Possible peace in the Middle East, Dark Brandon says goodbye, the confirmation wars heat up on Capitol Hill, and the assistant fire chief in Los Angeles which is still burning says if she needs to rescue you...you are in the wrong place. There was no shortage of news this week or sound cuts for that matter. We have some gasp inducing "did they really just say that" moments for you this week.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Possible peace in the Middle East, the confirmation war was
heat up on Capitol Hill, and the assistant fire chief
in Los Angeles, which is still burning by the way, says,
if she needs to rescue you, you were in the
wrong place. There was no shortage of news this week
or sound cuts for that matter. We have some gasp
inducing did they really just say that moments for you
this week? I'm Nancy Shack, I'm Ben Parker.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
This is news bite.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Can announce a cease fire. The hostage Jill has been
reached between Israel and a moss.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Have you led an audit of any organization? Yes or no?
Speaker 5 (00:45):
Senator in both of the organizations Iran, we were always
completely fiscal ead response yes or no?
Speaker 6 (00:55):
Is she strong enough to do this? Or you couldn't
carry my husband out of a fire which might respon
He got himself from the wrong place. If I have
to carry meut a fire.
Speaker 7 (01:04):
Wrong place, wrong time, I'm not helping you. God, I
can't do that.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
One makes my head spin. That was the assistant LA
fire chief, Christine what's her name, Christine Lank, Christine Larson,
that's her name, by the way. Who's a very big,
strong looking woman who says that if she is asked,
and I guess she's asked by people because she's a
(01:28):
woman firefighter, are you strong enough to carry somebody out
of a building if it's on fire? Not an unreasonable question.
And she looks to me like she probably could. But
you know, I understand why people would ask the question.
And her response was, if I have to rescue you,
you're in the wrong place. My response to that is,
bleep you, it's your job. You signed up. I understand
(01:49):
this whole thing about equality and women should be able
to be a fireman, and I and I agree they
should if they can pass the same physical tests that
men can. Then if it's the same test for everybody,
if you can pass it, you deserve to be a fireman,
whether you're a man or a woman. But that means
you should be able to rescue somebody, and to ask
the question doesn't deserve the answer. You know, blame the victim.
(02:11):
You're in the wrong place, is that what you're saying
Those people who are found burnt to death in Los
Angeles and of the wrong place at the wrong time.
I mean, you know, there's an explosion, you're caught in
a fire, and she's not going to come in and
get you because you were in the wrong place at
the wrong time.
Speaker 7 (02:24):
Almost like if like if a policeman said, well, if
that guy gets shot in a gang fight, I'm not
going to go help him because of the wrong place,
wrong time.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Yeah, And that's exactly what That's exactly what she said.
And I'll let you hear the whole the whole cut
it was. It was a video that she herself posted.
She put the music underneath it. We didn't, so just
so that you know, so she this video is like
a year old, So this is what she said. I
can imagine that that after the fires broke out and
the huge lens is now on the La Fire Department,
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that she must have been. Can we get this down?
Can somebody find out.
Speaker 7 (02:56):
Nobody gave a rats ask before the fires broke out
in County?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
People dying left and right, you know, burning to death.
But this is the full video, full audio cut twelve.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
You want to see somebody that responds to your house,
your emergency, whether it's a medical call or a fire call,
that looks like you. It gives that person a little
bit more ease knowing that somebody might understand their situation.
Speaker 8 (03:17):
Better.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
Is she strong enough to do this or you couldn't
carry my husband out of a fire, for which my
response is he got himself from the wrong place if
I have to carry.
Speaker 7 (03:25):
Him out of a fire.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Now, first of all, I'm not looking for somebody who
looks like me to come rescue me, because I'm five
five and one hundred and thirty pounds, so I am
pretty sure that somebody that of my stature is not
going to be able to rescue me out of a fire,
because I want somebody who can pick me up and
carry me out if indeed I need that, because I
have smoke inhalation or whatever. And I don't think anybody's
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looking for race, you know, or or anything in regard
to a fire. What they are looking for is somebody
who's strong enough. If she shows up, she looks to
me like she's strong enough, I got no problem with
her coming in to get me, because she looks like
she can handle it.
Speaker 8 (04:01):
Half.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
However, someone like me goes in there, I'm not so
happy about it because I'm pretty sure that you know
that we're both gonna die. So that's that's bull bleep,
that's just DEI crap. You know, she's throwing out there.
Speaker 7 (04:16):
I almost became a true story here. I almost became
a police officer way back in the day, and I
didn't for a number of reasons. Never thought about becoming
a firefighter for a number of reasons, one of which
is I don't want to run into fires to rescue people.
And it turns out you don't have to.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I guess not. I guess not should have.
Speaker 7 (04:33):
Become a fighter. Oh my god, that is just weird.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
It's very weird. It is.
Speaker 7 (04:37):
By the way, here's the lesson from all this, and
it's idiotic to post that. But be careful what you
put on social media, because we come back to kick
you right in the rear end later. I mean she
had I mean, look a year ago, nobody cared that
she even put that up.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Now it's she's stupid, and that she's the assistant fire chief.
It's not like she's a fireman. She's the assistant fire chief.
So she has risen. It seems to me with that
attitude that she's risen that there are a lot of
boxes being checked off there. I have no doubt that
she's capable, because she looks like she is, meaning she's
she's physically fit, she's a big person, and so I
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think she can probably handle anything they throw at her.
But the attitude I find frightening. If I were her boss,
I'd be like, with that attitude, I don't want you.
I don't want you here. I don't care what color
you are. I don't care what sex you are, I
don't care what your orientation is. If you don't want
to rescue people, I don't want you in my firehouse.
Speaker 7 (05:28):
You know how, every once in a while the officials
will come out and they'll do something about, you know,
be careful around fire and don't let it get out
of control. They do it at Thanksgiving with you know,
with the turkeys and all this stuff. They should just
come out and say, listen, we could reduce the number
of deaths in this country by fire if you'd all
stopped putting yourself in the wrong place. Yeah, that's all
you have to say. Forget what you're cooking, and forget
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what you're burning. Just don't don't don't be there, go
go go walk yourself.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
And you're exactly yeah yeah, So I mean, so for
that to come out now, and of course they're like,
there's a spotlight on the LA four Department, and because
there's a holocaust in southern California right now and la
is on fire, and the fire Department in Los Angeles
needed that, like they needed a hole in the head.
Because there's already a huge issue with the fire department
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not having enough water, with them not having enough equipment,
because their equipments, with the reservoirs not being filled, with
them not being as responsive as they're supposed to be.
And I don't know who's at fault, but I can
tell you the mayor is looking like they're in big trouble,
and so's the governor of California, because you know, these
are woke policies coming home to roost in. This is
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just my opinion, but because you know, they've done this
green energy thing with water conservation, climate change stuff that
has lowered the tables, they have not kept up with
infrastructure that they needed because they basically divested the Fire
Department of money and spent it on illegal immigration in California.
(07:00):
Everybody else there to basically burn to death. So there
are a few other cuts along those lines that I
found pretty bizarre, one of which is this is Governor
Gavin Newsom. He's on meet the Press with Jason Suberoff,
and you know, Newsom is like, well, it's a lie
(07:20):
that reservoirs aren't full, except that this is NBC Meet
the Press, who is predisposed to helping him, to liking
him because they're very supportive of the Democratic Party in
the current administration, but they're not going to stand for
full out lives cut seven B.
Speaker 9 (07:36):
We do know, though, from reporting here locally, that that
one reservoir that serves the palis aids was not full.
Speaker 10 (07:41):
And that's exactly what triggered my desire to get the
investigation to understand what was happening with that local reservoir
that was not a state system reservoir which the President
elect was referring to as it relates to the Delta,
and somehow connecting the delta smelt to this fire, which
is inexcusable because it's an act also incomprehensible to anyone
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that understands water policy in the state.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
So have you noticed the faint to the left there?
In other words, you know, yeah, well, we'll investigate that.
We have to invest this is what we know. We're
calling for an independent investigation because there was no water
and that wasn't the only statement he made about water
cut number five.
Speaker 9 (08:22):
You've also called for an independent investigation into the issues
around water supply that we've seen. What are the questions
that you're hoping to answer.
Speaker 10 (08:28):
The same ones you're asking, same ones that people when
I'm in the streets are asking, yelling about what the
hell happened?
Speaker 7 (08:34):
What happened to the water system?
Speaker 10 (08:36):
And by the way, was it just overwhelmed that you
had so much that was used?
Speaker 11 (08:41):
We drew it down?
Speaker 7 (08:42):
Was it pipes? Was it electricity?
