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Harris Word Salad on Late Night, Colleges & Universities Overrun by Antisemitic Hate, plus Democrats Turn on Their Own Week In Review · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome.
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Speaker 2: It is Verdict with Ted Cruz week in Review, Ben
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Speaker 2: Ferguson with you, and we had some major stories that
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Speaker 2: you may have missed that we talked about this week.
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Speaker 2: First up, Kamala Harris. While Americans are suffering from a
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Speaker 2: second hurricane within weeks hitting Florida, she was on late
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Speaker 2: night television drinking beers and while doing podcasts called call
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Speaker 2: her Daddy. The worst part is even on these shows
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Speaker 2: she was a word salad princess. We'll have that for
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Speaker 2: you in a moment. Plus, what's going on in our
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Speaker 2: college campuses and universities and how are they able to
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Speaker 2: brainwash so many kids with terrorist propaganda backing Hamas and Hesbelah,
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Speaker 2: especially on the anniversary of the terrorist attack in Israel.
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Speaker 2: We'll dive into that. And finally, there is a very
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Speaker 2: interesting thing that's happening in this country. Democrats who are
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Speaker 2: leaving the Democratic Party to join the Republican Party that
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Speaker 2: are currently in office. So what happens to them when
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Speaker 2: they change parties. We're going to tell that story with
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Speaker 2: one elected official that stood up to the extremists in
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Speaker 2: her own party, the Democratic Party. It's the Weekend Review
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Speaker 2: and it starts right now she tried to redo, by
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Speaker 2: the way, on her question of what she would do different.
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Speaker 2: This was when she decided to go on Stephen Colbert
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Speaker 2: last night, and here's what she said when she was
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Speaker 2: asked about, Hey, would you be any different than Joe Biden?
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Speaker 2: Now I have a theory center. I think they said,
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Speaker 2: can you re ask that question?
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Speaker 3: Because he that was entirely stage the campaign realized, oh
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Speaker 3: my goodness, this was a disaster of an answer. You've
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Speaker 3: just given Trump their lead campaign commercial heading into the election.
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Speaker 3: So let's tee up and give a different answer. And
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Speaker 3: of course, Stephen Colbert, you know, I'm actually surprised he
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Speaker 3: wasn't wearing like a cheerleader like mini skirt in pomp
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Speaker 3: Pom's because it is not complicated who he's rooting for.
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Speaker 1: But go ahead and play the clip.
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Speaker 4: Polling shows that a lot of people, especially independent voters,
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Speaker 4: really want this to be a change election, and that
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Speaker 4: they tend to break for you in terms of thinking
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Speaker 4: about change. You are a member of the president administration
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Speaker 4: under a Harris administration, what would the major changes be
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Speaker 4: and what would stay the same?
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Speaker 5: Sure, well, I mean I'm obviously not Joe Biden, I know,
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Speaker 5: and so that would be one change in terms of
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Speaker 5: but also I think it's important to say with you know,
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Speaker 5: twenty eight days ago, I'm not Donald Trump. And so
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Speaker 5: when we think about the significance of what this next
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Speaker 5: generation of leadership looks like to be elected president, it
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Speaker 5: is about, frankly, of the American people. And I believe
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Speaker 5: in our country. I love that it is our character
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Speaker 5: and nature to be an ambitious people. You know, we
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Speaker 5: we have aspirations, we have dreams, we are we have
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Speaker 5: incredible work ethic, and I just believe that we can
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Speaker 5: create and build upon the success we've achieved in a
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Speaker 5: way that we continue to grow opportunity and in that
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Speaker 5: way grow the strength of our nation. So, for example,
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Speaker 5: my economic policies, I think of it and I have
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Speaker 5: named it as creating an opportunity economy. So it's about
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Speaker 5: things like investing in small businesses. I love our small businesses.
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Speaker 2: I love this part where she's like, I created it
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Speaker 2: like out of thin air. Center, I created it. I've
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Speaker 2: created and I named it like it's a puppy. I've
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Speaker 2: named it like. She didn't give any answer there, right,
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Speaker 2: It's just she just said work the American people, and
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Speaker 2: we have ambition.
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Speaker 3: Quote unquote, look that that answer, it's actually screamingly funny
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Speaker 3: and at the same time screamingly terrifying. So Colbert's try.
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Speaker 3: He's like, look, people desperately want change. The entire fiction
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Speaker 3: of your campaign is you're the change candidate, except for
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Speaker 3: the fact that you're in the incumbent administration, and every
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Speaker 3: other vice president in history who's run for election has
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Speaker 3: run on continuity, continue the success as well. You know
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Speaker 3: that the successes are very few and that the record
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Speaker 3: is a train wreck. So you want change because people
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Speaker 3: aren't happy with your disastrous record. So what would you
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Speaker 3: change now? Now that actually to call that a softball
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Speaker 3: is an insult to softballs. That's a t ball, that's
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Speaker 3: a kickball.
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Speaker 2: It's a setup, though, Like we need to just be
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Speaker 2: intellectually honest about this, Like this is a clear we
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Speaker 2: need to redo.
