The Great America Saturday Show： February 21, 2026
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Justice Samuel Alito announces his retirement from the Supreme Court and joins us on The Great America Show with Stephen Gardner, host of the Stephen Gardner Show, to discuss the news and much, much more. Also, as we sit here tonight, our largest carry, Gerald Ford is on his way over to the Middle East as the Ayatollah Khamenei continues to ramp up his inflammatory remarks to President Trump.
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Hello, everybody. Welcome to The Great America Show. It's great to have you with us on another
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beautiful day in America. I hope you all enjoyed your long weekend. We appreciate you coming back
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here tonight to see us for The Great America Show. There was a lot of news that happened over the
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weekend. In just one moment, we're going to be joined by my pal Stephen Gardner, host of The
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Stephen Gardner Show, to take it all up. But first, the big news of the evening is President
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Trump getting his fourth Supreme Court justice. The word tonight mulling around Washington, D.C.,
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is that Justice Samuel Alito may, may, it's not confirmed, but may be stepping down before
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President Trump is out of office. So that'll give President Trump effectively his fourth Supreme
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Court justice. So we'll keep you posted on how that plays out. And if he ultimately does decide to,
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I think it's the right thing to do for these justices. Now, we hate to see them go.
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But the truth of the matter is, folks, we don't live forever. And our days on earth
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begin to become numbered the day we're born. So it's been the responsible thing to do in the past.
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There's been some Democrat ones who decided not to do so, which gave President Trump the three that
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he's already had. So we'll see how this all plays out. Also, as we sit here tonight, our largest carry,
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the Gerald Ford is on its way over to the Middle East as the Ayatollah Khamenei continues to ramp up
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his inflammatory remarks to President Trump, threatening to sink ships if they are headed
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over there and some other inflammatory words that aren't going to end well for him. I guess he
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didn't take the cues on just what happened to Nicolas Maduro a few months ago, but he's going to
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soon learn to find out who is learning to find out tonight. The Marxist Dems, the Epstein files,
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folks, which they've cried about for a year now, has completely backfired on the Marxist Democrats,
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and it's done all but Donald Trump. It's completely backfired on them. It's very, very sad.
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But this is the reality of what it was. And now they have to deal with it. Folks,
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to take all of this up and much, much more, as promised, Stephen Gardner, host of the Stephen
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Gardner Show. Steve, good to see you, my friend. Let's start with first tonight,
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the words that President Trump may be getting a fourth Supreme Court justice pick should Justice
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Alito decide to call it quits and retire. Yeah, Justice Alito has been signaling that at age 75,
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he doesn't want to be the next Ruth Ginsburg. And so he's saying, wait a minute, I've got this book
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coming out. We're going to be wrapping up. The Republicans control the Senate for now. Maybe this
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is my time to sunset, move back into the general population and allow President Trump to put a
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younger conservative on the bench, somebody that can serve for many years, decades, and push forward
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conservative values. I think it's brilliant. I think it would be a really good move. Alito has been
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an amazing justice, super honorable. Most people like him. The left doesn't like him, but he does
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really good breakdown of his thinking. I think that this would be absolutely incredible. And the fact
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that it gets under the skin of the Democrats also makes me very happy. Yeah, especially you pointed
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out Ginsburg. She, you know, unfortunately decided to be selfish, knowing that, you know, she wasn't doing
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well and didn't give the pick to the Democrats, which then left it for President Trump. You know,
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not a good look. But yeah, Alito has been one of the most, I mean, reliable conservatives out there.
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Him and Clarence Thomas among two of the best to ever sit on the court. So, you know, it's one of
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those things you're sad to see go, but, you know, we appreciate the service and we're forever grateful
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that you're doing the responsible thing. Now, some conservatives are a little bit nervous,
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Stephen, because there has been a little bit of inconsistency from some of President Trump's
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picks and namely Amy Coney Barrett and Justice Kavanaugh when it came to some very, very important
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things. And, you know, MAGA Republicans in America versus haven't been particularly happy
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as we're still waiting some landmark cases, birthright citizenship among one of the ones that we're
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waiting on. So we're going to see how they decide to rule on that. But according to Polymarket and all
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the betting markets, not looking good tariffs, among some of the other things that they're waiting
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on. Do you think this time around, President Trump will go with his gut and not listen to some of the
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people around him to pick the most conservative who will be on that court for the rest of their lives
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and will, you know, rule in favor of truth, justice in the American way? I mean, anytime you pick
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somebody, you know, it's really hard to fully understand how another human being is thinking
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or receiving data with their brain. But, you know, obviously, he's going to do his best.
