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Rep. Jeff Crank in Studio · Richard Randall Show

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Speaker 1: Richard Randall is on Colorado seven.
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Speaker 2: All right, we've got Jeff Crank Congress and Jeff Crank Representative.
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Speaker 2: Jeff Crank for an hour now, if you're not on
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Speaker 2: social media, I did post to social media earlier this morning. Well,
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Speaker 2: I twisted last night. I was thinking he was going
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Speaker 2: to be here. Earlier this morning, I posted all the
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Speaker 2: information and I did that because we get from time
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Speaker 2: to time, Well, he won't take calls, he won't answer questions,
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Speaker 2: he won't come to our event to answer questions. I
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Speaker 2: may have more to do with your event than answering questions,
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Speaker 2: because year after year after year he sat in this
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Speaker 2: chair or that chair and did nothing but answer questions.
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Speaker 2: So we're gonna do that here in just one minute.
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Speaker 2: But something is on my radar. We're gonna ask Jeff
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Speaker 2: Crank about it as well. So we have Minnesota Congresswoman
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Speaker 2: Elon Omar to a sprayed with an unknown liquid during
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Speaker 2: a town hall meeting last night. The thing. I had
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Speaker 2: questions about it, but any we'll go to our preensident.
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Speaker 2: Fox News Chad Pergham has got the very latest from
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Speaker 2: Capitol Hill yet.
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Speaker 1: A town hall event.
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Speaker 3: Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar was confronted and sprayed by a
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Speaker 3: man there in the audience. It's not clear what the
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Speaker 3: substance was, and Omar later said she was okay. The man,
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Speaker 3: identified as fifty five year old Anthony Kuzmerzik, was arrested.
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Speaker 3: No word yet on motive, but Omar had just called
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Speaker 3: for the firing of DHS Secretary at Christy Nomes. She
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Speaker 3: had also called for ICE to be abolished. President Trump
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Speaker 3: yesterday traveling to Iowa saying he's still Baxnome even as
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Speaker 3: he sent borders our Tom Holman to take over operations
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Speaker 3: in Minnesota.
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Speaker 2: So we'll talk about this specifically in the second hour.
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Speaker 2: There are a couple of things I noticed about this,
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Speaker 2: And I'm not saying that there's anything sketchy about the incident,
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Speaker 2: but there are a couple of things that make me
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Speaker 2: wonder if there's anything sketchy about the incident. Let's not
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Speaker 2: talk about the incident, Jeff Crank, but let's talk just
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Speaker 2: generally about the elon omer types and all presently, all
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Speaker 2: the rest of these people. Do you have much interaction
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Speaker 2: with any of them if they're on the House side.
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Speaker 1: No, I don't, And I do want to say I
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Speaker 1: mean that kind of behavior from this person that did
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Speaker 1: that is despicable. We cannot our side, which stands for
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Speaker 1: the rule of law. That's what I'm about, right, is
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Speaker 1: the rule of law. You can't we Our argument is
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Speaker 1: you can't selectively enforce the law and just ignore the
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Speaker 1: laws you don't like, like the governor of Minnesota does
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Speaker 1: or the mayor of Minneapolis does. So you can't selectively
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Speaker 1: now say that it's somehow okay. It is not okay
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Speaker 1: to assault a member of Congress or anyone. I mean,
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Speaker 1: any citizen shouldn't. But you know, this person was arrested.
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Speaker 1: They should have been. I actually I think I heard
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Speaker 1: that they got third degree assault charge. I'm not sure
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Speaker 1: that's enough. Yeah, Like, if you think of the chilling
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Speaker 1: effect of what that person did, they're going after somebody
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Speaker 1: because of their First Amendment right now. I don't agree
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Speaker 1: with ilhan Omar on Actually I'm not sure I can
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Speaker 1: think of a thing yet that I've agreed with ilhan
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Speaker 1: Omar about. But one thing I do agree is she
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Speaker 1: has the right to say it, even if I disagree
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Speaker 1: with it. So when somebody comes in and does an
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Speaker 1: act like that on our side, it takes away our
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Speaker 1: moral authority to speak and say that that kind of
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Speaker 1: thing is wrong. And we see these attacks. We've seen
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Speaker 1: the attacks on the president, and let's be honest, if
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Speaker 1: you look at it, ilhan Omar, this attack on ilhan
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Speaker 1: Omar is wrong, but most of the attacks have been
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Speaker 1: on conservatives. Let's be honest with you, over the last
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Speaker 1: couple of years, most of the attacks have been on conservatives,
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Speaker 1: and so all of it is wrong. It doesn't matter
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Speaker 1: who is speaking. They have a right to speak. But
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Speaker 1: to your question, I have never ever even spoken to
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Speaker 1: ilhan Omar. Now I will when I get back there,
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Speaker 1: I will see her out and I will tell her
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Speaker 1: I am sorry what happened to you, because that's despicable
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Speaker 1: what happened. But no, there's a group of people in
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Speaker 1: the in the Democrat Caucus in Congress, and I would
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Speaker 1: put her in it. I would put Alexandria Cossio Cortez
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Speaker 1: and others. I've never spoken to them because they are
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Speaker 1: there to be celebrities. They're not there to be serious legislators.
