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Epstein, Trump & WSJ-MAGA Battle Explodes, plus Congress Defunds NPR & PBS and Stephen Colbert Canceled · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome.
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  Speaker 2: It is Verdict with Center, Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with
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  Speaker 2: you Center. We have got so much to talk about
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  Speaker 2: on the show, including a lot that deals with the
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  Speaker 2: Epstein quote files and people are demanding transparency.
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  Speaker 3: Well, there's an absolute battle playing out in Washington, DC,
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  Speaker 3: and you've got a battle about the Epstein files, President Trump,
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  Speaker 3: the Wall Street Journal, Pam Bondi, Cash, Betel, Dan Bongino.
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  Speaker 3: It is chaos. We're going to do our very best
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  Speaker 3: to break down what's going on, what to expect, what's
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  Speaker 3: going to happen next. We're also going to talk about
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  Speaker 3: really important legislation that just passed Congress past the Senate,
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  Speaker 3: defunding PBS, defunding NPR. This is a major conservative victory.
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  Speaker 3: We've been trying to do this for decades and we
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  Speaker 3: finally got it done. And finally we're gonna talk about
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  Speaker 3: about something that I'm going to confess is just beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: Stephen Colbert has been fired, he's been canceled. We're gonna
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  Speaker 3: break that down, talk about what's going going on. A
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  Speaker 2: All right, So, Centater, let's break down some of the
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  Speaker 2: frustrations with the Epstein hoopla. The media is just going
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  Speaker 2: after Donald Trump. The left is now caring about Epstein
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  Speaker 2: they never did before. They're trying to attack Trump saying
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  Speaker 2: he's trying to hide something. And I think it's pretty
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  Speaker 2: clear you've been an advocate for this. I have since
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  Speaker 2: the beginning. I want transparency. I want to make sure
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  Speaker 2: that the people that were involved are held accountable. There
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  Speaker 2: seems like there's been no accountability except for one person
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  Speaker 2: going to jail. And I want to make sure that
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  Speaker 2: our government wasn't covering something up because a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people lost confidence in our institutions and we know they've
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  Speaker 2: lied to us a lot. I don't think there's anything
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  Speaker 2: wrong with hardcore conservatives wanting that level of transparency.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think millions who could serve it as millions
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  Speaker 3: of Americans have been frustrated in the last week because
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  Speaker 3: the media has been just beside themselves trying to flame
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  Speaker 3: a civil war. They wanted a civil war between mag
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  Speaker 3: and Trump, and they're hoping that all of the elements
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  Speaker 3: of the conservative movement, all of the elements of President
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  Speaker 3: Trump and his supporters, will consume each other. I don't
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  Speaker 3: think that's going to happen. So so part of my
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  Speaker 3: advice to everyone is just breathe, count to ten. We're
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  Speaker 3: going to make it through this. Now, let me give
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  Speaker 3: you some ways to think through this. I'm gonna give
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  Speaker 3: you four principles. Number One, transparency is good. We should
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  Speaker 3: support transparency. We should demand transparency. We should fight for transparency.
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  Speaker 3: That's important. Number two, protect the victims a couple months ago,
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  Speaker 3: I had dinner with Pam BONDI Pam as a good friend.
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  Speaker 3: We were talking about the Epstein files and what had
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  Speaker 3: been released. What she told me then is she said
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  Speaker 3: that that there were hundreds even thousands of hours of tapes.
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  Speaker 3: The tapes were explicit. She said they were explicit of
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  Speaker 3: children being abused, and she said it was taking time
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  Speaker 3: to edit those videos to make sure you protect victims. Look,
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  Speaker 3: nobody wants to see children being sexually assaulted having their
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  Speaker 3: privacy violated. So I think it's important to protect the victims.
