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BIDEN plays politics with SPR and Pence moves on a 2024 run by 'blaming' Trump for Jan 6! · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Biden Energy advisor says, we need to have an s
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Speaker 1: pr S patroying reserves that's four than it is today.
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Speaker 1: He says they're waiting for seventy dollars a barrel oil,
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Speaker 1: also claiming now we've still got four hundred million barrels
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Speaker 1: of Also we're just fine even though this is the
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Speaker 1: lowest it's ever been in our lifetime. The Palace injury. Well, okay,
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Speaker 1: so a couple of things. Number one, China lockdowns yea,
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Speaker 1: and the FED raising rates and trying to orchestrate maybe
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Speaker 1: a slowdown at least, whether it's our assessment or not,
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Speaker 1: Those aren't the greatest ways to lower the price of all. Plus,
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Speaker 1: we've been, you know, tapping the SPR, which a lot
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Speaker 1: of people criticize, especially if we're down below eighty dollars.
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Speaker 1: We're not the day we're back up, but definitely time
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Speaker 1: to end that. Would you start buying when would you
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Speaker 1: start buying back the oil to try to replenish that?
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Speaker 1: What kind of price would we be talking about? So
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Speaker 1: we agree with you. Look, we've been tapping the SPR
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Speaker 1: and I don't think there's much criticism today for what
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Speaker 1: we've done. That was a critical part the releases from
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Speaker 1: the SPR are critical part of bringing prices down when
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Speaker 1: we did them. Just imagine if we had not increased
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Speaker 1: supplied by a million barrels a day. But today we
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Speaker 1: have to we have to be really opportunistic and look
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Speaker 1: at the market and where it is to see if
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Speaker 1: it makes sense to do continued SPR releases. The President
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Speaker 1: would like to replenish the SPR and full of what
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Speaker 1: we release, an additional hundred and eighty to two hundred
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Speaker 1: million barrels. And I think when prices start reaching towards
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Speaker 1: that seventy dollars mark, that's when we're probably going to
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Speaker 1: be looking at somewhere around that range of seventy seventy
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Speaker 1: two seventy three, or maybe a little bit below that,
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Speaker 1: we'll look to immediately begin to increase and to repurchase
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Speaker 1: oil into the SPR. And that's because we need to
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Speaker 1: have an SPR that is full than it is today
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Speaker 1: for national security and economic emergencies. In the future. We
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Speaker 1: still have four hundred million barrels. That's a lot of barrels.
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Speaker 1: We still can manage any emergency. But looking into the future,
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Speaker 1: when prices come down into that seventy dollars range, we're
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Speaker 1: gonna look to be buyers in the market. Well, I
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Speaker 1: love this. We're gonna look to be buyers in the market,
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Speaker 1: So seventy dollars until then, if anything hits the fan,
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Speaker 1: our oil reserves are going to just be gone right
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Speaker 1: by an energy secretary so also says gas prices have
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Speaker 1: been coming down sharply for the last couple of months,
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Speaker 1: so you should be happy with what they've done. Percent
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Speaker 1: Joe crude oil this morning taking a quick look. Prices
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Speaker 1: dropped sharply yesterday on a Wall Street Journal report that
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Speaker 1: OPEC plus might increase output by five hundred thousand barrels
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Speaker 1: a day in December. You can see we're back above
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Speaker 1: eighty eighty one fifty nine. Crewde rebounded when the Saudi
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Speaker 1: Arabian energy minister denied the journal's report, stateside triple ASA's
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Speaker 1: national average gas prices are down eleven cents a week
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Speaker 1: a gallon in the past week, almost husting. Special Presidential
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Speaker 1: a coordinator for international energy affairs, joins us, Now he's
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Speaker 1: you're there. You're there for a lot of these discussions.
