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Speaker 1 (00:00):
James Goldstone, the former president of ABC News, has agreed
to join the Committee as a soon to be a
NASSA advisor, producing Thursday special as a blockbuster event. The
broadcast will be filled but never before, seeing surveillance footage
of the January six Capital riot, over one thousand interviews
and depositions with witnesses, and variety of other explosive documents
and tips. Fox News is told Goldston will have a

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hand in all the hearings this month, but he will
be particularly involved in the efforts by the Committee to
make its primetime hearing Thursday and another one later this month.
Quote TV friendly interesting, So what is the point of
the January sixth hearing, well, Jack? Why don't I quote
the liberal New York Times in their alleged news story

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about this? Of course, again, the idea of a news
story is kind of vanished from the American landscape. Everything's
a news otorial. But this is the direction the news
outorial in the New York Times went, and I'm quoting him.
Seventeen months after a mob of Donald J. Trump's supporters
stormed the Capital with false claims of a stolen election,
House Democrats plan to use a landmark set of investigative

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hearings this week to try to refocus voters attention to
January six, aiming to tie Republicans directly to an unprecedented
plot to undermine democracy itself. Second part of that thought is,
with their control of Congress hanging in the balance, Democrats
plan to use made for television moments and a carefully
choreographed to roll out of revelations over the course of

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six hearrings to remind the public of the magnitude of
Mr Trump's effort to overturn the election and to persuade
voters that the coming mid term elections are a chance
to hold Republicans accountable for it. Okay, that last part
is interesting. I I I've been pretty clear about this

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from the beginning that I think it is a very
big deal, um and awful in one of the worst
days in our history. And whenever I see the videos
or here the testimony of those cops and various people
being beaten on the steps there, it's just awful. But
is there anything new that can come out of this?
I mean, are people kind of where they are on this?

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You're you either agree with me just now? Are you're
yelling at your radio. I can't imagine there's anything that's
gonna come out of this that's gonna change anybody. I think,
is it a re remissing or is it just to
re remind people? But man, it's way too far from
November to have impact by re reminding people. Well, I think,
what we not just you and I, but the assembled millions.

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I wish thousands, dozens of of us forget as we
are all news junkies and or followers of politics, and
what's happening in the world is there is the massive
unwashed voters who are fairly low information, who are only
vaguely aware of what happened. And the Democrats believe in
their desperation and the New York Times doesn't use the

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term desperation, but they should have in their desperation to
get the a con voter to think of anything but
inflation and record high gas prices and and unrest and
schools and the rest of it. Um, they're gonna try
to refocus the massive voters attention on this stuff. Yeah,
I don't think that's gonna work. We're too far away

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from November, yeah, and and too far away from January six,
whatever it was the thing, the thing to me that
you always got to remember. And again, I completely believe
that was an awful, awful day. And I would have
voted to impeach Donald Trump if they had brought the
correct articles of impeachment. They did not, and they did
not on purpose. Nancy Pelosi cynically did not impeach and

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remove him from office because she thought it would benefit
the more if he was still hanging around. And that's
that's that is so incredibly cynical. Yeah, yeah, I would agree.
Well at sat Nancy Pelosi just said the other day
that she was introducing gun legislation that is broad, I
mean huge and utterly uh you know, in in uh

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incompatible with the Second Amendment. And it's clear she's doing
that for the purpose of having that issue to hang
around Republicans neck. There are plenty of Republicans who are
coming to the table saying, hey, let's let's pass some
common sense guns stuff to see if we can keep
everybody a little bit safer. And the Democrats in the
House have rejected that idea out of hand. How do
we get we get how do we get away from

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that kind of politics? It's just just awful, Yeah, yeah,
it is. Do you think they have anything new? I
find it hard to believe there are any blockbuster videos
or testimony or text that wouldn't have already come out.
You know, if I were a Democrat, I would think

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the mid terms are sunk. I mean, we might be
able to save a swing district or two around the
country with this stuff, but maybe we can so poison
the name of Donald J. Trump. There's no way he
runs again. It's okay. So do you think there's much
of a concern there for whom the Democrats or would they?

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Would they be pleased to have Donald Trump run again?
Would be? Even as I was saying what I was saying,
I had a feeling you're going to ask that question.
It's a good one. I don't know the answer to that.
Trump is uh uh, He's just he's such a wild
card for both parties. Wow. Yeah. Anyway, I can't believe

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it's even being discussed that Trump Biden rematch and that's
the long way off. Well, no, I will I will
discuss in principle Trump running again. I will not be
lured into the idiot and and and utterly fanciful idea
of Joe Biden running again. He won't be cognizant long enough,

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he might not even be alive. Come on yourself, you
old man. Come on man. I think I'll probably watch
at least the first hearing, just you know, so I
can talk about it. Good for you, But I cannot
watch Adam pencil neck Shift once again making claims of
some giant thing that don't pay off. I just I
can't do that again. We'll see. That's why I will

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watch it. You've got Adam Shift and if that isn't
enough ass clownary for you, also, Eric Swallowell in an
important role, so that's I mean. It will be the
comedy sensation of the summer. So I assume who's who's
all covering it? Are the networks covering it live in primetimes?

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I'm not sure that matters. I think the fact that
they put it on a Thursday night in prime time,
because that's when you know, Cheers used to be on
it was the most watching it is a pretty pretty
anachronistic view of the way people take in media in
the modern world. That's clearly what they're doing. Uh man,
unless you're ninety years old, you're not still watching television

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like that. Well, they've got to open up now. I
know you can't afford even the basics to feel. You
feed your children, and your baby is crying because it's
hungry for formula that's disappeared from the market, and hundreds
of thousands of illegal aliens are pouring across the borders,
including murderers and rapists. But we'd like to draw your

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attention to something that happened sixteen months ago. Okay, yeah, right,
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