Episode 100 - Comey Torched in Senate Judiciary Hearing. Former Twitter CEO Wants Firing Squad for Capitalists. Subway, Eat...Fake Bread？
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On the 100th episode of Hot Takes, Rep. Matt Gores (R-Illinois) takes a moment to reflect on the results of the first presidential debate, and asks if Donald Trump may have broken the rules of presidential debates.
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you ever watch this guy on television you all were not telling the truth and you should not
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be trusted congressman matt gates thank you for what you did for your country today be offended
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with the democratic whip not house republicans like a machine matt gates
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welcome to the 100th episode of hot takes i'm congressman matt gates thank you so much to
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our listeners who've shared our content and encouraged others to subscribe we've grown
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a fantastic audience well over a million the total spins on the content and i am grateful that we have
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this direct way to get around the fake news you know in my book firebrand i wrote a chapter enemy
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of the people about the way in which the media tries to reshape what's going on so that they can
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try to influence events pursuant to their doctrine or perspective and so the more platforms we have
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like uh podcasts you know social media to communicate directly the more we want to take
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advantage of those as the great america first movement but i do want to take this opportunity
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to ask a few questions about the show and hope that you'll respond in the comments section and
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we'll check them out question number one is it time for us to bring on guests you know this has
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largely been a 20 minute format give or take a few minutes depending on the news of the day
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that i'm able to provide my perspective but it might be interesting to our listeners to have
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experts on people from the media commentators fellow members of congress and then we could
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do some specials like that so let me know if you think what hot takes needs is another voice and
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another contribution to the information that we're looking forward to sharing on a going forward
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basis second question do we need video now the way to execute a video strategy for our podcast
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would likely include decreasing the frequency and then increasing what we do so maybe instead of
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every day with an audio recording you know we have an audio recording at the beginning of the week
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and then maybe a video at the end of the week to encapsulate the events so let us know thanks for
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being here 100 episodes and a special thanks to luke ball my communications director joel valdez also
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a great member of our comms team they put this product together each and every weekday we're so excited
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to have their talents able to showcase in this project as well that said we love having you let's talk
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about the news president trump may have broken presidential debates the presidential debate commission coming
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out and saying that now they believe there need to be additional controls whatever that means and
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they're discussing ways to modify the format they went out of their way to praise chris wallace
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i think that chris wallace was uh far too active as the moderator you know it's one thing to try to
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identify what subjects are there to be covered it's quite another for him to be like shouting over the
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candidates gentlemen gentlemen please i'm the moderator you know i i sort of felt like that was
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not something that enhanced the discussion at all and if you go back and listen to monday's episode
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of hot takes you know there was some advice i gave both the candidates neither took them and if either
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had taken it i think they would have more clearly been the winner right i talked about the need for
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the debate not to devolve into two old white dudes in their 70s though the president's quite young at
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heart um kind of complaining about the worst elements of the status quo and blaming each other for them
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you know instead what we need is vision and i think that the president did the best job of that talking
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about the onboarding of 10.4 million jobs but but even maybe some loftier rhetoric i think would be helpful
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to the president and i also said if the president wants to showcase joe biden's lack of cogency
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he has to give biden the room to talk and demonstrate that like the only person that's
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going to create a joe biden meltdown is joe biden and if you give him the opportunity he will there
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are plenty of cases where you know chris wallace saved biden but also a case or two i think where
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president trump saved him so that was the advice i gave on monday it wasn't taken put me on the debate
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prep team mr president i'm ready ready to help ready to serve my country ready to serve my president
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but now the commission on presidential debates i'm just wondering like what controls are they
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contemplating like is there going to be a mute button has donald trump been so dominant as kind
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of like the alpha male in the room that now they have to quite literally de-platform him from the
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presidential debates with a mute button i mean that twitter's tried to mute him facebook's tried to
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mute him the mainstream media has tried to mute him so i guess it should be no surprise if the
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commission on presidential debates employs a tool like that i just think donald trump walked in that
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room there weren't many people there it's him it's biden's chris wallace and he was there to just kind
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of like tell him what was up and how this country has to be run and what is true and what is false and
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you know he had obviously a few questions that he wanted to pose directly to biden and i think those
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were powerful moments for the president um he would have i think been better served to give biden just a
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little more leash and we'll see what those new rules are from the presidential debate commission
