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Critics SEE RED after FIFA U-TURN plus Beijing and Moscow turn up the HEAT at SEA · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Tell you what is everybody is watching what is happening
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Speaker 1: with the World Cup. Well, now the world's even more
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Speaker 1: angry at Team USA this time because President Donald Trump
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Speaker 1: has shown that America First policy. Well, it also extends
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Speaker 1: to America's sports teams that are representing this country. And
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Speaker 1: by the way, I want to be clear, I absolutely
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Speaker 1: love this. Now President Trump has inserted himself into one
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Speaker 1: of the tournament's biggest quote controversies.
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Speaker 2: That's how the world's reacting to this.
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Speaker 1: After revealing that he personally asked the FIFA president to
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Speaker 1: review the red card that was issued a Team USA.
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Speaker 2: In our top score.
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Speaker 1: Now, FIFA ultimately suspended the automatic one match ban, allowing
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Speaker 1: America's top score to play against Belgium in the round
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Speaker 1: of sixteen. Now, President Trump publicly praised the decision and
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Speaker 1: said he believed the original call was unfair, as by
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Speaker 1: the way, did so many other sports fans that actually
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Speaker 1: understand soccer. But that is where the anger has come in.
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Speaker 1: I actually did Piers Morgan show earlier today they were
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Speaker 1: losing their minds in England over this, and across much
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Speaker 1: of the European soccer establishment critics are again furious, which
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Speaker 1: also makes me laugh because I don't even care about soccer.
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Speaker 1: Most of you listening probably don't, but you get excited
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Speaker 1: about the World Cup because you want to see America
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Speaker 1: blitz everybody.
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Speaker 2: And by the way, I've said this before, I'll say
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Speaker 2: it again.
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Speaker 1: If America beach in the World Cup, I think you
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Speaker 1: should have to call it soccer until you beat us again.
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Speaker 1: That's just my opinion, instead of football or whatever the
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Speaker 1: crap they want to call it with their accents. All right,
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Speaker 1: I just want to throw that out their hashtag America. Now,
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Speaker 1: if you look at Europe, they're losing their minds. Belgium's
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Speaker 1: football Federation is already challenging the ruling. The UEFA called
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Speaker 1: FIFA's decision quote unprecedented and argued it undermines confidence and
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Speaker 1: the integrity of the tournament. By the way, FIFA can
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Speaker 1: like just like let me roll my eyes. The amount
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Speaker 1: of corruption in FIFA around the world world with hosting
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Speaker 1: games has been well documented. I think there's even like
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Speaker 1: documentaries on it. The amount of corruption FIFA is staggering,
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Speaker 1: says whole idea about integrity the game, like spare me
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Speaker 1: the drama. Okay, the president did this clearly above board,
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Speaker 1: and is talking about it. Second thing, there's nothing in
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Speaker 1: the rule to say you can't have a phone call
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Speaker 1: or a conversation with the governing body who has to
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Speaker 1: say so in this so good on the President for
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Speaker 1: actually doing it. Now, former FIFA officials, as well as
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Speaker 1: former players, coaches, and commentators are questioning whether political pressure
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Speaker 1: played a role in overturning what is normally an automatic
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Speaker 1: suspension after a red card. President Trump's perspective very different.
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Speaker 1: He said this one about politics. It was about making
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Speaker 1: sure Team USA received what he viewed as a fair treatment.
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Speaker 1: Trump also argued the play was simply two players colliding
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Speaker 1: at full speed, not the type of dangerous conduct that
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Speaker 1: you keep one of America's top scores out of the
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Speaker 1: biggest match of the tournament so far in the knockout round.
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Speaker 2: The President said he wanted FIFA to.
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Speaker 1: Take another look rather than allow what he considered a
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Speaker 1: bad call to determined Team's USA's fate. If you're, by
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Speaker 1: the way angry about this and you're in America, you're
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Speaker 1: an American, like I'm sorry, I just want to be clear.
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Speaker 1: I'm judging you because I think you are obsessed with
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Speaker 1: hating Donald Trump. Like Trump derangement syndrome is the only
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Speaker 1: reason why if you're an American you would be against this.
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Speaker 2: I mean it, I'm serious.
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Speaker 1: I'm not joking like that is Trump derangement syndrome.
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Speaker 2: One oh one.
