October 20, 2025 • 30 mins
Trump becomes the peace President even without the Nobel Prize, Democrats cant seem to put the shutdown genie back in the bottle, and Kamala melts down on her book tour. The road not taken - thank God - demonstrated in this weeks "did they really just say that" cuts.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Trump becomes the peace president even without the Nobel Prize.
Democrats can't seem to put the shutdown Genie back in
the bottle, and Kamala melts down on her book tour
the road not Taken thank God, demonstrated in this week's
did they really just say that cuts? I'm Nancy Shack,
I Ben Parker, this is newspite your view is the
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war between his wars?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
The war is over?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Okay, you understand.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
That Donald Trump has held them back from even having
a meaningful engagement to try to find you.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Right down the.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
Hall from Mike Johnson's office, I know exactly where you are.
You could probably take a few steps and go knock
on the door and talk to him. Have you tried that?
Speaker 6 (00:52):
Uh, you know what.
Speaker 7 (00:56):
I am not president of the United States.
Speaker 8 (01:00):
No you're not. Wow.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Yeah, that's that's the former VP Kamala Harris on her
bookstore and.
Speaker 9 (01:07):
The former or current president.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yeah. Not looking good either. She's been met with protesters
and she's been talking a lot of ragtime. And it's
so funny because people say, hey, you know, Kamala should
have want really, have you seen what's out there? Do
you really wish that she were in the White House,
you could, and she just does not handle any kind
of opposition. While these are protesters that have popped up
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on her on her book tour, cut number twenty two.
Speaker 7 (01:37):
You know what, I'm not president of the United States.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Your legacy is.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
Real.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Here's the thing, She's not president, but they're referring to
things that are put into effect while she was in
the Biden White House as his vice president. And that's
the interesting thing about her. She tried to run on
the positive things of Joe Biden's administration even when she
had nothing to do with it. So therefore, I think
you got to take responsibility for this stuff as well.
Speaker 9 (02:37):
By the way, as frightening as this may sound, of
the elected people in the White House during the Biden administration,
which would be of course, Joe and Kamala, Kamala was
probably the most cognizant of what was happening in the
world that is weary, which is the scary thing. She
wasn't She wasn't a president, but she I think she
had her finger on the pulse a little bit more
than Joe did. Sometimes I don't even know if Joe
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had a poules.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Well true, that's very true. So that was that was
But then you know, you look at her and this
is my reference when we started the show about the
Road Not Taken, and I think every time she opens
her mouth on this book tour, people go. People who
voted for her went, oh, thank god, thank god we
didn't win. This is and you know, she's been held
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up to be one not the smartest person around, which
one would hope that's who's in the White House one
and two, not the most genuine. She tends to have
fib and I think that's what happened in the following cut.
You may disagree with me, but she was asked if
she called She was on MSNBC, and she asked if
she had talked to Joe Biden after the news that
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he's going to be doing radiation therapy for his cancer.
And she started with one answer, changed it in the
middle of her response, and then ended up with another answer.
I'm thinking neither one is true, but you can decide
for yourself. Cut to C.
Speaker 10 (03:57):
I want to get to some news that just came
out today with President Biden. His spokesperson said that he
is going to now start doing radiation for his prostate cancer.
Have you talked to him.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
I called him earlier.
Speaker 10 (04:12):
How's he doing.
Speaker 11 (04:13):
I have not talked to him. I just left him
a message after I heard the news. Otherwise, in my
on the event at the event, I listen, I think
Joe Biden is a fighter, and that is what I
told him and left him a message. He's a fighter.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
So I called him and talked to him. Or no,
I didn't. I left a message.
Speaker 9 (04:35):
He talked to Joe earlier, So.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I just left a message. So, I mean, I'm not
even sure she left a message. I mean, with a message,
I guess you can say, oh, didn't you get the message?
It most of her race, who knows what? But you know?
So I mean I think she was. How do I
get out of this without looking like a cold hearted bitch.
Speaker 9 (04:53):
There's a big difference between I talked to him and
I didn't talk to him. I don't know. I mean, look,
I'm no expert on talk. Well maybe I am an expert.
I'm talking. Yeah, you either talk to him or you didn't.
And leaving a message, by the way, doesn't constitute talking
to anybody except yourself.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
And she knows that too, because she well, I didn't
talk to him. I did you know and this, this
is the road not taken. That is the woman that
could be sitting in the White House. And that's why
I said, thank God beginning this. Can you imagine? Do
you think we'd have a Middle East peace treaty? I
don't think so. You know, do you think that crime
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would be down in DC? I don't think so. I mean,
are these are things that I don't think would be happening?
Speaker 9 (05:35):
Do you think I would be under my bed?
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Probably? I think so. I think so very weird, you know,
Yet it's so funny people like Nancy Pelosi have the
nerve to ask this question. Cut eighteen A.
Speaker 12 (05:50):
Millions of Americans are waiting to see if their healthcare
costs are going to go up, and there are thousands
of tens of thousands of fur load workers. How does
that split sit with you?
Speaker 13 (06:01):
It doesn't sit well. When we won in six one
of our sayings was drain the swamp. It's time to
drain the swamp again. You know, he stole that saying
from us when it really wasn't a swamp. But nonetheless, uh,
there we are. It's you wonder why the American people
tolerate a grifter like this in the White House a
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grifter family. They they you put money into their account
and then they say you can buy chips, high powered
chips from the United States. That's that's again, that's an
emomuentent cause of the Constitution. But you know what, we
don't agonize, We organize, and that's why we have to
win this election. The best antidote to their poisonous policies
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and their poisonous action is to win.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I have no words for this. First of all, the
person she wanted to win was the one you just
heard lying about calling Joe Biden. Two, she has the
nerve to talk about grifters. The woman who supported Joe
Biden and Hunter Biden. By the way, the guy who
was selling you know, access to the White House to
the Chinese and to the Ukrainians do and who you
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know and was selling who was selling uh paintings to
to donors for five hundred thousand dollars you know a crack?
Oh crack? Did I say crack? So it's you know, seriously,
look in the mirror, Nancy. If you wonder why people
tolerate Donald Trump in the White House.
Speaker 9 (07:30):
Not of these people in Washington. If you ever shake
their hand, you count your fingers when you bring your hand.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I think she realized drained the swamp all of a sudden,
she a minute, you know, didn't realize she was She
was referring to herself. She was in power when they
said come drain the swamp. She was in power.