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  Speaker 3: It's not their fault. Number Three, and this is a
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  Speaker 3: principle I have said four years on this issue. Release
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  Speaker 3: it all. That should be the basic standard. Put it
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  Speaker 3: out there, release it all, make it public. That's what
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  Speaker 3: I've encouraged the President to do, the White House to do,
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  Speaker 3: the Department of Justice to do, the FBI to do.
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  Speaker 3: I think that is a simple and straightforward standard. And
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  Speaker 3: then number four, predators should be prosecuted. Anyone who sexually
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  Speaker 3: assaulted a child should be prosecuted and they should go
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  Speaker 3: to jail. This is a simple and straightforward standard. This
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  Speaker 3: is what we should be demanding. Now we're going to
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  Speaker 3: break this down in this show. We're going to talk
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  Speaker 3: about what's going on. But understand, the media you were
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  Speaker 3: on CNN earlier to CNN is so excited. They're so
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  Speaker 3: excited because they're seeing strong supporters of the president who
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  Speaker 3: are criticizing the president. Sana doesn't care about the truth.
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  Speaker 3: If they cared about the truth. By the way, Joe
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  Speaker 3: Biden had these files, he had these files for years.
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  Speaker 3: Did CNN ever mention the words Jeffrey Epstein. They didn't
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  Speaker 3: want Joe Biden to release the files. They didn't want
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  Speaker 3: Mary Garland to release the files. They're not concerned about
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  Speaker 3: the substance. They're just excited about the civil war among
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  Speaker 3: President Trump and his supporters. That should tell you something.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to break that down even further. But understand,
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  Speaker 3: at the end of the day, the people cheering on
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  Speaker 3: for this to get ugly, many of them, the Democrats
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  Speaker 3: and the corporate media, have been proven to be uttering
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  Speaker 3: complete hypocrites. Because if they didn't say a word when
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  Speaker 3: Joe Biden was president, then they need to be quiet
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  Speaker 3: right now and stop pretending they care about this.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk about what transparency looks like. And this was
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  Speaker 2: one of the big debates. As you mentioned, seeing and
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  Speaker 2: obsessed over this, and I said, look, this has to
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  Speaker 2: be done a responsible way. I also think the American
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  Speaker 2: people need to understand Donald Trump cannot just sign and
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  Speaker 2: everything go out to the public. There are judges that
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  Speaker 2: will have to decide what has made public and a
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  Speaker 2: lot of the information we have on Jeffrey Epstein, and
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  Speaker 2: they're trying to act like Donald Trump's the one that's
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  Speaker 2: not allowing anything to happen.
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  Speaker 1: That's not the case.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's right, and listen. The media and the Democrats
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  Speaker 3: have been eager to fan a dispute between Pambondy, Cash Battell,
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  Speaker 3: and Dan Bongino.
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  Speaker 4: Not now.
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  Speaker 3: I want to caution everyone, do not take as true
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  Speaker 3: everything reported in the media. I've read the same things
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  Speaker 3: you are, that Dan Bongino's screaming at Pambondi, that there's
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  Speaker 3: a civil war, that he's threatening to resign, that Cash
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  Speaker 3: Ptel threatening to resign. I don't know. I have not
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  Speaker 3: been in these meetings. I'll tell you all three of
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  Speaker 3: them are friends of mine. I like Pambondy, I like
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  Speaker 3: Cash Pattel, I like Dan Bongino. I've known all of
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  Speaker 3: them for a decade. I believe they are good people.
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  Speaker 3: I believe they are principled people. I believe they're trying
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  Speaker 3: to do the right thing. And my hope is the
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  Speaker 3: Trump administration will follow the four principles I laid out
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  Speaker 3: and handle this the right way. But do not get
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  Speaker 3: carried away with the media excitement of the people who
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  Speaker 3: hate President Trump, hate his administration, and want his administration
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  Speaker 3: to be in a civil war. I very much hope.
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  Speaker 3: I do not know, but I hope that Bondi, Patel
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  Speaker 3: and Bongino come together and they do the right thing together.