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Speaker 1: Now I want you to hear also from the President
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Speaker 1: of United States America. He was at the White House
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Speaker 1: announcing of all things Trump accounts and of course the
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Speaker 1: media they had to get in on this controversy that
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 2: I want you to hear from President Trump.
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Speaker 1: Here's a reporter asking him about making the call to FIFA.
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Speaker 2: And the President explaining his position.
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Speaker 3: I wanted to ask, if you start your.
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Speaker 1: Phone call with Johnny and Pantino about the red card
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Speaker 1: and nothing decision.
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Speaker 3: You're asking me about the whole soccer.
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Speaker 4: So I saw the play, and I'm a person that
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Speaker 4: loves sports and who was a good athlete, and I
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Speaker 4: understand sports really well, really well.
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Speaker 3: And that wasn't a foul. That wasn't even an infraction.
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Speaker 4: There was two guys running full speed that happened to
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Speaker 4: crash into each other. You can't take your foot and
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Speaker 4: properly place it on somebody else's foot when you're going. No,
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Speaker 4: these were two great athletes that got tangled up. And
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Speaker 4: this referee who is a little bit suspect if you
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Speaker 4: check his if you check his past. I don't want
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Speaker 4: to say that because I don't like to create controversy,
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Speaker 4: but very suspect.
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Speaker 3: If you'd like, I'll provide you with the past.
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Speaker 4: He made a call that nobody could believe, you know,
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Speaker 4: even people on the other side. They say, oh, we
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Speaker 4: got lucky. Wow, And it's very interesting. They say they
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Speaker 4: don't show them in slow motion. And I never realized that.
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Speaker 4: I've never heard of that before, that they're not allowed
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Speaker 4: to review in slow motion because it's so different, because
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Speaker 4: you'll take one little quarter of a second and you'll
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Speaker 4: see that a hand is touching a neck or you
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Speaker 4: see something, whereas when you see it in fast motion,
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Speaker 4: it will look like two guys collided, which is really
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Speaker 4: what happened.
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Speaker 3: They got it sort of entangled.
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Speaker 4: He didn't do anything wrong, and he's our best player,
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Speaker 4: or one of our best players. A very any game
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Speaker 4: of a red card.
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Speaker 3: I didn't know what that meant. I didn't think it
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Speaker 3: meant much.
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Speaker 4: Then I started hearing that that means you can't play
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Speaker 4: in the next game, at least in the next game.
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Speaker 4: I said, boy, that's a big You know, it happened
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Speaker 4: to another player, it would have been unfair. But when
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Speaker 4: they take your best player or just about they have
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Speaker 4: some great players, but and they say you can't play,
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Speaker 4: that's very unfair. That's you know, it's one thing to
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Speaker 4: pedalize somebody for the game, but how do you penalize
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Speaker 4: them for a game that hasn't been played yet.
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Speaker 3: It's very unfair. You can't do that.
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Speaker 4: So, yes, I asked for a review by FIFA. I
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Speaker 4: spoke to a man who's highly respected and by the way,
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Speaker 4: who whose level of respect has gone up tenfold. I
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Speaker 4: asked for a review because I didn't think it was
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Speaker 4: a foul, and you know, again, I'm good at this stuff.
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Speaker 3: I didn't think it was a foul. I thought it
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Speaker 3: was two great.
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Speaker 4: Athletes that qush into each other and got entangled. That
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Speaker 4: was not a That was not a guy punching somebody
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Speaker 4: in the face or anything that you know would be different,
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Speaker 4: and I think it's I think it's a terrible If
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Speaker 4: they wouldn't allow you know, a top player, maybe the best,
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Speaker 4: maybe among the best plays on the team to play,
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Speaker 4: I think it would have had a big stain.
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Speaker 3: And I related just that field. I didn't tell him
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Speaker 3: what to do.
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Speaker 4: I can't tell him what to do, but uh, and
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Speaker 4: I don't believe he made the decision. I think it
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Speaker 4: was a committee that made the decision, and they made
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Speaker 4: the right decision because number one, it wasn't a foul.
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Speaker 4: And you want to see a game with your best players.
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Speaker 4: You don't want to say, how would you feel if
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Speaker 4: I took you know, we take Messi out Lo you
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Speaker 4: know he ran into somebody, or we took Ronaldo.
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Speaker 3: Ronaldo, you bumped into somebody. We're going to take you
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Speaker 3: out of a game.
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Speaker 4: He's great, Well, Harry Kane, Harry Kane, we're going to
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Speaker 4: take you out of the game, Harry because you happen
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Speaker 4: to hit.
