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Democrats Dream Indictments Will Cost Trump in 2024 plus Top Republicans Vow Crack Down on FTC · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Democrats.
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  Speaker 2: And and this is so you understand, I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: go a little bit here into like a deep dive
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  Speaker 2: into the Democrats' mentality. And I'm talking about the leadership,
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  Speaker 2: talking about Biden and the people around Biden, uh and
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  Speaker 2: the Democratic National Committee, and and just so you under understand. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: there is a mentality, and I think it's extremely clear. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: there is a mentality that Democrats want Donald Trump to
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  Speaker 2: get the nomination.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's number one. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Democrats desperately, I mean desperately, all right, want them to
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  Speaker 2: get the nomination.
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  Speaker 1: That's number one.
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  Speaker 2: So you understand they believe that Donald Trump will be
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  Speaker 2: the easiest person to beat.
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  Speaker 1: That's what they believe.
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  Speaker 2: They believe that Donald Trump is so polarizing that in
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  Speaker 2: a general election, there's no way that Donald Trump could
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  Speaker 2: win the election. They saw that in the data last time,
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  Speaker 2: and they feel like that last time, that data was
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  Speaker 2: so abundantly clear, that this was so transparent, Okay, that
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  Speaker 2: this was the only candid that they wanted to have
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  Speaker 2: win the nomination. Now, I'm not saying I agree with
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  Speaker 2: any of that. I'm just letting you know their mindset.
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  Speaker 2: I want to make that clear. The second thing is
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  Speaker 2: they said, look, we know that Trump has a unfavorability
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  Speaker 2: rating that is catastrophic politically. Now in politics, hillary Clinton
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  Speaker 2: had this right. Seventy four percent of primary voters on
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  Speaker 2: the Democratic primary, so not the Republican okay side, the
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  Speaker 2: Democratic primary had an unfavorable opinion of Hillary Clinton. If
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  Speaker 2: you want to know why Hillary Clinton lost that with
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  Speaker 2: more money than anybody had ever had in the present
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  Speaker 2: shoal election, I think at that point and lost to
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump, it is because of her unfavorable Her own team,
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  Speaker 2: in essence, just couldn't stand her. They just didn't like her.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't like her in the primary, they didn't like
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  Speaker 2: her in the general. They just didn't like her. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: that's the easiest and the best way that I can
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  Speaker 2: describe it. They just they didn't like her, plain and simple.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't like her. So what happened was, is the
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  Speaker 2: people that she needed and you need to win an election,
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  Speaker 2: when they didn't show up, it was it was game over,
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  Speaker 2: right Like when you didn't like when people don't show
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  Speaker 2: up that you need to show up, that you desperately
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  Speaker 2: need to show up. When they don't show up for
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  Speaker 2: an election, you're gonna lose, and you're gonna lose every
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  Speaker 2: single time, and that's basically the mentality. Now the Democrats, well, look,
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump, he may be loved by his hardcore MAGA supporter,
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  Speaker 2: but the majority of the Republican Party isn't going to
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  Speaker 2: jump all over him, and then the swing voters are not.
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  Speaker 2: So therefore he's the easiest candidate to be Now, there's
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  Speaker 2: a new poll out that is interesting data on this,
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  Speaker 2: and I want you to understand it so because it's
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  Speaker 2: going to be talked about a lot in the weeks
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  Speaker 2: in the days ahead, Donald Trump. In the headline for
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  Speaker 2: the Daily News is Trump plunges a thirty five percent
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  Speaker 2: favorable rating and a dire new poll that says fifty
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  Speaker 2: three percent of Americans back the indictments against Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: Then it says former President Trump's popularity is plunging as
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  Speaker 2: his legal troubles mount. Just thirty five percent of Americans
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  Speaker 2: have a favorable view of Trump compared to sixty two
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  Speaker 2: percent who view him unfavorably. Now that's not as high
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  Speaker 2: as seventy four percent of Democratic voters with Hillary Clinton,
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  Speaker 2: want to make that clear, So he's not even close
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  Speaker 2: to the Hillary Clinton mark.
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  Speaker 1: Yet.
