10⧸24⧸18 - Best of The Program - Guests, Dr. Debra W. Soh & Rep. Roger Williams
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Glenn Beck is back with an update on the migrant caravan and the latest on the latest in polls. He also talks about gender identity and what it means to be a woman in the 21st century. And he talks to a man who was on the field when a gunman opened fire on a Republican baseball field.
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We spoke like that on the entire podcast today.
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It was great. Except we did it with English accents.
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Welcome to the Glenn Beck Podcast. We're really excited to share what we have for you today.
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We have an update on the caravan, which is getting even worse.
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Yeah. Who's funding it, and are there other caravans headed our way?
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We look into a New York Times story about the definition of gender,
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which they say is a feeling you have in your head as opposed to something between your legs.
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And we actually have a person who studies these things for a, you know, these issues for a living,
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Dr. Deborah So, who's a scientist that actually has her head on straight and can talk about these things in real terms.
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It's kind of a risky conversation, if you will, but you don't want to miss that.
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Also, today, with the White House and Obama and the Clintons and CNN finding, you know, suspicious packages,
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we thought it was appropriate to talk to Roger Williams today.
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He's a congressman from Texas that was on the ball field when the Republicans were all shot at and someone was trying to kill all of them.
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That someone happened to be a Bernie Sanders volunteer and supporter, worked with the Bernie Sanders campaign.
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And we have the latest in polls, some of them tightening for Republicans.
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We'll get into that as well on today's podcast.
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because these companies spend tens of millions of dollars supporting progressive candidates, progressive causes.
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Have you noticed that the press is not concerned at all about this caravan?
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They say this caravan's not going to make it up to the United States.
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So is the caravan a political message or a weapon?
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The 7,000-strong migrant caravan now appears to be both.
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We know that this migrant invasion force was organized in Honduras by the leftist political party
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looking to embarrass the current right-wing government.
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You're not going to hear that from the leftist mainstream news.
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You won't hear it because that hurts their case.
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They want everybody to look like they're just weak and helpless and children.
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This entire charade has been one giant political stunt.
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But the question on my mind is, who's paying for this?
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Moving 7,000 people is incredibly expensive and difficult.
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What about the people who can't make it to 2,500 miles?
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What about the people who might have heat stroke, might have an accident, break their leg, spring their ankle?
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You would think that the left would be really, really, really intent on finding who's providing the water?
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You're not just going into a town with 7,500 people and everybody going to a restaurant.
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How do you move 7,000 people and not have people starve?
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How do you move 7,000 people and not have people need water?
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Are those strollers built for a 2,500-mile march?
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Shouldn't somebody, shouldn't CNN be down there asking the questions, raising the money for better strollers?
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Well, I asked Governor Abbott about it yesterday in an interview.
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He hinted that the Trump administration was fully aware.
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Now, my question is, did Mike Pence let the cat out of the bag yesterday from the Oval Office?
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At the president's direction, I spoke to President Hernandez of Honduras.
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He told me that the caravan that is now making its way through Mexico headed for our southern border is organized by leftist organizations and financed by Venezuela.
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Now, that puts this caravan into a completely different context, doesn't it?
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This caravan of poor migrant workers has suddenly become an invasion force financed by a radical revolutionary Marxist in the president of Venezuela.
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So, it seems to be perhaps more than just a Honduran political message.
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Can you just please find out, do they have enough water?
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Can you please have some compassion and just find out who's feeding these people?
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Who's caring for their medical needs on a 2,500-mile journey?
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Can you please find that out for the love of humanity?
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I pointed out on multiple occasions the caravan organizers have ties to both Castro and Maduro in Venezuela and Cuba.
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This new information from Mike Pence makes sense.
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If you're Venezuelan President Maduro, you want to attack the United States, but you barely have enough money to buy any toilet paper, how do you do it?
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You reach out to your allies, your revolutionaries, your Marxist zealots in South America, and you organize and fund thousands of people to flood the U.S. border.
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Not only is it a form of economic warfare, but it also destabilizes the U.S. political structure.
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And that's not to mention how many criminal elements might be tagging along.
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How many Venezuelan or Cuban spies are using this as cover to enter our country?
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How many terrorists might be riding along with the intention of attacking the U.S. targets?
