Ep. 159 - I Spy…Democrats Threatening Our Republic!
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Summary
As the Mueller investigation into Roger Stone's niece's lemonade stand enters its fifth decade, the White House is finally pushing back, as it should. The more we learn about the Russia investigation, the clearer it becomes that it s a farce, initiated by Barack Obama s corrupt, crooked machine administration. We will analyze the facts as they stand today, but they seem always to be changing. Then, Google stops telling its employees not to be evil. We ll analyze what that means for conservatives, and the incredible stories of American soldiers escaping Nazi-occupied France on this day in history. And if we have time, we ll talk about the royal wedding.
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As the Mueller investigation into Roger Stone's niece's lemonade stand from 1996
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enters into its fifth decade, the White House is finally pushing back.
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As it should, because the more we learn about the Russia investigation,
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the clearer it becomes that it's a farce initiated by Barack Obama's corrupt,
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They seem always to be changing, but we'll analyze what we have.
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Then Google stops telling its employees not to be evil.
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We're going to analyze what that means for conservatives.
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Starbucks goes full homeless shanty, what that says about our culture,
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and the incredible stories of American soldiers escaping Nazi-occupied France on this day in history.
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And if we have time, we'll talk about the royal wedding.
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So much to get to today, beginning with just eviscerating the Obama administration.
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Day after day, we realize how corrupt and crooked all of them right up to the top were.
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We'll also be joined later by Carol Engel-Avriette,
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the author alongside 94-year-old World War II captain George Starks of a new book,
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The Coffin Corner Boys, One Bomber, Ten Men, and Their Harrowing Escape from Nazi-Occupied France.
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You might have seen the tweet over the weekend from Donald Trump.
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He goes, quote, I hereby demand and will do so officially tomorrow that the Department
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of Justice look into whether or not the FBI slash DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump
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campaign for political purposes and if any such demands or requests were made by people
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Now, this caused me to remember one of my favorite Obama tweets.
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It's just the absolute incredible troll levels of Barack Obama.
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It's a photo of him with a magnifying glass looking in at a girl.
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He told you right there, you know, as he said, he did it.
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But for a long time, we've been told, look, the Mueller investigation, it's just the FBI.
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In fact, when Donald Trump suggested on the campaign trail that there might be some shenanigans
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going on behind the scene, Hillary Clinton vigorously denied those rigged election claims.
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You know, every time Donald thinks things are not going in his direction, he claims whatever it is, is rigged against him.
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The FBI conducted a year long investigation into my emails.
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And it's funny, but it's also really troubling.
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By the way, we'll get into how the FBI handled Hillary versus how the FBI handled Donald Trump because it is night and day.
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And it's total evidence that Hillary Clinton was lying through her teeth here.
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It's ironic, of course, because immediately after the election, she says it's all rigged.
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This wasn't even just something she said on on the debate stage.
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On Wednesday night, Donald Trump did something no other presidential nominee has ever done.
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He refused to say that he would respect the results of this election.
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By doing that, he is threatening our democracy.
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Look, if you lose an election, I've lost elections.
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But we know in our country the difference between leadership and dictatorship, right?
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What she didn't tell you is that she's the dictator.
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It kind of sounds in that clip like she's saying, you know, I prefer democracy.
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Because immediately after the election, when she lost, she went, you know, before she said,
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Then after she lost, I believe she said, if I could quote correctly,
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She undermined the legitimacy of that election.
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She keeps flying overseas, criticizing the administration, criticizing Donald Trump,
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saying, you know, that he's undermining the U.S. on the world stage,
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that she doesn't support the policy of her own country.
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She's one of the best among them, as far as undermining the Republican administration goes.
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She's positively restrained compared to other leading Democrats.
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Her husband's former vice president, Al Gore, he just recently told University of Maryland
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graduates at their commencement that Donald Trump needs to be removed from office forcibly.
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There are, I know, a great many supporters of President Trump in this audience.
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he said, the way I look at it, Donald Trump is chemotherapy for America.
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Well, in medicine and in science, some experiments are terminated early for ethical reasons.
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But, also interesting to hear, he says, I know some of you support the president.
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This is not exactly a conservative campus, you know, a big state school, East Coast.
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And yet, when he said that, people start cheering.
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You're, yeah, you're right, buddy, because Donald Trump is doing well.
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Everything is going well, domestically and overseas,
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other than the ginned-up controversies that the federal bureaucracy and the Democrats keep trying to throw on him.