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Speaker 1: We're going to use.
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Speaker 3: But I gotta say, I don't know if if her
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Speaker 3: campaign is just miserably incompetent or she is or both,
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Speaker 3: But for a setup, that may be the worst answer
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Speaker 3: I've ever heard. Because she talks. I mean, the phrase
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Speaker 3: word salad has used a lot. She says, well, the changes,
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Speaker 3: I'm not Joe Biden. Oh okay, and I'm not Donald Trump.
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Speaker 3: That that's the whole change. And then I love What
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Speaker 3: else is the change? The next thing she says, I
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Speaker 3: love America. Yeah, oh my goodness. So your position is
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Speaker 3: Joe Biden doesn't love America. That's the change. She literally says,
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Speaker 3: I love America. That's the change, unlike those evil, mean
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Speaker 3: bastards that aren't me well.
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Speaker 2: And the other thing is they try to humanize her.
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Speaker 2: She cracked open a beer with Stephen Colbert and that guy,
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Speaker 2: like a full segment on CNN which was hysterical. And
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Speaker 2: then you go back to what she actually says, and
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Speaker 2: the Vice President of the United States of America said,
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Speaker 2: and I want you to listen for this. The American
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Speaker 2: dream right now is really elusive. Is she trying to
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Speaker 2: write another ad for Donald Trump?
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Speaker 6: Listen?
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Speaker 5: The American dream right now is really elusive for far
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Speaker 5: too many people in terms of even aspiring to own
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Speaker 5: a home. It's too expensive. We don't have enough housing.
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Speaker 5: We have a housing So part of my plan is
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Speaker 5: to work with the private sector, with builders and developers,
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Speaker 5: to build three million more homes by the end of
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Speaker 5: my first term and to give first time home buyers
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Speaker 5: a twenty five thousand dollars down payment assistance so they
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Speaker 5: can just get their foot in the door to home ownership,
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Speaker 5: which is the fastest and the most efficient way for
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Speaker 5: people to build intergenerational wealth. These are the ways that
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Speaker 5: I think about how we build up our country in
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Speaker 5: a way that is about supporting the middle class. I
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Speaker 5: come from the middle class. I'm never going to forget
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Speaker 5: where I come from.
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Speaker 2: I love it. Middle class is apparently really tough for her.
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Speaker 2: If you know her history, you kind of got to
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Speaker 2: roll your eyes at that. But this idea, she says,
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Speaker 2: everything's bad right now, far too many people in turns
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Speaker 2: even aspiring to own a house because there's not enough houses. Well,
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Speaker 2: why is that because the illegal immigrants you've llowed into
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Speaker 2: this country by the tens of millions.
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Speaker 3: Well, of course Colbert pressed back with that, right.
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Speaker 2: No, no, no, he did not. They just decided to
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Speaker 2: drink a beer instead, because that's how you do an interview.
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Speaker 2: Nowow when it's somebody that no one's voted for, and
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Speaker 2: we're just, you know, less than thirty days away from
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Speaker 2: election day, right.
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Speaker 3: You know, by the way, I will say, I think
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Speaker 3: it is fitting that that was a comedy show, because
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Speaker 3: if you recall, in her debate with Donald Trump, the
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Speaker 3: opening question was elections come down to the question are
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Speaker 3: you better off now than you were four years ago?
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Speaker 3: And so, Madame Vice President, are the American people better
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Speaker 3: off now than they were four years ago? And her
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Speaker 3: answer was I came from the middle class. Like it's
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Speaker 3: become a punchline because it was such a non sequit,
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Speaker 3: or she's unable to say yes because the record is
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Speaker 3: a disaster, and so she just she has this talking
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Speaker 3: point and the fact that at a comedy show she
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Speaker 3: goes back to what I come from the middle class.
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Speaker 3: Apparently some focus group somewhere told her that was a
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Speaker 3: good thing to say, and she don't have anything else
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Speaker 3: to say.
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Speaker 2: Send her two quick things I want to bring up
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Speaker 2: and dealt with foreign policy. Harris has refused to directly
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Speaker 2: answer if net and Yahoo is a ally of our country.
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Speaker 2: Here's what she said in the sixty minutes interview that
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Speaker 2: was shocking as well.
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Speaker 7: Do we have a real close ally in Prime Minister
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Speaker 7: of NT and Yahoo?
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Speaker 5: I think, with all due respect, the better question is
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Speaker 5: do we have an important alliance between the American people
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Speaker 5: and the Israeli people? And the answer to that question
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Speaker 5: is yes.
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Speaker 2: So she throws our relationship with a leader that was
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Speaker 2: elected by the people in Israel net Yahoo under the bus,
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Speaker 2: and she clearly is saying there is separation between me
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Speaker 2: and net and Yahoo and Israel. She had to make
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Speaker 2: that comment, I think in her mind to keep the
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Speaker 2: radicals that are anti Jewish, anti Semites who support Hesbalah
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Speaker 2: and Hamas on her side. That's why she was so
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Speaker 2: I think careful with their words are to say I's
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Speaker 2: not my guy. I mean, I'm fine with Israel, but
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Speaker 2: not him.
