THE BIDEN FAMILY IS COMPROMISED BY THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY AND SO IS THE DEM PARTY, AND MORE THAN A FEW REPUBLICANS SAYS LEE SMITH
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The Great America Show hosts Lou Dobbs and Lee Smith discuss the new special counsel appointed by Merrick Garland, Jack Smith, and why the DOJ might have kept him under wraps for a while to avoid the media and the public getting to know him.
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Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs, and welcome to The Great America Show, as we try our best to root out the Marxist-dim evildoers and those who work ceaselessly to stamp out truth, justice, and the American way.
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Take, for instance, the new special counsel. That's right, we have a new special counsel appointed by the corrupt Attorney General Merrick Garland, big political theater production at the DOJ, to announce further political persecution of the president, yet another special counsel.
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But DOJ couldn't even cite a crime or crimes committed. And curiously, the Attorney General's guest of honor wasn't even there, the man who will lead another assault against President Donald Trump.
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Missing was this fellow by the name of Jack Smith. Smith, Merrick Garland claimed, would be fair and impartial and independent in his efforts to crush Trump and destroy his campaign for his second term in the Oval Office.
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Garland didn't, of course, use those exact words, but that's what he meant. He just talked about what a swell fella this Smith is.
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But nothing Garland could say would deflect from or cover up Smith's absence. Make anyone forget that he didn't show up for the big announcement.
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They claimed that it had been in a bicycle accident that kept him away from the introductory event at the Justice Building.
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But must have been a heck of a bicycle accident. But then it occurred that maybe they didn't want to put good old Jack Smith in front of all that media.
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They didn't want him to have to answer questions and kept him out of the glare of media interest and even a prying question or two.
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There's only de minimis data on the web, this guy acting more like the pursued than the central figure in a second coming of a special counsel attack on President Trump.
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And so now, a few days later, we know a little more about Mr. Jack Smith and why Merrick Garland might have wanted to keep him under wraps for a while.
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For example, Mr. Smith was reportedly a full-on member of the Department of Justice IRS Deep State Cabal that in the wake of the Tea Party surge of 2010 decided to, well, constrain the conservatives and deny tax-exempt status to conservative groups.
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Mr. Smith wanted to see what else they could do.
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Smith was also leading the prosecution of Virginia Republican Governor Bob McDonald.
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Convicted initially for taking gifts for political favors, the Supreme Court overturned the conviction.
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And Smith failed to convict Democrat Senator and Vice President candidate John Edwards.
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Smith's wife, by the way, is reported to be a big donor to the Biden campaign, a producer of a Michelle Obama documentary.
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So there's your Merrick Garland, certified, impartial, absolutely fair, and no political conflicts of interest at all, Mr. Jack Smith.
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Riding at the head of another special counsel gang that wants to take Donald Trump's scalp.
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Democrats up and down the eastern seaboard, by the way, prosecuting and suing the former president,
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as the Marxist Dems are using the judicial system, as always, trying to crush the Trump candidacy.
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And whatever anyone calls that evil, it is wide-open war on Donald J. Trump.
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Elections, it's said too frequently, have consequences.
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And sometimes the consequences are unexpected and perverse.
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A divided nation spent more than $17 billion in these midterm elections.
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And the result, evenly divided by party in both the House and the Senate.
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Joining us now is national security and political journalist and best-selling author of The Plot to Overthrow the President and the Permanent Coup,
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So what's happened, Lee, this was a big election, big expectations.
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I think there are a number of different things going on here.
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And, you know, I hear people who know a lot more about elections and polling,
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who counsel that we should wait for more data to come in.
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But a lot of this stuff looks very – a lot of this stuff looks very funky right off the bat, just like 20 –
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the episode from this most recent election that I like best, I mean, sardonically here,
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was what was the Pennsylvania polling place where they basically said, oh, yeah, sorry, we're out of paper.
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I mean, again, a lot of the stuff that was going on here, it's just outrageous.
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There is – and in Arizona, they were running out of ink.
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So they were running out of some of the basic necessities of electioneering.
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I mean, if an office manager ran – an office manager ran an office like this, they'd be fired.
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But that's how they're holding elections in Arizona and Pennsylvania.