Speaker 10 (08:44):
It was a combination of pipes, electricities and pumps. What
was that drawed down? Impossible? Because you lost seven plus
thousand structures right here anyway, and every single structure we
lost had a pipe that was leaking, and we don't
have lost that water pressure anyway. Did it contribute it
any way to our inability to fight the fire? Or
we're ninety nine mile hour winds determinative? And there was
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really no firefight that could have been more meaningful. So
I want to all of us want to know those answers,
and I just don't want to wait because people are
asking me. I want to know those facts. I wanted
them objectively determined and that the chips fall where they may.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
This is not about fingerpoint well, it is about fingerpointing,
and the chips are going to fall squarely on Governor
Newsom and the LA Mayor Karen Bass as a matter
of fact, because that's again trying to shuffle the blame up. Oh,
the system was overwhelmed, well, sure, because there was no
water in the system. That's why it was overwhelmed.
Speaker 7 (09:40):
The way, and this applies to any situation anywhere, but
in this particular case, and I look, I know that
governor isn't his own water secretary, right for example, he
has people, there's people.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
The water secretary, by the way, makes seven hundred and
fifty thousand dollars a year and they're in charge of
water and power. And what happened in La there was
no water and there was no power.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
They don't didn't earn their money. But there is a
whole bunch of people around. But this comes back, well,
that's to be my point, is I get it right?
Gavin Newsom's not going out and inspecting everything. That's why
you have people. They go out and they do this,
they go out and they do that. But there is
the old the buck stops here. Things if you're not
overseeing your people. And I'm not saying he is or
(10:20):
he isn't, but I'm just saying somebody's got to be
looking down and saying, did you check that reservoir? Hey did?
This is Joe doing his job as Fred. That's where
their leadership comes in.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
If they're competent. First of all, you're absolutely right, that's
the buck does stop there. But more than that, you
have to hire competent people to begin with. And they
weren't competent. They were political. They were political hires. And
this is what hacks were hacks. They were more than hacks,
they were woke DEI hacks. And that's the problem. You
had people who were not qualified in the jobs, and
(10:52):
so they had no hope of getting the job done.
And so yes, the buck stops here, but more than that,
it's more than just the fact. It's that he deliberately
hired people that couldn't do the job to begin with.
And as a result, you have, you know, over two
dozen people dead, you have thousands of buildings burned, you
have I'm not sure Southern California will ever recover. And meanwhile,
(11:13):
Karen bass is being she's the mayor of La who
was in Ghana on a vacation on a junket. Happened
she was, and it's so bad that here's the owner
of the La Times, doctor Patrick sun chiongh who endorsed
Karen Bass from mayor because she checked the boxes for them,
(11:33):
and they've just realized now what a mistake that was.
Cut twenty two.
Speaker 8 (11:37):
I feel like some of the you know that you
don't there's only so much you can do during the crisis.
But I sort of, at least from from out here
on the East Coast, have seen more people in the
LA community that probably were very supportive of Gavin Newsom
and Karen Bass in the past openly be critical of
both of the two. Where is that line? Where's that
(12:01):
line right now in the middle of a crisis and
how much are they holding them accountable?
Speaker 12 (12:06):
Well, first of all, really accept Pamblain right, So at
the early times we endorscar and Bass. I think right
now in front that's a mistake and we admit that.
So I thought it was very early important early on
for me to come out and I think we were
one of the few to say competence matters. Goodlie, But
(12:28):
maybe twenty twenty three million views to show how that
was really due to the heart of most people, whether
you right or left.
Speaker 7 (12:37):
Good for him, competence matters, really good for him.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Wow, Well, good for him to put it out there
because they haven't done it, you know. And that to
me was like, okay, so maybe there's hope for them.
Speaker 7 (12:47):
A lot of people endorse candidates for a lot of offices,
but between newspapers and television stations and radio hosts and
celebrities and everybody, here's I will give this guy credit
because he's saying, look, we endorsed her, but that was
a mistake. A lot of people don't like to admit
their mistakes, which is where we've gotten over the years
(13:07):
where even when they endorse people and then they do
something wrong, they try to defend what the person did,
no matter what right, as opposed to saying, hey, we
got this something wrong. I mean, and you can fix mistakes.
I mean, not right away, but down the road. Will
they endorse her again? I doubt it, So you have to.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
I think they're gonna endorse her.
Speaker 7 (13:26):
Recall vote if you voted, and I'm not going I'll
pick anybody, right, If you voted for Biden and he's failing,
you got to say, well, he's failing, not well, somebody
else's fault. And if you listen, if Donald Trump, if
you're a Donald Trump supporter and Donald Trump does something
egregiously horrible, you can't defend it. You gotta say, well,
we screwed up on that one. So I mean, I'm
just picking those two because they their high profile. But
(13:47):
this could be the mayor of Los Angeles or the
mayor of Nowheresville. Look, hold the feet to the fire
of the people, no pun intended. Hold the feet to
the fire of the people who deserve to have it.
Don't defend Joe Biden. Don't defend them for the mistakes
they make. Hold them, hold them accountable for the mistakes
(14:08):
they make. Even if you don't kick them out office,
make sure they don't make those mistakes again. And if
they do, you push them right down the hill. By
the way, all these homes that were destroyed in LA
and yeah, I'm being tongue in cheek here, those homes
were just in the wrong place. I mean, if you've
built those houses in vasicaybe.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I We'll just call you, you know, miss Larsen.
Speaker 7 (14:28):
Well, I just look, just realistically, if you built those
houses in Vancouver, they'd be fine.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
That's true. That's a really good point. So meanwhile, while
the while the leaders, they were playing the blame game,
and the La Times is passing up to a big
mistake they made. It looks like, you know, everything else
is out of control. The fires out of control, looterers
are out of control. It got so bad in La that,
according to the La County Sheriff, the looterers are dressing
up as firemen and breaking into homes. Cut fourteen.
Speaker 13 (14:55):
When I was out there in the Malibu area, I
saw a gentleman I looked like a firefighter, and I
asked him if he was okay, because he was sitting down.
I didn't realize we had him in handcuffs. We were
turning him over to lapd because he was dressed like
a fireman and he was not. He just got caught
burglarizing a home.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
You are right, I'm sorry for the goffa in the
middle of that, But seriously, doesn't that just I mean,
you're like, oh my god, that's too funny. Hey, how
you doing? Can I get you some Oh?
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Sorry?
Speaker 7 (15:23):
Sorry, yeah, part of this, of course, looting people who
loot should be thrown right off a cliff. Period. But
it doesn't matter if it's in a fire or in
a hurricane situation or whatever. However, I gotta give this
looter some props. He didn't just walk in and loot.
He went through the trouble of dressing up like a firefighter.
And so I mean, you gotta give the guy a
little bit of credit for creativity, for creativity because a
(15:46):
lot of these people you see the videos, we've all
seen them, people just running into buildings and then running
down the street with a television, just dressed in the
tank top and shorts. This guy at least puts some
effort in. So give him half credit, even though he's
still had a dingle.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
But so while you might be asking yourself to what
is the outgoing administration doing with this horrific, you know,
disaster in California, Well, according to a President Biden, the
government's going to give everybody seven hundred and seventy dollars
cut nine.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
We're not waiting until those fires are over to start
helping the victims. We're getting the help right now. As
you all know, people impacted by these fires who are
going to receive one time payment of seven hundred and
seventy dollars one time payment so they can quickly purchase
things like water baby format and prescriptions. So far, nearly
(16:37):
six thousand survivors have registered to do just that, and
five one million dollars has gone out.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Yeah, that's going to get you through two days.
Speaker 7 (16:46):
This is like the hurricane people who well.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Llahina remember in Lahina. I remember they said to Biden
and Lahina, take your seven hundred and seventy bucks and
get the bleep back on the train, on the on
the plane. But that's not all. This is Kamala Harris
delivering a message to the California wildfire victims cut ten
and so.
Speaker 14 (17:03):
It's critically important that to the extent you can find
anything that gives you an ability to be patient in
this extremely dangerous and unprecedented crisis.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
That you do be patient. It's time you ably be patient.
This is a toothless administration overseeing a absolutely incompetent California
state administration. So the people in California are believed that's
all there is to it. I feel badly for them to.
Speaker 7 (17:36):
Know if you'd voted for Kamala Harris and she became president,
you'd get that for four more years.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
It's true, It's very true.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
So but meanwhile, instead of paying attention to the destruction
of California, the Democrats have been very focused on Donald
Trump's cabinet nominations, and there have been some really bizarre
exchanges during these nominations up on Capitol Hill. This first one,
(18:07):
this one is Senator Tammy Duckworth, who went off the
deep end during Pete Hegsath's confirmation hearing for Secretary of
Defense cut one hundred.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Have you led an audit of any organization?
Speaker 15 (18:19):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Or no? I don't want a long answer. Yes or no?
Have you led an audit of any organization of which
you were in charge?
Speaker 7 (18:25):
Senator?
