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CNN mocks Elon Musk and Voting process under fire in America! · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Musk meltdown. They're calling it. Tesla is now down fifty
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Speaker 1: five percent for the year. Yeah, CNN Don Lemon decided
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Speaker 1: it was a good idea after his own show had
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Speaker 1: been canceled to mock Elon Musk for sharing a sexualized photo.
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Speaker 1: He says of Jesus and Twitter to Lerp, to lure
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Speaker 1: is the correct way to say the word. But apparently
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Speaker 1: he screwed up the first time. Don't worry, they fixed
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Speaker 1: online to lure, he said, Lerp Trump. Yes, he actually
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Speaker 1: said it. We're trying to get the original audio, but
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Speaker 1: that apparently has been fixed in the online version. They're
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Speaker 1: mocking him because they think that Elon Musk is an idiot.
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Speaker 1: Why because he actually allowed for free speech on a platform.
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Speaker 1: And this is what the media is going to continue
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Speaker 1: to do. They're going to mock anybody that gets in
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Speaker 1: their way. This is what happened Elon Musk restoring President's
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Speaker 1: Twitter account. He has been banned from the platform since
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Speaker 1: the capital attack. Trump has previously said that he does
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Speaker 1: not plan to return to Twitter and instead will continue
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Speaker 1: to use his truth social platform. So let's discuss seeing
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Speaker 1: an anchor and correspondent arty. This is he's being intentionally provocative.
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Speaker 1: I mean that's obvious, right, because he needs eyes, he
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Speaker 1: needs attention. I mean Elon Musk to Twitter, and part
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Speaker 1: of this whole thing about restoring the former president doing
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Speaker 1: a poll about it is to sort of a look
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Speaker 1: at me, look at me, look at me. I'm glad
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Speaker 1: you're saying this, because there's a business reason for that.
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Speaker 1: The context here is Elon Musk doesn't really believe in advertising.
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Speaker 1: Tesla never really did advertising because he thinks good products
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Speaker 1: would just sell on their own. Problem is you just
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Speaker 1: bought a company that runs on ninety percent advertising and
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Speaker 1: doesn't sell anything, and so brand safety and how advertisers
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Speaker 1: feel about what is on the site along with their
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Speaker 1: ads is meaningful. And lots of the said they were
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Speaker 1: going to hit pause when he first bought it and
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Speaker 1: when he first started talking about travel. And I can't
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Speaker 1: believe advertisers are fleeting given what he's tweeted in the
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Speaker 1: last twenty four hours. There's provocative images talking about Trump
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Speaker 1: basically wanting to get back on Twitter, like being able
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Speaker 1: to resist the temptation. But what I was confused about
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Speaker 1: Saturday night is that when this all happened, Elon Musk said,
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Speaker 1: he was going to form a content Moderation council, no
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Speaker 1: major reinstatements of Twitter accounts would happen before then. Then
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Speaker 1: he conducts a Twitter poll on Saturday, says Trump should
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Speaker 1: be reinstated. Who knows who participated in this poll, and
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Speaker 1: now he says Trump's account is active again. Yeah. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I think no one's going to be teaching any of
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Speaker 1: this technique in any like business school case studies going
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Speaker 1: forward like this has been very messy public and you know,
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Speaker 1: one piece of context that I think is worth mentioning
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Speaker 1: is people were treating Twitter like public infrastructure. It was
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Speaker 1: a space where lots of people came to speak and
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Speaker 1: play and interact, but it's not public infrastructure. And this
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Speaker 1: is what happens when a private person, a billionaire, takes
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Speaker 1: over and kind of dithers around with it. That's kind
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Speaker 1: of by the way, I was on Twitter this weekend
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Speaker 1: and you pointed that out, Kaitlin, to everyone, reupping what
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Speaker 1: Elon Musk had tweeted about this council, and they sort
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Speaker 1: of guarantees that he did, I think as he was
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Speaker 1: looking to acquire the company and sort of checks that
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Speaker 1: people thought might be in place, but but to your
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Speaker 1: point about a billionaire taking over and taking it private,
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Speaker 1: so there are none of these a mayor like you know,
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Speaker 1: I mean, I think we've gotten used to CEOs in
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Speaker 1: Silicon Valley, maybe kind of nodding towards like appeasing the
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Speaker 1: public when they think the eye is on them and
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Speaker 1: that's not his game. He doesn't care. There's no board,
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Speaker 1: there's no board to check him. No, there's no share
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Speaker 1: price to check him. There's a there's a desperation aspect
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Speaker 1: of it. Seems really desperate or as we say in
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Speaker 1: the vernacular, now thirsty, because as Kaitlin mentioned, this provocative
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Speaker 1: image that he tweeted about, I think it was a
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Speaker 1: Jesus and you know there's someone tempting Jesus a man
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Speaker 1: and you know that I can hear you guys talking around.
