Brad Johnson retired as a Senior Operations Officer and Chief of Station with the Central Intelligence Agency’s Directorate of Operations. He has served domestically and abroad with numerous assignments often during periods of armed conflict. He has served overseas in direct support of the War against Terrorism.
Mr. Johnson is a certified senior expert in Counterintelligence issues with extensive direct experience in the field. He is a senior expert in surveillance and surveillance detection issues.
In the summer of 2017, Mr. Johnson founded the non-profit organization Americans for Intelligence Reform to create awareness for political corruption and diminished capabilities within the intelligence community
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it is january the 24th sunday
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of 2021 it’s been quite a busy few days
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for the
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new uh wide administration i certainly
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hope
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that they’re going to enjoy the same
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kind of cooperation from the republicans
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that
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the republicans enjoyed from the
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democrats after trump was elected but i
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have a feeling that’s not the case
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brad why don’t you catch us up to the
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first four days
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of this regime
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well i i can i the whole situation has
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become
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something that i i just don’t see how
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you could really describe it by
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you know some other concept that’s
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that’s varies very far from the word
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disgusting
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uh if you’re even a moderate
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or a you know independent or you know
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kind of a liberal republican
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or any of those things and certainly if
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you’re a christian or a christian
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conservative or
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constitutionalist or conservative any of
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those sorts of things it’s it’s beyond
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the pale
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i mean absolutely beyond the pale for
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all of the period of time
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for the trump administration when he was
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truly
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the champion for conservative issues and
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the champion of the people of the united
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states of america
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uh it was there was there was he was
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completely ignored by the republican
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party and in fact
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the leadership of the republican party
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was just they were lining up
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to thrust the knife in his back and it
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was it was disgusting now
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all of a sudden they’re out and today i
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just have to say it just
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sent me off i was watching the morning
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news programs and these guys
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all the politicians they go to the
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sunday morning talk shows because that’s
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when
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people are in the living room having
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that second cup of coffee or whatever
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and they’ll
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they’ll sit and read the newspaper or
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whatever it is you’re doing and you’ll
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have the news on and kind of watch
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these talk shows go through and
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interview these people so it’s a good
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time if you’ve got things
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to say a point you want to make that’s
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the time to go on so you’ve got
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all these guys out there talking about
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oh well you know the mueller
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investigation
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and this fake russia and
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uh you know and uh the fbi top-level
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corruption and the durham investigation
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and
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all this stuff that we’ve been talking
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about here for a very long time
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suddenly the republicans are out on the
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circuit talking about that stuff
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well you know i i gotta say you know
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that
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that pisses me off to no end it really
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does
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because when they could have done that
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uh and and been helpful
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over the last four years it was crickets
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they did nothing
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said nothing and now suddenly once they
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had the president of their party
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you know tossed out on his ear
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probably in a very unfair way you know
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almost certainly i mean we know for a
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fact there was cheating on the election
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you know the only question is how much
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was it enough to sway the election or
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not
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but there are absolutely black and white
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uh
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cases of information out there where we
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show those 10 000
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ballots brought in in that plastic box
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it was filmed
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so i mean there’s no doubt that those
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votes were suddenly just appeared and
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put into the election system
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and where dead people voted those are
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very well documented i mean 100 percent
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dead on
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uh conclusive evidence that would stand
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up in any court if we could ever get it
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into court
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right brad i’m sorry to interrupt you
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but i i feel like i’ve got to say
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the the aspect of the election which was
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cheated
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absolutely cheated by a huge amount and
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which is not being brought up very often
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if at all
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is that the mainstream media and social
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media especially
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illegally biased and to tip the playing
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field put both thumbs on one side of the
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scale
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to make damn sure that the message of
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trump and his followers could not get
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out
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and that anyone who was just even
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applying the most
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the most barbaric kind of critical
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theory would be amplified
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so and that was unquestionably a form of
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cheating which cost the election
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yeah i don’t know if that by itself was
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enough to carry the day i would argue to
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you
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that it did that it by itself did not
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although you’re absolutely right
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those should have been counted under us
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law that should have been counted as
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contributions in kind
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if you have facebook twitter youtube
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uh the mainstream media and all of those
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people squarely on the side of
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of biden that is a a campaign
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contribution under us law
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and that those all should have been
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considered contributions in kind
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like if i provide a uh campaign
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headquarters to
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trump for free that’s a contribution
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that’s how those laws work
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it doesn’t mean you know it doesn’t
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count because no money was exchanged
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it it those are contributions so i would
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argue to you that the
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the all of these elements impacted on it
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but none of that was enough
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that they in fact these things we’ve
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talked about where the voting in italy
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was manipulated and all those
