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Obamacare Reality Check, Omar's Shaky Story, Dem Senate Scheme | Last Call · 3 Martini Lunch – Political Humor & Commentary

• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Three Martini Lunch.
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  Speaker 2: Grab a stool next to Greg Karambas of Radio America
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  Speaker 2: and Jim Garrity of National Review.
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  Speaker 1: Three martinis coming up.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to the last call of the week for the
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  Speaker 3: Three Martini Lunch. This is our weekly recap of the
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  Speaker 3: biggest stories of the week. In this edition, Barack Obama,
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  Speaker 3: the guy responsible for soaring health care costs, says we
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  Speaker 3: have to vote for Democrats to get the costs under control.
• 0:29
  Speaker 3: Ilhan Omar's immigration story leaves us with way more questions
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  Speaker 3: and suspicions. And the New York Times reports Alaska Democrats
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  Speaker 3: deliberately tried to sow confusion in that state Senate race.
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  Speaker 3: And in our Chaser of the Week, the Democrat running
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  Speaker 3: for Senate in Florida seems pretty clueless about Cuba.
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  Speaker 4: But we begin with.
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  Speaker 3: Barack Obama insisting we trust the party that ruined health
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  Speaker 3: care with fixing it. The candidates are in their final
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  Speaker 3: home stretches, closing messages, and in some cases bringing out
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  Speaker 3: what they think are the heavy hitters, the Big endorsers
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  Speaker 3: to try and help with that closing message. Barack Obama
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  Speaker 3: finally on the campaign trail in a couple of places,
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  Speaker 3: including Michigan, where he stumped for Abdul El-Sayed, and I
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  Speaker 3: presume the entire Democratic ticket there in Michigan. But in
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  Speaker 3: classic demagogic fashion, because if there's anything Barack Obama's good at.
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  Speaker 4: It's that.
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  Speaker 3: He made passing, mocking reference to allegations that El-Sayed is
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  Speaker 3: a jihadist sympathizer and a socialist.
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  Speaker 4: But here's how Obama responded to that.
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  Speaker 5: His par for the course is running all kinds of
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  Speaker 5: scary ads to make you think Democrats are radicals or
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  Speaker 5: communists or jihadists or the woke police that will come
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  Speaker 5: arrest you and force feed you tofu instead of hamburgers.
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  Speaker 6: We are not going to fall for that okey-doke. We
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  Speaker 6: are not going to be bamboozled like that. We're clear
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  Speaker 6: about the choice in this election. Abdul is fighting for change,
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  Speaker 6: real change.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, he's fighting the system on health care. And here
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  Speaker 3: is how Obama talked about the radical allegations against El-Sayed.
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  Speaker 6: And you hear people say this is somehow radical. What
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  Speaker 6: is radical about that? Wanting everybody to have health care?
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  Speaker 4: How's that radical?
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  Speaker 3: You know as well as we do, Obama, that it's
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  Speaker 3: not about whether people have access to health care.
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  Speaker 4: It's how the system is structured. You tried the public option.
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  Speaker 4: You failed.
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  Speaker 3: We'll have more on that in just a second. But, Jim,
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  Speaker 3: as usual, Obama trying to blur everything in order to
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  Speaker 3: get his guys across the finish line.
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  Speaker 2: For listeners, this is not a rerun. Because we weren't taping.
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  Speaker 2: We only started taping in 2010. We're up on 16
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  Speaker 2: years now. But if you think back to the 2007-2008 campaign,
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  Speaker 2: there were a lot of people who raised questions about
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  Speaker 2: Jeremiah Wright. A lot of people who raised questions about
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  Speaker 2: Bill Ayers and Bernadette Dorn. And this idea that Barack
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  Speaker 2: Obama had always been surrounded by these leftist radicals, some
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  Speaker 2: of whom, by any objective measure, were terrorists back in
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  Speaker 2: the 1960s and 70s and blew things up and things
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  Speaker 2: like that. They should have gone to jail. We're not convicted, right?
