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September 14th • 3h 22m

1799: Taproot

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So they're bombing the public relations department.
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Adam Currie, John C.
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Dvorak.
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It's Sunday, September 14, 2025.
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This is your award-winning Give My Nation
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Media assassination episode 1799.
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This is no agenda.
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We've got the magic number and we're broadcasting
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live from the heart of the Texas Yellow
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Country here in FEMA region number six.
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In the morning, everybody.
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I'm Adam Currie.
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And from northern Silicon Valley, where wait, the
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roommate was a trans named Twigs.
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What?
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I'm John C.
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Dvorak.
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This is Crackpot and Buzzkill.
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In the morning.
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Yeah.
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This whole thing smells bad, Mr. Dvorak.
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Well, I know a couple of things that
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are obvious.
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Fox.
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I have this clip from this morning I
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sent as a bonus clip.
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Okay, you got it.
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They are avoiding this topic like the plague.
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Foxes?
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Yeah.
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I don't think it's going to last long,
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but Howard Kurtz's show, he does a kind
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of a clone on the media.
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He's like one of the media guys.
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He comes on once a week.
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Oh, okay.
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Deconstruct the media.
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Does he do that on the weekend?
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I don't think I've ever seen him.
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Yeah, only weekends.
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Okay.
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It's like Sunday only.
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I don't even think he does a Saturday
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show.
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Okay.
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And so it kind of came up in
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the conversation.
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Man, this is the clip TG.
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They went so far.
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They just said they just dropped this like
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a hot potato.
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Nobody wants to talk about it at Fox.
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Megan, do the media need to know this?
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Whether the report is that he was rooming
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with a transgender person, or is that just
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something to glom onto because then we can
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blame it on the other side?
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I said earlier, all Democrats are out for
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murder, that kind of like painting with a
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broad brush.
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I don't necessarily think we need to know
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the murder.
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I think he was mentally unstable, and I
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think he committed murder, which is horrendous and
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unnecessary on a basic level.
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But I think that we're always going to
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find people who don't like our views, whether
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or not they're moderate, whether or not they're
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left, or whether or not they're to the
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right.
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I got a threat on Friday.
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I'm a very moderate Democrat who comes on
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Fox, who comes on all the stations.
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Yes.
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And it's very moderate.
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I should not be getting threats in my
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social media, but we do.
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I'm sure you get them- But you
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have on this- Literally on Friday.
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I'm sure you get them, and we all
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get them.
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I don't care what their motives are.
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They shouldn't be violent.
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It shouldn't matter.
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You should have the freedom to say what
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you want to say.
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That's the end of story.
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That's our democracy.
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I think this is a part of something
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else.
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I believe that all of the networks on
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all sides of the same spectrum, as they
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all are really, have all gotten the message,
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we've got to calm it down because we're
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all somehow responsible for this.
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And you don't want to get fired because
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people are getting fired left and right.
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Right now only left, but I think right
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is coming.
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And the media has gotten some message to
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tamp it all down and not blame it
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on a side.
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At least that's what it seems like to
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me.
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Well, you know, the funny thing out here,
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it's kind of just completely dissipated from the
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whole thing is gone.
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Oh, yeah.
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No, I mean, I'm looking at the quad
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screen and Fox is talking to Mike Johnson
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for the past 48 hours.
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Wow.
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That's got to be high entertainment.
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Oh, I have a couple of clips from
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this morning.
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I mean, the guy's making the rounds.
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But before we do that, everybody was waiting
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for Saturday.
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You know, we had the, oh, you know,
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the FBI.
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You got a press conference 20 minutes late.
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We're looking at the empty stage.
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We've got a, we got the four minute
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warning.
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We got the two minute warning.
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Okay, it's coming.
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And then we got this.
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In 33 hours, we have made historic progress
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for Charlie.
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Wow.
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In less than 36 hours.
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33 to be precise.
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You know, that is.
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Hold on.
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Hold on.
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Hold on.
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There's one more good.
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No.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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Let me play all three.
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Just so you get it all in context.
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These are in linear fashion.
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In 33 hours, we have made historic progress
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for Charlie.
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In less than 36 hours.
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33 to be precise.
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Bad stuff happens.
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And for, for 33 hours.
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Why the laughter?
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I was.
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The laughter from the governor of Utah was
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the weirdest one.
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As he turns around and looks at Cash
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Patel and says for.
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Bad stuff happens.
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And for, for 33 hours.
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What is up with that?
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This was Tina comes in from the bathroom.
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She's like, what is going on?
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I'm like, well, for almost 18 years.
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We've been tracking this and we can't now.
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All of a sudden, no avail.
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Well, true.
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But it's always, always something up with this.
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And what was the emphasis?
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You could have said in less than 48
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hours, a little over 24.
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Less than a day and a half.
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No, 33, 33, 33.
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This bugged me to no end.
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Actually, the best of the group was he
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said 36 and then he corrected it to
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33.
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Yes, in less than 36, 33.
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To be exact, and which is bullcrap, because
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we all know anyone who's ever worked for
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a living or done anything.
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You can't pinpoint, you know, your, your success
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at a certain number of exact hours to
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be exact.
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That's not even possible.
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No.
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So this was, so that's code.
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Of course it's code.
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And all of the stuff that's coming out
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and the information that's from sources, because mind
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you, I don't think there's been an official
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FBI.
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Notice has it, has this person even been
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officially charged yet?
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Because on Saturday, Kash Patel was very clear.
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We have 36 hours to file charging documents.
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So this person hasn't even officially been charged
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as far as I know.
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The whole thing stinks.
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We were at, there was a big benefit
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concert last night for, you know, for the
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flood victims.
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Trace Atkins performed, if you've ever, if you've
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never seen Trace Atkins, man, that guy's good.
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But the, my buddy, Mike, the, the sheriff,
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he was, you know, in charge of a
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lot of the security there.
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And he's, and he came right up to
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me, he said, Adam, we, you know, I
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guess they may have some inside knowledge.
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I don't know if Gillespie County Sheriff's office
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gets that or not, but he said, she
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is unlikely, but okay.
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They talk, you know, people talk.
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And so whatever talk there is, I'm just
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passing it on.
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He says, one, no way.
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He says, no way this went down the
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way they're saying it.
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And then another thing which I found curious,
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he says, we've got a video with, with
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audio of two shots.
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That I'm like, okay, well send, he hasn't
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sent it to me yet, but I said,
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send it to me.
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I'd love to hear that.
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Well, it could also be, it could be
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a ricochet, it could be an echo, but
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it's not like these guys don't know what
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that sounds like.
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So the whole thing was, everything's off about
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it.
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And you know, it just, you know, we've
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got the etchings on the casing, which we
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still have not seen.
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We've only heard about it.
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And we have, where's the photo?
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Exactly.
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At least with the other guy, they showed
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us, you know, his video showing all the
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etchings and commentary.
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They showed it and put it online.
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Almost like that was predictive programming.
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You know, it's like, well, it'll be just
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like that.
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You saw it, you saw it with that
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other guy.
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So, you know, it's the same here.
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Hey, the whole thing is just.
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Well, it's one of those things we can't
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do anything about except note it.
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Well, because we don't know.
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No, no, but it, but it leaves, it
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leaves so much open.
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And I think that's exactly the point.
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Yes.
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I mentioned that in the newsletter today or
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yesterday, which is that this is good.
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This could lead, especially if something happens to
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this character.
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Oh yeah.
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How there were screwed.
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How likely is that?
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I'd be stunned.
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Yeah.
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And so we'd be stuck with this kind
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of speculation forever.
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This is like a real time sink.
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What's interesting about this particular case is the
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amount of stories coming out about people getting
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fired for their response online.
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And I just, I just pulled one story
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from Ohio, which actually has three stories in
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it.
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Just because you have a computer or phone
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handy, doesn't mean you can say whatever you
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want.
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Monroe Falls City Council Vice President John Empolizari
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is feeling the heat after post-criticizing Charlie
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Kirk saying in part, quote, the world is
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a better place now that he's gone, end
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quote.
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And 19 News has confirmed a Cleveland firefighter
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and EMS staff member are under internal investigation
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after the city was made aware of social
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media activity.
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Cleveland attorney Danny Karen says the first amendment
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protections are not limitless.
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There are certain restrictions on the first amendment,
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but as it concerns kids, teachers, whomever popping
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off, council people popping off online, saying awful
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incendiary things, not real smart.
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Why?
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Because a lot of us have codes of
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conduct or codes of ethics that control our
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work experiences.
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You may be surprised to learn it does
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not matter if you're a government employee or
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work for a private company.
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By the way, all the reports are similar
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to this.
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It's like they keep talking about this thing
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called free speech, which I'm not sure what
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that is.
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It's just, you know, what used to be
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called freedom of speech is now just free
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speech.
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Like you don't have to pay.
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It's like a podcast.
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It's free.
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You don't have to pay for it.
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It's free, free speech.
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And that this is that kind of turning
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it into a debate about, you know, well,
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I have the right to say whatever I
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want to say, which is ludicrous.
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But the reason this is interesting is these
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city council people, other officials, like in the
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fire department, people at schools.
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The reason they said this stuff is because
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they clearly thought everybody agrees.
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This is what's so eye opening.
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Can you hear me?
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Yeah.
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Can you not hear me?
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No, it was my fault.
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I, you know, this thing goes, it mutes
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itself.
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I was just going to say in that
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list of people that you're talking about, you
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know who else got nailed?
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Who?
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George Conway.
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Oh, really?
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Interesting.
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George Conway posted a picture comparing Charlie Kirk
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to some Ugan Nazi from the 30s and
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had a picture of them side by side.
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And he's just getting blessed.
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And this is, you know, I, every time
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I see this character, who's just a lunatic.
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How did he ever hook up with Kellyanne
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Conway?
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Who's a power baby, political power.
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He had political power at the time.
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That's what it was.
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But, but she was an idiot.
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But let's just go back to the, to
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the point I'm trying to make here is
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that they clearly thought it was okay to
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post this, whatever, whatever the post was, you
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know, it varied from, you know, oh, well,
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yeah, he said that some victims would have
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to fall for, for defending the second amendment
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to good riddance, all these.
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But I, I'm convinced that these people truly
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believe that everybody around them had the same
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opinion.
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But wait, wait, you had a thing about
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pre-programming earlier in your commentary here.
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Yes, yes.
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How about Luigi?
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There you go.
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There's the pre-programming because everybody was all
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in love with Luigi and then nobody got
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burned for it.
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Exactly.
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Ah, very good point.
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Very good point.
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Huh.
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Isn't that interesting?
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Well, and these guys are getting really the
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libs of tic-tac girl.
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Yeah.
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She has been posting one teacher because she,
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you know, she really goes after teachers, one
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teacher after another who have posted some nasty
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stuff and, and names the school and everything.
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Well, well, she always finishes with the same
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line.
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Do you want this person teaching your children?
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Doesn't that prove the point that the entire
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education system believes that this was okay?
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This is okay.
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Everybody agrees.
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Hey, if you could come back and kill
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baby Hitler in a time machine, wouldn't you
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do it?
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Well, sure I would.
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Which brings me to the supercut.
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I've got a better one than the one
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we just kind of hastily patched together on,
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on Thursday.
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This is primarily MSNBC.
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Primarily.
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But it's, it's not just talking heads.
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It's, you know, the guests.
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It's, it's, it's captains of industry.
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Of course, Nancy Pelosi's in there as well.
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And when you listen to it in this
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context of just a supercut, you go, well,
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yeah, of course I would come back and
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kill baby Hitler and Goering and Goebbels and
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every single one of the, of the Hitlerjugend,
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which, well, listen.
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We have to start calling his supporters, supporters
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racist as well.
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That MAGA, uh, had that MAGA symbol has
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come to represent something.
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It is the new Nazi symbol.
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It is the new, uh, could.
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Because they're not a party, right?
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They're Sinn Fein to the IRA.
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They're, they're the PLO to Hamas.
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They're a dime storefront for a terrorist movement.
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The Republican party is basically a domestic terrorist
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cell at this point, and they should be
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treated as such.
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There are elements of the GOP that are
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starting to look like the jihadists.
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Not a political party.
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They're a white nationalist movement.
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They're a fascist threat to our nation.
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That's not hyperbolic.
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That's academic.
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Would have once seemed hyperbolic, but it increasingly
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does feel like the Republican party has become
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a death cult.
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And it's all about Donald Trump.
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There is no alternative right now because the
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Republican party project today is a fascist authoritarian
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project.
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Fact is, Republicans in Congress are still in
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the grip of the ultra-MAGA agenda.
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Party of dupes, party of knuckleheads, party of
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weirdos, party of freaks.
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That is a simple, simple message.
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And underneath that, it's the party of nothing.
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It has become an authoritarian embracing cult.
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It is fascist.
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We take an oath to protect and defend
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the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic.
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And sadly, the domestic enemies to our voting
15:04
system and our honor and our Constitution are
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right at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue with their allies
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in the Congress of the United States.
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Trump's modern-day Giscopo is scooping folks up
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off the streets.
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They're in unmarked vans, wearing masks, being shipped
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off to foreign torture dungeons.
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No chance to mount a defense, not even
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a chance to kiss a loved one goodbye.
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Just grabbed up by masked agents, shoved into
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those vans.
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The old films of the Gestapo grabbing people
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off the streets of Poland, and you compare
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them to those nondescript thugs who grabbed that
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student, that graduate student.
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It does look like a Gestapo operation.
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Because if we just roll this clock on
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the wall back 75 years, we'd be looking
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at a time in Nazi Germany, where people
15:55
ran around with signs like this new ICE
15:57
sign that says report all foreign invaders to
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ICE.
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With Uncle Sam there holding up the sign.
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This could have been a Gestapo member 75
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years ago.
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Report all Jews.
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Bolts of authoritarian personality in league with autocrats
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and kleptocrats and dictators all over the world.
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They're taking direct aim at our democracy.
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Autocratic-leaning remarks he has made in recent
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weeks and months, such as ones that echo
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Hitler.
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Hitler in 1933 was talking about his designs
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on America.
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And Hitler described you could get Americans to
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give up their own democracy and to be
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ready for a fascist takeover.
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It's a disaster.
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We need extreme measures.
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Now, it's not that all the kids in
16:37
the world are watching MSNBC, but you know
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every single teacher is.
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Because remember the liberal school teacher from Austin
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who we used to hang out with, who
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we don't anymore?
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She watched MSNBC religiously.
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It was her church.
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So this is what's happening.
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Yeah, well that's why they had to, that's
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why Brian Roberts, the CEO of Comcast who
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owns MSNBC, had to spin it off.
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Yes, he wanted out.
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By the way, I have the Fox, actually
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this might have been the last moment that
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Fox News talked about the trans part of
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this story.
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Breakout.
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A Fox News alert, FBI sources tell Fox
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News Digital that the man charged with assassinating
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Okay, so the FBI sources, FBI sources, who
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do they call?
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Fox Digital.
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Really?
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That's who they call?
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Wouldn't they be calling Hannity?
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No, we're calling, hey boys, let's leak some
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information.
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Let's call Fox Digital, yeah.
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A Fox News alert, FBI sources tell Fox
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News Digital that the man charged with assassinating
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Charlie Kirk was living with a transgender partner.
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Bureau officials confirmed that Tyler Robinson was in
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a romantic relationship with someone transitioning from male
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to female.
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They say that individual is fully cooperating with
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their investigation, claims to have had no idea
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of Robinson's plans, and is not currently accused
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of any criminal activity.
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Oh, thank you very much for that update.
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I want to hear some of the, I
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know you have some anal quips.
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I think I can predict a quote from
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that trans woman when she, he, they, I
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don't know what her pronoun is, nobody told
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me.
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The first thing she said was, you did
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what?
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Okay.
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It's going to ruin that person's life, it's
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going to ruin the family.
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The family of the kid.
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Luna is the person's name.
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Luna.
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I thought it was Twigs.
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Well, no, that's the online, I don't know.
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Who cares?
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Luna Twigs.
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Yeah, Lance S.
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Twigs, also known as Luna.
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And by the way, big mistake in this
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whole thing, sorry to say it, but why
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doesn't Tyler Robinson have a middle name?
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This is not a good, this is not
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a, we're missing a middle name.
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33 motif.
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Yes, you have to have a middle name,
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three, which means three names.
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We got to have the middle name.
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So something's up here.
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You want to just hear some of the
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morning shows since we got them from this
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morning?
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This is all the latest.
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Most of my stuff is the analysis clips.
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Which is important.
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I want to play those afterwards.
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I want to hear the morning shows.
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I'm sure we're gems.
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Here's ABC this week.
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This morning, the New York Times is reporting
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that in the hours after Charlie Kirk's murder,
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his alleged gunman, Tyler Robinson, was messaged in
19:44
a group chat by an acquaintance jokingly questioning
19:46
where he was, suggesting he resembled the man
19:49
police were looking for.
19:51
According to the Times, Robinson responded that his
19:53
doppelganger was trying to get me in trouble
19:55
while making other jokes about the manhunt, including
19:58
saying he was actually Charlie Kirk.
20:01
ABC News has not independently verified those messages.
20:04
Authorities announced the- By the way, do
20:05
you hear that insert?
20:07
Hey, hey guys.
20:09
Listen, you just said that.
20:12
We need to add a little disclaimer there
20:13
that we haven't independently verified what the New
20:16
York Times said, please.
20:17
Because you never know, it could be bullcrap.
20:19
Including saying he was actually Charlie Kirk.
20:22
ABC News has not independently verified those messages.
20:25
Authorities announced- Did you hear the insert?
20:27
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
20:28
You could hear it.
20:29
It was a flip in.
