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Unions Move to Anarchy to Shut Down American Cities · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: I want you to imagine getting up tomorrow and having
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Speaker 1: this conversation, where did all the workers go? That is
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Speaker 1: the conversation that apparently is going to be taking place
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Speaker 1: in LA, and they're hoping it's going to spread to
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Speaker 1: every city in America. This is over eleven thousand LA
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Speaker 1: workers are planning to strike. Their actually goal, as they
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Speaker 1: put it, was to quote shut down the city. More
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Speaker 1: than eleven thousand Los Angeles City employees they say, are
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Speaker 1: going to participate in the one day strike, saying that
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Speaker 1: they believe this will shut down the city and then
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Speaker 1: people will finally start paying them and taking them and
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Speaker 1: their demands seriously. Now, this is part of what we've
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Speaker 1: been witnessing around the country where workers groups, those that
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Speaker 1: are looking to unionize, and others just say, hey, we
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Speaker 1: just won't work, we won't show up to work. You
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Speaker 1: have the Screen Actors Guild right now and the writer's
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Speaker 1: doing the exact same thing, refusing to work, and so
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Speaker 1: they get their new deal that they demand. But take
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Speaker 1: a listen to what they had to say from ABC
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Speaker 1: News seven in LA about this worker's strike and why
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Speaker 1: they're hoping that it's going to go viral to other cities.
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Speaker 2: In the country.
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Speaker 3: Some LA City workers are getting ready to go on
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Speaker 3: strike for twenty four hours. More than eleven thousand workers
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Speaker 3: plan to walk off the job tomorrow. Employees including sanitation workers,
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Speaker 3: heavy duty mechanics, traffic officers, and engineers. We'll pick it
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Speaker 3: outside places like Lax and Los Angeles City Hall. The
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Speaker 3: union SEIU seven to twenty one represents more than ninety
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Speaker 3: five thousand workers across sokel. Union officials say the city
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Speaker 3: isn't bargaining in good faith. They add this strike comes
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Speaker 3: at a time when the city has a more than
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Speaker 3: twenty percent job vacancy rate across departments.
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Speaker 4: Well, we're all throughout the entire city, whether it's Lax,
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Speaker 4: animal services, sanitation, the parks, I mean, you name it.
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Speaker 4: We have also hundreds of jobs classifications all throughout the city.
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Speaker 4: You know, we have a mayor that's incredibly supportive of
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Speaker 4: working people. We've got some great folks and allies on
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Speaker 4: city Council. Unfortunately we have some out of touch city administrators.
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Speaker 3: Mayor Bass released a statement saying, quote, city workers are
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Speaker 3: vital to the function of services for millions of Angelinos
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Speaker 3: every day and to our local economy. They deserve fair
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Speaker 3: contracts and we have been bargaining in good faith with
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Speaker 3: SEIU seven twenty one since January. The city will always
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Speaker 3: be available to make progress twenty four hours a day,
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Speaker 3: seven days a week.
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Speaker 2: That actually isn't the case.
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Speaker 1: If they all don't show up for work and they
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Speaker 1: get their way, right, they get what they want here,
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Speaker 1: which is to shut down the city. That's this worker's plan.
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Speaker 1: Pick it for twenty four hours outside of city Hall,
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Speaker 1: outside of the Los Angeles International Airport and other locations
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Speaker 1: to protests. They refusal to bargain in good faith. Now,
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Speaker 1: this is what happens when unions start taking hold, and
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Speaker 1: this is exactly what happened in this country back in
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Speaker 1: the eighties when the unions and the union bosses got
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Speaker 1: too powerful.
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Speaker 2: You can then hold cities hostage.
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Speaker 1: Now, unions have lost a lot of their political influence
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Speaker 1: over the last couple of decades. That's been well documented.
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Speaker 1: But the unions are smart. They're trying to figure out,
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Speaker 1: how is it that we can get people back. Obviously
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Speaker 1: through government workers is an easy way. This is also
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Speaker 1: part of their plan to try to unionize fast food workers.
