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Temporary Gas Pain, Permanent Security — Media Stayed Silent Under Obama and Biden · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome.
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  Speaker 2: It is the Ben Ferguson Show, Hour three. It is
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  Speaker 2: so nice to have you with US Secretary of Transportation
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  Speaker 2: Sean Duffy saying on ABC this week that once the
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  Speaker 2: straight opens you'll see immediate relief on gas prices. He
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  Speaker 2: did a one on one interview about the economic fallout
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  Speaker 2: is how the Democrats had described it and the issue
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  Speaker 2: with key shipping routes that have been blocked. As he
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  Speaker 2: went on ABC this Week, Democrats trying to score major
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  Speaker 2: political points and trying to say that this is all
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  Speaker 2: the fault of President Donald Trump and therefore you should
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  Speaker 2: blame him for everything. The hosts came out well doing
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  Speaker 2: exactly what you'd expect from the fake journalists, saying, we
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  Speaker 2: just heard our experts say gas prices could great record highs,
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  Speaker 2: and then Shawn Duffy finally was able to respond, I
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  Speaker 2: want you to listen to part of this back and forth,
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  Speaker 2: and I also want you to remember this is the
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  Speaker 2: same media that praised high gas prices in the name
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  Speaker 2: of global warming and the Green New Deal. They weren't
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  Speaker 2: badgering the Biden administration or the Obama administration when prices
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  Speaker 2: skyrocketed on purpose. Remember it was the Obama administration that
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  Speaker 2: said that their goal was to have gasoline prices higher
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  Speaker 2: than Europe, to force you into buying an electric vehicle,
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  Speaker 2: making gas so expensive that you would have no other
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  Speaker 2: choice to turn to solar and wind and Kumbai Yai energy. Well,
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  Speaker 2: now they're angry Donald Trump for protecting America from a
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  Speaker 2: nuclear weapon and a nuclear Iran. And so what are
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  Speaker 2: they doing. They're talking about gas prices twenty four to
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  Speaker 2: seven because they know that many Americans are angry when
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  Speaker 2: they pull up to a pump and they see higher prices.
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  Speaker 2: All right, I want to take a moment and I
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  Speaker 2: They had no problem covering for the Green New Deal,
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  Speaker 2: and for Obama and for Biden, and not just weeks
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  Speaker 2: or even months, but literally years of high gas prices.
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  Speaker 2: They had no problem covering and justifying those prices. But
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  Speaker 2: this time when it comes to issue national security, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: Ahead of the midterm elections, they're gonna do everything they
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  Speaker 2: can to beat conservatives. Take a listen to the back
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  Speaker 2: and forth on Duffy.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning to you, Secretary Duffy. We just heard our
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  Speaker 3: experts say gas prices could break record highs and even
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  Speaker 3: if the Strait open today, it would take months to
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  Speaker 3: recover and for those gas prices to go down. What
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  Speaker 3: is your reaction, Well, a couple things.
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  Speaker 4: I'll tell you that every time I go into the
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  Speaker 4: Oval Office, I hear the President talk about energy prices.
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  Speaker 4: That's been going on since he took this second term
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  Speaker 4: in Washington. He's been concerned about American energy dominance, making
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  Speaker 4: sure Americans produce more, we drive interview energy prices down.
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  Speaker 4: But he's also confronted with the idea that could there
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  Speaker 4: be a nuclear Iran and understands the threat of that reality.
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  Speaker 4: This Iran has been the most destabilizing force in the
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  Speaker 4: world for forty years. He sees that as untenable, and
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  Speaker 4: I would agree with him. We can't have a nuclear Iran.
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  Speaker 4: And so he's taking action, bold action, and again he's
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  Speaker 4: going to make sure that the world in America is
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  Speaker 4: safer as we look forward, not just in the several
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  Speaker 4: months after this conflict, but in the several years and
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  Speaker 4: decades after he's out of the presidency.
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  Speaker 3: So that clearly seems the most important thing to President Trump.
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  Speaker 3: But meanwhile, back to those gas prices, do you agree
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  Speaker 3: it could take months even if the Straight opened today,
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  Speaker 3: and that those gas prices might break record highs?
