Kamala Dissed Netanyahu Speech, Media to Prop Harris Through DNC & Sec Srvc Undermanned at Trump Rally Week In Review
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Kamala Harris missed the most important part of Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu's visit to Washington, D.C. to address a joint session of Congress. We'll break that down. Plus, the Secret Service undermanned at the Trump rally, we now know more than we knew before about what went wrong in the days leading up to it.
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And these are the big stories that you may have missed that we talked about earlier this
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First up, Kamala Harris caught between a rock and a hard place.
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She has to be anti-Israel, but also meet with Netanyahu.
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She no-showed for the most important part of Netanyahu's trip.
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Also, the media now going into We Love Kamala phase.
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It's a kind donation to her campaign, and it could be worth billions of dollars between
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How's that going to play out, and how much of an impact will it have on the race?
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We now know more than we knew before about what went wrong in the days and weeks leading
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It's the Week in Review, and it starts right now.
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There was a very significant moment that happened, and it was missed by Kamala Harris on purpose,
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Now, she won't miss if Zelensky shows up, but by golly, she's going to make a real point
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that I'm not with Israel when he comes to address Congress.
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You were there, and you spent some real quality time with Bibi as well.
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So yesterday afternoon, Prime Minister Netanyahu addressed a joint session of Congress.
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I was sitting in the front row listening to the speech.
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Israel is facing an existential threat right now.
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And the adjective I used after the speech for Bibi's speech was that it was Churchillian,
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and that is not an adjective I used for any address by any other world leader,
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because it had the same sense of clarity and history and seriousness of purpose
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that Winston Churchill brought to rally the world to defeat the Nazis and win World War II.
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I am very grateful for Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech.
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It laid out the seriousness of their purpose to utterly eliminate Hamas.
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It addressed many of the lies that Democrats and the corporate media
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and the leftist influencers on TikTok and social media are pushing to young people.
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He addressed them very directly, the lies that are being told, and it was significant.
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But I've got to say, at the same time, it was sad, the number of Democrats who boycotted the speech.
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We saw dozens and dozens of House members that refused to attend.
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You saw dozens of Senate Democrats who refused to attend.
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And the most high-profile person who boycotted the speech was Kamala Harris.
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Now, typically, when a head of state addresses a joint session of Congress,
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the Speaker of the House and the Vice President are both sitting directly behind him.
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And she's not just the Vice President right now.
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She is the presumptive Democrat nominee for president.
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And understand, the Democrat Party has gotten so radical today that many of them,
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including the likely Democrat nominee for president,
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they are unwilling even to listen to, even to hear what the democratically elected leader of Israel has to say.
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I thought it was disgraceful that she boycotted the speech.
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So, I was sitting with a bunch of Republican senators.
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I said, listen, in honor of Richard Simmons recently passing away,
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get ready to do some aerobics, because we were going to be standing and standing and standing.
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I think the count was we gave Netanyahu 57 standing ovations.
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Those were almost exclusively on the Republican side of the aisle.
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On the Democrat side of the aisle, most of the Democrats refused to stand.
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When Netanyahu walked onto the floor, Chuck Schumer refused to shake his hand and kind of turned his back on him.
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I mean, it was, I've never seen anything like it.
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The contempt, there were several senators, Chris Murphy and Raphael Warnock were sitting near the front.
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They spent almost the entire speech sitting there with scowls on their face.
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Even when Netanyahu said things like, we need to stand united against anti-Semitism.
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The two of them sat there scowling and could not stand to stand against anti-Semitism.
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It is a manifestation of just how much the pro-Hamas, anti-Semitic faction of the Democrat Party has the rest of the party terrified.
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Yeah, I mean, Senator, you look at what Bibi actually said on the floor,
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and it was not radical, it was not extreme, it actually made a lot of sense.
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And for them not to stand when he talks about Hamas, when he talks about good and evil, was shocking.
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My friends, defeating our brutal enemies requires both courage and clarity.
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Clarity begins by knowing the difference between good and evil.
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Yet incredibly, many anti-Israel protesters, many choose to stand with evil.
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They stand with people who came into the kibbutzim, into a home.
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The parents hid the children, the two babies, in the attic, in a secret attic.
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They find the secret latch to the hidden attic.
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I mean, I'm watching this as a video, as it's playing, Senator.