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Speaker 1: We have a few on our side too, there's no
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Speaker 1: doubt about it. But I just, I just, I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's not that I wouldn't talk to them. They just
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Speaker 1: don't really give me the time of day because they
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Speaker 1: think I think that they're more important than we are.
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Speaker 2: So well, I want to be clear about this as well.
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Speaker 2: I denounce it in every fashion that you would like
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Speaker 2: anybody to denounce it. It is despicable, It shouldn't take place,
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Speaker 2: and this is not a caveat. It doesn't diminish what
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Speaker 2: happened to her. I do wish that if other people
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Speaker 2: were assaulted, especially people in law enforcement or federal agencies,
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Speaker 2: that there would be charges for all of that as well,
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Speaker 2: because I don't want selective enforcement of the law. And
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Speaker 2: if it turns out that you're more important in the
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Speaker 2: eyes of some people, that, yeah, well file charges there.
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Speaker 2: But if USL is somebody from Border Patrol or ice,
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Speaker 2: we won't pay attention to that. So, of course Minneapolis
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Speaker 2: and all the rest, there's all of these stories. Oh
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Speaker 2: my gosh, Jeff, it is so hard to even get
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Speaker 2: to the truth. And you know this because as a
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Speaker 2: talk show host, you had to win through all this
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Speaker 2: stuff to figure out what you were.
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Speaker 1: Going to talk about.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, give us the very latest if you could, and
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Speaker 2: what you can talk about in terms of Minneapolis, the
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Speaker 2: President Border Patrol christinom We've got Tom Holman and all
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Speaker 2: of the rest. I assume there may not be some
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Speaker 2: things you can talk about, but to the point that
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Speaker 2: we can do a debrief my crons earth Well.
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Speaker 1: One thing in this transitions from our last topic. You know,
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Speaker 1: I think as you were talking about that when someone attacks,
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Speaker 1: like this person in Minneapolis attacked a federal law enforcement officer,
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Speaker 1: they weren't just attacking that person. They attacked the rule
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Speaker 1: of law by doing that, right, just the way that
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Speaker 1: when ill Omar was just attacked by a person or
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Speaker 1: sprayed with some solution or whatever, they didn't just attack
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Speaker 1: ilhan Omar. They attacked the First Amendment. And that's what
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Speaker 1: we have to understand. We have to stand for the
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Speaker 1: rule of law. It's just that simple. And so what
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Speaker 1: happened in Minneapolis is no doubt a tragedy. There should
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Speaker 1: be a full investigation. I want to always make sure
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Speaker 1: that all law enforcement, whether they're local law enforcement here
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Speaker 1: in Colorado Springs or El Paso County Sheriff's office, or
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Speaker 1: any of our local law enforcement, if they're state or
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Speaker 1: if they're federal, that every American is treated fairly right
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Speaker 1: and that we are afforded our constitutional rights, and so
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Speaker 1: there ought to be a full investigation. But let's also
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Speaker 1: be clear, there's certainly one reason that that person is
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Speaker 1: dead today, and that's because he chose to break the
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Speaker 1: law by interfering with federal law enforcement. Now, if he
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Speaker 1: hadn't done that, he would be alive today. Right. And
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Speaker 1: this goes back and you remember who was the young
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Speaker 1: man who was killed here with the gun? Was it
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Speaker 1: Devon Bailey? So that Devon Bailey shooting. And I got
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Speaker 1: to thinking about that, and Devon Bailey came out and
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Speaker 1: I was on air here at kV R when that happened.
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Speaker 1: Devon Bailey came out. Uh, the police stopped him and
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Speaker 1: a friend. The police said your put your hands up.
