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Trump, WSJ, & Conservative Icons Clash over Epstein plus Senate Slashes Funding for NPR, PBS in Midnight Vote · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome. It's so nice to have you with us. And
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  Speaker 1: I got to tell you there has been so much
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  Speaker 1: about Jeffrey Epstein that I decided Senator Cruz and I
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  Speaker 1: we're going to have a conversation about this issue, and
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  Speaker 1: I want to have it for you as we did
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  Speaker 1: a dual pod, because there's just so much that's breaking,
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  Speaker 1: including the new threat coming from the President saying he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna sue the hell out of the Wall Street Journal
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  Speaker 1: for a pretty crazy report that has come out and
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  Speaker 1: the President says it is a lie. So I want
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  Speaker 1: you to hear what Senator Ted Cruz and I had
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  Speaker 1: to say about all of this. Plus NPR has been defunded,
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  Speaker 1: How we got there, how it happened, actually happened. And
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  Speaker 1: then one other thing, Stephen Colbert, the whole show, he's
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  Speaker 1: ruined to the point where they just canceled it and
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  Speaker 1: said the show's gone, not just you, the entire show.
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there's an absolute battle playing out in Washington, DC,
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  Speaker 2: and you've got a battle about the Epstein files, President Trump,
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  Speaker 2: the Wall Street Journal, Pam Bondish, Pateel, Dan Bongino. It
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  Speaker 2: is chaos. We're going to do our very best to
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  Speaker 2: break down what's going on, what to expect, what's going
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  Speaker 2: to happen next. We're also going to talk about really
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  Speaker 2: important legislation that just passed Congress past the Senate defunding PBS,
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  Speaker 2: defunding NPR. This is a major conservative victory. We've been
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  Speaker 2: trying to do this for decades and we finally got
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  Speaker 2: it done. And finally we're going to talk about something
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  Speaker 2: has been fired, he's been canceled. We're going to break
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  Speaker 2: that down, talk about what's going on. A lot is
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  Speaker 1: let's break down some of the just frustrations with the
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  Speaker 1: Epstein hoopla. The media is just going after Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: The left is now caring about Epstein they never did before.
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  Speaker 1: They're trying to attack Trump, saying he's trying to hide something.
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  Speaker 1: And I think it's pretty clear you've been an advocate
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  Speaker 1: for this. I have since the beginning. I want transparency.
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  Speaker 1: I want to make sure that the people that were
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  Speaker 1: involved are held accountable. There seems like there's been no
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  Speaker 1: accountability except for one person going to jail. And I
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  Speaker 1: want to make sure that our government wasn't covering something
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  Speaker 1: up because a lot of people lost like confidence in
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  Speaker 1: our institutions, and we know they've lied to us a lot.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think there's anything wrong with hardcore conservatives wanting
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  Speaker 1: that level of transparency.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think millions who could serve it as millions
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  Speaker 2: of Americans have been frustrated in the last week because
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  Speaker 2: the media has been just beside themselves trying to flame
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  Speaker 2: a civil war. They wanted a civil war between Magan
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  Speaker 2: and Trump, and they're hoping that all of the elements
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  Speaker 2: of the conservative movement, all of the elements of President
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  Speaker 2: Trump and his supporters, will consume each other. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think that's gonna happen. So so part of my advice
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  Speaker 2: to everyone is just breathe. Count to ten. We're gonna
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  Speaker 2: make it through this. Now, let me give you some
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  Speaker 2: ways to think through this. I'm gonna give you four principles.
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  Speaker 2: Number One, transparency is good. We should support transparency. We
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  Speaker 2: should demand transparency. We should fight for transparency. That's important.
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  Speaker 2: Number two, protect the victims. A couple months ago, I
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  Speaker 2: had dinner with Pambondi Pam as a good friend. We
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  Speaker 2: were talking about the Epstein files and what had been released.
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  Speaker 2: What she told me then is she said that there
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  Speaker 2: were hundreds, even thousands of hours of tapes. The tapes
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  Speaker 2: were explicit. She said they were explicit of children being abused,
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  Speaker 2: and she said it was taking time to edit those
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  Speaker 2: videos to make sure you protect victims. Look, nobody wants
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  Speaker 2: to see children being sexually assaulted having their privacy violated,
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  Speaker 2: So I think it's important to protect the victims. It's
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  Speaker 2: not their fault. Number three, and this is a principle
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  Speaker 2: I have said four years on this issue. Release it all.