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Well, I think in those two states, there has to be a bonus program.
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If you can figure out a way to take down the heavily Republican areas in your precinct, your state or district,
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we're going to work it out at the end of this thing.
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And I can't – at this moment, it does not come to be who said this to us here on the show,
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but we'll find out soon because my colleagues will figure it out.
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Someone said that one of the basic differences in the Republican and the Democratic Party in elections and campaigns
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is Democrats pay their people to get out and be organized and move the vote to the polls.
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And for some reason, it works better for Democrats who pay than it does for Republicans who are just asking people to volunteer their time,
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their energy, and their souls to their grand old party.
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I mean, this is what's going on in a lot of conservative media.
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It's what's going on with a lot of the bigwigs in the party.
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They go around, yeah, now it's an opportunity to crush Trump and crush Trump supporters.
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They're going to go the way that we want to stare at now.
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It's not just we're not going to pay you anything.
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Now we're going to take your work for free, and we're going to slap you in the face.
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Well, what I love is all of the leadership of the Republican Party, and I'm not being sardonically, I'm out of my mind to even say it that way, sardonically or facetiously.
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But the fact is that they're blaming the turnout of First America, MAGA supporters.
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These idiots who lost three straight elections, we now find out Ronna McDaniel wants to run for re-election after she lost 2022, 2020, and 2018.
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This woman thinks she should be coronated, for God's sake.
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What in the world is the Republican Party now, if not just a regal organization?
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I think everyone who's got to vote in this should vote for Mark Elias or someone from the DNC.
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We've got Ronna Romney McDaniel, and the Democrats have got Mark Elias.
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You may call me again, Pollyannish, if you like.
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But I also – I take some good news from this election as well.
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Well, this is a sharp turn that I never – I have to tell you, this is a sharp turn I didn't expect.
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A lot of people are talking about the Florida election in terms of a landslide that Governor
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Now, a congressional source, a friend of mine, explained it rather differently.
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He said that what it really shows is that Florida has become a thoroughly red state.
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So in lots of ways with this election – what this election is, it's sort of the first post-COVID
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election, by which I mean a lot of people left their blue areas, their blue cities, and they
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And I know that I voted with my feet in the spring of 2021 by leaving Washington, D.C.,
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And I think if we look generally at what happened, there's a lot of that that's been going on.
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And if you look at New York, for instance, right, the great Lee Zeldin, an amazing campaign,
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I can't – Lee, you just did something I hear a number of people doing.
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The amazing Lee Zeldin, he only lost by seven points.
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I – you know, we – the Republican Party, I've got to tell you, has got to come up with
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something – I'm sorry to be controversial in this.
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I just can't accept the fact that Lee Zeldin is a great campaigner and a great political
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I can't understand why he didn't win by seven points.
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Because I think that's another thing reflected in the election.
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And this is a tragic thing about our country right now.
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John Fetterman is elected the – elected senator from Pennsylvania.
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Nonetheless, the people who stayed in Pennsylvania, the people who decided to stay in places like
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Philadelphia, I'm sure – to paraphrase Donald Trump, I'm sure there's lots of great
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But the fact is, people who are – people who are nonetheless enduring the crime, the
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violence, the insanity, is there any surprise that they would elect John Fetterman?
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And the people who elected Kathy Hochul, that's what I'm saying.
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I mean, the ugly side that we have to confront is that there are a lot of people, many of our
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fellow Americans who are absolutely stark raving nuts to continue to vote for this.
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We unfortunately have to admit that, I guess, an open border over which 5 million people
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have crossed since Joe Biden became president, record high inflation, soaring energy and food
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prices, I guess this really doesn't matter to a whole bunch of Americans.
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And we look at this and say, how is it possible?
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But, you know, you say that, Lee, and I understand why.
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High prices that are just ripping family budgets to pieces.
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For some people, this is not an academic exercise.
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I didn't see a single Republican who I really believed was talking about the real pain of
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I had a feeling she was talking to a national audience and not a state audience.
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I had a feeling, you know, that this was somehow a national campaign rather than a gubernatorial
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I don't understand how you can elect Katie Hobbs in a million years.