20:30
The arrest of 22-year-old Tyler Robinson
20:32
on Friday.
20:33
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
20:35
We got him.
20:36
But until his capture, the suspect had been
20:38
an unknown man in grainy surveillance images.
20:41
Images, authorities say, were recognized by the suspect's
20:45
own father.
20:45
A family member of Tyler Robinson reached out
20:48
to a family friend who contacted the Washington
20:51
County Sheriff's Office with information that Robinson had
20:54
confessed to them or implied that he had
20:56
committed the incident.
20:58
Authorities tell ABC News hundreds of investigators stitched
21:01
the alleged gunman's path from the moment he
21:03
drove onto campus at 8.29 a.m.
21:05
on Wednesday.
21:06
TMZ obtaining this video, appearing to match the
21:08
description of the shooter, who police say appears
21:11
to walk with a stiff right leg.
21:13
And that his ability to bend his right
21:15
leg appears to be restricted.
21:17
Law enforcement sources tell us investigators believe Robinson
21:20
was hiding his long gun under his clothing.
21:23
And at some point, authorities say he changed
21:24
into the outfit seen in photos released during
21:27
the manhunt and climbed up a campus stairwell
21:29
to a roof at about 11.50 a
21:31
.m. And then he's seen dressed in a
21:33
black cap, sunglasses, and a black shirt emblazoned
21:36
with an American flag and an eagle.
21:38
Yeah, missing everywhere is him reassembling a gun
21:42
that was either in his backpack or walking
21:44
with a four-foot-long rifle with his
21:46
legs bent up the stairs.
21:49
I mean, the FBI showed a picture, apparently
21:54
it's an FBI picture, with the scope mounted
21:56
in, according to our experts, the wrong spot.
22:01
It's just like the whole thing, the 33s,
22:05
that got me right away.
22:06
Yeah, the 33 is a problem.
22:10
Since TMZ was mentioned in there, I didn't
22:12
get any clips of this, but I should
22:15
have.
22:15
There's a couple out there that are good.
22:18
Harvey's, you know, TMZ, I think, is owned
22:20
by Fox.
22:21
And Harvey turned pale white and came out
22:26
and did a thing.
22:27
Because during the announcement of the death of
22:32
Charlie Kirk, There were tears, tears.
22:34
The staff, and this has been posted over
22:37
and over again, showing the exact timeline.
22:38
Time codes, I know, the internet sleuths are
22:42
on the case.
22:43
I'm telling you, the online sleuths are unbelievable.
22:46
So they had the time codes, the things
22:48
all synced up, and they obviously were cheering,
22:51
because exact same moment that they had made
22:53
this announcement.
22:54
Harvey came on later in the show and
22:56
said, though it was because they were watching
22:58
the police chase.
22:59
Police chase, yeah.
23:00
And it was bullcrap.
23:01
And he was not, he was shook.
23:05
He says, we wouldn't have people working here
23:07
that would do that.
23:08
When in fact, he's like a Trump hater.
23:12
And so he's only going to hire other
23:14
people of like mind.
23:15
And it's just, it's pathetic.
23:30
Into position on the roof, then lay down
23:32
in a sniper position, about 175 yards from
23:35
the stage.
23:36
One minute later, as Charlie Kirk was answering
23:39
a question.
23:39
Now listen to the edit on this.
23:44
You think Fox didn't want to talk about
23:46
the trans information?
23:48
Listen to how they added this one.
23:50
One minute later, as Charlie Kirk was answering
23:52
a question about gun violence.
23:54
Police say the suspect fired.
23:55
Do you know how many mass shooters there
23:57
have been in America over the last 10
24:00
years?
24:00
They're not zoning gang violence.
24:02
Great.
24:03
They pulled out the whole trans shooter thing.
24:06
Wow.
24:07
Pulled it out.
24:08
Pull it out.
24:10
That is deceptive and not news.
24:13
This is ABC this week.
24:17
From this morning.
24:18
That is, that is.
24:20
Disturbing.
24:21
It was more than that.
24:23
It is disgusting that they can't even present.
24:28
I don't know.
24:30
It's annoying.
24:32
Let's listen to the man of the day.
24:35
Mike Johnson appearing everywhere.
24:37
Don't worry, Mike.
24:38
Mike's okay though.
24:39
The burdens of speakership are always manifold.
24:42
You know that previous speakers I've covered know
24:44
that.
24:45
But they feel particularly heavy after the events
24:47
of this week.
24:48
I just want to ask you, Mr. Speaker,
24:50
how are you doing?
24:51
I'm doing okay, Major.
24:52
Thanks for asking.
24:53
No question.
24:54
It was a difficult week.
24:55
It's so hard for me.
24:56
For the country, certainly.
24:59
He had a throat.
24:59
He had a cough tale too.
25:02
Let's listen to that again.
25:03
Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
25:04
How are you doing?
25:05
I'm doing okay, Major.
25:06
Thanks for asking.
25:07
No question.
25:08
It was a difficult week for the country.
25:10
Certainly, it was felt on Capitol Hill.
25:12
There's a mixture of, you know, anger and
25:15
sadness and fear, frankly, on the part of
25:18
a lot of people.
25:18
It cast a large shadow across the country
25:21
and the nation's capital.
25:22
But what I do know, Major, is that
25:25
my good friend Charlie would not want any
25:27
of us to be consumed by despair.
25:29
He would want us to go forward boldly.
25:31
That was his message.
25:32
And to do it in love.
25:33
And I think that, I hope, is the
25:35
message that continues in the days ahead.
25:38
Yeah, this is interesting.
25:39
So we're getting—well, actually, you'll hear in the
25:41
next two clips that now all the politicians
25:43
are very concerned for their safety.
25:45
Mr. Speaker, you mentioned the word fear a
25:47
moment ago.
25:47
It is on the lips of members of
25:50
Congress in ways I've never experienced before.
25:52
They are talking openly.
25:54
They already have canceled events.
25:56
Other members are talking about whether or not
25:58
it's proper in their family conversations to seek
26:01
reelection.
26:02
This is—that's a great way to honor Charlie,
26:04
to cower.
26:06
That's a great way to do it, cower
26:07
and not show up in public.
26:09
That honors Charlie Kirk's memory.
26:11
Very good.
26:12
How do you feel this particular space of
26:14
anxiety for your membership, Republican and Democrat?
26:17
Space of anxiety.
26:18
Wow.
26:19
Yeah, well, I've been talking with a lot
26:21
of them over the last few days about
26:23
that and trying to calm the nerves to
26:26
assure them that we will make certain that
26:29
everyone has the level of security that's necessary,
26:31
that the resources will be there for their
26:33
residential security and their personal security.
26:36
We're evaluating all the options for that.
26:39
But I think if we all adopt these
26:42
practices together and we turn down the rhetoric,
26:45
we cease with this idea that policy disputes
26:50
are somehow an existential threat to democracy or
26:53
the republic.
26:54
We stop calling one another names.
26:56
I mean, calling people Nazis and fascists is
26:58
not helpful.
26:59
Look, there are some deranged people in society.
27:02
And when they see leaders using that kind
27:04
of language so often now, increasingly, it spurs
27:07
them on to action.
27:08
We have to recognize that reality and address
27:10
it appropriately.
27:11
And I'm heartened to know, Major, and to
27:14
see that many of my colleagues on both
27:16
sides of the aisle are stepping up and
27:17
saying that and addressing it.
27:19
I think this could be a turning point,
27:22
frankly, to use Charlie's term for the country.
27:26
And I hope that's true.
27:27
You know, I will tell you that if
27:30
this is what I think it may be,
27:31
which is part of a larger operation to
27:36
sow discord in the United States, to get
27:39
people to hate each other even more than
27:41
they already did in our country, I would
27:44
be looking more towards other very big conservative
27:48
voices.
27:49
If I were any of those big podcasters,
27:53
that's who should be careful.
27:56
Well, that's interesting you say that because Tim
27:59
Poole was on Jesse Waters.
28:02
Yeah, you got a clip?
28:05
I had a clip.
28:06
Did you have a clip?
28:07
I should have got the clip.
28:08
I have a lot of clips, but I
28:11
can't get every clip that...
28:12
No, no, no.
28:13
You can just tell us what he said.
28:14
I, of course, did not see this.
28:16
So what did he say?
28:17
He said he has a contingent of bodyguards
28:21
and he's had them for quite a while.
28:25
He went on and on about it.
28:26
I mean, he was actually quite...
28:27
I should have recorded it now that I
28:29
think about it because Tim Poole was quite
28:31
erudite in discussing this and it would be
28:36
worth recording.
28:37
But he did mention in the process that,
28:40
yes, he talked about the security that Kirk
28:43
had.
28:43
He says he's got the same security because
28:45
he's under a constant threat, I guess.
28:48
Does anybody care that much about Tim Poole?
28:52
I'm thinking bigger than Tim Poole.
28:55
I don't want to name names.
28:56
I know, but I'm just saying at the
28:57
Tim Poole level, you have this.
28:59
I don't know who bigger would be Joe
29:01
Rogan.
29:01
He's the biggest.
29:03
You know, you've got Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson.
29:06
You've got Candace Owens.
29:07
Yeah, Tucker's up there.
29:08
You've got people up there.
29:10
You know, if this is what I think
29:12
it is, we'll get to that much later.
29:14
But first of all, we've got to blame
29:15
it on something.
29:16
What?
29:18
I'm in that camp.
29:20
I don't see this as being anything more
29:22
than it is.
29:23
No, that's fine.
29:24
That's fine.
29:24
I just have ideas and thoughts.
29:28
But first, we need to blame it on
29:29
something.
29:30
This is still CBS face the nation.
29:34
Going to take a closer look at the
29:35
problem of political violence in America.
29:37
And we're joined now, I'm glad to say,
29:39
by University of Chicago Professor Robert Pape.
29:41
He's the founding director of the Chicago Project
29:44
on Security and Threats.
29:45
Now, listen to this guy, because his numbers
29:47
are all over the place.
29:49
Professor, it's great to have you with us.
29:50
Thanks for joining us.
29:51
What are the trend lines and what is
29:53
the key terminology you want my audience to
29:55
understand?
29:55
We are now in a watershed moment, what
29:58
I call the era of violent populism in
30:03
America.
30:04
This era is defined first and foremost by
30:08
two factors.
30:09
Trump and Trump.
30:10
Number one, a rising tide of political violence
30:14
on both the right and the left.
30:16
Our center at the University of Chicago Project
30:18
on Security and Threats, we have been conducting
30:20
highly reliable national surveys on political violence, the
30:25
support for political violence among Americans for over
30:27
four years.
30:28
Stop the clip.
30:30
So who is he to say out of
30:32
the blue, highly reliable political survey?
30:35
Oh, it gets better.
30:36
It gets much better in this.
30:37
I mean, yeah, immediately.
30:38
That's to me, it's a red flag for
30:40
a guy who's full of shit.
30:41
Of course.
30:42
Our center at the University of Chicago Project
30:45
on Security and Threats, we have been conducting
30:48
highly reliable national surveys on political violence, the
30:52
support for political violence among Americans for over
30:54
four years.
30:55
We started this in the summer of 2021.
30:57
Our most recent survey in May found higher
31:02
levels of support for political violence on both
31:05
the right and the left than we have
31:06
ever seen.
31:07
OK, hold on.
31:09
He's had this highly reliable information for four
31:12
years.
31:14
And now the information shows it's worse than
31:16
we've ever seen.
31:18
But he wasn't surveying anything before four years
31:22
ago.
31:23
No, the evidence is just the opposite, too.
31:25
I mean, I went through the 60s and
31:27
70s where you had you had unbelievable political
31:32
violence.
31:33
Besides, you know, it's starting.
31:34
It actually started with the death of Kent,
31:36
with the assassination of Kennedy, the assassination of
31:39
RFK, and then the assassination of Martin Luther
31:43
King, who is a high highest order guy
31:45
you can kill.
31:46
There was Huey Newton was killed in Oakland.
31:48
And there was a bunch of Larry Flint,
31:52
the publisher of Hustler magazine, was shot.
31:57
And George Wallace was shot in Ronald Reagan.
32:01
Ronald Reagan was shot.
32:03
George Ford, Gerald Ford was shot or shot
32:06
at twice.
32:08
And you ended up with over a thousand
32:09
bombings in the 70s.
32:11
And this is what we're seeing now.
32:13
This stuff that's going on now is worse.
32:15
Are you kidding me?
32:16
Well, we can all blame it on one
32:18
obvious thing.
32:19
Does your research buttress the point that both
32:22
Senator Lankford and Senator Coons made, which is
32:25
the Internet is an accelerant and an amplifier?
32:28
It's an accelerant, but it's not the root
32:31
cause.
32:32
So studying this problem now for five years,
32:35
I found that just as around the world,
32:38
big social change, it drives political violence.
32:43
We see this in other countries around the
32:45
world.
32:45
But the details of the change vary.
32:48
We are now moving for the first time
32:51
in our country's 250 year history.
32:53
OK, what are we moving towards?
32:55
Come on.
32:55
We've got to blame it on something.
32:57
What can we blame it on?
32:59
What are we moving toward in our 250
33:01
year history?
33:02
First time in 250 year history.
33:05
From my perspective, we're moving toward nothing different.
33:08
But I could see that somebody who's a
33:11
lunatic that's been studying this four years, as
33:14
you said earlier, then he suddenly says five
33:16
years, which I find interesting contradiction, probably fascism.
33:22
No, much simpler.
33:25
Come on.
33:26
Simpler.
33:26
Here we go.
33:27
Populism.
33:28
No, no, no.
33:29
Here we go.
33:30
From a white majority democracy to a white
33:33
minority democracy.
33:35
It's racism.
33:36
In 1990, we were 76% non-Hispanic
33:39
white.
33:40
Today, we're 57% non-Hispanic white.
33:43
It will be another 10 years, maybe 15,
33:46
if we deport a lot of those undocumented
33:49
illegal immigrants before we make the transition to
33:52
a truly white minority democracy.
33:55
Well, this generational change has happened, it started
33:58
about 10 years ago with a real tipping
34:00
point generation and corresponds with the rise of
34:03
Donald Trump.
34:04
Why his issue of immigration is meteoric.
34:07
Why it's morphed from immigration, meaning stop people
34:11
crossing the border to now deporting mass numbers
34:14
of people because there are people on the
34:16
right who want to stop or reverse this
34:18
and also the virulent reaction to Donald Trump
34:21
on the left.
34:22
This guy is an agent.
34:23
Parts of the left who want to keep
34:25
this going.
34:26
This is really the taproot.
34:28
And that's why we need to expect this
34:31
left to its own devices will get worse
34:33
and be with us for 10 years.
34:35
I've never, the term taproot is funny.
34:38
It's a, it was a.
34:39
No, that's a debt.
34:40
That's not a term that's used in academia.
34:43
That is a term that's used someplace else.
34:46
That's a milieu term that's used some places.
34:49
I don't know where we can probably find
34:50
it.
34:50
You know, if we do enough research, it
34:52
could be an Intel term.
34:54
We don't know.
34:55
Well, the only other place I've ever heard
34:57
taproot is it was an addition to Bitcoin.
35:03
Um, about seven years ago that enabled the
35:07
lightning network.
35:08
And it was called taproot.
35:11
Uh, when we asked the computer, should we
35:13
ask the computer?
35:14
Oh, I think she needs to.
35:17
Yes.
35:17
I think this is a great addition to
35:19
the show.
35:21
Except for the fact that there's a, there's
35:23
a lag.
35:23
Well, I'm going to try the way this
35:25
lag is not as bad.
35:26
That old lag you used to have with
35:27
that other device.
35:28
Well, that was when I was still using,
35:30
uh.
35:31
That was, that was terrible.
35:33
Okay.
35:35
Uh, error.
35:36
What is, what is the origin of the
35:39
term taproot?
35:42
It comes from botany, describing a plant's main
35:45
root that digs deep like a taproot, while
35:47
others branch out shallowly.
35:49
First used in the 17th century, think tap
35:52
as in a spout or peg, implying something
35:54
central and piercing down.
35:56
Not related to modern taps like faucets though.
35:59
So it's a botanist.
36:01
That's did suck.
36:04
I think it's the question was asked poorly,
36:07
by the way.
36:07
So JC was at dinner recently and he,
36:10
who was very deeply involved in all this.
36:12
He had, he had told me the three,
36:14
there's three huge flaws that everybody in the
36:17
business knows about AI.
36:19
And one of them, which I thought was
36:21
the, I don't remember the other two.
36:23
I'll get them and write them up.
36:26
But, but the one of them that it
36:28
was the most fascinating to me is that
36:30
they can't learn from the questions or the
36:34
corrections you make to them.
36:36
Oh, no, of course not.
36:37
That wouldn't imply memory.
36:38
They have their, their corpus and they use
36:40
that.
36:40
And you say, no, no, that's not true.
36:43
You know, what, what you should know is
36:45
that I'm actually, to tell him, say about
36:47
yourself, I'm actually the inventor of podcast.
36:50
Oh yes.
36:51
Okay.
36:51
You are.
36:51
They'll say that back to you, but then
36:53
it won't go back into the corpus.
36:55
If they don't learn that they'll have the
36:57
same bogus answers later.
36:58
It can't go into the corpus because that
37:00
has to translate into tokens.
37:02
And that costs a lot of compute, compute
37:05
way too much money, massive compute.
37:07
So there's no interaction whatsoever in a real
37:10
sense.
37:11
So tap roots though.
37:13
Anyway, well, maybe one of our, maybe a
37:16
spook term.
37:17
Oh, hold on.
37:18
Hold on.
37:19
You can ask the question.
37:20
Hold on.
37:20
Ready?