Speaker 9 (07:48):
She was the queen of the swamp. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
So it's like and I think she realized that, well,
wait a minute, there wasn't a swamp. Well, you know,
this is this is what the Democratic Party have been doing,
and they are completely out of touch with reality, and
they're trying to make it seem on various levels, as
if they're not responsible for everything that's going on. You
heard those Palestinians protesting. They were protesting the policies that
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were implemented during the Biden administration. That's why they were
after Kamala Harris. That's why they weren't after Donald Trump,
who brought us peace in the Mideast. Then you have
the shutdown. They want you to believe that the Republicans
and the President are the ones who who have caused
the shutdown. It's the Democrats who control the shutdown. They're
the ones who will refuse to vote for the budget exactly.
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That's what's going on. And you know, but this is
their party line cut number three.
Speaker 14 (08:44):
The reality is the American people get this.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
You know.
Speaker 14 (08:47):
I have federal workers who I've met with. I just
had a roundtable with a bunch of them, and they
are like congresswomen, stand strong because these people want to
take advantage of us. They're bullying us, they're threatening us,
they're telling us they won't pay us even after the
government reopens. And by the way, they already fired one
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hundred and fifty thousand people before the shutdown ever happened.
So I really do think that people understand we are
fighting for their lives. We are fighting for the healthcare
of the American people, and we are fighting to reassert
our power over what these Republicans are doing to destroy
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the lives of Americans everywhere.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Really, I mean, first of all, can I just point
out one hundred and fifty thousand federal employees were fired
under or laid off. They got packaged. They weren't just fired.
I mean they got laid off packages under DOGE. But
do you know how many federal employees there are. There
are millions, and one hundred and fifty thousand were fired
that's less than one percent of people that were fired.
Speaker 9 (09:50):
So wow, what do you get when one hundred and
fifty thousand government workers are let go?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
I don't know, just start Okay, but that too, that
way Congressman Promela jayapwell, by the way, on MSNBC. But
the other thing that's going on there is she's saying, well,
they come to us, they're trying to fire us. Okay,
they're firing non non Uh what is the word when
you need non essential? Non essential personnel? Yeah? So I mean,
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and I noticed that the people coming to her aren't saying,
we're really worried about healthcare, which is what the what
the Democrats are trying to make you believe is the
reason why they didn't vote for the budget. Not a
single one of them says that. They're all saying, according
to her her words, they're worried about their jobs. But
if they're not essential, there is there is a worry
for that. The interesting thing to me is that.
Speaker 9 (10:40):
Can I just say this real quick before we move on? Yeah,
and I've thought this for a long time because whenever
there's a blizzard or whenever there's something that not non essential,
people don't have to come in why non essential employees
even work for anybody has always been a question to me.
If you're not essential to the operation of the government
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or the plastic plant or the car making facility or
the whatever, non essential means we don't need you, So
why did we have them. I've always scratched my head
about why that even term even exists.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
I know, I know.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
And then what we had here too is that President Trump,
even with the government shutdown, was doing his best to
find a way to pay essential people like the military. Now,
wouldn't you say that's a responsible thing to do. I mean,
Jayapal doesn't want you to know that he's doing that,
But no, you know what the Democrat response to that
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is that he's trying to help pay for the military. Well,
you can listen to Congressman Madeleine Dean. She was on CNN.
She's outraged the President Trump is keeping the military paid
during the shutdown. Cut fifteen A.
Speaker 15 (11:45):
How do you feel about these paychecks going out during
the shutdown?
Speaker 16 (11:50):
There?
Speaker 15 (11:50):
I don't think anyone's opposed to people being paid, but
people look at them and say, this could actually extend
the shutdown because it takes out some of the pressure
points that might exist that would lead Democrats and Republicans
to come together.
Speaker 17 (12:02):
Oh you know what, of course I want our military paid.
Of course I want federal law enforcement officers to be paid.
There's a way to do that. I'm an appropriator. We
should have passed appropriations bills. There's a way to run
a government. And this is not the way to run a.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Government, except that your party wouldn't pass the appropriations bill.
They wouldn't, they would not vote for it. So that's
why President Trump said, Okay, fine, we'll find another way
to pay them. Now, this is really funny. I find this.
You heard this a little bit of this in the
open Dana bash on Cenna, who does not like President
Trump even a little bit, and her whole network does
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not like Trump even a little bit. She had Minority
Leader Hakeem Jeffreys on, one of the big guys who's
been keeping the government from picking up and moving forward,
and she asked him a very blunk question because of
course he's trying to blame Republicans instead of Democrats for
keeping the government shut down. So she asked him a
very basic question, which is, well, Speaker Johnson is literally
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a couple of doors down from office, if you walked down,
knocked on his door and said can we talk about this?
And apparently he came Jeffreys as like and then launches
into some kind of not oh, he's not allowed to
talk to me. Really, have you tried? Cut fourteen a.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Eatin's no discussions? Donald Trump has held them back from
even having a meaningful engagement to try to find me.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Right down the hall from Mike Johnson's office, I know
exactly where you are. You could probably take a few
steps and go knock on the door and talk to him.
Speaker 9 (13:29):
Have you tried that?
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Sweca Johnson hasn't been given permission to have a conversation
with me or Lida Schumer, and he said as much earlier.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
Today, So you don't think he would talk to you
at all.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
We can have a conversation. But the problem is that
until they get the green light to actually have a
meaningful discussion to try to find common ground and a
bipartisan path forward and a willingness to address the damage
that Republicans have done to the health, the safety, and
the economic wellbeing of the American people, then of course
any informal discussion is going to be not fruitful.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Meanwhile, Now you heard the earlier conversation going on with
Congressman and jpal about and with Madlin Dean regarding well,
don't you you want to keep pressure points? Why are
you paying the military? Doesn't that create a pressure point?
I mean the shutdown would end earlier. Well, President Trump
has created his own pressure point and that he's going
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to pay the military and essential federal employees. But you know,
if the Democrats want to have a shutdown, they can
have a shutdown, and they're going to have to pay
the price cut number ten.
Speaker 17 (14:36):
How many layoffs have you authorized for this first rent?
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Then from which agency?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
And it would be democrat oriented because we figured, you know,
they started this thing, so they should be democrat oriented.
It'll be a lot and we'll announce the numbers over
the next couple of days, but it'll be a lot
of people, all because of the Democrats. I mean, they
want to give one and a half trillion dollars to
people that came into the country illegally.
Speaker 18 (14:57):
More important than that, because we all have a big heart.
We want people to be taken care of. But you know,
we have zero people coming in you know that, Glenn, right,
It's that's a pretty impressive number, even for a successful governor.
Speaker 13 (15:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
So, I mean, if you who's your money on Ben
at this point, do you think it's on President Trump
or Keem Jeffreys and Chuck Schumer for the victory, for
the win, for the win on the shutdown Trump?
Speaker 9 (15:20):
Yeah? I think so. Here's the here's the problem. Two things.
