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Scott Walter is president of Capital Research Center.

He joined us to talk about Black Lives Matter in 2022, and now is back to discuss his new book,

Arabella, the Dark Money Network of Leftist Billionaires secretly transforming America. Welcome, Scott.

Great to be with you, Mark. Now, I feel I have to challenge you, Scott, after first welcoming

you on your title. You say leftist billionaires, but all billionaires are right wing.

They're market worshiping, selfish, greedy,

conservative swine. What do you mean leftist billionaires? Well, you just pointed exactly

to one of the reasons the book had to be written. The left, which of course includes the pathetic

media, love to pretend to be shocked by all sorts

of just horrible things that conservatives do. Sometimes they get rich, sometimes they put money

in politics and whatnot, and what you virtually never hear from normal media, non-conspiracy theory media, are the facts,

which is that there's massively more money on the left than there is on the right.

Whichever type of money you want to count, there's more on the left.

And maybe on that score, what does your group Capital Research do? Well, we study the special

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