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Speaker 1: You probably know what's going on almost. I just don't
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Speaker 1: know if you're willing to totally share with us what's
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Speaker 1: going on. So these delegates definitely said that there might
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Speaker 1: be an increase. What shall we take of the from
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Speaker 1: the Salady minister pushing back on that. Do you know
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Speaker 1: where it stands right now on what they're gonna do. Well,
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Speaker 1: good morning, Joe, and thanks for having me. Look, we're
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Speaker 1: definitely not party to any OPEC deliberations. We're not members
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Speaker 1: of OPEC or any organization setting prices. The President's been
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Speaker 1: really focused on trying to bring prices down here in
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Speaker 1: the United States, specifically to consumers, and that's what we've
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Speaker 1: been trying to do and make sure that I know
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Speaker 1: we focus a lot on brand, but WTI the American
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Speaker 1: prices down to about eighty dollars and gasoline prices have
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Speaker 1: been coming down sharply for the last many weeks now
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Speaker 1: a couple of months, so we're we're very pleased to
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Speaker 1: see the prices coming down. We want to make sure
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Speaker 1: that both that oil companies, both the national oil companies
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Speaker 1: around the world and oil companies here at home, continue
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Speaker 1: to increase production to bring prices further down. This is
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Speaker 1: an administration that now is asking you to give them
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Speaker 1: credit for them giving you high gas prices, but then
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Speaker 1: trying to claim that they're bringing down those gas prices.
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Speaker 1: So in their words, hey, look it's not that bad, right,
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Speaker 1: It's it's it's really just not that bad. The economy is.
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Speaker 1: You know, it could be a lot worse, so understand
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Speaker 1: that we are we are trying to get prices down
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Speaker 1: for you, and part of that is them giving immunity
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Speaker 1: to the guy over in Saudi Arabia who butchered an
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Speaker 1: American journalist, which Joe Biden said there would be hell
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Speaker 1: to pay for that. You may remember how they lured
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Speaker 1: him to come to a consulate or an embassy and
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Speaker 1: they took him inside and they butchered him with a
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Speaker 1: bone saw, took him out the back in a bag,
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Speaker 1: dead body, murdered a journalist who was writing things that
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Speaker 1: that they didn't like in Saudi Arabia about MBS. The
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Speaker 1: Biden administration said that there would be hell to pay
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Speaker 1: for this. Then Biden needed the oil right and so
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Speaker 1: now they're wanting, you know, they're going to give immunity.
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Speaker 1: The MBS immunity decision. The White House is now claiming,
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Speaker 1: as quote strictly legal, there is no quid pro quo
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Speaker 1: for lower oil prices. They're also claiming Saudia denies oil
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Speaker 1: output hike. Top White House Energy advisors saying this about
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Speaker 1: that whole fiasco production to bring as far as as
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Speaker 1: palace intrigue. And I know you know this stuff, and
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Speaker 1: I know you can't probably tell us. But when the
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Speaker 1: Body Administration told the Federal court judge that MBS Mohammed
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Speaker 1: den Solman has sovereign immunity from this lawsuit, that was
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Speaker 1: that was that was nice, That was conciliatory. And there
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Speaker 1: had been some acrimony between the United States and the Saudis. Uh.
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Speaker 1: It just seems interesting that that they would even after
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Speaker 1: cutting that they'd even broached the possibility of cooperating, UH,
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Speaker 1: right before Russia, right before the cap goes maybe goes
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Speaker 1: on Russian oil. It's like they're they're helping us out
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Speaker 1: right after. And I would say that was the right
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Speaker 1: move for them because of the China situation in the lockdowns,
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Speaker 1: it made sense for the Saudies to cut production because
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Speaker 1: oil all of a sudden was seventy nine dollars almost
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Speaker 1: So is there any quid pro quo behind that that
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Speaker 1: we're being nicer than them and they might cooperate there's
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Speaker 1: no quid pro quo. I think that the decision on
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Speaker 1: the immunity was a strict legal decision by the lawyers
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Speaker 1: about him becoming a prime minister, and determination that was
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Speaker 1: made by the lawyers that was not done by policymakers,
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Speaker 1: but really just a legal one. As far as their
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Speaker 1: decision to cut, you know we you know, you and
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Speaker 1: I may disagree on that. I think that a two
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Speaker 1: million cut announcement at the time was we did not
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Speaker 1: believe was warranted. I think that prices were at about
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Speaker 1: eighty eight or eighty seven when they announced that, it
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Speaker 1: went up to almost one hundred dollars and settled back down,
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Speaker 1: mostly because you know, when you announced a cut at
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Speaker 1: two million, what we all know is that two million
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Speaker 1: is not going to be cut, and most countries are
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Speaker 1: not going to position to cut production and definitely not
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Speaker 1: cut exports. So I think that where their deliberations are
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Speaker 1: not connected to the policymaking and they're gonna have to
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Speaker 1: make their own decisions. I think this part of the
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Speaker 1: stress in the market is when you have these monthly
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Speaker 1: palace intrigues, you know, every month, every couple of months,
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Speaker 1: versus what they used to do, which is to meet
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Speaker 1: a lot less frequently. But we're again, I'm not going
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Speaker 1: to get into the palace intrigue there as you called it,
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Speaker 1: but rather focus on bringing the prices down and do
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Speaker 1: what we have to do here at home. Almost I
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Speaker 1: love the palace intrigue. We're not going to get into that. Really,
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Speaker 1: I bet you're not. You give this guy immunity. No
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Speaker 1: one saying what you're saying about the law right No
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Speaker 1: one's saying what you're claiming right now about any of this,
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Speaker 1: and then you're gonna sit there and go, oh wow,
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Speaker 1: We're just not going to get into this palace immunity.
