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pollone, James Clapper, Hillary Clinton, James Comey. I'm skipping some names that may be less familiar to you. Mark Esper, Alyssa Farah, Merrick Garland, Stephanie Grisham, Kamala Harris, Gina Haspel, former CIA, Eric Holder, Cassidy Hutchinson, Nina Jankowicz, Loretta Lynch. There's some General Kenneth McKenzie, Andrew McCabe. Man, it's a long list. I'm skipping a lot. All right, Ryan McCarthy,…

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e the names and have the right names and that he necessarily agrees with all the names. So I'm undecided on Kash Patel. No, it doesn't matter because they're not going to make the decision based on what I think. But I think all of you guys need to have the same standard. I think the standard needs to be that you need to know what the crime is first and then give me the name. But if you give me the name first and I haven't seen the crime yet, I've got questions for you before I have questions for the person you're naming, because you're doing something that bothers me. And I know you're doing something that I don't like. I don't know about that person you're talking about. I'll listen to it. I'm open to the argument. And I want to say again there are people on that list that he's targeted that I really think do need to get targeted, some of them. But I don't know the whole story beyond most of them. So no lawfare please. That would be my take.

You heard that there was a little disruption in South Korea. Here's what's funny about South Korea. I always feel like South Korea is held up as an example of a highly functioning democracy and with a really real good free market, and their economy is amazing. And so therefore their government must be pretty good, otherwise they couldn't be functionin

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g so well. Well, so their current president declared martial law. But I guess the parliament tried to get in the building to vote it down or vote out the military, tried to stop them from getting in, but they climbed over the fence and got in and quickly voted on it. And now the president is obligated to remove it because they voted on it. And the military has decided to say, all right, we're out.…

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