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Hey, wouldn't it be great if Biden actually answered some tough questions?

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Well, we're going to do that for him today.

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Hey, welcome back to The Barry Farrer Show Culture Shift. Great to be with you again.

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Today, we're going to have some fun. I thought a good way to get a summary of some news

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and address one of the most common complaints I've heard recently is to have a pretend interview.

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I'll be the journalist, and in some cases, I'll be an open and transparent president of the United

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States. And in some cases, since we really just don't know what to do, we'll just show something

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else like a cut and run clip. As you might have seen, Biden doesn't answer any hard questions.

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It often goes like this. And he hasn't even met with his cabinet since July.

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I mean, it isn't like he's breaking any records for being a workaholic.

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The least he could do with his very light schedule is answer some questions.

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But he cuts and runs so fast you can hardly even hear the hard question.

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Why do you continue to crush the Taliban, Mr. President?

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Why do you continue to crush their pledges, Mr. President?

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He seems to believe that since the press is so in his camp that he doesn't have to answer

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any hard questions. So I wonder what it would be like if he were given some real questions,

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and on top of that, he actually answered them in a transparent way. So here we go.

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We're all asked some questions as the journalist, and in some cases, I'll answer them as if

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I was a transparent and open President Joe Biden, and sometimes with something extra.

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So here we go. Mr. POTUS, has Kamala Harris, your vice president, done a good job of fixing the

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border? Well, she went to Guatemala and to an airport near Mexico. When I think about it,

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the truth of the matter is she has not really done anything substantial. I mean, in fact,

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there's a record number of illegal immigrants coming across the border into the United States,

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and the caravans continue, and the illegal contraband and sex trafficking is at an all-time

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high. Mr. President, does she do a good job, though, of managing her staff?

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No. She kind of treats her staff like a scoldy old 1970s-style

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angry feminist, sort of reminds me of back then when I was getting my start.

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Mr. President, do you think that your Secretary of State, Mr. Blinken, did a good job in the

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Afghanistan withdrawal? Well, the disengagement strategy doesn't seem to work as well as I

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thought. I mean, I had no idea the Taliban would advance so fast. I just wanted out of there.

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I didn't really have a plan to get Americans out. It turns out it was really kind of a debacle.

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Mr. President, do you feel guilty at all for the deaths of the 13

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U.S. service members? I mean, when they came home, why did you keep looking at your watch?

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Well, Mr. Reporter, to your first question, I don't really feel that guilty. I'm a political

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guy, and in this case, the ends justified the means, and that's just the way it is.

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To your second question, I always look at my watch when I'm bored or don't want to be in the

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setting or just generally don't care. It's kind of an old habit.

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Wow, Mr. President, thanks for your transparency, I think. But do you feel bad about the reality

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that we just up and left when there were still at least 100 Americans behind

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enemy lines and thousands of green card holders?

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Well, we actually, I mean, it is sort of an unforced error, I'll have to give you that.

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It is sort of an unforced error, I'll have to give you that. I mean, we did leave the embassy

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in Kabul in a rush, and the Bagram Airfield at night when no one was watching, we thought that

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was kind of a good idea, but I guess it's a world-class Air Force base. And until we abandoned

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it, we had control, and we could have kept that and maintained kind of a limited engagement

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approach. But as the president, I believe in total disengagement, so out we went.

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But now things are really going downhill fast, don't you think? I mean, don't you feel,

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Mr. President, responsible for the chaos in Afghanistan? I mean, for example, October 15th,

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the Islamic State claimed responsibility for two suicide bombings that killed more than 40 people

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during Friday prayers at this mosque in the Afghan city of Kandahar. And just a week ago,

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the local branch of the terrorist outfit committed a suicide attack that left nearly 50 people

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dead in Afghanistan. So, Mr. President, I think it's time for you to step up and

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dead in that northern city of Kunduz. Doesn't this bother you? Come back Joe, Mr. Biden. I mean,

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doesn't it bother you that 95% of the Afghans aren't getting enough to eat? I mean, that's

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according to the United Nations World Food Program. I mean, doesn't it bother you that

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almost all of the country's population of 40 million could fall below the poverty line in

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coming months, according to the UN? I mean, do you have anything to say about the reports that

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in Afghanistan, some people are selling their children to pay their bills?

