Episode 82 - Pardon Edward Snowden. Carole Baskin's Killer Moves. Amazon Drones Cleared for Takeoff.
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In the wake of the 9th Circuit ruling that the bulk collection of American phone records by the National Security Agency ( NSA) was illegal, Rep. Matt Gores (R-Illinois) has a hot take and a call for President Trump to pardon Edward Snowden.
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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 hot takes i'm congressman matt gates let's talk about the news the ninth circuit has
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ruled that the bulk collection of american phone records was illegal now this is a program that has
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been suspended but we learned about it in 2013 as the consequence of leaks that edwards noted
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provided to journalists we learned that the nsa had a program that determined who we called that
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collected that information that stored it and then allowed it to be searched without a warrant now
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there are a number of liberty-minded americans deeply deeply concerned about this edward snowden
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tweeting about it saying that he never thought he'd see the day when this program that he exposed would
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be absolutely deemed illegal that seems to be what the ninth circuit has done here's my hot take
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james clapper lied to the american people he was the uh guy kind of brought to congress to give straight
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answers and here were the responses he gave does the nsa collect any type of data at all on millions or
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hundreds of millions of americans no sir it does not not wittingly so clearly clapper wasn't telling
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the truth but you know who did tell the american people the truth edward snowden and as of today
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the case has never been stronger that edward snowden deserves a pardon from president trump
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i would support a pardon for edward snowden if it were not for snowden we might not know today
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that our own government was engaged in an activity that now a federal appellate court has deemed
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illegal it's not just the right policy to pardon snowden it would also be the right politics for the
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president you got a lot of folks in michigan and elsewhere that have the option of a libertarian
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candidate to vote for and i think if president trump were to pardon edward snowden you would see
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just tremendous enthusiasm among libertarian leaning voters for the president and you know what it's what
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trump promised us that he would call a spade a spade that he wouldn't be beholden to the dogmas and
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doctrines of yesteryear that have constrained our country and that have empowered an incompetent
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government against our people our people are better off because we know that our government was
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illegally spying on us now that we know that now that this ruling has been issued now that the program
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has been suspended the right thing to do is pardon edward snowden and bring him home and you know what
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maybe we can make the pardon conditional on snowden's willingness to go back to work for our government
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and help us get the bad guys without violating the rights of american citizens america first
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means the rights of american citizens first and those rights would be vindicated with a pardon of edward snowden
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fox news's chris wallace will moderate the first presidential debate between former vice president
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joe biden and president trump chris wallace was one of the moderators in the hillary clinton
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donald trump debate series you'll also have usa today washington bureau chief susan page
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moderating the vice presidential debate in salt lake city that will be on october 7th the very first
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presidential debate will be september 29th and then you'll have c-span senior executive producer
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and political editor steve scully moderating the second trump biden debate on october 15th in miami
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and rounding out the series you get nbc news white house correspondent kirsten welker moderating the
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third presidential debate october 22nd in nashville tennessee here's my hot take we don't need moderators
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at all just throw biden and trump on stage start the cameras set a timer for two or three hours let
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them have a discussion let them contrast ideas let them go at each other honestly no one is watching
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these debates to see the moderator we want to see the candidates let's hope the moderators don't want
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to make themselves the star if i have any criticism of chris wallace it is that he does at times want to
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sort of become the story and utilize the question as a platform to prosecute a particular frame on an issue
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rather than utilizing a question as a platform for the candidates to contrast and exchange ideas so
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we want to hear from the candidates not the moderators but now we know who they'll be
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hey all you cool cats and kittens you know what we need more of in america carol baskin right now
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and abc has got a deal to have the tiger king documentary star on dancing with the stars here's
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the report from good morning america and finally the one we've been waiting for get ready to roar
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with her signature flower crown she's dancing away from big cat rescue all the way to the ballroom
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even bringing her cats it's the tiger queen herself carol baskin get ready you cool cats and kittens
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remote work is killing the hidden trillion dollar office economy markers steve levine has the story
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and it appears that the office warriors throughout america fuel an economy of blue collar workers who
