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Talks breakdown, hostilities resume in Middle East · The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated

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Speaker 3: All of this is going to come up on.
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Speaker 2: Today's show, but we'll start in Lebanon, where Israel is
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Speaker 2: trying to make a claim for more territory, encroaching in
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Speaker 2: on Lebanon while Hesbela has been distracted, I think largely
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Speaker 2: because of the Iranian War, where the Iranian regime.
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Speaker 3: Has been I think crippled.
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Speaker 2: They've been decapitated, is the way Scott Bessent phrased it
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Speaker 2: to me when I was with him on Friday. I'll
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Speaker 2: talk to you about that interaction a little bit coming
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Speaker 2: up as well. But Hesbela has tried to make rocket
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Speaker 2: attacks on Israel as well, So now they're going back
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Speaker 2: and forth. It is a rocket campaign going both directions.
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Speaker 2: And this is interesting because I think Israel it probably
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Speaker 2: benefits from Hesbela's attack in a way, because I think
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Speaker 2: a lot of people who are allied with President Trump think.
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Speaker 3: That what is Israel doing? They got to knock it off.
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Speaker 2: They've got to stop attacking Hesbela right now while we're
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Speaker 2: trying to force Peach with Iran. Hesblo of course is
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Speaker 2: an Iranian proxy, but now with Hesbelo retaliating, it definitely
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Speaker 2: seems to legitimate Israel going in hard against Lebanon and
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Speaker 2: trying to vanquish that ancient foe of Theirs, while Iran,
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Speaker 2: their primary backer, has got bigger fish to fry for themselves.
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Speaker 2: So that's going back and forth. That is not a
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Speaker 2: positive development when it comes to a piece if Iran
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Speaker 2: is going to maintain that a peaceful Lebanon is essential
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Speaker 2: to forging a piece deal. Meanwhile, the Lebanese government, led
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Speaker 2: by Joseph Aoun, who's generally sort of a cool customer
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Speaker 2: and all this, he is trying not to get involved
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Speaker 2: at all. He's trying to stay out of it, not mediating,
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Speaker 2: not brokering anything. And that's why these complicated. Territorial disputes
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Speaker 2: in the Middle East are always way more complicated than
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Speaker 2: we want. And thus we are where we're at now,
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Speaker 2: which is Trump saying that all shooting must stop between
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Speaker 2: Israel and Hezbela, and his claim that he's spoken to
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Speaker 2: leaders of both Israel and Hesbela.
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Speaker 3: Just in the last couple of hours.
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Speaker 2: He says he had a productive call with Prime Minister
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Speaker 2: bb Nennyaho of Israel. This is on true social I'm
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Speaker 2: reading now there will be no troops going to be route,
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Speaker 2: and any troops that are on their way have already
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Speaker 2: been turned back. Likewise, through highly placed representatives, I had
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Speaker 2: a very good call with Hesbela. So he didn't have
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Speaker 2: the call, but highly placed representatives spoke to the terrorist
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Speaker 2: regime Hesbela, and they agreed that all shooting will stop.
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Speaker 2: Israel will not attack them, and they will not attack Israel.
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Speaker 2: So what's interesting here You had to read between the lines,
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Speaker 2: is it Trump wants Israel to knock it off for
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Speaker 2: the time being. You know this because Trump is focused
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Speaker 2: on Iran, which is a much bigger piece of the
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Speaker 2: puzzle than what happens with Hesbela.
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Speaker 3: Then Yahoo sees this as a.
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Speaker 2: Golden opportunity to bomb some of the bad guys while
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Speaker 2: the world is looking in the other direction. And Trump
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Speaker 2: sees it as nen yah, who's got to calm down
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Speaker 2: if we're going to get to a piece.
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Speaker 3: So that's where we are.
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Speaker 2: But talks have essentially been suspended as of today. Iran
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Speaker 2: has said they've halted direct negotiations via mediators with the
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Speaker 2: United States, citing Israel's ongoing strikes and operations in Lebanon.
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Speaker 2: This is of course complicated for Trump, who it seems
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Speaker 2: like each and every day makes the world feel as
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Speaker 2: though we could be on the brink of peace. We
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Speaker 2: could see peace breaking out anytime soon. Iran state media
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Speaker 2: is reporting all this with warnings that breaches on one
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Speaker 2: front invalidate the truth the truce overall, meaning it's not
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Speaker 2: just the United States he's keeping an eye on, He's
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Speaker 2: also keeping an eye on Also, He's not just keeping
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Speaker 2: on the stat's keeping on Israel. And so this is
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Speaker 2: where these things get very complicated. And Iran has played
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Speaker 2: its biggest card, which is the strait of our moose blockade.
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Speaker 2: So if we can somehow get through this moment, I
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Speaker 2: do feel like Trump is going to have a clear
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Speaker 2: path to piece and messaging to the rest of the
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Speaker 2: world that he has achieved a historic victory in terms
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Speaker 2: of denuclear rising Iran, decapitating their navy, decapitating their air force,
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Speaker 2: decapitating their top two levels of leadership. I mentioned I
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Speaker 2: spent some time with the Secretary of the Treasury, Scott
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Speaker 2: Bessant on Friday.
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Speaker 3: We were going around my neck of the.
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Speaker 2: Woods in LA and he was talking a lot about
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Speaker 2: how economic security is national security, and he was really
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Speaker 2: touting the fact that Trump is these military victories over Iran,
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Speaker 2: even though we haven't gotten the nuclear dust yet. We
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Speaker 2: want to have more assurances that Aron will not be
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Speaker 2: doing any more nuclear development for the next twenty years
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Speaker 2: or more.
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Speaker 3: We want all that, But.
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Speaker 2: Already what they've done is they've made it so the
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Speaker 2: United States is a more dominant player economically in the region.
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Speaker 2: And I think that this is something that's worth taking in.
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Speaker 2: This came up a little bit in what I think
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Speaker 2: we're pretty historic remarks at the Reagan Institute where the
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Speaker 2: Secretary was speaking on Friday.
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Speaker 3: I think laying out what I.
