The Great America Show - May 26, 2023


RULING GLOBAL ELITES OWN BOTH PARTIES


Episode Stats

Length

35 minutes

Words per Minute

132.86919

Word Count

4,663

Sentence Count

263

Misogynist Sentences

1

Hate Speech Sentences

4


Summary

With Governor DeSantis entering the race, the Republican field of candidates for the 2020 presidential nomination has grown to 6. Republican strategist and author Roger Stone joins host Lou Dobbs to discuss the growing field of potential presidential candidates, including the newest addition to the field, former Florida Governor Rick Scott. Also, a new poll shows President Trump s net favorability rating up 8 points from the beginning of the year.


Transcript

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00:00:30.000 Hello everybody, I'm Lou Dobbs and welcome to the Great America Show. Great to have you with us.
00:00:35.840 With the entry of Governor DeSantis, the Republican field of candidates has grown to six,
00:00:41.680 running for the 2024 nomination. The governor had a rocky start to his campaign and his poll numbers
00:00:48.740 aren't looking much better. And President Trump is making it clear to DeSantis and the other five
00:00:54.420 candidates that he won't be making it easy for them at all. A new economist YouGov poll has President
00:01:01.140 Trump's net favorability rating at an all-time high. The latest poll shows President Trump with a 49%
00:01:09.560 favorability rating among all registered voters. His favorability rating up eight points from the
00:01:16.180 beginning of the year. As you would expect, Trump's favorability among Republicans only still remains
00:01:22.280 sky-high. 84%. 54% of those view him as very favorable. And nothing favorable at all about the
00:01:31.500 way Americans are looking at the FBI. Republicans announcing they're investigating the Bank of America
00:01:38.060 for providing the FBI with customer records and data. The investigation comes following whistleblower
00:01:45.740 testimony claiming Bank of America voluntarily shared the private financial data of its customers
00:01:52.860 with the FBI without any legal guidelines or protection for their customers. The FBI and the
00:01:59.740 Department of Justice, as we all know, are politically corrupt. And the recently released Durham report
00:02:06.140 only further validating that view of just how pervasively corrupt the FBI truly is. Our guest today has
00:02:15.060 experienced what the FBI has become. Our guest is Republican strategist and author Roger Stone. Roger awakened to
00:02:23.460 the FBI at his doorstep at five in the morning with a CNN camera crew, by the way, right behind them. Outrageous
00:02:31.220 misconduct by the FBI. More outrageous, their treatment of Roger Stone. Roger is the host of
00:02:38.260 Stone Zone, and you can catch him live each weekday at 5 p.m. Eastern time at stonezone.live. Roger, great to
00:02:47.000 have you with us here on The Great America Show. Delighted that you're here. I want to start, if I may, with
00:02:52.140 the DeSantis campaign and what a launch it was. Yeah, very unconventional and I think sadly not as
00:03:00.980 effective as it might have been. I mean, the choice of Twitter space is interesting, but Lou, we live in a
00:03:08.520 visual world. Your show isn't a podcast, it's a webcast where people can see us. And I think that
00:03:17.680 dimension was missing. Also, we don't know whether the governor was reading his comments, although
00:03:25.460 it appeared that way to me. And I think in this visual world of ours, it was missing that dimension.
00:03:34.800 In retrospect, had he done a more traditional announcement, an announcement to which he actually
00:03:42.540 invited the media, I think he would have gotten substantially more coverage. And then on top
00:03:49.120 of it, the optics of having your announcement at a $5,000 ahead donor event is not really conducive
00:03:59.120 to the average voter. All interesting considerations. And that's why I implored you to be here today to
00:04:07.880 take these things up that many of us would have missed. But among those things that bothered me
00:04:15.640 was, and like you, I couldn't tell at various points if the governor was, it was just his monotone or
00:04:22.800 whether or not he was actually reading from a script. But on the other hand, I thought it was a success in
00:04:30.120 a strange way for Twitter, because just the conversation really did work, I think. But part
00:04:39.000 of that may have been because the governor didn't have to carry the load himself. Indeed, he wasn't
00:04:43.500 even the star attraction. It was Elon Musk. What do you think of those dynamics?
00:04:50.020 Look, this was very, very good for Twitter and very, very good for Elon Musk. And to the extent that
