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Chikungunya Outbreak Sparks Global Concern plus Mark Levin joins us to discuss ‘On Power’ his Latest Book · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: There is a major story that needs to be on
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  Speaker 1: your radar, and it's one that concerns now China yet
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  Speaker 1: again and the CDC issuing a travel warning over a
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  Speaker 1: viral outbreak in China that is spread by mosquito bites.
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  Speaker 1: The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issuing a
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  Speaker 1: Level two travel notice. This is much like what we
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  Speaker 1: witness with the coronavirus for a province in China due
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  Speaker 1: to a quote major outbreak, the agency is recommending travelers
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  Speaker 1: practice enhance precautions. As of August six, if you believe
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  Speaker 1: the numbers coming out of China, over seven thousand confirmed
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  Speaker 1: cases of chikungunya have been reported, with the outbreak spreading
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  Speaker 1: to Hong Kong and other provinces. Now, what is this disease? Well,
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  Speaker 1: Symptoms to typically appear, they say three to seven days
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  Speaker 1: after a mosquito bite, and while most recover within a week,
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  Speaker 1: there are major problems that can happen because of this
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  Speaker 1: mosquito born viral disease characterize as being major issues with fever,
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  Speaker 1: severe joint pain, severe headaches, muscle aches, joint swelling, and
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  Speaker 1: a rash. There is also a concern over death even
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  Speaker 1: though it's being categorized as rare infants. They're very concerned
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  Speaker 1: about older adults and people with certain health conditions will
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  Speaker 1: also face high risk of severe symptoms and possibly death.
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  Speaker 1: Yet again, another concern of the similarities we're talking about
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  Speaker 1: here because of what happened last time when it came
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  Speaker 1: out of China.
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  Speaker 2: Now in twenty twenty five, this.
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  Speaker 1: Strand has affected approximately two hundred and forty thousand people
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  Speaker 1: across sixteen countries, resulting, they say, in around nine the deaths.
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  Speaker 1: Chinese authorities have mobilized intense containment strategies, including drones to
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  Speaker 1: locate standing water, insecticide spraying, even targeting individuals before entering buildings,
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  Speaker 1: deployment of mosquito eating fish, fines or penalties for stagnant
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  Speaker 1: water accumulation in hospital isolation under mosquito netting. Here is
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  Speaker 1: more from Fox News Channel about the CDC putting out
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  Speaker 1: the warning for Americans tonight.
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  Speaker 3: A viral outbreak in China prompts the Centers for Disease
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  Speaker 3: Control and Prevention the CDC to issue a travel warning.
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  Speaker 3: More than seven thousand cases of this disease have been
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  Speaker 3: reported so far. State Department correspondent Jillian Turner has details
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  Speaker 3: Tonight Live from the State Department and even Jillian.
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  Speaker 4: Good Evening Breath. The CDC, as you mentioned, is warning
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  Speaker 4: Americans traveling to China about chikungunya. It is a virus
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  Speaker 4: that spreads to humans through infective mosquito bites. It can
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  Speaker 4: cause severe illness, with symptoms that mimic pretty closely dangay
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  Speaker 4: fever and zecavirus, mostly found in Africa. Here's what the
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  Speaker 4: CDC says about it. They say most people, in fact,
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  Speaker 4: you get better within a week. However, some can have
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  Speaker 4: severe joint pain for months two years. Other symptoms include
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  Speaker 4: severe fever and fatigue. The outbreak now is in the
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  Speaker 4: Chinese province goang Dong. It's near Hong Kong, with more
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  Speaker 4: than seven thousand cases reported so far, prompting some pretty
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  Speaker 4: dramatic measures to contain the spread, like mandatory insect repellent
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  Speaker 4: blasts for people entering the area, mandatory property checks for
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  Speaker 4: stagnant water, which attracts mosquitoes and when found is now
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  Speaker 4: punishable by fines or even arrest.
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  Speaker 5: If you happen to get this, they're quarantining you in
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  Speaker 5: hospitals with mosquito netting and not letting you out for
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  Speaker 5: a week. These are the kind of draconian responses we
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  Speaker 5: saw with COVID. We're seeing it again.