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things i think they were so badly
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shellacked
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in spite of all of the cheating and
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headwind on all those other aspects
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they still couldn’t win and that that
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the manipulation of the
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of the voted dating machines and all of
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that were what turned it for them
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i based that too on looking at all of
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the states those
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states that were not manipulated that
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way
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that were those sorts of same those same
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problems and those voting
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machines being hooked up to the internet
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where that did not exist
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you saw trump win in record numbers i
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mean
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absolute record numbers doing extremely
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well among black hispanic voters that
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traditionally went
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democrat those numbers were greatly
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reduced for the democrats and greatly
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increased for
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uh trump now still trump got the
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minority of those votes but at
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a prodigious increase in in volume for
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those votes so
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uh i i think that was the all of those
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things took place all of those things
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are wrong
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all of it was cheating you you can’t
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look at any of the say it
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stuff and say cheating didn’t take place
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it did it’s just a question of
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how much it didn’t sway i think any
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rational person would look at it and say
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there’s a far cape for the elections
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having been manipulated to make biden
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the winner there’s far more evidence of
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that
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than there is that this was a fair
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election so i think any rational person
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would have to at least
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question but what we’re now seeing out
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of these republicans and kind of the
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stick stage of the problem
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is where were they where have they been
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and that was silent doing nothing
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the republican party has flushed itself
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down the toilet
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they’re useless lying sobs you know you
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cannot trust these guys
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they have made themselves into the loyal
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opposition and understand what loyal
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opposition means it means they’re really
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working for the democrats now
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on the same sheet of music and i don’t
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i’m
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really you at this point it it now this
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is an oversimplification
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but they’re making millions of dollars
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out there in congress land
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uh off of doing business with china and
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all these other deals going on and real
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estate deals and all of that so they
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all want businesses as usual and they’re
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they’re making money off of this stuff
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so the the republicans have made them
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into themselves into this loyal
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opposition
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that doesn’t fight back and i i want to
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go just
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case in point and this is you know to
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the heart of what we do at americans for
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intelligence reform
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intel reform.org is the website but for
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example the new director of the cia
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a guy named william burns state
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department former ambassador
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and just look at the way the mainstream
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media is presenting this guy they’re
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saying
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he has worked under five previous
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administrations and he’s this great guy
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blah blah blah
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in the old days when morality existed
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and people admitted there was a
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difference between truth and lies
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that would have been considered a lie of
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a mission so
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the reason it’s a lie of a mission is
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because they’re leaving out actually
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just key data and presenting it in such
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a way that this guy
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is somebody that’s worked with the
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republicans worked with democrats and
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has worked
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across the aisle doing all of this sort
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of stuff and
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you know that that is a lie but a lie of
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a mission and again i
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i this this comes from back in the day
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when
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when things like morality and truth and
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justice and all of those things used to
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exist
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prior to the day we find ourselves in
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now and
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this guy was a state department employee
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just like
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an ibm employee or an exxon employee or
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an accountant or anything else
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he was an employee of this agency of the
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us government
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during his career over those years
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different presidents came and go
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sometimes republicans won sometimes
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democrats won
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but he stayed in his job just like all
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the rest of us who have jobs
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if it was that same job over the 20
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years any of us can say
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yeah i worked in my job through you know
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five different
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presidencies and i’m bipartisan because
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some of them are democrats and some of
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them are republicans i mean that is a
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lie that is
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misleading on purpose the american
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people
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as to the character of this william
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burns uh
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ambassador burns and that guy make no
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mistake is an absolute democrat
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party partisan hack the state
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department is the most biased
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agency in the united states government
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and if you go back and look at the
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contributions that are political
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there’s a lot of stuff out there very
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easy to research who they vote for and
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all of that they’re one of the highest
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percentages at something like 97 percent
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democrat so just make no mistake exactly
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who and what this guy
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is and to have him uh confirmed as
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director of the cia
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let me add a couple more names to this
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you know the deputy director is david
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cohen
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of the cia so that’s going to be
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ambassador burns deputy
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that guy was a deputy the cia before
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under john brennan under the obama
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administration
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i mean he was one of the guys that put
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together this modernization program at
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the cia i’ve talked about
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uh many many times which is a
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moronically stupid idiotic
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program that they put in yes it did do