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11:38
Speaker 1: had a lot to say, a significant amount to say
11:43
Speaker 1: about Donald Trump. He's even said he is thinking about
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Speaker 1: testifying at the Marlago. He said that the Americans and
11:54
Speaker 1: his words, must stop attacking the FBI, just like we
11:57
Speaker 1: wouldn't say it about defund the police. Here is Mike
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Speaker 1: Pence over the weekend tax on the FBI and the stuff.
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Speaker 1: Calls to defund the FBI are just as wrong as
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Speaker 1: calls to defund the police. The truth matter is we
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Speaker 1: need to get to the bottom of whatever. We need
12:20
Speaker 1: to let the facts play out, and I will continue
12:23
Speaker 1: to call on the Attorney General and the Justice Department
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Speaker 1: to make that information available to the American people, and
12:31
Speaker 1: do so now, and it's in panic, and do so now.
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Speaker 1: It's very clear now that Mike Pence is wanting you
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Speaker 1: to look at him as a guy that was there.
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Speaker 1: He was at the Capitol on January sixth, and this
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Speaker 1: is a big deal. Mike Pence also speaking out against
12:55
Speaker 1: us trying to quote control Americans, and you can decide
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Speaker 1: who you think he's telling you, not to listen to anymore.
13:03
Speaker 1: He's out there barnstorming the country writing this big tell
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Speaker 1: all book, criticizing now Donald Trump and doing basically the
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Speaker 1: opposite of everything that Trump ever did. At the end
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Speaker 1: of his political time in office, here's Mike Pence being
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Speaker 1: out against those trying to quote control Americans. In the
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Speaker 1: midst of all of that, I'm sure you all heard there,
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Speaker 1: they've also authorized the hiring of eighty seven thousand i
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Speaker 1: RS agents. You know, when Ronald Reagan spoke in nineteen
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Speaker 1: sixty four about a little intellectual elite in a far
13:41
Speaker 1: distant capital who thought they could plan our lives better
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Speaker 1: than we could plan them for ourselves, he I think
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Speaker 1: it could scarcely imagine the big government socialism of the
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Speaker 1: left wing climate agenda that's being implemented in Washington. You
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Speaker 1: see today, as we gather here today, I submit to
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Speaker 1: all of you, as I've set around the country, American
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Speaker 1: freedom is under attack as never before. Big media, big government,
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Speaker 1: even big business of locked arms to advance a pernicious,
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Speaker 1: woke agenda designed to control the American people and destroy
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Speaker 1: the American dream. Ruling elites in Washington have never been
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Speaker 1: more out of touch with the values and ideals of
14:28
Speaker 1: everyday Americans that I can agree with. By the way,
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Speaker 1: I got agree with that. But then you go back
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Speaker 1: to this big sit down with CBS Face the Nation,
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Speaker 1: Vice President Pence talking about January six and this is
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Speaker 1: going to be the crutch of his campaign. Obviously, he
14:45
Speaker 1: believes this is what will take him to the Holy
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Speaker 1: Land to be the president. And in this big sit
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Speaker 1: down interview about his book about January the sixth, it's
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Speaker 1: all about January sixth, because this is when you're a
14:57
Speaker 1: useful idiot to the Democrats. They want to focus on
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Speaker 1: January six right, January sixth is everything to them, so
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Speaker 1: you will become their useful idiot. Listen. Before the appointment
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Speaker 1: of a special counsel was announced last week, we spoke
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Speaker 1: with former Vice President Mike Pence about his new book,
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Speaker 1: So Help Me God. In our wide ranging conversation, mister
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Speaker 1: Pence details extensively his story up to and including the
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Speaker 1: January sixth attack. The President's words and actions in and
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Speaker 1: around January six were reckless. The tweet that he issued
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Speaker 1: the day that I was in the loading dock before
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Speaker 1: below the United States Senate endangered my family and endangered
15:39
Speaker 1: people that were in the Capitol and was indefensible. Why
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Speaker 1: did it take you two years to talk about your anger.