One we heard in the earlier cut about a bipartisan solution,
right the the the old adage is, uh, be bipartisan,
do it our way. That's kind of where they're at
right now, right that bipartisanship to the Democrats especially is
always do it my way, so we can be bipartisan.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (15:43):
The other thing, too, is when when you talk about
the money that isn't going out because there's a government shutdown,
you know, it's kind of like it, you know, if
you and your your spouse are sitting at the kitchen
table going, well, you know, we could pay the mortgage,
but we get a plan for vacation and we got
to figure how to pay for that. All right, So
until we figure that out, let's not pay the mortgage.
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What you gotta see, they need to what they need
to do, and they're saying this the Republicans are right,
you gotta open the government. Then we'll start having talks
about all this other stuff that you want to do.
Whether it works out or not is irrelevant. But we're
not going to have these discussions about healthcare and all
this stuff you want to do because we don't have
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a government open. We pass this bill and then we'll
all talk about stuff. I mean, and remember, remember it
was fine. This is a this is an operational situation
where the government shut down. But you remember, of course
Nancy Pelosi famously right, pass the bill so we can
see what's in it. They're fine with passing bills they
don't know what's in it, just so they can see
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what's in it.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
How about they're fine with passing bill as long as
you don't know what's in it.
Speaker 9 (16:50):
That's what Let's have the stuff. So so pass this
bill so you can actually accomplish more stuff. Not let's
freeze everything and screw the world. Dumb. It's just dumb.
The whole thing is stupid. And and every government shutdown
we've had, and there have been, you know, several over
the years. They're not every week or every month or
every year, but you know, most of them are just
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stupid rock throwing things where you know you pound in
your chest my way so we could be my partisan.
So go ahead, get this thing over with. I don't
I look so far, and I will keep you updated
if I can. The government shut down, my house is
still operational, so no effect on a good operations at
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my house. Keep you posted. That could change, don't get
me wrong.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
And while that's all going on, and my money is
on President Trump too, and so while all that's happening
at home, doesn't he just turn around and basically end
the war in the Middle East? I mean seriously, it
was amazing and the press was gobsmacked. They couldn't believe
it was happening. In fact, there was a heard in
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the open, there was a reporter who still couldn't believe it.
And President Trump actually got a little pissy about it.
Cut to be President Benjamin Netya, who the Prime Minister
has not gone so far as to say the war
is over.
Speaker 14 (18:12):
And your view is the war.
Speaker 8 (18:13):
Between his own wars over.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
The war is over.
Speaker 9 (18:17):
Okay, do you understand that I knew that because John
Lennon did that Christmas song that said war is over,
So I already knew that devil was.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
I saw President Trump and Tel Aviv, you know that
kind of yeah, and then in Egypt that kind of
told me that that's what was happening.
Speaker 9 (18:30):
Look, I'm not gonna lie. I am a little nervous
because we have had peace in the Middle East many
times over the history of the world. So will this hold?
Will this not hold? How long will it hold? I
don't know, but it's Look, it's better to have accomplished
what has been accomplished than not accomplished anything. So now
the war has to go on to make this a
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lie that I.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Think this one has a better chance than most. And
that's simply because Donald Trump went out of his way
and he is the king of the deal makers to
make sure everybody was happy they had something they really
wanted in the deal. And that's usually you didn't have
somebody dragged kicking and screaming, you didn't have somebody signing
it begrudgingly. You have everybody knowing that they get something
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that they didn't get everything they wanted. That's not possible.
But everybody got something that they really won't really wanted,
and so they all came to the table. It was
very it was very impressive to see President Trump basically
addressing the canesset, the Israel Parliament, and Benjamin Nett Yahoo
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was extremely laudatory and very much supportive of and said
some very nice things. Cut eight A.
Speaker 8 (19:44):
No American president has ever done more for Israel. And
as I said in Washington, it ain't even close. It's
really not a match. Mister President. Today, we welcome you,
he to thank you for your pivotal leadership and putting
forward a proposal that got the backing of almost the
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entire world, a proposal, a proposal that brings all our
hostages home.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Yeah, that was a big deal. And they didn't even
make the announcement until the hostages were home. And then
President Trump traveled to Egypt and signed the deal. Cut
twenty three.
Speaker 18 (20:31):
Just took three thousand years to get to this point.
Speaker 13 (20:35):
Can you believe it? And it's going to.
Speaker 18 (20:36):
Hold up too, It's going to hold up. Okay, thank you.
Speaker 9 (20:44):
And of course when you see it on TV or something,
you see them signing and it makes sense. But when
you hear it, it's just audio. It kind of sounds
like a kindergarten class coloring.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
It sounds like a quill, doesn't it look a quill
on thing. But the Palestinians and Gaza. It's not just
these Reelis that were happy. This is not sound from
the Palestinians in Gaza. Cut thirty nine. It's such a
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big deal that even Democrats, and I'm talking even the
died in the wall, you know, titular had Democrats could
not do anything but say wow, good job.
Speaker 9 (21:30):
Cut eight A.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
This is Hillary.
Speaker 19 (21:32):
It's a really significant first step. And I really commend
President Trump and his administration as well as Arab leaders
in the region, UH for making the commitment to the
twenty point plan and UH seeing a path forward for
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what's often called the day after.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Yeah, so that was and this is Jonathan cape part
on PBS another diagnole dem eight C.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
Look, I'm going to say something that I have never
said before and that this audience has never heard me
say before. Kudos to the President. I think we are
at this point because the President was single He was focused,
single mindedly focused on getting something, getting a deal done,
getting the hostages out. The hard part comes after he
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leaves the region, after we get past phase one, assuming
we get the twenty that the Israeli hostages released, the
twenty who were presumed alive after the two thousand Palestinians
are released by Israel.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
And we did and we did get them, and so,
I mean, it's been pat fascinating. Some Democrats while laud
and the Pistil could not even mention Trump's name, and
the most interesting one of that was President Obama. So
job well done, everybody, but never won mention Trump by name,
and something that doesn't normally happen to about me. He
got excoriated for it, for not giving Trump credit by
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other damps, which was which was fascinating. There is still
the occasional uh troublemaker in the group. And here we
have Christian Ahmenpor who put her foot in a big time,
who couldn't just celebrate the Israeli hates being let loose.
She had to actually compare them to gzens and she
said they didn't suffer as much as the guyzens did.
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Cut fifty one.
Speaker 16 (23:31):
And I think for sure people who start to talk
to the hostages who've only just been released will find
that it will take a long long time for them
to recover physically but also mentally. It's been a terrible,
terrible two years with them because not only are they there,
you know, they're probably been treated better than the average
garden because they are the pawns and the chips that
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Hamas had. Now Hamas has given up all its leverage,
by the way, by giving them all up, so that
is a victory for the israel.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
So they've been beaten, raped and starved, and several made
to dig their own graves. Yet Christian, well, they're better
than after the average garden. The outrage was so overwhelming
from all sides because of that thoughtless, thoughtless comment that
she had to apologize cut fifty two.