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Speaker 3: Somebody a little bit harder than you can't do that.
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Speaker 4: If you would have taken him out, I think I
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Speaker 4: think it would have really stained this incredible champion. We
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Speaker 4: got to have our best players, and they've got Belgium's
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Speaker 4: got a great team. By the way, We have our
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Speaker 4: best players and they have to have their best and
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Speaker 4: if we win or we lose, it's fair. Otherwise, let's
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Speaker 4: say we lost him and we lose the game. It
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Speaker 4: would be a terrible thing. So I think they made
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Speaker 4: a really brilliant decision. I think the referees call was horrible,
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Speaker 4: and nobody talks about that. They talk about the red
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Speaker 4: card like it's fine. Nobody talks about the referees decision
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Speaker 4: to red Card. I didn't know what the hell of
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Speaker 4: red card was. When I found out, I said, you
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Speaker 4: got to be kidding. This guy just hands up. Okay,
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Speaker 4: your best player is not going to play next week,
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Speaker 4: cord in the next game.
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Speaker 3: I said, Wow, that's a lot of power. That's terrible.
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Speaker 3: But then I looked at his past and it wasn't
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Speaker 3: so great.
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Speaker 1: I got to tell you, it's pretty clear that the
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Speaker 1: president thought this out. So why is the rest of
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Speaker 1: world angry? Because the president was successful. That's what this
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Speaker 1: is all about. He was successful, and they're angry at
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Speaker 1: the fact that he was so successful in getting this done,
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Speaker 1: and that's why they're actually mad. Now let me also
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Speaker 1: be clear about this. I want a president who does this.
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Speaker 1: I think it's amazing. I want a president that doesn't
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Speaker 1: miss a beat. I want a president that says, America's
10:37
Speaker 1: got a problem, let's roll. If America's got an issue,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to stand up for America. That's amazing here
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Speaker 1: and that is exactly what the president did. So if
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Speaker 1: the restaurant wants to whine and complain about it, well
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Speaker 1: that's fine.
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Speaker 2: But if you stand.
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Speaker 1: Up for America and yes, in the World Cup, it
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Speaker 1: does matter. It also is fun because we're all on
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Speaker 1: the same team as President Congratulations.
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Speaker 2: I love that this happened.
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Speaker 1: And to the lefties out there, well, you know what,
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Speaker 1: better luck next time. I don't really care what you think.
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Speaker 1: That's the best part about it. We've been focusing so
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Speaker 1: much about the World Cup and the two hundred and
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Speaker 1: fiftith anniversary of the greatest country in the world, America.
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Speaker 1: But there is a lot of other news happening. Some
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Speaker 1: of it deals with national security, and we're now learning
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Speaker 1: that the Chinese Defense Ministry has announced that China and
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Speaker 1: Russia are going to be teaming up to hold major
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Speaker 1: joint naval exercises in July. Why are they doing this
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Speaker 1: is the big question. Their answer the world is this
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Speaker 1: to quote counter maritime security threats quote unquote. Now, the exercises,
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Speaker 1: we're being told, will begin in Chinese waters, but will
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Speaker 1: then move to what they describe as relevant areas of
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Speaker 1: the Pacific Ocean. Yes, that is concerning, especially when you
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Speaker 1: have China and Russia teaming up in a military exercise.
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Speaker 1: The exercise is being dubbed Joint CE twenty twenty six,
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Speaker 1: and it will begin, they say, near China's port city
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Speaker 1: in the eastern Shengdang Province. Now, the last Russian ships
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Speaker 1: involved in the exercise arrived in those waters over the weekend,
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Speaker 1: we're also being told, and the exercises will reportedly be
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Speaker 1: held from Monday, July sixth, all the way until July thirteenth.
