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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load. So
Michael Very show is.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
On the air.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
I mean, Napoli would not tell you that our party
is in good shape today. I We are historically unpopular
and part of that is just, you know, people expressing
their frustration about Trump lawlessness.

Speaker 4 (00:24):
It is an honor, of course, to be with you
this week as we celebrate Indigenous People's Day, as we
speak truth about our nation's history. Since nineteen thirty four,
every October, the United States has recognized the voyage of
the European explorers who first landed on the shores of

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the Americas. But that is not the whole story. That
has never been the whole story.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
Those explorers ushered in a.

Speaker 4 (00:57):
Wave of devastation for tribal nations, perpetrating violence, stealing land,
and spreading disease. We must not shy away from this
shameful past.

Speaker 5 (01:10):
I'm going to pick up my daughter from water polo
practice and she's twelve, and she got in the car
and she was crying, and I said, did someone punch you?

Speaker 1 (01:17):
That waterpool is a rough sport.

Speaker 6 (01:19):
I was like, did someone hit you with the coach?

Speaker 7 (01:20):
Yell at you?

Speaker 1 (01:21):
What happened?

Speaker 5 (01:22):
And she said, Mom, Trump won, Trump's gonna win. And
what if I get raped and I need to have
an abortion. This is from a twelve year old, my
twelve year old daughter, and what was really a reminder
of how scary this time is for people.

Speaker 7 (01:37):
The allegation of it is alleging that a person is criminal,
somehow engaged in criminal acts merely because of their identity.

Speaker 8 (01:51):
And Maya Mamdani, We welcome Prime Minister to New York
City for the for whatever he comes for given the
US is not the signature to the IC said he
can't travel to the US UNI like a lot of
other countries with a maam, I'm doney, welcome into the city. No,
as mayor New York City would arrest Benjamin Yahoo.

Speaker 9 (02:08):
This is a city that our values are in line
with international law.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
It's time that our actions are also.

Speaker 10 (02:13):
No more subsidies for fosip fil industry, no more drilling
on federal lands, no more drilling including offshore, no ability
for the oil industry to continue to drill period ends.

Speaker 11 (02:23):
Such a consequential president of the United States, a Mount
Rushmore kind of president of the United States wants to
know what's next that he belongs up there on Mount Rushmore,
Lincoln and Joe Biden. But you've got Teddy Roosevelt up there,
and he's wonderful. I don't say take him down, but
he had a.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Biden Charlie Kirk's thirty second work day in the Presidential
Medal of Honor, the highest civilian honor that can be
bestowed and fittingly Charlie Kirk. You know, his widow through

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all of this has been such an inspiration, watching her,
watching her grieve, but watching her use this moment to
teach and really to pay the greatest tribute to Charlie Kirk,

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and that is to continue not just his legacy, but
the concept of teaching, of connecting, the concept that engaging
and interacting and discussing is healthy and good. These are
the bedrocks of our system. We believe in it. When

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people tell you there are things you can't talk about,
those are the very things you need to talk about.
When people tell you that it is inappropriate, or you
don't need to know about that subject, or it's hurtful
to people if you talk, those are the things that
need to be discussed. Those are the things that are incredibly,

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incredibly important for us to discuss you know, it's been
just over a month now since Charlie Kirk was assassinated,
and I must say what Charlie Kirk gave us in

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death was more than almost any human being could ever
give in life. I have watched people in my own life.
I've watched people that I've known, business owners, I've heard
from people. It has created what I think will be
a sustainable movement for honesty, openness, courage, offlessness, fearlessness, which

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is so very important. It is so important that people
who believe the way we do not cower in fear,
but hold firm to the truth, even even when that
truth is called racism or hate or privilege or whatever else.

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It is so easy when your motivations and intentions are
constantly impuned. It is so easy to simply give in
to anger and lash out, or to disengage from the
process altogether. But there is a nobility in standing firm

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against that store. And that's what we have to do.
And I see more and more people doing that. In
the second hour today, we will speak to a fellow
who has a very high position in a very big
national real estate company, and he is a student. He
was a student at Washington and Lee College. First it
was Washington College and Roberty Lee after Civil War went

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there to revive and resuscitate that university and they named
it Washington and Lee. And his book is called Uncanceled
Robert E.

Speaker 2 (06:20):
Lee.

Speaker 1 (06:21):
And I'm really inspired by this guy. We'll talk to
him in the second hour of the show today. Lots
to get to excited to be here at America great
again in Spanish.

Speaker 8 (06:28):
Almost Michael Berry, America grande, A kind of what a curse.

