Let The Record Show: Foreign Battlefields And The Election Battles At Home

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This is Let the Record Show. Now, here are your hosts,
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Judge Richard Weinberg, essayist and commentator Eric Levine, and Suffolk
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County Republican Committee Chairman Jesse Garcia.
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Welcome back to Let the Record Show with Chairman Jesse
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Garcia of the Republican Party. Jesse is the vice chair
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of the New York State Republican Party, as well as
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being the county chair of the Suffolk County Party out
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on Long Island, New York. With us is our good friend, co-host,
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note attorney, commentator, essayist, Eric Levine. I'm Judge Richard Weinberg.
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So gentlemen, what I want to talk about, you know,
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we keep talking every week about the Iran war update
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and what's going on. And we keep saying that's a
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threat to Western civilization. I take the position that there
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is no possible deal that protects America in the West.
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But most importantly, because everybody's trying to write their own
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narrative and rewrite history, let's be really clear what the
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problem is. The problem lies at the feet of Barack
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Obama and Joe Biden. And Barack Obama has just doubled down,
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as Eric will discuss in a few minutes, on his
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Islamist fundamentalist support, his naivete about a two-state solution, about
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a balance of power between Iran and Israel. Everything that
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this individual did, the hope and change artist, who's probably
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one of the great con artists of our time, getting
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himself elected to the presidency of the United States, has
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been wrong. Absolutely dead wrong. He's the one who fostered
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upon the people of the United States and Western civilization
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the so-called nuclear deal with Iran, which guaranteed nothing but
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getting a nuclear deal in a certain point in time,
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gave them tons of money, which he flew in in
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the middle of the night, not in dollars, but in...
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and other currencies because it's a violation of federal law
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to have made the transfer in dollars. So he came
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in the middle of the night with other kinds of
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bags of money for the Iranians, some $ 50 billion worth
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of money, I think it was. And what do they
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do with it? They arm terrorists. They arm the Houthis,
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the Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the other crazy fringe
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radical extremist group, all subscribing to the tenets of the
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Muslim Brotherhood which is dedicated to one thing and one
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thing only, the destruction of Western civilization, supplanting by hegemonic ambitions, freedom, opportunity,
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whether it's freedom of speech or freedom of thought, whether
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it's freedom of religion. There are no choices in a
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Sharia-dominated culture. The choice is submit or face extinction, or
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if you're lucky, merely second-class citizenship. This is a very
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big deal. And this all came as a result of
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Obama's naivete. Or, if you want to give him credit
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for not being naive, then you have to say he
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really was aiding and abetting this Islamist revolution that's going on.
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Then you have the person of Joe Biden, who campaigned
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in the basement, was hidden from everybody. His mental capacity
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clearly diminished, not that he hadn't very much even in
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his great salad days of years ago of a great mind.
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Someone once famous, he said, I think it was Secretary Gates.
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Biden has never made a decision with respect to foreign policy.
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It wasn't dead wrong.
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He hasn't been right about a foreign policy decision in
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the last 45 years.
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Right. And what did he do? He gave more money.
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He gave aid and comfort in his way. He opened
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up the borders to the Islamists who come in here.
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We don't know how many Hundreds of thousands or millions
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of Islamists are here in our country waiting for the
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call for intifada here. Look what's going on in Europe.
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France is burning. What the Nazis couldn't do with Hitler,
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they're doing to themselves. But it's not really the French
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French who are doing this, even though you have a
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bunch of dumb kids, maybe 15% of the protesters. The
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Islamists and the communists have taken over the fight in
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the streets of Paris. It's spreading into Portugal. into Spain,
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into Italy, into Belgium. This is a cancer that needs
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to be confronted and suppressed. And, God forbid, it's coming
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to the United States. That's merely coming attractions because the
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ambitions of these hegemonic Islamists is limitless. They truly want
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to take over the world with their extreme policies. So, Eric,
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you said something about the former president of the United States, Obama,
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who I never liked, never trusted, never voted for him,
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think he was the worst when he first started, always
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thought he was a fraud, and he's done nothing but
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support my concerns. Your thoughts?
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Right.
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So I think it's important to realize, I think, that
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most of where we are today in terms of why
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the DSA is ascendant, why we see Iran formally on
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the cusp of a nuclear weapon, As you point out,
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Barack Obama is the one who set this all in motion.
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But before we get there, let's just give a quick
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update on Iran. So there's going to be an election
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in Israel next week, and President Trump has taken the
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unprecedented step of endorsing Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu. And I
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think that's more than anything, it speaks to the fact
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that there's going to be an attack very, very soon.
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Why do I say that? Because I think the... The
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attack is being planned, and if there are two things
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that President Trump wants, either that Bibi wins so that
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we're on schedule to make the attack along the side
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with the Israelis, or the election is inconclusive and the
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caretaker government of Bibi will be in place until there's
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another election. Because if there's a new prime minister, it
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would probably be Eisenkot, and he has no doubt has
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a similar view of Iran and would want to also
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have a regime change. But there's going to be a
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delay in having him appoint his officials and government appointees
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and getting up to speed. It would delay the attack.