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Kavanaugh, sometimes a disappointment. Coney Barrett, sometimes a disappointment. I mean,
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it's obvious that they are much smarter than Jackson. Oh, yeah. Who doesn't seem to understand or be able
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to grasp who likes to go to the Emmys and pretend cosplay that she's part of, you know, pop culture
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or something like that. But I think that President Trump has good judges to pick from and that he will
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probably go with somebody that's, you know, under the age of 60 that has at least 10, 10 to 20 years
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that lines up with his thinking with conservative values and America first. I think those will probably
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be the two things that he will look for in a justice, whether it's a man or a woman.
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Yeah. Like I said, we just got to hope and we've got to pray that this time around,
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you know, things work out better than they have because the inconsistency with Coney Barrett
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and Kavanaugh. Steve, you mentioned Ketanji Brown Jackson, who's clearly not as sharp as some of her
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peers on the Supreme Court. I want to talk about someone in Congress who's not as sharp as some
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of her peers, and that's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who was doing some word salads over in Munich this
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week. I think that this is such a, you know, I think that this is a, this is, of course, a very longstanding
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Martha, you bring me on your show, you show me the most uncomfortable 20 seconds of television
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I've ever seen. My takeaway from that. What happened there? What do you think?
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Well, I think it's a person who doesn't know what she actually thinks. And I've seen this way too much
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in Washington with politicians where they are given lines. And when you ask them to go outside,
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the lines they were given, they completely fall apart because look, does AOC, does anybody really
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believe that AOC has very thoughtful ideas about the global world order or about what the United
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States should do with our policy in Asia or our policy in Europe? No, this is a person who is
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mouthing the slogans that somebody else gave her. And it shows how thin the Democrats policy actually
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is on all these very, very important questions. Look, that was embarrassing. If I had given that answer,
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I would say, you know what, maybe I'd go read a book about China and Taiwan before I go out on the
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world stage again. I hope that Congresswoman Cortez has the same humility. I'm skeptical.
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This also comes, Stephen, as AOC, speaking of geography, mentioned that Venezuela was south of
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the equator. It was earlier this week. I mean, truly, truly embarrassing. And that's why I like J.D.
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so much because he's so practical to answer to say, listen, if that were me, you guys would absolutely
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obliterate me. You'd probably even accuse me of having some sort of health issue, some sort of
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dementia. You know, President Biden regularly says that he's grateful that Jimmy Carter lived long
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enough to see a president worse than himself in Joe Biden. And I'm sure Kamala Harris was like, oh,
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my gosh, thank goodness. Somebody is worse at articulating a message than myself. She she seemed
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very caught off guard. I've got to tell you, she was she was asked questions about taxing the rich,
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about the border, about foreign policy, about foreign war. And this was her first time on the
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global stage. And I think she just ruined any chance of being president of the United States in the
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future. She obviously showed she has no knowledge of foreign policy. She has no ability. I mean, that
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wasn't even a tough government leader. That was like a poorly, you know, easy softball question
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from an international reporter. And she couldn't she couldn't handle that. It was sad. Like J.D.
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Vance said, hopefully she'll go read a book, because if she's going to try to take over show
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Schumer's Senate seat, she's going to have to know this stuff. You know what, Stephen? I in a regular
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world, I would agree with you. But in the world we live in now, I got to disagree with you. These
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people will vote for anybody other than and I'm talking about the Democrats. I don't vote for
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anybody with just a pulse. I mean, we watched them vote for Joe Biden, who, you know, was a walking
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mannequin. We watched them vote for Kamala Harris, who was either drunk at 24 seven or just incapable of,
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you know, cognitively putting together a sentence. So I think that at this point,
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Stephen, this point, Stephen, it's a prerequisite to not know where you are or what you're doing
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to be voting for the Democrats. I want to take a quick break here, Steve. When we come back,
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I want to get President Trump's reaction to that. He saw it because he sees everything.
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It was just as good as J.D.'s, if not better. Folks, we're talking with Stephen Gardner,
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host of The Stephen Gardner Show. If you're joining us on YouTube or Rumble or audio,
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please be sure to hit the like, subscribe, follow button. We're coming right back with Stephen.