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  Speaker 2: But the Hillary Clinton mark is like the death Star
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  Speaker 2: at Costco, right, you don't come back from it. This
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  Speaker 2: according to a new poll release yesterday. The survey, which
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  Speaker 2: was conducted from last Friday to Monday, also found that
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  Speaker 2: fifty three percent of all voters, okay, that's Republicans, Democrats,
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  Speaker 2: independence all voters say they definitely will not vote for
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  Speaker 2: Trump for president in twenty twenty four. Now that's the problem, right,
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  Speaker 2: This is what Democrats are saying. Why they wanted Trump
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  Speaker 2: to get the nomination. This is why every time they
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  Speaker 2: indicted him it was it actually helped him win the primary,
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  Speaker 2: and they believe it's going to make him cost him
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  Speaker 2: to the presidential This survey, again, if you have all
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  Speaker 2: voters and fifty three percent of all voters have already
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  Speaker 2: made up their mind, and fifty three percent say they
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  Speaker 2: will definitely wouldn't vote for Trump for president, then that
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  Speaker 2: means that you only have best case scenario forty seven
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  Speaker 2: percent of the voters you can get your hands on.
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  Speaker 2: That's also another problem for Trump. Another eleven percent said
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  Speaker 2: they probably wouldn't support his White House comeback bid. That's
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  Speaker 2: also another problem. These lackluster numbers for Trump extend to
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  Speaker 2: opinions about the efforts to prosecute him for trying to
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  Speaker 2: overturn his loss to the twenty twenty election. Some fifty
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  Speaker 2: three percent of those surveyed approve of the US Department
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  Speaker 2: of Justice this is his indictment of Trump for alleged
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  Speaker 2: for his alleged scheme to try to stay in power illegally,
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  Speaker 2: compared to just thirty percent who disapprove of the new
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  Speaker 2: indictments of Trump. The poll was taken after Trump's indictment
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  Speaker 2: on the federal January sixth pro but before he was
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  Speaker 2: charged late Monday with racketeering in Georgia. The survey reveals
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  Speaker 2: a stark divide between Democrats and independent voters on the
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  Speaker 2: one hand, and Republicans on the other. Some eighty six
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  Speaker 2: percent of Democrats backed the indictments, compared to just sixteen
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  Speaker 2: percent of Republicans. The fact that sixteen percent Republicans that's
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  Speaker 2: the poll I care about. I would expect it to
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  Speaker 2: be ninety to one hundred percent of Democrats back these
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  Speaker 2: indictments because they don't care about the rule of law
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  Speaker 2: and they want to put a Republican in jail. The
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  Speaker 2: part that concerns me now is this part the indictment.
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  Speaker 2: There is a survey reveals that also independent voters are
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  Speaker 2: also on the Democrats side with this, okay, And there's
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  Speaker 2: sixteen percent of Republican voters. It's registered Republicans that voted
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  Speaker 2: in elections in the past who are saying they are
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  Speaker 2: fine with Donald Trump being indicted. That number scares the
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  Speaker 2: hell out of me. And the reason why it scares
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  Speaker 2: the hell out of me is because if we've lost
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  Speaker 2: sixteen percent of Republicans, that's very much like what happened
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  Speaker 2: with Hillary Clinton the Democrats, right, the unfavorables. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know how you overcome that in a general election. If
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  Speaker 2: the election was today. What this means is Donald Trump
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  Speaker 2: would lose a head to head election against Joe Biden
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  Speaker 2: if these numbers stay. Now, can these numbers change? Of
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  Speaker 2: course they can, and they have to change. Trump has
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  Speaker 2: built a dominant lead, and this is what Democrats were
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  Speaker 2: betting on in the presidential race in the GOP primary,
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  Speaker 2: even as his legal woes have gotten worse. Right, this
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  Speaker 2: is I'm ring for the article again, successfully using the
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  Speaker 2: legal drama as a political weapon to rally Republican voters
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  Speaker 2: behind him. And this is what Democrats have been saying
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  Speaker 2: behind closed doors now for months and months a month.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the other thing.
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  Speaker 2: It's interesting seven to ten Republicans seven out of ten
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  Speaker 2: view the former president favorably, at about sixty percent say
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  Speaker 2: they're happy he's making a return run for the White House.
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  Speaker 2: This reminds me a lot of what just happened in
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  Speaker 2: the Republican primaries across the country, in seats that we
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  Speaker 2: should have won that we lost. For example, doctor Oz, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: doctor Oz a great example. Donald Trump came in, he said,
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  Speaker 2: doctor Oz is my guy. Trump supporters in a primary
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  Speaker 2: voted for doctor Oz, and he got his brains beat
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  Speaker 2: in the general election that we lost a seat to Fetterman.