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Speaker 3: Well, look, she clearly hates Benjamin Netnaho, and that that's
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Speaker 3: true of this entire White House. It's true of Joe Biden,
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Speaker 3: It's true of most of the Democrats. And remember Kamala Harris,
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Speaker 3: as the sitting Vice President, boycotted net Yahoo's speech to
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Speaker 3: a joint session of Congress. I was there sitting on
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Speaker 3: the floor of the House Prime Minister Natnah who gave
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Speaker 3: an extraordinary address. And you know, the vice president. You know,
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Speaker 3: the old line is it's a job that's not worth
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Speaker 3: a bucket of spit. But among the very few responsibilities
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Speaker 3: of the vice president are to sit and preside on
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Speaker 3: a joint session of Congress, to sit your rear end
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Speaker 3: down in that chair while someone addresses a joint session
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Speaker 3: of Congress. Well, she loathes Prime Minister net Yaho so
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Speaker 3: much she refused to attend. And so her answer, does
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Speaker 3: she consider net Yaho an ally?
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Speaker 5: No?
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Speaker 3: And frankly she can barely bring herself to describe Israel
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Speaker 3: as an ally. Listen, there is a growing pro Hamas
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Speaker 3: wing of the Democrat Party, and Kamala Harris clearly wants
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Speaker 3: their vote. She wants the votes in Dearborn, Michigan. She
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Speaker 3: wants the votes of the radicals, the anti semits on
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Speaker 3: college campuses. And I got to say, and we should
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Speaker 3: wrap up on this. I want to play the answer
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Speaker 3: she gave when it when asked about Israel on sixty minutes,
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Speaker 3: the actual answer she gave, and then I want us
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Speaker 3: to play what sixty minutes aired, because we mentioned before
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Speaker 3: the phrase word salad. This word salad answer is truly remarkable.
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Speaker 3: And so let's play initially what she said in the
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Speaker 3: actual interview, and then we'll go to what they are.
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Speaker 2: And then the sixty minute fabulous edit. That's the only
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Speaker 2: way to describe it. It's we they knew it was bad,
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Speaker 2: so let's fix it. Here it is, But it seems
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Speaker 2: that Prime Minister Netanya, who is not listening.
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Speaker 5: Well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted
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Speaker 5: in a number of movements in that region by Israel
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Speaker 5: that were very much prompted by or a result of
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Speaker 5: many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen
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Speaker 5: in the region.
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Speaker 2: Now, that is the original answer, all right, So it
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Speaker 2: was twenty seven seconds long.
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Speaker 3: So they tweeted that out before the interview aired, so
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Speaker 3: it was public in twitter verse, and people were vicious
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Speaker 3: in mocking it because it's so lacking in content. It
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Speaker 3: doesn't say anything. So here's what's seeing what sixty minutes
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Speaker 3: actually aired.
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Speaker 6: But it seems that Prime Minister Netanya, who is not listening, we.
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Speaker 5: Are not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for
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Speaker 5: the United States to be clear about where we stand
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Speaker 5: on the need for this war to end.
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Speaker 2: That's a completely different answer.
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Speaker 3: Holy cow, Look listen, that's not sixty minutes. That's like
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Speaker 3: fifty seven minutes. And it makes you wonder what else
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Speaker 3: did they edit out? What other answers did she give?
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Speaker 3: That the sixty minute producers bury their head in their
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Speaker 3: hands and said, oh no, if people see this, they're
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Speaker 3: not going to vote for and we need her to
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Speaker 3: vote for Now. Look, I'm going to be mixed in
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Speaker 3: my commentary in sixty minutes because I will say, at
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Speaker 3: least they asked the question on quadrupling the number of
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Speaker 3: illegal immigrants, that was important, and her refusal to answer
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Speaker 3: it was important, so they didn't edit that out. But
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Speaker 3: on Israel, they just couldn't stomach letting her answer stand
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Speaker 3: on its own merits, and they tried to help her
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Speaker 3: out and they actually got caught, which I got to say,
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Speaker 3: I think has done real damage to their credibility going forward.
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Speaker 2: Now, if you want to hear the rest of this
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Speaker 2: conversation and go back and listen to the full podcast
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Speaker 2: from earlier this week, now onto story number two.
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Speaker 3: You need to understand the ideological rot that has infused
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Speaker 3: so much of our elite academy. And by the way,
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Speaker 3: it's been a year since October seventh. Have you noticed
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Speaker 3: the protests on the campus. They're not springing up organically,
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Speaker 3: they're not spontaneous. Am I the only one who's noticed
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Speaker 3: that the tenents all match? There is real money funding
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Speaker 3: these anti Israel, anti Semitic anti American protests, and that
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Speaker 3: money is coming from Iran, that money is coming from Cutter,
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Speaker 3: and that money is coming from prominent leftists in this
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Speaker 3: country who are also funding prominent politicians in this country.