00:04:57.480 Twitter can move into the void that is left, I think, by a bunch of bad business decisions at Fox
00:05:05.680 News, for example, and other cable networks, I think that's a very positive thing. I also like the
00:05:12.420 fact that Elon Musk made it clear that this same setup, this kind of Twitter space will be available
00:05:19.340 to other presidential candidates, whether it's Donald Trump or Robert Kennedy or Nikki Haley. So
00:05:26.640 he's not really playing favorites. For those who are trying to say, oh, well, this means Musk has
00:05:33.100 endorsed DeSantis. No, I don't think that's what it meant. Twitter is becoming a much more vibrant
00:05:40.720 and important place in our entire political dialogue. I'm happy to be back there, to be honest with you.
00:05:47.240 I'm grateful because I was banned for life and still am at Facebook, Instagram, YouTube. I'm not really
00:05:54.800 sure why, but I'm grateful to be back on Twitter. So bottom line, very good for Twitter, very good for
00:06:02.100 Elon Musk. I think it could have been better for Governor DeSantis.
00:06:06.800 And how was it, do you think, for President Trump? There were a couple of points at which
00:06:13.340 Governor DeSantis, the comeback rhetoric that he used was simply an echo of President Trump,
00:06:23.640 his use of the America first and make America great again platforms. I thought he should have
00:06:31.400 given at least some credit to a tip of the hat to his sources.
00:06:37.920 Well, Lou, let's face it. If you had a chance to see the Beatles or to see a Beatles tribute band,
00:06:45.520 which one are you going to take? You're going to go see the Beatles. And I think the governor needs
00:06:51.440 to be very, very careful because all of the polling that I have seen shows that those who like Ron
00:06:59.100 DeSantis love Donald Trump. What's amazing about Trump is the intensity of his support. In other
00:07:07.640 words, his voters are not just for him. They love him. They will not abandon him despite these attacks
00:07:16.480 by the Biden administration, the weaponization of the judiciary system against him. I should say
00:07:23.580 the judicial branch against him. In a perverse way, they just make his candidacy stronger.
00:07:31.440 So while the DeSantis campaign was crowing about raising a million dollars in the 24 hours after his
00:07:40.700 announcement, by the way, I'd like to know what the average contribution was. Donald Trump raised three
00:07:46.380 and a half million dollars in the 48 hours after this New York prosecutor filed what I believe is a
00:07:54.600 completely baseless and motivated legal action against him. So look, DeSantis is getting into a cage
00:08:04.080 match with the champion. And I think he's going to find the sledding perhaps much tougher than he thinks.
00:08:10.800 And I suspect part of him, at least, is hoping there will be other entrants into the race for the
00:08:17.300 Republican nomination just so that the pain can be distributed across a greater number of candidates,
00:08:24.320 because I think you're exactly right. He is formidable, as he's demonstrated over and over.
00:08:31.400 Certainly in the primaries, he is bone crushing. And I have to say, I find it not only effective,
00:08:39.600 but entertaining. And I think most Americans do. Let's turn to the issue of money that you just
00:08:48.620 raised, the million dollars within an hour or so with a bunch of fat cats, as they used to be called.
00:08:55.540 Now I just call them oligarchs. It's a little simpler and more precise. This is a strange,
00:09:03.260 strange country we have right now, because we're watching billionaires coalesce around the idea of
00:09:11.020 a certain direction in public policy, and then they go look for a candidate, and then they manufacture
00:09:18.260 it. Is DeSantis, in your judgment, just that manufactured prop for these oligarchs' visions?
00:09:27.500 I think that's precisely what he is. More importantly, I think it's about business. In other
00:09:32.700 words, he has a disproportionate number of tech billionaires, many of whom are involved in the
00:09:39.980 building of technology, which is really used to surveil the American people, surveil consumers,
00:09:48.220 but surveil private citizens. Is their ultimate goal large government-funded contracts? Is that why
00:09:57.260 they're on board? Donald Trump's financial strength in politics going all the way back to 2016 has
00:10:06.620 always been the small and medium-sized donor, the small business person. It's a misnomer to say,
00:10:13.180 oh, well, this billionaire moved from Trump to DeSantis. Well, when you look more carefully,
00:10:19.060 this billionaire was for Donald Trump as soon as he was nominated, or in some cases,