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Speaker 1: They try to bust up Starbucks with unionization, and the
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Speaker 1: list goes on and on. But what you witness now
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Speaker 1: is you have people that are willing to shut down
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Speaker 1: entire cities. Part of what they want during the shutdown
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Speaker 1: is they want anarchy and they want chaos. They're holding
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Speaker 1: you hostage, not for a better contract, but really when
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Speaker 1: it comes to the issue of safety, there have been
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Speaker 1: many people that post online hoping that the other workers
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Speaker 1: that don't show up for fire and police and the EMTs,
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Speaker 1: they are wanting there to be this to be basically
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Speaker 1: controlled anarchy as in charge of it. And then finally
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Speaker 1: a city will say, Okay, we can't operate or function
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Speaker 1: this way, so therefore we'll let you have whatever the
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Speaker 1: hell it is you want. Now, let's go back to
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Speaker 1: the Fight for fifteen. You may remember the Fight for fifteen,
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Speaker 1: which was part of the unions trying to expand their
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Speaker 1: payrolls by going into fast food workers and saying.
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Speaker 2: Hey, we're going to get you more money.
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Speaker 1: You need to demand a quote living wage, a fight
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Speaker 1: for fifteen, a fight for twenty, right, whatever they decide
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Speaker 1: the living wage is that day.
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Speaker 2: And they said, if we all.
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Speaker 1: Do this together, we'll get incredible results. Right, We'll get
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Speaker 1: what we all demand. The problem is that's been met
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Speaker 1: with new technology. You look at stores, there's now Walmarts
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Speaker 1: where there's not a single cashier. There are now Kroger
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Speaker 1: grocery stores without a single cashier. It's all self service.
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Speaker 1: You now have these boards that you automate when you
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Speaker 1: order it. Places like Wendy's and McDonald's and Taco Bell.
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Speaker 1: And they basically that if you as workers want to
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Speaker 1: try to hold us hostage this way, that's fine, you
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Speaker 1: can do it. We're willing to play the game with you,
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Speaker 1: but we're not going to be held hostage with you
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Speaker 1: when you think that you own us. Now, if I
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Speaker 1: was one of these individuals, if I was a part
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Speaker 1: of this group, I would absolutely if I owned one
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Speaker 1: of these business if I'm being held outage that way,
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Speaker 1: I'd be all right, see you later, right like I'm
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Speaker 1: done with you, see ya, goodbye. I'm not going to
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Speaker 1: sit here and I'm not going to have this conversation
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Speaker 1: with you. And you think that you can hold me
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Speaker 1: hostage this way, it will not happen. That is now
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Speaker 1: what's happening in LA And if you shut down the
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Speaker 1: city as they're planning on doing, and doing it for
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Speaker 1: twenty four hours and you start to get looting and
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Speaker 1: riding an anarchy, and you start to have things that
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Speaker 1: basic needs and necessities and aren't being met. I believe
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Speaker 1: that with all the liberals in LA, they'll probably cave
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Speaker 1: to their demands and then they can hold the city
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Speaker 1: hostage indefinitely.
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Speaker 2: This is going to grow. I want you to know.
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Speaker 1: I think this is going to grow, probably in a
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Speaker 1: way that will shock many, and I think it will
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Speaker 1: become an election your issue. They're going to demand different things, right,
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Speaker 1: That's just what they're gonna do. They're gonna demand certain things.
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Speaker 1: They're going to demand. Uh, these you know the Democrats
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Speaker 1: agree to certain terms, agree to giving them certain things,
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Speaker 1: all right, and if you don't, then you're not gonna
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Speaker 1: they're not going to support you in the election process
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Speaker 1: as a Democrat. That's going to be the pandering aspect
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Speaker 1: of this. Put it on your radar screen. These unions
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Speaker 1: they are figuring out, this is the new way to
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Speaker 1: do it. You give anarchy, you make people go crazy.