Speaker 5 (18:26):
In both of the organizations Iran, we were always completely
fiscally response yes or no, Yes or no, completely miscar off.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
You can't answer this question, yes or no. Did you
lead an audit?
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Do you not know this answer, Senator, Yes, my leaderships
for an organization?
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Yes or no?
Speaker 7 (18:45):
I would take that as a no.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
What were the findings? So there were no findings because
you've never led an audit. What guidance did you give
the auditors? None? Because you've never led an audit.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Is that supposed to be like the big thing for
Secretary Defense. You know, I looked up Secretary of Defense.
What the requirements were? You know what, there's one requirement.
Do you know what it is?
Speaker 7 (19:04):
Leading an audit?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Nope, that you'd be a civilian congratulation, that is it?
So I mean, but I mean, seriously, she sounds like
she's questioning. I mean, when did you stop having sex
with that child? And she's talking about a freaking audit?
Speaker 7 (19:16):
What is that?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Don't she doesn't he have accountants to deal with leading
an audit? What would that? Seriously, do you think that
that General Austin led his own audits? Do you think
that Donald Ramsfeld led his own audits? You've got to
be a nut. I mean, what the hell's wrong with her?
Then we have Mazie Herono. She asked hag Seth if
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he would comply with an order such as Trump gave
Secretary of Defense esper to shoot protesters. The answer is priceless.
Cut one O three.
Speaker 15 (19:47):
As Secretary of Defense, you will swear an oath to
the Constitution and not an oath to any man, women,
or president.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Correct senator.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
On multiple occasions, including as a young second lieutenant, I've
sworn an oath to the con and I'm proud to
do so, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 15 (20:02):
In June of twenty twenty, then President Trump directed former
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper to shoot protesters in the
legs in downtown d C. An order Secretary Esper refused
to comply with. Would you carry out such an order
from President Trump?
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Senator I was in the Washington, d C. National Guard
unit that was in Lafayette Square during those.
Speaker 15 (20:26):
Would you carry out to shoot protester in the legs?
Speaker 5 (20:30):
I saw direct service agents to get injured by riders
trying to jump over the fence, send church on fire
and destroyer.
Speaker 15 (20:38):
That sounds to me that you will comply with such
an order, you will shoot protesters in the leg He
was there.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
I mean, I don't think she expected the response.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
I was there.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
They were practiced, were injuring people. He was going to
do what he could do. He was going to take
an order to stop them.
Speaker 7 (20:54):
Those protesters were in the wrong place. Absolutely, that would
have been their fault.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
So they're trying for these at the moments they're not
necessarily getting them. This is Senator Alex Padilla asking Pam
Bondi what the fourteenth Amendment says. Listen to Bondie's reply,
seventeen b we met YESTERD.
Speaker 16 (21:09):
You pointed your finger at me for let me let
me answer my question.
Speaker 7 (21:14):
I'm not going to be bullied because the.
Speaker 11 (21:16):
Fourteenth Amendment of the United States of America, which was
deeply disappointing, I guess it today after I gave an
opportunity to study overnight. So can you tell me in
this committee what the citizenship caluse of the fourteenth Amendment?
Speaker 16 (21:30):
Says Senator. I'm here to answer your questions. I'm not
here to do your homework and study for you. If
I am confirmed, If you want asking for a confirmation,
will you.
Speaker 7 (21:40):
Cut me off?
Speaker 16 (21:41):
Can I please finish?
Speaker 11 (21:42):
What does a fourteenth Amendment say?
Speaker 16 (21:43):
Senator? Senator? The fourteenth Amendment we all know addresses birthright citizenship.
I have been a state prosecutor, I've been a state
ag I look forward to even given your remarks today,
working with you and the people of California if I
am confirmed as the eighty seventh Attorney General of the
United States of America. I didn't take your homework assignment.
(22:04):
I'm sorry. I was preparing for today.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
She's feercene, so stick it. She was then we have
Marco Rubio. He was interrupted. He was interrupted. He had
a pretty low key confirmation.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
Everybody everybody else they do.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
They like Marco Rubio a lot. But he was interrupted
by some protesters. Cut twenty four.
Speaker 17 (22:25):
Democracy and Prosperity in these Regions.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Act Order.
Speaker 7 (22:50):
I like that little thank you for coming.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Thanks for coming with that. I appreciate that. So that,
so you know, that was about as exciting as Marco
Rubio's got. This was fun though. This was a Scott.
He's being questioned by Senator Bernie Sanders. This is regarding
this is aging Secretary of Treasury. If he agreed with
President Biden saying the US is headed toward an oligarchy,
his answer is great. Cut thirty seven.
Speaker 18 (23:14):
What Biden said last night is we're moving toward an oligarchy.
I'm asking you that question. Do you think, forget how
they made their money. Do you think that when so
few people have so much wealth and so much economic
and political power, that that is an Oligothic form of society?
Speaker 19 (23:29):
Well, I wouldn't note that they. President Biden gave the
Presidential Medal of Freedom to two people who I think
would qualify for his oligarchs.
Speaker 18 (23:40):
So this is not a condemnation of any one individual.
I'm just asking you when so few people have so
much wealth and power. But do you think that that
is an oligarchic form.
Speaker 19 (23:54):
Of society, Senator? I think it depends on they have
to move up and down the And.
Speaker 18 (24:02):
No, that's not really Dancer. I mean, even if you
had that mobility, no matter who those individuals might be.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
It's his answer. So, I mean, it's just Bernie didn't
like the fact that he got called out because Biden
just gave the Middle of Freedom to two oligarchs basically
after what he said. Now, what he was referring to
what Bernie Sanders was referring to is President Biden's farewell
speech Biden. President Biden gave one of the darkest freaking
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farewell speeches I have ever heard in my life or
have read about the United Oh my god. He so
he's saying goodbye, this is my last presentation to everybody,
and he wants to warn them. Cut six A.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
I want to warn the country some things that give
me great concern. This is a dangerous content and that's
the dangerous conversation of power in the hands. Were very
few ultrawealthy people the dangerous consequences if their abusive power
is left unchecked. Today, an oligarch is taking shape in
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America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens
our entire democracy. Are basic rights and freedoms and a
fair shot for everyone to get ahead.
Speaker 7 (25:15):
By the way, for those who aren't aware of what
was going on there, this is all you need to envision.
Take a gallon of gas, pour it on someone's head,
and then light it on fire. Because that's all he
was doing, is starting fires. And I get it, Like
he doesn't.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Don't you think, because he's just talking about oligarchs when
as as the previous cut showed giving medals of honor
to people who are our oligarchs. But you know, hey,
it's okay if he does it just like in this cut.
This is he's talking about Americans being buried under the
avalanche of misinformation and disinformation. Cut seven.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Americans are being buried under an avalanche of misinformation and
disinformation enabling the abusive power. Free press is crumbling. There's
a disappearance social media is giving up on fact checking.
The truth is smothered by lies told for power and
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for profit. We must hold the social platform and accountable
to protect our children, our families, and a very democracy
from the abusive power.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Talk about abusive power, it was his administration, according to
Mark Zuckerberg, that leaned on Facebook to take stuff down
they didn't like. They're the ones that his administration is
doing exactly what he was warning the people about exactly that.
So apparently censorship is fine as long as he can
do it, but nobody else can do it well.
Speaker 7 (26:39):
My take on much of the speech was more less
saying goodbye, here's what we did good and let's keep
this country going strong role Rod, and good luck everybody.
It was more of a how many wedges can I
stick in here and divide the country on my way
out the door? Because again they he didn't write the
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speech obviously, so whoever wrote it and whatever group of
people wrote it for him, he said it, so it's
on him. But uh, let's we don't like the other side,
so let's let's put wedges in there so that for
the next four years we can have all kinds of
fires and all kinds of people pissed at all kinds
of other people, and then we can say need they're
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not We want to unite the country, my ass. You
want to divide the country, and you do it in
ways like this, because look, half the country didn't vote
for President Trump. Well a little less than half, but yeah,
So there are a lot of people out there who
if you tell them Donald Trump and his minions and
the magas and the right wing and the Republicans and
all the nominees, they're all coming to kill you and
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take away your rights and your freedom and stuff, they're
all gonna believe it. So we still are gonna have
for the next four years, regardless of how good Donald
Trump does or how bad Donald Trump does. But however,
doesn't matter. Half the country has gotten this this message
into their head because it's being delivered from the White House.
We're gonna have alli arks and everything's going to hell
and you're all gonna die. So yeah, I mean, that's
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what I got out of visit, that it was a
speech aimed at dividing the country more on his way
out the door.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
That's what he's done from day one. That's what he's
done from day one exactly.
Speaker 7 (28:15):
That's what I got from it, and I wished, I
wish he'd done a good look did everything the Biden
administration done terrible. No, I'm still standing here four years later.