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But, then he says, sometimes, in science, treatment has to be terminated early for ethical reasons.
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Now, what he's saying, he's trying to make a joke, but he's also saying something.
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We lost the election, but we can't tolerate that we lost the election.
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The American people wanted something, but we know it's not good for them.
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And this is part and parcel of Democrats' strategy to try to impeach the president.
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This is not, to quote Hillary Clinton, a vast right-wing conspiracy.
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Democrats have been speaking openly and holding press conferences about how they want to impeach the president.
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I don't know, because they don't like him, because they just don't like him that much.
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Here we have Representative Steve Cohen talking about how they're going to impeach the president.
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I'm proud to stand here with my friend, Congressman Gutierrez, with other congresspeople who will be here and announcing that we're introducing articles of impeachment to remove President Trump from office.
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There will be, I believe, six signatories on the resolution.
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Democrats only respect elections when Democrats win.
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Democrats only respect democracy when Democrats win democratic elections.
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In fact, the Democrats have been trying to subvert the electoral process since long before this election.
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They lied to our faces at the time, all the way up to the top.
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Bombshell information now shows that Barack Obama's FBI interfered with and spied on Donald Trump's campaign much earlier than anybody thought.
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We know that the FBI planted a spy in the Trump campaign.
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Now it's just slowly over the last year and a half, it's chiseled away at their narrative.
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When they open their mouths, James Comey, Barack Obama, Loretta Lynch, when they open their mouths, there is no reason to believe a word that comes out of them.
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We also know that James Comey lied about when the Russia investigation started.
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James Comey said that the Russia investigation began in late July 2016.
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In part, I suppose it's based on that Steele dossier, which was totally ginned up and paid for by the Hillary Clinton campaign and by Democrats.
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So we see collusion there between the Democrats and the FBI.
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But now we know that an FBI informant who has been outed, according to reports, as Cambridge University professor Stephen Halper, that FBI informant started reporting to the FBI in early July 2016.
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And yet the FBI's informant, they snuck into the Trump campaign to spy on it.
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That guy was reporting back to the FBI by early July.
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Halper worked in the Nixon administration, the Ford administration, the Reagan administration.
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And this guy was sent in by the FBI to spy on Trump employee Carter Page and campaign employee George Papadopoulos.
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He went in there and spied on both of those guys.
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Now, did he just do it out of the goodness of his heart?
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We know that the FBI paid Halper, the federal government paid Halper, $411,000 between 2016 and 2017.
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To put that in perspective, that's more than the annual salary of the president of the United States.
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Well, it's much more than the annual salary of the current president of the United States, who doesn't take any money for his job.
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But the president, by law, is supposed to make $400,000 a year.
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This FBI informant was paid $411,000 between 2016 and 2017.
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Why was the FBI, why was the national security apparatus, investing so much money in this guy?
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This guy who's going in to spy on the Republican nominee's campaign for president of the United States.
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FBI, under the administration of a Democrat, Barack Obama, this guy's being paid a ton of money to go in and spy on the Republican.
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Now, some of the Trump critics, even on the right, they can't admit the gross injustice of all of this.
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Nominal Republican Eric Erickson, who used to run redstate.com, he tweeted out, quote,
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How does one infiltrate a political campaign as more than a menial volunteer?
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I mean, if someone got on payroll in the main office and was a spy, that reeks of incompetence on the campaign's part.
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Like, he's making excuses for Obama's FBI, which is spying on the Republican campaign.
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He would have been a good defense attorney for Alger Hiss.
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This guy is a well-credentialed former employee of Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan.
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Just because he's duplicitous and deceptive doesn't mean that you'd have to be foolish to speak to him.
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This guy is a long-standing Republican political operative.
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He's a guy who's well-respected in academic circles.
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I don't think it's crazy to let that guy in and have some meetings with him.
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You don't have to be a bumbling idiot to do that.
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The story here is not on the incompetence of the Trump campaign.
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What the story is here is on the duplicity and the deception of Barack Obama's national security apparatus
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So we know at this point, it's just a side note,
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It's craziest from the people on the right, because it totally misses the point.
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When you've got these egregious crimes being committed by the left and by the federal bureaucracy,
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and they say, yeah, but you know, Trump, he's a dummy, isn't he?
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The Democrats and the federal bureaucracy are trying to undermine
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the duly elected conservative Republican president of the United States,
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Not just Comey, the FBI director, John Brennan, CIA director for Barack Obama.
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John Brennan, by the way, Barack Obama's CIA director,
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who voted for the Communist Party nominee for president in 1976.
