EZRA LEVANT ｜ In Davos politicians face questions they dodge in Canada
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Donald Trump's speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 21, 2019 was a lot of fun to watch, and I'm here to talk about it. In this episode of the astral event show, I discuss some of my favourite parts of the speech, and talk about some of the key moments from it.
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tonight big day in davos at the world economic forum it's january 21st and this is the astral
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event show oh hi everybody we're at the airbnb in clusters one town over from davos where the world
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economic forum has its big meaning we can't get into davos itself as you know because every single
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hotel room and airbnb is booked up by the organizers so you have to stay one town two town three towns
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over and take the train in every morning i'm not complaining we love to do it it's uh just part of
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the story of how reclusive and exclusive the world economic forum is uh that said uh it seems to be
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popular because this year had the highest turnout ever both in terms of paying guests but also world
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leaders you had everyone from a to z uh z being zelensky donald trump being the a team um he gave
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a 90 minute speech to delegates about a thousand of them in the room and everyone else basically
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watching the speech from their phone um what he says matters more than all of them put together and
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i should tell you that a lot of his message was just being a pep uh talk pep rally booster for the
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united states and its economy and how well the economy is doing he spent a lot of time going
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through how well the united states is doing compared to the previous president and by the way it's all
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true um he talked a lot about how countries free ride on the united states and i disagree with some of
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his calculations he calls a trade deficit you know or a trade surplus he thinks that that's taking money
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away or giving money away and i suppose in some sense it's true but for example if the united states
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buys a hundred million hundred billion dollars worth of oil from canada um and they pay for that oil
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they're getting something for it it's not like they just gave the money away to canada and so i'm not
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quite sure if i agree with how he calculates things but let me come down to the the more basic truth
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which is every country in the world loves to trade with the united states and every country in the
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free world loves to be protected from the united states and i don't know if you were following this
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but a few days ago a number of uncomfortable allies in nato sent a token soldier or two to greenland
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as a show of force in case donald trump tries something my favorite part was that there was a single
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as in one soldier from the uk that was sent they all came into one little plane uh the rest of them
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and as howard lutnik said hang on you guys have not sent any soldiers into ukraine but you're sending
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soldiers into greenland so you won't send soldiers in to fight against russia but you'll send soldiers
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into greenland to sort of show america you'll fight it or something and um another
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uh trump cabinet minister scott percent likes to point out that germany alone spends more money
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on russian oil and gas even to this day than it has sent ukraine to fund the war so in in effect
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germany is on the other side of the war just from a financial point of view there's a lot of hard
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truths that europeans still like to hear and the canadians still like to hear and listen um i mean i i the
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one line i always quote from wab canoe the premier of manitoba says we don't want to be your 51st state
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but we want to be your number one friend i mean who knows what's going to happen with the alberta
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independence uh referendum it would not shock me if that thing passes i don't know if albertans would
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choose to be the 51st state i think they would rather be a very wealthy very happy small country of
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their own um i think there there is some correlation between small size and happiness in countries
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anyways that's for another day here let me show you some excerpts from trump's speech here's just i'm
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going to show a few of them and um it was a 90 minute speech and i tried my best to listen to all of
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it but i was running around a little bit outside here here are let's say five symbolic or key moments
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from trump's remarks this afternoon i want to discuss how we have achieved this economic miracle
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how we intend to raise living standards for our citizens to levels never seen before
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and perhaps how you too and the places where you come from can do much better by following what we're
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doing because certain places in europe are not even recognizable frankly anymore they're not
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recognizable and we can argue about it but there's no argument friends come back from different places
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i don't want to insult anybody and say i don't recognize it and that's not in a positive way that's
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in a very negative way and i love europe and i want to see europe go good but it's not heading in the
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right direction in recent decades it became conventional wisdom in washington and european capitals that the only
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way to grow a modern western economy was through ever increasing government spending unchecked mass
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migration and endless foreign imports the consensus was that so-called dirty jobs and heavy industries
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should be sent elsewhere that affordable energy should be replaced by the green news scam
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and that countries could be propped up by importing new and entirely different populations from
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faraway lands this was the path that sleepy joe biden administration and many other western governments
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very foolishly followed turning their backs on everything that makes nations rich and powerful and strong
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and there's so much potential in so many nations the result was record budget and trade deficits and a
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growing sovereign deficit driven by the largest wave of mass migration in human history we've never seen
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anything like it quite frankly many parts of our world are being destroyed before our very eyes and
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the leaders don't even understand what's happening and the ones that do understand aren't doing anything