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  Speaker 3: And do not believe the exaggerations of a civil war.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, Senator, I want to get in also to
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  Speaker 2: another big story that came out. It dealt with Epstein
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  Speaker 2: and the Wall Street Journal report. The President punching back
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  Speaker 2: extremely hard on this reporting.
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  Speaker 1: Well.
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  Speaker 3: The Wall Street Journal reported this week that there was
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  Speaker 3: a book prepared for Jeffrey Epstein's fiftieth birthday, and it
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  Speaker 3: had letters from a number of prominent people, and that
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  Speaker 3: one of the letters was from Donald Trump. And this
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  Speaker 3: was a breathless article. And you're right, President Trump is
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  Speaker 3: punching back hard. He says it is fake, He says
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  Speaker 3: it is false. He says he's going to sue the
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  Speaker 3: Wall Street Journal. Now, Ben, you don't know the truth
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  Speaker 3: on this. I don't know the truth on this. I'll
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  Speaker 3: tell you what the Wall Street Journal reported just on
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  Speaker 3: the text of it. I go to admit, this thing
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  Speaker 3: sounds weird, and if any of us have a BS meter,
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  Speaker 3: it ought to be flashing. So here's what the Wall
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  Speaker 3: Street Journal reported. It reported. The letter said, quote voice over,
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  Speaker 3: there must be more to life than having everything. And
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  Speaker 3: then it's this weird dialogue. Donald, Yes there is, but
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  Speaker 3: I won't tell you what it is, Jeffrey, nor will
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  Speaker 3: I since I also know what it is. Donald. We
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  Speaker 3: have certain things in common, Jeffrey. Jeffrey, Yes, we do,
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  Speaker 3: come to think of it, Donald, Enigma's never age. Have
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  Speaker 3: you noticed that, Jeffrey. As a matter of fact, it
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  Speaker 3: was clear to me the last time I saw you, Donald,
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  Speaker 3: a pal is a wonderful thing. Happy birthday, and may
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  Speaker 3: every day be another wonderful secret. And then underneath that
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  Speaker 3: is a hand drawn, pretty shoddy drawing of a naked
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  Speaker 3: woman and the now very famous signature of Donald Trump
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  Speaker 3: drawn on top of the hand drawn naked woman. Now, look,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if this is real or not. But
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  Speaker 3: I got to say, that doesn't sound like Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: To me.
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  Speaker 3: I've known President Trump a long time. That exchange just
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  Speaker 3: sounds strange. I've seen online. I've never heard President Trump
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  Speaker 3: use the word enigma as an enigma's never age. That's
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  Speaker 3: not the language President Trump speaks in this sort of weird, existential,
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  Speaker 3: self reflective dialogue out of CAMU. That ain't the Donald J.
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  Speaker 3: Trump I know. And I got to say President Trump's
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  Speaker 3: response on this, it was not ambiguous, it was not slight,
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  Speaker 3: it was not conflicted. Here's what President Trump said in
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  Speaker 3: response to this. He said on truth quote. The Wall
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  Speaker 3: Street Journal and Rupert Murdock personally were warned directly by
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  Speaker 3: President Donald J. Trump that the supposed letter they were
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  Speaker 3: printed by President Trump to Epstein was a fake all
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  Speaker 3: caps and if they print it, they will be sued.
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  Speaker 3: Mister Murdoch stated that he would take care of it,
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  Speaker 3: but obviously did not have the power to do so.