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Somehow, under Barack Obama, this guy gets to be in charge of the CIA.
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We could do a whole show on talk about incompetence or nefarious motives.
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So John Brennan, Barack Obama's CIA director, he knows that he lied, and he's getting nervous.
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Senator McConnell and Speaker Ryan, if Mr. Trump continues along this disastrous path,
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you will bear major responsibility for the harm done to our democracy.
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You do a great disservice to our nation and the Republican Party if you continue to enable
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You know, because you sound like you're getting a little nervous.
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Because John Brennan, Obama's CIA director, said that the Democrat cooked up Steele dossier
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was not used as the basis for the Russia investigation.
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I don't know anything about that Steele dossier, except we later found out he did know about
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the Steele dossier, and he talked to a lot of people about the Steele dossier,
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CNN has even admitted that the FBI used the dossier as justification to begin spying on the
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When CNN admits something damaging to Democrats, you just can't deny it anymore.
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It is beyond the point at which you can deny it.
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Now, still, the timelines don't quite add up, do they?
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Because now, mark my words, what Democrats are going to try to do is say, well, the Republicans
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are saying it began at two different times, and so that doesn't add up.
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The fact that you can point to two different times when it officially began and the official
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statements of Obama administration employees saying, oh, it began here, it began here, it
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What it really points out is that, broadly speaking, the Obama administration was determined to
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They're going to send in spies to the Trump campaign.
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And then, oh, okay, we got this dossier that Hillary funded.
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Because that's how Barack Obama used his government.
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I'm a member of an organization that was targeted by Barack Obama's IRS, a relatively right-wing
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organization, non-profit organization, was targeted by Barack Obama's IRS while he was
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He did it because he used the government to get his political opponents.
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Bill Clinton met with then Attorney General Loretta Lynch on her airplane while that plane
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Later, they say, oh, we're just talking about our grandkids.
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So really, the former president met with the sitting Attorney General who's about to
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investigate his wife for deleting federal records and mishandling classified material.
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You guys were just talking about your grandchildren, right?
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When that meeting leaked, because they tried to hide it from the public, when that meeting
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leaked, the FBI scrambled to identify and punish the source of the leak.
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That's according to another leak that came out last December, and a leak not reported
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James Comey admits that he exonerated Hillary Clinton before the FBI interviewed her.
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He admits that in his new book, Not a Conspiracy.
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He's had to admit it because the facts did not match his narrative.
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How about the first draft of his letter exonerating Hillary Clinton?
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The first draft of that accused her of gross negligence.
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Because, obviously, she was grossly negligent.
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She mishandled a ton of classified material, and then she bleached all of the materials.
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A later draft changed that phrase to extremely careless.
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Because gross negligence can mean prison time and fines, and the politicized Barack Obama
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administration and Barack Obama's FBI, James Comey's FBI, didn't want that to happen.
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James Comey also admitted that he publicized that second letter, that October letter, so
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that Hillary's inevitable regime would not be illegitimate.
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He did it because he knew that she was going to win, and he wanted to give her all the political
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advantages he could going into her administration.
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We know that Hillary Clinton mishandled emails.
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We don't know what kind of graph she was covering up because she wiped her servers.
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She destroyed federal records with bleach bit.
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And we know from Peter Strzok, that FBI official, we know from his texts that a redacted source
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writes, quote, the White House is running this.
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The White House is running this with regard to investigations on Donald Trump.
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The former press secretary for George W. Bush tweeted out, hey, how come no one's talking about this?
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The FBI said the White House is running this investigation.
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This Mueller investigation has gone on forever.
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I think at this point, they legitimately are investigating Manafort's cousins, sisters, nieces,
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lemonade stand that she had in Long Island in 1982.
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The Mueller investigation, it's going on forever.
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It's clear that he doesn't have a smoking gun, you know, and a photo of Donald Trump and
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The satire website Resistance Hole ran a headline.
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A 13th century tapestry from Franciscan monks shows Trump and Putin colluding together.
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And this investigation now has unfettered anti-constitutional power.
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There's no more pretense that this is unbiased, that it's nonpartisan.
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It always has been everything relating to Barack Obama is nakedly political.
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We cannot abide this fiction anymore that this is, oh, that's unbiased.
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They've been gunning for the Republican nominee since before he was the Republican nominee,
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It's nakedly political, and we need to fight back.
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Speaking of institutional wickedness, Google has now, this is like a caricature of a story.
