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'LOW' Joe SLAMS Trump suggesting Iran 'take out' Los Angeles, San Diego · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: And again, remember, with the war, it's just artificial.
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  Speaker 2: It's a little bit high. It's a small price to
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  Speaker 2: pay for keeping the world safe, keeping our country safe.
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  Speaker 2: They can take out a city. Let them take out
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  Speaker 2: Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego. This is
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  Speaker 2: a very small price to pay.
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  Speaker 1: And it's going to be over very soon.
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  Speaker 2: It's essentially almost over with.
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  Speaker 1: And they might keep going a little long. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they always say they have a big threshold for pain.
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  Speaker 1: They need it. Let me tell you, they need it.
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  Speaker 1: But it's going to end very soon.
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  Speaker 2: And it'll end one way or the other. And your
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  Speaker 2: gas and your gasoline and all of the things.
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  Speaker 3: President Trump last night in Nebraska, again, trying to justify
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  Speaker 3: the higher prices Americans are paying for fuel and other goods,
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  Speaker 3: while also just casually calling for Iran to attack two
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  Speaker 3: of the most populous cities in the United States.
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  Speaker 4: Joe.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, Joe.
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  Speaker 5: There will be some, oh, he's just joking. He's just, well, okay, well, great.
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  Speaker 5: Tell me then, please, what other American president in our history,
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  Speaker 5: post-Civil War, have called for the destruction of entire cities?
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  Speaker 4: Joking.
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  Speaker 5: If this is your joke, if this is your idea
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  Speaker 5: of a presidential joke, joking about the killing of 10
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  Speaker 5: million or.
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  Speaker 1: So people, Is that is that where we are?
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  Speaker 5: Because I thought it was bad enough when he was
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  Speaker 5: joking in front of California Republicans several years ago. I
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  Speaker 5: think it was in 22 about an elderly man getting
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  Speaker 5: the hell beaten out of him and almost dying.
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  Speaker 1: Paul Pelosi.
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  Speaker 5: Remember, and he led those California and they were just
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  Speaker 5: laughing their asses off, thinking that's just the funniest thing
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  Speaker 5: in the world. Talking about the brutalization and near killing
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  Speaker 5: of a man who, by the way, a lot of
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  Speaker 5: people on the MAGA right spent about a week suggesting,
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  Speaker 5: you know, drumming up rumors.
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  Speaker 1: About Paul Pelosi, the man who was the victim of it.
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  Speaker 5: So I thought that was pretty bad, Willie, when you're
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  Speaker 5: joking about the battering and the abusing of an elderly man,
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  Speaker 5: almost killing an elderly man. I've got to say, a
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  Speaker 5: president of the United States, we're not talking about Henny
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  Speaker 5: Youngman here.
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  Speaker 1: We're not talking about Jack Payne. We're talking about the president.
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  Speaker 5: Of the United States talking about the obliteration of San
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  Speaker 5: Diego and Los Angeles as a joke. That's what I've
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  Speaker 5: already heard this morning. Oh, he was just joking. You
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  Speaker 5: people just don't get it. No, I don't get when
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  Speaker 5: the president of the United States says Iran can obliterate
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  Speaker 5: Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 1: And San Diego.
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  Speaker 5: Not funny if you're an American who actually believes that
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  Speaker 5: presidents should do more than divide us.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, and this is sort of the response and the
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  Speaker 6: reaction when the president says something like this over the years.
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  Speaker 6: Immediately his team or those who defend him on podcasts
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  Speaker 6: or social media say he owned the media, he owned
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  Speaker 6: the left because they got upset about the thing he said. Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: there are certain things that you ought to be upset about.
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  Speaker 6: And if he was joking, what's the joke? I mean,
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  Speaker 6: I'm happy if there's a joke in there somewhere. I
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  Speaker 6: don't understand what the joke is. And embedded in that
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  Speaker 6: alleged joke, embedded in the alleged joke is, Well, California
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  Speaker 6: is blue.
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  Speaker 4: Those are lefties.
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  Speaker 6: So let them bomb L.A. and San Diego. We've got
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  Speaker 6: to protect Omaha and the places I care about. That's
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  Speaker 6: not the voice, obviously, of an American president. And as
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  Speaker 6: you say, Joe, it goes without saying that if any
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  Speaker 6: other president, especially a Democrat, let's say Barack Obama, for example,
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  Speaker 6: or Joe Biden made that joke, there would be outrage
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  Speaker 6: across the board and maybe calls for impeachment.
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  Speaker 5: Well, of course, there'd be calls for impeachment if he
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  Speaker 5: called for the obliteration of, say, Jacksonville or Birmingham or
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  Speaker 5: if it were if it were a Democratic president calling
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  Speaker 5: for the obliteration of Republican cities.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, of course, there'd be immediate calls. for impeachment.