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  Speaker 2: That should be the basic standard. Put it out there,
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  Speaker 2: release it all, make it public. That's what I've encouraged
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  Speaker 2: the President to do, the White House to do, the
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  Speaker 2: Department of Justice to do, the FBI to do. I
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  Speaker 2: think that is a simple and straightforward standard. And then
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  Speaker 2: number four, predators should be prosecuted. Anyone who sexually assaulted
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  Speaker 2: a child should be prosecuted and they should go to jail.
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  Speaker 2: This is a simple and straightforward standard. This is what
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  Speaker 2: we should be demanding. Now we're going to break this
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  Speaker 2: down in this show. We're going to talk about what's
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  Speaker 2: going on. But understand the media you were on CNN
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  Speaker 2: earlier to night. CNN is so excited. They're so excited
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  Speaker 2: because they're seeing strong supporters of the president who are
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  Speaker 2: criticizing the president. Cina doesn't care about the truth. If
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  Speaker 2: they cared about the truth. By the way, Joe Biden
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  Speaker 2: had these files. He had these files for years did
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  Speaker 2: CNN ever mention the words Jeffrey Epstein. They didn't want
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  Speaker 2: Joe Biden to release the files, they didn't want Merrick
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  Speaker 2: Garland to release the files. They're not concerned about the substance.
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  Speaker 2: They're just excited about the civil war among President Trump
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  Speaker 2: and his supporters. That should tell you something. We're gonna
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  Speaker 2: break that down even further. But understand, at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the day, the people cheering on for this to
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  Speaker 2: get ugly, many of them, the Democrats and the corporate media,
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  Speaker 2: have been proven to be utter and complete hypocrites. Because
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  Speaker 2: if they didn't say a word when Joe Biden was president,
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  Speaker 2: then they need to be quiet right now and stop
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  Speaker 2: pretending they care about this.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk about what transparency looks like. And this was
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  Speaker 1: one of the big debates, as you mentioned, seeing it
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  Speaker 1: obsessed over this, and I said, look, this has to
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  Speaker 1: be done a responsible way. I also think the American
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  Speaker 1: people need to understand Donald Trump cannot just sign and
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  Speaker 1: everything go out to the public. There are judges that
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  Speaker 1: will have to decide what is made public. And a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the information we have on Jeffrey Epstein, and
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  Speaker 1: they're trying to act like Donald Trump's that's not allowing
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  Speaker 1: anything to happen. That's not the case.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's right, and listen, the media and the Democrats
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  Speaker 2: have been eager to fan a dispute between Pambondi, Cash Battel,
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  Speaker 2: and Dan Bongino. Not now. I want to caution everyone,
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  Speaker 2: do not take as true everything reported in the media.
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  Speaker 2: I've read the same things you are. That Dan Bongino's
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  Speaker 2: screaming at Pambondi, that there's a civil war, that he's
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  Speaker 2: threatening to resign, that cash Ptel threatening to resign. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. I have not been in these meetings. I'll
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  Speaker 2: tell you all three of them are friends of mine.
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  Speaker 2: I like Pambondi, I like cash Battel, I like Dan Bongino.
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  Speaker 2: I've known all of them for a decade. I believe
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  Speaker 2: they are good people. I believe they are principled people.
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  Speaker 2: I believe they're trying to do the right thing. And
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  Speaker 2: my hope is the Trump administration will follow the four
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  Speaker 2: principles I laid out and handle this the right way.
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  Speaker 2: But do not get carried away with the media excitement
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  Speaker 2: of the people who hate President Trump, hate his administration,
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  Speaker 2: and want his administration to be in a civil war.