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  Speaker 2: By any measure, objective measure, these people were extremely dangerous
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  Speaker 2: left-wing radicals with terrorism ties. Or in the cases of
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  Speaker 2: Ayers and Dorne, were indisputably actual terrorists. And Sarah Palin
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  Speaker 2: had said Obama was palling around with terrorists. And oh,
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  Speaker 2: my goodness, how very, you know, even though objectively on
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  Speaker 2: the facts, that's what he did. Now, I think if
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  Speaker 2: you asked a lot of Americans, was the Obama presidency
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  Speaker 2: more conservative than you expected, about what you expected, or
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  Speaker 2: more liberal than we expected? I think quite a few
• 4:01
  Speaker 2: would say more liberal than you expected. And I think
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  Speaker 2: you can look at two terms of Obama. That's a
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  Speaker 2: major factor in why Donald Trump got elected. So this
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  Speaker 2: is Barack Obama's bread and butter, playing down ties to
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  Speaker 2: extremists and tying to people who are way out of
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  Speaker 2: the mainstream and arguably beyond the pale and acting like
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  Speaker 2: this is normal because I speak in a normal, moderate
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  Speaker 2: tone of voice. Obama has referred to it as his
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  Speaker 2: Midwestern news broadcaster voice. And as a result of that,
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  Speaker 2: he doesn't come across as, you know, because he doesn't
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  Speaker 2: pound the table and, you know, frothing at the mouth
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  Speaker 2: when he speaks, he, oh, he must be very reasonable.
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  Speaker 2: His go-to rhetorical move is, some people say we should
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  Speaker 2: do this conservative idea. Some people say we should do
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  Speaker 2: this extremely, extremely left-wing idea. I have this sensible left-wing
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  Speaker 2: idea in the middle. I'm like, well, wait a second.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't pick equal points on the spectrum there. And
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  Speaker 2: that's a bit of how he shifted the Overton window,
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  Speaker 2: as they say, over in a leftward direction. Secondly, what's
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  Speaker 2: so radical about wanting health care for everyone? Greg, wasn't
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  Speaker 2: there a big health care bill that got passed when
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  Speaker 2: Obama– it was like they called it Obamacare. This was
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  Speaker 2: his signature thing. And what was the other name that
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  Speaker 2: they insisted that by calling– I'm calling it Obamacare. You
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  Speaker 2: were making it more partisan. So what were we supposed
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  Speaker 2: to call it?
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  Speaker 4: The Affordable Care Act.
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  Speaker 2: The Affordable Care– is care affordable right now, Americans?
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 2: No, it is not. So here we are more than
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  Speaker 2: a decade later. Democrats are making the same. Oh, health
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  Speaker 2: care is too expensive. That's why we need single payer.
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  Speaker 2: That's like this idea. Like, oh, we just want to
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  Speaker 2: give everybody health care. Well, first of all, they tried
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  Speaker 2: this in Vermont. There are no Republicans in Vermont to
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  Speaker 2: stop this. They looked at the numbers. It was basically
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  Speaker 2: a double or triple the state's budget. They didn't have
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  Speaker 2: enough money in the state to do to operate the
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  Speaker 2: way they want to do this. But in this case,
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  Speaker 2: like you can't have single payer or public the way
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  Speaker 2: that he does without eliminating private health insurance. And when
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  Speaker 2: you say to people, do you want to eliminate private
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  Speaker 2: health insurance? I ask this of like smart, accomplished, left
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  Speaker 2: of center friends that I like. And they'll say, I
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  Speaker 2: don't understand why Republicans oppose Medicare for all. And I said,
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  Speaker 2: would you trade your current health insurance for Medicare? And
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  Speaker 2: they're always like, well, no, not the way it is
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  Speaker 2: right now. It would have to get a lot better.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, no, no, no. There is no magic,
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  Speaker 2: much better Medicare waiting for you once they pass Medicare
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  Speaker 2: for all. Once they pass Medicare for all, your private
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  Speaker 2: health insurance, which like, I don't know, 80% of the
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  Speaker 2: people who are covered say they're satisfied with. Nobody loves
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  Speaker 2: health insurance companies, right? Insurance in general is not a
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  Speaker 2: fun concept. It's not Coca-Cola insurance. It's not Disneyland. It's
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  Speaker 2: not something fun. It's something you pay hoping you're never
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  Speaker 2: really going to need it that badly. And someday eventually
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  Speaker 2: you get hit by a bus and you do need it.
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  Speaker 2: And so it covers a good portion of your expenses,
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  Speaker 2: but you still are upset by the fact like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you got hit by a bus. You're not doing great.
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  Speaker 2: Same thing with auto insurance. Anyway, that's what the system is.
