37
  SPEAKER_01: and Russia just lost two of them.
• 24:41
  SPEAKER_01: While we are on the topic of air defense,
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_01: it has been announced in several media outlets,
• 24:47
  SPEAKER_01: including the New York Times and
• 24:49
  SPEAKER_01: the Associated Press,
• 24:51
  SPEAKER_01: Bloomberg,
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  SPEAKER_01: that the United States is going to send another complete Patriot system to Ukraine.
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  SPEAKER_01: These are the very capable and successful air defense systems, some of the best that the U.S.
• 25:04
  SPEAKER_01: has.
• 25:05
  SPEAKER_01: It's believed, okay, so we're going to get into some gray area here because the U.S.
• 25:12
  SPEAKER_01: doesn't like to talk about what it has transferred.
• 25:16
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm just going to share what I've seen and heard on social media and in the
• 25:21
  SPEAKER_01: media because some of these numbers are pretty well protected by the Pentagon.
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  SPEAKER_01: But it's now believed that two,
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  SPEAKER_01: once this one gets there in a couple of days,
• 25:33
  SPEAKER_01: that Ukraine will have two Patriot systems that the U.S.
• 25:37
  SPEAKER_01: has sent.
• 25:38
  SPEAKER_01: That's a pretty big deal because it's believed that the U.S.
• 25:41
  SPEAKER_01: has about 14 Patriot systems deployed around the world.
• 25:46
  SPEAKER_01: The U.S.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_01: will not say how many they have yet.
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  SPEAKER_01: In total,
• 25:51
  SPEAKER_01: which are obviously based in the U.S.,
• 25:53
  SPEAKER_01: but it's believed 14,
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  SPEAKER_01: according to the Telegraph,
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_01: British newspaper,
• 25:58
  SPEAKER_01: on a recent podcast,
• 25:59
  SPEAKER_01: one of their reporters said,
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  SPEAKER_01: it's believed 14 of them are deployed around the world,
• 26:04
  SPEAKER_01: so we will now have two of the 14,
• 26:06
  SPEAKER_01: or 14 plus 2,
• 26:07
  SPEAKER_01: or 16 deployed around the world,
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  SPEAKER_01: Those will go into Ukraine.
• 26:15
  SPEAKER_01: They will obviously be manned by Ukrainian troops, but that should help Ukraine a lot.
• 26:21
  SPEAKER_01: It was also announced within the past week,
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_01: while we're talking about Patriot air defense systems,
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  SPEAKER_01: that Germany is going to send a third one.
• 26:30
  SPEAKER_01: So Germany will send a third one to Ukraine.
• 26:33
  SPEAKER_01: As well as Germany is also going to be sending some of their mobile, what they call the Gepard.
• 26:39
  SPEAKER_01: These are really good at shooting down some of the drones.
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_01: But they basically have twin autocannons on them.
• 26:46
  SPEAKER_01: Very effective.
• 26:47
  SPEAKER_01: They're going to send some of those as well.
• 26:49
  SPEAKER_01: So this is great news for Ukraine as they continue to strengthen their air defense.
• 26:54
  SPEAKER_01: Which they absolutely have to do because as...
• 26:57
  SPEAKER_01: We have been saying the past few weeks,
• 26:59
  SPEAKER_01: really the past couple of months,
• 27:02
  SPEAKER_01: Russia has been successful in destroying a lot of Ukraine's thermal power stations.
• 27:09
  SPEAKER_01: And as I said a couple of weeks ago,
• 27:11
  SPEAKER_01: Ukraine is even having to deal with some blackouts as they try to repair some of this.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_01: So the West is trying its best to keep Ukraine from being in a very precarious
• 27:21
  SPEAKER_01: situation when winter comes this year.
• 27:25
  SPEAKER_01: One final thing about air defense.
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_01: The country of Norway announced this past week that they're going to spend $257
• 27:34
  SPEAKER_01: million to help bolster Ukraine's air defense.
• 27:38
  SPEAKER_01: And they're going to partly use that to help buy more Patriot missiles, which are limited quantity.
• 27:45
  SPEAKER_01: So Norway is going to be purchasing more of those to help make Ukraine's air defense even stronger.
