One Week Out

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We all just watched what happened in Brazil. A socialist
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president pulled off a comeback, miraculous comeback against impossible odds.
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And his former personal lawyer, now sitting on Brazil's high court,
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ordered polling places that hadn't yet closed to stay open
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two extra hours, benefiting Lula. A decision handed down a
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minute after polls were supposed to be closed. THE MOMENT
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THE RESULT CAME IN, SOCIALISTS AND THE FAR LEFT, AND
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THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE ANYMORE, IS THERE, RUSHED FROM ALL
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OVER THE WORLD TO CONGRATULATE LULA. LEGITIMACY QUESTIONS AND ALL
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TIM WALLS CALLED IT A WORLDWIDE WIN. GAVIN NEWSOM'S PRESS
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OFFICE SENT ITS CONGRATULATIONS. Alex Soros posted, Lula, Lula, Lula.
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And within hours, Lula's Brazil went after the man who
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lost on election night. A congressman from Lula's own party posted, quote,
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Flavio's passport locked up tomorrow. That same night, Justice Alexandre
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de Moraes canceled all of Flavio Bolsonaro's passports, including his
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diplomatic passport, ordered him to hand them over within 24 hours,
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barred him from leaving the country. That's the same justice
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who ordered his father, Jair Bolsonaro, to give up his
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passport in 24 before the conviction and 27-year sentence. Every
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American should be paying attention because the socialists want to
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do the same thing here. They already dipped their toe
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in after 2020 with indictments and state and federal prosecutions,
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civil lawsuits against Trump, an impeachment trial of a man
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who had already left office, lockdowns, mandates. And the people
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asking for your vote this time are even worse. Add
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open anti-Semitism, foreign terror ties, foreign allegiances, and even more
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aggressive versions of everything we saw in 2020. They've already
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threatened it. Illinois Governor J.P. Pritzker told the New York
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Times in March that Democrats should hold Trump officials and
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federal agents who've broken the law accountable. And when he
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was asked whether that meant criminal prosecution, he said, criminally prosecuted,
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civilly prosecuted, whatever it is that we can do. Down
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in Florida, the Democrat Senate nominee Angie Nixon, a card-carrying
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member of the Democratic Socialists of America, said, I WANT
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HER LOCKED UP AND PUNISHED IN JAIL, HER, MEANING HER
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REPUBLICAN OPPONENT, SENATOR ASHLEY MOODY, WHO HAS NOT BEEN CHARGED
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WITH ANY CRIMES OTHER THAN RUNNING FOR OFFICE. AND LOOK
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AT WHAT THEY'RE TELLING YOU RIGHT NOW. It just put
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out a new version of this ad for Abdul El-Sayed,
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the Democrat running against Mike Rogers for Senate in Michigan.
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Look.
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You're gonna have to.
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Put those eggs back.
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They don't like eggs anymore? No, they like eggs, but we.
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Have to set that $ 7 aside for killing Palestinians.
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What?
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I mean, don't we give Israel $ 4 billion a year anyways?
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Yeah, and now we're giving them another $ 26 billion. Why
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the do we have to pay for all of this?
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Don't cuss at me. Why does Mike Rogers care so
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much about what Israelis want and so little about what
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you want?
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Mike Rogers is for they-them.
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Abdul El-Sayed is for you.
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The head of the Anti-Defamation League, Jonathan Greenblatt, called it
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a case study in anti-Semitism. Even Michigan Democrat Haley Stevens said,
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this type of fear-mongering about Israel is wrong. Uygur's response
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to his critics was, if you think this ad is anti-Semitic,
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you've lost your mind. And El-Said's campaign says the ad
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is not affiliated in any way with them. But he
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hasn't condemned it. It's like he hasn't condemned Hassan Piker.
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Over in Nebraska, independent Dan Osborne, running with Democratic support,
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put out an ad saying, Senator Pete Ricketts sides with
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AIPAC and defense contractors. complete with an image of rickets
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grinning in front of a hospital for orphans and puppies,
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getting blown up, look.
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When it comes to war, Pete Ricketts knows whose side
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he's on. AIPAC and defense contractors. Lockheed Martin and Northrop
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Grumman both donated to him. But that's not all. AIPAC
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donated $ 390, 000 to Pete Ricketts. The Senate voted on whether
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Congress should have a say in the Iran war. Pete
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Ricketts didn't show up. It failed by one. When it
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came back, he voted no. Pete Ricketts, delivering to the
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military-industrial complex.
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Now, did you see this? Town Hall's Kyle Olson obtained
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hidden camera video of Gavin Newsom recorded by an undercover
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journalist in New Hampshire in the middle of this month.
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And listen to where Newsom says, admits his party is heading.
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I think it's, I mean, I think.
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No one is arguing to manage the status quo or
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fail more efficiently.
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So I think that the DSA, the energy and the
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desire and demand for bold change, non-incremental change.
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Is very much going to be dominant.
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I mean, that's going to be mainstream democratically.
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Absolutely.
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No question in my mind.
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You can't play in the margins anymore.
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The whole system's broken. It's completely unbalanced.
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And we can't manage to define it.
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We have to completely reimagine it.
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Not even hiding it anymore. That's the man widely expected
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to run for the Democratic nomination for president. And the
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DSA on Sunday published a statement titled, Parabens Lula and Brazil.
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It congratulated Lula with tremendous pride. Declared. that it stands
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in solidarity with our comrades. And Lula's Workers' Party boasted
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that it sent people to accompany both rounds of Brazil's
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election and said it hopes that work, quote, may serve
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as the base for a political alternative to the current
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state of U.S.-Brazil relations. They even go so far as
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to accuse Trump of interfering in the election through politically
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motivated tariffs. Then they accused Meta of manipulating social media. Meta,
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that's Facebook, the same company that censored conservatives for years.