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Speaker 1: This is a sexualized image, right that he's posting. And
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Speaker 1: I think it's a really good example of the thirst
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Speaker 1: thing you're talking about, which is, look at me, look
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Speaker 1: at me, eyes on this, advertisers, look, eyes are still
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Speaker 1: on this. Stay with it by any means necessary. You're
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Speaker 1: noticed by the way what they're doing here and seen it.
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Speaker 1: The same people that did these stories over and over
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Speaker 1: and over and over again about Donald Trump lying about
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump, Russian collusion, Russia collusion, Russian coclusion for four
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Speaker 1: or five six years. The same people that have run,
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Speaker 1: you know, the live raids of Roger Stone, right, they
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Speaker 1: got tipped off that Roger Stone was going to be
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Speaker 1: rated by the FBI, these types of thing, the same
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Speaker 1: the same early morning raids of his former campaign manager,
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Speaker 1: all of these different types of things. Okay, to be clear,
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Speaker 1: is exactly I've seen and had their good ratings back
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Speaker 1: in the day. Then they became psychopaths hating Donald Trump.
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Speaker 1: They're still obsessed with Donald Trump, as you can hear
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Speaker 1: in this conversation. But what's even more interesting than this
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Speaker 1: is the fact that they just said, you know these
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Speaker 1: you know, Elon Musk is desperate for attention. They just
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Speaker 1: gave him four minutes of attention because they know that
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Speaker 1: it would be probably pretty good for their ratings. Like
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Speaker 1: they're not stupid. They know that this is going to
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Speaker 1: rate for them, or they hope that it rates for them,
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Speaker 1: because their ratings are literally in the toilet. Don Lemon
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Speaker 1: got demoted, he had his own TV show at night.
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Speaker 1: He has been demoted. He's now in a morning show
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Speaker 1: that desperate Lee needs help. Their ratings terrible in the morning,
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Speaker 1: going nowhere, And now I'm going to say whether they're
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Speaker 1: mocking Elon Musk is a businessman. Well, I don't think
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Speaker 1: any case study, right is going to be used in
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Speaker 1: a business school over what he just did. That's where
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Speaker 1: you're going with this like that, that's that's literally where
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Speaker 1: you're going with this. Really, I love how Don Lemon,
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Speaker 1: who you know, ridicules must for posting a meme of
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Speaker 1: you know, some christlike figure on Twitter right being you know,
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Speaker 1: fleeing evil and him having it as Twitter like it's
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump, right, it's humor. A lot of people thought
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Speaker 1: it was funny. They're like, let's not let's be quick.
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Speaker 1: This is a sexualized image. This is a sexualized image
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Speaker 1: of X, Y and Z. Trust me, if you saw
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Speaker 1: the picture, it's not sexualized. It's called humor. If you
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Speaker 1: think this is a sexualized image, you like, I mean,
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Speaker 1: go look at it, there's no it's a joke, y'all.
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Speaker 1: It's humor. That's what it is. It is humor. There
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Speaker 1: was something I didn't get to play for you last
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Speaker 1: week because we had so much breaking news and it
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Speaker 1: was about the elections, and it was about how long
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Speaker 1: it's taking account based votes in this country, which is
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Speaker 1: totally insane. Yes, it's insane that it takes days and
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Speaker 1: weeks and sometimes even months to count a vote. That's stupid.