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Okay, Mr. President, we'll move to economics. Do you recall that your Treasury Secretary Janet

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Yellen in her confirmation hearings had something to say about how she was going to do it?

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What did she promise to be? Oh yes, I remember everything. Yellen promised that she would be

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a voice for fiscal sanity. And how you would say, can that be? Well, she's just a really

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fiscally sane person. Well, how can she be the voice of fiscal sanity when she supports

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the Democrats three and a half trillion dollar spending plan? Well, Mr. Reporter, it doesn't

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really cost that much. I mean, to be truthful, it'll cost a lot more because all those programs

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grow once they're put in place. But Mr. President, why does she support requiring banks to reveal

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all transactions over $600? Well, Reporter, Janet's smart and she says it will help with tax collection

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and it makes it a lot easier for the IRS to snoop on you. Well, Mr. Reporter, that is a concern.

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But you know, I went to an oil and gas fundraiser once and I'm told it doesn't just increase the

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cost of the gas at the pump, but everything that's connected to petroleum, cosmetics, and

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silicon, and paint, and polymer, and plastic, and adhesive, and fertilizer, and pharmaceuticals.

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Mr. President, can't you just be honest and tell us how precarious things are economically?

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Mr. Reporter, you mean like totally honest? Man, well, that's at $28.9 trillion.

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The gross domestic product is only $22.9 trillion. I mean, we have to spend 140% more on our debt

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than we crank out in gross domestic product. Tax revenue is at $3.8 trillion. That's seven and a

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half times that revenue. So, if I wasn't a politician, Mr. Reporter, I'd have to say that

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this is a totally irresponsible situation. Mr. President, what about inflation? I mean,

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your team has continued to deny that it's a problem. And yet, at the same time, they blame

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citizens or companies for the problem. Just level with us. Isn't inflation a problem already?

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Well, yes. Last I looked, pretty much everything is up over the previous year. Heck, rental cars

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are more expensive by like 42%. Gas and fuel oil, that's over 42% too. Propane, kerosene,

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firewood, all that stuff, that's over like 27%. Used cars and trucks, over 24%. Crazy, big numbers.

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Bacon, I like bacon. Bacon, meats, poultry, fish, all that's up as much as 17%. Crazy numbers.

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Furniture, new cars and trucks and sporting goods and appliances, they're all up. And you know what

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makes me mad? I mean, as President of the United States, I like to get a late night peanut butter

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and jelly sandwich. Peanut butter's up. Now, that's getting personal. I mean, it would really

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make it hard on me if I had to pay for it. The list goes on to shoes and haircuts and coffee and

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motor vehicle maintenance and postage and rent. All these are up a lot. The most casual observer

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would have to conclude that inflation is indeed a problem. So, Mr. President, you admit that

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inflation's a real problem, but why are you still trying to ram through this $3.5 trillion rewrite

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of the American idea? I mean, won't that send more money after fewer goods? Won't that make the

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problem worse? Well, Mr. Reporter, let me say it like this. I mean, you want me to be totally

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honest about it. We can't even pass this legislation without some good old-fashioned

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trickery. I mean, for Pete's sake, Democrat Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema are

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still against it. I'm working behind the scenes though, between naps, to figure out how to pass

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that thing. Mr. President, can we move to the military, COVID and vaccine mandates?

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Sure, you know me. I'm an open book. Well, Mr. President, first of all, just in general,

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do you believe the traditional medical axiom that if someone gets a virus and recovers from it,

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from it, that he has some form of natural immunity?

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So, Mr. Reporter, you want me to be like transparent here,

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right?

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I mean, like, well, of course, I mean, it's well-established

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when your body fights off a virus

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that you have some immunity to that virus.

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I mean, that's what vaccines try to emulate, right?

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They try to do with some artificial injection,

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which your body does naturally, of course.

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Well, then Mr. President,

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why don't we make some accommodation

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for people who have had COVID and fully recovered from it?

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Aren't there like numerous studies from around the world

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that show natural immunity to COVID to be equal to

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or better than the vaccine?

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And isn't that valid?

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Well, Mr. Reporter, if we admit all those

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who have recovered from COVID don't need a vaccine,

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how on earth can we control and monitor things?