Speaker 16 (24:18):
Earlier, live on air, I spoke about what a day
of real joy this is for Israeli families whose loved
ones are finally being returned from two years of horrific
Hamas captivity, and for civilians in Gaza who finally had
reprieved from two years of brutal and deadly war. I
noted that for the hostages who are finally home, it'll
take a long time for them to recover mentally and physically.
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But I regret also saying that they might have been
treated better than many Gazans because Hamas used these hostages
as pawns and bargaining chips. But that was insensitive and
it was wrong. From speaking to many former hostages and
their families, Like everyone, I've been horrified at what Hamas
has subjected them to over too long years.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Yeah, she wouldn't she. I'm not sure that was a
heartfelt apology. She just got in trouble and they said
you better apologize or you lose your job, because that's
how bad the comment was. But I think that was
more of a like Kamala Harris type cover your ass moment.
Speaker 9 (25:15):
I know, Christian, I'm poor who has been around for
a long time, and she's done some really good reporting
in the Middle East, and she certainly knows her stuff,
you know, the players in the in the game and
all of that. But again, this does come back a bit,
and it's a different situation when you're covering wars and
things where the world is a terrible place. But it
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does come back to this whole thing of reporters putting
their opinions into whatever they're reporting on. You know, you
have that happen in Washington a lot, right You see
people given their opinions about President Trump and everything else
when they're supposed to be neutral reporters. Christian, I'm in poor,
same kind of deal. Look, your reporter, tell us what happened.
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Tell us. But she had had to describe I guess
the horror as she used the word. But she's a reporter.
She shouldn't be throwing in and network created better than this,
not blah blah blah. And that's the problem we have
right now in the news world as a bigger picture
than just Christianna. I'm the poor u is reporters some
for some reason, Uh some of it is because they're
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allowed to feel inclined to say, here's what happened, and
let me tell you what I think about it. No,
just tell me what happened and say good night.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Yeah No, but no, no, we had to we had
to do exactly what you said. We had to editorialize,
and not only that, but basically show that we don't
like Israel. That's what that was. I mean, she may
have had pretty words, but to say that Gosins suffered
worse that No one doubts the Gosins have suffered. And
part of why Donald Trump did what he did was
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to rebuild Gaza and give these people dignity and a
home and life where there was none before or whether
it was very poor standard of living before, so yeah,
but to say the Gossins were worse. I mean that
just shows you what her mindset is well, and that's
part and that also shows that she's progressive left, and
that's part of the problem.
Speaker 9 (27:09):
I think we knew that, but you mentioned you know
that it didn't sound like a heartfelt apology, which I
don't think it necessarily was. He here's what I'd rather see. Well,
all right, I'm saying this half tongue in cheek. So
when when these reporters or comedians or whoever get caught
with their foot so far down their throat they're choking
to death, they always get the word I'm going to apologize. Now,
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you know what I'd rather have. I'd rather have her
Christiana I'm in poor or these other people just come
out and say, listen, I'm sorry you're offended by what
I said, but I meant what I said, so go
screw yourself.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
But that doesn't save her job, which is why she's apologized.
Speaker 9 (27:45):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Look, I mean, it's all about saving the paycheck.
Speaker 9 (27:48):
I've said things in my life over my life that,
oh boy, I wish I hadn't said that. I'm sorry,
I said that. Really, And then there's times in my
life where I've said something and people are good, did
you just say that?
Speaker 4 (27:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (27:58):
And I don't care that I said it because I
meant it, and I know it's a different, precarious situation
for reporters and people whose jobs are on the line.
But don't give me a half asked apology. I'd rather
you just say, uh, I meant that. Sorry, you were offended.
Move on.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Yeah, No, I don't disagree. I don't disagree. So we
end every week with the truth control and this week
is no different. This week, Yes, yes, again it's President Trump.
I could have actually done Kamala Harrison a voicemail message
for Joe Biden, but I liked it. I liked using
it where we used it. So this one, President Trump
is on Air Force one and a reporter asks him.
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I think it's Peter Doocy from Fox, ask him, you know,
are you things is going to get you into heaven?
Or President Trump? To that offen goes does not expect
to go to heaven.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Cut one.
Speaker 8 (28:44):
We talked a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 9 (28:46):
You were doing an interview and you talked about how
you hope to end the warn't you grain because it
might help.
Speaker 8 (28:50):
You get into heaven?
Speaker 4 (28:52):
How does how does this help?
Speaker 8 (28:54):
Does this help?
Speaker 2 (28:55):
I mean, you know, and being a little cute, I
don't think there's anything to get me in heaven. Okay,
I really think I think I'm not maybe heaven bound,
maybe in heaven right now as we fly an Air
Force one. I'm not sure I'm going to be able
to make heaven. But I've made life a lot better
for a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Yeah, I'm not going to heaven, but I've made life
better for people. I think he's screwing around there. I
think he I think he knows that he has done
more good than harm, and I think that's the criteria
to go to heaven, to be.
Speaker 9 (29:25):
Honest, without getting deep into a religious philosophical discussion of
whether there even is one. But I think it's truth.
I think Donald Trump knows his entire life, and maybe
he does think Listen, this is good. I've saved a
lot of people. But I don't think this is going
to get me into heaven. I kind of lean with that.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Yeah, the truth.
Speaker 9 (29:45):
Look, I've done a lot. I've done some good things
in my life, and I've done some bad things in
my life, and I don't know if one or the
other gets me.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
More than that is? What does?
Speaker 17 (29:55):
Is that?
Speaker 9 (29:55):
What it is?
Speaker 13 (29:55):
I think?
Speaker 1 (29:56):
I think, I think if you can weigh the scale
more heavily on that, I don't think you need to
be Saint Francis Ceci or saying our mother Teresa, I
think you need to do more good than harm. You
should think that's the deal.
Speaker 9 (30:05):
I nobody should have said. And of course you know
it's easy for me to say, you know, with the
hindsight on this, he doesn't want to go to heaven.
He wants to be reincarnated and come back again as president. Believe,
I completely believe I would like to be reincarnated.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Truth troll or reincarnation? Is that that? I like that?
That's pretty good. If you think Donald Trump wants to
be reincarnated, you can contact us on x at News
by three or on Facebook at Newsbyite. We upload a
new episode every single week, so check back next Monday
and see what new offerings we have. Meanwhile, have a
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great week. I'm Nancy Shack, I'm Ben Parker. This is news.
Speaker 11 (30:45):
Bye,
Trump becomes the peace president even without the Nobel Prize.