37:21
Go.
37:22
What is the use of the term tap
37:26
root in the intelligence community or other social
37:29
networks?
37:36
Oh, wow.
37:39
Wow.
37:40
We got nothing.
37:41
It wouldn't answer it.
37:43
Okay.
37:44
That that's odd.
37:48
I don't know what to say.
37:49
You want to try it again?
37:52
Yeah, I'll try it with, I'll reword it
37:55
a little bit.
37:58
How is the word or phrase tap root
38:02
used in the intelligence community or other social
38:05
networks?
38:06
It's literally not registering you, John.
38:09
Well, maybe it's not being fed to her
38:12
properly.
38:12
Well, let me see.
38:13
How is the term tap root used in
38:15
intelligence or other networks?
38:21
Tap root pops up in intelligence and network
38:23
context too.
38:25
Borrowing from the plant idea, a hidden central
38:27
root feeding everything else.
38:29
In cyber ops, it's slang for a covert
38:32
command hub in espionage nets, like a deep
38:35
undetected node coordinating spies or malware.
38:38
Some sources link it to blockchain privacy upgrades
38:41
on Bitcoin.
38:43
Wow.
38:44
Okay.
38:44
Well, that's interesting.
38:46
Yeah.
38:46
So it's, so it is used in Intel
38:48
and that guy, and it's not, I know
38:50
it's not used in academia.
38:52
So that guy is something else.
38:56
He's something else.
38:57
All right.
38:58
Well, you spotted it.
38:59
Yeah.
39:00
Tap root.
39:01
It's like, cause that's, I've heard it in
39:02
the context of Bitcoin.
39:03
Okay.
39:04
So now we have to listen to what
39:06
exactly that guy said again.
39:08
Hold on a second.
39:09
Uh, it was somewhere here.
39:12
Let's listen.
39:12
And that's one of the reasons why I
39:14
ran a and may found higher levels of
39:17
support for political violence on both the right
39:19
and the left than we have ever seen.
39:21
And that's one of the reasons why I
39:23
rang the alarm bell with that big op
39:25
-ed in the New York national surveys on
39:28
political violence, the support for political violence among
39:30
Americans for over four years.
39:32
Uh, we started this in the summer of
39:34
2021.
39:35
No, sorry.
39:36
It's number this.
39:36
This is the clip now.
39:38
And now I want to know.
39:39
You know, change has happened absurd about 10
39:41
years ago where the real tipping point generation
39:43
and corresponds with the rise of Donald Trump.
39:46
Why his issue of immigration is meteoric.
39:49
Why it's morphed from immigration, meaning stop people
39:53
crossing the border to now deporting mass numbers
39:56
of people because there are people on the
39:59
right who want to stop or reverse this.
40:01
And also the virulent reaction to Donald Trump
40:03
on the left on parts of the left
40:05
who want to keep this going.
40:07
This is really the tap root.
40:09
And that's why we need to expect this
40:12
left to its own devices.
40:14
What do you make of that then in
40:15
that context?
40:17
I, I don't know.
40:18
It's just almost like code.
40:19
Yeah.
40:20
He's using it casually, which is, which is,
40:23
that's the weird thing.
40:24
Yeah.
40:24
He's, yeah, that's because it's in his milieu.
40:27
It's a casual word that actually means a
40:29
lot to that group.
40:30
Well, maybe we don't know.
40:31
We're not in that group, so we don't
40:32
know what it means.
40:33
He could just be a botanist for all
40:35
we know in his spare time.
40:36
He's not a botanist.
40:37
He's gardening.
40:39
He's not a botanist.
40:40
And he is.
40:42
And he is intelligence of whatever, whoever with.
40:46
I mean, there's so many now who can
40:48
tell, but it's, it's.
40:50
How about this?
40:51
That's a globalist opinion that needs to be
40:53
rooted out of our intelligence community.
40:56
There you go.
40:57
All of them.
40:57
There you go.
40:59
So I want to get to, I have
41:01
two more and then we'll get to your,
41:02
your analysis clips.
41:03
This was a cute idea.
41:05
I appreciated it.
41:06
Everyone was tagging me, sharing this.
41:10
I'm like, we need to just explain once
41:14
again what this particular act was and how
41:18
this is a misunderstanding of it to, to
41:21
some degree.
41:22
President Trump, as a supporter who voted for
41:24
you three times, I am hoping and praying
41:27
that you will revisit what Barack Obama and
41:30
Joe Biden got rid of back in 2013,
41:32
which is the Smith-Mundt Act, which held
41:34
news corporations accountable for lying to the American
41:36
people and spreading propaganda instead of truth.
41:38
Okay.
41:39
That's the problem.
41:40
The Smith-Mundt Act did not hold news
41:43
organizations accountable.
41:44
I saw this too.
41:45
The Smith-Mundt Act was specifically forbidding the
41:50
American government from propagandizing its own people.
41:55
And the biggest perpetrator of this was the
41:59
Voice of America group, the Broadcast Board of
42:02
Governors, i.e. Tucker Carlson's dad's position back
42:05
in the day.
42:08
And the, it got put in, the, the
42:11
act was reformed, i.e. struck as a
42:16
part of the National Defense Authorization Act because
42:19
we could no longer, the, the way the,
42:23
the, the wording was is we can no
42:25
longer propagandize the rest of the world if
42:27
we're using the internet because invariably we're going
42:30
to be propagandizing Americans.
42:33
Now, that doesn't, in no way to the
42:37
ever, can it ever, should it ever stop
42:41
news organizations from doing whatever they want to
42:45
do, right?
42:46
On the sideline of that, I will say
42:49
that looking at Operation Mockingbird, obviously, if you
42:54
have government agents functioning inside your organization, which
43:00
is where all this came from, ultimately, because
43:02
they were writing the stories, they were for
43:05
CBS News, they were writing every, they were
43:07
writing the stories for Newsweek, etc.
43:10
I think it was Newsweek.
43:13
So, obviously, when you let on a whole
43:15
bunch of these ex-agents, ex-intelligence officer,
43:20
ex, you know, generals, when you let them
43:23
on the air and let them do their
43:24
thing, obviously that's propaganda, but it's not really
43:28
the news network.
43:29
So, you know, and it's, honestly, it's very
43:33
un-American and unconstitutional for people to be
43:37
calling to hold the news agencies to account.
43:43
That's bullcrap.
43:44
And this whole thing was, this little pitch
43:46
by this girl, went on and on and
43:49
on about it, completely misleading, and it was
43:52
reposted by Trump himself, or at least whoever
43:55
does it.
43:55
Well, of course, it's what you do, it's
43:57
a troll.
43:57
But it is a bad, it's a misdirection,
44:01
if ever there was.
44:03
It's bullcrap.
44:03
Yeah.
44:04
So, because people got all excited.
44:06
Yeah, man, you guys talked about Smith-Munn,
44:08
yeah, this is what he's talking about, then
44:10
bring it back.
44:11
But that's, you can't.
44:12
I know, it just kills me that it's
44:14
so easy.
44:15
But she does this, she's almost like a
44:17
pro.
44:18
She's non-descript, you know, kind of non
44:20
-descript, you know, plain Jane.
44:22
And she's presenting it in a very reasonable
44:29
fashion, and it's just BS.
44:32
Yeah, I'll come back after your analysis clips
44:34
with some Chris Coons stuff.
44:37
But I just could not resist because they
44:39
did an emergency pod.
44:41
We have to do an emergency pod right
44:44
away.
44:45
Emergency pod, everybody.
44:47
Here we go with the liberal intellectual elites
44:50
of Pivot.
44:51
Officials say Robinson made incriminating statements to relatives
44:54
and sent discord messages about retrieving a rifle
44:57
from a drop point.
44:59
Investigators also say they found messages on the
45:03
ammunition, the bullets.
45:04
Who said investigators?
45:06
No, you just heard sources, Kara Swisher, great
45:08
journalist that you claim to be.
45:10
From a drop point.
45:11
Investigators also say they found- No investigator
45:14
has said anything.
45:16
Great journalist that you are.
45:17
A rifle from a drop point.
45:19
Investigators also say they found messages on the
45:24
ammunition, the bullets, including anti-fascist slogans and
45:27
references to video games and online memes and
45:29
also an anti-gay remark.
45:32
Robinson is a registered voter in Utah but
45:34
doesn't have a party affiliation.
45:36
His family seems to be Republican, Christian, gun
45:41
-oriented, as many people in Utah are.
45:44
Are you gun-oriented?
45:46
What, they own a gun shop?
45:47
No, what's a new type of gender?
45:49
I'm gun-oriented.
45:51
Scott, what are your initial thoughts when you
45:53
heard about this suspect?
45:55
Well, my initial thoughts are how disappointed Representative
45:57
Mace, President Trump, and Jesse Watters might be
46:00
that it's not a transgender woman with blue
46:03
hair working on immigration for AOC.
46:05
That was your first thought, hmm.
46:07
Exactly.
46:08
They have all promised us in exchange for
46:11
this needless death that they were going to
46:13
declare war.
46:14
And so my question is, are they going
46:15
to declare war on young white heterosexuals?
46:18
Has anyone, did Jesse Watters declare war?
46:23
He just declared war.
46:24
Well, they said- In fact, the response,
46:26
I think, is pretty well put by the
46:28
guy who was the governor of Utah.
46:30
Everyone's calm.
46:31
It's not like what happened with George Floyd.
46:33
No, no, they're going to declare war.
46:36
All promised us that in exchange for this
46:39
needless death that they were going to declare
46:40
war.
46:41
And so my question is, are they going
46:42
to declare war on young white heterosexual men
46:45
who come from Mormon families who traditionally have
46:48
voted Republican or gun owners?
46:50
So the notion somehow that they are trying
46:52
to pin this on, quote unquote, the radical
46:55
left is just so insane.
46:59
It's eminently clear this kid was online, deeply
47:03
and unfortunately online.
47:06
Deeply online.
47:07
I would say.
47:08
There are two obvious common sense solutions that
47:12
unfortunately cost a lot of money or diminish
47:14
the shareholder value of key companies that are
47:16
driving our entire economy and get in the
47:18
way of the political narrative of special interest
47:20
groups in charge right now.
47:21
The first and most obvious solution is that
47:23
Australia and the UK just don't have cultures
47:25
that much different than us.
47:26
The last time they had a mass shooting,
47:28
they put in place sensible gun control.
47:30
What do you know?
47:30
No mass shootings.
47:31
Since Charlie Kirk.
47:32
You know what's amazing?
47:34
Somehow Scott Galloway, who lives in the in
47:37
London currently and clearly knows what's going on
47:41
in Australia.
47:41
He doesn't see the knives, the machetes, the
47:45
zombie knives.
47:47
Are you kidding me now?
47:49
Did you see the the girl who was
47:51
slaughtered on the train?
47:52
Was that a gun?
47:54
No.
47:55
Okay.
47:56
Mass shootings.
47:56
Maybe that's what he's looking at.
47:57
Mass shootings was murdered.
47:59
More people have been shot and killed in
48:01
the US and will be shot and killed
48:02
in the UK over the next year.
48:05
The UK will lose 30 people.
48:06
He says we shot and killed.
48:08
Are you shooting and killing people over there,
48:09
Scott?
48:10
Charlie Kirk was murdered.
48:12
More people have been shot and killed in
48:13
the US and will be shot and killed
48:15
in the UK over the next year.
48:17
The UK will lose 30 people to gun
48:19
violence in the next 12 months.
48:21
We lose 120 people a day.
48:22
That's a lot.
48:23
If you want to take down political violence
48:27
and all gun violence, you just have to
48:30
have sensible gun reform.
48:31
Okay.
48:34
Yeah, that's it.
48:35
That will do it.
48:36
Sensible.
48:37
Sensible gun reform is new.
48:39
Sensible.
48:40
Yeah.
48:40
All right.
48:41
That's probably a new one.
48:42
They're going to you're going to hear it
48:43
again.
48:44
Sensible gun control.
48:45
Yeah, we'll put it in the book.
48:46
All right.
48:46
You got some analysis.
48:48
Well, first, let's start with just the NPR
48:49
overview clip.
48:50
This is Kirk killer NPR.
48:53
Okay.
48:54
The 22 year old man accused of killing
48:56
Charlie Kirk is being held without bail in
48:59
Utah.
48:59
And as Steve Futterman reports, Kirk's widow made
49:02
her first public comments hours after escorting his
49:04
body home to Arizona from Utah.
49:06
Erica Kirk blamed what she called evildoers for
49:09
the death of her husband.
49:11
The movement my husband built will not die.
49:14
It won't.
49:16
I refuse to let that happen.
49:18
Since Tuesday's killing, there have been vitriolic debates
49:21
in public and on social media between supporters
49:23
and opponents of Charlie Kirk.
49:25
The governor of Utah, Spencer Cox Friday, urged
49:28
people to take a break from social media.
49:31
The tone, he said, must calm down.
49:33
This is our moment.
49:35
Do we escalate or do we find an
49:37
off ramp?
49:38
It's a choice.
49:39
Investigators are still trying to determine if some
49:41
specific thing triggered Tyler Robinson.
49:44
He will be formally charged next week.
49:47
All right.
49:48
He will be charged.
49:49
Okay, so now I've got two series here.
49:52
The one is Robinson, the killer.
49:54
And this, I believe, is from NPR.
49:57
And this you start with Robinson, the killer
49:58
analysis.
50:00
NPR man accused of killing Charlie Kirk is
50:02
being held without bail at a Utah jail
50:05
today.
50:06
Twenty two year old Tyler Robinson allegedly fired
50:08
the single shot from a high powered rifle
50:11
that on Wednesday killed the conservative activists and
50:14
media personality known for his appeal to young
50:16
people.
50:17
Police arrested Robinson Thursday night.
50:19
Steve Futterman joins us from outside the Utah
50:22
County Jail in Spring Fork, Utah.
50:24
Hi, Steve.
50:25
Hi there, Scott.
50:26
So Robinson is being held where you are
50:28
now.
50:28
Officials said yesterday they don't believe anyone else
50:31
was involved.
50:32
Is that still the case?
50:34
Yeah.
50:34
Yes.
50:34
However, like any investigation, authorities want to go
50:37
through things like Robinson's cell phone, any computers
50:40
he used, and they want to speak with
50:42
those who knew him.
50:43
Now, yesterday, officials said that Robinson had expressed
50:46
negative views about Charlie Kirk and one of
50:48
those unused bullet casings had the words, hey,
50:51
fascist catch written on it.
50:54
But if the motive was political, like it
50:55
appears to be to some officials want to
50:58
know if there was something that pushed Robinson
51:00
over the edge.
51:01
Last night we heard from Charlie Kirk's widow.
51:04
Tell us about that.
51:05
Yeah, that's right.
51:06
Erica Kirk spoke on a live stream for
51:08
around 15 minutes.
51:10
She spoke from Phoenix, from the same studio
51:12
that Kirk often used for his podcasts.
51:15
Now, at times, her voice cracked.
51:17
She dabbed her eyes on several occasions.
51:19
But her main message seemed to be that
51:21
Charlie Kirk's movement will continue.
51:24
And Erica Kirk blamed what she called evil
51:26
doers for the death of her husband.
51:28
And as police try to figure out Tyler
51:30
Robinson's motivations, people who knew him, people in
51:33
his hometown are taking this all in.
51:35
What are we hearing from them?
51:37
Yeah, absolutely.
51:37
He lived with his parents in the small
51:40
southwest Utah town of Washington with a population
51:43
of around 30,000.
51:44
It's not far from the city of St.
51:46
George.
51:47
We have not heard, at least at this
51:48
point, any neighbors describe him as odd or
51:51
acting strange.
51:52
People who knew him have told reporters Robinson
51:54
wasn't necessarily part of the cool kids in
51:57
high school, but he was well liked and
51:59
a good student.
52:00
OK, a couple of things.
52:01
One, now he lives with his parents, according
52:05
to NPR.
52:07
So that's it.
52:09
And also that there's never been a disparaging
52:11
comment, which we heard plenty of.
52:13
Yes.
52:14
And the second one, just on a sidetrack,
52:17
I watched Erica's live stream.
52:23
I think that if she can, you know,
52:24
how many times have we seen it where
52:26
you have a big movement and the leader
52:29
gets taken out and the movement dies?
52:31
And of course, I saw that in the
52:33
Netherlands with Pim Fortuyn when his party won
52:37
posthumously as he was assassinated two weeks before
52:40
the election in Holland, in Holland of all
52:42
places.
52:44
And of course, the movement became just, you
52:46
know, without him, it fell apart.
52:49
If Erica steps up, I think that I
52:51
think Turning Point USA actually has a chance
52:53
of continuing.
52:54
She's she's got something there.
52:56
She can really do this.
52:57
Maybe.
52:58
But I think your other example, which is
53:01
more common, the thing just kind of slowly
53:04
deteriorates because when you have a charismatic leader
53:08
that is not only charismatic, but is a
53:13
organizational genius in my, at least that's the
53:17
way I see it.
53:18
It's pretty tough.
53:20
And the problem with with Charlie Kirk is
53:23
not what he was saying.
53:24
The problem was people were listening.
53:26
That's the problem.
53:27
And to get people to listen to someone
53:29
the way they listen to Charlie Kirk, that's
53:31
tough.
53:32
That's going to be tough.
53:33
Yes, that charisma is a big piece of
53:35
it.
53:35
Melissa Tate, a neighbor of the Robinson family,
53:38
told our colleagues at member station, KUER, that
53:41
she worries events like this are becoming more
53:44
and more normal.
53:45
This is everywhere, every community, every town, every
53:50
state.
53:51
It's going to be everybody's neighbor, everybody's classmate.
