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Charlie Kirk Today | Amber Duke: June 08, 2026 | Charlie Kirk Today | June 8, 2026
- Today is a very important day.
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- Today is the 14th anniversary of turning point usa.
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- 14 years ago, on this day, one day before the d-day
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- Anniversary, i'll note charlie started turning point.
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- He ran it out of a garage in chicago.
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- But of course,
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- Today is a very different anniversary.
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- This is the first anniversary of turning point.
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- Without charlie, without charlie, with us.
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- Charlie built turning point up from nothing into
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- One of the most important organizations in america.
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- He would say the most important organization.
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- And you know what? he was right.
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- The most important organization in america.
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- A force known all around the world.
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- A force others wanted to learn from.
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- A force that changed the culture of america in the way.
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- Certainly in my lifetime,
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- Nothing else on the right was able to.
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- And on this 14th anniversary, our first one
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- Without charlie, i.
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- I want to remind you of what it charlie was able
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- To accomplish with his organization
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- In his life, which was far too short.
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- When charlie started turning point usa, i remember it.
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- I was in college myself when he started it
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- Instead of going to college, which he thought was a scam.
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- The belief was that young people were just incurably
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- Left wing.
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- They voted for barack obama
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- In absolutely overwhelming numbers.
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- Every cohort of college student was getting more left
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- Wing by the year,
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- And there was
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- This huge sense of defeatism about it on the right.
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- All young people are left wing.
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- What are you going to do?
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- It always involved this implicit concession that
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- The left had better arguments than the right.
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- They were just better at winning over young people
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- If they had any hope at all.
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- There was always in the scope that would be, oh, well,
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- Young people will leave college,
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- They'll have to pay taxes, they'll have to get a job.
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- Then they'll definitely become more right wing.
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- And that was all they had was hope.
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- There was never this belief that we could go and confront
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- The left in its own territory, argue with them and win,
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- Because our arguments were better.
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- And that happened on economics.
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- It happened on foreign policy, but it also happened on faith.
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- Young people were getting less religious every single year.
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- The decline was absolutely precipitous and it was routine.
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- Just hear christians talk about, well, in the future
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- Will be
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- This tiny minority
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- Will have to go through this
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- Dark age, perhaps of persecution,
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- And there's no way to just win these young people back.
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- And charlie rejected that.
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- That's why he called it turning point usa.
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- He believed that there could be a turning point
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- For this country, and it could come
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- Through young people, and it would come through
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- Confronting the problems with america at their source.
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- He thought, we can go on campus, we can go on
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- Social media and we can win the argument.
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- We can outperform the left.
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- And the results have spoken for themselves in the 2024
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- Election, which charlie
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- Was one of the chief players in young people.
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- They moved to the right in an election
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- For one of the first times in ages.
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- And on top of that, we can see in polls
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- That the decline in faith,
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- The decline in religious belief among young people.
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- For the first time in memory, it stopped going down.
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- Some polls show that it's going the other direction.
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- And i strongly believe that it was.
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- Charlie's doing.
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- Charlie, as a major force in history,
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- Played a central role in all of that happening.
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- I wouldn't say it would be going too far
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- To say that charlie won the battle.
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- We know that's not true, but charlie showed that the battle
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- Could be won, and that's of central importance.
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- But last year, god called charlie home
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- To heaven as a martyr.
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- Now it's the obligation of all of us.
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- Who knew charlie? who?
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- Charlie chose to work with him.
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- It's our job to carry on charlie's mission
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- Because we know the battle isn't won.
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- We know the battle still has to be fought
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- And the work is continuing.
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- As i said, today is the opening day
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- Of the women's leadership summit in san antonio.
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- We have a lot of great speakers, including erica kirk,
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- But also albert stuckey, riley gaines, sarah
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- Huckabee sanders, alex clark, kayleigh mcenany, a lot more.
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- They're going to speak to thousands of young women
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- About charlie's message, which is that faith and family
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- Are integral to the best lives that you can live.
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- Charlie spoke above all to young men,
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- But he always had a very special place
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- In his heart for young women.
