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president-elect Donald Trump's pick to
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lead the FBI's former National Security
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official Kos
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Patel that's a what a strange man he is
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Patel is a trump loyalist who's vowed to
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come after Trump's enemies including
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people in the media a number of
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highlevel Senate Republicans have
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already indicated their willingness to
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get behind the choice but others not so
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much that it's a real it's a real mix
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bag on this guy by the way he has to
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fire Chris Ray Who was appointed by
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Trump on to a 10-year term so Chris Ray
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shouldn't be out of office until
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2027 um it's alarming a lot of people um
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at the same time the Pete heg nomination
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is still raising big questions this New
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Yorker piece is a damning whistleblow
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report on his previous Behavior at
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running two organizations where he drank
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too much he Abused Women sexual
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harassment bunch of lying misspending
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mismanagement this story is quite has
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got it all by Jane Mayer um and it's
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it's based on well it's it's a it's a
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Dev stating very well reported piece
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about how bad a manager he was it may
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have been a bad period of his life but
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boy was it bad um The New York Times
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also had the 2018 email from hegs mother
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calling her son an abuser women that
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email was something else um she told the
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time she had written the messages in
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anger and had apologized for it but boy
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did it have a ring of Truth at the time
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I guess it was during the same time
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period um what do you think uh I thought
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the mother thing I was had mixed
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feelings on at the same the New Yorker P
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I do not it's really he's a bad bad bad
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manager and again he could be going
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through a difficult period but this as
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you recall John Tower the womanizing and
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the sexual and the drinking was a big
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issue and sort of scuttled his his um
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his nomination this guy's entirely
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unqualified for this job both of them
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are so what do you think about that I
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remember an era where you couldn't be on
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the Supreme Court if you'd been a
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Playboy bunny waitress at some point in
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your life yeah I mean you don't talk
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talk about how just a digression you
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know first off
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Patel he said that he wants to go after
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the former head of the CIA he says that
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he wants to prosecute and put in prison
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you know people who weren't supportive
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of trump he he's
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called and and at the same time he's
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found time to write kids books about
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Trump this is an odd this is an odd
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person and then director Ray is an
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outstanding individual this is a this is
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someone I I I I am so impressed by this
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guy every time he gets in front of
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Congress it's one of those rare moments
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where you can't tell if he's a
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Republican or he's a Democrat he's just
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trying to do his goddamn job and by the
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way in my opinion reflected well on
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Trump and everyone in those panels they
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actually have a productive session
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because they realize this guy is loyal
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to the flag first and
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foremost and the other thing that's so
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dangerous my no okay so I'll go to heg
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Seth as a mother and as the son of a
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single mother
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I read that letter and I found it deeply
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rattling one I was sad and I didn't know
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how comfortable I felt about it being
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made
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public a letter a communication an
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emotional letter between a mother and a
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son I do feel like it should be
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confidential but the fact that it's out
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and the fact that a mother felt
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compelled to write that to her son me
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too I Jesus Christ did it have a ring of
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Truth it absolutely did it was
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beautifully written it was also
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beautifully written by the way it wasn't
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emotional it actually was my son sucks
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right I can't imagine right me to say
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this right it rattled me beyond belief I
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thought I would write that letter if my
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son behaved like that but I would feel
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sick to my [ __ ] stomach for doing it
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but I would if my son behaved like this
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I can't imagine getting that letter from
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my mother I just I can't imagine like it
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would just it would devastate me so much
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that it would just I I I can't imagine
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writing it I can't imagine reading it
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and you know uh like Peter hagath by the
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way an outstanding Soldier deserves the
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bronze Stars he was given he should not
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be in the running for this position did
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you read the New Yorker piece it was
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disturbing onel the ending is really
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chilling and and the attempts to try to
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attack the PE there's like dozens of
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people making these these allegations
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not like and they're all conservative
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every one of them and you know this
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they're trying to like say this person
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had created fake rape allegations one
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this woman who accused him of raping her
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and then of course the reporter went to
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the to the to the police and they said
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no absolutely not she has not like they
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lie about the people they're so
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aggressive still it's disturbing that
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they're trying to shut down a dozen
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people who are who who by the way are
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not Democrats these are Republicans
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making these allegations very
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conservative Republicans he sounds like
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a drunk and should get some help by the
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way he sounds like a sexual harasser of
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women when he is drunk he's falling down
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drunk and all the rich people got him
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out of his jobs they fired him they
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fired this guy as as as good a career he
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had in the military they saw the need to
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fire him now he may have come back from
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Iraq with all kinds of troubles and he
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drowned them in alcohol he should get
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some help and he behaved incredibly
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badly and to to and he's incompetent at
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running he couldn't run a small
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organization he cannot run and make
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decisions about nuclear war for us I'm
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sorry and the mother thing at first when
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I read the two in combination it's
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devastating just devastating he's
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incompetent what's so disappointing is
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it appears to me that Trump and his
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advisers have decided we need to be