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So I think that one of the reasons why Trump
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is rooting for Bibi so hard is aside from the
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fact that they've had such great success together in attacking Iran,
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that we don't want to be off schedule. We want
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to stay on schedule. So I think that's the reason
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for the Trump endorsement. But of course, why is this
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regime so powerful? This regime is so powerful because, Richard,
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as you point out, it goes back to the JCPOA,
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the Iran nuclear deal, which was sold on a lie. Now,
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there were three great Obama achievements during his administration. The first,
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of course, was Obamacare, which was sold on the lies
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of it'll bend down the cost curve. If you like
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your doctor, you can keep your doctor. If you like
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your plan, you can keep your plan. But now, of course,
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medical care is unaffordable and the quality of the care
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is continually deteriorating. That's Obamacare. What the Democrats have done
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successfully is they've been able to say, look how expensive
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this is. We need more money. The Republicans are trying
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to block people from getting more money. Of course, the
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answer to this is a complete overhaul of our medical
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care system and the eradication of Obamacare. The second great
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achievement was the Paris Climate Accords, which was the lie
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of the Green New Deal. And we've seen how that
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has played out. And then, of course, is the king
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of all lies, the Iran nuclear deal. We were told
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that it would block all paths to nuclear weapon. It,
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in fact, guaranteed a path to nuclear weapon. Keep in mind,
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when Barack Obama became president, under international law, there were
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resolutions in the United Nations that barred Iran from any
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nuclear enrichment, any uranium enrichment. Obama allowed uranium enrichment. There
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were resolutions in the UN that precluded completely Iran having
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a ballistic missile system. The JCPOA allowed for the development
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of a ballistic missile system. And there were sanctions in place,
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and Obama lifted those sanctions. And, of course, Iran was
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the signatory to the nuclear nonproliferation agreement. So if they
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really didn't want a nuclear weapon, just enforce it. Just
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enforce all those U.N. resolutions. But Obama let that genie
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out of the bottle. Guaranteed that there would be a
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nuclear weapon. Guaranteed they'd have a ballistic missile system with
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which to deliver it. and guaranteed that they would fund
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the IRGC, their terror network in the military, and threaten Israel.
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And what happened? Bibi Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel,
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called out Obama. He told the world that this deal
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was a bad deal, and Obama has never forgiven him
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for it. And he's lived the rest of his life
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trying to punish Netanyahu and the Israelis and Jews. And
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it's alive today. And it's in the example of this.
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Last week he was in Dublin. He gave a speech.
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In the speech he talks about how poorly Jews were
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treated in Europe during World War II. Big revelation. But
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then he goes on to say they, meaning the Jews,
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took land of people and they, meaning Palestinians, were expelled.
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And those people understandably said, quote, this is injustice and
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I want my land back. Close quote. In other words,
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Israel was responsible for October 7th. Blame the Jews. It
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is just merely a continuation of the revisionist history, lies,
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and anti-Semitic tropes that passes fact today. And Barack Obama
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put all that in motion when he became president. And
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the JCPOA was the beginning of it. Because what were
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the three reasons you could disagree with Obama? You were
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either an idiot, a bigot, or your first allegiance was
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to a foreign power, meaning Israel. So that begins this notion,
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and that begins, of course, the demification of AIPAC, but
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of course the demification of any Zionist, of any pro-Israeli,
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of being suspicious of Jews. And that has built up
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a momentum. And of course, after October 7th, you have
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this explosion of anti-Semitism and the ascendancy of the DSA.
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Obama has put that all in motion. But what Obama
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did not discuss, because facts are meaningless to the man,
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and which is another legacy. You can have your own truths,
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and it could be completely fact-free. He doesn't mention in
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his screed in Dublin that Jews have been on the
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land for 3,000 years. We're called Jews because we're from Judea,
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and there's a place called Judea and Samaria. The Al-Aqsa
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Mosque in Jerusalem, the third holiest place in the Muslim world,
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is built on top of the Hebrew Temple. that preceded you.
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You can't build on top of something unless it was
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there first. And this land that was taken, he doesn't
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discuss at all that all this land was illegal purchases
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from the Ottomans, the Lebanese, and other Arabs. And they
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thought the land was worthless because they couldn't take this
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desert or the swamp land, whatever it is they were
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selling at the time, and they were thrilled to get
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rid of it. So a combination of the Jews that
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were already there and the new Jews that came legally
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created the Jewish population. And he also doesn't seem to
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be too concerned that in 1929, well before Israel was created,
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that there was a mass murder of 67 Jews in Hebron,
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who had been living there for thousands of years, and
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they were pushed out. That doesn't seem to disturb him.
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And of course, he ignores the fact that in 1947,
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there was the UN partition plan that called for the
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creation of two states, one Arab, one Jewish, The Jews
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said yes, the Arabs said no, and five Arab states
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attacked Israel in an effort to destroy it. And that
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created the refugee problem that we see today. And then,
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of course, Egypt illegally annexed Gaza, Jordan illegally annexed the
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West Bank, which those were the two territories combined that
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were supposed to form the Arab state, and no one
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cared at all. And then in 1967, when Israel defended itself,
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and captured Gaza, and captured the West Bank, Judea, and Samaria,
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all of a sudden, we have to worry about the
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Palestinian people and people taking the land. He didn't care
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when the Egyptians took it, and he didn't care when
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the Jordanians took it. He only cared when, supposedly, the
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Jews took it.