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- He knew that young women were being harmed
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- A tremendous amount by the modern lives of feminism,
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- The modern just and secularism and modern culture.
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- And he wanted to use his own marriage, his own family,
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- As a model that they could look towards,
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- That a better life can be lived.
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- And that message was getting through as
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- At the end of charlie's
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- Life, and we are going to be
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- Continuing to carry that forward.
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- So for the rest of the show, i want to invite all of you
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- Who are watching.
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- Send in your emails about how you started
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- Following a turning point.
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- How have you been with us
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- For five years, ten years, 13 years, 14 years?
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- Send us emails about how you got involved
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- And how
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- Charlie impacted your life,
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- And i'll try to read some of those.
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- But i also want to since it's since it's the women's
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- Leadership summit, i want to and also since actually, first
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- They've just put this up as charlie
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- Talking about how he started turning point usa 14 years ago.
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- Let's get that plain clip 38 is june 5th, 2012.
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- I was wrestling with kind of what
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- We're going to call this
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- Organization, and my dad came up with a list of names
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- And all of a sudden he said, turning point.
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- I said, that's the one.
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- Spoke at a tea party rally out in rockford
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- And the journey started.
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- No money, no connections, and no idea what i was doing.
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- Started to barnstorm illinois in the midwest,
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- Speaking at every possible tea party rally, i could.
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- That was the garage that we literally started in
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- Lamont, illinois.
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- I had burning desire.
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- Looking back at it.
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- I wanted to grow this thing more than anything imaginable.
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- I poured every part of my being into this as napoleon
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- Hill would say, conceive, believe, work, achieve. kb.
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- A was the daily mantra that i would have.
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- Charlie lived by that mantra every day.
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- Conceive, believe, do he?
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- More than anyone i knew he was a person
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- Who really believed in the power of one individual.
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- Through hard work, intense self-belief,
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- Intense self-discipline, he could change the world.
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- There's, there's a sign that charlie kept in his office
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- That we still have there, and it has three things on it,
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- And it's. how can i honor god today?
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- How can i serve others today?
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- How can i do something in the world today?
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- I'm going off memory here.
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- I might have it wrong,
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- But charlie, more than anyone i know,
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- Lived by those principles.
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- And as a result,
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- He was able to change the world 14 years later.
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- We live in an america that it did reach a turning point.
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- Things in this country changed because of the model
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- Charlie set and the life he lived.
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- We have a faith revival. we have
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- Different beliefs among young people
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- That we thought were impossible when this group was started
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- 14 years ago,
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- And we have charlie to thank for that, and
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- Especially the faith revival.
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- I really want to remark on that.
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- All of us have heard
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- Here have heard firsthand stories of people
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- Who dedicated their lives to christ
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- Because of what they saw charlie say, and will be frank,
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- Because of how charlie lived his life
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- All the way to the end.
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- And he accomplished so much in the first 13 years
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- Of turning point.
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- We're now at your 14,
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- And we're going to carry on that legacy.
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- We'll be right back
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- We'll be right back
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- We have a good jobs report.
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- Is come in.
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- And we have had three months now of consecutive
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- 100,000 plus job growth in america.
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- And even cnn has to admit it.
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- Let's play clip 24 u.s.
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- Economy adding 172,000 jobs last month.
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- That easily
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- Surpassed the forecast, which was for 105,000 also.
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- March and april were both revised higher.
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- That is encouraging.
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- And that means that the u.s.
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- Economy has now added
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- 100,000 jobs or more in three straight months.
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- We haven't seen that in more than two years.
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- Cnbc cnbc has also been touting the numbers.
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- Let's get their version of it. clip 22.
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- Is out the may job.
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- Job jobs report 172,000.
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- Is there any doubt that this anecdotal evidence
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- About a good labor market has been very correct?
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- That is a really strong number.
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- And last month, well, we had a revision from 115,000
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- To 179,000, which means the two month
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- Revisions got to be over 90,000.
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- We wanted to flag that.
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- I think we've talked on this show, andrew
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- And i, how there's a lot of there's
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- A lot of doom tourism going around on the right
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- And a lot of that doom ism is not justified.