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Republicans have got to examine the way they're talking about the issues they're messaging
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You know, when the Republicans talk about pain, high inflation, high prices, I didn't hear a
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single damn Republican, not a single damn Republican, say what he or she could actually do about inflation.
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I didn't hear the party leaders, Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy and Ronna McDaniel.
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It wasn't Joe Biden and the Marxist Dems who are trying to take over this country.
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They were fighting Donald Trump, for God's sake.
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And what voter sitting there with his family or her family, the children at the table with
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food that isn't quite what they would have prepared if it didn't cost a damn much.
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What are they going to think about a party where they can't get a commitment from the leadership
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of the Republican Party about what they'll do, about while they will replicate the success
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of Donald Trump, but they want to have a petty, pitiful fight when they wouldn't support the
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And now when he needs them again, they're fighting against him instead of the Marxist Dems.
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And then they and by the way, implicit in those responses is, you know, it's sort of
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What about those stupid people who didn't vote for us?
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Let me tell you, I don't trust the Republican Party and I'm in it.
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OK, I don't trust the leadership and I follow them sometimes.
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But the truth is, the American people are being asked to buy a bunch of bill.
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Just let me rephrase this because my wife is listening.
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What we've got to have better minds and more integrity and more energy and more originality
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Did you think that there were figures in this campaign season like Blake Masters or like
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like Adam Laxalt, who represented a new or Joe, Joe Kent running, you know, for a seat
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Did you can't, by the way, I think is a different figure in all of that.
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Did you think that there was enough new blood coming into the party in this campaign?
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But I do want to ask about Joe Kent now, because I, you know, how is how is he different?
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And are you distinguishing him in a positive way?
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I think that he stood head, head and shoulders above those other candidates that you mentioned.
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But I but I how does he stand head and shoulders above them?
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I want to get sidetracked on Joe Kent, which I'll be glad to do.
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But first, I think what we have to get to is these candidates across the board.
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We heard a lot of bull from Mitch McConnell, you know, Colonel Senator Foghorn from Kentucky,
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who has the intellect of a squash and and the spine of a, you know, I'll find another garden
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vegetable to to associate with him in my next metaphor.
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But the reality is this is just not a time for for a party to have these kinds of divisiveness
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They can have all of this division they want because they can trade and will horse trade
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And, you know, the establishment will win as usual and this will move on.
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But the fact is, the Republican Party, I think Josh Hawley is very close to right.
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This party is dying before our eyes if it's not dead.
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We certainly have that sense from lots of voters.
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And certainly it's going to get worse insofar as they're going after Donald Trump.
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I mean, why they see why they are seizing this as an occasion to go after Donald Trump.
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It's not a mystery to me, but it's just a further indication that this is a it's a sick
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I don't know if it's dying, but it's a sick organism.
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And I know this is supposed to be a postmortem and not a diagnosis, but the fact of the matter
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is what party doesn't have a response other than, no, you can't do that.
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When they talk about the Dems, the Marxist Dems say, here's a giveaway.
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But I have to tell you, his puppet masters aren't stupid.
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They came out with a loan forgiveness program that put half a trillion dollars in what we
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used to call walking around money to get Democrats, young Democrats to vote.
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And by the way, what's really slick about it is he knew it was unconstitutional and
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So he got all the benefits and the Republicans just said they're sucking their thumbs and
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We have to do the same things that the Dems are doing between ballot harvesting and mail
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And the point is this, is that insofar as the Dems own the infrastructure, they can do
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And that's what I was getting at by saying in Pennsylvania, they just said, oh, we're out
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Who knows what they'll do in twenty twenty four.
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But the idea of playing catch up is never going to work.
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The idea is figuring out how to own these different things, because without that, we're
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So but I guess the question that finally we're discussing right now is does Republican leadership
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want to catch up or are they happy to be one or two beats behind?
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Well, they're very happy because the leadership has got their jobs, they've got their perks
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RNC chair Ronna McDaniel running for reelection.
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By the way, there are a bunch of Republicans who won't be running for reelection because
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I don't know how many good candidates there were that failed.
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I suspect not as many as perhaps might think so of themselves.
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You mentioned what a great guy is, and I think he is a great guy, a great human being, a wonderful
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I mean, I think I think it was a hard carry in New York.