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Speaker 3: I want to ask you, in a year, has there
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Speaker 3: been a single investigation by the Department of Justice or
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Speaker 3: the FBI to follow the money. Under Title six of
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Speaker 3: our Civil Rights law, university cannot create an environment that
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Speaker 3: is threatening to the safety of a student based on
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Speaker 3: race or ethnicity. Has there been a single university in
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Speaker 3: America who's had their federal funding cut off because they
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Speaker 3: refuse to protect Jewish students on campus. Answers, No, not one.
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Speaker 3: That's not an accident. We need a Department of Justice
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Speaker 3: that stands with our students. By the way, I will
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Speaker 3: note the protesters that were arrested in University of Texas,
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Speaker 3: roughly half of them had no connection to ut They
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Speaker 3: weren't students there. They just came in to agitate and
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Speaker 3: threaten violence. The same was true at Columbia, the same
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Speaker 3: was true at FORDOM that when people have been arrested,
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Speaker 3: about half of them are either radical Islamist or Marxists,
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Speaker 3: or just anti.
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Speaker 1: American paid violent thugs.
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Speaker 3: Clarity matters, and by the way, I will say that
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Speaker 3: clarity is not entirely delineated on partisan bases. I will
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Speaker 3: say one of the most astonishing things to me has
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Speaker 3: the courage my colleague John Fetterman has shown on this topic.
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Speaker 3: I'll confess, when Senator Fetterman was elected from Pennsylvania, I
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Speaker 3: had no reason to anticipate that he would show that
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Speaker 3: kind of courage.
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Speaker 1: But he has been astonishing.
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Speaker 3: And I will say, when giving a commencement address, when
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Speaker 3: he removed his hood from Harvard University as a fellow
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Speaker 3: Harvard grad, I was proud that he was willing to
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Speaker 3: stand up to the shameful behavior of his in my
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Speaker 3: Alma mon. Clarity is an opportunity for everyone on each
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Speaker 3: and every day to decide where do I stand. There
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Speaker 3: is a second enormously beneficial outcome of the horror and
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Speaker 3: evil that was October seventh, which is that Israel has
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Speaker 3: stated its commitment to utterly and completely eliminate Hamas and
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Speaker 3: now eliminate Hesbelah. And I have to say, eliminating Hamas
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Speaker 3: and eliminating Hesbela is unquestionably in the national security interest
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Speaker 3: of Israel and unquestionably in the national security interest of America,
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Speaker 3: and US policy should very simply be, we stand unequivocally
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Speaker 3: with Israel for as long as it takes. I listened
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Speaker 3: to colleagues of mine in the Senate in the House
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Speaker 3: for their only response to what happens at Israel is
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Speaker 3: we need a cease fire.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 3: What is it that leads American politicians to say our
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Speaker 3: view should be, please, please, please stop killing the terrorists.
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Speaker 3: When I got on Southwest Airlines this morning and flew
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Speaker 3: from Houston to Dallas to come here today, a woman
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Speaker 3: standing in the line came up to me and said, please,
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Speaker 3: we need to cease fire now, on the one year
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Speaker 3: anniversary of October seventh. I'll tell you, month after month
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Speaker 3: after month, every Saturday morning at seven am, I had
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Speaker 3: anti Israel, anti Semitic protesters in my front lawn, screaming, yelling,
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Speaker 3: ringing cowbells, blowing whistles, screaming at splitives at the top
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Speaker 3: of their lungs, waking up my daughters, waking up my
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Speaker 3: neighbors and their young children, week after week after week.
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Speaker 3: And I'll tell you when I encounter, as I do
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Speaker 3: with some regularity, people on airplanes who will yell at me,
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Speaker 3: we need to cease fire now, and I ask them, really,
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Speaker 3: tell me, why is it that you side with genocidal
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Speaker 3: maniacs carrying out Nazi ends.
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Speaker 1: How do you look at what happened.
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Speaker 3: And say the murderers and rapists are the ones we
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Speaker 3: stand with. But part of it is a lot of
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Speaker 3: people are lied to. They don't know the truth they
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Speaker 3: are being told. The victims in our definition, are the
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Speaker 3: good and the oppressors are the evil. That's why that
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Speaker 3: clarity needs to continue. I will say, if you look
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Speaker 3: at Israel's distribution of pagers, I've got to say that
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Speaker 3: as one of the most extraordinary intelligence and military operations
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Speaker 3: ever seen. When I saw it on the news. When
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Speaker 3: I read about it, it read like a James Bond novel.
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Speaker 3: If you, I don't know if any of y'all are
18:09
Speaker 3: fans of the show Fouta, Fouda is phenomenal. If you
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Speaker 3: tried to write it in a plot of Fouta, they
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Speaker 3: wouldn't publish it because they would have said, this is ridiculous.
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Speaker 1: And I will say, is what was truly elegant.
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Speaker 3: About it is the people who received the pagers were
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Speaker 3: decided by the leadership of Hesbela. The leaders of Hesbelas said,
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Speaker 3: all right, you are enough of a genocidal murderer that
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Speaker 3: I want you on page. They selected every person.
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Speaker 1: And then they got their page.