• 27:52
  SPEAKER_01: Before we leave the topic of air defense,
• 27:55
  SPEAKER_01: Raytheon,
• 27:56
  SPEAKER_01: the company that makes the Patriot air defense system,
• 28:00
  SPEAKER_01: as the West has seen this threat from Russia,
• 28:03
  SPEAKER_01: and as Russia has increasingly continued to threaten Poland and other countries...
• 28:09
  SPEAKER_01: Raytheon,
• 28:10
  SPEAKER_01: the company that makes Patriot air defense systems,
• 28:12
  SPEAKER_01: this week gave the green light to speed up production in European countries of the
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_01: American Patriot weapons system.
• 28:20
  SPEAKER_01: So this is a first.
• 28:22
  SPEAKER_01: They will support a European assembly line.
• 28:26
  SPEAKER_01: It will be inside the Netherlands,
• 28:30
  SPEAKER_01: but this is a first,
• 28:31
  SPEAKER_01: and the company is saying that that will help speed up production because there is
• 28:36
  SPEAKER_01: such a high demand on it of the weapon system.
• 28:40
  SPEAKER_01: And of course,
• 28:41
  SPEAKER_01: that doesn't even bring into account the potential threat from China,
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_01: but it's a great sign that...
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_01: We're now going to allow one of our NATO countries that we're allied with to help
• 28:54
  SPEAKER_01: produce this,
• 28:55
  SPEAKER_01: because even though we are ramping up our defense base in the United States,
• 29:00
  SPEAKER_01: there's just such a high demand for some of these weapons systems that it's a good
• 29:05
  SPEAKER_01: thing that the West kind of got this wake-up call by Russia before it was too late,
• 29:12
  SPEAKER_01: before we saw how weak our industrial base was.
• 29:15
  SPEAKER_01: We've ignored those warning signs for years and years,
• 29:19
  SPEAKER_01: but partly because we were so successful during Desert Storm in the early 90s,
• 29:26
  SPEAKER_01: everyone just thought that our military was so strong that we didn't need to have
• 29:31
  SPEAKER_01: such a large size.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_01: We could reduce the size,
• 29:34
  SPEAKER_01: reduce the amount of ammunition we had stored,
• 29:36
  SPEAKER_01: reduce the amount of missiles stored.
• 29:38
  SPEAKER_01: Reduce the number of ships and so we really started cutting everything back,
• 29:42
  SPEAKER_01: but we're now seeing that the reality is is Deterrence is a necessary thing as I
• 29:49
  SPEAKER_01: said last week if you want peace prepare for war it Seems to be about the only way
• 29:55
  SPEAKER_01: to maintain peace is to have a military that prevents countries that are aggressive
• 30:01
  SPEAKER_01: in nature if You have a strong enough military to keep them in check.
• 30:06
  SPEAKER_01: It's about the only way to keep them in
• 30:08
  SPEAKER_01: for making really rash and foolish decisions.
• 30:12
  SPEAKER_01: Okay,
• 30:12
  SPEAKER_01: we're going to wrap the news up there and get to the best part of the show,
• 30:16
  SPEAKER_01: the motivation and encouragement section,
• 30:19
  SPEAKER_01: and this week we've got a few good ones.
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  SPEAKER_01: Here is the first one, and it's a great one.
• 30:25
  SPEAKER_01: It's a simple quote.
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  SPEAKER_01: One day or day one, you decide.
• 30:31
  SPEAKER_01: That is so good, isn't it?
• 30:33
  SPEAKER_01: You can either in your mind say, one day I'll do this,
• 30:36
  SPEAKER_01: Or you can say, day one.
• 30:39
  SPEAKER_01: Today is day one.
• 30:41
  SPEAKER_01: I think we all want to be people who say, today is day one.
• 30:44
  SPEAKER_01: Alright, so the next one.
• 30:48
  SPEAKER_01: When you think of giving up, remember why you started.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_01: Such a good one.
• 30:53
  SPEAKER_01: When you think of giving up, remember why you started.
• 30:57
  SPEAKER_01: When I used to own my small business for nine years,
• 30:59
  SPEAKER_01: I used to always tell people as they saw me struggle.