15:48
Speaker 1: Weren't you incandescent with rage that your family was put
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Speaker 1: at risk like that? Margaret? I was angry that day
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Speaker 1: and many days sense well. On January sixth, I have
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Speaker 1: to tell you that I had to put that aside.
16:06
Speaker 1: The President had decided to be a part of the problem.
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Speaker 1: I was determined to be a part of the solution,
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Speaker 1: to work with leaders in Congress, leaders at the Pentagon,
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Speaker 1: leaders in law enforcement, to do our part, to finish
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Speaker 1: our work under the constitution. You were calling and trying
16:22
Speaker 1: to get the National Guard to come in and restore order.
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Speaker 1: Did you feel you had to do that because the
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Speaker 1: commander in chief was derelict in his duties, Margaret, I
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Speaker 1: didn't know what the President was doing at the time.
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Speaker 1: I wasn't at the White House. I had no contact
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Speaker 1: with the President or the White House that day. But
16:41
Speaker 1: when I spoke to the congressional leaders in our first
16:43
Speaker 1: conference call, they informed me that they were getting mixed
16:47
Speaker 1: messages from security personnel, and I asked them if they
16:53
Speaker 1: wanted me to get involved, and they did. Do you
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Speaker 1: think President Trump needs to be held responsible in his events,
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Speaker 1: in the events that led to January sixth and the
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Speaker 1: violence of that day. Well, I think everyone that perpetrated
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Speaker 1: the violence at the Capitol needs to be held at
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Speaker 1: the strictest account. What about those who fed it? What
17:12
Speaker 1: about those who gave it oxygen? The lie, oxygen to
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Speaker 1: mislead people. I'm confident that the American people will hold
17:19
Speaker 1: all those responsible at the end of the day, and
17:23
Speaker 1: history will be their judge. In my book, in other words,
17:28
Speaker 1: the American people, he's saying, are gonna hold Donald Trump accountable,
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Speaker 1: right because he was a part of it. That's what
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Speaker 1: he's saying, right here, Make no mistake about it. That's
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Speaker 1: what he's saying. And again, is this how Mike Pence
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Speaker 1: runs for president? Is this something that you as a voter?
17:45
Speaker 1: You hear this, you go, yes, that is what we've
17:47
Speaker 1: been missing. He's saying, the American people are gonna hold
17:52
Speaker 1: Donald Trump accountable. Here's more of that interview that he
17:56
Speaker 1: did with Face and Nation. Take a listen, let's lead people.
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Speaker 1: I'm that the American people will hold all those responsible
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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, and history will be
18:06
Speaker 1: their judge. I mean, in my book, what I tried
18:11
Speaker 1: to do is share a candid story about the evolution
18:16
Speaker 1: of that controversy. President and I had been came to
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Speaker 1: at least five times. You lay it out in detail
18:21
Speaker 1: leading up to January sixth, and it's almost like you
18:24
Speaker 1: couldn't believe this because you kept telling him over and
18:27
Speaker 1: over it this is not legal, this is not constitutional.
18:31
Speaker 1: Do you look back and say, I wasn't forceful enough,
18:34
Speaker 1: and what could you have done differently? Well, I did
18:37
Speaker 1: tell the President many times that after he exhausted every
18:43
Speaker 1: legal challenge that the campaign had every right to pursue,
18:49
Speaker 1: that he should simply accept the results. The President was
18:51
Speaker 1: hearing from a cadre of attorneys who frankly should never
18:55
Speaker 1: have been left on the White House grounds, let alone
18:58
Speaker 1: in the Oval Office, telling him what, as the Bible says,
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Speaker 1: his itching ears wanted to hear. My hope was that
19:07
Speaker 1: at the end of the day he would come around.
