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The Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989 was one of the most infamous events of the 20th century in China. It took place in the summer of 1989 in the heart of China, in the city of Beijing, during the protests against the Chinese government s crackdown on the pro-democracy movement.
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on today's program uh we start with uh Tiananmen square and hong kong uh then we we uh also talk
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a little bit about warren and wilson uh elizabeth warren who is now according to the latest poll
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today stew down by one point down by one point is she woodrow wilson also some investigative reporting
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and i remember seeing something happen in china and this was this was a magical five years for freedom
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communism was falling apart berlin wall was coming down and people in china students
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they were standing up for freedom and the rights of all men
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200 000 soldiers crawled through the streets of beijing
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aiming their type 56 assault rifles at students and protesters
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they were charged with forcibly ending a counter-revolutionary riot
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it was muggy that day a raving heat overtook the air
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riots usually happen in the summertime the heat does something to us i think
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the protesters who had been protesting for seven weeks
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tried everything to stop the infantry soldiers from the people's liberation army
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they sang traditional folk songs they begged they pled
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a type 56 ar fire 650 rounds per minute one bullet right after another
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many of the soldiers rifles were loaded with expanding bullets
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these are the kinds that are are banned even in the use of warfare by the hague
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but the soldiers loaded their guns with those bullets
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and open fired on the group of students and protesters
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and that's that's the number according to the chinese government
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well that was the summer of 1989 and here we are in the summer of 2019
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and in china the memory of the massacre has been roundly suppressed
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you know we still don't know the fate or even the name of the guy
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who stood in front of the tank in tiananmen square
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we don't know what happened to many of those people
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the facts have been suppressed the government has never apologized
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officially footage and audio and photographs of the massacre don't even exist
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don't assume technology will stop a human problem
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the tiananmen massacre massacre doesn't appear in search results
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did you know that look it up tiananmen massacre
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it's part of what's called china's great firewall
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chinese children don't read about it in their textbooks at all
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there was no mention of the attacks on the propaganda driven news
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the only hint that something terrible that had happened
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was that the news anchors were all dressed in black in solidarity with the slain protesters
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one of them banned from ever reporting the news ever again in china
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but it will most likely be a history that only the west will remember if we even pay attention
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hong kong is home to seven million residents with 30 million visitors and tourists every single year
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yesterday riot police stormed the hong kong international airport in an effort to break up the protests that have
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the chinese government decried the protesters and their actions as acts of terrorism
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many of the protesters weren't even trying to overthrow the government
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at first they were just protesting the extradition bill that would require a hong kong resident
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who doesn't pay taxes to the government in beijing
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crackdowns by hong kong police made things only worse
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quote staunch in our support for freedom of expression
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but that's about as strong as we're going to get
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so far the protesters have proven adept at broadcasting the truth
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who knows what information is being suppressed by the state-owned government
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beijing has ratcheted up the inflammatory rhetoric
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china media has even said to hong kong protesters
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china has more aggressively stirred up nationalist and anti-western sentiment
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it has manipulated the context of images and videos to undermine the protesters
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chinese officials have begun branding the demonstrations
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that the chinese government is moving troops to the border with hong kong
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they added that any further violence will be severely punished
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radio silent on it and the claims like you said
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interview that same day it was not on camera it
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2015 and they got into a little relationship now
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work he did with the council informed relations
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gonna check he values his security clearance and
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anything on her she she is talking to me she seems
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to be interested in me uh and she wants me to go
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not in jeopardy no big deal no harm no foul okay
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so he does so he continues and the relationship
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leery of her uh he continued to report to the fbi even
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though they told him not to uh and he especially
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started reporting when she started making comments
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like you know uh i really want to get into you know
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close relationships with uh certain candidates uh marco
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rubio was was mentioned hillary clinton was also
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mentioned basically anyone that they thought might
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have power in the next few years she was trying to get
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some kind of relationship with right speak to them and
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so he is having a relationship but he's you know i think
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like any any decent human being that's an american
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citizen is like okay i'm not sure i i mean it seems
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weird but it seems okay as well are you sure so he calls the fbi
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several times yes and says there she's saying these things to me
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are you sure she's okay and not only that she's telling me she's
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i aid for hillary clinton on this day at this place at this time