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Speaker 2: Think is a new thesis that we all those of
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Speaker 2: us who subscribe to MAGA economics as I do. I
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Speaker 2: work on a newsletter every day called The Bright Part
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Speaker 2: Business Digest, where we go through Maganomics that national security
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Speaker 2: and foreign policy are directly intertwined, and in fact a
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Speaker 2: fundamental principle of the Treasury Secretary that they have to
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Speaker 2: make sure that we're short up on a national security
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Speaker 2: level because a lot of the war that's being waged
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Speaker 2: against Iran is economic. Cutting them off from economics is
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Speaker 2: one of our most powerful powerful points of leverage and
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Speaker 2: also keeps.
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Speaker 3: Us out of keeps our troops out of harm's way.
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Speaker 3: Let's play a little cut of this. Let's play cut
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Speaker 3: three guys.
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Speaker 4: America should never again put itself in a position where
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Speaker 4: its security depends on supply chains. It does not control factories,
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Speaker 4: It no longer maintains are skilled trades it failed to preserve.
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Speaker 4: That is why the presence agenda matters. Reasonable people can
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Speaker 4: debate the calibration of any particular instrument, but the central
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Speaker 4: strategic insight is undoubtedly sound. Trade policy, industrial capacity, and
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Speaker 4: national security are inseparable and to allow for independent grade.
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Speaker 2: In yeah, and he goes on, yeah, and he goes
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Speaker 2: on in the speech to lay out exactly how supply
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Speaker 2: chain vulnerabilities that we've created for ourselves are actually a
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Speaker 2: national security threat. The fact that we had our pharmaceutical
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Speaker 2: reserves depleted and we're dependent on China for all those
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Speaker 2: that's a grave strategic blunder. The fact that we're so
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Speaker 2: reliant on chips from overseas is a grave strategic blunder.
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Speaker 2: The fact that our economy is so tied into China
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Speaker 2: that we're in this spot where we have to sell
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Speaker 2: them so much of our technology that then of course
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Speaker 2: they're stealing a bunch of it. Now they're in our universities,
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Speaker 2: taking our know how, our intellectual property, bringing it back
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Speaker 2: to China. My good friend Peter Schwitzer, who is a
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Speaker 2: senior contributor for US to write our News, written his book,
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Speaker 2: wrote in his book The Invisible Coup, how China has
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Speaker 2: birth tourism, where there are people coming into the United
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Speaker 2: States from China specifically to try to infiltrate our society.
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Speaker 2: They don't best intentions. They're not just trying to make
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Speaker 2: a buck or more. They're there to try to get
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Speaker 2: state secrets from the United States, intellectual property, know how,
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Speaker 2: wisdom from the United States and bring it to the
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Speaker 2: CCP and China is a communist nation, which means that
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Speaker 2: the government is controlling all of it.
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Speaker 3: There is no private property. It does not exist in
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Speaker 3: the CCP.
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Speaker 2: It only exists at the extent that it is allowed
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Speaker 2: for by the Communist Party.
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Speaker 3: When they choose to do so. It's up to the paulp.
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Speaker 2: Buro in China whether or not you have any property
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Speaker 2: rights whatsoever. Any freedom whatsoever is a gift from them.
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Speaker 2: Doesn't come from.
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Speaker 3: God, as we believe it does in the United States.
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Speaker 2: So once you understand that, then why are we doing
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Speaker 2: so much commerce with them without assurances? That weird people
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Speaker 2: thinking through those realities.
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Speaker 3: And that's what Scott Beston's doing.
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Speaker 2: When you come back from the break, I'll play even
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Speaker 2: more how this ties in with Iran. But he was
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Speaker 2: touting our navy the most active it's been since World
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Speaker 2: War Two, he said. He was talking about precision blockades
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Speaker 2: of these ports. And then now Iran basically is down
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Speaker 2: to one client for their oil, which is China. So
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Speaker 2: they sell a lot to China, but that can only
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Speaker 2: sustain them for so long. Around their military is not
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Speaker 2: getting paid, half their truth not getting paid. They were
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Speaker 2: in a position where they had shut off the Internet.
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Speaker 2: All this shows you that even though this war has
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Speaker 2: been messy in many ways, we wish would be over
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Speaker 2: by now. We wish the gas prices would be coming down.
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Speaker 2: There's been so many victories and we're gonna tout them.
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Speaker 2: See here for three hours, looking forward to the rest
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Speaker 3: Right, Alex marlow In for Youugh.
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Speaker 2: Today, Byron York is on with me, chief political correspondent
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Speaker 2: for The Washington examin our Fox News contributor. He also
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Speaker 2: hosts the Byron York Show podcast. Byron Great to have
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Speaker 2: you back. I want to talk to you about a
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Speaker 2: number of topics today, but I want to start with
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Speaker 2: getting your overall take on Iran. It feels like every
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Speaker 2: other day, it feels like we're about to get peace.
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Speaker 2: We're deep in a war.
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Speaker 3: What do you think of the sticking points right now?
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Speaker 2: And I heard the President I played a clip for
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Speaker 2: the audience just before the break, summing up where we're at,
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Speaker 2: and basically he thinks he's gotten them to commit to
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Speaker 2: no nukes.
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Speaker 5: Ever.
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Speaker 2: That seems like the biggest ask and they got to
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Speaker 2: open up the straight But other than that, do we
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Speaker 2: know what's being negotiated at the moment?
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Speaker 5: No, we don't, and that's I mean, that's the biggest problem.
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Speaker 5: And first of all, we never seem to know whether
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Speaker 5: the negotiations are even going on at all. So, you know,
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Speaker 5: in the last few hours or earlier today, we've had
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Speaker 5: a round say no, we're not doing it, and Trump's saying, well,
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Speaker 5: you know, it wouldn't be a bad idea to stop.
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Speaker 5: It was getting kind of boring, and then he's saying, no,
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Speaker 5: they're going on, and so it's you know, it's really
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Speaker 5: really unclear, and I think a lot of people may
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Speaker 5: have an attitude who kind of, you know, want to
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Speaker 5: keep calling me when you when you get something settled, right.
