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Brought to you in part by the
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International fellowship of christians and jews.
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I'm andrew cole.
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That joined by blake neff in studio back here in phoenix
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After an amazing, amazing
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Evening in ole miss and oxford, mississippi.
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Truly one of the most amazing events
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That i have ever seen in person to be a part of.
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Blake, you you, held down the home fort here yesterday.
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Great show.
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I got lots of compliments from people.
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So well done, well done.
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Let's without further ado, let's play some of these clips.
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Let's start with erica.
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Now, you know, you hear about the greatest generation.
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And erica really wanted to make a point last night
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That she believes that gen z.
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And by the way, i believe this too.
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As a millennial,
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I believe this about you, gen z, that you are
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The courageous generation. my generation was.
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It is and was sort of like, you know, we're still
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Getting over the obama, hangover or whatever we were.
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We got really excited about obama in 2008, 2012.
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Gen z has a chance to be the courageous generation.
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And she almost like in this prophetic, authoritative tone,
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She spoke
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Right into the heart of gen z and said,
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You are the courageous generation.
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Play cut to 62.
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You are the courageous generation.
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That's what you are,
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All of you,
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Gen z.
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You are the courageous generation.
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Hear me when i say that my husband believed that
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To his core.
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That's why he went on campuses.
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That's why he was trying to reach you.
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You are the courageous generation.
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Own it.
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Make him proud.
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Wow. i mean, you could hear her repeat, repeat, repeat. she.
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It was almost like she wanted to.
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To force their hearts to burst open and believe this thing
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That charlie believed about them.
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That they are
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The courageous generation, that they really can be
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A turning point.
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And not to even use the cliche, but like in a real genuine
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Sense,
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We're seeing the signs of life from gen
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Z that we have not seen in a long time
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That people didn't believe were possible.
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And charlie, by sheer force of will and pure action,
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Action, action
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Offense, offense, offense went into these college
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Campuses, changed the narrative.
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15 billion social media views later
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Helped get president trump elected.
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They were part of that.
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They are part of the solution. i really believe that.
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And our job is to keep it going.
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Erica's job is to keep it going.
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J.d. vance.
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His job is to keep it going,
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And to earn it by the way, blake,
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You know this charlie's favorite word
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In the english language was earn.
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And erica talked about that last night.
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I don't know if you saw that clip.
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If not, we can play it.
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Yeah, she said that a few times.
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I think, you know, he loves earn because,
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You know, you're not entitled to anything.
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He loves the idea of it.
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Charlie lived that out more than anyone.
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Everything is earned. everything is worked for.
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And the most meaningful things are worked for.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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I mean, gosh, charlie, it's funny because,
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You know, charlie
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Started off really, really good at a few things.
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He earned his way to becoming really good at a lot of things.
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Let's play 261 charlie loved the word earn.
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Earn your voice.
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This is about your legacy.
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Each one of you in this room, everyone watching.
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When you earn your voice and you stand up for what is right,
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That is a
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Part of your legacy, your family's legacy,
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Just as much as it is part of charlie's legacy.
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Don't forget that.
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Don't ever forget that.
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Because if there's one thing i've learned,
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Especially being
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With charlie for the past seven years,
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It's that
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The hope we're looking for is not found in washington.
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It's not found in media.
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It's right here, all of you.
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This is this is the whole.
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And we are going to get to the jd clips.
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But just to put it in perspective,
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There's about 27,000 students at ole miss,
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14,000 of them registered for this event, 14,000.
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That arena held 10,000.
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So we had over half of the student
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Body at ole miss registered to come to this event.
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We had 10,000 students.
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There was an additional 13,000 here.
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Me again, 13,000 adults that we had.
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Our team worked with the ole miss pr department
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To communicate with them and say, please do not come.
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It's going to be rainy and you can't get in.
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You're not going to get in. please don't come.
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They came anyways.
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See this visual of all the people lining up
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And it was like miles long and
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And so, you know, it's raining, it's soggy.
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They still lined up
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Even when we told them you couldn't come, you know,
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They wanted to see if they
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Get into the stand by line 10,000 people in that arena
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Standing for the entire erika kirk speech.
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They did not sit for the entire speech that erica gave.
