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Jim Jordan Probes FBI’s Role in Trump Special Counsel Investigation! · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Is Biden's age finally going to be an issue for
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Speaker 1: the average voter. I'm not talking about those that pay
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Speaker 1: attention all the time. I'm talking about those that pay
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Speaker 1: attention right before election day. MSNBC now showing signs of
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Speaker 1: actually worrying about the president's fall at the Air Force Academy.
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Speaker 1: It was clearly a fall that he didn't well. Not
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Speaker 1: only did not see it coming, but it took him
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Speaker 1: a little bit to get up. Three different people had
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Speaker 1: to help him up. Even though the headlines were saying
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Speaker 1: yesterday by Reuters he recovered quickly.
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Speaker 2: No he didn't.
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Speaker 1: They also lied and said he got to a knee,
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Speaker 1: one knee by himself. No he didn't. If you watch
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Speaker 1: the video, he didn't. There's also another interesting issue, and
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Speaker 1: that as the bottom of the president's shoes. Clearly they're
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Speaker 1: customed with lots of rubber and with some offsets in them.
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Speaker 1: Many people have been commenting on that. Now in life, yes,
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Speaker 1: everyone is going to age, everyone's going.
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Speaker 2: To lose their step. People do fall.
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Speaker 1: President's fall, but this president is falling more than any
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Speaker 1: other president we've ever seen publicly in history. I don't
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Speaker 1: like it, by the way, when a president falls down,
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Speaker 1: And I'm being clear about this. From a political standpoint,
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Speaker 1: I think it shows weakness. I think it's a way
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Speaker 1: for world leaders to mock our president. It doesn't help
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Speaker 1: us with our adversaries and people like ISIS or al Qaida,
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Speaker 1: or Russia or China. It doesn't make America look strong.
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Speaker 1: I worry about a president that falls going upstairs three times.
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Speaker 1: I worry about a president that falls standing still on
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Speaker 1: a bike. I worry about a president that falls coming
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Speaker 1: off of stage. I worry about a president that falls
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Speaker 1: at the Air Force Academy when we're supposed to be
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Speaker 1: talking about how important it is for our military, our
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Speaker 1: Air force to be ready to deal with China or
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Speaker 1: Russia or anyone else. This goes back to what I've
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Speaker 1: said for a long time. I never root for a president,
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Speaker 1: regardless of party, to fail on national defense issues, on
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Speaker 1: national security issues, on foreign affairs issues that affected the
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Speaker 1: United States of America. Whether it's Barack Obama, Joe Biden,
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump, George Bush, I don't care how Jimmy Carter.
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Speaker 1: You look at Jimmy Carter, and this will probably make
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Speaker 1: my point more crystal clear. When the Iran hostage crisis
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Speaker 1: took place in nineteen seventy eight, seventy nine, and there
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Speaker 1: was a week president named Jimmy Carter, and it cost
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Speaker 1: him ultimately. I think that, and also the gas shortage
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Speaker 1: and the fact that he just unfortunately wasn't a very
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Speaker 1: good president.
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Speaker 2: I wanted him to succeed.
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Speaker 1: Then you look back in history and look at those
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Speaker 1: Americans that were held hostage and the way they were treated,
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Speaker 1: and Iran and that debacle and how much it weakened
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Speaker 1: America on the world stage. I would never want a
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Speaker 1: president even if it means quote, getting Ronald Reagan right
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Speaker 1: like Jimmy Carter gave us Ronald Reagan.
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Speaker 2: But I don't want it that way.
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Speaker 1: I don't want a president to screw up in Americans
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Speaker 1: to be hurt and to have dictators and tyrants come
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Speaker 1: into power and gain or power. And that's why I
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Speaker 1: go back to this. I don't like seeing Joe Biden
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Speaker 1: fall down. The first time it happens, you kind of laugh, right,
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Speaker 1: because it's more just funny. But when you start seeing
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Speaker 1: it as often as we're seeing it, I don't like
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Speaker 1: it because I think it puts America in a really
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Speaker 1: bad and a really weak spot.
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Speaker 2: And that's exactly apparently.