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  Speaker 4: Well, listen, So I'm at DOT, I'm not in the
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  Speaker 4: energy sector, but from all the briefings I've had, once
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  Speaker 4: the Straight opens, you'll see prices come down, come down immediately,
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  Speaker 4: and again there's going to be a.
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  Speaker 1: Tail to that.
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  Speaker 4: It's going to take time to get back to where
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  Speaker 4: we were before this conflict began, but you're going to see,
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  Speaker 4: I think, immediate relief once the Straight opens.
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  Speaker 3: Immediate relief. Okay, President Trump said Friday that he is
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  Speaker 3: dying to make a deal with Iran.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned Iran.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, I know you're at the DOT, but this
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  Speaker 3: is a big issue clearly, And what kind of offer
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  Speaker 3: he has gotten from the Iranians.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know anything about this?
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  Speaker 3: And why the President would say they have not yet
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  Speaker 3: paid a big enough price. What does that mean exactly?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, listen, So the President has done very well in
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  Speaker 4: his career as a builder and as a president, and
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  Speaker 4: he doesn't talk publicly about, you know, what those negotiations are,
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  Speaker 4: doesn't necessarily say and front run what he's going to want.
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  Speaker 4: I think we've let this play out. But the President's
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  Speaker 4: going to look for a good deal, a great deal
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  Speaker 4: for the world, in for America with the Iranians. But
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  Speaker 4: I think it's untenable to think that the Iranians have
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  Speaker 4: a nuclear weapon and they're going to have to open
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  Speaker 4: the straits. And again, the President's going to negotiate that out,
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  Speaker 4: and I think in the end, America is going to benefit.
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  Speaker 1: One of the let's just hit pause there.
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  Speaker 2: You just heard two and a half minutes of doom
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  Speaker 2: and gloom and every question that was asked from ABC
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  Speaker 2: this week. ABC refuses to be intellectually honest about what
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  Speaker 2: the president is trying to do. They are intellectually just
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  Speaker 2: honest about the real threat that Ran is to this
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  Speaker 2: country if they get a nuclear weapon. They refuse to
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  Speaker 2: talk about how the prices will come down after they've
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  Speaker 2: gone up, because this is a temporary thing. This isn't
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  Speaker 2: a policy thing, I want to be clear, and they
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't understand that they should get that They should know
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  Speaker 2: that this is not a policy decision like the Bay
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  Speaker 2: Obama years with the Green New Deals, that they made
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  Speaker 2: a deliberate policy decision to make the prices skyrocket of
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  Speaker 2: oil and gas. They stopped exploration, they stopped leasing federal lands,
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  Speaker 2: They did everything they could to make the prices go higher,
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  Speaker 2: not lower for the American people. This time, this is
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  Speaker 2: a cause and effect of US protecting our national security.
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  Speaker 2: They know that, but they also understand that they can
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  Speaker 2: turn this into a crisis and make the American people.
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  Speaker 2: Their goal is to hopefully turn on the President of
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  Speaker 2: the United States of America. They want this to be
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  Speaker 2: a midterm disaster for the President of the United States
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  Speaker 2: of America. That is what this is really all about.
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  Speaker 2: And if you listen to her questioning here, there's not
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  Speaker 2: one thing that she's said so far that says, hey,
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  Speaker 2: there's obviously been a forty plus year track record of
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  Speaker 2: Iran doing everything they can to kill Americans and to
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  Speaker 2: sponsor terrorism and to obtain a nuclear weapon. They refuse
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  Speaker 2: to talk about the reality of that situation. And you
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  Speaker 2: have to ask yourself the question, why keep listening to
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  Speaker 2: this interview? I want you to just keep listening to
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  Speaker 2: what is said here. It is incredible. I mean, it
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  Speaker 2: is truly incredible to see the out of disdain that
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  Speaker 2: they have for Donald Trump and his administration.
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  Speaker 3: Things the President said early on is that the war
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  Speaker 3: would be over in about four to six weeks. I
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  Speaker 3: also want you to listen to Energy Secretary Chris Wright,
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  Speaker 3: who told me in this program what he told me
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  Speaker 3: back in March when I asked him how long Americans
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  Speaker 3: should expect high gas prices.