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  Speaker 2: I very much hope. I do not know, but I
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  Speaker 2: hope that Bondi, Patel and Bongino come together and they
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  Speaker 2: do the right thing together. And do not believe the
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  Speaker 2: exaggerations of a civil war.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, Senator, I want to get in also to
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  Speaker 1: another big story that came out. It dealt with Epstein
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  Speaker 1: and the Wall Street Journal report. The President punching back
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  Speaker 1: extremely hard on this reporting.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the Wall Street Journal reported this week that there
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  Speaker 2: was a book prepared for Jeffrey Epstein's fiftieth birthday and
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  Speaker 2: it had letters from a number of prominent people, and
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  Speaker 2: that one of the letters was from Donald Trump. And
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  Speaker 2: this was a breathless article. And you're right, President Trump
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  Speaker 2: is punching back hard. He says it is fake, he
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  Speaker 2: says it is false. He says he's going to sue
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  Speaker 2: the Wall Street Journal. Now, Ben, you' know the truth
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  Speaker 2: on this. I don't know the truth on this. I'll
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  Speaker 2: tell you what the Wall Street Journal reported just on
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  Speaker 2: the text of it. I go to admit, this thing
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  Speaker 2: sounds weird, and if any of us have a BS meter,
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  Speaker 2: it ought to be flashing. So here's what the Wall
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  Speaker 2: Street Journal reported reported. The letter said quote voiceover, there
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  Speaker 2: must be more to life than having everything, And then
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  Speaker 2: it's this weird dialogue. Donald, Yes there is, but I
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  Speaker 2: won't tell you what it is, Jeffrey, nor will I
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  Speaker 2: since I also know what it is. Donald. We have
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  Speaker 2: certain things in common, Jeffrey. Jeffrey, yes, we do, come
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  Speaker 2: to think of it, Donald, enigma's never age. Have you
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  Speaker 2: noticed that, Jeffrey. As a matter of fact, it was
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  Speaker 2: clear to me the last time I saw you, Donald,
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  Speaker 2: A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy birthday, and may
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  Speaker 2: every day be another wonderful secret. And then underneath that
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  Speaker 2: is a hand drawn, pretty shoddy drawing of a naked
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  Speaker 2: woman and the now very famous signature of Donald Trump
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  Speaker 2: drawn on top of the hand drawn naked woman. Now look,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if this is real or not, but
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  Speaker 2: I gotta say that doesn't sound like Donald Trump to me.
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  Speaker 2: I've known President Trump a long time. That exchange just
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  Speaker 2: sounds strange. I've seen online. I've never heard President Trump
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  Speaker 2: use the word enigma as an enigma's never age. That's
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  Speaker 2: not the language President Trump speaks. And this sort of weird, existential,
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  Speaker 2: self reflective dialogue out of Camu that ain't the Donald J.
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  Speaker 2: Trump I know, and I got to say President Trump
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  Speaker 2: response on this. It was not ambiguous, it was not slight,
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  Speaker 2: it was not conflicted. Here's what President Trump said in
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  Speaker 2: response to this. He said on truth quote. The Wall
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  Speaker 2: Street Journal and Rupert Murdock personally were warned directly by
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  Speaker 2: President Donald J. Trump that the supposed letter they were
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  Speaker 2: printed by President Trump to Epstein was a fake all
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  Speaker 2: caps and if they print it, they will be sued.
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  Speaker 2: Mister Murdoch stated that he would take care of it,
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  Speaker 2: but obviously did not have the power to do so.
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  Speaker 2: The editor of The Wall Street Journal, Emma Tucker, was
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  Speaker 2: told directly by Caroline Levitt and by President Trump that
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  Speaker 2: the letter was a fake all caps, but Emina Tucker
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  Speaker 2: didn't want to hear that. Instead, they're going with a false, malicious,
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  Speaker 2: and defamatory story. Anyway, President Trump will be suing the
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  Speaker 2: Wall Street Journal, newscorps, and mister Murdoch shortly. The press
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  Speaker 2: has to learn to be truthful and not to rely
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  Speaker 2: on sources that probably don't even exist. President Trump has
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  Speaker 2: already beaten George Stephanopolis, Slash ABC sixty Minutes, Slash CBS,
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  Speaker 2: and others, and looks forward to suing and holding accountable
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  Speaker 2: the once great Wall Street Journal. It is truly turned
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  Speaker 2: out to be a quote disgusting and filthy rag and
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  Speaker 2: writing defamatory lies like this shows their desperation to remain relevant.