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But.
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Then he also, by the way, he said that the
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Jews had over... The Israelis had overreached in defending themselves.
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And lost the moral... And lost the moral high ground.
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Yeah. For Obama... Obama is the typical left-wing ideologue. It's
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terrible when Jews die, and this is the Dublin speech.
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It was horrible what the Nazis did to the Jews.
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But when Jews fight back and defend themselves, that is
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an unpardonable sin. That is the unforgivable sin. That is
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why he resents Israel. That is why he resents Bibi Netanyahu.
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That is why... You know, there's no difference between being
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an anti-Zionist and being anti-Semitic. Because you can't say Jews
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can't defend themselves. He doesn't believe they can. Because when
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they do, by definition, they lose the moral high ground.
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His thesis is that the Democrats, if they can say centrist,
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they can attract the former McCain-Romney voters and peel them
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off from Republicans. This is a guy who's obviously been
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asleep for the last couple of years. I am one
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of those McCain-Romney Republicans. I voted for McCain, and I
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voted for Romney. And if you think for a moment
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that I'm going to vote for anyone in the Democratic Party,
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the party of anti-Semites, the party of Zoran Mamdani, the
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party of Abdullah Syed, the party of AOC, Bernie Sanders,
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who control and run and direct the party, you are
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out of your mind. Rom, you have fallen asleep. You
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are the one that is at the fringe. You are
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a straight, white, Jewish Zionist. There is nothing more evil
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than you in the Democratic Party. I know you want
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to run for president. You have no hope. And you
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are delusional if you think that you're going to be
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attracting Romney-McCain voters because they are pro-Israel. They are pro-Zionist.
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They are not anti-Semites. They are primarily Reagan Republicans. And
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if you think Reagan Republicans are going to vote for
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that dreck, On the left, that you're hoping to co-opt,
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you are out of your mind.
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Jesse.
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I think both of you have identified the... critiques and
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the failures of the Obama and the Biden administration on
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a foreign policy. Let me just take a little bit
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more of their failures on the domestic side here in
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the United States that affects middle-class voters, even today and such,
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because as both of you pointed out, the war in
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Iran that should have been done at one point or
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another over the last 47 years, depending on whoever, regardless
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of who the president was, but was exasperated under the JCPOA,
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the Iran nuclear deal that was birthed by Obama and
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then brought back by Biden, has led to where we
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are today in a little bit of economic issues. But
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let's talk about it. Eric touched upon one that I
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was going to speak about, and that was Obamacare and
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how we can't have our insurances. Average Americans can't keep
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their doctors. The average costs have gone up. It's been
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the Trump administration that has been moving forward on prescriptive
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drugs to try and level that back. Whether you voted
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for him or not or how you felt about him,
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John McCain made, I believe, one of the worst decisions
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of his political career out of spite when he voted
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against removing Obamacare under the first Trump administration when they
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were able to do it without a filibuster. But let's
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just focus on Obama, the Obama administration and the Biden
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administration's domestic policy failures. And I can really sum it
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up in four issues. Economic strain and inflation. an unchecked
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open border, no security whatsoever, over-regulation and energy restrictions that
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have set America backwards instead of moving it forward, and
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an unchecked, unelected federal bureaucracy that was actually making policy
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and making it tougher for average Americans to go about
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their business and go about their lives. First, let's talk
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about the economic strain and inflation. The It's unbelievable that
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people still forget that inflation was at 9 and almost
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11 percent under the Biden administration, that the Obamacare that
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occurred under President Obama led to additional costs, more expenses,
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more expensive situations and whatnot. The Biden's American Rescue Plan
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did nothing to stimulate the economy. It did nothing but
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driving historic inflation and increasing household costs. I think we
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have discussed the complete and utter failure of both the
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Obama administration, and especially exasperated under the Biden administration, on
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the federal border, where right now we have zero border crossings.
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We have a secure northern and southern border. We're secure
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in our ports. Yet, 21 million illegal immigrants, many with
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mental issues or criminal records, have entered and were allowed
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to enter our country and now are spread into our cities,
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which I think we've said over the years in a
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Biden administration, basically, it made every town, every neighborhood in
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the United States a border town. certainly over-regulation of energy restrictions,
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the canceling and capping of fossil fuels, the canceling of
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the Keystone XL pipeline, the implementation of the failed Green
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News scam mandate. And of course, something that I hate
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the most, and every American hates, is a federal bureaucracy
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that eroded individual liberties and created burdensome regulations on small businesses,
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and actually empowered government over the people. Now, I'm proud
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to be part of the party that has stayed that off.
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Whereas Republicans, we want to restore our national security, and
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I believe we're doing that. Is it difficult? Is it challenging?
