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speaker has indicated that we're going
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to vote today i expect to vote today and
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i expect that the bill will pass today
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so that was hacking jeffrey saying we're
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going to have a vote today and a lot of
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people were saying the same thing
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yesterday so i don't know how much stock
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to put in it but that doesn't mean that
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there weren't big developments today
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we're gonna run through several um
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including that biden was going to meet
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with a bunch of the democrats not just
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mansion and cinema so that was novel i
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thought acknowledging that there are
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other elected democrats in the country
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and uh that has since happened actually
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and so we have some
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uh information on things that biden said
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additionally things that were said
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behind closed doors so i'm gonna read
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some of the things that were broached
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during that conversation including
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biden saying it doesn't matter whether
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it's in six minutes six days or six
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weeks we're going to get it done
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bear in mind they're the democrats so he
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should have also thrown in six years 60
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years something like that but um
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he says
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even a smaller bill can make historic
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investments
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so that's where it gets into sort of
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scary territory he definitely doubled
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down on the strategy saying we're not
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going to do the bipartisan bill until we
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get the reconciliation bill
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but he implied that it could be
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significantly smaller and he apparently
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said that his top line range is now 1.9
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trillion to 2.3 trillion
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other dems are alleged to be aiming for
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about 2.1 trillion manchester is
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apparently holding strong at 1.5
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so
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somewhere between 1.5 and 2.1
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is where surrender is taking us
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seemingly bear in mind of course we had
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3.5 at one point that was a compromise
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from 6 from 10
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and none of this is actually just this
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is the price tag to save our planet this
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is just what they thought might be
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reasonable and we're rapidly discovering
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that even that was some sort of leftist
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fantasy i suppose okay so a couple
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things first of all hakeem jeffries was
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wrong it's not going to be held today
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when the president says it could be six
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weeks
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or yeah and as john pointed out it well
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look it can't be six months otherwise
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they'll lose momentum but when the
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president says it can be six weeks it
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ain't today okay so let's just put that
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aside so now uh i'd also like to note
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that uh remember when all the pundits
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were going nuts about uh this so-called
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compromise that pelosi came up with that
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they were going to vote on september
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27th which was of course monday the
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monday that already passed this week and
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they were like she led the display she
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landed the play we have this compromise
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and we told you guys
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ain't no plane let alone landed right
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they
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they haven't passed anything yet and
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just because you say you're going to
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vote on a certain day doesn't mean we
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know what you're going to vote on and
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whether it's going to pass so uh the the
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key was are they actually going to vote
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on that three and a half trillion dollar
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uh bill and is it really three and a
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half trillion dollars so as we told you
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here on the young turks uh no they they
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um
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did not get it done on monday they
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didn't get it done today didn't get done
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at all uh this week because it was
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unrealistic it was never realistic and
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we said it on the day that they
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announced it and everybody else was
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celebrating like it was already done
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right now i i tell you all that because
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again as always you got to see if we
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have credibility or not so
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now uh another reporter ben siegel
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saying the number is is very similar to
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what john said between 1.9 and 2.2
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trillion now if you're watching young
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turks every day you remember the number
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i've been telling you the whole time
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i said it was probably going to come in
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at a 2.1 trillion dollars
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it looks like we're headed to exactly
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2.1 trillion dollars okay because they
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were never going to give us three and a
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half of course they were never gonna by
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the way does that mean that if we don't
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get three and a half look i'm not a
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legislator the legislators publicly
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should be saying three and a half and
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not a dollar less okay uh now as a as a
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news host let me tell you we ain't gonna
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get three and a half uh and so that's
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always been the case i don't want to
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talk about it publicly too much so the
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question was always how much are we
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going to get if anything at all but nina
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as i could turn to you i think it now it
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appears clear that we're going to get
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something like that was always in
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jeopardy it's not a hundred percent at
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this point but they called it build back
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better
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this act and they're not gonna call it
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that if biden isn't going to absolutely
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positively insist and it looks like he's