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- People decide
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- They just forget about the border
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- And people decide that the economy
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- Is catastrophically bad,
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- Even if it's not, because, like they said, first time in two
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- Years, over three straight months of 100,000 jobs added.
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- But it's actually even better than that
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- Because two years ago
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- You could be adding hundreds of thousands of jobs.
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- But we also had an open border with all of planet earth.
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- We know that illegal immigrants were gobbling up jobs
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- That could be taken by ordinary by native born americans.
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- We know that
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- H1 b's were pouring and legal immigrants
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- Were pouring into to take jobs, so any job added is
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- A lot more valuable now because we're not endlessly
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- Importing the rest of the world to take those jobs.
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- So that's some good news, because that's what we need for
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- What charlie cared most about american young people.
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- He cared a huge amount about the economic
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- Well-being of young people.
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- He knew they were falling behind.
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- They were struggling to meet
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- The milestones that their parents and grandparents
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- Met of marriage, children, family, house.
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- He knew they were struggling, hit those things,
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- And he knew that the bedrock of them being able
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- To achieve that is getting in, getting good jobs,
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- Building careers that could actually pay for those things.
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- But that is also at the same time, a means to an end.
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- Charlie cared a tremendous amount
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- About the spiritual health of young people.
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- He knew there was no point to getting rich if it was just
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- Spent on hedonism, if it was spent on emptiness.
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- He knew you needed something more.
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- And so i want to continue tying this to the women's
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- Leadership summit that's starting today
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- By revisiting some of charlie's remarks at past women's
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- Leadership summits.
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- And this is a very good clip of
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- His, on clip 34 talking about his celebration
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- With his family of the sabbath clip 34
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- I think that to our own detriment
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- And to our own failure, we as christians have decided
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- To cast away.
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- Resting on one of the seven days
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- God rest, that after creation that comes before the hebrews,
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- It comes even before the creation of the of the
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- Not of the modern world and civilization as we know it.
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- And so we honor the sabbath.
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- We are very serious about it.
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- We get to spend more time with our family.
- 00:11:27.409 --> 00:11:28.978
- We do know news, we do know work.
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- And it says very,
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- Very clearly in the scriptures for six days you shall work,
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- And the seventh day you shall rest.
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- If you are feeling overrun by society,
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- You might be feeling depressed or anxious.
- 00:11:39.822 --> 00:11:42.525
- Here's this one way that you might be able to improve.
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- Turn your phone off for one day.
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- No contact, no social media, no work.
- 00:11:46.829 --> 00:11:49.999
- Your mental health will improve dramatically.
- 00:11:49.999 --> 00:11:52.601
- He was a man with a great deal of wisdom.
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- And here's some more wisdom.
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- This is another speech at, the leadership summit.
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- Clip 35.
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- It's him
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- Talking about
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- Our responsibilities as ambassadors of our worldview.
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- Let's play that clip.
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- 35 what do we always do when we ask for questions?
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- We we ask for the disagreements
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- To go to the front of the line.
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- Right? in fact, we demand it, right?
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- We like extract the disagreement
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- And i think and i'm not.
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- And you guys can make your own assumption.
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- Looking at the videos, we always treat
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- Everybody with respect
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- And we listen to what they have to say.
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- In fact, we want it to be a forum of discussion
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- And debate and dialog and that collision of ideas.
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- And i totally agree because i think there's
- 00:12:34.009 --> 00:12:35.544
- Too much division and divisiveness.
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- We have a responsibility as free speech advocates
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- To be the ambassadors of decency and respect.
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- We do
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- To hear what other
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- People have to say and to find common ground.
- 00:12:47.356 --> 00:12:50.025
- Charlie lived by.
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- I think one of the reasons charlie
- 00:12:51.594 --> 00:12:53.062
- Resonated so much with young people,
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- Including young people
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- Who weren't believers, weren't necessarily
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- In full alignment with charlie, but he had
- 00:12:58.934 --> 00:13:00.903
- So much resonance with them because
- 00:13:00.903 --> 00:13:03.839
- More than just about anyone
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- I've ever seen in my life, charlie, so truly lived.