Speaker 1 (06:36):
Has been cast upon me? Ramone is out on vacation
and Jim MutD Our creative director, is filling in. And
I still have to listen to you too. I thought,
you know, well, with Ramone gone, at least I won't
have to listen to that dreaded you too. But here
we are, here, we are, so I speak for you

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know what, something called PTSD Foundation of America, and as
part of the program is a residential treatment, counseling living
facility in Houston, but we bring people in from all
over the country. And I was asking it involved in
that about twelve years ago, and at any given time,

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there between seventy and one hundred veterans who were suicidal,
who came into the programs. A six month program doesn't
cost them a penny. We raised the money for it,
and it's a pretty amazing thing. It's one of the
things I've been most proud of that we've done on
the show. It is. I didn't found the organization, I

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didn't start it. I don't work in it daily, but
we've brought a lot of people to the program, both
as donors of money and time, but also as residents.
We lose on average, twenty two veterans per day to suicide,
something really really wrong there, and they then go to

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the VA for help, and that help is typically pills.
And as you know, pharmaceuticals can sometimes have terrible side effects.
They can also create dependencies. They can also inflame other

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conditions or create other problems along with it. And so
you hear these stories and these guys they come in,
they're taking thirty pills a day or more all through
the VA because they're taking a pill for the depression
that's causing this problem. And so in order to deal
with that problem, they have to have pill to deal

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with this. And then you have to have pill to
deal with that, and so before you know it, they're
in a fog. They're messed up, and usually they have
attempted suicide already almost every resident. For the first time
ever a few months ago, I'm at a resident who
was not an addict. They're almost always addicts because they've

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self medicated. They've lost their relationship with their wife or
their girlfriend, often astranged from their parents, cannot hold a job.
Sometimes they've been living under a bridge. You know, our
veterans des are more's. That's just that you can find.
It's called Camp Hope. It's part of the PTSD Foundation

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of America. I have looked at their finances. My friend
Russell Lebara is on the board. I was asked to
help them twelve years ago when the head of the
Houston Police Officers Union, Ray Hunt, asked me to just
go out and visit. And I said I'd give them
thirty minutes and then that'd be it. And four hours
later I had to rush back to get on the air.
You know, tears in my eyes as I left. For

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how these guys' lives had been affected by war and
what a struggle. You know, I don't wake up with nightmares.
I don't have have these issues, and these guys do.
And so I committed to do everything I could to
help them. But one of the things that I've been
so proud of is how many of our listeners you

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have stepped up to help them. And Russell Lebara in
Houston owns over twenty restaurants. They're called Gringos and it's
a tex mex restaurant text mex Is King in Houston.
It's it's it's on every corner and he's just succeeded
beyond any any imagination. But he has a dish on

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the on the menu called the Plateau Soldado, and the
Plato Soldado is the soldier plate is a two dollars
donation for everyone who orders it, a two dollars donation
to Camp Hope. And you think, well, how much is that?
In just a few years, it's added up to be

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over one point nine million dollars. It will soon cross
the two million dollar mark. Just by saying, hey, we're
gonna have this one dish that if people want that
will make a two dollars donation over to Camp Hope.
And it's added up to almost be two million dollars.
Another of my show sponsors in Houston is called Federal

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American Grill and the owner has has a heart for
veterans and he's always been there to do things for
the veterans every time we've ever needed it. And Federal
American Grill is a restaurant with about five locations now
and he's grown really fast over now. He's a workaholic.

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It's a great concept, great food. It's kind of it's
fine dining without being fussy. That makes sense. You can
go in there casually, but they also have they have
a very accessible menu. You don't feel like you have to,
you know, put your pinky out when you eat. And
he has a burger that they call the Freedom Burger,
and it's an amazing burger. It's a gourmet burger. This

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isn't you know, your fast food burger. It's a gourmet
burger that is an experience. And I don't remember if
it's a dollar or two per burger. But they donate
for every burger that is ordered and it says it
on the menu. They donate to Camp Hope. And today
David Maulsby, the director of Camp Hope, called me as

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he was leaving Federal American Girl to say, I just
picked up our quarterly check. They like to pay their
they like to do their check quarterly, and I don't
know how much it was. I didn't get a chance
to ask him because he was just so happy about
how these people dedicate their lives to this. It's a
dollar here and two dollars there. And so I told

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you I was touring Texas Tech with my youngest son, Crockett,
who was a senior in high school. And because we
were with a huge donor who's who's a really big
deal at Texas Tech named Gary Peterson, we got access
into the locker room and we hung out with the
team and we got a really we had a really
fun experience for the day. It was just an incredible
bucket list type thing you could never hold for a

