Episode 65 - Violent Riots in Chicago. CNN Wants to Know...Is There a Network Dedicated to Hating Trump？ Defend Our Borders.
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On today's Hot Takes, President Trump takes aim at the Democratic leadership in Congress, a shooting outside the White House interrupts a speech by the president, and more. Hot Takes is a weekly podcast hosted by Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-GA) discussing hot topics in politics, current events, and pop culture.
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Welcome to Hot Takes. I'm Congressman Matt Gaetz. Let's talk about the news.
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The news that seems to be on everyone's mind is the current negotiation in the Congress for
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a potential additional stimulus as a consequence of coronavirus. Here's the latest on the negotiations.
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President Trump says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer
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want to discuss coronavirus relief again. Taking to Twitter Monday, the president was
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critical of leading Democrats, citing previous negotiations with the White House, saying
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they are, quote, hardliners. President Trump signed a coronavirus relief executive order
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Saturday as negotiations between the Democrats and administration collapsed. According to
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President Trump Sunday, Pelosi and Schumer are holding the relief hostage for their partisan
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demands. I hear that's what the Democrats want to do now. They want to look. They were not
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interested in doing what they had to do. Their big point of discussion was bailouts. They wanted to
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bail out poorly run Democrat states. Like, you know, I could name them. I could give them to you right
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now. But why do it? Because, you know, the same states as I do and cities. And we don't we're not
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going to do that. We'll help. But we're not going to do numbers. They talked about a number of a trillion
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dollars. We can't do that. President Trump addressed what the administration was doing to ensure that
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the executive orders he issued on eviction protection, on student loan interest abeyance,
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on additional unemployment assistance are carried out to the fullest extent. Take a listen to the
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president. We are going to be doing something very, very interesting with all of the things that we
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announced on Saturday. I don't have to repeat what they are. You know very well. And we've had
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we've had some tremendous success already. If you look at what's happening with the stock market and
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people are very thrilled at what we're doing. We'd like to get the Democrats to focus on other than
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what they're focusing on, which is a bailout of poorly running states. We have many great running
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states, states that are setting records. And let's see what happens with respect to that. But the
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we're looking at also considering a capital gains tax cut, which would create a lot more jobs. So we're
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looking very seriously at a capital gains tax cut and also at an income tax cut for middle income
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families. We're looking at expanding the tax cuts that we've already done, but specifically for middle
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income families. And you'll be hearing about that in the upcoming few weeks. And I think it'll be very
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exciting. Perhaps one of the strangest things that happened in the last 24 hours was the shooting
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outside the White House. That was actually an interruption to the remarks you just heard
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by the president. Here was the president addressing that shooting and the engagement by the Secret
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Service. There was a shooting outside of the White House and seems to be very well under control. I'd like
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to thank the Secret Service for doing their always quick and very effective work. But there was an actual
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shooting and somebody's been taken to the hospital. I don't know the condition of the person. It seems
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that the person was was shot by Secret Service. And so we thank the Secret Service for their brave effort. We
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certainly hope that whatever motivates people to their politics, that it's not violence, no matter what
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side you're on. And we will learn more and keep folks updated. Another police involved shooting another day of
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riots in Chicago. Take a listen to circumstances on the ground. A mob of looters tearing apart Chicago's
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famed Magnificent Mile. Oh, the police got their hands full tonight, don't they? Breaking into dozens of
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businesses taking off with stolen merchandise. Fire, can I get another shit over here? Some 400 Chicago
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police officers are struggling to contain the scene, which erupted around midnight. Smaller businesses and
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even grocery stores targeted too. This is where we live. This is our home. This is our front yard. And it's
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upsetting. The riots, police say, stemming from a police involved shooting Sunday.
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Authorities say a 20 year old suspect who allegedly fired at police was shot and injured. False
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information about that shooting, investigators say spreading on social media, fueling the melee.