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but quite stunning that after the president's just you know you could you can like it or hate it but it
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was a dominant performance he was the dominant presence in that room and as a consequence of
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that dominance uh you know washington and the establishment and the elite are reacting
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we'll see what those rules are i can't imagine they're going to be there to benefit president trump
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are our media overlords now telling us we must be too woke for the fourth of july media matters is a
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george soros funded organization intended to attack conservatives and conservative content particularly
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that which appears on television they're the ones who tried to cancel tucker carlson and they regularly
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attack conservative commentators and particularly conservative investigative journalists
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some of our favorite investigative journalists are at thenationalpulse.com and natalie winters has
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some return fire her piece media matters new reporter justin horowitz says he's too woke for the fourth
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of july this employee apparently has tweeted thousands of times and deleted some of those tweets one of the
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now deleted tweets from mr horowitz says i do not celebrate the fourth of july because i am fire woke
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so uh apparently fourth of july canceled by those who would want to cancel tucker carlson i guess
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there's probably a lot of overlap with like the anti-fourth of july people and the anti-tucker
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carlson people and those who attack uh these brave investigative reporters like those at the national
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pulse who go out each and every day tell the truth about the chinese communist party and the truth
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particularly about the fusion of the radical left and the media apparatus in washington dc and new york it
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is just such an incestuous dynamic between these elements of the media and their left-wing brethren
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in government and in politics and you know that's why i wrote the enemy of the people chapter in my book
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firebrand to expose circumstances uh where you have the media not reporting on the news but trying to
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make the news and now you see with you know sentiments like those from justin horowitz uh at media matters
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that when they try to realign the world to their viewpoint it is not an america first viewpoint it's
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an america last viewpoint and we can do better and liberate ourselves that's why great platforms like
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a direct podcast and hot takes are so important
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line up the capitalists and shoot them shoot them first if you're a capitalist you're naturally me
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first and you don't belong in the reorganized society that the revolution is going to bring us
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no these aren't my arguments these are the arguments that were published publicly by the former
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ceo of twitter dick costolo and his tweet reads me first capitalists who think you can separate
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society from business are going to be the first people lined up against the wall and shot in the
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revolution i'll happily provide video commentary so this i guess is the peaceful protest i mean this
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is you know what starts with a peaceful protest ends with the color revolution according to this
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former twitter ceo and isn't it rich that when i tweeted out some weeks ago that we ought to pursue
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antifa terrorists with the same vigor that we pursue middle eastern terrorists oh i was deemed as
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violating the terms of twitter my tweet was labeled as you know a call to violence essentially by
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the social media platform and yet here's their former ceo like straight up saying where this all ends
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you know this doesn't end with some kumbaya drum circle led by the ben and jerry's crowd okay this is
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the antifa thuggery amazingly funded by many of the tech billionaires and corporate elitists on the left
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and i don't know like what they think is going to happen to them you know all these like corporate
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america donations to all these left-wing street mob groups uh it doesn't end well this is what their plan
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is line you up and shoot you i don't think that ought to be the fate of capitalism to be america
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first we have to believe in the ambitions of americans and their capabilities and we have to
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nurture those and reward them and the best way they're rewarded still in the world is in a market-based
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system where your talent and your skill can take you to the highest prosperity that is the promise
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of america and i think it is still worth fighting for and defending with everything we have
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in venezuela we have new reports that the food chain is breaking the wall street journal has a
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fantastic piece by john otis that will put out showing that 13 percent of children under the age of
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five are literally stunted in their physical development while the nation remains oil rich
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it is on the edge of an irreversible catastrophe uh basic things like you know cornmeal unavailable to
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people this is the real socialism you know the the real socialism isn't the hacky sack drum circle
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socialism it isn't you know having businesses just like fully operating for the public benefit rather
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than for market forces it's people unable to eat and get medicine and have stability in their lives
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and you know when you look at maslow's hierarchy of needs if you deprive people of that basic you know
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food shelter protection there is no opportunity to advance as a society and i i think that's why
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capitalism while it has its flaws while there certainly need to be governors on capitalism
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it's the best system in the world and it just breaks our heart to see you know in the western
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hemisphere uh folks dying as a consequence of malnutrition uh and i think that the people of
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venezuela deserve far better than the government that they've gotten the problem is they voted their