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Speaker 1: Tiger Carlson had an interesting commentary in his show before
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Speaker 1: he went on vacation about this, and I didn't have
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Speaker 1: time to play it for you last week because we, again,
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Speaker 1: we had so much breaking news. But I want to
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Speaker 1: play it for you because I still think it's extremely relevant.
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Speaker 1: What Tucker was saying is that this is third world country.
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Speaker 1: He was talking about we still have no idea who
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Speaker 1: won in Arizona. How is that even possible? Right? How
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Speaker 1: is it possible that it was taking this long and
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Speaker 1: this was obviously last week to count votes. Are we
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Speaker 1: a third world country? Take a listen. State of Arizona
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Speaker 1: lives in Maricopa County. The cities of Mesa, Tempe, Scottsdale,
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Speaker 1: and largest of all, Phoenix are all within the county's borders.
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Speaker 1: If you want to win statewide in Arizona, you have
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Speaker 1: to win Maricopa County. Unfortunately, tonight, we still don't know
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Speaker 1: who has won Maricopa County, either in the US Senate
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Speaker 1: race there or in the governor's race in Arizona. Because
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Speaker 1: officials are not even close to finishing the count forty
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Speaker 1: eight hours after the voting stop, there are still six
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Speaker 1: hundred and thirty three thousand ballots still uncounted in Arizona.
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Speaker 1: More than four hundred thousand of those are in Maricopa Counting.
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Speaker 1: You're seeing it on your screen right now. When will
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Speaker 1: we know the results? Last night, election officials claim they'd
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Speaker 1: have a new tally for us by eight pm Eastern
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Speaker 1: the beginning of our show, but the deadline came and went.
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Speaker 1: By the end of the night they had finished counting
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Speaker 1: fewer than seventy thousand more votes. Then they said they'd
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Speaker 1: have final totals by Friday tomorrow, but no Today, the
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Speaker 1: county officials said they don't expect to announce the results
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Speaker 1: of the elections until next week at the earliest. When
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Speaker 1: do you anticipate the votes will be counted in total?
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Speaker 1: Those four hundred thousand plus votes, Well, we will be
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Speaker 1: going into next week. There's some Onesie two zis again
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Speaker 1: pursue it to Arizona law. But I think that we'll
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Speaker 1: see the Lion's share here, wrap up by early next week,
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Speaker 1: early next week. Can you give me a day We're
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Speaker 1: talking Monday. Maybe, as long as you won't hold it
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Speaker 1: to hold me to it. Can you tell us, mister official,
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Speaker 1: mister election official, when we might learn who won the election? Maybe,
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Speaker 1: as long as you don't hold me to it. That
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Speaker 1: was the chairman of the Maricopa County Supervisors. Notice what
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Speaker 1: you did not hear in that exchange. You did not
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Speaker 1: hear an apology. The guy in charge of election results
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Speaker 1: never said sorry for not providing those results. It's hard
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Speaker 1: to understand this. It's not a resource problem. Certainly, the
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Speaker 1: budget of Maricopa County is about four and a half
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Speaker 1: billion dollars a year. For perspective, the entire Hoover Dam
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Speaker 1: cost eight hundred and ninety million dollars to build, and
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Speaker 1: yes that is in adjusted dollars. So for the price
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Speaker 1: of five Hoover dams, Maricopa County can't even count the
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Speaker 1: ballots in a single statewide election. In a country that
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Speaker 1: claims to care about democracy, they can't even manage to
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Speaker 1: let people vote on election day. On election day, according
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Speaker 1: to the county seventy of two hundred and twenty three
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Speaker 1: polling places suffered major problems with voting machines. Machines the
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Speaker 1: county paid millions for it just recently, and their failure
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Speaker 1: disenfranchised mostly Republican voters who wanted to cast their ballots
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Speaker 1: in person when poll worker reported that twenty five percent
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Speaker 1: of ballots were being rejected. Now you would call that
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Speaker 1: third world, but actually it's beneath third World. Most third
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Speaker 1: world countries have serious elections. They require voter ID. They
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Speaker 1: don't wait days for election results. In Ghana, in Venezuela,
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Speaker 1: whatever you think of it, they tally their ballots within hours.