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Speaker 1: The friend put his hands up and complied Devon Bailey,
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Speaker 1: who they knew had a pistol in short, because it
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Speaker 1: was reported that this kid who was dressed like him
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Speaker 1: and the description matched him, had a pistol and then
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Speaker 1: just either robbed or used that pistol on someone. Uh,
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Speaker 1: he decided to reach into his pants where they know
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Speaker 1: he has a pistol and turn and run, and that's
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Speaker 1: where he was shot. And that was decided to be
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Speaker 1: justified by our district attorney. So you compare that now.
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Speaker 1: First of all, if he would have done what his
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Speaker 1: friend did and complied with a last full order to
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Speaker 1: put your hands up and comply, is Devon Bailey? I
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Speaker 1: think so, he would be alive today, right. And that's
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Speaker 1: the thing that we've got to understand. You don't. It's
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Speaker 1: not something you get to decide whether you're gonna comply
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Speaker 1: with the law. If you're for the rule of law,
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Speaker 1: you comply with the law. It's just that simple.
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Speaker 2: You've been watching news stories for a long time, and
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Speaker 2: I don't want to put words in your mouth at all,
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Speaker 2: but I have seen more and more and more where
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Speaker 2: people just not only they don't respect authority in law enforcement,
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Speaker 2: they completely disregard I've seen there was a woman, she's
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Speaker 2: at a colonel in the Air Force. They're trying to
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Speaker 2: get her out of the car. Now I'm not getting
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Speaker 2: out of the car. Do you guys ever talk about
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Speaker 2: this in terms of what goes on in Washington, because
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Speaker 2: you guys are at risk in Washington as well.
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Speaker 1: Sure. And it's again, if you're being disrespectful to the
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Speaker 1: police officer who pulls you over, you're not just being
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Speaker 1: disrespectful to him. You're being disrespectful to the rule of law.
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Speaker 1: And if we lose the rule of law in America,
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Speaker 1: we've lost everything. You know, if you don't like that
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Speaker 1: officer who pulled you over, well you know what, he
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Speaker 1: might pull over the person who just hit you and
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Speaker 1: was drunk and wants to arrest them. So they are
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Speaker 1: there to call balls and strikes. And the vast majority
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Speaker 1: of police officers are are law abiding citizens and they
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Speaker 1: do a great job for us. You know one thing,
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Speaker 1: and I can answer your question, but let's talk about
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Speaker 1: body cams. Body cams should be on every law enforcement
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Speaker 1: person in America. And if you talk to any cop,
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Speaker 1: they'll tell you that, yep, they protect the ninety nine
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Speaker 1: point nine percent of good cops. They protect it, you know,
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Speaker 1: having that video and so many times. I had talked
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Speaker 1: to our DA Michael Allen the other day and he
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Speaker 1: was telling me about a case and this this kid
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Speaker 1: said that the mother said, well, we need to you know,
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Speaker 1: we're not going to take a deal with you. You know,
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Speaker 1: my kid is innocent and all of that. And they said, well,
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Speaker 1: Michael says to the young lady, he says, well, how
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Speaker 1: about we get the body cam and pull it up
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Speaker 1: and the girl says to her, let's just take the
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Speaker 1: deal because the girl knew what was on the bodycam,
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Speaker 1: right and so so many times that is the case. Occasionally,
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Speaker 1: very rarely, but occasionally it will protect or it will
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Speaker 1: catch that bad cop. And we want that so bodycams.
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Speaker 1: We appropriated twenty million dollars for ICE to have bodycams.
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Speaker 1: If they didn't all have body cams, I want to
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Speaker 1: know why they should, because it protects those agents that
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Speaker 1: do the right thing. Now I don't know if this
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Speaker 1: agent did the right thing the wrong thing. That's for
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Speaker 1: the investigators to decide. It should be thoroughly investigated. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: those are my thoughts well.
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Speaker 2: And I was surprised too with the first incident with
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Speaker 2: Renee Good that there was not bodycam. And I was
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Speaker 2: thankful that the officer or himself, agent whatever he'd like
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Speaker 2: to call him, was using his cell phone to record.
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Speaker 2: Thank goodness, because that's the best perspective that was going on.
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Speaker 2: I was going to ask you about bodycams because my
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Speaker 2: understanding is not everyone with iSER Border Patrol has them.
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Speaker 2: I didn't know that you had allocated money for that.