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  Speaker 2: If there were any truths at all on the Epstein hoax,
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  Speaker 2: as it pertains to President Trump, the information would have
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  Speaker 2: been revealed by Comy Brennan, Crooked Hillary and the other
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  Speaker 2: radical left lunatics years ago. It certainly would not have
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  Speaker 2: sat in the file waiting for Trump to have won
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  Speaker 2: three elections. This is yet another example of fake news. Now,
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  Speaker 2: I got to say President Trump is not being shy
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  Speaker 2: or subtle or restrained on that. He's saying it's an
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  Speaker 2: absolute lie. And look, I think we'll see this play
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  Speaker 2: out in the in the days ahead. But on the
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  Speaker 2: face of it, like the strange drawing of a naked
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  Speaker 2: woman that seems like it's drawn by about a twelve
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  Speaker 2: year old, that doesn't seem like anything I've ever seen
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  Speaker 2: President Trump do, and and and so, and it's kind
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  Speaker 2: of very conveniently signed with the same signature we've seen
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  Speaker 2: on pictures on laws, on executive orders, on pardons. It
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  Speaker 2: has a lot of appearances of being fake we'll see
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  Speaker 2: what happens.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and the queer point the President is making was
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  Speaker 1: he's saying it's not real and I'm gonna sue suing
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  Speaker 1: by the way the coming downs Fox News, that's a
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  Speaker 1: pretty bold statement. I also think that you know, goes
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  Speaker 1: to the heart here where he's saying this is not
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  Speaker 1: a real story. This is. And let's also be clear
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  Speaker 1: when the president digs in. Traditionally we have seen when
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  Speaker 1: he says this is not a real story. Russia collusion
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  Speaker 1: is a great example of that. He's been right and
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  Speaker 1: when he sued, he's been right.
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  Speaker 3: Well.
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  Speaker 2: And let me make three points that are critical in
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  Speaker 2: analyzing this battle between Trump and the Wall Street Journal.
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  Speaker 2: Number One, the most compelling argument he made this in
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  Speaker 2: his truth is if there were evidence of Donald Trump
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  Speaker 2: in the Epstein files, Biden would have released it. Biden
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  Speaker 2: had this, Merrick Garland had this. They were in the
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  Speaker 2: middle of a nasty fight. If they had anything to
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  Speaker 2: implicate Donald Trump, we would have seen this on the
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  Speaker 2: front pages of the paper in October of twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 2: right before the election. The fact that they didn't, I
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  Speaker 2: think is the single most compelling piece of evidence to
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  Speaker 2: suggest that this is not real. Number two, and I
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  Speaker 2: want to underscore this, don't forget Bill Clinton. Jeffrey Epstein
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  Speaker 2: was a Democrat. He was a friend to Bill. You
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  Speaker 2: know what was hanging in Jeffrey Epstein's living room in
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  Speaker 2: his Manhattan.
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  Speaker 1: Brownstone, Ah, the famous Bill Clinton dress painting.
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  Speaker 2: No, that's exactly right. It was a painting of Bill
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  Speaker 2: Clinton in a blue dress wearing red pumps. It was weird.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what Jeffrey Epstein had hanging on his wall.
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  Speaker 2: He was a huge Democrat. Donery supported Chuck Schumer and Democrats,
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  Speaker 2: and so don't forget Bill Clinton. And there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of effort to paint this Democrats scumbags as a Trump guy.
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  Speaker 2: And a final point, here's what President Trump truthed this week. Quote,
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  Speaker 2: based on the ridiculous amount of publicity given to Jeffrey Epstein,
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  Speaker 2: I have asked Attorney General Pambondi to produce any and
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  Speaker 2: all pertinent grand jury testimony, subject to court approval. This
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  Speaker 2: scam perpetuated by the Democrats should end right now. Bravo,
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  Speaker 2: release it all. That was right in the principles we
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  Speaker 2: said right up front.
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  Speaker 1: Aim into that, and let's talk about some winning. That's
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: been taking place Center. It's been amazing what the President
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: has been able to do with Benjamin retires winning. I'm
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: not tired. I'm not tired of winning, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not tired at all.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you look at just the last six months the
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: Trump administration. We've secured the border, they've launched ice raids,
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: They've ended child gender surgeries, they designated the cartels as
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  Speaker 1: terrorist organizations. They've kicked out DII out of government, and
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: then the big one, which should make so many taxpayers happy,
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: they have defunded MPR with your help and leadership. That
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  Speaker 1: is amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I got to say this, this week was a
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: very important week. So at two twenty in the morning,
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: late Wednesday night, early Thursday morning, the Senate voted, and
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: we voted to defund NPR and defund PBS. Now, as
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: a conservative, I have been fighting to defund NPR and
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: PBS as long as I can remember. NPR PBS have
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: been left wing propaganda outlets forever, and as bad as
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: they were. Look when we were kids, when it was
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: Sesame Street and Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: that was fine, But in recent years they had been radicalized.
