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Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings have begun in the United States Senate, and the process for his confirmation is in full swing. On today's Hot Takes, host Matt Gores takes a look at the process, and gives his initial reaction to the news that Judge Amy Coney Barrett has been confirmed to the Supreme Court.
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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 tonight be offended
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with the democratic whip not house republicans like a machine matt gates
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welcome to hot takes i'm congressman matt gates let's talk about the news judge amy coney barrett
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seeing her confirmation hearings began in the united states senate republican lindsey graham
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leading the effort on the side to confirm this nominee here's chairman graham i think it's okay
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to live your life in a traditional catholic fashion and you still be qualified for the supreme court
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so all the young conservative women out there this hearing to me is about a place for you
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i hope when this is all over that you there'll be a place for you at the table there'll be a spot for
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you at the supreme court like there was for judge ginsburg let's talk about uh the two supreme
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court cases regarding abortion what are the two leading cases in america regarding uh abortion
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well i think most people think of roe versus wade and casey uh is the case after roe that preserved
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roe's central holding but grounded it in a slightly different rationale so what is that rationale
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rationale is that the state cannot impose an undue burden on a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy
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okay unlike brown there there are states challenging on the abortion front there are states uh that
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are going to a fetal heartbeat bill i have a bill judge uh that would uh disallow abortion on demand
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at the 20 weeks the fifth month of the pregnancy we're one of seven nations in the entire world that
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allow abortion on demand and at the fifth month uh the construct of my bill is because a child is
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capable of feeling pain in the fifth month uh doctors tell us to save the child's life you have to
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provide anesthesia if you operate because they can feel pain the argument i'm making is if you have to
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provide anesthesia to save the child's life because they can feel pain must be a terrible death to be
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dismembered by an abortion that's a theory to protect the unborn at the fifth month if that litigation
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comes before you will you listen to both sides of course i'll do that in every case senator diane
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feinstein has been i guess in the senate long enough to be the democrat head of the senate judiciary
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committee there was some talk of maybe having a more aggressive uh or well-known senator on the
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committee lead that effort uh instead at senator feinstein folks will remember she really really
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was awful in the leaks and innuendo and treatment of judge kavanaugh i think she took substantial
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backlash for that but here's senator feinstein with the opening salvo of the democrat effort let me begin
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with um a question that the chairman touched on and it's of a great it's of great importance i think
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in planned parenthood of southeastern pennsylvania versus casey justice scalia as was said earlier joined
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the dissent which took the position and i quote we believe that roe was wrongly decided and that it can
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and should be overruled consistent with our traditional approach to stare decisis in constitutional cases
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do you agree with justice scalia's view that roe was wrongly decided so senator i do want to be
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forthright and answer every question so far as i can i think on that question i you know i'm going to
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invoke justice kagan's description which i think is um perfectly put when she was in her confirmation
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hearing she said that she was not going to grade precedent or give it a thumbs up or a thumbs down
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and i think in an area where precedent continues to be pressed and litigated as is true of casey it
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would be particularly um it would actually be wrong and a violation of the canons for me to do that as a
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sitting judge so if if i express a view on a precedent one way or another whether i say i love it or i hate it
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it signals to litigants that i might tilt one way or another in a pending case judge amy coney barrett is not
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using notes she is very engaging she's there to offer the best version of herself as any of us would
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be in these very challenging conditions but she seems up to it here's future supreme court justice
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amy coney barrett how does it feel to be nominated for the supreme court of the united states senator
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i think um i should say why i'm sitting in this seat in response to that question too
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why i've agreed to be here because i don't think it's any secret to any of you or to the american
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people that this is a really difficult some might say excruciating process um and jesse and i
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had a very brief amount of time to make a decision with momentous consequences for our family
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we knew that our lives would be combed over for any negative detail we knew that our faith would be
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caricatured we knew our family would be attacked and so we had to decide whether those difficulties
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would be worth it because what sane person would go through that if there wasn't a benefit on the other
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side and the benefit i think is that i'm committed to the rule of law and the role of the supreme court
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and dispensing equal justice for all and i'm not the only person who could do this job but i was asked
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and it would be difficult for anyone so why should i say someone else should do the difficulty if the
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difficulty is the only reason to say no i should serve my country and my family's all in on that because
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they share my belief and the rule of law it appears that coronavirus and delayed distraction tactics
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from chuck schumer are not going to impair the senate calendar they're hard at work and we look forward
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to seeing our new supreme court justice seated president trump talked about the nomination of