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- Everything he preached,
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- He talked about the importance
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- Of decency and respect and he went on to those campuses.
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- He confronted people who said only hateful things
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- About him, and he could respond with love.
- 00:13:18.454 --> 00:13:21.423
- He could preach the gospel everywhere he went.
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- And with the sabbath thing.
- 00:13:23.559 --> 00:13:25.294
- Charlie talked about being christian.
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- He said people should be christian,
- 00:13:27.263 --> 00:13:28.998
- But there are a lot of people
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- In public life who say they are christian.
- 00:13:30.065 --> 00:13:31.567
- Charlie clearly had the gospel pervade
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- Every part of his life, even
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- Even when he was away from the public stage.
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- I remember
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- We would have conversations
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- With charlie and how he approached
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- Political topics, how he approached his own life,
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- How he approached running a company.
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- It came through a christian lens.
- 00:13:47.349 --> 00:13:48.951
- What would a believer of the gospel do?
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- What would christ do?
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- What does a christian
- 00:13:52.554 --> 00:13:53.989
- How should a christian live their life?
- 00:13:53.989 --> 00:13:55.991
- And i think that's how
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- He was able to speak to so many people,
- 00:13:57.626 --> 00:13:59.161
- Including we're getting, these interviews here.
- 00:13:59.161 --> 00:14:01.597
- I have one from, twila.
- 00:14:01.597 --> 00:14:02.965
- She says my husband and i watch charlie every day on ralph.
- 00:14:02.965 --> 00:14:06.502
- He was a very important part of our lives.
- 00:14:06.502 --> 00:14:08.938
- We miss him every single day.
- 00:14:08.938 --> 00:14:11.907
- We also have, christina.
- 00:14:11.907 --> 00:14:13.375
- She says thank you, tpu essay.
- 00:14:13.375 --> 00:14:15.277
- I was always so busy working in my younger adult life.
- 00:14:15.277 --> 00:14:18.280
- I had little time for politics, but my mother
- 00:14:18.280 --> 00:14:20.516
- Told me about tp usa, and she always prays.
- 00:14:20.516 --> 00:14:22.551
- Charlie.
- 00:14:22.551 --> 00:14:23.452
- After listening to him, i understood why
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- I lost my husband in 2016.
- 00:14:26.689 --> 00:14:28.490
- Thank you for the hope
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- Your organization brings in times of uncertain and despair.
- 00:14:29.725 --> 00:14:33.862
- Thank you christina and keep sending those in.
- 00:14:33.862 --> 00:14:35.698
- I'll try to get to more of these throughout the hour.
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- In our next segment, we're going to talk about
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- Graham plattner had a very funny article
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- About him in the new york times last night. that's next.
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- About him in the new york times last night. that's next.
- 00:14:49.999 --> 00:14:55.451
- So we've been talking a lot.
- 00:14:56.051 --> 00:14:57.453
- First we were talking about tofu talarico and texas.
- 00:14:57.453 --> 00:15:00.089
- And the other big
- 00:15:00.089 --> 00:15:01.223
- Icon of the democrats running for senate this year is
- 00:15:01.223 --> 00:15:04.860
- The oyster farmer of maine, graham plattner.
- 00:15:04.860 --> 00:15:08.764
- Andrew's really been hammering him on acts.
- 00:15:08.764 --> 00:15:11.033
- He's been talking about
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- His oyster business is kind of a nepo baby fake.
- 00:15:12.067 --> 00:15:15.771
- He's getting possibly dubious
- 00:15:15.771 --> 00:15:18.340
- Maximum va disability payments.
- 00:15:18.340 --> 00:15:21.210
- And he's a he's a man with a nazi tattoo
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- That he claims he had no idea about.
- 00:15:23.846 --> 00:15:25.748
- And he is a man with several fraught prior relationships.
- 00:15:25.748 --> 00:15:29.985
- He was caught a few days ago, they announced he admitted
- 00:15:29.985 --> 00:15:32.888
- He'd been sending texts to women even while married.
- 00:15:32.888 --> 00:15:36.658
- And now the new york times did a dive into his relationships
- 00:15:36.658 --> 00:15:40.062
- Prior to his marriage.