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Speaker 1: According to Chinese state run at Global Times, the Russian
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Speaker 1: force includes the guided missile cruisers and many of their
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Speaker 1: new frigates, as well as their submarines and a rescue
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Speaker 1: ship as well. China contributed also. They say two guided
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Speaker 1: missile cruisers plus the frigate known as the Wuhu and
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Speaker 1: a supply ship. A submarine rescue ship also was there
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Speaker 1: and another quote unnamed submarine. Now, the Chinese Defense Ministry
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Speaker 1: said this exercise would include three phases, one being forced assembly,
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Speaker 1: then port planning and coordination, and then most importantly, they say,
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Speaker 1: joint operations at sea between Russia and China. They say
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Speaker 1: the port phase will primarily include planning sessions and seminars
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Speaker 1: on land, plus mutual ship tours and then a friendly
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Speaker 1: basketball match as well to show how tight China and
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Speaker 1: Russia are with one another. The livelier at sea phase,
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Speaker 1: as they described it, will feature a range of training
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Speaker 1: scenarios including joint reconnaissance, air and missile defense, and maritime
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Speaker 1: strike operations as well. Now this is concerning because you
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Speaker 1: don't see every day Russian and China doing these types
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Speaker 1: of exercises and maritime strike operations and missile defense events
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Speaker 1: and air defense and reconnaissance. This shows a very new
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Speaker 1: cooperation between Russia and China, two countries that typically do
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Speaker 1: not trust anyone, and allowing each other to come on
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Speaker 1: board their ships, train together and coordinate together tells you
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Speaker 1: just how important this alliance is between the two nations. Now,
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Speaker 1: the presence of advanced frontline surface combatants, they say, are
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Speaker 1: also important. Many of their cruisers are intended to show
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Speaker 1: how seriously, they say, Russia and China take their maritime
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Speaker 1: security threats, although the press release were notably led on
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Speaker 1: details of where those threats actually might be coming from
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Speaker 1: at all. One of the city of aims or the
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Speaker 1: exercises to reduce, they say, perceive threats to key maritime
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Speaker 1: strategic corridors posed by certain regional countries, and that's why
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Speaker 1: they say they need to do these exercises now, they say,
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Speaker 1: through the joint ex sizes, the two sides seek to
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Speaker 1: demonstrate their ability to keep these sea lanes open and
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Speaker 1: operate further into the Pacific. The Chinese military experts are
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Speaker 1: now saying to the Global Times, obviously that is Chinese propaganda.
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Speaker 1: Song also added that the joint exercise is intended to
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Speaker 1: quote deter unilateral actions by certain countries. Obviously they're referring
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Speaker 1: to America, and they say resists historical revisionism and discourage
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Speaker 1: behavior scene as undermining the security and the well being
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Speaker 1: of our neighboring countries. Which offered a few more clues
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Speaker 1: about who the Chinese and Russian sailors are actually training
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Speaker 1: to fight. You guessed it, it would be in large
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Speaker 1: part the United States. They said, the unilateral actions by
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Speaker 1: certain countries, well, that has also been used before by
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Speaker 1: the Chinese Communist Party. It is language that they use
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Speaker 1: almost exclusively about the United States, America and the Asian
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Speaker 1: Pacific region. Recent historical revisions is a thinly veiled slam
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Speaker 1: at countries like the US and then Japan as well
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Speaker 1: as the Philippines for challenging China's expansive claims to control
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Speaker 1: the entire South China Sea region.
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Speaker 2: They're making it known what they think about all of this.
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Speaker 1: Now the Kremlin was a bit less well blunt about
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Speaker 1: their actions on Monday, insisting that the joint C twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty six drills were not meant to threaten or intimidate
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Speaker 1: any particular country. Obviously, China is in a much stronger position,
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Speaker 1: they feel, and Russia is in a much weaker position,
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Speaker 1: especially with the Ukraine War and how they've been isolated
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Speaker 1: from the rest of the world's economy. As for our
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Speaker 1: joint exercises, Russia says they are not directed against anyone
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Speaker 1: nor against any single state in the region. Everyone should
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Speaker 1: bear this in mind, is what the Kremlin spokesperson said publicly. Now,
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Speaker 1: Russia also went on to say this on the contrary,
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Speaker 1: cooperation between Russia and China in such an important critical
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Speaker 1: area is a very significant factor that contributes to predictability
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Speaker 1: and security in the region. Now, military analysts around the
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Speaker 1: world they're all watching these exercises very carefully because they
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Speaker 1: reveal several important trends. And that first is Russia and
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Speaker 1: China now believe they have a truly common strategic interest,
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Speaker 1: and that interest is reducing America's influence around the world.
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Speaker 2: That is obvious.
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Speaker 1: They don't have to agree on everything, but both governments
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Speaker 1: oppose what they see as a US led international order,
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Speaker 1: and these joint military exercises are sending a message that
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Speaker 1: they can coordinate their forces if needed. Secondly, they're also
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Speaker 1: learning from one another. Russia, we now know, is accumulated
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Speaker 1: years of real world combat experience in Ukraine, everything from
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Speaker 1: drone warfare to electronic warfare to missile defense. And China
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Speaker 1: is one of the largest and most technologically advanced militaries,
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Speaker 1: but it hasn't fought a major war literally in decades.