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about it virtually all of the so-called experts predicted my plans to end this failed model
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would trigger a global recession and runaway inflation but we have proven them wrong it's actually just the
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opposite instead of empowering bureaucrats we're firing them and they're going out and getting jobs
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in the private sector for two and three times what they were making in government so they started
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off hating me when we fired them and now they love me instead of raising taxes on domestic producers
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we're lowering them and raising tariffs on foreign nations to pay for the damage that they've caused
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in 12 months we have removed over 270,000 bureaucrats from the federal payrolls
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the largest single year reduction in government employment since the end of world war ii
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nobody thought that was coming but we had no choice to make a country great you can't have all federal jobs
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we're cutting illegal aliens off welfare and other government benefits and i have directed that starting
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immediately there will be no more payments to sanctuary cities because they are really just
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sanctuaries for criminals they're really protecting criminals and those are the ones we have to get out of the
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country murderers drug dealers the mentally insane they emptied their mental institutions into the united
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states and despite that we have the lowest crime numbers that we've ever had in the history of the
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country just came out but equally importantly we're cracking down on more than 19 billion dollars in
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fraud that was stolen by somalian bandits can you believe that somalia they turned out to be higher iq than we
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thought i always say these are low iq people how do they go into minnesota and steal all that money
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venezuela has been an amazing place for so many years but then they went bad with their policies 20
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years ago it was a great country and now it's got problems but we're helping them and those 50 million
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barrels we're going to be splitting up with them and they'll be making more money
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they've made it a long time venezuela is going to do fantastically well we appreciate all of the
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cooperation we've been giving we've been given great cooperation once the attack ended
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the attack ended and they said let's make a deal more people should do that
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but venezuela is going to make more money in the next six months than they've made in the last 20 years
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every major oil company is coming in with us it's amazing it's a beautiful thing to see
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the leadership of the country has been uh very good they've been very very smart we never ask for
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anything and we never got anything we probably won't get anything unless i decide to use excessive
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strength and force where we would be frankly unstoppable but i won't do that okay now everyone's saying oh
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good that's probably the biggest statement i made because people thought i would use force i don't have
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to use force i don't want to use force i won't use force all the united states is asking for is a place
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called greenland where we already had it as a trustee but respectfully returned it back to denmark not
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long ago after we defeated the germans the japanese the italians and others in world war ii we gave it back
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to them we were a powerful force then but we are much more powerful force now after i rebuilt the military
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in my first term and continue to do so today we have a budget of 1.5 trillion dollars we're bringing
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back battleships the battleship is 100 times more powerful than the great battleships you saw in world
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war ii so what we have gotten out of nato is nothing except to protect europe from the soviet union and
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now russia i mean we've helped them for so many years we've never gotten anything except we pay for
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nato and we paid for many years until i came along we paid for in my opinion 100 of nato because they
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weren't paying their bills and all we're asking for is to get greenland including right title and
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ownership because you need the ownership to defend it you can't defend it on a lease number one legally it's
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not defensible that way totally and number two psychologically who the hell wants to defend
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a license agreement or at least which is a large piece of ice in the middle of the ocean where
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if there is a war much of the action will take place on that piece of ice think of it
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those missiles would be flying right over the center of that piece of ice
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all we want from denmark for national and international security and to keep our very energetic and
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dangerous potential enemies at bay is this land on which we're going to build the greatest golden dome
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ever built we're building a golden dome that's going to just by its very nature
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going to be defending canada canada gets a lot of freebies from us by the way they should be grateful
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also but they're not i watch your prime minister yesterday he wasn't so grateful but they should
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be grateful to us canada canada lives because of the united states remember that mark the next time you
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make your statements well of course you know european sensibilities don't like that
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hustler that salesman that pep rally style they're more somber and emo but who cares i mean it is true
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that the u.s economy is growing and growing fast and it's the envy of the world and the united states
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military is by far the envy of the world and i think that the stunning success of decapitating venezuela
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and sort of taking over the husk of the dictatorship that remains is so shocking and so unbelievable i
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think that that alone is bending the will of hostile leaders from nicaragua to colombia to cuba i think
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you may see a totally free western hemisphere by the way javier mille was in town um i just why i just
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happened to be walking by when he came out of a building i mean i was 10 feet away from him i
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i called out to him just to say hi really uh he didn't respond but it was fun to just by random
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chance i almost bumped into the guy here take a quick look mr mille are you excited about trump's
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speech today mr president are you excited about trump's speech today yeah that's davos for you there's more