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  Speaker 2: And Obama just kind of makes it sound like you
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  Speaker 2: could be getting free health care. It's just those bad
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  Speaker 2: Republicans won't let you do it. That's not the facts
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  Speaker 2: at all. And he has to go through this great
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  Speaker 2: rigmarole of, oh, they say they're going to force-feed you tofu.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: It's just that once the government pays for your health care,
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  Speaker 2: they decide what health care you get. And that's the
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  Speaker 2: way it's working in every single system that operates like this.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: And when they're tired of paying for your medical bills,
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  Speaker 3: it turns into Canada where they're like, well, we'll pay
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  Speaker 3: for one more thing, but you have to die now.
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  Speaker 2: It's soylent green.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Barack Obama got hit with the lie of
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  Speaker 3: the year back in the day for if you like
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  Speaker 3: your doctor, you can keep your doctor. If you like
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  Speaker 3: your plan, you can keep your plan. There's another quote
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  Speaker 3: that got dug up as a result of this speech,
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  Speaker 3: and that was his promise that you'll get much better
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  Speaker 3: health care and it'll cost less than your monthly cable bill.
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  Speaker 4: Thanks a lot, Barack. Thanks a lot. Not one Republican
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  Speaker 4: voted for that. They're on the hook.
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  Speaker 2: In Obama's defense, Greg, most people don't pay much for
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  Speaker 2: cable anymore because they switch to streaming.
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  Speaker 4: So technically.
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  Speaker 2: We don't have that comparison anymore. So it's kind of
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  Speaker 2: hard to say it's costing more than you. Because really,
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  Speaker 2: most people, they don't have a cable bill. So there
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  Speaker 2: you go.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, thankfully, we've broken up the cables and everybody gets streaming.
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  Speaker 3: And now it costs even more because everything you want
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  Speaker 3: to watch is on a separate streaming platform.
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  Speaker 2: What they're saying is they're going to put all the
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  Speaker 2: streaming services together and they're going to bundle it in
• 8:32
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  Speaker 2: just reinvented.
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  Speaker 3: On Wednesday, we dove into the Ilhan Omar immigration investigation
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  Speaker 3: and the many parts of it that don't add up. Jim,
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  Speaker 3: the last time we were talking about Ilhan Omar was
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  Speaker 3: the day after her sit-down interview with Chris Hayes of MSNOW.
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  Speaker 3: And he asked her, you know, in that kind of
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  Speaker 3: dismissive tone, you were never married to your brother, right?
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  Speaker 3: And she says, not to my knowledge. And so since then,
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  Speaker 3: we found out that Ilhan... Abdullahi Omar might not be
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  Speaker 3: her actual name. It could be Ilhan Nur Saeed Elmi.
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  Speaker 3: But you've actually done quite a bit of digging into
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  Speaker 3: this story, specifically as it relates to some of the
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  Speaker 3: most significant questions regarding the immigration aspect of Ilhan Omar.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I'm going to call it for now, just
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  Speaker 3: because it's easier. And her family, specifically what age she
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  Speaker 3: was when she came to the United States, and also
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  Speaker 3: what her dad was doing in Somalia and whether they
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  Speaker 3: really deserved refugee status.
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  Speaker 4: So what have you uncovered?
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  Speaker 2: Well, people might be saying, what does it matter? At
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  Speaker 2: this point, what difference does it make, as Hillary Clinton
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  Speaker 2: would say, regarding Benghazi? What age Ilhan Omar is? Well,
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  Speaker 2: she has said many times that she received her citizenship
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  Speaker 2: when her father received his citizenship in the year 2000.
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  Speaker 2: If she was born in the year 1982, like she
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  Speaker 2: currently claims- then she was 18 or just under 18
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  Speaker 2: and therefore she would qualify under this.
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  Speaker 4: If you are.
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  Speaker 2: Over 18 or age 18 or over, the U.S. government
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  Speaker 2: wants you to go through a separate process. You don't
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  Speaker 2: automatically get citizenship when your parent gets citizenship. And the
• 12:13
  Speaker 2: problem is there are quite a few references to her
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  Speaker 2: being born in the year 1981, including on the official
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  Speaker 2: website of the Minnesota state government where she served as
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  Speaker 2: a member of the Minnesota state house for one term
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  Speaker 2: before running for the U.S.
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  Speaker 4: House.
