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we are on December 10th it is it is just
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the most intense chaotic political
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theater I think by now most people who
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have you know got in to watch this are
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starting to ask for their money back yes
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so hard to follow I mean what actor we
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it but you know if you could make you
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know it was good not to speak about it
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yesterday
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when the actual report came out because
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it was the fog of war and the
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information battlespace yesterday there
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was no making sense of anything least oh
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I can see if you could just offer some
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clarity what’s going on at this point we
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all know what everybody’s waiting for at
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least it’s been paying attention and
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that is to see some actual information
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coming out about some of these these
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coup plotters anyway please just take it
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away all right I so this is I guess
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update part one I now a number of things
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have happened yesterday and today so
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first of all yesterday they had the kind
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of second set of hearings which was now
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out of the Judiciary Committee and this
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was basically the same stuff what they
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did is they kind of brushed off the
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Muller report and they didn’t have
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really I mean technically they had zero
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witnesses what they did is they brought
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in two attorneys the Republican attorney
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and a democratic attorney both like Hill
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staffer types who came in and gave their
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opinion on all the stuff that had gone
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on that was really kind of a so there
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was nothing there was nothing new
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precisely it wasn’t even designed to get
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anything new out there it was designed
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for you know even as poorly thought
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through as it was all it was was these
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layers giving their opinions on
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everything that had already come before
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so I mean it was built not to have
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anything new there was like I said zero
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witnesses the big news item out of this
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whole thing I watched this yesterday the
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I believe it was the Republican lawyer
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so don’t don’t hold me to that I’m not a
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hundred percent sure but I believe is
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the Republican lawyer brought his
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briefings and all his paperwork in a
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grocery bag
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was one of the reusable reusable grocery
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bags I think from fresh markets and
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fresh markets has now made a joke out of
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it it went viral they’ve said you know
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come on in and you know buy stuff and
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we’ll give you a free bag and you can
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use it to take your groceries or your
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legal briefs in and things like that so
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that’s been the big item out of the
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whole thing a joke about this guy using
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his grocery bag for his paperwork which
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that’s probably the most newsworthy item
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out of the actual hearings themselves so
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ironically the Democrat guy got up the
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Democrat lawyer who is a staffer for the
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Democrats now that’s his job his first
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sits down there and is you know a
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witness and some kind of pen so the
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Republicans start going we’ll wait a
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minute you know how is this guy witness
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he’s you know he’s a guy who donated
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over a hundred thousand dollars or tens
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of thousands of dollars to the
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Democratic Party and he’s this and that
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and the other they’re doing no harassing
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the witness this is what Jerry Nadler
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saying who’s running the committee
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hearings and so it was just a joke and
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then as soon as that guy’s done
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testifying
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he gets up from a seat and goes around
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walks behind and sits down with the
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Democrats again who are then running
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this this this supposed hearing on on
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the impeachment so it was in just a
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complete fiasco joke it’s idiocy like I
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said the highlight of the whole thing
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was this grocery bag diff though one
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lawyer was caring so zero out of that
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and I don’t think it’s helping their
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ratings in a week we’ll see how those it
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takes about that long to filter back to
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everybody and then the new polls will
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come out in a week or ten days and we’ll
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see the results of what went on here
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part two of this then as the Democrats
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came out with two articles of
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impeachment this is kind of a separate
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Act and originally Nancy Pelosi
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who’s the Speaker of the House she is
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the head of the Democrats in on the
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house side said that she wasn’t going to
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go forward with articles of impeachment
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and less there was bipartisan support of
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which there’s zero bipartisan support
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and in fact it appears that some of the
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Democrats a handful of them will defect
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over to the Republican side and vote
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against impeachment that remains to be
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seen haven’t probably committed
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they committed to it but then there’s a
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lot of them that are worried about it
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because of their voting districts and a
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lot of other issues so there’s a good
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chance that there’s going to be a
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handful that will defect from the
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Democratic side to the Republican side
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and vote against the articles of
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impeachment
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any thoughts as to what number and info
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would be on you know the ones that are
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in districts that are up for grabs or
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maybe it doesn’t where they’re in
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political trouble I’m probably going to
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lose their seat in the next election so
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they’ve got to try and walk a fine line
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and I still try to appeal to their base
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that got them elected but with the
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understanding that too many of those
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people are against it and it’s kind of a
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Republican leaning district at all so
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there’s maybe a dozen or so there in
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that fix of which you know like I said
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maybe a handful would actually vote
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against impeachment four five six now
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Nancy Pelosi is perfectly capable this
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is where she shines is she can count
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votes she’s going to know and probably
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has had discussions with these people
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saying like you know don’t do it or well
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okay you know you three can do it
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because you’re in the most danger and
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you will lose your seat you know there’s
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there’s discussions of that nature