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  Speaker 4: The CDC says Americans traveling to eight other countries are
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  Speaker 4: also at elevated risk of exposure to the virus, even
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  Speaker 4: if there is no current outbreak there. People at risk
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  Speaker 4: for more severe cases of chicunngunya include newborns, senior sixty
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  Speaker 4: five years and up, as well as people with diabetes
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  Speaker 4: or heart disease. Now, the good news is that, unlike COVID,
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  Speaker 4: deaths from this disease are exceedingly rare. You can also
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  Speaker 4: protect yourself by getting vaccinated against it, or by preventing
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  Speaker 4: mosquito bites in the first place through all the usual
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  Speaker 4: mechanisms insect repellent netting, wearing long sleeves, and staying in
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  Speaker 4: air conditioning.
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  Speaker 3: Right, Jillian turn A live at the State Department, Julian,
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  Speaker 3: thank you.
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  Speaker 1: You listen to this warning. And there's a couple of
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  Speaker 1: points here that need to be made clear. Number one,
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  Speaker 1: there's no specific treatment for this, so management focuses on
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  Speaker 1: symptom relief, rest, hydration, over the counterpane relief, and vaccines
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  Speaker 1: as they mentioned, are available in the US and recommended
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  Speaker 1: for travelers that are going to the outbreak regions. But
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  Speaker 1: then the question also comes up, and this is why
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  Speaker 1: I want it on your radar screen. Why are they
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  Speaker 1: treating this in China very much the same way they
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  Speaker 1: treated COVID And are they telling us the truth?
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  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 1: They're saying to minimize the risk of exposure, the CDC
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  Speaker 1: advises the use of insect repellent, wearing long sleeved shirts
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  Speaker 1: and long pants, staying in screened or air conditioned accommodation.
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  Speaker 1: They also have a warning for pregnant travelers, especially near delivery.
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  Speaker 1: They're encouraged now to quote reconsidered travel as infection neer
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  Speaker 1: childbirth can pass to newborns. Vaccinations should be discussed with
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  Speaker 1: the healthcare provider. The CDC is also saying, so this
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  Speaker 1: is a story that I hope I don't have to
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  Speaker 1: talk about again with you. But when you're dealing with
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  Speaker 1: another major story, and it deals with what's happening in Texas.
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  Speaker 1: The Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, has now filed a
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  Speaker 1: lawsuit to start the removal for dereliction of duty derelict
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  Speaker 1: Democrats and saying you're not showing up for work. You
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  Speaker 1: fled the state to block redistricting bill, and now we're
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  Speaker 1: going to hold you accountable for exactly that. Governor Abbott
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  Speaker 1: filing the lawsuit Tuesday night with the Texas Supreme Court
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  Speaker 1: seeking to begin the process for the removal of House
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  Speaker 1: Democratic Caucus Chairman Wu and others. The chairman, along with
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  Speaker 1: most of his Democrat House colleagues, fled the state to
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  Speaker 1: block acorum in protests of the GOP's efforts to carry
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  Speaker 1: out their duty of congressional seat redistricting. Today, I took
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  Speaker 1: emergency action, the governor said, to begin the removal from
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  Speaker 1: office of derelic Democrat Texas House members he refused to
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  Speaker 1: show up for special session. Governor Abbot writing this, saying quote,
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  Speaker 1: I filed the suit directly with the Texas Supreme Court
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  Speaker 1: too quickly make clear the authority I have to bring
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  Speaker 1: the lawsuit for removal of legislators from their office now.
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  Speaker 1: On Sunday, Abbot ordered the House Democrats who fled the
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  Speaker 1: state to break quorum to return to work or he
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  Speaker 1: would take action to vacate their legislative seats and appoint replacements.
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  Speaker 2: This truancy ends now.
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  Speaker 1: Governor Abbot said in a Sunday night statement, the derelict
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  Speaker 1: Democratic House members must return to Texas and be in
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  Speaker 1: attendance when the House reconvenes at three pm on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: August fourth. The governor said he will invoke the Texas
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  Speaker 1: Attorney General opinion to remove the absent Democrats from their
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  Speaker 1: elected office. The governor stated, quote in that opinion, the
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  Speaker 1: Attorney General considered whether Texas law allows for a determination
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  Speaker 1: that a legislator has vacated office if they intentionally break quorum.