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Scores of Democrats sat down, refused to applaud.
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They did not cheer that we should stand against radical, racist baby killers.
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He also, Netanyahu, also slammed the protesters.
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And how they're in favor of those that support Hamas and Hezbollah.
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I mean, these are terrorist organizations that butchered Jews for sport and are calling for the annihilation of every Jewish person from the river to the sea.
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The anti-Israel protests that are going on right now outside this building, not that many, but they're there and throughout the city.
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Well, I have a message for these protesters.
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When the tyrants of Tehran, who hang gays from cranes and murder women for not covering their hair, are praising, promoting and funding you, you have officially become Iran's useful idiots.
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How do you not stand and clap when you're talking about these radicals?
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They were not only sitting, they had their arms crossed and they were furious.
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And understand, while this is happening, thousands of anti-Semitic radicals were protesting in Washington, D.C.
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Hundreds of them descended on Union Station, the train station, just a couple of blocks north of the Capitol.
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At Union Station, they pulled down the American flag on the flagpole outside Union Station.
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They pulled it to the ground and they burned it.
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When they pulled it to the ground, the crowd of protesters cheered.
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They then hauled up the flagpole, a Palestinian flag.
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Number one, I am not saying that Kamala Harris was at Union Station pulling down the American flag, lighting it on fire,
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and pulling up a Palestinian flag on the flagpole, but understand that she has far greater sympathies for the radicals who did that
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than she does for Prime Minister Netanyahu, the elected leader of Israel.
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There's a reason she boycotted, because she and the Democrats, they want the votes of these anti-American, anti-Semites.
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It was allowed to happen because the Democrat mayor in D.C. let it happen, because we didn't see law enforcement.
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If this happened in Texas, if you tried to do that in Texas, you know what they'd do?
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The Democrats in office, they are siding with the protesters, and they hate Prime Minister Netanyahu,
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and sadly, many of them hate Israel just as much as these rabid protesters.
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You know, these agitators were being seen, being dropped off by buses before the protests.
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Yeah, I was going to say, who paid for them, right?
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That's a fair question that should be asked, like, who was paying for all these people to show up there?
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It's the radical lefts, I'm sure, and the Democratic Party.
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But this is the base, and for Kamala Harris to not be there when Netanyahu arrived tells you how anti-Israel they are,
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Joe Biden has been the most anti-Israel president in American history.
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But if, God forbid, Kamala Harris becomes president, she will be orders of magnitude worse.
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And by the way, it's striking also, so we'll do another pod and we'll talk about possible VP nominees under Harris.
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I think it's going to be the most boring white guy on the face of the planet.
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I think the two most likely, which we've talked about, are Josh Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania, and Mark Kelly, senator from Arizona.
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But it's interesting, this week, CNN, in covering the VP's sweepstakes, they just, matter of fact, John King, just matter of fact, said,
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well, Shapiro has a problem, which is he's Jewish in the Democrat primary, in the Democrat party, that's a real problem.
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And CNN just reports that as a fact, that there are so many anti-Semites among the Democrat party,
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that being a Jew is a real problem if you're the Democrat nominee.
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All right, let's talk about the media, because what we're going to see right now, and this is my biggest concern,
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If Biden dropped out, now it's Biden has dropped out.
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It's a complete reset of this presidential campaign.
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The polls, and I want to be very clear to our audience, this is my opinion.
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I want to know your take on it, are completely meaningless and worthless right now.
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The only poll that's going to matter is the first poll after we find out who the Democrats actually pick.
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And listen, this is something you and I talked about in our last podcast.
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It's the best Republican convention I've ever seen.
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However, I was very worried at the convention, and I expressed this to you at the time, which
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is I am afraid people were overconfident at the convention.
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You heard people talking about it, 55, 56 Republican senators, huge Republican House.
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Like, people were planning, people were talking about, all right, who's going to be Secretary
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And my view, and I was trying to say this, is, look, there's a time for celebration.
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Now's the time for rolling up your sleeves and going to win.
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And my assumption is, coming out of the convention, Republicans will get a little bounce.
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You know, historically, it's about four points is what you get out of your convention.
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The Democrats, and I will give them credit for one thing, their timing of releasing it right
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It almost doesn't matter what the bounce was out of the convention.
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For the next month, all of the news is going to be dominated by who the Democrat is going
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The Democrats are about to have a month-long convention.