53:56
It's not at all unusual anymore.
53:59
And of course, it was Robinson's father who
54:01
initially confronted his son, telling him that he
54:03
thought his son was the one being shown
54:05
in pictures released by police.
54:07
Now on the Utah Valley University.
54:10
Do we even know that, by the way?
54:12
That still is not.
54:13
I mean, I've seen nothing official about this.
54:15
And I haven't heard any comments.
54:17
But if you recall, the early moments was
54:20
like a minister.
54:21
A minister had.
54:23
Although it was a friend of his.
54:25
He was one of his buddies that talked
54:28
to the minister who then talked to him.
54:31
And then he was going to kill himself.
54:33
And the minister talked him out of it
54:34
and said, you got to turn yourself in.
54:36
Then now somehow that completely disappeared from the
54:39
narrative completely.
54:41
Yep.
54:41
Shown in pictures.
54:42
To the dad.
54:43
Yep.
54:43
Released by police.
54:45
Now on the Utah Valley University campus where
54:47
Kirk was killed, there's a sense of relief
54:50
today that someone has been arrested.
54:52
But Raymond Lopez, a nursing student, says there
54:55
are still plenty of concerns.
54:57
My and a lot of our peers, our
54:59
biggest fear is retaliation or something happening again.
55:01
Class has been pushed off till Wednesday.
55:04
I will say that I did sign the
55:07
petition for him not to come because I
55:08
thought it was going to incite violence.
55:11
Sadly, I think that is what happened.
55:13
You know, I just had another thought because
55:15
I got tons of thoughts going through my
55:17
head about this ever since the 33.
55:18
I'm like, OK.
55:21
How many times have we seen the FBI
55:23
itself radicalize someone online for a year, two
55:29
years hyping them up, getting them ready, getting
55:32
them bomb materials, et cetera?
55:35
Perhaps just on an off chance.
55:38
What if, you know, let's hype this kid
55:40
out?
55:40
He'll never he'll never hit.
55:41
He'll never with that rifle.
55:43
He'll never hit the mark.
55:44
It'll just be a warning shot.
55:47
And that could also funny because there was
55:49
some guy on one of the shows that
55:53
said this because there was an argument going
55:55
on between these people.
55:56
So there's a professional hit, which we kind
55:58
of thought it was a professional hit.
56:01
And the other guy says there's no chance
56:03
it was a professional hit.
56:04
That guy was just a lucky shot.
56:06
Well, show me the forensics.
56:07
Show me the cartridges with all these etchings
56:11
on them.
56:12
Show us anything.
56:13
One woman that was an ex Intel person,
56:16
she says what's bothering her is they have
56:18
yet.
56:19
Did they ever find the bullet that hit
56:20
Kirk?
56:21
She says no one's ever discussed the bullet.
56:25
Where is it?
56:26
It's a mess.
56:28
If this was it sounds like a typical
56:31
botched FBI op.
56:32
To be honest, this is like, oh, we
56:35
left too many loose ends.
56:37
I don't know.
56:38
Well, there's a lot of loose ends.
56:39
There's a lot of loose ends on this
56:41
one.
56:42
That's why I wonder if this guy's going
56:44
to live through this process.
56:46
Well, he's in this and they already dropped
56:47
the bomb.
56:48
You know, again, I'm going to bring it
56:49
back to pre programming.
56:51
In the early reporting that said that the
56:54
minister had to come in because the kid
56:55
wanted to kill himself.
56:57
Ah, yeah, you're right.
56:59
Well, he's in a special holding cell where
57:01
you can't kill himself.
57:02
You know, yeah, right.
57:03
He's got cameras.
57:05
No worries.
57:06
No worries.
57:06
No one can get in or out without
57:08
us seeing it.
57:10
No worries.
57:12
It would be it would be a tidy
57:13
way to end this whole thing.
57:16
It would definitely make it less messy.
57:19
Yeah.
57:21
I think there's a third clip here.
57:22
So is it fair to say that now
57:23
at the Utah University campus, there's a growing
57:26
memorial with flowers and the next event we're
57:29
waiting for is Tyler Robinson to be formally
57:31
charged.
57:31
That's expected on Tuesday.
57:33
At that time, he will make his first
57:35
court appearance.
57:36
That is Steve Futterman in Spring Fork, Utah.
57:38
Thank you so much.
57:39
Okay.
57:39
Does he have a lawyer?
57:41
Where's the lawyer?
57:44
Don't they don't usually have a lawyer out
57:45
there saying something?
57:47
No point.
57:48
I hadn't thought of that.
57:49
Now we have a series of clips that
57:52
are about is expert on polarization.
57:55
And these are not necessarily they stem from
57:58
the shooting, but they're more kind of standalone.
58:01
Interesting.
58:02
And they're called polarization WTF, which means I
58:07
thought they were interesting.
58:09
That's John's John speak for.
58:11
Wow.
58:12
That's interesting.
58:14
Yeah.
58:14
Wow.
58:15
That's fabulous.
58:16
That's fabulous.
58:17
Fabulous.
58:19
That's fabulous.
58:20
Yes, that's what it means.
58:21
That's it.
58:22
All right.
58:22
Here we go.
58:23
Cynthia Miller Idris is the director of the
58:26
polarization and extremism research innovation lab at American.
58:29
Wow.
58:30
Hold on.
58:30
This is where they make it up.
58:32
The polarization research and innovation lab.
58:36
Are they coming up with new ideas here?
58:38
Yeah, this is on PBS and just ran
58:40
yesterday.
58:41
Wow.
58:41
Cynthia Miller Idris is the director of the
58:44
polarization and extremism research innovation lab at American
58:47
University.
58:48
And she joins me now.
58:50
Cynthia, looking at the pattern of violence in
58:53
recent years, what fits into that pattern from
58:56
this and what might be new?
58:59
Well, we've been seeing rising political violence, rising
59:02
hate fueled violence for several years now.
59:05
We're at a level that we haven't seen
59:08
since the 1970s.
59:09
And over the last couple of years in
59:12
the US in particular, we've seen rising assassination
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attempts and assassinations as a tactic within that
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political extremism.
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And that's also been happening overseas.
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So, you know, I think it's it was
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to be expected that political assassinations would continue
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if we weren't able to tamp down the
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rhetoric.
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To be expected to hear those words is
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really quite stunning.
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But you are the one doing the research
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and you're talking about the rhetoric, which is
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a big part of the conversation right now.
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How much is rhetoric responsible for political violence
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and especially that moment where someone isn't just
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expressing anger, as we see online everywhere, kind
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of a toxic culture online?
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How much does political rhetoric influence someone to
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move from saying words to doing something violent?
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Or does it?
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Yeah, I mean, one of the things we've
1:00:02
seen, and I said this a year ago
1:00:03
after Trump, the first assassination attempt against President
1:00:07
Trump was that it was only a matter
1:00:09
of time with the kind of rhetoric that
1:00:11
we see that we were going to get
1:00:12
to political assassination.
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So, you know, that's what I mean by
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expected.
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It sounds very cynical, but it was very
1:00:18
predictable, you know, shocking, but not surprising is
1:00:21
the way that that I think of it.
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Well, I just look this group up.
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I don't know if you had time to
1:00:26
do that.
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But the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation
1:00:30
Lab is an acronym.
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Peril.
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Peril.
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Perilresearch.com.
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Their initiatives include gendered violence, anti-Semitism, community
1:00:43
advisory resource and education centers, i.e. CARE,
1:00:49
and VEER, the violent extremism education and resilience.
1:00:53
Let's look at some of their most recent
1:00:55
articles.
1:00:56
August 18th, been a month.
1:00:59
Meme coins and misogyny.
1:01:02
What the dildo throwing trend at WNBA games
1:01:05
can teach us.
1:01:09
August 12th, CDC shootings highlights risk of public
1:01:14
health misinformation.
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July 29th, why Manosphere content is appealing to
1:01:21
some young men.
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My goodness, the fact that these people have
1:01:27
money, are funded.
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Yeah, by the USAID.
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Yeah, they should have a podcast at minimum.
1:01:34
Meme coins and misogyny.
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That'd be a great podcast.
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I'd probably listen to it.
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Meme coins and misogyny, everybody.
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Yeah, meme coins and misogyny.
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That's a show title.
1:01:44
That's a classic.
1:01:45
So the point is that now this person
1:01:48
reminds me of the clips you played earlier
1:01:51
of the taproot guy who comes out of,
1:01:54
you know, Polar or Intel or nowhere.
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Yeah, but he's in a milieu.
1:02:00
And just let me ask you a question.
1:02:02
Your PBS or your CBS, whatever.
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And the number one person you call is
1:02:09
from peril research.
1:02:11
That's number one on your call list.
1:02:14
Is that I would like to know the
1:02:16
mechanism for getting on these shows in this
1:02:19
way.
1:02:19
This is not a minor piece.
1:02:21
This is a I have four clips from
1:02:23
it and it went on for half the
1:02:25
show.
1:02:25
Wow.
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This is a major feature on the Saturday
1:02:30
show.
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Yeah, it's a message is what it is.
1:02:33
So there is something going on with that.
1:02:36
And the one you played, I think, is
1:02:37
the same thing.
1:02:38
It was a messenger that was that was
1:02:41
hooked in somehow to the Booker or there's,
1:02:44
you know, there's who knows how how some
1:02:46
of these things work.
1:02:48
I mean, I know how you get on
1:02:49
these shows.
1:02:50
You know, the Booker producer and you get
1:02:52
on the show.
1:02:52
But the Booker producer rhymes with I'm telling
1:02:56
you about the Booker.
1:02:58
So the Booker producer usually, you know, and
1:03:01
you make and the key.
1:03:03
And, you know, this and most people have
1:03:05
ever done any hits on these different shows.
1:03:07
Notice that if you make friends with the
1:03:09
Booker producer or one of the lead producers,
1:03:12
that's how you do it.
1:03:14
Good to show you're good.
1:03:15
You're good to go.
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Yeah, that's what you've done for Rogan's six,
1:03:19
six Rogan's.
1:03:20
But but Rogan invites me personally.
1:03:23
I only the first time did it go
1:03:24
through his Booker.
1:03:26
Yeah, well, once you get but you got
1:03:28
what you hooked up with the real Booker
1:03:30
producer.
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He just called me out of the blue.
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No, that's what I'm saying.
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Yeah, he Rogan is the real producer.
1:03:37
I'm sorry.
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Yes, he's the real.
1:03:38
But I don't say, hey, Joe, time for
1:03:40
me to come on again.
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No, but you you talk to him and
1:03:45
you try to keep in touch to the
1:03:46
point where he remembers that you can come
1:03:48
on at the drop of a hat, which
1:03:50
is the great idea.
1:03:51
Yes, because somebody's got to be Tony Randall
1:03:53
or Regis Philbin.
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That's me.
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Philbin was not as good as Randall, but
1:03:58
Philbin did it, too.
1:03:59
Yeah.
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All right, too.
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When you have political rhetoric that consistently positions
1:04:07
us versus them in existential terms, when people
1:04:10
online are celebrating the assassination of a United
1:04:14
Healthcare executive, for example, that kind of violence
1:04:17
being valorized, not just seen as a last
1:04:20
type of solution, but as an acceptable or
1:04:23
even preferable one.
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That was an outstanding observation, John.
1:04:27
No doubt because you saw this, it triggered
1:04:28
your memory.
1:04:29
But the fact that nobody got burned for
1:04:31
celebrating that, that is telling.
1:04:34
There was also, by the way, I think
1:04:38
her use of the word valorized is dynamite.
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Oh, yeah, that is good.
1:04:44
Let's roll that back.
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Type of solution, but as an acceptable or
1:04:47
even preferable one.
1:04:48
There was also celebration online of this assassination.
1:04:53
And at the same time, we also know
1:04:54
there are some supporters of Charlie Kirk who
1:04:57
are using more and more sort of warlike
1:04:59
kind of talk after a tragedy like this.
1:05:02
There are all sorts of ways that people
1:05:03
deal with the grief.
1:05:04
But where do you think we are right
1:05:06
now in the rhetoric about this event?
1:05:08
I think we're at a really very risky
1:05:10
moment.
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I will say that the elected officials rhetoric,
1:05:14
the bipartisan, mostly bipartisan condemnation of the violence
1:05:18
and of the idea that no one deserves
1:05:21
to be shot no matter how much you
1:05:23
disagree with them, I think has been very
1:05:25
clear.
1:05:25
But among ordinary people, especially young people on
1:05:28
social media, we have seen much more divisive
1:05:30
rhetoric, both calling for civil war and celebrating
1:05:34
the death of the killing of someone with
1:05:37
whom people often vehemently disagreed.
1:05:39
And so I think one of the things
1:05:41
I've been urging people is to not just
1:05:43
look to political leaders for solutions, but look
1:05:45
across the dinner table.
1:05:47
That's a moment to engage with dialogue and
1:05:49
really try to walk back that rhetoric.
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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At the dinner table.
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Okay.
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Hey, son, stop talking that way.
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Okay, go with three.
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One thing I've noticed in the past few
1:06:01
days is a rise in conservatives doxing or
1:06:06
publishing the personal information of people, individuals who
1:06:11
are not remotely famous, who may have in
1:06:14
some cases celebrated the death of Charlie Kirk,
1:06:16
as you said, that's something obviously deplorable to
1:06:18
do.
1:06:19
But in some cases, maybe not gone that
1:06:21
far, just offended some folks.
1:06:23
We spoke to someone from Wired magazine who's
1:06:26
covering this, talking about specifically this moment.
1:06:29
I've spoken to multiple people this week who
1:06:31
have had their employment terminated as a result
1:06:35
of what they posted online.
1:06:36
In some cases, they were celebrating Charlie Kirk's
1:06:39
death.
1:06:40
In other cases, it was much, much less
1:06:42
than that.
1:06:43
And they were just making points about divisive
1:06:45
US society.
1:06:47
This has been not just about shaming people,
1:06:49
but about affecting their lives.
1:06:51
And in some cases, there's been death threats
1:06:52
as well.
1:06:54
I wonder what you make of this tactic,
1:06:56
not just something a few people are doing,
1:06:58
but people are collecting databases to do this
1:07:00
now.
1:07:00
Yeah, doxing is a very dangerous tactic.
1:07:06
We've seen it from the left and from
1:07:08
the right.
1:07:08
And what we've seen over the years is
1:07:09
that often when someone is doxed, their personal
1:07:12
information leaked, there have been cases where people
1:07:16
show up at the wrong address where they
1:07:18
used to live, let's say, and threaten the
1:07:20
kind of innocent family who lives there.
1:07:22
You're putting at risk family members, children, others
1:07:25
who might live at that address.
1:07:27
How about the people who actually are meant
1:07:29
to be doxed?
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That's not dangerous.
1:07:31
So, you know, one of the things I
1:07:33
would really urge people to do is avoid
1:07:35
that temptation.
1:07:36
Whatever the motivation to look for accountability, this
1:07:39
is a moment to allow the rule of
1:07:41
law to allow social media policies to handle
1:07:46
that.
1:07:47
Social media policies?
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It's not social media policies.
1:07:51
Censorship.
1:07:52
And by the way, what's her name?
1:07:54
Lisa Desjardins.
1:07:55
She goes on.
1:07:56
She's all upset about this, but she never
1:07:58
has said jack about doxing, you know, the
1:08:02
ICE guys.
1:08:04
No, of course not.
1:08:05
Or any police, for that matter, who have
1:08:07
to wear masks because these guys come up
1:08:09
to them.
1:08:09
But again, what they're all missing is the
1:08:12
fact that all of these people did it
1:08:14
because they felt comfortable.
1:08:15
They thought everybody is on.
1:08:17
Everyone's on board.
1:08:18
Everyone agrees.
1:08:18
Isn't this, this is the weak mindedness of
1:08:23
certainly our educators that, oh, I mean, everyone
1:08:28
thinks this.
1:08:29
I've told my children this.
1:08:30
Everyone knows this.
1:08:31
All my colleagues, they all believe it.
1:08:33
No, you're not going to get an argument
1:08:35
from me on that regard.
1:08:37
But the fact that they are comfortable.
1:08:39
Comfortable, yes, comfortable.
1:08:41
Talking about some guy getting killed is pathetic.
1:08:46
Well, they didn't.
1:08:47
Well, you know what?
1:08:48
They didn't get in trouble with Luigi.
1:08:50
That's part, that may be part of the
1:08:52
mechanism for all we know, John.
1:08:53
Yeah, it's pretty schemey, if that's true.
1:08:57
It's very schemey.
1:08:57
A little outrageous.
1:09:00
It's hard for me to believe they're that
1:09:02
good.
1:09:02
But, you know, it's always possible.
1:09:04
Now, the last clip, this is the last
1:09:06
clip.
1:09:07
They convinced us we went to the moon.
1:09:08
So, you know, it's like anything's possible.
1:09:10
Hey, yo.
1:09:14
There's two, you got two more clips here.
1:09:16
You got, oh, you got Trump.
1:09:17
You got Trump, the Trump stuff now?
1:09:21
So, let's see.
1:09:21
Kirk Trump reaction and analysis is what I
1:09:25
have.
1:09:25
That would be last, I think.
1:09:28
The third was the last one.
1:09:30
That was the last Robinson.
1:09:31
That was the last.
1:09:32
Oh, right.
1:09:32
No, there should be polarization for Dudd.
1:09:35
Yep, there is.
1:09:36
Now, the reason I call it, wait, I'm
1:09:38
just going to give a heads up.
1:09:40
So they go on and on.
1:09:42
This goes on forever.
1:09:43
And this is how they finish it.
1:09:45
And I'm listening to this.
1:09:46
It says, wait a minute.