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  Speaker 1: The Attorney General concluded that whether a specific legislator abandoned
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  Speaker 1: his or her office such that a vacancy occurred will
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  Speaker 1: be a fact question for a court quote unquote. Sunday afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: Texas House Democrats fled the state to Illinois to stop
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  Speaker 1: the state legislature from moving forward on plans to redistrict
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  Speaker 1: Texas congressional districts. Democratic Caucus Chairman wo a Democrat from Houston,
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  Speaker 1: said the governor is using an intentionally racist map to
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  Speaker 1: steal the voices of millions of black and Latino Texans,
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  Speaker 1: all to execute a corrupt political deal. The derelict Texas
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  Speaker 1: House members ignored the Governor's order and did not return
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  Speaker 1: to the capitol insert. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed
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  Speaker 1: a notice with the Texas Supreme Court in support of
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  Speaker 1: the Governor's lawsuit, saying this Texas is taking every available
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  Speaker 1: avenue to force runaway Democrats to return to Texas and
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  Speaker 1: hold them accountable for breaking quorum. That's what the Attorney
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  Speaker 1: General Ken Paxton said in the statement, saying, quote, under
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  Speaker 1: the Texas Constitution, in Texas law, the Office of the
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  Speaker 1: Attorney General has the legal authority to bring these cases
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  Speaker 1: against the renegade House members. I have alerted the Texas
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  Speaker 1: Supreme Court that I will be making additional filings on
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  Speaker 1: Friday if the Democrats continued to abandon their legislative duties.
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: Abbott also wrote a letter to the Texas Supreme Court
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  Speaker 1: about his action of filing directly with the state's top
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  Speaker 1: course bypassing the district and appellate court system. The governor
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  Speaker 1: side Section twenty two of the Texas Constitution and court
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  Speaker 1: precedent for those actions, and that's where we go to.
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  Speaker 1: Late Tuesday night, the Supreme Court requests a response from
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  Speaker 1: the respondent chairman wu the Democrat no later than Friday,
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  Speaker 1: August eighth, at five pm. The case number for the
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  Speaker 1: emergency petition is twenty five dash zero six seven to four. Translation.
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  Speaker 1: It's getting very real now for Democrats that there is
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  Speaker 1: a chance if they do not come back.
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  Speaker 2: To Texas, they can lose their jobs.
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  Speaker 1: Texas Tribune reporter by the way, posting comments from Chairman
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  Speaker 1: Wu in response to the governor's latest action to remove
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  Speaker 1: him and fellow Democratic legislators, saying, quote, I took an
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  Speaker 1: oath to the Constitution, not a politician's agenda. Denying the
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  Speaker 1: governor at quorum was not an abandonment in my office.
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  Speaker 1: It was a fulfillment of my oath. That is the
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  Speaker 1: latest from the Democrats. He said, I took that oath
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  Speaker 1: to the constitution, not the political agenda. And he's hoping
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  Speaker 1: the American people will go along along with him. One person,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, that definitely is going along with him,
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  Speaker 1: is the governor of Illinois, trying to turn this into
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  Speaker 1: his own political moment.
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  Speaker 2: JB.
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  Speaker 1: Pritzker firing back at Trump's threat to arrest run away
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  Speaker 1: Texas Democrats, saying, bring it on. He's more than happy
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  Speaker 1: to fight Donald Trump. And here's the governor in his
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  Speaker 1: own words.
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  Speaker 6: Is that, you know, our local law enforcement protect everybody
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  Speaker 6: in Illinois. Our state troopers protect everybody in Illinois and
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  Speaker 6: anybody who's here in Illinois. And so whether it's federal
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  Speaker 6: agents coming to Illinois or state rangers from Texas, if
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  Speaker 6: you haven't broken federal law, you're you know, you're basically unwelcome.
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  Speaker 6: And there's no way that they can be that. Our
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  Speaker 6: state legislators here, the Texas state legislators can be arrested.
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  Speaker 1: So there's the governor of Illinois saying, Hey, I stand
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  Speaker 1: up for I legal immigrant consider in my state and
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: protect them all the time. Why not go ahead and
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: protect some hardcore liberal Democrats from Texas as well. Now,
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: Governor of Texas, Craig Abbott, he has a very simple
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  Speaker 1: response to JD. Pritzker and anybody else that's criticizing him.
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  Speaker 1: He says, it's all about doing your job, and that's
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  Speaker 1: what the Democrats have abandoned.
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  Speaker 7: So the Democrats when they return, they're going to be
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  Speaker 7: accountable for certain legal violations, but also for violations of
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  Speaker 7: Texas House rules. And so it's going to be a
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  Speaker 7: bad day for them. And the sooner they get back,
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  Speaker 7: maybe the lesser the consequences. But the longer they stay,
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  Speaker 7: the greater the consequences.
