I know it was a joke. (Some people can tell them, some can’t.) But that “sentence” is only one example from the transcript where it really appears that the Senator was having trouble keeping on point and his syntax shows it.
Either that or the transcriber was trying to make him look “erratic”. (Now where have I heard that word before?)
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What’s erratic about answering the question Beck had with an answer that refers back to the same question/comment??