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vvips per square foot than anywhere else in the world i mean it was it's sort of incredible when you
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think about it um i want to show you what uh you may have seen this because we emailed this out not
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on the ezra levant show it's my eight minute walking scrum with christia freeland who i bumped into like
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i almost missed her she's short and was walking by herself and just i wasn't really i didn't really catch
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her but my videographer did and uh i wanted to ask her about the fact that she signed up to be
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an agent of the ukrainian government before she had resigned as an agent of the canadian government
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she was working for two governments at once at a exact moment when canada was sending 2.5 billion
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to ukraine it was such a bad look i asked her about that and then i talked to her a little bit more
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about the truckers and how the federal court of appeal just confirmed three to zero that what she
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did was illegal when she seized and froze bank accounts so there was one judge in the trial court
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at federal court and three more judges at the federal court of appeal that's four judges in a
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row that said her conduct in specific was unconstitutional and illegal asked her about that
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too here take a look at this video watch all the way to the end when we have a little bit of a
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surprise for you take a look miss freeland why didn't you disclose your job offer from ukraine
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to the conflict of ethics commissioner within seven days as required hi nice to see you i just i
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disclosed it to the ethics commissioner immediately are you sure about that because you didn't tell
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the prime minister for two days i told the prime minister as soon as i spoke to him as soon as i could
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speak to him why did you keep it secret from the public though until the president of ukraine tweeted
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it out it wasn't finalized are you sure it wasn't because you guys were shipping two and
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a half billion dollars out and it would be odd to have you on both sides of the deal
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that was a decision of the prime minister and let me just say i think canada should be proud
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to support ukraine and i don't think that's a question you you were on both sides of the deal
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was the question i wasn't on both sides of the deal i actually wasn't at that meeting with the prime
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minister but in any event let me be very clear ukraine is fighting for canada's security and for
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canada's democracy but that doesn't no one's disagreeing with that in our conversation i answered
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your questions very clearly go ahead ukraine is fighting for canada ukraine is fighting for democracy
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in ukraine and in the world we benefit from supporting ukraine i'm proud of the support that
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canada has given and i've been very very proud but you have to be you have to follow the law hang on i
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do you have to follow the law oh i follow i followed the law 100 percent well i followed
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the law 100 and let me just be clear your questions are about casting doubt on support for ukraine no
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it's about casting that on your ethics no your questions are about casting doubt on support for
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ukraine i think you should be you're trying to misdirect you're trying to misdirect no i am telling
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how can you be on both sides of the deal you should be ashamed of yourselves i'm not ashamed i'm
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ashamed of your misconduct his job for him i have behaved ethically at every moment and i'm very
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proud you were you were canada's special envoy to ukraine while while you had an offer pending
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from ukraine your question you have not you have tried to distract and misdirect i have not tried to
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distract for one minute where are you living these days where is your home here are you in the uk are you
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in ukraine or you in canada so that is not pertinent to the question interesting question but my home is
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in toronto thank you very much do you still work for the roads trust i haven't started that job are
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you going to do that job as well yes the job for ukraine is voluntary and unpaid thank you very much
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thank you why why did you freeze bank accounts of canadian well that's a good question that i don't
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think you've ever answered the federal court of appeal recently ruled three zero that your decision
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was unconstitutional do you regret that you seized and froze bank accounts the federal court of appeal
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no regrets do you have an apology for the people whose bank accounts you illegally seized
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are you still happy about it i'm proud of standing up for canadians are you proud of breaking the law
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that's the charter you broke ma'am that's not just any old law
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four judges in a row have agreed you broke the law
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i've answered your question you should be really proud and i think you should be ashamed of yourself
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for what for doing poochins work you froze canadians bank accounts you're still a lawbreaker and you're
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still four to zero judges saying you're a lawbreaker your legacy is a lawbreaker
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your legacy is someone who turned our banking system into a third world system a banana republic
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you have no compunction you're fine with what you did you don't regret it as i said i've spoken to you
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and we're finished but you haven't answered the fact that four judges say you broke the law
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you don't think you need any public statement on that
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i've spoken at length about the issues that i need not since the court of appeal ruled
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the court of appeal said you're a lawbreaker you haven't said anything since then that this
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constitutes harassment by people who are doing poochins job for him you're a censor aren't you
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you would love to take my bank account wouldn't you extremely
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embarrassed and ashamed of them not embarrassed at all i didn't break the law like you did
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you should be ashamed of yourself i'm neither shamed or embarrassed because i'm not a lawbreaker like you
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four judges say you're a lawbreaker four judges say you violated the constitution
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four judges said you illegally stole money what are they are they right or wrong