Democrats can't seem to put the shutdown Genie back in
the bottle, and Kamala melts down on her book tour
the road not Taken thank God, demonstrated in this week's
did they really just say that cuts? I'm Nancy Shack,
I Ben Parker, this is newspite your view is the
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war between his wars?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
The war is over?
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Okay, you understand.
Speaker 4 (00:36):
That Donald Trump has held them back from even having
a meaningful engagement to try to find you.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Right down the.
Speaker 5 (00:43):
Hall from Mike Johnson's office, I know exactly where you are.
You could probably take a few steps and go knock
on the door and talk to him. Have you tried that?
Speaker 6 (00:52):
Uh, you know what.
Speaker 7 (00:56):
I am not president of the United States.
Speaker 8 (01:00):
No you're not. Wow.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Yeah, that's that's the former VP Kamala Harris on her
bookstore and.
Speaker 9 (01:07):
The former or current president.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yeah. Not looking good either. She's been met with protesters
and she's been talking a lot of ragtime. And it's
so funny because people say, hey, you know, Kamala should
have want really, have you seen what's out there? Do
you really wish that she were in the White House,
you could, and she just does not handle any kind
of opposition. While these are protesters that have popped up
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on her on her book tour, cut number twenty two.
Speaker 7 (01:37):
You know what, I'm not president of the United States.
Speaker 5 (02:10):
Your legacy is.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
Real.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Here's the thing, She's not president, but they're referring to
things that are put into effect while she was in
the Biden White House as his vice president. And that's
the interesting thing about her. She tried to run on
the positive things of Joe Biden's administration even when she
had nothing to do with it. So therefore, I think
you got to take responsibility for this stuff as well.
Speaker 9 (02:37):
By the way, as frightening as this may sound, of
the elected people in the White House during the Biden administration,
which would be of course, Joe and Kamala, Kamala was
probably the most cognizant of what was happening in the
world that is weary, which is the scary thing. She
wasn't She wasn't a president, but she I think she
had her finger on the pulse a little bit more
than Joe did. Sometimes I don't even know if Joe
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had a poules.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
Well true, that's very true. So that was that was
But then you know, you look at her and this
is my reference when we started the show about the
Road Not Taken, and I think every time she opens
her mouth on this book tour, people go. People who
voted for her went, oh, thank god, thank god we
didn't win. This is and you know, she's been held
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up to be one not the smartest person around, which
one would hope that's who's in the White House one
and two, not the most genuine. She tends to have
fib and I think that's what happened in the following cut.
You may disagree with me, but she was asked if
she called She was on MSNBC, and she asked if
she had talked to Joe Biden after the news that
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he's going to be doing radiation therapy for his cancer.
And she started with one answer, changed it in the
middle of her response, and then ended up with another answer.
I'm thinking neither one is true, but you can decide
for yourself. Cut to C.
Speaker 10 (03:57):
I want to get to some news that just came
out today with President Biden. His spokesperson said that he
is going to now start doing radiation for his prostate cancer.
Have you talked to him.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
I called him earlier.
Speaker 10 (04:12):
How's he doing.
Speaker 11 (04:13):
I have not talked to him. I just left him
a message after I heard the news. Otherwise, in my
on the event at the event, I listen, I think
Joe Biden is a fighter, and that is what I
told him and left him a message. He's a fighter.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
So I called him and talked to him. Or no,
I didn't. I left a message.
Speaker 9 (04:35):
He talked to Joe earlier, So.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I just left a message. So, I mean, I'm not
even sure she left a message. I mean, with a message,
I guess you can say, oh, didn't you get the message?
It most of her race, who knows what? But you know?
So I mean I think she was. How do I
get out of this without looking like a cold hearted bitch.
Speaker 9 (04:53):
There's a big difference between I talked to him and
I didn't talk to him. I don't know. I mean, look,
I'm no expert on talk. Well maybe I am an expert.
I'm talking. Yeah, you either talk to him or you didn't.
And leaving a message, by the way, doesn't constitute talking
to anybody except yourself.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
And she knows that too, because she well, I didn't
talk to him. I did you know and this, this
is the road not taken. That is the woman that
could be sitting in the White House. And that's why
I said, thank God beginning this. Can you imagine? Do
you think we'd have a Middle East peace treaty? I
don't think so. You know, do you think that crime
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would be down in DC? I don't think so. I mean,
are these are things that I don't think would be happening?
Speaker 9 (05:35):
Do you think I would be under my bed?
Speaker 1 (05:37):
Probably? I think so. I think so very weird, you know,
Yet it's so funny people like Nancy Pelosi have the
nerve to ask this question. Cut eighteen A.
Speaker 12 (05:50):
Millions of Americans are waiting to see if their healthcare
costs are going to go up, and there are thousands
of tens of thousands of fur load workers. How does
that split sit with you?
Speaker 13 (06:01):
It doesn't sit well. When we won in six one
of our sayings was drain the swamp. It's time to
drain the swamp again. You know, he stole that saying
from us when it really wasn't a swamp. But nonetheless, uh,
there we are. It's you wonder why the American people
tolerate a grifter like this in the White House a
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grifter family. They they you put money into their account
and then they say you can buy chips, high powered
chips from the United States. That's that's again, that's an
emomuentent cause of the Constitution. But you know what, we
don't agonize, We organize, and that's why we have to
win this election. The best antidote to their poisonous policies
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and their poisonous action is to win.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
I have no words for this. First of all, the
person she wanted to win was the one you just
heard lying about calling Joe Biden. Two, she has the
nerve to talk about grifters. The woman who supported Joe
Biden and Hunter Biden. By the way, the guy who
was selling you know, access to the White House to
the Chinese and to the Ukrainians do and who you
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know and was selling who was selling uh paintings to
to donors for five hundred thousand dollars you know a crack?
Oh crack? Did I say crack? So it's you know, seriously,
look in the mirror, Nancy. If you wonder why people
tolerate Donald Trump in the White House.
Speaker 9 (07:30):
Not of these people in Washington. If you ever shake
their hand, you count your fingers when you bring your hand.
Speaker 1 (07:36):
I think she realized drained the swamp all of a sudden,
she a minute, you know, didn't realize she was She
was referring to herself. She was in power when they
said come drain the swamp. She was in power.
Speaker 9 (07:48):
She was the queen of the swamp. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
So it's like and I think she realized that, well,
wait a minute, there wasn't a swamp. Well, you know,
this is this is what the Democratic Party have been doing,
and they are completely out of touch with reality, and
they're trying to make it seem on various levels, as
if they're not responsible for everything that's going on. You
heard those Palestinians protesting. They were protesting the policies that
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were implemented during the Biden administration. That's why they were
after Kamala Harris. That's why they weren't after Donald Trump,
who brought us peace in the Mideast. Then you have
the shutdown. They want you to believe that the Republicans
and the President are the ones who who have caused
the shutdown. It's the Democrats who control the shutdown. They're
the ones who will refuse to vote for the budget exactly.