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trip like this. It's a once in a lifetime. And
Patrick Mahomes is very involved with Texas Tech Athletics. Obviously
he went there and there is a Patrick Mahomes walk
through Center, which is you know, digital stuff. They can
set up defenses and see what the defense is going
to look like and react to it and at top

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of the line stuff. But one of the things I
thought was really cool is that Mahomes apparently in his
last contract the Texas Tech folks told me this as
part of his contract, one dollar from every pair of
Adidas shoes. And I don't know if it's the Patrick
Mahomes shoe or if all Adidas shoes don't. I don't know,
but either way, one dollar from every sale of shoe

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goes to Texas Tech Athletics because that's very important to him.
That's that's where he devotes a lot of his energy.
And I thought to myself, you know, we think the
way you prepare for retirement, you know, save up enough
for retirement, invest enough for retirement. A lot of people think, well,
they're toward the end, I'll just put all my money,

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and that's not how it works. It's a little bit,
over a long period of time, a little bit. That's
how you lose weight. You know, people think, oh, I'll
never let I need to lose two hundred pounds, Okay,
I'll never do that. Well, not overnight, you won't. You're
gonna have to do it. You're gonna have to start,
and then you'll lose in you know that those first
couple of weeks it will come off, but then in

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time there will be a week where a third of
a pound is dropped we'll just add that up. Before
you know it, it adds up. It's a little bit
at a time, a little bit at a time. That's
today's life. Lessen, spit, we hit the Michael Berry.

Speaker 2 (14:40):
Nobody's gonna spit on our police office.

Speaker 12 (14:42):
Is nobody's gonna spit.

Speaker 1 (14:46):
President Trump welcomed Argentina's president to the White House today.
What that man has done in such a short period
of time, flying to Israel, meeting with Israeli leaders, speaking
to the Kanessan, speaking to the press multiple times, Flying
to Egypt, leading the world, getting the deal signed, more speeches,

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more press interaction, flying home. It really really is amazing.
He's twenty five years older than me, and I get
tired just reading his schedule. Well, if you want to
see what people are about, look at when something wonderful happens,
how they react. Christian amanpur at CNN, Well, here's what

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she had to say. Actually, I should probably step back
a second, and today it's going to be six to
oh one to Christian. I'm apur that she claimed that
the Israeli hostages were probably being treated better than the
average Gossen. Well, that is troubling on many levels, not
the least of which the Israeli hostages, some of them

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were killed. The story of one of them having to
dig his own grave and they take a picture of
him and it looks like a concentration camp victim. It is.
His arms are they can't be smaller. There's just bone
with some skin on it, and his face is drawn

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and his stomach is slightly distended. He's on the verge
of starving to death. And these hostages have come out
now and said, well, once Trump won the election, that
that Hamas wanted Kamala to win. And when Trump won
the election, they immediately started feeding them and treating them

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better because they knew Trump was coming and they knew
they needed to get these people into better shape because
they were going to have to do a deal. And
it asked those people who they wanted to be president.
We have to stop making decisions based on putting someone
in an office because they're black, or a woman, or

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a trainee or homo or liberal or whatever else. We
have to make good decisions for good public policy because
the consequences matter, the results are real. That's what you
do with your favorite football team. You wouldn't tolerate your

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favorite football team losing every game, year after year, which
is what bad liberal policies are. Losing games. You wouldn't allow,
You wouldn't tolerate, You wouldn't go back. You wouldn't support
a team that lost every game so that they could
have a midget at quarterback. That would be awesome, though
you wouldn't do that because that game matters to you. Well,

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our country matters, the world matters, and Kamala Harris is
a mental midget. You don't let her be president. Anyway.
Here's Chris John. I'm a poor now early life.

Speaker 13 (18:00):
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 Hammas 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. But I regret

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also saying that they might have been treated better than
many Gazans because Hamas used these hostages as pawns and
bargaining ships. 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 two long years. They've told me, is you just

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heard their stories of barely being able to breathe in
the tunnels, not being allowed to cry, being starved and
made to dig their own graves. And of course today
some of the hostages are coming back in body bags.

Speaker 1 (18:55):
And then we go back to the moment. You see
the likes of Sea want you to think that Obama
is very bright, very smart. These people are very smart.
Trump is very dumb. You're very dumb because you live
in the heartland. They're very smart because they live on
the two coasts. You're very common and simple and dumb

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because you're a breeder. You have a wife and kids,
and you mow your own lawn, and you have a
car you drive that's a gas engine. Well, they take
uber and live in big cities and live in an
apartment like you're supposed to on the sixty fifth floor
the upper West Side. They're better than you, you see,

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and you're not very smart, but they're very smart. And
you know that they're very smart people. And the guy
you voted for He's not very smart, but they're very smart.
CNN didn't think Trump understood the conflict. The man in
eight months brought peace to the Middle East. And you
remember this.