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And listen to how they talk about the dictatorship 90
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miles south of Florida. Last night, Florida, Congressman Byron Donalds,
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a Republican nominee for governor, posted this clip of that
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same Angie Nixon being asked by CBS whether Cuba is
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a dictatorship.
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Look.
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Do you consider that Cuba is a dictatorship?
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You know, that is what people have told me. I
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have never been to Cuba, and so I will have
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to take their word for it. And I know you're
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going to go into this, how do I feel things
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need to be handled with Cuban relations? Right now, this
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decades-long failed embargo has yet to change over the regime.
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She's going to have to take his word for it.
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And then talks about the failed embargo. Make no mistake, folks,
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they are not hiding any of this anymore. They're telling
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you exactly who they cheer for and exactly who they
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want locked up. In Brazil, the man who lost was
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barred from leaving his own country within hours of the result.
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The people cheering get the power here? What happens to
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the next candidate that runs against him? You saw what
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they were willing to do to President Trump. What happens
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when you end up on the wrong side of their prosecutors?
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And with one week until the midterm elections here, are
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you willing to roll the dice to find out Still
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ahead tonight, Brazil's election court confirmed the result at 9.09
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Sunday night. And at 9.16, federal police signed a 16-page
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request to take Flavio Bolsonaro's passports away. Seven minutes by
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Monday's Brazil stock market had its worst day since the pandemic.
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What is going to happen next with Brazil? Is Flavio
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on his way to the United States to save himself
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from Lula's prosecution? Paulo Figueiro joins me next with more.
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Then James Comey charged for a third time under the
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same law he once told Congress is broken when classified
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information is leaked to the press. And later, Iranian officials
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tell New York Times that Americans are fair game. Stay
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with us.
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Breaking tonight, Flavio Bolsonaro. ESCAPES PROSECUTION, HEADS TO THE UNITED STATES.
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THIS AFTER A MIRACULOUS WIN BY LULA ON AN ELECTION TONIGHT.
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WE TALKED ABOUT IT YESTERDAY. BOLSONERO DIDN'T CONCEDE. HE SAID
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HE WANTED THE ELECTION ANNULLED. BUT IT DIDN'T MATTER. REGARDLESS
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OF WHAT HAPPENED ON ELECTION NIGHT, LULA HAD HIS MOVE
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READY BEFORE THE COUNT WAS EVEN CALLED.
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OGLOBO OBTAINED
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THE FEDERAL POLICE REQUEST TO SEIZE FLAVIO'S PASSPORTS. THE ELECTION
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COURT CONFIRMED THE RESULT AT 9.09 THAT NIGHT, BRAZIL TIME.
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POLICE SIGNED THEIR 16-PAGE REQUEST AT 9.16, SEVEN MINUTES AFTER.
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THEY HAD IT PREPARED. JUSTICE ALEXANDRE DE MORAES SIGNED OFF
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THAT SAME NIGHT WITHOUT CONSULTING BRAZIL'S PROSECUTOR GENERAL. Flavio Bolsonaro
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said police were waiting at his father's door on Monday
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morning to serve him on the street. They were taking
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his passports so he couldn't leave the country. Brazil's Gazeta
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de Povo called it pure revenge of the winners against
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the losers with the collaboration of a morally compromised judge.
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This month, the same justice also canceled Eduardo's passports as well.
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Flavio missed this morning's deadline to turn in his passports.
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Federal police canceled the passports. Flavio's lawyer said they couldn't
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reach him. And Reuters, the New York Post, CNN, they
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all reported that Flavio left Brazil. Now he's going to
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seek asylum in the United States. And congressmen from Lula's
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party have now asked Marais to order his arrest and
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an Interpol red notice. But with a candidate having to
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flee the country to escape persecution just for running against
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the socialist dictator of Brazil. Who's to say that the
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socialists slowly taking over the Democratic Party won't see this
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and think they can get away with the exact same
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thing here if they take power in the midterms next week?
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And with Brazil's right told to just stay home and
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Flavio having to flee, who can fight for Flavio? Joining
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me now to break this all down and what comes next,
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Paulo Figueiredo, journalist, host of The Paulo Figueiredo Show, and
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grandson of former Brazilian president, Chao Figueiredo. Welcome back, David Pollak, PRIMETIME.
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I have been watching what was happening in Brazil. I
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watched on election night yesterday. I covered the miraculous, miraculous
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victory of Lula against all odds, statistically impossible win. His friend,
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his lawyer, extending polls in just certain locations for two hours,
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the insane shift in trajectory. And then, of course, 16
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minutes later, a warrant to seize Flavio's passports to keep
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him from leaving the country. And now reports that he
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was able, thankfully, to flee, to escape from Lula's prosecution
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and de Moraes' prosecution. Now, we don't know if he's
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in the United States yet. That's what the reports say.
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What is the latest out of Brazil, my friend?
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Oh, it's very sad. Not only the whole way and
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everything that happened on the election night, you know, it
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was like what you've been covering, the way that they
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issued the former lawyer of the Workers' Party received a
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request from his office. partner in the law firm, former
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partner in his law firm, on behalf of the party
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he used to work for, given in order to extend
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the duration of the voting. Also, President Trump, even President
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Trump talked about how bad it was, the extension was.