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  Speaker 1: The greater the consequences. So now here we are at
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  Speaker 1: the Texas Supreme Court, and there's a very good chance
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  Speaker 1: that the governors got this one right and Democrats may
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  Speaker 1: lose their jobs over all of this, refusing to come
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  Speaker 1: back to the state that they said they were representing
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  Speaker 1: and instead hanging.
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  Speaker 2: Out in Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Coming up, by the way, in just a moment,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to play for you a really cool conversation
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  Speaker 1: I have with a dear friend of my Mark Levin,
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  Speaker 1: the great One. He has got a new book out
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  Speaker 1: called On Power, and I want you to hear what
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  Speaker 1: he has to say about how Democrats have abused power
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  Speaker 1: and just gone rogue in this country, trying to destroy
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  Speaker 1: this country. Why this book is so important. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to have that conversation for you coming up in just
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  Speaker 1: a moment.
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  Speaker 2: One of my.
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  Speaker 1: Favorite personalities in the history of radio a man that
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  Speaker 1: I describe is a mentor. He may not describe me
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  Speaker 1: as someone he mentors, but I'm just going to throw
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  Speaker 1: it out there anyway.
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  Speaker 2: He has had an incredible impact on my career.
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  Speaker 1: A sincere and genuine someone I look up to and
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  Speaker 1: I'm so thankful to have people like this in the
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  Speaker 1: radio community.
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  Speaker 2: But also in this world is Mark Levin.
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  Speaker 1: I've had the honor of filling in for him for
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  Speaker 1: several years now, and he is a man that writes
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  Speaker 1: books that when he writes them, you need to pause,
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  Speaker 1: you need to buy him, and you need to read.
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  Speaker 1: There's a reason why they're always a bestseller. And he's
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  Speaker 1: got a new book out called On Power. It explores
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  Speaker 1: the nature of power, its historical uses, good and bad,
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  Speaker 1: the impact on liberty. Mark, thank you for coming on
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  Speaker 1: and I'm excited about this book. I got an advanced
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  Speaker 1: copy Reddit cover to cover, and I don't think the
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  Speaker 1: timing of this book could have been any better, especially
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  Speaker 1: coming after what we just saw with the Biden regime
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  Speaker 1: and the auto pen and the abuse of power. It
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  Speaker 1: can be used for good and bad, There's no doubt
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  Speaker 1: about it.
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  Speaker 8: First of all, thank you for that intro. You are
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  Speaker 8: a terrific person and a great radio talent as well,
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  Speaker 8: and I really appreciate it, brother, And it's always a
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  Speaker 8: thrill to be back in your community, Memphis. Yeah. So
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  Speaker 8: I wrote this book On Power, and I'll tell you
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  Speaker 8: why ben because in addition to the point you raise,
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  Speaker 8: which I definitely want to get into, I just started
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  Speaker 8: the thinking, started thinking that I'm not sure we're addressing
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  Speaker 8: this issue of tyranny in our liberty properly, because when
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  Speaker 8: you really think about it, the Revolutionary War wasn't photover liberty.
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  Speaker 8: This footover power in order to acquire or preserve liberty.
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  Speaker 8: And I got to thinking, you know, liberty without rights
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  Speaker 8: is non existent. Rights without powers non existent. So power
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  Speaker 8: is the bottom line. And you bring up what they've
• 17:23
  Speaker 8: done to Trump, but they're trying to do to Trump,
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  Speaker 8: the Obama Hillary scandal and others. It's all about power.
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  Speaker 8: In fact, this whole battle over budgets, that's about power.
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  Speaker 8: Open borders so they can swamp us with new congressional
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  Speaker 8: districts for Democrats, same thing, trying to control the Supreme
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  Speaker 8: Court and potentially pack it. It's the same thing you
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  Speaker 8: see the Democrats, the Marxists, the islam As, they get it.
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  Speaker 8: They're for power and they try to do everything they
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  Speaker 8: can to acquire it. We are on defense. We're trying
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  Speaker 8: to defend power versus power, that is divided power, separation
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  Speaker 8: of power. We're trying to defend the art rigins of
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  Speaker 8: our founding, which is really not about power. It's about God,
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  Speaker 8: the sovereign, We the children of the sovereign, and on
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  Speaker 8: earth where the sovereign, where the people as individuals and
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  Speaker 8: as a society. And then we fuse that with the
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  Speaker 8: enlightenment which we embrace, to apply that kind of sovereignty,
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  Speaker 8: which is is Mondesquez said in others power versus power.