Speaker 14 (19:58):
The premise of this whole conversation was an expectation that
Donald Trump himself sat in the campaign, which is I'm
going to fix all of this. And a lot of
people believe that. It turns out even the Hamas terrorists
apparently who were holding hostages.

Speaker 1 (20:14):
Yeah, they wanted uh who terrorists? We're afraid of Trump? Yeah,
they wanted Kamana to be chosen.

Speaker 4 (20:22):
You talked to politics with them, Yeah, yeah, yeah, they
wanted Kamana to be elected.

Speaker 14 (20:28):
The war is definitely not over, and not all hostages
are out.

Speaker 15 (20:32):
Not all hostages are out. And again another thing that
Donald Trump said would end. But the rest of the
world is saying Donald Trump cannot be trusted on these issues.
Where America used to lead, there is American leadership here,
it's who do whatever you want? It's not how do
we end this? Where's an American president to try to
figure this out? Well, we just want Skaza emptied build it.

Speaker 14 (20:52):
Well, I think it's the same idea what we were
talking about with Ukraine is that he didn't understand why
it wasn't being done before he is there. Then he
got into office and realized, wow, this is really really hard.
And now he's turned his attention elsewhere.

Speaker 1 (21:06):
So that's what thanks the I don't want to call
it arrogance because it's a false arrogance, but let's call
it arrogance for now. This idea of a person thinking

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that they are so knowledgeable and thinking that Trump is
so stupid. These are the types of people for whom
where you went to the university is most important. These
are the types of people who think you're better if
you go to Harvard or Yale or Stanford, and that
you're lesser if you go to a state school in

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Middle America. You know, it's a really it's it's really
interesting to watch. And as long as they didn't have
any influence on what's going on in the world, it
would be fine. The problem is the naive neighbor still
believes these people are influential and important and of good

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judgment and discernment. But they're not. They are petty, very petty.
They're extremely petty people with a very clear, aggressive agenda.
And now They're in a situation where they're scared because

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the sins they have committed are going to be exposed,
and they know it. That's why Obama is now coming
out and talking. You see how drawn he looks. You
see how haggard he looks. He looks like a hunted man.
Because guess what, Trump and the Department of Justice know

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some of what Barack Obama has done, and he knows
that now, but only he knows all of what he's done.
So the frightening thing for him is wondering how much
more they will find out, because I feel certain that
if the doors are opened, if light is shown onto

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his misdeeds, I think that what those people have done
would be hard for most Americans to process. It would
be very difficult for most Americans to process. You're listening
to Altosino. There were folks on the left in media

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Democrat party who had the good sense to give Donald
Trump credit, because you look like a fool if you don't.
And because they did give him credit, I'm now going
to give them credit because that's that's the right thing
to do. Here was former Obama CIA director Leon Panetta

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on CNN.

Speaker 16 (24:07):
This is achievement and It is a seccifican achievement would
not have happened without the United States leadership. President Trump
deserves a lot of credit for bringing the parties together.

Speaker 1 (24:20):
A c Span caller, self described as a New York Democrat,
was moved to tears over Trump's peacemaking between Israel and hamas.

Speaker 9 (24:31):
Democrat, good morning, what do you think of the speech?

Speaker 6 (24:34):
Yes, Hi, that was an't going to get choked up,
A momentous speech. And I'm a conservative Democrat living here
in New York where this example of bringing peace to
everyone could be thought of in New York City, where

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out of ignorance, the people.

Speaker 2 (24:59):
Are about f left.

Speaker 6 (25:00):
A guy who's pro terrorist, pro Hamas, who's friends with
his people in Uganda, a country that executes, lawfully executes
people for being gay, and there should be a wake
up call to everyone. The people can live together. I
go back. I worked a young man for Humphrey and

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for McGovern and became more conservative as i'd gotten older, But.

Speaker 2 (25:32):
This was this was like the best. You know, he
does it in his own style.

Speaker 6 (25:38):
We actually lived pretty close to where he grew up.
And you know, New Yorkers like Bernie Sanders are sort
of different, they're funny, they're abrasive.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
Sometimes, but there should be a lesson to all of
us that we can all live together. I think the
future if the guys and.