1:09:47
You go through, you make us watch this
1:09:49
crap.
1:09:50
For this period of time, I'm doing this,
1:09:51
by the way, in advance of this clip,
1:09:53
because you're going to do it if I
1:09:54
don't.
1:09:56
This is a Dudd out on us.
1:09:59
In a few seconds, we have left here.
1:10:01
We've seen these moments in history before where
1:10:03
we have assassination attempts happening over a decade
1:10:06
or two decades kind of thing before.
1:10:09
But I wonder, you mentioned people need to
1:10:11
talk to each other across the dinner table.
1:10:13
What else gets the country out of moments
1:10:15
like this?
1:10:16
Vax.
1:10:16
Well, one of the things we really need
1:10:18
is more serious and systematic investments in prevention,
1:10:22
which is something that other countries have.
1:10:24
We in this country tend to rely on,
1:10:26
after the fact, increases in security, better barricades,
1:10:30
better security detectors.
1:10:32
And that's expensive.
1:10:34
And it requires a perfection every time.
1:10:37
But you can also invest in helping people
1:10:39
be less persuaded by propaganda online, less persuaded
1:10:43
by manipulative efforts that say violence is the
1:10:45
solution.
1:10:46
And help people know how to recognize warning
1:10:49
signs and know where to get more help.
1:10:52
Cynthia Miller Idris, thank you so much for
1:10:54
joining us.
1:10:54
All that was missing was her saying, therefore,
1:10:57
I recommend listening to the best podcast in
1:10:59
the universe, the No Agenda Show, so you
1:11:02
will not be radicalized that easily.
1:11:04
You know, the funny irony to that last
1:11:07
bit in the commentary is that the United
1:11:10
States really can't afford to let people think
1:11:15
for themselves that much because the entire advertising
1:11:18
model for selling products requires it.
1:11:22
Oh, our entire system.
1:11:25
We've been through this system.
1:11:27
Yes, the entire system.
1:11:28
I'm just thinking advertising, but it requires you
1:11:31
be gullible.
1:11:32
Well, not just be gullible, but be outraged.
1:11:34
The constant state of outrage.
1:11:36
That's how our media works.
1:11:37
That's how our politics works.
1:11:39
That's how our social media works, which is
1:11:42
why people are getting all of, you know,
1:11:44
your algorithms are showing all the things that
1:11:46
are going to get you mad.
1:11:48
And the Chinese model, which soon will go
1:11:51
away whenever President Trump figures out how to
1:11:53
make it American, TikTok, you just get everything
1:11:56
you want.
1:11:57
There's no, you know, Facebook does this.
1:11:59
They all do this, like inject stuff, inject
1:12:01
stuff, inject stuff.
1:12:02
Keep you busy, keep you on there.
1:12:04
And that's our, that is, that has always
1:12:06
been our model.
1:12:07
Yeah.
1:12:08
So you get what you pay for.
1:12:10
Which is nothing.
1:12:13
Oh, junk, Chinese junk, it turns out to
1:12:16
be currently junk.
1:12:17
Okay.
1:12:17
So I got the, yeah, right.
1:12:18
Kirk Trump.
1:12:19
I forgot about these clips.
1:12:20
This is another, I don't know.
1:12:22
I guess all my clips are analysis clips,
1:12:24
this show, but Kirk Trump reaction.
1:12:27
This is, this is, this is kind of
1:12:29
funny because they're just doing, they just do
1:12:31
everything they can.
1:12:32
It's Trump's fault, by the way.
1:12:33
We're going to take a few minutes now
1:12:34
to look at how President Trump has handled
1:12:36
all of this.
1:12:37
At difficult moments for the nation, it's often
1:12:39
the role of the president to deliver meaning,
1:12:43
resoluteness, and calm.
1:12:44
Think of George W.
1:12:45
Bush in the immediate wake of 9-11
1:12:47
as one recent example.
1:12:49
This week, in the hours immediately after the
1:12:51
assassination of Charlie Kirk, President Trump took a
1:12:54
different approach.
1:12:55
He blamed his political opponents.
1:12:57
Radical left political violence has hurt too many
1:13:00
innocent people and taken too many lives.
1:13:04
Trump said his administration would be coming for
1:13:07
people and organizations that contribute to political violence.
1:13:11
NPR senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith joins
1:13:13
us now.
1:13:15
Hi, Scott.
1:13:16
You have covered Trump for a long time.
1:13:18
This is unfortunately far from the first violent
1:13:20
political act that he has had to respond
1:13:22
to as president.
1:13:23
So how does his handling here compare to
1:13:25
the other times?
1:13:26
Trump and members of his family were quite
1:13:28
close to Charlie Kirk, so this attack was
1:13:31
personal for Trump.
1:13:32
And his response was immediately partisan.
1:13:36
Compare that to what happened after the shooting
1:13:38
at a congressional baseball team practice in 2017.
1:13:41
In that case, Republican lawmakers were targeted by
1:13:44
a man who had been a Bernie Sanders
1:13:46
supporter.
1:13:47
But in a scripted address, Trump took a
1:13:49
very traditional approach and said, the nation is
1:13:52
strongest when we are unified.
1:13:54
We may have our differences, but we do
1:13:57
well in times like these to remember that
1:14:00
everyone who serves in our nation's capital is
1:14:04
here because, above all, they love our country.
1:14:10
And Tam, we have to talk about a
1:14:11
big factor here.
1:14:12
The president himself was shot at last summer
1:14:14
at that rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
1:14:16
Remind us of his rhetoric after that assassination
1:14:19
attempt against him.
1:14:20
It was interesting because a lot of his
1:14:22
supporters were really fast to blame left-wing
1:14:25
rhetoric, but Trump was more restrained.
1:14:27
OK, what's interesting about this clip is there's
1:14:31
a little modicum of truth in there where
1:14:33
the president said he was going after those
1:14:35
that finance it.
1:14:38
Yes, yes, exactly.
1:14:40
That's a little different than going after political
1:14:42
opponents.
1:14:44
Yes, but the whole, yes, yes, yes, yes.
1:14:48
The beginning of the clip is a fallacious
1:14:51
argument and a false analogy.
1:14:54
He starts off by saying, look at how
1:14:56
Bush handled the 9-11 thing.
1:15:00
9-11 wasn't an attack by the Democrat
1:15:03
Party or common leftists.
1:15:05
It was attacked by a foreign entity.
1:15:08
Or whatever, or whatever.
1:15:10
We're going to go with the cover story.
1:15:12
OK, we're going to go with that story.
1:15:13
So Bush isn't about to go and start
1:15:16
blaming the leftists.
1:15:17
I mean, it's not going to happen.
1:15:19
And he says, compare that to Trump.
1:15:21
That's not a comparison.
1:15:22
What are you kidding me?
1:15:24
So you start at the very beginning of
1:15:26
the presentation with a fallacious analogy.
1:15:30
And you go from there.
1:15:31
But meanwhile, it's just stuck in the person's
1:15:33
brain.
1:15:33
We have this.
1:15:35
In other words, the preconceived conclusion is already
1:15:39
planted if you don't catch it right away.
1:15:42
This is like a pathological liar talking to
1:15:45
you.
1:15:45
If he if you watch the media pathological
1:15:49
liars, what if he gets you early?
1:15:52
Then he'll start to reel you in.
1:15:54
And that's exactly what happens with these guys
1:15:56
at NPR do this all the time.
1:15:59
And in that case, the ideology of the
1:16:01
shooter who was killed by police is to
1:16:04
this day still quite unclear.
1:16:06
His list of potential targets included Democrats and
1:16:09
Republicans.
1:16:10
Like we said, unfortunately, a lot of examples
1:16:12
to pick from.
1:16:13
But I do want to ask about one
1:16:14
recent example a lot of people have brought
1:16:16
up this week.
1:16:16
And that's the targeted attacks on Minnesota Democrats
1:16:19
this past summer that killed former House Speaker
1:16:22
Melissa Hortman.
1:16:23
How did Trump respond this summer after those
1:16:25
shootings?
1:16:26
Hortman and her husband were murdered.
1:16:29
Another Democratic lawmaker was gravely injured.
1:16:31
It was a targeted attack.
1:16:33
Trump posted about the attack on social media,
1:16:36
saying such horrific violence will not be tolerated
1:16:39
in the United States of America.
1:16:41
But he didn't get into the partisan nature
1:16:43
of the targeting.
1:16:44
And he hasn't really mentioned it since.
1:16:47
There was no conclusion on that.
1:16:49
It wasn't partisan.
1:16:52
No, there's no evidence of that.
1:16:57
It was probably a yes.
1:16:58
So this is again.
1:16:59
So what they've done is they've already lied
1:17:01
to you at the beginning with a false
1:17:02
analogy.
1:17:03
And then they're starting to reel you in.
1:17:05
And then they start to drop phony bombs
1:17:09
in the middle so they can make the
1:17:11
point that Trump's a bad guy.
1:17:13
Yeah, he is.
1:17:14
I mean, is it fair to say that
1:17:16
he just downplays it when violence comes from
1:17:18
the political right?
1:17:19
Yeah, let me give you another example.
1:17:21
In 2018, a Trump supporter who sent explosives
1:17:25
to Democrats and also CNN was taken into
1:17:29
custody.
1:17:30
President Trump responded by praising law enforcement and
1:17:33
criticizing the media for mentioning the suspect's political
1:17:37
affiliation.
1:17:38
He said the media was using the sinister
1:17:40
actions of one individual to score political points
1:17:44
against him and Republicans.
1:17:45
Yet when a Bernie Sanders supporter tried to
1:17:49
murder congressional Republicans and severely wounded a great
1:17:53
man named Steve Scalise and others, we did
1:17:58
not use that heinous attempt at mass murder
1:18:01
for political gain because that would have been
1:18:05
wrong.
1:18:06
So in 2018, he was saying a partisan
1:18:09
response to a terrible crime would be wrong.
1:18:12
But in this case, with the murder of
1:18:15
Charlie Kirk, Trump is quite firmly sticking to
1:18:17
his view that Democrats and harsh rhetoric on
1:18:20
the left are to blame.
1:18:22
You say quite firmly.
1:18:23
Is it fair to say he has not
1:18:24
softened his rhetoric since the alleged assailant was
1:18:27
taken into custody?
1:18:29
Right.
1:18:29
He was on Fox and Friends yesterday and
1:18:32
Ainsley Earhart gave him an opportunity to offer
1:18:35
a unifying message.
1:18:36
How do we fix this country?
1:18:38
How do we come back together?
1:18:39
I'll tell you something that's going to get
1:18:41
me in trouble, but I couldn't care less.
1:18:43
The radicals on the right oftentimes are radical
1:18:46
because they don't want to see crime.
1:18:48
They don't want to see crime.
1:18:50
So take that and then compare it to
1:18:52
the way he describes the other side.
1:18:54
The radicals on the left are the problem,
1:18:56
and they're vicious and they're horrible and they're
1:18:59
politically savvy.
1:19:00
And in this way, Trump is like so
1:19:02
many others in this polarized country who think
1:19:04
their side is essentially fine and it's the
1:19:07
other side that's evil.
1:19:09
The difference, of course, though, is that he's
1:19:11
the president of the United States.
1:19:13
He has all the power.
1:19:16
I want to take this for me to
1:19:18
a conclusion because we need to end this
1:19:20
at some point.
1:19:21
We can just go on forever about this.
1:19:23
I'm done.
1:19:24
And this, you'll roll your eyes, but that's
1:19:27
OK because you're used to it by now.
1:19:30
Almost 18 years.
1:19:32
That's right.
1:19:33
So when President Trump talks about those financing
1:19:37
this, and we talked about this the other
1:19:39
day and you put the blame on people
1:19:42
like Soros, as an example, the Open Society
1:19:44
Foundation, which clearly is one of his financial
1:19:48
motives is to destabilize a currency, a country,
1:19:54
anything to hedge.
1:19:55
He's a hedge fund guy.
1:19:57
And that's so it may not even be
1:19:59
that.
1:19:59
He's one of the greatest currency traders in
1:20:02
the history of investing.
1:20:04
And he may not even be doing it
1:20:06
that much for ideological reasons more than financial.
1:20:10
I mean, that's possible.
1:20:11
We don't really know much about him other
1:20:13
than he's kind of creepy.
1:20:15
And it was there was this one brief
1:20:18
moment in kind of the fog of post
1:20:21
this assassination when and the clip is not
1:20:25
widely distributed.
1:20:27
I was able to find it.
1:20:28
It's like on places where, you know, you
1:20:31
have that.
1:20:32
This is a media, but they have like
1:20:34
an audio watermark.
1:20:36
So I was able to find a version
1:20:37
of it without that.
1:20:38
It's only 50 seconds.
1:20:40
I found it without that.
1:20:41
This was Hannity, which if it was just
1:20:45
Hannity, I've been like, OK, whatever.
1:20:47
That was also John Solomon and John Solomon.
1:20:50
I think he's pretty good with his investigative
1:20:55
sourcing because this is all sources.
1:20:58
And this came out and I haven't heard
1:21:00
about it since.
1:21:01
Have a source in the intelligence community, John,
1:21:04
that said that there might be post assassination
1:21:10
pieces of a puzzle that might be put
1:21:12
together, that there might be a foreign component
1:21:14
to it.
1:21:15
Again, we don't know for sure.
1:21:18
I know it's being discussed.
1:21:20
Have you heard the same thing?
1:21:22
Yes, there is a group or two of
1:21:24
interests that are in the Salt Lake City
1:21:26
area that they're looking at just because of
1:21:28
certain recent activities overseas and certain intelligence shared
1:21:32
by a foreign friendly from the United States
1:21:34
doesn't necessarily mean that it is connected to
1:21:37
the shooting.
1:21:38
I suspect, though, it's going to result in
1:21:40
some action, even if it's not resulted, not
1:21:42
tied to the shooting.
1:21:43
But there is a small foreign component that's
1:21:45
being looked at.
1:21:46
Again, all leads are open.
1:21:48
I don't think they've locked into a final
1:21:49
theory of the case yet.
1:21:50
Just thought it was interesting.
1:21:52
Like, huh.
1:21:53
OK, now, I actually saw that.
1:21:55
Yeah.
1:21:56
What was your thought?
1:21:57
And my thought was that they're trying as
1:22:02
hard as they can to blame Israel.
1:22:04
And this is kind of a roundabout way
1:22:06
of doing it.
1:22:07
And I say that because that meme is
1:22:10
floating around.
1:22:11
I think it's silly, but it's floating around.
1:22:14
And it even came to the dinner table
1:22:15
because JC and Jesse both had some thoughts
1:22:21
on this that involved Israel.
1:22:24
And he also had a couple other memes
1:22:26
that he picked up on.
1:22:27
And one of my favorites, which I observed,
1:22:30
too, even though thinking about it, I realized
1:22:32
it's not really possible to tell.
1:22:34
But when when the kid jumped off the
1:22:37
roof and landed like a paratrooper beautifully, by
1:22:41
the way, from a two story building, I
1:22:43
can't jump off a two story building.
1:22:45
Not anymore.
1:22:46
Back in the heyday, you could.
1:22:47
I'm not absolutely sure I could ever.
1:22:49
But he jumps off the building, lands perfectly
1:22:53
and then runs.
1:22:54
Is it?
1:22:54
Where's the gun?
1:22:55
Where's the gun?
1:22:56
Because he supposedly ran into the gun, but
1:22:58
you couldn't see the gun.
1:22:59
But but that video was enhanced and enhancement
1:23:03
can easily take the gun out of the
1:23:05
picture.
1:23:06
He could have been running with a gun
1:23:07
for all we know.
1:23:08
So I so I'm not I like the
1:23:10
idea that people have all observed is where's
1:23:13
the gun?
1:23:13
Where's the gun?
1:23:14
Because he's running like a maniac at high
1:23:17
speeds after jumping off the building and there's
1:23:19
no gun that he went to with a
1:23:21
towel around it that he ditched.
1:23:25
And that is suspicious.
1:23:26
But at the same time, when you do
1:23:28
video enhancing, it's easy to wipe stuff out.
1:23:31
I mean, I can you know, you've done
1:23:33
it.
1:23:34
Yeah, but you're you're floating away from the
1:23:36
topic.
1:23:36
The topic was a foreign entity.
1:23:39
Well, yeah, I'm just saying that that came
1:23:40
up at the conversation.
1:23:41
But they also they would they were thinking
1:23:43
Israel.
1:23:44
And it goes like, OK, I know where
1:23:46
I don't know where it was.
1:23:48
Oh, it's it's around and it's around.
1:23:51
Yeah, it's around and people hate Israel.
1:23:53
Well, and the reason the younger generation actually
1:23:56
Charlie Kirk had a roundtable on this, which
1:23:58
I listened to.
1:23:59
I won't play the clips, but he had
1:24:00
a roundtable.
1:24:01
He was asking them.
1:24:02
And what it came down to was we're
1:24:06
pissed off because we can't afford our rent.
1:24:09
Yet we're sending money to Israel.
1:24:11
The fire is here.
1:24:12
Why are you trying to put fires out
1:24:14
there?
1:24:14
And that's an although that's a misunderstanding of
1:24:18
appropriation of money because it's very little compared
1:24:21
to, you know, other things the U.S.
1:24:24
government spends its money on.
1:24:25
But the secondary part was interesting where they
1:24:29
said, well, if people are going to call
1:24:31
me an anti-Semite for saying that, for
1:24:33
being upset with sending money, supporting Israel with,
1:24:36
you know, whatever Israel does with the money,
1:24:39
which, you know, is killing Palestinians, bombing Qatar,
1:24:43
et cetera.
1:24:44
Maybe drawing us into wars.