• 31:03
  SPEAKER_01: There were some really rough years to say the least.
• 31:06
  SPEAKER_01: And I would always say, the riches of a journey are at its end.
• 31:10
  SPEAKER_01: They are not at the beginning.
• 31:12
  SPEAKER_01: They are usually not at the middle.
• 31:15
  SPEAKER_01: The riches are at the end.
• 31:17
  SPEAKER_01: And that helped keep me going.
• 31:19
  SPEAKER_01: But again, the quote was, when you think of giving up, remember why you started.
• 31:26
  SPEAKER_01: Here's the next one.
• 31:27
  SPEAKER_01: It's just kind of a motivational quote.
• 31:32
  SPEAKER_01: Top quote that I saw someone had put on thread, so I thought I'd share.
• 31:37
  SPEAKER_01: So this is just kind of a mindset to have.
• 31:40
  SPEAKER_01: Things will improve.
• 31:42
  SPEAKER_01: You will discover something better.
• 31:44
  SPEAKER_01: You will have better experiences.
• 31:46
  SPEAKER_01: You will grow and improve.
• 31:50
  SPEAKER_01: Just a simple thing.
• 31:51
  SPEAKER_01: Things will improve.
• 31:52
  SPEAKER_01: You will discover something better.
• 31:53
  SPEAKER_01: You will have better experiences.
• 31:55
  SPEAKER_01: You will grow and improve things.
• 31:58
  SPEAKER_01: So often,
• 31:58
  SPEAKER_01: though,
• 31:59
  SPEAKER_01: when you're in the trenches or when you're fighting or when you're beat down or tired,
• 32:03
  SPEAKER_01: you can't seem to get any victory.
• 32:06
  SPEAKER_01: It's just easy to want to give up.
• 32:08
  SPEAKER_01: But have that mindset that things will improve.
• 32:11
  SPEAKER_01: You will discover something better.
• 32:12
  SPEAKER_01: You will have better experiences.
• 32:15
  SPEAKER_01: You will grow and improve.
• 32:20
  SPEAKER_01: Final one I wanted to share as far as motivation goes.
• 32:22
  SPEAKER_01: I wanted to share a story I saw as just something as a challenge to you guys if you see this opportunity.
• 32:28
  SPEAKER_01: A lady who I would guess is probably in her 40s or 50s shared this.
• 32:34
  SPEAKER_01: My neighbor, who is a mid-80s widower, dropped by this morning.
• 32:40
  SPEAKER_01: He handed me a bag of tomatoes, squash, and cucumbers from his garden.
• 32:46
  SPEAKER_01: I invited him in for some coffee,
• 32:47
  SPEAKER_01: as I always do,
• 32:48
  SPEAKER_01: and he started to say no as he always does,
• 32:51
  SPEAKER_01: but then said,
• 32:52
  SPEAKER_01: okay,
• 32:52
  SPEAKER_01: okay,
• 32:53
  SPEAKER_01: I think that'd be nice.
• 32:55
  SPEAKER_01: We sat at the table, sipped coffee, and talked about gardens, the heat, our trumpet-playing neighbor,
• 33:04
  SPEAKER_01: and other southern niceties for about 20 minutes before he stood to go.
• 33:10
  SPEAKER_01: I thanked him for the vegetables again.
• 33:13
  SPEAKER_01: He thanked me for the coffee, and I walked him to the door.
• 33:17
  SPEAKER_01: He said, I realized I hadn't talked to anybody at all in about three days, and that's not good for me.
• 33:26
  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for making me open my mouth.
• 33:30
  SPEAKER_01: And then she finished by saying, we're having dinner on Wednesday.
• 33:34
  SPEAKER_01: And that was such a touching story to me.
• 33:37
  SPEAKER_01: And I saw it starting to go viral.
• 33:38
  SPEAKER_01: And so I wanted to share it because,
• 33:40
  SPEAKER_01: you know,
• 33:41
  SPEAKER_01: I often think of my dad and I go see him as often as I can.
• 33:44
  SPEAKER_01: But after we lost my mom, he's there in the house alone.
• 33:48
  SPEAKER_01: He often says that the house is growing on him and the walls start to close in.
• 33:54
  SPEAKER_01: So he'll just go out for drives.