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Reports this morning are saying that more than two caravans, two more caravans are currently forming, one in El Salvador and now one in Guatemala.
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To use a military term, are we being attacked in waves?
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Was the first caravan of 7,000 just the first wave?
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And if this allegation is correct, there is no other way to describe it.
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Now I say that we're being attacked and these poor little...
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I only said those things because the Zionist had a gun to my head and I had to say them.
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So, let me just say this to the mainstream media.
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Please, please find out if they have enough water.
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Because I want to hold them up on my shoulders.
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I want to be able to say, look at this generosity.
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They're scheduling the trucks and paying for the trucks to move the food and the water.
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And the sanitary conditions, please, please, CNN.
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Please, just for humanitarian reasons, please find out.
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I never know how to pronounce it now because I can't remember which one's right and which one's wrong.
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You should just, I don't know, maybe pick the right in faucets.
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Jason has been following this caravan thing for quite a while.
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And we've been talking about the use of this tactic for, I don't know, years.
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They have, they are attacking the Israeli borders.
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The Israelis respond, but the media only covers the response, not the attack.
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And they never look into who's really funding all of this.
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It's just, oh, poor Palestinian children want to come over.
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And it appears more and more that that's not what this is either, Jason.
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And this is something that's, it's kind of amazing when you look at how the media just
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doesn't cover the things or they don't look in the directions they're supposed to be looking
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And it's amazing to me that our small little media footprint here, we were the only ones
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to point this out long before anybody else even started catching on.
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I think this was like two and a half weeks ago or something like that.
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They said, wait a minute, who are these guys that are organizing all this?
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And when we dug into it, we were like, wow, these are like radical leftists.
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These are radical leftists with ties to both Maduro and to Raul Castro in Cuba.
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And the people and the former head of state for Honduras, who was surprise, surprise, Barack
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Well, no, it was the Supreme Court that said of Honduras that said the president is is acting
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He is trying to change the constitution so we can have a military state under his rule.
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So the Supreme Court said, arrest him and kick him out.
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So when that that that now deposed leftist Marxist president, when when when he just before
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he was deposed, he was working on with both Venezuela and Cuba, this massive like I want
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to call it like a European Union type alliance within South America.
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And it was it was called Alba and it was called the I think the acronym was something along the
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lines of the alliance for the Bolivarian people of our America.
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So it was that was supposed to be the check to U.S. power to rise up in South America.
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And they were going to have their own currency.
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I don't know about maybe military agreements would have possibly could have followed.
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I also want to point out that one of the key observers, you know, how like an international
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international agreements, trade agreements, you have like key outside observers.
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One of them, their main one was Iran, who is also a ally of Venezuela.
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Keep that in mind for a little bit later in this discussion when we talk about possible
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people who are tagging along in some of these caravans.
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OK, if you have watched and listened to this program and read the things that we have written,
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And you are way ahead of the game of what's going on with this caravan.
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Let's give you some additional information because it's it's.
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It's very important what Mike Pence said yesterday.
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Mike Pence came out in the Oval Office and said this is being funded by Venezuela.
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Now, the mainstream press, they're not going to do anything but ridicule that.
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And it does sound crazy when you first hear about it.
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Like if you're not if you don't know the backstory, you're like Venezuela, you know, like, oh,
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There's blaming something on the country so we can get involved or whatever, you know,
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But it makes perfect sense when you hear when you put it into the context of the relationship
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that Honduras had with both Venezuela and Cuba.
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And in particular, these this group that started this caravan, they are the group that is that
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backed the ousted Marxist radical president that was ousted in Honduras.
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And they're they still have a like populist avenue to go to like their goal.
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Their stated goal is still to restore that president back to power.
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And he was and they do have kind of a case there and an international case because he
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So really, if they can make such a firestorm, such a big media uprising over this, get international
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support and backing, they could technically eventually may try and get this guy back into
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And I think that's where Honduras, this party, these people in Honduras, when they originally
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But Venezuela also has other reasoning reasons to be behind this.
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Now, if you I mean, you think about it just was a few months ago, Venezuelan President
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Maduro just survived an assassination attempt and he blamed the United States.
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He blamed the United States for for backing those people.
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He blames the United States for the economic war.
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Basically, all the things that are wrong with them.
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It's the United States's fault that socialism is not working, not the theory behind it.