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Steve, before we went to break there, I'd mentioned that President Trump, of course,
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reacted on his way back to Washington, D.C. last night. Let's take a quick listen.
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By the way, I watched AOC answering questions in Munich. This was not a good look with the United
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States. I watched Gavin Newsom answering questions in Munich, and this was a bad look for our country.
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This was a bad... These two people are incompetent. And at least Hillary's competent. She's just
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Trump deranged. She was so deranged. She is an angry woman. But I watched the other two
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speaking and answering basic questions. Look, Gavin has destroyed California. And AOC, I never
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really got her... I never heard her speak very much. And they started answering questions. She
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had no idea what was happening. She had no idea how to answer, you know, very important questions
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concerning the world. But she can't answer questions concerning New York City either,
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See, even before we went to cut up on a break there, I had said to you, I disagree with you
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briefly about her reading a book and it helping. Do you agree with my sentiment after the fact
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that, like, they'll just vote for anybody with the D in front of their name?
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I'm using a common sense, conservative, educated brain.
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And I have to remember that if she got voted in in the first place, she's probably not going
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to be voted out. I mean, she messed up things with a massive billion dollar contract with Amazon
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years ago. I mean, just over and over again, she is an embarrassment. And yet the people of New
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York continue to vote her in. I don't know. Maybe they think she's pretty. Maybe it's just the fact
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that she's the incumbent. The fact that she, you know, stands up for woke ideology. I don't I
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don't personally get it. She wouldn't last out here in Utah. But apparently in New York, they love
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Yeah. And New York is a you were here about two weeks ago now. And we were talking with your wife
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and she was saying how much you loved it. And I couldn't believe it coming from where you come
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from to be here. It's like every time I leave here for a trip, I question as I get back on that plane
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back into LaGuardia Airport. What the hell am I still doing here? Why do I still live here? And I guess
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probably the easy answer is because I'm close to family. And, you know, that's the thing I value
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most being an unmarried man here. But it's just become such a terrible place. Even we've got our
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idiot mayor now proposing. I think he had a nine and a half percent tax today because Kathy Hochul won't get
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on board with his stupidity of free everything. I listened to Joe Rogan's podcast, probably one of
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the few that I actually listened to. And he had Cheryl Hines on, who's RFK's wife. And I was listening
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to it this morning. And, you know, they were talking about politicians promising and over promising
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and under delivering. And he asked her a good question. He was like, do you think that these or
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she asked him, rather, do you think these politicians fully intend on keeping up their
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promises or do you think they're just total liars? And Rogan was like, you know, I think
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they're just total liars. And they sit there and they lie to the voters knowing damn well they're
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not going to do any of their stuff. And nobody ever holds them accountable because you've got
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people like Nancy Pelosi who've, you know, sat in Congress for 100 years. You've got Chuck Schumer's
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been there for 100 years. You've got Mitch McConnell, who's finally leaving after 100
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years. And it's like they lie to these people and the people just don't remember it. Now,
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your audience and my audience, Stephen, they remember when we do something wrong because
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they let us know in the comments that they're not happy and that they won't be back.
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OK, these are educated people who are watching you and I. What the heck is going on with the
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voters who vote for these Democrats and Republicans? I got to be honest, too.
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Yeah, I you know, I want to say that there's good people that are in Congress and those are the ones
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that I try to have on my show. But I do think a lot of people, they just make promises and then they
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get to Washington, D.C. and they go, I'm not going to be able to solve that. We'll just kick this
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can down the road and some future person. But then they stay in. You know, you got like Mitch
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McConnell. The guy's been in in government longer than I've been alive. He's been milking America
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longer than I've been alive. So I wish that there were term limits. But I also wish that there was
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a ban on stock trading. The problem is the people that can stop stock trading and put in term limits
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are the people that we need to stop. So it's just it's not going to happen.
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I know it's such a sad proposition that this is what we're I mean, a rock and a hard place is,
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I think, an understatement for where we're at right now with what we're dealing with.
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So, Stephen, let's talk about the Epstein files. You and I have done it and people are tired of
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hearing about them. We're not going to talk about them per se. But I want to talk about the effects
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of them, because over the weekend, the OJ dropping a list of a few hundred names of people involved,
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dropping millions and millions of documents so far. And it's played out exactly as I suspect.