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saying no we're not going to agree with
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the moderates to vote immediately we're
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going to agree with the progressives to
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vote later but we're not going to give
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the progressives three and a half
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trillion that's what it looks like it's
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headed what do you think
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yeah i mean later for less
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jesus christ i mean leave it to the
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democrats to negotiate down they are in
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control so if they want 3.5 trillion and
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again over the next 10 years too
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the american people are so much better
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than this i am disappointed look your
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predictions are right
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um
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your your your contention that there are
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things going on inside obviously that we
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do not know
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but jesus mary and joseph why can't we
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have the 3.5 why can't the people on
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main street and in neighborhoods all
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across this country have the 3.5
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trillion dollars i didn't see them um
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lessening the amount that they that they
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just voted on in a bipartisan way to put
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more money in the in the pentagon budget
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what is the problem
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when it comes to doing what is right
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necessary just for the american people i
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just don't get it i'm disappointed
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really
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yeah i'm not surprised but i'm
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disappointed yeah so
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of course nina's right about the
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disappointment because the devil's in
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the details john what are they going to
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take out right because like if you say
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okay well 3.5 2.1
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uh
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but
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we took out all the climate change
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legislation well
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then it's not really a compromise it's
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that portion is a surrender right and so
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man is the devil in the details yeah and
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and on the other side as well how
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whatever little crumbs they have
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remaining how are they gonna pay for it
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because
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you know the people who are functionally
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the president at this point they're not
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okay with any of the forms of payment
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they
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they said maybe we can get back a little
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bit of what was uh taken away on the top
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marginal tax rate the corporate tax rate
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and that has gone down almost nothing um
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so oh carbon tax we'll do the carbon tax
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no next day can't do the carbon tax i
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have no idea how or if at all they're
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going to raise any money um and you can
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tell me all you want about the
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spreadsheets that cinema has
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uh it's not it's on a complicated
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spreadsheet she doesn't want taxes to be
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raised that's it i do not believe she
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cares at all what actually is funded
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with this she cares what is not done
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which is taxing uh the people that are
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actually funding her and actually oddly
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enough
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it isn't just her you know record on
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taxes and things like that that should
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scare her or scare us or her recent
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statements or even that a few days ago
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she had a fundraiser with wealthy
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lobbyists during all of these
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negotiations she's also gone
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they're still doing these negotiations
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she left dc
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uh in no small part to do more
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fundraising so she left her spokesperson
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said she had a medical appointment for a
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foot injury
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she's a senator she could reschedule it
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she could have a doctor's appointment in
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dc if she wanted to that is not the only
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thing she's going home for
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on saturday she's scheduled to attend
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her political action committee's retreat
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with donors high-end resort and spa
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phoenix according to three different
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sources uh the hotel confirmed the event
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which kicks off with a cocktail
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reception at 5 30 p.m uh followed by a
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dinner
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they're doing this little retreat
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and that's going to be fun for her and
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she's gonna raise a bunch of money i
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don't know how many of her
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um ailing suffering constituents will be
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invited i don't know how many regular
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people of phoenix or arizona will be
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invited there but the people that she
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truly cares about will be and they'll be
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writing more checks for her and let's
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bear in mind
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that while we're right now uh jank and
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me and nina we're responding to what
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biden is saying and um how they're
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they're trying to reconfigure things to
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make them work uh she's also gonna be
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talking about to those lobbyists
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tomorrow they're going to be paying
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attention to what biden is saying right
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now and they're going to be they're
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never going to be satisfied they're
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going to continue to fight you cannot
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placate her she will always want more as
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long as our country is in the horrible
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position where she actually has any
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influence and so god only knows what
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she's going to be saying next week after
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she gets her renewed marching orders
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from the people that are going to be at
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this retreat
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yeah and so
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look uh i don't know if that spa has
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important foot massages or something
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that