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what do you say to tamara leach what do you say to people who are wrongfully arrested because of
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don't you care about civil liberties the liberals used to claim they cared about civil liberties
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well i for one i'm glad you're gone hopefully canada's seen the last of you
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you know it's funny i've had more access to canadian government cabinet ministers in the last
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two days than i have had in the last two years um i had a walk and talk with francois philippe champagne
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um you know i was just so stunned that he actually sort of called me over and i didn't want to give
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him too much of softball but i didn't want to fight with him brawl with him either because i was i guess
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i was stunned it had never happened to me before that a liberal cabinet minister and i mean his answers
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were not good his they were not compelling they were talking points but here this is me interviewing
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canada's finance minister and minister of national revenue me ezra levant the rebel take a look for
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saying hello i'm ezra levant yeah i've seen you before i think no i've seen you in the not often
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yeah we just said hello to justin trudeau did you know he was here i have i've heard of it but i've
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not seen it he's here with katie perry they look great together well listen if you say so can i ask you
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a question about china and qatar both of those countries have human rights records and you guys
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didn't emphasize that publicly did you raise that privately with them what i would say you know every
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g7 countries i found a word to engage in a strategic fashion uh with china for example um with eyes wide
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open and canada is no different so you know we just remain very true to our own values but at the
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same time as you've seen with all our g7 partners uh people find a a way to engage uh with china but
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a lot of the deal with china thank you so much i appreciate that
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that's okay thank you very much minister he's always he's on tv i just need to know where i'm
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going i'm not asking unfair questions i don't think listen i'm working with you thank you for
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that i'm working with you now doug ford says that chinese-made electric vehicles have spyware in them
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i think he's talking about the cameras and sensors that go through chinese uh servers i call it the spy car
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that they're bringing in and uh they won't be allowed to get over there and it's going to take
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off the americans uh 80 of our autos are going down there but now throw china in here for what
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uh they aren't going to manufacture here so it's just a terrible terrible miscalculated decision
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by the prime minister what do you think about that is that a risk i think you would have to ask him
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israel recently limited chinese electric vehicles that its officers can drive because they were worried
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about that threat do you think that it would be wise to have a limit that no canadian forces could
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drive a chinese-made ev well like i said it's it's eyes wide open that's that's what uh we have to do
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and that's how we have to engage like i said like all our g7 partners uh which i found a a a
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strategic way to engage eyes wide open true to their values and like i said we're no different
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thank you for walking with me my last question yes is at least it's sunny today that's right it's not too
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to call for you the foreign minister said that canada has a new foreign policy that's quite a
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bold thing to say not long ago in your indo-pacific strategy you called china a global disruptive power
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do you still not believe that's the case or has your language around china softened
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this is a new government with a new prime minister a new foreign policy and a new geopolitical environment
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in this moment of economic stress for our country it is necessary for us to diversify
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our trading partners and to grow non-us trade it was never really raised in the election there wasn't
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a debate or a vote in parliament do you think that there needs to be a democratic test of this new
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foreign policy because it's swung us away from america towards china and other countries and
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that's a big shift well i think you you need to adapt i mean you and i would agree that the world has changed
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significantly in the last few months i mean i think it's something you and i can agree on and therefore
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you know you you you're well advised you have to show humility and humility as they say if the world
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change you need to adapt to new circumstances in the world and that's what we're doing but like i
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said if you look at our partners around the world they've also adapted in light of this different world
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we see the speed scope and scale of change which is quite unprecedented some would say you have to go
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back to 1945 some would say you go to the fall of berlin but that's why you need to adapt to this new
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reality to protect canadian interests to promote canadian interests and that's what we're doing
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last question and thanks again for talking with the last one well i got one last last last it's
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a very short one this is like one was the question this is the follow-up it's a deficit it's it's the
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hst on top of my other questions yeah um some kind of reduce it for a first time home buyer okay and
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cancel the carbon tax did you report on that those are good news you know you've got a lot of good news
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last question i promise it's the last one um the united kingdom germany other countries sent a
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handful of troops to greenland as a symbolic statement do you know if canada is thinking of
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sending any troops to greenland as a symbolic statement we will continue to support the kingdom
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of denmark and greenland it's a broader question of what are the operating principles upon which we
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undertake our diplomatic relations and the operating principles while this world is so volatile the
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operating principles themselves haven't changed the operating principles are state sovereignty and
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territorial integrity and those principles underpin our membership in nato and our relationships
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diplomatically around the world i would refer to the statement of the prime minister you say we've been