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While I recognize the need for us to always be working to improve policing, to always ensure that our
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communities are kept safe and that law enforcement is equipped with the tools and capability to do
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that without unnecessary escalation. Sometimes the police do have to use deadly force. And that's not a
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judgment on any particular case. But we cannot live in a country where every time there is deadly force used by the
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police, we're going to have our cities burned down, our places of business destroyed, our commerce interrupted, our way of
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life shattered, the inability to drive around on our streets or know that our families are safe when we send them out on
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recreational or leisure or business activities. There's just no way for a serious country to operate. And so, you
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know, I am increasingly troubled by these negative interactions that I continue to see with law
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enforcement and people who are just increasingly combative with law enforcement. And that's not a
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commentary on race. That's not a commentary on any particular subdivision or community. But just
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yesterday, I'm walking through a major airport and someone was in trouble in the TSA line and security. And
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there was just this whole blow up with the police sheriff deputy who showed up to ensure that this person was like, not even
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arrested, but just that they were not creating an unsafe environment for other passengers. And it was like
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the individual just, you know, ranting and raving almost wanted to be arrested, because they thought that, you
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know, this could create a viral moment for them or a potential lawsuit. And so I think we need to get away from the
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incentives to be combative and destructive, and try to find better ways to be cooperative. And I think that that is
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something that requires participation on both sides. You know, we cannot just say that these circumstances are all
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solely a consequence of bad law enforcement. I think in some cases, you do have deadly use of force, you do have
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intense use of force as a consequence of conduct that should be avoided, not just by the law enforcement
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officer, but by the citizen interacting with that law enforcement officer. So here's hoping for less of sort of what I
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saw in the airport, and more of a peaceful and collectively understanding environment for us to all live in.
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The Big Ten offers a big no, to the prospect of having college football this season, not allowing their
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teams to present a league schedule and a bridge schedule anything like you're seeing from some of the other
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conferences. And wow, was there a negative reaction on Twitter, you had some Ohio State players
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suggesting that maybe they should join the SEC for the year. And then you saw some of the star players
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impacted like Justin Fields out there saying, hey, you know, we want to play. My hot take is that you should
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not have a bunch of administrators dictating these outcomes to students who have an interest in
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pursuing their dream. And for many of these folks, they need this season, they need this opportunity
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to progress. And there are going to be some real negative consequences if college football does not
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Brian Stelter is just one of the absolute worst CNN personalities, really one of the worst personalities
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on all of cable news. And he had one of the coldest takes imaginable recently. Take a listen.
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You know, when you see entire media companies essentially exist to tear down Joe Biden,
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is there an equivalent to that on the left tearing down Trump?
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Brian, I think they're all trying to take down Trump. You know, when I watch the news,
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it is just increasingly a homogenous chorus of mainstream media critique and attack and unwillingness
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to focus on some of the good news, like the fact that even during coronavirus,
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the president is building an economy that is beating expectations. And sure, there are still
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many of people hurting. But imagine the type of rebuild that we'd be in with like Obama or Sleepy
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Joe at the wheel. It would be a disaster. And so, you know, I think that Tucker Carlson probably had
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the wittiest of responses. He had a little fun with the Brian Stelter piece. Take a listen to Tucker.
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CNN took a quick break from its usual programming, encouraging looting and pointless mask wearing
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outside to take some jabs at this channel. Entire media companies essentially exist to tear down
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Joe Biden. Is there an equivalent to that on the left tearing down Trump? There really isn't.
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That's a really good point. Nobody criticizes Trump in the media. And I think what we need more of,
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people attacking Trump. Turns out the people who work over the cable news network don't watch it.
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They watch this channel full time. So we dug up some clips for their edification.
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It is what it is, Mr. President. It's a pandemic. And you are who you are. You don't give a damn.
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The MAGA hat carries a certain connotation that provokes a conditioned reaction for many people,
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especially for marginalized people. You said the president is using mind control.
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But how is that provable? He does not practice humanity. He does not practice decency. He does
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not love mercy. He is intentionally unkind. He is mean to opponents. Are you listening?