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Speaker 2: We'll take a short break. Talk about that a little
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Speaker 2: bit more when we come back, because it's not just
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Speaker 2: a surge in Minneapolis. It has been a lot of applications.
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Speaker 2: It's in trying to increase the number of agents and
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Speaker 2: officers we have working for many of these agencies. We'll
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Speaker 2: pick it up there with funding and whether that's an
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Speaker 2: issue at all from Congress. With Jeff Crank, he takes questions.
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Speaker 2: He just doesn't go to very hostile things where it's
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Speaker 2: a setup. So you can ask him any question you
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Speaker 2: want here. The number is seven one nine, seven to
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Speaker 2: one five zero seven, poor zero. And if you'd like
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Speaker 2: just go ahead and text it in, we'll get an
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Speaker 2: answer from Jeff Crank back after this. So, Jeff Crank,
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Speaker 2: when we come back seven to one nine seven to
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Speaker 2: one five zero seven, poor zero, you can call it
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Speaker 2: in or you can text it in back after this.
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Speaker 3: Time.
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Speaker 1: Time. All right, welcome back to kV o R. My
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Speaker 1: good friend Richard Randall that I thought we'd just do
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Speaker 1: that for old time sake. Let me just do it
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Speaker 1: come an end. What do you think?
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Speaker 2: I love it? I mean, I can honestly say I
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Speaker 2: miss you very I'm glad where you're at. I endorsed you,
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Speaker 2: and I'm glad where you're at, but I do miss
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Speaker 2: you here at kV R.
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Speaker 1: I miss being on kV It's it was always so
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Speaker 1: great and people ask me that all the time if
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Speaker 1: I miss doing this. This is such a great medium.
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Speaker 1: I've been blessed in my life. I mean, it's great
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Speaker 1: being a member of Congress. This is the greatest job
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Speaker 1: I've ever had. But it was always fun being on
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Speaker 1: air and talking with people. And I still go places
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Speaker 1: and people go out. Yesterday I was out at a
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Speaker 1: church and talking to some folks that guy because so, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I used to listen to you all the time on
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Speaker 1: the radio, So it's always fun. I'm sure I know
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Speaker 1: you get that all the time.
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Speaker 2: Well, but you I mean, now you're a congressman, but
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Speaker 2: you're the same person. I mean, you were at engaging,
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Speaker 2: You listen to people, you don't yell at people. I
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Speaker 2: think I have a quicker temper than you do. I'm
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Speaker 2: trying to think about it. I've heard you just lose that.
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Speaker 2: But in terms of that perspective, let's go back a
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Speaker 2: little further, even than the Jeff Crank Show. If you're new,
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Speaker 2: where to Colorado or Colora? Springs. Jeff Crank was on
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Speaker 2: the administration. Actually shouldn't say administration, He was working for
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Speaker 2: Joel Hepley. He was part of his staff and for
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Speaker 2: a while chief of staff. So when you compare those
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Speaker 2: days that you spent in Washington with Joel Hepley to
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Speaker 2: what's going on now, what are the biggest differences, then.
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Speaker 1: There's that's really a great question. There's a lot of differences. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: social media is a big difference. Actually, I worked for
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Speaker 1: Joel Heckley in the nineties. I kind of think we
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Speaker 1: had computers back then, but I don't know how good
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Speaker 1: they were. But you know, it's just it's just so different.
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Speaker 1: Like people can call my office and request a tour
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Speaker 1: if they're coming to Washington, DC. You used to have
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Speaker 1: to call and we had a little sheet that you'd
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Speaker 1: write that out on and all that. Now you just
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Speaker 1: go online. You go to my website Crank dot House
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Speaker 1: dot gov, and you can fill out and say I
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Speaker 1: want to I'd like to go to the White House
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Speaker 1: to the Capitol, and we've got staff that will take
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Speaker 1: care of that for you. If you want a flag
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Speaker 1: flown over the US capital on a certain day to
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Speaker 1: honor your your grandma's birthday or whatever. You just can
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Speaker 1: go online and do all that stuff. So it's just
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Speaker 1: a lot easier, But in a lot of ways it's harder,
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Speaker 1: and I think with social media it's harder. There's there's
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Speaker 1: more nonsense out there. I saw something the other day
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Speaker 1: on social media talking about a vote that I cast.