Why don't you talk about that and how we could
keep the good going instead of we're all gonna die
and new socking eye, because that's not who he is.
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
He's a mean, nasty piece of work. He's always been
a mean, nasty piece of work that puts on this
facade of being you know, uncle Joe. He's not. He
never has been. I worked with him when I was,
you know, fifteen years old on the hill as a
page and I'm telling you now, he was mean then
and he's mean now. But I think part of what
you saw is fury over what happened to him by
the Democratic Party. Yeah, and you know, being being forced
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out of the election, and also fear about his legacy.
I think that's a part of what's going on too.
And you saw that when he announced the tentative peace
deal in the Middle East. He came out and made
the announcement the same day as his farewell speech. Cut
one Bee, Good afternoon.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
It's a very good afternoon because long last I can
announce a ceasefire. The hostage deal has been reached between
Israel and a mass more than fifteen months of conflict.
It began with Hesbela's brutal massacre on October the seventh.
More than fifteen months of terror for the hostages, their families,
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the Israeli people, more than fifteen months of suffering by
the innocent people of Gaza. Fighting in Gaza will stop,
and soon the hostage will return home to their families.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
So that's good news if it happens. It's still on
the hooks. But Israel was voting as we were doing
this on passing that. But many people that this was
about a comment made by Donald Trump that got Hamas off.
It's asked to negotiate. This was a comment that Donald
Trump made a couple of weeks ago, actually a little
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over a week ago at the time of this taping,
regarding the Middle East. Cut five B.
Speaker 20 (30:20):
All hell will break out if those hostages aren't back.
I don't want to hurt your negotiation. If they're not
back by the time I get into office, all hell
will break out in the Middle East, and it will
not be good for Hamas, and it will not be good,
frankly for anyone. All hell will break out. I don't
have to say anymore, but that's what it is. And
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they should have given them back a long time. They
should have never taken they should have never been the
attack of October seventh. People forget that, but there was,
and many people are killed. They're no longer hostages.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
So he made that statement, which really told everybody what
the tone was going to be of his administration toward
Hamas when he comes in. And so many people credit
Donald Trump's stance and hardline coming into the new administration
for making the parties to the peace negotiations more appliable
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and therefore able to come to a deal with President
with President Biden. Now here's the thing. A reporter asked
President Biden if Trump was partially responsible for the peace deal,
and listen to his response, Cut five C.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
Looks credit for this, mister President.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
You or Troy?
Speaker 11 (31:34):
Is that a joke?
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Oh?
Speaker 18 (31:37):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (31:39):
So no, he's not giving Trump any credit. But here's
the thing. Here is President Biden's State Department spokesman Matthew
Miller saying, yes, he does deserve it. Cut five A.
Speaker 21 (31:52):
When it comes to the involvement of President elect Trump's
team has been absolutely critical in getting this deal over
the line, and it's been critical because obviously, as I
stand here today, this administration's term in office will expire
in five days. And one of the things that we
have always said about this deal is that when you
get from stage one to stage two, that the United States, Egypt,
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and Cutter are the guaranteurs of this deal. And Egypt
and Cutter will push Hamas to stay at the bargaining
table and to get from stage one to stage two,
and the United States will push Israel to stay at
the bargaining table to get from phase one and phase two.
So obviously those are promises we cannot make on behalf
of the United States for any longer than the next
five days. And so it's critical that all of the
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parties to the agreement and the other mediators see that
when the United States is in the room making commitments,
those are lasting commitments that extend beyond this administration into
the next.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
World, makes sense, right, I mean, that's and Trump does
deserve credit for that, for the hardline coming in ye
And I.
Speaker 7 (32:54):
Know I'm not the only one who says this, but
you know, there is a little bit of a crossover
here between this and what happened after Jimmy Carter left office.
And Ronald Reagan took left office. Remember how fast the
hostages got released in Iran. It's a different situation, So
I don't want to compare them like, but.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Very similar, Yeah, because Ronald Reagan made a statement in
that fall that wouldn't Tehran make a nice parking lot?
So he had signaled that he was going to be
a much tougher stance coming in regarding the Iranian hostages,
where Jimmy Carter had been a much softer negotiator and
there had been a failed rescue attempt and so in
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the Iranians hated Jimmy Carter, so they were not going
to negotiate with Jimmy Carter. So they basically did the deal,
but held on to it until Ronald Reagan came in
office so that he would get the credit for it.
And that's what happened. And I think it's very parallel
to what you're seeing now.
Speaker 7 (33:48):
Yeah. I mean, you know, Israel and and Harmas who
were really the ones fighting. I mean, I know everybody
says God's were the Palestinians, but the Reagan file file
five year old. The Palestinian is not at war with Israel.
I get it. There's collateral. You know, this is deeper
than just saying people are at war. We've had wars
before and it's not exactly like this. This is a
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very localized thing in terms of the world. And yeah,
I mean it's Hamas against Israel with some you know,
regular Palestini is probably firing guns too, and I don't
know the whole dynamic what you're seeing.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
And the reason why President Biden was so snippy about
President Trump getting any credit for what's happening is that
he is desperate for a legacy, desperate for a legacy,
and it's abysmal. So a peace deal is a great legacy,
and so I think he's trying to claw his his
ownership of that because there's nothing really much else in
his administration that he can grab. So I think that's
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what we're seeing.
Speaker 7 (34:44):
Depending on what poll you're listening to, sixty five percent
of people disapprove of Biden at the end of his term.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
He's now a move saying should he really have a
presidential library? I mean so there, yeah, so basically.
Speaker 7 (34:55):
Maybe maybe a presidential comic book store. There you go.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
I like that so because it's probably our last show,
because when when this is going to air for the
first time, is on inauguration Day. This will be our last,
probably our last Bidenism unless he gets unless they let
him out and he says something that's really amusing away
for a while, but it's not going to be our
our common What we might do we talked about this
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last week is is truth or troll?
Speaker 7 (35:21):
Well we'll fight a Trump thing. Well, we'll have some
fun for you.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Is being serious or is he screwing with us? I
think that's a really good segment that we probably will
do as we get into the Trump administration. But for
our last Bidenism, President Biden was asked by a reporter,
do you regret your decision to run for reelection and
do you think that made it easier for your predecessor
cut number two?
Speaker 7 (35:45):
President?
Speaker 5 (35:46):
Do you regret your decision to run for reelection?
Speaker 8 (35:49):
Do you think that that made it easier for your
predeces surch and now become very successful.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
I don't think so. I think I would have beaten Trump,
could have beaten Trump. I think that Kamala could have
beaten Trump. It would have beaten Trump. It wasn't about
I thought it was important to unify the party and
when the party was worried about whether or not I
was going to be able to move, I thought it.
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Even though I thought I could win again, I thought
it was better to unify the party. And it was
the greatest honor in my life to be President United States.
But I didn't want to be one who caused a
party that wasn't unified to lose an election. And that's
why I stepped aside. But I was confident she could win.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Has somebody told him what happened on November fifth? Has
anybody told him who won the election? Because it doesn't
sound like it to me.
Speaker 7 (36:45):
You remember the stories. Once in a great while, you'd
have a story like twenty years later, they'd find some
Japanese soldier hold up in a forest and he didn't
know the war was over.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Yeah, I love that. I love that analogy.
Speaker 7 (36:58):
Listen, Joe, Yeah, it's over what and.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Guess what you lost?
Speaker 18 (37:04):
You know?
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Can you imagine telling that poor soldier you lost. By
the way, Japan lost big, Jamail is really big. So
it's like, you know, and Joe, you lost big, really
really bad.
Speaker 7 (37:13):
I think Kamala can win this. I still think they
can pull it out.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
Oh my god, Oh my good. So that's I thought
that was a great Bidenism to end the tradition with.
So that was our last Bidenism unless something really special
comes along that we and he gets in front of
a microphone before Jill can stop him.
Speaker 7 (37:29):
Well, I'm guessing if Kamala does win this election that
we'll hit from Biden again.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
I think that's true.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
I think that's very true.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
So let us know. I'd like to know what people
think of the idea of a segment called truth Ortrol.
I like it. Ben seems to like it. I want
to know if you guys like it too, because I
think that could take the place of our Bidenisms.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
We will.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
We'll let you know what the what the consensus is. Meanwhile,
check back with us next Monday to see what new
offerings we have. If you want to contact us, you
can get us on x at news Bye three or
on Facebook at Newsbite. Have a great week and a
happy Inauguration Day.
Speaker 7 (38:04):
I'm Nancy Shack, I'm Ben Parker.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
This is news Bite
Possible peace in the Middle East, the confirmation war was
heat up on Capitol Hill, and the assistant fire chief
in Los Angeles, which is still burning by the way, says,
if she needs to rescue you, you were in the
wrong place. There was no shortage of news this week
or sound cuts for that matter. We have some gasp
inducing did they really just say that moments for you
this week? I'm Nancy Shack, I'm Ben Parker.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
This is news bite.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Can announce a cease fire. The hostage Jill has been
reached between Israel and a moss.