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Google's old motto from its code of conduct used to be, don't be evil.
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Google now, you know, it censors conservatives and has all of our data and is a very spooky organization.
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They've replaced don't be evil with do the right thing.
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They had it for its entire existence, decades of existence.
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Do the right thing is much, because what do the right thing says implicitly is that sometimes evil things maybe can be good.
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They thought that don't be evil didn't get at what they were trying to do.
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Okay, maybe do the right thing means sometimes you've got to break a few eggs to make an omelet, get a little bit evil.
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What it also says, though, is that Google is becoming more overtly SJW, social justice warrior, overtly progressive.
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It's not just be an umpire or don't do bad things.
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You can't just stand by now, according to them.
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You've got to actively push this SJW agenda, this social justice warrior agenda.
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Now when you search for Daily Wire articles, you get Snopes results and PolitiFact results.
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That's, oh, no, you don't want to read the Daily Wire.
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YouTube, which is owned by Google, censors us all the time.
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I mean, we're constantly, my episode last week, I don't even remember what I was talking about.
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I was talking about some Democrat corruption, and it just cut off right in the middle.
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They constantly demonetize conservative videos.
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Dennis Prager did a video about how you should not murder.
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On the Ten Commandments series, they said, no, this isn't suitable for college students.
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Obviously, they've been pushing a progressive narrative for a long time at Google.
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Speaking of great things getting worse, Starbucks.
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So you remember earlier this month, a black man was arrested at Starbucks, and this became
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And the reason the police were called, I suppose he wasn't arrested.
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And it's because these guys came in and were just sitting at the table.
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And after a while, one of the employees came up and said, hey, you have to purchase a product
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I said multiple times, they come over and say, hey, you know, you've got to buy something.
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And they asked them to leave, and they said, no.
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So eventually, they called the police, and this became some big, big news story.
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As though it's horrifying that an employer, that a store, says you have to buy their product
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Anywho, Starbucks, instead of saying, hey, guys, you have to buy our product to be in
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our space, they're now saying, no, no, you don't need to buy anything.
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Anybody who's in our space, even if they don't buy a product, they're customers, which
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just isn't true, because customer has a definition.
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Starbucks can't change the definition of a word.
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You can use the bathrooms even if you don't buy anything.
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Why is it that these days, all political fights are about bathrooms?
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Isn't it the transgender bathroom, the Starbucks bathroom?
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I actually think because it's about who can use which bathrooms, who gets to use it, and
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Is it the people who own the bathroom, or is it the mob?
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Who decides who gets to use the bathrooms?
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The mob gets to decide who gets to use your property.
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The other thing is exclusiveness, because exclusiveness is now considered a bad thing.
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If it's a men's bathroom, that means that it's not a women's bathroom.
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And if it's a women's bathroom, it means it's not a men's bathroom.
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But some men think that they're women, or very much want to be women, or just are culturally
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And so they want to use the women's bathroom.
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But they can't use the women's bathroom, because they're not women, because they're men.
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That became a major political fight, and Barack Obama fanned those flames.
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He said, for the five people who are genuinely confused about your gender, keep doing what
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You're saying I have to buy a product to use a space?
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Some people don't have $3 for a latte, or don't, you know, want to spend their $3 on
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The correct answer to that is then you don't get to use the space, because that's the
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But in the modern, progressive, democratic idea of things, oh, how dare you?
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Oh, vagabonds want to use the bathroom at Starbucks and make it much worse for everybody, because
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And this brings us to the final point before I bring on our guest.
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Speaking of exclusiveness and nice things degrading themselves, I will just talk briefly
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As Americans love the royal wedding, got a lot of viewership in the U.S., especially women
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They love it because we all like a fairy tale, and women in particular like the story of a
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This has always been true at all places in the world, in all cultures, forever.
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And now we pretend to ourselves, because of feminism, that we're not allowed to like
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So Disney says, no more princesses falling in love with princes.
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They're going to not, you know, that movie Moana doesn't even have a prince.
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Or some of the love stories are about sisterly love now, or motherly love.
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Whatever they can to resist this traditional story.
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I'm sorry to say, I think I'm the only person who's actually saying this.
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But I don't think that David Bowie should be played at a royal wedding, you know.
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Maybe you open up with, oh Jesus, we adore thee, or some Anglican hymn, you know.
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Then a woman who, Meghan Markle, the new Duchess of Sussex, who walked down the aisle and married
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another man seven years ago, Till Death Do Us Part.