19:09
Speaker 1: I remember on the night of January fourth, we had
19:14
Speaker 1: a meeting with the President and part of that legal
19:18
Speaker 1: team in the Oval Office. The President left on the helicopter.
19:23
Speaker 1: There were no harsh words between us, but he was
19:25
Speaker 1: continuing to make his case, and I was continuing to
19:28
Speaker 1: make my position clear. But it is rally in Georgia
19:32
Speaker 1: which I watched on television, the President actually opening the
19:36
Speaker 1: rally by speaking about me. I hope that our great
19:39
Speaker 1: vice president, our great vice president comes through for us.
19:44
Speaker 1: He's a great guy us. If he doesn't come through,
19:49
Speaker 1: I won't like him quite as much. But then he
19:51
Speaker 1: paused and he said to the crowd, Now, no one
19:56
Speaker 1: thing you know about Mike Pence is he always plays
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Speaker 1: it straight. And then he called you the next day.
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Speaker 1: I remember in that moment thinking he might be coming around,
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Speaker 1: but he wasn't. My continued hope was that at the
20:09
Speaker 1: end of the day he would recognize what our duty
20:12
Speaker 1: was on that day as the presiding officer under the Constitution,
20:17
Speaker 1: to oversee the count of the electoral vote of an
20:20
Speaker 1: election that we lost. But it was not to be.
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Speaker 1: Will you answer questions about that day before Congress? Congress
20:27
Speaker 1: has no right to my testimony. We have a separation
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Speaker 1: of powers under the Constitution of the United States, and
20:35
Speaker 1: I believe it would establish a terrible precedent for the
20:38
Speaker 1: Congress to summon a vice president of the United States
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Speaker 1: to speak about deliberations that took place at the White House.
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Speaker 1: You're closing the door on that entire I'm closing the
20:50
Speaker 1: door on that. But I must say again that the
20:53
Speaker 1: partisan nature of the January sixth committee has been a
20:57
Speaker 1: disappointment to me. The lawyers and that chief of staff
21:00
Speaker 1: to the President at the time, the Mark Meadows, who
21:03
Speaker 1: let those lawyers you said had no business on the
21:05
Speaker 1: White House grounds. Do you think no consequence only prosecute
21:09
Speaker 1: the people who actually physically went to the Capitol. There
21:12
Speaker 1: are those that are speaking in defense of people that
21:16
Speaker 1: ride at the Capitol and created the conditions where lives
21:20
Speaker 1: were lost. But I believe everyone that was rioting in
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Speaker 1: the Capitol that day and perpetrating violence needs to be
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Speaker 1: held to the strictest account of the law. But I
21:30
Speaker 1: do believe that at the end of the day, the
21:35
Speaker 1: American people will hold accountable on those that permitted the
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Speaker 1: circumstances around which January sixth was able to flourish into
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Speaker 1: violence that day. You also think the FBI executing a
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Speaker 1: search warrant to take classified material from the former president's
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Speaker 1: home was not the way the Justice Department should have
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Speaker 1: handled it. But to be clear, were you ever personally
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Speaker 1: concerned about mister Trump's handling of classified information. I don't
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Speaker 1: recall every being concerned about the President or anyone on
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Speaker 1: our administration's handling of classified information, at least among the
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Speaker 1: senior staff of which I had regular contact. But if
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Speaker 1: he had, he would be prosecuted. You would think. Let
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Speaker 1: But as someone that served on the Judiciary Committee for
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Speaker 1: more than ten years, having oversight over the Justice Department,
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Speaker 1: I just think there were many better ways to obtain
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Speaker 1: those classified materials from Marlago than to execute a search
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Speaker 1: warrant against the former president of the United States of America,
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Speaker 1: something that had never happened in American history, Margaret, and
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Speaker 1: never been prosecuted. Do you think that that My hope
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Speaker 1: is that the Justice Department will think very carefully about
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Speaker 1: the next steps. I mean, this is a very divided
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Speaker 1: time in the life of our nation. I think our
23:05
Speaker 1: nation needs to heal. But the idea of executing a
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Speaker 1: search warrant against a former president of the United States
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Speaker 1: sent the wrong message to the American people and frankly
23:15
Speaker 1: sent the wrong message to the wider world that looks
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Speaker 1: at the United States of America as the standard. And
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Speaker 1: that was my disappointment. In the decision to execute a
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23:43
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23:45
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23:48
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23:52
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23:54
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Speaker 1: Mike Pence is the guy that I that I want
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Speaker 1: give prayerful consideration over the holiday as whether as whether
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26:50
Speaker 1: now down fifty five percent for the year. CNN Don
26:55
Speaker 1: Lemon decided it was a good idea after his own
26:58
Speaker 1: show had been canceled to mock Elon Musk for sharing
27:05
Speaker 1: a sexualized photo. He says of Jesus and Twitter to Lerp,
27:12
Speaker 1: to lure is the correct way to say the word.