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Is it something that needs to be done? Yes, yes,
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and yes. We've secured our borders. We are now in
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a doctrine of peace through strength, a la the great
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President Ronald Reagan. And we have advanced missile defenses. We
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reignited our local economy through tax relief and aggressive deregulation
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and an economic nationalism. Tariffs, which were poo-pooed in the
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beginning by every economist there was on the payroll of
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the mainstream media, has demonstrated it's been a tool that
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has established the United States and helped its economy and
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protected and drawn in more manufacturing. And then when it
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comes to energy dependence and dominance, you know what? Like
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it or not, the drill baby dream mantra has helped
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us do this. Ending the Green New Deal scam. Subsea
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has done that. And then all of the above strategy,
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prioritizing traditional fossil fuels like coal, oil, gas as the
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official platform, with understanding that renewal energies are part of
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that strategy, but not mandated upon the people, not forcing
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it upon the people to pay more to get less energy.
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It's something that they wanted to do. They are pushing something,
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this Green News scam, that science has not caught up to.
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It's funny. It's one of the things that Republicans were
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saying all along, or I'm sorry, Democrats said all along,
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that all these different alternative ways. medications and recovery systems
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for COVID were not science. But when it comes to
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science and the Green News scam, the Democrats didn't care.
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Well said. This is Let the Record Show with Chairman
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Jessica Osteen of the Republican Party, noted attorney, commentator, essayist
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Eric Levine. I am Judge Richard Weinberg. Please stay with us.
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We'll be back in about a few moments. with our
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next segment with more important and interesting conversation. Thank you.
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Let the Record Show is on the air. This is
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Let the Record Show, using common sense. Now, here are
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your hosts, Judge Richard Weinberg, essayist and commentator Eric Levine,
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and Chairman Jesse Garcia.
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Welcome back to Let the Record Show with Chairman Jesse
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Garcia of the Republican Party. Jesse is the Vice Chair
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of the New York State Republican Party, as well as
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the County Chair of the Suffolk County Party out on
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Long Island, New York. With us is our good friend, co-host,
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known attorney, commentator, SAS Eric Levine. I'm Judge Richard Weinberg. So,
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let's talk about the Russian war of aggression against the Ukraine. So,
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I'm call me simple-minded, but.
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You're simple-minded.
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Thank you. I appreciate that. I was missing that. I
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was missing that because I hadn't been home since.
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Early this morning.
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Nobody called me simple-minded until as I was leaving the house,
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but thank God Eric can keep me in line.
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He told me to do it.
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And Jesse said amen, so it must be true.
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All right.
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So, simple-minded version. Ukraine is the victim of Russia is
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the aggressor. This is an attempt by Putin, a war criminal,
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a savage. Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of Russians and
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Ukrainians have lost their lives, been maimed, destroying two countries
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in their own way. Now in its fourth year, with
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no end in sight, with all kinds of theories about
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what can be done to end it, it all seems
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to me that we have to be realistic. The aggressor
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has to be contained. The aggressor cannot be rewarded. We
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need peace, but it's not peace at any price. It
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cannot be a land grab by Putin. Both Mr. Obama
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and Mr. Biden allowed land grabs by Putin before. One
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in Georgia, another part in the Crimea. So what do
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we have here? Then you have Trump. Now, Trump was
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accused of being a Russian agent and all that nonsense.
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That's garbage. That was a dossier, a sealed dossier. That
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was a fraud. That was a deception. That was treasonous
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conduct by the people behind that to undermine the legitimate
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election of Trump in 2016. But that's not to say
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that Trump doesn't do foolish things with respect to Putin.
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He thinks he can cut a deal with him. That's naive.
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It's delusional. The historical record is there is no deal
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with Putin. He may play you and give you a
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little something, a sweetener. For example, this fellow Hubbard was
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released after four years of prison and torture in Russian jails.
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But fundamentally, the agenda of Putin is to get as
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much of the Ukraine as he possibly can and to
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weaken NATO, weaken the United States, He's no friend of
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the United States. He has his own hegemonic ambitions. He
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wants to restore, whether you call it the Soviet Empire
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or the Russian Empire, it doesn't matter what you call it,
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it's all about taking over large sectors of Europe and
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weakening the Western alliance. So when Trump sends people like Woodcroft,
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who's a real estate developer from New York City, And
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he sends him to negotiate with Putin. That is one
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of the most naive, foolish things can possibly be done.
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Woodcliffe doesn't have the experience. He doesn't have the physical,
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raw courage of fighting in a negotiation. A guy like Putin,
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who is a KGB killer and torturer, there's no way
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the man is up to the job. If you want
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to negotiate with Putin, you do it from a position
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of strength with the toughest guys you can get in
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the room. People like Rubio. people like Cotton, people like
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Dan Sullivan of Alaska, like Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, people
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who really know what they're dealing with. And one thing
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that absolutely outrages me is they're now talking about having
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trilateral negotiations, Ukraine, Russia, United States. A few days ago,
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they were talking about having trilateral negotiations with China, Russia,
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United States, including out Ukraine. And to me, that was
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like Yalta 2. And what was Yalta 1? That's when
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Stalin out-negotiated, out-flanked, out-maneuvered Franklin Delano Roosevelt as he was,
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in his waning days, he was dying, he was critically ill,
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and he gave away security and independence for the Eastern
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European countries at Yalta. Yalta was a disgrace. And any
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deal that would include Ukraine out, like a China-Russia-US deal,
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would be a Yalta II with the same disastrous implications.
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The message is aggression, war crimes go unpunished, and the
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victim has to pay the price and submit. And I
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am against that.
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Eric.
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I agree with everything you said. But I will say this.