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  Speaker 3: The editor of the Wall Street Journal, Emma Tucker, was
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  Speaker 3: told directly by Caroline Levitt and by President Trump that
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  Speaker 3: the letter was a fake all caps, but Emma Tucker
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  Speaker 3: didn't want to hear that. Instead, they're going with a false,
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  Speaker 3: malicious and defamatory story. Anyway, President Trump will be suing
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  Speaker 3: the Wall Street Journal, newscorps, and mister Murdoch shortly. The
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  Speaker 3: press has to learn to be truthful and not to
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  Speaker 3: rely on sources that probably don't even exist. President Trump
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  Speaker 3: has already beaten George Stephanopolis slash ABC sixty minutes, slash CBS,
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  Speaker 3: and others, and looks forward to suing and holding accountable
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  Speaker 3: the once great Wall Street Journal. It is truly turned
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  Speaker 3: out to be a quote disgusting and filthy rag and
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  Speaker 3: writing defamatory lies like this shows their desperation to remain relevant.
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  Speaker 3: If there were any truths at all on the Epstein hoax,
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  Speaker 3: as it pertains to President Trump, the information would have
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  Speaker 3: been revealed by Comy Brennan, Crooked Hillary, and the other
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  Speaker 3: radical left lunatics years ago. It certainly would not have
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  Speaker 3: sat in a file waiting for Trump to have won
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  Speaker 3: three elections. This is yet another example of fake news. Now,
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  Speaker 3: I got to say President Trump is not being shy
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  Speaker 3: or subtle or restrained on that. He's saying it's an
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  Speaker 3: absolute lie. And look, I think we'll see this play
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  Speaker 3: out in the in the days ahead. But on the
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  Speaker 3: face of it, like the strange drawing of a naked
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  Speaker 3: woman that seems like it's drawn by about a twelve
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  Speaker 3: year old. That doesn't seem like anything I've ever seen
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  Speaker 3: President Trump do, and and so, and it's kind of
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  Speaker 3: very conveniently signed with the same signature we've seen on pictures,
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  Speaker 3: on laws, on executive orders, on pardons. It has a
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  Speaker 3: lot of appearances of being fake. We'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 1: Well.
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  Speaker 2: And the queer point the president's making was he's saying
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  Speaker 2: it's not real and I'm gonna sue suing. By the
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  Speaker 2: way the covering downes Fox News, that's a pretty bold statement.
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  Speaker 2: I also think that you know, goes to the heart
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  Speaker 2: here where he's saying this is not a real story.
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  Speaker 1: This is.
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  Speaker 2: And let's also be clear when the president digs in.
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  Speaker 2: Traditionally we have seen when he says this is not
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  Speaker 2: a real story. Russia collusion is a great example of
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  Speaker 2: that he's been right and when he sued, he's been right.
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  Speaker 1: Well.
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  Speaker 3: And let me make three points that are critical in
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  Speaker 3: analyzing this battle between Trump and the Wall Street Journal.
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  Speaker 3: Number One, the most compelling argument he made this in
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  Speaker 3: his truth is if there were evidence of Donald Trump
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  Speaker 3: in the Epstein files. Biden would have released it. Biden
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  Speaker 3: had this, Merrick Garland had this. They were in the
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  Speaker 3: middle of a nasty fight. If they had anything to
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  Speaker 3: implicate Donald Trump, we would have seen this on the
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  Speaker 3: front pages of the paper in October of twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 3: right before the election. The fact that they didn't, I
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  Speaker 3: think is the single most compelling piece of evidence to
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  Speaker 3: suggest that this is not real. Number two, and I
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  Speaker 3: want to underscore this, don't forget Bill Clinton. Jeffrey Epstein
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  Speaker 3: was a Democrat. He was a friend to Bill. You
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  Speaker 3: know what was hanging in Jeffrey Epstein's living room in
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  Speaker 3: his Manhattan.
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  Speaker 2: Brownstone, Ah, the famous Bill Clinton blue dress painting.
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  Speaker 3: No, that's exactly right. It was a painting of Bill
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  Speaker 3: Clinton in a blue dress wearing red pumps. It was weird.
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  Speaker 3: And that's what Jeffrey Epstein had hanging on his wall.
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  Speaker 3: He was a huge Democrat. Donery supported Chuck Schumer and Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: And so.