00:10:24.080 not until he was actually elected. And therefore, that combined with the governor's newfound
00:10:34.080 penchant for secrecy, I think is deeply disturbing. Look, I live in Florida. We had until recently the
00:10:43.200 most sweeping and I think effective sunshine laws in the country. Any Florida citizen could find out
00:10:52.120 where the state airplane was, what was going on in public meetings, who was in the governor's mansion,
00:11:00.120 how much was being spent by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to provide security
00:11:06.200 for the governor. Now, under a new law signed by Governor DeSantis, all those things are a secret.
00:11:14.680 The way they rationalize that is to say, well, for security reasons. Well, I'm sorry, knowing whose
00:11:22.180 plane the governor was flying in and what it cost and where he went three weeks ago is not a security
00:11:30.220 question. I could see some concern about the public having access to his future travels. That's a
00:11:37.360 legitimate argument. But this entire secrecy about those oligarchs and what their role is,
00:11:45.360 I think is very important. This fellow, David Sachs, who was the moderator yesterday,
00:11:52.980 he's a Hillary Clinton supporter. And he supported the bailout of the Silicon Valley Bank.
00:12:00.820 What are his motives for being for Ron DeSantis? Yeah, all legitimate and important questions.
00:12:08.880 And frankly, I believe that the folks, the citizens of Florida are going to be chewing over what has
00:12:17.160 happened, whether it is permitting the governor to run for president while governor, a new law,
00:12:23.500 whether it is consigning his travel to to deeply sealed vaults somewhere and out of the prying eyes
00:12:34.780 of the public. I am a firm, as you would suspect, a firm believer in the public's right to know.
00:12:40.880 And I'm an absolutist about it. I agree with you about the future travel. That is fair,
00:12:47.060 fairly put. Past travel, we need to know everything that any government official is doing, period.
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00:14:32.400 We're back talking with Roger Stone and amongst the plaudits that I offered up going into the
00:14:39.180 break. I neglected to say bestselling author, and he's written a number of some of my favorite books
00:14:47.180 and is an expert, if you will, on the assassination of JFK. And I just think, first of all, I want to
00:15:00.780 compliment you on your authorship. And I am, as you might also guess, intensely interested in JFK and that
00:15:10.340 entire era for what it did speak to in the way of a projection to where we are today, that is the
00:15:18.260 emergence of a deep state that was kinetic, not simply a remnant in a far corner of the federal
00:15:26.580 government. Your thoughts now about what President Trump has to contend with, an avarice deep state
00:15:36.860 that is absolutely the tool of the Marxist Dems who run the Democrat Party now and this puppet
00:15:45.040 president, in my view. Your thoughts, Roger? Well, first of all, as you know, Lou, I worked for
00:15:51.860 Richard Nixon. I worked for Senator Bob Dole, one of the greatest Americans of the 20th century.
00:15:57.940 They were both very, very tough guys, but neither one of them is as tough as Donald Trump. I really
00:16:06.840 don't know how a man, given what he is facing and the level of persecution and the two-tiered nature of
00:16:15.920 it, in other words, being held to a completely different standard than anyone else in public life
00:16:22.080 and still function every day. I mean, I talked to the president fairly regularly, and Lou, he's
00:16:29.900 upbeat, he's optimistic, he's resolute, he loves combat. Let's be candid about it. There's nothing
00:16:39.240 more than he likes than mixing it up, but I think he rightfully feels persecuted. And what it speaks to,
00:16:47.180 in my opinion, is a realization by the Democrats that they do not want to run against Donald Trump.
00:16:55.700 They particularly don't want to run against a Donald Trump who learned an enormous amount in his first
00:17:01.840 term. When you consider all of the obstacles put in his way, when you consider the complete
00:17:10.040 documentation now in the John Durham report, that the government never had any probable cause
00:17:17.000 to open the investigations into Trump, had no evidence whatsoever of Russian collusion.
00:17:24.860 I got jammed up in this myself because when Mueller couldn't find any evidence of Russian collusion,
00:17:32.100 he sought to create it. And they wanted me to testify falsely against the president, since
00:17:39.680 in their investigation into me, they hadn't found either Russian collusion or WikiLeaks collaboration.
00:17:46.200 So they charge you with process crimes to pressure you into lying, which, as you know,