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cure her ailing feet uh but it reminds
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me of the john danforth excuse which is
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my favorite political excuse of all time
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he was u.n ambassador for george w bush
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and
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and he hated bush's policies so much
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even though he was a right-wing senator
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for a long time he thought bush was a
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bridge too far god knows what he thinks
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of trump anyway uh he was so frustrated
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with bush he said oh my wife twisted her
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ankle i got to go take care of her i'm
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quitting i remember that
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so here we go again with another twisted
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ankle ah well and then as luck would
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have it my doctor's right next to my
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donors okay and so i had to go to that
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retreat which by the way sounds lovely
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um so i i love the idea that nina came
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up with just now um
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you guys want to do a compromise we do a
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compromise uh so instead of saying the
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compromise should be hey let's take out
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climate change or let's take out the
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improvements to medicare
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um why don't we say let's keep all those
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in
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and just take the whatever money that
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cinema and manchester want to save and
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take it out of the defense budget
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you guys want to compromise let's do it
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right and they say progressives aren't
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open to compromise you know we're open
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to it isn't it
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no yeah absolutely we are and
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you know what i i just wish uh cinema
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would just come on out and tell the
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truth she she doesn't give a damn about
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what the people need and what they have
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to say whether it's her state or across
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the country that is the real and i'm
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hoping that the voters of arizona are
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seeing right through this and that she
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is primaried
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she must be
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primary she cannot get away with just
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flaunting i mean she's just like when
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she did that vote and she put the thumbs
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down in a little curtsy uh a dance she
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did it's the same thing she's doing it
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right now but she's headed to a spa uh
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tomorrow yeah
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i mean
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we joke around about cocktail hour right
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and she's literally going to a cocktail
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reception where she's going to you know
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chow down on some hors d'oeuvres and
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then literally collect checks i mean so
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here i'll give you a
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comment from one of the
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the members that's quoting nina in a
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sense tommy twostrong wright said it's
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not about the numbers manchester said
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months ago that he was okay with what 4
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trillion dollars that's true we showed
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that to you on the show earlier this
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week it's about pleasing as owner donors
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hello somebody and stripping the fossil
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fuel legislation and stripping the
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medicare savings for cinemas owner
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donors that's exactly right as we're
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going to show you in a minute mansions
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uh got about 5 million dollars on the
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line on uh climate change issues
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personally
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about his own money uh cinema wants to
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kill any tax increases for corporations
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or her owner donors and wants to strip
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out anything that helps you with drug
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prices because drug companies are huge
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donors to her and finally we had the
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media beginning to just dip their toe in
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the pool of
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hey i wonder if this has something to do
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with their donors to which of course we
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all at dyt screamed in unison of course
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of course of course
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so there's two there's two other little
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aspects of this that i want to um read
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just to frustrate both of you um but to
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the director i'm actually we've got the
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screenshot coming up we're going to
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return to that i want to go to those two
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final graphics first because we're
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talking about donors here i just love
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this little detail that like
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cinema's former legislative director and
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senior policy advisor alissa
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marwah perhaps or maurice
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now lobbies on behalf of jpmorgan chase
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the bank has donated almost fifty
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thousand dollars to cinema's campaign
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and related packs and of course they
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don't want the corporate tax uh
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rate to be um raised
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this former aide of cinema was listed
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last year as vice president of federal
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government relations for the bank and
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the government relations manager for the
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company in its latest federal elections
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commission filing the job involves
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developing quote relationships with key
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policy makers like
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i we've got a lot of people watching
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and if we were to pull you all god only
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knows how many different jobs you have
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different skill sets you need to have
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ours are a weird job i think we can
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admit that but we at least have to know
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things and say things other people have
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far harder jobs
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she just knows cinema
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she worked with cinema now she works for
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jpmorgan chase and she can get cinema on
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the phone and deliver for jpmorgan chase
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what they want that's her whole thing so
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what cinema is doing is obviously sick
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and substantively worse as an individual
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that she's obstructing so much
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um you know necessary positive help to