- 00:15:40.062 --> 00:15:41.363
- Their headline several women who dated graham plattner
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- Recall unsettling behavior.
- 00:15:44.433 --> 00:15:47.436
- That's a rather mild way of putting it.
- 00:15:47.436 --> 00:15:49.471
- We're joined now by the editor in chief of the daily caller
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- And an old friend of mine, amber duke.
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- Amber, are you there?
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- Hi, blake. nice to see you.
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- All righty. well, they'll spell it out for us.
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- Was graham potter's behavior unsettling,
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- Or is there something a little bit more to this?
- 00:16:03.852 --> 00:16:06.922
- I think what the new york times did here
- 00:16:06.922 --> 00:16:08.724
- Was what we could call a soft catch and kill.
- 00:16:08.724 --> 00:16:11.060
- So what they did is they took these accusations from women.
- 00:16:11.060 --> 00:16:14.596
- The primary of which in the most serious was
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- From a conservative activist by the name of lindsay fifield,
- 00:16:17.366 --> 00:16:20.202
- Who i also, full disclosure, know personally.
- 00:16:20.202 --> 00:16:23.038
- And they tried to bury the most salacious accusations
- 00:16:23.038 --> 00:16:26.909
- Under a bunch of pr fluff, euphemism
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- And even under ex-girlfriend character witness from people
- 00:16:30.245 --> 00:16:34.216
- That were provided to them by the grand plattner campaign.
- 00:16:34.216 --> 00:16:37.853
- So they apparently decided that these accusations
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- Were too serious for them to pass on.
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- So they decided to run the story.
- 00:16:43.192 --> 00:16:45.260
- But basically
- 00:16:45.260 --> 00:16:46.361
- Water it down significantly so they can say, hey,
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- We did our jobs.
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- But also give enough wiggle room for plattner to say that
- 00:16:50.365 --> 00:16:53.802
- These accusations are not damaging enough,
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- That he would need to drop out of the race,
- 00:16:55.871 --> 00:16:57.606
- Because the most serious accusation that fifield makes
- 00:16:57.606 --> 00:17:01.410
- Is that plattner actually physically abused her, claiming
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- That he would grab her shoulder so hard that he would leave
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- Marks on her that in one case, he twisted her arm behind her
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- Back, shoved her into a room, close
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- The door, would not let her out,
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- So she actually had to sleep
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- There overnight until she was able to leave in the morning.
- 00:17:17.359 --> 00:17:20.796
- And she also accused plattner of definitely knowing what
- 00:17:20.796 --> 00:17:24.433
- That now nazi tattoo was,
- 00:17:24.433 --> 00:17:26.301
- Because she had provided the new york times
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- With corroborating text of her,
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- Telling friends that he had this tattoo
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- And that it was indeed a nazi symbol well before grand.
- 00:17:32.307 --> 00:17:35.410
- Plattner insists that he found out about it
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- From the media.
- 00:17:38.046 --> 00:17:39.314
- So they deliberately buried all of this information, 22
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- Plus paragraphs down in the piece,
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- Slapped this headline on it
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- To say that his behavior was merely unsettling
- 00:17:45.988 --> 00:17:48.724
- Because most people
- 00:17:48.724 --> 00:17:49.858
- Are not going to read past
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- The first 3 to 4 paragraphs of one of these hit pieces.
- 00:17:51.293 --> 00:17:54.496
- So democrat leaders are getting asked
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- About this, though, and their response has been
- 00:17:56.131 --> 00:17:59.034
- Mostly a shrug.
- 00:17:59.401 --> 00:18:00.569
- They asked hakeem jeffries about this, and he says, no,
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- I haven't really been watching that.
- 00:18:04.306 --> 00:18:05.207
- Clip 25 in terms of the allegations
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- That have been waged with respect to this particular
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- Candidate for the senate, i haven't followed it closely.
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- I will continue to defer to leader schumer and senator
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- Gillibrand in terms of the best path forward in maine.
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- He's deferring to senator gillibrand.
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- That's a notable name to call out.