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Speaker 1: But suddenly we can't manage to do that. Clark County, Nevada,
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Speaker 1: the home of Las Vegas, says there are still tens
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Speaker 1: of thousands of ballots left to count. Therefore, we're not
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Speaker 1: going to know what happened in the election until Monday.
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Speaker 1: We hope. We're gonna talk to Adam Laxalt about that
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Speaker 1: in a minute. He's running for Senate. Therefials in Clark
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Speaker 1: County are clearly overwhelmed. They're too busy to finish the
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Speaker 1: one job they are paid to do, and yet strangely,
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Speaker 1: they still have time to attack Donald Trump on social media,
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Speaker 1: which they've been doing all day. First things first, but
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Speaker 1: it's not just Nevada. In Arizona, key house races all
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Speaker 1: along the west coast of the country, in California, Oregon,
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Speaker 1: and Washington State are still unsettled tonight. They're saying they
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Speaker 1: haven't counted the votes. Really, what is this? Is this fraud?
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Speaker 1: We're not sure and on some level it doesn't matter
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Speaker 1: what it is. What we know is that the mechanics
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Speaker 1: of our elections are not working, almost exclusively in states
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Speaker 1: and cities run by Democrats. Are they cheating? Are they disorganized? Again?
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Speaker 1: Not relevant. The system is obviously out of control. It's flaky,
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Speaker 1: and systems like that cannot be, by definition reliable. Would
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Speaker 1: you let Americopa County elections official flyer aircraft? Probably not.
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Speaker 1: That's a disaster. Democracy is a faith based system. You
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Speaker 1: have to believe in it in order for it to work.
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Speaker 1: But who could believe in this? So our news media,
12:06
Speaker 1: in case you haven't noticed, it's went the last several years.
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Speaker 1: Quote defending democracy in sir trademark here. So you'd think
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Speaker 1: the democracy defenders would care about the collapse of democracy,
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Speaker 1: but just the opposite. They're telling you it's all completely normal.
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Speaker 1: It's always been this way. If you disagree, you'll be
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Speaker 1: censored on social media. As we found out today, Twitter
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Speaker 1: has slapped a warning label on videos from this show
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Speaker 1: because we reported verifiable facts from election officials about election
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Speaker 1: screw ups. So it's thinking weeks to count the ballots
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Speaker 1: in your democracy, but you're not allowed to notice it.
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Speaker 1: I mean, think about this. Weeks. We want you to
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Speaker 1: hurry up and vote. You got to vote on time.
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Speaker 1: We want to make sure that you guys, vote, vote, vote, vote,
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Speaker 1: and then it may take weeks or months for you
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Speaker 1: to actually know what happened. That's now where we are.
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Speaker 1: That's what we're doing. This is the ball game, right,
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Speaker 1: This is it, folks, This is the whole thing. This
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Speaker 1: is all of it. Is it frustrating? You? Bet? You should?
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Speaker 1: You be furious that this is happening, of course, But
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Speaker 1: if we don't have faith in our election process, then
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Speaker 1: what are we doing here? Right? That's the question that's
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Speaker 1: being asked. Why are we sitting here having this conversation
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Speaker 1: right now? We shouldn't be I do like the measured
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Speaker 1: way honestly that he just said this, right, the measured
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Speaker 1: way that he described it as saying, Hey, we don't
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Speaker 1: know if there's election fraud or not. We don't know,
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Speaker 1: right but what we do know is that you have
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Speaker 1: to have faith in system, and if we live in
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Speaker 1: the greatest country the world, you should be able to
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Speaker 1: count the damn votes on the night of the election.
