Democrat Party HATES Law-Enforcement, Newsom gets behind Dyslexia & a Tale of Tucker Turbulence Week In Review
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Summary
Ted Cruz and Ben Ferguson discuss the Democratic Party's new stance on ICE agents, Gavin Newsom's bizarre comparison of law enforcement officers to Nazis, and Tucker Carlson's attempt to make a political statement at the Super Bowl halftime show.
Transcript
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And here are some of the stories that you may have missed that we talked about this week.
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First up, the Democratic Party as a whole, they've made it clear they are now the anti-law enforcement party.
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And their leader, Barack Obama, well, he says it's totally fine to go against ICE agents with new disparaging remarks.
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Also, Gavin Newsom got his feelings hurt and decided to hit back at Senator Cruz.
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Yes, this isn't a joke and we'll play it for you.
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And it didn't go very well, especially one of his big lies.
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It's the Week in Review and it starts right now.
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And this is where I've been saying this a lot over and over again, especially in TV.
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The Democratic Party as a whole is anti-law enforcement.
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A perfect example of this being part of their platform center is Barack Obama doing a podcast this week.
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And he is, I would argue, blessing the Democratic movement, right?
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I'm probably one of the biggest names in the Democratic Party, if not the biggest name of the elder statesman now that people listen to.
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I'm giving my blessing that you can attack ICE agents now.
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Here, let's give a listen to what he had to say.
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The rogue behavior of agents of the federal government is deeply concerning and dangerous.
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The sort of behavior that, you know, in the past we've seen in authoritarian countries and we've seen in dictatorships, but we have not seen in America.
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I mean, you're calling ICE agents who are just enforcing the law rogue agents.
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That is from a former eight-year president and the leader of the Democratic Party still.
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By the way, that same message was conveyed by Gavin Newsom in Munich.
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But I want to remember all those images of masked men, the secret police, something familiar in Germany.
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Those first images came out of my state, the second largest city in the United States of America.
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And 700 active duty Marines sent not overseas, but to the second largest city in the United States of America, militarizing the streets of my city.
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Masked men, masked men showing up, unaccountable.
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That is Gavin Newsom comparing American law enforcement to Nazis.
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Yep, yep, which, by the way, is what Obama was doing, too.
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By the way, just like AOC and Whitmer, Newsom is apparently thoroughly historically illiterate.
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He said we've never seen National Guards federalized in the states.
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I guess his history book does not discuss the civil rights movement.
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He's never heard of a president named Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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He's never heard of sending the National Guard into southern states when Democrats who refused to desegregate schools resisted.
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In this instance, you have Democrats who are saying we refuse to comply with federal immigration law.
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Then you had in the 50s and 60s, you had Democrats saying we refuse to comply with civil rights law.
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In both instances, it is lawless Democrats attacking law enforcement.
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You know, Gavin Newsom is proudly following the tradition of Bull Connor, another Democrat politician.
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The demonizing of law enforcement is is central to who they are, central to who the party is.
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And now I want you to listen to Barack Obama in this podcast because he does a judo move that that is classic Barack Obama.
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The other side does the mean, angry, demagoguery, you know, exclusive, us, them, you know, divisive politics.
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Our court is, look, you know, a great example wasn't political.
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It was showing it was demonstrating and displaying.
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By the way, I love that he's just admitting there.
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Yes, this is a smart political move to have a political statement at the Super Bowl during halftime.
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He's admitting what we were saying, that it was a political decision.
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And he's like, it's a brilliant political operative move for the NFL to do this.
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Well, look, I mentioned that what Obama was doing there is judo and judo is is is flipping and using your opponent's weight against you against them.
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But but but it but it is also it is classic Orwellian.
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It is accusing the other side of doing what what you are doing.
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Barack Obama, I think, in any fair history, he will not go down in history as this because most historians are leftists.
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So they will they will carve him into Mount Rushmore.
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But but but if you were fairly assessing his legacy, he is one of the most bitterly partisan leaders our country has ever had.
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And I think much of the the rage, the anger we have of the two sides screaming at each other finds its origins in the Obama presidency.
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And I got to say, I my principal reaction to that is is is one of of regret of the lost opportunity.
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Listen, Barack Obama was elected as the first African-American president ever for a country that that that that that for us for for a century plus had slavery.
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To elect a black president was a big damn deal.
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And Obama was given by history the opportunity to to be what he claimed to be, to be coming together, to be a healing president.