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the working class but they're also
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surrounded by a bunch of other parasites
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and bottom feeders that are just there
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to eventually make easy money and in
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fact this former advisor a lot smarter
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than cinema cinema how to do a whole
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bunch more to get to the point where
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eventually she'll be hired by jp morgan
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or something like that some of her aides
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are already cashing in i would argue
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that they're better at this than she is
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well no let's but let's explain the
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ecosystem a little bit better because so
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john's right uh not only do you have
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that but her current chief of staff
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right now
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uh used to be a lobbyist for uh big
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pharma this drug companies okay
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so she's surrounded by lobbyists and
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it's a revolving door but remember the
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staff members uh get really good payouts
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they might make half a million a year
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etc when they leave and that's why they
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do what they do
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uh and but the senators are the big dogs
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and they join giant lobbying
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organizations which chris and cinema
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will almost certainly will do when she
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leaves office
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and they get several million dollars so
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this
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they get the campaign contributions are
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just the first part of the bribes then
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you get actual
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money that you can put in your pocket
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after you retire and meanwhile your
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staff is constantly
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going through that revolving door and
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cashing out and cashing out and by the
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way i i've always said to to legislators
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and other progressive allies
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the bill where you say that they can
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actually a real bill with teeth that
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says they cannot work as lobbyists in
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any way shape or form
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after they leave office or after the the
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staffers leave that's the last one that
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should pass because they will fight that
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with every fiber of their being in
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washington if you say hey that's this is
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not right
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i mean they might physically fight you
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like to them they're like how how would
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we even buy our mansions how would we
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pay for private school or houseboats in
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our yachts you guys are monsters no no
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no we have to do this they nina they
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find this perfectly normal that they
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would go and take money from banks drug
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companies oil companies etc and then
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they find it outrageous and and more
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than that you know
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the media helps them paint it is
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outrageous when we say they shouldn't do
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that should they
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and this is obscene and it just really
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you talk about the gilded age of the
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21st century here it is and it's right
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out in the open they're not even trying
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to keep it a secret so that is why you
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know any blue just won't do we do have
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to elect people who i do have the
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courage to stand up to these special
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interests and finally declare once and
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for all that the only special interest
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that they are going to answer to
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are the people that is why the model of
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raising money small dollar donation so
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you don't have to answer or depend on
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these people is vitally important to the
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vibrancy and the health of this
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representative democracy otherwise these
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folks are for sale they got the for sale
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sign they might as well stamp it on top
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of their forehead
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jake and john because they are for sale
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and the owner donors are running the
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place the oligarchs are running the
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place
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and the only way that we are going to
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change this type of behavior
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and is that we the collective we stop
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that stop accepting it that's number one
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and number two elect people to office
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who will go against the grain on this we
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need campaign finance reform and we need
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it yesterday that's why we sent up here
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dilly-dallying over 3.5 trillion dollars
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when it was supposed to be six and
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before that 10. yeah this is foolishness
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at the highest order but it is allowed
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once again it is allowed in the united
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states of america to bribe to pay off to
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bag to put the bag of money on the on
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the table
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yeah yeah uh and and look bernie sanders
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started this trend by saying i'm not
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going to take corporate pac money in
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2016 they raised a ton of money anyway
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from actual human beings at 27 at a time
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then just democrats made it a rule and
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now almost any progressive running for
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congress whether they're just democrat
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or not won't take corporate pac money
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and as aoc explained uh on on air a
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couple of days ago she said well when
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you're free from the lobbyist
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you just do what you want you can do
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what your voters actually want and and
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meanwhile guys remember republicans have
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no
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power democrats can pass anything they
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want
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just within the democratic party so we
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are not negotiating with republicans
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we're negotiating with democratic donors
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so that's the current situation i'll
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end it on a viewer comment because you
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