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Speaker 2: So part of it is the nature of Iran is
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Speaker 2: notoriously difficult to negotiate with their tough negotiators. They've had
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Speaker 2: their top leadership completely wiped out, de capitated, and they
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Speaker 2: also move very slowly. So this is something that is
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Speaker 2: just completely anathema to the way Donald Trump behaves. But overall,
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Speaker 2: we want to wrap this thing up. But do you
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Speaker 2: see any possibility of this happening in short order, when
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Speaker 2: Iran knows they're reading American media and they know the
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Speaker 2: longer this thing drags out, the more of a problem
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Speaker 2: that is for President Trump.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't see something really fast happening. I mean,
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Speaker 5: what we were hearing a while back was that there
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Speaker 5: would be this two step process in which Iran would
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Speaker 5: reopen the strait, the United States would dispense with its blockade,
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Speaker 5: and then they would move on and come to a
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Speaker 5: final agreement about the Iran excuse me, the nuclear material,
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Speaker 5: which would involve the physical removal of the enriched uranium.
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Speaker 5: Now the problem with that was they were claiming, as
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Speaker 5: you remember, it was no dust, no dollars policy. That is,
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Speaker 5: until Iran actually hands over this stuff they don't get in,
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Speaker 5: then sanctions relief in any relief from the United States.
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Speaker 5: Problem with that is if you do lift the blockade.
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Speaker 5: Remember the President has praised the blockade is the Americans
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Speaker 5: basically premier instrument in putting pressure on Iran. He said
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Speaker 5: it was costing around five hundred million dollars a day.
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Speaker 5: So if you lift the blockade, you're giving them five
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Speaker 5: hundred million dollars in relief per day. And I think
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Speaker 5: that enormously reduces the incentive for then for Iran to
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Speaker 5: then go on to a nuclear agreement. So, you know,
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Speaker 5: I still have not seen anything that makes me think
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Speaker 5: Iran is really serious about the kind of nuclear agreement
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Speaker 5: that Trump is demanding.
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Speaker 2: So what do you say to a sort of pro
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Speaker 2: Trump audience that would like to see this win happen?
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Speaker 2: But it knows times of the essence to make sure
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Speaker 2: that we're starting to claw back anyone who may have
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Speaker 2: left the coalition over this before the mid terms, because again,
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Speaker 2: we've got to beat the democraft. You've got to win
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Speaker 2: in the midterms. What's the proper messaging do you think
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Speaker 2: out of the White House right now?
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Speaker 5: Sorry, I don't know.
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Speaker 6: I gotta ask the.
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Speaker 3: Same question last week, and I think I said, I
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Speaker 3: don't know.
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Speaker 5: We're in the same Okay, well, good, we're in agreement here.
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Speaker 5: You know, the President has from the very first, beginning
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Speaker 5: on February twenty eighth, the President said this would be
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Speaker 5: really short, really short. It's going to be very brief,
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Speaker 5: instid he predicted, you know, a few weeks, and he's
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Speaker 5: since since his predictions ran out, he's been saying that
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Speaker 5: the talks are moving forward, and an agreement is imminent.
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Speaker 5: It's very soon. We're just working out the last stuff.
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Speaker 5: The President has seemed a little desperate to get a
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Speaker 5: settlement here, but I think the one thing to do
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Speaker 5: is to go to stick with the core goal here,
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Speaker 5: the core demand here, which is that Iran cannot have
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Speaker 5: a nuclear weapon. All this other stuff is kind of
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Speaker 5: secondary to Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. And also personally,
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Speaker 5: I think, and I've said this is before this started,
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Speaker 5: I don't think there's a forever solution to that problem.
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Speaker 5: I think that you set them back for ten years
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Speaker 5: and then you keep an eye on them. Yeah, and
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Speaker 5: then you set them back again later on if you
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Speaker 5: have to. But the point is Iran doesn't get a
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Speaker 5: nuclear weapon. But there is no forever solution. And I
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Speaker 5: don't think you should make the perfect the enemy the
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Speaker 5: good here. If you have set them back a long way,
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Speaker 5: then that's good, all right.
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Speaker 2: So he did say though I know he say he's
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Speaker 2: looking desperate, but he did tweet at one am or
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Speaker 2: truth bomb at one am. Just sit back and relax
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Speaker 2: and it will all work out in the end. So
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Speaker 2: certainly not true thing desperate, all right. I went to Gears,
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Speaker 2: I want to talk about grand platter tough weekend for
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Speaker 2: a Platner. For the sake of time, I won't summarize
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Speaker 2: all the stuff that happened. I'll do that a little
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Speaker 2: bit later in the show. But what is going on
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Speaker 2: in Maine?
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Speaker 5: Well, you know, there was there was a time he
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Speaker 5: was asked, you know, just to make sure there's there's like,
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Speaker 5: there's no skeletons in your closet that they're going to
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Speaker 5: be coming out later in the campaign, are there? And said,
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Speaker 5: oh no, absolutely not. Uh So now we we we
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Speaker 5: have these these sex text these sexts to some number
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Speaker 5: of women, described as several or multiple depending on what
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Speaker 5: UH news reports you're reading. One thing I find very interesting,
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Speaker 5: UH is that despite significant length reporting in the Wall
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Speaker 5: Street Journal and the New York Times, I think also
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Speaker 5: on NBC, UH some of whom I think have seen
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Speaker 5: these texts, we haven't seen any quotes from any of them.
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Speaker 5: What has even you know, what what is he saying
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Speaker 5: to these women? And if you remember, there have been
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Speaker 5: a number of cases in which people accused Donald Trump
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Speaker 5: of of you know, being bortish with women, and we
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Speaker 5: got quotes and we could kind of evaluate, you know
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Speaker 5: that was right, not good. But we haven't here, so
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Speaker 5: I think there's still a lot more to find out.
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Speaker 5: You know, I don't believe Platner has become the official
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Speaker 5: Democratic nominee, and I do think they're Republicans in Vaine
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Speaker 5: who wouldn't mind getting past that line. In other words,
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Speaker 5: when Democrats are officially stuck with Platner and then dumping
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Speaker 5: you know, the best oppo that they have on him,
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Speaker 5: But they've made some.
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Speaker 3: Of the excuses for his Nazi tattoo.
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Speaker 2: Byron, I haven't been around. I think I think you've
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Speaker 2: got a little long career than I have. But I've
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Speaker 2: been in this game for eighteen years. I didn't know
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Speaker 2: you could survive having a Nazi tattoo and go on
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Speaker 2: to serve in the Senate.
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Speaker 5: Well, it does seem to be. I got to say
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Speaker 5: I would have been surprised too. But I'm looking right
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Speaker 5: now at the willkro Politics average of polls last five poles.