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And also, there's a bunch of of unexplainable things. The
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turnout was unprecedented in areas that usually do not have
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high turnouts. I mean, some of the things we're now
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learning that in hundreds of different voting sessions, Flavio Bolsonaro
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miraculously had zero votes and some stuff that the U.S.
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audience is familiarized with. I have to remind them that
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it's worse in Brazil than it is in the United
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States because in Brazil, the electoral system is fully electronic.
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And fully centralized with no paper trail. So what happens
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is that you go to a place and you type
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the number of your candidate. It sends to a machine.
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A machine sends to a central computer to which very
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few people have access to. And then you just hope
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and pray that the results are accurate. Correct. And remember,
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the government has a strong influence over these courts. So
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it's very much like Venezuela in several senses. So this
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is how Lula miraculously, for the first time in the
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history of the Republic of Brazil, was able to lose
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on the first round, but win on the second round
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by a margin that was unbelievable. And even with the polls, remember,
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all the polls said I believe out of 18 polls,
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only two said Lula was ahead. The other said Flavin
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was ahead. And normally the polls are inaccurate because they
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underestimate the conservative candidate like they did on the first
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round and on every single race in the country. So
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that's what happened. The other thing that's happening is Immediately.
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You said 16 minutes, but I think it was seven minutes.
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I was doing my show now, and it was seven
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minutes after the Superior Electoral Court proclaimed the result of
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the election. An order seizing Flavio Bolsonaro's passport was issued
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by Justice Alexandre Moraes, and he had to give his
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passport away today. And the reports are that he left
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Brazil by a different border and came to the United States.
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So I can't talk much about the actual situation in
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order to protect Flavio Bolsonaro's safety until he's 100% safe
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and well-established. But I can say that he definitely... had
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to leave Brazil because of the situation. And it's very sad.
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How do you call, Dave? How do you call a
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country that whoever loses an election has to leave and
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has his passport seized? I don't know how you call
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that in an election that is tainted with so many
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strong and substantiated allegations.
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Yeah, well, and you know, this is really a warning
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and a wake-up call to the United States. We saw
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this here. You and I, I think the very first
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time we talked, it was leading up to the 2024 election.
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It was actually right after the 2024 election. And we
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drew parallels to what happened to Jair Bolsonaro And what
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happened in the United States with President Trump after 2020?
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They tried to put him in jail. They impeached him
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after he was president. They wanted to keep him from
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being able to run for president. They indicted him four
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different times. They tried to bankrupt him. And then you
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look at a place like Brazil. They did the same
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thing to Lula's former political opponent. And then all eyes
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were on Brazil for this election. And then what happens
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to a senator from Brazil who dares to run against Lula?
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They seize his passports within minutes after the election's over
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just to really... to set a precedent, don't you dare
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run against Lula. Now, I hope he did flee. I
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hope he ends up in the United States. I hope
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he'll get asylum. But this is a warning for Americans
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because look at just seven days in the United States.
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Look at who wants to be elected. The same Democratic
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socialists who rushed to congratulate Lula. The man who's trying
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to imprison his political opponents. They've threatened their own political
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opponents here in the United States and they're congratulating Lula
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for doing what he did. This is a fight that
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we're going to have to fight here as well, because
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if these same people win, they'll do the same thing
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they're congratulating, right? They are.
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And look, you have to think about it. The biggest
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conservative movement in Brazil is the Bolsonaro-ism after Jair Bolsonaro, right?
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It's the MAGA of Brazil. It's called Bolsonarism. Out of
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the Bolsonaro family, we have right now Jair, the father,
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former president, convicted to 27 years or life sentence in prison.
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He's now serving his time in house arrest after he
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almost died in regular prison. You have Eduardo Bolsonaro, his son,
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former congressman, the most voted congressman of Brazil, been to
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your show many times, right now living in the United
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States in exile. And allegedly, you now have the former
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candidate and senator of Brazil, Flávio Bolsonaro, also living in
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the United States in exile. So America needs to be
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aware that there's no other country that people can run
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to other than America. So America needs to protect its
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freedom because there's nowhere else to go. And you got
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to think about it because it's the same people that
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are doing this in Brazil. They are here in American
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Democratic Party. So when I see people that have, oh,
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I'm not voting this year because I'm mad with whatever
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Trump did that person didn't like. I'm like, no, you
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don't have that option. You're protecting the only safe haven
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of freedom in the world. So if you can vote,
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get your butt out and vote and vote. on Republicans
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because Democrats are made of the same fabric of Lula
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da Silva. That's why they support him. Lula da Silva
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is heavily supported by the Democrats. You see no word
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from Democrats about what's going on in Brazil. They actually
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supported and congratulated Lula because they're on the same side.
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Lula was elected, you've got to remember that, with a
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strong influence from the Biden administration, all top officials, and
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a shit ton of money from USAID. So, again, I
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just I beg the American people to go and vote
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on the midterms because the witch hunt they're doing against
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Bolsonaro is exactly what they're going to try to do
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when they control the Congress after the midterms with American conservatives.
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And you're exactly right. It's a stark warning. It's an
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important warning. Americans need to listen up. This isn't about
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gas prices. This is literally about a mentality of people
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who we know what they'll do when they get power.
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I've warned and warned and warned. You only vote for
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socialism once. And Brazil is showing us why that's true. Paulo,
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thank you so much for being here. Listen, anybody who
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wants to follow this that can understand Portuguese, watch Paulo's
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podcast for all the latest. The information you're providing is
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so important to the American people to see. Just seven
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days here. Great warnings. Thank you for being here, my friend.
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And I'll talk to you again real soon.
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Thanks for having me, Dave.