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judge barrett at his rally in sanford last night take a listen to the president amy is fantastic a great
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intellect a great scholar i think she's going to be a fantastic u.s supreme court justice as america saw
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earlier today in amy's opening statement in the senate judge barrett a brilliant scholar who will defend
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our laws our rights our freedom and our constitution like very few people would have the capability of doing
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i'm often a critic of the hospital industrial complex when they unfairly raise prices and cheat
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patients and take advantage of government programs but the health care corporation of america has really
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been a counterweight to those more corrosive elements in the hospital industrial complex in their recent
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decision making hca one of the largest hospital groups in the country they have a number of
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hospitals throughout florida they have a very high concentration of health care provider activity in
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my district and they have made the decision to return six billion dollars in cares act money to the
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treasury this is the provider fund that was set up in the cares act to ensure that on the front end of
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the fight with this virus we had the ability to get the personal protective equipment the machinery uh the
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plus ups in nursing and physician's assistance for testing for a lot of these hospital systems and hca
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when looking at their third quarter balance sheet you know they see revenues around 13 billion dollars
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for a quarter and they were able to return this six billion dollars given their ability to make the
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case to their investors that it was the right thing to do and they were able to meet the needs of the
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communities they serve and the patients that they serve and they were able to give back the money so
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it's rare that in corporate america you see this type of america first selflessness and so i wanted to
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thank the health care corporation of america for doing right by their patients and their country
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the constitutionally outlined process for impeachment
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isn't enough for crazy nancy pelosi she along with congressman jamie raskin of maryland have now
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introduced legislation to allow the congress of the united states to intervene in the process outlined
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by the 25th amendment to remove a president for incapacity this is nuts congress already has power to
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remove a president if they are able to impeach and convict the democrats tried that they failed during
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the ukraine sequel to the russia hoax frankly they probably would have impeached in the russia hoax if
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they ever had any evidence but we now see how fake that truly was and so democrats seeking more power
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seeking more institutional violence really to the systems that have upheld our democracy in our republic and
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have ensured that it has legitimacy throughout the world that's not enough for them they want
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new ways to try to stand between the president and the voters who elected him and that's why they're
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trying to change the 25th amendment you see everyone in the media views this as nancy pelosi taking on
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trump but the reality is nancy pelosi is showing disdain for the people who voted for trump and when she
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tries to criticize him for challenging our norms and our institutions and then she allows people like
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jerry nadler to talk about packing the court jamie raskin to talk about changing the 25th amendment
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you know chuck schumer talking about blowing up the filibuster this is all an effort to ensure that
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they can seize power it's not about serving the people again you know the people have lived under
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systems that allow for the election and removal of presidents uh through the test of time you know
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through the architecture of our founders nancy pelosi doesn't have any reverence for the way that our
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founders set up our government or our systems she just wants to accumulate power and attack trump
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and it's shameful and we won't let her americans could be taking to the skies to go to europe sooner
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than we may have originally thought the wall street journal has the story u.s officials aim to open
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new york london air travel by the holidays due to the growing availability of covet 19 tests in the united
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states u.s officials are working to revive these efforts for safe travel between america and various
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international destinations with testing done before the flights right now we see temp checks done but
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as we've seen in florida we even have these 15 minute results that don't have to go through a major
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lab processor they're able to just react with a reagent and so if we're able to get airlines to ensure
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that people getting on these flights don't have active replicating virus i think that it will be
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incredibly helpful to business confidence consumer confidence to global economic systems and just
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maybe the fact that in the united kingdom there's a desire maybe to make a little more independent
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decisions relative to the rest of europe a little bit more of a willingness to use your own thought
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process and not participate in the groupthink of the eu might make london the perfect partner for america to
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restore this international travel and i i think it will ultimately inure to our benefit to do let's
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hope we get the technology and the testing to execute on it safely
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it was great to see president trump back on the campaign trail in his and my home state of florida
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last evening in sanford the crowd was electric it was huge i cannot stress the extent to which
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you know there were just so many people who showed up beyond the expectations of the event organizers
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frankly i think there were two or three times as many people as the organizers originally anticipated
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i've spoken to the president a number of times in the last few days check in on his condition check
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in on a few policy matters we're working on together and it was just something to see him so energetic