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way into this socialism and they're probably going to have to fight their way out of it prayers to those
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who are unable to get the necessary provisions to stay alive and let it be a lesson to the rest of us
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not to accept the siren call of such a dangerous system
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open the schools provide social distancing use masks where appropriate have good sanitation
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use swing spaces like gyms and cafeterias to ensure that the students aren't packed in too close
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together and ensure that learning can continue that children don't lose the opportunity to grow and
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develop in their minds as well as in their interactions with one another that was the advice
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that i gave on this podcast as school season was coming to be florida took that advice governor
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desantis ensuring that schools were open that parents had the opportunity and were empowered to send
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their kids to school and so it's a good time to check in and see how that's gone and that's precisely
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what usa today did uh jamie frazier the lead on a story that we're going to certainly share florida
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schools reopened in mass but a surge in coronavirus didn't follow a usa today analysis finds and while
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there have been some spikes in florida those have largely occurred among college age adults not
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school children and that when you look at those ages 5 to 17 actually in florida we've seen a decline
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through late september after that peak that we had statewide in july uh you had over half of florida's
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parents send their students back to school according to state education officials and you know all eyes are
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on florida health researchers and educational experts watch florida for cues about what works
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to keep students staff and the broader community safe amid the pandemic and as you know the weeks
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have ticked by schooling cases have not materialized and requests to return to remote learning have surged
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in some cases and we said that would happen you know we knew that this wouldn't be right for every
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family for every student and uh that certainly gives parents the ability to use those digital
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tools and we've seen that surge and that actually works in synergy with trying to create that plan
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within the school district where we've got the right distance and we've got the right strategy so
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congratulations uh to the state of florida to governor de santis to commissioner of education
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richard corcoran i think it's fantastic to see florida schools open and as a consequence of this usa today
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report we may be able to have some optimism that there are lessons that we're learning in florida
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successful techniques that we're using that the rest of the country could benefit from bravo to the
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sunshine state subway bread is not bread in ireland the irish supreme court ruling that as a consequence of
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subway's bread having five times the sugar content of normal bread that it no longer can be classified
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as the staple under the food categories created in ireland so who knew when you're biting into that
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fluffy light subway loaf that actually you are getting a heavy dose of sugar well i guess over there in the
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land of the potato they take these things quite seriously it was a matter decided by the supreme court
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sorry subway your bread is not bread anymore in the land of the leprechauns and shamrocks
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jim comey was testifying in the united states senate this week oh jim comey same old comey sanctimonious
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egomaniac take a listen to the tongue lashing he got from our friend senator mike lee mr comey with all due respect
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you don't seem to know anything about an investigation that you ran
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so so how can you now as a private citizen and former fbi director
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show up and then speculate freely or regarding any alleged ties between president putin and president
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trump senator cruz also going in on the former fbi director take a listen this investigation of the
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president was corrupt the fbi and the department of justice were politicized and weaponized
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and in my opinion there are only two possibilities that you were deliberately corrupt or woefully
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incompetent and i don't believe you were incompetent
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this has done severe damage to the professionals and the honorable men and women at the fbi
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because law enforcement should not be used as a political weapon and that
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is the legacy you have left senator josh holly got in on the action here's his exchange with comey so
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you personally authorized on unprecedented surveillance on an individual associated with
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the presidential campaign during that campaign's ongoing time period october of 2016 you signed off
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personally on two further applications based on information from a source that you believed
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correctly worked for the democratic party and the sources information it turns out was coming from a
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suspected russian agent yet you did nothing to try to verify any of this information you brushed aside
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the concerns of high-level national security lawyers at the department of justice how are the american
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people to trust you or the fbi following abuses like this i disagree extensively with your predicate i think the fbi is an
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organization that is honest competent independent and also flawed because it's made up of human beings
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well i have to say i'm not i'm not necessarily worried about the fbi as a whole i'm worried about you
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thanks for listening to the 100th episode of hot takes i'm congressman matt gates remember to give
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me some feedback do you want to hear some guests on the next 100 episodes or maybe you'd trade the
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frequency of daily audio for a little bit of video content let us know in the comments and make sure to tune