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Speaker 1: Now what MSNBC is saying, MSNBC is now worried that
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Speaker 1: the country, not the world, not our foreign policy, not
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Speaker 1: our adversaries, but that the American viewers are now going
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Speaker 1: to see Joe Biden go Yeah, maybe he really is
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Speaker 1: just too old to be president, maybe he can't handle
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Speaker 1: the job. Now there's a unique dynamic on Morning Joe.
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Speaker 1: Joe Scarborough is married to Merca and they're sitting side
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Speaker 1: by side. She doesn't like it when anybody criticizes Joe Biden.
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Speaker 1: And you can hear Joe Biden saying it was a
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Speaker 1: tough fall, and she kind of yells.
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Speaker 2: Back, stop it.
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Speaker 1: But then I want you to hear what the other commentator,
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Speaker 1: Jonathan Lemire has to say.
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Speaker 2: A out Joe Biden and this fall.
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Speaker 3: Biden's fall yesterday it was okay, looked like a hard fall.
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Speaker 3: Glad he got up and he was he was okay
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Speaker 3: with it.
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Speaker 2: But obviously though.
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Speaker 3: Again Biden's talking tonight, we've been talking about things that
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Speaker 3: actually do matter, the legislation. At the same time, there's
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Speaker 3: some people in the campaign. I'm sure that we're only
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Speaker 3: going oh, come on, yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, no doubt.
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Speaker 4: The first of all, a rare moment of self awareness
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Speaker 4: from Donald Trump there to.
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Speaker 2: Acknowledge that he also had from trouble walking.
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Speaker 4: Around actually at a service academy and graduation. Those things
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Speaker 4: apparently are tough for commanders in chief. But yes, in
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Speaker 4: terms of president, in terms of President Biden, when I
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Speaker 4: says he is fine, it.
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Speaker 2: Was a hard fall.
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Speaker 4: He tripped over a sandbag that was there on stage.
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Speaker 4: He was clearly in some pain afterwards, he was very
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Speaker 4: ginger as gingerly sat down afterwards, but he continued throughout
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Speaker 4: the ceremony, got back.
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Speaker 2: On Air Force one.
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Speaker 4: As you say, he did bump his head on the
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Speaker 4: Marine one as he stepped off the hell helicopter on
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Speaker 4: the White House lawn. But he does seems fine. But yes,
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Speaker 4: on a serious quote, this is and you're right. We
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Speaker 4: have spent correctly the majority of this block talking about
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Speaker 4: the that ceiling bill and that accomplishment. But presidents do fall,
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Speaker 4: they do, They trip and fall. President Obama did a
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Speaker 4: few times. But no president's ever been eighty one years
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Speaker 4: old run for reelection while they did so.
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Speaker 2: His age is an issue here.
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Speaker 1: His age is an issue here, and that's the difference
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Speaker 1: between the other falls in this fall you know, Barack
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Speaker 1: Obama or George Bush forty one or forty three, those
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Speaker 1: were not age issues. That was just okay, you fell. Now,
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Speaker 1: look I fell. I don't know, three months ago. There
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Speaker 1: was a hole in the ground basically a little bit
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Speaker 1: of a sinkhole when I was with my kids running
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Speaker 1: through a field, and I ate it, like hard, okay
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Speaker 1: that that happens. Now, this sandbag on stage, it was
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Speaker 1: clear that that sandbag was the cause of the fall.
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Speaker 1: And I hate it for this president because I don't
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Speaker 1: want him to look like this on the world stage.
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Speaker 1: I put politics aside on this one, Like I think
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Speaker 1: it's really really sad when people try to play politics
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Speaker 1: the following. I think that's part of the reason why
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump was saying it the way that he said
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Speaker 1: it about this. But what you heard there at the
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Speaker 1: very end, he said, this is going to be a
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Speaker 1: storyline they have to deal with, referring to the campaign.