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Instead of a week, why do you get a bounce out of a convention?
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You get a bounce out of a convention because you have four days of driving the news, the
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earned media every night, of your people on TV pitching all of the benefits of your nominee,
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all the benefits of your record, all the benefits of your agenda.
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Instead of a four-day convention, the Democrats are about to have a month-long convention where
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every news story will be focused on who the nominee is going to be.
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And they're also going to be doing a combination of, number one, praising Biden.
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You know, it's not graceful to he's on his way out.
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He's one of the greatest presidents in the history of the universe.
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I mean, you're going to hear all of that effusively, and then they're going to talk about what
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Multi, I would argue, multi-billion dollar in-kind contribution.
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And by the way, Republicans, I worry, vastly underestimate Kamala Harris.
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When you or I bring up Kamala Harris's name in Republican circles, people laugh.
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I think people are underestimating what billions of dollars of free media, of the entire corrupt
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corporate media complex, pitching her as a combination of Mother Teresa, Oprah, and Gandhi.
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Now, I still think Trump wins in November, but this is not a layup.
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It is not given in what's coming in front of us.
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Look, if you're a Democrat, what makes you nervous is chaos.
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Even more scary is going to an election where you're almost certain to lose, which is where
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So from their perspective, let chaos and a chance to win or certain loss, they'll take
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But Republicans need to understand just how dangerous this is.
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It's like you're on the greatest cruise ship in the world, and that cruise ship's going
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down and a crappy little fishing boat shows up and it saves your life.
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You love that crappy fishing boat the rest of your life.
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It doesn't matter how bad it looks, how ugly it was.
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So I feel confident that you do not have a career as a Democrat politics ad maker.
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Kamala Harris, the crappy fishing boat to save your life.
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But when you're now in the position of that boat sinking and I'm the only one that doesn't
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have a hole in the boat, I'm pretty appealing to everybody on that boat and I love you and
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I'm willing to swim to you and I'm willing to hug you and kiss you and say, thank you
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And that's what the media is going to do to her is say, she just saved us from guaranteed
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And once she's the nominee unified, you know, one thing to keep in mind, people are
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focused on, oh, money and Trump has a money advantage.
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Put yourself in the mindset of a Democrat gazillionaire, of a Democrat activist, of a
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Democrat union boss, of a Democrat special interest leader.
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You were contemplating America run by Hitler.
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And by the way, if you're one of those people, you think Donald Trump is Adolf Hitler.
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But like you were just, I don't even know if I want to show up and vote.
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And now to go back to the sinking cruise ship, you've been thrown a lifeline.
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I think we're going to see jubilation on the Democrat side.
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What happens is donors pull out their checks and they write really big checks when they're
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What happens is activists go and they work harder.
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And that, particularly if the Republicans are overconfident, we cannot be overconfident.
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Potentially, I hope this is not right, but it reminds me of a few years ago, the A&M versus
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Alabama at the time was the number one team in the country.
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It had a good team, but it had lost two games in a row to opponents it wasn't supposed to
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And so we came into the game and I was there in College Station.
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And I remember saying to my buddies I was at the game with, I said, you know what?
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I think A&M has a real chance to win this game because I think Alabama is feeling like we're
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the number one team in the country and these A&M guys suck.
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Look, they're losing to teams that are not contenders.
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They were at Kyle Field and they were defending their home and they were mad because everyone
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We're a top tier football team and they ended up winning that game.
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I don't want to see the Democrats playing the role of A&M in that dynamic.
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And so my message to Republicans is do not behave like this is in the bag because that's
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one of the easiest ways to ensure it's not in the bag.
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Senator, if you are Donald Trump, you now know that Biden is gone.
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The number one question that the campaign's got to ask is, how do you campaign against
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somebody for the next month that you don't know who it's going to be?
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So look, I'd say 40% you campaign against Kamala Harris.
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And 60% you campaign against the Democrats' record.
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And I will say I've been concerned in recent weeks and months that we've spent too much
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time attacking Joe Biden for his mental diminishment and not enough time making the case, as you
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and I often do, that the Biden-Harris Democrat record has been a train wreck.
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And I say Democrat record because it's not just Joe Biden.
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And it's every single Democrat in Congress, every Democrat senator, every Democrat House
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They voted repeatedly in favor of the spending and the debt that is causing inflation.