Speaker 6 (26:00):
Really accept the goodness and the money that's going to
come from the Arab community and from the world community,
it can be a different world. And I'm sorry for
being so emotional, but it's a great moment in history everyone,
and we have to reject Hake. We have to reject

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and keep her. We have to reject men, daddy, and
we have to come together as human beings.

Speaker 2 (26:28):
I'm an old guy, life for short and we should
look a good one, all right, Thank you?

Speaker 1 (26:38):
Credit where it's dude. James Longman on ABC News.

Speaker 9 (26:43):
I think today what I've been mostly struck by is
Donald Trump's sheer force of personality.

Speaker 1 (26:47):
There are not many men, not many.

Speaker 9 (26:49):
Leaders, who can walk into the Kinesset in Israel to
such rapturous applause, such a warm welcome, to clearly know
so many members of the Israeli leadership, so personally he's
been in the weeds on this and then less than
an hour, Elita appear in a room of world leaders,
Arab and Muslim leaders and have the same kind of
warm welcome. It really is his force of nature which

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has managed.

Speaker 1 (27:11):
To make this happen.

Speaker 9 (27:12):
I mean, I was struck that he was standing on
that stage here in Charmalchet welcoming world leader of the
world leader, many of whom he's had his disagreements with,
as we know. And it wasn't President Ceci of Egypt
doing that.

Speaker 1 (27:24):
It was him.

Speaker 9 (27:25):
He is front and center here, his force of will.
He has said what he wants to happen. He's laid
out this twenty point plan. The objectives are very clear,
and of course the big question is how we get there.

Speaker 1 (27:40):
Sheer force of his personality. Shabbaz Sharif, the Prime Minister
of Pakistan, said he'd like to nominate President Trump for
the Nobel Peace Prize.

Speaker 12 (27:51):
One of the greatest day in contemporary history because FECE
has been achieved after untiring efforts, efforts led by President Trump,
who is genuinely a man of peace, who has relentlessly

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and untiringly worked throughout these months, day in and day out,
to make this world a place to live with peace
and prosperity. I would say that Pakistan had nominated President

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Donald Trump for Nobel Peace Pride for his outstanding extraordinary
contributions to first stop war between India and Pakistan and
then achieved cease fire along with his very wonderful team.

Speaker 17 (29:08):
And today again I would like.

Speaker 12 (29:12):
To nominate this great president for Noel Peace Prize.

Speaker 17 (29:21):
Because I genuinely feel.

Speaker 12 (29:24):
That he's the most.

Speaker 1 (29:28):
Genuine and most.

Speaker 17 (29:31):
Wonderful candidate for Peace Prize, because he has brought not
only peace in South Asia, saved millions of people their
lives and today here in Sherman's Share.

Speaker 12 (29:50):
Achieving peace in GRAZA is saving millions of lies.

Speaker 1 (29:56):
In the Middle East. Sam Harris, who is known for
saying really stupid things, had this to say. Trump got
a deal done, and that's something.

Speaker 11 (30:08):
I don't believe you believe would have happened under a
president Harris.

Speaker 18 (30:12):
It pains me someonet to admit this, but yes, he's
certainly been good for the Middle East and for Israel
in a way that I don't think there was any
reason to expect Harris to be good, and Biden certainly
wasn't good. Apart from the first few weeks after October seventh,
or maybe a couple of months after October seventh.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
I wish he hadn't put the qualifier at the beginning.
It pains me to say this. If you care about results,
see the problem with people who are around the process
of politics and media at that level of wealth and
influence is that they lose touch with real people. You know,

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real people live in trailers, maybe a trailer or the
front door where there's no lock on the door. The
lock is broke, and they can't get the landlord to
change it because landlord doesn't want to put any money
into this place. Real people have to walk back and
forth to work in a neighborhood where gunfire is ripping off.

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Real people live in these ways. And if Donald Trump
says I want to solve that, I want to fix that,
and your immediate reaction is, oh God, don't let him
do that. He'll get credit for it. Why do you care?
Where is your concern? Where is your sense of humanity?
Are you even actually alive? Are you even an actual

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human being? At that point when that's all you can think.
But then to his credit, to his credit, he says
he's been better than Trump wasn't Biden wasn't good, and
he's been better than Kamala would have been, both of
which are true. But just because it's true doesn't mean
the left will will we'll always say it. In fact,

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typically they won't, So I will give I will give
Sam Harris to credit. He did say it, and he
admitted it pained him, and and and so doing he
revealed something about himself. It's not about good policies for
real people, it's about our side and your side. That's
that's the way these people think.

Speaker 2 (32:31):
H