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Speaker 3: And then a few days later they said, let's go
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Speaker 3: to walkie talkies, and the walkie talkies blew up. And
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Speaker 3: then at the head of hesbel has said, let's go
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Speaker 3: to a basement bunker and meet in person. And then
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Speaker 3: the basement bunker blew up. And if you want to
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Speaker 3: understand where someone stands, look to their reaction to that.
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Speaker 3: Let me tell you, I think it is beautiful that
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Speaker 3: psychopathic terrorists are terrified now to pick up the phone
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Speaker 3: and pick up the pager and go meet with another terrorist.
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Speaker 3: That is unequivocally good for Israel and America. We are
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Speaker 3: saying forces across the globe arrayed against the people of Israel.
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Speaker 3: And I will tell you, in particular, if you want
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Speaker 3: to prevent another October seventh, if you want to save
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Speaker 3: innocent lives in Israel and America, then you've got to
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Speaker 3: start by focusing on the nation of Iran.
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Speaker 1: Iran is the head of the stake.
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Speaker 3: I will say, in the last four years, the US
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Speaker 3: government has funneled over one hundred billion dollars to Iran.
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Speaker 3: We all know about the six billion that got the
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Speaker 3: most attention. That was six billion in ransom for five Americans.
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Speaker 3: I and many others at the time said that's a
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Speaker 3: terrible policy. It will only encourage more Americans to be
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Speaker 3: taken hostage. It effectively puts a bounty of one point
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Speaker 3: two billion per hostage. Tragically, when we said that, I
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Speaker 3: didn't realize it would be just a couple of months
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Speaker 3: before we would see more Americans taken hostage. Some of
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Speaker 3: you may also know about the ten billion in funds
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Speaker 3: that were frozen in Iraq from electricity receipts that the
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Speaker 3: administration unfroze to flow to Iran. Both of those, however,
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Speaker 3: pale in comparison to the real source of revenue. Iran
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Speaker 3: derives the bulk of its revenue from oil and gas sales.
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Speaker 3: When Joe Biden and Kamala Harris came into office four
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Speaker 3: years ago, Iran was at the time selling roughly three
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Speaker 3: hundred thousand barrels of oil a day. That was a
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Speaker 3: consequence of the previous administration vigorously enforcing oil sanctions. I
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Speaker 3: had spent hundreds of hours urging President Trump to vigorously
20:59
Speaker 3: enforce oil oil sanctions on Iran. He did so, and
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Speaker 3: their oil sales plummeted from a million barrels a day
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Speaker 3: to three hundred thousand in January of twenty twenty one.
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Speaker 3: The Iranian economy was in shambles, the Iranian regime was
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Speaker 3: teetering and near collapse, and the current administration came in
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Speaker 3: and immediately stopped enforcing those oil sanctions. What are the
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Speaker 3: consequences of that? Iran's oil sales went from three hundred
21:28
Speaker 3: thousand barrels a day where they were in January of
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Speaker 3: twenty twenty one.
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Speaker 1: Do you know what they are today?
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Speaker 3: Roughly two million barrels of oil a day, primarily sold
21:39
Speaker 3: to communist China. What is the delta between three hundred
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Speaker 3: thousand barrels a day and two million barrels a day.
21:46
Speaker 3: It is more than eighty billion dollars that came in
21:51
Speaker 3: like a lifeline.
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Speaker 1: To save the regime.
21:54
Speaker 3: I told you this is a battle between good and evil.
21:57
Speaker 3: The Ayatola Kameine is unambiguous evil. He leads mobs in
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Speaker 3: chants of death to Israel and death to America. Now,
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Speaker 3: if history teaches anything It is that when somebody tells
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Speaker 3: you they want to kill you, believe them. And you
22:15
Speaker 3: need to understand this is not just a threat to Israel.
22:19
Speaker 3: There is a reason the Ayatola refers to Israel as
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Speaker 3: the little.
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Speaker 1: Satan and America as the great Satan.
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Speaker 3: The enemies of Israel are enemies of America.
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Speaker 1: Those who hate Jews hate Christians.
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Speaker 3: And I have to say, if any sanity comes from
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Speaker 3: the aftermath of October seventh, it is that we should
22:43
Speaker 3: agree to come together and cut off all of the
22:47
Speaker 3: funds for Iran. Two statistics that are important to know.
22:52
Speaker 3: Over ninety percent of the funding for Hamas comes from Iran.
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Speaker 3: Over ninety percent of the funding for Hesbola comes from Iran.
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Speaker 3: If you are giving one hundred billion dollars to Iran,
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Speaker 3: you are giving the money to the terrorist who are
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Speaker 3: committing these atrocities. I gotta say, regardless of your politics,
23:15
Speaker 3: it should not be a complicated proposition to say, do
23:20
Speaker 3: not give money to people who want to murder you.
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Speaker 3: And yet somehow in Washington that's deemed a controversial statement.
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Speaker 2: As before, if you want to hear the rest of
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Speaker 2: this conversation on this topic, you can go back and
23:34
Speaker 2: dow the podcast from earlier this week to hear the
23:36
Speaker 2: entire thing. I want to get back to the big story,
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Speaker 2: number three of the week.