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In his words, how do you do it when you can't compete with the United States in a conventional
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And you have to understand, too, that it was the ousting of the Honduran presidency, the
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When he was ousted, the first thing the new government did, or one of the first things
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the new government did, was get out of the ALBA agreement.
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Which was agreements of, hey, we're going to prop each other up.
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So as soon as Honduras pulled out away from Venezuela, that hurt them economically.
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So you really need to look at it through that lens.
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They have a gigantic political and future economic reasoning behind all this.
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There's a very big plan in place to do all this.
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I mentioned before that Iran and both Syria were big time observers of this economic union.
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And a lot of people have been focusing on, well, what if ISIS gets into this group or whatever?
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You mentioned the possibility of Cuban intelligence, Venezuelan intelligence, which I think is probably
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90% likely that they are a part of this caravan.
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I have no information on that and no intelligence behind it.
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But because of all the actors, because of everyone involved, and because of the people that are supporting this.
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You could be, Hezbollah would be my, if I'm in a U.S. intelligence operative, I'm looking for Hezbollah links,
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And I guarantee you, the U.S. intelligence agencies are all over this.
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That's why when the vice president of the United States says that, oh, the Honduran president told me this,
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Like, that would be hearsay unless they seriously have something behind it.
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I think I heard your interview with Governor Abbot yesterday.
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And, of course, that's something he would not come out and say, oh, Venezuela's behind this.
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The governor of Texas is not going to say that.
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But I do think Vice President Pence tipped his hand on that.
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Now, the question now is, how does this escalate?
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We already know there's a caravan forming in El Salvador.
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We don't know the organizers yet, but those are all, they're all on the same border, all with Honduras.
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So the same people, that Liberty and Re-Foundation Party, look that up when you're looking these things up and doing your own homework.
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Look, Liberty and Re-Foundation Party in Honduras.
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I would not be surprised if we hear more names in El Salvador and Guatemala forming these caravans because the Honduras border was shut down pretty heavily.
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So they can't send more people from Honduras anymore.
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So they're probably going, those, their allies in El Salvador and Guatemala are probably just forming them in their border countries.
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And the reason why is because they know this is a nightmare for Democrats in the election.
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What happens on the border may actually work to their advantage politically because you'll have the big, bad American soldier standing up.
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But the buildup before the border, they are saying this is a conspiracy.
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We know what their intent is to cross our border.
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You need to start demanding and tweeting that press looks into the humanitarian issues of this caravan.
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Who's providing the water and the medical care?
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Because we're all very concerned about this caravan.
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Who is paying for the food, the water and emergencies?
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Okay, so yesterday we had a very perplexing conversation because there was a story that
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came out in the New York Times, and I think what they're saying is what I've always been
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saying about transgenderism, and I thought this was politically incorrect, and I don't
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Now, has this—I don't—I really honestly do not understand.
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Yeah, the Times article is, Anatomy Does Not Determine Gender, Experts Say.
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Now, it's kind of themed through discussion of this Trump plan to change the way people
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You'd be registering as the sex you were born at, not the sex you believe you are today.
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Anyway, so that's kind of where it's themed, and of course, every piece of news must go
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through some sort of Trump filter to see whether you can blame Trump or excuse Trump or—no
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But through—at the—halfway through the story, you get this, and I was fascinated by
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Researchers say gender identity comes from the brain, not the body.
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It originates between your ears, not between your legs.
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I would say, like, that strikes me as I read it again, almost like a conservative critique
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That's coming between your ears, not your legs.
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And this is supposed to be what the researchers are saying.
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And it struck me as I was reading this that we are discussing two different things.
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Like, the reason why you would want someone to register as a male or female, let's say,
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on a government health care form, right, would be something because—not because of the
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Like, you would have to cover, for example, you know, birth, right?
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And again, that's a whole other part of controversy of Obamacare and other things.
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But the point being, you know, there's a reason to know these things, in theory, with
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They're not tracking how you feel in your brain, right?
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They're talking about specific things that body parts can do.
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And, you know, that is—you know, there might be a higher risk of breast cancer or a higher
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That doesn't change because your mind feels like you're more like a boy than you are a
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And gender has—they have gotten away from one traditional definition of gender, which
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But the other part of the definition of gender is describing traits that is really kind of,
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But we're talking—I thought about saying that you are actually a woman.
