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ing you're just going into stupid land because everything you need to know about it you can determine from just looking at it. You don't need an analogy. If you go to the analogy it's a sign that you don't have an argument. So we really have to ask what's wrong with our government? I would say our government is failing us on this topic. They're failing us and I think Trump has to take responsibil…
← Previous segment →s nothing anybody is suggesting the witnesses would say that would change that fact. It doesn't change the constitutional argument at all. So we'll see if Mitch McConnell gets pressured into getting these witnesses in here. Well that would be another success for the prediction that says the best movie wins, the one that's the most entertaining. So you can't rule that out.
And here we have this is maybe a clean case because what the Republicans should do is have that vote and dismiss it on constitutional grounds. But if they don't then there's something predictive about that best story idea.
All right let's see what else we got going on here. Just make sure I haven't missed any big points. I don't believe I have. I think I had all the big points. Somebody says did Trump leak the Bolton book details? If I have to guess I would guess it's somebody in the publishing or in the printing area. Do you know how many people see a book before it gets published? It's kind of a lot. It's a lot. So I'll just give you my experience. So I have an editor. So my editor would see the book. The editor is sort of a high-level editor that's more directional and you know did we get the book concept right, you know that kind of editing, high-level. And then there are one or two other editors who might get involved in the details. One of them would be about the grammar and the spelling and the structure and that sort of thing. So you've got you know three different editors. Of course the publisher, all of the assistants who work for those editors, they all have it. And then what about spouses and boyfriends and girlfriends? Because I imagine, I assume that a lot of these editors take work home. Don't you think that that manuscript, the Bolton manuscript, has left the publisher at one point and you know somebody took it to work on it and edit it? Of course. You know why wouldn't they? And then it goes to the printer. How many people at the printer's office have access to looking at the manuscript? All of them. All of them. You know the entire printing company could probably walk by a big bin of books and just take one or just open it up and take a photograph of a page. So there are probably something like, if I had to put a number on it, maybe 25 people who were in the publishing chain of custody who could have seen it. At least 25. Could have been 100 but at least 25 had access to it. And that's not counting the government. So it could be anybody who leaked it.
So could it have been Trump? Maybe. Can't rule it out but a lot of people saw it. Somebody said they would think only four or five. Yeah there are only four or five people who would have a direct business reason to have it but unless the publisher had an unusual set of strict rules of secrecy all of their assistants had access to it. It was probably just laying on the desk in the office and they probably took it home etc.
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So there you go. And they also probably talked about it. Don't you think that the people who edited it might have had a drink at some point and said you know I'm editing that book, don't tell anybody but you should see page 128. And you know so it's easy to imagine there's just tons and tons of people who could've leaked that thing. All right this was timed. Yeah I don't think you can rule out th…
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