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negotiations going on behind the scenes
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with Nancy Pelosi and those dozens of
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people so she may give them permission
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they may say screw them and do it anyway
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because otherwise I’m out come November
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so what difference does it make if I
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make you happy or unhappy so that’s all
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taking place back there and it’s
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difficult to predict because each one of
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those is an individual situation as good
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or as bad as it may be for those people
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so we’ll see but I would you know like I
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say I would be figuring you’ll probably
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be able to count them on one hand sort
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of situation I don’t think you have all
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12 of them saying now now we’re voting
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against this and I think you know you
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start if that happened you you might not
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see it even passed the house but like he
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said Nancy Pelosi can count votes if
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she’s brought it this far then it’s
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because she thinks she can get it passed
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they’re rushing it through as we’ve all
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seen the two articles of impeachment are
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obstruction of Congress and abuse of
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power now the problem with those of
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course is there’s no actual misdemeanor
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or crime that took place and they’re not
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claiming there’s a crime they’re just
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saying it’s an abuse of power they’re
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kind of
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making that up as to what it is that
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boils down the whole thing boils down to
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this Trump asked about Biden’s
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involvement with this burr yzma deal
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where his son was getting paid a little
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over three million dollars and working
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for this Purisima company that was being
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investigated by the Ukrainian prosecutor
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that very same Ukrainian prosecutor is
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the guy that you Abidin got fired that’s
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the issue so they’re saying for
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president Trump to have asked about that
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is abuse of power and then when he
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didn’t cooperate and give them
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everything they wanted in these hearings
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then that’s obstruction of Congress but
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which of course just these are just
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made-up things they’re known there’s no
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laws involved with all this stuff
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they’re just made up so there’s no real
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they’re there if you will it’s a nothing
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burger in the sense of what’s actually
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there now a couple of pundits have come
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out the legal eagle guys and said you
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know when it gets to the Sanitation just
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an immediate dismiss the law that’s
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broken you know put the law that was
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broken where is the actual crime on the
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table so we can look at it and see so
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you know you got ten seconds what is the
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crime what proof do you have for that
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crime and if I don’t see it you know
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what is the case to take forward so it
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be immediately dismissed now you know
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that’s how maybe that is something
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that’s certainly possible that could
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happen don’t know if that’s better or
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worse for Trump for I would think for
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Trump’s perspective a actual trial in
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the Senate might be good for him because
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then they can start bringing up all of
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these people that can testify against
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that what the Democrats are portraying
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the situation as and they can bring up
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all this stuff on Biden and Hunter Biden
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and all that so it’s an opportunity for
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them to actually finally lay out their
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story so that’s kind of the second area
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of what’s going on right now the the
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Democrats are in a very tough position
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at this because they’ve got to play to
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their base they have to move forward
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because they’ve been promising this to
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their base for three years they know
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it’s crap they know there’s nothing
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there’s nothing to it
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Obama I like take the fast and furious
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the gun investigation and all of these
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different things that that went on
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during the
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Obama years his level of cooperation
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with the investigations of the of the
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house on these things was far less than
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it was for what Trump has been doing so
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Trump has been far more cooperative so
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if obstruction of Congress is something
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that a co-equal part of the government
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which is the judiciary the legislative
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and the executive the executive and
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judicial exec judicial sorry judiciary
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legislative is our co-equal so I mean
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for them to say that the president is
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obstructing Congress like I said this is
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a nonsensical made-up thing that doesn’t
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exist
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within the Constitution and all that so
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all the stuff they’re saying about
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defending the Constitution and on our
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rights and our votes and blah blah blah
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all made up they all know it’s made up
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they all know it’s a lie
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there isn’t anybody except for out in
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the public who don’t know any better
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that believe any of that is true we all
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know it’s false argument we all know
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it’s nonsense when you hear these
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reporters on television talking about
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this so if they all know they’re lying
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when they defend it everybody knows so
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it’s just this made-up stuff so how it
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plays out remains to be seen but they’re
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now rushing the the Democrats Nancy
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Pelosi is rushing to get this out of the
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way done before Christmas so that it’s
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forgotten by Christmas but yet she
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played to her base and then after
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Christmas she can pick up the
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legislative items that are pending that
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that everybody’s ripping them on now
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saying you’re not passing anything you
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do nothing you’re blocking there’s a lot
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of good stuff pending you’re not letting
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any of it go forward so they’ll pick all
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that up and after the new year and then
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try to get some legislation done going
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into the elections in November so that’s
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the game plan they’re playing out but
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there’s so many ways for this to bite
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them in the rear and Trump now again
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whatever you think of Trump a lot of
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people think he’s crude and all that but
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the man is a master at manipulation of
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the press he’s really good at running
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media and all and he’s he’s lacking most
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of the tools to do it and he’s still
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kicking there but you know if he was on
