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Tucker needs Some Help, USAID Stops & Republicans in other Countries WIN plus Mamdani's October 7 Disaster Week In Review · The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson

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  Speaker 1: Welcome.
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  Speaker 2: It is Vertical Center Ted Cruz week in review. And
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  Speaker 2: here are some of the big stories that you may
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  Speaker 2: have missed that we talked about this week. First up,
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  Speaker 2: in a shocking move, even for Tucker Carlson, he has
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  Speaker 2: now come out and endorsed El-Sayed. Why did he do it?
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  Speaker 2: We break it down for you. Up next, Doge has
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  Speaker 2: ended up dismantling USAID. Why do they do it and
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  Speaker 2: what does it mean for you as a taxpayer? It's
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  Speaker 2: pretty incredible. We'll have that for you as well. And finally,
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  Speaker 2: Mandani goes all in to attack Israel on the third
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  Speaker 2: anniversary of the horrific October 7th attacks. What did he
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  Speaker 2: say about Israel? He said they're committing genocide, and he
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  Speaker 2: doubled down on it. We'll break that down as well.
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  Speaker 2: It's the Weekend Review, and it starts right now. I
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  Speaker 2: think it's an important moment here that we should take
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  Speaker 2: a moment and talk about it, because if you think
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  Speaker 2: that Tucker hasn't gone hardcore crazy, go back to the
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  Speaker 2: point you just made, Senator, which is he has now
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  Speaker 2: come out and endorsed al-Sadr to be elected over a Republican.
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  Speaker 1: He has indeed. He wants an Islamist president. and a
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  Speaker 1: communist to represent the state of Michigan and a Democrat
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  Speaker 1: in the United States Senate. But by the way, Tucker,
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  Speaker 1: this whole interview is truly bizarre. At another point, Tucker
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  Speaker 1: is complaining that it was terrible that the United Kingdom
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  Speaker 1: never apologized to the Nazis. And I want you to
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  Speaker 1: listen to this exchange because apparently He is seeking retribution
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  Speaker 1: on behalf of the Nazis that he felt were not
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  Speaker 1: treated fairly by the allies who won World War II. Here,
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  Speaker 1: give a listen.
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  Speaker 3: Now, the British government did that in the Second World
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  Speaker 3: War immediately.
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  Speaker 4: It did it in the Second World War. I knew
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  Speaker 4: a wonderful man, amazing man. Now, I'd gathered his fathers,
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  Speaker 4: who was rounded up in 1939 when water was declared,
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  Speaker 4: was put in an enemy aliens camp and in Shropshire.
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  Speaker 4: and he was German, Jewish, and all Germans were lined up.
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  Speaker 4: He was a fighting age. The day he left the camp,
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  Speaker 4: he joined the British Army, and he ended the war
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  Speaker 4: as a brigadier.
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  Speaker 5: Amazing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, because he sounds like a very forgiving man.
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  Speaker 4: He was a wonderful man.
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  Speaker 1: He sounds it.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm not talking about people who are rounded up
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  Speaker 3: as potential foreign nationals.
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  Speaker 4: We can't round up people for their expression of opinions,
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  Speaker 4: and people must be free to oppose.
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  Speaker 3: But the British government has never apologized for violating its
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  Speaker 3: own ancient principles by rounding up not simply members of
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  Speaker 3: the opposition party, but their families.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm talking about the Mosleys, but also everyone who
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  Speaker 3: worked with the Mosleys, the whole leadership, and their wives, right?
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  Speaker 3: And no one's ever apologized for that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, look, Tucker is all in on defending the Nazis
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  Speaker 1: against the West. You know, the person he's talking about
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  Speaker 1: there is Oswald Mosley. Oswald Mosley led the British Union
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  Speaker 1: of fascists. Now, who was Mosley? He married in 1936
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  Speaker 1: at Joseph Goebel's home in Berlin. You know who was
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  Speaker 1: a guest at his wedding? Adolf Hitler.
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  Speaker 2: There you go.
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  Speaker 1: Um, Carlston simply calls them members of the opposition party.