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Speaker 7: You may have missed if you're listening to this right
23:44
Speaker 7: now or you're watching this. When you think about going
23:46
Speaker 7: from fifty thousand dollars race to a million dollars against you,
23:51
Speaker 7: that's a political assassination on your career. That's saying we're
23:56
Speaker 7: just going to buy a winner and make sure you're
23:59
Speaker 7: a loser, because that's how much we want to punish
24:01
Speaker 7: you and make sure everybody else stays in line.
24:03
Speaker 8: Exactly I always held, folks, it was literally to make
24:06
Speaker 8: an example out of me and to warn others don't
24:09
Speaker 8: get any right ideas. Don't stand up there and speak
24:12
Speaker 8: out and tell the truth for your constituents, because we
24:15
Speaker 8: will seawan theory you and put over a million dollars
24:18
Speaker 8: in your race. But I said it on the house floor,
24:22
Speaker 8: you know, I always say sunlight is the best disinfectant, Senator,
24:26
Speaker 8: And so I did rip the lid off of it,
24:28
Speaker 8: and I exposed the harms, and I exposed the hypocrisy.
24:31
Speaker 8: You talked about eighteen being such a reasonable age. Every
24:35
Speaker 8: policy that the Democrats put forth is usually to raise
24:38
Speaker 8: the age.
24:39
Speaker 6: This is the.
24:39
Speaker 8: Only area where not only do they not want to
24:43
Speaker 8: set the age, they want no age. If they want
24:46
Speaker 8: to raise the age from eighteen to twenty one for
24:48
Speaker 8: it to have a gun. We raise the age from
24:51
Speaker 8: eighteen to twenty one to buy tobacco cigarettes, which everyone
24:54
Speaker 8: you know agreed. We raise the age from eighteen to
24:57
Speaker 8: twenty one to work in a sexually oriented business. We
25:02
Speaker 8: have acknowledged. They said they're the party of science. They
25:05
Speaker 8: said the frontal lobe of the brain is not developed
25:07
Speaker 8: until almost twenty five. Yeah, Why on earth are Democrats saying,
25:12
Speaker 8: as you said, very well, Sinner, that a child as
25:15
Speaker 8: young as nine, who hasn't even entered puberty has the
25:20
Speaker 8: capacity to sign away their future in terms of being
25:24
Speaker 8: castrated and sterilized.
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Speaker 6: What is this?
25:27
Speaker 3: So tell us the sort of things.
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Speaker 1: What did your then.
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Speaker 3: Fellow Democrats say to you as this is all going down.
25:35
Speaker 3: What sort of conversation did y'all have?
25:38
Speaker 6: Well, I guess the.
25:38
Speaker 8: Cat kind of got out of the bag that there
25:41
Speaker 8: was a potential dissident who wasn't going along with the program,
25:46
Speaker 8: and so they started pulling me to the side. Usually
25:48
Speaker 8: in like groups, of three, then groups of six and
25:52
Speaker 8: telling me, you know, Sean, what's going on here?
25:55
Speaker 7: A lot of these are your friends, right, I mean
25:56
Speaker 7: these are they?
25:58
Speaker 6: They're colleagues, colleagues, some friends.
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Speaker 8: The friends were the ones that really just came with
26:05
Speaker 8: the warning that said, Sean, listen, because I was pulling
26:08
Speaker 8: out papers and showing what lupron does, showing that it
26:10
Speaker 8: causes early onset osteoporosis, and that some of these cross.
26:15
Speaker 3: Sex weren't tell our viewers and listeners what is lupron?
26:19
Speaker 1: So give some of those tatas sure.
26:20
Speaker 5: So.
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Speaker 8: Lupron is the drug that they want to give children
26:23
Speaker 8: in America to stop them from gordon to puberty. It
26:27
Speaker 8: is prescribed for men who who have prostate cancer. It
26:32
Speaker 8: is a chemotherapy drug. Wow, this is a drug we
26:36
Speaker 8: are giving children that do not have cancer. The only
26:40
Speaker 8: other use for it. It gets even grosser that they
26:44
Speaker 8: want to give it to children. This drug is given
26:46
Speaker 8: as a chemical castration drug to child rapists, to pedophiles.
26:51
Speaker 7: And they're giving it to kids because they say are
26:55
Speaker 7: the parents say they want to transition at the eight
26:58
Speaker 7: or nine or ten way.
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Speaker 3: If the kids when they get older, they change their
27:02
Speaker 3: mind much of this is irreversible. If you have a
27:07
Speaker 3: teenage girl who has a double missectomy, you don't get
27:11
Speaker 3: your breast back. That's right, that's right, that's been and forever.
27:15
Speaker 6: It's too late. And that's what the loopron is for.