- 00:18:24.426 --> 00:18:26.128
- Gillibrand really just,
- 00:18:26.128 --> 00:18:27.529
- I was about to say distinguished,
- 00:18:27.529 --> 00:18:29.364
- Disgraced herself, dishonored herself in the late 20 tens,
- 00:18:29.364 --> 00:18:32.868
- Tried to really brand herself as a metoo senator.
- 00:18:32.868 --> 00:18:36.138
- And now we have this metoo eruption going on with
- 00:18:36.138 --> 00:18:39.608
- One of the democrats,
- 00:18:39.608 --> 00:18:40.876
- Should we say, celebrity picks here?
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- We've got another clip and then we'll go back to amber.
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- They asked alexandria ocasio-cortez about this
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- Clip 31 a year reported, by grim plattner
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- In this new york times article, traffic in be big physically.
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- Yeah.
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- I mean, i, as you all know, this all kind of just came out.
- 00:18:57.192 --> 00:19:01.196
- I've been doing, let's do business on the floor.
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- So i need to
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- Dig into everything further before commenting on it.
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- Yeah.
- 00:19:09.638 --> 00:19:10.872
- Because i think this reporting just, just recently came out.
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- So i just want to make sure that i can fully read up on his
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- Comments, but now, as you know, amber,
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- Even if that report had just come out,
- 00:19:17.579 --> 00:19:19.114
- There had been reports
- 00:19:19.114 --> 00:19:20.582
- Last week, reports in the last few months.
- 00:19:20.582 --> 00:19:22.351
- There's plenty of stuff for her to know about
- 00:19:22.351 --> 00:19:24.186
- With their with their senate candidate who has stood out,
- 00:19:24.186 --> 00:19:27.623
- Supposedly as a man of the, of the far
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- Left, kind of of an aoc brand.
- 00:19:30.058 --> 00:19:32.227
- What should we make of the democ
- 00:19:32.227 --> 00:19:34.696
- If you look at any one of these democrats
- 00:19:35.597 --> 00:19:37.899
- Who is dismissing these allegations
- 00:19:37.899 --> 00:19:40.435
- Or giving these mealy mouthed answers,
- 00:19:40.435 --> 00:19:43.705
- I would guarantee you that 99% of them,
- 00:19:43.705 --> 00:19:46.775
- You dig
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- Through their social media history
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- And you will find something of the following
- 00:19:48.777 --> 00:19:50.946
- Either a believe all women, a hashtag metoo,
- 00:19:50.946 --> 00:19:54.650
- Or some kind of screed about how kavanaugh
- 00:19:54.650 --> 00:19:57.653
- Does not deserve to be sitting on the supreme court.
- 00:19:57.653 --> 00:20:00.689
- So i think the democrats feel that they have no choice now
- 00:20:00.689 --> 00:20:04.159
- But to rally around plattner.
- 00:20:04.159 --> 00:20:06.161
- They think that
- 00:20:06.161 --> 00:20:07.195
- He has a strong chance of beating susan collins.
- 00:20:07.195 --> 00:20:09.631
- The polls are pretty tight, so they're just going to go
- 00:20:09.631 --> 00:20:12.367
- All in and try to brush off whatever scandals come through
- 00:20:12.367 --> 00:20:16.038
- As being just republican, smear jobs.
- 00:20:16.038 --> 00:20:19.741
- I just can't get over how
- 00:20:19.741 --> 00:20:21.977
- We had to endure the smearing of brett kavanaugh.
- 00:20:21.977 --> 00:20:24.846
- Obviously a respectable,
- 00:20:24.846 --> 00:20:26.515
- Not just a respectable dude, but a very boring dude.
- 00:20:26.515 --> 00:20:28.917
- It's practically unfathomable to imagine him
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- Sexually assaulting a woman.
- 00:20:31.853 --> 00:20:33.455
- And then we had all these media outlets run with how
- 00:20:33.455 --> 00:20:36.124
- Christine blasey ford, she was so believable.
- 00:20:36.124 --> 00:20:37.993
- It was so compelling, her testimony.