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work at coffee shops who shine shoes who are in strip malls who are in sandwich shops and also in the
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hotel and airline industry and so with the office warriors becoming daytime zoomers with less travel and
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fewer of those office lunches you do see a trickle down impact on other elements of the economy
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and and we're seeing that a lot of places are simply having to reinvent themselves as a consequence it's a
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it's a fascinating story and obviously change creates the opportunity for innovation but it also
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displaces people and here there is substantial displacement among those who serve a lot of the
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white collar workers who would typically congregate in offices office facilities and then who engaged in
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extensive travel so with the changes we'll see how we adjust i don't know that we're going back to like
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the full regular office setting that we were at pre-covid i think that more and more lifestyles have adapted to
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kind of the zoom be anywhere wi-fi into work approach i know that in a lot of places there are some subset of workers who are
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more productive in that type of environment so that'll result in in these changes to ancillary areas of the economy and
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and we'll have to innovate to grow and be even better
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no asylum for you that's what our neighbor to the north canada has conveyed to kim jong-il's former bodyguard
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if canada returns me there i'm a dead man says the ex-bodyguard to the north korean dictator
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but the situation is bleak lee young guck is the individual who was the bodyguard for the former
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dictator of north korea and apparently the reason that canada is not going to extend him asylum
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is that he was involved in the brutality of the regime and in fact throughout the asylum and court proceedings
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he admits to disposing of 300 bodies and so uh canada might not be so welcoming for this potential
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asylum seeker and so if he's deported chances are he will be killed but gosh when you've got somebody
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who was arguably so involved in the killing and in the brutality and in the maintenance of such a
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regime of death in north korea it's hard to extend them the grace of asylum we'll continue to follow the
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story but no good life later for the former body cards of some of these despots and dictators
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maybe that's the right message to send to the world
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marijuana moments kyle yeager has the story mitch mcconnell pretends to support hemp farmers
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democratic challenger claims in ad take a listen to the 30 second television advertisement
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from amy mcgrath the democratic challenger to mitch mcconnell i'm amy mcgrath and i approve this message
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mitch mcconnell pretends to be a friend of hemp farmers he praised industry giant jen canna for
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its pioneering work but jen canna stiffed hemp farmers millions of dollars and when washington's
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bureaucratic paralysis was killing hemp farms uh honestly i'm not on top of the latest on that
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mitch mcconnell letting him dry up now i play this not to litigate the ad war in a kentucky u.s senate
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race but instead to mark the moment in time that right now in politics in a deep red state the way
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that a democrat believes that she can potentially eat into the support of mitch mcconnell is to make
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the case on hemp to make the case on cannabis and i think that's really relevant because mcconnell's
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been a pretty pro hemp guy i mean he's the one who got hemp into the farm bill it's one of the reasons
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why you see so many cbd products readily available now i probably would have done it a little differently
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i would have led with medical before i led with retail even on cbd but we certainly are in a different
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time today than we were you know four six eight years ago in the politics of cannabis reform hemp
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reform marijuana reform and i think that the more we can have a discussion of the issue through our
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campaigns the better because when we only rely on the failed dogmas of a government that has largely
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lied to the american people about cannabis we don't really advance our understanding and so it'll be
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interesting to see how the u.s senate campaign plays out i hope there's a lot of discussion to enrich
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the national conversation on cannabis reform and i hope we get something done for the sake of patients
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who've been able to live better lives and for americans who value this freedom as something that
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their state may appreciate that they may appreciate and that the federal government has obviously proven
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that it's incapable of maintaining a credible argument on so interesting advertisement we'll continue to
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see how the debate unfolds usa today has the story florida governor ron de santis reopening south florida
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restaurants and even casinos so talk about gambling i mean i i don't know that i would go to a casino
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when you think about how many folks are touching the die touching the machines touching the casino chips
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it just seems like uh like an opportunity for folks to spread the virus but nonetheless the governor saying
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we are not going back into the world of lockdowns and people can make their own choice and hey while
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i wouldn't go into a casino i got no problem if other folks choose to make that decision and if that's