27:14
Speaker 1: But apparently he screwed up the first time. Don't worry,
27:16
Speaker 1: they fixed online to lure, he said Lerp Trump, Yes,
27:22
Speaker 1: he actually said it. We're trying to get the original audio,
27:25
Speaker 1: but that apparently has been fixed in the online version.
27:29
Speaker 1: They're mocking him because they think that Elon Musk is
27:33
Speaker 1: an idiot. Why because he actually allowed for free speech
27:36
Speaker 1: on a platform. And this is what the media is
27:39
Speaker 1: going to continue to do. They're going to mock anybody
27:44
Speaker 1: that gets in their way. This is what happened Elon
27:46
Speaker 1: Musk restoring the former president's Twitter account. He has been
27:50
Speaker 1: banned from the platform since the capital attack. Trump has
27:54
Speaker 1: previously said that he does not plan to return to
27:56
Speaker 1: Twitter and instead will continue to use his truth social platform.
28:00
Speaker 1: So let's discuss seeing an anchor and correspondent arty. This
28:04
Speaker 1: is he's being intentionally provocative. I mean that's obvious, right,
28:09
Speaker 1: because he needs eyes, he needs attention. I mean Elon
28:12
Speaker 1: Musk to Twitter. And part of this whole thing about
28:15
Speaker 1: restoring the former president doing a poll about it is
28:18
Speaker 1: to sort of a look at me, look at me,
28:20
Speaker 1: look at me. I'm glad you're saying this, because there's
28:22
Speaker 1: a business reason for that. The context here is Elon
28:25
Speaker 1: Musk doesn't really believe in advertising. Tesla never really did
28:29
Speaker 1: advertising because he thinks good products would just sell on
28:32
Speaker 1: their own. Problem is you just bought a company that
28:35
Speaker 1: runs on ninety percent advertising and doesn't sell anything, And
28:39
Speaker 1: so brand safety and how advertisers feel about what is
28:44
Speaker 1: on the site along with their ads is meaningful. And
28:47
Speaker 1: lots of them has said they were going to hit
28:49
Speaker 1: pause when he first bought it and when he first
28:51
Speaker 1: started talking about trouble. And I can't believe advertisers are
28:53
Speaker 1: fleeing given what he's tweeted in the last twenty four hours.
28:56
Speaker 1: There's provocative images talking about Trump basically wanting to get
28:59
Speaker 1: back on Twitter, like being able to resist the temptation.