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  Speaker 1: That would be the Nazis. That would be Goebbels and Hitler. Now,
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  Speaker 1: to be clear, the British Union of Fascists never won
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  Speaker 1: even a single seat in Parliament. They weren't the opposition party.
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  Speaker 1: They weren't a party who was elected anywhere. At the
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  Speaker 1: same time that Tucker is vigorously defending our enemies and
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  Speaker 1: attacking America and attacking the United Kingdom, attacking our friends,
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  Speaker 1: he is also just brazenly lying. So he claims that
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  Speaker 1: the United Kingdom persecutes people for speech, but Russia never
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  Speaker 1: does that. And I want you to listen to this
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  Speaker 1: exchange because, again, facts never intrude into Tucker world.
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  Speaker 3: I just don't understand, given what you've already just conceded,
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  Speaker 3: that the government of the United Kingdom is punishing and
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  Speaker 3: prohibiting people and ideas it doesn't like. Russia is not
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  Speaker 3: doing that. So how is... What? To you.
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  Speaker 1: You can't say.
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  Speaker 4: But in Russia, it's doing it in spades. It's beating
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  Speaker 4: people up.
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  Speaker 1: It's arresting them. It's murdering them.
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  Speaker 4: In your country?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's... No, your citizens are under.
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  Speaker 1: Russia has poisoned people in this country. So there he goes. Yet,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Tucker is claiming Russia does not persecute people
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  Speaker 1: for saying things they don't like. Has he never heard
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  Speaker 1: of a gulag? Has he never read the gulag archipelago?
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure he hasn't. Has he not seen... the murders
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  Speaker 1: that Russia carries out, the poisonings that Russia carries out. Now,
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  Speaker 1: to be fair, he has a legitimate criticism that the
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  Speaker 1: Brits have been violating free speech. In this podcast, we
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  Speaker 1: have spent a lot of time talking about how the
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  Speaker 1: United Kingdom has run away from their free speech traditions.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's a real failing for our British friends.
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  Speaker 1: I hope they get back to actually defending free speech.
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  Speaker 1: But There is no comparison between the Brits and the Russians.
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  Speaker 1: The Russians murder people who say things they don't like.
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  Speaker 1: The Brits don't do that. They do send a Bobby
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  Speaker 1: to arrest you. And you know what happens when someone
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  Speaker 1: sends a Bobby to arrest you. It's an unarmed Bobby
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  Speaker 1: that's wearing a little round hat. And if they see
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  Speaker 1: a crime.
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  Speaker 2: Don't worry, he's got his nightstick, so you should be fine.
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  Speaker 1: And the unarmed Bobby, if they see a crime happening,
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  Speaker 1: they will rush up to you and say... I say stop!
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  Speaker 1: And if you don't stop, I shall yell stop again! Yeah, louder! Yeah, exactly. That, sadly,
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  Speaker 1: are the bobbies, but it is true that they might
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  Speaker 1: arrest you for free speech in the United Kingdom. I
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  Speaker 1: hope they get back to their long tradition of free speech.
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  Speaker 1: But the Brits do not have gulags. They do not
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  Speaker 1: have Siberia. They do not engage in poisoning and murdering
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  Speaker 1: their political opponents. And there's one of two options. Either
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  Speaker 1: Tucker is so willfully blind that he has no idea,
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  Speaker 1: that he doesn't know Russia does that. He also claimed
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  Speaker 1: he didn't know that the Ayatollah is trying to murder
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump. I assume when it comes to Hitler and
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  Speaker 1: Goebbels and all the people he's defending, he doesn't know
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  Speaker 1: about the concentration camps and the Holocaust. He either doesn't know.