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equal footing he would just rule
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everything and but even at the
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disadvantage to position he’s an he’s a
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winning across the board in media his
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numbers are going up impeachment numbers
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are going down economy is doing well
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he’s
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doing great now the third area then is
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the Horowitz report the DOJ IG Horowitz
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has come out with report now this is
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something I’ve alluded to or mentioned
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before not in great detail but Horowitz
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is a company man I think everyone knows
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I mean he’s he’s insider he’s Beltway
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guy he’s the swamp sort of guy that his
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whole career is doing all this stuff
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within government so he’s the guy doing
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the investigation now couple of problems
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for him I mean he’s doing what I have
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said all along more or less he’s gonna
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do he’s not going to come out and you
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know have some earth crushing thing he’s
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an IG so what he can do is very limited
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what he has done was sort of unfortunate
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in one sense because he’s come out and
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said there’s no basically there’s no
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proof of bias so now you have to keep in
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mind this guy’s a lawyer so he speaks in
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lawyer ease and so what his standard is
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there now me as an intelligence guy
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there’s clear and obvious proof we all
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know his bias the 17 mistakes that were
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made in this process of FISA were all
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against President Trump there was zero
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mistakes the other way where it was like
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helpful to Trump so out of those 17
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things that were mentioned they’re all
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targeting Trump and that I we all know
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that’s targeting Trump we all know the
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bias was there but his standard is not
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that his standard is the legal standard
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can I go to court in front of a judge
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and prove beyond a reasonable doubt bias
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and the answer is no he doesn’t have all
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that proof but he’s an IG he can’t
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subpoena people and force them to
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testify so it’s very very difficult for
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him to reach that standard so I’d like
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if I’ll settle along I just it’s just
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not that significant but that’s that’s
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why that’s come out that way and
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Christopher Rea who’s the director of
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the FBI currently has been and I’ve
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started talking about this right after
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he was appointed because instead of
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coming in and trying to fix things what
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he did is try to come in and cover up
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things so Christopher Reagan is
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swamp Miller come dwell our company man
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well Christopher Rea wants is to protect
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the reputation of the FBI that’s what he
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thinks he’s doing that’s what he
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honestly believes he’s doing what in
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fact he’s doing is precisely the
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opposite because instead of coming in
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and cleaning up this frickin mess what
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he did is trying to tamp it all down
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like I said hoping that what he’s doing
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is protecting the reputation of the FBI
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it’s too late the cats out of the bag
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the FBI’s got problems it’s broken
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organization it needs to be fixed and
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rather than covering up the problem you
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need to just man up grow a pair and fix
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the damn thing now Christopher ray is
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not capable of that it’s time for him to
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be fired president Trump has hinted
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about there being problems with
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Christopher ray and he mentioned
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publicly and this morning that
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Christopher Ray’s comments are very odd
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because he must not be reading the same
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report I’m reading because there’s
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clearly problems there that need to be
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fixed so Trump is on to this he
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understands he’s got the problem with
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Christopher a time to fire him time to
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go on to the next guy trying to go find
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somebody that would actually fix the FBI
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which by the way why not John Durham
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when he’s finished with his report put
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him in his director of the FBI that guy
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has taken a close look at this and will
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be in a position to actually fix things
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so my recommendation of mr. Trump
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president Trump if you’re listening
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there you go get rid of Christopher Ray
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put in John Durham and let these guys go
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to town and get the FBI back up and
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running where it’s a trusted
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organization because what we’ve seen is
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just this this political corruption at
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the high levels of the FBI that is are a
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disgrace to the working level people at
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the FBI where we see these payoffs from
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the press and they’re leaking to them
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and this political corruption of who you
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target and don’t target it’s an absolute
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disgrace it needs to be fixed and so you
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got to have somebody in there that will
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actually fix it and he’s picking these
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swamp dollars like Christopher ray who
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like I said misguided I don’t think he’s
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some evil person and to undermine this
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or that or Burton you know destroy the
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Constitution I think he thinks that he’s
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doing what’s right but the problem he’s
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just so badly misguided it just shows a
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complete lack of understanding of the of
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the depth of the situation so he’s
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clearly way over his head bad pick from
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the beginning they need to fire him
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and get him out of there so that’s it
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those are the three elements that’s
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where we stand as of today what’s going
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to be happening next and what’s coming
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up are these articles of impeachment are
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going to have to be voted on very
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quickly they’re going to do it before
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Christmas break they want it gone and
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off the table after when they everybody
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comes back from New Year’s and of course
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everybody does Washington basically
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shuts down from 15 December to to 15
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January roughly all the people on the
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hill are back home with family and
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constituents and all of these sorts of
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things so they want this that month
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where everything is off for Christmas to
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let this story die so they can go on and
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try to do other things because they know
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it’s a loser they see those same poll
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numbers we do they I they think they’re
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doing this great job and it’s really
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playing well but I think they also
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recognize that it’s really playing well