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She is a journalist and sex researcher and has her head screwed on right and isn't afraid.
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I don't know what it is with the Canadians having more guts than us, but she's a Canadian
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And, Deborah, I just want you to set us straight.
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I'm absolutely appalled by the coverage on this story because there's so much misinformation
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And, you know, with regards to that Times piece in particular, anatomy very much does determine
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I mean, nowadays, gender is seen as sort of this free-floating, nebulous concept that is
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completely divorced from biology, but it's very much linked to biology and anatomy.
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For 99% of us, our biological sex is our gender.
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Of course, that's not the case with everybody, but for the vast majority of us, that is the
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And I don't think there should be anything wrong with saying that.
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But what the Times article was saying is that gender happens, and I am willing to go back
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to the, you know, definition, male born this way, female born this way.
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You want to say gender is male or female specific, but I'm also willing to say, okay, gender is
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However, what's happening here is they're taking away sex and tying it to gender, and so why
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would we have male and female sex if it's all gender?
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If it means the same thing, it doesn't talk about traits.
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The other part is, isn't that gender dysphoria?
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If it is all happening in your head, then that's dysphoria, is it not?
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Well, I think nowadays people tend to use the word gender across the board.
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One, because they don't want to use the word sex.
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But I think also from an ideological perspective, it makes it easier for people to argue that
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you can identify as whatever you want, because it's a little bit trickier.
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I think most people still have the common sense to know that biological sex is immutable.
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So to argue for, say, something like transgender rights, it becomes helpful for them to say,
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well, maybe it's not about biology, it's about gender, which is, you know, they say it's a
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But it makes it a little bit easier to argue that, okay, someone, the way someone feels may
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So I'm not sure if that really speaks to the point you're making.
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So, but can you explain what gender dysphoria is?
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So it's the feeling that someone feels more in alignment with the opposite sex than their
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So someone would be born male, but they will feel more as though they fit in the female role.
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Is gender dysphoria a good thing or a bad thing?
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I think it's seen as, I don't think it should be seen as good or bad.
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And I think people who are suffering should be able to have access to care.
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And I think adults should be allowed to transition if that's been the best approach for them.
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But I think nowadays it's kind of glamorized and seen as something that is really almost
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I wouldn't say preferred in society, but it's almost like seen as a positive thing, especially
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Isn't, isn't anorexia a form of, of physical dysmorphia that you see your body as fat, even
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The thing with gender dysphoria is it does have biological correlates.
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So this is the thing I find very confusing about the whole transgender movement is that,
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you know, some people will argue that biology has nothing to do with it.
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Other people argue that it is strongly biological.
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I would think that proponents of this movement would want to be in alignment with the science
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Because doesn't that add some sort of validity, I guess, to what they're saying, because it
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So an example I can give is say girls who are exposed to a higher level of testosterone
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So higher levels of exposure to testosterone is associated with more male typical interests
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So girls who are exposed to higher levels of testosterone, when they are born, they are
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They're also more likely to want to have a male gender identity.
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So it speaks to the biological influence, even though people want to say that gender is
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So I guess one of the things as I was reading the story, Dr. So, is that there is a, it's
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almost like we're talking about two different things.
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You know, we were, if what gender is, is a feeling, that is an interesting thing for
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But it's not necessarily of interest on a, on a form, you know, that you're turning into
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I mean, like that, that's a, it's a different, I mean, it may be in certain circumstances,
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but why the government is asking for this information is not necessarily about someone's
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It's about, it's about a, a physical characteristic that they hold.
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So, I mean, is it just that, is it just basically that gender doesn't mean what it used to mean?
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Are they using gender to say, this is a feeling and therefore we should almost come up with
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a different word for what I, because what I'm describing and what we've talked about this
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It's about, yeah, it's about physical characteristics.
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I think from the perspective of what the administration is trying to do, I think they should be allowed
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to collect that information and that information and those data without it being such a controversial
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And, you know, with regards to protecting Title IX and, and women's rights, I don't know why
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people don't see it from that perspective that this is a positive thing, because shouldn't
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And it kind of does boil down to this larger argument that's going on right now about people
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who were born female versus the rights of transgender women and are transgender women,
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I don't know if either of you have been following this, but with, it's been mostly radical feminists.