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  Speaker 1: in which case he's willfully ignorant and blind, or even worse,
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  Speaker 1: he does know, which I think is likely the case,
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  Speaker 1: and he just doesn't care. He's just willing to lie
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  Speaker 1: because he has a propaganda mission. <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>
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  Speaker 1: Hugo Chavez, another communist from Venezuela, to build up Mondami,
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  Speaker 1: to build up Abdul Al-Sayed, to build up Sharia law,
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  Speaker 1: to build up the Ayatollah, and to repeatedly and explicitly
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  Speaker 1: praise Nazis, including Adolf Hitler. What is he trying to
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  Speaker 1: accomplish and why is he doing it? It is profoundly
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  Speaker 1: dangerous and you don't have to take my word for
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  Speaker 1: it because you can listen in his own words as
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  Speaker 1: we played today.
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  Speaker 2: Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation,
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  Speaker 2: you can go back and listen to the full podcast
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  Speaker 2: from earlier this week. Now on to story number two.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Senator, I want to move to the second
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  Speaker 2: story that we mentioned earlier. And I got to tell you,
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  Speaker 2: the news coming out of USAID and how Elon Musk
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  Speaker 2: was able to have a major impact on the left's
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  Speaker 2: chokehold in Latin America. This story is really interesting. And
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  Speaker 2: it's one that shows you if you're committed to a cause,
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  Speaker 2: you can have a really big impact if you focus
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  Speaker 2: on the facts.
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  Speaker 5: Well.
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  Speaker 1: This is a story I want everyone listening to really
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  Speaker 1: understand because it is profound and it is completely unreported
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  Speaker 1: in the press. As you know, when President Trump came
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  Speaker 1: in for the second term, he appointed Elon Musk as
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  Speaker 1: the head of Doge. One of the first things Elon
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  Speaker 1: Musk did is essentially zeroed out USAID. So the billions
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  Speaker 1: of dollars that had been flowing out in foreign aid
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  Speaker 1: just stopped. And the left, the Democrats, the press, they
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  Speaker 1: all screamed blue murder. They described it as chicken little.
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  Speaker 1: The sky is falling. The world is ending. People are dying.
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  Speaker 1: It is horrible. Well, they nonetheless succeeded in cutting the
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  Speaker 1: vast majority of that money. Here is an interesting consequence
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  Speaker 1: of this that very few people are noting. Since the
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  Speaker 1: USAID money stopped flowing, leftists... communists, America-hating zealots, have stopped
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  Speaker 1: winning elections in Latin America. During Joe Biden, while the
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  Speaker 1: USAID money was flowing, we saw leftists and communists and
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  Speaker 1: people who hate America winning election after election after election
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  Speaker 1: and implementing socialism and Marxism throughout Latin America. That has
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  Speaker 1: ground to a halt. And the obvious inference is that USAID,
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  Speaker 1: the federal taxpayers, were flowing money, millions if not billions
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  Speaker 1: of dollars, to Marxists who hate America, to elect communists
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  Speaker 1: that not only hurt Latin American countries, but fight against
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  Speaker 1: the United States. I want to read to you a
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  Speaker 1: very interesting tweet from Breville Le Pogam. Now, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know Breville Le Pogam. He is a French entrepreneur, apparently
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  Speaker 1: from an AI company, but he sent a tweet that
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  Speaker 1: I read on X, and it was striking, and it really,
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  Speaker 1: it made this point in a way that was powerful.
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  Speaker 1: I want to read it to you. It's a long tweet,
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  Speaker 1: but it has a lot of substance to it. In
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  Speaker 1: 50 years, history books will say that Elon Musk won
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  Speaker 1: a war that no one even knew we were losing.
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  Speaker 1: A war that began 100 years ago in an Italian
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  Speaker 1: prison cell. In 1926, Mussolini had a 35-year-old Sardinian intellectual arrested.
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  Speaker 1: At the trial, the prosecutor reportedly said, Quote, we must
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  Speaker 1: stop this brain from working for 20 years. His name
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  Speaker 1: was Antonio Gramsci. His brain never stopped working. In prison,
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  Speaker 1: he filled thousands of pages that became one of the
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  Speaker 1: most influential political texts of the 20th century. I think
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  Speaker 1: we're living through the moment when the theory is collapsing.