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Speaker 5: They're all blue, and Platner is up and average points unbelievable.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'm more of when come back hanging with me
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Speaker 2: after the break, I'm going to ask you about the
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Speaker 2: weaponization fund. I'm going to ask you about the America
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Speaker 2: two fifty. We got a lot more to do in
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Speaker 2: a few more minutes with Byron York after.
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Speaker 3: This all right, Byron? You works with me?
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Speaker 2: From Washington Examiner, Fox News, et cetera. Byron, A couple
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Speaker 2: other quick ones. I want to get to you with
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Speaker 2: you before we run out of time here today. According
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Speaker 2: to Axios, I haven't verified it yet myself, but Mark
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Speaker 2: Capudo usually get some right, said that the Weaponization Fund
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Speaker 2: is dying. I think a lot of people were huge
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Speaker 2: victims of weaponization by our government, by our judicial system.
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Speaker 3: But I didn't love the way this was shaping up
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Speaker 3: to me. But what's your take.
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Speaker 5: Here, Well, I would agree with you with that. I
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Speaker 5: didn't like the way it looked. Now. It's true that
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Speaker 5: the US government has has settled many lawsuits and many
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Speaker 5: complaints over the years, and people didn't go crazy about it.
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Speaker 5: So I think perhaps people there was a bit too
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Speaker 5: much brua about it. On the other hand, I thought
18:05
Speaker 5: it was as Trump conceived it, it was far too broad.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so, and so do you have a
18:12
Speaker 2: quick recommendation on what would be a better way to
18:14
Speaker 2: pursue actual justice for some people who were targeted politically,
18:17
Speaker 2: but this just case, Yeah, case by case.
18:21
Speaker 5: I mean there are some people clearly there there are
18:25
Speaker 5: a few J six defendants who I think Luca were
18:28
Speaker 5: really mistreated by the justice system. Obviously, Trump himself got
18:32
Speaker 5: all these indictments, and the reason he got started with
18:36
Speaker 5: this was his lawsuit with the fact that the Biden
18:40
Speaker 5: administration leaked his federal tax returns, which is a big
18:45
Speaker 5: time crime. So I think a case by case basis
18:49
Speaker 5: would be it.
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Speaker 3: All right.
18:52
Speaker 2: Last one could be a bigger topic. But you quick
18:55
Speaker 2: thought on the great American state fair concept, which is.
19:00
Speaker 3: Shaping up.
19:00
Speaker 2: I gotta say it's not shaping up. They didn't have
19:02
Speaker 2: great bookings to begin with, and a lot of those
19:04
Speaker 2: have backed out. I want I want to endless summer
19:07
Speaker 2: of celebrating our country Byron, it's not happening as of now.
19:11
Speaker 2: It feels like a misopportunity so far.
19:13
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's it's been kind of embarrassing. I mean,
19:16
Speaker 5: you think when Milli Vanilli pulls out, you think, oh
19:19
Speaker 5: my god, what's going on? Lots of them, lots of
19:23
Speaker 5: them have pulled out. So I actually wrote something about
19:26
Speaker 5: this on on X over the weekend. We've got a
19:29
Speaker 5: lot of response. Actually, and basically, I think the whole
19:34
Speaker 5: idea of the Great American Fair, which basically consumes the
19:36
Speaker 5: whole mall each state is represented. You see the economies
19:40
Speaker 5: and the local cultures of each state. I think that's
19:42
Speaker 5: a good idea. I think that they should forget the
19:46
Speaker 5: whole celebrity thing. Republicans have always come out losers in
19:50
Speaker 5: the celebrity battle, and it's been doubly so with Trump.
19:54
Speaker 5: So just forget about trying to get stars. As far
19:57
Speaker 5: as music is concerned, I think you feature US military
20:01
Speaker 5: bands and orchestras. There are a whole bunch of them,
20:04
Speaker 5: and they are very, very good. The one thing you
20:07
Speaker 5: do turbo charge is the fireworks show on July fourth, uh.
20:13
Speaker 5: And then you have a proud President Trump, not playing
20:16
Speaker 5: an upfront role, but as the president now.
20:18
Speaker 3: He shows up and he applies.
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Speaker 7: This.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is this is the approach and I like it. Byron,
20:25
Speaker 2: And thanks for the great suggestions. Thanks for the time
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21:06
Speaker 2: That explanation from brim Plattner just keeps ringing in my
21:08
Speaker 2: ear of how he represents a realistic form of masculinity,
21:12
Speaker 2: the form of masculinity that has erotic fantasies about the
21:16
Speaker 2: blue liquid in the porta potties. It's I gotta say,
21:19
Speaker 2: though it's certainly quintessentially masculine. I couldn't have one of
21:22
Speaker 2: these conversations with my spouse. I couldn't explain the Nazi tattoo,
21:26
Speaker 2: couldn't explain the porta potty fetish. I couldn't explain the
21:28
Speaker 2: sexting of other women. I couldn't explain the predator rap
21:31
Speaker 2: kick where you've got some sort of a profile on there,
21:34
Speaker 2: the even deleted. How could you just one of those
21:36
Speaker 2: would be devastating, It would haunt me for infinity, and
21:39
Speaker 2: this guy's would do this like every other weekend. It's
21:41
Speaker 2: another thing with him. But he could be heading in
21:43
Speaker 2: the Senate in Maine if the polls are to be believed.
21:46
Speaker 2: And I'll tell you, maybe there's somebody wh doesn't believe
21:48
Speaker 2: the poles and that's Jane at Mills.
21:49
Speaker 3: Bradley. Jay's with me.
21:50
Speaker 2: He's my political editor at Bryport News. Bradley, you tease
21:54
Speaker 2: something pretty spicy before the break of what's going on.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, Janet Mills hasn't made a public statement, at least
22:02
Speaker 7: from her campaign account, since she, I almost said, dropped
22:07
Speaker 7: out of the race. She's now saying that that's not true.
22:09
Speaker 7: She only suspended her campaign, but this was in April.
22:12
Speaker 7: All of a sudden. Now her campaign account is active again.
22:15
Speaker 7: She's saying that she only suspended her campaign. She told
22:19
Speaker 7: voters that her name is still on the ballot. She
22:23
Speaker 7: could she be preparing to unsuspend and restart that campaign.
22:27
Speaker 7: I certainly hope. So.