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  Speaker 5: I think that this conflict will certainly come to the
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  Speaker 5: end in the next few weeks. Could be sooner than that,
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  Speaker 5: but the conflict will come to the end in the
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  Speaker 5: next few weeks, and we'll see a rebound in supplies
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  Speaker 5: and a pushing down of prices after that.
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  Speaker 3: That was seven weeks ago. You said essentially the same
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  Speaker 3: thing about a week later, saying it would be short
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  Speaker 3: lived in your view. Why didn't that happen?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think if you listen to the Secretary, Hegseth
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  Speaker 4: and Raising Kane, our general who's orchestrating this war militarily,
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  Speaker 4: they've been wildly successful. The President's been successful in executing
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  Speaker 4: the the military operation. Again, we're now navigating, you know,
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  Speaker 4: the safety through the Strait of Hormuz and also trying
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  Speaker 4: to navigate the UH the the nuclear material that Aron
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  Speaker 4: has taking a little bit longer, and that's going to
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  Speaker 4: play out over the next several weeks. But per Chris
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  Speaker 4: Wright's point, again, you're gonn start to see immediate relief
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  Speaker 4: once the straight opens and supply flows again, we are
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  Speaker 4: going to be in a way better place. I will
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  Speaker 4: say this, Martha, it's important for Americans to understand we
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  Speaker 4: have a tremendous amount of energy in America, and so yes,
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  Speaker 4: it is priced globally oil and gases, but in America,
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  Speaker 4: we're not going to have supply shortages because we produce
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  Speaker 4: so much here and that is a net benefit to
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  Speaker 4: the US as we look at for me jet fuel
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  Speaker 4: prices or even the supply chain for energy at the
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  Speaker 4: pump for American citizens. We have deep supply here and
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  Speaker 4: I think that's that can't be forgotten because President Trump
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  Speaker 4: has focused on American energy and America energy dominance.
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  Speaker 3: Mister Secretarya, I know you're feeling optimistic about this, but
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  Speaker 3: Americans are apparently not. Our new poll makes clear they
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  Speaker 3: feel generally bleak about their financial situation. Again, forty four
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  Speaker 3: percent cut back on driving, forty two percent, cut household expenses,
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  Speaker 3: thirty four percent, changed vacation plans. The rise in gas
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  Speaker 3: prices is having a real effect.
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  Speaker 1: So what, let's just stop there.
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  Speaker 2: Where was this reporting when they had high gas prices
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  Speaker 2: for like four years of Biden, When we had it
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  Speaker 2: for countless years under Obama.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't do these stories.
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  Speaker 2: Notice that he just went back to the insuanacial security
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  Speaker 2: and she immediately goes.
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  Speaker 1: Back to the economy matters.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Remember when we had that whole fight over egg prices.
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  Speaker 2: Remember that was like a big thing, and then when
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  Speaker 2: the egg prices dropped, you never heard anything about it
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  Speaker 2: ever again, because Donald Trump did what he said he
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  Speaker 2: was going to do when.
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  Speaker 1: The gas prices dropped.
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  Speaker 2: Did the did Martha and all these others talk about
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  Speaker 2: how amazing Trump's policies of a mayor first actually were. No, Nope,
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  Speaker 2: they just move on to the next crisis they try
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  Speaker 2: to create and then try to destroy Donald Trump in
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  Speaker 2: that moment. I will be the first to say this,
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  Speaker 2: I genuinely hate the gas prices where they are right now.
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  Speaker 2: I also understand why the gas prices are where they
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  Speaker 2: are right now.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not an idiot. I understand that this is temporary.