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  Speaker 1: Let me explain. Gramsci asked a simple question. Why did
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  Speaker 1: the Communist Revolution succeed in Russia, but fail everywhere in
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  Speaker 1: the West? His answer, in the West, power isn't just
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  Speaker 1: held by the state, the police, and the army. It's
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  Speaker 1: held by culture. But what people find normal, obvious, common sense,
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  Speaker 1: he called it cultural hegemony. So, to seize power, you
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  Speaker 1: don't first take the palace. You first take the mines.
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  Speaker 1: The schools, the universities, the newspapers, the theater, publishing, the courts.
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  Speaker 1: That's the war of position. A slow conquest, institution by institution.
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  Speaker 1: When the culture is flipped, the politics follows on its own.
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  Speaker 1: Forty years later, the German activist Rudi Deutschke would turn
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  Speaker 1: it into a slogan. The Long March Against through the institutions.
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  Speaker 1: For decades, we've lived with a puzzle that no one
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  Speaker 1: could really explain. Why are almost all artists on the left?
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  Speaker 1: The actors, the singers, the teachers, the journalists, a good
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  Speaker 1: chunk of the judiciary. Why could a country vote right
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  Speaker 1: election after election and still see its culture speaking with
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  Speaker 1: one voice? We were told it's because educated people are
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  Speaker 1: on the left. I think the answer is simpler. Gramsci
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  Speaker 1: had written the recipe and it was applied. When you
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  Speaker 1: control who gets the grant, the job, the good review,
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  Speaker 1: the prize, the invitation on the set, you control what becomes, quote,
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  Speaker 1: the culture. The same puzzle existed on a global scale.
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  Speaker 1: Why did so many developing countries, especially in Latin America,
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  Speaker 1: keep voting again and again for socialists or radical left governments. Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua,
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  Speaker 1: the Argentina of the Kirchners, Petro's Colombia. The economy was collapsing.
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  Speaker 1: The cartels were thriving. Chaos was setting in. And yet
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  Speaker 1: the same vote kept coming back. My conviction. Poverty wasn't
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  Speaker 1: an accident of the system. It was an electorate. And
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  Speaker 1: around it, there was a whole ecosystem of NGOs. Quote,
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  Speaker 1: independent media and quote, civil society programs funded largely by
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  Speaker 1: Western money. Then in early 2025, something happened that no
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  Speaker 1: one had ever dared to do. Elon and Doge opened
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  Speaker 1: up USAID's books. An agency that had been virtually untouchable
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  Speaker 1: since 1961. Tens of billions of dollars a year. The
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  Speaker 1: vast majority of programs were cut, and the agency was
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  Speaker 1: absorbed into the State Department. The faucet was turned off.
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  Speaker 1: And look what has happened since. Bolivia. MAS loses power
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  Speaker 1: after nearly 20 years. Ecuador. Noboa re-elected. Honduras. The right
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  Speaker 1: takes back the country. Chile. CAST elected. Argentina. Malay wins
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  Speaker 1: the midterm elections by a landslide. And two days ago, Brazil.
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  Speaker 1: Jair Bolsonaro is ineligible, sentenced to 27 years in prison.
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  Speaker 1: The left thought they'd close the chapter. Lula, 80 years old,
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  Speaker 1: was running for a fourth term against a country that
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  Speaker 1: was said to be in the bag. On Sunday, his
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  Speaker 1: son Flavio came in first in the first round, over 47%
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  Speaker 1: against nearly 45% for Lula. Lula himself acknowledged a quote,
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  Speaker 1: unexpected result. The largest country in Latin America is one
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  Speaker 1: runoff away from flipping. The biggest rightward turn on the
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  Speaker 1: continent in decades. Coincidence? I don't think so. When the
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  Speaker 1: funding dries up, the narrative is, loses its megaphones. There's
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  Speaker 1: one last real stronghold left, Europe. Brussels funds its own
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  Speaker 1: network of NGOs, with an opacity that even the European
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  Speaker 1: Court of Auditors has pointed out. The big foundations, like Soros'
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  Speaker 1: Open Society. The supranational entities that produce norms without ever
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  Speaker 1: facing a voter. It's the last fortress of cultural hegemony.
