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We got
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A a very contentious war going on in iran.
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And i think what the best thing that we can do on this show
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Is how to walk through this
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Very tumultuous moment
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That we're living in, where i think a lot of us
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Just want to focus on domestic issues.
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We want to focus on nation building at home.
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Unfortunately, that's
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Not exactly the most obvious thing for any of us
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To do because of so much noise that's going around.
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Blake, i'm going to throw to you.
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First and foremost, you ask the question, what is maga?
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Define it for us.
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What is maga right now, in this moment with iran,
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With, like i said, the e drama and so much else?
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Well, i mean, part of the reason,
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The reason, you know, we titled that way is we did of course,
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We've seen, we saw friction over the weekend.
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We won't get
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Into the full details of it because it's a little silly.
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But, you know, megyn kelly was in a fight with mark levine
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That's obviously rooted in the iran stuff.
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And, you know, obviously personality friction as well.
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And what happened last night was the president on truth
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Social decided to weigh in on it personally.
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And he took the side he didn't name meghan,
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But he took he supported mark levine.
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And one of the lines he said at the end of his post
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Was basically that people who are bashing levine,
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Going after him, those people are not maga, i am.
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That's what he said.
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And one interpretation of maga is it basically is
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It is the people who support it.
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It is president trump, president trump,
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He ran on that slogan.
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He has the power to define what that slogan is.
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But does everyone feel that way?
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Because a lot of people have tried
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To articulate a maga agenda in terms of issues,
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Whether that's on immigration, whether
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That's on interventionism, whether that's on trade,
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And a lot of other stuff.
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And so that's kind of why it's an open question,
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Because i think there is is there
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Is there a maga that stands separately
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From the president himself and the president himself?
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I think, you know, unsurprisingly, given trump's
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Personality,
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He does mostly see it in terms of his personal branding.
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Yeah.
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And so, jack, i think,
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You know, that is one contention, right?
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This is something that
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The president has said over and over again, i am maga.
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And those who kind of come at me right now,
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They're not loyal to the cause.
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You are an og 2016 2015 maga.
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You know, i would call you one of the leaders
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On the social media side,
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And you've been that way for about a decade now.
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You know,
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There does seem to be fraying at the, at the, at the fringes
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Here, especially about foreign policy.
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So what do you do when everything's up in tumult?
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People are confused which way to go and what to make of it.
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How are you approaching this moment?
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Yeah.
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So there's,
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You know, these definitional, questions come up a lot.
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And at the same time, i would also point out that,
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You know, maga, the coalition, the people who have voted
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For trump, that has changed over time as well.
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So the 2024 coalition, the coalition
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That charlie worked so hard to put together,
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The turning point action worked on, that's different
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Than the 2016 coalition.
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And the groups.
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Obviously, it was much more successful in 24, 2016.
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You know, you can't take anything away
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From the historic nature of that.
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It was obviously something that was unprecedented.
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But 2024,
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Just in terms of sheer raw numbers, point on the board.
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Victory was bigger.
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And the difference, i guess i would say, is that in 2024,
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It was this coalition that came together where
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Instead of just, you know, 2016 was sort of like the anti
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Neocons, the bernie bro's,
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And you're sort of like traditional republicans.
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But in 2024 and of course the anti neocons
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Are obviously you have a lot of consternation.
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Right now.
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And so the 2024 coalition
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Was even broader and bigger than that
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Because now you got maha, now you've got the libertarians.
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Now you of course you have the anti neocons.
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And of course there's a lot of overlap
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With the with the, you know, libertarian crowd
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There as well.
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You've got people who were motivated by covid,
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You've got to end lockdowns, you got people
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Who were motivated by die by wokeness.
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I mean, you just got so many people coming in in 2024
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That inevitably there was going to be
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Some friction points between the massive,
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You know, the massive parts of the massive coalition.
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And of course, now you've also,
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In 24, got the zoomers on board,
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Which is like a whole different,
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You know, quotient in and of itself.
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And that was the part that charlie and tp
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Usa had worked so hard on all through those years.
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So if you look at it right, like if you were in high school
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When trump first ran,
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You know, 2020 4th may have been the first time
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You voted for,
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You know, somewhere, you know, voted for president at least.