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  Speaker 3: Don't forget Bill Clinton. And there's a lot of effort
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  Speaker 3: to paint this Democrat scumbags as a Trump guy. And
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  Speaker 3: a final point, here's what President Trump truthed this week,
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  Speaker 3: quote based on the ridiculous amount of publicity given to
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  Speaker 3: Jeffrey Epstein. I have asked Attorney General Pambondi to produce
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  Speaker 3: any all permanent grand jury testimony, subject to court approval.
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  Speaker 3: This scam perpetuated by the Democrats, should end right now. Bravo,
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  Speaker 3: release it all. That was right in the principles we
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  Speaker 3: said right up front.
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  Speaker 2: Aim into that, and let's talk about some winning that's
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  Speaker 2: been taking place.
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  Speaker 1: Center. It's been amazing what the President has been able.
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  Speaker 3: To do with Benjamina tired of winning.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not tired. I'm not tired of winning, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not tired at all.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you look at just the last six months the
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  Speaker 2: Trump administration. We've secured the border, they've launched ice raids,
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  Speaker 2: They've ended child gender surgeries, they designate the cartels as
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  Speaker 2: terrorist organizations. They've kicked out DII out of government, and
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: then the big one, which should make so many taxpayers happy,
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  Speaker 2: they have defunded MPR with your help and leadership.
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  Speaker 1: That is amazing.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I got to say this, this week was a
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  Speaker 3: very important week. So at two twenty in the morning
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  Speaker 3: late Wednesday night, early Thursday morning, the Senate voted and
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: we voted to defund NPR and defund PBS. Now, as
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  Speaker 3: a conservative, I have been fighting to defund NPR and
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: PBS as long as I could remember. NPR PBS have
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  Speaker 3: been left wing propaganda outlets forever, and as bad as
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: they were. Look when we were kids, when it was
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: Sesame Street and Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: that was fine, But in recent years they have been radicalized.
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  Speaker 3: They always lean left, but in recent years they've been
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  Speaker 3: open outlets for left wing propaganda. And I got to say,
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  Speaker 3: the left was certain we could never defund them, and
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  Speaker 3: I will tell you on the Senate floor, as we
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: were taking up the recisions package, so President Trump sent
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: a package of some nine billion dollars of recisions federal
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  Speaker 3: spendings to call back. We were battling on the floor
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  Speaker 3: and we had it was beyond two in the morning.
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  Speaker 3: It was very unclear if we were going to prevail,
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  Speaker 3: because I got to say, there were several Republicans who
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  Speaker 3: were wobbly. There were several Republicans who were threatening to
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  Speaker 3: vote with the Democrats, and as late as about two
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  Speaker 3: in the morning, I didn't know if we were going
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  Speaker 3: to win. We did prevail and I got to say,
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  Speaker 3: what a testament to the president, And what a testament.
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  Speaker 3: Let me give you just a shout out to Senate
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  Speaker 3: Republicans and House Republicans for coming together for pushing past
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  Speaker 3: their differences. Defunding NPR and PBS is the right thing
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  Speaker 3: to do, and the Senate finally, finally, finally voted to
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  Speaker 3: do that this week.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is such a big message, I think to
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  Speaker 2: taxpayers that were no longer in the business of just
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  Speaker 2: completely abusing your tax dollars and actually using your tax
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  Speaker 2: dollars to go for political purposes. Which is the scariest
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: part of all of this is how political these dollars
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: had become advocating for radical, extreme things against maam, we've
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: by the way, I don't want our tech stars going
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: for conservative things. Of course, sarcasting either. I want to
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: make that very clear, like that's not what we're advocating.
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  Speaker 3: For at all. The government should not be in the
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  Speaker 3: propaganda business. This is the argument I made on the
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  Speaker 3: Senate floor. So listen to what I stood up and
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  Speaker 3: urged my colleagues late Wednesday night early Thursday morning. Give
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  Speaker 3: a listen.