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  Speaker 2: For goodness sakes, Can Trump get you across the finish line?
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  Speaker 2: He absolutely can. He can get you across the finish
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  Speaker 2: line in a primary. But can he get you across
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  Speaker 2: the finish line to win an election. That's the problem here.
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  Speaker 2: It's the same thing we saw at Carl Lake in Arizona.
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump came out said, she's my girl. Guess what happened.
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  Speaker 2: She wins the primary and then she loses the general.
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  Speaker 2: There were several races that were lost that we lost
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  Speaker 2: because of bad.
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  Speaker 1: Can it choice?
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  Speaker 2: I'll give you another example, Hershel Walker. Donald Trump said
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  Speaker 2: herschel Walker's my guy. Donald Trump got him across the
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  Speaker 2: finish line in the primary. Right in the general we
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  Speaker 2: lost again. The Senate is in the hands of the
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  Speaker 2: Democrats because we picked three candidates that could make it
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  Speaker 2: through a primary. All right, that could make it through
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  Speaker 2: a primary, but could not make it through a general election.
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  Speaker 2: like Donald Trump was the easiest candidate to beat. That
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  Speaker 2: was their perspective on this. They thought, we don't care
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  Speaker 2: if he wins the primary. We just need him in
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  Speaker 2: the general, right, like get it, Let's get him through
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  Speaker 2: the primary, Like we're happy to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Let's support him in doing that.
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  Speaker 2: Hell if we indict him and that means that more
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  Speaker 2: more people than great, let's do it, right, Like this
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  Speaker 2: is amazing. This It has now become an issue that
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  Speaker 2: we need to have the conversation over. And what is
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  Speaker 2: it that Donald Trump can do to bring in more
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  Speaker 2: people that are on this Republican side That is like
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  Speaker 2: never Trump. Now it's a problem. And this is the
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  Speaker 2: same reason why I wanted Hillary Clinton to get the
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  Speaker 2: nomination in twenty sixteen because her unfavorability rating was just
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  Speaker 2: so high. Seventy four percent of Democratic voters had an
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  Speaker 2: unfavorable opinion of Hillary Clinton. That's Democrats, And what that
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  Speaker 2: means is many of them just don't show up and
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  Speaker 2: vote for you on election day because they're uninspired by you. Now,
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  Speaker 2: if there's a thirteen to seventeen percent of the Republican
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  Speaker 2: voters that are saying they don't like Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a problem.
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  Speaker 2: My advice to overcome this, if I'm sitting in the
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  Speaker 2: campaign war room of the Trump administration or the Trump
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  Speaker 2: campaign today is this, we have to make sure the
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  Speaker 2: president starts talking more about issues and less about the indictments.
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  Speaker 2: He needs to go back to what got him elected
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  Speaker 2: in twenty sixteen. He said, what I am going to
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  Speaker 2: do is I am going to come out and I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to fight hard for this country, to protect and
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  Speaker 2: secure this country.
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  Speaker 1: Remember the border, he said, I'm going to build the
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  Speaker 1: border wall.
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  Speaker 2: Those issues and if you go back to issues base,
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  Speaker 2: if you talk about how your goal is to bring
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  Speaker 2: interest rates down, your goal is to bring down inflation,
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  Speaker 2: your goal is to go back to an economy that's
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  Speaker 2: supported right the American worker. I also think there's a
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  Speaker 2: huge opportunity now for Donald Trump to go back to
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  Speaker 2: the minority community and remind them of what he did.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you look at what Donald Trump did. The
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  Speaker 2: lowest unemployment rate in history of African Americans, Asian Americans,
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  Speaker 2: single mothers, young African American men, the highest unemployment r
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  Speaker 2: lowest unemployment rate we've ever had. And you look at
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  Speaker 2: what he did to empower people to be able to
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  Speaker 2: take care of themselves and make a living and make
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  Speaker 2: great money. And you look at the cost of living,
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  Speaker 2: you looked at the cost of goods and services. They
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  Speaker 2: were incredibly low back then compared to where they are now.