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  Speaker 2: I also understand that it's going to take probably a
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  Speaker 2: couple months for the prices to come back down after
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  Speaker 2: the strain of Horm Moves is open, which, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: brings us to another part of this story. Donald Trump
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  Speaker 2: has come out and is said now that the US
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  Speaker 2: will begin to guide stranded ships out of the strainerform
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  Speaker 2: Moves on Monday, after a cargo ship came under tack
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  Speaker 2: near the waterway. President announcing this Sunday afternoon, Trump said
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  Speaker 2: countries from all over the world that operate the hundreds
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  Speaker 2: of ships stuck around the straight of Horm Moves have
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  Speaker 2: reached out to US for help, with the President vowing
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  Speaker 2: to step it up. Quote for the good of Iran,
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  Speaker 2: the Middle East, United States of America. We have told
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  Speaker 2: these countries that we will guide their ships safely out
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  Speaker 2: of these restricted waterways so they can freely and ably
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  Speaker 2: get on with their business.
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  Speaker 1: These are ships from.
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  Speaker 2: Areas of the world that are not in any way
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  Speaker 2: involved with what is currently taking place in the Middle East.
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  Speaker 2: The ship movement is merely meant to free up people,
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  Speaker 2: companies and countries that have done absolutely nothing wrong. They
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  Speaker 2: are victims of the circumstance. The President said the operation,
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  Speaker 2: which he dubbed Project Freedom, would begin on Monday morning
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  Speaker 2: local time. The announcement came hours after a cargo ship
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  Speaker 2: was struck by multiple small craft near the Strait, the
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  Speaker 2: first such attack on a shipping vessel in the waterway
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  Speaker 2: since April the twenty second. The ship, which was not
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  Speaker 2: a immediately identified, was hit right off the coast of Iran,
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  Speaker 2: just east of Astrait, according to the British Military United
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  Speaker 2: Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Center. They said all crew members
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  Speaker 2: were reported to be safe. That's the good news. There
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  Speaker 2: no country or groups taking responsibility for the attack at
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  Speaker 2: this moment, but Iran's military has repeatedly warned that any
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  Speaker 2: ship that tries to navigate the Strait would be attacked
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  Speaker 2: unless they paid a toll and proved they are not
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  Speaker 2: affiliated with the US or with Israel. Now beyond the
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  Speaker 2: threat of strikes, Trump noted that the estimated twenty thousand
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  Speaker 2: seafarers stuck in the Persian Gulf for running low on
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  Speaker 2: food and everything else necessary for large scale crews to
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  Speaker 2: stay on board in a healthy and sanitary manner, saying
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  Speaker 2: the United Nations had previously highlighted the danger of being
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  Speaker 2: posed being posed to the trapships and their crew. Amid
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  Speaker 2: Iran's stranglehold on the Strait of Hormuz, Trump said that
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  Speaker 2: if Iran were to all of the ships across without problem,
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  Speaker 2: it would be a sign of goodwill amid ten amend
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  Speaker 2: the tensions and the peace talks between the two countries.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Quote if in any way this humanitarian process is interfered with,
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  Speaker 2: that interference will unfortunately have to be dealt with forcefully,
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  Speaker 2: the President warned on Sunday as well, saying it remains
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  Speaker 2: to be seen if any ship will take up America's
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  Speaker 2: offer to be escort across the Straight from moves given
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  Speaker 2: rans repeated threats against US and Israeli ships, t Iran
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  Speaker 2: has kept a key oil choke point in retaliation for
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  Speaker 2: the US Israel joint air strikes. They with at least
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  Speaker 2: two dozen attacks reported around the Straight since the war began.
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  Speaker 2: So the President saying, hey, we're gonna guide you through.
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty I mean, it's pretty intense's I guess that's
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  Speaker 2: the best way to describe it. And the President saying
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  Speaker 2: this and saying, look, there will be hell to pay
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  Speaker 2: if you attack. As we're trying to put these these through.
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  Speaker 2: That's the part that I think is the most encouraging.
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  Speaker 2: The President is still not backing down on this. I
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  Speaker 2: it's like, you know, it's he's not going to back down.