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Thank you. Coming up, James Comey, speaking of corruption, James
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Comey has been charged for a third time, two counts
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under the Espionage Act over an alleged leak to the
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New York Times in 2016. He calls it an appalling abuse.
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But in 2017, Congress asked him whether leaking classified information
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to the press breaks the law. His answer, yes. Rob Knorr,
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host of The Normal America Show, joins me right after this.
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Last night, I told you accountability at the FBI was coming.
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And I've been talking for weeks saying, be patient. Yesterday,
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we said two of its former top officials charged with
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lying to Congress. That was only the warm-up act because yesterday,
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a federal judge in Washington unsealed new charges against the
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man who ran the FBI back then, Mr. James Comey.
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And here's how he took it.
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Well, they're back again. It would almost be funny if
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it weren't such an appalling abuse of the Department of Justice,
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one that we cannot become numb to. Nothing's changed with me.
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I'm still innocent. I'm still not afraid of these people.
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And I still believe in the independent federal judiciary.
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This is the third time in a little over a
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year he's been charged. A judge tossed the first case
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over how the prosecutor was appointed. That's on appeal. The
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8647 seashells case is still pending in North Carolina. This
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one is under two counts under the Espionage Act, sharing
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national defense information with someone not entitled to it and
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conspiring to do it up to 10 years each. It
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goes back to October 5th, 2016, when the New York
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Times ran a story on government surveillance of Yahoo email
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sourced to two unnamed officials. You know these anonymous sources.
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Prosecutors allege Comey directed staff to talk to the Times
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reporter and thereby illegally transferred classified information. And a 2020
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FBI memo says, declassified and posted last year by FBI
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Director Kash Patel, says the bureau's own top lawyer was
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one of those two sources. He said the order came
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through Comey's chief of staff and he understood it came
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from Comey himself. Comey knew the law in March 2017.
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House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes asked him point blank look.
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Does the unauthorized disclosure of classified information to the press
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violate 18 USC 793, a section of the Espionage Act
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that criminalizes improperly accessing, handling, or transmitting national defense information?
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Yes.
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Would an unauthorized disclosure of FISA-derived information to the press
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violate 18 USC 798, a section of the Espionage Act
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that criminalizes disclosure of information concerning the communication and intelligence
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activities of the United States.
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Yes, in addition to being a breach of our trust
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with the FISA court that oversees our use of those authorities.
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Section 793 is the same law prosecutors say he broke.
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Comey calls this an abuse. Look at the record from
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his own FBI. His bureau opened Crossfire Hurricane, the investigation
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into the Trump campaign in the summer of 2016. He
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signed three of the four Carter Page surveillance applications, and
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the inspector general found 17 significant errors and omissions in them.
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He admitted under oath that he had a friend share
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one of his memos about the president with a reporter,
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and the inspector general said he set a, quote, dangerous
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example for 35,000 FBI employees. President Trump saw who Comey
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was from the start, and he fired him. Last night,
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he was asked about this case.
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Look. No, I don't know too much about it. I
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just heard about it. Well, I think he's a dirty cop,
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James Comey, but I know nothing about it. He's a
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dirty cop.
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Prosecutors filed on October 5th, 10 years to the day
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to beat the statute of limitations. Comey hasn't been indicted.
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His lawyers say prosecutors agreed to hold off on a
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grand jury while Judge Trevor McFadden weighs his motion to dismiss. Look,
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this is not retribution. It's accountability. The FBI holds the
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most powerful surveillance tools in this country. If the man
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at the top gets to decide which secrets leak and
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which campaigns get watched, well, the rules don't apply. The
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rules apply only to you. So will a grand jury
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indict him? Once that hold runs out, will a Washington
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judge let it go forward? AND WHO ARE THE OTHERS,
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KNOWN AND UNKNOWN, PROSECUTORS SAY HE CONSPIRED WITH? IT'S GETTING
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VERY INTERESTING, FOLKS. JOINING ME NOW, ROB NOOR, HOST OF
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NORMAL AMERICA. ROB, WELCOME TO DAVID POLLACK PRIME TIME. LOOK,
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YOU AND I WERE AT A DEBATE. IT JUST AIRED
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LIKE A WEEK AGO. THE OTHER SIDE WAS SCREAMING AND CRYING,
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WHERE'S THE ACCOUNTABILITY? And now two FBI, senior FBI officials
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now have been arrested. James Comey, another superseding indictment on
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top of all the other things they've been looking into.
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This is what we said was happening. It just takes time.
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What do you think?
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Yeah, I absolutely agree. Look, it's very important. As you said,
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this isn't retribution.
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It's accountability.
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For me, it's weird to think this because it's been
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such a crazy eight years. I think that the Russiagate
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was the biggest political scandal in the history of this country.
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If you go back to the benchmark of Watergate, you
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can actually see that that was a couple of bumbling
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fools in a hotel. Here we have the most powerful
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investigative agency in the history of the world being weaponized
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by Democrats to go after Russia.
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They're opponents.
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And what we see is, as you said, 17 missteps,
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including the FBI lied to the FISA court when they
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said they talked to the primary subsource and he was truthful.
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What they didn't tell him was that he was truthful
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in saying it was basically all made up. James Comey
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ran this show. He had agents that were talking about
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how they wanted an insurance policy to stop Donald Trump.
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Everything we've seen from a pattern of the FBI from
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the time of James Comey when Trump came down that
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escalator until now shows that they were using lawfare to
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go after Trump. They were leaking like a sieve to
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go after Trump. And Trump's been hamstringed for now going
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on 12 years by these organizations. And it starts with
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James Comey. His reputation and what he'll be remembered for
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is leading the most corrupt institution in this country as
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a weapon for the Democratic Party. And he's destroyed any
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credibility that institution has.