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And I think you suspect it as well. The Democrats are completely underwater in this. It's completely
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backfired on the Democrats. Now, let's be frank with why they want the Epstein files out. They
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thought they were somehow getting Trump implicated, that Donald Trump was some sort of child predator,
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and he preyed on young children. We found out quite the opposite. As a matter of fact, Stephen,
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we found out that 20 years ago, just under 20 years ago, President Trump ran and snitched,
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this is a good snitching, to the police over in Miami after Epstein got arrested the first time
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and said, I'm so glad you got this guy. Everyone knows what he's been up to. That doesn't sound like
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a man to me, Stephen, who's partaking in the Epstein files the way that some other people
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have, like Bill Clinton. Your thoughts before we roll a clip. Well, this is what President Trump was
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trying to articulate, and I believe he failed at it. But when he said that the Jeffrey Epstein is a
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hoax, what he was trying to say is attaching me to Jeffrey Epstein's bad behavior is the hoax,
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and they're going to use it against us. And because he didn't just come right out and be
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helpful, it's now the number one issue that he has next to maybe Israel or Netanyahu or something
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like that. Like, it is something that has been really hard for him, but he's not in there. I never
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believed he was going to be in there, but I wanted the files to come out so that we could figure out
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what the truth was. But right now, it's almost all Democrats. Many of them linked to Biden and even
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more to Obama. But yeah, it's a shame. Yeah, they've caught themselves in a little bit of
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a pickle here. Hillary Clinton was doing an interview, and I mean, she was all over the
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place, first denying they had any connection with him at all, didn't know him. She said she didn't
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know him, but then admitted, oh, well, Bill was on the plane maybe once or twice. Let's take a listen
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to Hillary. And speaking of words, Alex, from the Democrat caucus.
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You know, we have no links. We have a very clear record that we've been willing to talk
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about, which my husband has said he took some rides on the airplane for his charitable work.
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I did on a few occasions, and thousands of people go to the Clinton Global Initiative. So
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it, to me, is not something that is really at the heart of what this matter is about.
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They are accused, and in both cases, were convicted of horrific crimes against girls and women.
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That should be the focus. And we are more than happy to say what we know, which is very limited
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and totally unrelated to their behavior or their crimes. And we want to do it in public,
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There are calls for another individual who denies wrongdoing to go before Congress on this matter.
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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew. Do you think he should testify?
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I think everybody should testify who was asked to testify. I just want it to be fair. I want
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everybody treated the same way. That's not true for my husband and me, because other witnesses
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were asked to testify. They gave written statements under oath. We offered that. They want to pull us,
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why do they want to pull us into this? To divert attention from President Trump. This is not complicated.
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I mean, that's brutal. You know, this is a woman who's enabled Bill Clinton his entire life,
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as he's, you know, done his promiscuous behavior in the White House, in the Oval Office, as a matter
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of fact. And now she's, you know, of course, playing the victim. Everyone should testify.
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Her and her husband ran from testifying when they were called to testify, and they were going to do
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behind closed doors with the transcript to not embarrass them in front of a committee. They
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chose to run. Yeah. This has all the earmarks of what happened with the Russia collusion, right?
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As Trump starts to take over as the front runner in 2016, the Clintons start realizing, oh, wait a
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minute. We have a problem with Bill Clinton taking money from Russia. And I've got this in my emails.
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Therefore, we're going to destroy 30,000 emails. And we're going to fabricate this story that Putin
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controls Donald Trump and that he is a Russian asset. So they end up making this stuff up. This is
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exactly what's going on. Like, oh, crap. Now, Jeffrey Epstein coming to the White House 17 times,
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riding on the airplane, pictures with, you know, underage girls. This is all starting to look
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really bad. Oh, I know what the problem is. Donald Trump is trying to steer the attention away from
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himself. Right. Are you kidding me? There's 4 million documents. And the documents clearly say
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that he was the snitch down in Florida that said, if you go after Ghislaine Maxwell,
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a truly evil person, you will get Jeffrey Epstein. That's what came out of the Epstein files.
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Yep. And they're completely beat on it. President Trump laid in on it. Let's take a listen.
