MARK LEVIN INTERVIEW WITH TED CRUZ - TRADE AGREEMENTS - INFAMOUS GUN PHOTO

 

 

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senator Ted Cruz how are you sir I'm done terrific mark are you doing and

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doing very well

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but you know have my audience for the most part hi

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we don't quite understand what the Senate is up to today particularly the

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republican majority in the Senate

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given all the wheeling and dealing and now it's quite obvious that this

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in the end so-called trade bill will include all kinds have left wing Obama

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agenda items what white

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you tell us how you wound up voting against it

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and if you can tell us why most to the republicans voted Fort

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sure I so I voted against EPA today

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and and I wrote a lot of bed and bright part this morning explaining why

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and as you know I support free trade

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long-time supporter free trade i campaigned on free trade

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in the state of Texas I however they were really

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two things that drove me to oppose TPA today the first

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I was something that came out after the first about

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on TPA which is WikiLeaks really released I

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the text a portion of the train services agreement I

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which explicitly purports to change immigration laws at the signatory

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countries

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now at the time TBA came up for a vote initially

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jeff Sessions that it is an amendment I introduced an amendment

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add GPA to make explicit the

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no immigration no trade deal can impact immigration law

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and anyone that attempted impact immigration law wouldn't be subject ship

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to fast-track

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I we didn't get a those amendments and

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based on this subsequently get the text to that of other trade agreement

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attempting to do just that

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II informed leadership that that

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if they wanted my vote on TPA they needed to pass the cruise sessions

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amendments

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to take immigration of the table forever on trade agreements

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that the second aspect that led me to vote

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now I was the corrupt deals that we've seen

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that that leadership pursued in order to

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to get TPA past and in particular is a deal that that by all appearances

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that they cut to reauthorize the export-import Bank

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now as you know mark the export-import Bank is a classic example above

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corporate welfare is 100

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a billions of dollars on the loan guarantees the taxpayers give that

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benefit primarily a handful a giant corporations

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now it's scheduled to expire on June 30

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fan and would be a tremendous victory should be a tremendous victory for

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Republicans to show

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were not about cronyism or not about picking winners and losers

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to defend the free market unfortunately it now appears the republican leadership

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cut a deal in order to get EPA through where they agreed

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to tee up a vote and allow the export import bank that corporate welfare

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to be reauthorized as well as at the end of the day it was simply too much

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too much so I announced I would vote now and I did both other day

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and that's why you at you voted for it

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in the first place I'll because you believe that this was more of a vehicle

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for free trade

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for free or trade and then use all these deals that were being cut

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and you said alright that's enough and I'm not gonna vote for this sec correct

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well

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that's exactly right when when the Senate initially took it up I voted in

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favor of TPA am NOT

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PPP which is the trans-pacific partnership that hasn't been voted on I

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haven't

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haven't taken a position on it is still being negotiated but EPA as you know

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it's fast track

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is the process for negotiating free trade agreements

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and I initially voted in favor of that and then publicly spoke out in favor of

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it

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because over the last 80 years we've saying

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the only way that a president has been able to get free trade agreements

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negotiated

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is with fast track and and and virtually every press president

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since FDR's had fast-track and in-form leadership that if they publicly number

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one

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committed to allowing the export import bank

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to expire and stay expired and that corrupt Washington cronyism and

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deal-making

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and number two if Congress would pass

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the cruise in sessions amendment

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taking immigration of the table forever in trade agreements that I would support

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it but but leadership

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did not accept my offer well this this is really troubling

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to me and frustrating to me and I think a lot of people in the audience that

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leadership

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which we don't use leadership I know you have to call and I don't

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that the republican leadership would be plotting with Barack Obama to get this

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through

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and obviously the question is what's in it for Obama while Obama's not a free

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market guy Obama's not even approach capitalist guy

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so why do we have these people I'll tell you why I think Ted Cruz

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what we have here is crony capitalism and corporatism

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thaddeus I think republican leaders believe that they can get

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12 percent of the pie just 12 percent

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I'll take it whatever Obama does am I missing something

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yeah he here not much market unfortunately what we see

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today is another manifestation of what I call the Washington cartel

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it is a corruption it is a cartel

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of career politicians in both parties

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in union with the lobbyists on K Street

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and it's the reason why sector the ten wealthiest counties in america

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surround Washington DC because this town is all about

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more and more power and money in washington and the working men and women

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their lives being made harder and harder and what we saw today is another example

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of government

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of the lobbyists by the lobbyists and for the lobbyist

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and that's not what republicans were elected to Congress to do

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not a cruiser I want to ask you about this Associated Press in these

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these photographs that were so appalling

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other AP his stall aimed

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at your forehead I mean I know

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that you gonna probably make a lighter that but that you know that is so

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outrageous you and I know full well

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if it where a liberal politician or god forbid the present or something like

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that

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the sky would fall and yet here you are Ted Cruz

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and The Associated Press and their editors and they put it out on the wire

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it's such a disgrace I haven't heard you comment on

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this well %uh there's no doubt that if they had run the same photo and it had

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been hillary Clinton Arbor %ah

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Obama that that that the entire world would have

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worry quayle in horror and the editor who made the decision to