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And so you're just doing the math.
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So this was like the charlie kirk coalition in 2024.
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And so
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The way you work on things like this is very simple.
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Look, donald trump
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Is the president of united states,
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Donald trump is the founder of the maga movement.
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But just like any coalition,
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They're going to be different elements within that movement.
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And so,
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You know, you can get caught up in these definitional games.
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But i do think that ultimately we're better served by people
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Just sort of saying like, this is what i stand for.
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This is what i think the best policy is,
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And just arguing it out
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In those terms rather than trying to say,
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You know, one person is this and one
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Person isn't allowed to be that.
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I think that's i think that leads to subtraction.
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And we all know that victories through addition.
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Yeah.
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I mean, i think what you're getting at this coalition all,
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Truth that we need to build a coalition,
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There is no more contentious issue on the right.
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There's just simply not been foreign policy
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Because the divide between the neocons
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And the interventionist is not just a divide, it's a chasm.
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And so, in one sense, as soon as the iran conflict
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Started, there should be no surprise
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That this has become
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So contentious, president trump said.
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For weeks,
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He said he willing to move that timeline up or back.
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So we we kind of are still in that that time of uncertainty.
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We don't know how this is going to play out.
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There's a very positive way this could play out.
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There's a more negative way this could play out,
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Which is why charlie warned against regime change in iran.
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Right.
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We don't know all of the ancillary side effects.
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We don't know how this,
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But this could devolve into some sort of civil war,
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Sectarian strife when within iran,
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The strait of hormuz is proving particularly tricky
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And difficult.
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We're going to get into
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What the president is trying to do
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In the strait of hormuz, build a coalition,
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Of different countries to come in and clear up
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The strait of hormuz, where allowing indian and chinese,
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I it sounds like vessels, tankers to go through
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The strait of hormuz.
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Yeah. which is, which is fascinating.
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It seems like the world is sort of flipping,
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Upside down in many ways, which is why a lot of us
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Are trying to make sense of it.
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We're going to continue on this because i think it's
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The most important conversation
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That we can have on the right, right now.
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That we can have on the right, right now.
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Welcome in libby emmons.
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She's the editor in chief of the post millennial
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And human events. welcome, libby.
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Thanks so much. glad to be here, andrew.
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And we're joined by jack.
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But so we're asking a question, libby.
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And i'd love to get you in on this.
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You know what is maga, right?
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We look across the conservative landscape
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And it's a mess out there right now.
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And i think, you know, i'm
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Thinking of the kipling poem where it's like,
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You know, if you can keep your head
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When everybody else is losing theirs.
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But president trump defines it as,
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You know, this is he's the founder of this movement.
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And so get in line.
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He's been very consistent to his credit
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About iran over the years.
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A lot of us harbor skepticism
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About regime change in the middle east.
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So what do you make of this moment?
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As you know, everything seems to be a mess out there.
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Yeah, everything does seem to be a mess out there.
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And i disagree with trump that maga is trump.
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I think trump captured an ethos that was already out there.
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I think
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He tapped into something that so many americans were feeling,
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And i think maga has more to do with a set
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Of values and perspectives than it does a single man.
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Otherwise it would not be a movement that would continue.
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And that's a movement that continued
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Throughout biden's four years.
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And i think it's a movement
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That will continue after trump is gone.
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I think maga has to do with
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Putting america
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First american priorities in terms of the domestic
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Situation, in terms
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Of prosperity and equal access to opportunity.
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In a lot of cases,
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You know, for americans, which means
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That your schools are decent and you can go to them
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And attend them, which means that
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You're getting a fair shake in the housing market.
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And it's not all being bought up by corporations,
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You know, which means that
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When you go to apply for a job or go to apply to college,
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Your merit is
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What's taken into consideration,
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Not some random identity factors.
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And i think that maga
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Has to be a set of values more than it can be,
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Possibly just one man.
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Otherwise you can't stand for anything right?
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You can't stand on
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Shifting sands of perspectives and and ideas.
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You have to stand for something
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Or else you know, as they say, you'll fall for anything.
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Jack, i want to get you back in on this,
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Because i think, like.
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By the way, libby, you you probably articulated,
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Blake's pov pretty well, i would think.