22:28
Speaker 3: There are a few.
22:29
Speaker 7: Democrat activists who I'm sure would be encouraging her to
22:32
Speaker 7: do so. But Graham Plattner sure it ain't going.
22:34
Speaker 8: To roll over.
22:35
Speaker 7: So we might be seeing an actual primary fight developing
22:40
Speaker 7: just five weeks or so. After it looked like Platner
22:42
Speaker 7: had shut it down.
22:44
Speaker 2: Very interesting, Yeah, very interesting indeed. And so let me
22:48
Speaker 2: ask you about some of the polling because real clear politics,
22:52
Speaker 2: and they've got a real clear Polley. I guess they're
22:54
Speaker 2: branding it now, which is they do the poll of polls.
22:57
Speaker 2: I'm looking through this far when you're pouring this out
22:59
Speaker 2: earlier on the show, and not all of these are fresh,
23:02
Speaker 2: but it's the only one of these is remotely fresh
23:05
Speaker 2: University New Hampshire. But Platner's showing unbelievable resilience here in
23:09
Speaker 2: this race. And it is one of these things where
23:12
Speaker 2: does character matter at all anymore in American politics?
23:14
Speaker 3: Or do we actually see or.
23:16
Speaker 2: Is it that these polls are just way off because
23:18
Speaker 2: Platner is up eight percent according to these polling average
23:21
Speaker 2: and Susan Collins, Yeah, man can.
23:25
Speaker 7: Be a difficult state the poll and you always run
23:29
Speaker 7: the risk anytime you're like the NRSC or some Washington
23:33
Speaker 7: based group. It's so clear that a lot of this
23:36
Speaker 7: opposition research is coming from either Republicans or establishment Democrats.
23:43
Speaker 8: You run the risk of.
23:44
Speaker 7: Maybe turning off some folks and maybe getting his base
23:47
Speaker 7: even more energized behind him, But I mean, we're so
23:50
Speaker 7: far out.
23:51
Speaker 8: It's what the first of June.
23:53
Speaker 7: Right now, I don't think it's going to hold. And
23:55
Speaker 7: if you look at from everything we're hearing, we're only
23:58
Speaker 7: going to continue to hear more and more stuff about
24:01
Speaker 7: this guy. I mean every day, multiple times per day,
24:05
Speaker 7: there's been more come out about this guy. So you
24:07
Speaker 7: got to think that we're going to hear more, and
24:10
Speaker 7: I just don't think that his polling is going to
24:13
Speaker 7: hold even if Mills gets in. I certainly think that
24:18
Speaker 7: Susan Collins is excited to run against him after what
24:22
Speaker 7: we've seen. She's excited to run against him in November.
24:26
Speaker 2: This is what's interesting to me because I was thinking
24:28
Speaker 2: about the concept of polling itself, because I'm out here
24:31
Speaker 2: in California where everyone's highly anticipating what's going to happen
24:35
Speaker 2: orrow in the primary race for la mayor and for
24:37
Speaker 2: the governor, because we got jungle primary systems. So we
24:40
Speaker 2: could have a day where perhaps Spencer Pratter and Steve
24:44
Speaker 2: Hilton the governor race, with running as Republicans, they could
24:47
Speaker 2: perhaps overperform in the polls, and then we could really
24:51
Speaker 2: feel like we're inspired heading in towards November, which would
24:53
Speaker 2: be great for whatever. Down ticket races are still reasonable
24:56
Speaker 2: out here in California. But the question is are Republicans
25:01
Speaker 2: responding to polsters in California. I don't know the answer
25:04
Speaker 2: to that. I do want your thought on that, Bradley,
25:06
Speaker 2: And do we feel like what is the culture in
25:09
Speaker 2: terms of participating and those sorts of things throughout the country.
25:12
Speaker 2: Do we have a sense of how to handicap any
25:15
Speaker 2: of these races right now?
25:18
Speaker 7: Well, it's the same conversation that we had in twenty
25:21
Speaker 7: sixteen after Trump won against what all of the polls
25:24
Speaker 7: had showed. Look, there's no second place award in politics.
25:28
Speaker 7: It's either the White House or the outhouse. As they say.
25:32
Speaker 7: If you look at how Spencer Pratt's messaging has been
25:37
Speaker 7: embraced or at the very least acknowledged in LA in
25:41
Speaker 7: that Mayle race, that certainly is noteworthy.
25:45
Speaker 8: I don't know whether he'll win or not.
25:47
Speaker 7: He's got so much going up against him in LA. However,
25:51
Speaker 7: the fact that his campaign has garnered so much attention,
25:54
Speaker 7: I think the Republicans should be enthused about that heading
25:59
Speaker 7: into November. I mean, look, Democrats, we know how Democrats are.
26:03
Speaker 7: They care if you look at Mayor Bass, she talks
26:07
Speaker 7: a lot about pronouns, but never about actual potholes or
26:10
Speaker 7: anything that a mayor should be concerned with. I think
26:14
Speaker 7: that most voters, whether you're Angelino's or wherever you are
26:18
Speaker 7: in the country, most voters want the same thing. They
26:22
Speaker 7: want a safe and secure community for their kids. They
26:25
Speaker 7: want some financial stability. But that's not what the Democrats
26:30
Speaker 7: are offering them. I mean, if you're Mayor Bass, what
26:32
Speaker 7: does it matter if your house is DEI certified if
26:35
Speaker 7: it's been burned to the ground. Yet, that's how out
26:37
Speaker 7: of touch these are these Democrats are.
26:39
Speaker 8: So it's very encouraging.
26:41
Speaker 7: I think for November that so many Angelinos have been
26:45
Speaker 7: acknowledging that, you know what, maybe this isn't working what
26:51
Speaker 7: the Mayor Bass and Democrats are offering, and they're at
26:53
Speaker 7: least willing to listen to what he's saying.
26:57
Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be interesting test case and I can't wait
27:00
Speaker 2: to see how it turns out. But it's not about potholes.
27:02
Speaker 2: The race is actually about bike lanes. Duayne, will you
27:04
Speaker 2: play this cup for me? Cup fourteen?
27:06
Speaker 3: Please? This is Niche Ramen.
27:09
Speaker 6: I have two little kids. Yeah, they didn't see it
27:13
Speaker 6: luckily this morning. But you know, I'm I feel badly
27:17
Speaker 6: that that I'm even subjecting them to that at all.
