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un?" Talking about an email after his special government employee, this guy named Dan Richman, had leaked to the New York Times allegedly. So this is all alleged, but apparently there's some pretty clear paper trail now that he did exactly what he's accused of. And I saw some writing on this and John Solomon and Jerry Dunleavy who write for Just the News. So Just the News is the one that seems to…

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a fighty kind of domain that it's such a luxury to be able to turn on your own team. It's just a luxury. It's like, hey, we took care of the enemy. Let's fight with each other now. It's like my cats fighting. You know, if my cats saw some wild animal come in the garage, they might gang up and say, "All right, it's cats against squirrel. You take him on the left, I'll take him on the right." But if you take the squirrel out of the garage, then the cats fight with each other because that's who's around.

So when I watch this, I'm having trouble getting fully engaged because the bigger picture is that you won. The bigger picture is you won. You don't get to even have this conversation unless you've taken care of the important stuff and then you get to fight about this. But I'll give you my overall opinion of who's an anti-Semite and who's just America first because it's terribly important that you know my opinion on this completely unimportant topic. And it goes like this. If I were Jewish, I would think half the people I named are anti-Semitic. That's it. That's my opinion. If I were Jewish, then I would have a different filter on life, right? Of course you'd have a different filter. You'd be a little more sensitive to, "Wait a minute, you didn't say directly, but you sure walked up to that line." And then if somebody walks up to that line more than once, then I change my view and I go, "You went up to that line a lot of times. Why are you so interested in walking up to that line? Why is it important to you that you talk about this topic like I am right now so much? Huh? A little suspicious."

So in just the way if you're a meme-loving person and Democrats say something, you automatically think they're lying, right? And vice versa. When I got cancelled, pretty much all of black America, at least the ones that lean left, thought, "My god, that's so racist." Do you know how many MAGA people thought it was racist as opposed to a common statement about protecting yourself? Almost none. So was it racist or not racist? It depended who you were. It just depended who you were. So let me say clearly, if I were Jewish, I'd be pretty worried about some of these cats. I don't need to name names. You know what I'm talking about. But if you're not Jewish, you would hear exactly the same messages if you're paying attention, if you cared, and you'd say to yourself, "Huh, that's close to being anti-Semitic, but really, it's just free speech and it's just America first." Which one of those is true? Well, if I've taught you anything, it's two movies on one screen. Truth, I don't know if we have access to that. But prediction, we do. So I would say that if you can make a prediction that holds based on your view of these people and their opinions, then you might have something. But if it doesn't predict, as in, I'll give you an example. If the next thing that Tucker Carlson does is unambiguously pro-Jewish or pro-American or pro-Israel, would you say to yourself, "Oh, okay, that looks different." Now, I don't think he's going to do that necessarily, but I'm saying that if you can't predict, you have to check your worldview. I've got more on that coming.

Well, Speaker Johnson said he's trying to reframe the government shutdown as the Democrats want to cut 50 billion from the rural hospital fund. So that basically they're ransoming the government. Here's what I think about this whole who's to blame for closing or not opening. Even CNN is going hard at the Democrats. Have you noticed that the CNN hosts are doing an absolutely completely respectable job and I have to call that out. So everybody from Jake Tapper to the other hosts, they say directly to their Democrat friends, how is this the Republicans' fault if you can just vote it to be open? Which is the ideal question. How is it their fault if you could open it anytime you want? Then they're like, "Whoa, whoa, well, we're only a leverage, but we're trying to feed the..." They don't want to feed the... Okay, but everybody would get everything if you just voted yes. Oh, yeah. The word salad.

So I don't think there's any question that the Democrats are acting like turds. That they're acting like such turds. I think it's even embarrassing to CNN. Like actually embarrassing, you know, because they feel associated. I would guess if you work for CNN, people assume you're a Democrat and then they see even CNN saying, "Okay, this is just total. All you have to do is vote and you can have everything you wanted for seven weeks and then negotiate the rest." Exactly what the Republicans are telling you.

But I noticed that when Trump was on 60 Minutes and the topic came up, did you notice that before the question was finished, he said it was the Democrats' fault. Did anybody catch that? So it was Norah O'Donnell on 60 Minutes and she starts to cue up the question. Before she was do

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ne asking the question, he goes, "This is the Democrats' fault." Now, what have I taught you about the primary tool of persuasion? The primary tool of persuasion is repetition. Whoever repeats the most wins. So he makes sure that he said it before she even finished the question. Now that's good technique because that gets in your head first. He needed to get that in the head first so that she woul…

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