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  Speaker 2: They always lean left, but in recent years they've been
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  Speaker 2: open outlets for left wing propaganda. And I got to say,
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: the left was certain we could never defund them, and
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: I will tell you on the Senate floor, as we
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: were taking up the recisions package, so President Trump sent
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: a package of some nine billion dollars of recisions federal
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: spendings to call back. We were battling on the floor
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: and we had it was beyond two in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: It was very unclear if we were going to prevail,
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  Speaker 2: because I got to say, there were several Republicans who
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: were wobbly. There were several Republicans who were threatening to
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: vote with the Democrats, and as late as about two
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  Speaker 2: in the morning, I didn't know if we were going
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  Speaker 2: to win. We did prevail, and I got to say,
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: what a testament to the president, And what a testament.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Let me give you just a shout out to Senate
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  Speaker 2: Republicans and House Republicans for coming together, for pushing past
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: their differences. Defunding NPR and PBS is the right thing
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: to do, and the Senate finally, finally finally voted to
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: do that this week.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is such a big message I think to
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  Speaker 1: taxpayers that were no longer in the business of just
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: completely abusing your tax dours and actually using your tax
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: dollars to go for political purposes. Which is the scariest
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: part of all of this is how political these dollars
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: had become advocating for radical, extreme things against family values.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: And by the way, I don't want our tax dolls
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: going for conservative things for sarcasting either. I want to
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: make that very clear, like that's not what we're advocating.
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  Speaker 2: For at all. The government should not be in the
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  Speaker 2: propaganda business. This is the argument I made on the
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  Speaker 2: Senate floor. So listen to what I stood up and
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  Speaker 2: urged my colleagues late Wednesday night, early Thursday morning. Give
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  Speaker 2: a listen.
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  Speaker 4: Public broadcasting has long been overtaken by partisan activists, plain
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: and simple.
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  Speaker 2: This isn't just an abstract critique.
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: NPR and PBS have revealed their left wing bias time
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: and time again. When blowing the whistle on NPR, Uri Berliner,
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: a former senior editor himself a left wing Democrat, wrote
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: that quote, NPR has always had a liberal bent. An
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: open minded spirit no longer exists within NPR. We don't
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: have an audience that reflects America. Exhibit a after The New
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: York Post broke the Hunter Biden laptop story, NPR ran
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: political cover for the Democrats, refusing to cover the story, quote,
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: we don't want to waste listeners and readers time on
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: stories that are just pure distractions. Mind you, the story
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: was true, That's why they didn't want to cover it.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: As for PBS, its coverage of last year's DNC was
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: only twelve percent negative, the RNC a stat baggering seventy
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: two percent negative. If you want to watch left wing propaganda,
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: turn on MSNBC, but the taxpayers should not be forced
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: to subsidize it.
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  Speaker 2: I urge a no vote on this amendment.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: That obviously was very powerful, and the facts that you
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: laid out there are also incredibly accurate.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Look, the principle is simple, and I'll say it again.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: If you want to watch left wing propaganda, turn on
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  Speaker 2: MSNBC or for that matter, CNN, or for that matter,
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: read the New York Times or any of a host
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: of corporate media outlets. But you know what we shouldn't
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: be doing is using your taxpayer money to subsidize it.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: And I got to say, I'm going to give a
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: shout out to my colleague John Kennedy. John is a
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: good friend, but he also is a fabulous sense of humor.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: I want you to listen to John Kennedy talking about
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: NPR some of the most radical stories they've run.
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: I want to give you a few examples of stories
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: that NPR has published using taxpayer money. Read the headlines.
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: First headline in PR News Service, Michael Abanatti quote a
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: profile of the media savvy attorney they love Michael l Abanatti.
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: You know where Michael Abanatti is today. He's in jail.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: You know why.
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: He's a crook. But for a while he was a
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: media darling on NPR. Here's another headline from NPR, how
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: racism became a marketing tool for country music. I kid
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: you not. The American taxpayers are spending half a billion
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: dollars a year to pay a local station to buy
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: content that says country music is racist. Here's another headline
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: from NPR, Donald Trump's long embrace of Vlatimer Pewtin. Remember
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: the Russia Gate, the Steel dossier. NPR was right in
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: there promoting it. A couple more headlines that NPR is
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: putting out there using your tax dollars. This headline, monuments
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: and teams have changed names. Let me say the game
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: monuments and teams, presumably sports teams had changed names as America.
