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Apparently ufc
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America 250 at the white house, which was a huge triumph
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For the administration for the country.
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It was a beautiful event
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Had actually been targeted by
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It looks like domestic violent extremists.
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And by that it actually does seem to hold true.
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The expression does hold true.
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There's a network of dozens that have been 23 people,
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23 people
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That have been identified as part of this ring by the fbi.
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There was drones that were, planned to be weaponized
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And sent in.
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They had attack zones, snipers, all kinds of things.
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Let's lay it out.
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So what they caught is they caught a signal group.
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Signals a which you can have on your phone, your computer.
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They were in various places around the country.
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And what they were talking about, as you said, was
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They were talking about doing a coordinated,
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Multi-member attack on the freedom 250 event.
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Their idea was they would fly explosive drones into buildings
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To start a panic.
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People would flee in specific directions,
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Probably heard it along by barriers already put up,
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And then they would have sniper
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Teams ready to open fire on them.
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And it's not clear just how far they got with this.
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But according to the fbi, some members of this chat
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Did travel to fredericksburg, virginia, about an hour
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South of dc to, a couple days before to make preparations.
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Now, given how ambitious
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This sounds, i still get the feeling
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This might not have come to fruition.
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We can hope,
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But it's clearly the level of speculation
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Where the fbi was right to get involved.
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Well,
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And so investigators are claiming that this part of
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And this, according to the new york post,
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A far right acceleration list ideology, which they link
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To the san diego mass shooting.
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We're going to take issues with that.
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But here investigators learned
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That their aim was to take out capitalist elites,
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Billionaires and politicians who received money from a pac,
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Officials told the post.
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So this is
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A traditional way of looking at
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Political ideologies.
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Is on a linear graph, right?
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You get the left and then you got the right.
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Okay, now there's something called horseshoe theory,
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Which we haven't talked about on this show
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Because i'm this is a good chance to explain.
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I'm not always convinced that i believe, in the way
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It's presented, but it is something right now
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That i think is becoming more and more true.
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And that is the idea that it's actually a horseshoe.
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And at the extreme tips
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That the left and right sort of bleed together.
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And it's they have less distinction.
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They become more like one another than if you're vastly
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More likely to see someone who is a
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Extremely politically far to the right flip to saying,
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Actually, i'm a revolutionary socialist communist
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Than you are to see them
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Flip the supposedly lesser distance to, oh, i'm
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A centrist moderate who cares about growing the economy.
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Actually, i actually think this is somewhat to explain.
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Graham plattner, who had a nazi tattoo,
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He would have probably at some points
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Considered himself
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Kind of a radical fringe righty in some ways.
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But then they flipped over,
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And now he's just a communist socialist.
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Think about what we're seeing here.
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They're saying it's far right, but on the right
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We're usually more in favor of free markets.
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We're usually more in favor of billionaires existing.
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I don't think andrew or i have a problem with elon musk
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Becoming a truly excited because he started multiple,
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Incredibly groundbreaking companies
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That did amazing things for the country
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And for america, for their employees.
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But on the far, far right, you're starting to see stuff
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That does sound like someone
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Who could be a jilted bernie, sanders
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Said, we need to take out
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The billionaires, the billionaire class,
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Or the apex stuff.
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We've had violent anti-israel demonstrations,
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And radicalism has been a thing on the left for ages,
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But we see it growing on the right as well.
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And so you see this
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Bleeding intermingling of how they of their sentiment.
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And so you see these guys who are in the signal chat
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Who this could easily be the motivation of a far left sell.
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People who love luigi mangione.
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Oh, we want to kill billionaires
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And people who take money from the israel lobby.
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That could easily be someone who's a fan of hassan piker,
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That could easily be
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A fan of any number of radical left movements,
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But they're characterizing them as right wing here,
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So we have to start
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Poking at that, that there is a funnel from
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I am on the right to just being a hard leftist,
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And that includes revolutionary violence.
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Yeah.
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Well, and this is so some of the key similarities
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According to the horseshoe theory.
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And again, i, i chew the meat and spit
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Out the bones when it comes to this.
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I don't buy it completely, but
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There does
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Tend to be a draw towards authoritarianism, right?
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Preference for strong centralized state power.
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They have an us versus them mentality, binary worldview,
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Conspiracy thinking, scapegoating of enemies.