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are you guys interested in that nothing fbi was not interested
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yeah yeah but she's meeting with uh this person who's the head of this person
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at this time at this hotel they didn't care they did not care so he was like
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eventually it dies down we're getting close to the actual presidential election
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i'm assuming within months of the actual election
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then the fbi calls him he's not in a relationship with her anymore he hardly
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talks to her fbi contacts him and says now we want you to
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re-up that relationship you know remember that girl you tell you
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yeah well go ahead and rekindle that relationship and do what you were doing
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so he's a straight shooter he's absolutely i'll do it so he does it helps
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the fbi but this time he says guys um i know that
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but she's not a spy she's not the next coming of anna chapman
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she is just literally what she says now i know all the people she's talking to
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this is what she is so this is because he got to know her
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because they said get to know her yeah it's fine there's nothing wrong so he
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in his head he's doing his own research with her and
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he's meeting the people she's saying over in russia and he's
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smart enough to figure out is this uh is this a spy situation is this an
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infiltration of america he knows it's not so when they call
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him back he now is at a place where he's like no
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i've i yeah i had the relationship she's not a spy
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yeah right exactly okay but the feds wanted to paint her as one anyway
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they paint her as a actual like clandestine like honeypot spy
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that's what they paint her as they want to charge her with espionage
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and then i'm i don't want to put words or thoughts into his mind or mouth but i
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mean he's got to be thinking what are you doing this is i gave you exculpatory
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evidence witness testimony this is not what she's all about and
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i've been a straight shooter here you know i he's been yeah and for some
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reason you didn't have a problem when she was meeting with hillary
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interested in her when she's involved with the nra and
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she's involved with uh donald trump and that's where the media frenzy hit
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they they showed pictures of her at the national prayer breakfast at the nra
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convention they picked picked it up ran with it now
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this exculpatory evidence that he gave them never made it to court
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it never made it and butina's lawyers are furious
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they just recently a few weeks ago sent a letter saying
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what the heck is going on how could we requested by law you have to put this in
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the exculpatory evidence into into the record they never did that is just
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missing it was never there now he said something interesting interesting um in
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this one interview that he gave i think it was to sarah carter
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and he's headed for the deep state ship right now and he's the only guy that is
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going to do anything about it and right now he's headed for a collision course
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and he's going to hit that ship and sink the deep state ship he says
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because of what he says the fbi is doing apparently now we'll get into that
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what do we think that bob bar is doing with this information and is is patrick
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coming out patrick wrote to me this morning and he said you know i i i can't
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uh have something like more to say or something like that
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which is interesting to me i wonder if patrick is working with the fbi
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or leaking some of this self stuff out to get the fbi to move
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that would be that that would be my guess mine too and it's it's interesting that
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he didn't comment further so i'm wondering if someone he was made to
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stop commenting pure speculation but it's interesting to come out be made to
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stop talking can you i mean i guess they could uh they could ask you but they
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can't make you yeah stop talking i i don't i don't know if he signed what he
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signed when he agreed to work with them i don't even know how that works i don't
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either but um but i i think it sounded very voluntary his involvement i i think
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that we should uh if this sounds very credible this sounds very credible it's
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been verified on a few levels some uh unnamed sources and the doj and fbi
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have not denied this uh they have just said i know patrick he's not a guy he
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will he's not a guy to make this up he has nothing that he has nothing to gain
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and everything to lose so as this sounds so credible and to go back to your
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question about what is bar doing he also said he was involved with the
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clinton uh investigation i don't know how that even happened but if he was
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involved with the russia probe and the clinton investigation well we do know that
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uh the doj under bar is it sounds like they're looking into the uranium one uh and
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the clinton foundation scandals how all that went went went you know connected
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with each other um we know last year uh do you remember that informant that the
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fbi had that basically brain cancer yeah that died of brain cancer he um he said uh a few
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months ago i guess it was march of last year he was tired of being you know thrown
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under the bus by democrats and they said look this is ridiculous that you guys are
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he was a democrat uh was he i think he was but he he was furious he was irate because
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it was like i i gave up a ton of my life to this investigation now i'm in hiding um
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they they i think they leaked his name he was even more furious about that because he
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wanted to be completely anonymous but he said um but what he did leak was he said well the
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fbi has actually come back to me they've come back to me they've asked me more
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questions and they focus specifically on the clinton foundation payments that were
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received by russians during that entire scandal and what the clintons did or what i'm
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sorry what the what the uh congress did is they called him and then they made fun of him and said