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  Speaker 2: Now, errors happen. People make mistakes. There are typos. People
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  Speaker 2: make fat fingers. It's conceivable that it was put down
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  Speaker 2: as 81 when it was meant to be 82. The
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  Speaker 2: problem is, is that this document was uploaded in, she
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  Speaker 2: was elected in 2016. Information came in then. The state
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  Speaker 2: house is very clear. They don't verify the information. They
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  Speaker 2: take the information from the new lawmaker. And that this
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  Speaker 2: information appeared in a profile of Ilhan Omar written by
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  Speaker 2: the BBC and a whole bunch of places listed her
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  Speaker 2: birth year as 1981. Then another person who had run
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  Speaker 2: for the Minnesota state legislator started asking questions about whether
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  Speaker 2: Ilhan Omar was a U.S. citizen. And a call was
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  Speaker 2: made by then Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's office to the Minnesota
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  Speaker 2: state legislator saying, this is an error. Can you please
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  Speaker 2: change this from 1981 to 1982? Now, it's possible that
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  Speaker 2: this is all in the up and up, but it's
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  Speaker 2: just a little strange that there's an error there and
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  Speaker 2: that the error is widely reported for three and a
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  Speaker 2: half years before anybody notices this.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, you know what?
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  Speaker 2: That's wrong. And it only becomes an issue once she
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  Speaker 2: does that. Also, it's coming soon to a National Review
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  Speaker 2: expense report near you. I bought a copy of Ilhan
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  Speaker 2: Omar's autobiography. This is what America looks like. My journey
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  Speaker 2: from refugee to congresswoman. Chapter two, which describes her life
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  Speaker 2: in Somalia, is entitled War. The chapter is subtitled 1989-1991, Mugadishu, Somalia.
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  Speaker 2: And the first sentence is, I was eight years old
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  Speaker 2: when civil war broke out in Somalia. As I said,
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  Speaker 2: chapter heading is 1989. Now, you don't have to be
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  Speaker 2: a math major to to figure out that if you're
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  Speaker 2: eight in 1989, it means you were born in 1981,
• 14:16
  Speaker 2: which raises this question of what age were you when
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  Speaker 2: your father got his citizenship? By the way, the father's
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  Speaker 2: citizenship papers, apparently the government has no record of that.
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  Speaker 2: This other person who ran for state legislature wrote to
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  Speaker 2: the documents and said, can you please verify the citizenship?
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  Speaker 2: And they gave the father's name, Nur Omar Mohammed, and
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  Speaker 2: variations of his name in case there's a typo or,
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  Speaker 2: you know, he went by a nickname or something like that,
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  Speaker 2: gave a ballpark estimate of his birth date. And the
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  Speaker 2: response was, we have no records indicating that. Now, I
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  Speaker 2: checked it out. The person who sent that response, it's
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  Speaker 2: a certified letter. It's official document from the U.S.
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  Speaker 4: Government.
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  Speaker 2: This guy really exists. You know, when you start wondering
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  Speaker 2: why did the Department of Homeland Security investigations, the investigative
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  Speaker 2: arm of the Department of Homeland Security, when they searched
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  Speaker 2: her house, I suspect this is the sort of thing
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  Speaker 2: that they're looking for and that they're trying to figure out. A,
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  Speaker 2: was her father ever a citizen? I'll get to talk
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  Speaker 2: more about her father in a second. B, how old
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  Speaker 2: was she when he got his citizenship, if he got
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  Speaker 2: his citizenship? And would she have, you know, did she
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  Speaker 2: get this automatic one? Or if she didn't, did she
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  Speaker 2: ever become a U.S. citizen? And then there's all kinds
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  Speaker 2: of questions of, but think about all the sheer, people
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  Speaker 2: are like, oh, the statute of limitations has expired. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: but think about all the different times since then that
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  Speaker 2: Ilhan Omar has signed documents certifying herself to be a
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  Speaker 2: citizen under penalty of perjury or other circumstances like that.
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  Speaker 2: That almost certainly has happened within the statute of limitations
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  Speaker 2: of that. And then the other issue is she only
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  Speaker 2: makes one reference to her father's profession in this book
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  Speaker 2: and refers to him as an educator. But about a
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  Speaker 2: page later, she describes living on a compound in Mogadishu,
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  Speaker 2: Somalia with armed guards and that her family had a driver,
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  Speaker 2: who could take her to school. Now, at the time,
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  Speaker 2: Somalia was one of the poorest countries in the world.
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  Speaker 2: So if you're a little surprised that an educator would
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  Speaker 2: have that kind of resources and have a driver driving it,
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  Speaker 2: you know, if that doesn't make sense to you, well,
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  Speaker 2: there's a good reason for that. It's because he was
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  Speaker 2: not an educator. He was a colonel in the Somali army.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's fine. But one, that's a little weird
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  Speaker 2: that you completely mischaracterized your father's profession in your descriptions.