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: Reckons with racism. Birds are next. I don't know any
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: birds that are racist. Here's another headline, eating less beef
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: is a climate solution. Eating less beef is a climate solution.
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: I don't have anything against vegetarians. I'm a semi vegetarian myself.
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: I eat beef and beef and tows eat eat grass,
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: So that makes me a semi vegetarian. But that's my choice,
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: not on NPR. Eating less beef is a climate solution.
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: Here's why that's hard for some American men. Here's the
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: final headline. I could go on the rest of the evening.
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: How the Taliband adds to Afghanistan's woes when it comes
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  Speaker 5: to climate fueled disaster. Boy, I can tell you that's
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: on the mind of every person in Afghanistan today is
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: climate change and the Taliband. I can guarantee you I
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: don't have a problem with these headlines. This is America.
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: If you want to publish articles like this, which no
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: person with a brain above a single cell organism would
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: call fare and balanced. If you're a news outlet and
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: you want to publish this kind of stuff. That is
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: your right as an American. We have freedom of the press,
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: we have the First Amendment. You're not free in our
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: country if you can't say what you think. You're not
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: free in our country if you can't express yourself. I'm
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: all for this, if that's what these outlets want to do,
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: but I'm not for taking five hundred million dollars every
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: single year and giving it to these stations to the
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: exclusion of everybody else, so they can do it.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Aim into that, Senator, I couldn't agree with your colleague
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: and good friend, Senator Kennedy. More.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: I love John Kennedy. I will say he said something
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: in that. As you know, I'm married to California vegetarian.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Her entire family are all vegetarians. And an argument I
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: make with my in laws often as I say, listen,
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: all the animals I eat, they're all vegetarian. And I
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: will say, you've owned a barbecue restaurant. I am a
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: proud carnivore. John Kennedy is fantastic. But NPR and PBS
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: are a joke. And we have reason to celebrate because
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: despite a massive battle, we.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Won.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: The Senate voted to cut off to zero out textpayer funding.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: We're no longer paying for left wing propaganda.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Senator, there is just some news that shocked the left.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: I don't know how this could be true, but The
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Late Show has been destroyed by Stephen Colbert at the
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: point where they're like, we're not even just firing you,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: We're just canceling the entire brand that has been a
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: staple in American culture, an iconic show for decades. And
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: now they're just like, yeah, we're done. I mean, it's amazing, right,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: you alienate half the country, you hate half the country,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: you mock half the country. No one could have seen
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: this coming.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Well, look, I got to say you and I talked
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: about just a few minutes ago. I'm not tired of
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: winning yet. Stephen Colbert is a vicious, dishonest, partisan leftist.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: He is utterly consumed with Trump derangement syndrome, and he hates,
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: he despises more than half of America. He thinks we're idiots,
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: he thinks we're racist, he thinks were morons. He is
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: a condescending, arrogant jackass. Now look I say this with
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: direct experience. I've been on Colbert Show. There used to
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: be a time listen. I'm someone I love comedy. I
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: love late night comedy. I grew up watching in SNL.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: I grew up watching Johnny Carson and Jay Leno and
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: like really fun late night comedy. And by the way,
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: if you've got a sense of humor, you can laugh
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: at both sides. I'm okay with late night comics making
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: fun of Republicans making fun of Democrats. Look, both sides
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: are funny. There's lots of jokes to tell. There used
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: to be a time. I've been the Senate thirteen years.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: When I got there, it was part of the job.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: I've done just about every late night show. I've done
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Jay Leno, I've done Colbert, I've done Jimmy Kimmel, I've
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: done Jimmy Fallon. It was a fun part of the job.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: It's disappeared. None of the late night shows have Republicans
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: on anymore. They don't invite anyone. And in fact, it
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: was really fitting Stephen Colbert's show where he announced I've
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: been canceled, I'm pulled off the air. You know who
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: His guest was, Adam Shiff, because of course it was
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: Adam Schiff because and Colbert's the worst of them he's
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: a vicious, nasty So I remember when I first did
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: a show, you know, you know, the hosts come by
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: and they talk to you in the green room and
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: they chat with you, and you know, I said, look
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: like all of these late night comics, they think they're