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He chose he chose to just rub salt in the racial wounds to divide.
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If you remember early on the beer summit he had where he demonized law enforcement right at the beginning of his presidency.
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You remember he described people in small towns in America as, quote, bitter and angry and clinging to their God and their guns.
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You remember Michelle Obama saying that when Barack Obama was elected president, it was the first time she'd ever been to be an American country.
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And if you look at the fruit, listen, I believe that Barack Obama fundamentally is a Marxist.
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He was just a few years ahead of me at Harvard Law School.
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Now, when he was president, he was not vocal about all of that because the country at the time was not ready for it.
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But but I think AOC is the spiritual grandchild of Barack Obama.
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I think Mondami is the spiritual grandchild of Barack Obama.
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And as you and I have talked about on the pod before during the Biden presidency, maybe the most frequent question I got asked is who is running things?
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And the really terrifying answer, I don't, in fact, know.
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He did not have the capacity to make decisions.
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But my theory is the person who was running things is the guy who we just played.
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I think Barack Obama was the grand puppet master.
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He had a bunch of young apparatchiks who are little little Marxists that were his former staffers in the White House.
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And the open borders we saw, that was Barack Obama's intention.
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The radical DEI, the demonization of law enforcement, all of that is the fruits of Obama.
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By the way, the disastrous foreign policy, the embrace of Iran.
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And listen, Obama sent one point seven billion dollars of cash on pallets in planes in the middle of the night.
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Now, when I say Joe Biden said it, really, the person who said, hold my beer, was Barack Obama.
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He said, now I'm just really going to do it using the puppet Biden.
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But for him to accuse Republicans, the bitterness Obama has shown over and over and over again as he's using rhetoric.
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You know, he's just demonized ICE and called them, called federal law enforcement agents, totalitarian agents.
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And then he says, gosh, it's the other side that's mean, not like us.
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And actually, the word that I love that he says in that little clip is exclusionary.
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You must believe in exactly their orthodoxy or you are excommunicated.
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Look at look at J.K. Rowling, J.K. Rowling, who by any measure is politically on the left.
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But she has this crazy view that that women exist.
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And that to the intolerant leftist is unacceptable.
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And you look at all of these Hollywood ninnies who were in the Harry Potter movies who won't associate with her.
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Made them millions of dollars from when they were children.
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And they are too – their virtue is too great to be seen in the same room.
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And by the way, Barack Obama, in addition to being a hardcore leftist – and I think much of his worldview is actually anti-colonialist.
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If you look at – it's why he hates Israel because he views Israel as a colonial power.
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And it's why fundamentally he doesn't believe American power is legitimate.
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You know, he was asked as president, do you believe in American exceptionalism?
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And he says, sure, I do, just like the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism and the British believe in British exceptionalism.
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Because American exceptionalism is recognizing there's something unique and extraordinary in the United States of America.
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There's never been a nation in the history of mankind that has been a greater force for good on planet Earth than the United States of America.
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And lightning would strike Barack Obama before he could utter that sentence.
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Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation, you can go back and listen to the full podcast from earlier this week.
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And we'll start with, yeah, you couldn't get any further from Duvall with Gavin Newsom.
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And by the way, you and I get to be, I think, in this story, Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones.
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Although there is one thing that's stretching that, which is Tommy Lee Jones is silent in that scene.
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And, Ben, you've never been silent in any scene.
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You know, like the old-time lawyers, they pay you by the word.
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All right, so let's set the stage for this story.
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But I want to know, when did you and how fast did you find out after he tweeted at us getting all cranky?
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He got his underwear in a wad is the way I described it.
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My phone, actually, I started getting random texts from people.
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They're like, dude, Newsom's like throwing shade.
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And I was like, well, that's what I would expect from a California liberal, to be honest with you.
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So our last podcast, we lit up AOC and Gretchen Whitmer and Gavin Newsom, all of whom went to Munich, to the Munich Security Conference.
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And they all just, like, totally beclowned themselves.
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And AOC and Whitmer showed they know nothing about foreign policy or national security.
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He said no president has ever before federalized the National Guard.
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So I want to play the clip from what we said in the very last podcast.
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And this is the clip that so triggered young Gavin.
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That is Gavin Newsom comparing American law enforcement to Nazis.
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Which, by the way, is what Obama was doing, too.
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By the way, just like AOC and Whitmer, Newsom is apparently thoroughly historically illiterate.
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He said we've never seen National Guards federalized in the states.