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Yeah, and I think he's just another domino to fall.
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I mean, this is something Trump has been working on
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literally since he was sworn in. Again, these things take time.
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We saw the rushed indictment against him and Fannie... Oh,
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not Fannie Willis. They're all the same. Letitia James get
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thrown out. And we don't want these things to get dismissed.
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We want them to stick. So you have to take time.
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You have to make sure... You're buttoning up everything. You
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have to make sure it can survive a motion to
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dismiss because the last thing you want is the left saying, oh,
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he's weaponizing the government. It is retribution. We need to
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have indictments that stick because we want justice. We want accountability.
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And the worst thing you can do if you're trying
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to get accountability is indict people, have those charges dismissed
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with prejudice, and then you can't do anything again. They
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go on TV and brag about what they did, and
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it emboldens the next generation of corrupt cops. And so
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that's why it's so important we get this right. Now,
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I think more indictments, more charges, I think more investigations
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are going to be ONGOING. ACCOUNTABILITY IS COMING. BUT THIS SHOWS,
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THIS SHOWS EVERYBODY WITHOUT A SHADOW OF Trump's own FBI
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was during Trump's first term and how important it is
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that we reform the FBI. Now, of course, as I
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always said, I think reform comes from the top down.
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A fish rots from the top down, especially in government.
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So you have to reform the leadership and then you
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reform the FBI as a whole. We had a former
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FBI supervisory special agent on yesterday who basically said the
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FBI is filled with great people. There's some bad apples
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that got promoted through for political purposes. And we're rooting
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those out. So I think we're moving in the right direction, Rob, right? Yeah,
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I mean, I think you're absolutely right.
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It is unfortunate that all my adult life, I'm 42,
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my adult life, I've watched corruption from these institutions. When
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we finally get a guy that in my area of
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the world, rural Pennsylvania, that we supported in Donald Trump,
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it seems like all of a sudden, all of these
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things were weaponized against him. For example, I can accept
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if we're going to have an equal standard and be
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aggressive going after a president and their administrators. Take far-up uses,
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failing to register as a foreign lobbyist. Well, it's one
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of the worst-kept secrets in Washington that this is rampant,
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that there are people on all sides, law firms, lawyers,
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et cetera, that are coordinating and basically lobbying for foreign
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entities without registering. Now, James Comey and the FBI decided
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that they were going to aggressively go after Paul Manafort.
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I guess it was the Mueller report that came afterwards.
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They go after Manafort for this, and yet in the
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indictment it says he worked with Group 1 and Group 2.
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Group 2 was the Podesta Group, led by John Podesta,
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who was in the exact same position, campaign manager of
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Hillary's team, as Manafort was as Trump's team. Of course,
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that indictment showed that he was working in 2013. This
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was before Trump was even in politics. But who was
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in politics? Well, Hillary Clinton would have been Secretary of State.
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I wonder who they were lobbying to. Anyways, the point
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being that we could see that this double standard has
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been employed over and over. Crimes that have been committed
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by the Democrats are made up about Trump and they
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investigate those. So I understand the frustration of people saying,
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we want accountability. We want these people that weaponized our
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institutions to be held accountable.
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But you're absolutely right. This doesn't mean that we could
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do it flippantly.
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You also have to keep in mind that the average
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person doesn't look into these cases as much as me
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and you. And if they see a bunch of exonerations,
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they'll start to become sort of angry with the process
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in that regard and think that the narrative that the
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Democrats are spinning that Trump is just vindictive is true.
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So we are starting to see results. We have the
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first indictment of Antifa that came out of Dallas there
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last year for them attacking ICE officers. We saw that
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there are indictments that are coming up in Minneapolis where
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they were using Telegram to coordinate attacks against ICE. The
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case still goes in Florida, which is looking at sort
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of a RICO type case that John Brennan and others
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that were higher ups in the intel community to disenfranchise
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voters by using their station to use lawfare to go
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after Donald Trump, including spying on him. So, yes, I
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know that it's easy to get impatient with these things,
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but we're seeing more results on accountability that I think
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that most people thought would be possible within the first
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two years of Trump's second term here.
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And it's such a great point you made because you're
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exactly right. If Democrats take the House in next week,
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which I hope doesn't happen, but we have to prepare
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for the possibility. AND IF THEY GET ELECTED IN 2028,
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THEY ARE GOING TO TURN AROUND AND WEAPONIZE THIS GOVERNMENT AGAIN.
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THEY ARE BRAGGING ABOUT HOW DESPERATELY THEY WANT TO PUT
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THEIR POLITICAL OPPONENTS IN JAIL. IF WE ARE NOT CAREFUL
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AND IT LOOKS LIKE WE ARE ENGAGING IN LAWFARE, THEN
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WHAT IS THE ARGUMENT WHEN THEY START ENGAGING IN LAWFARE,
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WHICH IS WHY IT IS IMPORTANT WE GET THESE THINGS RIGHT,
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WHICH IS WHY IT IS IMPORTANT WE EXPOSE THESE THINGS.
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THERE ARE A LOT OF VICTIMS HERE. And accountability needs
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to come for those people, too. Rob, great takes. Great
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having you on the show. I can't wait to have
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you back on real soon, my friend. Always a pleasure.
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Thanks for having me.
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Thank you. Still ahead, the director of national intelligence warns
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that Iran is plotting against Americans and it has reached
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advanced stages. Iranian officials told the New York Times that
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Americans are, quote, fair game.