Speaker 4 (00:42):
Have you led an audit of any organization? Yes or no?
Speaker 5 (00:45):
Senator in both of the organizations Iran, we were always
completely fiscal ead response yes or no?
Speaker 6 (00:55):
Is she strong enough to do this? Or you couldn't
carry my husband out of a fire which might respon
He got himself from the wrong place. If I have
to carry meut a fire.
Speaker 7 (01:04):
Wrong place, wrong time, I'm not helping you. God, I
can't do that.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
One makes my head spin. That was the assistant LA
fire chief, Christine what's her name, Christine Lank, Christine Larson,
that's her name, by the way. Who's a very big,
strong looking woman who says that if she is asked,
and I guess she's asked by people because she's a
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woman firefighter, are you strong enough to carry somebody out
of a building if it's on fire? Not an unreasonable question.
And she looks to me like she probably could. But
you know, I understand why people would ask the question.
And her response was, if I have to rescue you,
you're in the wrong place. My response to that is,
bleep you, it's your job. You signed up. I understand
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this whole thing about equality and women should be able
to be a fireman, and I and I agree they
should if they can pass the same physical tests that
men can. Then if it's the same test for everybody,
if you can pass it, you deserve to be a fireman,
whether you're a man or a woman. But that means
you should be able to rescue somebody, and to ask
the question doesn't deserve the answer. You know, blame the victim.
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You're in the wrong place, is that what you're saying
Those people who are found burnt to death in Los
Angeles and of the wrong place at the wrong time.
I mean, you know, there's an explosion, you're caught in
a fire, and she's not going to come in and
get you because you were in the wrong place at
the wrong time.
Speaker 7 (02:24):
Almost like if like if a policeman said, well, if
that guy gets shot in a gang fight, I'm not
going to go help him because of the wrong place,
wrong time.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Yeah, And that's exactly what That's exactly what she said.
And I'll let you hear the whole the whole cut
it was. It was a video that she herself posted.
She put the music underneath it. We didn't, so just
so that you know, so she this video is like
a year old, So this is what she said. I
can imagine that that after the fires broke out and
the huge lens is now on the La Fire Department,
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that she must have been. Can we get this down?
Can somebody find out.
Speaker 7 (02:56):
Nobody gave a rats ask before the fires broke out
in County?
Speaker 1 (03:00):
People dying left and right, you know, burning to death.
But this is the full video, full audio cut twelve.
Speaker 6 (03:06):
You want to see somebody that responds to your house,
your emergency, whether it's a medical call or a fire call,
that looks like you. It gives that person a little
bit more ease knowing that somebody might understand their situation.
Speaker 8 (03:17):
Better.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
Is she strong enough to do this or you couldn't
carry my husband out of a fire, for which my
response is he got himself from the wrong place if
I have to carry.
Speaker 7 (03:25):
Him out of a fire.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Now, first of all, I'm not looking for somebody who
looks like me to come rescue me, because I'm five
five and one hundred and thirty pounds, so I am
pretty sure that somebody that of my stature is not
going to be able to rescue me out of a fire,
because I want somebody who can pick me up and
carry me out if indeed I need that, because I
have smoke inhalation or whatever. And I don't think anybody's
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looking for race, you know, or or anything in regard
to a fire. What they are looking for is somebody
who's strong enough. If she shows up, she looks to
me like she's strong enough, I got no problem with
her coming in to get me, because she looks like
she can handle it.
Speaker 8 (04:01):
Half.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
However, someone like me goes in there, I'm not so
happy about it because I'm pretty sure that you know
that we're both gonna die. So that's that's bull bleep,
that's just DEI crap. You know, she's throwing out there.
Speaker 7 (04:16):
I almost became a true story here. I almost became
a police officer way back in the day, and I
didn't for a number of reasons. Never thought about becoming
a firefighter for a number of reasons, one of which
is I don't want to run into fires to rescue people.
And it turns out you don't have to.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
I guess not. I guess not should have.
Speaker 7 (04:33):
Become a fighter. Oh my god, that is just weird.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
It's very weird. It is.
Speaker 7 (04:37):
By the way, here's the lesson from all this, and
it's idiotic to post that. But be careful what you
put on social media, because we come back to kick
you right in the rear end later. I mean she
had I mean, look a year ago, nobody cared that
she even put that up.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
Now it's she's stupid, and that she's the assistant fire chief.
It's not like she's a fireman. She's the assistant fire chief.
So she has risen. It seems to me with that
attitude that she's risen that there are a lot of
boxes being checked off there. I have no doubt that
she's capable, because she looks like she is, meaning she's
she's physically fit, she's a big person, and so I
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think she can probably handle anything they throw at her.
But the attitude I find frightening. If I were her boss,
I'd be like, with that attitude, I don't want you.
I don't want you here. I don't care what color
you are. I don't care what sex you are, I
don't care what your orientation is. If you don't want
to rescue people, I don't want you in my firehouse.
Speaker 7 (05:28):
You know how, every once in a while the officials
will come out and they'll do something about, you know,
be careful around fire and don't let it get out
of control. They do it at Thanksgiving with you know,
with the turkeys and all this stuff. They should just
come out and say, listen, we could reduce the number
of deaths in this country by fire if you'd all
stopped putting yourself in the wrong place. Yeah, that's all
you have to say. Forget what you're cooking, and forget
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what you're burning. Just don't don't don't be there, go
go go walk yourself.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
And you're exactly yeah yeah, So I mean, so for
that to come out now, and of course they're like,
there's a spotlight on the LA four Department, and because
there's a holocaust in southern California right now and la
is on fire, and the fire Department in Los Angeles
needed that, like they needed a hole in the head.
Because there's already a huge issue with the fire department
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not having enough water, with them not having enough equipment,
because their equipments, with the reservoirs not being filled, with
them not being as responsive as they're supposed to be.
And I don't know who's at fault, but I can
tell you the mayor is looking like they're in big trouble,
and so's the governor of California, because you know, these
are woke policies coming home to roost in. This is
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just my opinion, but because you know, they've done this
green energy thing with water conservation, climate change stuff that
has lowered the tables, they have not kept up with
infrastructure that they needed because they basically divested the Fire
Department of money and spent it on illegal immigration in California.
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Everybody else there to basically burn to death. So there
are a few other cuts along those lines that I
found pretty bizarre, one of which is this is Governor
Gavin Newsom. He's on meet the Press with Jason Suberoff,
and you know, Newsom is like, well, it's a lie
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that reservoirs aren't full, except that this is NBC Meet
the Press, who is predisposed to helping him, to liking
him because they're very supportive of the Democratic Party in
the current administration, but they're not going to stand for
full out lives cut seven B.
Speaker 9 (07:36):
We do know, though, from reporting here locally, that that
one reservoir that serves the palis aids was not full.
Speaker 10 (07:41):
And that's exactly what triggered my desire to get the
investigation to understand what was happening with that local reservoir
that was not a state system reservoir which the President
elect was referring to as it relates to the Delta,
and somehow connecting the delta smelt to this fire, which
is inexcusable because it's an act also incomprehensible to anyone
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that understands water policy in the state.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
So have you noticed the faint to the left there?
In other words, you know, yeah, well, we'll investigate that.
We have to invest this is what we know. We're
calling for an independent investigation because there was no water
and that wasn't the only statement he made about water
cut number five.
Speaker 9 (08:22):
You've also called for an independent investigation into the issues
around water supply that we've seen. What are the questions
that you're hoping to answer.
Speaker 10 (08:28):
The same ones you're asking, same ones that people when
I'm in the streets are asking, yelling about what the
hell happened?
Speaker 7 (08:34):
What happened to the water system?
Speaker 10 (08:36):
And by the way, was it just overwhelmed that you
had so much that was used?
Speaker 11 (08:41):
We drew it down?
Speaker 7 (08:42):
Was it pipes? Was it electricity?
Speaker 10 (08:44):
It was a combination of pipes, electricities and pumps. What
was that drawed down? Impossible? Because you lost seven plus
thousand structures right here anyway, and every single structure we
lost had a pipe that was leaking, and we don't
have lost that water pressure anyway. Did it contribute it
any way to our inability to fight the fire? Or
we're ninety nine mile hour winds determinative? And there was
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really no firefight that could have been more meaningful. So
I want to all of us want to know those answers,
and I just don't want to wait because people are
asking me. I want to know those facts. I wanted
them objectively determined and that the chips fall where they may.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
This is not about fingerpoint well, it is about fingerpointing,
and the chips are going to fall squarely on Governor
Newsom and the LA Mayor Karen Bass as a matter
of fact, because that's again trying to shuffle the blame up. Oh,
the system was overwhelmed, well, sure, because there was no
water in the system. That's why it was overwhelmed.