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And then erica, of course, brings in jd
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Vance, the vice president.
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United states, not an election year.
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Doesn't have to do this, but he takes the questions anyways.
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Blake, where should we go first?
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You know, there's so many different things, he answered.
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Some of them, pretty tough ones.
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How about we, you know, let's just do.
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For example,
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He took a question on people have highlighted,
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You know, since immigration, h-1b
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Immigration from india has become an issue.
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And he just converted, you know,
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He is himself married to an indian woman.
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So let's play a to 60.
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I am married
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To the daughter of immigrants
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Who came to the united states in the 1980s.
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I do believe that some immigrants, many immigrants,
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Do in fact enrich the united states of america.
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But here's the problem
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We have got
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We don't even know how many illegal aliens we have.
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We don't even know.
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The best guess is probably 2530 million people.
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I've heard estimates as high as 50 million.
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When something like that happens,
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You've got to allow your own society to cohere a little bit,
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To build a sense of common identity
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For all the newcomers,
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To assimilate the ones who are going to stay,
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To assimilate into american culture.
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Until you do that, you've got to be careful
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About any additional immigration. in my view.
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Yeah, i mean, he i love that he went right for it.
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There was actually osha
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Played a particularly interesting role
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In some of the questioning, and we can get to some of that.
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But but what stood out to me is that he did not dodge.
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He did not evade.
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He answered the question that was asked.
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He didn't do the pr thing where he he
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He sort of pivoted to what he wanted to do.
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Yeah, exactly. yeah. and i think that came through.
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People were blown away by that.
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And, and i would just say people
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Sometimes think that we screen these questions.
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Even when charlie was up there, we don't screen them.
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We don't do anything.
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The only way too many
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Occasionally awkward moments for it to have been screen.
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Oh, exactly. we don't screen any of them.
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We just say, if you disagree, come to the front of the line.
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That's it. that's the one rule.
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So i guess you do screen, but you screen for the hardest ones
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And the ones they try and trip you up with.
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And jt, to his credit, he said it
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On this show when we were at the white house.
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He said, i want to do what charlie did.
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I want to just take questions from the audience.
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That's how i'm that's how i'm going to honor charlie.
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So god bless him for that.
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More on the other side of this break. we'll be right back.
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Our not so secret weapon.
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Here's the deal.
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So he gets this question from it looks.
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I mean, i don't want to presume she could have been from,
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Bangladesh. she could have been a pakistani.
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I think she was indian.
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I'm not sure she, let's just say i think so.
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She asks a pretty like.
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You can see she was pretty upset.
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She basically framed the whole question to jd
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Being like, listen, you guys made us spend our youth.
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You made us spend our lives
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Believing in the american dream.
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And now you're doing all this stuff to hurt us and harm it.
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She didn't define what that was.
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So j.d.
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Vance says, listen,
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We're not here to say that if the government made it,
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Made a deal with you, and you're here legally,
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That we're here to take that away.
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But that doesn't mean that in the future,
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We're just obligated to continue letting in millions
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And millions of people.
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So like, oh, we have to have forever.
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But in infinite people,
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He went through the history
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Of immigration, the ebbs and the flows
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And the how we used to do it
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And how assimilation used to be expected of immigrants.
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And then this
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This girl, i presume she's a student at ole miss.
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She kept asking,
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Follow up, follow questions,
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And then she tries to get him on the fact
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That he's a christian.
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Usha is not a christian. yeah.
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So this is going to be two clips,
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Two clips, two part, two part and just play it consecutively
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I think. yeah, i think we should 285 and then 286.
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You guys can play him back to back.
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Yes. my wife did not grew up christian.
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I think it's fair to say
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That she grew up
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In a hindu family, but not a particularly religious family
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In either direction.
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In fact, when i met my wife, we were both.
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I would consider myself an agnostic or an atheist,
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And that's what i think she would consider herself as well.
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You know,
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Everybody has to come to their own arrangement here,
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The way that we've come to our arrangement is
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She's my best friend.
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We talk to each other about this stuff.
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So we decided to raise our kids.
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Christian, our two oldest kids
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Who go to school, they go to a christian school.
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Our eight year old did his first communion
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About a year ago.