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Till Death Do Us Part turned out to be Till Two Years From Now Do Us Part.
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So five years ago, she was married to another man, and yet she walked down in white.
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I don't begrudge her divorce when you get married in a church that was founded by the
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most famous divorcee in all of history, Henry VIII.
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But even the farce of it, to walk down as though, it just punctures some of the magic
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Then when they walked out, the song that was playing was Etta James' This Little Light
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of Mine, again, a lovely song, not appropriate for the English monarchy for this high church
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Meghan has a website now on the royal page that says she's proud to be a feminist.
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That's what all of the mainstream media are reporting.
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If you modernize the monarchy, you don't make it better.
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Aristocracy comes from aristos, which is Greek for the best, right?
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Democracy reflects the people, the spirit of the age.
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The monarchy is supposed to be something to look up to, to elevate the people.
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If you modernize it and make it reflective of the people, you don't get a better monarchy.
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And it's cheap and it's weird and it's not a fairy tale.
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We've got to get to this day in history and our wonderful guest.
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Before we get to that, I've got a second bite of Facebook and YouTube.
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We're going to hear about some incredible stories escaping Nazi-occupied France during World War II.
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But if you are on Facebook or YouTube, you've got to go to dailywire.com right now.
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Next one up is the big boss, Ben Shapiro, who's away right now.
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I talk a little bit more about the royal wedding on Drew's show today, which became the Ben Shapiro radio show.
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And I'm sure that will be hilarious when Ben comes back in a fury that I was on his show while he was gone.
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We'll be right back with This Day in History, and you can return with your Leftist Tears Tumblr.
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On this day in history, a lot of things happened in World War II.
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In 1940, a special unit in Germany carried out a mission and murdered more than 1,500 hospital patients in Prussia.
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Those people deemed unfit by the scientifically barbaric German government and Nazi government.
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By the way, that special unit reported back to headquarters in Berlin that the patients had been successfully evacuated.
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I suppose they were successfully evacuated to their eternal reward, but they were murdered in cold blood on Earth.
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In 1942, on this day in history, 4,300 Jews were deported from a Polish town to a Nazi camp at Sobibor, and all were gassed to death.
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A quarter of a million Jews were killed there between 1942 and 1943.
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The German firm IG Farben set up a factory outside of Auschwitz.
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And, on this day in history, 1940, the French Ninth Army surrendered.
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As you might know, I'm waving the flag of the French Army right now, as a matter of fact.
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The French Army surrendered itself as a nation.
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We're lucky enough today to be joined by Carol Engel-Avriot, the author alongside of World War II veteran Captain George Starks of Coffin Corner Boys, One Bomber, Ten Men, and Their Harrowing Escape from Nazi-Occupied France.
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Carol, so this book, just to give a little overview of it, the book tracks 20-year-old George Starks on a 300-mile trek to Switzerland.
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He's got a 20-millimeter shell fragment in his thigh.
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And yet, these days, 20-year-olds suffer nervous breakdowns when their parents forget to upgrade their iPhone data plans.
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How responsible do you think, in your research for this book, the war was for shaping what we now call the greatest generation?
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Well, you raised some interesting questions there because, really, George was 19 when he first got his pilot's wings, so even younger than 20.
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There was one of them that was 27, and to the rest of them, he was ancient, so they called him the old man Pops or Pappy.
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And it was an amazing thing, really, because George has often told me all 10 of them were from very different backgrounds,
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religious backgrounds different, socioeconomic, family situations, educational backgrounds different, but they all had one thing in common.
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They were all patriots, and they all wanted to go to war to protect America.
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And, in fact, last week, somebody asked me, you know, Carol, to whom did you write this book?
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Well, obviously, people who enjoy reading about great heroes and World War II and all.
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But I have seven grandchildren, and I actually wrote the book for them because if we don't get these stories down and recorded, we're going to lose them.
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And I want my young grandchildren, a little too young right now to read it, but I want them to know what these men really did.
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We call them men, but they were really boys when they got started.
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Of course, unfortunately, through the war, they grew up very quickly.
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Well, it's the stories aspect that I really like because the stories in this book are incredible.
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And so I grew up, as a kid, I grew up hearing these stories.
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You know, a lot of these veterans are going up to their eternal reward at a faster clip.
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So the people who live through it are leaving the earth.
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Do you think there's a risk here that these narratives are going to be lost to history?
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Obviously, there aren't a whole lot of books out like yours.
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How much are we going to remember in 50 or 100 years?