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  Speaker 2: There's also a stagnation that's happening in the economy right now,
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  Speaker 2: that is, and it's because of lack of opportunity. Let
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  Speaker 2: me explain what I mean by the lack of opportunity
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  Speaker 2: aspect of this. Okay, the lack of the lack of
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  Speaker 2: opportunity that we're now talking about is there are people
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  Speaker 2: that used to be able to look at a house
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  Speaker 2: and say I want that house, and I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: make that leap from renting because it was cheaper to
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  Speaker 2: buy than it was to continue to rent.
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  Speaker 1: That is no longer the case.
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  Speaker 2: Let's take a house for example, right now that's on
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  Speaker 2: the market for exactly two hundred thousand dollars, all right,
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  Speaker 2: that If you look at that house, and you look
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  Speaker 2: at that price, and you say, okay, well what is
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  Speaker 2: what does that look like? Principal and interest on that house,
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  Speaker 2: mortgage insurance, property taxes, home insurance, everything all in Hoaf's
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  Speaker 2: put it all into the average that right now is
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  Speaker 2: going to put you at about one thousand, four hundred
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  Speaker 2: and twenty two dollars. If you have great credit. That's
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  Speaker 2: at a interest rate of six and a half. If
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  Speaker 2: you've got it now. A lot of people the national
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  Speaker 2: average is about seven and a half, So that puts
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  Speaker 2: you at one thousand, five hundred and fifty four dollars.
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  Speaker 2: If Donald Trump goes out there and says, hey, when
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  Speaker 2: I was president, that same loan that now is costing
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  Speaker 2: you over fifteen hundred dollars, and let's use exact numbers here,
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  Speaker 2: you do fifteen hundred and fifty four dollars at the
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  Speaker 2: current interest rate. When I was president, you could have
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  Speaker 2: gotten that same loan, and you know what it would
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  Speaker 2: have been one thousand and eighty nine dollars at two
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  Speaker 2: point seventy five percent interest, he was saving you six
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  Speaker 2: a year.
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  Speaker 1: Are just on your house. Note at a two hundred
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollar house.
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  Speaker 2: Note to a lot of Americans when you hear that,
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  Speaker 2: you just that Donald Trump was saving you over five
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  Speaker 2: hundred a month on a two hundred thousand dollar house
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  Speaker 2: just because of his economy compared to Joe Biden's economy.
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  Speaker 2: That resonates with people. That's six thousand dollars a year.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of people that would look at that
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  Speaker 2: and say, Okay, that's a really big deal. Now if
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  Speaker 2: the part that's amazing is the home prices of skyrocketed.
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  Speaker 2: And if you look at this, go to a go
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  Speaker 2: to a half a million dollar house, okay, a half
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  Speaker 2: a million dollars. And this just goes back to the
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  Speaker 2: issue of buying power. It's a simple math equation. It
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  Speaker 2: a half a million dollars. Donald Trump to buy a
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  Speaker 2: half a million dollar house was zero down. Okay, this
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  Speaker 2: is financing all of it. Zero dollars down. Was three
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  Speaker 2: four hundred and eighty eight dollars a month to borrow
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  Speaker 2: half a million dollars if you do the current interest
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  Speaker 2: rate right now, that's skyrockets to five thousand. That's a
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  Speaker 2: fifteen hundred dollars difference per month. Every month you do
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  Speaker 2: fifteen hundred, you're talking about almost twenty grand a year
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  Speaker 2: in savings. The difference between buying that house and not
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  Speaker 2: buying that house was many Americans could afford it under
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump. They cannot afford it right now under Joe Biden.
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  Speaker 2: These are the issues where people will listen to you
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  Speaker 2: because you're talking about the opportunity and you're talking about
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  Speaker 2: how your dreams are being destroyed by a president of
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  Speaker 2: the United States of America that has taken away the
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  Speaker 2: dream of home ownership, which is a nonpartisan dream. Independence, Republicans,
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  Speaker 2: Democrats dream of home owning a home. And that's why
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  Speaker 2: you look at it now and you see where these
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  Speaker 2: interest rates are, and you see that. Okay, so under Trump,
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  Speaker 2: a house, a half a million dollar house, zero down,
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  Speaker 2: costs me about thirty five hundred, and now it cost
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  Speaker 2: me five grand fifteen hundred dollars a month. You add
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  Speaker 2: up inflation for food and groceries. He needs to go
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  Speaker 2: back to those basic coversations. And if you go back
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  Speaker 2: to those conversations, Okay, if you go back to those
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  Speaker 2: real conversations and you talk about them, and you have
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  Speaker 2: that conversation and you keep it simple stupid as I
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  Speaker 2: call it, It is amazing what can happen. It's amazing
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  Speaker 2: what what? What can what can happen because of this conversation.