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I wouldn't consider myself a radical feminist, but, you know, this group of very progressive
00:32:50.780
women who are saying transgender women are not the same as people who were born female.
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So in this argument, transgender activists have been winning so far.
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And we see that in terms of how this narrative has played out with the recent decision.
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But in terms of what you're saying, I, I, I see what you're saying.
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And I guess I'm using different words to kind of mean the same thing in that, yes, for people
00:33:11.760
who are male or female, that gender is basically sex.
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But nowadays, gender is being used in a different way to kind of argue for this more progressive
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And, and in the belief that gender used to mean, I can't believe you, right?
00:33:35.680
Like this is something that they are taking this word and making it, it mean feelings instead
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of what it used to mean, which was biological gender, sex and traits.
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And that's why I think all definitions spread to this larger idea that gender is a spectrum,
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because if you feel a certain way on one day and you feel differently on another day,
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that must mean that your gender must be something unrelated to sex, which is immutable.
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If, as the New York Times says, identity comes from, the gender identity comes from the brain,
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It originates between your ears and not between your legs.
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If that is accurate, and that is a defense of the transgendered argument, right?
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If that it's true, and it's in your brain and not between your legs, why are there physical
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I mean, that argument doesn't really make much sense.
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And I, I don't like that argument because it's not really accurate either, because what's
00:34:38.380
between your legs and what goes on your brain is linked.
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So you can't really separate the two and treat them like they're completely different phenomena.
00:34:45.720
Um, but there, I mean, there's a lot of, of aspects of this argument that, that don't
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I mean, transgender activists will also say that gender is a social construct, but if
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that's the case, why do you then need hormonal intervention to transition or to feel more
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in alignment with the, the sex that you identify as?
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So I guess my biggest gripe from this whole thing is that, you know, sex is about being male
00:35:11.920
Gender is how you feel in relation to your sex.
00:35:13.860
But again, as I said, for the vast majority of us, our biological, logical sex does dictate
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So I don't think the three of us are necessarily that, you know, view things that differently
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than though I'm using different terms to describe it.
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Let me ask you a really difficult and politically incorrect question.
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Um, if, if dysmorphia, for instance, is we, we say that it's bad to be anorexic because
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you're seeing your body in a way that is not reality and it's dangerous.
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Um, we see the stats of people who have gender dys dysmorphia and the suicide rates are really
00:35:54.760
Having the sex change and everything else is not changing those suicide rates.
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So why are we taking the, the gender dysmorphia and say, Hey, it's totally fine when it's
00:36:13.700
Uh, I would agree that one thing we're talking about is comorbidity.
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I do think many people who are coming out as transgender nowadays probably have some other
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psychiatric condition that isn't being diagnosed because clinicians aren't able to do their
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So if someone comes into your clinic and says that they are transgender, I don't work with
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patients anymore, but, um, if someone comes in now and says that they're transgender, a
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clinician really does have to take that at face value.
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They're not really allowed to, to ask deeper questions because that's seen as transphobic.
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So I think nowadays, because it's seen as very trendy to be trans, that could be part of it.
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And so if someone who has another form of psychopathology, it's manifesting as something
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that has to do with gender, even if gender has nothing to do with it.
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Um, but with regards to why transitioning should be seen as something beneficial, I mean, research
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I do think if other things have been ruled out that it can be beneficial for somebody.
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Um, I think ultimately adults should be free to do what they want with their body.
00:37:15.660
So do I, but I, I, I think what, uh, uh, I was getting to, and you've just answered is
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this transphobia, uh, this, this, uh, just hurting everybody into ask no questions is dangerous.
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And, and we should look in the end, you're an adult, you get to do what you want to do.
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And I'm fine with that, but, but just the silencing of thought.
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And in this case, science medicine is, is terrifying.
00:37:47.960
Yeah, but I mean, going back to the difference between gender dysphoria and say something
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like anorexia with people who are gender dysphoric, their brains have been partially either masculinized
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or feminized in the direction of the gender they identify with.
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But the thing is, these studies that show this in the brain are also conflated with sexual orientation.
00:38:11.180
So if you have a study on trans women, say, so these are people who were born male, but
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identify as female, they are also attracted for the most part to men.