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And U.S.
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Officials say Iran might try to kill officials on American soil.
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The president says it's getting to be decision time. And later,
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Nicki Minaj flew to a Trump rally on Air Force One.
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The president complimented her from stage, and his critics are
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calling it, well, a scandal. She wasn't offended. We got
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more on that later. Don't go anywhere.
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Last night, we talked about Iran's missing uranium and where
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it is and who's watching it. But tonight, the question is,
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who Iran is watching? The answer is us. On Friday,
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Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton sent Secretary of State
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Marco Rubio a memo first obtained by Axios saying, quote,
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the lethal plotting efforts by the Iranians against U.S. citizens
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have reached advanced stages in both the Middle East and
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certain other countries. AGES. THAT'S NOT CHATTER. THAT'S A WARNING.
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THIS IS PART OF WHY OUR STATE DEPARTMENT PULLED FAMILIES
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OUT OF SAUDI ARABIA AND CUT STAFF IN JORDAN, LEBANON, KATAR,
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AND THE UAE. A U.S. OFFICIAL TOLD AXIOS THE REASON?
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IRANIAN TERROR PLOTS. AMERICANS SERVING OVERSEAS ARE NOW TARGETS. AND
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ONE OFFICIAL TOLD THE TIMES THERE'S SOME EVIDENCE IRAN HAS
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OPERATIVES INSIDE OUR OWN COUNTRY WHO ARE, QUOTE, NOT JUST
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SIMPLY IRANIAN NATIONALS. The president is weighing his answer. CNN
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reports our forces could strike within 96 hours of his order.
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Here's President Trump on Fox News this Sunday.
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So what happens is I have a decision to make.
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Do I finish it off, which would be very easy
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to do, or do I make a deal?
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That's a decision.
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Getting a big decision time, Larry.
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Now, Israelis voted today, their first national election since October 7th.
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With the highest afternoon turnout on record, President Trump endorsed
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Prime Minister Netanyahu twice, telling Israelis, we have to finish
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the job that we started. Final Channel 12 poll had
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former Army Chief Gadi Issanat's Yishar party at 23 seats,
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Likud at 21 seats. And neither block at the 61
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it takes to govern. The exit polls are out, but
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they're not the final word. The official count runs to Thursday,
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and we'll break it all down tomorrow. So if Tehran
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is already hunting Americans, what does a deal actually buy us?
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And if Israel's next prime minister isn't Bibi Netanyahu, who
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finishes the job? Joining me now is the chief intelligence officer, editorius,
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Stefano Rittendale. Welcome back, David Pollack, Prime Time. First, let's
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take the Iranian kill list, essentially. How much of a
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threat is this to the United States? And is this, again,
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just yet another reason why Trump is so insistent upon
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finishing the job with Iran?
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Well, David, first, thank you so much for having me
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on again. Look, the reports from the Director of National
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Intelligence about this kill list targeting U.S. diplomats in the
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Middle East follows a similar pattern that we've seen Iran do, frankly,
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for decades, right? I mean, we've seen them specifically target
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Israeli citizens and personnel around the world. There was a
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famous terrorist attack in Bulgaria. We've seen it in Thailand.
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We've seen the Iranians really conduct assassination plots targeting Israel
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and U.S.
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Interests.
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And this latest one is no different. The key questions
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that we obviously would have, that I would have, that
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we won't know right now because the information is classified,
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is when they say advanced planning, what does that specifically entail?
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In other words, are we talking about the Iranians that
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have recruited, let's say, host nation citizens to conduct these attacks?
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Are these operatives from the IRGC could force that have
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been as part of this organization for decades Are these
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sleeper cells? Are these members of Hezbollah, their proxy networks? Obviously,
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there's a lot of unknowns, but that does show the
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sophistication of the IRGC in Iran and their terror plots.
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And we have a history of them conducting terrorist attacks,
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as well as utilizing drones and ballistic missiles to achieve
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their objectives. So obviously, this is something that the State
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Department is taking very seriously and is warning American citizens
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and American diplomats with evacuations.
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But I think the U.S.
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Intelligence community and law enforcement are very well prepared to
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thwart these terrorist attacks, as we've shown in the past.
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So, and again, this is why a lot of when
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people argue, oh, Iran's no threat to the United States,
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this whole thing is ridiculous. You know, there are so
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many different threats from Iran, not just terror proxies, not
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just what you just mentioned. I mean, it's just Iran
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has been REALLY JUST SUCH A PAIN. I MEAN, AND
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WEAKENING THE IRGC, AND EVEN IF, I'M NOT SAYING WE
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REPLACE THE REGIME, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE END GOAL
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IS THERE BESIDES WEAKENING THEM INTO SUBMISSION AND MAKING SURE
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THEY CAN'T BUILD A NUCLEAR WEAPON, BUT CERTAINLY WE CAN'T
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DO WHAT PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATIONS DID AND MAKE THEM STRONGER BY
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GIVING THEM CASH AND UNLOCKING ALL THEIR ASSETS. WE HAVE
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TO WEAKEN THEM TO THE POINT WHERE THEY CAN'T CARRY
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OUT THEIR DEVIOUS PLANS. Now, let's pivot real quick to Israel,
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because a lot of people, of course, claim that the
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United States is helping Israel in all of this. And
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Israel has been a partner in our offensive against Iran.
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How significant are these elections to FINISHING THE JOB IN IRAN,
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BECAUSE TRUMP SAYS HE'S WAITING UNTIL AFTER THE MIDTERMS. MIDTERMS
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ARE A WEEK AWAY. ISRAEL'S VOTING NOW. COULD THE ELECTION
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THERE POTENTIALLY CHANGE PLANS HERE FOR US AT HOME?