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Speaker 1: Uh in a town, you get the workers not to
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Speaker 1: show up, you hold them hostage, and then once all
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Speaker 1: of that happens, you win. Because the other side, they believe,
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Speaker 1: will finally just say, okay, I can't, I can't take
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Speaker 1: this risk. There's too many people that are angry, there's
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Speaker 1: too many people that are frustrated, there's too many people
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Speaker 1: that are screaming.
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Speaker 2: And this is part of the playbook.
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Speaker 1: If you go back with Black Lives Matter, black Lives
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Speaker 1: Matter threatened the same thing. If you don't give us
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Speaker 1: what we want, if you don't put Black Lives Matter
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Speaker 1: everywhere on the football helmets, we'll come after the NBA,
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Speaker 1: will come after the NFL, We will come after anybody
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Speaker 1: that doesn't play game with us. That is part of
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Speaker 1: what has happened throughout this process, and these unions learned it.
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Speaker 2: Really. I think from Black Lives Matter.
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Speaker 1: Recently that you can burn down a city, but if
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Speaker 1: you have the right name next to your cause, right
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Speaker 1: Black Lives Matter, then no one's going to arrest you
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Speaker 1: for committing those crimes. You can jump on cars and
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Speaker 1: police cars and attack and burn down police and city
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Speaker 1: halls and churches, and no one is going to stop you.
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Speaker 1: In our government, that's what being held hostage looks like.
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Speaker 1: And now, if you can shut down an entire city
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Speaker 1: for twenty four hours as your way of quote bargaining
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Speaker 1: with the other side, that is a hostage crisis situation
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Speaker 1: that is not negotiating in good faith. This is why
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Speaker 1: we need to make sure that we elect people in
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Speaker 1: this next election to understand just how big of a
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Speaker 1: threat to society unions really are. They are threatening our society,
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Speaker 1: real big problem for Joe Biden, and that is no
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Speaker 5: better today than they have been. Right, whether it be inflation,
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Speaker 5: off their peak or are much better in some ways
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Speaker 5: than they had been a few months or a year ago.
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Speaker 5: rating and in fact his competitive status against Donald Trump
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Speaker 5: if he's the Republican nominee.
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Speaker 6: Our poll that was Santa College last.
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Speaker 5: Week found that the president's still at that thirty nine
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Speaker 5: percent approval rating. I think the average on five thirty
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Speaker 5: eights around forty one percent. That's the lowest of any
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Speaker 5: president at this stage going back to the history of polling,
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Speaker 5: except for Jimmy Carter that didn't work out well for him,
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Speaker 5: and our poll also showed him tied forty three percent
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Speaker 5: to forty three percent with Trump. Now, what they hope
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Speaker 5: is that over time that will be a lagging indicator
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Speaker 5: that as people become more confident about the economy and
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Speaker 5: consumer confidences, as people feel the impact of his policies,
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Speaker 5: they hope his numbers will begin to rise as well well.
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Speaker 6: And we'll see that that's happened in the past.
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Speaker 5: Reagan, Clinton, Obama had terribly in their midterms and actually
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Speaker 5: came back and won pretty convincing reelections.
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Speaker 6: That's what Biden is hoping for here.
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Speaker 2: Beat.
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Speaker 5: What do you think that disconnect or that lag is
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Speaker 5: attribut to attributor two. Well, one of the things, of course,
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Speaker 5: is the environment has changed so much since the days
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Speaker 5: of those past presidents, right, there used to be something
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Speaker 5: of a you know, allowance on the part of at
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Speaker 5: least some people for the president of the other party.
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Speaker 5: But today are we're locked pretty tightly in our polarized spaces.
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Speaker 5: There's no president who's getting fifty five, sixty seventy percent
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Speaker 5: of the approval rating for any sustained period of time
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Speaker 5: as there used to be back in the day of
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Speaker 5: Reagan and Clinton and so forth, and.
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Speaker 6: So you're locked into a smaller pool of voters that
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Speaker 6: you can appeal to.