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Speaker 1: Reports this year indicate Chinese forces have secretly trained Russian
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Speaker 1: troops in areas such as drone operations and chemical, biological
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Speaker 1: and radiological defenses, while Russia shares lessons learned from the
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Speaker 1: battlefield in Ukraine. China, of course, they lie. They deny
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Speaker 1: it has ever provided military support in the war, but
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Speaker 1: our intelligence agencies say military cooperation has deepened significantly. And
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Speaker 1: then there's a third reason for these exercises. Every time
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Speaker 1: two militaries operate together, they improve communications, they improve logistics,
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Speaker 1: command structures, and they learn how to work together. That
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Speaker 1: means if a future crisis develops, whether it's in Taiwan
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Speaker 1: or the South China Sea, Europe, or elsewhere. They're much
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Speaker 1: better prepared for coordinating than they ever have before. Now,
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Speaker 1: this doesn't mean that World War III is around the corner,
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Speaker 1: but it is important to understand that Russia and China
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Speaker 1: are not a formal military alliance like NATO. Neither country
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Speaker 1: is committed to automatically going to war on behalf of
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Speaker 1: one another. They each still pursue their own national interests first,
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Speaker 1: but this is an area where they clearly want to cooperate,
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Speaker 1: and the trend well, it's unmistakable if you ask military experts,
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Speaker 1: because these two countries, as I mentioned earlier, they don't
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Speaker 1: trust anyone, and for them to dramatically expand over the
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Speaker 1: last several years the way they have and now have
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Speaker 1: joint exercises that are literally reaching record levels, it means
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Speaker 1: something now that United States may have to prepare for
19:47
Speaker 1: the possibility of managing multiple security challenges at once to
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Speaker 1: during Russia in Europe while also maintaining stability in the
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Speaker 1: Indo Pacific and then American allies including Japan, South Korea, Australia,
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Speaker 1: NATO members and others are likely to continue increasing defend
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Speaker 1: spending in military cooperation and response as well. This is
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Speaker 1: exactly why you have to have a strong military presence,
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Speaker 1: And it also raised the stakes anytime there's a crisis
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Speaker 1: involving Taiwan now or even Eastern Europe, because if Russia
20:21
Speaker 1: and China are coordinating more closely, then lawmakers, policymakers, they've
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Speaker 1: got to think through how one regional conflict could actually
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Speaker 1: affect another. So today's military exercises and they'll be going
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Speaker 1: on for a whole week, they don't necessarily mean a
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Speaker 1: conflict is imminent. What it does mean is that Russian
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Speaker 1: and China are turning over a new leaf and looking
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Speaker 1: to work together to try to stop American influence around
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Speaker 1: the world. Now, the partnership ultimately becomes a true military
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Speaker 1: alliance if they decide to actually get involved in attack somewhere.
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Speaker 1: So far, China has not been willing to do that
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Speaker 1: in decades. So what we do know is there's a
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Speaker 1: lot of people asking a lot of questions right now
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Speaker 1: about Taiwan and what could this mean if RuSHA decided
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Speaker 1: to get involved with China in that way. Only time
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Speaker 1: will tell, but it certainly means that the United States
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Speaker 1: of America must be paying attention and watching like never before.
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Speaker 1: Graham Platner the Democratic nominee for the US Senate in Maine,
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Speaker 1: is now facing yet again another devastating allegation from a
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Speaker 1: former partner, Jenny Rasiko, who told Politico that while she
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Speaker 1: and Platner have been involved in an on and off relationship,
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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one, he allegedly entered her role main
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Speaker 1: home uninvited one night while intoxicated. Platner allegedly forced himself
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Speaker 1: on her while she repeatedly told him to stop. She
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Speaker 1: told Politico, I remember him grabbing my pelvis and being
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Speaker 1: really forceful of me.
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Speaker 2: She explained that quote, I remember.