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Sounds pretty familiar.
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By the way, based on what they just said,
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Targeting billionaires and the elites
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And those who take money from a pack.
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All right, rejection of liberalism, opposition
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To free markets, individual rights, compromise,
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All those kind of things that make a democracy function.
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Constitutional republic.
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In the case of the united states,
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Populism and totalitarianism.
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See, populism.
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Conservative populism can be a very useful and good thing.
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But this is one of the things that political scientists
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Have sort of put as you know, something that they've seen.
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But from both sides,
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When you talk about the horseshoe
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Theory, cults of personality
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Propaganda, willingness to use violence or revolution.
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Okay.
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So and i do think that when people look at,
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For example, the nazis, you know, there's a tendency
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To call that a far right fascist.
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You know, funny thing, political ideology.
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I would actually i would even consider it
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I think the nazis were a radical third way ideology.
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So you might even call it radical centrism.
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The point is, politics can be a complicated beast.
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It's not really as simple as just a linear line
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Where something very
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Far over here is as far away as you can get
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From something over here.
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It's that
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Getting really far away from what you might call
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The political mainstream means you're more likely, i'd say,
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To be resentful of what's going on,
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More likely to be
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Just an iconoclast in general, more likely to rebel,
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And unfortunately, more likely, i think, to be seduced by
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Violent fantasies.
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A lot of people,
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If they're
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Trying to burn down a city after george floyd, it's
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Not really that they're necessarily
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That agitated about george floyd.
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It's that they're agitated against society in general,
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And that gives them something to violently blow up against.
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And i think some of that happens on the right as well.
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And they end up finding a lot that they like on the left.
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And that's why i want to push it
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This, that they're getting seduced by
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Fundamentally left wing fantasies.
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Yeah.
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Essentially it becomes left wing right because you believe
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In castigating an entire group or a class
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Or scapegoating people, as opposed to holding
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People accountable for their own actions,
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For example,
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That would be a fundamentally left wing view of the world.
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When you horseshoe around, you end up exhibiting a lot of
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Those same characteristics.
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So that's why we said no acceleration ism.
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Let's just define that as well, because they're calling it
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A radical far right.
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Acceleration is ideology.
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Now acceleration ism is where you say
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We're going to burn it all down, blow up the system.
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It's essentially a revolutionary, perspective.
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You're going to burn it all down
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So that out of the ashes
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You can build something more ideologically pure.
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Okay,
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So instead of working with the current gop, for example,
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You are going to say, well, i'm going to vote democrat
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Because i want to get all these people out of office
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So we can replace them with people
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That reflect my viewpoints.
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And as we've warned you,
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As charlie warned before, this is an ideology of failure.
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It's an ideology of rejecting real work.
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So say actually, by losing i win is how that's your excuse
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For doing nothing or doing nothing useful.
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And it has to be rejected totally agree.
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It's this is a disturbing trend, guys.
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By the way.
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There's there's a lot here that
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That really is troublesome. okay?
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Because now you're seeing luigi mangione ism sort of
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Branch out and affect all
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Different kinds of viewpoints.
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Different kinds of viewpoints.
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J.d. vance
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Is doing a bit of a media blitz and i and i love it.
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I think j.d.
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Vance is one of the most talented,
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Politicians in the entire country,
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Regardless of which side
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When it comes to going up against adversarial media.
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Okay.
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So he actually, i think he did
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Fox and friends first, if i'm not mistaken.
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So he he went on there and he actually addressed
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Some of this, some of these news reports
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I want to get i want to get to that first.
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And i think he raises a really important point here.
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Sot 23 so much of the far left rhetoric is driving itself
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Towards violence.
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We're trying to look at the underground networks
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That drive towards this violence.
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23 people do not get to the point
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Where they're going
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To commit a mass terror incident in washington, dc
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Without some serious funding,
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Without some serious coordination.
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And we've actually been trying to go with
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Those networks of coordination because this is a
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This a terrorist plot
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That's not a few guys doing crazy stuff.
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That is a coordinated plan, terrorist plot.
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Thank god we thwarted it.
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But we've got to do more of that stuff. he's right.
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It is a terrorist plot. and we do have a picture.
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One of these guys,
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His name is tyson, a tyson proper out of ohio.
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He's been arrested by the fbi for helping to plan this.