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Well, you know, we need to get as many recorded as we can.
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Now, this one book does have 10 stories, each of the crew and what happened to them after they were shot down.
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Of course, now, George Starks, the pilot, is the primary person in the book because he goes, he returns to Europe and later and retraces his steps.
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It took us about three years to research the book and for me to interview him.
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And only one other of the crew had been alive when I started this book.
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And that was actually the only Jewish member of that crew, Irv Baum.
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And he unfortunately passed away about eight or nine months ago.
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But I was so privileged and thankful that I was able to interview him, too, before he did pass away.
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And, you know, on this point, there were these multiple faith backgrounds of people.
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And George says at one point in the book, I need help, God.
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They say there are no atheists in the foxholes.
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Broadly in the culture, we see that religion is declining.
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And younger generations appear to be much less religious than older generations.
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Do you think it's the suffering of war trampling through France, surrounded by Nazis with a broken foot, that brings out people's need for God?
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Well, I think any time a person comes face to face with their mortality in a situation where their life is actually going to be on the line
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and might could end at any moment, I think that in and of itself produces sort of a landscape for thinking about what may be eternal and what might not be eternal.
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And George certainly, as he was going along, reached that place, that point where he was at the end of his rope in human terms.
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And so what he did then was turn to, at that moment, what he felt might be a higher power that could possibly help him.
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There's an incredible scene in the book where he really literally thinks that he just cannot go on.
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And he has been without food for a number of days.
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He's been wet and cold and, you know, he's up in snow country and he just calls out.
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He says, God, you know, I can't do this on my own.
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And speaking of that higher power and perhaps forgiving your enemies and loving your neighbor,
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we see in his later life, Captain Starks and his wife, Betty Jo, they go back to France after the war.
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They find the civilians who risked their own lives to save his life.
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And broadly speaking, the United States makes friends with our enemies after wars.
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We have a special relationship with Great Britain, although we fought two wars with them right at the beginning.
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Maybe North Korea soon, depending on how this meeting goes next month.
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So I want to know what insight did you gather from working with Captain Starks on dealing with your former foes,
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What that says for us individually and what it says for U.S. policy.
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Well, you know, really, when he returned to France, these were the people that had helped him.
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And actually, most of the people that he ran into did help him.
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It took him a long time to hook up with the actual organized underground or resistance.
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So from day one, the people that helped him were just normal, average, everyday Frenchmen, men, women and children.
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They just simply knew that, you know, they disliked the Germans for coming in and what they were doing to their country.
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And they wanted to do what they could with any American soldier or ally, you know, that they ran into.
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So to me, that was the most incredible thing, because these people had everything to lose.
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For example, the woman that he stayed with the very first night.
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OK, she had a little girl who was eight or nine years old.
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Her husband at that time was a POW, Polish POW with the Germans.
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And had she been caught, there is no question but what she would have been executed and probably her daughter as well, at the very least, sent to a concentration camp.
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I mean, when they caught, as I think you write in the book, when they caught people who were housing runaway American soldiers, men, women and children, they'd pull them out and they'd shoot them in the head.
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Right. Exactly. So. So when when George was shot down and after and in this 300 mile trek to freedom in Switzerland, he vowed two things to himself.
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Number one, that if he ever if he made it, if he lived through the experience and got back to the States, he would never lose touch with his crew again as long as he lived.
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The second vow that he made to himself was that at some some point one day, if he could, he would go back to France and try to locate all those brave souls that had helped him and helped his men.
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It's an amazing story. It's a really amazing story. And the book achieves something which I think is really incredible.
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It really almost makes you like the French. I hate to I don't know that I could even say it on this, but it really does.
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I apologize for my French army flag joke. The book is Coffin Corner Boys.
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It's by Carol Engel-Evriette alongside Captain George Starks. It's a really engrossing read, really enjoyable and tells a story that is quickly being forgotten.
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So read it so you don't forget it. Go get the book. Coffin Corner Boys. Carol, thank you so much for being here.
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Thank you so much, Michael. Good to be with you today. God bless.
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You too. So that was wow. It's a really fascinating to talk to and a really fascinating book.
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Like, that's our show. So go read the book. We can talk about it tomorrow. You come back tomorrow, we'll talk about it.
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Listen, guys, I'm like getting ready for my bachelor party. I'm getting ready to get married soon.
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We are, you know, send me, send those good vibes, man. Thoughts and prayers. I can take them.
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And I will see you tomorrow. Get your mailbag questions in. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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