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very clear in our principle that the future of greenland um uh is for the people of greenland to
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design in denmark and we've been very clear about respecting the uh the territorial integrity of
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of greenland minister thank you for walking and talking with me i really appreciate it pleasure all
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the best to you i'll see you again i'm sure i hope so thank you minister he's got a great job be careful
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because it's tough to walk backwards yeah he's got the tougher job with a big backpack to get hurt
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thank you minister thank you very much minister and by the way he walked by the second time and shook
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my hand again i have no idea what's going on and slightly uh scary uh here's me asking a couple of
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questions of melanie jolie and then she sort of ran away which i didn't think was very brave but again
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when was the last time i was allowed to get within 20 feet of her take a look at me and melanie jolie
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the minister of industry why are you cozying up to china with their human rights abuses china and hamas
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there's a bit of a pattern there don't you think i'm sorry are you going to trip right now no i don't
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think so but i'm worried that you're that you are whitewashing china's human rights abuses just to
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troll donald trump well listen you can explain that uh to your your viewers we have a different
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point of view and so we're doing it for us for canada well but your prime minister said that china
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was the number one security threat and now he's making a partnership with them i think the biggest
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security threat to canada is china so you heard what the prime minister had to say what do you have
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to say about this thank you guys come on we're just we're just trying to do a job here thanks and
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i'm trying to do my job as well that's great run away bravely run away bravely run away there's
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canada's great pride right there and then of course you saw yesterday that i did a walk and talk with
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justin trudeau again he sometimes stonewalled me or gas lit me or just gave bs answers but do you see
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my point um and why is it the and then of course christia freeland why is that i mean you've got
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trudeau himself christia freeland uh franco philippe champagne and and and melanie joly and i there's
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still a chance i'll bump into anita and and the foreign minister if i can find her isn't that crazy
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no it's not crazy it's just what happens when you're in a place when the police don't arrest you
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for asking questions of politicians for the last 10 years we have lived in a system called canada
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where when rebel news reporters get close to politicians we are physically swept away sometimes
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like in the case of david menzies physically beat up it's outrageous in fact menzies would beat up twice
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once by trudeau's bodyguards and once by freeland's own bodyguards that's not normal here in davos they
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think it's normal that ordinary people can walk up to politicians and ask them questions don't touch
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them don't threaten them don't hit them of course not but ask them tough questions and if you watch
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the whole tape of me scrumming christia freeland you'll see at the end some police were sort of
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concerned i don't know if freeland had called the cops she had just talked about uh what you know we
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were harassing her the cops came over asked for her id made some calls and said okay you're fine just
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you know stay calm and um that would never happen canada i would be sitting in jail my videographer
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would be in jail and it's actually sort of sad that i can meet more of my own country's politicians in
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switzerland than i can in my own countries and that's shocking and gross and sad all at the same time
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anyways so we had a few more uh you know we had some very short uh interactions and we had some
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longer ones i had a very short interaction with tedros let me just tell you how tedros adenum the uh
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world health uh organization boss i had with i had just finished talking to melanie jolie she had ran in
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so i turned around to walk and i just bam there's tedros uh the head of the world health organization and
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to to think oh who is that oh that's tedros oh right what are my questions for him like that
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you got to think of that like you've got three seconds seriously because they're about to walk
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away so i'm not sure how well i did in fact that's sort of how it is out there in davos you see someone
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and you have to think okay who is that okay what do they do okay what are my questions for them that
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might be interesting and it's it really is uh a way to keep your noggin jogging because you got to
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switch gears and switch subjects but i was i suppose i was sort of ready for justin trudeau
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and christian freeland because i think about the things they did a lot other people like tedros i
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i suppose i don't think about him that much tedros do you have any regrets about the mandatory
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vaccines and people being fired for not taking them now that we know that that they didn't really
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do the job do you have any regrets i think countries have the right to decide based on
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the risk the situation in their countries if you had to do it all over again would you do anything
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differently anyways another very interesting day out here and we'll be here for a couple more days
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in fact tomorrow we're having the private town hall meeting for donors of a hundred dollars or more who
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helped chip in to um crowdfund our trip and uh you can get more information at wefreports.com if you
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want to get on that list anyway it's uh really late here let me just check what time it is it's
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11 30 p.m and we get up so early because we gotta uh get on that we have to walk to the train station
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to take the train um to the next town over so unfortunately we're not going on a lot of sleep but i think we're
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actually having a great impact out here i think we're making a real difference i hope you think
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so too we'll see you tomorrow night if we can on the um zoom town hall meeting with abhi and i and um
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until next time on behalf of all of us at rebel news to you at home good night and keep fighting for freedom