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  Speaker 2: I was also talking to someone the other day and
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  Speaker 2: they were asking they were talking about, you know, looking
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  Speaker 2: at housing, and they were talking about just how brutal
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  Speaker 2: taxes have become on houses. A lot of taxes have
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  Speaker 2: gone up, and there's a people have a problem with that.
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  Speaker 2: And I sit there and I'm like, yeah, this is
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  Speaker 2: this is what happens now in this economy. Okay, when
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  Speaker 2: you have it, when you add it all up, and
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  Speaker 2: when you do when you add it all up, folks,
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  Speaker 2: it is it is amazing just how much it's costing
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  Speaker 2: to live. If he can stay focused and just have
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  Speaker 2: that conversation, I think the outcome could be incredible for him.
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  Speaker 2: But he has to go back to the basics. And
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  Speaker 2: that's how you get people say, Okay, I'm willing to
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  Speaker 2: have this conversation with you. Okay, I want to have
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  Speaker 2: this conversation with you. I want to have this conversation.
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  Speaker 2: I want to have this debate. I'm willing to have
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  Speaker 2: this debate. New poll numbers out that look good for
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  Speaker 2: the president if you're winning a primary. I do believe
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  Speaker 2: that Donald Trump's going to get the nomination at this point.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's very clear. But Democrats are hoping that
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  Speaker 2: these numbers, these unfavorables, stay true. The question is what
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  Speaker 2: does Donald Trump need to do to reach out to
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  Speaker 2: others and what does he need to do to make
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  Speaker 2: sure that he is not alienating too many voters For
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  Speaker 2: general elections, there's no way that he can win. You've
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  Speaker 2: got to get fifty plus one. You have to inspire voters,
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  Speaker 2: and if you don't inspire voters, you're going to have
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  Speaker 2: serious issues. Five three five ninety seven three two five
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  Speaker 2: three five nine in three to two, eight hundred number one,
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  Speaker 2: eight hundred four seven four nine seven three to two.
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  Speaker 2: Charlie Sykes, who is a Democrat, he was on TV
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  Speaker 2: this morning.
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  Speaker 1: He acts like he's a Republican. He's not.
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  Speaker 2: And this is what they had to say about this
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  Speaker 2: new poll out, fifty seven percent of Americans saying Trump
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  Speaker 2: should be prosecuted on federal criminal charges.
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: Listen, close races. I never had close races.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: I got angry. If it ever looked like it was
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: going to be a close race, we ran, and we
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: ran hard, and we ran to win. And now you've
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: got people who were running to lose.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: They see the numbers, they know they're gonna lose.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: And these politicians, you know, it's almost like a doctor
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: that opens up a patient to see if they have cancer,
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: finds it all over their body, closes the body and
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: tells the patient you're fine, you're good, You're going out
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: clean bill of health. Enjoy yourself for a while when
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: the doctor knows what's gonna happen. This is what Republican
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: leaders are doing now. They know they're going to lose
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: with Trump.
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: They're followers of the base, and they've been doing this
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: for seven years. And many of them know obviously that
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: they're going to lose with Trump, but they also afraid
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: they will lose without Trump. I mean, this is this
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: is the corner they put themselves in. They've got a
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: base that is so rapidly behind the cult leader that
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: that if Donald Trump is defeated or pushed aside, they're
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: worried that those voters won't turn out and vote. So
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: they have to figure out, how do you push past
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: Donald Trump without antagonizing his base, and nobody has figured
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: that out yet. But I do think you know, to
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: your previous questions, I think the debate in Milwaukee next
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: week is going to be kind of interesting.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: And by the way, Joe, I totally agree with you.