00:38:20.960
So when you do these brain studies, we're still not clear on if the differences we're seeing
00:38:25.080
are due to them identifying as female or due to them being sexually attracted to men, because
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there are very strong neural correlates that are associated with sexual orientation.
00:38:35.260
So that's the other thing that people aren't talking about is that this has a lot to do
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And so the brain correlates that people are talking so much about how transgender being
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It's not really accurate because we don't know that for sure yet.
00:38:53.720
Always enlightening to talk to somebody who is not politically correct.
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00:41:06.580
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00:41:10.740
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00:41:19.020
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00:41:27.260
most pragmatic traditional Democrats, they feel like the party is so far left them.
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00:41:37.740
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00:41:43.800
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00:42:05.240
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And they go, you know, I'm not sure I'm a Republican, but I kind of agree with that
00:42:15.340
So when the dust settles, how many Republican senators are there?
00:42:20.780
I think if, if you call me and go, hi, you were wrong.
00:42:26.280
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00:42:29.680
Again, I actually think Florida is going to go Republican.
00:42:34.100
Nelson, Governor Scott's going to beat incumbent Senator Nelson.
00:42:37.240
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00:43:02.320
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00:43:06.460
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00:43:43.320
We have suspicious packages, again, sent to the White House, then to the Clintons, then to Obama, now to CNN.
00:43:55.880
We have gone through this when we lived in New York.
00:44:02.580
But we are reaping the seeds that all of us are, I shouldn't say all of us, a lot of people who are in politics are sowing.
00:44:15.680
The streets are becoming more and more dangerous for people who have a political opinion.
00:44:25.080
Can you name the guy who tried to shoot all of the Republicans on the baseball dam?
00:44:35.640
Well, we don't give the names of mass shooters out of the voice.
00:44:41.620
Because it really happened, and then everybody moved on.
00:44:46.180
But it was a Democratic operative that had worked for Bernie Sanders that had had enough.
00:44:53.160
And now we're hearing this rhetoric of, you know, when they go low, we kick them.
00:45:05.940
And he was on that baseball diamond when the shooter started to shoot at the Republicans, trying to kill the Republicans for political reasons.
00:45:16.320
He's written a great op-ed about it's wrong to promote violence.
00:45:30.240
So can you tell me what that day was like now a year away from it?
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Well, it's like it was yesterday to all of us, of course.
00:45:45.420
We practice every morning, getting ready for a game in June.
00:45:49.560
And I was hitting ground balls to one of my colleagues at third base.
00:45:56.360
And, you know, like a lot of people, we thought it was a backfiring of a car, possibly.
00:46:00.540
7.09 in the morning in a very nice area in Alexandria.
00:46:03.980
And all of a sudden, someone yelled, he's got a gun, head for cover.
00:46:11.660
So I dove into the dugout at that six foot to get away from this guy.
00:46:25.500
We were fortunate we had two Capitol Police there that could defend us.
00:46:33.440
There was actually no way we were going to live.
00:46:35.360
I mean, he was going to get across the field and assassinate everybody.
00:46:45.160
Of course, we're familiar with Steve Scalise's wounds.
00:46:55.540
And I've had friends of mine say, when you're in war, a battle lasts about two minutes.
00:47:04.300
But the idea that somebody could get up that morning, somebody could go kill people and kill Republicans, is pretty unbelievable that that's where we are right now.
00:47:12.380
And, of course, everybody thought that was an event that was going to turn things around from a civility standpoint.
00:47:24.700
And I'm thankful that God was in charge and he let the perpetrator be the one that lost rather than 25 congressmen.
00:47:34.320
So how are you – how do you react when you see, you know, Eric Holder say, you know, when Republicans go low, we kick them, and they're cheering to that?
00:47:50.640
It's Maxine Waters, who I sent she and our financial services committee together.
00:47:55.200
And when they start telling everybody to, like you say, go low, run people out of restaurants.
00:48:00.680
I mean, I've had all that experience to me also.
00:48:04.080
And the shame of it is they haven't been shot at.
00:48:08.900
And I take personal – and all of us do – personal problem with it is they're mouthing and they're creating a really, really problem in our country.
00:48:20.820
Civility is the word that keeps being used, but we have no civility.
00:48:23.900
We're not going to get back to where people can agree to disagree in a civil manner.
00:48:28.440
It's just being stirred up, and a lot of it by the liberal left.