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Speaker 1: It was just totally wrong, and it's like, how do
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Speaker 1: you correct that? I mean, it was totally the opposite
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Speaker 1: of what they were saying. But you see that, and
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Speaker 1: you know that stuff just kind of spreads and they.
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Speaker 2: Get away with it. This No, that does get me
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Speaker 2: because I'm looking at Tim Walls the other day. He
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Speaker 2: stands up there. You've got Keith Ellison, you got the
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Speaker 2: mayor and the rest of them, but Tim Walls, I
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Speaker 2: don't know. It's about a ten minute podium he's there.
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Speaker 2: I counted at least five or six things. It wasn't
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Speaker 2: that they were nuanced, it was that they were just
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Speaker 2: flat out wrong. And nobody in the media ever goes
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Speaker 2: back in fact checks this stuff, certainly not in real time,
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Speaker 2: and they get away with it. And it doesn't surprise
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Speaker 2: me that so many people on the left, they'll pass
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Speaker 2: a polygraph on these things is absolutely believable.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well it is, And I do worry about that.
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Speaker 1: You look at AI. I mean, I'm a big fan
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Speaker 1: of AI. I think we have to lead as America.
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Speaker 1: We have to lead as AI. I want the country
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Speaker 1: that believes in the constitution and free speech to control AI.
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Speaker 1: I don't want the communist Chinese being the leaders in AI.
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Speaker 1: So I'm a big fan of that. I don't think
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Speaker 1: we need much regulation, but it does worry me. Like
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Speaker 1: you go on, you go on social media, and half
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Speaker 1: the stuff you see is just made up. The other day,
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm a Broncos fan, and I saw after
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Speaker 1: a bo Nicks got hurt in the Division game, there
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Speaker 1: was a story on social media about him and had
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Speaker 1: a picture looked like a picture of bo Nicks laying
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Speaker 1: in the hospital in a hospital gown and Josh Allen,
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Speaker 1: the quarterback from the Buffalo Bills who they beat, standing
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Speaker 1: right at his bedside, And if you zoom in, it's
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Speaker 1: not really bo Nicks, and it's not really Josh Allen,
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Speaker 1: it's very close to them. It was an AI generated
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Speaker 1: picture and the whole story is created as Oh, Josh Allen,
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Speaker 1: you know, stopped by the hospital and all this, well,
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Speaker 1: none of that happened. But you go down and you
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Speaker 1: look through the comments and it's so many people say
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Speaker 1: that Josh Allen is so great. It's such a lie.
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Speaker 2: I'll give you one this word, so like everybody else.
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Speaker 2: And as a former trial attorney, and I reached back
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Speaker 2: to Dan May was a DA James Cook assist in DA.
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Speaker 2: And we're over the weekend, we're looking at all these
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Speaker 2: video from different locations, et cetera, trying to figure out
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Speaker 2: exactly what happened. And I'm with you, we need to
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Speaker 2: let the process before start jumping all over things. But
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Speaker 2: I saw yesterday it's a photograph purporting to me a
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Speaker 2: photograph of you know, mister pretty on the ground kind
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Speaker 2: of on his knees with somebody from border patrol with
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Speaker 2: a gun pointing right at his head back. And I'm like,
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Speaker 2: whoa hold on, and I look, it's fake. But there
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Speaker 2: are going to be a lot of people who see
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Speaker 2: that and they are outraged.
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Speaker 1: And Richard, do you think that the communist Chinese government
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Speaker 1: or the Russians aren't creating images like that to sew
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Speaker 1: division in America? They are doing just that. They use
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Speaker 1: social media against the United States. Now, we can't use
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Speaker 1: it against them because they censor any of that kind
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Speaker 1: of stuff in their country to protect their regime. But
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Speaker 1: here they do that, and they use social media to
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Speaker 1: try and shape and sew division amongst Americans. And I think,
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Speaker 1: and I can tell you this with a lot of certainty.
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Speaker 1: I can't get into many of the details, but I
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Speaker 1: can tell you with a lot of certainty that they
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Speaker 1: are very actively The Chinese other foreign agents are very
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Speaker 1: very intently sewing division. And part of this whole effort
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Speaker 1: to try and sow hatred in Minnesota in other parts
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Speaker 1: of our country, to tear our country down. We shouldn't
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Speaker 1: fall for that. They're communists. We should be Americans and
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Speaker 1: stand up with one another.
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Speaker 2: Talking about protests. You know, I had some other things.