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YOU KNOW, IF I MAY JUST QUICKLY END ON THIS
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POINT BEFORE I TRANSITION TO YOUR QUESTION THAT TIES IN ISRAEL.
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In 2025, there was another advanced Iranian assassination plot based
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out of their embassy in Caracas before Maduro was removed
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that targeted the Israeli ambassador in Mexico. So that shows
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the Iranian threat in the Western Hemisphere that the U.S.,
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with assistance of the Mexican government, was actually able to
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thwart that was planned out of Venezuela. But to your
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point about the elections, I mean, these are very significant
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elections that are going on in Israel. But one of
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the key questions that I would have is we have
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to see how the blocks end. And as you said,
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the opposition and Netanyahu, there was very interesting reporting that
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indicates that the Trump administration might be interested in keeping
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Benjamin Netanyahu as prime minister, but him entering into a
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coalition with the opposition and basically removing kind of the
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far right elements that have right now really assured that
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Benjamin Netanyahu stays in power, right? And so this grand
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coalition government, removing kind of these far-right elements of the
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Israeli political system right now. It's very hard to see
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that right now the opposition would acquiesce to that. Obviously,
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there's a lot of bad blood between the opposition and Netanyahu.
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But I think Netanyahu might be much more receptive of
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that option with the backing of the United States. The
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key question is, does the opposition do this? But to
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the broader question of, you know, how does Mike translate
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for military operations against Iran? Look, the Israeli political system
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is a very convoluted, to say the least. We might
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complain about the United States. I welcome our viewers to
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jump in into the Israeli Knesset and try to understand
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how that works. Regardless, it's going to take time for
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that coalition government to kind of take place. And similar
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to the United States, right, let's look at the November election.
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If the Democratic win or the Republican wins, the new
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Congress doesn't come into office until January. You can look
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outside of a complete blowout, the same situation playing with
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the Knesset in Israel. That is time that the U.S.
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and Israel can leverage to say, well, we're going to
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conduct our military operations now that the elections are done
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to meet our overall objectives, whatever it may be, regime
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change all the way to degrading the nuclear capability or
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the terrorist proxy. So the elections are significant. It will
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have a huge impact on 2027. But between now and then,
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a lot can happen, and the U.S. and Israeli military
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are quickly positioned to conduct operations in no time.
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Yeah, I think we're going to see shock and awe
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the day after– On November 4th, I think Iran can
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set their watch to it. Maybe that gets them to
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the negotiation table, and I think they'll be looking back
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at that memorandum of understanding, hoping to go back to it. Stefano,
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always great to have you on. Thank you so much
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for being here, my friend.
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David, thank you so much for having me.
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Coming up, Nicki Minaj flew to a Trump rally on
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Air Force One. The president complimented her from the stage,
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but there are some critics that are not too happy
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with his comments. But Nicki's own reaction was, thank you,
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President Trump. You know, some people are upset on her behalf.
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She seems to want no part of it. We break
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it all down next.
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Back in 2014, rapper Nicki Minaj released a song called Anaconda.
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Everybody knows the song. Bill Port reported the video set
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a Vivo record, 19.6 million views in 24 hours. And
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the whole song was a tribute to her, you know, derriere.
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The culture called that empowerment. Then on Sunday in Port Huron, Michigan,
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the president of the United States made a, let's just
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say an observation. Background is this. Nicki flew to the
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rally on Air Force One. Trump was retelling a story
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about Senator John Husted when he spotted Nicki in the crowd.
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Look.
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By the way, I looked at one hell of a
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beautiful ass before Nicki Minaj. That's hard to miss. That's
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stand up. That's hard to miss. Okay, I'm going to
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get back to my story. I hope Nikki wasn't insulted,
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but we love Nikki. She's been with us for.
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A long time. According to Billboard, Nikki stood up, put
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a finger in the air, did a spin and a wave,
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and then she took the stage, led the crowd in
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We Love Trump chant, and told him this.
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So, President Trump, it is an honor to stand with
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you every single time, and I will continue.
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To support you forever and ever. If you run again,
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I will support you again.
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That night, in a post on X praising Republican candidates,
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she wrote, Thank you, President Trump. We appreciate you. The
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one woman withstanding to be offended said, Thank you. And
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she's been in his corner a while. In January, at
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a Treasury Department event, Nikki called herself probably the president's
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number one fan and said, the hate actually motivates me
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to support him more. Now, to be fair, the comment
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did raise some eyebrows, even from her own side, but
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nothing Trump said was as awful as what we heard
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from the hateful left. So who's upset? Take Tara Setmeyer.
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A former Republican who runs the Seneca Project, she posted
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that Nicki's backside is, quote, fake, and called Trump a pig.
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On Don Lemon's show Monday, journalist Jemele Hill called Nicki
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a political prostitute. Then she went further.
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Look.
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And now you see people like Nicki Minaj, who made
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an awful lot of money in hip-hop, aligning themselves comfortably
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with white supremacy.
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Trump paid her a compliment on something she built a
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brand around. His critics insulted her body and her character
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because she backed him. The comedians also chimed in. Jimmy
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Kimmel and Jon Stewart both did bits on Monday night
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and on Fox's The Five. Greg Gutfeld called Trump, quote,
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the least sexist person alive, joking he objectifies to both
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men and women. The Democrat in that Michigan Senate race,
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Abdul El-Said, says Trump was talking about backsides instead of
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the issues. Tough words. That's a campaign talking point. Bottom
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line is this. A superstar with nearly 27 million followers
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on X stood on a Trump stage, and the left's
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answer was to mock her and attack her. Trump's crowd
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cheered her. So will people be offended by Trump's comments?