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That's the way that we have come to our arrangement.
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Now, most sundays you will come with me
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To church,
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As i've told her
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And i've said publicly and i'll say now,
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In front of 10,000 of my closest friends,
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Do i hope eventually that she is somehow moved
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By the same thing that i was moved in by church?
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Yeah, i honestly, i do wish that
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Because i believe in the christian gospel
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And i hope eventually my wife comes to see it the same way.
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Blake, what what your take away from
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I mean, it just
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When was the last time you saw a public figure just
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Talk about their, you know, their families,
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Their personal, their it's
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A very personal thing to answer a question about.
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And he really just plunged into it gave pretty
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Seems to me a very forthright answer.
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Seems to me to where we're so i you we've gotten it's
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Almost shocking to see just because we've gotten
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So used to the, you know, the fake thing.
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And nancy pelosi goes up there and
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Is like, as a devout catholic, i know that,
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You know, freedom of choice is extremely important.
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Like that's our usual.
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That's the usual engagement we get on religion from people.
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It's just very, you know, affected piety
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And that definitely didn't come off as affected piety to me.
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It was it was gutsy.
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There are going to be people i imagine with like
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Take issues with the answer one way or the other.
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But he just went at it, man, i totally agree.
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It's what a personal it's personal.
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Without 10,000 people watching.
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Somebody was like, well, you're
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Yeah, that would be dating a on what did you know for him
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To just do that in front of the world?
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Just a tremendous amount of,
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Like, self-confidence and just self-assuredness.
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And to your point, i mean, i think he's growing in
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That has grown in that tremendously over the years.
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And we've watched it and it's really satisfying.
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I just want to keep going with this guy,
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Because it seems like most of the articles
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I've seen from the left that are trying to attack
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This answer have been about this particular questioner.
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There was another questioner asked, there was dating of
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Foreign visa holders, visa, visa holding student.
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And you know, they're like, jd vance is going to deport
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This kid's girlfriend.
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It is like, not at all what he said.
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It was so funny, but this, this but this charlie
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Said something like, oh, i don't totally.
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Charlie was like, well, did you get deported? i know.
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Anyways, let's go ahead and play.
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254 this is talking about
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How the fact there's
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Too many people, too many immigrants
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In the country, and we don't owe it, to,
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You know, we actually owe it to americans to take care
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Of this generation, our people, first and foremost.
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That's his job.
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And i thought was a great answer.
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254 when you talk about
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Too many immigrants here,
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What is when did you guys decide that?
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Number two, you are pushing out policies that hurt us,
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And these policies are not even solving the problems.
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These policies are just creating, you know?
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Okay, so so again, i'm gonna i'm gonna i'm gonna finish
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Answering the question.
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There's too many people who want to come
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To the united states of america.
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And my job as vice president is not to look out
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For the interests of the whole world.
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It's to look out for the people of the united states.
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Now, meet.
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Just i mean, by the way, the crowd erupted that
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You heard it in the clip, but it was like,
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If you were there, it was it was almost deafening.
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The moral clarity of saying, we're going to keep
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We're going to take care of our people first.
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So refreshing, so refreshing.
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And you actually heard it
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Articulated in detail in the answers.
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Yeah.
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And yeah, it just feels great that think about,
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You know, we're seeing what
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Charlie built, which is we could hold an event
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On a college campus and not, you know, you know,
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It's not at hillsdale, it's not at liberty.
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It's not at,
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You know, a handful of schools that were very
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Used to being supportive of us.
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It's a big public university campus,
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And we could pack it full of people
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And have them just applaud at something like that.
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Yeah. amen.
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1500 people in that chapter, by the way.
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It's huge.
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We'll be right back with mark halperin.
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In genesis
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12 three, god made a powerful promise
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To abraham, the father of the jewish people.
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I will bless those who bless you.
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The christian bible tells us
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That we have been grafted into god's family tree.
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The rich olive tree of israel,
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The very foundations of the christian faith,
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The bible and jesus, whom christians call
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The messiah, are deeply rooted in israel.
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Supporting israel aligns christians with god's
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Prophetic timeline.
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It demonstrates our willingness to be instruments of
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God's blessing, uplifting his chosen people,
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And it calls us to confront and heal
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The centuries old wounds of anti-semitism.