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  Speaker 2: The other major issue is from really the late 60s,
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  Speaker 2: but intensifying through, you know, really getting bad in the
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  Speaker 2: late 80s, the Somali army was committing genocide against the
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  Speaker 2: people of Somaliland. It's the northern region. And there's a particular,
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  Speaker 2: I believe, the Isaac tribe is, I believe, forgive me
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  Speaker 2: if I'm mispronouncing it. This is well documented. United Nations,
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  Speaker 2: Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, every single organization has done.
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  Speaker 2: And this was not like some rogue soldiers in one area.
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  Speaker 2: This was a multi-year operation. Large-scale campaign of executing civilians,
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: bombing villages, poisoning wells, torture, rape, the whole nine yards.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: Many people have said it is pretty much impossible to
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: believe that Ilhan Oman's father rose up to the rank
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: of colonel with having nothing to do with the genocidal
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: actions of the army for this whole time. Now, based
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: on any of this, can I prove that he pulled
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: the trigger on anybody?
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: No.
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: But people just simply said, this is like saying I
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: served in the Nazi army, but I had nothing to
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: do with any war crimes. Very hard to believe the
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: scale of what was going on. And oh, by the way,
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: where he was stationed lines up with certain accounts of massacres.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Does this mean with 100% certainty he partook in it?
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Can't say that. But it certainly puts motive, means, and opportunity.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: The circumstances starts to pile up in something like this. Anyway,
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: these are, I suspect, the birth year and, by the way,
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: so under U.S. law, if you've committed war crimes, if
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: you've committed anything resembling genocide, you can't come within a
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: country mile of gaining refugee status. So it is extremely
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: likely that her father lied about what he had done
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: during the war in his process of getting the citizenship. Remember,
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: the citizenship, the refugee status, which led to the citizenship, which, remember,
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: we can't verify because the U.S. government says it has
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: no records. This is a very fertile territory. And of course,
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: her response to all this is, you know, this is
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: racist to even wonder about, to investigate or something like that. Again,
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: when I say that she was eight when the Civil
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: War started in 1989, I'm quoting her own book. This
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: is much like, you know, I think it was Keyshawn
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Johnson who said, there are a couple of athletes who
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: have said things like Mike, that was taken out of
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: context in their own autobiography. No, you don't get to
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: use that excuse. So that's the latest on Ilhan Omar, Greg.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: So, first of all, props to Jim doing the work
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: that no one else wants to do and reading Ilhan
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: Omar's autobiography. I wouldn't do that for you. So please
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: give Jim credit for that. But, Jim, I also love
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: kind of the the almost Menendez brothers type argument from
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: the Omar clan there, because, you know, the Menendez, everybody's like, oh,
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: you got to have.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: Compassion on these kids. Their parents are dead. Well, yeah,
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: but they killed them.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: And then, you know, the Omars are like, well, we
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: had to leave Somalia. There was a genocide and a
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: refugee crisis.
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: We had no choice.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but you were probably perpetrated again. At least the
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: odds are more likely in that direction that you were
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: a victim of it.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: We should point out Ilhan Omar's father passed away in
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: 2020 from COVID-19. So it's not like He can be questioned.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: It's not like he can have a citizenship revoked or
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: have him deported or anything like that. With that said,
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: and by the way, like no doubt Ilhan Omar in
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: her childhood years went through some terrible experiences fleeing to
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: a refugee camp in a Michigan. But, and there's this
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: description in the book of armed men coming to her house,
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: firing guns into the house and people who are coming
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: to try to kill them. And that's really, really terrifying
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: thing no child should ever go through. but it sounds
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: different when he's a Colonel in an army that had
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: been committing genocide. And you all be like, all of
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: a sudden, like, Oh, Oh, that's why they were doing that. Oh,
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: it's not like, Oh, this big mean group came after
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: the local educator who happened to have a driver and
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: an armed compound and things like that. So, um, I
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: I've actually cut, you know, I thought, you know, like
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: for all the, thank you for the credit, but I'm
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: going to observe that like, here we are in 2026
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: and I'm reading this book that was written, you know,
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: shortly after she got elected to, uh, Congress with a
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: paperback update of maybe a year or two later. I
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: guess 2020. There's a reference to the COVID pandemic in
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: the afterward. So yeah, good for me for reading it.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: It's not like I did this speedily. But I'm going
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: to observe, I'm interested that no one else who read
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: this book, and maybe I'm just making an assumption there.