• 33:55
  SPEAKER_01: But we all have
• 33:57
  SPEAKER_01: That neighbor that's alone that we probably should take an extra few minutes to
• 34:03
  SPEAKER_01: check in on,
• 34:05
  SPEAKER_01: to speak to,
• 34:06
  SPEAKER_01: to share a story.
• 34:07
  SPEAKER_01: Many of them are sitting in that house all day.
• 34:10
  SPEAKER_01: And I know we're all busy.
• 34:11
  SPEAKER_01: You work the day job.
• 34:13
  SPEAKER_01: You come home.
• 34:14
  SPEAKER_01: You got kids and food you got to deal with.
• 34:16
  SPEAKER_01: You got everything.
• 34:18
  SPEAKER_01: But man, just that little bit of conversation in someone's life can do so much for them.
• 34:24
  SPEAKER_01: So I'm challenging you this week.
• 34:26
  SPEAKER_01: In the coming days and week,
• 34:28
  SPEAKER_01: if you get an opportunity to do that,
• 34:31
  SPEAKER_01: something small or nice that you can do to someone in your neighborhood,
• 34:35
  SPEAKER_01: that would be amazing.
• 34:37
  SPEAKER_01: Alright,
• 34:37
  SPEAKER_01: let's share a few from the Bible,
• 34:39
  SPEAKER_01: because as I always say,
• 34:40
  SPEAKER_01: this book has become such a source of strength and wisdom and calm for me during
• 34:46
  SPEAKER_01: the past year.
• 34:47
  SPEAKER_01: This first one is just a verse I saw I wanted to share.
• 34:52
  SPEAKER_01: Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding.
• 34:59
  SPEAKER_01: Think about Him in all your ways, and He will guide you on the right path.
• 35:06
  SPEAKER_01: Thought that was a good one.
• 35:07
  SPEAKER_01: Next one is just a little quote I saw someone had shared.
• 35:10
  SPEAKER_01: The quote is, Again, God has already prepared the way.
• 35:16
  SPEAKER_01: Now he's just preparing you.
• 35:27
  SPEAKER_01: This next one's from Proverbs, chapter 16, verse 9.
• 35:31
  SPEAKER_01: We can make our plans, but the Lord determines our steps.
• 35:37
  SPEAKER_01: Again, we can make our plans, but the Lord determines our steps.
• 35:44
  SPEAKER_01: And this next one is kind of a similar one, but I think we all fall short on this one.
• 35:50
  SPEAKER_01: If it's not God's will, then God has a better plan.
• 36:07
  SPEAKER_01: And I can say with a thousand percent conviction that in my life,
• 36:13
  SPEAKER_01: there have been so many times where things did not go the way I wanted them to and
• 36:18
  SPEAKER_01: God had a better plan.
• 36:20
  SPEAKER_01: And this happened so many times that I could spend 20 minutes talking about it.
• 36:27
  SPEAKER_01: But again, stop overthinking.
• 36:28
  SPEAKER_01: If it is God's will, it will happen.
• 36:31
  SPEAKER_01: And nothing will stop it.
• 36:33
  SPEAKER_01: If it's not, then God has a better plan.
• 36:37
  SPEAKER_01: I think that is a pretty good one to end on right there.
• 36:41
  SPEAKER_01: Thanks so much for joining us this week.
• 36:43
  SPEAKER_01: I hope as you go through this week that you act a little nicer on social media and in the world as well.
• 36:49
  SPEAKER_01: Smile at folks in the grocery store.
• 36:51
  SPEAKER_01: Do small acts of kindness.
• 36:53
  SPEAKER_01: And remember that most Americans are good.
• 36:55
  SPEAKER_01: and they will help you in an emergency, even if you don't agree politically.
• 37:00
  SPEAKER_01: As you go through this week, I want you to aim to be more motivated and more disciplined.
• 37:05
  SPEAKER_01: Try to improve yourself mentally, physically, and spiritually.
• 37:10
  SPEAKER_01: You don't have to set impossible goals on these matters.
• 37:13
  SPEAKER_01: Just be a little more motivated and disciplined than you were the week prior.