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Speaker 1: The idea that we don't have enough technology or enough
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Speaker 1: money to do this the right way is absurd. It's
13:54
Speaker 1: totally absurd. How is it that every time we have
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Speaker 1: a chance to be successful, and I'm talking about the
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Speaker 1: Republican Party, we end up screwing it up by listening
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Speaker 1: to incompetent idiots in the Republican Party that have a
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Speaker 1: history of screwing things up. I'm referencing Paul Ryan coming
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Speaker 1: out and saying that Donald Trump should not run for president,
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Speaker 1: and him saying he has no chance of winning, and
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Speaker 1: him saying everybody else, anybody else that runs the Republicans,
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Speaker 1: I will win, but Donald Trump. He also came out
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Speaker 1: and said that Nancy Pelosi has an amazing career and
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Speaker 1: an incredible legacy, while then going out and trashing Donald Trump.
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Speaker 1: If there's any time we should be united and focused
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Speaker 1: right now, it should be on the issues that we
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Speaker 1: have there was no message from Paul Ryan about the
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Speaker 1: Biden crime family in his interview. There was no message
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Speaker 1: from Paul Ryan reminding the American people while he's giving
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Speaker 1: accolades to Nancy Pelosi that, oh, yeah, now there's some
14:56
Speaker 1: other things about Nancy you might want to remember, right,
14:59
Speaker 1: there's some other things about Nancy Pelosi. You might want
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Speaker 1: to just remind people that, you know, she's kind of
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Speaker 1: an elitist, and when she shut down the country, she
15:06
Speaker 1: was still getting her hair done. Like, those are things
15:08
Speaker 1: that that are valid points that should people should remember.
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Speaker 1: You might want to remind people that Nancy Pelosi was
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Speaker 1: the one who literally helped create what an illegitimate person
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Speaker 1: is in politics. Every time someone wants she didn't like,
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Speaker 1: she said it was illegitimate president or illegitimate election. She
15:25
Speaker 1: said that about Donald Trump over and over and over again.
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Speaker 1: Where is all that when Nancy Pelosi, can someone remind me,
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Speaker 1: you know, not me, Paul Ryan and the other Democrats
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Speaker 1: on those issues? It would be really nice, wouldn't it
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Speaker 1: be pretty awesome if somebody would remind him of those things.
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Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi also said that there's not anything corrupt about
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Speaker 1: the Biden crime family and that Joe Biden's perfect and
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Speaker 1: there's nothing wrong with him and everything is fine. She
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Speaker 1: will defend him no matter what. Right. Well, we know
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Speaker 1: that he lied to the American people, Joe and lie
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Speaker 1: when he said he never talked about his business dealings
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Speaker 1: with us, you know, with his son. We know that's
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Speaker 1: a lie. We have evidence that shows that that is
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Speaker 1: a lie. But I would caution everybody right now when
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Speaker 1: you see these useful idiots coming out, never forget who
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Speaker 1: they gave you. They gave you Jeff Bush, they gave
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Speaker 1: you John McCain, they gave you Mitt Romney. Okay, look
16:23
Speaker 1: at what Paul Ryan did to this country because he
16:26
Speaker 1: refused to organize the Republican Party and fight with Barack
16:31
Speaker 1: Obama and fight with Nancy Pelosi. When you come out
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Speaker 1: on national TV and you start giving accolades to Pelosi
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Speaker 1: but attacking Donald Trump, and you forget all of the
16:43
Speaker 1: amazing things that Donald Trump did while saying it's impossible
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Speaker 1: for him to be elected, that anyone else but him
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Speaker 1: could get elected, that's a person you shouldn't be listening to.