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Speaker 5: For Biden, it's about getting those Democrats and independence back
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Speaker 5: voted for him in twenty twenty, don't like President Trump
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Speaker 5: or President Trump, and making them feel more confident in
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Speaker 5: his leadership. Part of this issue, of course, something he
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Speaker 5: can't do anything about, which is his age. That's, according
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Speaker 5: to polls, a considerable factor for a lot of voters.
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Speaker 5: But they're going to tell people, look, yeah, okay, he
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Speaker 5: is the age he is, but he's not Donald Trump.
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Speaker 5: And remember how much he didn't like him two years ago.
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Speaker 5: You should think about that in two years from now
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Speaker 5: or a year and a half.
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Speaker 2: And now you can hear it very clearly. They are concerned.
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Speaker 1: They are really concerned about what this means for Joe
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Speaker 1: Biden moving forward. There are a lot of people, I mean, hell,
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Speaker 1: he got lost at the White House again on video
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Speaker 1: as the Houston Astros. Right, they won the World Series.
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Speaker 1: We're at the White House where their you know, meet
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Speaker 1: the President. They're playing We Are the Champion music, and
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Speaker 1: the President doesn't know where to go. He's in charge.
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Speaker 1: It's his event, right, it's his event, folks, He's in charge.
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Speaker 1: It's his house, it's where he lives, and he literally
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Speaker 1: doesn't know where to go afterwards. That is a problem,
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Speaker 1: and they know it. You can downplay it, you can
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Speaker 1: act like it's not a bit big deal, but it is.
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Speaker 1: And having an approval rating of this slow and look,
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Speaker 1: this is what they're hoping for. They're hoping they can
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Speaker 1: take out Donald Trump. Okay, they're hoping that Donald Trump
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Speaker 1: will be indicted and be such damaged goods by the
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Speaker 1: time that the deep State gets done with him that
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Speaker 1: there's no other way to I mean, there's you know
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Speaker 1: that people say I can't vote for Donald Trump again,
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Speaker 1: I'm sick of him, and they'll vote by default for
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Speaker 1: Joe Biden. You know, there's also other real issues happening
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Speaker 1: right now where Joe Biden is showing massive weakness. Let
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Speaker 1: me let me give you an example. There was a
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Speaker 1: Chinese and Russian vessels that got extremely close to the
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Speaker 1: United States of America, right next to Alaska, where they
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Speaker 1: weren't supposed to be.
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Speaker 2: And what did Joe Biden do.
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Speaker 1: Not a damn thing, because he's compromised we know, by
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Speaker 1: the Russians financially, and he's compromised by the Chinese now financially.
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Speaker 7: Listen you op presidential candidate Nikki Haley, a former ambassador
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Speaker 7: to the United Nations and former South Carolina governor in
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Speaker 7: messer HELI good to have you, as always, Thank you
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Speaker 7: very much for being here. Jack Keen calling this the
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Speaker 7: most dangerous threat to the United States since World War Two.
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Speaker 7: And you saw Michael Waltz there seeing that four ships
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Speaker 7: to the area is a weak response. What would you
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Speaker 7: do if you were president of the United States in
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Speaker 7: this moment.
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Speaker 8: Well, they're both right, but I will tell you China
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Speaker 8: has been planning war with the United States for years.
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Speaker 9: This is no surprise. This didn't just happen.
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Speaker 8: This has been happening for years, and presidents just haven't
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Speaker 8: taken it.
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Speaker 9: Seriously enough.
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Speaker 8: You know we saw I'm glad to see they at
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Speaker 8: least sent four ships this time.
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Speaker 9: You know what I said last time.
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Speaker 8: Is when the Russian drone or when the Russian plane
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Speaker 8: hit our US drone, absolutely nothing happened. We haven't seen
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Speaker 8: anything happen from the Biden administration. We need to be
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Speaker 8: showing strength. This is in response to the fact that
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Speaker 8: we and our allies had been doing exercises in the
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Speaker 8: Taiwan Strait and over near the South China Sea. But
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Speaker 8: what they are trying to do is now intimidate us.