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adults and have a certain screen a
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pretty fine screen around people in
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senior appointments that impact the
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economy and yet they seem to have thrown
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in the towel on issues related to our
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military or defense or security
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apparatus I feel like the most
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frightening potential nominee right now
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is representative gabard yeah I I cannot
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believe that you are going to send a
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message there are agents there are CIA
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officers who have spent their entire
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lives and have put themselves in
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incredible danger every day and there's
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only two people to know their identities
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if they're deep and that is their case
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officer and potentially the head of the
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Central Intelligence Agency or per
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perhaps someone who's heading the entire
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security apparatus and do you really
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believe that representative gabard might
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not believe at some point to forward
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your names and your identity to these
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people because some sort of I I would be
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like out against her it is time for me
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it is time for you to bring me back and
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give me my retirement
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because I believe that one of the thing
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I believe this is true of of of um
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director Ray I believe this was true of
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George Bush when he was running the CIA
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I think these case
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officers uh quite frankly these spies
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and these assets and these
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FBI officers or um agents they have to
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believe that this person would die for
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me that this person would put himself or
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herself In Harm's Way before letting me
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be in harm and I think all of those
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people met that qualification they were
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deathly concerned about their safety
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they they put the safety of these people
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ahead of others and I don't believe that
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is true of Representative Gabbert in
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addition you want to talk about real
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harm to our national
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security no one nation can fight the
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rest of the world on its own and this
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level of arrogance that we have enjoyed
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because of our prosperity and this
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America first kind of Macho has given us
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the impression that we don't need the
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cooperation of our allies to prevent
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terrorism to present theft of our
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intellectual property and guess what the
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European economy is just as big as ours
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and the mosad MI6 guess what the french
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secret they are very good at what they
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do and on really sensitive issues on
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bioweapons around terrorism we cooperate
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we coordinate and we share information
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because guess what we have mutual shared
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interests in addition to that we trust
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each other do you think these folks are
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going to share information with these
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folks I think the all three of them I
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got to say cash Patel Pete heg and Tela
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gabard are and by the way one of the
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things I did when I was looking at them
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was find the other people that were in
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line every one of them was acceptable
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like they're not my favorites but they
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were certainly competent like the other
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names being bandied about they were fine
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I they're just Republicans and they're a
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little more conservative than I care to
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have you know a little more aggressive a
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little less little to America first for
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me a couple of them but you know nobody
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not not having allies anti- Ally okay I
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see it that's a point of view these
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people one is a absolutely incompetent
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and has a real problem with women in a
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creepy creepy way and has a drinking
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problem which he may or may not have
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taken in hand I have no idea this and
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can't run anything by the way it's just
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in good he's a good soldier otherwise no
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thank you the second one is insane cash
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Patel seems insane and the other one is
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feels like a Russian asset like it's
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like and the fact that he had good
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people and pick these guys and then also
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Matt Gates who they managed to get rid
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of is just such a ridiculous it's
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ridiculous it's really kind of like it's
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going to take up his whole he's going to
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have to fire Chris Ray just so you know
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and then that'll be chaos will he'll
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never get anything done because the
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chaos will ensue because they'll spend
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all their time doing Chaos versus doing
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anything he said nobody when they were
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voting for him to get the price of eggs
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down voted for this Luna this lunacy I'm
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sorry they didn't they didn't they
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didn't and that's it's an opportunity
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lost hagath is a terrible role model for
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young men he creates he cements or he's
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emboldening this notion that it's no
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longer a bug it's a feature to be a
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little bit
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rapy we can't normalize
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this we can't we can't normalize this
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what's even worse than being a poor role
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model and not being qualified a
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different level in my opinion of of
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threat is Patel who has called for using
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the power of the bureau and the justice
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department to prosecute journalists open
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quote we're going to come after you
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whether it's criminally or civil we'll
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figure that out he said during an
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appearance on Stephen bannon's podcast
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you C the fact that this guy is being
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considered is so the fact that as you
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described it perfectly I don't think
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well that I I I'll take that back it's
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not fair to call her a Russian asset
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she's a Russian sympath she provides
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comfort and Aid to the enemy and she
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will absolutely frighten the [ __ ] out of
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our own assets and our own
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allies so I don't understand why he's
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not bringing the same level of maturity
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to our security apparatus and our
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defense apparatus that he's brought to
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the economic appointments it just
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doesn't make any it doesn't make any
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sense to me I think he just gets
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something happens late at night with him
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maybe he's taking ketamine with Elon or
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something in any case we'll see what
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happens here but it's disturbing I would
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recommend reading the mother's letter is
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disturbing is along with the story from
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the New York for hgat that's for sure
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and I'm looking forward to the cash
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Patel story which is going to be just
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worse I think in a different way and the
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telsey gabri stories