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But, i'll let blake answer that.
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Just go ahead. go ahead.
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Well, no, no. it's great.
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It's just, now, let's let jack go.
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Let's look at jack go here.
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Yeah.
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Jack, i want to get you to respond to that.
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But, you know, you are the kind of foreign intel analyst.
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You're watching this space all the time, but yet
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You are domestic in your focus as well.
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How do you marry the two of these right now?
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Yeah, that's a great point.
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So, you know, this is obviously like i do
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A lot of geo poll analysis and, i actually was
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A navy intelligence officer, you know, and,
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You know, so this is something that's always,
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You know, of
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Great interest when,
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When we have these things come up, i'm like, finally.
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So everyone understands why i post maps
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About chokepoints and maritime trade routes so much.
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It seems like totally arcane until it everyone finds out
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How much it really, really matters in the world.
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And, you know, that being said, the
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The questions of what will be successful politically
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Are certainly different from how the world economy operates
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And how the world economics operate back and forth.
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And so, you know, i i've always said that look,
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I thought that when i was in the united states navy
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And when i was
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In the intelligence community serving as i did, that,
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I started to get
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The feeling that perhaps our focus as a country
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Was to abroad.
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Our focus was not enough on our own issues,
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On things that actually mattered
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To us, on things that actually affected us and our country.
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Like the southern border, like the cartels, like,
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The issues of problems
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And crime in our city, the issues of mass migration,
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All of those issues are the issues that built
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The maga movement.
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That's what brought us all on board
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And brought us all together in 2015 and 2016
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With, of course, the leader and singular
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Man of that movement being donald j.
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Trump.
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And when he came down
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The golden escalator, that's exactly what he talked about.
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And so certainly it's been this idea
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That we are going to shift the focus.
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And you may or you may kind of say that just analytically,
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I guess you could say that
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If there is a split anymore, it's not within maga.
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The split is more maga.
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And then america first, right?
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So maga is more we back trump.
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We want trump to be, you know, you know he's our guy 100%.
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You know, we may have certain, you know,
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Certain differences on tactics here and there.
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But he we're going to stand with trump.
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Then america first is this group that says
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We don't want to do you know anything foreign?
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It's domestic.
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Only domestic has to be the in the front.
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And that movement is something that interestingly enough,
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You start to see democrats dipping into,
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You start to see mondaire me
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Talk about this and we when we did
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The debate analysis, we we talked about that,
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You start to see things like gavin
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Newsom talk about this, where he's saying,
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Oh, i want to focus here and not abroad.
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So it's it's become this sort of jump ball i feel right now.
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And i think the democrats are going to try
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Their next move is going to be to say,
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Oh, well, you guys are for foreign intervention.
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We are the true america first.
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So watch for that.
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Blake, i invoked your name earlier.
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I want to give you a chance to come in.
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No, i think that's reasonable.
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I think i think they're all on good points that
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Especially those of us who've been
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Around this movement a long time.
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There is a strong sense.
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Oh, maga, we want maga to last beyond trump.
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One reason you don't want to say magazines
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Trump is trump will not be around forever.
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Trump will eventually be gone.
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And we still want a movement that is not neocon gop.
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That is not george bush, gop that is not the gop of old.
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But it is also very much the case that
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Through
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Kind of repeated trials, repeated events,
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Maga has ended up being, for lack of a better term,
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Like like trump has oscillated in different directions.
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He's caught us off guard and he's always stuck around.
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And the movement has really become very much
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How to put this.
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I will say president trump has a point.
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If he says like, i am maga, and to some extent
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The movement is basically what i say it is because he's
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Repeatedly defined it that way, and he is kind of bashed away
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And like battered off every single challenger
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Who would suggest it was anything else.
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And so i think jack has a point that maybe you need
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To articulate another phrase
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Like america first or whatever, you want to take
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This package of views.
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So that is not 100% identical to one person.
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And this is the thing about the right.
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The right is more hierarchical.
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We are more inclined to
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Basically get in line behind our guy if he says
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This is the right thing to do,
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If he says, this is what we need to be doing, and
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So, yeah, i think,
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You know, it might be a good idea
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To have another label for the issues that we care about,
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You know?