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  Speaker 2: They're not going to all right, and the President's doing
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  Speaker 2: I think the right thing here. There's also a third
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  Speaker 2: aspect of this story that I also want to talk about,
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  Speaker 2: and that is coming from the Polish Prime Minister Tusk,
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  Speaker 2: who has now warned that the Western NATO military alliance
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  Speaker 2: is in jeopardy of disintegration in the wake of the
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  Speaker 2: announced US troops with draw down in Germany. Again, this
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  Speaker 2: goes back to the President saying what he said, like, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: we're tired of always taking up to be the protectors
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  Speaker 2: of the world. We're tired of you guys not paying
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  Speaker 2: your fair share or not pulling your weight. And on Friday,
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  Speaker 2: the Pentagon said that around five thousand US soldiers would
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  Speaker 2: be relocated from bases in Germany over the next year.
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  Speaker 1: I'm in a.
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  Speaker 2: Broader shift in the four deployment, they said of US forces.
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  Speaker 2: President Trump said on Saturday that the drawdown in Germany
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  Speaker 2: would likely be much larger, though he did not specify
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  Speaker 2: how many more of the approximately thirty six thousand US
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  Speaker 2: troops will be relocated from the country, and President Trump
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  Speaker 2: has also suggested moving American forces out of countries such
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  Speaker 2: as Italy and Spain, all of whom he is accused
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  Speaker 2: of disloyalty over their response to conflict against the Islamic
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  Speaker 2: regime in Iran. This all goes back to what we're
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  Speaker 2: witnessing right now.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: While the US administration has not suggested a withdraw from Poland,
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  Speaker 2: there are some eight five hundred troops that are currently
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  Speaker 2: stationed there. The Prime Minister Tusts ever less, warned that
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  Speaker 2: the NATO alliance was on the brink. And by the way,
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  Speaker 2: this is exactly I think what the President wanted to happen,
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  Speaker 2: to say. We're not screwing around all right, riding on acts.
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  Speaker 2: The Polish leader said this. The greatest threat to the
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  Speaker 2: Transatlantic community are not its external enemies, but the ongoing
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  Speaker 2: disintegration of allies. We must all do what it takes
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  Speaker 2: to reverse this disastrous trend. Well, then, good stand up,
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  Speaker 2: stand with America. I mean, it can't always just be
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  Speaker 2: one sided. Now, this comes after US openly questioned America's
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  Speaker 2: loyalty to Europe last week, expressing doubt that Washington would
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  Speaker 2: honor Article five of the NATO Treaty, which mandates member
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  Speaker 2: states to come to the defense of each other if
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  Speaker 2: under attack. Now, President Trump is consistently affirmed that the
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  Speaker 2: US would stand by its allies if it was called upon.
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  Speaker 2: But we're not just going to do all of this
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  Speaker 2: work and no one else be involved. That is the
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  Speaker 2: point that the President has made now. Speaking the globalist
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  Speaker 2: oriented Financial Times, Tess said that Europe's biggest, most important
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  Speaker 2: question is if the United States is ready to be
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  Speaker 2: as loyal as it is described in our NATO treaties.
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  Speaker 2: You know what, good, I'm glad these guys are nervous.
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  Speaker 2: They should be because I'm sick and tired of America
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  Speaker 2: doing everything for everyone else. I want to start off
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  Speaker 2: by just being really honest about what we've just witnessed
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  Speaker 2: with the Spirit Airlines shut down. It is a super
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  Speaker 2: low cost airline. Elizabeth Warren and I'm going to take
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  Speaker 2: you back in time. Put this out on Twitter on
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: March the fifth of twenty twenty four. It has now
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: gone viral yet again. Elizabeth Warren and her socialist wackos
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  Speaker 2: decided to stop a merger that could have saved Spirit Airlines.
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  Speaker 2: Her exact words were this, I warned for months that
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: a Jet Blue Spirit Airlines merger would have led to
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: fewer flights and higher fares. Well, we know that she's
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: either incredibly stupid or a pathological liar, because the thing
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  Speaker 2: that she warned would happen because she stopped that merger
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  Speaker 2: has actually happened. Today, fewer Americans have choices over flights,
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: and all Americans now have higher fares. She then went
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  Speaker 2: on to say that the Justice and the Anti Trust
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  Speaker 2: Division at Justice, as well as the United States Department
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: of Transportation back and again, this is back in twenty
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: twenty four. We're right to stand up, she says, for
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: consumers and fight against runaway airline consolidation. She then said,
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: this is a Biden win for flyers. You're gonna say
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: that again, Elizabeth Warren, this is a Biden win for flyers.