Speaker 7 (09:40):
The way, and this applies to any situation anywhere, but
in this particular case, and I look, I know that
governor isn't his own water secretary, right for example, he
has people, there's people.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
The water secretary, by the way, makes seven hundred and
fifty thousand dollars a year and they're in charge of
water and power. And what happened in La there was
no water and there was no power.
Speaker 7 (10:00):
They don't didn't earn their money. But there is a
whole bunch of people around. But this comes back, well,
that's to be my point, is I get it right?
Gavin Newsom's not going out and inspecting everything. That's why
you have people. They go out and they do this,
they go out and they do that. But there is
the old the buck stops here. Things if you're not
overseeing your people. And I'm not saying he is or
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he isn't, but I'm just saying somebody's got to be
looking down and saying, did you check that reservoir? Hey did?
This is Joe doing his job as Fred. That's where
their leadership comes in.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
If they're competent. First of all, you're absolutely right, that's
the buck does stop there. But more than that, you
have to hire competent people to begin with. And they
weren't competent. They were political. They were political hires. And
this is what hacks were hacks. They were more than hacks,
they were woke DEI hacks. And that's the problem. You
had people who were not qualified in the jobs, and
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so they had no hope of getting the job done.
And so yes, the buck stops here, but more than that,
it's more than just the fact. It's that he deliberately
hired people that couldn't do the job to begin with.
And as a result, you have, you know, over two
dozen people dead, you have thousands of buildings burned, you
have I'm not sure Southern California will ever recover. And meanwhile,
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Karen bass is being she's the mayor of La who
was in Ghana on a vacation on a junket. Happened
she was, and it's so bad that here's the owner
of the La Times, doctor Patrick sun chiongh who endorsed
Karen Bass from mayor because she checked the boxes for them,
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and they've just realized now what a mistake that was.
Cut twenty two.
Speaker 8 (11:37):
I feel like some of the you know that you
don't there's only so much you can do during the crisis.
But I sort of, at least from from out here
on the East Coast, have seen more people in the
LA community that probably were very supportive of Gavin Newsom
and Karen Bass in the past openly be critical of
both of the two. Where is that line? Where's that
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line right now in the middle of a crisis and
how much are they holding them accountable?
Speaker 12 (12:06):
Well, first of all, really accept Pamblain right, So at
the early times we endorscar and Bass. I think right
now in front that's a mistake and we admit that.
So I thought it was very early important early on
for me to come out and I think we were
one of the few to say competence matters. Goodlie, But
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maybe twenty twenty three million views to show how that
was really due to the heart of most people, whether
you right or left.
Speaker 7 (12:37):
Good for him, competence matters, really good for him.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
Wow, Well, good for him to put it out there
because they haven't done it, you know. And that to
me was like, okay, so maybe there's hope for them.
Speaker 7 (12:47):
A lot of people endorse candidates for a lot of offices,
but between newspapers and television stations and radio hosts and
celebrities and everybody, here's I will give this guy credit
because he's saying, look, we endorsed her, but that was
a mistake. A lot of people don't like to admit
their mistakes, which is where we've gotten over the years
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where even when they endorse people and then they do
something wrong, they try to defend what the person did,
no matter what right, as opposed to saying, hey, we
got this something wrong. I mean, and you can fix mistakes.
I mean, not right away, but down the road. Will
they endorse her again? I doubt it, So you have to.
Speaker 1 (13:25):
I think they're gonna endorse her.
Speaker 7 (13:26):
Recall vote if you voted, and I'm not going I'll
pick anybody, right, If you voted for Biden and he's failing,
you got to say, well, he's failing, not well, somebody
else's fault. And if you listen, if Donald Trump, if
you're a Donald Trump supporter and Donald Trump does something
egregiously horrible, you can't defend it. You gotta say, well,
we screwed up on that one. So I mean, I'm
just picking those two because they their high profile. But
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this could be the mayor of Los Angeles or the
mayor of Nowheresville. Look, hold the feet to the fire
of the people, no pun intended. Hold the feet to
the fire of the people who deserve to have it.
Don't defend Joe Biden. Don't defend them for the mistakes
they make. Hold them, hold them accountable for the mistakes
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they make. Even if you don't kick them out office,
make sure they don't make those mistakes again. And if
they do, you push them right down the hill. By
the way, all these homes that were destroyed in LA
and yeah, I'm being tongue in cheek here, those homes
were just in the wrong place. I mean, if you've
built those houses in vasicaybe.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
I We'll just call you, you know, miss Larsen.
Speaker 7 (14:28):
Well, I just look, just realistically, if you built those
houses in Vancouver, they'd be fine.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
That's true. That's a really good point. So meanwhile, while
the while the leaders, they were playing the blame game,
and the La Times is passing up to a big
mistake they made. It looks like, you know, everything else
is out of control. The fires out of control, looterers
are out of control. It got so bad in La that,
according to the La County Sheriff, the looterers are dressing
up as firemen and breaking into homes. Cut fourteen.
Speaker 13 (14:55):
When I was out there in the Malibu area, I
saw a gentleman I looked like a firefighter, and I
asked him if he was okay, because he was sitting down.
I didn't realize we had him in handcuffs. We were
turning him over to lapd because he was dressed like
a fireman and he was not. He just got caught
burglarizing a home.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
You are right, I'm sorry for the goffa in the
middle of that, But seriously, doesn't that just I mean,
you're like, oh my god, that's too funny. Hey, how
you doing? Can I get you some Oh?
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Sorry?
Speaker 7 (15:23):
Sorry, yeah, part of this, of course, looting people who
loot should be thrown right off a cliff. Period. But
it doesn't matter if it's in a fire or in
a hurricane situation or whatever. However, I gotta give this
looter some props. He didn't just walk in and loot.
He went through the trouble of dressing up like a firefighter.
And so I mean, you gotta give the guy a
little bit of credit for creativity, for creativity because a
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lot of these people you see the videos, we've all
seen them, people just running into buildings and then running
down the street with a television, just dressed in the
tank top and shorts. This guy at least puts some
effort in. So give him half credit, even though he's
still had a dingle.
Speaker 1 (16:00):
But so while you might be asking yourself to what
is the outgoing administration doing with this horrific, you know,
disaster in California, Well, according to a President Biden, the
government's going to give everybody seven hundred and seventy dollars
cut nine.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
We're not waiting until those fires are over to start
helping the victims. We're getting the help right now. As
you all know, people impacted by these fires who are
going to receive one time payment of seven hundred and
seventy dollars one time payment so they can quickly purchase
things like water baby format and prescriptions. So far, nearly
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six thousand survivors have registered to do just that, and
five one million dollars has gone out.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Yeah, that's going to get you through two days.
Speaker 7 (16:46):
This is like the hurricane people who well.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Llahina remember in Lahina. I remember they said to Biden
and Lahina, take your seven hundred and seventy bucks and
get the bleep back on the train, on the on
the plane. But that's not all. This is Kamala Harris
delivering a message to the California wildfire victims cut ten
and so.
Speaker 14 (17:03):
It's critically important that to the extent you can find
anything that gives you an ability to be patient in
this extremely dangerous and unprecedented crisis.
Speaker 1 (17:18):
That you do be patient. It's time you ably be patient.
This is a toothless administration overseeing a absolutely incompetent California
state administration. So the people in California are believed that's
all there is to it. I feel badly for them to.
Speaker 7 (17:36):
Know if you'd voted for Kamala Harris and she became president,
you'd get that for four more years.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
It's true, It's very true.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
So but meanwhile, instead of paying attention to the destruction
of California, the Democrats have been very focused on Donald
Trump's cabinet nominations, and there have been some really bizarre
exchanges during these nominations up on Capitol Hill. This first one,
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this one is Senator Tammy Duckworth, who went off the
deep end during Pete Hegsath's confirmation hearing for Secretary of
Defense cut one hundred.
Speaker 4 (18:17):
Have you led an audit of any organization?
Speaker 15 (18:19):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Or no? I don't want a long answer. Yes or no?
Have you led an audit of any organization of which
you were in charge?
Speaker 7 (18:25):
Senator?
Speaker 5 (18:26):
In both of the organizations Iran, we were always completely
fiscally response yes or no, Yes or no, completely miscar off.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
You can't answer this question, yes or no. Did you
lead an audit?
Speaker 5 (18:39):
Do you not know this answer, Senator, Yes, my leaderships
for an organization?
Speaker 4 (18:44):
Yes or no?
Speaker 7 (18:45):
I would take that as a no.