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  Speaker 5: Public broadcasting has long been overtaken by partisan activists, plain
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: and simple. This isn't just an abstract critique. NPR and
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: PBS have revealed their left wing bias time and time again.
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: When blowing the whistle on NPR, Uri Berliner, a former
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: senior editor himself a left wing Democrat, wrote that quote,
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: NPR has always had a liberal bent. An open minded
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: spirit no longer exists within NPR. We don't have an
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: audience that reflects America. Exhibit A. After The New York Post
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: broke the Hunter Biden laptop story, NPR ran political cover
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: for the Democrats, refusing to cover the story. Quote, we
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: don't want to waste listeners and readers time on stories
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: that are just pure distractions. Mind you, the story was true,
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: That's why they didn't want to cover it. As for PBS,
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: its coverage of last year's DNC was only twelve percent negative,
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: the RNC a staggering seventy two percent negative. If you
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: want to watch left wing propaganda, turn on MSNBC. But
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: the taxpayers should not be forced to subsidize it. I
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: urge a no vote on this amendment.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: That obviously was very powerful, and the facts that you
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: laid out they are also incredibly accurate.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: Look the principle is simple. And I'll say it again.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: If you want to watch left wing propaganda, turn on
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: MSNBC or for that matter, CNN, or for that matter,
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: read the New York Times or any of a host
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: to corporate media outlets. But you know what we shouldn't
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: be doing is using us, your taxpayer money to subsidize it.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: And I got to say, I'm going to give a
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: shout out to my colleague John Kennedy. John is a
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: good friend, but he also is a fabulous sense of humor.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: I want you to listen to John Kennedy talking about
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: NPR some of the most radical stories they've run.
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: I want to give you a few examples of stories
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: that NPR has published using taxpayer money. I'll just read
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: the headlines. First headline, NPR News Service Michael Abanatti quote
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: a profile of the media savvy attorney. They love Michael Abanatti.
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: You know where Michael Abanati is today. He's in jail.
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: You know why. He's a crook, But for a while
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: he was a media darling on NPR. Here's another headline
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: from NPR, how racism became marketing tool for country music.
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: I kid you not. The American taxpayers are spending half
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: a billion dollars a year to pay a local station
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: to buy content that says country music is racist. Here's
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: another headline from NPR, Donald Trump's long embrace of Vladimer Pewtin.
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: Remember the Russia Gate, the steel dossier. NPR was right
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: in there promoting it. A couple more headlines that NPR
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: is putting out there using your tax dollars. This headline,
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: monuments and teams have changed names. Let me say the
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: game monuments and teams presumably sports teams had changed names
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: as America. Reckons with racism. Birds are next. I don't
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: know any birds that are racist. Here's another headline, Eating
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: less beef is a climate solution. Eating less beef is
• 23:21
  Speaker 6: a climate solution. I don't have anything against vegetarians. I'm
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: a semi vegetarian myself. I eat beef and beef and
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: towsy eat grass, so that makes me a semi vegetarian.
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: But that's my choice, not on NPR. Eating less beef
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: is a climate solution. Here's why that's hard for some
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: American men. Here's the final headline. I could go on
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: the rest of the evening. How the talibond adds to
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: Afghanistan's woes when it comes to climate fueled disaster or
• 24:00
  Speaker 6: I can tell you that's on the mind of every
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: person in Afghanistan today is climate change and the Taliband.
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: I can guarantee you I don't have a problem with
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: these headlines. This is America. If you want to publish
• 24:15
  Speaker 6: articles like this, which no person with a brain above
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: a single cell organism would call fair and balanced. If
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: you're a news outlet and you want to publish this
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: kind of stuff, that is your right as an American.
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: We have freedom of the press, we have the First Amendment.
• 24:34
  Speaker 7: You're not free in.
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: Our country if you can't say what you think. You're
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: not free in our country if you can't express yourself.