(08:37):
That's what's going on. And you know, but this is
their party line cut number three.
Speaker 14 (08:44):
The reality is the American people get this.
Speaker 5 (08:46):
You know.
Speaker 14 (08:47):
I have federal workers who I've met with. I just
had a roundtable with a bunch of them, and they
are like congresswomen, stand strong because these people want to
take advantage of us. They're bullying us, they're threatening us,
they're telling us they won't pay us even after the
government reopens. And by the way, they already fired one
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hundred and fifty thousand people before the shutdown ever happened.
So I really do think that people understand we are
fighting for their lives. We are fighting for the healthcare
of the American people, and we are fighting to reassert
our power over what these Republicans are doing to destroy
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the lives of Americans everywhere.
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Really, I mean, first of all, can I just point
out one hundred and fifty thousand federal employees were fired
under or laid off. They got packaged. They weren't just fired.
I mean they got laid off packages under DOGE. But
do you know how many federal employees there are. There
are millions, and one hundred and fifty thousand were fired
that's less than one percent of people that were fired.
Speaker 9 (09:50):
So wow, what do you get when one hundred and
fifty thousand government workers are let go?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
I don't know, just start Okay, but that too, that
way Congressman Promela jayapwell, by the way, on MSNBC. But
the other thing that's going on there is she's saying, well,
they come to us, they're trying to fire us. Okay,
they're firing non non Uh what is the word when
you need non essential? Non essential personnel? Yeah? So I mean,
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and I noticed that the people coming to her aren't saying,
we're really worried about healthcare, which is what the what
the Democrats are trying to make you believe is the
reason why they didn't vote for the budget. Not a
single one of them says that. They're all saying, according
to her her words, they're worried about their jobs. But
if they're not essential, there is there is a worry
for that. The interesting thing to me is that.
Speaker 9 (10:40):
Can I just say this real quick before we move on? Yeah,
and I've thought this for a long time because whenever
there's a blizzard or whenever there's something that not non essential,
people don't have to come in why non essential employees
even work for anybody has always been a question to me.
If you're not essential to the operation of the government
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or the plastic plant or the car making facility or
the whatever, non essential means we don't need you, So
why did we have them. I've always scratched my head
about why that even term even exists.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
I know, I know.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
And then what we had here too is that President Trump,
even with the government shutdown, was doing his best to
find a way to pay essential people like the military. Now,
wouldn't you say that's a responsible thing to do. I mean,
Jayapal doesn't want you to know that he's doing that,
But no, you know what the Democrat response to that
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is that he's trying to help pay for the military. Well,
you can listen to Congressman Madeleine Dean. She was on CNN.
She's outraged the President Trump is keeping the military paid
during the shutdown. Cut fifteen A.
Speaker 15 (11:45):
How do you feel about these paychecks going out during
the shutdown?
Speaker 16 (11:50):
There?
Speaker 15 (11:50):
I don't think anyone's opposed to people being paid, but
people look at them and say, this could actually extend
the shutdown because it takes out some of the pressure
points that might exist that would lead Democrats and Republicans
to come together.
Speaker 17 (12:02):
Oh you know what, of course I want our military paid.
Of course I want federal law enforcement officers to be paid.
There's a way to do that. I'm an appropriator. We
should have passed appropriations bills. There's a way to run
a government. And this is not the way to run a.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
Government, except that your party wouldn't pass the appropriations bill.
They wouldn't, they would not vote for it. So that's
why President Trump said, Okay, fine, we'll find another way
to pay them. Now, this is really funny. I find this.
You heard this a little bit of this in the
open Dana bash on Cenna, who does not like President
Trump even a little bit, and her whole network does
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not like Trump even a little bit. She had Minority
Leader Hakeem Jeffreys on, one of the big guys who's
been keeping the government from picking up and moving forward,
and she asked him a very blunk question because of
course he's trying to blame Republicans instead of Democrats for
keeping the government shut down. So she asked him a
very basic question, which is, well, Speaker Johnson is literally
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a couple of doors down from office, if you walked down,
knocked on his door and said can we talk about this?
And apparently he came Jeffreys as like and then launches
into some kind of not oh, he's not allowed to
talk to me. Really, have you tried? Cut fourteen a.
Speaker 4 (13:15):
Eatin's no discussions? Donald Trump has held them back from
even having a meaningful engagement to try to find me.
Speaker 5 (13:22):
Right down the hall from Mike Johnson's office, I know
exactly where you are. You could probably take a few
steps and go knock on the door and talk to him.
Speaker 9 (13:29):
Have you tried that?
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Sweca Johnson hasn't been given permission to have a conversation
with me or Lida Schumer, and he said as much earlier.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
Today, So you don't think he would talk to you
at all.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
We can have a conversation. But the problem is that
until they get the green light to actually have a
meaningful discussion to try to find common ground and a
bipartisan path forward and a willingness to address the damage
that Republicans have done to the health, the safety, and
the economic wellbeing of the American people, then of course
any informal discussion is going to be not fruitful.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Meanwhile, Now you heard the earlier conversation going on with
Congressman and jpal about and with Madlin Dean regarding well,
don't you you want to keep pressure points? Why are
you paying the military? Doesn't that create a pressure point?
I mean the shutdown would end earlier. Well, President Trump
has created his own pressure point and that he's going
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to pay the military and essential federal employees. But you know,
if the Democrats want to have a shutdown, they can
have a shutdown, and they're going to have to pay
the price cut number ten.
Speaker 17 (14:36):
How many layoffs have you authorized for this first rent?
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Then from which agency?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
And it would be democrat oriented because we figured, you know,
they started this thing, so they should be democrat oriented.
It'll be a lot and we'll announce the numbers over
the next couple of days, but it'll be a lot
of people, all because of the Democrats. I mean, they
want to give one and a half trillion dollars to
people that came into the country illegally.
Speaker 18 (14:57):
More important than that, because we all have a big heart.
We want people to be taken care of. But you know,
we have zero people coming in you know that, Glenn, right,
It's that's a pretty impressive number, even for a successful governor.
Speaker 13 (15:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
So, I mean, if you who's your money on Ben
at this point, do you think it's on President Trump
or Keem Jeffreys and Chuck Schumer for the victory, for
the win, for the win on the shutdown Trump?
Speaker 9 (15:20):
Yeah? I think so. Here's the here's the problem. Two things.
One we heard in the earlier cut about a bipartisan solution,
right the the the old adage is, uh, be bipartisan,
do it our way. That's kind of where they're at
right now, right that bipartisanship to the Democrats especially is
always do it my way, so we can be bipartisan.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
Uh.