27:21
Speaker 6: But it has definitely this has gone far beyond, far
27:28
Speaker 6: beyond what I expected the campaign to be about. I
27:31
Speaker 6: again thought it would be about bike lanes and management
27:33
Speaker 6: of the Department of Transportation.
27:37
Speaker 2: The city nearly burned down. There's homeless encampments everywhere. The
27:41
Speaker 2: city's flooded with drugs. It's completely unpleasant, it's filthy. There
27:45
Speaker 2: are just there's earth movers idling off the side of
27:48
Speaker 2: every other freeway. The airport is the worse in the country.
27:51
Speaker 2: And yet this was supposed to be about bike lanes.
27:54
Speaker 2: And this is a person who's already on the city
27:55
Speaker 2: council as a communist Democrat. I just feel badly, if
27:59
Speaker 2: you like, Republicans have got to be absolutely licking their chops.
28:02
Speaker 2: I don't know if LA salvagable, but they've got to
28:04
Speaker 2: be feeling way better than they deserve to feel heading
28:07
Speaker 2: into November.
28:10
Speaker 7: I mean, it's so obvious now that the Democrat Party
28:13
Speaker 7: is increasingly the party of the elites.
28:15
Speaker 8: I mean, how.
28:16
Speaker 7: Touch can can this woman be with everything that's going
28:19
Speaker 7: on in La. It's remarkable how California has squandered manifest
28:24
Speaker 7: destiny in so many ways with all these liberal policies,
28:28
Speaker 7: and yet she and elites.
28:30
Speaker 8: Like her are disobliviates to hopefully voted number.
28:35
Speaker 3: Proudly, Jay sa with you one more segment.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to ask you about the America two fifty
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Speaker 2: Wynton Hall's our social media director at Brypartnews, and he's
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30:28
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30:31
Speaker 2: But I want to introduce him to the Euqwitt audience
30:34
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30:40
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30:43
Speaker 2: lot of time complaining about AI, and I'm certainly more
30:45
Speaker 2: nervous about it than not. It feels like when we
30:48
Speaker 2: had the advent of the Internet, seemed like it opened
30:50
Speaker 2: up all sorts of possibilities, but apparently it opened up
30:53
Speaker 2: a lot of us to social media addictions and widespread
30:56
Speaker 2: depression and sort of a lack of meeting and a
30:58
Speaker 2: lot of people's lives and increased godlessness. So it sort
31:01
Speaker 2: of backfired in a lot of ways. I'm worried AI
31:03
Speaker 2: could be the same thing. But there are some positive
31:06
Speaker 2: stuff that's coming out of it, and I'm just going
31:08
Speaker 2: to start with some of that is just a flat
31:09
Speaker 2: out positive. These Spencer Pratt ads in Los Angeles are
31:13
Speaker 2: an absolute delight.
31:14
Speaker 3: We played one last hour.
31:15
Speaker 2: I don't want to take the time to play more now,
31:18
Speaker 2: but they're making these ads overnight that are just hilarious.
31:21
Speaker 2: They look sharp, and it feels like there's really low
31:23
Speaker 2: barrier of entry to do these things, and it just
31:27
Speaker 2: does neutralize the playing field. That equalizes the playing field
31:31
Speaker 2: for people who might not you know, have a tens
31:34
Speaker 2: of million dollar war chats at their disposal to do
31:36
Speaker 2: things like that.
31:40
Speaker 8: No, that's exactly right.
31:42
Speaker 9: You know, when you look at the democratization of creativity,
31:45
Speaker 9: that's one of the upshots.
31:46
Speaker 8: This is going to be a huge boon.
31:48
Speaker 9: For the new new candidates and campaigns. And one of
31:53
Speaker 9: the things that you see in this you're getting, you know,
31:55
Speaker 9: really pretty strong production values. Some of these were actually
31:58
Speaker 9: a little sharper than others, maybe not Spielberg level, but
32:03
Speaker 9: it will be there soon. The worst version of AI
32:05
Speaker 9: is the one you use today. So we're going to
32:07
Speaker 9: see that and it's going to reduce those barriers to
32:10
Speaker 9: entry in terms of campaigns they're war chests and how
32:13
Speaker 9: much money they're gonna have to spend to get.
32:14
Speaker 8: Their message out.
32:15
Speaker 9: You couple that with a really smart influencer strategy on
32:18
Speaker 9: social which Pratt has done, you can get your rocket
32:23
Speaker 9: in flight very quickly.
32:25
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think so that's a good thing.
32:28
Speaker 2: But does you think it translates to more entertainment value
32:31
Speaker 2: in in or do we feel like we have any
32:33
Speaker 2: evidence if this could shape a political campaign, because one
32:36
Speaker 2: of the things that's interesting about the Pratt Race in
32:38
Speaker 2: particular is that it's so online.
32:40
Speaker 3: It's a he's not really doing local media. You know,
32:42
Speaker 3: he's doing Bill Maher's podcast, he's doing Gutfeld.
32:44
Speaker 2: I mean, this is a national campaign that we're seeing
32:48
Speaker 2: and these ai ads and they're not airing on local TV.
32:51
Speaker 2: I don't think they're mostly just getting viral online. And
32:55
Speaker 2: the guy's an unbelievable marketer if you follow his story,
32:58
Speaker 2: he basically came up with the idea for the Hill
33:00
Speaker 2: when he was sitting in a classroom at USC thinking,
33:02
Speaker 2: how can we come up with a way to create
33:06
Speaker 2: some sort of a reality TV show around his friend
33:08
Speaker 2: Brody Jenner, which is the Caitlyn Jennerson. That was the
33:12
Speaker 2: whole concept. He was selling crystals for a long time.
33:16
Speaker 2: He's a crystal salesman. That was his I think he
33:19
Speaker 2: said the most lucrative thing he's done. Doesn't have a
33:21
Speaker 2: major political background, but he's got this message discipline where
33:24
Speaker 2: he tries to make the campaign about competence and not
33:27
Speaker 2: about anything other than just the government should do something productive.
33:33
Speaker 9: Yeah, and I think it's hyper visual storytelling, and obviously
33:36
Speaker 9: with all of the dystopian mistakes that you've seen from
33:41
Speaker 9: Bass and in California and more broadly, there's so many
33:44
Speaker 9: opportunities to ways to visually storytell, and that's what he's done.