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and enthusiastic and encouraging and comforting to the rest of the country and he did have occasion
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to chat about the discussions he and i have had around hurricane sally and as you'll recall the
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president was falling ill as the panhandle was developing its disaster assessments and measurements
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and the pensacolian fake news journal back in my district was very critical of me and of the
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administration and they just didn't know what was going on they were obviously like most of the fake
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news out trying to get clicks with a very limited amount of information based on very light reporting
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and president trump really illuminated the extent to which i was contacting him and making the case
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for my people here's the president's comments about our work together the florida panhandle affected
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by hurricane sally and i will tell you ron and marco and everybody i'll tell you rick everybody's been
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calling and calling matt gates has been going driving us a little crazy matt you could take it a little
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easy but that's what somebody that's good is supposed to do right he's supposed to call
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but we take care of the panhandle and we're doing it at a level that's never been done before and i've
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done it i think i can say right from the beginning right and i make no apologies for calling the
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president frequently and for highlighting the needs and concerns of my citizens that is the obligation of
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leadership fighting for your people i fight for my people the president fights for our country
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and while president trump is out in the country inspiring leading talking to the american people
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showing all of our fellow americans that coronavirus doesn't have to dictate every decision
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that each and every one of us make throughout our lives that we can persevere that we can defeat
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this virus and we will defeat this virus the way president trump did and it bears a real contrast to
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what we see on the political left jane fonda one of joe biden's top surrogates saying this about
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coronavirus i just think um covet is god's gift to the left coronavirus is not god's gift to anyone
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it is a scourge on the world unleashed by china covered up by the chinese communist party i think
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fundamentally misunderstood by the world health organization and frankly a lot of technocrats
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even in our own country fortunately president trump knew to shut down travel early fortunately we have
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mobilized the greatest industrial effort really since world war ii in this country to ensure that every
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every single american who needed a ventilator got one survivability against the coronavirus in the united states
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has improved dramatically because of the drugs therapeutics and cures that american innovators have
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developed and tested and are using now on everyone from the president of the united states to
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someone who may be in need in a hospital today joe biden needs to denounce the comments of jame fonda
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not encourage her as one of his surrogates but this is the left now anything for power their fellow
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americans getting sick maybe even dying they could view that as god's gift we think all life is god's
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gift that's why we fight to protect life from the unborn to those who may contract this virus and
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regardless of what your politics are we want everyone to survive and get through this virus and we want
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everyone to rise as one great country one great people united for success that's what we believe
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in it's not what jane fonda believes in and she's the one joe biden trusts so who do you trust
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my fellow americans my fellow floridians will remember the criticism and hatred that was directed at
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governor ron desantis and others who said that we have to open up schools
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and the argument i made on this podcast and elsewhere is that you've got to give parents
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the choice and sure there'll be some parents who rightly decide that maybe the traditional
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education setting isn't the right one for their student in these times maybe you've got a unique
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medical frailty maybe you've got a multi-generational household where some in-home learning would be
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more appropriate but in homes where you've got healthy people where you've got young people where you've got a
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need based on the revenue and workforce needs of a family to have a child in school maybe where you've
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got a particular social emotional need on the part of a student for growth and understanding that you've
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got to give parents the option to open schools and oh my gosh you had the pta saying that this was like
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gonna be you know scourges of waves of death you know washing across the country and you had the
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political left just clutching their pearls the atlantic is not typically a publication that i rely
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on for much of anything but emily oster is an economist at brown university and she penned the
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findings of some of her work and it is fascinating you must read it schools aren't super spreaders
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fears from the summer appear to have been overblown here she surveys 20 000 students with a bunch of
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fellow data nerds at qualtrics they find an infection rate at 0.13 so despite the crowded hallways despite
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the kids uh touching each other and talking to each other not the big infection rate and even among staff
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you see an infection rate at 0.24 so very low infection a very low negative health impact and
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you've just gotta believe that there is an immeasurable positive impact that comes with
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getting the schools open getting families back into their normal routine and ensuring that we get
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back to our wonderful proud prosperous american way of life
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this is weird we see a picture on twitter of republican i guess i should say former republican
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political operative now never trumper og rick wilson having dinner with none other than peter struck
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you'll remember peter struck once america's premier counterintelligence official but then