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  Speaker 8: So we we don't explain this, we don't think it's
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  Speaker 8: through in my humble opinion, and doing this all these
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  Speaker 8: years to just throw out, you know, shibboleths or something
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  Speaker 8: at a surface level, it isn't going to do it anymore.
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  Speaker 8: So this is why I argue that we have got
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  Speaker 8: to really understand we are for positive power, their negative power.
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  Speaker 8: What does that mean? Their abuse and use of language?
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  Speaker 8: What's the purpose thought control? And so for coercion, obedience, manipulation.
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  Speaker 8: What do we really mean by liberty in the sense
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  Speaker 8: of power, What do we really mean by rights? And
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  Speaker 8: I feel with all these things going on the rise
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  Speaker 8: of Marxism and Islamism, including in our own country a
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  Speaker 8: far more aggressive Democrat party that is unmoored completely really
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  Speaker 8: from our founding and our requirement as citizens now to
• 19:15
  Speaker 8: teach our children and grantchun than other people what it
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  Speaker 8: is that we should stand for because we don't get
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  Speaker 8: it in the schools. That's the point of the book.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned the schools there, and look, I'm getting older
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  Speaker 1: I've got three sons, I know, right, I got twins
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  Speaker 1: or six and a nine year old turned nine couple
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  Speaker 1: days ago. And what terrifies me the most now is
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  Speaker 1: the education that they're going to get from someone that
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  Speaker 1: wants them to have the power over them, to make
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  Speaker 1: them hate this country. You look at the report that
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  Speaker 1: came out even last week, Mark, and it talked about
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  Speaker 1: how the Chinese Communist Party has in essence completely infiltrated
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  Speaker 1: our education system at the highest levels, including the ivy LEA,
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  Speaker 1: buying access to the minds of our young people. That
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  Speaker 1: is something that concerns me. I know, you don't have
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  Speaker 1: to do this anymore. You can retire if you wanted to.
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  Speaker 1: I know why you do it. You love this country.
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  Speaker 1: It's why you write these books. But how concerned are
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  Speaker 1: you about the abuse of power coming from other influencers
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  Speaker 1: who are grabbing our kids' minds in the public schools
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  Speaker 1: and also at our universities.
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  Speaker 8: Very very And when you read the chapter on language,
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  Speaker 8: the nature of the language that's used, what's allowed to
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  Speaker 8: be said, not allowed to be said, new words, new
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  Speaker 8: definition of words. This whole idea, wokeism and DEI and CRT,
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  Speaker 8: it's all intended to destroy our connection with our founders
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  Speaker 8: and the belief system that brought us to where we
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  Speaker 8: are today. And that's why I write these books so
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  Speaker 8: people have relatively easy access to the information, the tools,
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  Speaker 8: the arguments, because we have to go around the teachers' unions,
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  Speaker 8: we've got to go around the college faculty, we've got
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  Speaker 8: to go around the media. We've got to inform ourselves
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  Speaker 8: and educate ourselves. And we as parents and grandparents, we
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  Speaker 8: have an obligation. And sometimes you'll succeed and sometimes you'll fail.
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  Speaker 8: To try and pass this on to our kids and
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  Speaker 8: our grandkids because they're not getting it from these institutions. Now,
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  Speaker 8: I'm all for school choice. I think what the President
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  Speaker 8: Trump's doing with these colleges and universities is absolutely fantastic.
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  Speaker 8: And those that's a battle that's fought say over here,
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  Speaker 8: but the battle that's fought in our private lives needs
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  Speaker 8: to be a different kind of battle. And I mean,
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  Speaker 8: I hear young people going on about this, Montdamie, why
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  Speaker 8: don't we try socialism? What's the problem? What's the you know,
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  Speaker 8: what's the Because they haven't been told anything, they haven't
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  Speaker 8: experienced anything, they haven't lived in a certain circumstances that
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  Speaker 8: tell them what's wrong with it. So we have to
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  Speaker 8: do that. And that's what I'm trying to adjust here,
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  Speaker 8: not just for young people, but for all people among ourselves,
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  Speaker 8: and in terms of projecting it to other people, we've
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  Speaker 8: got to get down to the crux of the matter.