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Maybe I'm assuming anyone else read this book. But just
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: kind of this recognition that at no point did that
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: seem odd to people. the educator living in this armed
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: compound and having a driver, and this question of why
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: were they going after an educator? We know that there
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: was a terrible civil war in Somalia, but it didn't
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: just happen. It happened after more than a decade of
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: this Soviet-aligned communist dictator in Somalia committing genocide on a
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: large scale and killing hundreds of thousands of people. It's
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: just interesting that no one has ever... By the way,
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: you know what? Two names that pop up in this...
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Came up in my research. They don't pop up in
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: the book. First of all, guess who was trying to
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: represent the dictator of Somalia in the closing years of
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: the Civil War, Greg?
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: I can't even imagine who.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Paul Manafort. Former Trump campaign manager who basically built his career.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: on representing every tin pot dictator and sleaze bag and
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: stuff like that. But also the dictator gets turned from power.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: There are two fighting warlords in Somalia. Greg, can you
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: name one of those two warlords? Adid.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: Adid.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: Adid, recognize the name. So if people who remember Black
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: Hawk Down, Adid was the guy who the US was
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: going after and who they were fighting during that particular incident.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: So here we are thinking Somalia is this far off
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: and obscure corner of the world that America doesn't think
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: about too much. You know, a whole bunch of American
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: names pop up in the course of researching the story.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: You mentioned that Omar is saying it's all racism, that
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: this is coming up. She also told Hassan Piker, yes,
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: she was just on the Hassan Piker podcast, that it's
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: because she's naturally pretty and that the right wants to
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: look at her because everyone on the right on the
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: female side is Botoxed, apparently. So much like AOC saying
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: they only criticize her because they want to date her,
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: Ilhan Omar has decided this is the only reason that
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: people are looking into her immigration status. And whether she
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: married her brother and whether she lied about when she
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: was born or what her father did. Yeah, none of
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: that has any relevance to this whatsoever.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: Don't hate me because I'm beautiful. Okay, I hate you
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: because you're conceited.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: Nice try.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: And a non-citizen and committed fraud and all these other things.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: But if she wants to say she's pretty, Craig, let's
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: credit where it's due. By squad standards. Top half, top third.
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to dispute that.
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• 24:16
  Speaker 3: the New York Times reported what many of us long suspected.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: The emergence of a Senate candidate with the same name
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: as the incumbent Republican senator was more than a coincidence
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: in Alaska. It was Democrats deliberately trying to confuse voters
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: and help their candidate win. Guest host Scott Bertram and
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: I sorted it out on Thursday. Jim and I have
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: talked a lot about the stupidity of ranked choice voting
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: in Alaska. We've talked about the insanity of the other
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: Dan Sullivan on the ballot and how this was obviously
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: a play to siphon off votes from the Senator Dan Sullivan.
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: But Scott, it's now officially a problem because the New
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: York Times has reported on this. They ran a story
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: a few months ago about how Mary Peltola, the Democratic nominee,
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: was horrible to her staff.
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: And it's possible that that.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: Being horrible has now caught up with her because they've
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: now run a second story in the New York Times
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: talking about how the Democrats and the Peltola campaign were
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: actively involved in allegedly in recruiting the other Dan Sullivan.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: The New York Times says in the summer of 2025,
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: a staffer for Mary Peltola received unusual instructions from top
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: campaign aides. Find as many people named Dan Sullivan in
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: Alaska as you can. The staffer complied, coming through voter
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: records to produce a list of Dan Sullivans from across
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: the state.
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: This was no random request. Dan S.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: Sullivan is the name of the state's Republican senator. And
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: if the Peltola campaign or its allies could track down
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: and persuade another Dan Sullivan to run for Senate, The
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: confusion could cost the senator crucial votes on the state's
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: unusual four-person ballot.
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: The plan worked.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: This spring, a retired teacher from a tiny fishing village
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: along the Alaska Panhandle, reachable only by air and sea,
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: announced his candidacy for Senate. His name was Dan J.
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: Sullivan.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: And by all accounts, he's not a Republican, even though
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: he's running as one. His politics, to the extent that
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: he has any, are to the left. He seems to
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: be a willing participant in this charade, however. Lisa Murkowski,
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: who basically created the rank choice atrocity in Alaska, is
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: now attacking Peltola, saying, while some may try to write
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: this off as just how politics works now, ballot stacking
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: should have no place in our electoral process. Run and
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: win on your merits, your views, your policy ideas and
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: your accomplishments. By contrast, recruiting candidates to manipulate the field
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: and influence voting outcomes is simply wrong. Alaskans deserve the
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: honest truth from Mary and her campaign campaign. What has
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: been revealed is a pattern of lies and cover ups
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: and a culture of deception that belongs nowhere in our
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: elections or among.