1:24:46
Then what the Gen Z-ers are saying
1:24:49
is, and Charlie Kirk agreed with them because
1:24:51
he's, you know, almost of that, he's a
1:24:52
little bit older, but he's close to that
1:24:54
generation.
1:24:55
He said, well, you know, if we're going
1:24:56
to be accused of the crime, I might
1:24:58
as well do it.
1:25:00
But that's not where I'm going with this.
1:25:01
I certainly kept that open on Thursday.
1:25:04
Like, well, could this have been some retaliation?
1:25:07
By the way, Israel is not the same
1:25:08
as the government of Israel in my mind.
1:25:11
Bibi Netanyahu has a lot of issues.
1:25:14
But it was, and this is something that
1:25:16
Mo tried to explain to me, and I
1:25:18
understood theoretically what he was talking about.
1:25:22
And for 100 episodes of Mo Facts with
1:25:24
Adam Curry, he talked about the white supremacy.
1:25:28
And he was always taking it back to
1:25:30
Europe, to the European families.
1:25:33
And that was, it was not a color.
1:25:34
It was a system.
1:25:36
And someone sent me this video of these
1:25:39
two women.
1:25:41
They're older.
1:25:42
When I say older, I'm 61.
1:25:45
I'm like, man, I hope I don't look
1:25:47
like that when I'm 65.
1:25:48
But they're probably in their mid-60s.
1:25:52
This is one of them, Susan Kokinda.
1:25:55
And they have this group called the Prometheus,
1:25:57
what is it called?
1:26:00
Prometheus Action.
1:26:01
And as I was listening, it kind of
1:26:05
dawned on me, like, let's just say this
1:26:07
was an operation to destabilize America, destabilize possibly
1:26:13
the president's agenda, which I think it actually
1:26:15
had the adverse effect.
1:26:16
I think the enemy always overplays his hand.
1:26:20
But if there has been a destabilizing factor
1:26:23
throughout, really, certainly the last 10 years, but
1:26:26
maybe forever in the existence of our country,
1:26:29
these ladies are very, very articulate.
1:26:33
And I have two short clips, both a
1:26:35
minute each, just to introduce this to you.
1:26:39
And I'm going to be staying on this.
1:26:41
This is going to be my new, this
1:26:43
is going to be a new theorem for
1:26:44
me to stick with.
1:26:46
What if I told you that Donald Trump's
1:26:47
biggest enemies are not the Obama-Clinton-Biden
1:26:50
networks, whose heads are on the line in
1:26:52
the Russiagate revelations, or even the deep state,
1:26:55
but it's the European monarchies who have never
1:26:57
stopped their war against the American Republic?
1:27:00
Most people think that this is just politics,
1:27:02
Republicans versus Democrats, or maybe America versus the
1:27:05
globalists.
1:27:06
You see the daily battles over Ukraine funding,
1:27:09
Fed policy, or the environmental regulations as separate
1:27:12
issues.
1:27:13
Even Trump supporters often miss the big picture,
1:27:15
focusing on individual bad actors or policy disputes.
1:27:19
But what we're fighting is a system properly
1:27:21
named the Anglo-Dutch system.
1:27:23
And what we're witnessing is unprecedented.
1:27:26
An American president waging direct war against the
1:27:29
very Anglo-Dutch system that we fought the
1:27:31
American Revolution against.
1:27:33
Trump isn't just fighting globalists.
1:27:35
He's taking on the European monarchy and oligarchy,
1:27:38
led by the British monarchy and its Dutch
1:27:40
and European partners.
1:27:42
This is what's been bleeding America dry through
1:27:44
its central banking system, its environmental death cult,
1:27:48
and its endless imperial wars.
1:27:50
I'm Susan Kokinda, and I've been tracking this
1:27:53
imperial system for over five decades.
1:27:55
I've documented how these same royal families created
1:27:58
the Federal Reserve, launched the environmental movement, and
1:28:01
started every major war.
1:28:03
So she had my attention.
1:28:05
I'm like, huh, that's interesting.
1:28:07
Mainly because...
1:28:08
Since you're Dutch and lived in England.
1:28:10
Yes.
1:28:10
I'm like, huh, okay.
1:28:12
Continue, please.
1:28:13
Today, I'm exposing three fronts in Trump's war
1:28:16
against the European oligarchies.
1:28:18
First, how King Charles and the Dutch are
1:28:20
desperately keeping Ukraine burning.
1:28:22
Second, how Trump's economic policies are dismantling their
1:28:26
centuries-old ideology of environmental destruction.
1:28:29
And third, how his Fed battle strikes at
1:28:31
the very heart of the financial empire that's
1:28:34
ruled the United States since 1913.
1:28:38
So why is the Ukraine war continuing when
1:28:40
Trump has a clear mandate to end it,
1:28:43
and he wants to end the killing?
1:28:45
Because of the empire's stranglehold over Europe.
1:28:47
So look at this.
1:28:49
The very first European country to pony up
1:28:51
almost $600 million in arms purchases from the
1:28:55
United States to keep the Ukraine conflict going
1:28:58
is the Netherlands.
1:29:00
$600 million.
1:29:01
That's a small country.
1:29:03
This is the Netherlands, as in the Dutch
1:29:05
half of the Anglo-Dutch imperial system.
1:29:08
And the other European countries that immediately jumped
1:29:10
in?
1:29:11
Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.
1:29:13
Notice something?
1:29:14
They're all monarchies.
1:29:15
You can use your favorite AI to look
1:29:17
at the ties between these royal families and
1:29:20
the British monarchy.
1:29:21
So I don't need to use AI because
1:29:22
I know the history of the monarchies.
1:29:26
And as I'm thinking about this, I'm like,
1:29:28
where did Trump's Russia problems really stem from?
1:29:32
The Steele report, Christopher Steele, former MI6 agent.
1:29:37
We have British journalists showing up in our
1:29:41
news all the time because, is it just
1:29:43
because they sound authoritative?
1:29:46
Robert Maxwell.
1:29:47
Very interesting if you tie that into Jelay
1:29:50
Maxwell.
1:29:51
Yes, he was an agent, they say, for
1:29:54
Mossad, but he was also an MI6 agent.
1:29:57
This was the big thing, is that he
1:29:59
was a double agent.
1:30:01
Soros started his career with banks as part
1:30:04
of the City of London.
1:30:06
The big banks, ING Group, Dutch, HSBC Holdings
1:30:11
operating from British colonial Hong Kong, Barclays, JPMorgan
1:30:16
Chase, now mainly, primarily American, but it has
1:30:19
Anglo roots, Rutgers University, Columbia University, Hofstra, Harvard,
1:30:25
Cambridge, Yale, Pharmaceuticals, Glaxo, Viatris, AstraZeneca, Media and
1:30:32
Publishing, Reed Elsevier, now it's the Relics Group,
1:30:36
Thomson Reuters, where most of our news comes
1:30:39
from, is regurgitated from Reuters.
1:30:43
Education, Pearson, publishing giant in education.
1:30:47
Energy, Shell, BP, retail consumer goods for advertising,
1:30:53
Ahold, Dutch, big corporation, Unilever, Dutch, US, Dutch,
1:30:59
British.
1:31:02
ASML, big part of our chip manufacturing.
1:31:06
I just had never really considered, particularly seeing
1:31:11
now what the EU is doing and how
1:31:13
badly they want war and what President Trump,
1:31:16
if you look at it in that light,
1:31:18
and he says, I'm going after the people
1:31:20
that are funding all of this stuff, it
1:31:23
put my head in a different space and
1:31:25
I can't make any conclusions.
1:31:28
I don't know if you're rolling your eyes,
1:31:29
but I'm like, you know, there's something to
1:31:33
this and I'm going to go down this
1:31:35
rabbit hole for a while.
1:31:36
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm pleased as punch that
1:31:39
Adam is back to his crackpot status, which
1:31:42
will improve the show to no end.
1:31:47
People have always bitched and moaned about this
1:31:49
and now it's back.
1:31:51
Well, I can't just do it on demand.
1:31:53
I like it, but hey, I'm not rolling
1:31:55
my eyes at all.
1:31:56
I think it's great.
1:31:59
Well, thank you.
1:32:01
Kind of unexpected, but the thing the thing
1:32:05
that got me was Christopher Steele.
1:32:07
That that report, that's what started it.
1:32:10
And now it's a it's a confluence of
1:32:12
a whole bunch of things that Christopher Steele
1:32:14
is a trigger, but that those women and
1:32:17
when she says she's been doing this for
1:32:18
50 years, I believe she probably has been
1:32:20
and she's probably so deep, deep down in
1:32:23
the hole that that should provide some very
1:32:27
entertaining segments for the show.
1:32:29
Yes, well, you're going to get them for
1:32:31
sure.
1:32:32
Yeah, this is great.
1:32:33
Look at this is just what we needed
1:32:34
for second half of the show.
1:32:36
Well, I'm not going to put it in
1:32:37
second.
1:32:38
Look at look at the first big.
1:32:43
Casualty of Epstein information being released.
1:32:49
UK ambassador to the US, Mandelson, one week
1:32:52
before President Trump is scheduled to go over
1:32:55
there and have some kind of meeting.
1:32:57
It's very possible.
1:32:59
You know, his background is Scottish, but we've
1:33:02
actually had clips on this show that indicate
1:33:04
that the British in particular, I never thought
1:33:07
of the Dutch as part of it.
1:33:10
But OK, the Dutch are one of the
1:33:11
largest.
1:33:12
The Dutch are one of the largest investors
1:33:14
in the United States.
1:33:17
The British in particular have always been trying
1:33:19
to run games on.
1:33:20
They hate us.
1:33:21
They never they never got over it.
1:33:23
They never got over.
1:33:25
I believe that to be true.
1:33:26
Now, they've never gotten over the fact that,
1:33:30
in fact, if you read, I've always noticed
1:33:32
this because I'm a book collector, among other
1:33:36
things.
1:33:37
And so I have a lot of history
1:33:39
books that were written between 1860 and 1910.
1:33:47
And there's a lot of history books written
1:33:48
in there.
1:33:48
And after World War One, these books all
1:33:53
changed.
1:33:53
But before World War One, these history books,
1:33:56
you can find any old history book and
1:33:59
start reading about the British and the hatred
1:34:02
and vitriol that is expressed in these history
1:34:04
books is unbelievable.
1:34:07
It was just we hated them and hated
1:34:10
them and hated them until they suckered us
1:34:12
into World War One.
1:34:14
And then all of a sudden, the propaganda
1:34:16
machine got into play.
1:34:18
We had the Bernays phenomenon.
1:34:20
We had all the public relations.
1:34:22
All this came into play.
1:34:23
Bertrand Russell.
1:34:25
And the next thing you know, right.
1:34:26
Bertrand was British.
1:34:27
And the next thing you know, we're big
1:34:29
British powers.
1:34:30
Austin Powers, big troublemaker.
1:34:32
Anglophiles.
1:34:33
After hating and hating and hating on them
1:34:36
for over 100 years.
1:34:37
Who brought us the slaves, the Dutch?
1:34:40
Yeah, they transported.
1:34:42
Who who wage war on China with the
1:34:46
opium wars?
1:34:47
Yeah.
1:34:48
And we're paying the penalty for that.
1:34:49
And who has an opioid problem right now?
1:34:52
Where are these precursors made?
1:34:55
Could that be one of the big pharmaceuticals?
1:34:58
There's a lot of open questions.
1:35:00
I'm all I'm I'll be all in on
1:35:02
you doing this.
1:35:03
Well, you just you're in your new beat.
1:35:05
It is my new beat.
1:35:07
And the other thing.
1:35:08
So get off Fox.
1:35:09
There was you're the you're the Fox guy.
1:35:11
I'm not really on Fox.
1:35:13
Um, it was hot when when Putin and
1:35:18
Xi and Modi, they all got together.
1:35:22
And it wasn't really played up much.
1:35:25
But there was, from what I understand, there
1:35:27
was talk about building energy projects in Russia
1:35:31
with what's our Westinghouse, which doesn't seem like
1:35:35
you're anti American if you want to build
1:35:37
an energy project in Russia with Westinghouse.
1:35:41
But it was always the finance minister.
1:35:44
I haven't I haven't been able to find
1:35:46
it yet.
1:35:46
But he posted two pictures, like mean pictures,
1:35:50
like AI, generally like no agenda art generator
1:35:52
stuff.
1:35:53
And one was with, you know, like the
1:35:56
the the panda bear and the Russian bear.
1:36:00
And what do you have?
1:36:01
What is India's symbol?
1:36:02
What kind of animal do they have?
1:36:05
Oh, it's a good question.
1:36:06
I forget what it is.
1:36:07
Someone in the chat.
1:36:07
And so they had those three and then
1:36:09
one underneath it, adding the United States and
1:36:11
had the U.S. flag.
1:36:13
And it was which one would you prefer?
1:36:17
And I'm just thinking, you know, how Trump
1:36:21
really wants to do business with Russia.
1:36:26
President Putin got a great relationship with him.
1:36:29
President Xi, I got a great, great relationship
1:36:31
with him.
1:36:33
Modi, good guy.
1:36:36
OK, he's impressed with Modi in a different
1:36:38
way, because if you recall, during his first
1:36:41
term, he went to a rally.
1:36:43
Yeah, the big rally in the in the
1:36:45
stadium.
1:36:46
Oh, yeah.
1:36:46
And it made it made Trump's rallies look
1:36:48
like small potatoes.
1:36:50
And Trump had these massive rallies compared to
1:36:52
everybody else.
1:36:53
He loved it.
1:36:53
He loved he was so impressed with it.
1:36:55
Wow.
1:36:56
How do you do this?
1:36:57
Hundreds of thousands of people in this massive
1:37:00
stadium.
1:37:00
So so just for a moment, I'm just
1:37:04
imagining what if President Trump is completely savvy
1:37:09
to this?
1:37:10
He's known this from the get go.
1:37:12
And this would be the five D chess
1:37:14
that everyone talks about.
1:37:15
And he's like, how do we bring down?
1:37:18
Because remember, it's Swift is not run by
1:37:21
the Federal Reserve.
1:37:22
Swift is run out of Brussels.
1:37:24
The, you know, the Bank of the the
1:37:27
city of London, they're the ones that screwed
1:37:30
up the dollar with the trade that kind
1:37:32
of, you know, that necessitated all kinds of
1:37:35
changes to the financial systems.
1:37:37
The forex trade, you know, the LIBOR scandal,
1:37:41
LIBOR scandal, which screwed up our interest rates.
1:37:45
All of these things all came out of
1:37:46
the Anglo Dutch monarchy organizations.
1:37:49
I got to come up with a better
1:37:50
acronym.
1:37:51
These ladies have the Anglo Dutch system is
1:37:53
no good.
1:37:53
It's like, you know, the limey Gouda head
1:37:56
system, whatever.
1:37:57
We'll come up with something.
1:37:58
I'm working on it.
1:37:59
But what if he really wants to team
1:38:02
up with India, China, Russia and bring those
1:38:06
those Brits down and those and those flatlanders
1:38:11
for once and for all?
1:38:14
Well, you always get the impression, especially during
1:38:16
when Trump was out and Biden was in
1:38:19
and even before Trump, that Putin has been
1:38:22
aware of something like this.
1:38:25
Yeah, because he acts like it.
1:38:27
And he always he was blaming for.
1:38:28
He says, you know, the people are getting
1:38:29
suckered into this and that and the other
1:38:30
thing.
1:38:31
And it's possible that Putin is clued in.
1:38:35
I mean, it's perfect for the show.
1:38:38
Let me put it that way.
1:38:39
It has a lot of legs.
1:38:42
It's a bottomless pit.
1:38:44
Yes, for 50 years, more years.
1:38:48
50 years.
1:38:50
And so, yeah, I'm totally a subscriber to
1:38:55
these sorts of things.
1:38:56
And so if you're talking about just to
1:38:59
briefly bring it back to Charlie Kirk, if
1:39:01
you're talking about some kind of professional hit
1:39:03
with a patsy that is meant to destabilize
1:39:06
America's youth, our political system, get when you
1:39:11
have people fighting each other, that's that's how
1:39:14
you conquer them.
1:39:15
It's obvious.
1:39:16
And the fact that the president said, I'm
1:39:19
going after the people who finance it.
1:39:22
That's like, OK, and that's clearly the Soros
1:39:27
clearly is from the U.K. banking system.
1:39:32
And by the way, these people don't care
1:39:33
about the Brits either.
1:39:34
They do not care.
1:39:35
They just care about the empire.
1:39:37
And, you know, we've been watching we watch
1:39:38
the Gilded Age, where all of the it's
1:39:43
actually a lot of the Dutch were in
1:39:45
New York early.
1:39:47
You know, the New Amsterdam, New Amsterdam, the
1:39:49
Driesmans.
1:39:51
This is the early rise of J.P.
1:39:53
Morgan.
1:39:53
And of course, after that, we went back
1:39:55
and we're watching Downton Abbey, which is actually
1:39:58
quite enjoyable, mainly from the historical perspective.
1:40:02
And you just see like, yeah, man, I
1:40:04
can't believe these Brits.
1:40:06
We kicked their butt and that was it.
1:40:09
That the pride went away.
1:40:10
I don't believe it for a second.
1:40:11
Not from these families and the monarchies and
1:40:14
how everyone's connected and inbred.
1:40:17
And it's only 250 years ago.
1:40:19
That's not very long.
1:40:21
Amsterdam was the center.
1:40:22
They invented the stock exchange.
1:40:25
They invented the whole concept.
1:40:28
They invented the Ponzi scheme or the I'm
1:40:31
sorry, tulip mania.