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I mean, man, that'd be like 40 to 50% of the population.

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It'd be really hard to be in control.

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Do we have a vaccine winner, Mr. President?

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I mean, like which one's the best,

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Moderna, Pfizer, or J&J?

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If you look at how fast Pfizer wanes,

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you might be tempted to pick Moderna.

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But if you look at some of their adverse reactions,

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you might be tempted to pick J&J, just sort of depends.

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Well, what's the overall real effectiveness of the vaccine?

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I mean, can you explain relative risk reduction

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versus absolute risk reduction, Mr. President?

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Well, sure, I'm an open guy.

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Relative risk reduction sort of skews the results

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in favor of the vaccine's overall effectiveness.

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It doesn't really explain the real reduction

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in your likelihood to get the virus

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after receiving the vaccine.

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And absolute risk reduction,

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that shows the real reduction in the risk of getting it.

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And of course, when you look at those numbers,

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it really changes the conversation.

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But I still really, really, really believe

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that you're less likely to go to the hospital

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if you take that vaccine.

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I mean, in my heart of hearts,

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I can't say that you really need the vaccine

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if you already had COVID and recovered from it.

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But anyway.

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Mr. President, why are you so slow to admit

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the value of valid medical treatments

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that are therapeutic after somebody gets COVID?

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Ha ha, Mr. Reporter, you mean like the monoclonal,

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the therapeutic protocol, or even the latest Merck pill?

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Well, let me ask you a question, Mr. Reporter.

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How would there be enough fear to force compliance

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if we have proven ways to treat it?

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Okay, Mr. President, what's going on with the military?

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Well, I'm happy to say that we have over 90% compliance

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with getting the vaccine in the arms of military personnel.

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No, I mean, Mr. President,

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why is the Navy being sued by First Liberty

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on behalf of some of these Navy guys

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who are against the vaccine for some reason or the other?

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Oh, they have this antiquated notion

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that there could be a real medical exemption.

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Or can you believe it?

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This is time to whisper in a really weird way.

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Religious exemptions.

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But, Mr. President, are you really in favor

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of discharging them for having a religious exemption?

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I mean, we've seen the Navy's mandatory COVID vaccine

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in reporting policy.

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I mean, it seems like something from China or North Korea.

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I mean, even the name,

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the COVID Consolidation Disposition Authority.

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And are you really serious about discharging them

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and then hitting them with a financial penalty?

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I mean, how does that help recruit in the future?

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And how does that help us become a strong fighting force?

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Now, now, Mr. Reporter, not so fast there, man.

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I've got to let the mandate people do their thing.

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They know how to get compliance.

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You heard my speech.

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We want everyone vaccinated, period.

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And as far as recruiting is concerned,

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we don't really want those type of people

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in the military anyway.

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I mean, it's been really historically hard

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to get that voting nut cracked for us.

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This helps crack that voting nut problem in the military.

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So, Mr. President, you have no legitimate reason

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to threaten these brave service members

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with court-martial or involuntary separation?

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I mean, when we recruited service members in the past,

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it used to be God, family, and country.

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They were defending our freedom rights,

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the first of which is religious freedom.

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But it seems like you're forcing them

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to choose between faith and country.

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I mean, these guys are simply exercising their legal

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and constitutional right to submit

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a religious accommodation request.

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It looks like the way you're doing this

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is you're not going to really give them

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any religious accommodation at all.

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Don't you believe in the First Amendment?

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I mean, the first part of the First Amendment?

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So thank you.

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God bless you.

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May God protect our troops, thank you.

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Thank you, may God protect our troops, our diplomats, and all brave Americans serving

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in harm's way.

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God bless you all, may God protect our troops, thank you.

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So please get vaccinated now.

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If you go to vaccines.com, vaccines.com, so please get vaccinated today.

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God bless you all, and may God protect our troops, thank you.

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So thank you again, and God bless you, and may God protect our diplomats and all those

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in harm's way, thank you.

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Mr. President, can you guarantee every American will be out before the troops leave?

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Can you guarantee?

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Did sanctions come up at all in the G7 meetings?

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Thank you all very much, and thank the press for being here, we're going to go private

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now.

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Well, that interview didn't really happen, but if it did, and if the President of the

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United States was truly honest, that's how it could have gone.

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