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to run it with would very likely have been fire

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and there would have been a public apology I instead

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this is business as usual as you know the mainstream media

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they are not objective reporters

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they are hard-core leftist and partisans they are Barack Obama's

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most important Praetorian Guard and no one is more ready for Hillary than the

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mainstream media so it is not surprising

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Celi I've kinda been enjoyed some other contrast

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a faulty AP photo/the Barack Obama with a halo of light

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behind it head verses May with the giant gunpoint in between my eyes because that

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sums up there he is up to you and me and conservatives and frankly Americans

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debut

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hard working men and women all across this country people who believe in the

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in the

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values the judeo-christian values the free market

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people to believe in the Constitution they've US's ignorant rooms

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and that's their hostility coming out and and it is the nature of who they are

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they are

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artist spy what do you make up all these things going on in the world in going on

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in this country that are

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extremely troubling their problematic for average Americans

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you know whether it's jobs whether to immigration but we have this horrendous

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event

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the this slaughter at nine wonderful human beings in a black church or target

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because they're black and here we are

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within seconds were forced to debate

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gun control and the confederate flag

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its I mean isn't it time we had a president who is a real statesman who

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would bring the country together

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and move us toward a united gall marchio you're exactly right every one of us was

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horrified

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I sickening shootings in the end in charleston and

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it was on active up grotesque people when this deranged fan

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walked into the manual and

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nature chin and and you and I are both people if a not to

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to imagine that he sat down and prayed with these men and women

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trade right now church and then

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promptly pulled out a a gun and shot them that is that that is a

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manifestation of the book

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that is difficult to comprehend and

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I we both wish the president had used this opportunity

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to try to bring us together to do what I'd call

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for what so many of us a call for say let's pray for the families let's pray

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that we can come together let's pray that we can

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he'll I the racial divisions and wounding hatred and bigotry the

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but still remain with stop you know it was incredibly it was

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breathtaking to watch the family's

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a summer those murdered in the Emmanuel am a church

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stand up and publicly call for forgiveness up this depraved

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killer I mean what an incredible manifestation of Christian forgiveness

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I you know I I have to say I i eat

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took your breath away and it was powerful and that's what we should be

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focusing on

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I is coming together and bring us together rather than having the

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president

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constantly seeking to make everything political

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everything about dividing us along racial lines and class lines and gender

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lines at any line he can

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we should have a president who unites us instead

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I just feel that the nation did in fact come together over this

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as it has over other things and we're way ahead

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at the washington politicians in this president and they hate it

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when we speak with one voice they hate it when we stand shoulder to shoulder

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because it doesn't serve their purpose is on the left it

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everything is political from the last so when you see a tragedy

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from their perspective it's an opportunity to push the same policy

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agenda they were pushing yesterday doesn't change what they're pushing

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you know as Rama Rama manual famously said you never want to waste it will

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waste a good crisis

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that is a very cynical approach to politics and the life span and

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yes you know its worst folks asking

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ourselves are we

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need more united today after six and a half years at this presidency are we

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more divided in sadly when you have a president

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who constantly tears us apart you know just just the just this weekend

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II was in in iowa and I was as traveling in california I met one law enforcement

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officer police officer

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who'd served over two decades as a police officer ni said

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told me said I'm retiring because I cannot stand

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the animosity that is directed

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at law enforcement a police officer's arrest their lives so I'm retiring on

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getting out because I i cant take it more

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that is not the job for the president to try to turn american citizens against

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each other

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it's the job of the president to defend our common values

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and that should start with the Constitution

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which sadly this president disregards on a daily basis we don't get a lot of time

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left but

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I just wanted to say this to the next president assuming it's a conservative

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and Republican

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is kinda have the enormous task undoing the damage this president has done

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and advancing his or her agenda am i right

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mark you are exactly right but it but it also

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we're poised for real change I

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just like jimmy carter in the nineteen seventies we saw the same

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misery in stagnation and Malays the same back with a night

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foreign policy and that set the stage for the reagan revolution

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where CNN again mark you know in the last couple months

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we've had over a hundred thousand people come to Ted Cruz dot or

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contribute to support our campaign we're saying

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town halls we did a town hall a few weeks ago in new hampshire

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with 600 people come out in the state of New Hampshire New Hampshire is not a big

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state you don't get 600 people

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for just about anything the next day you'll love this mark

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we did have an Andover Massachusetts bright blue Massachusetts

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had 650 people slide in the People's Republic a Massachusetts

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and the great thing about mark just about every one of them

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they were reagan democrats they were irish-catholic they were working class

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in the truck drivers

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and climbers in school teachers

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they were the people getting hammered Scout tell you your listeners and men

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and women across America are waking up

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and they're ready to change in just like we saw our morning in America common

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1980 2016 is going to be an election like nineteen eighty

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we're gonna win by painting and bold colors not pale pastels

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and people are waking up I'm telling you all over america their wake

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alright my friend you be safe out there that that Associated Press Photo

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the to me that's just no joke that is a year

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that is a very very serious matter so god bless you and be safe

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well thank you my friend god bless you as well and can keep keep speaking the

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truth no matter the cost

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for are you take care

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