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Speaker 8: We don't need to fall for it. We don't need
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Speaker 8: to run. We need to continue to be strong. Biden
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Speaker 8: continues to show weakness. He did that by sending blinking
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Speaker 8: China came out and said it was a great meeting.
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Speaker 8: And what came out of that they said that they
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Speaker 8: would have committee meetings based on the fentanyl flow. No,
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Speaker 8: you don't have committee meetings based on fentonal flow. You
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Speaker 8: say we will stop ending normal trade relations with you
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Speaker 8: until you stop killing Americans. You know, you've got the
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Speaker 8: fact that then Janet Yellen went and said we should
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Speaker 8: do more business with China, not less, and we should
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Speaker 8: be competitors and we should play by fair rules. That's naive.
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Speaker 8: China doesn't play by fair rules.
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Speaker 9: They never have.
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Speaker 8: They don't see us as a competitor. They see us
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Speaker 8: as an enemy. And then you have John Carey going
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Speaker 8: and saying, oh, let's focus on the environment, that's really
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Speaker 8: what we need to be focused on. Well, that just
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Speaker 8: makes them laugh at us. And so this is the
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Speaker 8: time where we need a president that's going to say, no,
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Speaker 8: we're not just going to deal with trade like Trump did,
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Speaker 8: or no, we're not just going to ignore it like
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Speaker 8: Obama did.
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Speaker 9: We need to say we're going to look at it
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Speaker 9: from all aspects.
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Speaker 8: Let's stop them buying us soil and let's take back
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Speaker 8: what they've already had. Let's stop the flow of fentanyl.
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Speaker 8: Let's stop the money going into our universities. Ninety percent
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Speaker 8: of our law enforcement drones come from the Chinese.
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Speaker 9: Why is that?
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Speaker 8: How stupid are we to allow things like this to happen.
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Speaker 8: Quit sending technology to China that strengthens their military and
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Speaker 8: weakens the US, and let's modernize our military.
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Speaker 9: Let's get focused as a.
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Speaker 8: Country and go and show these countries that are threatening
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Speaker 8: us that.
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Speaker 9: We're back that hasn't happened.
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Speaker 8: That's why Russia is strong, That's why China is on
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Speaker 8: the march, that's why Ron's building a bomb, and that's
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Speaker 8: why North Korea is testing ballistic missiles.
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Speaker 2: All Right, I want to get started.
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Speaker 1: By the way, everything that Nikki's Haley said there, she's
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Speaker 1: absolutely right on. This has been happening for far too long.
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Speaker 1: They're showing strength while we are showing incredible weakness. Right,
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Speaker 1: they're showing this. You know, we're going to stop at
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Speaker 1: nothing to do these things, right, that's I mean, that's
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Speaker 1: that's their moo.
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Speaker 2: Now we're going to do what we have to do.
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Speaker 2: You know these other countries.
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Speaker 1: Actually better way of putting is we're gonna take and
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Speaker 1: do whatever we want to do because we know that
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Speaker 1: your president won't stop us.
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Speaker 2: We own him, he took our money.
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Speaker 1: Russia owns Joe Biden, we know that because of the
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Speaker 1: cash and auspicious active reports. China we know owns them
18:24
Speaker 1: as well, for the same exact reason. It is incredibly,
18:28
Speaker 1: I mean, it's unbelievably brutal how weak our response has been.
18:32
Speaker 1: And it's not because I think Joe Biden is this
18:34
Speaker 1: week or incompetent Okay, there's some people that want to
18:37
Speaker 1: say that, and that's like the you know default position. Well,
18:40
Speaker 1: he's an idiot here, he's weak. He's been around a
18:42
Speaker 1: long time. The people around him that are in this country,
18:45
Speaker 1: they've been around a long time. There's a reason why
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Speaker 1: we're being so weak. There's a reason why we didn't
18:50
Speaker 1: shoot down that Chinese balloon. It wasn't because we were
18:52
Speaker 1: afraid that was going to hurt people on the ground. Okay,
18:56
Speaker 1: that's that's that's not the reason why, as it's been stated,
18:59
Speaker 1: the reason why we didn't shoot down that balloon is
19:04
Speaker 1: real simple. China I believe has something on him, and
19:08
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19:12
Speaker 1: they could fly that balloon over the US, get all
19:14
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19:17
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19:20
Speaker 2: And that is what happened.