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  Speaker 2: So let's look at where we are now. Spirit Airlines
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  Speaker 2: died this weekend, and it died at the hands of
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: the socialist crusader Elizabeth Warren. She must be so proud
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: to add another casket to her achievements, is what one
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: person wrote online at three am. Spirit turned off the
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: lights directly, more than fourteen one thousand jobs gone, thirty
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: plus smaller airports lost service. Now that's all because of
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: the Biden DOJ, because of the Department Transportation, Mayor Pete,
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: and Elizabeth Warren Jet Blue. By the way, this matters
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: in life, like the facts and history. At the time,
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: JetBlue offered three point eight billion dollars in cash to
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: buy Spirit Airlines in twenty twenty two. What's even more
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: interesting about that offer was who all agreed. Shareholders agreed,
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: flight attendance unions agreed, literally everyone voted yes. Why because
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: they knew this was the only way to save the airline. Now,
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: the combined company of JetBlue and Spirit would have held
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: only nine percent of the US market against a big
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: four that already owned eighty percent. Now, for anyone that
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: understands numbers, nine percent isn't a monopoly against eighty percent.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: But Elizabeth Warren and her communist friends at the DOJ
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: and the Biden administration said no. Now, this wasn't an
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: afterthought for Elizabeth Warren. I want to be clear. She
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: was obsessed with this merger. She wrote letters, She pressured
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Mayor Pete, who was a transportation Secretary Biden's DOJ got
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: involved and then sued. A federal judge finally killed the
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: deal in January of twenty twenty four, and that is
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: when Spirit died, even though it took a little more time. Now,
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: Elizabeth Warren in the communist argument, was very clear they
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: lied and said the merger would cost consumers one billion
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: a year. Well, let's just look at the collateral damage
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: that she dusts under the rug like it never happened,
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: and so many other Democrats. You have more than five
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: hundred pilots gone in the months after January twenty twenty four.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: You had eighteen hundred flight attendants that were furloughed. In December,
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: you had then another fourteen thousand jobs that were lost
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty three, and then last week another seven thousand,
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: five hundred. How many people do they employ now, zero
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  Speaker 2: And that's just the people that were actually wearing Spirit
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Airlines uniforms. There's other jobs that are gone as well.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: And you need to understand this. And by the way,
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: all this that I'm saying to you right now, I
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: have put out this retweet on x You can see
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: it and you can use this. It's important, all right,
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: You had catering. That is not direct job of Spirit.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: It's an indirect job. Because of the industry. Those catering
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: jobs gone. The fuel guys they're gone, the baggage crews
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: not Spirit employees gone. The gate agent's gone, the airport
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: coffee shops that service those where they were going, you
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: know where Spirit airlines flowing it out of they're now
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: hurting are gone. Then you had all the hotels and
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: all the rental cars and the seventy cities that Spirit
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: flew to. Every airline job. And this is using the
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Biden by the way, their own numbers, the government numbers.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Right now, every airline job carries three more on its back,
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: meaning that if you got ten thousand, there's another thirty
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: thousand jobs.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Because of the ten thousand.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Direct airline jobs, you now have forty thousand people out
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: of work because of the socialist communists and Marxist morons
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: and their crusade against the markets doing what they need
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: to do in the private sector. Spirit, by the way,
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: you have another fallout from all this. Spirit has now
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: abandoned ninety routes during the death spiral. Fars on those
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: routes are costing you. The American people and remember, if
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: I remember correctly, Democrats say over and over again what
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: they stand up for poor people, little people, right, they
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: stand up for the people that live in paytrik Perry check.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: Who do you think Spirit Airlines was serving? They were
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: an ultralow carrier, cost carrier, That's who they were. Some
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: people called them the Greyhound of the skies. By the way,
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: I did everything I could to avoid Spirit Airlines. We've
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: all seen the videos they've gone viral of the fighting
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: on airplanes and the fighting at the ticket counters and
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: the fighting at the bag check in. Like we've all
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: seen it, right, I will. I've flown Spirit in my
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: whole life, I think twice. And it was because it
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: was the only flight that worked that day after there
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: was another flight that was canceled scenario. But for many Americans,