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Speaker 1: This is a liberal MSNBC. They're gonna have to, you know,
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Speaker 1: they got to deal with this. They feel like voters
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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty know how old Joe Biden is. They
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Speaker 1: know how old he is now. They like the job
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Speaker 1: he's doing. It seems like he is fine. But at
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Speaker 1: the end of the day, now it's four years later,
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Speaker 1: and four years later, you can have Reuters lie to
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Speaker 1: you and say, oh, he got to one knee and
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Speaker 1: he recovered quickly. That's not what happened here. I also
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Speaker 1: want you to hear what Donald Trump said in this
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Speaker 1: town hall about cognitive decline.
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Speaker 5: Listen, just the interviews that we've had together, and we've
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Speaker 5: had many over the years, I have asked you repeatedly
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Speaker 5: about what you think about Joe Biden's cognitive state. I've
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Speaker 5: asked you about is he up to the job physically mentally.
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Speaker 2: You have been very reluctant to go there. I'm not
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Speaker 2: reluctant to me.
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Speaker 5: Is everyone agree with me that this guy's cognitively not there?
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Speaker 5: I doubt he knows what day of the week it
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Speaker 5: is today. That's how bad I think it's gotten for him.
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Speaker 5: Why are you reluctant to call that out? Well, I
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Speaker 5: don't know if I'm supposed to say this.
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Speaker 6: I actually called Sean and I asked Sean not to
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Speaker 6: joke about it. I was jok because he used to
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Speaker 6: joke about it, and I said, honestly, I don't think
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Speaker 6: it looks good for you or for anybody for you
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Speaker 6: to joke about it, because it's a serious play.
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Speaker 5: I was talking about sippy cup and warm milky at
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Speaker 5: night and bedtime stories.
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Speaker 6: So I said, I just don't think it's good for anybody,
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Speaker 6: and you know it's not appropriate. You can speak about
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Speaker 6: it if you want, but I don't think I should
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Speaker 6: joke about it.
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Speaker 5: And you really didn't after that. Well, now I realize
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Speaker 5: how serious it is, especially we'll get into foreign.
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Speaker 1: Policy, and even Sean Hanny there's like, you know what,
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Speaker 1: You're probably right, like, this is not something we want
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Speaker 1: to joke about with our adversaries out there. This is
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Speaker 1: not something that we should be joking about. The age
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Speaker 1: issue is going to be an issue in this election,
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Speaker 1: and I don't believe it's really about age. I think
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Speaker 1: it's about a cognitive decline.
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Speaker 2: And if the.
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Speaker 1: President continues to fall down, whether it's a sandbag or
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Speaker 1: whether it's a whatever the reason is, it is a
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Speaker 1: glaring moment where people just have to look at this
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Speaker 1: and go, Okay, maybe he is really suffering from a
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Speaker 1: cognitive decline. And I don't believe that we should make
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Speaker 1: fun of it. You know, I go back to what
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Speaker 1: the Democrats did with Fetterman. I believe it was straight
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Speaker 1: up abuse. What they did with Fetterman. The fact that
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Speaker 1: they ran him knowing you couldn't put together two cents
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Speaker 1: is they knew that he was not the guy that
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Speaker 1: should be running. They knew that he should drop out.
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Speaker 1: They didn't care. They wanted to win that seat so bad.
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Speaker 1: They didn't care if it put him into clinical depression,
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Speaker 1: as he had to go be treated for it.
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Speaker 2: They just want to win.
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Speaker 1: And that's how I really do believe they look at
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Speaker 1: it right now. That's how they look at how they're
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Speaker 1: dealing with Joe Biden now. They don't care. Prop him up,
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Speaker 1: hold him up, drag him around, make him wave to
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Speaker 1: the crowd. It's empty suit candidate. We don't care. We
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Speaker 1: have to win at all costs, no matter what we
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Speaker 1: have to win. I want to move on to another
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Speaker 1: important issue, and that deals with Jim Jordan. Jim Jordan,
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Speaker 1: who is a phenomenal congressman that is laser focused on
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Speaker 1: the FBI's role in Trump's Special Council investigation. He has
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Speaker 1: focused on especially after the DRM report exposes the massive
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Speaker 1: political bias at the FBI. He's now after the whole
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Speaker 1: entire budget battle is over. He's getting people focused on
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Speaker 1: the biggest story that matters to all of US. House
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Speaker 1: Judiciary Committee Chairman Jordan has now launched an official probe
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Speaker 1: to conduct oversight over Special Counsel Jack Smiths probe into
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Speaker 1: former President Donald Trump for the handling of the papers
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Speaker 1: at mar Lago. This is obviously massive new breaking news
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Speaker 1: because this isn't just about Russia.