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I mean, just look at this guy.
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Now, you look at this guy.
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And again, to our earlier point,
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You think he kind of looks like a winger.
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Right winger.
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But this is what happens when you become an extremist.
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When you're bent on violence and revolution.
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Your idea.
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Your idea, ideology becomes.
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And distinguishable
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From that of many people on the violent left.
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I could see that guy getting arrested
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At a portland courthouse, too.
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Yeah, i see you just need, like,
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One tattoo, and then it would look.
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Yeah, perfectly.
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He's he's one step away from being full antifa.
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That's the point we're making.
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So and that's a trend that we're seeing in our politics
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Okay. so jd goes on the view.
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And i mean he's going through everything.
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The guy is just so talented at this.
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So for example, unaffordability, he says that,
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You know, they're alleging that trump
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Doesn't care about affordability.
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He calls that a hoax.
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You know, here we go.
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Jeffrey epstein, i know this is interesting
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For a lot of you out there.
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So let's go ahead and play it. 36.
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One of the things you see in the fcn emails
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Is that jeffrey epstein hated donald trump,
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And that donald trump literally reported
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Jeffrey epstein to the police.
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That's one of the things that came out.
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These were best friends for about a decade.
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And remember, he signed that transparency act under duress
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When some republican women congresswomen
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Like lauren boebert, like marjorie taylor greene,
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Did not give in to his pressure of not signing lauren boebert
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Into the situation room to pressure her into caving.
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I'm not voting for that bill, so let me respond to that.
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So it's all true.
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Let me let me respond to that.
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So number one is yes, donald trump.
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But he said this.
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He knew jeffrey epstein back in the 1980s.
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He also threw jeffrey epstein out of his club
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When he found out it was a creep
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And reported him to the police.
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That's something that
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The media often misses when it reports the story.
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They tell us the fact that they knew each other in the 80s,
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Which the president himself admits
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They ignore the fact that
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He knocked on him to the police and led ultimately
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To jeffrey epstein's downfall. epstein's lawyer
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Says that he was
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Obsessed with taking down trump, in his final days.
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So before jeffrey epstein died, committed suicide
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Or was killed, whatever happened to him?
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He was obsessed with president trump. why?
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Because president trump ended up
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Being successful president of the united states.
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Yeah, they did have, real estate squabbles in florida
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As probably one of the reasons they don't like each other.
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But president trump
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Reported him to the police, knocked on him.
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As jt said, it was a it's a huge thing
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That the left doesn't want to talk about.
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But you know, the he continues on here, by the way.
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Actually i don't think we have that clip.
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But he continued on in the clip and basically dismantled
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Every single epstein accusation that they're throwing at him.
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For example,
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President trump, jd says he was there
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When president trump called the senate
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And said, pass the transparency.
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I want to sign it.
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So president trump, okay.
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And this happened to me.
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Any time you talk about jeffrey epstein,
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You have to do so with fear and trembling of getting
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Clipped up on the internet, misrepresented.
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For example, last week on thursday,
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I said there was no there there
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When it came to
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Their deliberations inside the situation room.
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I read the article from the new york times,
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But i did not mean that there was no there there at all.
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I'm with jd.
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Jd said this on this in this interview with the view
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This morning.
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I believe there's a there there's some guy, some crazy
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You know, con man doesn't get that rich and powerful
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And that much influence
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Without there being some there, there.
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What i meant was there was no there there
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With president trump.
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And they acknowledge that in the situation room
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They said, hey, let's go full transparency.
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There's nothing to hide from president trump.
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So that's the point.
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And jd made that point very clear.
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President trump
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Picked up the phone and said let's get full transparency.
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So anyways, there's lots of great clips here.
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Blake, i don't know if any of these are standing out.
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Oh, you know what?
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This was great.
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237 where jd is explaining why he went from trump critic
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To the vice president.
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37 i was a critic of donald trump back in 2015 and 2016.
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Now, obviously i'm sitting here as the vice
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President, united states in the trump administration.
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Well, joy, a little humility, actually.
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I think that when you make predictions
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And those predictions turn out to be false,
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You got to ask yourself, what?
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What made me wrong about that?
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What did i not understand or not appreciate?
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For example, i said that donald trump's economic
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Policies would not lead to wage growth.
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They did in the first term.