19:22
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21:34
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Speaker 2: Welcome back.
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Speaker 7: We turned out of Minnesota Democratic Congressman Dean Phillips, who
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Speaker 7: might in fact be able to answer a question he's
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Speaker 7: given some energy to.
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Speaker 9: Are you going to run for president against Joe Biden.
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Speaker 10: Well, Major, I have not decided yet, but I will
21:59
Speaker 10: tell you. I am here. And I lost my dad
22:02
Speaker 10: in Vietnam in nineteen sixty nine, lived with my great
22:05
Speaker 10: grandparents for two and a half years. My mom was
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Speaker 10: twenty four and widowed. Was adopted when I was three
22:10
Speaker 10: by an extraordinary dad into a remarkable family. I know
22:12
Speaker 10: little something about living on both sides of advantage, and
22:16
Speaker 10: I woke up the morning after the twenty sixteen election,
22:18
Speaker 10: the one you just spoke about, saw fear in my
22:20
Speaker 10: daughter's eyes, my two daughters. I recognized at that moment
22:24
Speaker 10: that millions of Americans have had that same fear for generations,
22:27
Speaker 10: and I promised them I would do something. I ran
22:29
Speaker 10: for Congress, and I ran a campaign that was about
22:32
Speaker 10: everybody being invited. That was my slogan. I listened to Democrats, Republicans, independents,
22:37
Speaker 10: and I discovered that everybody wants the same thing everybody.
22:40
Speaker 10: We want to be safe. We want to have security,
22:42
Speaker 10: both economic and otherwise. We want opportunity, and we want unity.
22:46
Speaker 10: Serving our country in Congress has been a joy. I
22:48
Speaker 10: know you don't hear that toalk, and it has been
22:50
Speaker 10: a joy. And I've discovered that everybody in the middle.
22:54
Speaker 10: The massive majority of Americans are sick of entertainment telling
22:58
Speaker 10: us we're more divided than we really are, of members
23:01
Speaker 10: of Congress, state houses attacking each other instead of attacking problems.
23:04
Speaker 10: They want their families back, their friendships back, their communities back.
23:07
Speaker 10: They want unity, and I want to give voice to them.
23:10
Speaker 10: And then secondly, I want to give voice to Democrats.
23:13
Speaker 10: I'm a lifelong passionate Democrat inspired by Hubert Humphrey and
23:17
Speaker 10: Martin Luther King. Democrats are telling me that they want
23:22
Speaker 10: not a coronation, but they want a competition. The New
23:25
Speaker 10: York Times poll from this week shows fifty five percent
23:28
Speaker 10: of Democratic voters want some alternatives to the current people
23:31
Speaker 10: in the primary, eighty three percent of those under thirty
23:35
Speaker 10: democrats under thirty want alternatives, and about seventy six percent independence.
23:40
Speaker 10: So I just want to make my case.
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Speaker 2: When are you going to decide?
23:42
Speaker 10: I think, well, let me get to my point. Okay.
23:45
Speaker 10: So if we don't heed, I've giving you some room,
23:47
Speaker 10: Yes you have. If we don't heed that call, shame
23:50
Speaker 10: on us, and the consequences I believe are going to
23:53
Speaker 10: be disastrous. So my call is to those who are
23:56
Speaker 10: well positioned, well prepared, of good character and competency. They
24:00
Speaker 10: know who they are to jump in because Democrats and
24:03
Speaker 10: the country need competition. It makes everything better. That's my
24:06
Speaker 10: call to them right now.