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Speaker 2: This isn't about the past.
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Speaker 1: This is now about the present and the handling of
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Speaker 1: the papers at Marlago. In a letter to the Attorney
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Speaker 1: General Merritt Garland, Jordan requested information about the probe to
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Speaker 1: ensure the investigation is not politicized by the FBI, which
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Speaker 1: suffers from a lack of public trust after improperly involving
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Speaker 1: itself in the twenty sixteen Russian hoax. He said, quote
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Speaker 1: due to the FBI's documented political bias, the Justice Department
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Speaker 1: must ensure any ongoing investigations poisoned by this same politicalization,
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Speaker 1: Jordan said to Garland in reference to the Special Council
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Speaker 1: John Durham's report on Crossfire Hurricane. Durham's report also confirmed
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Speaker 1: what many suspected since the Russian hoak narrative began that
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Speaker 1: the FBI launched a completely politically motivated attack against a
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Speaker 1: sitting president, using the weak pretext to swiftly initiate a
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Speaker 1: probe into him while dismissing the intelligence that Hillary Clinton's
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Speaker 1: campaign actually plotted, paid for, and perpetrated the false narrative
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Speaker 1: along with the Democratic National Committee, and the FBI knew
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Speaker 1: this the entire time. They knew that it was a
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Speaker 1: false narrative of any type of Russian collusion. In fact,
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Speaker 1: if you remember, they offered to pay the author of
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Speaker 1: that dossier a million dollars if he could corroborate anything
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Speaker 1: in it, and guess what, he couldn't. The FBI knew
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Speaker 1: it was a lie. It didn't matter. They wanted to
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Speaker 1: have a coup. They wanted to take away your vote,
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Speaker 1: and they wanted to screw you. And that's exactly what
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Speaker 1: they were trying to do from the very beginning the
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Speaker 1: Clintons campaign. Not only do they plot to attack this,
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Speaker 1: you know, Donald Trump his campaign, but then many Democrats
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Speaker 1: are like, hey, we don't like that the American people
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Speaker 1: picked him.
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Speaker 2: We can now just get rid of him.
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Speaker 1: There's one other person that has still not been held
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Speaker 1: accountable for this and deserves to be in serious trouble
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Speaker 1: and have his legacy change over all this, and that
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Speaker 1: is a guy by the name of Barack Obama. Can
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Speaker 1: we just pause for a second and talk about the
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Speaker 1: fact that Barack Obama knew that they were spying on
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Speaker 1: the Trump campaign. Can we talk about the fact that
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Speaker 1: he knew they were going to fight the court. Can
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Speaker 1: we talk about the fact that he had been briefed
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Speaker 1: and he knew, without a shout of a doubt, that
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump was not colluding with the Russians. He also
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Speaker 1: knew that Joe Biden was incredibly corrupt. He knew that
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Speaker 1: Hunter Biden had been hooring out the White House to
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Speaker 1: the highest bidder. He knew that Hunter Biden and Joe
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Speaker 1: Biden were compromised by the Chinese, by the Ukrainians, and
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Speaker 1: by the Russians.
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Speaker 2: He was briefed on it all.
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Speaker 1: He knew that Donald Trump had no relationship with some
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Speaker 1: random bank in Russia.
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Speaker 2: He was briefed on it. He knew that the DNC
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Speaker 2: paid for it.
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Speaker 1: He knew that Hillary Clinton paid for the Steele dossier,
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Speaker 1: and he knew that the dossier could not be corroborated
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Speaker 1: yet in his final days in the White House, he
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Speaker 1: let all this happen, including spying on the incoming president
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Speaker 1: United States of America, not telling the incoming president United
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Speaker 1: States of America any of what he knew. That is
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Speaker 1: the problem, and the fact that no one is holding
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Speaker 1: him accountable for what he did, and what he did
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Speaker 1: was basically sanctioned this. He sanctioned it, folks. Barack Obama
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Speaker 1: knew all of this was happening, and he allowed it
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Speaker 1: to happen. As the President of Unitedate's America. He could
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Speaker 1: have put a stop to it. He could have go
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Speaker 1: on to the DOJ, he could have gone to the FBI,
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Speaker 1: and he could have said, stop doing this, stop abusing
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Speaker 1: your power.