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So i've gotten attacked, i think, blake, you and i
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On this show for being, you know,
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I think they took a clip out of context.
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The internet did and said we were
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We were departing from charlie's view on iran.
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He was super antiwar.
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And, yeah, charlie was super anti-war.
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But,
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You know, we were warning against the
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The perils of regime change
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In the middle east as well before the lead up.
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But, charlie,
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Sort of in this divide that you're, you're,
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You're mentioning here, jack, it was his decision was always,
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Listen, i worked my butt off to get president trump elected.
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Even when i privately
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Have differences of opinion, i'm going to back the guy
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Because there's been
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No other fighter that we have in the modern era
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That has so embodied the values that i care most about.
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And so i'm going to get behind him
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And we're going to hope for the best.
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I'm going to argue his points.
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There's a there's a point to be made.
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And so i you know, that's kind of what we do here.
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A couple of things i can't abide by.
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I cannot abide by not supporting our troops.
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I cannot abide by not wishing success on this country.
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I cannot abide by any of that stuff.
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I can't abide abide by the the brain rot where you're
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Trying to scapegoat people.
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So, listen.
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Yeah, this these are perilous, gut wrenching times
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That make us all sort of,
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You know, wonder how it's going to work out.
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But we've been here before with president trump.
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Charlie understood this, and,
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He ultimately did place his trust and his support
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Behind the president when he made tough calls.
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So i think we're just sort of stuck in this this time.
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You know, president trump said 4 to 5 weeks.
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Okay. we're in the 4 to 5 weeks here.
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Buckle up everybody. here we go.
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Let's hope this ends well.
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And let's pray for the success of our troops.
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Libby.
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What am i missing now?
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I agree with you on that. to a certain extent, yes.
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And now that we're in this war, i want us to win it.
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I want us to win it decisively.
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And i want our troops to come home and be out of harm's way.
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That's a huge deal.
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I support our troops 100%.
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I do think that it's difficult to look at this entanglement
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As someone who is, pretty much anti war
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And come away with,
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You know, and come away with the perspective
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That this was the right thing to do at the right time.
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I'm not sure about that.
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You know, and i think time will tell.
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And certainly history will let us know.
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And certainly history will let us know.
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Going to play, cut 26.
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Charlie, talking about this very exact dynamic.
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Cut 26.
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Let me tell you what president trump has in front of him.
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And this is the stuff of what statements statesmen are made.
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A statesman is a man at the highest moment
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When you have the weight of the shoulders,
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Like churchill or lincoln of the world on your shoulders,
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You act with prudence and not on ideological fervor.
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President donald trump is a man made for this moment.
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This is why
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President trump was elected president of the united states.
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It's the man in the arena that counts.
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But i encourage you, as you view the next couple of days,
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To not view things overly ideological.
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In fact, we should resist ideological fervor.
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Resist ideological fervor.
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The man in the arena.
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I am still on this point that yes,
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I was not pro and you know, regime change in iran.
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But i will back president trump's play here.
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He's earned our trust.
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He is the man in the arena right now.
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And we have to must pray for the success
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Of our troops and our country, that this ultimately
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Would work out in a way
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That would benefit america first as we try to define it.
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But listen, the longer this goes on, there's no doubt
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That this will become more and more difficult.
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All right, libby,
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I'm going to get to your, why we actually brought you
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On to the show today, and that is that the oscars,
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The oscars took a swipe at the all-american
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Halftime show yesterday, and so we got to play it.
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Cut 17.
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I should warn you, tonight could get political.
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Okay.
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And if that makes you uncomfortable,
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There's an alternate oscars being hosted by kid rock.
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Yeah, it's at the dave and busters down the street.
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A lot of tickets for that.
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All right, libby, we see that.
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We see
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Snl is got tucker carlson, you know, making fun of him.
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And we are living through a remarkable cultural moment
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That we need to pause and appreciate.
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And that's why i brought you on here.
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What do you make of this,
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The oscars, what do you make of snl?
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All of it.
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Yeah.
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So, you know, the thing with the thing with the oscars,
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Conan o'brien.
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Somebody didn't tell him that
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25 million people actually streamed the turning point.