24:08
Speaker 9: So if they don't, you will.
24:10
Speaker 10: I'm not saying I will. I think I'm well positioned
24:13
Speaker 10: to be president of the United States.
24:14
Speaker 9: You do.
24:15
Speaker 10: I do not believe I'm well positioned to run for
24:17
Speaker 10: it right now. People who are should jump in because
24:19
Speaker 10: we need to meet the moment. The moment is now.
24:22
Speaker 10: That is what the country is asking.
24:25
Speaker 1: You know, the last thing he said there, I'm not
24:27
Speaker 1: well positioned right now. There's others that are better positioned
24:30
Speaker 1: than I am to run, and they should run.
24:33
Speaker 2: But if they don't, then I might.
24:35
Speaker 1: This is what you're starting to hear from a lot
24:38
Speaker 1: of Democrats right now. They're unhappy with Joe Biden. He
24:42
Speaker 1: lied to them, not about barisma. They don't care about that.
24:45
Speaker 1: They don't care about it their son's business dealings. Really,
24:48
Speaker 1: that's not at a pivotal point yet for Democratic voters.
24:51
Speaker 1: It's just not because I think a lot of Democratic
24:52
Speaker 1: voters are fine with corruption and government. They're fine with
24:55
Speaker 1: Joe Biden being on the tank. What they are upset
24:58
Speaker 1: about is what is the lack of and if it's
25:00
Speaker 1: the lack of free stuff, right, the lack of you said,
25:03
Speaker 1: if I voted for you're going to pay off thirty
25:05
Speaker 1: grand in my student debt and forty grand of my
25:07
Speaker 1: wife's right, you were going to pay for all of
25:09
Speaker 1: these things that you said that you were going to,
25:11
Speaker 1: you know, pay for and you never did you promise
25:13
Speaker 1: me that. Now, I do think the economy is really
25:18
Speaker 1: starting to hurt democrats and independent voters and they're starting
25:23
Speaker 1: to realize it's not getting any better. Right, this is
25:27
Speaker 1: you can't blame COVID anymore for this, Right, you can't
25:32
Speaker 1: blame this you know, Oh, it's I inherited it anymore.
25:38
Speaker 1: It's now Joe Biden's crisis. It's Joe Biden's problem. And
25:44
Speaker 1: people are feeling like this guy's not getting it done.
25:48
Speaker 1: They're feeling like he's not understanding what people are going
25:53
Speaker 1: through right now. They feel like he just has kind
25:56
Speaker 1: of taking them for granted, and it's not getting better.
26:00
Speaker 1: Price at the pump is back up again. If you
26:03
Speaker 1: noticed that it's been itching back up even in the
26:05
Speaker 1: in the cheaper areas, it's above three dollars a gallon.
26:08
Speaker 1: It's getting up in the fours and fives out on
26:10
Speaker 1: the West Coast and the East coast. Those things combined
26:13
Speaker 1: with a high price of good and services.
26:15
Speaker 2: The high price. I mean, I looked today.
26:16
Speaker 1: I'll give you a great example, Gurriedo's, and this is
26:21
Speaker 1: just a random product, and I saw it today. The
26:23
Speaker 1: large family size bag of Dourdo's had printed on the
26:28
Speaker 1: actual bag six ninety nine. That's seven dollars for a
26:33
Speaker 1: bag of Guredo's. That used to be three ninety nine.
26:36
Speaker 10: Right.
26:36
Speaker 1: It used to be you could get those large bags
26:39
Speaker 1: two for six, right, three dollars apiece if you bought
26:42
Speaker 1: two there. Now, I mean, that's when even I look
26:48
Speaker 1: at my grocery bill and go, what is going on?
26:51
Speaker 1: When you can't take your family out to eat at
26:53
Speaker 1: an average restaurant. I'm not talking about a good Restauran'm
26:55
Speaker 1: talking about average restaurant. When you can't take your family
26:59
Speaker 1: out to an average restaurant for under a hunter bucks,
27:03
Speaker 1: and that's not drinking alcohol, that's just straight.