16:54
Speaker 1: I'm all in favor of constructive criticism, but I'm not
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Speaker 1: going to take a lecture from Paul Ryan, a guy
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Speaker 1: that claimed he his for fiscal responsibility when he was
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Speaker 1: in charge, that ran up the national debt. I'm not
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Speaker 1: going to listen to him. I'm certainly not going to
17:07
Speaker 1: listen to a guy that says an anti Pelosi is
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Speaker 1: an incredible legacy that she should look back on, when
17:12
Speaker 1: part of her legacy is the burning down of American
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Speaker 1: citizens cities. I should say, excuse me not backing the
17:17
Speaker 1: police and having an open border policy. Kevin McCarthy has
17:23
Speaker 1: now come out and look, this is because of conservatives
17:26
Speaker 1: holding his feet to the fire. He wons so desperately
17:29
Speaker 1: to be the Speaker of the House. He wants to
17:31
Speaker 1: be the next Paul Ryan. That hardcore conservatives are holding
17:33
Speaker 1: his feet to the fire, and he has finally come
17:36
Speaker 1: out today saying he will not allow Eric Swallwell and
17:38
Speaker 1: Adam Shift on the Intel Committee and will remove Omar
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Speaker 1: Alamamar from the Foreign Affairs Committee because of the threat
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Speaker 1: that they are to America. Listen to this. Let me
17:49
Speaker 1: ask you about your decisions should you become the Speaker
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Speaker 1: of the House in January. What are you going to
17:54
Speaker 1: do in terms of these Democrats that you have on
17:57
Speaker 1: such important committees. You've talked in the past about removing
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Speaker 1: Elon Omar, you've talked about removing Adam Shift, about Eric Swalwell.
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Speaker 1: Will you deliver Yes, I will. I'll keep that promise.
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Speaker 1: And one thing I said from the very beginning, Eric
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Speaker 1: Swalwell cannot get a security clearance in the public sector.
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Speaker 1: Why would we ever give him a security clearance in
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Speaker 1: the secrets to America? So I will not allow him
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Speaker 1: to be on Intel. You have Adam Shift, who had
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Speaker 1: lied to the American public time and again. We will
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Speaker 1: not allow him to be on the Intel Committee either.
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Speaker 1: And you give Congresswoman Omar her anti Semitic comments that
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Speaker 1: have gone forward, We're not going to allow her to
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Speaker 1: be on foreign affairs. But we're also going to stand
18:36
Speaker 1: up to what's happening, not just in the halls in Congress,
18:39
Speaker 1: but what's happening into our higher education institutions, the anti
18:44
Speaker 1: Semitism that's going on on these campuses and others. We
18:47
Speaker 1: will investigate that as well and stop this to make
18:49
Speaker 1: sure that America does have the freedoms that we've said
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Speaker 1: we would keep, and we will stand up to it
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Speaker 1: as we move forward. You want to know why he's
18:56
Speaker 1: saying that Kevin McCarthy's saying that because he's our desk
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Speaker 1: really wants to become the speak of the House that
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Speaker 1: he promised and made deals with hardcore conservatives to get
19:05
Speaker 1: rid of those people. He should, by the way, and
19:08
Speaker 1: we shouldn't have had to have to beg him to
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Speaker 1: do it either, right, that should just be an obvious
19:12
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Speaker 1: should not be focused on getting rid of Donald Trump.
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Speaker 1: The Republican Party should be focused on what Jim Jordan
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Speaker 1: Congressman Comer have been focused on, and that is talking
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Speaker 1: about the Biden crime family represent of Jim Jordan today.
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Speaker 1: So the IRS complied when Obama's Department of Justice asked
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Speaker 1: whistleblowers coming forward and we're going to investigate. This is
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Speaker 1: what we should be focused on, not on attacking Donald Trump.
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Speaker 1: Jim Jordan. How did this happen? How did the dog
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Speaker 1: evidence of any collusion with Trump, and yet they pursued
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Speaker 1: FISA warrants to spy and survail people within the Trump world. Aggressively.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how it happened, but I know it
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Speaker 1: has to change because America is the greatest country in history,
21:20
Speaker 1: but we're not America. America is not America. If you
21:23
Speaker 1: have a Justice Department that treats people differently under the law,
21:26
Speaker 1: it's not supposed to work that way. And it's why
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Speaker 1: fourteen agents have come talked to us as whistleblowers. And
21:31
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Speaker 1: That's where the politics is. One of these agents said,
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21:50
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Speaker 1: the Justice Department not only was looking for ways to
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22:29
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22:33
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24:58
Speaker 1: for Thanksgiving? Apparently NBC News believes that the good news
25:03
Speaker 1: is cranberries are down thirteen percent. There's a lot of
25:06
Speaker 1: cranberries out there, even though everything else has gone up.
25:09
Speaker 1: And now people are looking at alternatives to having a
25:12
Speaker 1: turkey because of the price. Alternatives to turkey, take a listen,
25:17
Speaker 1: flee very judiciously, and aren't going to do anything stupid.