33:47
Speaker 9: I think it's really a path breaking moment actually, because
33:51
Speaker 9: what's going to happen is the technology is going to
33:53
Speaker 9: continue to increase, and we sold that with multiple models
33:57
Speaker 9: that have come out in the visual space. Costs to
34:00
Speaker 9: get your message out there will go down, your opportunities
34:04
Speaker 9: for virality are going to go up. I mean at Breitbart,
34:07
Speaker 9: obviously we have tons of viral content, spend zero dollars
34:10
Speaker 9: boosting that. It's all organic, and you know you're going
34:13
Speaker 9: to see that with a lot of these upstart candidates.
34:15
Speaker 9: I think it's really important there will be opportunities for
34:18
Speaker 9: deep bates right right before elections that could give total
34:23
Speaker 9: lives or bunk or misinformation that could protectively in a
34:27
Speaker 9: type race, have an impact.
34:29
Speaker 8: Before they can be debunked more broadly.
34:32
Speaker 9: But in you know, the longer tail like you're seeing
34:34
Speaker 9: right now, it's really why he's got you know, the
34:37
Speaker 9: traction and momentum and the discussion. You've got to be
34:39
Speaker 9: making that buzz. And you know Andrew Breitbart was the
34:42
Speaker 9: one who said it. You know, politics is downstream from culture,
34:45
Speaker 9: and you know, practicing it to the culture.
34:49
Speaker 2: All right, So wend you know, I got to run
34:52
Speaker 2: here in a little bit and take a break. But
34:53
Speaker 2: what I want to set up for you, and I
34:54
Speaker 2: want the audience to check this out when we come back.
34:56
Speaker 2: I want to talk about a couple of really essential
34:59
Speaker 2: things when it comes to AI and how AI is
35:01
Speaker 2: going to be able to work for us. And I
35:04
Speaker 2: want some recommendations for what people should be doing. Because
35:07
Speaker 2: I sat on a panel. I moderated a panel featuring
35:09
Speaker 2: the Treasury Secretary scottsm on Friday. All these small business owners,
35:14
Speaker 2: the small business people with construction companies, people who are
35:18
Speaker 2: you screen printing companies, people who have cleaners, dry cleaners,
35:22
Speaker 2: they're all using AI. So AI is something that people
35:25
Speaker 2: are going to need to make work for them. So
35:28
Speaker 2: it is here is a tool.
35:30
Speaker 3: You can use it and be respectful to the tool.
35:33
Speaker 3: But people also see.
35:35
Speaker 2: This as a major threat, as a major threat to
35:37
Speaker 2: their businesses.
35:39
Speaker 3: You'll give them the truth. Wynden Hall, author of Code Red,
35:42
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35:53
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35:56
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36:31
Speaker 2: I think was really interesting. You sort of laid out
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Speaker 2: a five point plan for how to survive the AI
36:36
Speaker 2: apocalypse for lack of a better expression, and you had
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Speaker 2: a pretty much committed to memory and at the tip
36:41
Speaker 2: of your fingers, I want to do that here because
36:43
Speaker 2: a lot of people in this audience, I think, don't
36:46
Speaker 2: know what to make of this. Are we heading into
36:49
Speaker 2: something that's going to be just a huge boon for humanity.
36:53
Speaker 2: We're just going to get more productive, We're going to
36:55
Speaker 2: get sharper, we're going to get smarter, We're going to
36:57
Speaker 2: have more time to do the things we want to do.
36:59
Speaker 2: Are we going to have so much money we don't
37:01
Speaker 2: know what to do with it? Or is this going
37:02
Speaker 2: to be one of those things like the Internet where
37:04
Speaker 2: we just create all sorts of new addictions and terrible
37:07
Speaker 2: ways to use our time and just lose lose chats
37:11
Speaker 2: with our humanity?
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Speaker 3: What is it? And how do we avoid the latter scenario?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, I.
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Speaker 9: Think the first thing to understand is that ninety nine
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Speaker 9: percent of us use AI every day, even though sixty
37:23
Speaker 9: four percent of people don't realize that we're using AI
37:26
Speaker 9: because it's baked into the algorithms that power everything from
37:29
Speaker 9: our weather apps to our streaming.
37:31
Speaker 8: Services and so forth.
37:32
Speaker 9: So if we're already using it, the question is how
37:35
Speaker 9: can we seize the upside what I like to call
37:37
Speaker 9: the roses of.
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Speaker 8: AI and avert the land mines? And there are many
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Speaker 8: of both, and so I'm.
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Speaker 9: Not on the side that says that it's all apocalyptic
37:46
Speaker 9: doom by any stretch. But we would be absolutely foolish,
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Speaker 9: particularly conservative, if we thought that the most powerful information
37:53
Speaker 9: weapon was going to be laid on the battlefield of
37:55
Speaker 9: ideas and that the left wasn't going to politically weaponize that.
37:58
Speaker 9: We know that big tech traditionally has not been a
38:01
Speaker 9: friend of conservatives, with the demonetizing, the silencing, the scan
38:05
Speaker 9: and band technology and the rest, and the fact that
38:08
Speaker 9: political donations eighty five percent of Silicon Valley traditionally donations
38:12
Speaker 9: flow to the left side of the political aisle. I
38:16
Speaker 9: think the thing important is five things that you mentioned.
38:19
Speaker 9: Number One, you can learn this. It's not too late,
38:23
Speaker 9: and do not let anybody tell you that it's so
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Speaker 9: black box that you're not going to be able to
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Speaker 9: understand AI. I spent two years working on Code red,
38:31
Speaker 9: really deep diving into this world to try to make
38:33
Speaker 9: it simple without being simplistic, and really did an enormous
38:37
Speaker 9: amount of research to try to give people the lexicon
38:40
Speaker 9: so that they can understand the debate and be able
38:43
Speaker 9: to make their own decisions, so they can get those
38:45
Speaker 9: roses and avert the land mines. I think the second
38:47
Speaker 9: thing is to understand that if you are an entrepreneur
38:51
Speaker 9: or a small business owner. There is enormous upside potential
38:54
Speaker 9: for AI because it's just like we were talking about
38:57
Speaker 9: with the pract campaign. It's lowering the cost to of
39:00
Speaker 9: entry for a lot of the kinds of investments you
39:03
Speaker 9: otherwise wouldn't be able to make, and you can scale
39:05
Speaker 9: very quickly and seize that upside. I think the third thing,
39:09
Speaker 9: and this is really important because nothing that we care
39:12
Speaker 9: about more than our kids, our grandkids, and our nation's children,
39:16
Speaker 9: the world's children, and that is understanding that there are
39:19
Speaker 9: a lot of benefits for things like AI tutors if
39:22
Speaker 9: they are non etagogically sound and they are based on
39:26
Speaker 9: the Socratic method, so they don't enable cheating and plagiarism.