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Speaker 2: This is wrong.
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Speaker 1: We shouldn't do this to our political opponents. So I
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Speaker 1: don't know he let it happen and didn't I would argue,
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Speaker 1: you didn't even let it happen. He clearly gave a
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Speaker 1: wink and a nod to do it, and no one
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Speaker 1: has held him accountable for any of this. The FBI
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Speaker 1: knew everything before they started this. In fact, they knew
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Speaker 1: it so much so that they even went to the
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Speaker 1: White House to try to trap people in lies. General Flynn,
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Speaker 1: the arrogance the FBI director James Comy, and what did
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Speaker 1: James Comy do?
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Speaker 2: James Comy was a.
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Speaker 1: Guy that literally knew he was going to ruin a
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Speaker 1: man's life or try to, and just sent a couple
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Speaker 1: FBI guys over the White House the situation Room to
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Speaker 1: entrap General Flynn so he could then nail him and
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Speaker 1: hopefully get some dirt on Donald Trump.
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Speaker 2: And he was proud of it.
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Speaker 1: He said they were too stupid to know that there
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Speaker 1: should be a lawyer present. Or maybe General ff Flynn
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Speaker 1: is just a great patriot. Maybe General Flynn is a
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Speaker 1: kind and good man who trusted his government. When they
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Speaker 1: sent a couple FBI agents over, he didn't think he
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Speaker 1: needed an attorney. Public trust and the FBI is low,
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Speaker 1: Jordan said in his recent letter. Recent example is a
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Speaker 1: political bias in the FBI and the Department of Justice. Operations,
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Speaker 1: He continues in his letters, show that the so called
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Speaker 1: corrective measures the FBI institute after Crossfire Hurricane have done
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Speaker 1: nothing to address, let alone cure, the institutional rot that
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Speaker 1: pervades the FBI. He calls it institutional rot. They get busted,
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Speaker 1: nothing happens. They get busted again, nothing happens, they get
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Speaker 1: busted again. They're not even ashamed of it. They're actually
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Speaker 1: proud of it. I think they get off on the
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Speaker 1: idea that they can do whatever they want to. That's
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Speaker 1: why Jim Jordan refers to the FBI and the deep
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Speaker 1: state as having an institutional rot and that's why Jordan says, quote,
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Speaker 1: we therefore request that you provide the following information. Number One,
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Speaker 1: Provide information about the use of FBI personnel by Special
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Speaker 1: Counsel Jack Smith, including, but not limited to, the following
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Speaker 1: the total number of FBI employees assigned to work on
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Speaker 1: this investigation. B the number of FBI employees from FBI
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Speaker 1: Headquarters working on the investigation, and see the number of
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Speaker 1: FBI employees from the Washington Field office working on the investigation.
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Speaker 1: Explain whether any FBI employees who have worked on Special
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Speaker 1: Counsel Smith's investigation previously worked on any other matters concerning
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Speaker 1: President Trump. He also asked, and that's a very important question.
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Speaker 1: And explain whether Special Counsel Smith's investigation relies on any
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Speaker 1: information or material gathered exclusively by the FBI prior to
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Speaker 1: the Special Council investigation. When we oh they had no
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Speaker 1: problem ying to the American people and cooking the books.
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Speaker 1: That's what he's saying. This is a really big deal,
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Speaker 1: the fact that Congress is now being forced to probe
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Speaker 1: the FBI and its role and Donald Trump and mar Lago,
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Speaker 1: the raid and the Special Council investigation of Donald Trump.
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Speaker 1: Jordan's letter comes as a special counsel's probe apparently is
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Speaker 1: nearing its completion. Garland quote appointed a special council to
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Speaker 1: investigate Trump's alleged mishandling of classified documents, along with his
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Speaker 1: efforts to challenge a twenty twenty presidential election.