1:40:33
Ponzi scheme, I think, was invented in Italy.
1:40:35
Yeah, the bubble.
1:40:36
They invented the bubble.
1:40:38
So all of these things, if you go
1:40:40
back and we never we never taught this
1:40:42
in school.
1:40:43
We never go back far enough into history
1:40:45
to even think about these things.
1:40:47
Murica, you know, 70s, because to kids, world
1:40:51
history is boring.
1:40:52
But but my experience with history and people
1:40:56
who teach it, it's not boring in the
1:40:58
least.
1:40:59
It's the teachers who are boring.
1:41:01
Yes.
1:41:02
So this kind of fits in with this
1:41:05
latest.
1:41:06
This latest move by the president against the
1:41:09
NATO allies.
1:41:11
US President Donald Trump on Saturday called on
1:41:14
NATO allies to stop buying Russian oil while
1:41:17
also threatening China with massive tariffs for its
1:41:19
own purchases of Russian petroleum.
1:41:23
In a social media post, Trump called the
1:41:25
oil buying by some NATO members shocking, saying
1:41:28
it greatly weakens the alliance's negotiating position.
1:41:32
Russian Federation.
1:41:33
While attacking his comments come just days after
1:41:35
Russian drones violated Polish airspace, prompting NATO to
1:41:39
launch a new Eastern Sentry deterrence program type
1:41:42
objects into Polish airspace.
1:41:44
The remarks also follow last month's summit in
1:41:47
Alaska between Trump and Vladimir Putin, which failed
1:41:49
to achieve a breakthrough on ending the war.
1:41:52
Several NATO members, including Turkey, Hungary and Slovakia,
1:41:55
continue to be major buyers of Russian oil
1:41:57
after the invasion of Ukraine.
1:41:59
D.C. Trump also repeated his claim that
1:42:01
the conflict is Biden's and Zelensky's war and
1:42:04
would not have occurred if he had been
1:42:06
president when it began in early 2022.
1:42:09
So President Trump is saying, yeah, sure, I'll
1:42:11
do sanctions.
1:42:12
You guys stop buying their oil, which would
1:42:14
cripple them because we all know that they're
1:42:17
buying Russian oil.
1:42:19
It would cripple them.
1:42:20
So this seems like a like a by
1:42:22
the way, it's a pretty good trick.
1:42:24
By the way, I was just thinking, wouldn't
1:42:26
it be so typical for the and when
1:42:29
I say Anglo Dutch, I'm talking about the
1:42:31
Dutch people or the or the British people.
1:42:33
I'm talking about the Anglo Dutch system.
1:42:36
To get everyone to blame it all on
1:42:38
the Jews, you can just see them laughing
1:42:39
about that.
1:42:41
We got to blame the Jews for it.
1:42:43
They're bankers.
1:42:44
Yes, exactly.
1:42:45
And the Rothschilds are involved.
1:42:48
Yeah.
1:42:48
Oh, yeah.
1:42:49
Wouldn't it be fantastic?
1:42:51
Here's something I don't think they're going to
1:42:53
do that.
1:42:53
Well, they're not, but it's happening.
1:42:56
It's happening.
1:42:57
I think that's I don't know what's going
1:43:00
on there.
1:43:00
I think there's an explanation.
1:43:03
Well, here is they're blaming the Jews.
1:43:04
I think they're really out there.
1:43:05
Something about Netanyahu they have to deal with
1:43:08
and they don't like him.
1:43:09
No, there's that, too.
1:43:11
There's a lot of things not to like
1:43:12
about him.
1:43:13
He's not a player, probably.
1:43:16
Uh, here is a little too short clip
1:43:19
breakdown from my boy Andrew Rasulis on on
1:43:23
Trump's message here that is, hey, you stop
1:43:27
buying your oil, then we'll put some sanctions
1:43:29
on.
1:43:30
Joining us now is Andrew Rasulis, retired official
1:43:32
of the Department of National Defense.
1:43:35
Mr. Rasulis, welcome.
1:43:36
What do you make of Trump's calls today
1:43:38
on NATO allies?
1:43:40
Do you think it could make any difference
1:43:42
on Russia's stance at this point?
1:43:45
I don't think it'll even get there because
1:43:47
it's a very weak statement.
1:43:49
It carries a very large if and the
1:43:52
if is all European countries stop importing Russian
1:43:56
oil.
1:43:57
Now, that means chiefly Hungary, Slovakia and Turkey,
1:44:02
which import vast amounts of Russian oil.
1:44:05
Their economies are dependent on cheap Russian oil
1:44:09
to now expect that they will do Trump's
1:44:12
bidding and stop with the sort of underlying
1:44:15
understanding that the Americans will then put some
1:44:19
undefined sanctions on top of all the other
1:44:22
sanctions that he put on Russia and somehow
1:44:25
bring the war to an end.
1:44:26
I think this is a very illusory statement
1:44:31
by the president.
1:44:32
I don't think there's much to it.
1:44:34
Yeah, well, because it's a troll, basically.
1:44:38
And of course, we want to know how
1:44:40
this might affect China if it does at
1:44:42
all.
1:44:42
What about China, who he directly called out?
1:44:46
What sort of impact could tariffs have there?
1:44:50
Well, exactly.
1:44:51
I mean, he did on India.
1:44:53
All right.
1:44:53
He did on India and it had no
1:44:55
effect.
1:44:55
The Indians have said, forget it.
1:44:57
We're going to continue to buy Russian oil
1:44:58
despite the tariffs imposed on them by the
1:45:00
United States.
1:45:01
On China, it's a very different degree.
1:45:04
The Chinese import the most of Russian oil
1:45:08
and the Americans depend very much on Chinese
1:45:12
trade bilaterally.
1:45:14
So if they impose tariffs on China for
1:45:17
goods entering the United States, this will have
1:45:20
a significant impact on the American economy and
1:45:23
American consumers.
1:45:25
So Trump has never actually followed through on
1:45:28
this.
1:45:28
He's been saying that this has been going
1:45:30
for weeks now, but he's pulled back.
1:45:32
Because that is impractical.
1:45:34
So basically, there are very strict limits as
1:45:39
to what the United States and Europeans or
1:45:41
Canadians can do to actually affect the Russian
1:45:43
economy.
1:45:44
Yeah, he doesn't actually want to.
1:45:46
Now, through this new lens, he doesn't want
1:45:49
to do that.
1:45:50
We want to screw those guys over there.
1:45:52
And I think if you were to flip
1:45:54
the bricks on its head and make it
1:45:56
the A-bricks, America, Brazil, Russia, India, China,
1:46:03
South Africa, we'll just add them in there.
1:46:06
Which, I mean, hey, boys, guess what?
1:46:09
We're all going to use this stable coin
1:46:11
over here.
1:46:12
Screw those Europeans with their digital euro.
1:46:16
Cue Lagarde.
1:46:17
One year on from the release of Mario
1:46:20
Draghi's report on the future of European competitiveness,
1:46:24
it remains essential to follow up on its
1:46:27
recommendations with further concrete action and to accelerate
1:46:32
implementation in line with the European Commission's roadmap.
1:46:37
Governments should prioritize growth-enhancing structural reforms and
1:46:41
strategic investment while ensuring sustainable public finance.
1:46:47
It is critical to complete the Savings and
1:46:50
Investment Union and the Banking Union to an
1:46:54
ambitious timetable and to rapidly establish the legislative
1:46:58
framework for the potential introduction of our digital
1:47:02
euro.
1:47:03
Too little, too late, baby.
1:47:05
You can't catch up.
1:47:06
Stable coin is here.
1:47:11
It's much more fun to look at the
1:47:13
world this way.
1:47:15
No wonder people want to leave Britain.
1:47:18
Oh, yeah, it's getting bad.
1:47:20
You saw the protest.
1:47:22
I have a clip.
1:47:23
Okay, let me see.
1:47:26
London.
1:47:28
Huge protest.
1:47:29
Easy to find.
1:47:31
A far-right protest turned violent in London
1:47:33
today.
1:47:34
Vicki Barker has this report from the British
1:47:37
capital.
1:47:39
Chanting anti-immigrant slogans and waving flags, though
1:47:43
marchers, more than 100,000, police estimate, filled
1:47:47
the streets of central London.
1:47:50
And they heard the anti-immigrant, anti-Islam
1:47:53
activist Tommy Robinson tell them to savour the
1:47:56
moment, to feel their strength.
1:47:59
You are part of a tidal wave of
1:48:02
patriotism that is sweeping across this country.
1:48:07
Britain, he said, has finally awoken.
1:48:12
A few thousand counter-demonstrators from the group
1:48:15
Stand Up to Racism held their rally a
1:48:18
few hundred yards away.
1:48:19
It was like a hundred thousand versus it
1:48:21
looked like a thousand.
1:48:23
Yeah, that's what they said in the report.
1:48:25
A hundred thousand.
1:48:26
And then, of course, why even mention the
1:48:27
other groups?
1:48:28
Only, you know, one one hundredth away.
1:48:31
You guys are racist.
1:48:34
Yeah, who had the professionally printed signs?
1:48:37
The smaller group, of course.
1:48:39
But meanwhile, some of this pressure may be
1:48:42
having an effect.
1:48:43
And this is why this is why a
1:48:46
war economy is needed.
1:48:48
This is why we're going to we'll get
1:48:50
into Eastern Century.
1:48:53
France is teetering.
1:48:55
France's sovereign credit score is at its lowest
1:48:57
level on record.
1:48:59
Previously rated AA minus, the country has been
1:49:02
downgraded by one notch to A plus by
1:49:04
credit rating agency Fitch.
1:49:06
The agency explains this is a consequence of
1:49:08
continuing political instability.
1:49:11
They say the government's defeat in a confidence
1:49:13
vote illustrates the increased fragmentation and polarization of
1:49:16
domestic politics.
1:49:18
This instability weakens the political system's capacity to
1:49:21
deliver substantial fiscal consolidation.
1:49:24
In its report, Fitch paints a grim picture
1:49:27
of the state of France's public finances.
1:49:30
According to the agency, the deficit is expected
1:49:32
to remain above five percent next year, and
1:49:35
debt is expected to rise to one hundred
1:49:37
and twenty one percent of GDP in twenty
1:49:39
twenty seven, up from one hundred and fourteen
1:49:41
percent today.
1:49:43
For this economist, the downgrade has limited but
1:49:45
real consequences.
1:49:47
The impact of this downgrade is a lower
1:49:50
quality debt, meaning certainly an increase in risk
1:49:53
that could continue.
1:49:55
And so this concretely means for France an
1:49:57
increased debt burden, which means a higher level
1:50:00
of interest that it repays each year.
1:50:04
The outgoing minister of the economy, Eric Lombard,
1:50:07
has taken note of Fitch's decision.
1:50:09
The new prime minister, Sebastian Le Corneau's mission
1:50:12
is to present a budget that's acceptable to
1:50:14
the opposition.
1:50:15
Both those on the left and the right
1:50:17
have opposing ideas of how to balance France's
1:50:20
books.
1:50:20
These divisions will make a consensus difficult to
1:50:23
achieve.
1:50:24
The difficulty is you don't have your own
1:50:26
money anymore.
1:50:27
That's the difficulty.
1:50:29
Once you went on the euro, you can't
1:50:30
inflate your way out of a out of
1:50:32
a crisis like this.
1:50:34
Yeah, the Greeks taught us that.
1:50:36
Yes, austerity measures coming to France and they're
1:50:39
not going to like it.
1:50:41
And then we have and we have another
1:50:43
French revolt all the time.
1:50:45
So this could be like the Fifth Republic
1:50:47
or whatever number you're up to.
1:50:49
But it used to be cool.
1:50:50
You know, they cut off heads and stuff.
1:50:53
It was still do that.
1:50:54
Well, they could they could get back to
1:50:57
it.
1:50:58
We have a new a new actor on
1:51:01
the scene.
1:51:03
The Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO, who
1:51:08
I've never.
1:51:09
I don't think I can't recall this guy
1:51:11
ever showing up.
1:51:13
And there he is next to Mark Ritter.
1:51:16
And well, here we go, everybody.
1:51:18
Eastern Century.
1:51:20
We've activated it.
1:51:21
Yeah.
1:51:21
So a couple of comments.
1:51:24
I have issued the order tonight for Eastern
1:51:28
Century to begin.
1:51:30
The order went out as this press conference
1:51:32
began.
1:51:32
And so operations are being brought together immediately
1:51:36
underneath my authorities as SACEUR.
1:51:38
Now, it will take some time for us
1:51:41
to bring everything together with the new contributions
1:51:43
that have been coming in, and we'll continue
1:51:45
to work on this and refine the design
1:51:47
of the operation moving forward.
1:51:48
But it begins immediately on.
1:51:51
I'll just make one comment on the drone
1:51:53
wall, Secretary General.
1:51:55
This is very in line with some of
1:51:57
our thoughts of fortifying our eastern flank from
1:52:00
from a land and air domain perspective.
1:52:02
And just coming back from the Baltics, the
1:52:04
number of states are making investments in technologies,
1:52:07
learning lessons from Ukraine about what kind of
1:52:09
sensors and what kind of weapons kinetic and
1:52:12
non kinetic might be effective.
1:52:13
And so integrating those sorts of defenses into
1:52:16
our daily deterrence activities and into our regional
1:52:19
plans is absolutely going to be something that
1:52:21
we want to do moving forward.
1:52:23
OK, so why is this guy standing next
1:52:25
to Mark Ritter?
1:52:26
Because he's part of the sales team.
1:52:28
They brought in the closer.
1:52:30
This guy's like, hey, y'all want to
1:52:33
get your your eastern flank all squared away.
1:52:36
We're going to help you, but you need
1:52:37
new gear.
1:52:38
You need to buy some gear from us.
1:52:40
Do you think it was a highly successful
1:52:42
operation intercepting the drones that we did with
1:52:46
our with the Dutch F-35s and the
1:52:48
other assets that contributed to that?
1:52:51
As successful as we are, we always learn
1:52:54
something in the debrief, as we would say,
1:52:56
in the in the fighter business.
1:52:57
And so we are always looking for ways
1:53:01
to enhance to learn from the smallest tactical
1:53:04
error to how we're approaching certain problems.
1:53:07
And in my judgment, the scale of the
1:53:10
incursion the other day was it was obviously
1:53:13
larger than previous incursions that we've had.
1:53:15
So bringing additional resources to bear on this
1:53:18
problem will help to solve that.
1:53:19
So that's why we're starting this operation the
1:53:22
way we are.
1:53:23
I'll also highlight the comment I made about
1:53:26
working with Allied Command Transformation and Admiral Vendee.
1:53:30
That is an effort to ensure that we
1:53:32
get lower cost weapons that we can use
1:53:35
to defend ourselves to make this a sustainable
1:53:37
operation over time.
1:53:39
And as Secure, one of my responsibilities is
1:53:42
to make sure that we don't just defend
1:53:43
today, but that we're set up to defend
1:53:45
tomorrow.
1:53:46
And the last comment I'll make is when
1:53:49
when there's a fighter pilot that's in the
1:53:51
air or someone on the ground who's defending
1:53:53
the alliance, I don't want them thinking about
1:53:55
how much their weapons cost.
1:53:57
I want them defending our citizens.
1:53:59
Yeah, yeah.
1:54:00
Don't think about cost, boys.
1:54:03
Don't worry about it.
1:54:04
Fire away.
1:54:04
Fire away.
1:54:05
Fox one.
1:54:06
Fox two.
1:54:07
Oh, yeah.
1:54:08
By the way, it turns out these were
1:54:09
not Shaheed.
1:54:10
These were Gerand drones, which pretty much are
1:54:14
unarmed.
1:54:16
They are autonomous.
1:54:19
They have funny.
1:54:20
One of the reports did say Shaheeds.
1:54:23
No, I know that initially we heard Shaheed,
1:54:25
but I got a lot of people who
1:54:27
know what they're talking about emailing me.
1:54:29
So, no, these are Gerand drones.
1:54:30
And then this morning or yesterday, there was
1:54:33
a bunch of incursions over Romania.
1:54:35
Yes.
1:54:36
I think I actually have a clip of
1:54:38
that.
1:54:38
Hold on.
1:54:40
Yes, here it is.
1:54:42
It was two F-16 fighter jets like
1:54:44
these that detected a drone in Romania's airspace.
1:54:47
The Romanian defense ministry says the jets were
1:54:49
patrolling near the border following Russian airstrikes on
1:54:52
Ukrainian infrastructure.
1:54:54
At 1823, F-16 aircraft detected a drone
1:54:57
in national airspace, which they tracked to approximately
1:55:00
20 kilometers southwest of Cilievece, where it disappeared
1:55:04
from radar.
1:55:05
The drone did not fly over populated areas
1:55:08
and did not pose an imminent danger to
1:55:11
the safety of the population.
1:55:12
It's the second breach of NATO airspace in
1:55:14
just a matter of days after Poland said
1:55:16
it shot down several Russian drones earlier in
1:55:19
the week.
1:55:19
In response, the alliance is beefing up its
1:55:21
defenses with a new operation dubbed Eastern Sentry,
1:55:24
which aims to reinforce its eastern border with
1:55:27
Belarus, Russia and Ukraine.
1:55:28
The U.S. has also vowed to defend
1:55:30
every inch of NATO territory.
1:55:32
It shouldn't happen.
1:55:33
I don't think anybody's happy about it seeing
1:55:34
happen.
1:55:35
You saw NATO respond to it appropriately.
1:55:37
We don't want to see it happen again.
1:55:38
We think it's an unacceptable and unfortunate and
1:55:43
dangerous development in this regard.
1:55:46
With tensions high, Poland's Lublin airport temporarily closed
1:55:50
on Saturday after a drone alert was issued.