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well you don't remember because you got a brain tumor right right and and he was furious about that
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how dare you you the people that we trusted with the ada thing yeah you're the ones who say you look
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after the most vulnerable i have a brain tumor medical condition and it's it's not causing me to
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forget stuff and you're accusing me of this right i mean he had every reason to be upset
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so we we pray for the good guys in our justice department uh and if that's bob bar who i i think
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it is do you think bob bar is a good guy uh yeah i think so yeah i've reason whoever has whoever is
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trying to clean things up uh and set the record straight on all of this stuff we pray for you and
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we salute you for your your duty and your service to your nation the best of the glenbeck program
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welcome to the uh program uh kevin ryan kevin is uh
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one of our writers uh on uh the glenbeck program glenbeck.com the blaze uh and i i i think we should
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offer him combat pay for this but we sent him out to iowa and you were with the candidates over the
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weekend how many times did you see these guys so we saw 11 candidates um over the course yeah over the
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course of four days um it's all the front runners um four times saw uh kamala harris five times oh my
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god yeah and in a ton of different settings so they're they're there for the iowa state fair
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but they're moving around quite a bit and um i i think i went with my dad he he oh wow he came with
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me you met my dad yeah very irish um and so it was kind of he was sort of taking in the whole scene
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so uh we're looking forward to your reports are going to be on glenbeck.com he's got a lot of
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behind the scenes stories but you were there when biden said hey poor kids are just as good as white kids
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that's right yeah um justice town i forget what his wording but it was a very sloppy either or
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and um yeah that's one way of putting it yeah uh he he was what from the moment he walked in the
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room he was pretty sleepy like he seemed sleepy like he was tired and um he saw multiple times was
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that a recurring situation with him or was it just that one speech just that one speech okay yeah so
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here he is here's what he said in that speech and the other thing we should do is we should challenge
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these students we should challenge students in these schools to have advanced placement programs in
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these schools we have this notion that somehow if you're poor you cannot do it poor kids are just
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as bright and just as talented as white kids wealthy kids i love the one person who claps it wasn't you
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was it oh yeah no because there's that one person's like yeah that's right kids aren't white kids
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and the audience in general was receptive of it because how many people how many people were in
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the room um it was a small room it was actually at a plumbers union that the event was held i'd say
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there were about 140 people there all with plumbers crack it's yeah all right for sure okay including
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the media uh yeah wait 140 people what's the breakdown between actual people and media just
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they're covering it they're probably 60 60 media there 60 media out of 140 people at the event
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wow that's incredible wow and that story was not everywhere i mean that was picked up by the blaze
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i know um i think fox news might have picked it up but it wasn't widely reported that he messed up like
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that not not at all i think if uh someone from fox news hadn't been there it would not have gotten
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reported at all um because it sort of slowly trickled into a story where it would have been a firestorm
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they would have been reporting live yeah it was donald trump they would have gone live with that
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for sure we're joining him already in progress where he just said this that's what they would
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have done uh but they didn't do it here so you said the crowd didn't have a problem with that
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no and he he adjusted to it pretty quickly yeah yes he realized he did it he realized he did it
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he was very aware of what he just said um what was your give me uh because you got to see 11
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candidates there's 20 25 26 in the field now uh so almost half the candidates in four days
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many of them multiple times we get this impression when we're watching you know a debate of what these
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candidates are like what are they like in the room who works the room really well kamal harris
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that's the one i walked away with the most saw her five times and part because she just like the
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grateful she hustles yeah she's like the grateful dead all right this is my fifth time seeing you
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after seeing these these candidates this many times you become the grateful to be dead yeah if you can
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just pull it you're begging for it that's so she's she's the most would you say she just knows how to
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work a room or she's the most authentic definitely not the most authentic um the opposite almost like
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she knows how to read a room so well she knows what to say she also hustles so much and she needs
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that job she has that that fire in her eyes biden's like yeah i'll probably get this you know he's boy
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that's what happened to clinton exactly clinton lost that's interesting clinton in 08 had the same
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attitude uh that she was just going to stroll in it was her turn and obama took it from her
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yeah that's that's interesting so kamala works the room well biden a little tired occasionally
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uh but also does he seem fully there because yeah did you see he's he seems like and i've never felt
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this way about him until the last maybe year or so where he seems like he's kind of slipping a bit
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he he has the gravitas that you expect from a president and you don't really see it in many people
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you know that it's that suction energy yeah as soon as he walks in the room everybody moves toward
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him hmm uh kamala harris has it even more so she knows i was we were seeing uh yang at a winery
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one time but you might want to rephrase that didn't you yeah
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investigative journalism were you just drinking is that what was happening okay so you saw yang he's
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at uh andrew yang at a winery and uh kamala harris had just spoken and she uh she she waited until he
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started speaking she was sitting in the front row and right after he began talking she got up and
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walked out of the room and half the media went with her and half of the room went with her like
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it was a definite call as ice man kamala harris would i mean she's surgical yeah she is yeah
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she'll slit your throat she does not care and you saw that with biden right i mean you know that was