Speaker 9 (15:43):
The other thing, too, is when when you talk about
the money that isn't going out because there's a government shutdown,
you know, it's kind of like it, you know, if
you and your your spouse are sitting at the kitchen
table going, well, you know, we could pay the mortgage,
but we get a plan for vacation and we got
to figure how to pay for that. All right, So
until we figure that out, let's not pay the mortgage.
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What you gotta see, they need to what they need
to do, and they're saying this the Republicans are right,
you gotta open the government. Then we'll start having talks
about all this other stuff that you want to do.
Whether it works out or not is irrelevant. But we're
not going to have these discussions about healthcare and all
this stuff you want to do because we don't have
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a government open. We pass this bill and then we'll
all talk about stuff. I mean, and remember, remember it
was fine. This is a this is an operational situation
where the government shut down. But you remember, of course
Nancy Pelosi famously right, pass the bill so we can
see what's in it. They're fine with passing bills they
don't know what's in it, just so they can see
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what's in it.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
How about they're fine with passing bill as long as
you don't know what's in it.
Speaker 9 (16:50):
That's what Let's have the stuff. So so pass this
bill so you can actually accomplish more stuff. Not let's
freeze everything and screw the world. Dumb. It's just dumb.
The whole thing is stupid. And and every government shutdown
we've had, and there have been, you know, several over
the years. They're not every week or every month or
every year, but you know, most of them are just
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stupid rock throwing things where you know you pound in
your chest my way so we could be my partisan.
So go ahead, get this thing over with. I don't
I look so far, and I will keep you updated
if I can. The government shut down, my house is
still operational, so no effect on a good operations at
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my house. Keep you posted. That could change, don't get
me wrong.
Speaker 1 (17:40):
And while that's all going on, and my money is
on President Trump too, and so while all that's happening
at home, doesn't he just turn around and basically end
the war in the Middle East? I mean seriously, it
was amazing and the press was gobsmacked. They couldn't believe
it was happening. In fact, there was a heard in
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the open, there was a reporter who still couldn't believe it.
And President Trump actually got a little pissy about it.
Cut to be President Benjamin Netya, who the Prime Minister
has not gone so far as to say the war
is over.
Speaker 14 (18:12):
And your view is the war.
Speaker 8 (18:13):
Between his own wars over.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
The war is over.
Speaker 9 (18:17):
Okay, do you understand that I knew that because John
Lennon did that Christmas song that said war is over,
So I already knew that devil was.
Speaker 1 (18:24):
I saw President Trump and Tel Aviv, you know that
kind of yeah, and then in Egypt that kind of
told me that that's what was happening.
Speaker 9 (18:30):
Look, I'm not gonna lie. I am a little nervous
because we have had peace in the Middle East many
times over the history of the world. So will this hold?
Will this not hold? How long will it hold? I
don't know, but it's Look, it's better to have accomplished
what has been accomplished than not accomplished anything. So now
the war has to go on to make this a
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lie that I.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
Think this one has a better chance than most. And
that's simply because Donald Trump went out of his way
and he is the king of the deal makers to
make sure everybody was happy they had something they really
wanted in the deal. And that's usually you didn't have
somebody dragged kicking and screaming, you didn't have somebody signing
it begrudgingly. You have everybody knowing that they get something
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that they didn't get everything they wanted. That's not possible.
But everybody got something that they really won't really wanted,
and so they all came to the table. It was
very it was very impressive to see President Trump basically
addressing the canesset, the Israel Parliament, and Benjamin Nett Yahoo
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was extremely laudatory and very much supportive of and said
some very nice things. Cut eight A.
Speaker 8 (19:44):
No American president has ever done more for Israel. And
as I said in Washington, it ain't even close. It's
really not a match. Mister President. Today, we welcome you,
he to thank you for your pivotal leadership and putting
forward a proposal that got the backing of almost the
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entire world, a proposal, a proposal that brings all our
hostages home.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Yeah, that was a big deal. And they didn't even
make the announcement until the hostages were home. And then
President Trump traveled to Egypt and signed the deal. Cut
twenty three.
Speaker 18 (20:31):
Just took three thousand years to get to this point.
Speaker 13 (20:35):
Can you believe it? And it's going to.
Speaker 18 (20:36):
Hold up too, It's going to hold up. Okay, thank you.
Speaker 9 (20:44):
And of course when you see it on TV or something,
you see them signing and it makes sense. But when
you hear it, it's just audio. It kind of sounds
like a kindergarten class coloring.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
It sounds like a quill, doesn't it look a quill
on thing. But the Palestinians and Gaza. It's not just
these Reelis that were happy. This is not sound from
the Palestinians in Gaza. Cut thirty nine. It's such a
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big deal that even Democrats, and I'm talking even the
died in the wall, you know, titular had Democrats could
not do anything but say wow, good job.
Speaker 9 (21:30):
Cut eight A.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
This is Hillary.
Speaker 19 (21:32):
It's a really significant first step. And I really commend
President Trump and his administration as well as Arab leaders
in the region, UH for making the commitment to the
twenty point plan and UH seeing a path forward for
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what's often called the day after.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Yeah, so that was and this is Jonathan cape part
on PBS another diagnole dem eight C.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
Look, I'm going to say something that I have never
said before and that this audience has never heard me
say before. Kudos to the President. I think we are
at this point because the President was single He was focused,
single mindedly focused on getting something, getting a deal done,
getting the hostages out. The hard part comes after he
(22:29):
leaves the region, after we get past phase one, assuming
we get the twenty that the Israeli hostages released, the
twenty who were presumed alive after the two thousand Palestinians
are released by Israel.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
And we did and we did get them, and so,
I mean, it's been pat fascinating. Some Democrats while laud
and the Pistil could not even mention Trump's name, and
the most interesting one of that was President Obama. So
job well done, everybody, but never won mention Trump by name,
and something that doesn't normally happen to about me. He
got excoriated for it, for not giving Trump credit by
(23:07):
other damps, which was which was fascinating. There is still
the occasional uh troublemaker in the group. And here we
have Christian Ahmenpor who put her foot in a big time,
who couldn't just celebrate the Israeli hates being let loose.
She had to actually compare them to gzens and she
said they didn't suffer as much as the guyzens did.
(23:30):
Cut fifty one.
Speaker 16 (23:31):
And I think for sure people who start to talk
to the hostages who've only just been released will find
that it will take a long long time for them
to recover physically but also mentally. It's been a terrible,
terrible two years with them because not only are they there,
you know, they're probably been treated better than the average
garden because they are the pawns and the chips that
(23:53):
Hamas had. Now Hamas has given up all its leverage,
by the way, by giving them all up, so that
is a victory for the israel.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
So they've been beaten, raped and starved, and several made
to dig their own graves. Yet Christian, well, they're better
than after the average garden. The outrage was so overwhelming
from all sides because of that thoughtless, thoughtless comment that
she had to apologize cut fifty two.