25:21
Speaker 1: It's the story of media right now. It's so interesting.
25:23
Speaker 1: Let's turn to your charts. In the story of Thanksgiving,
25:26
Speaker 1: inflation is hitting people. We're going to go out shopping
25:28
Speaker 1: to buy their turkey and their mashed potatoes and everything else.
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Speaker 1: Price is up twenty percent for a dinner this year.
25:33
Speaker 1: It sounds like almost yeah, yeah, it's pretty amazing. They're
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Speaker 1: up eighteen percent, up to eighty one dollars and thirty
25:41
Speaker 1: one cents, which you can see in the chart in
25:43
Speaker 1: the bar chart in the middle there, and was just
25:47
Speaker 1: a year ago of sixteen seventy two. This is to
25:49
Speaker 1: feet a family of ten. And on the right you
25:52
Speaker 1: can see some of the main items that coin of
25:54
Speaker 1: your Thanksgiving dinner. Stuffing up sixteen. We'll talk about the
25:57
Speaker 1: reasons in a second. Stuffing up sixty nine percent, rolls
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Speaker 1: of twenty two percent, pumpkin pie of twenty two percent, Turkey,
26:04
Speaker 1: which is the biggest item on your Thanksgiving plate, not
26:07
Speaker 1: surprisingly twenty one percent, also up five dollars, fully a
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Speaker 1: third of that increase. And the only one that's down
26:15
Speaker 1: is cranberries, which are down four percent, sorry, thirteen percent.
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Speaker 1: And I know somebody's going to ask me why are
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Speaker 1: kranberis down thirteen percent? And the answer is because, unlike
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Speaker 1: a lot of the wrestler, I'm going to tell you,
26:28
Speaker 1: cranberry crops are up four percent. So there's a lot
26:31
Speaker 1: of cranberrys out there, all right, put a lot of
26:34
Speaker 1: Kranbrais on it. We look. The reasons are interesting, and
26:36
Speaker 1: they cut across a whole bunch of different factors, and
26:39
Speaker 1: in fairness, this is not one you can pin on
26:42
Speaker 1: the Biden administration or the Federal Reserve. You've got a
26:44
Speaker 1: bunch of stuff going on out there, and so if
26:47
Speaker 1: you want to talk about that, I love this right
26:48
Speaker 1: like the prices are through the roof. And he immediately says, oh, well,
26:53
Speaker 1: there's a bunch of other factors out there that you
26:56
Speaker 1: can't just pin this on the Biden administrations. You don't
26:59
Speaker 1: even try it. And he's ready, by the way, he's
27:01
Speaker 1: ready to tell you every other reason why your Thanksgiving
27:05
Speaker 1: is going to cost you more and why you shouldn't
27:07
Speaker 1: be upset that it's going to cost you more. It's
27:10
Speaker 1: other issues that we can't control. He's going to blame
27:13
Speaker 1: the flu for this. He's gonna blame droughts for this.