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Speaker 2: Jim Jordan having none of it.
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Speaker 7: Folks, listen a committee hearing a few weeks ago, mister Gates,
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Speaker 7: he said, when is the FBI going to quit interfering
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Speaker 7: with elections? Twenty sixteen? They spied on President Trump's campaign
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Speaker 7: twenty eighteen, it was the Muller investigation.
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Speaker 2: Twenty twenty.
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Speaker 7: They suppresed information about the Hunter Biden story. Twenty twenty two.
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Speaker 7: They raided the President's home ninety one days before an election.
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Speaker 7: Maybe it'd be nice if the FBI the Justice Department
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Speaker 7: just stayed out of it. Let we the people decide
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Speaker 7: who we think should represent us who we think should
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Speaker 7: lead us.
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Speaker 2: That's supposed to be how America works.
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Speaker 7: So this is the focus on the Judiciary Committee, the
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Speaker 7: political nature at the Justice Department, and the linkage now
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Speaker 7: to what was happening with the Hunter Biden story. Again,
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Speaker 7: just fifteen days before we have a presidential elections.
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Speaker 1: Pay very close attention to Jim Jordan and what he's doing.
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Speaker 1: He's telling you what happened. He's telling you what he's doing.
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Speaker 1: He's not backing down. And after this debt ceiling debacle,
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Speaker 1: a debacle that by the way, we're going to talk
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Speaker 1: about the winners and the loaders ers in a moment
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Speaker 1: with Senator Ted Cruz, but he's trying to remind you
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Speaker 1: right away.
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Speaker 2: Okay, we're past this now.
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Speaker 1: Let's get back to the real issue at hand, the
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Speaker 1: investigation of the abuse of power the DOJ and the
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Speaker 1: FBI and by the Democratic Party to take down their
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Speaker 1: political enemies and protect the Biden crime family at all costs,
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Speaker 1: The Senate has decided they're going to go along with
20:12
Speaker 1: the House in essence and send it to the President's
20:15
Speaker 1: desk with just days away from the quote default deadline,
20:19
Speaker 1: and as long as Joe Biden doesn't fall down again,
20:22
Speaker 1: I'm assuming it's going to sign this thing. So what
20:25
Speaker 1: does it actually mean for the American people. Well, we're
20:28
Speaker 1: going to give you a glimpse of what happened in Washington,
20:31
Speaker 1: DC today with my co host of Verdict to Ted Cruz.
20:34
Speaker 1: And if you've never downloaded verdictra Ted Cruz, do it.
20:38
Speaker 1: We're going to do a deep dive this morning on
20:41
Speaker 1: how we got to this point from Washington's perspective. Senator,
20:46
Speaker 1: always a pleasure to have you on the show.
20:48
Speaker 2: And this deal was done.
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Speaker 1: It is a deal that Democrats seem to be pretty
20:54
Speaker 1: happy with. There's a lot of Republicans that actually seem
20:57
Speaker 1: to be pretty happy with it. There's no ende cation.
21:00
Speaker 1: The President's not going to sign this. So were there
21:03
Speaker 1: positive things in this bill that conservatives, true concernives can
21:08
Speaker 1: feel good about.
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Speaker 8: Oh, look, sure, there's not nothing in the bill that
21:13
Speaker 8: There are some elements. There is some expansion of work
21:17
Speaker 8: requirements for welfare that's beneficial, and there is some recision
21:25
Speaker 8: of unspent COVID emergency funds that's beneficial. And there are
21:31
Speaker 8: some marginal spending cuts so that's beneficial.
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Speaker 2: There's also some.
21:37
Speaker 8: Modest improvements in permitting and reforms. The problem is the
21:43
Speaker 8: price for that was four trillion dollars in debt, and
21:48
Speaker 8: the benefits we got were much much smaller than the consequence.
21:56
Speaker 1: There's always the question of, Okay, we got power back
21:59
Speaker 1: in the House. House Senator, did the House do enough
22:03
Speaker 1: to push back from the brink? Of course, the threat right,
22:08
Speaker 1: there's going to be a collapse. We're going to default.