- 00:20:37.993 --> 00:20:39.995
- And then we have this where it's vastly
- 00:20:39.995 --> 00:20:42.030
- More believable from everything we know
- 00:20:42.030 --> 00:20:43.799
- About plattner, with his history of infidelity,
- 00:20:43.799 --> 00:20:46.168
- His history of nazi ss tattoos,
- 00:20:46.168 --> 00:20:49.404
- And then suddenly it's radio silence.
- 00:20:49.404 --> 00:20:52.474
- No big deal.
- 00:20:52.474 --> 00:20:53.241
- Let's forge ahead.
- 00:20:53.241 --> 00:20:54.443
- Does this show
- 00:20:54.443 --> 00:20:56.244
- A real transformation in the party, or is this really
- 00:20:56.244 --> 00:20:59.214
- How the party has always been? do you think?
- 00:20:59.214 --> 00:21:01.583
- I think this is how it's always been.
- 00:21:01.583 --> 00:21:03.085
- It's always been this partizan gamesmanship.
- 00:21:03.085 --> 00:21:05.821
- We saw the same thing going back to clarence thomas.
- 00:21:05.821 --> 00:21:08.490
- And i think when we look at the specific
- 00:21:08.490 --> 00:21:10.992
- Allegations in the new york times piece as well,
- 00:21:10.992 --> 00:21:13.762
- Let's be really clear about the fact
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- That they're
- 00:21:15.230 --> 00:21:16.164
- Not overexaggerated by the alleged victim.
- 00:21:16.164 --> 00:21:18.333
- Right?
- 00:21:18.333 --> 00:21:19.267
- She says, i he never punched me, you know,
- 00:21:19.267 --> 00:21:22.204
- He didn't break my arm.
- 00:21:22.204 --> 00:21:23.805
- She's clearly trying to be very measured
- 00:21:23.805 --> 00:21:26.041
- And accurate in what she's saying.
- 00:21:26.041 --> 00:21:27.976
- And yet she has been accused of being this sort
- 00:21:27.976 --> 00:21:31.179
- Of manipulative, politically motivated person by the left.
- 00:21:31.179 --> 00:21:35.984
- And the other important element of this piece as well
- 00:21:35.984 --> 00:21:40.288
- Is that i started getting text messages and phone calls
- 00:21:40.288 --> 00:21:44.559
- Yesterday morning that this piece was about to come out,
- 00:21:44.559 --> 00:21:49.164
- And we quickly after that saw numerous tweets
- 00:21:49.164 --> 00:21:52.200
- From people on the left like kyle kaczynski,
- 00:21:52.200 --> 00:21:54.970
- Crystal ball, emma vigeland saying, hey guys, the new york
- 00:21:54.970 --> 00:21:59.574
- Times is about to do a hit job on graham plattner.
- 00:21:59.574 --> 00:22:03.211
- And we even had one democratic strategist indicate
- 00:22:03.211 --> 00:22:06.481
- That he heard that there were going to be sexual
- 00:22:06.481 --> 00:22:09.351
- Assault victims on the record.
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- So all of the potential details that were going to show up in
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- This story
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- Were apparently circulated
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- By the plattner campaign preemptively,
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- So that they could start preparing their defense.
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- So the new york times basically gave them an open window
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- For them to start preparing to attack the victim
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- That they were supposedly trying to tell the story of.
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- I mean, the other side of this as well is that
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- These two alleged sexual assault victims
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- Who were supposed to be in the new york times piece,
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- They still exist.
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- They haven't had their stories printed, but they still exist.
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- And my guess is, if they see what the new york times did
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- To five year old who she says
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- Has they've been in contact with each other.
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- She's been talking to these other victims.
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- They created something of a support group.
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- There's still the possibility for them to come out
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- And share their stories without the new york times.
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- And so i think what we're seeing from the democrats
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- And from their allies in the media
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- Is a level of panic of trying to tarnish fifield.
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- So aggressively and thoroughly that these other victims
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- No longer feel comfortable coming forward.
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- Amber, thank you for coming on.
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- Check her out.
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- Check out her work at the daily caller.
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- It's my old haunt.
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- I highly recommend it.
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- Thanks for coming on, amber. thanks, blake.
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