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some good things but it has
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permanently damaged and degraded
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our capability to to run intelligence
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overseas and
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i just i can’t use bad enough words in
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polite company to describe what was done
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an absolute partisan hack and a guy
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closely tied to john brennan
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and who was he was john brennan’s deputy
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who did all this stuff and
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you cannot possibly look at john brennan
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and think anything
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other than partisan hack he’s on the
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news all the time and just
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vehement trump hater you know voted
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communist in his youth the guy’s
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is a whack nut and this guy was his
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deputy and then finally
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the dni the director of national
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intelligence put in there
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this april haynes also a former deputy
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director of the cia
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also from the obama period time and also
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with john brennan
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i mean it’s just this incestuous group
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of all these extremists left-wing people
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and april haynes comes out and says
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this just is beyond me sometimes she’s
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coming out and publicly saying we have
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to rebuild trust in our intelligence
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agencies and all this has been
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blah blah blah blah but the intelligence
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ages agencies and these
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guys as the deputies were some of the
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people involved during this period of
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time
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when these uh accusations against trump
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being involved with the with the
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russians was all made up
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and this fake intelligence program and
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all that stuff
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these guys you have to look at with deep
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suspicion
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of what did they know about all of that
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stuff going on in the background all of
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that is illegal
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and yet it was done anyway and so here
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we come back to my point from earlier
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this uh ambassador burns cohen and
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haines these guys are in
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these are three of the most senior most
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important positions
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in the intelligence community and have
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some of the greatest influence
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and what where are the republicans on
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this
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where is one single republican
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worth a little tiny piece of salt who’s
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standing up and saying the stuff i’m
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saying
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this is all public record this doesn’t
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take any
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brain to put it together but once again
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the only guy who’s out there reporting
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on all this stuff telling you the truth
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you can look up any of this stuff i’m
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saying
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and the only guy reporting it is me
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where is the mainstream media
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where are the republicans where the
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supposed conservative media that
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these these jerks are not out there
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doing their job
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and the republicans are voting for these
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people these guys are all
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either have been or will be easily
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confirmed
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by votes with the republicans voting in
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mass to support this stuff
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they don’t even ask these questions i
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would very much like to know
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from david cohen david when you were
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deputy director of john brennan what did
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you know about
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all the stuff going on what about the
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steele dossier
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what did you have to do with it what
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meetings were you in on that
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do you know peter strzok who was heading
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this up for the fbi
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did you go to italy were you traveling
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over there
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what is you know where is all that
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questioning on it
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and none of it none of it none of it is
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out there and like i say the republican
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party
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has flushed themselves down the toilet
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they’re nothing more than a rubber stamp
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oh they’re working for the democrats on
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the side because they want businesses of
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usual
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and this is a thing where conservatives
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we need to start to fight back on this
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and either i mean there’s a lot of
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talking now about will trump start his
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own patriot party
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uh can we start going uh getting back at
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some of these republicans who betrayed
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us
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who’ve betrayed their trust betrayed
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their oath but traded their
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responsibility
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like these 10 congressmen that voted to
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impeach trump and the four that abstain
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now there’s some movement on that area
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which we’ll get into in future future
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conversations but this is just out of
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control and stuff
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we’ve got to start doing stuff about
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this we here at america’s intelligence
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reform are just beginning to organize on
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it
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and over the next two months we’re going
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to come out with a lot of programs
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to start fighting back about this and
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trying to go to the people to get
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honest politicians back in office like
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you know
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they’re there they’ve always been
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dishonest politicians but at least we
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can try to make it acceptable and better
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where we have somebody
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that speaks for us because it’s almost
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nobody you don’t see it in the
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mainstream media you don’t see it on fox
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news
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you don’t see it even in the alternate
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media you’re not seeing it on am radio
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you’re not even seeing very much of this
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in the blogosphere
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uh it’s it’s just it’s time to change
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this has got to stop
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well it’s that’s all certainly true and
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you know i’ve been thinking that
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if the stakes weren’t so high in terms
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of the
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massive amount of human suffering and
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potential for for
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death that divide administration
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policies are likely to bring about i
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would say
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that trump supporters were in for four
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years of magnificent
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amounts of schadenfreude but i’m afraid
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the stakes are just too high
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even even for that kind of um
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cynical uh joy in
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in the in the bad behavior of the of the
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new president brad thank you very much
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for taking the time out to update us on
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