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If you're going to make a, if you're trying to
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establish a policy and you want to lead the country
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and explain to them why you're doing what you're doing,
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Don't say really incredibly unbelievable things that everyone knows is false.
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And that's when Steve Witkoff calls Vladimir Putin humanitarian. Vladimir
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Putin is a savage. He's a war criminal. He's evil.
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He's all kinds of things. He is not a humanitarian.
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And to the extent you want to be able to
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persuade the American people that your policy is a good one,
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don't say things that you know everyone thinks is just stupid.
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That is just plain stupid. It is unpersuasive, and what
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it does is persuade the American people that they're being
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lied to. So I think it behooves the president to
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explain to us why he is doing what he is
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doing with Russia and Ukraine. Now, I understand he makes
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the point, and he wants to save lives, and that's great.
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That's laudable. We all want to save lives. But on
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what terms? I can end any war. It's called surrender.
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Every war can end if one side just surrenders. And
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in essence, what is being asked of the Ukrainians right
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now is to surrender. And they can't. They can't just
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give up their own country. The expectation and the demand
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is unreasonable. So there has to be something in it
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for them. You can't just give Ukraine to Russia. Now,
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the theory supposedly is we're going to, for two things,
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we want to peel Russia away from China. And we
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want to persuade Russia not to help Iran. But neither
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of those things have been achieved and neither of those
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things will be achieved. I think, look, Europe is a
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weak sister here in the NATO alliance. There's no question.
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You just look at what's going on in Paris, in France,
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in Belgium, in the UK, in Spain. These are people
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you have to wonder whether or not they have a
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survival instinct. But still and yet, Our interests are still
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more closely aligned with Europe than it is with Russia.
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Russia needs to be held at bay. We cannot have
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an aggressive, expanding, ascendant Russia. That is a threat to
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the United States national security. And that's why I think
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the diesel deal with Ukraine, particularly on the eve of
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the elections, was illogical. Because I think the American people understand,
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and they'll see at the pump, that the price of
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diesel is not really going to come down much. So
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I think that was an unfortunate decision by the president.
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And it undermines the sanctions.
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And it undermines the sanctions that were just passed before
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by the Senate you know, that Lindsey Graham had advocated for.
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I really just don't understand the policy. Now, the president
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has been 100 percent right all along the way in
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the Middle East. And I support him and I hope
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he can finish and I hope and I expect that
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he will finish the job with Iran. And when it
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comes to Ukraine, the president can brag that when he
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became president in his first term, he's the one that
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sold javelins to the Ukrainians. He's the one that gave
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him real defense weapons. He's the one that gave them
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a chance to survive. Obama literally sent them lunches in blankets. Literally,
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that's what he said. He was prepared to have Ukraine completely.
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Overrun and destroyed.
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And with Biden, of course, his explanation originally was a
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minor incursion is okay. Well, Putin hears that. He's going
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to give me the whole country. And that's what invited
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the invasion. And Trump has, for the most part, provided
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Ukraine with what they need. And there are legitimate concerns
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regarding how many weapons, how many Patriots we can give them.
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We need to certainly maintain our own supply. But in
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terms of there's a difference between being unable to give
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Ukraine what they want or not giving them as much
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as they need and giving a gift to the Russians,
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giving Ukraine to the Russians. Putin's goal is the complete
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and utter conquering and surrender of Ukraine. And then he
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wants to launch from there an incursion into Eastern Europe
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and destroy NATO. We can't let that happen. But back
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to the original point, whatever policy you want to adopt,
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if you want to sell it to the American people,
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you can't say things that are so inane that people
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are just going to roll their eyes and say, that
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is just dumb. And when Steve Witkoff calls Putin a humanitarian,
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that is just dumb.
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They agreed to these trilateral talks. The second round of trilateral,
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the second gambit of trilateral, which is Ukraine, U.S. and Russia.
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That's great.
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And what happens after they have this agreement, first thing
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Putin does is he launches major attacks against Kiev.
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Right.
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I mean, supposedly, you know, Trump announces that there is
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a moratorium on each country attacking energy sources. And Ukraine
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says that's news to us, but OK, we'll abide by it.
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And Putin attacks energy sources. Refinery is.
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Well, not in civilian homes.
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Well, the entire attack is directed against civilians. Everything they
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do is against civilians.
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And why is that not a war crime? And where's
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the international outrage about that?
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Because he's not Jewish.
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Oh, okay. Jesse, your turn.
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I think one of the things we're missing here, and
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I will disagree, is I believe that any time that
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you can get these three parties in the room together
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in trilateral talks, trilateral negotiations, that it's important to do so.
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And if the goal is to separate China and Russia,
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that is a goal worth searching for. I completely agree,
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and I'm glad that You both made the point that
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the weak sister here in this discussion is Europe, has
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always been Europe. The other matter here is that we're
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sitting here more than three years later after this war began.