39:30
Speaker 8: But you also have to be very very aware that all.
39:33
Speaker 9: Lms large language models in every peer of view journal
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Speaker 9: skew left, and so there could be very much an
39:38
Speaker 9: indoctrination place. So we have to be able to use
39:42
Speaker 9: that tool for the educational benefit without the detriment. I
39:47
Speaker 9: think the fourth thing is to really understand where this
39:49
Speaker 9: is going in terms of jobs and also national security.
39:53
Speaker 9: We're hearing all these apocalyptic projections Dario ami Day saying
39:57
Speaker 9: that in the next twelve months, Alex, not twelve years,
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Speaker 9: twelve months. You're looking at a wipe out of fifty
40:03
Speaker 9: percent of white collar entry level jobs.
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Speaker 8: That's our kids, that's our grandkids. Those are the kids
40:08
Speaker 8: that it's worth for college. It is very worrifying. And
40:11
Speaker 8: this is a man.
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Speaker 2: And imagine their training for their for their next job.
40:15
Speaker 2: Like that's the whole point. When you wipe out the
40:16
Speaker 2: entry level jobs.
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Speaker 3: Maybe your stock.
40:20
Speaker 2: Goes up a little bit if you are invested in
40:22
Speaker 2: a company that's gonna have to.
40:24
Speaker 3: Not pay as many workers.
40:25
Speaker 2: But I mean, how is the next generation going to
40:29
Speaker 2: get any job experience whatsoever?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, you know, there's three ways to respond
40:35
Speaker 9: to these predictions.
40:35
Speaker 8: It's not just Rio.
40:37
Speaker 9: It's Mustafa Suliman at Microsoft AI saying twelve to eighteen
40:40
Speaker 9: months being able to replace one hundred percent of white
40:43
Speaker 9: collar tasks.
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Speaker 8: He's not saying all jobs, he's saying the tasks.
40:46
Speaker 9: And so it'll be dependent upon how fast corporation shoul
40:49
Speaker 9: difuse the technology. But even Elon Musk says that quote
40:53
Speaker 9: AI is to quote supersonic tsunami in quote aimed at humanity.
40:58
Speaker 9: There's three ways to respond to this. You could say
41:00
Speaker 9: it's all marketing hype. This is a bunch of bladder.
41:03
Speaker 9: These are guys that have to raise a ton of
41:05
Speaker 9: capex capital expenditure and investment, and so they're just trying
41:09
Speaker 9: to hype through technology. The second is to say no,
41:12
Speaker 9: they're very sincere in wanting to make sure that the
41:15
Speaker 9: world is ready. But there's a third thing, and I
41:18
Speaker 9: think this is the thing for the conservative movement that
41:20
Speaker 9: has to understand. It almost doesn't matter on that point
41:23
Speaker 9: those first two whether you think it's hype or real,
41:26
Speaker 9: because the left has been working for years on how
41:30
Speaker 9: to politically weaponize artificial intelligence for a globalist agenda. And
41:36
Speaker 9: I'd spend a lot of time going through in their
41:38
Speaker 9: own words, exposing that in code read so that we
41:41
Speaker 9: can really be prepared for this five D chess gain.
41:44
Speaker 9: Fifth and final thing, I think you really want to
41:46
Speaker 9: think about.
41:47
Speaker 8: The existential questions. And you is always so great on
41:50
Speaker 8: this and you are as well.
41:52
Speaker 9: People of faith have to understand right now there are
41:56
Speaker 9: churches that are experimenting with confessional booths replacing the priests
42:01
Speaker 9: that you confess.
42:02
Speaker 8: To with Ai.
42:03
Speaker 9: There are churches right now being set up to worship
42:06
Speaker 9: AI as a deity. And then The other thing is,
42:09
Speaker 9: even at the more basic level, you're seeing sermons being
42:13
Speaker 9: written by AI and I think, you know, we can
42:16
Speaker 9: replace a lot of things, but our soul is sacred,
42:20
Speaker 9: and so having that awareness of how this is going
42:23
Speaker 9: to impact faith, I think is a really important piece
42:26
Speaker 9: as well. But we can be prepared. We just have
42:30
Speaker 9: to have the information, and we really don't have a
42:32
Speaker 9: lot of time. This is breaking Moore's law. It's moving
42:35
Speaker 9: faster than any technological expansion we've ever seen.
42:38
Speaker 8: So we've got to get ready and not panic but lead.
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Speaker 2: So but Winton, the main question is is the AI
42:46
Speaker 2: god that we're confessing to is he or she non binary?
42:50
Speaker 2: Because that's what James Talerico we'll probably say, Man, Scary
42:53
Speaker 2: Times is amazing summary, and that's why I recommend everyone
42:56
Speaker 2: check out Code Read in any of my deeper interviews
42:58
Speaker 2: with Wynton are fantastic. He's our social media director at
43:01
Speaker 2: Breitbart News. But Code Read one of the books of
43:04
Speaker 2: the year, I think because of the fact that he
43:06
Speaker 2: gets into the not just the future, the present. This
43:09
Speaker 2: is happening, and we got to win the AI arms
43:11
Speaker 2: race against China, but we also got to win it
43:13
Speaker 2: with ourselves and we've got to make sure that our
43:15
Speaker 2: military gets the best technology from people who are interested
43:18
Speaker 2: in America winning. And we've got to make sure that
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Speaker 2: our companies are adapting in a way that doesn't eliminate
43:22
Speaker 2: entry level.
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Speaker 3: Jobs for people so complex. Thanks Ntin for the introduction.
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Speaker 3: I'm Alex. Marla will wrapp things up after we come