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Brad Johnson, President, and retired CIA Senior Officer and Chief of Staff. Insight into current events from an intelligence angle.

Brad Johnson on McCabe indictment

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Brad Johnson there is some really gues

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good news certainly transformative news

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today about a certain potential or

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actual indictment which may mean the

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first domino falls in the coup against

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President Trump I mean against those

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people who’d initiate scoop I got that

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about right yes what you yes I and I

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think that’s exactly just very precise

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in as of just a brief analysis of what’s

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going on the way you laid it out

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so Andrew McCabe the former deputy

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director of the FBI who was fired just

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before his retirement this is something

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that’s being covered quite a little bit

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on the news today it came out that he’s

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going to be formally indicted by the DC

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Court so a federal court so this is very

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interesting the way it’s unfolding and I

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think there’s some very precise reasons

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why first of all the the crime that’s

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being looked at here is that on three

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separate occasions he lied under oath

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and so it’s probably a perjury charge or

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some other things involved it’s not

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clear yet what all will be the precise

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parameters of this indictment but the

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the perjury appears to be the center of

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it so waiting details waiting for the

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actual formal indictment but it looks

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pretty certain that this is going

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forward now so a couple of things are

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very interesting on this to me as as I

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as you know and your listeners know

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something I’m following quite a little

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bit first of all the selection of Andrew

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McCabe Andrew McCabe as a as a person is

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just absolutely ideal I think he was

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very well chosen for this because he

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wasn’t one of the center players I mean

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he’s not the name that we hear over and

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over and over being included in all of

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these things where the steel dossier the

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FISA warrant and all of that he was

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involved but more peripherally so he

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wasn’t at the center of it it was

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handled by James Comey and John Brennan

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and James clapper all of those sorts of

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names that everyone should be familiar

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with the former director of the FBI

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former director of the CIA and the

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former national security adviser to the

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president so back in the Obama days so

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mccabe has been picked to be indicted

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and this is the

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first one and you remember over the last

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couple weeks when Comey was passed over

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on a couple of minor things about

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documents at home now this is the answer

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to that and I think the timing is no

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coincidence either

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today also in this same context the

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Democrats voted to go forward with

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basically an impeachment hearing

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something they know has no chance of

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succeeding would never make it

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probably even out of the house because

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there’s already Democrats who don’t want

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this and are saying that’s not good for

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them in their district to have this go

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forward so they won’t even be able to

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hold the Democratic majority on the

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house side to get this through and if it

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gets to the Senate it’s DOA it’s not

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going to go anywhere so everybody knows

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it cannot work but yet they’re doing it

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and why this is one of the things I’ve

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talked about from the very beginning on

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this the Democrats are going forward

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with this because they have known all

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along what is coming this is a point

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I’ve made a number of times in previous

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interviews they need something to

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counterbalance what they know is coming

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and that first step now we know who it’s

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going to be and it’s going to be McCabe

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and it’s going to be McCabe over this

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perjury the the beauty of that perjury

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thing is that there were three of them

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each of those are independent crimes and

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those laws have teeth so and mccabe has

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put people in jail for doing that so

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he’s only being held to the same

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standard that he’s held other people’s

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to other people too and jailed them for

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so he’s almost certainly you know easily

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proven guilty of this it’s still alleged

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at this point but it that the standards

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are so clearly and easily met and

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documented that he’s got extremely

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difficult legal problems so what’s going

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to happen they’re gonna there that there

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probably will be a deal negotiated with

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him but it’s gonna be Singh tell us the

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whole story tell us who did everything

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and what happened everybody or you’re

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going to prison and meet meet up with

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Bubba and McCabe just you know you that

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guy doesn’t have the huevos to withstand

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anything like that doing hard time in

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jail is something that man would never

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ever ever be able to to do well in that

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environment so he’s gonna he’s gonna

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sing he’s gonna tell everything he knows

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and that’s the problem that Democrats

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are faced with that’s why we’re seeing

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two reasons why we’re seeing the the the

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attempt against the president going

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forward to oust him from office it’s one

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to play to their you know the kind of

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the nutty left-wing extremist base that

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the Democrats now have to play to and so

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going after the president is the only

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thing to placate them and they’re going

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into primaries where they don’t want to

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get primary dan and kicked out of their

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seats like aoc did to that standing

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congressman in New York so they’ve got