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And when did it actually start? It started under the
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Obama administration and under the Biden administration, which basically gave
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Russia and Putin this animal, the dog whistle, to do
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what it needed to be done. And I appreciate that
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Eric pointed out that the Javelin missiles were sold to
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the Ukraine during the Trump administration, and for the most part,
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the United States, despite during the 2024 elections, and despite
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some concerns that the United States was going to pull
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away from Ukraine, has provided, the United States has provided
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the Ukraine what it has needed to defend itself. This
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is probably going to be one of the more complex
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type of negotiations and peace treaties or peace accords to
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reach that we're going to see. But the primary goal
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here has to be a swift end to this conflict
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and a stop of a loss of life. Because this
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ongoing permanent war is going to remain a drain on
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the United States and its resources and its dollars and cents.
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It's going to be a complete and constant threat to
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our allies in Europe. And some different tactics have to
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be brought forward. Now, I do disagree.
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I do agree.
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Excuse me. Some of the language that has been used
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by members of the Trump administration, and even when Donald
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Trump himself, the president said on the eve of him
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becoming president that he could end this war in 24 hours.
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Yeah, because he thinks that he and Putin have a
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special relationship and a deal can be cut.
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Yeah, and the question is when you end the war
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and you say... But on what terms? I told you
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I can end the war tomorrow once I surrender.
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Exactly.
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On what terms? And if you don't end it on
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the right terms, Europe's in more danger.
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You two have great knowledge on foreign affairs. Do you
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believe that any peace accord between Russia and Ukraine is
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going to go back whenever it's reached? No. four years
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from now, eight years from now, whenever it's reached. Do
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you think it's going to go back to the borders
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that were pre-the invasion in Europe? Do we believe that?
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No, and Zelensky has agreed that he'll give up some.
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He'll freeze the lines now.
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He'll freeze the lines as to where they are. It's
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Putin who keeps saying no.
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It's Putin.
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He keeps wanting additional land, even land that he hasn't conquered.
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That's the problem. My position is that I believe that
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those positions... can only be truly set and discussed and
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set to pen to paper in trilateral negotiations, in a trilateral,
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all three parties sitting together to move this forward. And again,
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I agree with you. Some of the language that's been
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used by the Trump administration, not helpful, not believable. It's
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only actually gonna act as a stumbling block, both for
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public support and the negotiations with the people that are
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sitting across the table.
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Yeah, I agree with you. All three of them have
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to sit at the table, but everybody has to be
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interested in ending the war. Putin is not interested in
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ending the war. He is only interested in conquering Ukraine.
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That's it. That's, that's, that's his solution.
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That may be his solution. And what he wants, what
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he gets is completely different because.
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No, because he won't agree to anything. He won't agree
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to anything less. That's what I think you're missing. He
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won't agree to anything less.
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Okay, Jesse, rebuttal to Eric.
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What?
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Your rebuttal to Eric.
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I just did.
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It was so good.
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I thought that was still wrong. All right, look.
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Let's be clear. I'd like peace.
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But not a peace at any price.
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But not a peace at any price. I think You
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can't reward an aggressor, even if you do a deal now,
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freezing the lines in place, and that becomes the basis
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of the deal. And I agree with both of you.
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I think, if anything, that's what the deal is going
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to happen. You're still rewarding Putin, and he'll just wait
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to make his next move.
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But he won't accept that.
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Let's assume he decides, yeah, that's fine. I'll do it
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for now.
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Let's assume the sun will rise in the West.
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Maybe it will. But let's be clear. The first time
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you get a weak Democratic administration, an apologist regime like
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Obama or Biden, he'll just go forward and do it again.
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That's for sure.
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So at the very least, any deal you cut, what's
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the enforcement mechanism to keep him in check? And the
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only enforcement mechanism that keeps him in check It has
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to be sanctions, whether they're military, whether they're economic, whether
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they're cultural, whether they're being in the world community. Whatever
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the sanctions are, a range of them, they have to
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be in place to cause him to abide by the
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terms of the deal. You have to have a deterrence,
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a punishment mechanism, and I don't see that happening.
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You're the Democratic president. That's exactly why you need regime
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change in Iran today, because if you don't have regime
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change in Iran before the end of the Trump administration—
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The Iranian regime is just going to be back on
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its horse, and it's going to be a threat to
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the world again.
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Yeah, and wake up Chicago, L.A., and New York. Yeah, exactly.
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And then you can say, oh, the price of oil
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is up 75 cents as the nukes come flying by.
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And then you'll say, gee, maybe I should have paid
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a bit more for the gas.
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Exactly.
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This is Let the Record Show with Chairman Jesse Garcia
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of the Republican Party, your attorney commentary essayist, Eric Levine.
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I'm Judge Richard Weinberg. Please stay with us. We're back
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in about a few moments. The final segment of this
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week's show. Stay tuned, please.
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This is Let the Record Show. This is Let the
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Record Show. Now, here are your hosts, Judge Richard Weinberg.
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Essayist and commentator Eric Levine. And Suffolk County Republican Committee
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Chairman Jesse Cronin.
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Garcia.
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Welcome back to Let the Record Show with Chairman Jesse
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Garcia of the Republican Party, North Attorney, Commentator, Essayist Eric Levine,
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and I'm Judge Richard Weinberg. Gentlemen, I want to turn
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our attention to what I consider to be the most
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important New York state election of my lifetime, and that
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is the race for the governorship, as well as the
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state legislature, as well as the state attorney general, and
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as well as the state controller. The future of New
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York is at stake. I think New York could be
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on the cusp of being a failed state like California is.