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But again, as I said, we it's a tragedy for the country.
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But but voters in places like New York and California and Illinois are zombies.
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And they prove that by look at look at what happened in Michigan.
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I mean, I think we have to accept that a lot of people actually did vote for people like
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Gretchen Whitmer, no matter how badly she tortured them.
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They tortured Californians, New Yorkers, Michiganers.
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You should reject the people that your kids out of school for two years, the people who
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If they can't figure it out themselves, what do we do with them?
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Well, one of the things we could do is actually serve them instead of corporate America, the
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Chamber of Commerce, the Business Roundtable, Wall Street, big tech, big media, social media.
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I mean, you've got the whole country obsequious and in serving the big tech and the establishment,
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Yeah, I'm interested in what you're talking about.
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What you mentioned before, you're talking about inspirational leadership, new ideas.
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And one of the things we what are the things that we've seen for the last couple of years
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and you and I have spoken about January 6th and the reason that people on the Hill, Republican
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Kevin McCarthy said, everyone, keep your head down.
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They'll just vote us back in in 2022 because they won't have a choice seeing what Biden
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So we saw that unfolding from the beginning, right, as Republicans made made no effort to
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So before we're talking about how they're not paying GOP, you know, GOP workers, I mean,
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they just that there are still January 6th defendants being held, you know, without trial,
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Two years of this stuff, they weren't even defending their own supporters.
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There was not only no inspirational message, there was no defense of Republican supporters.
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Well, to quote Penny Rogers, you know, winners, you know, winners grant and losers say, deal
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The fact of the matter, again, is I can't find an inspirational candidate anywhere or person
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Well, first, I'd like to tell you that I never, ever, ever allow guests to ask the questions
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But since you have, I think Donald Trump was highly inspirational.
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I don't know what to say about a man who now has been so outlandishly aggressive against
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his own party and sort of lost sight of who the enemy is, which is the Marxist Dems.
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Who attacks the governor of a state where he knows that if he does run at 2024, he's going
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to need that governor, those votes in that state, an immensely popular governor.
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How does that make sense on any level to do that?
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If I may ask you that question in response to yours.
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You've persuaded me that the landscape is pretty bleak right now.
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And in this country, it's in a paroxysm of uncertainty and ambiguity and confusion and
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And we have no one honestly talking about what we are contending with.
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I think people are I think people are very anxious when they see the different things
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I mean, and it's virtually every initiative that comes out of the White House.
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I mean, I think we've talked about this before.
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I mean, it's like a campaign of demoralization and desecration.
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And yes, unfortunately, there appear to be very few, if any, Republicans who are willing
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to pick up the standard, certainly among legislators and political officials.
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Actually, I think there are people who are inspiring out there.
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Um, but they don't, they don't appear to be in political leadership right now.
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And, and, and, and Joe Biden, President Biden took the opportunity today to say America
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first is dead because the Senate is in the same, same, uh, uh, divide that it was before
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Because America first, Donald Trump did something brilliant.
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Donald Trump saw a movement, saw a groundswell across this country.
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He, he, he, he grew this movement, but like, uh, like a talented political leader, he recognized
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something bigger than himself and he jumped in front of it.
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If there are problems with him now, it's because he believes he's bigger than it.
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But America first, the people who believe this, oh no, I, I think that sentiment is only
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Um, I, I, I think it's become even more powerful.
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Well, I, as you know, I'm, I'm America first to the bone.
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You know, I, and if we're not to be America first and hear a president say we're not America
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I mean, it's in the United States that who does he serve?
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Well, uh, uh, there are quite, there are questions about that, Lou, as we know, look
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up, but I mean, this is, this is precisely what Barack Obama was getting at when Barack
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Obama said, not only that he doesn't believe in American exceptionalism, any more than a
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Greek exceptionalism or, uh, a British exceptionalism, but also when he was talking about utterly
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And I guess one of the things before Americans right now is, um, um, are, and this is the
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I think with America, it was like, no, we love our country the way it is.
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I do believe that there, that is a powerful and winning sentiment across this country.