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  Speaker 5: But again, this is what, and by the way, the president,
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  Speaker 5: Jonathan Lemire, calling for the destruction of two American cities
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  Speaker 5: in the closing run of a critically important midterm election,
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  Speaker 5: you do wonder, you do wonder if you're a Republican
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  Speaker 5: running in California, Do you now go along with the
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  Speaker 5: president's joke and say, hey, that's pretty funny?
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  Speaker 1: Pretty funny.
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  Speaker 5: He's talking about the obliteration of 10 million or so people.
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  Speaker 5: What a funny joke that is. He should take his
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  Speaker 5: act up to the Catskills after he's finished at 1600
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  Speaker 5: Pennsylvania Avenue. Do you go along with that joke because
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  Speaker 5: you are just that weak of a man? Or do
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  Speaker 5: you actually stand up and say, you know what? That's
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  Speaker 5: really out of line. Joking about the killing of 10
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  Speaker 5: million or so Americans. We'll see what he does. But
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  Speaker 5: like I said, they laughed when he talked about Paul
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  Speaker 5: Pelosi almost being beaten to death.
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  Speaker 1: Now, jokes about the killing.
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  Speaker 5: I guess if you're in California, it's funny when you
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  Speaker 5: talk about somebody being brutalized or entire cities being wiped
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  Speaker 5: from the.
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  Speaker 1: Face of the earth.
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  Speaker 5: That's now a joke. That's now a joke for Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 5: I think actually what it suggests, folks, is just how
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  Speaker 5: low this president has taken himself and his party after
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  Speaker 5: 10 years in American politics that people in that audience
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  Speaker 5: laughed at the prospects of 10 million or so other
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  Speaker 5: Americans being wiped off the face of the earth by
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  Speaker 5: a nuke from Iran.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's no bottom here. I mean, President Trump is
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  Speaker 4: going to take shots at his political foes. And those often,
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  Speaker 4: he just deems them, they're other Americans. He's never tried
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  Speaker 4: to be president of the entire country. He's never tried
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  Speaker 4: to be president of blue states and red. We see
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  Speaker 4: that from his governing. We see that from his rhetoric.
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  Speaker 4: And yes, there were laughs in that audience last night. Today,
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  Speaker 4: there will be, you know, some California Republicans, you know,
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  Speaker 4: who are going to be asked about this. And yet again,
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  Speaker 4: they're going to be put on the spot as to
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  Speaker 4: whether they defend President Trump or not. Odds are, They will.
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  Speaker 4: They'll say it was a joke. They'll play it off.
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  Speaker 4: It's so rare to have a Republican actually defy him.
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  Speaker 4: But it's also just another unnecessary distraction. And yes, this
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  Speaker 4: is this. This will be on to the next outrage tomorrow.
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  Speaker 4: Almost certainly. Right. But this is but this is the
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  Speaker 4: problem that Trump has created for Republicans, whether it's his
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  Speaker 4: policies because the war in Iran or his tariffs or
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  Speaker 4: everything else or what he says, he's giving them nothing
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  Speaker 4: to work with. Joe, nothing. And we're now a month
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  Speaker 4: from the election. And I've talked to Republicans last week
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  Speaker 4: for my piece, a couple more over the weekend who
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  Speaker 4: just say it's almost he's not trying.
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  Speaker 3: He's not.
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  Speaker 4: It's almost as if he's actively hurting our chances or
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  Speaker 4: at the very least, he's doing nothing to help. Yet
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  Speaker 4: another negative distraction for the GOP's chances.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he does.
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  Speaker 5: And this, by the way, this is exactly what Karl
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  Speaker 5: Rove is warning about. Don't let Donald Trump go out
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  Speaker 5: on the road. You people that are talking about sending
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  Speaker 5: him out on the road, this is a terrible idea
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  Speaker 5: because every day he's going to say something else that's
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  Speaker 5: going to hurt Republican candidates. And if you're in California
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  Speaker 5: and you're trying to figure out whether to vote for
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  Speaker 5: a Republican or a Democrat right now, all things being equal, well,
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  Speaker 5: this certainly doesn't help Republican candidates' chances.
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  Speaker 1: And also, again... He's got more things to worry about. Right.
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  Speaker 5: Then then then going around and deeply offending people in California.
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  Speaker 5: And I've got to say across the country, you've got
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  Speaker 5: gas prices at record highs. You've got diesel prices at
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  Speaker 5: record highs. Just telling people, hey, don't worry about it.
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  Speaker 5: This is just short term pain. Don't worry about it.
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  Speaker 5: It's worth it. It's worth it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, by the way, if they do get.
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  Speaker 5: Nukes, let let let them annihilate Los Angeles and San Diego.