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Sure.
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I'm sure some will be. But Trump is Trump. And
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I don't think anyone's going to vote for a socialist,
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even if they were offended, at least no one on
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our side. Joining me now is author and political commentator,
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Shamika Michelle. Welcome to Apollo Prime Time. Look, I saw
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this on, what, Sunday, I guess. I didn't think it
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was real. I remember saying, no, this isn't real. No,
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this isn't real. Even when I saw it on news,
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I'm like, no, this isn't real. And then it turns
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out it's real. I'm not sure how I feel about it.
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You know, my instinct is to support the president and say, OK, whatever.
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He's making a joke and nobody seemed to mind. Nikki
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didn't seem to mind. She said, thank you, President Trump.
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But there is a chance it's offended some people. What's
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your thoughts on this? So, yes, I'm with you, David.
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Initially, when I saw it, I thought to myself, this
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couldn't be real. I clicked off of it because I
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thought this is definitely AI. I know for a fact
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my president, not my president. I know he didn't say this,
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but then turns out, yes, it seems to be real.
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And I was completely shocked. And I actually had a
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problem with it. simply because President Trump is married, but
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also Nicki Minaj is married. And I just thought that
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a man should not be commenting on another man's wife's behind.
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And so many people are saying, oh, well, you know,
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Nicki has talked about her own behind, but she wasn't
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doing that in that capacity at the time. So I
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just felt like she was well-covered, she was well-dressed. And
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I know Trump said it's hard to miss but it's
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hard to miss because it's surgically enhanced. But I don't
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think just because it's hard to miss means that you
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have to comment or point it out. She wasn't there as,
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you know, a rapper. She wasn't entertaining. She wasn't uncovered
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or half-dressed. And so I thought with the respect that
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she presented herself there, It's the same respect that she
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should get. We know that Melania has posed nude before,
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but we give her respect as the first lady of
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the United States. And I don't allow other people to
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kind of throw... that in her face. And so it
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was the same with me for Nikki. I think she
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was operating in a different capacity. The way she presented
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herself should have been honored.
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Yeah.
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You know, and that was initially, You know, I guess
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why I felt a little weird about it, too, just
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because I was like, yeah, she does that in her professional.
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You know, she talks about her butt a lot in
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her professional career. But I mean, what people do on
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stage and the way they make the music isn't necessarily
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the person. And so. I felt like maybe Trump got
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a little carried away, as Trump does. But here's the thing.
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And again, I'm not going to sit back and be
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offended for somebody else. So Nicki Minaj seems to take
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it graciously. You know, she did turn around and, like,
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kind of wave and And, you know, she doesn't seem
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to be offended by it. And so I'm resting in
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the sense that she didn't seem to mind. But the
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reality is this. It's a rally, right? And the point
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of rallies is to get people motivated to show up
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and vote. And any opportunity that somebody... Look, you support Trump,
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and you're offended. And so, you know, you don't want...
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to lose any votes, just even if you're being funny
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and making light of a situation, even if Nicki Minaj
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didn't mind, it still has the potential to lose votes.
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Do you think anybody would stay home as a result
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of this, or is this one of those things where
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you kind of just roll your eyes and, ah, whatever,
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00:50:42.369 --> 00:50:42.869
it's just Trump?
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Yeah, I think it's just Trump. I think if this
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would keep somebody staying home, they were going to stay
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home to start with. You know, I'm not offended to
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the point that I would stay home or even to
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the point that I would be upset or mad with
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anybody who thought it was OK. You know, I just
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thought it was disrespectful to her husband. I feel like
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as a society. We have just started to not respect
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men in general. And so for me, this was just
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another time where I said, OK, we're not respecting her husband,
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you know, even or the position that he's in, because
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so many people has brought up his, you know, criminal
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record or whatever. Even if you don't respect the man,
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respect the position that he's in. And so that was
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kind of my take. But I don't think it's going
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to keep people staying home unless they just weren't coming
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out to start with. I don't think it's that big.
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Of a deal.
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Yeah, you know, Shamika, you make a great point with that.
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It is, you know, you have to respect the husband here, too.
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And look, I'm glad Nicki Minaj made light of it.
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It really was. It's just a moment. But look, the
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focus needs to be on.
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Really what the significance of this midterm coming up just
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one week from now and what it means to this country.
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And certainly, you know, even if you want to call
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it a gaffer, just Trump being Trump, I don't think
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that's going to move the needle or convince anybody they
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should vote for a socialist as a result. So, you know,
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it's very interesting. I had to cover it just because
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it was just such a crazy story. And I know
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a lot of people are wondering if it's real. I'm like,
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I got I got to talk about it. Shamika, I
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appreciate you being here as always.
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Thank you, David.
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Thank you. That's our show for tonight. Make sure you
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00:52:25.590 --> 00:52:29.570
tune in tomorrow. We have Dr. Robert Malone joining us
893
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again because we're not talking enough about health care reform. Remember,
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Obamacare ruined health care, made it the unaffordable health care act.
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and Republicans have an opportunity to reform it. We're not
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talking about it enough, so we're talking about it tomorrow.
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And as always, be sure to stay in touch with
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us on social media. I'm David Pollak, USA Everywhere, or
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00:52:49.210 --> 00:52:52.760
send us an email, davidpollakprimetime at oaann.com. We'll see you tomorrow,
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same time, same place. And until then, stay classy, America.
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Good night.
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