27:18
Speaker 1: Take a listen at the price of turkey. What happened
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Speaker 1: to turkey is Avian flu, which some of you may
27:23
Speaker 1: have followed. But Avian flu killed eight million turkeys out
27:27
Speaker 1: of our forty six million turkeys, and so turkey prices
27:31
Speaker 1: go up. The other factor that affects all the things
27:34
Speaker 1: things like bread and stuffing and pumpkin pie and all
27:37
Speaker 1: that is the drought. There's a huge trought going on
27:41
Speaker 1: out there, almost at record levels. Certainly the highest in
27:44
Speaker 1: many years. We can debate, and this is the one
27:46
Speaker 1: sort of policy area here we can debate whether global
27:50
Speaker 1: warming has something to do with this, Climate change has
27:52
Speaker 1: something to do with this or not. But it's but
27:55
Speaker 1: drought has been a big factor because it means less wheat,
27:58
Speaker 1: pure potatoes and so forth, and that has also driven
28:01
Speaker 1: up prices enormously for wheat. The war in Ukraine also
28:05
Speaker 1: helped drive up prices enormously for wheat, and all that
28:08
Speaker 1: contributes to higher prices for your dinner roles and your
28:11
Speaker 1: pumpkin pie and so forth, as I said, and then
28:15
Speaker 1: then you put it all together, and what's happened so
28:18
Speaker 1: on the left is kind of interesting because what it
28:20
Speaker 1: shows is how many hours somebody has to work to
28:24
Speaker 1: pay for their Thanksgiving dinner. And you can see that
28:27
Speaker 1: the red line at the top is for people who
28:29
Speaker 1: earn just a minimum wage, and the amount of time
28:32
Speaker 1: they have to work for a Thanksgiving dinner is actually
28:35
Speaker 1: now higher than it was in nineteen eighty six, partly
28:38
Speaker 1: because we haven't raised the minimum wage that much, but
28:40
Speaker 1: eight hours and forty five minutes to pay for that. Again,
28:43
Speaker 1: that to lie, minimum wage has gone up significantly since
28:47
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six you were in three dour range. And
28:50
Speaker 1: look at where we are now. They're just making it
28:53
Speaker 1: up as they go. If you look at the federal
28:57
Speaker 1: minimum wage right now in twenty twenty two, okay, federal
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Speaker 1: minimum wage, and you compare it to where it was
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Speaker 1: in nineteen eighties, to say it hasn't gone up is
29:11
Speaker 1: just stupid. It's gone up a lot, and I think
29:16
Speaker 1: they know that. They just don't care. Seven twenty five
29:20
Speaker 1: federal minimum wage right now? Where was it back when
29:24
Speaker 1: he was saying? And by the way, there's a lot
29:27
Speaker 1: of places that have gone above that right Alaska's ten
29:30
Speaker 1: thirty four air zone as twelve eighty hour consalls eleven
29:33
Speaker 1: dollars an hour. California is fifteen dollars an hour, Colorado
29:37
Speaker 1: twelvef efty six, Connecticut fourteen, Delaware ten fifty, Washington, DC
29:41
Speaker 1: fifteen twenty, Florida eleven dollars. Georgia, all right, is the
29:45
Speaker 1: only place where it's actually, you know, still pretty low,
29:48
Speaker 1: Idaho still Hawaii ten ten, Illinois twelve dollars. There's a
29:53
Speaker 1: lot of states, Maine twelve seventy five, Maryland twelve fifty,
29:56
Speaker 1: mass chuses fourteen twenty five. Is there minimum wage there
29:59
Speaker 1: in that state? They've at above the minimum federal level.
30:02
Speaker 1: New Jersey thirteen dollars an hour. In New York thirteen
30:04
Speaker 1: twenty fast food is now fifteen dollars an hour. You
30:08
Speaker 1: look at these numbers, Rhode Island twelve twenty five, Virginia eleven,
30:12
Speaker 1: Vermont twelve fifty five, Washington fourteen forty nine, West Virginia
30:17
Speaker 1: eight seventy five, Wisconsin seven twenty five, Wyoming still low.
30:23
Speaker 1: You look at the number, and you look at all
30:24
Speaker 1: of these places that I just mentioned, and they sit
30:27
Speaker 1: there and they tell you on TV, oh, well, it's
30:28
Speaker 1: because midium wage hasn't come up. A minimum wage has
30:30
Speaker 1: come up. It's way higher than it was when you're
30:33
Speaker 1: putting it back in the nineteen eighties for a reference point.
30:35
Speaker 1: The reason why people can't buy as much as year
30:38
Speaker 1: is because of inflation, the policies of the Biden administration.
30:41
Speaker 1: You know it. It's not Avian flu. Okay, it's not drought.
30:46
Speaker 1: It's inflation. And last Thanksgiving, by the way, was a
30:50
Speaker 1: record high for what it costs to go do Thanksgiving.
30:53
Speaker 1: So we're up twenty percent from a record high last year.
30:57
Speaker 1: If a Republican was in office, they would remind jew
31:00
Speaker 1: of that. But they're not going to today. Why would they, Right,
31:05
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31:08
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