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  Speaker 8: If somebody says I can't afford food, and we respond
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  Speaker 8: with liberty, it goes in one ear and out the
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  Speaker 8: So now he'll have the power to decide whether you
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  Speaker 8: to decide what you do eat and what you don't eat.
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  Speaker 8: Is that okay with you? Or whether your shelves are
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  Speaker 8: filled or they're not filled. So there are ways to engage.
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  Speaker 8: And I think when you get down to the core
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  Speaker 8: of it, it is about the distribution of power, a
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  Speaker 8: positive distribution or a negative distribution of power.
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  Speaker 1: that I think is very scary about where we are
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 2: Is going back to the point you made a second ago.
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  Speaker 1: How easily people are willing to just give up their
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  Speaker 1: own power and say, here, government make all the decisions
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  Speaker 1: for me. Did we get to this point because we
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  Speaker 1: become lazy as society or is it because of indoctrination
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  Speaker 1: in society or a little bit of both. And also
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: there's now a new culture. Let's be clear, that is
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  Speaker 1: hate America. America is evil, America is bad. So therefore
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  Speaker 1: communism or socialism or Marxism must be tried.
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  Speaker 8: I think these are two points and they're very good.
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  Speaker 8: I think that first point, you know, De Togfa kind
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  Speaker 8: of talked about it, when government gets involved in all
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  Speaker 8: things small and large, you're creating a different kind of people,
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  Speaker 8: a different kind of mentality, and you are kind of
• 25:45
  Speaker 8: reverse engineering human nature. Whereas you know you want free will,
• 25:49
  Speaker 8: certain things motivate you and so forth. It wears you down,
• 25:53
  Speaker 8: It gets you used to subsidies, it gets you used
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  Speaker 8: to being pounded on about what's wrong with you, what's
• 25:58
  Speaker 8: wrong with your ancestry, what's wrong with your race, that
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  Speaker 8: sort of thing. I think the second point you raise
• 26:05
  Speaker 8: is it's a very nefarious problem, which is the poisonous
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  Speaker 8: leakage into our system of these ideologies that have as
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  Speaker 8: their purpose not to compete, but to destroy not even
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  Speaker 8: the government, the society and to destroy the culture. And
• 26:21
  Speaker 8: this is what people need to understand. We are trying
• 26:24
  Speaker 8: to defend limited government, which is very important. They're destroying
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  Speaker 8: everything that undergirds it, the civil society which comes before government,
• 26:33
  Speaker 8: and they're trying to grab control of it. So they're
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  Speaker 8: about centralization of power, the imposition of their ideology. They're
• 26:41
  Speaker 8: about brainwashing, fear mongering, while they promise redistribution, while they
• 26:48
  Speaker 8: promise more liberty, while they you know, it's like the
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  Speaker 8: People's Republic of China. I think they're about the people
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  Speaker 8: or a republic. They'll take the word democracy, democratic socialism.
• 26:59
  Speaker 8: Those two words are oxymorony. They don't work together. Socialism
• 27:03
  Speaker 8: about the government controlling the means of production and the
• 27:05
  Speaker 8: distribution of resources and material and wealth. That has nothing
• 27:09
  Speaker 8: to do with democracy in any way. We've got to
• 27:12
  Speaker 8: challenge this, We've got to break it down and say,
• 27:14
  Speaker 8: excuse me, we're the ones who believe in participatory democracy, republicanism.
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  Speaker 8: We're the ones who believe in the free voluntary commercial
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  Speaker 8: activity among people. And then we need to explain what
• 27:29
  Speaker 8: that creates. What that creates is a massive middle class
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  Speaker 8: like no other society ever on the planet has experienced,
• 27:36
  Speaker 8: where we live better than any king or queen one
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  Speaker 8: hundred and fifty years ago. We have more access to
• 27:42
  Speaker 8: more kinds of food. We switch a we hit a switch,
• 27:45
  Speaker 8: the lights come on, we turn a foscet on. We
• 27:47
  Speaker 8: get clean cold water, clean hot water. You have bathrooms
• 27:51
  Speaker 8: in your home, You have mobility in cars. You go
• 27:54
  Speaker 8: on a plane forty thousand feet in the air. You
• 27:57
  Speaker 8: may not like the peanuts you're getting, but think about
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  Speaker 8: what's actually happening. You compare this. This is a result
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  Speaker 8: of America. This is the result of a society where
• 28:08
  Speaker 8: power is distributed properly and where the individual, the individual
• 28:12
  Speaker 8: is the sovereign and the people are the sovereign. Conversely,
• 28:16
  Speaker 8: seventy percent of the world lives in tyranny and poverty.