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on the debate stage i mean that's an amazing move right like you you're walking out in the middle of
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the guy's speech there's a decorum you don't do that right no kamala doesn't care she doesn't and
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she stayed outside of the building too she kept walking around there's these huge glass windows
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and she's doing this to andrew yang imagine what she's gonna do to biden oh my gosh oh my gosh so
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how how was uh bernie bernie was interesting the first time i saw bernie was yes at a mexican disco
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a mexican disco yeah it was this little room with a tiny bar and we'd been there two nights before to
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see castro and when we saw castro there was actually a bouncy castle inside that's such a weird way to
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elect a leader it was very strange yeah and it was like but i didn't see um bernie was captivating
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there people were drawn to him and he was really the only one i saw who drew protesters so like at
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the iowa state fair there were a lot of people with um you know trump signs and a lot of maga hats
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and really yes and there was like a small there were a lot of people there but i'd say misplaced
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energy i think yeah bernie's he's sinking himself he doesn't need any help himself and you kind of want
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him to be the candidate against donald trump he'd be the easiest to beat you think so i do bernie i
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don't know i don't know i mean you put him up you can't see how anyone could elect him but i mean
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elizabeth warren is really custom made for trump i feel like that how did she do she did very well
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she did better than biden did surprisingly and well the new poll shows are down from biden one point
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point yeah that she really surprised me uh my dad's reaction to elizabeth warren and he he hadn't
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been really keeping up with the candidates at all and he just knew her name but we walked into it was
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a fundraiser that we walked into so very friendly crowd packed room it was actually the ballroom where
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buddy holly played his last show oh wow um so my dad turned to me and he was like what's wrong with
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this lady i don't like her at all she does not come off as like she's not she doesn't she comes
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yeah there's a very similar there's a lot of similarities to hillary hillary i mean that's
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why i was so i'm so surprised democrats are running in this direction there's so many they want a woman
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and then the marxist want a marxist but i mean you have kamala harris right who's a much better package
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for a candidate than i think she is who's a she's a little bit more sensible on certain things like
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israel and right i think she is seen as the clintons you know what did you really get with bill
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clinton you got a guy who stood up and said the arab big government is over and actually moved in that
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direction so they kind of the the real the ideologues on the left yeah they don't like the politic
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the typical democratic politician and while kamala harris is not that person uh she's closer to
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she's closer to it than bernie or right where warren you have no doubt warren's gonna get in
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and she's gonna do these things or she's gonna try as you pointed out she's woodrow wilson she'll get
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it done if she can uh and that's what they i think that's what they want anybody else uh surprise you
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any other uh interesting lower tier candidates you saw um yang was interesting uh at that same event
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i just mentioned we jay insley was there and there was a moment where they kind of blended in with
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the crowd after and they were talking everybody kamala harris went through with like a huge entourage
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of media and people wanting selfies and jay insley was there and and i turned my dad and he was offering
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selfies exactly yeah that's exactly what it was i i said hey dad will you take a picture of him and he's
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like which one he didn't know jay insley had none of that energy none of that suction energy
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so it's like uh and yang was interesting because he was just hanging out he yeah he actually seems
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like a normal normal guy i actually kind of like him yeah definitely yeah he like well he seems like
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the guy you could hang with and have a conversation with and i've never heard him like use the typical
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democratic messaging of that side is racist those people don't like these policies because they want
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to hurt poor people he doesn't talk like that he does he disagrees with conservatives but i've never
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seen him be anything other than respectful to them who do you think was the most authentic um probably
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yang yeah bennett was interesting too but i think yang was was the most interesting and i think bernie
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was authentic in that he believes what he's saying yes um so and i am i admire that um but he's a he
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says a lot of things that aren't true he's authentic but he lies a lot which is weird it's a weird
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combination i think it's actually his combination though he's an authentic liar because he says a lot
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of things that just flat out are not true about about the policies but he authentically believes that
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i think they're better for america and that he he really he's a true believer in socialism he's not
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one of these people who's you know i think there's an element of harris and this might be
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what you're talking about there's an element of harris that is embracing these far left policies
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because she thinks it's the way to win the primary that's not that's not warren or sanders
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you know warren and sanders are believers true believers along with you know a few of the other
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you know lower tier candidates but those two are like anyway they're second and third in the field
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and they are legit true believer socialists and that is a that's a dramatic thing for this country
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because one of they've already talked about having an alliance on the debate stage like let's not
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attack each other until it gets further down the road um you know one of them drops out the other
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one is the front runner yeah do you think the bernie people will go to warren i'm not sure who they'll
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go to um they could just as easily go to trump you know that's yeah the bernie thing is weird like
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with that because he uh there's a lot of bernie energy that it's bernie exclusive yeah there's a lot of
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there's a lot of cult of personality with bernie and i think some of those people yeah who voted
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for bernie in the primary dropped out and didn't vote for anybody in general some of them did vote
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for trump yeah and some of them did some vote for trump thank you so much absolutely appreciate it