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: Our elected officials.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: Well, Senator, if you had just left the normal system alone,
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: we wouldn't be having this problem. But, Scott, what do
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: you make of the fact that, A, The New York
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: Times actually run a story that's negative towards a Democrat
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: less than a week ago before Election Day? And even
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: though the rest of us are saying, yeah, we figured
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: this out a long time ago, it's now part of
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: the national conversation.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: I feel real bad for the phone staff at The
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: New York Times today, although I guess most people will
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: cancel via via the website or via their app or
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: something along those lines. But, you know, the cancellations are
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: coming in fast and furious because if it's not if
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: it's if it's not a fan service, that's not what
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: New York Times readers necessarily want. So, yeah, seeing a
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: story that paints someone who ostensibly would help a Democrat
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: win is Alaska and give Democrats a majority in the
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Senate is not going to sit well with New York
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Times readers.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: That's for sure.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: I'm sure there are efforts underway now across social media
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: to cancel your New York Times subscription. How dare they
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: do journalism in Alaska? This is a strategy that is
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: not necessarily new or unique, certainly not in Chicago, where
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: It's just randomly and strangely, you know, when you have
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: a good Irish guy running against someone with a with
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: a Latino name, a second Latino name will pop up
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: on the ballot. And goodness, it's just it's strange how
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: those things happen sometimes. Those that's, of course, among Democrats
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: fighting among Democrats in Chicago and the South Side and elsewhere.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: So that's not all that unprecedented to do so in
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: a situation like this with ranked choice voting, where there's
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: a real strategy behind it, it seems. is something new
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: and different. And in Alaska, it could make a difference. Now,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: if she's going to win by 10 points, of course,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. But in a tight race, when you're
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: a candidate, a Democrat in a state that's been deeply
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: red for a long time, you position yourself as being
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: something different, something above the fray, something that's going to
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: be honest and true. And then it turns out, of course,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: you're completely not in any way, shape, or form, as
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: the story sort of indicates. That could be a real problem. Now,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: how many people have already voted? I meant to look
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: and I didn't look when early voting started in Alaska.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: I think it has pretty sure at least has been
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: underway for a little bit. This, of course, is another
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: issue where voters don't have a complete picture of things
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: when they actually cast ballots. That can be another discussion
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: for another day. It is somewhat crazy how credulous reporters were.
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: On this issue.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: There was a really glowing profile of Dan Sullivan, the non-senator,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: in the Chicago Tribune a couple of weeks ago. And
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: I read it.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: I read the Tribune every day.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: And I said, why are they doing this? And like
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: the 60th paragraph in, they bury the fact that this
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Dan Sullivan is the brother of Paul Sullivan, who's a
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: longtime baseball writer for the Chicago Tribune.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: So they had the access.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: They write this profile. Really, like there's two sentences where, well,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: the Democrats say they didn't recruit him, and he says
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: that he didn't talk to them. And that's it. And
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: the rest is a very, very nice profile puff piece
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: of this Dan Sullivan. Looks really bad today in the
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: wake of the report by the New York Times. My
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: favorite part of the Times report, by the way, is
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: where the Peltola campaign person tries to take back retracting
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: all statements made regarding the 2026 Alaska Senate race in
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: connection with any article you may or may not be writing.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: I am not willing to be a source for any
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: story in any capacity. Well, that's just delicious, isn't it?
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: They did not. And again, they did not heed that call.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: They did not agree to retract her statement. So like
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: a double dose of interesting journalism happening in The New
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: York Times.
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely right.
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: Hopefully this is a strike against ranked choice voting, which
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: I absolutely abhor. And also, it's just another example of
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: the media. Like I said in the very beginning, it's
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: kind of like the Biden incompetency. It's all a conspiracy
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: theory until the mainstream media reports on it. Then all
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: of a sudden, it's this breaking news and, oh my gosh,
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: I can't believe this is happening. And everybody's like, yeah,
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: we knew about that like months or a year ago,
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: or in Biden's case, four years ago or more.
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: But Tens of thousands of people have voted.