00:48:35.000
And, you know, I've had my daughter had a wedding several weeks ago.
00:48:40.100
I've been yelled at at restaurants, just like a lot of my colleagues.
00:48:46.720
But at the same time, we serve for a lot of different reasons.
00:48:50.360
And I hope we can get back to where we can agree to disagree again.
00:48:53.360
So the bombs or the suspicious packages, Clinton's, Obama's, Soros, the White House, now CNN today, Antifa on the streets.
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I'd have to point out the Proud Boys, you know, answering that by going out and delivering blows once somebody, you know, throws a punch at them.
00:49:28.620
And, you know, it's not right either that President Obama, President Clinton, President Trump have to have these packages delivered to where they are.
00:49:41.340
I gave a speech in Washington the day and came out of the office building where I spoke, and people had thrown bricks through our windshield of our car, of our van.
00:49:48.760
And all of it broken and, you know, stole everything that was in it.
00:49:55.360
I mean, you're sitting on a committee with Maxine Waters.
00:49:58.540
You have to have said to her, have you forgotten what happened at the baseball diamond?
00:50:04.120
I mean, have you said these things to her, and how does she respond?
00:50:08.520
No, I have said it to her, and I've said it to a lot of those on the other side, and they don't respond.
00:50:20.780
And the fact of the matter is I guess they don't want to remember it, but I will tell you this about the baseball incident.
00:50:28.580
I travel all over the country, and, of course, as you said earlier, the news cycle goes quick, but there's still people remembering, come up to you and say, I'm praying for you, Congressman.
00:50:36.120
I remember I was on that morning when I heard about it.
00:50:38.620
But it was a moment that I don't think is going to leave when it's a moment that shows how low we've gone.
00:50:48.080
But when you mention it to Maxine or you mention it to some of the others, they have no response at all.
00:51:02.520
It's all generated, I believe, from the dislike of this president, the anger.
00:51:06.780
I mean, rather the president fail than the country succeed.
00:51:09.540
What do you say to people who would say, well, he's engaging in the same kind of rhetoric?
00:51:20.200
And I guess I could say there's some things probably I don't agree with.
00:51:29.920
And we just need to – it's just – Glenn, it's hard to say.
00:51:34.060
Everybody in their heart needs to look at what we're going through right now.
00:51:44.100
And, you know, I guess I would say in my world it started at the baseball field.
00:51:49.640
And it wasn't a conservative on the Republican side that started it.
00:51:55.280
You know, right before the Civil War, Sumner was beaten with a cane by a congressman in the well of the Senate.
00:52:10.320
Nobody – they didn't even arrest the congressman.
00:52:16.080
And, in fact, they made little – they took the pieces of wood and made little canes and they wore them around their neck as a badge of honor that, you know, don't mess with our party because we'll beat you to death.
00:52:33.000
I mean, when I read that years ago, I thought, well, we're a long way from Civil War.
00:52:40.320
But I'm not sure we are that far from that kind of barbarism.
00:52:45.640
Well, unfortunately, instead of using canes, we're using guns right now.
00:52:50.840
And, you know, I mean, to go to a restaurant with your family and be yelled at, to get on an airplane, to go back to D.C. or to come home and be yelled at.
00:53:05.260
Well, I'll tell you, you can have a mob of hundreds, a mob of millions, a mob of one.
00:53:12.340
And, you know, from a personal standpoint, I mean, I'm a former athlete.
00:53:18.940
But, you know, I have found myself just giving them my card and saying, I can't deal with your anger, but if I can ever help you, you let me know.
00:53:26.060
But, I mean, it's restaurants, it's airplanes, it's being on the street, it's pretty unbelievable.
00:53:35.540
But it's the way it is, and it's not getting any better.
00:53:37.520
And many of us now have been – have to have security.
00:53:42.680
And, you know, that's just another level of defense from this attitude of, you know, to heck with America, let's go get them.
00:53:53.480
And if we put in much effort into passing or not passing legislation, reducing regulations, as we do with trying to attack each other, I think we'd see a lot more positive things in Congress.
00:54:10.220
Congressman Roger Williams, thank you very much, and thank you for your service.
00:54:17.940
And sorry that that has happened to you and your colleagues, and I hope people on both sides will hear your message and recognize that we can all play a role in this based on how we behave.