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Speaker 1: The specific moment where I thought to myself, like, this
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Speaker 1: is no longer my choice. Platner, of course, has come
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Speaker 1: out just like he has with all the other allegations
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Speaker 1: against him, denying the allegations and calling it false and
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Speaker 1: politically motivated. But the political fallout has now been immediate
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Speaker 1: and severe. Democrats who were protecting him at all costs
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Speaker 1: are now well saying, Okay, maybe it's time for him
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Speaker 1: to get out of the race. And that is the story,
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Speaker 1: not just the allegation itself, but the way the Democratic
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Speaker 1: Party handled Graham Platner until it became politically impossible to
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Speaker 1: keep pretending that this was somehow not a problem. Now,
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Speaker 1: this was not the first red flag, and that's what
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Speaker 1: voters need to remember. Platner had already faced scrutiny over
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Speaker 1: to serving past online comments and allegations about his behavior
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Speaker 1: towards women, and even a tattoo of the SS, Yes,
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Speaker 1: the Nazi tattoo on his chest, which of course he
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Speaker 1: said he did not unders stand at the time and
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Speaker 1: later than covered it up. Yet there's video out there
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Speaker 1: and others who said, oh, he knew exactly what it meant.
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Speaker 2: And even with all of those.
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Speaker 1: Allegations and problems, what did the Democratic Party do? Where
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Speaker 1: the Progressives do, where the socialists do, where the communists do?
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Speaker 1: They backed him and rallied behind him, and kept giving
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Speaker 1: him funding. They treated every warning sign like a Republican
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Speaker 1: smear campaign instead of actually looking at the facts.
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Speaker 2: Now, after this latest.
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Speaker 1: Allegation, the same party that protected him is running for
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Speaker 1: the exit. It reminds me a lot of Eric Swalwell
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Speaker 1: in California, when they realized it could cost him the
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Speaker 1: governor's mansion, they decided to turn on the guy they
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Speaker 1: protected at all costs. Representative Roconnell has now withdrawn his
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Speaker 1: endorsement and urged Planner to leave the race. Senator Reuben Diego,
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Speaker 1: for example, as well as in Citizens United, they both
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Speaker 1: now pulled down support. Main Democratic leaders are also calling
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Speaker 1: on him to withdraw, saying the party needs to move
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Speaker 1: on and focus on defeating the Republican Senator Susan Collins.
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Speaker 1: So let's just be honest about what happened here. Democrats
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Speaker 1: did not suddenly discover standards. They discovered liability. It's no
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Speaker 1: different than what we saw in California. It is no
24:23
Speaker 1: different than we see almost every time a Democrat gets
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Speaker 1: in trouble publicly. They don't care what you did as
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Speaker 1: long as they feel like they can save you. But
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Speaker 1: when they realize maybe you're too big of a liability,
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Speaker 1: they'll immediately turn on you. And if you don't believe me,
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Speaker 1: call Eric Swallwell. When the scandals were politically survivable, they
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Speaker 1: will always defend you, and when the allegations become politically catastrophic,
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Speaker 1: they'll abandon you instantly. It is truly the definition of hypocrisy.
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Speaker 1: This is not moral clarity, is the point I want
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Speaker 1: to make. This is simply a political calculation, and this
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Speaker 1: is where the hypocrisy is impossible to ignore on a
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Speaker 1: nationwide scale. This is the same Democratic Party that lectures
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Speaker 1: America constantly about believing all women, accountability, character, decency, and
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Speaker 1: protecting victims. They run campaigns on moral superiority. They also
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Speaker 1: say Republicans are dangerous, unfit, and disqualified over allegations or
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Speaker 1: rhetoric or past behavior. But when the accused candidate has
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Speaker 1: a D next to his name or her name and
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Speaker 1: it might help them win a Senate seat, suddenly the
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Speaker 1: standards they disappear. They don't even just become flexible, they
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Speaker 1: just don't care. And then they always say this, well,
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Speaker 1: we're going to let the process play out. Well, suddenly
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Speaker 1: the process played out, and now they say, well we
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Speaker 1: need to look at the full context of everything. Well,
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Speaker 1: now that we have more of the quote full context
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Speaker 1: of Graham Platinum, you got to ask yourself this question,
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Speaker 1: why is it there's such a big double standard, especially
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Speaker 1: in the media, when it's a Republican, they demand resignation
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Speaker 1: before the ink is dry On the headline, Platner has
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Speaker 1: been well surrounded by controversy since theday he announced his candidacy,
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Speaker 1: and now he is reportedly reassessing his quote unquote campaign
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Speaker 1: because the Democrats have cut off the Spickett the money,
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Speaker 1: and without money, how do you run now Again, he
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Speaker 1: has denied the allegations and has not immediately exited the
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Speaker 1: race at the moment I'm recording this now. There's also
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Speaker 1: something else that's interesting. Under Main's election rules, Democrats still
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Speaker 1: have a short window to replace him, and that's really
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Speaker 1: what this is about. If they can get him out
26:47
Speaker 1: of the race and he withdraws by July the thirteenth,
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Speaker 1: then he's no longer their problem. They'll just throw someone
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Speaker 1: else in there. It almost reminds me of Kamala Harrison
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Speaker 1: Joe Biden. And the deadline explains a lot of the panic.