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and they’re doing a great job but for
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their base but they can’t win an
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election at their base the the numbers
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that Trump is polling among black voters
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and Hispanic voters and even Jewish
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voters is is off the chart so you know
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if he pulls away call it all of those
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things combined pulls across 10% of
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those votes Democrats are done and if
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they vote in the lower elections like
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the House and Senate and those sorts of
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elections is well using the same numbers
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which doesn’t always happen meaning that
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they vote for a Republican president
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they might still vote for a Democratic
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congressman or senator but many of them
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will also still vote Republican party
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across the board so if all of that
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happens and that’s a low-end number ten
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percent that’s enough to just basically
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wipe out much of the Democratic side
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certainly take back control over the
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house pick up a seat or two on the
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Senate side so that’s that’s where it’s
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going forward we’ll see this play out
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whatever it does in the Senate assuming
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it passes the House which I would expect
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to happen in the next few days and the
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Horowitz report by week one last thing
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very important on this John Durham came
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out and said I don’t agree with some of
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the conclusions of of what you had on on
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how the the FISA warrant was obtained
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and what John Durham is saying is about
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reading between the lines this is me and
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my estimation
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he means by this is indictments are
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gonna come out in that area where the
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Horowitz report didn’t really recommend
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anything of that nature they did hint
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that essentially there was a move to try
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and oust the president but that it was
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you an honest mistake sort of a thing
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where Durham is coming out and going ah
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well that uh that that Durham comes out
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with means he has in mind indictments
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behind behind all of this
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Durham report will come out sometime
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between now and September so I would I
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would actually predict March something
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along those lines a lot of people are
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saying that just because it would be
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good timing gives him a few months to
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put all this together and finish up what
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he’s got to do so that would be my rough
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guess a lot of people are guessing March
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I agree I think that’s about right
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so in essence then all of us who were
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hoping to find some that is to say all
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of us were supporters of President Trump
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in the administration we’re hoping to
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find some kind of satisfaction the IG
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report really have to wait for March for
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this other report yes I think so
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the director ray FBI director right has
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already said oh you know we’re taking
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actions against these guys well
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therefore these seventeen violations
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that whoever’s left we’re going to you
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know put a letter in their file or some
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silly nonsense
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that’s which by the way that’s standard
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swamp response we did something see you
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know I put a letter in that guy’s file
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which means and those got taken out of
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their file after a few years I think
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three years or something like that those
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get polls they’re not even a permanent
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thing in these guys file it was the same
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thing that we saw at a State Department
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IG when they did the inspection of those
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perhaps 60,000 classified documents that
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ended up on Anthony Weiner’s laptop out
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of the Hillary Clinton White House a
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black and white crime each one of those
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classified documents is an individual
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crime the IG State Department IG
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finishes their report they’re go yeah I
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mean there were some mistakes and all
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those people every one of those things
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was adjudicated and all those people
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were appropriately punished but yeah I
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mean are they in jail for having those
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class thousands of classified
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documents get outside the system and go
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to somebody’s house you know know but
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you don’t know what happened to those
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people that’s closed-door standard
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operating procedure for the swamp they
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take care of themselves they take care
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of their own and those those guys will
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get some sort of slap on the wrist and
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three years from now probably whatever
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it is that was done to anyone involved
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in any of those things
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State Department DOJ FBI it’s completely
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gone so it’s just the swamp being the
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swamp I mean that’s the stuff that Trump
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actually needs to clean up and I think
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he’s only just now figured this out he’s
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starting to see how dirty FBI was how
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dirty do J was how dirty CIA was and
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don’t forget CIA is on the menu for the
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John Durham investigation they’re
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involved in that so you’re gonna see
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that come out so all of these guys the
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entire 17 agencies are involved in
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intelligence that’s formed the
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intelligence community the IC as
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everybody refers to it every one of
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those guys signed off on this concept on
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that every four year report that comes
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out that’s the guidebook for
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intelligence on facing the greatest
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threats that the United States has out
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there they’re graded one of the items
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the high items on their list of great
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threats was you know the global warming
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these guys are freaking joke their
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political their PC their swamp they’re
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not interested in national security
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United States they’re interested in
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their own political you know axe to
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grind and they’re not interested in
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getting the duties and the job of the
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United States done so you got to start
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cleaning house you’ve got to start
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firing people you got to start moving
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them out those that broke the law along
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the way I’ve got to go to jail right now
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our hopes are pinned on John Durham and
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a US Attorney General bar and so far I
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think our hopes are fairly well-founded
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that the Constitution and the laws the
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land will win
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Brad Johnson, President, and retired CIA Senior Officer and Chief of Staff. Insight into current events from an intelligence angle.