27:17
Speaker 8: It is to put you on the trajectory for a
27:20
Speaker 8: sex change, to make it easier, because if your body
27:22
Speaker 8: never develops in the first place, it's that much easier
27:26
Speaker 8: to start mutilating and amputating body parts. So I started
27:30
Speaker 8: to meet Now you talked about transitioning. There's a group
27:33
Speaker 8: of young people called d transitioners. These were the kids
27:37
Speaker 8: there are now many of them are grown that went
27:40
Speaker 8: through this, that have deep regret, and they visited the
27:44
Speaker 8: Capitol as well. Unfortunately, their voices were shut out by
27:48
Speaker 8: these radical activists and they didn't want us to listen
27:51
Speaker 8: to these kids.
27:52
Speaker 6: Wow.
27:52
Speaker 8: I met a young lady who had a double missectomy
27:56
Speaker 8: and a full hysterectomy. She's only twenty six. Wow, she said,
28:01
Speaker 8: rip theory, crying in the hallway to me, I have
28:04
Speaker 8: the biological profile now of a seventy two year old woman, she.
28:08
Speaker 7: Said, biological profile is seventies woman.
28:11
Speaker 6: She's in full full mint pause. She's twenty four.
28:14
Speaker 8: She said, my bone, my bones hurt me so badly.
28:18
Speaker 8: She was on so much testosterone. So now she said,
28:22
Speaker 8: I realized I never really wanted to be a boy.
28:26
Speaker 8: She said, I was love bombed. And I said, tell
28:29
Speaker 8: me more about that. And she said, I was a
28:31
Speaker 8: lonely child, a girl. She said, I think I'm gay.
28:35
Speaker 8: She said, but I don't want to be a man.
28:37
Speaker 8: And she said, but I watched a lot of YouTube
28:40
Speaker 8: and she met these transgender ideologists who love bombed her.
28:45
Speaker 8: And then she told her mom. Her mom was scared.
28:48
Speaker 8: She took her to her gender clinic somewhere outside of Austin.
28:53
Speaker 8: Despite what they tell you, she said, in thirty minutes,
28:56
Speaker 8: they had a letter authorizing for her to get on
28:59
Speaker 8: all of these hormones.
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Speaker 7: Wow, thirty minutes. And they always say that there's all
29:04
Speaker 7: this profiling that's done in all these interviews and mental
29:08
Speaker 7: you know, they look at everything. Thirty minutes. Here's your letter,
29:11
Speaker 7: go change sex of a child.
29:14
Speaker 8: Absolutely, And Senator, here's the part that really got me.
29:18
Speaker 8: She said that they told her mother because her mom
29:20
Speaker 8: thought she was doing the right thing. Her mom wasn't
29:22
Speaker 8: one of those women that was pushing it on her kid.
29:26
Speaker 8: You can either have a dead daughter or a living
29:30
Speaker 8: son threatening her mother that she would kill herself, and
29:33
Speaker 8: she said I never said that.
29:35
Speaker 6: She said she goes.
29:36
Speaker 8: But then I started to believe that. And so when
29:39
Speaker 8: I was talking to the D Transitioners, they even took
29:42
Speaker 8: a photo of me, I think it's on Twitter somewhere,
29:44
Speaker 8: and it said, look at rep theory, you know meeting
29:47
Speaker 8: with these They called the D Transitioners a hate group.
29:51
Speaker 6: These are else.
29:52
Speaker 7: They're saying, We've already done this, listened to us, and
29:56
Speaker 7: then they call them a hate group.
29:57
Speaker 8: Yeah, that I was meeting with a hate group was
30:00
Speaker 8: anti lgbt key.
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Speaker 3: It's amazing is there's no compassion for these kids and
30:07
Speaker 3: the life altering decisions that I think in many instances
30:11
Speaker 3: it's adults who are foisting it on them. So let
30:15
Speaker 3: me ask you, if you listen to the media, if
30:18
Speaker 3: you listen to the conventional wisdom, Republicans are a bunch
30:23
Speaker 3: of intolerant bigots. You were a four time elected Democrat representative,
30:31
Speaker 3: you flipped over to the Republican Party. What has the
30:36
Speaker 3: reaction on both sides been and what have you what
30:38
Speaker 3: have you found?
30:40
Speaker 1: Well?
30:40
Speaker 8: The reaction was one very welcoming, from the Governor of Texas,
30:45
Speaker 8: to the Speaker of the House, to all of my colleagues,
30:48
Speaker 8: to just regular folks writing me on Facebook and in
30:51
Speaker 8: boxing me and saying welcome rep Theory, Praise God.
30:55
Speaker 6: You know, we're so grateful to have you.
30:57
Speaker 8: So there was none of this boogeyman and racism that
31:01
Speaker 8: people the Democrat Party is using to fear monger I
31:04
Speaker 8: think half of America. But I knew that because I
31:08
Speaker 8: served with this folks, and you know, all of this
31:12
Speaker 8: talk of calling people biggs and Nazis and white supremacists.
31:18
Speaker 8: It was always so bizarre to me because I would
31:20
Speaker 8: sit with my colleagues who were seeing those things, and
31:23
Speaker 8: they would be in the member's lounge five minutes later
31:26
Speaker 8: sharing ice cream with these very folks that they were
31:29
Speaker 8: calling Nazis. And then they actually started calling.
31:32
Speaker 6: Me a Nazi.