29:02
Speaker 1: But what I was confused about Saturday night is that
29:05
Speaker 1: when this all happened, Elon Musk said he was going
29:08
Speaker 1: to form a content Moderation council, no major reinstatements of
29:12
Speaker 1: Twitter accounts would happen before then. Then he conducts a
29:14
Speaker 1: Twitter poll on Saturday says Trump should be reinstated. Who
29:18
Speaker 1: knows who participated in this poll, And now he says
29:20
Speaker 1: Trump's account is active again. Yeah, I mean, I think
29:23
Speaker 1: no one's going to be teaching any of this technique
29:25
Speaker 1: in any like business school case studies going forward like
29:29
Speaker 1: this has been very messy public And you know, one
29:33
Speaker 1: piece of context that I think is worth mentioning is
29:35
Speaker 1: people were treating Twitter like public infrastructure. It was a
29:39
Speaker 1: space where lots of people came to speak and play
29:41
Speaker 1: and interact, but it's not public infrastructure. And this is
29:45
Speaker 1: what happens when a private person, a billionaire, takes over
29:49
Speaker 1: and kind of dithers around with it. It's kind of
29:51
Speaker 1: by the way, I was on Twitter this weekend and
29:54
Speaker 1: you pointed that out, Kaitlin to everyone, reupping what Elon
29:57
Speaker 1: Musk had tweeted about this council. He sort of guarantees
30:01
Speaker 1: that he did, I think, as he was looking to
30:02
Speaker 1: acquire the company and sort of checks that people thought
30:06
Speaker 1: might be in place. But but to your point, about
30:09
Speaker 1: a billionaire taking over and taking it private. So there
30:12
Speaker 1: are none of these A mayor like you know, I mean,
30:15
Speaker 1: I think we've gotten used to CEOs in Silicon Valley,
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Speaker 1: maybe kind of nodding towards like appeasing the public when
30:22
Speaker 1: they think the eye is on them and that's not
30:25
Speaker 1: his game. He doesn't care. There's no board, there's no
30:28
Speaker 1: board to check him. No, there's no share price to
30:31
Speaker 1: check him. There's a there's a desperation aspect of this.
30:35
Speaker 1: It seems really desperate or as we say in the vernacular,
30:38
Speaker 1: now thirsty, because as Kaitlin mentioned, this provocative image that
30:44
Speaker 1: he tweeted about, I think it was a Jesus, and
30:46
Speaker 1: you know there's someone tempting Jesus a woman and you
30:49
Speaker 1: know that I can hear you guys talking around. This
30:51
Speaker 1: is a sexualized image, right that he's posting. And I
30:53
Speaker 1: think it's a really good example of the thirst thing
30:56
Speaker 1: you're talking about, which is, look at me, look at me,
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Speaker 1: eyes on this, advertisers, look, eyes are still on this.
31:02
Speaker 1: Stay with it by any means necessary. You noticed, by
31:06
Speaker 1: the way, what they're doing here and seen it. The
31:08
Speaker 1: same people that did these stories over and over and
31:13
Speaker 1: over and over again about Donald Trump lying about Donald Trump,
31:16
Speaker 1: Russian collusion, Russia collusion, Russian coclusion for four or five
31:20
Speaker 1: six years. The same people that have run, you know,
31:23
Speaker 1: the live raids of Roger Stone, right, they got tipped
31:26
Speaker 1: off that Roger Stone was going to be rated by
31:29
Speaker 1: the FBI, these types of thing, the same, the same
31:31
Speaker 1: early morning raids of his former campaign manager, all of
31:37
Speaker 1: these different types of things. Okay, to be clear, is
31:42
Speaker 1: exactly I'll see. And had their good ratings back in
31:45
Speaker 1: the day. Then they became psychopass hating Donald Trump. They're
31:50
Speaker 1: still obsessed with Donald Trump, as you can hear in
31:52
Speaker 1: this conversation. But what's even more interesting than this is
31:57
Speaker 1: the fact that they just said, you know these you know,
32:00
Speaker 1: Elon Musk is desperate for attention. They just gave him
32:03
Speaker 1: four minutes of attention because they know that it would
32:07
Speaker 1: be probably pretty good for their ratings. Like they're not stupid.
32:12
Speaker 1: They know that this is going to rate for them,
32:14
Speaker 1: or they hope that it rates for them, because their
32:15
Speaker 1: ratings are literally in the toilet. Don Lemon got demoted.
32:20
Speaker 1: He had his own TV show at night. He has
32:23
Speaker 1: been demoted. He's now in a morning show that desperately
32:32
Speaker 1: needs help. Their ratings terrible in the morning, going nowhere,
32:42
Speaker 1: and now I want to say whether they're mocking Elon
32:44
Speaker 1: Musk is a businessman. Well, I don't think any case
32:47
Speaker 1: study right is going to be used in a business
32:50
Speaker 1: school over what he just did. That's where you're going
32:55
Speaker 1: with this, like, that's that's literally where you're going with this? Really?
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