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: I'm all for this if that's what these outlets want
• 24:45
  Speaker 6: to do, but I'm not for taking five hundred million
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: dollars every single year and giving it to these stations
• 24:57
  Speaker 6: to the exclusion of everybody else so they can do it.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Aim into that, Senator, I couldn't agree with your colleague
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: and good friend, Senator Kennedy.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: More I love John Kennedy. I will say he said
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: something in that. As you know, I'm married to California
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: vegetarian her entire family are all vegetarians, and an argument
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: I make with my in laws often as I say,
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: listen all the animals I eat, they're all vegetarian. And
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: I will say, you've owned a barbecue restaurant. I am
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: a proud carnivore. John Kennedy is fantastic. But NPR and
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: PBS are a joke. And we have reason to celebrate
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: because despite a massive battle, we won. The Senate voted
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: to cut off to zero out taxpayer funding. We're no
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: longer paying for left wing propaganda.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Senator, there is just some news that shocked the left.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: I don't know how this could be true, but The
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Late Show has been destroyed by Stephen Colbert at the
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: point where they're like, we're not even just firing you,
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: We're just canceling the entire brand that has been a
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: staple an American culture, an iconic show for decades. And
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: now they're just like, yeah, we're done. I mean, it's amazing, right,
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: you alienate half the country, you hate half the country,
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: you mock half the country.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: No one could have seen this coming.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: Well, look, I got to say you and I talked
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: about just a few minutes ago. I'm not tired of winning.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Yet Stephen Colbert is a vicious, dishonest, partisan leftist. He
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: is utterly consumed with Trump derangement syndrome, and he hates,
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: he despises more than half of America. He thinks we're idiots,
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: he thinks we're racist, he thinks we're morons. He is
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: a condescending, arrogant jackass. Now, look, I say this with
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: direct experience. I've been on Colbert Show. There used to
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: be a time.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Listen.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: I'm someone. I love comedy. I love late night comedy.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: I grew up watching in SNL. I grew up watching
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: Johnny Carson and Jay Leno and like really fun late
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: night comedy. And by the way, if you've got a
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: sense of humor, you can laugh at both sides. I'm
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: okay with late night comics making fun of Republicans, making
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: fun of Democrats. Look, both sides are funny. There's lots
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: of jokes to tell. There used to be a time.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: I've been the Senate thirteen years. When I got there,
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: it was part of the job. I've done just about
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: every late night show. I've done Jay Leno, I've done Colbert,
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: I've done Jimmy Kimmel, I've done Jimmy Fallon. It was
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: a fun part of the job. It's disappeared none of
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: the late night shows have Republicans on anymore. They don't
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: invite anyone. In fact, it was really fitting Stephen Colbert's
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: show where he announced I've been canceled, I'm pulled off
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: the air. You know who his guest was Adam Shiff
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: because of course it was Adam Shiff because and Colbert's
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: the worst of them. He's a vicious, nasty So I
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: remember when when I first did a show. You know,
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: you know, the hosts come by and they talk to
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: you in the green room, and and they chat with you,
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: and and you know, I said, look like all of
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: these late night comics they think they're going to be
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: you know that they're going to be this like meet
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: the press, Like we're going to ask you really tough questions.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: By the way, Democrats they have love fests, they laugh,
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: they joke, they kid around. But with the Republicans, they're
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: going to nail you to the ground. And I'm like, look,
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: you want to ask tough questions, that's fine, But you
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: go on a late night comedy showed to to to humanize,
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: to say a little bit of who you are to laugh,
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: and Colbert just got angry. He's just like, I want
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: to prove you are evil. You are the devil. And
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: by the way, they don't even do that anymore. They
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: just don't have Republicans on and and Colbert, of all
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: of them, was the worst. By the way, Jimmy Fallon
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: of the late night guys is the best.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Fallin.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: You know, it's interesting Fallin inherited Jay Leno's audience. Jay
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: Leno inherited Johnny Carson's audience. Their audience is a lot
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: of Midwestern conservatives. And so Jimmy Fallon like like, I
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: had a great time. I did Jimmy Fallon back back
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: when I was running for president. He had a very
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: funny skit where he dressed up as as as Donald
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: Trump and and called me and went back and forth.