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  Speaker 8: And what do they have. Are they flourishing republics or democracies.
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  Speaker 8: Do they believe in consensual government or participatory Of course not.
• 28:28
  Speaker 8: And so you have to compare something with something, not
• 28:33
  Speaker 8: something with their ideology.
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  Speaker 1: When you wrote this book and It's a book that
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  Speaker 1: I would encourage you to grab by the way. If
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  Speaker 1: you haven't read other books by Mark Levin, you should
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  Speaker 1: grab them. They're incredible. This new one on power, exploring
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: the nature of power. It's historical use is its impact
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: on liberty and really democracy and authoritarianism and disguised as representation,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: especially what we're witnessing in New York City with this
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: mayor candid there. When you were writing this book, were
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  Speaker 1: you writing it for a specific person, were you writing
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: it for young and all?
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: What was your mindset when you were writing it?
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  Speaker 8: First of all, I wanted to write it differently, in
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  Speaker 8: a way where I could take some complicated subjects and
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  Speaker 8: make them very digestible, understandable, actually find and enjoyable to read,
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  Speaker 8: and yet challenge people's thinking or somebody might say, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 8: I thought about that. I never really developed my thoughts
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  Speaker 8: on it though, and that sort of thing, and yeah,
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  Speaker 8: that's a different way of putting this, and it's an
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  Speaker 8: important way of putting it. So my view is this
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  Speaker 8: book is written for anybody, particularly people who are trying
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  Speaker 8: to figure out the swirl of Marxism and Islamism in
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  Speaker 8: our country. Why it's starting to take hold, how we
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  Speaker 8: confront it, how we address it. But also, as one
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  Speaker 8: fellow told me, he's going to give it to his
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  Speaker 8: kid who's going into college, so they have something to
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  Speaker 8: counter what all these professors are going to tell them.
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  Speaker 8: And you'll also notice, Bend that the book is more
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  Speaker 8: compact than most of my books. It's two hundred and
• 30:04
  Speaker 8: eight pages long. And again I wanted to make it
• 30:08
  Speaker 8: accessible to anybody and everybody. And so this book on power,
• 30:13
  Speaker 8: it cuts to the chase and it explains that in fact,
• 30:17
  Speaker 8: when you go to the ancients or more modern history
• 30:20
  Speaker 8: or today, is a constant struggle over who exercises power,
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  Speaker 8: how power is exercised, whether power is going to be
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  Speaker 8: exercised by you or over you. And the term that
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  Speaker 8: I use now to describe the Democrats and these Marxists
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  Speaker 8: and Islamis is authoritarian democrats. In other words, if they'll
• 30:44
  Speaker 8: go through the voting process as long as they win,
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  Speaker 8: but if they don't win, they'll try sabotage, you know,
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  Speaker 8: a Trump or Republican that will use the unelected bodies,
• 30:54
  Speaker 8: the bureaucracy. Mostly they created these lower court federal judges
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  Speaker 8: that aren't in the constitution to counter or to usurp
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  Speaker 8: the electorate. They don't really care about the electriate except
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  Speaker 8: if it gives them power. They don't really care about
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  Speaker 8: the well being of the average person unless they can
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  Speaker 8: persuade them to support them. And we know this because
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  Speaker 8: Marxism has only killed one hundred million people. You know
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  Speaker 8: that's pretty bad. And Islamism today hasn't gone through the
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  Speaker 8: Reformation or the Enlightenment. It is stuck in the seventh century.
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  Speaker 8: It's primitive, and our nation was founded on Judeo Christian values.
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  Speaker 8: And the bottom line is is Marxism or what I
• 31:34
  Speaker 8: call American Marxism, and Islamism are absolutely incompatible with Americanism.
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  Speaker 8: And that's what the other side is peddling, and this
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  Speaker 8: is what we need to confront.
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  Speaker 2: Grab it.
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  Speaker 1: Mark Levin's new book On Power explores the nature of power,
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  Speaker 2: I've read it. It's phenomenal. Mark. I appreciate your time.
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  Speaker 1: I also mean this sincerely, thank you for being such
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  Speaker 1: a good friend to me over the years, give me
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for being a part of my
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  Speaker 8: First of all, if you weren't a great person and
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