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But if every Republican candidate really believed what they were saying about high prices, inflation,
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this, uh, destabilized economy, if you will, the, uh, volatile markets and uncertain, uh,
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Why could they not understand the fear of middle-class Americans who can't afford college, who can
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for their children, can't, uh, keep their, uh, keep food on the table, who are paying over
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a hundred dollars for a tank full of gas to get to work.
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Uh, the Republicans didn't speak to them at all.
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And for me, uh, I think, you know, this, I mean, I've, I've written a lot of books on this
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country's middle-class where the American dream resides and it, it pains me to see them ignored
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I think that there, and again, I, I, I think that the, the thrust of America first, it is
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I mean, I, I, I, I don't think that, I don't think it's.
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Look, I, I believe that Joe Biden and the Democratic Party, the progressives, the pro, the progressive
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faction of the United States government has its dagger at the throat of the middle-class.
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We've been taken advantage of, but I think that we've also, we've also shown our abilities.
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And I, I don't think that's, I don't think that's going away, but I, I, I, again, it's,
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it's a search for leadership, um, that is worthy of Americans.
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That's why I was interested when you were saying about Joe Kent.
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Is Ron DeSantis capable of, of, of, um, of carrying the banner on behalf of the American
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Look, the fact that, you know, over, what, at this point, it must have been a million,
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half a million Americans who moved to Florida saying this guy has got, he's got it going
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I mean, it's, it strikes me that there are very, very simple cases that political, uh,
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that our political leadership can make and really get out there and mean it and fight
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It's, it's just to me, uh, it's a moment where we've got to be honest on our examination
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Uh, we, we now have Kevin McCarthy reelected as the, uh, uh, the house, uh, speaker, the
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majority leader and house speaker of, you know, we're, we're going to see some real, some real
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Uh, but the party itself has to go through some considerable examination from without.
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I would not leave a reform of any bankrupt bank, uh, to the, the board of directors of that
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bank, nor would I leave the reform of the Republican party up to the RNC, uh, Kevin McCarthy
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Will a split, I mean, I'm wondering, uh, you know, so, so, so, so it was not to ask more
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questions, but I'm wondering, how is this for a rhetorical, uh, rhetorical phrasing?
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I'm, I'm wondering if the thing that people are scared of a split between Trump and DeSantis,
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I'm wondering if that sort of thing might not actually work to strengthen.
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The party and strengthen America first, let people, let them argue.
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I mean, it seems that that is, uh, that that is a good way for people to not only hone their
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arguments, but to figure out how they're going to lead.
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I mean, I've been saying that for, for weeks now, DeSantis doesn't bother me in the least.
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I want there to be competition for the nomination, uh, uh, with president Trump, who I support.
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Uh, I don't want to see any more of this nonsense like we see in Congress when I'm talking about
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the divide is between, uh, the, the Republican party elites and the Republican party, the rank
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These, these leaders on Capitol Hill and, and, uh, Ron, Romney, uh, McDaniel.
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I mean, they're the, they're globalists, at least just like the, the lefties in counterpoint.
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We have president Biden who says he's not going to ever go to war with China.
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Uh, and for all the world looks like a functionary, uh, of Ho Chi.
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A function, a functionary of Xi Jinping, uh, and the PRC.
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The idea, um, the idea somehow, which we've heard many people float that, uh, oh gee, is
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Is Biden going to make war against China is absolutely preposterous, right?
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Because we know how, uh, uh, extensively compromised the entire Biden family, as well as the democratic
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party as a whole, and as well as many Republican officials, uh, uh, compromised by the Chinese
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So it, it, it frankly, wasn't surprising to me that what comes out of this meeting is
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basically, um, basically Biden's appeasement, right?
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The way that I see that Xi just threw him, uh, you know, Xi just threw him a bone here.
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Look like a tough guy since that's so important to the democratic party.
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So, yes, I, I think it's extremely, uh, it's extremely troubling.
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And when we're coming back to the weakness of the Republican party, who is going to, um,
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who is going to underscore the very serious problems that the Chinese communist party poses
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And, and yet that really wasn't, uh, at the, at the center of any of the campaigns, uh, that
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we watched, uh, for the Senate or for the house of representatives, at least that, that
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And it's a very good point because we see that the Chinese are not just, the Chinese
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also have what they call their subnational strategy.