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That is, they cry, that is the Democrats cry about affordability.
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So let's talk about affordability for a minute. What's affordability?
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Affordability is housing, it's energy, it's health care, it's tax policy.
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Affordability has been destroyed by the Democratic Party and extreme
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radical socialist policies. They're going to run out of money.
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The state will run out of money and the city
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is going to run out of money. And the city
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is going to come begging to the state legislature and
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to this governor, the incumbent Hochul, for more money. And
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Hochul is going to have to try to figure out
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how to give money the state to bail out her
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political ally, Mondami, when she doesn't have it to do
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on her own budget. That's going to be some feat. Now,
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anybody who knows anything about government, like Jesse, like me,
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like Eric to a minor extent. Very, very minor. What
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do you have? You can raise taxes, counterproductive and dangerous.
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You can cut services. You can do a triage about
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cutting services so you do it in an efficient way
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so there isn't real hurt or harm. You can increase productivity.
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Those are the ways you can deal with making a
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state or a city survive by being economically and fiscally responsible. Now,
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something's going on in California, which will be coming attractions
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for New York, given the radical socialists who are dominating
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the Democratic Party here in the state. I am against
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one party rule by either party. It's dangerous. You need
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a strong countervailing voice. a strong countervailing political power position
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to stop the radicals from being in charge and pushing
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through their agenda. What's going on in California? It's on
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the cusp of being a failed state. They're running out
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of money. They're going to be in a situation without
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the resources to govern properly. You see what happened in
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Paris when they run out of money. So what are
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they going to talk about? They're going to talk about
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tax the rich, tax the wealthy, wealth tax. And my
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own view about wealth taxes, certainly a national wealth tax
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is unconstitutional under the United States Constitution. I think it's
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very clear in my mind there's a substantial likelihood it's
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unconstitutional even under the New York State Constitution, which means
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the Democrats will try to amend the state constitution. That'll
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be next year's fight, Jesse, when they try to pull that.
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So they can go after wealth tax. What do you
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know about wealth taxes? You're going to tax unrealized capital gains.
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That means if you bought a house for $ 500, 000, it's
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now worth $ 800, 000. They can tax you on that because, well,
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you had a wealth gain. And they say it would
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be a one-time thing. It's never a one-time thing. And Jesse,
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you know this. It's when they'll just do it in
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perpetuity every year to do that. And so how are
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people going to have the money to pay the taxes?
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They're going to have to sell or cut other important
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things in their lives in terms of necessity. And it
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drives out the productive, tax-paying job creators from the state.
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People run as fast as they can from those kinds
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of states, which is exactly why the blue states, the Illinois,
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the California, the Colorado, the Oregon, the Washington states are
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going under in trouble. New York is on the cusp
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of deep trouble. And they go to Texas and the
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Carolinas and Florida. So it's easy to say, let's have
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a wealth tax, but there are substantial and ugly consequences.
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And they're not even collateral consequences. They're a direct and
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proximate result of that kind of policy. So we're on
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the cusp of an important election. We need to elect
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someone who will stop this from happening. We need to
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protect the fiscal integrity of the state. We have to
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make this livable. We have to have equal opportunity for
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our folks to get a job Jesse, what do you think?
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I absolutely agree with you. I mean, while you said
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that the wealth tax here in New York City and
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New York is going to be next year's battle, it's
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actually a battle that's going to start this year. And
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that's with the end of one party rule in our
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state's capital in Albany, where the Democrats and the socialists
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control all three levers of power. or government, the judiciary,
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the state legislature, and the governor's mansion. So Americans, we're about, what,
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nine days out from the election when this airs. New
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Yorkers have a decision. Do they want to go down
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the path that they've been doing for the last decade plus,
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15 years, of higher taxes, higher spending, runaway inflation, an
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affordability crisis, and an aggressive green energy crisis? mandates and scams?
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Do they want to go through an erosion of checks
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and balances where there's no legislative oversight, where socialist Democrats
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and progressives sit in a room together? They fight with
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each other on who can take more of your money
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out of your pocket and spend it on baseless, failed
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policies like cashless bail or giving illegal immigrants with criminal
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records free housing, free food, and free health care. things
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that none of us as middle-class Americans have? Do we
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want to have more misallocation of public resources, where this
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year New York City was bailed out to the tune
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of about $ 5 billion with no checks, no balances, just
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a clean check with them to be able to spend
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it as they deem appropriately? And the way they deem
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it appropriately is by eliminating capitalism, eliminating the middle class,
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and truly enriching themselves. Because as we've seen in one
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party of rural states, in blue states, where you give
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unchecked money with no checks and balances, you have corruption.
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And that's what's been going on with these not-for-profits and
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these organizations where they're supposed to be helping those in need.
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But what are they doing? They're really filling their own pockets.
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And of course, regulatory overreach. the first wave of the
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battle to end tax on, it's not wealth. It's the
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American way. It's American entrepreneurism. It's an American excellence. And
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it's in the way of the American dream. That's what
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the Democrats in California want to do. That's what the
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Democrats here in New York want to do. They want
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to tax the American dream. So how do we do that?
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By changing the way we've been governing our state for
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the last 20 some odd years under one party rule.