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I guess his history book does not discuss the civil rights movement.
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He's never heard of a president named Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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He's never heard of sending the National Guard into southern states when Democrats who refused to desegregate schools resisted.
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In this instance, you have Democrats who are saying we refuse to comply with federal immigration law.
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Then you had in the 50s and 60s, you had Democrats saying we refuse to comply with civil rights law.
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In both instances, it is lawless Democrats attacking law enforcement.
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You know, Gavin Newsom is proudly following the tradition of Bull Connor, another Democrat politician.
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And like all good Democrats, when caught being full of crap, he responds by attacking and screaming, you cannot criticize me.
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And in particular, what he said is, Ted Cruz calling a dyslexic person illiterate is a new low, even for him.
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First of all, who the hell knew Gavin Newsom was dyslexic?
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I'm dyslexic, but that doesn't mean you're stupid, by the way.
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By the way, I didn't know you were dyslexic either.
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But like since Gavin's bringing it up, like it's some like you went off the rails on him.
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It doesn't mean you mean stupid statements because you're dyslexic.
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Like, you can still be intelligent and be dyslexic, buddy.
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So Gavin's defense is, you're not allowed to criticize me because I have a disability.
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That is, if there's anything to embody the idiocy of today's Democrat Party, that does it pretty well.
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The first response I sent was, I didn't say you couldn't read, you clown, with the emoji of the clown.
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I said you were, quote, historically illiterate because you apparently have no idea that Eisenhower federalized the National Guard to stop Democrat governors from defying federal law.
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Specifically, on September 23rd, 1957, President Eisenhower issued Executive Order 10730, federalizing the Arkansas National Guard and ordering U.S. Army troops, the 101st Airborne Division, to Little Rock, Arkansas.
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This action broke the blockade by Democrat Governor Orville Faubus, allowing the Little Rock Nine to desegregate Central High School.
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Now, I got to tell you, let me bring you a little bit inside the scenes.
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So my team had a different response that they suggested, and I have a whole social media communications team.
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Their different response was to send out a tweet with a GIF, and a GIF of Zoolander.
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There's a mini video, just so everybody doesn't know what that is.
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Like, some people may not realize what that is.
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It's like the mini little video kind of thing you send out.
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So it's Ben Stiller as Zoolander, and he's looking down at a sign that says,
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The Gavin Newsom Center for what kids who don't know what historically illiterate means,
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and who want to learn to do other stuff good, too.
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And then my team got all upset, and they're like,
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Both out on the internet, and see which one wins.
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So, as of, we're now 1221 a.m., the Ben Stiller gif, which was clever, has gotten 397,000 views.
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So, how long are you going to haze them on this data that you have that's undisputed?
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So, not to brag too much, but I did beat the team by 250%.
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Just for everyone, I want to take them behind the scenes.
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Senator, when you are correct and your team has these moments, I enjoy not being on that team.
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But I do know the parties, all of them involved.
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Although I got two and a half times as much coverage as they did in terms of people watching it.
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And I will say, the comments on their gif, the folks that saw it, loved it.
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Joe Lonsdale, a good friend of ours, big tech entrepreneur, he's been on the podcast.
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Another guy said, whoever came up with this meme needs a raise.
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Another guy said, sir, this is a 10 for 10 post.
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It's, hello 9-1-1, I'd like to report a murder.
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It, the volume of comments, the ex-trolling continues.
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It's like, this put you in my top five favorite politicians.
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Um, uh, well done, good sir, well done, spitting out.
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So, so, so, so the team is going to get accolades for quality over quantity.
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Actually, their comments, the people who saw it loved it.
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They're like, this is a frigging great comment.
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No, I like, I know you wrote it, but I can, I can all, what people don't understand about
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you is when you, when you can check out of any conversation, if you have something clever
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that you want to get out in the, into the world of, of the internet, as you described
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I'm just, I'm just going to hit you on age there, like putting it out into the internet.
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Al Gore, he created it back in the day, but, but when you, when there's nothing scarier
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than watching TC at dinner, just quietly over there and disengaging from the conversation
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for about five minutes and you know, what's coming, it's going to be something really
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I was playing hoops and, and as you know, I play hoops twice a week.
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And I had, after a couple of games, we lost one game.
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And so I typed this responding and it's actually a very cool thing about AI.
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So the first part of it that I sent, which is because you apparently have no idea
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that Eisenhower federalized the national guard, stopped them governors from defying
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But then I went to Google and I typed in Eisenhower federalizing national guard.