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: I don't remember the exact number, but I saw that
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: in a piece yesterday, at least 35, 40, maybe, maybe
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: even more than that. And in Alaska, that's quite a
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: bit of the electorate, unfortunately. But Mary Peltola has been
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: fighting against the Trump administration, which has already launched a
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: federal lawsuit on this issue. But for the most part,
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: it's been smacked down by judges up there until now.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: We'll see what happens as a result of this New
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: York Times story. But back in August, while campaigning, Mary Peltola,
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: while talking about other political issues was very, very harsh
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: against political deception. In fact, she wanted jail time for it.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: It should be a criminal offense to lie or mislead
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: the electorate. Yes.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: Let's work for that. Yeah. Criminal offense to mislead the electorate.
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: So she's got she's got a lot of dirt on
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: her hands here, Scott.
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: But I don't know.
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: In this polarized climate, will that make a huge difference?
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: Will there be a lot of people in Alaska, even
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: if they haven't voted? to say, you know what, I
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: was going to vote for her, but now I'm not.
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: I just don't know. We'll find out.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: Maybe they'll knock her down one spot in the ranked choice.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: I was going to have her three. Now I've got
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: to put her at four. Her response to this is interesting, too,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: because she's trying to destroy our democracy, as we've been told.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: Her response yesterday was to attack the New York Times
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: for writing the story. An attack on our vaunted and
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: respected free press, I have been told reliably, is an
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: attack on our democracy. So, If you don't vote for
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: her because she recruited a second Dan Sullivan, don't vote
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: for her because she's trying to destroy our democracy.
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: She absolutely is.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: Yes, she and the Democratic Party say they did none
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: of that. All those allegations are scurrilous and false. Forget
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: the text messages and the emails that were provided to
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: the New York Times. I, of course, joke about that
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: a little bit.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: But when you're talking about destroying a democracy, recruiting someone
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: with the same name to confuse voters who are casting
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: ballots– is probably farther down the line of destroying a
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: democracy than 99.4% of things Democrats actually have accused Republicans
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: of doing to destroy democracy.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: So let's be clear about that.
• 33:02
  Speaker 6: Oh, yes.
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: And of course, it's a well-worn analogy.
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: But if the Republicans had done this, this would have
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  Speaker 3: we've been following so many Senate races around the country.
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  Speaker 3: One that we haven't spent a lot of time on
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  Speaker 3: is Florida. That is where Angie Nixon scored a major
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  Speaker 3: upset in the Democratic primary a couple months back, defeating
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  Speaker 3: people think Ashley Moody is probably going to win fairly comfortably.
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  Speaker 3: But CBS News was talking to Angie Nixon, and she
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  Speaker 3: was talking about how people from really unstable countries need
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  Speaker 3: And one of the countries she listed was Cuba. And
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  Speaker 4: Do you consider that Cuba is a dictatorship? You know,
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  Speaker 1: I have never been to Cuba, and so I will
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  Speaker 3: Jim, I've never been to North Korea. I'm pretty sure
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  Speaker 3: it's communist. Same thing with the Chinese and the Vietnamese
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  Speaker 4: But Angie Nixon, I wouldn't know. Haven't set foot there,
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  Speaker 4: but I'll just take your word for it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I haven't been to China, haven't been to Russia,
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  Speaker 2: haven't been to– oh, yeah, I've been to Syria. And
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  Speaker 2: they're the good Islamists now or at least reasonable-ish.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe, yeah. TBD. TBD.
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  Speaker 2: Keep an eye on them. But I'm just going to
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  Speaker 2: observe– long-time listeners may be noticing this emerging gag where,
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  Speaker 2: you know, when Abdullah Al-Sayed complains about cars, I'll say, Greg,
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  Speaker 2: you're from Michigan. Are cars a big deal in Michigan?
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  Speaker 2: There was also Crowley, the gubernatorial candidate out of Wisconsin,
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  Speaker 2: complained about beer gardens, saying they were a symbol of
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  Speaker 2: white supremacy. And I was like, Greg, are beer gardens–
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  Speaker 2: is beer a big deal in Wisconsin? And of course–
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  Speaker 2: if you ever look at the numbers– Like, oh, which
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  Speaker 2: state drinks the most? It's Wisconsin by a Y. It's
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  Speaker 2: not even close. It kind of puts the rest of
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  Speaker 2: us to shame, right? So is Cuba a big deal
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  Speaker 2: in Florida? I know it's a big state. I know
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  Speaker 2: that maybe, but it's South Florida. Kind of a big deal.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of important in the Miami area. But hey, it's
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  Speaker 2: not like a Democrat needs to do well in Miami.
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  Speaker 6: Right, Greg?
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