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That was actually a major, major thing.
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I said that we couldn't bring back
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Any of those factory jobs
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Because i kind of had given in to this idea
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That those jobs were disappearing.
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But actually, donald trump, you saw a manufacturing boom.
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I don't think that administration.
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Would just let me ask you this question.
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So there's a certain point where you say, you know,
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I made predictions about this.
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I ended up being wrong.
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And in politics and anything i think it's important to say,
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You know what?
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I got some things wrong.
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And i was wrong about him.
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A little humility. good for you, jd vance.
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I just think, again,
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I don't know what took them so long to put him on this
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Media tour, but, you know, he's doing fox
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And friends, he's doing megan kelly, he's doing the view.
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He did sean hannity last night,
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But it's well timed because he's got to he's
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Going to have to be the chief messenger of this peace deal.
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You run around and the it's going to be
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We know it's going to be a challenge
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With some constituencies,
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And he's going to have to be able to pass this test,
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Because it's only going to get harder if he runs in 2028.
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So this is a good battleground for a very important,
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Why do we have to which he did make a comment to that.
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A lot of people are taking notice of that.
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He believes that the president
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Will be supportive of him whatever he decides to do.
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There we go.
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Steve hilton joins us next. we'll be right back.
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Steve hilton joins us next. we'll be right back.
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We're well, we have steve.
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Excellent.
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Steve hilton, so steve, are you there?
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I'm on the road the whole time in california.
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I cannot tell you the amount of times the calls drop.
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You can't get a signal
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With the tech capital of the world,
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But can't get a phone signal. sorry about that.
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No. you're good.
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So quickly on the tax plan,
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We have the highest cost of living in the country,
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Because of their insane policies.
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And then yesterday they passed another budget,
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Increasing spending, increasing taxes, including
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Another $400 on people's health insurance plans.
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If you have private health insurance at the same time
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As they're increasing by billions of dollars,
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Spending on free health care for illegal immigrants.
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So they're basically gouging californians.
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Happy?
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I bacerra just wants more of the same. he's my opponent.
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Today i announced my tax plan,
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Which is to increase the amount that you get tax free.
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Last year, i put forward a plan
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Your first hundred grand tax free.
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That got great reaction.
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We've been on the road.
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People have been saying we love it,
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But actually there's a lot of people in california
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A hundred grand. it doesn't get you very far.
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A lot of state, a lot of counties.
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That's officially the level for low income.
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So people have been saying, can we raise it?
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And that's what i'm announcing today.
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Now it's going to be 150 grand tax free.
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The way we can pay for
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That is a slight adjustment to what i was going to do
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Above 101 hundred grand, which was a flat tax, is 7.5%.
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Now that's going to be 8%.
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So that's how we make it work.
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But the bottom line is
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9 million californians who earn 150 grand
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Or less will now no longer pay state income tax.
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When i'm governor,
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I can't imagine there would be too many
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That would be upset with that. steve.
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That is, there's a lot of voters.
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Nine million's a lot.
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So hopefully we get the word out because, you know, you guys
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In the state of california and i used to live there,
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The state income tax is a huge, huge deal.
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I mean, i think the top bracket is 13.1%,
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13.3.
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And the thing that's outrageous is that it's
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A it's really complicated.
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You got all these different rates.
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But what's outrageous is that then,
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After 72 grand of earnings,
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Which really you struggle to live on that in california,
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You're paying 9.3% state income tax.
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That is higher than the top rate in most other states.
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It's ridiculous.
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And that's why this plan makes so much sense.
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And i
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But i don't know how long we have,
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But if you want me to sort of jump
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In on the gavin newsom thing.
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Oh, there you got go ahead on that
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Two and a half point one thing up okay.
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What we don't know i don't know the details.
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Right.
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We're waiting to see there's reporting
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From serious reporters in sacramento
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That this whole thing was initiated not by donald
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Trump as newsom is pretending,
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But by whistleblowers within california.
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And the whole thing began under the partly
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Under the biden administration the first place.
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I don't know the details,
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So i don't want to comment to we've seen more.
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What i will say is that you've got a system
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Of legalized corruption in california politics,
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And one of the things that's most outrageous
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Is this thing which i
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When i first heard about it, i couldn't believe,
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Called behest it payments, behest it payments.