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  Speaker 1: and it's starting to crack. I'm convinced all of this
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  Speaker 1: is going to collapse, and faster than we think. Gramsci
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  Speaker 1: was right on one essential point. Culture precedes politics. But
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  Speaker 1: he forgot that it works both ways. When an artificial
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  Speaker 1: culture loses its IV drip, what's real underneath rises to
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  Speaker 1: the surface. What comes next, I believe, is a renaissance.
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  Speaker 1: A culture that starts loving beauty, ambition, science, the civilization
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  Speaker 1: that gives it birth again. And in the history books,
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  Speaker 1: we'll remember that it all started when one man decided
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  Speaker 1: to look at the accounts. It took someone rich enough
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  Speaker 1: not to depend on anyone, crazy enough to take it on,
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  Speaker 1: and free enough to weather the hate that would follow. Thanks, Elon.
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  Speaker 2: Senator, this is exactly why I love doing this show
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  Speaker 2: with you, because we get to highlight stories like this.
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  Speaker 2: As you mentioned, no one else is talking about, and
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  Speaker 2: this is one of those stories where I said, everyone listening,
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  Speaker 2: this is what you need to be sharing.
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  Speaker 1: That's exactly right. And I want to encourage you guys, look,
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  Speaker 1: verdict listeners, you're smart, you're informed, and you know things
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  Speaker 1: other people don't. I want to encourage you when you're
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  Speaker 1: talking to your friends, when you're talking to your colleagues
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  Speaker 1: around the water cooler at the office, when you're talking
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  Speaker 1: to your kids, when To say, hey, have you noticed
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  Speaker 1: that every election since we cut off the USAID funding
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  Speaker 1: in Latin America has gone not to the leftists but
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  Speaker 1: to conservatives? What does that tell you about what the
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  Speaker 1: people of Latin America want? And there are two points
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  Speaker 1: that are really important. If it is right that USAID
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  Speaker 1: funding was sending billions to elect communists in Latin America,
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  Speaker 1: The federal government, the American government, was hurting the people
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  Speaker 1: of Latin America. Communism is the most destructive ideology mankind
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  Speaker 1: has ever invented. If the people of Latin America don't
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  Speaker 1: want it, and the fact that once the money stops,
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  Speaker 1: they keep voting for conservative free market candidates suggests they
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  Speaker 1: don't want it, then America was exporting harmful ideology to
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  Speaker 1: the entirety of Latin America, and by the way, I
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  Speaker 1: think more broadly the rest of the world.
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  Speaker 3: But.
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  Speaker 1: Look, Latin America, the Western Hemisphere is our backyard. But secondly,
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  Speaker 1: the people that were being elected in Latin America with
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  Speaker 1: the support of USAID were not just left-wingers. It's one
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  Speaker 1: thing to say, okay, each party, they get in power
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  Speaker 1: and they want their team to win. Okay, their differences,
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  Speaker 1: higher taxes, lower taxes, we can disagree on some of that.
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  Speaker 1: But the people who were being elected in Latin America
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  Speaker 1: were viciously anti-American. They hated the United States of America.
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  Speaker 1: So you literally had the federal government taking the taxpayer
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  Speaker 1: money of Americans and sending it to help support the
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  Speaker 1: election of communists in Latin America who hate America, who
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  Speaker 1: fight America. We were fighting against ourselves. Very few people
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  Speaker 1: realized that was happening. And I will say, Ben, the
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  Speaker 1: chances of USAID being zeroed out or largely zeroed out
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  Speaker 1: under any president other than Donald Trump were essentially zero.
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  Speaker 1: There was not another president who would have had the
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  Speaker 1: guts to do this. And his doing this, it revealed
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  Speaker 1: the absolute crock, the lie, the manipulation, the destruction of
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  Speaker 1: our nation from the deep state. And it was Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump plus Elon Musk who had courage. And I'll tell you,
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  Speaker 1: they benefited certainly all of Latin America, but they benefited
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  Speaker 1: America too. We're not electing leaders now in our hemisphere
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  Speaker 1: who who hate America, that's a really good thing to
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  Speaker 1: have instead leaders who want to stand with America and
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  Speaker 1: be our friends.