31:32
Speaker 8: And I'm like me, I'm a black woman, I'm not okay,
31:36
Speaker 8: I'm a Nazi now, So Cinata, I knew, you know
31:39
Speaker 8: that that was just a bunch of crazy talk.
31:42
Speaker 6: The Democrats had been.
31:44
Speaker 8: Like I said, from the moment I stood up on
31:46
Speaker 8: that bill, I started getting death threats the night before
31:50
Speaker 8: as the cat got let out the bag, that rep
31:52
Speaker 8: theory is probably going to vote in favor of setting
31:56
Speaker 8: it in.
31:56
Speaker 3: Did any other Democrats crossover? And both of the film.
31:59
Speaker 8: Three others, three others, so four and they told me
32:04
Speaker 8: each one of them said they would not have done
32:06
Speaker 8: it but for hearing my speech. I gave a twelve
32:09
Speaker 8: minute speech on the house floor. I think it's on YouTube.
32:11
Speaker 3: And it's gone viral.
32:12
Speaker 6: It went viral.
32:13
Speaker 8: The letter I wrote explaining it got over two and
32:15
Speaker 8: a half million views on Twitter.
32:17
Speaker 6: But if you.
32:18
Speaker 8: Watch it, my hands were shaking, my voice was cracking
32:22
Speaker 8: because I was so sleep deprived because for days, you know,
32:26
Speaker 8: they had just been harassing me and pounding me and
32:29
Speaker 8: threatening me and trying to change my mind.
32:33
Speaker 6: Just like a cult.
32:34
Speaker 8: And there was one colleague who you said, who could
32:37
Speaker 8: be a friend. And I remember he pulled me to
32:39
Speaker 8: the side and he said to me, Sean, hold your nose.
32:45
Speaker 8: You better hold your nose and vote with us if
32:48
Speaker 8: you want to make it back here. And I just
32:50
Speaker 8: looked him in the face and said, I can't do that.
32:55
Speaker 6: I can't do it.
32:56
Speaker 7: A lot of people listening are going to ask, are
32:58
Speaker 7: you a cautionary tale? Are you safe now in your
33:01
Speaker 7: elected position. What's the end of the story for your
33:05
Speaker 7: career when it comes to this position that clearly you
33:07
Speaker 7: won four times?
33:09
Speaker 8: Well, I did not win my seat for reelection. I
33:12
Speaker 8: went to a run off.
33:12
Speaker 7: The question that everybody listening right now is like, what happened?
33:15
Speaker 3: They beat her in the Democrat primary with a million
33:18
Speaker 3: dollars worked.
33:19
Speaker 8: They found a candidate who said she was a dual
33:22
Speaker 8: identity queer black woman that had never run for office.
33:26
Speaker 8: I'd never seen her in the district one time, volunteering,
33:29
Speaker 8: doing anything.
33:29
Speaker 6: It never served.
33:30
Speaker 8: Put the money behind that candidate, and even though nobody
33:33
Speaker 8: knew her, she she won. However, I always say there's
33:37
Speaker 8: a comma, not a period there, okay, As I said again,
33:42
Speaker 8: that's a temporary pit stop.
33:46
Speaker 6: My dad who passed away, I share it. We were
33:48
Speaker 6: talking about our fathers.
33:49
Speaker 8: When we sat down and talked, and before my dad
33:52
Speaker 8: passed away, it must have been very fratuitous of him
33:54
Speaker 8: for no reason at all. He was in the hospital
33:57
Speaker 8: and he looked at me and he said, Jehan, I
33:59
Speaker 8: want you to promise me. It was like, of course, daddy,
34:02
Speaker 8: and he said, don't ever let the power and the
34:06
Speaker 8: prestige of the position cause you to sell your soul
34:09
Speaker 8: aimen to that, and I didn't, and I stay with that.
34:14
Speaker 8: So I think people need to look at it and say,
34:16
Speaker 8: you can survive it. I'm still here. They censored me,
34:21
Speaker 8: but they did not silence me. So I think that
34:24
Speaker 8: the good news is you can survive it. I've switched
34:27
Speaker 8: parties not because I'm so much politically ambitious, but because
34:30
Speaker 8: I'm a citizen. I'm an American, and I want to
34:33
Speaker 8: do it's right for our country. And so now I'm
34:35
Speaker 8: speaking out. I'm using whatever platform I have to educate
34:39
Speaker 8: Americans and Senator so many folks, and I'll even say
34:43
Speaker 8: African American voters have come to me and said, Rep. Fiery,
34:46
Speaker 8: if only I had known, I didn't even know the
34:49
Speaker 8: Democrat Party was up to this.
34:51
Speaker 3: Well, Sean, thank you for your courage and thank you
34:54
Speaker 3: for sharing your story. Stories are powerful. A lot of
34:57
Speaker 3: what we try to do on this podcast tell stories,
35:00
Speaker 3: stories that impact people's lives, stories that are reality. As
35:04
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35:07
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35:10
Speaker 3: reason we've seen things like podcasts grow so much is
35:13
Speaker 3: people are hungry for the truth, and so I appreciate
35:16
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35:19
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