22:10
Speaker 1: It will be horrific. America never can default on its loans.
22:14
Speaker 1: It doesn't default on its loans. And the White House
22:17
Speaker 1: wasn't speaking to McCarthy for quite some time after they
22:20
Speaker 1: had to sit down, and even the next day I
22:22
Speaker 1: think they were in a prayer breakfast. McCarthy said, you know,
22:25
Speaker 1: they even said to the room, we're going to get
22:27
Speaker 1: together again soon and work on this.
22:28
Speaker 2: They clearly wanted to wait till the end so.
22:32
Speaker 1: That this thing could get rammed through Congress quickly without
22:36
Speaker 1: a lot of people even having enough time to really
22:39
Speaker 1: dive into it. Yes, thank goodness, there was seventy two
22:42
Speaker 1: hours to look into it. But at the end of
22:44
Speaker 1: the day, this was a catastrophic, chaotic moment that was
22:48
Speaker 1: created by design. Did the Republicans of the House stay
22:52
Speaker 1: true to what they promised the voters when we gave
22:54
Speaker 1: them the House in November?
22:57
Speaker 8: Well, look, there were a number of House Conservatives that
22:59
Speaker 8: ultimately know on this deal, and if you're a conservative,
23:03
Speaker 8: you voted no. This was a deal where the majority
23:08
Speaker 8: of the votes that came for it came from Democrats.
23:11
Speaker 8: The Democrats in the Senate, all but five Democrats voted
23:15
Speaker 8: for this deal. We had thirty one Republicans vote no
23:22
Speaker 8: on this deal. So you can see from the votes,
23:25
Speaker 8: you can see from where people lined up. Mitt Romney
23:28
Speaker 8: was a yes. That tells you a lot about where
23:31
Speaker 8: this bill ended up. I was a no, Mike Lee
23:35
Speaker 8: was a no. Rand Paul was a no. If you
23:37
Speaker 8: are a conservative, you voted no. And the reason is
23:43
Speaker 8: it's exactly what Joe Biden has told his people that
23:46
Speaker 8: the Biden agenda got funded. In this We're at thirty
23:50
Speaker 8: two trillion dollars in debt two years from now, will
23:53
Speaker 8: be at least at thirty six trillion dollars in debt,
23:56
Speaker 8: So a four trillion dollar blank check is what the
24:00
Speaker 8: Democrats got. We did not cut the eighty billion in
24:04
Speaker 8: new funding for eighty seven thousand new IRS agents that
24:08
Speaker 8: was in the original bill the House pass but that
24:10
Speaker 8: got jettisoned by the White House. We did not add
24:14
Speaker 8: work requirements for Medicaid that was in the original bill
24:17
Speaker 8: the House pass, but that was not in this final bill.
24:20
Speaker 8: We did not cut spending back significantly to get anywhere
24:25
Speaker 8: approaching pre COVID levels. The first version of this bill
24:30
Speaker 8: made a significant step that way.
24:31
Speaker 2: This bill does not.
24:33
Speaker 8: It accepts the explosion of federal spending that came from
24:37
Speaker 8: COVID and it cooks it into the baseline. And so
24:40
Speaker 8: there's a reason that Democrats are celebrating right now, which
24:45
Speaker 8: is that they just got a Republican House and a
24:50
Speaker 8: whole bunch of Republicans in the Senate to support the
24:54
Speaker 8: vast majority of the Biden spending agenda.
24:57
Speaker 1: We're obviously going to do a deep dive into verdict
25:00
Speaker 1: with Ted Cruz. If you've never download a vertic with
25:02
Speaker 1: Ted Cruz, do it, and we're going to have that
25:04
Speaker 1: this morning for you out as well, so that you
25:07
Speaker 1: can We're going to really go back walk you through
25:10
Speaker 1: all this and even go into more things like the
25:12
Speaker 1: irs in depth. Last question though on this for you, Senator,
25:17
Speaker 1: and that is the mindset of this White House after this,
25:22
Speaker 1: and people were very concerned that this was going to
25:25
Speaker 1: turn into a default scenario.