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  Speaker 1: But it's worth it.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know that that's a good closing message for
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  Speaker 5: a Republican Party that is faring worse in polls than,
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  Speaker 5: you know, yesterday there was a Gallup poll. that showed,
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  Speaker 5: I think, 11-point division between Republicans and Democrats on the
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  Speaker 5: generic ballot test.
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  Speaker 1: You have Dr.
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  Speaker 5: Oz going on Fox News, lying about the price of butter, saying, oh,
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  Speaker 5: it's only a dollar. Laura Ingraham goes, where are you shopping?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, even Fox hosts are going, wait, wait a second.
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  Speaker 1: What's wrong with you? Like, how out of touch are you?
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  Speaker 5: And we're seeing exactly how out of touch they all
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  Speaker 5: are in this final run. I, you know, I think
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  Speaker 5: it's generous to say it's a joke.
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  Speaker 3: I think this is all part of the he didn't
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  Speaker 3: mean it mind game that he plays with his party
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  Speaker 3: and his supporters and the American people. He didn't mean
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  Speaker 3: it when it came to the tariffs. So many people
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  Speaker 3: were so surprised that the tariffs happened. And I saw
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  Speaker 3: that in real time. You saw it in real time, Joe.
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  Speaker 3: Mass deportation.
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  Speaker 1: I saw it. I saw it. Make up. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Mika, we saw from the Treasury secretary before he was
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  Speaker 5: Treasury secretary who.
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  Speaker 1: Told us, oh, he doesn't mean it on tariffs. He
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean it. This is just his opening bid. He's
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  Speaker 1: not going to do that. Right.
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  Speaker 3: Or what about January 6th or what about retribution? I mean,
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  Speaker 3: all these things. He didn't mean it. He doesn't really
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  Speaker 3: mean it. He doesn't really mean it. John Hellman, how
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  Speaker 3: many times have we heard that? And by the way,
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  Speaker 3: it's either he doesn't mean it or I haven't been
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  Speaker 3: watching the news is what you'll hear from people who
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  Speaker 3: want to protect the behavior of this president, which every
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  Speaker 3: day seems more and more dangerous to the safety of
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  Speaker 3: this country.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you're right.
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  Speaker 7: Those are the two options that Republicans are often given.
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  Speaker 7: The I didn't read his Twitter feed or now, I guess,
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  Speaker 7: is true.
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  Speaker 3: So it's not reading the news.
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  Speaker 1: I just I I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: I'm not familiar with what the president said. I don't
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  Speaker 7: I'm not paying attention. That's a that's the probably the
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  Speaker 7: less objectionable than the President Trump didn't mean it. What
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  Speaker 7: he said, because often, again, I go back to our
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  Speaker 7: to our standard framework. projection or confession. In this case,
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  Speaker 7: I think, Mika, you're coming down on the side of projection.
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  Speaker 7: You know, he's starting to talk about things that, you know,
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  Speaker 7: on some level, you know, he wouldn't mind seeing happening.
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  Speaker 7: Not really, maybe not actively trying to make them happen,
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  Speaker 7: but wouldn't be.
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  Speaker 3: I would take it seriously.
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  Speaker 1: Wouldn't be terrible.
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  Speaker 7: I would take it seriously too, because as we know
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  Speaker 7: about Donald Trump, he says a lot of things that
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  Speaker 7: he never does anything about. He also says, he also
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  Speaker 7: rarely does anything that he hasn't previously forecast. He telegraphs
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  Speaker 7: every Every punch in every one of his desires comes
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  Speaker 7: out everything. There is no there is no filter on him.
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  Speaker 7: And I think to Joe's point, you know, it's four
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  Speaker 7: weeks out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: And what are you doing? The most fundamental thing driving
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  Speaker 7: the elections across the country everywhere is voters who do
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  Speaker 7: not think Donald Trump is president. cares about what they
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  Speaker 7: care about, that he's not addressing issues that matter to
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  Speaker 7: them in the most kind of fundamental way. Whatever you
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  Speaker 7: think about his motivations in saying this, whatever you think
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  Speaker 7: is going on inside that head of his, there's not
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  Speaker 7: a vote that that wins. It doesn't help any Republican
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  Speaker 7: candidate anywhere, not just in California, but anywhere in the country,
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  Speaker 7: where the Republican looks up and says, well, Donald Trump
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  Speaker 7: said that yesterday. I can run on that. That's part
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  Speaker 7: of a message that's designed to reassure Republicans Some of
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  Speaker 7: the skittish voters who are turning away from the party
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  Speaker 7: that tries to help people feel like maybe. the president
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  Speaker 7: and the Republican Party are on their side and focused
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  Speaker 7: on the real lives of those real people. There's no
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  Speaker 7: analysis by which you could come up with an argument
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  Speaker 7: that this helps even a little bit for him to
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  Speaker 7: be saying these kind of things.
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  Speaker 4: And the message does go far and wide.
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