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So Hillary Clinton said in an interview today that she and her husband are getting pulled
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into the Epstein matter to divert attention from you and that your administration has something to
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hide. What's your responsibility? I have nothing to hide. I've been exonerated. I have nothing to do
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with Jeffrey Epstein. They went in hoping that they'd find it and found just the opposite. I've
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been totally exonerated. In fact, Jeffrey Epstein was spiting that I don't get elected with some
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author, a sleazebag, by the way. And I've been totally exonerated. No, no. They're getting pulled
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in and that's their problem. I don't know. They're going to have to see what happens. But I watched
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her in Munich and she seriously has Trump derangement syndrome. I've been totally exonerated
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on Epstein. And it's really interesting because they've been pulled in. Think of it. They've
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been pulled in. And many other Democrats have been pulled in. Your thoughts, Stephen. I mean,
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he's right. He has been exonerated in the sense that his name is not there. He's not connected
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to the evil, bad, sadistic behavior of Jeffrey Epstein. And I don't know that he even believes
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that Bill Clinton is guilty, but he does not want to be anywhere near this story. And on
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the one hand, it's been really helpful for redeeming his reputation. On the other hand, it's been
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really bad. There's many people saying that this is now the Epstein cover-up administration. So
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I still think that he needs to get out in front of this better than he has. And I hope that he will
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going forward. But right now, the Clintons, they're going to do everything in their power
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to avoid testifying. They're probably going to plead the fifth. They will use every excuse under
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the sun to distance themselves from Jeffrey Epstein. That's what I think is going to happen.
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Yeah, you're right. I think I agree with you 100%. Folks, we're taking one more quick break here on
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Thanks, everybody, for staying with us here on The Great America Show. Steve,
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are we going to war with Iran? Right now, as we speak, the USS General Ford is on its way over to
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the Middle East as the Ayatollah. He's been doing some tough guy talking. Donald Trump doesn't like
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that tough guy talk. He didn't tolerate it with Kim Jong-un, and he's not going to tolerate it,
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I think, with the Ayatollah, who, by the way, has been hiding in a dirt hole for like the last six
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months. Yeah. I don't know that we're going to war, but we're certainly signaling that we're going
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to war. President Trump said that the conversations with the leader of Iran were actually productive,
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but in case they don't go their way, that the U.S. military will be there and prepared.
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Right now, you've got the USS Gerald Ford heading that direction. You've got other water military
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vessels on their way. I think what we're about to see is a Venezuela-like pressure campaign where
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we're going to have a lot of military power in the area. I don't know that we're going to see
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a miraculous future movie, you know, extraction of the Ayatollah or something like that, but I do believe
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that this is a full court press in order to get them to stand down on nuclear weapons and back off
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on our ally Israel and maybe even put some pressure on them to do less business with China.
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Yeah, or totally stop it. Yeah, we took out their darling Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro and
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brought him to America where he's sitting in jail just a few miles down the road from me.
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So he should take that as a cue to what can happen to him. You mentioned Cuba. President Trump
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gave some words on it last night on Air Force One. Let's take a listen.
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Good morning, Cuba to make a deal. What does that deal look like? What do you want them to do?
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Cuba is right now a failed nation and they don't even have jet fuel to get for airplanes to take
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off. They're clogging up their runway. We're talking to Cuba right now and Marco Rubio talking to Cuba
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right now and they should absolutely make a deal because it's a humanity. It's really a humanitarian
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threat. And we have a lot of great Cuban Americans and they're going to be very happy when they're
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going to be able to go back and say hello to their relatives and do things that they should have been
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allowed to do for a long time. I'm very interested in the people that are here that were treated so
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badly by Castro and the Cuban authorities. They have been treated horribly. So we'll see how it all turns
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out. But Cuba and us, we are talking. In the meantime, there's an embargo. There's no oil.
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There's no money. There's no anything. If a deal isn't made, would you consider an operation like
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the one in Venezuela? I don't want to answer that. Why would I answer that? If I was,
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it wouldn't be a very tough operation as you can figure. But I don't think that'll be necessary.
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For him to not answer that, it means anything's on the table and everything is on the table and
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extracting the leader of Cuba far easier, I think, than Maduro.
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I don't know that he's going to even have to do that because they've seen what he could do
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in Venezuela, which was much more heavily guarded, much more armed. The protection, the inland,
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all of that. Cuba is a very easy to entrap island. Right now, their power grids are failing.