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The scripture says how good and how
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Pleasant it is when brethren dwell together.
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You can be part of this historic movement
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Of bringing light to our world.
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Learn more by going to ifc.
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J.org today.
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All right.
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We're so excited about this.
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One of my favorite guests of the show
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Of course that is mark halperin.
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Who i hope for this audience needs no introduction.
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But, mark, are you there?
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Can i see you? there you are, sir.
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How are you? can you hear me?
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Yeah.
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Okay. don't tug on superman's cape. don't spit in the wind.
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And don't try to take attacks here in newburgh,
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Manhattan, between labor day and christmas.
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Did you get did you get stranded out at the public
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And jump out of my cab,
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And i'm sitting in a hotel lobby
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With a big sign
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That says, no 1st may use this lobby
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Unless you're a guest in the hotel.
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So it could be good to have some excitement.
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Some some gotham city excitement.
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But yeah, i got gotham city perfectly.
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Yeah, exactly.
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Got gotham city is where i want to get
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Started, actually, because we have this clip.
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I saw it earlier this week,
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And i want to know if it's if it's still holding true.
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And i believe. here we go. yeah.
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It's 134.
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You were predicting
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That there was a little bit
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Of oppo research coming down the pike.
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So let's play your clip. 134
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I inform spidey senses we're
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Going to see at least one more piece.
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Pretty significant opposition research dropped in this race
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Here at the end that will potentially
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Shake things up on one of the candidates.
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Of course, i'm on my on on, on on monday.
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I think we'll have a effect on on the outcome.
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If it's what i'm told it is,
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It would happen if it.
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So mark, that was, got a lot of eyeballs
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Across the, the social media sphere.
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What is what is the update or are we going to see this
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Pretty late in the game?
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That was basically the,
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You know, the consensus sort of opinion i was hearing.
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Why if they had it, why didn't they release it before?
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What's what's the update?
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Well, it's a little complicated.
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First of all, you know, in two way
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We try to be transparent, right.
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We're not old media where we know
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Secret things so we don't tell our audience.
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And i was
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Dealing with the source of my trust over years of dealing.
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And and this person said,
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We have some
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We're not sure we're going to be able to put it out
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And got it square squared,
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The circle, not the eyes, but we, we, we're trying to.
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And then two things have come out since i said that,
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Which if my
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Me were being treated like a normal candidate,
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I think would have had a major impact on the race.
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But the new york times in particular, is covering him
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Like they covered barack obama in 2008.
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It's all about rainbows and and special ponies
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As opposed to scrutiny of the front runner.
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So one story
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I was a video that never been out,
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As far as i can tell, of my comparing, unfavorably,
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The new york city police, who he might be the commander
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Of in a few weeks
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With, the israeli army, the israeli military,
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So that that came out and then, another thing came out
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Since then is, mother, said that he was not an american,
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That he didn't really identify as an american.
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Both of those things, i think in a normal race,
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Normal coverage would have been exploits
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About my source won't tell me if those are the things
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They were referring to.
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So there might still be something else. too.
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He basically said that the,
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The idea that the israeli military
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Laces up the boots of the nypd
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And suggests they're both kind of like jackbooted thugs
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Again, there be some constituency for that.
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And certainly, this is an unorthodox campaign.
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You know, i've been referring lately regarding monogamy
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To donald trump's famous, i could shoot somebody
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At the avenue and i would support
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What what would what would have to come out about.
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And i'm gonna put a new york
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Times straight up front page story about the front runner.
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What would what would he have to do?
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Because we need to see what his mom says about him
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When he was in college.
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He wasn't in college that long ago.
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He's he's only 34.
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So it's not like, you know, total ancient history.
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So like i said, my source has gone a little dark on me.
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And and they may
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There may still be something
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Else, but it's possible that that
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One of those two things were the things they put out.
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And they had the perspective i did.
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Which is it
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You would think at this point in the campaign,
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They would be concerned about their place in history
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For failing to scrutinize the frontrunner.
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Well, it's it's it strikes me that what could even,
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You know,
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We have early voting in new york and he has got,
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According to the polls, a pretty big lead or what, even
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Let alone new york times writing about it.