Speaker 16 (24:18):
Earlier, live on air, I spoke about what a day
of real joy this is for Israeli families whose loved
ones are finally being returned from two years of horrific
Hamas captivity, and for civilians in Gaza who finally had
reprieved from two years of brutal and deadly war. I
noted that for the hostages who are finally home, it'll
take a long time for them to recover mentally and physically.
(24:40):
But I regret also saying that they might have been
treated better than many Gazans because Hamas used these hostages
as pawns and bargaining chips. But that was insensitive and
it was wrong. From speaking to many former hostages and
their families, Like everyone, I've been horrified at what Hamas
has subjected them to over too long years.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
Yeah, she wouldn't she. I'm not sure that was a
heartfelt apology. She just got in trouble and they said
you better apologize or you lose your job, because that's
how bad the comment was. But I think that was
more of a like Kamala Harris type cover your ass moment.
Speaker 9 (25:15):
I know, Christian, I'm poor who has been around for
a long time, and she's done some really good reporting
in the Middle East, and she certainly knows her stuff,
you know, the players in the in the game and
all of that. But again, this does come back a bit,
and it's a different situation when you're covering wars and
things where the world is a terrible place. But it
(25:35):
does come back to this whole thing of reporters putting
their opinions into whatever they're reporting on. You know, you
have that happen in Washington a lot, right You see
people given their opinions about President Trump and everything else
when they're supposed to be neutral reporters. Christian, I'm in poor,
same kind of deal. Look, your reporter, tell us what happened.
(25:58):
Tell us. But she had had to describe I guess
the horror as she used the word. But she's a reporter.
She shouldn't be throwing in and network created better than this,
not blah blah blah. And that's the problem we have
right now in the news world as a bigger picture
than just Christianna. I'm the poor u is reporters some
for some reason, Uh some of it is because they're
(26:19):
allowed to feel inclined to say, here's what happened, and
let me tell you what I think about it. No,
just tell me what happened and say good night.
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Yeah No, but no, no, we had to we had
to do exactly what you said. We had to editorialize,
and not only that, but basically show that we don't
like Israel. That's what that was. I mean, she may
have had pretty words, but to say that Gosins suffered
worse that No one doubts the Gosins have suffered. And
part of why Donald Trump did what he did was
(26:49):
to rebuild Gaza and give these people dignity and a
home and life where there was none before or whether
it was very poor standard of living before, so yeah,
but to say the Gossins were worse. I mean that
just shows you what her mindset is well, and that's
part and that also shows that she's progressive left, and
that's part of the problem.
Speaker 9 (27:09):
I think we knew that, but you mentioned you know
that it didn't sound like a heartfelt apology, which I
don't think it necessarily was. He here's what I'd rather see. Well,
all right, I'm saying this half tongue in cheek. So
when when these reporters or comedians or whoever get caught
with their foot so far down their throat they're choking
to death, they always get the word I'm going to apologize. Now,
(27:32):
you know what I'd rather have. I'd rather have her
Christiana I'm in poor or these other people just come
out and say, listen, I'm sorry you're offended by what
I said, but I meant what I said, so go
screw yourself.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
But that doesn't save her job, which is why she's apologized.
Speaker 9 (27:45):
I get it.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
Look, I mean, it's all about saving the paycheck.
Speaker 9 (27:48):
I've said things in my life over my life that,
oh boy, I wish I hadn't said that. I'm sorry,
I said that. Really, And then there's times in my
life where I've said something and people are good, did
you just say that?
Speaker 4 (27:58):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (27:58):
And I don't care that I said it because I
meant it, and I know it's a different, precarious situation
for reporters and people whose jobs are on the line.
But don't give me a half asked apology. I'd rather
you just say, uh, I meant that. Sorry, you were offended.
Move on.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
Yeah, No, I don't disagree. I don't disagree. So we
end every week with the truth control and this week
is no different. This week, Yes, yes, again it's President Trump.
I could have actually done Kamala Harrison a voicemail message
for Joe Biden, but I liked it. I liked using
it where we used it. So this one, President Trump
is on Air Force one and a reporter asks him.
(28:32):
I think it's Peter Doocy from Fox, ask him, you know,
are you things is going to get you into heaven?
Or President Trump? To that offen goes does not expect
to go to heaven.
Speaker 6 (28:43):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Cut one.
Speaker 8 (28:44):
We talked a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 9 (28:46):
You were doing an interview and you talked about how
you hope to end the warn't you grain because it
might help.
Speaker 8 (28:50):
You get into heaven?
Speaker 4 (28:52):
How does how does this help?
Speaker 8 (28:54):
Does this help?
Speaker 2 (28:55):
I mean, you know, and being a little cute, I
don't think there's anything to get me in heaven. Okay,
I really think I think I'm not maybe heaven bound,
maybe in heaven right now as we fly an Air
Force one. I'm not sure I'm going to be able
to make heaven. But I've made life a lot better
for a lot of people.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Yeah, I'm not going to heaven, but I've made life
better for people. I think he's screwing around there. I
think he I think he knows that he has done
more good than harm, and I think that's the criteria
to go to heaven, to be.
Speaker 9 (29:25):
Honest, without getting deep into a religious philosophical discussion of
whether there even is one. But I think it's truth.
I think Donald Trump knows his entire life, and maybe
he does think Listen, this is good. I've saved a
lot of people. But I don't think this is going
to get me into heaven. I kind of lean with that.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Yeah, the truth.
Speaker 9 (29:45):
Look, I've done a lot. I've done some good things
in my life, and I've done some bad things in
my life, and I don't know if one or the
other gets me.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
More than that is? What does?
Speaker 17 (29:55):
Is that?
Speaker 9 (29:55):
What it is?
Speaker 13 (29:55):
I think?
Speaker 1 (29:56):
I think, I think if you can weigh the scale
more heavily on that, I don't think you need to
be Saint Francis Ceci or saying our mother Teresa, I
think you need to do more good than harm. You
should think that's the deal.
Speaker 9 (30:05):
I nobody should have said. And of course you know
it's easy for me to say, you know, with the
hindsight on this, he doesn't want to go to heaven.
He wants to be reincarnated and come back again as president. Believe,
I completely believe I would like to be reincarnated.
Speaker 1 (30:22):
Truth troll or reincarnation? Is that that? I like that?
That's pretty good. If you think Donald Trump wants to
be reincarnated, you can contact us on x at News
by three or on Facebook at Newsbyite. We upload a
new episode every single week, so check back next Monday
and see what new offerings we have. Meanwhile, have a
(30:43):
great week. I'm Nancy Shack, I'm Ben Parker. This is news.
Speaker 11 (30:45):
Bye,
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