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Cause like, you know, I wanted a little more research and Google AI.
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So the second paragraph of my tweet was written by Google AI.
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And so the paragraph specifically on September 23rd, 1957.
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So I didn't know the date until I went into Google AI.
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President Eisenhower issued executive order 10, 730.
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I didn't know the number of the 10, 730, like the whole details of the second paragraph.
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The beauty of Google AI, it took me 30 seconds to pull those details.
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It took you missing your free throws, then giving you the opportunity.
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None of this would have ever happened if it wasn't for you sucking at free throw shooting
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I just want to be clear about what brought this opportunity together.
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Let me just say for the record, what happened the last time you played Hoos with me?
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You or someone else decided to break my finger.
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If you can't see it right there, America, there it is.
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I'm just saying you were a college division one varsity athlete.
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To be clear, Lonsdale would back me up on this.
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You did not crawl up at a ball and whimper, but I'm just saying, you broke bones when
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You can't see straight if it's a hand or a ball.
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And that's how we got to where we are right now.
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But think about it, even like a year ago, to put together the details of that tweet,
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I would have a year ago, probably, if I wanted to have a little substance in the tweet, I
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might have sent a text to my team, said, hey, research, give me the exact details.
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I know Eisenhower federalized the National Guard.
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Yeah, tell me when, who, what, when, where, and why, right?
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They would have sent it to me, and then I would have included it.
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The whole thing took me maybe three minutes to type.
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Was it after missing more free throws, or was it later on?
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I missed free throws and won most of the rest of the time.
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And the couple times I lost, I hit my free throws.
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But the beauty of it is, it literally, so I had seen it before I started playing.
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And I'm like, no, and I'm sort of, you know, I don't know about you, but like, when I'm
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thinking about something, I often will sort of put it out of my mind and let the back of
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Yeah, you ponder for a little bit, you go back, and then you come back to it, yeah.
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And it was sort of like, literally, as I'm playing hoops, I'm chewing on what kind of
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And so then when I had a break, I'm like, all right, let me type it out.
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All right, I got to ask you, is Gavin Newsom on your top five liberals that you would love
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We talked about in the last podcast how I think Newsom and AOC are probably the top two
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Democratic contenders for the presidential nomination.
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Neither of them know what the hell they're talking about.
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So I feel confident we will see them called to account.
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As before, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation on this topic, you can go
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back and download the podcast from early this week to hear the entire thing.
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I want to get back to the big story, number three of the week you may have missed.
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It was Tucker Carlson going to Israel to have a sit down with the U.S. ambassador, dear friend
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I was rooting for Mike because you knew what Tucker was going to do.
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But before we even got any of the interview out, and maybe it's because it didn't go well
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But what he did do is had a great distraction claiming he was detained in Israel at the airport.
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And thank goodness he got safe out of the country.
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Yeah, look, I got to say, Tucker Carlson's descent into madness has been tragic and horrific to
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You and I have both known Tucker a long, long time.
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And, you know, there was a time when he would vocally defend Israel when he was—look, when
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he had his Fox TV show during COVID and the lockdowns, his monologue every night was the
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single best thing on television, and it was destination TV.
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Well, he got fired from Fox, and he's gone into the kind of the dark hinterlands of the
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It seems like if you are a Jew-hating bigot, you too can be a guest on Tucker's show.
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He will find every person that says the Jews are responsible for terrible things.
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By the way, if you're a Nazi apologist, if you think Adolf Hitler was very, very cool,
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By the way, if you're an Islamist, if you think Hamas is not a terrorist organization,
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as Tucker has said, you too can be on Tucker's show.
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If you hate Donald Trump because his show now is attacking almost every foreign policy
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decision Donald Trump makes, you too can be on Tucker's show.
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And he has said the people he hates most in the world.
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No, no, no, those are the people he actually preases.
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Not ISIS, not Al-Qaeda, not Hamas, not Hezbollah.
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By the way, if you are A, a Christian, and B, you believe Israel should exist, that's what
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You know, a lot of the Jew-haters, they're scared of actually admitting they're Jew-haters,
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so instead of saying the word Jew, they say Zionist, because they think that feels, that
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sounds so much more, like, Zionist means should Israel exist?
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I gotta say, I am proudly a Zionist, and I am proudly a Christian, and if you're a Christian
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and you believe the nation of Israel should exist, there are 57 Muslim countries in the
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world, if you think the Jewish people should have one country, just one.