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Just what could possibly actually close that gap
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In the amount of time that's remaining?
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And yeah, i kind of feel it might be nothing.
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Yeah. go ahead mark.
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Well, well, so two very prominent new york
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Top post columnists have come out and said,
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Basically, andrew cuomo is a bum, but he's our bum.
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They they were voting for someone like cindy adams
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And michael goodwin.
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And and i have to say
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Again, it's anecdotal, but i have seen and heard
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From many people, republicans who said, i'm
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Just not going to waste my vote on the republican nominee.
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Lee. what i'm going to vote for cuomo.
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And and the bandwagon effect is not nothing, right?
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The people, the people take it.
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They both know they might be able to stop
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And serve as mayor who they don't want to see.
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I also think predicting i don't know this
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Reporting wise, but i would, i said,
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I also predict i wouldn't be surprised
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If there were robocalls, maybe from donald trump
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And others to republicans over the weekend saying,
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Don't vote for curtis.
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You know, vote for cuomo because that's the
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Only way to save the city. so
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If you looked
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At public opinion polls, you'd say the race is over.
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But it's hard to pull this electorate, right?
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Because as you know, you shot a poll, regular voters,
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People who would vote on a reliable basis.
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A lot of these supporters wouldn't show up there.
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So i don't know which way that cuts.
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But i just know i know there's some volatility here.
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And cuomo could get wiped out or it could be quite close.
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And we're just not going to know till tuesday.
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It does seem like cuomo
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Is trying to present himself as more of a centrist.
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He's been hinting at the fact that there is a civil war
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On the, within the democrat party,
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And that he believes that the far left,
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Democrats, democrats, socialists, like mamdani
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Are going to destroy the party.
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Maybe, maybe you have more insight for us. mark.
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Well, look, cuomo is not the
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Most liberal member of the party
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By any means, having said
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Some very liberal positions on some social issues.
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But he's not he's not a flaming liberal on economics
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And certainly not as compared to my army.
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So, you know, elections are about choice.
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There's three people on the ballot
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Who were trying to become mayor.
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One of them is not going to win.
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Is curtis.
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And i get what he's saying.
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He's having the time of his life.
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He's very good in both debates.
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And and he's enjoying it. so.
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And my family, that's worth more than ten night.
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So then if you're voter, your choices are a guy
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Who's a socialist and inexperienced
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And a guy who's deeply flawed and not particularly
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Well liked,
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But is not a socialist and has a lot of experience.
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So it's a strange it's a strange election.
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And romney has not been strong for the last three weeks.
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He's not strong in the second debate.
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He's not been strong in interviews.
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He did a big rally with bernie sanders and, and, and, aoc,
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Karl rove has a really interesting comment,
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The wall street journal today about the speech he gave
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Basically accusing the city of being anti-muslim.
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And he's not closing on like a super,
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Skillful mode where he's been most of the campaign.
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Who knows, who knows how letters will relate to that?
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But, i think i think,
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The key thing is curtis's vote for curtis lee. why?
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Who's the republican nominee?
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If his vote total is below ten, i think more low can win.
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But some recent polls had been closer to 20 than to ten.
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Mark halperin, sir. thank you my friend. good to see you.
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Thank you for having me on. good to see you both.
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Absolutely
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We truly are living in a historic time.
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After 738 days, the 20 living israeli hostages
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Have been released from captivity
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And those who were killed will finally rest in peace near
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Their loved ones. praise god!
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In this time of celebration, our good friends
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At the international fellowship of christians and jews
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Send their deepest gratitude for your prayers
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And unwavering support.
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Thanks to you, the fellowship has provided
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$300 million in emergency aid since october 7th,
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Including millions in direct support for the hostages
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And their families.
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Of course, the road ahead is still a long one.
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Much needs to be done to restore
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And revive these victims of terrorism.
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But that's exactly what the fellowship does.
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For example,
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They're assisting returned hostages,
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Along with their families and friends, with immediate
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Medical, psychological and financial support.
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They're also providing
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Mental health care for israelis of all ages.
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To find out how you can help, visit ifc.org.
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That's ifc.org.
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Mark Halperin: October 31, 2025 | Charlie Kirk Today

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