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  Speaker 2: As before, if you want to hear the rest of
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  Speaker 2: this conversation on this topic, you can go back and
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  Speaker 2: download the podcast from earlier this week to hear the
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  Speaker 2: entire thing. I want to get back to the big story,
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  Speaker 2: number three of the week, you may have missed. All right, Senator,
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  Speaker 2: I want to start with something that really raised a
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  Speaker 2: lot of eyebrows and that was Mondami's statement that he
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  Speaker 2: made on the third anniversary of the horrific October 7th attacks.
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  Speaker 2: And there are a lot of people that were taken
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  Speaker 2: aback by what he said, because it wasn't just a
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  Speaker 2: day where he stood in solidarity for those that were
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  Speaker 2: brutally murdered and kidnapped and raped. He also threw out
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  Speaker 2: that there was, in essence, genocide that happened on the
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  Speaker 2: other side, going after the terrorists in the West Bank,
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  Speaker 2: as he described it, in Gaza. That was the part
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  Speaker 2: that I think shocked so many.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Mondami's statement was truly shameful, and it was released
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  Speaker 1: as an official public statement from the office of the mayor.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm going to read you what exactly he put out. Today...
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  Speaker 1: Mayor Zoran Kwame Mandami, by the way, I didn't know
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  Speaker 1: his middle name was Kwame, but they put it out
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: every time they refer to him, they refer to him
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  Speaker 1: as Mayor Zoran Kwame Mandami, released the following statement on
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  Speaker 1: the third anniversary of the October 7th attacks. Quote, this
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  Speaker 1: day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7th.
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  Speaker 1: On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis, and
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  Speaker 1: abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and
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  Speaker 1: neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss. Now, Ben, frankly,
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  Speaker 1: if the statement had ended there, it would have been fine.
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  Speaker 1: Not terrific, but fine. He at least acknowledged that more
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  Speaker 1: than 1,100 Israelis were killed, that that More than 200
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  Speaker 1: were abducted. He did not acknowledge that women and girls
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  Speaker 1: were raped. He did not acknowledge that dozens of Americans
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  Speaker 1: were murdered and dozens more were kidnapped. He somehow left
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: the Americans victims of that atrocity out of his statement.
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  Speaker 1: But if it had ended there, it would have been acceptable.
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  Speaker 1: But it didn't end there. Then what Mondami really thought continues.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to return to the statement. Quote, the suffering
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  Speaker 1: did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued
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  Speaker 1: through the Israeli government's devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians, including more
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  Speaker 1: than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. That suffering is intensified with
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every
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  Speaker 1: shipment of food aid turned away at the border crossing.
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  Speaker 1: Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief and
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  Speaker 1: we mourn alongside them, all while knowing that our tax
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: dollars fund these war crimes. Three years later, we must
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  Speaker 1: refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue,
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  Speaker 1: where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: government continues its complicity with every arms shipment. To honor
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: the dead, we must fight for a world in which
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity. And
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: let me say, this man is a vicious, America-hating, propagandist liar.
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  Speaker 1: Understand that virtually every word that he said in the
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: remainder of the statement, and three-fourths of his statement, on
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: October 7th, is blasting Israel and the Jews. Almost every
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: word of it is a lie. Number one, the death
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: tolls that he puts out are simply recycled from Hamas's propaganda,
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  Speaker 1: which he accepts with no hesitation at all. His claim
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  Speaker 1: that there is a genocide in Gaza is an utter
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  Speaker 1: and complete lie. It is false. There is not a genocide.
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  Speaker 1: That is not happening. And in fact, the Palestinian population
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: continues to grow and grow and grow. in Gaza and
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  Speaker 1: in the West Bank. Genocides do not result in populations
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: growing dramatically. Who is it that wants to do a genocide?