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They voted repeatedly in favor of Biden's war on oil and gas and energy that is causing
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They voted repeatedly in favor of open borders that's endangering our families across this
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They voted repeatedly in favor of letting violent criminals out of jail that is again
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They voted repeatedly in favor of appeasing our enemies and undermining our allies.
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And so from the Trump's campaign, I would assume it's Kamala, but also make the broader
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It is their agenda that has failed the American people.
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The classic question in any election, are you better off now than you were four years
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It doesn't matter what fill in the blank Democrat.
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They're going to be defending the same disastrous failed record.
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And so I hope the Trump campaign and I hope Republicans generally make that case substantively
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Make sure you share this podcast with your family and friends.
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You can share it there as well so that you can have other people hear what we were saying
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When this type of news breaks, we do a podcast as fast as we can.
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I'm going to place the odds that Joe Biden pardons Hunter Biden at 100.0%.
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Hunter Biden will get a pardon as a result of this decision today.
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He's not going to do it before Election Day, but he's going to stick around.
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And after Election Day, I believe it is now 100% that Joe Biden will pardon Hunter.
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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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Whether, and this reminds me of what happened in our pullout in Afghanistan at the airport that
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cost American soldiers their lives, we knew we had apparently a bomber there, right?
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No one apparently could make the decision on how to deal with them.
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Suicide bomber decides to do it, and it costs American their lives.
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There was so many, I would say, dumb criminal moves that this guy, as a criminal, did before
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he ever got up on that roof, that was warnings that any logical person would know, don't let
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Example of that is the damn range finder, which she was asked about.
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There were some reports that the individual had a range finder.
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Yes, he did, but may I explain that at a number of our sites, especially when you're at outdoor
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venues, a range finder is not a prohibited item.
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It is sometimes an item that is brought in by individuals that are going to be in the
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Anybody confront him on his presence where he was in proximity to the president?
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So, again, to my knowledge, I believe that that was the process that was taking place
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I mean, they would know he had it to then be able to confront him.
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They then start putting out pictures that the FBI and everybody has of this guy they can't
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They get on top of the roof, and they're like, oh, hey, looky here.
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We got the guy that we sent the pictures out about.
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And then if you go back in time to what I mentioned a moment ago, Senator, you also had
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the other concern, and that is from this whistleblower that said, hey, law enforcement
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partners offered drones to the Secret Service before Butler-Pennsylvania Trump rally.
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The Secret Service declined, but this 20-year-old shooter, he used drones on the day of the
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You see a drone in the air, and you're good with it?
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You see a range finder, you're good with it, you lose the guy, you put the president
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Look, my assumption is that the personnel was vastly undermanned, and that the senior leadership
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of the Secret Service was not treating Donald Trump as the presumptive Republican nominee
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as the next president of the United States, and they were undermining him for partisan
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Not only that, so the Washington Post on July 20th wrote a bombshell story.
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The headline was, Secret Service said to have denied requests for more security at Trump
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Top officials repeatedly rejected requests from Trump's security detail for more manpower
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and gear at events before attempted assassination.
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At times, citing lack of resources, people familiar with the ask say.
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Quote, top officials at the U.S. Secret Service repeatedly denied requests for additional
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resources and personnel sought by Donald Trump's security detail in the two years leading up
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to his attempted assassination at a rally in Pennsylvania last Saturday, according to
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Agents charged with protecting the former president requested magnetometers and more agents to screen
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attendees at sporting events and other large public gatherings Trump attended, as well as additional
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snipers and specialty items at other outdoor events, said the people, who spoke on the condition
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of anonymity to discuss secret security discussions.
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The requests, which have not been previously reported, were sometimes denied by senior officials
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at the agency who cited various regions, including a lack of resources at an agency that has long
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These rejections in response to requests that were several times made in writing led to longstanding
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tensions that pitted Trump, his top aide, said his security detail against Secret Service leadership
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as Trump advisers privately fretted that the vaunted security agency was not doing enough to protect
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the former president. Now, what did the Secret Service say in the wake of the attempted
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assassination? Well, they put out, here's what the Secret Service spokesman said on July 14th,
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quote, there's an untrue assertion that a member of the former president's team requested additional
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security resources and that those were rebuffed. This is absolutely false. In fact,
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we added protective resources and technology and capabilities as part of the increased campaign
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travel tempo. Now, that's a tweet by Anthony Guglielimi, who is the Secret Service spokesperson.