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: I don't think Donald Trump's going to show up, but
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: we'll see whether or not there. You know, there is
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: a response to this massive reality check from the other candidates,
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: whether Tim Scott actually wants to run for president, who
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: wants to run for vice president? Because if there's going
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: to be a pivot, it's hard to imagine that it
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: doesn't happen relatively soon.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: I think that there are doomsdayers for sure over there
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: at MSNBC. But the point that they're making here is
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: one that we shouldn't overlook. I'm not worried if I'm
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: on the Trump campaign about the primary.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: I think we were going to own it if I'm
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: on that campaign.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: What I'm worried about is the general, and they need
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: to start pivoting to the general to understand that the general.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Is really, really, really really.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Important, and that the general election is something that you
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: can't just overlook it, and you can't just say, oh,
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: it's going to be fine. I'm Donald Trump. You have
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: to have a strategy more than just I'm Donald Trump.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: I'm going to go out there and start talking like
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: this is a You got to have a strategy that
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: it makes the American people pay attention those that normally
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: wouldn't make wouldn't pay attention. Lindsey Graham also last night
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: was on Hannity and he was talking about the Trump
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: and Ditman, the politics of this. You're criminalizing a contested election.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: There is a chance that you could also use that
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: if you use it the right way to explain to voters, Hey,
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: you don't want this in America. This is like the
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Banana Republic.
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: A hurricane never should have happened. He couldn't corroborate a
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: single item in the Steel dossier, but neither could the
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: FBI prior to using that dossier in four PHISA warrants
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: and it says verified and they offered Christopher Steele a
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: million dollars to corroborate that. How come nobody got held accountable?
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: And by the way, didn't we have top secret classified
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: documents and four locations that Joe Biden had.
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: Well, I think the answer is pretty obvious. You know,
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: the Clinton people took a hammer to a computer, right,
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: They took a hammer to the hard drive, They took
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: bleach bit to wipe away emails, and nothing happened to her.
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: So in the Mueller investigation, the FB lawyer sent false
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: information to the FISA Court. The FISA court rebuked the
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: Department of Justice, and really, nothing's ever happened to those people.
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: There are no rules when it comes to Donald Trump.
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: What's happening in Georgia is criminalizing contesting an election. Stacy
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: Abrams went on television night after night saying she was
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: cheated and nothing happened to her.
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: Hillary Clinton that was already Hillary Clinton said the election
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: was stolen. She said repeatedly Donald Trump was an illegitimate president.
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: There were groups supporting her that actually were involved in
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: money raising for quote alternate elective elector schemes. Nothing happens there, well,
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: apparently not.
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: The way you fix this is to elect a Republican president,
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: and it will be Donald Trump the nominee. If they're
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: trying to give Donald Trump the nomination, they're doing a
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: hell of a good job. I think Republicans are rallying
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: around President Trump.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: I thought he was a great president. I thought he
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: got it right. He's secured by the way.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: I think the point he's making their spot on like
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: they're trying to give it to them. They think he's
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: the easiest to beat because these poll numbers, and if
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: you look at these poll numbers, you're not inaccurate in this.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: But as he just described it, Republicans are going to
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: have to start rallying and remembering what he did as president.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: But that's the job of the Trump team to remind
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: them of what it was like when he was the president.
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  Speaker 2: House and Senate Republicans are teaming up to crack down
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: on the FTC for destroying documents related to a congressional probe.
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: This breaking overnight.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: Top Republicans on Capitol Hill are now vowing a major
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: crackdown on the Federal Trade Commission for allegedly destroying documents
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: related to a congressional probe. By deleting the documents, the
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: FTC likely violated federal law. It also impeded Congressional oversight
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: of the FTC recent unprecedented actions, including its proposed rule
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: banning non compete clauses. That's what Senator Ted Cruz, a
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: Texas Republican and ranking member on the Senate Commerce, Science,
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: and Transportation Committee wrote in a letter to the FTC chairman,
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: which was dated for Thursday, and it was released to
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: the public. Congress and the public deserve an exclamation of
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: why the FTC improperly destroyed records, what records it improperly destroyed,
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: and what steps will be taken to ensure it never
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: happens again, is what CRUs written a statement. He was
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: also joined by Representative Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican and
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, and Representative James comer At,
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Kentucky Republican, the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: and Accountability. The letter by Republican legislators comes about a
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: year and a half after the FTC's in house watchdog,
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: the Office of Inspector General, found multiple failures and the
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: FTC's record keeping process. How convenient right. The Republicans are
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: now alleging that the FTC in properly deleted documents on
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: purpose that Jordan had requested in relation to the agency's
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: new rule that would ban private sector employees from requiring