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: this was the difference between going on a trip and
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: not going on a trip, going on a vacation, not
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: going on a vacation, going on a trip that they
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: had to go for because of a family member that
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: was sick or a funeral, and not going Spirit. Not
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: only abandons now ninety routes during the death spiral, but
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: fares on those routes. Remember This is what Elizabe Warren said.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: We can't have this murder because the afairs are going
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: to go up. Well, guess what's happened now. The fares
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: are on up average of fourteen percent. Let me give
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: you some real numbers. Oakland and New York has skyrocketed
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: from one hundred and thirty five dollars of two eighty eight.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: Fort Myers of San Juan has skyrocketed from ninety two
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: dollars to two nineteen, and now it's probably going to
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: go even higher. Kansas City, for example, in Newark, is
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: up sixty six percent. All right, that's not by the way,
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: I want to be clear. This is reality. This isn't
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: some bs made up number from some random study. This
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: is really the life consequences of when the government got
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: involved in something they should have never been involved in,
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: stopping this merger center. Warren is an individual who will
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: look you in the eyes and tell you she's doing
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: you a favor while destroying a company and seventeen eighteen, nineteen,
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: twenty thirty forty fifty thousand jobs, and then is held accountable,
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: apparently by no one.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: For doing this. Here's something else, it's interesting.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: Cheap carriers in a market drop fares on average twenty
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: one percent across the board. Southwest, by the way, when
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: they used to be in a low cost carrier, they're
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: no longer right, they're one of the big four now
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: in my opinion, All right, Southwest did this in the nineteen nineties.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Do you know how much money?
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: They say that Southwest Airlines being in their markets were
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: the other airlines, the uniteds, the Continentals, the Americans, the
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Delta's into Do you know how much money they say that?
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: The American people say because Southwest Airlines went into these cities.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: They because they pushed fars down not up. There was
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: more options, more choice, and the other airlines had to
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: match to stay competitive. Southwest Airlines, they say, in the
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: nineteen nineties saved American sixty eight billion dollars over twenty years.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say that again.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Studies say that Southwest Airlines when they were a cheap carrier,
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: saved American sixty eight billion over twenty years. And so
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: what in Elizabeth Warren do she killed the next Southwest Airlines?
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: She killed it? And what was a.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: Moronic political play led by socialism the socialist ideals is
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: what costs spirit? Airlines the ability to be able to
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: merge with Jet Blue, and then with her own blind arrogance,
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: she actually tweeted that the Spirit collapse is a Biden
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: win for flyers, a win. Yes, fourteen thousand jobs terminated, Yeah,
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: she says that's a good thing. She also wants you
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: to believe that Spirit loss because of the Warren Iran.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: That's her new talking point.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: She wants you to believe that Spirit Airlines was somehow
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: totally fine and not in bankruptcy before the Warren Iran,
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: and that this is all Donald Trump's fault.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: And if you believe that, you're.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: A special kind of stupid. This is a senator, by
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: the way, And this is the problem with Washington. They
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: don't understand the private sector. They don't understand what it
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: means to run a business. Elizabeth Warren's never made payroll
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: in her life, right, she thinks she knows how to
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: run a market in a business better than the people
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: who actually own and work in the company because she's
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: never actually held a real job or employed a significant
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: number of people in the private sector. So she's gonna
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: sit there and she's gonna say, hey, I saved you
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: a billion dollars on imaginary paper, when in fact she
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: costs ten times that in real life. She didn't protect
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: consumers from anything. You've got forty thousand jobs, and by
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: the way, where are they gonna go. They're gonna go
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: ask for government help, many of them. Some of them
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: are gonna end up on welfare. And then she says, well,
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: you know you should blame, oh, the evil billionaires in America,
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: the millionaires and the billionaires.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: That's who you need to blame.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: And by the way, she now has power over people
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: that are desperate for government aid.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Maybe that was her plan all along.
• 29:26
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• 29:31
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