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Or when a politician and newsom has used
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This extensively, literally can phone someone up again
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And say, i'd like you to give money to this or that cause.
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And the cause can often be very connected
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To his own, political work.
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For example, there's something called the
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Something like the california protocol project or something
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Which basically funds foreign trips for the governor.
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That's counts as being able to get a bastard payment,
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Which is just totally outrageous.
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And one of the things that's been going on
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Is that he's been asking companies and others
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To give money to his wife's nonprofit,
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And that's one of the then the speculation is that
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Some of this, investigation is to do with that.
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But what's completely outrageous is that you've got a
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You've got a not just a governor.
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Other politicians can phone people up businesses
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Who they regulate
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And ask them to give money to their pet causes.
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It is legalized corruption
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And it has to end and i will stop it.
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You got gavin newsom,
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You've got jennifer siebel newsom,
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You've got javier bacerra, who's also got issues,
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A scandal plaguing him with, i think, his former
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Chief of staff. he took him to washington.
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But you articulated it
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Brilliantly in the debate where he didn't think
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He was going to get paid enough money and government.
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So they found a workaround to get him more money.
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Exactly.
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It is it is corruption at the deepest level,
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Because they all feel
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So entitled to these kickbacks and greasing the skids.
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32nd steve,
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That's what you get
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With one party rule 16 years now, whereas one party rule,
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They think they can get away with anything.
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They feel entitled to public money,
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They feel entitled to endlessly increase,
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You know, gouge taxpayers by increasing budgets
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And then handing it out to their pet causes,
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Whether that's government unions,
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Wing causes, an activist.
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This is why we have to end the corruption.
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That's the top line of my argument in this campaign.
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I'm going to go to sacramento
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And clean up this corrupt system
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That has given us
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The highest cost of living, the highest poverty rate,
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The highest unemployment rate in america,
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Because they don't care about regular people,
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They just care about their own insider interests.
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And that's the corruption you get from one party rule.
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That's why i'm confident we're going to win this year.
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Well, the big question for me is not would a majority
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Of californians choose you in a straight up election?
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The bigger question is
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You talk about these ngos, the machine, they're out
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Registering homeless people.
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They're out, they're out.
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You know, paying them for votes.
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We've seen it on camera.
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These homeless people are admitting what they're doing.
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The machine is the question. right.
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So i just tried to, do a little search on
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How much money from the state budget goes to ngos annually.
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And it's basically it comes up.
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In short, it's difficult to pin down,
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But tens of billions
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Annually is the most accurate, high level answer.
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Tens of billions
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Are going to this cabal, this network of ngos.
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That is a complete corruption of the system.
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And it's a bastardization of the intent of an ngo.
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And it's just used to enforce, and protect
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Their power structure.
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That's right.
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That's exactly right.
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We've been documenting that, what i would say is, yeah,
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They've got the machine, but we got the people.
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People want change in california.
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Yes. and it's.
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And i really feels, phil, i just feel that there's no way
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That they're going to vote for more of the same
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When it's so painful for regular people.
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Now we're going to work very hard.
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We're going to build our own machine, by the way.
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We're going to get our vote out.
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And voter id being on the ballot in november is going
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To bring a lot of people out to vote for, for for our side.
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Steve, do you believe that spencer pratt had
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The election stolen from him?
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No, i don't think it's a stolen credit.
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The trouble is, it's legal.
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This is legalized corruption.
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And so it's not it's not the right way of thinking about it.
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I think that the truth is that
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They've built a corrupt machine and it's worked as intended.
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But that's what we're up against.
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And we have to be really clear about that.
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Of course, once i'm elected, we got to stop this corruption
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And the fraud and the flow of taxpayer money
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To build the democrat machine, that's got to stop.
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You don't need to break the law when it's perfectly legal
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For you to send paid activists to go door to door,
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Find everyone
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Who's got a mail ballots, every single person
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They can go to, every homeless person,
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Help them fill out the ballot, witness the signature.
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Why break the law?
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The law is entirely on your side, steve, we got to go.
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But we have your back 100%.
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We're watching very closely.
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If you can pull this off, steve,
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You will be an all time hero.
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And we've got your back.
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Everybody supports steve's campaign.
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He needs all the funding and resources you can send him.
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Steve Hilton: June 17, 2026 | Charlie Kirk Today

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