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Um, mind you, the modern state of Israel was formed after the Holocaust, after the Nazis
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murdered over six million Jews in committing a genocide, and the phrase never again meant
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something, that there would be a homeland that at least there would be one place for Jews
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If you think Jews ought to exist, well, then Tucker hates you more than anybody else on
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planet Earth, and he's identified two people in particular that he hates the most, and that
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And so he went to interview Mike Huckabee, I'm sure there are fireworks, we'll see what
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happened in it, and, and he touched down, it was the most bizarre thing, he landed in
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Israel, he didn't leave the airport, so I guess the interview was at the airport.
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And it sounded like that's because he was afraid of his safety or something, like he was trying
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to say, I don't feel safe in this country, and I need to be able to leave at a moment's
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notice, so I'll only do the interview at the airport.
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That's, that is what the team seemed to be wanting to get out there.
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They didn't feel safe, they didn't think that Israel would be a place they would be
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able to be, you know, free or welcome or whatever, so we're just going to stay in the airport.
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But meanwhile, the same guy that will go to Russia, that detains Americans on a regular
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basis, and will happily put out grocery store propaganda on their behalf, and travel anywhere
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And by the way, interview Putin, interview the president of Iran, the president of Iran
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is actively trying to murder President Trump right now, and Tucker did an interview where
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he was practically rubbing his leg and gazing adoringly like, like, like a lovesick 16-year-old
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sucking soda straws with, with her crush at the soda fountain.
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And don't forget, he buys houses in Qatar, right?
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He has literally purchased a home in Qatar, and by the way, I get asked routinely, is
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Tucker being paid millions of dollars from Qatar?
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I will tell you it would explain an awful lot, because if you play what Tucker said on TV
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for years, and he's done an about-face on everything, money would certainly explain an awful lot.
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I don't know why, I just know that he is attacking Israel and Jews every day, he is praising
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He's praised Mandami repeatedly, he's praised Maduro.
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When he went to Israel, there were some Christians in Israel who said, come visit us, we'll show
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you that Christians are protected and prospering in Israel, that the people who are persecuting
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Christians are the Islamists who are persecuting Christians.
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He's focused on, well, Bethlehem, the Christian population, is under assault.
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Well, that's true, because the Palestinian Authority is in charge of Bethlehem, not
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The number of people that are there on a pilgrimage as Christians is massive.
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And by the way, I want to be, I forgot to tell you this, I too, Senator, and I probably should
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have put this out, seeing the video of Tucker Carlson Airport, I was detained as well when
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I thought you had my back here, but I was detained in Israel because they checked my
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passport and they held me for a second to the side.
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So I just want to be clear, if Tucker Carlson was detained, I was detained as well.
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Like, well, and here's the statement Tucker put out, quote, men who identified themselves
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as airport security took our passports, hauled our executive producer into a side room and
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then demanded to know what we spoke to Ambassador Huckabee about.
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Now, I got to say, this ridiculous claim that he put out was promptly refuted, A, by the
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B, by a statement from the government of Israel saying this is totally false.
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This embassy, but actually the best refutation to this is there is a fellow online, I don't
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know him, but he's a comedian and he's a comedian named Ami Kozak who does this great
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If you're watching it on video, you really should watch it on video because he's actually,
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If not, give a listen because this is, this is satire.
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It's not real, but this is a comedian portraying Tucker being, quote, detained by Israeli airport.
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You pack your own bags or somebody pack for you?
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I certainly packed a lot of things, like a lot.
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Well, we have to ask to make sure, you know, no one put their weapon or something you don't
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I'm not going to apologize for that, like at all.
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You traveled to the Middle East at all in the last six months?
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I just wanted to talk to people and see people and have conversations with people.
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Any of the people you talked to have any connections to radical terrorist organizations?
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I mean, last I checked, they were all political organizations.
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Any of those regimes were political organizations, last I checked.
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Like, really, like, some of my very absolutely favorite people are Jewish.
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Some of my least favorite people are Christian Zionists.
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Well, I'm here to interview Ambassador Mike Huckabee.
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And I also have no idea who he is, like, at all.
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So wait, you don't know him or you don't know him?
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Okay, anyone give you a gift or something to take to Israel with you?
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They're, like, one of our closest allies, actually.
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Okay, we're going to need your passport, please.
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Well, I'm certainly not going to give you my passport.
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