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rtificial where there's somebody funding a protest, but if nobody's funding a protest, things like this just don't happen. You know, things like people going, "Oh, no, he's firing a Fed governor. I'll have to remove all my stock investments." It just doesn't happen. In the real world, people just look at the news and shrug. They just go on with their lives. I think only in the social media world…

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Democrats are probably pestering her saying, "You can't say that. Whatever you do, don't say it worked." And then she's thinking, you know, I'm just speculating. I don't know. Then I imagine her thinking, "Everybody knows this worked. Everybody knows it worked. And you're asking me to go in public and say, 'Oh, this is a terrible mistake. We like the crime.' I'm not going to do that."

So, if that's what happened, and it feels like that's what happened, I like it. So, good for you if that's what's happening.

Well, we're hearing a little bit more about John Bolton. As you know, his house got raided and he was accused of doing some bad things with classified information. But now we hear that the reason that we know this information was classified and that he was involved is that he used an

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unclassified email system to send some of it to someone close to him and apparently he was hacked or it was detected by a foreign country, a hostile foreign country and I guess we were hacking the hostile foreign country. So, somebody was watching John Bolton's email, but somebody else on our team, maybe in another country, was monitoring the people who were monitoring him somehow. And so now we k…

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