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to play to that and also they need

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something to counterbalance these

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indictments that they’re know that are

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coming out the further investigation

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this is the first one there’s going to

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be more and bigger and bigger and bigger

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and they’re in a flip McCabe and the

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whole thing starts to fall apart it’s a

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house of cards this is the first card

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that’s structural being pulled out and

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it now it’s just it’s all over both the

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screaming so that’s how this is playing

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forward that’s why it’s playing forward

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this way and I would say that the next

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six months are going to be very exciting

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with a lot of news and I think the base

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certainly of the people that are

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interested in these interviews but also

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the the majority of the people in the

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United States I think are going to find

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a certain relief and to see these big

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cat guys that are politically corrupt

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assuming that can be proven going down

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on this and getting in trouble over it’s

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something that I would have certainly

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gone to jail for if I’d done any of

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those things that these guys are accused

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of and you and your most of your

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listeners all of us just normal people

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would have gone to jail for this stuff

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immediately without any hesitation and

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yet these guys are all have been above

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the law because they are the law so I

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think it’s going to be a breath of fresh

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air and especially in the United States

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and I think that will have ripple effect

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going outwards I think to have the

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reaffirmation of the Constitution being

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a country of laws is singularly

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important here so I’m very encouraged by

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this up hope people view it generally

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speaking that way and I think it’s

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pretty clear it’s going to play out

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along the line

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of what I’m describing you know these

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things vary from here to there but I

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think a deal with McCabe I think the the

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Democrats trying to pump up this you

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know goofball impeachment idea of

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President Trump for which he’s already

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been cleared and it won’t pass their own

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party’s votes so early I listened to a

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few minutes of the live from the from

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Congress I guess and it was a Democrat

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congressman who was saying that there’s

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300 pages of procedures about

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impeachment and there’s nothing there’s

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nothing that they’re doing that meets

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any of those procedures so the whole

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thing was ludicrous and he didn’t seem

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to get what they were doing it was an

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interesting fellow seemed to have some

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integrity but yeah I guess this is a

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Hail Mary for the Democrats yeah no

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question but but to fight back on

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primaries and to try to counter

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counterbalance what they’re being faced

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with all the Democratic Party

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corruptions coming out in all of these

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things so they’re screwed and all this

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is going to play forward in the

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president’s this next election in 2020

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is a presidential election last year was

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off year the Democrats I mean the

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opposition party always tends to do well

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in that first off year election of a

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president they just always do this now

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is the opposite it tends to be better

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for the party and power the one with the

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president to during the on year

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elections if you will when the president

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is running as in 2020 so they’re very

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afraid of that I mean they don’t may not

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say it but they’re starting to see these

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numbers unfold in their in-house polls

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there’s a lot of the Democratic Party in

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the Republican Party all do internal

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polls they all know what the numbers

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more or tend to really be like and if

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this all keeps going the way it is

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they’re going to get a shellacking

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they’ll the Republicans would gain a few

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houses in the Senate not many because

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most of the seats up for election are

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Republicans so I think they would

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withstand any mini challenges and maybe

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pick up one or two maybe three and on

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the house side I think they would just

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take it to the to the Democrats as all

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this goes forward all these trials start

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to unfold the indictment start to unfold

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the corruption showing that how they try

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unseat duly elected president United

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States and they start getting prison

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sentences so they’ll that’s just it will

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slaughter them it’s precisely what we

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saw under President Nixon now we’re

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going back a ways but when all of these

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legal troubles started to come out we

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saw a radical left-wing nobody get

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elected president United States and that

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was Jimmy Carter at and to this day

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we’re paying the price for having

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elected him to Jimmy Carter I would put

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the problems that we’ve had with Iran at

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his doorstep the reason we have the Iran

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problems today and then building nuclear

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bombs is all Jimmy Carter’s fault this

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was his policies what he enacted and has

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caused those problems but it came out of

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that reaction to the Nixon issues and

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the corruption that was involved there

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and so that was the pushback so I think

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we’re seeing we’re going to see a

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similar situation as when Jimmy Carter

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got elected following the Nixon fiasco

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and I think we’re gonna see something

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similar here I wouldn’t be surprised to

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see a very large much larger majority

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than the Republicans have had for a

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while come back in on the on the house

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side and strengthened in the Senate side

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you

 

 

 

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