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: going to be you know that they're going to be
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: this like meet the press, like we're going to ask
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: you really tough questions. By the way, Democrat they have
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: love fests. They laugh, they joke, they kid around, But
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: with the Republicans, they're going to nail you to the ground.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, look, you want to ask tough questions,
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: that's fine, but you go on a late night comedy
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: showed to to to humanize, to say a little bit
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: of who you are, to laugh, and Colbert just got angry.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: He's just like, I want to prove you are evil.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: You are the devil. And by the way, they don't
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: even do that anymore. They just don't have Republicans on
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: and and Colbert, of all of them, was the worst.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: By the way, Jimmy Fallon of the Late Night Guys
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: is the best. Yeah, Fallin, you know, it's interesting. Fallon
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: inherited Jay Leno's audience Jay Leno inherited Johnny Carson's audience.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: Their audience is a lot of Midwestern conservatives. And so
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: Jimmy Fallon like like, I had a great time. I
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: did Jimmy Fallon back back when I was running for president.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: He had a very funny skit where he dressed up
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: as as Donald Trump and and called me and went
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: back and forth. But he was he was the one
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: late night host who was not a jerk. Actually Leno
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: wasn't either, but that was that was early on. Colbert
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: is directly responsible, along with his compatriots, with destroying late
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: night comedy.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: And I want to play, by the way, it's because
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: it wasn't humor.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: It's not funny.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: It's just you.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: I hate you. It is not funny.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah. It's also, by the way, the reason why I
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: think Shank Gillis was at the SP's because historics like humor.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Humor is actually back. And Colbert turned his show into
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: this like sanctimonious woke lecture every night, attacking half of America.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Well, and let me prove it. I want to play
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: just just a a selection of you know, he became
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: this this like scold for you must get the COVID vaccine.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: And here are a couple of examples of this bizarre
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: song he did. You're gonna listen to it. I wish
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: you could see the videos because the videos have him
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: dancing like a fruitcake nut uh dressed as a human syringe.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: But just listen to it because you can get a
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: sense of just how sanctimonious he was. Give a listen.
• 31:07
  Speaker 6: Find out the way the vaccine is changing the scene
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: in our new recurring segment, the vac scene.
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: Job longer stole.
• 31:37
  Speaker 6: Why the can can you ask? I asked that myself.
• 31:40
  Speaker 6: The answer public domain.
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: It's the answer of most things, really, the vaccine.
• 32:02
  Speaker 6: The vaccine we have sne.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: Get your shot right now in your arm, your mom,
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: get your shot, Mom, get your shot.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: But by the way, I just wonder, like how many
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: of those segments had vaccine commercials from pharmaceutical companies in there,
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: and it's like, hey, I got you. I'll do a
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: big thing they.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: Play in Stephens there sponsored by Pfizer.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: Right exactly, they put this thing out. It's ten minutes
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: and forty nine seconds long. By the way, I say
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: they literally the video we just played from you was
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: the quote vaccine. The box set The Late Show with
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Stephen Colbert. They put this out themselves and were that
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: proud of it.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: No, they were proud of it. And it's it's vicious,
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: it's nasty, and it's not funny. I'm fine with a
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: comedy host that makes fun of everyone. That's you know,
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: one of my favorite movies. And we didn't include this
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: one we did on July fourth our movie section. But
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: one of my favorite movies was Team America World Police.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: Did you ever see that?
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: Ben?
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: Oh?
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, great movie.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: Hysterical movie, and it's done. It is. It's puppets and
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: it makes fun of both sides. It make fun of Republicans,
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: but it makes fun of democrats. And now I will
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: warn you it is profane. I had the incredibly poor
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: judgment to play this video for my in laws on
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: a family vacation, and I will tell you about nine
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: minutes into it, when they had dropped the thirty second
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: F bomb, I was like, okay, wow, this was a
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: really bad idea, and my mother in law is frowning
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: at me, and I'm like, wow, okay, never mind. But
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: unbelievably funny because it's actually comedy. It's making fun just
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: watching Stephen Colbert say I hate Donald Trump. Yes, Stephen,
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: we got you. But you know what, Stephen Colbert is
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: now unemployed.
• 34:07
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• 34:10
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• 34:11
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