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The president of the United States is a fraud and a con man. He's human garbage,
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and he practices mind control. Tucker has it right. And frankly, it's increasingly his employer,
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Fox News, that's hedging its bets as it relates to Trump. I think that reporting the news is not
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something that is partisan. I just think it requires telling the truth. And the truth is that the president
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built the strongest economy that the world has ever known. And I suspect if given another four years,
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he'll do it again. Over 200 miles of border wall construction has occurred during the Trump
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administration. It has been an important deterrent. It has allowed our border patrol and ICE to have
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more targeted resources with their deployments and with their patrols, with the security and stability
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of a wall system in place. And it's one of the strategies, along with others, like having people
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wait for their asylum claims in Mexico and having folks return safely to Guatemala and Honduras directly
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so that they're not just caught and released into our country. I think all those things that together
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have allowed us to reduce the flow of illegal aliens coming across our border from its zenith of,
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I mean, like we were at the point of 60,000 and more per month that were coming over. And now we've
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got that, you know, cut way, way down as a consequence of the policies of the Trump administration.
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But it would all stop if Joe Biden were elected president. DallasNews.com has the story,
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Joe Biden saying that if he is elected president, he will stop construction of the border wall. He will
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end the progress of the Trump administration. He will give up and wave the white flag of surrender
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on our southern border. America's border is worth protecting. America's border sets a delineation
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between that which is special and unique and ours and that which is the rest of the world. And I'm not
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saying that the rest of the world shouldn't strive to be the best version of itself, but they'll never be
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American. America is special and different. And that is why the securing of our borders and our
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values and our culture is so critically important. If Joe Biden is elected, he will use the discretion
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that the executive has to not allow the construction of our border wall to persist. That would be so
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damaging to what we've done in the Congress and what President Trump has done to ensure that we do not
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just have a steady flow of illegal aliens across our border. So just keep that in mind, competing policy
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choices. And I think only one that puts America and Americans first.
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The Republican Attorney General's Association canceled by Adobe. Adobe not allowing an ad from the
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Republican Attorney General's Association, or RAGA, to run on their platforms, alleging that it is
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depicting violence. Now, the ad is largely a critique of the defund the police movement, and it goes through
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the lawlessness that has been embraced by liberalism while showing scenes and images depicting the dangers of
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defunding the police and of not allowing law enforcement to be able to do their jobs during riots in particular.
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Adobe saying that this doesn't conform to their culture and they're not going to allow it.
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You know what the great irony is? The Republican attorneys general should be doing a great deal more
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than they are to fight against big tech. Now, I've seen some class action lawsuits that they've filed.
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I've seen the press releases and press statements. But what we need is litigation. What we need is discovery.
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What we need are orders to compel. We need depositions. We need the development of record evidence. We need
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to put on trials. And instead, Republican attorneys general have been pretty content just with kind of
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a passing press release in response to the tyranny that big tech is imposing on citizens throughout
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this great country. And now it's literally their own political arm that suffers the consequence of
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inaction, both at the federal level and at the state level. This is going to continue. The big tech
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companies will not stop until they snuff out conservatism and responsive conservative debate
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throughout the Internet, throughout our digital experience. And so we have to wake up to this
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threat. And we need our attorneys general at the state level. And we need the attorney general
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of the United States to do more to hold big tech to account when they silence Americans.
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If Donald Trump were to end the war in Afghanistan, if he were to bring our troops home from Iraq,
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I honestly believe that he could win 40 states in the upcoming election. Revolver News has new polling.
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Here's the headline. New poll shows overwhelming bipartisan support for Trump's troop withdrawals.
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And the survey, which got the opinions of 2000 U.S. adults, showed 44 percent strongly supporting
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bringing U.S. troops home from Iraq, 30 percent saying they somewhat support doing so. And for
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Afghanistan, those numbers are 46 strongly support bringing home 30 percent saying they somewhat support
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it. Look, oxygen and sunshine are not as popular as a withdrawal from these quagmires in the Middle
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East. And it's great to see Revolver News going out there and surveying the thoughts of real Americans.
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And it's my hope that what we see in Washington, D.C. will start to reflect what we see throughout this
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country, a desire to end these Middle East wars, to invest our nation's treasure in our people,
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in our economy, and then to position the next generation for the real challenge we have ahead.
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And that's China. Thanks so much for listening to today's episode of Hot Takes.
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I'm Congressman Matt Gaetz. Give us a five star rating, leave us a review,
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