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It was an official tweet and it was a flat out lie. And by the way, it wasn't an assertion that a member
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requested additional security. What the Washington Post reported was that his protective
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detail, the Secret Service agents on the detail repeatedly requested additional security and
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repeatedly they were turned down. Why is it that the Secret Service is publicly lying on the record
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and trying to cover up their disastrous failures? I even got to say there were some Democrats that
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were even shocked over just the absurdity of the Secret Service screwing this up. One of them was a
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Democrat on the House Oversight Committee that was questioning the Secret Service director before
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she resigned. And this was just about the roof and where the shooter was. It is shocking. Listen.
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Mr. Cheadle, as you know, the shooter began shooting at 6 11 p.m. Eastern on July 13th. NBC reported that
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at 5 51 p.m., 20 minutes before the shooting began, the state police informed the Secret Service of their
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concern. Now, the rally was not paused at that point, correct? No. And according to NBC, just two
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minutes later at 5 53 p.m., the Secret Service notified its snipers about the gunman. The rally
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wasn't paused at that point either, correct? No. Let me show you some video footage by rally goers. If you
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could play the video on the screen up here. This was taken two minutes before the shooting
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start, if you could turn up the volume. Dangerous people. Criminals. We have criminals. We have
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criminals. We have criminals. We have criminals. Right here. Right on the roof. We have people. Right here. Right on the roof.
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It's as much tougher than that. Right on the roof we got. Come here. Ma'am, that doesn't look like
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suspicious behavior. That looks like threatening behavior to me. And the rally wasn't paused at that
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point either, correct? I can tell you, as I stated earlier, sir, that the moment that the shift
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surrounding the president were aware of an actual threat. That's a threat right there. The guy's on
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the roof and everybody's yelling at him. Yes. And directing the officer's attention to him. The rally
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was not paused at that point, correct? We are currently still combing through communications and when
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communications were passed. Well, I can point you to this communication. It's two minutes before the shots
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started ringing out. Director Tietel, yes or no? Was there ever a moment where the Secret Service
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actually considered pausing the rally? The Secret Service would have paused the rally had they known or
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been told there was an actual threat. So the answer is no. The answer is no, correct? I can speak to you in
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generalities. No, no. I don't want generalities. I don't know all of the communications. The answer is no.
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You did not consider pausing the rally, correct? The people that are in charge of protecting the
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president on that day would never bring the former president out if there was a threat that had been
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identified. Well, they did because we've now identified three points in the 20 minutes before
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the shooting that the threat emerged. I mean, Senator, you listen to this and I worry, final question for
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you about not just the incumbency of the director who's resigned, but the people that she's hired
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in the bureaucracy underneath her. She may be gone, but if there's others that trickle all the way down
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to the events level and this is allowed to happen, I mean, for goodness sakes, their excuse about the
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roof being too sloped to put people up there. Well, guess what? Where the counter sniper team was,
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we found out that roof was actually sloped at a higher degree of angle than the roof where the
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shooter shot from. So she was lying to us then. It was all PR. It was all spin. This was astonishing
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incompetence combined with a partisan political gross negligence, which is because her partisan
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political loyalties are to Joe Biden. They devalued protecting Donald Trump. They also devalued
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protecting RFK Jr. And that security detail should have been granted long ago. And I think it is,
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there is a very good question to ask next about who's next. What are they doing now? What are they
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doing today? What are they doing tomorrow to prevent the next lunatic from doing this? And we need to make
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sure there are adequate resources. We need to make sure the site is secured. We need to make sure they
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have procedures in place. There were multiple junctures at which this assassin, this attempted
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assassin could have been stopped, could have been apprehended. President Trump could have been
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delayed from going up on that stage and never subjected to the risk of the sniper fire. He could
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have been removed from that stage once they realized there was a potential sniper there. There were a
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series of catastrophic mistakes. And to date, Secret Service leadership has still taken responsibility
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for none of them, accountability for none of them. As Harry S. Truman famously said, the buck stops here.
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Well, the buck doesn't stop anywhere because they're all passing the buck and they're not even admitting
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that there was a problem. It is a huge problem going forward and it needs to be fixed.
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