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Speaker 2: We've got time. I'm gonna set them aside because we've
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Speaker 2: got protests going on. In Iran. We have people getting
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Speaker 2: shot and killed. Under the Obama administration, they had the
18:15
Speaker 2: Green Revolution, young women took the hit jobs up and
18:18
Speaker 2: next thing you know, they were either killed or put
18:20
Speaker 2: into rape rooms. We've seen a lot coming out of Iran.
18:24
Speaker 2: Your thoughts on Iran, and I don't want you to
18:26
Speaker 2: get into anything that the president of the military may
18:29
Speaker 2: be considering talking about, but just generally.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, first of all, I think the president has
18:33
Speaker 1: an obligation to take action on Iran. Now that doesn't
18:35
Speaker 1: mean military action, that means action. He has an obligation
18:39
Speaker 1: to do what Barack Obama didn't do in two thousand
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Speaker 1: and nine, and that's to stand up for the brave
18:45
Speaker 1: citizens of Iran who want freedom and want liberty. And
18:49
Speaker 1: it was a tragedy what happened in two thousand and nine.
18:52
Speaker 1: They stood up and we didn't do anything. We as
18:54
Speaker 1: a government just said, hey, you're on your own, and
18:57
Speaker 1: all of these students and others were massacred by the
19:00
Speaker 1: tyrannical regime that is horrible to women, first of all,
19:05
Speaker 1: and they're horrible to religious freedom and liberty in general.
19:08
Speaker 1: So I think the president should look at all the
19:10
Speaker 1: options that I know that he is. He's weighing those,
19:12
Speaker 1: whether they're cyber attacks, whether they are embargoes, economic sanctions,
19:18
Speaker 1: or whether it's military action. He ought to look at
19:20
Speaker 1: all of those. But what I hope he will do
19:23
Speaker 1: is stand with the people of Iran, and what that
19:25
Speaker 1: will do not only for the people of Iran, but
19:28
Speaker 1: the people of the world think of this. Iran is
19:30
Speaker 1: the only country left in the Middle East that stands
19:35
Speaker 1: stands against Israel in the way that they do. They
19:38
Speaker 1: have been funding the terror in southern Israel. They have
19:44
Speaker 1: been funding these terror groups. Most of the more moderate
19:48
Speaker 1: Arab states, whether it's Saudi Arabia or Jordan or any
19:51
Speaker 1: of these, are willing to coexist with Israel. We could
19:54
Speaker 1: literally have peace in the Middle East if we get
19:57
Speaker 1: rid of this regime in Iran.
19:59
Speaker 2: Take a sharp break. When we come back, we're gonna
20:01
Speaker 2: be talking more about the world. I can tell you
20:04
Speaker 2: right now when I ask you about Jeff Crank. Is
20:06
Speaker 2: the world safer than it was before? There have been
20:08
Speaker 2: some things, whether it's Venezuela or Greenland, that I didn't
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Speaker 2: vote for because I didn't know those were at play,
20:14
Speaker 2: and yet I've got pretty positive feelings that somebody had
20:17
Speaker 2: to do it. The overarching question would be, you've seen
20:20
Speaker 2: so many other presidents, going back to the time that
20:22
Speaker 2: you were with Joel Hepley, where all they did for
20:25
Speaker 2: their four years or eight years, is there really really
20:26
Speaker 2: tough stuff? Just like Obama, kick the can down the road,
20:29
Speaker 2: Make some other president deal with it, This president is
20:32
Speaker 2: dealing with it. Your thoughts on Iran, China, Greenland, Venezuela,
20:36
Speaker 2: and your questions as well. Seven to one nine seven
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20:57
Speaker 2: who is providing the money an organization to these left
21:00
Speaker 2: extremist causes? Are they in violation of federal statues? Can
21:04
Speaker 2: they be prosecuted for such? Is there any money they
21:07
Speaker 2: would go back to China or Iran or in my case,
21:11
Speaker 2: any of this money that was just being sent out
21:13
Speaker 2: over and over and over again USAID, and I think
21:17
Speaker 2: a lot of it is used, even with ngngos and
21:19
Speaker 2: charities to bring people into the country illegally. Where do
21:22
Speaker 2: you think the money will lead? They always say, follow
21:24
Speaker 2: the money, Jeff Crank.
21:25
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, first of all, yet the answer is, we
21:28
Speaker 1: do know. We do know that the Russians particularly did it,
21:32
Speaker 1: and they did it during the elections. They're doing it now.