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: It is Hamas. When they chant, from the river to
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: the sea, what they mean is from the Jordan River
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  Speaker 1: to the sea, they want to eradicate Israel and kill
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  Speaker 1: every Jew in Israel. It is Hamas who is advocating
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: a genocide. It is not Israel. Mondami's statement talks about
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: every drone strike targeting a residential building. By the way,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: they are focused on, among others, taking out Nasrallah, the
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: head of Hezbollah, which that is how they took him out,
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  Speaker 1: and Mondami was mourning that an America-hating, bigoted terrorist was
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: taken out by the Israeli military in a defensive attack.
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  Speaker 1: This statement, you know, look, it's one thing if he
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: wants to put out his vicious attack of Israel. Comrade Mondami,
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  Speaker 1: we get it. You hate Israel. You hate Jews. You
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: also hate Americans and Christians. But we get that. That's
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: no surprise. But to do it on October 7th is grotesque.
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  Speaker 1: October 7th was the single worst one-day massacre of Jews
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: since the Holocaust. Did Mondami acknowledge the rapes?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, rapes on October 7th, which to be clear,
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  Speaker 1: Hamas was so proud of that they videotaped and put out.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't hide them. I've watched video of Hamas terrorists
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  Speaker 1: carving the breasts off of women, playing soccer with the
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  Speaker 1: heads of Jews they murdered. And by the way, murdered
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  Speaker 1: Americans as well. And Mondami takes... That anniversary to instead say,
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  Speaker 1: I mourn for the Hamas terrorists who lost their life.
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  Speaker 1: It was disgraceful. And it's who Mondami is.
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  Speaker 2: We were talking about not only his statement, but then
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: his actions in New York and the crowds as well.
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  Speaker 2: They had a reaction to Mondani and the anti-Israel protesters
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: as well. Mondani's hands are red.
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  Speaker 1: That's what they chanted. Well, Mondami's statement was shameful on
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: the anniversary of October 7th. He attacked Israel, he accused
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: them falsely of genocide. Three-fourths of his statement was simply
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: blasting Israel and blasting America, to be clear, for supporting Israel.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: And yet, nonetheless, his radical base, that wasn't enough. Give
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: a listen to this coverage of Mondami's behavior on Fox News.
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  Speaker 1: Give a listen.
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  Speaker 6: The mayor of New York, Mondami, has just finished answering
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: questions about his response to the October 7th events. And
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: he took the opportunity to double down on his suggestion
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: that Israel is a genocidal state. He used that word again, genocide.
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: He insisted on doing that. Well, last night, Mandami was
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: booed at a vigil, an October 7th vigil. Alexis McCallum
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: joins me now. Tell me all about it, please, Alexis. Hey, Stu.
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: Well, it's interesting to see New York City's mayor under
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: fire now from both sides, including people who went to
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: bat for him to get him elected just last year.
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: He's now accused of not being anti-Israel enough, while fellow
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: Democrats say Mamdani have gone way too far. So on
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: the third anniversary of the October 7th Hamas massacre, Mamdani
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: is accusing Israel of genocide, saying in part, many New
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief and we mourn
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: alongside them. all while knowing that our tax dollars fund
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: these war crimes. He had to get a little dig
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: there at the end. Even though Mamdani is called for
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, it's really
• 27:18
  Speaker 5: just not good enough for some of these pro-Palestinian protesters
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: who showed up at a peace vigil and confronted the mayor.
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: You can see people yelling and fighting here. We see
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: this in New York often, but usually Mamdani is not
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: being yelled at, too. He was holding a candle stew
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: surrounded by Jewish New Yorkers when he got called out.
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: Watch.
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: Hamas chants and Hamas flags in New York City again.
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: And some of those activists helped the Democratic Socialists win
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: the mayor's election last year, now accusing him of turning
• 27:57
  Speaker 5: his back on the Palestinian people, calling him a traitor.
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  Speaker 5: I want to end with a message for Zoran Mamdani.
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  Speaker 1: You have a chance to stand with the people of Palestine.