27:05
Speaker 2: Up food costs.
27:07
Speaker 1: It's it's it's becoming a really big problem, and it's
27:11
Speaker 1: becoming a liability for Joe Biden this economy, saying that
27:15
Speaker 1: the economy is not bad when the clearly the economy
27:18
Speaker 1: is bad. Right when you act like things are good
27:22
Speaker 1: when things aren't good, and the economy you claim is
27:25
Speaker 1: great and Bidenomics is great and it's doing it and
27:29
Speaker 1: people know and they're insulted by it. I think if
27:33
Speaker 1: there's any promise that he didn't pay off on, that
27:35
Speaker 1: maybe his achilles heel with With a lot of voters
27:38
Speaker 1: I'm talking about, they might not vote for a Donald
27:40
Speaker 1: Trump or a Dysantis or whoever ends up getting it.
27:42
Speaker 1: I think it's probably going to be Trump. I think
27:44
Speaker 1: it's pretty clear. That's that's where we're you know, the
27:47
Speaker 1: line that we're on right now. But I think that
27:50
Speaker 1: there is a lot of Americans that at this point
27:53
Speaker 1: are saying, all right, I may not vote for Trump,
27:56
Speaker 1: but I'm not going to vote for you either, because
28:00
Speaker 1: because you lied to us and you didn't do what
28:02
Speaker 1: you were you said you were going to do, you
28:06
Speaker 1: didn't you didn't do what you promised you were going
28:11
Speaker 1: to do. And Joe Biden has been out there trying
28:15
Speaker 1: to tell people that the economy is great.
28:17
Speaker 2: The economy is not great. People are hurting. We know
28:21
Speaker 2: that people are hurting.
28:22
Speaker 1: Nancy Pelosi said, you know, Republicans won't impeach Biden because
28:26
Speaker 1: the economy is doing great, Like that's psycho and a lie.
28:29
Speaker 2: She said that on MSNBC.
28:31
Speaker 1: It was dumb when she said it, But that's even
28:34
Speaker 1: how bad their own talking points are. You know, Joe
28:38
Speaker 1: Bahar on the View said this, which was just absurd
28:41
Speaker 1: on the View.
28:41
Speaker 2: Listen, Let'm gonna say.
28:42
Speaker 11: Something about Joe Biden. According to what I'm observing, the
28:46
Speaker 11: economy is booming, Inflation is down, the stock market is
28:50
Speaker 11: doing well. People are having an easier time putting bread
28:54
Speaker 11: on the table, et cetera. He doesn't seem to be
28:56
Speaker 11: getting the credit for that, only forty one percent approval.
29:00
Speaker 11: Is it because they think he's old? Because I don't
29:02
Speaker 11: see anything else they can point to with him, particular questions.
29:05
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the view, right, They're like, well, he
29:07
Speaker 1: deserves credit because things are so good. You notice the
29:10
Speaker 1: audience didn't clap when she said that, because the audience
29:13
Speaker 1: was looking at each other going, what the hell world
29:15
Speaker 1: is she living in? The economy is not doing well? Right,
29:20
Speaker 1: The economy is not good. It's a disaster for many
29:25
Speaker 1: Americans are feeling it. They're living paycheck to paycheck. It's
29:28
Speaker 1: not good. And when you say things like that and
29:32
Speaker 1: you try to spin it, you can try to spin it,
29:35
Speaker 1: it doesn't mean it's true, it doesn't mean it's accurate,
29:38
Speaker 1: it doesn't mean that it's honest. And Americans are feeling this.
29:43
Speaker 1: And this is why I'm saying right now, pay attention.
29:46
Speaker 1: It's no longer just a Biden crime family. That's the
29:48
Speaker 1: problem for them. It's all the other things that I
29:51
Speaker 1: just mentioned, and it's a big problem I think now
29:54
Speaker 1: for this president and Democrats are now saying, do we
29:57
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