Speaker 4 (18:46):
What were the findings? So there were no findings because
you've never led an audit. What guidance did you give
the auditors? None? Because you've never led an audit.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Is that supposed to be like the big thing for
Secretary Defense. You know, I looked up Secretary of Defense.
What the requirements were? You know what, there's one requirement.
Do you know what it is?
Speaker 7 (19:04):
Leading an audit?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Nope, that you'd be a civilian congratulation, that is it?
So I mean, but I mean, seriously, she sounds like
she's questioning. I mean, when did you stop having sex
with that child? And she's talking about a freaking audit?
Speaker 7 (19:16):
What is that?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Don't she doesn't he have accountants to deal with leading
an audit? What would that? Seriously, do you think that
that General Austin led his own audits? Do you think
that Donald Ramsfeld led his own audits? You've got to
be a nut. I mean, what the hell's wrong with her?
Then we have Mazie Herono. She asked hag Seth if
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he would comply with an order such as Trump gave
Secretary of Defense esper to shoot protesters. The answer is priceless.
Cut one O three.
Speaker 15 (19:47):
As Secretary of Defense, you will swear an oath to
the Constitution and not an oath to any man, women,
or president.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
Correct senator.
Speaker 5 (19:56):
On multiple occasions, including as a young second lieutenant, I've
sworn an oath to the con and I'm proud to
do so, yes, ma'am.
Speaker 15 (20:02):
In June of twenty twenty, then President Trump directed former
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper to shoot protesters in the
legs in downtown d C. An order Secretary Esper refused
to comply with. Would you carry out such an order
from President Trump?
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Senator I was in the Washington, d C. National Guard
unit that was in Lafayette Square during those.
Speaker 15 (20:26):
Would you carry out to shoot protester in the legs?
Speaker 5 (20:30):
I saw direct service agents to get injured by riders
trying to jump over the fence, send church on fire
and destroyer.
Speaker 15 (20:38):
That sounds to me that you will comply with such
an order, you will shoot protesters in the leg He
was there.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
I mean, I don't think she expected the response.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
I was there.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
They were practiced, were injuring people. He was going to
do what he could do. He was going to take
an order to stop them.
Speaker 7 (20:54):
Those protesters were in the wrong place. Absolutely, that would
have been their fault.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
So they're trying for these at the moments they're not
necessarily getting them. This is Senator Alex Padilla asking Pam
Bondi what the fourteenth Amendment says. Listen to Bondie's reply,
seventeen b we met YESTERD.
Speaker 16 (21:09):
You pointed your finger at me for let me let
me answer my question.
Speaker 7 (21:14):
I'm not going to be bullied because the.
Speaker 11 (21:16):
Fourteenth Amendment of the United States of America, which was
deeply disappointing, I guess it today after I gave an
opportunity to study overnight. So can you tell me in
this committee what the citizenship caluse of the fourteenth Amendment?
Speaker 16 (21:30):
Says Senator. I'm here to answer your questions. I'm not
here to do your homework and study for you. If
I am confirmed, If you want asking for a confirmation,
will you.
Speaker 7 (21:40):
Cut me off?
Speaker 16 (21:41):
Can I please finish?
Speaker 11 (21:42):
What does a fourteenth Amendment say?
Speaker 16 (21:43):
Senator? Senator? The fourteenth Amendment we all know addresses birthright citizenship.
I have been a state prosecutor, I've been a state
ag I look forward to even given your remarks today,
working with you and the people of California if I
am confirmed as the eighty seventh Attorney General of the
United States of America. I didn't take your homework assignment.
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I'm sorry. I was preparing for today.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
She's feercene, so stick it. She was then we have
Marco Rubio. He was interrupted. He was interrupted. He had
a pretty low key confirmation.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
Everybody everybody else they do.
Speaker 1 (22:20):
They like Marco Rubio a lot. But he was interrupted
by some protesters. Cut twenty four.
Speaker 17 (22:25):
Democracy and Prosperity in these Regions.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Act Order.
Speaker 7 (22:50):
I like that little thank you for coming.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Thanks for coming with that. I appreciate that. So that,
so you know, that was about as exciting as Marco
Rubio's got. This was fun though. This was a Scott.
He's being questioned by Senator Bernie Sanders. This is regarding
this is aging Secretary of Treasury. If he agreed with
President Biden saying the US is headed toward an oligarchy,
his answer is great. Cut thirty seven.
Speaker 18 (23:14):
What Biden said last night is we're moving toward an oligarchy.
I'm asking you that question. Do you think, forget how
they made their money. Do you think that when so
few people have so much wealth and so much economic
and political power, that that is an Oligothic form of society?
Speaker 19 (23:29):
Well, I wouldn't note that they. President Biden gave the
Presidential Medal of Freedom to two people who I think
would qualify for his oligarchs.
Speaker 18 (23:40):
So this is not a condemnation of any one individual.
I'm just asking you when so few people have so
much wealth and power. But do you think that that
is an oligarchic form.
Speaker 19 (23:54):
Of society, Senator? I think it depends on they have
to move up and down the And.
Speaker 18 (24:02):
No, that's not really Dancer. I mean, even if you
had that mobility, no matter who those individuals might be.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
It's his answer. So, I mean, it's just Bernie didn't
like the fact that he got called out because Biden
just gave the Middle of Freedom to two oligarchs basically
after what he said. Now, what he was referring to
what Bernie Sanders was referring to is President Biden's farewell
speech Biden. President Biden gave one of the darkest freaking
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farewell speeches I have ever heard in my life or
have read about the United Oh my god. He so
he's saying goodbye, this is my last presentation to everybody,
and he wants to warn them. Cut six A.
Speaker 3 (24:42):
I want to warn the country some things that give
me great concern. This is a dangerous content and that's
the dangerous conversation of power in the hands. Were very
few ultrawealthy people the dangerous consequences if their abusive power
is left unchecked. Today, an oligarch is taking shape in
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America of extreme wealth, power and influence that literally threatens
our entire democracy. Are basic rights and freedoms and a
fair shot for everyone to get ahead.
Speaker 7 (25:15):
By the way, for those who aren't aware of what
was going on there, this is all you need to envision.
Take a gallon of gas, pour it on someone's head,
and then light it on fire. Because that's all he
was doing, is starting fires. And I get it, Like
he doesn't.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Don't you think, because he's just talking about oligarchs when
as as the previous cut showed giving medals of honor
to people who are our oligarchs. But you know, hey,
it's okay if he does it just like in this cut.
This is he's talking about Americans being buried under the
avalanche of misinformation and disinformation. Cut seven.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
Americans are being buried under an avalanche of misinformation and
disinformation enabling the abusive power. Free press is crumbling. There's
a disappearance social media is giving up on fact checking.
The truth is smothered by lies told for power and
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for profit. We must hold the social platform and accountable
to protect our children, our families, and a very democracy
from the abusive power.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Talk about abusive power, it was his administration, according to
Mark Zuckerberg, that leaned on Facebook to take stuff down
they didn't like. They're the ones that his administration is
doing exactly what he was warning the people about exactly that.
So apparently censorship is fine as long as he can
do it, but nobody else can do it well.
Speaker 7 (26:39):
My take on much of the speech was more less
saying goodbye, here's what we did good and let's keep
this country going strong role Rod, and good luck everybody.
It was more of a how many wedges can I
stick in here and divide the country on my way
out the door? Because again they he didn't write the
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speech obviously, so whoever wrote it and whatever group of
people wrote it for him, he said it, so it's
on him. But uh, let's we don't like the other side,
so let's let's put wedges in there so that for
the next four years we can have all kinds of
fires and all kinds of people pissed at all kinds
of other people, and then we can say need they're
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not We want to unite the country, my ass. You
want to divide the country, and you do it in
ways like this, because look, half the country didn't vote
for President Trump. Well a little less than half, but yeah,
So there are a lot of people out there who
if you tell them Donald Trump and his minions and
the magas and the right wing and the Republicans and
all the nominees, they're all coming to kill you and
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take away your rights and your freedom and stuff, they're
all gonna believe it. So we still are gonna have
for the next four years, regardless of how good Donald
Trump does or how bad Donald Trump does. But however,
doesn't matter. Half the country has gotten this this message
into their head because it's being delivered from the White House.
We're gonna have alli arks and everything's going to hell
and you're all gonna die. So yeah, I mean, that's
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what I got out of visit, that it was a
speech aimed at dividing the country more on his way
out the door.
Speaker 1 (28:12):
That's what he's done from day one. That's what he's
done from day one exactly.
Speaker 7 (28:15):
That's what I got from it, and I wished, I
wish he'd done a good look did everything the Biden
administration done terrible. No, I'm still standing here four years later.
Why don't you talk about that and how we could
keep the good going instead of we're all gonna die
and new socking eye, because that's not who he is.