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: workers to sign non compete clauses that restrict them from
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: working for competitors or starting new businesses that offer similar
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: services for.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: A period of time.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: Now, this obviously is an important case because this could
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: impact you if you've ever sent noncompete. Jordan in February
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: said the rule would wipe out roughly thirty million existing
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: non compete agreements, and while the FTC highlights estimated benefit
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: of the rule, it made little effort to qualify the costs.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: According to Jordan.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Jordan said the rule exceeds the Commission's delegated authority and
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: impose a top down, one size fits all approach that
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: violates basic American principles of federalism and free markets. Jordan
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: saw at the time, among other things, documents related to
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: the litigation risk due to rule making, the economic analysis
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: related to the rule making, and the communications between the
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: FTC and third parties about the rule making in May,
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: the FTC just happened to inform the House Judiciary Committee
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: staff that it had deleted material likely responsive to the
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: committee's requests, including records of employees on detail from the
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, who led all of the FTC's
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: rule making. This is where the cover up comes in.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: The FDC's deletion of documents responsive to a congressional inquiry
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: underscores the OIG's conclusion in twenty twenty two that the
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: FTC has not prioritized records management nor embedded it as
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: a value of the agency's culture. Why did they do
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: this because they didn't want you to see what they
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: were actually doing. Moreover, it suggests that the agency is
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: not committed to complying with the law, and that it
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: may continue to elete records that are relevant to ongoing investigations.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: This is not how a federal agency should be run,
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: they wrote. The GOP Trio notes in their letter that
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: the federal law imposes important record keeping equipment on the FTC.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: The Federal Records Act requires the head of every federal
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: agency to make and preserve records about the agency functions, policies, decisions, procedures,
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: and essential transactions. It further requires agency heads to establish
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: and maintain a record scheduling process, pursuant to which the
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: agency must identify the records. It has, determine how long
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: each of the records is deemed valuable, and when there
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: is no longer a need for them at the agency
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: request authority to either legally destroy the records or transfer
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: them to the National Archives. So, in translation, I want
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: you to understand what they did here. They said, hey,
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: we want these documents, and in response to asking for
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: those documents, they stonewalled for a little over a year,
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: and then they said, oh, whoops, are bad. We don't
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: know what to do, like our bad, Like just sorry,
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: are bad? We just lost these documents. Well we didn't
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: really lose them, Okay. What we did was we destroyed them.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: So the documents that we needed you destroyed. Yep, that's
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: exactly what we did. I just want you to think
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: about that and what that actually means.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: It is.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: I think incredibly shocking that this is now what this
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: government does when they're asked a question and or they're
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: asked about something that clearly is extremely important. If they
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: know they're caught, they're then saying, well, we'll just destroy
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: the records. Now, if you and I do that in theory,
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: right when they're officially, if someone from a government agency
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: is asking for them, what are they gonna do. I
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: think you guys know what's gonna happen. They're gonna come
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: after us to the way of the government. They're gonna
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: charge us with crimes. If you did this after the
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: government asked for your records for anything that they were
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: dealing with, it would be game on and you would
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: be probably prosecuted. But the people that run the FTC,
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: and we're talking about millions of documents, they just decided
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: to ask screw it, We're just gonna delete them. Then
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: you guys won't ever be able to see what we
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: were actually doing, and that means that we win, you
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: guys lose. That's pretty much the easiest way that I
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: can explain how this went down and what happened. This
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: was done deliberately on purpose, right, I mean, I mean
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: that's this was This was clearly a very calculated decision.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: This was a decision that they said was worth the risk,
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: and they basically said, we don't believe we're going to
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: get in trouble for this. We might get our hands slapped,
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: But the Democrats will cover for us because what we're
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: doing now, we can do whatever the hell we want
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: to do whenever we want to do it, and we
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: feel good about it. And that's really what's happened here
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: like that, That's that's how this has gone down. This
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: is also you may say, well, I don't really care
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: that much, this doesn't affect me. It's a pattern, and
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: that's why you should care. It is a pattern of
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: corruption that is consistent with this administration and with anything
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: they don't want you to see. They just say, all right,
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: we're just gonna delete it, right, We're just We're just
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: we're just gonna get rid of it.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: By deleting it, and.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: None of you are gonna see it, like none of
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: you are gonna be able to witness what we did
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: in the past.
• 32:09
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• 32:11
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• 32:15
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