00:17:52.660 I refused to do. So I've lived in that pressure cooker. Yesterday, you had one of the president's
00:18:00.680 former lawyers talking about his going to prison over the handling of documents, where it appears to me
00:18:08.520 that all of his recent predecessors in the White House handled documents the exact same way he did,
00:18:15.300 including, by the way, Joe Biden. So the weaponization against him speaks to their fear of running against
00:18:24.420 him in an open, fair, free, transparent election. But here's the strangest part. The attacks on him
00:18:32.720 seem to make him stronger. The attacks on him seem to fatten his war chest from small and medium-sized
00:18:41.240 donors. And the attacks against him, I think, further educate the people that he's being persecuted
00:18:48.460 because they don't want him back, which is a good reason why the average American voter would want him
00:18:55.240 back. As you say, he is a man who loves being in the arena. He loves the fight. He loves the combat,
00:19:03.600 as you put it. He is also, as you addressed it, he does feel persecuted. And the extraordinary thing
00:19:12.620 about that is that is precisely what he is. He's been persecuted, politically persecuted. For now,
00:19:19.760 we're in the eighth year. This is an amazing fact of American life to me, is that the party itself,
00:19:31.920 the Republican Party, I understand its establishment. I understand it's principally rhinos in its
00:19:38.540 leadership. I do not understand how any man or woman in those positions of leadership in the Republican
00:19:44.420 Party could have sat on their hands and watched as he is persecuted by the Department of Justice,
00:19:54.060 by the FBI, by the Democratic National Committee, by the Hillary Clinton campaign, by their operatives,
00:20:01.900 the deep state throughout federal government, the entire intelligence apparatus of this country,
00:20:08.680 at one point aligned against him, not Russia, not China, working to destroy his chance of being
00:20:16.320 president and then to overthrow him. And almost without a peep from the leaders of this country
00:20:24.300 and other arenas, that is business, academia, law, not a peep. What do you think?
00:20:33.700 Well, Lou, look, I have a long and sentimental attachment to the Republican Party, you know,
00:20:40.680 the party of Lincoln, the party of Goldwater, the party of Reagan, the party of Trump. But I also
00:20:47.820 have to be realistic about the fact that at the leadership levels, both parties have been co-opted
00:20:55.540 by a ruling, wealthy, global and national elite. And therefore, Donald Trump's elevation and his nomination
00:21:07.160 in 2016 was really the hostile takeover of the Republican Party. And what's most disturbing is the failure of
00:21:17.280 Republicans to step forward, in many cases, to defend this president and to appoint out the
00:21:25.520 two-tier justice system, the fact that the man has been persecuted, indeed, hounded now for eight years.
00:21:34.200 It's shocking to me watching the lame street media, again, with people on MSNBC and CNN,
00:21:44.580 pointing to the Senate Intelligence Committee report as their proof of Russian collusion.
00:21:51.080 Lou, the Senate Intelligence Committee report is a crock. Every single reference to me, for example,
00:21:58.720 in there is completely false and incorrect. It's as if somebody clipped any fake news media story
00:22:05.580 from the lowest rent left-wing website and just takes it as fact. There is no Russian collusion.
00:22:14.640 Mr. Mueller couldn't find it. Mr. Durham couldn't find it. Yet, sadly, there's a substantial amount of people
00:22:22.180 in the country who still believe this as a fact because, well, I saw it on TV, so it must be true.
00:22:31.240 Our problem today are not these highly motivated, screwball, left-wing, socialist Democrats.
00:22:41.880 Our problem are the weak-kneed, lily-livered, feckless, gutless, country club establishment Republicans
00:22:52.500 who, in between sipping white wine, don't seem to have the gumption to defend perhaps the greatest president
00:23:01.760 in my lifetime. It's really frustrating.
00:23:04.600 It is frustrating, and I think he is the greatest president, certainly in my judgment, since Abraham Lincoln.
00:23:14.280 And I think I can successfully defend that against most. The possibility that he could be, again,
00:23:23.960 facing a more powerful establishment this time, as he is going to pick up the 47th, those 47 numbers,
00:23:34.680 and make him president again. I just wonder at what point the American people will have the courage
00:23:42.320 to look out and see exactly what is happening in this country. And we're going to take that up