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No. i'm so libby. yes.
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The way that nielsen rates it, we had over 50 million people.
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Oh. well, okay.
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I was just tracking back this morning
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Through my previous notes, and i didn't see that.
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So amazing. congratulations again.
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Thank you. yeah. someone didn't tell conan that.
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Someone didn't tell conan
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That americans are moving away from the box office.
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You know, like never before.
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I took a look
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At some of the stats and american beauty, which won
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The best picture back in 2000, made about the same
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As sinners, which, sort of came in second place this year.
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So it's not like things are going better
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For hollywood than they were even 26 years ago.
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Nobody's really interested in that.
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People don't like watching the oscars.
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You know,
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So i think that i think that's something to recognize.
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Timothy charlemagne's recent comments about opera
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And ballet being dying art forms could just as easily
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Be applied to the cinema, that these hollywood people
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Should recognize that, and instead they just lament
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That more people should go to the box office.
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If you look at some of the
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Oscars speeches or the sag speeches, the golden globes
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Speeches this year during the whole awards
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Season, you'll see multiple multiple directors,
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Writers, actors telling people to bring your kids
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To the movies.
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These are the same kinds of
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Comments that i heard when i was a kid.
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Bring your kids to the theater.
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Bring your kids to the opera.
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Let them know.
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Bring them to the ballet, you know, like all of this stuff.
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And instead,
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These are still just dying art forms,
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And eventually they will disappear
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To a certain extent or become niche or whatever.
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And as for snl, yeah, they had some funny jokes.
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Yeah,
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I've actually snl actually
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Had a great, my hospital like my home.
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We, i think we played it in the cold though,
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But it was actually funny.
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Jack, you people don't know this, but you have
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You have your own, critic, you know, background
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Film critic, tv critic background here. true.
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So what do you make of this cultural moment?
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We're living it.
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It does feel a bit like we're such a
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Our side is so completely messed up
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In somebody's ways
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That that we're giving them lots of fodder.
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But what's your take?
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Well, first of all, you know,
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I got to respond on the halftime show
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Because our ratings clearly, clearly,
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If you look at
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What the turning point events team,
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If you look at what the turning
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Point action team
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And everyone coming together did to get the ratings
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For the number one american youtube live stream in history,
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40 million households day, viewing in the first 24 hours.
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And if you computed it the way, as you say, computer,
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The way nielsen does household,
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You'd probably be looking at 50 to 60 million people
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Because they always use the multiplier
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For the super bowl viewership.
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And we know that there were people
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At at least twos
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And threes and fours watching our halftime show, so.
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Oh, so i'd love to go back.
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And conan,
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You have not had anything that's rated in 20 plus years.
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You went down to haiti and we're trying to like,
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Talk about how great haiti is and walking around sipping mai
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Tais while you got cannibals named barbecue running around.
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So no conan, turning point usa blue
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Absolutely blew the oscars out of the water, and i can't
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Wait to see their overnights because i know it's lower.
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When you look at the cultural moment,
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You know, i'm just going to say it.
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I tweeted this morning about the oscars
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That the oscars
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Has now become a contest
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Of who can make the most anti-white movie.
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So you've got sinners, which is basically from dusk
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Till dawn with with blm killing white people.
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Then you've got, the, the, the leo
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Leonardo dicaprio movie,
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And it's an antifa raid on an ice facility.
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I mean, it's like the most insane,
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One fight after another.
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And so it's just the most insane liberal,
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Far left anti-white stuff gets the most awards.
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You know, i tweeted out that i didn't even know
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That it was going on last night because i didn't.
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I was busy
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Hanging out with my kids, and, i was sent the clip, and
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I just said i didn't realize it was going on.
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But it's very clear that we live
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Rent free in their minds because they all noticed it.
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And i just want to say one last thing.
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While the world is losing its mind, we're going to keep ours.
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And that's why we do things like the halftime show.
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That's why the two largest cultural touchpoint moments
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Of the last six months or charlie's memorial
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And the halftime show.
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We are going to keep building, keep moving forward
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Because the only way through is through.
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Jake Posobiec & Libby Emmons: March 17, 2026 | Charlie Kirk Today

March 17, 2026 | 23:28

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