1:55:52
Meanwhile, Russia and Belarus are pressing on with
1:55:54
their joint operations near the Polish border.
1:55:57
Known as Zapad 2, the two countries had
1:55:59
already carried out similar exercises back in 2021,
1:56:03
just months before Russia's full-scale invasion of
1:56:05
Ukraine.
1:56:06
Full-scale invasion.
1:56:08
Yeah, the more I think about it, the
1:56:09
more genius this is starting to look.
1:56:12
Like, bleed them dry of all their money
1:56:14
for, not for today's war, but tomorrow's war.
1:56:17
You don't want your boys in the sky
1:56:19
thinking about what it's going to cost.
1:56:21
I love that.
1:56:22
You don't want that.
1:56:23
That's a great sales pitch.
1:56:24
You don't want fighters to be thinking, you
1:56:26
don't want, you want those guys to be
1:56:27
- They should be making this as a
1:56:29
consideration.
1:56:31
Going to save money for your government.
1:56:34
Yeah.
1:56:35
You don't want that.
1:56:37
You know, the French are shutting down their
1:56:38
nuclear power plants.
1:56:41
Germans.
1:56:42
Yes.
1:56:43
Oh yeah, they've decommissioned- The French are
1:56:45
all, the whole country is run by those
1:56:47
nukes.
1:56:47
No, I think they shut down two of
1:56:49
them already.
1:56:49
No, they may be for maintenance.
1:56:51
I can't believe they're going to shut any
1:56:52
of them down.
1:56:53
Well, the Germans certainly did.
1:56:55
And Germany- Germans did.
1:56:56
They're stupid.
1:56:57
But that's the green agenda.
1:56:59
They've turned it on themselves.
1:57:01
And we're going to screw them with their
1:57:02
money, with the stable coin.
1:57:05
We were taking away the, you know, LIBOR
1:57:07
is gone.
1:57:08
You don't control that anymore.
1:57:09
Now we just got to get those mainly
1:57:12
City of London oriented banks who are, you
1:57:15
know, not to be named in the Federal
1:57:16
Reserve.
1:57:17
Get them out of the picture.
1:57:18
Which Besant is, they've got plans.
1:57:22
You know, this could get very- Well,
1:57:25
if Trump can keep himself alive, you know,
1:57:29
they don't put those James Bond movies into
1:57:31
your mind for nothing.
1:57:32
Yeah, we got our agents.
1:57:34
They can kill anybody.
1:57:35
You can get anybody.
1:57:36
They can get the man anytime they want.
1:57:38
But we'll make them look like Austin Powers.
1:57:40
So you don't, you're not pretty, you're not,
1:57:42
you're not clued into what we're really doing.
1:57:46
Yeah.
1:57:47
Yeah.
1:57:48
Yeah.
1:57:49
Well, I think we're on to something.
1:57:51
Yes.
1:57:55
The- Oh, this- See, I-
1:58:00
Actually, there was a kind of doubling back,
1:58:04
but coming back to technology.
1:58:07
Which is obviously some- By the way,
1:58:10
how about all those European Union finding our
1:58:13
companies billions of dollars?
1:58:15
Yeah, well, that's been going on since the
1:58:17
entire show.
1:58:18
Yeah, they hate it.
1:58:19
They hate our technology.
1:58:20
It started with Microsoft years ago, then Google,
1:58:23
and then now Meta, and then Google again.
1:58:25
Yeah, because they hate our influence.
1:58:27
They want to control it.
1:58:28
That's a gouge.
1:58:29
It's a rip off.
1:58:30
It's a simple rip.
1:58:31
They don't hate us.
1:58:32
They love us.
1:58:33
They can get all these billions of dollars
1:58:35
for doing absolutely something.
1:58:36
Well, that's true.
1:58:38
Let's sit on our ass and do nothing,
1:58:39
and then, oh, no, you get fined.
1:58:42
Why would they hate us?
1:58:44
Sounds like a podcast.
1:58:45
Let's sit on our ass and do nothing.
1:58:47
Yeah, well, it's both podcasts.
1:58:49
Not this one.
1:58:52
So, obviously, now we have to- This
1:58:55
is your girl, Kristen Welker.
1:58:57
And that's why I have the clips from
1:58:58
Meet the Press.
1:58:59
And she's talking to the governor, Spencer Cox.
1:59:05
Spencer Cox.
1:59:06
Is that the guy?
1:59:08
Is that- Cox, the Utah governor?
1:59:10
Yeah, yeah.
1:59:11
Yeah, he's a very politically savvy guy.
1:59:14
He could run for president.
1:59:16
Well, from what I'm reading, a lot of
1:59:19
people think he is a proverbial rhino, a
1:59:24
Republican in name only.
1:59:26
And you certainly don't want this guy as
1:59:29
president.
1:59:29
Listen to his thoughts and his ideas about
1:59:31
online and radicalization.
1:59:33
Governor, I want to ask you about something
1:59:35
you said on Friday.
1:59:36
You said, quote, there was a radicalization that
1:59:38
happened in a fairly short amount of time.
1:59:42
How was the suspect radicalized?
1:59:44
How quickly did it happen?
1:59:46
By the FBI, by the MI6.
1:59:48
I mean, this radicalization can happen from anybody,
1:59:51
people.
1:59:52
Well, again, those are pieces of information that
1:59:55
we're still gathering, trying to understand.
1:59:57
We do know.
1:59:58
And again, this is- Is he in
1:59:59
intelligence all of a sudden, this guy?
2:00:01
Yeah, we're gathering this- He has that
2:00:05
look.
2:00:05
You're right.
2:00:05
Now, as you mentioned, he has an intelligence
2:00:07
look.
2:00:07
He looks like a spook.
2:00:10
And he says the right things.
2:00:12
And when they bring up some of these
2:00:14
radicalization programs, you know, the intelligence people are
2:00:18
the ones who could, you know, they got
2:00:19
all these, you know, Quantico and all these
2:00:21
people that do personality analysis, and they know
2:00:23
your weak spots, and they can come in
2:00:25
and convince you of something that's not going
2:00:28
to happen.
2:00:28
Like you have a whole group of them
2:00:30
down there in Fredericksburg that think, you know,
2:00:32
the grid's going down or whatever they want
2:00:35
to try as a joke.
2:00:39
Yeah, exactly.
2:00:40
They sigh up our people here.
2:00:42
He is, of course, in Utah.
2:00:45
He is, I believe he is, yes, he
2:00:49
went on mission for the- So he's
2:00:51
a Mormon, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
2:00:54
-day Saints, which- Right, and by the
2:00:58
way, that's what you're supposed to say.
2:01:00
They don't like the word Mormon.
2:01:01
No, they don't.
2:01:01
That's why I said Church of Jesus Christ
2:01:03
of Latter-day Saints.
2:01:05
But I'm just pointing that out to the
2:01:06
audience.
2:01:06
Yes, but they are very deeply entrenched in
2:01:09
intelligence.
2:01:11
They have records on everybody.
2:01:14
Didn't Ancestry.com start with them?
2:01:19
I think you might be right.
2:01:21
Yeah, they- Yes, because they have the
2:01:23
belief as a religion that they can baptize
2:01:26
you in death.
2:01:27
That's right.
2:01:28
That's right, which is appreciated, but it's okay.
2:01:31
I already gave it the office.
2:01:33
It's not appreciated by everybody.
2:01:35
I gave it the office.
2:01:36
I don't need it anymore.
2:01:37
It's information that we're still gathering, trying to
2:01:39
understand.
2:01:40
We do know, and again, this has been
2:01:42
well publicized, that this was a very normal
2:01:46
young man, a very smart young man, 4
2:01:49
.0 student, I think it's a 34 on
2:01:51
the ACT, went to- How does he
2:01:55
know all this stuff?
2:01:56
I haven't seen any of his scholastic record.
2:02:00
Yeah, that came out.
2:02:02
34 on the ACT, went to my alma
2:02:07
mater, Utah State University, but was only there
2:02:09
for a very short amount of time.
2:02:11
I mean, he dropped out after less than
2:02:13
one semester, and it seemed to happen kind
2:02:15
of after that, after he had moved back
2:02:19
to the southern part of Utah.
2:02:23
Clearly, there was a lot of gaming going
2:02:25
on.
2:02:26
Friends confirmed that there was kind of that
2:02:29
deep, dark internet- The dark.
2:02:32
Reddit culture and these other dark places of
2:02:35
the internet where this person was- Will,
2:02:39
stop for a second.
2:02:40
I take back what I said about him
2:02:42
being a potential presidential candidate because of this
2:02:46
interaction he's going through right now.
2:02:48
He is using a scattergun style of talking,
2:02:51
so it's not smooth.
2:02:53
He's not smooth.
2:02:55
I mean, when he gave his prepared speeches,
2:02:57
he sounded very presidential, but here's- He's
2:03:00
all over the map.
2:03:02
He doesn't have a structured flow.
2:03:04
It doesn't come off well.
2:03:06
No.
2:03:06
So, no, he's out.
2:03:07
No, he's- And also, Utah has all
2:03:11
the big data centers.
2:03:14
Any place- At least I'm in Colorado.
2:03:16
Yeah, I know, but Utah, well known.
2:03:18
Well known.
2:03:19
He's a fan of the band The Killers.
2:03:21
Okay.
2:03:21
It's kind of that deep, dark internet, the
2:03:24
Reddit culture, and these other dark places of
2:03:29
the internet where this person was going deep.
2:03:33
And you saw that on the casings.
2:03:36
I think, I mean, I didn't have any
2:03:37
idea what the- You saw that on
2:03:39
the casings.
2:03:40
Again, we didn't see anything.
2:03:42
We didn't see anything.
2:03:43
He's stammering like a maniac.
2:03:46
He's stammering to the extent that- That
2:03:49
he's lying.
2:03:50
He's not being honest.
2:03:51
Exactly.
2:03:52
Was going deep.
2:03:53
And you saw that on the casings.
2:03:56
I think, I mean, I didn't have any
2:03:58
idea what those inscriptions- Many of those
2:04:00
inscriptions even meant.
2:04:02
But they are, you know, certainly the memification
2:04:05
that is happening in our society today.
2:04:07
By the way, this podcast, The No Agenda
2:04:09
Show, is only available on the dark web.
2:04:11
Governor, I want to delve into some of
2:04:14
the messaging that we have heard from you.
2:04:17
Lawmakers, governors- Messaging.
2:04:18
Both parties across the country have frankly praised
2:04:21
what we heard from you on Friday.
2:04:24
Your unifying message.
2:04:25
You said you see this as a watershed
2:04:27
moment.
2:04:29
How can this nation step back from the
2:04:32
brink, Governor?
2:04:33
No, he was so good.
2:04:34
From the brink.
2:04:35
He was so good that you even kind
2:04:37
of fell for it until you heard this
2:04:38
interview.
2:04:39
Because he was good.
2:04:40
He had a, you know, a message that
2:04:44
was needed at that moment.
2:04:45
But we needed some details too.
2:04:49
So look, this is- What?
2:04:52
You mentioned it in the introduction.
2:04:54
But we have seen an escalation- What
2:04:55
was that all about?
2:04:56
Well, let's- Starts right away with a
2:04:58
laugh tale?
2:04:59
Let's listen to her lead in again.
2:05:00
And by the way, I resent the fact
2:05:02
you said that I fell for it.
2:05:04
Well, I don't- Because I did.
2:05:06
But it's beside the point.
2:05:09
It's not- By the way, I need
2:05:13
to apologize for something.
2:05:14
Not for that comment I just made.
2:05:17
What would that be?
2:05:18
What else did you say about me that
2:05:20
you need to apologize for?
2:05:21
It was not about you.
2:05:23
I said something about Brennan.
2:05:26
Oh, yes, Brennan.
2:05:27
Brennan and Jay were quite upset about you
2:05:29
calling him, as I recall, the exact word
2:05:32
was a deadbeat when it's anything but.
2:05:35
He's a very responsible- And by the
2:05:36
way, he's an Eagle Scout, if anybody cares.
2:05:39
But a lot of Eagle Scouts out there.
2:05:41
And a very responsible person.
2:05:43
And it was, I think, actionable insult.
2:05:47
Well, it was not- It was meant
2:05:49
as a joke, obviously.
2:05:51
Well, Mimi noticed it was kind of a
2:05:52
joke.
2:05:53
Because you make these offhanded comments.
2:05:55
It was a joke coming from the love
2:05:58
you have for the family.
2:05:59
Yes.
2:05:59
And it came in a conversation where you
2:06:01
were making fun of Mimi's voice.
2:06:04
So I'm like, it's fair game now.
2:06:06
But that's- But I apologize.
2:06:08
That's not true.
2:06:11
Okay, I'm sorry.
2:06:12
No, that's right.
2:06:14
It was right before you called me-
2:06:15
And I wasn't making fun of her voice.
2:06:16
She's- Her mic voice is a very
2:06:18
sexy voice she's developed.
2:06:19
I called her out on it later.
2:06:21
I called her and said, where'd you get
2:06:23
- Where are you developing this voice?
2:06:24
Because she wears the cans and she doesn't
2:06:27
like her voice.
2:06:27
And so she's working on- Hello.
2:06:29
So she's working on this bullcrap voice.
2:06:31
It sounds terrific.
2:06:33
She could get it worked doing that voice.
2:06:34
It was right before- Right after you
2:06:37
called me a bigot.
2:06:38
And before you called me an egomaniac about
2:06:42
the sound of my own voice.
2:06:44
So- Yes.
2:06:45
Yes, that's true.
2:06:47
But- Okay, so instead of- I'm
2:06:49
fair game.
2:06:50
I'm fair game.
2:06:50
Instead of your normal attack of me, you
2:06:53
went after poor old Brennan.
2:06:55
It was, I said it because I know
2:06:58
that, you know, because of the departure of
2:07:01
what company left?
2:07:03
Oh, the Chevron, right?
2:07:04
The Chevron.
2:07:04
Yeah.
2:07:05
So I'm sorry, of course.
2:07:06
Something's going- By the way, I remember
2:07:08
Jay- It's sweet of you to apologize
2:07:10
to Brennan.
2:07:11
Yes.
2:07:11
And also to Jay, you know, because they're
2:07:14
married and, you know, I'm sure she got
2:07:15
that.
2:07:15
And she didn't mention anything to me, but
2:07:18
this got back to me.
2:07:19
And so I'm really sorry.
2:07:20
I've known Jay since she was 15.
2:07:23
And I love her working with us and
2:07:26
- And she does a terrific job.
2:07:28
And Brennan's a good guy.
2:07:29
I've never met him, but you like him.
2:07:30
So that automatically qualifies.
2:07:32
He's a nice guy.
2:07:32
So I'm sorry.
2:07:33
This is what you get when you only
2:07:35
listen to the No Agenda show once in
2:07:37
a while.
2:07:37
You haven't heard all the other stuff we
2:07:39
talked about you.
2:07:40
So I'm sorry.
2:07:42
I really am.
2:07:42
I think that they should be listening to
2:07:47
the show.
2:07:47
Jay was listening to the show with more
2:07:48
consistency.
2:07:50
And Brennan listens once in a while.
2:07:52
He was listening in the car, I guess,
2:07:53
when you insulted him.
2:07:57
And they should listen to the show.
2:07:59
I don't understand this.
2:08:00
Did they almost drive their Tesla off the
2:08:02
road?
2:08:05
Driving a minivan.
2:08:07
All right.
2:08:07
Onward.
2:08:08
Unifying message.
2:08:09
You said you see this as a watershed
2:08:11
moment.
2:08:13
How can this nation step back from the
2:08:15
brink, Governor?
2:08:17
So look, you mentioned it in the introduction,
2:08:22
but we have seen an escalation in violence
2:08:24
that has been happening across the country.
2:08:26
We've had periods like this in our past
2:08:28
history.
2:08:28
I've mentioned before in the late 60s and
2:08:30
early 70s.
2:08:31
We saw these types of high profile political
2:08:35
assassinations.
2:08:36
Another dark time in our history.
2:08:38
People keep waiting for somebody to lead us
2:08:43
out of this.
2:08:43
And I think that's a mistake.
2:08:45
I don't think any one person, certainly not
2:08:48
a governor.
2:08:48
I don't think a president.
2:08:50
I don't think anyone can change the trajectory
2:08:53
of this.
2:08:54
It truly is about every single one of
2:08:56
us.
2:08:56
And I can't emphasize enough the damage that
2:09:00
social media and the Internet is doing to
2:09:03
all of us.
2:09:04
Cox for president.
2:09:05
Those dopamine hits, these companies, trillion dollar market
2:09:09
caps, the most powerful companies in the history
2:09:11
of the world have figured out how to
2:09:13
hack our brains, get us addicted to.
2:09:16
Hold on a second.
2:09:17
Stop.
2:09:18
What social media company has a trillion dollar
2:09:21
valuation?
2:09:25
I can tell you what companies have.
2:09:26
Meta?
2:09:27
Meta?
2:09:28
I don't think they have a trillion dollar
2:09:29
valuation, not a market cap.
2:09:32
I know Apple does.
2:09:33
But that's not social media.
2:09:35
I think Amazon goes.
2:09:37
I think Microsoft for sure.
2:09:41
Yeah, but those aren't social media companies.
2:09:43
The social media companies to me are.
2:09:45
Make no money.
2:09:47
Well, no, they make money.
2:09:48
I mean, Meta makes money.
2:09:50
Meta is a good example.
2:09:53
But I don't think they're, I'll look it
2:09:55
up.
2:09:55
But that'd be the only one possibly with
2:09:57
a trillion dollar market.
2:09:59
Well, also, there's not the most.
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