25:28
Speaker 2: Was that all just political posturing?
25:30
Speaker 1: And when are we going to have to go through
25:31
Speaker 1: this crap all over again, because I'm starting to get
25:34
Speaker 1: a little fatigued. I think a lot of people are
25:35
Speaker 1: that it's like, you know, Armageddon, that the sky has fallen,
25:39
Speaker 1: chicken little every six months every year, when are we
25:42
Speaker 1: going to do this charade again?
25:44
Speaker 8: Well, look, Ben, that is by design. That is what
25:47
Speaker 8: the White House wants. That's what leadership in both houses
25:51
Speaker 8: want because when there's a crisis, when they say we're
25:53
Speaker 8: about to default on the debt, that's how they get
25:57
Speaker 8: the Democrats and a bunch of squishy Republicans to agree
26:01
Speaker 8: to trillions more in spending. And they do it over
26:04
Speaker 8: and over and over again. And I would say it's
26:06
Speaker 8: like Lucy and Charlie Brown with the football, But it's
26:09
Speaker 8: not even like that, because at this point, nobody doubts
26:14
Speaker 8: they're going to pull the football out of the way.
26:16
Speaker 8: We get the game at this point. But there are
26:18
Speaker 8: a lot of Republicans who are perfectly happy with it.
26:20
Speaker 8: They don't want to want to rock the boat. And
26:23
Speaker 8: I will say too many of them are our content
26:27
Speaker 8: to manage the decline of the republic. Look in twenty seventeen,
26:31
Speaker 8: that was just five years ago. In twenty seventeen, the
26:36
Speaker 8: national debt was twenty trillion dollars. Today in twenty twenty three,
26:43
Speaker 8: it is thirty two trillion dollars. That is a massive increase.
26:49
Speaker 2: And what did.
26:50
Speaker 8: Congress do this week? Said thirty two trillion is not enough.
26:54
Speaker 8: Let's go to thirty six trillion dollars. We are bankrupting
26:59
Speaker 8: our kids and gids. And the game is to come
27:03
Speaker 8: up to a cliff where they threaten. It alternates. Half
27:07
Speaker 8: the time they threaten a default on the debt, half
27:10
Speaker 8: the time they threaten a government shutdown, and it's one
27:12
Speaker 8: after the other. We're going to have the government shutdown
27:14
Speaker 8: fight the end of September, and it will always be
27:17
Speaker 8: this crisis. If you don't agree to further bankrupt the country,
27:21
Speaker 8: this terrible thing will happen in September.
27:23
Speaker 1: Mark your calendar is what you're saying, because that's when
27:25
Speaker 1: that is all going to happen again after summer.
27:29
Speaker 2: Yep.
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Speaker 8: And I got to tell you when I was new
27:31
Speaker 8: in the Senate, I was elected in twenty twelve, so
27:33
Speaker 8: eleven years ago, when I was newly elected, that that
27:36
Speaker 8: there was a game that I discovered that every six
27:38
Speaker 8: months or year, the graybeards in the Senate would say,
27:41
Speaker 8: whatever the fight was, they'd say, no, no, no, no,
27:44
Speaker 8: you need to understand ted. You don't fight on funding
27:47
Speaker 8: the government. You wait for the death ceiling. Then the
27:51
Speaker 8: death ceiling would happen. They said, no, no, no, no,
27:53
Speaker 8: you need to understand you don't fight on the death ceiling,
27:56
Speaker 8: wait for funding the government. And it's like they have
27:59
Speaker 8: the memory of hummingbirds. They don't remember six months ago
28:02
Speaker 8: they said the opposite.
28:04
Speaker 2: And they keep.
28:04
Speaker 8: Playing that game over and over and over again. And
28:07
Speaker 8: I will say one of the things that's changed is
28:10
Speaker 8: the grassroots, I think has gotten a lot savvier. They
28:12
Speaker 8: understand this game now that you don't get to thirty
28:16
Speaker 8: two trillion dollars in debt without both parties energetically jumping
28:21
Speaker 8: in the mud and rolling around with the pork.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's gonna be interesting to see what happens
28:27
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28:29
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28:32
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