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  Speaker 3: Do not leave behind the cause that you campaigned on.
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  Speaker 5: And Mamdani was asked about this just a short time ago.
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: He doubled down on calling it a genocide, as you said,
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: and says he's not bothered by the protests.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: Watch.
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  Speaker 7: And when we're speaking of that genocide, we're speaking of
• 28:34
  Speaker 7: one that has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians in the
• 28:37
  Speaker 7: last three years. As for those protesting me, I am
• 28:40
  Speaker 7: the mayor of New York City, and this is what
• 28:42
  Speaker 7: I signed up for.
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: The mayor of New York City and also the mayor
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: of a city that has the largest Jewish population outside
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: of Israel. Ahead of the midterms, this exposes a big
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: divide in the Democratic Party about Israel. Even one of
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: the harshest critics, Mamdani, is just not accused. Accused now
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: of not going far enough. So how do you win?
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: I don't think you can win.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: Senator, you listen to that, and he really likes using
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: this word, accusing Israel over and over and over again.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: The people, by the way, that were attacked on October
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: 7th and were massacred on October 7th and are surrounded
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: by terrorists all around them and people that chant from
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: the river to the sea. And he says, no, no, no,
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: you should hate the Jewish people. They're the ones committing genocide.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: That is a key word he keeps saying.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Well, and you could hear the chanters yelling, long live
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Hamas and waving Hamas flags. That is Mondami's base. Those
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: are the activists who elected Mondami. Those are the people
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: who put him in power, and that is right now
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: the base of today's Democrat Party. Understand, Comrade Mondami is,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: I believe, the most powerful Democrat in the country. We
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: are seeing a green-red alliance. We are seeing the Islamists
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: and the communists coming together, and taking over the Democrat Party.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: And look, the Islamists and Communists, they don't agree on everything,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: but they agree on who they hate. They hate Jews,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: and they hate Christians. They hate Israel, and they hate America.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: They hate the Constitution. They hate the rule of law.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: And at the end of the day, the Islamists and
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Communists will turn on each other. Once they have eradicated
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: the Jews and the Christians, once they have eradicated their enemies, Ultimately,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: the Islamists plan to kill the communists too. At the
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: end of the day, they intend to prevail, but in
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: the short term, they'll make common cause with the communists.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: And that is their chant, long live Hamas, is revealing.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: There are some people who say, oh, no, no, no, no,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: they're not supporting terrorism. They're just, they're advocating for a
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: two-state solution. No, no, they are not. They are saying
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: long live Hamas. Hamas are terrorists who targeted civilians. They
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: didn't attack military targets. They went house to house in
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Israel on October 7th, murdering civilians for one reason, because
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: they are Jewish. Kicking in doors, murdering elderly people, murdering children,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: murdering infants, raping women and girls. It was the systematic
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: target of civilians on racist grounds. And by the way,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: you know what else Mondami did on October 7th? What
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: was that? He went out and ostentatiously had dinner at
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: a New York City Palestinian restaurant that has an openly
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: genocidal menu. And he ate at a place called Ayat
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Heinz Hall on the Upper West Side. And it is
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: a restaurant whose sister restaurant in Brooklyn has a menu
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: section entitled, quote, From the River to the Sea. And
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: This restaurant, the menu for Heinz Hall, features a map
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: of what it calls Palestine. And that map is the
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: entirety of Israel. It's not a two-state solution. It is
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: showing what they want, which is to utterly obliterate Israel,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: to wipe it from the map, and to be clear,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: to murder every Jew living in Israel so that it
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: is only Hamas Palestinians who remain. This is what he
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: chose to do, not on any given day, but on
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: October 7th to make clear that if given a choice
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: between civilians, children, or Hamas terrorists who murder civilians and
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: rape children, he stands with Hamas and his base, no
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: matter how much he does that, no matter how much
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: he lies, no matter how much he slanders and attacks
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Israel and Jews, it's not enough for the radical base
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: that is taking over the Democrat Party.
• 32:52
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• 32:56
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• 33:04
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• 33:09
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