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They're running out of fuel because part of their deal with helping Venezuela and China
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and helping with spying on the United States of America was that they would get access to cheap
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oil through Venezuela. Well, that's now been cut off. And so there's a real chance of food issues,
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as the president said there. They don't even have fuel for their airplanes to take off. But I don't
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I don't think President Trump means to harm them. I think he just wants bad leadership to step out of
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the way, quit harassing the United States of America, quit spying on us, quit doing operations
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on behalf of Venezuela and Colombia. So it'll be really interesting to see what happens. But this is
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like he said, this is easy peasy, but he's not going to open up about what they want to do.
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Trump is a master poker player. Nobody knew what they were going to do to Maduro. Nobody knew what
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they were going to do to Iran's nuclear facilities. So he holds his cards close to his chest.
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Yeah. And I got to be honest, this time around, Stephen, the leaks out of the White House
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have, I mean, been to such a minimum. It's great that he's got people around him this time,
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you know, who are, you know, tight lipped. And I mean, they have no choice. It's it's national
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security. Before we wrap up, I want to get your take on something. I've been following this.
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I'm one of these, you know, true crime junkies. I was big on the case up in Idaho. The four girls
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who were brutally murdered by Brian Kohlberger. I followed that case. Absolutely disgusting. I've
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been following this Nancy Guthrie case out in Arizona. You and I were both in Arizona,
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just a few months ago, a few miles away from where that happened. Your thoughts on how the
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police out there are handling this case. To me, I'll give you my take real quick. It's hard to
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believe that we live in such a surveillance society where we're being surveilled 24 seven
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by every doorbell, as we saw during the Super Bowl commercial ring, every phone call. And we now,
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you know, it was a month later. We can't find this guy who abducted an 84 year old woman from her
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house. No car. They have his belongings that he bought from Walmart. I mean, they said a backpack
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and a jacket. To me, it doesn't seem that hard to go to, you know, 10 Walmarts and run an algorithm
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to see who bought those two items. A month later, we still have no idea what's going on.
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You know, I imagine that they're doing their best, but it is a mystery why they haven't been able to
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track this person down. I mean, they've got ring doorbell camera information. As you mentioned,
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they've got DNA samples. They know what equipment was purchased and, and most likely where it was from.
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The fact that this person has been able to disappear. I mean, I can see why they started
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to question whether the family was in on it or the son-in-law and they've all allegedly been cleared
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by the FBI, but it's, it's very sad. I hope that this woman ends up being found alive and return.
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I don't know that she will. I've also read online that they may have been able to get down into Mexico
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by now. And that's why they're struggling to find them as that trail has gone cold, but it's a,
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it's a sad situation. You know, it is interesting just how much media attention this is getting
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when I think a lot of the media attention should be on the fraud that's happening around the country.
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But of course they like to cover stuff like this instead of what would be good for the nation.
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Yeah. Yeah. I agree with you a hundred percent, but, uh, president Trump is a good man to, to,
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you know, the, all of our flaws as human beings, he's a good man. Obviously Savannah Guthrie is, um,
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a very big Trump hater. And, um, you know, her mother was no fan of Trump either, but that's who
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president Trump is. He's, he sent in all his resources, um, to help these people. And, uh,
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it tells you, like I said, who Donald Trump is, by the way, um, some, some news coming out of it
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right now, they're actually using some genetic genealogy testing right now to try to match
00:31:40.860
some samples that DNA from the glove came back a negative. Basically what that means is, uh,
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if you ever get arrested, uh, if you ever run through anything, they take your, your fingerprints
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and, you know, anything like this ever happens, it runs through a database to see if you're a match.
00:31:55.800
So what that means is the DNA from that glove was not a match to someone who's been arrested before,
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but it's being run through now a genealogy system. So like a 23 and me, which is by the way,
00:32:05.260
how they call it Brian Kohlberger, the man who killed those four girls in Idaho. As I mentioned,
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they run it through, uh, you know, 23 and me or ancestry.com. And then, uh, you know,
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I think they're more likely to get some pings back from that to see whose DNA matches.
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Steven Gardner. We can talk for another two, three, four, five hours. Uh, I appreciate you
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joining us today here. You get the last word, my friend. Uh, I just, I I'm excited about the
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prospect of president Trump being able to put another younger conservative on the bench for
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many, many years. Uh, the economy is looking really good. Japan just, uh, started pouring the
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$550 billion into the U S economy. That's only one 36th of the money that has been pledged to the
00:32:50.340
United States. I I'm optimistic. I know we need to get those food prices down or those wages up.
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And so hopefully we'll get there. Amen. My brother. Amen. Steven Gardner. I'll talk to you
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