00:23:48.300 with Roger Stone in just a moment. What will it take for the American people themselves to be clear-eyed
00:23:54.160 to know what is actually happening in the swamp with an entrenched corporatist media
00:24:04.160 that refuses to report faithfully the facts? We'll be back with Roger Stone in just a moment.
00:24:10.280 Stay with us. We'll be right back.
00:24:18.480 We're back with Roger Stone, and I want to turn to that issue because we're watching a lot of money
00:24:24.780 being pumped, as it always is in a presidential campaign, into the coffers of both principles in this.
00:24:34.160 If I can refer to DeSantis having that position as a principal, he's about 30 to 40 points,
00:24:42.360 depending on the poll behind Trump, and I think it will stay something in that margin.
00:24:47.440 But the tens of millions of dollars already pouring in for this battle, what does that augur, Roger Stone?
00:24:56.060 Well, look, Donald Trump is not going to get a fair shake from broadcast television. It's now clear that he's not going to get
00:25:04.260 a fair shake from cable television. But the truth is he would never have been elected president
00:25:11.680 without his effective use of the Internet as the platform from which he must counterpunch.
00:25:20.300 Now, he's a great communicator, and when they come at him, and they will, I think he's going to be uniquely
00:25:27.980 well-positioned to launch the counterattack. It is only, in my opinion, and with all due respect to
00:25:38.060 Truth Social, which I like and which I use, but at the end of the day, Twitter is a more vibrant and a more
00:25:45.700 important marketplace for ideas, and the president is going to have to use every avenue, every platform
00:25:54.340 he can to punch back. That moment will come, but that is how the people will get educated, and that is
00:26:03.720 how I think ultimately he can muster the support that he's going to need to get back in the White House.
00:26:10.800 First, is it like drawing to an inside straight in a game of poker? Indeed, it is. He has a lot of
00:26:18.040 obstacles in his way. But two things I have learned. The most predictable thing about Donald Trump
00:26:24.800 is his complete unpredictability, and he should never be underestimated. His resolution,
00:26:35.020 his insistence, his determination to win is not dampened in the slightest by these extraordinarily
00:26:44.480 vicious personal attacks on him. And if I had to bet today, I would still bet on his returning to the
00:26:52.520 White House. As would I. And I'm sure millions of Americans who are still feeling the pain of
00:27:02.020 having the 2020 election rigged against them and Donald Trump feel exactly the same way.
00:27:09.340 And this business of that election being rigged, why is there, I'll put it this way, because that
00:27:16.660 would be a little disingenuous on my part. Why do you believe it is the establishment has gotten away
00:27:26.920 with saying it's settled fact that the 2020 election was not rigged? It was not stolen.
00:27:33.400 When in point of fact and demonstrable fact and known fact, and validated as recently as the Durham
00:27:41.260 report, it was stolen from Donald Trump.
00:27:45.200 For two reasons, Lou. First of all, because of the corruption of our traditional legacy media,
00:27:53.200 which you have to admit, you have to admire their discipline. It's like Caitlin Collins in the CNN
00:28:01.440 town hall in New Hampshire stomping her foot and saying, no, there is no evidence whatsoever this
00:28:07.400 election is, which is an absurdity. But it is monolithic across the board. And if you as an
00:28:14.580 individual in your podcast or in my daily show, if I question that, well, you're some kind of nut.
00:28:21.660 You're some kind of irresponsible kook. No, not true. But the other reason, very sadly,
00:28:28.520 is because of the complete politicization of our judicial system. It's not that these court cases
00:28:37.780 questioning the election were heard and rejected. They were never actually heard. The Supreme Court
00:28:45.840 has refused to hear a number of, I think, extraordinarily well-documented and legitimate
00:28:52.200 cases questioning the anomalies and the irregularities in the last presidential election.
00:29:00.320 So what you have is an establishment, establishment media, the establishment of all three branches of
00:29:06.900 government, unfortunately, all dedicated to a false narrative. I have to tell you this, Lou,
00:29:14.300 if you have the courage, as you have on this show, to question the election in any way,
00:29:20.660 well, they just seek to censor you further. It is why they've gotten away with it so far
00:29:27.160 and why they continue to get away with it. I watched the Carrie Lake trial with extreme interest,