I'm sorry.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
He's a mean, nasty piece of work. He's always been
a mean, nasty piece of work that puts on this
facade of being you know, uncle Joe. He's not. He
never has been. I worked with him when I was,
you know, fifteen years old on the hill as a
page and I'm telling you now, he was mean then
and he's mean now. But I think part of what
you saw is fury over what happened to him by
the Democratic Party. Yeah, and you know, being being forced
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out of the election, and also fear about his legacy.
I think that's a part of what's going on too.
And you saw that when he announced the tentative peace
deal in the Middle East. He came out and made
the announcement the same day as his farewell speech. Cut
one Bee, Good afternoon.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
It's a very good afternoon because long last I can
announce a ceasefire. The hostage deal has been reached between
Israel and a mass more than fifteen months of conflict.
It began with Hesbela's brutal massacre on October the seventh.
More than fifteen months of terror for the hostages, their families,
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the Israeli people, more than fifteen months of suffering by
the innocent people of Gaza. Fighting in Gaza will stop,
and soon the hostage will return home to their families.
Speaker 1 (29:52):
So that's good news if it happens. It's still on
the hooks. But Israel was voting as we were doing
this on passing that. But many people that this was
about a comment made by Donald Trump that got Hamas off.
It's asked to negotiate. This was a comment that Donald
Trump made a couple of weeks ago, actually a little
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over a week ago at the time of this taping,
regarding the Middle East. Cut five B.
Speaker 20 (30:20):
All hell will break out if those hostages aren't back.
I don't want to hurt your negotiation. If they're not
back by the time I get into office, all hell
will break out in the Middle East, and it will
not be good for Hamas, and it will not be good,
frankly for anyone. All hell will break out. I don't
have to say anymore, but that's what it is. And
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they should have given them back a long time. They
should have never taken they should have never been the
attack of October seventh. People forget that, but there was,
and many people are killed. They're no longer hostages.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
So he made that statement, which really told everybody what
the tone was going to be of his administration toward
Hamas when he comes in. And so many people credit
Donald Trump's stance and hardline coming into the new administration
for making the parties to the peace negotiations more appliable
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and therefore able to come to a deal with President
with President Biden. Now here's the thing. A reporter asked
President Biden if Trump was partially responsible for the peace deal,
and listen to his response, Cut five C.
Speaker 4 (31:30):
Looks credit for this, mister President.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
You or Troy?
Speaker 11 (31:34):
Is that a joke?
Speaker 3 (31:36):
Oh?
Speaker 18 (31:37):
Thank you?
Speaker 1 (31:39):
So no, he's not giving Trump any credit. But here's
the thing. Here is President Biden's State Department spokesman Matthew
Miller saying, yes, he does deserve it. Cut five A.
Speaker 21 (31:52):
When it comes to the involvement of President elect Trump's
team has been absolutely critical in getting this deal over
the line, and it's been critical because obviously, as I
stand here today, this administration's term in office will expire
in five days. And one of the things that we
have always said about this deal is that when you
get from stage one to stage two, that the United States, Egypt,
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and Cutter are the guaranteurs of this deal. And Egypt
and Cutter will push Hamas to stay at the bargaining
table and to get from stage one to stage two,
and the United States will push Israel to stay at
the bargaining table to get from phase one and phase two.
So obviously those are promises we cannot make on behalf
of the United States for any longer than the next
five days. And so it's critical that all of the
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parties to the agreement and the other mediators see that
when the United States is in the room making commitments,
those are lasting commitments that extend beyond this administration into
the next.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
World, makes sense, right, I mean, that's and Trump does
deserve credit for that, for the hardline coming in ye
And I.
Speaker 7 (32:54):
Know I'm not the only one who says this, but
you know, there is a little bit of a crossover
here between this and what happened after Jimmy Carter left office.
And Ronald Reagan took left office. Remember how fast the
hostages got released in Iran. It's a different situation, So
I don't want to compare them like, but.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Very similar, Yeah, because Ronald Reagan made a statement in
that fall that wouldn't Tehran make a nice parking lot?
So he had signaled that he was going to be
a much tougher stance coming in regarding the Iranian hostages,
where Jimmy Carter had been a much softer negotiator and
there had been a failed rescue attempt and so in
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the Iranians hated Jimmy Carter, so they were not going
to negotiate with Jimmy Carter. So they basically did the deal,
but held on to it until Ronald Reagan came in
office so that he would get the credit for it.
And that's what happened. And I think it's very parallel
to what you're seeing now.
Speaker 7 (33:48):
Yeah. I mean, you know, Israel and and Harmas who
were really the ones fighting. I mean, I know everybody
says God's were the Palestinians, but the Reagan file file
five year old. The Palestinian is not at war with Israel.
I get it. There's collateral. You know, this is deeper
than just saying people are at war. We've had wars
before and it's not exactly like this. This is a
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very localized thing in terms of the world. And yeah,
I mean it's Hamas against Israel with some you know,
regular Palestini is probably firing guns too, and I don't
know the whole dynamic what you're seeing.
Speaker 1 (34:22):
And the reason why President Biden was so snippy about
President Trump getting any credit for what's happening is that
he is desperate for a legacy, desperate for a legacy,
and it's abysmal. So a peace deal is a great legacy,
and so I think he's trying to claw his his
ownership of that because there's nothing really much else in
his administration that he can grab. So I think that's
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what we're seeing.
Speaker 7 (34:44):
Depending on what poll you're listening to, sixty five percent
of people disapprove of Biden at the end of his term.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
He's now a move saying should he really have a
presidential library? I mean so there, yeah, so basically.
Speaker 7 (34:55):
Maybe maybe a presidential comic book store. There you go.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
I like that.
Speaker 1 (34:59):
I like that so because it's probably our last show,
because when when this is going to air for the
first time, is on inauguration Day. This will be our last,
probably our last Bidenism unless he gets unless they let
him out and he says something that's really amusing away
for a while, but it's not going to be our
our common What we might do we talked about this
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last week is is truth or troll?
Speaker 7 (35:21):
Well we'll fight a Trump thing. Well, we'll have some
fun for you.
Speaker 1 (35:25):
Is being serious or is he screwing with us? I
think that's a really good segment that we probably will
do as we get into the Trump administration. But for
our last Bidenism, President Biden was asked by a reporter,
do you regret your decision to run for reelection and
do you think that made it easier for your predecessor
cut number two?
Speaker 7 (35:45):
President?
Speaker 5 (35:46):
Do you regret your decision to run for reelection?
Speaker 8 (35:49):
Do you think that that made it easier for your
predeces surch and now become very successful.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
I don't think so. I think I would have beaten Trump,
could have beaten Trump. I think that Kamala could have
beaten Trump. It would have beaten Trump. It wasn't about
I thought it was important to unify the party and
when the party was worried about whether or not I
was going to be able to move, I thought it.
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Even though I thought I could win again, I thought
it was better to unify the party. And it was
the greatest honor in my life to be President United States.
But I didn't want to be one who caused a
party that wasn't unified to lose an election. And that's
why I stepped aside. But I was confident she could win.
Speaker 1 (36:38):
Has somebody told him what happened on November fifth? Has
anybody told him who won the election? Because it doesn't
sound like it to me.
Speaker 7 (36:45):
You remember the stories. Once in a great while, you'd
have a story like twenty years later, they'd find some
Japanese soldier hold up in a forest and he didn't
know the war was over.
Speaker 1 (36:53):
Yeah, I love that. I love that analogy.
Speaker 7 (36:58):
Listen, Joe, Yeah, it's over what and.
Speaker 1 (37:01):
Guess what you lost?
Speaker 18 (37:04):
You know?
Speaker 1 (37:04):
Can you imagine telling that poor soldier you lost. By
the way, Japan lost big, Jamail is really big. So
it's like, you know, and Joe, you lost big, really
really bad.
Speaker 7 (37:13):
I think Kamala can win this. I still think they
can pull it out.
Speaker 1 (37:16):
Oh my god, Oh my good. So that's I thought
that was a great Bidenism to end the tradition with.
So that was our last Bidenism unless something really special
comes along that we and he gets in front of
a microphone before Jill can stop him.
Speaker 7 (37:29):
Well, I'm guessing if Kamala does win this election that
we'll hit from Biden again.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
I think that's true.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
I think that's very true.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
So let us know. I'd like to know what people
think of the idea of a segment called truth Ortrol.
I like it. Ben seems to like it. I want
to know if you guys like it too, because I
think that could take the place of our Bidenisms.
Speaker 4 (37:48):
We will.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
We'll let you know what the what the consensus is. Meanwhile,
check back with us next Monday to see what new
offerings we have. If you want to contact us, you
can get us on x at news Bye three or
on Facebook at Newsbite. Have a great week and a
happy Inauguration Day.
Speaker 7 (38:04):
I'm Nancy Shack, I'm Ben Parker.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
This is news Bite
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