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They've been infiltrating their way into different states, different districts, different parts
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And that actually would have been an important thing for different, uh, different candidates
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across the country to talk about how this is an, these are important things to our communities.
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This is an important thing to our state to protect ourselves against, uh, against Chinese
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Look, and this might have to come back to New York for one second.
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We saw now that the, that the CCP has a, uh, has opened up a police precinct in New York
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Now that strikes me that that probably would have been a good thing for, um, for Lee Zeldin
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and other candidates, uh, other Republican candidates throughout the state to talk about.
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Uh, it's just, uh, it's to me, uh, the great frustration for me in this election is Republicans
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They were talking about investigations as if the entire country hated the Bidens.
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They don't, uh, many of them depend on the Bidens for their, uh, for whatever their government
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assistance, uh, for, uh, you know, their, their ideological comfort, whatever it may be.
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Uh, but they had one group to appeal to, and that is the Republican party and the independents
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The other problem with the investigations was all of these investigations, and I'm sure some
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of them will still be conducted, but they will by necessity be extremely limited, uh, not
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only in scope, but in their ability to get anything done.
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I mean, they can certainly, uh, produce lots of evidence about different things that have
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What we know made, uh, you know, made public by various journalists, um, but the idea that
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they're going to be able to hold the Bidens or others accountable for what's been going
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I mean, the, the, the department of justice is still controlled by Joe Biden.
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So investigations on Capitol Hill, I mean, yeah, that in itself is not appealing to Republican
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voters, nor should it be, as you say, when people are concerned rightly, when people are
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worried about their savings accounts evaporating, when people are worried about filling up their,
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uh, car, putting food on the table, investigations are not a priority.
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Well, you know, with some exceptions, and I think, uh, Jim Jordan, uh, is the ranking member
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of the Judiciary Committee, you know, he says he's investigating James Comer House Oversight.
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He's going after, uh, Fauci and, uh, what looks as he has, uh, revealed what looks like an effort
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to use government, uh, U.S. money to shut down, uh, inquiring minds about the origin of the
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Wuhan virus, uh, and how it, uh, came to be that the United States did not pursue that aggressively.
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He says it looks, at least at this point, like, uh, Fauci and others, uh, actually reusing
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I mean, Anthony Fauci, among others, I think it's very important to understand Fauci in a
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Anthony Fauci is not just the, was, as he's retiring next month, not just the longstanding
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head of NIAID, but he's also America's biowarfare czar, right?
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These were powers that were granted him after 9-11 by the Bush administration.
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And I think, frankly, that's what stalled many investigations into Anthony Fauci's role.
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I mean, the amount of power that he's wielded throughout Washington, not, not, not for the,
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uh, not for the four decades, but, uh, explicitly for the 20 years since 9-11, that's something
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that's helped protect Fauci from both sides of the aisle.
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No, I mean, Rand Paul has been very effective or relatively effective sticking it to Fauci.
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I believe that there were, there, there are others who are more than capable of it, like
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I know he's looking at this and these things are all very, very important.
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And, and, and I, I, I agree we have to push, they have to push ahead on these investigations.
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But again, the idea that this was going to, um, summon a groundswell of support.
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And I think, uh, James Comer of house oversight, uh, time will tell, but I have every confidence
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that he will do exactly what he said he will do.
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Uh, and that's a big step out there for me, uh, with my skepticism of politicians these days.
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Uh, this is where I say, uh, Lee, if you will, uh, we always give our guests the, uh, the
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last word and your concluding thoughts, if you would, please.
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First of all, it's always great to be speaking with you.
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What we need to look at as Americans, not just the Republican party, but as how the country
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And I help all of us get that time and we get that piece and we get time to spend with
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our families and think, um, thank the Lord and thank the founders of this great country
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And that we not forfeit this incredible blessing that we've been given as Americans.
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He served notice that he will be subpoenaing Hunter Biden to fully investigate Biden corruption
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and his statement that China's purchase of Hunter's art looks convincingly like a payment
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for services, namely influence in the Biden administration.
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Please join us Monday for our discussion with the man who will lead the house oversight