00:29:34.360 and I thought her lawyers made a compelling, in fact, an open and shut case about the election fraud in
00:29:42.180 that state. Yet I must tell you, I was not even a little bit surprised when the judge in the case
00:29:48.560 rejected her arguments. Unfortunately, neither was I. And I know that her attorneys were very optimistic
00:29:56.100 optimistic that as a matter of simple logic and the facts that they would at last have a fair hearing
00:30:05.560 that would result in a finding for her. As you say, the farthest thing from it, and they swept the matter
00:30:14.440 aside, it is Maricopa County stands as an example of, if that is not an example of electoral fraud,
00:30:25.500 I can't even imagine what county could be better, could supplant them for the title. Can you?
00:30:34.300 Well, in a situation in which we know that the voting tabulating machines take a ballot
00:30:39.860 that is 19 inches long. They are tested the night before with a ballot paper ballot that is 19 inches
00:30:46.840 long. But on election day and roughly 60% of the precincts, just coincidentally, the most heavily
00:30:52.980 Republican precincts, they are specifically sent a paper ballot that is 20 inches long and therefore
00:30:59.340 most definitely will be rejected by the tabulator machine. Oh, just throw it in that box over there.
00:31:06.320 We'll get to count it eventually. No, that's the most egregious example of fraud that I've seen
00:31:12.800 in the almost 60 years that I've been involved in American politics. And now when you added to it
00:31:21.200 the extremely compelling case regarding the state's lack of actually doing the legally required signature
00:31:30.140 matching, I thought Carrie Lake's lawyers did a brilliant job with overwhelming evidence,
00:31:37.760 but it fell on deaf ears. Here is the question. They will now seek to go to the U.S. Supreme Court.
00:31:44.280 Will this Supreme Court ever hear a legitimate election integrity issue? I'm not optimistic,
00:31:54.480 to be quite honest with you, because I think once again, all three branches of government at this
00:32:00.400 point are brought into a political narrative and have been very sadly corrupted.
00:32:06.900 And the judiciary, just the latest entrant into the corruption of our federal government,
00:32:16.580 state government in the instance of what is happening in Arizona, obviously.
00:32:21.040 The federal judiciary, what it has done to over-sentence, over-charge, whether it's the
00:32:29.800 Department of Justice, whether it's the judiciary itself, with the political prisoners of J6,
00:32:36.560 it is an open wound, an open, festering, pus-filled boil on this nation that only worsens with time.
00:32:46.980 Your thoughts about, is there an extrication from it? Is there remedy for these victims of the left
00:32:54.960 in power?
00:32:57.500 Well, Lou, my answer may surprise you, but as you know, there are no atheists in foxholes.
00:33:04.420 And therefore, when I was staring into the abyss, when I was looking at seven to nine years in prison,
00:33:10.920 when I had done absolutely nothing wrong and where any misstatement that I made under oath in my
00:33:17.660 voluntary testimony hid no underlying crime, there was no Russian collusion or WikiLeaks
00:33:23.900 collaboration to lie about, to cover up, I started to fervently pray. I restored my Christian faith.
00:33:32.740 I was redeemed in the blood of the cross. I know right now there are people out there,
00:33:38.720 elites who are saying, oh, how corny, how trite, what a head fake, what a, no, I'm sorry. I don't
00:33:45.700 really care what they think. I only care what he thinks. So I pray for our nation because we are in
00:33:53.600 such trouble that it is only divine intervention that is going to save us, that good men and good
00:34:02.100 women, men and women of courage are going to have to take leadership in these times. Now, that doesn't
00:34:10.100 sound like much of a political strategy. It is, in fact, a spiritual strategy, but it's one that I have
00:34:17.580 come to believe in very strongly. I've experienced these miracles in my own life, not only my pardon,
00:34:26.360 but my wife's surviving stage four cancer, which I think was triggered by the stress of being hounded
00:34:31.940 by the federal government. And therefore, I still believe through the grace of God that America's
00:34:40.220 greatest days lie ahead. Roger Stone. And that's it for us today. We hope you have a great Memorial Day
00:34:47.720 weekend. Our guest here Monday will be Paul Bracken, Yale professor of political science and author of the
00:34:55.020 important book, The Second Nuclear Age. You don't want to miss it. We hope you'll join us for that.
00:35:00.980 Until then, thanks, God bless you, and may God bless America.