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demonstrated bias and resentment and anger toward the president as he was investigating him
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shared those messages with his girlfriend both of them were married at the time but engaged in a
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relationship at the fbi then they really did everything they could to restore their phones to factory
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settings to eliminate those messages the inspector general was able to recover a great deal of them
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and they formed i think the basis for our position that this was not a fair investigation of the president
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peter struck testified to the judiciary committee and was a tough nut to crack but i do think
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we were able to show how flawed it was that you had these people with an axe to grind against the
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president doing all they could to delegitimize him both before and after his election and remember it's
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the same peter struck who wrote in his notes that the flynn investigation was a setup there wasn't
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really a sincere effort to find out what flynn had said to the russians in fact our government had that
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on tape and what flynn said to the russians was right that we needed to calm down from the escalatory
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cycle that we were in at the back end of the obama administration that we needed to de-escalate in
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syria that we needed to reduce violence in the middle east by working together and that we really
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needed to focus on the threats associated with china and so today with peter struck now gone from the fbi
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with rick wilson essentially gone from the republican party taking on his newfound role as as a trump
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critic why are the two of these guys having to dinner together at a swanky washington steakhouse it does it
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appear that they're working together on a project are they trying to drum up fake information about the
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president about people they don't like this looks a lot less like a social dinner between friends and more
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like an ongoing election interference planning strategy session and it remains to be seen how
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they'll work to execute on that but i do know this donald trump winning the election won't stop them
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these are folks who believe that their assessment of who ought to be president should be substituted
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for the assessment of the voters who cast their votes through the electoral college and so i think that
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this isn't just potentially a discussion about what's going to happen over the next tens of days but even
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beyond as the anti-trump forces in washington in the deep state in the media in the democratic party and even
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some like rick wilson from the republican party work together because they see the power of the president's
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movement a populist popular america first movement that puts our country and our people before the elite
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interests that have too often failed the great folks of our nation i think the president's going to prevail i think
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these folks are going to be shocked yet again but it doesn't mean they'll stop coming for us
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and so at some point we've got to start coming for them
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putin says he wants to work with biden claims shared values between democrats and communism newsweeks
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david brennan has the story russian president vladimir putin has attempted to mark a positive resemblance
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between democrat presidential candidate former vice president joe biden and soviet communists in a
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wide-ranging interview that was released and shared with a lot of folks internationally putin said that
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the kremlin would be open to working with whoever sits in the oval office despite u.s intelligence
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reports indicating that russia is trying to undermine biden but putin linked biden to communist ideology
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during the interview putin of course being a former colonel in the kgb now if this were putin saying
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something positive about trump you better believe that cnn and msnbc would have it in the a block of
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every show proof trump is a puppet of putin they are colluding they are working together but this is
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probably something the fake news will sit on or totally ignore and look i do think that our nation needs to
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de-conflict with russia russia is not our friend they're a competitor but they do have presence
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in areas of the world where we need to avoid escalating conflict syria is one such place and
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it appears in syria there has been a de-escalation as a consequence of the russians not wanting to see
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their allies in damascus clash with their allies in istanbul and if that means that there's less bloodshed
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less american bloodshed i would say we would want to fully exercise the opportunities under such a
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de-confliction strategy but here you've got putin hugging biden we'll see if anybody notices
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different movie theaters are taking a different approach to the pandemic the national interest has
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the story get your popcorn amc theaters will remain open despite regal closures the pandemic is forcing
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hollywood to push most of its major releases for the rest of the year until 2021 and the parent company
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of regal cinemas one of the largest movie chains in the country announced that it will close all of
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its theaters in the united states and the uk citing the pandemic you do not see that same decision from amc
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so it will be interesting to see which model works whether or not these movie theaters are going to
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be sites of viral spread it is inside they can be close quarters but i always want to give innovation
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the opportunity to succeed so we'll see what sanitation and distancing protocols can be used so that folks
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can get the popcorn and go to the movies maybe don't share the popcorn in the era of the pandemic maybe
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get your own popcorn get your own drink that would be one way to ensure that we're doing our part
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while we get to enjoy the movies and the red carpet and the american way of life thanks for
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listening to hot takes i'm congressman matt gates thanks as always to luke ball and joel valdez
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my fantastic communications team that puts this pod together each and every day yesterday we gave
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