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: But he was he was the one late night host
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: who was not a jerk. Actually Leno wasn't either, but
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: that was that was early on. Colbert is directly responsible,
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: along with his compatriots, with destroying late night comedy.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: And I want to play by the way, it's because
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: it wasn't humor.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: It's not funny.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: It's just I hate you. I hate you. It is
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: not funny.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's also By the way, the reason why I
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: think Shank Gillis was at the s p's because historians
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: like humor. Humor is actually back, and Colbert turned his
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: show into this like sanctimonious woke lecture every night, attacking
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: half of a mayor.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: Well, and let me prove it. I want to play
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: just just a a selection of you know, he became
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: this this like scold for you must get the COVID vaccine.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: And here are a couple of examples of this bizarre
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: song he did. You're gonna listen to it. I wish
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: you could see the videos because the videos have him
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: dancing like a fruitcake nut dressed as a human syringe.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: But just listen to it because you can get a
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: sense of just how sanctimonious he was. Give a listen.
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: Find out the way the vaccine is changing the scene
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: in our new recurring segment, the vac scene longer stall.
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: Why the can can you ask? I asked that myself.
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: The answer public domain. It's the answer of most things, really.
• 31:10
  Speaker 7: The vaccine shot, the vaccine. We have a vaccine.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: Get your shot right now in your arm.
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: Your mom get.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: Your shot, your mom.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Get your shot.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: But by the way, I just wonder, like how many
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: of those segments had vaccine commercials from pharmaceutical companies in there,
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: and it's like, hey, I got you, I'll do a
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: big thing.
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: They play in this even Colbert sponsored by Pfizer.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: Right exactly, they put this thing out. It's ten minutes
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: and forty nine seconds long. By the way, I say
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: they literally the video we just played for you was
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: the quote vaccine the box set the Late Show with
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: Stephen Colbert.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: They put this out themselves and were that proud of it.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: Now they were proud of it. And it's it's vicious,
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: it's nasty, and it's not funny, like I'm fine with
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: a comedy host that makes fun of everyone. That's you know,
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: one of my favorite movies. And we didn't include this
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: one we did on July fourth our our movie section.
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: But one of my favorite movies was Team America World.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: Please did you ever see that?
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Ben?
• 32:42
  Speaker 6: Oh?
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, great movie, hysterical movie, and it's done. It is.
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: It's puppets and it makes fun of both sides and
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: make fun of Republicans, but it makes fun of Democrats
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: and it's now I will warn you it is profane.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: I had the incredibly poor judgment to play this video
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: for my laws on a family vacation, and I will
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: tell you about nine minutes into it, when they had
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: dropped the thirty second F bomb, I was like, okay, wow,
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: this was a really bad idea. And my mother in
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: law is frowning at me, and I'm like, wow, okay,
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: never mind. But unbelievably funny because it's actually comedy. It's
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: making fun just watching Stephen Colbert saying I hate Donald Trump. Yes, Stephen,
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: we got you. But you know what, Stephen Colbert is
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: now unemployed. He's been canceled. He's been canceled because, oddly enough,
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: Americans don't like to listen to someone screaming at them.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: I hate you, I hate you, I hate you. I'm
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: smarter than you. I'm a left wing elitist. I make
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: millions of dollars and I despise you. And so I
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: got to say, in response to his musical medley urging
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: everyone you must get the vaccine, I have a different
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: musical medley that I want to say, not just to
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: Stephen Colbert, but also to NPR and and to PBS.
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: Here's my musical.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: Boons, truly amazing. You gotta love that song right there.
• 34:15
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• 34:36
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