• 37:18
  SPEAKER_01: As I said earlier, I really hope that you spend some time in your Bible this week.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you have no idea where to read on your own, just start with Psalms or Proverbs.
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  SPEAKER_01: Read some of those and then start with the New Testament by reading the book of John.
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  SPEAKER_01: Moving to a final note on the political front,
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm confident after this episode you're going to hear some bad news this week.
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  SPEAKER_01: Where you're going to hear something ugly and it's going to remind you of how divided we are.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is as certain as the law of gravity.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I'm begging you, please do not give up on this country.
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  SPEAKER_01: I know it's pretty ugly right now,
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  SPEAKER_01: and I know we're living in dark times,
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  SPEAKER_01: but we've made it through nearly 250 years together,
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  SPEAKER_01: and we're far stronger together than we'll ever be apart.
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  SPEAKER_01: Don't ever believe anyone who tells you differently about that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let me wrap up the show by talking about my books and a couple of other newsletters that I do.
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  SPEAKER_01: First, a bit about myself and my books.
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  SPEAKER_01: I am a military vet.
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  SPEAKER_01: I spent four years in the Marine Corps, all of that time in the infantry.
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  SPEAKER_01: And yes, that does matter.
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  SPEAKER_01: After my enlistment, I went to college at the University of Tennessee.
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  SPEAKER_01: I became a journalist.
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  SPEAKER_01: I spent more than 10 years in the news business.
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  SPEAKER_01: Besides all of that, I've also written 12 books.
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  SPEAKER_01: Those books include a series about a Marine Corps sniper,
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  SPEAKER_01: several novels about a police detective and a private investigator,
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  SPEAKER_01: and a few books about war,
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  SPEAKER_01: such as World War II and Afghanistan.
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  SPEAKER_01: Basically,
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  SPEAKER_01: these are all fast-moving books with lots of action and plot twists,
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  SPEAKER_01: because those are the kind of books I've always enjoyed reading.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can find all of those books in the link in the episode notes,
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  SPEAKER_01: or you can look on Amazon by just searching my name,
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  SPEAKER_01: Stan R.
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  SPEAKER_01: Mitchell.
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  SPEAKER_01: Buying a book,
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  SPEAKER_01: telling a friend about a book,
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  SPEAKER_01: or buying one as a gift for someone,
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  SPEAKER_01: friend or loved one,
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  SPEAKER_01: is a great way to help support the show.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now, I always like to end each show by reminding people that you can comment anytime.
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  SPEAKER_01: I try to monitor those.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can also reach out privately by email to me at AuthorStanRMitchell at Yahoo.com.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's in the episode notes, by the way.
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  SPEAKER_01: But again, it's AuthorStanRMitchell at Yahoo.com.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hey, here's one other thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: This podcast is about defense news, but I also do a political blog.
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  SPEAKER_01: So if you love my moderate, optimistic views, you might enjoy that.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's called Thoughts from a Southern Gentleman.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can find a link to the episode notes to that, or you can just search that on Google.
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  SPEAKER_01: I also put out a faith-based newsletter.
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  SPEAKER_01: You can find the link to that in the episode notes as well.
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  SPEAKER_01: Hey, thanks for hanging with me this week.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's truly an honor to talk with each of you and to know that there's a few of you
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  SPEAKER_01: out there who are listening and who care about our country and our military and all
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  SPEAKER_01: the issues that we face.
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  SPEAKER_01: I know there are a lot of scary issues out there,
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  SPEAKER_01: but we're going to get through them together,
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  SPEAKER_01: the same way America's gotten through everything before this.
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  SPEAKER_01: If you can at all this week,
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  SPEAKER_01: reach out to a friend or anyone who you know is struggling,
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  SPEAKER_01: whether they are young or old.
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  SPEAKER_01: Life is truly hard.
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  SPEAKER_01: We know this.
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  SPEAKER_01: But the true strength of this country is its people,
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  SPEAKER_01: and that includes you folks listening to me right now.
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  SPEAKER_01: So be a leader, be a doer, be a servant to someone.
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  SPEAKER_01: With all of that being said, I'll catch you all next week.
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  SPEAKER_01: You have been listening to The View from the Front.
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  SPEAKER_01: I hope you enjoyed the show.