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something that uh that they'd like to do i don't know whose mental health really gets better going
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to a casino but if there are those for whom that's the case i wish them all the best i wish them good
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luck at the tables uh and i do think it is a step in the right direction for restaurants in florida to
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be reopening there are just a lot of people who rely on that for income in a state where we're typically
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used to a hundred to a hundred and eight million visitors a year i had the occasion recently to
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visit with some of our local tourism development officials in the florida panhandle they say we're
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off you know thirty uh five percent and that's really the margin plus a little bit for a lot of businesses
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in vacation rentals um in a lot of the tourism service industry and so we'd like to see those
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restaurants open we'd like to see folks coming to florida again i think there's a way with a lot
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of the different innovations from qr codes instead of menus to hand washing stations to dividers between
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diners and to try to keep restaurants safe and also to keep our people prosperous
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we are always looking for good america first legislation to join in sponsoring i want to
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highlight some good work by my colleague congressman lance gooden he sponsored the rare act
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and the rare act creates all the right incentives to bring back the development of rare earth materials
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to the united states because a lot of that's going on in china so whether it's tax deductions or grant
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programs we're going to do all we can in the rare act to have more of the rare earth minerals that we
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need to have developed extracted here in the united states and if we do that we become more resilient
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we become less dependent on china and i think we're ultimately positioning for a realistic
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confrontation that we're likely to have with that country so i think that the more we can
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re-domesticate the critical stuff that we need whether it's rare earth materials or health care
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supplies or it all the better congratulations congressman gooden on this great america first bill
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amazon's drone delivery fleet hits milestone with faa clearance bloomberg's alan levin has the story
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and the retail giant amazon now has obtained certification from the u.s government to operate as a drone airline
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they are clearly positioning for this this delivery through the air without people having to be
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involved in that process and it's interesting to see that their expectations continue to be met
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with this uh with this development and the u.s government now giving them the airline emperor
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mater seal of approval and so it may be even sooner than you think that your packages are arriving
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president trump in wilmington north carolina paying tribute to the city's world war ii heritage
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take a listen this afternoon my administration is formally recognizing the city's exceptional
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contributions to victory in the second world war it is my tremendous honor to officially designate
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wilmington north carolina as our nation's very first world war ii heritage city that's a big deal
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our nation's very first wilmington congratulations to you all
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yesterday i joined dr sebastian gorka on the salem radio network here's a listen in to that discussion
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okay let's talk about some really disturbing stuff so muriel bowser the the furor of dc a city that
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voted 93 93 for hillary clinton has just released the findings of her monuments committee
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uh and i i they may not believe me uh congressman gates what is the mayor of dc recommending about
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historic figures and monuments like the washington monument they are recommending that we either
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replace or shame washington madison jefferson andrew jackson benjamin franklin these individuals who's
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sacrificed sacrificed to our country carved out a nation they had the values and principles that
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created the most inclusive democracy that has ever been known to man and one of the things we know dr
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gorka is that we have to strive to be a more perfect union even when we are imperfect ourselves you know if
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if mariel bowser thinks that jefferson and madison were such bad folks look at the current congress we got
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plenty of people who make mistakes uh heck i make mistakes but in the context of the times these men
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were great visionaries they were patriots and i believe that mariel bowser and her allies in the
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radical left want to shame our history and abolish our history because they want to replace our country
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with something that is very different than america they have embraced this black lives matter movement
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that is explicitly marxist and that's not to say that every human being who believes that black
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lives matter you know doesn't uh isn't a marxist but the organization the the animated uh experience
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in these black lives matter protests call for the death of members of congress the abolition of our
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borders and our prison system and our military it is it is really dangerous stuff and we cannot just view
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this as symbolism we need to take a stand if if necessary dr gorka i'll go out there and stand
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on the jefferson memorial before i will let them tear uh jefferson down thanks so much for listening to
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