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Speaker 1: This is actually organized panic, it's not actual. So all
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Speaker 1: of a sudden, you're going to see the big headlines
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Speaker 1: coming from the media as well. NBC Nightly News is
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Speaker 1: going to be talking about this, and before they didn't
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Speaker 1: discuss it at all.
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Speaker 3: Why.
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Speaker 1: Because this is all about getting rid of a candidate
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Speaker 1: that they believe now is a political liability and may
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Speaker 1: not be able to win. And that's why they're doing
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Speaker 1: it before July the thirteenth. It's not about well moral
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Speaker 1: clarity now, it also is about the math, and the
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Speaker 1: Senate map is really important. It's also about Susan Collins.
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Speaker 1: It's about Democrats realizing they may have to nominate a
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Speaker 1: candidate with well a lot less baggage, and then maybe
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Speaker 1: they would have a chance of beating Susan Collins. Now,
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Speaker 1: remember this was supposed to be their political populous hero.
27:53
Speaker 1: Platner was sold by the same people that are destroying
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Speaker 1: him now as a rugged outsider, as a veteran, as
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Speaker 1: a fake oyster farmer, the left wing fighter who could
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Speaker 1: take on the establishment. And to be clear, the most
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Speaker 1: progressive Democrats embraced him as a movement candidate, a socialists,
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Speaker 1: a communists. But now that movement has a major problem.
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Speaker 1: The candidate that they elevated is engulfed in allegations and
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Speaker 1: scandals that even they can overcome. The most revealing part
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Speaker 1: is how fast the Democrats moved only after the allegations
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Speaker 1: became public and then politically unavoidable. The party did not leave,
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Speaker 1: It only reacted. It did not protect its standards, It
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Speaker 1: protected its strategy until the strategy collapsed. And there's a
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Speaker 1: deadline of the thirteenth to find that new candidate. That's
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Speaker 1: the double standard voter should see again and again, and
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Speaker 1: why would you vote for a party that does this?
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Speaker 1: One set of rules for Republicans, another set of rules
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Speaker 1: for Democrats. Now on the set of lectures, by the way,
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Speaker 1: for the country many America, and should be really angry
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Speaker 1: because Democrats now went credit for demanding Platnir step aside
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Speaker 1: after spending months ignoring the warning signs, brushing off all
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Speaker 1: the scandals, and pretending concerns about him were just right
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Speaker 1: wing attacks.
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Speaker 2: That's literally what they said.
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Speaker 1: You don't get credit, by the way, for arriving late
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Speaker 1: to the truth, and they knew the truth all along.
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Speaker 1: You don't get credit for accountability only after the political
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Speaker 1: cost becomes too high, because that's not actually accountability at all.
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Speaker 1: And you don't get credit for pretending to be shocked
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Speaker 1: when the concerns were already there.
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Speaker 2: The bottom line is this. The story is bigger than
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Speaker 2: one can in Maine.
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Speaker 1: It's really about a Democratic party that claims to own
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Speaker 1: the moral high ground while repeatedly lowering the bar for
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Speaker 1: its own side. It's about the danger of partisan blindness
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Speaker 1: and the media helping these stories disappear until they need
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Speaker 1: them to get rid of their own That's why this
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Speaker 1: is well all about hypocrisy. There's also one other thing
30:04
Speaker 1: I'll say. If the Democrats were actually being honest right
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Speaker 1: now about their standards, they would come out defending Graham,
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Speaker 1: saying he deserves due process. They would say they're just
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Speaker 1: allegations and deny them, and they would say that Democrats
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Speaker 1: deserve the candidate they chose in Graham Platner to be
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Speaker 1: their candidate on election day.
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Speaker 2: But they're not doing any of that.
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Speaker 1: Why Because this is all about politics, not about moral clarity.
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