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At least since 2018, I'll give it that much, the
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last eight years since the Republicans lost control of the
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state Senate. What we need to do is elect Bruce Blakeman.
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where Bruce Blankman has a record of cutting taxes. He's
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got a record of cutting taxes and a proposal to
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cut state income taxes on the first $ 50, 000 that every
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middle-class family makes. That's not going to help billionaires. That's
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not going to help millionaires. That's going to help middle-class
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Americans that live and have businesses right here on Main Street.
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He has a plan because he's done it to cut
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our utility rates. Under Kathy Hochul and the Democrats, they've
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increased our utility rates with taxes and fees 48 times,
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a minimum of 48 times, and we pay 70% higher
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utility rates than the rest of the country. Bruce Blakeman's
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got a plan to reduce that, especially as we come
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into winter months as we go forward. And when it
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comes to securing our streets, There is no governor that's
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going to be better suited to work with our police
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and empower our police and not empower criminals than Bruce Blakeman.
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Bruce Blakeman has done and has had an outstanding record,
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but the best thing about it is that he can
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contrast it. against the failed policies and record of Kathy Hochul,
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who right now is only hanging on to cling on
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to her power, her influence, and her political greed as
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the leader of this state. But it's early down the ballot.
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Down the ballot, as I said, it starts with the governor,
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but it's making sure that we break the super majorities
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in the state Senate, in the state assembly, so that
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when the governor, Blakeman, issues a veto, it gets upheld.
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so that we don't let a raucous, progressive legislature run
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rampant with taxpayer dollars. And let me just remind all
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of our voters and residents here of New York. Two
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years ago, Kathy Hochul was championing congestion pricing, which jacked
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up the cost of employees, of visitors in the state
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of New York to go to the city by about
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$ 50 each way. What did she do? She suspended it
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only to reestablish it. Why did she suspend it?
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Because it was an election. She was worried about the House.
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It was an election and they wanted to capture the House.
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That's how these Democrats are. They will play politics. They
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will tease you. Like Biden teasing the young people. of
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this country by saying, you don't have to pay your
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school loans, only to find out, as we all knew.
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That was a lie.
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That was a fraud. That was reiterated in the courts.
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And of course, she's saying that, oh, you know, she
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wants to She supports a ban on new construction only
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using electric utilities and banning the use of natural gas.
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She suspended that. I will tell you, if elected, she
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will reinstate that before Veterans Day because she can't help herself.
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The one place where I maybe disagree with the two
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of you is that even if Hochul wins, she's not
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the governor. Zoran Mamdani is the governor. He will be
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running the state.
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Final thoughts, Eric?
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And let's remember who Zoran Mamdani is. The two most
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important organizations that he has joined, and these are his words,
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Democratic Socialists of America and Students for Justice in Palestine.
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And who is Students for Justice in Palestine?
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Well, Students for Justice in Palestine is an organization that
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was so radical that even Columbia University barred them. It's true.
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Totally Islamist organization.
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Yeah, well, they're a Muslim Brotherhood in ideology, which calls
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for the destruction of the Jewish state of Israel and
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the destruction of Western civilization. The DSA also calls for
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the destruction of the Jewish state of Israel. And both
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think that the United States is an illegitimate country. They
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think that the United States and Canada are both white-occupying
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European powers taking away the land of the Native Americans,
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and that the United States in and of itself does
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not have the right to exist. People should look this
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up and understand. But that's who Mamdani is, and that's
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who's going to be running the country. He's an avowed socialist.
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He believes that the.
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The government should be in control of all the means
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of production. That is the definition of communism. And that's
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the guy that's going to run the state. And just
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coming back to the wealth tax for one minute, very quickly.
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The hidden danger in the wealth tax, aside from all
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the other horrible things that you guys pointed out, is
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that there's going to be discrepancies between what the taxed
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and the taxer assess values on property, art, or just
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some other things that are not cash. And then when
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the tax, then when the citizen says, I think this
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painting's worth $ 10, 000, and the government says, no, I think
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it's worth $ 100, 000, you are committing tax fraud. And then
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they're going to start prosecuting people. That's the hidden danger here.
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They're going to use it as a weapon to criminalize
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people that are making good faith efforts and to estimate
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values of assets.
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And how do you defend yourself? And you can't. If
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you're a lawyer, if you're a lawyer, and it's a
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question of fortune, defend yourself.
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Well, most of these will be very wealthy people, but yes.
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But that's the point. Or they're going to throw some
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people in jail. It is a Stalin concept.
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They're going to... They're going to want to throw the
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people they want to in jail.
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Exactly.
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When they choose.
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Exactly.
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They're going to pick and choose whose people's assessments of
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their assets that they want to get, and then just
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question those, and they'll criminally prosecute.
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Well, I don't want to say the last words to
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our listeners. Sell everything while you can.
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Monetize it.
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Right.
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So, Jesse, Eric, I want to thank you for another
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great show. This has been Let the Record Show with
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Chairman Jesse Garcia of the Republican Party, noted attorney, commentary
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essayist Eric Levine. I'm Judge Richard Weinberg. Thank you for listening.
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We look forward to being back with you next week.
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And as always, God bless you. God bless your families.
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And above all, Everything. God bless America. Thank you for listening.