21:35
Speaker 1: The Chinese and others are doing it. They're using social
21:38
Speaker 1: media and using bots and other things to sow this
21:41
Speaker 1: division in America and turn one against the other. And
21:46
Speaker 1: we have sadly Americans who fall for that kind of
21:49
Speaker 1: nonsense and they would rather side with the Chinese communists
21:53
Speaker 1: than with the United States of America. So we know
21:55
Speaker 1: that that's happening at the state level, that they are
21:58
Speaker 1: doing this. But some of these groups, and you raise
22:01
Speaker 1: a good point in that question, I do think Congress
22:04
Speaker 1: should fully investigate some of these groups that are sowing
22:08
Speaker 1: division and how they're funded, right, And you know, it's
22:12
Speaker 1: one thing to fund a legitimate disagreement with the administration.
22:16
Speaker 1: It is not okay to fund an organization that goes
22:19
Speaker 1: out and tries to break the law. And again, if
22:21
Speaker 1: you are impeding a federal immigration official from doing their
22:26
Speaker 1: job and enforcing immigration law, you're breaking the law. And
22:30
Speaker 1: so we ought to find out who is doing that,
22:34
Speaker 1: if they're funding organizations and encouraging them to break the law.
22:37
Speaker 1: You know, we broke up the mafia using Rico's standardudes
22:41
Speaker 1: and things like that, and you know, we probably do
22:44
Speaker 1: need to do that. If they're out there fomenting this
22:47
Speaker 1: kind of hatred, we ought to know who is doing it. Again,
22:51
Speaker 1: legitimate protest is perfectly fine. But when you're trying to
22:55
Speaker 1: get people to get up in people's faces, try and
22:58
Speaker 1: intimidate folks, and you know, cause violence, that is something
23:03
Speaker 1: that can't be tolerated in the United States. It's again,
23:06
Speaker 1: it's an attack on the United States of America. It's
23:08
Speaker 1: not an attack on conservative it's not an attack on liberals.
23:11
Speaker 1: It's an attack on our country and we need to
23:13
Speaker 1: treat it as such.
23:13
Speaker 2: When it comes to elections. Obviously a lot of conversations
23:16
Speaker 2: about that. I remember when I first found out that
23:19
Speaker 2: there were a number of states that didn't require much
23:22
Speaker 2: by way of identification, et cetera. Whether you're driving a
23:26
Speaker 2: huge rig out on the interstate or whether you're going
23:29
Speaker 2: in to vote. What can be done? Do you believe
23:31
Speaker 2: to ensure election integrity, especially here in Colorado in your district, Well.
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Speaker 1: The greatest thing we can do is pass voter ID.
23:39
Speaker 1: I mean, that's just crazy. You know, you go to
23:41
Speaker 1: get on an airplane or go through security there, you
23:44
Speaker 1: have to show an ID. There's so many things you
23:47
Speaker 1: have to have an ID to prove who you are.
23:49
Speaker 1: If it's important enough to fly on an airplane, why
23:52
Speaker 1: wouldn't it be important enough to drive our democracy or
23:57
Speaker 1: our republic right to be able to vote in that
23:59
Speaker 1: So people say, well, how could we do mail in
24:02
Speaker 1: voting if we had It's not up to me to
24:05
Speaker 1: decide how we do mail in voting. That's up to
24:07
Speaker 1: the Secretary of State. I do know this. We should
24:10
Speaker 1: have voter ID so that when somebody goes to turn
24:13
Speaker 1: in a ballot, we know who that ballot is from.
24:17
Speaker 1: And if we don't do that, we don't really have
24:20
Speaker 1: a secure election system. And so I'm for and I
24:23
Speaker 1: have voted for in Congress, the Save Act. I voted
24:26
Speaker 1: for for these you know, voter ID, I support it.
24:30
Speaker 1: I think that is the solution to all of this
24:34
Speaker 1: is having voter ID comes from Chuck.
24:36
Speaker 2: He says, please put forth a bill to remove the
24:38
Speaker 2: Social Security tax cap of one hundred and eighty four thousand,
24:42
Speaker 2: five hundred dollars. Why should a taxpayer earning one hundred
24:45
Speaker 2: and eighty five thousand dollars pay tax on every dollar
24:48
Speaker 2: they earn. Well, a millionaire like Eli mus pays only
24:52
Speaker 2: one hundred and eighty four five hundred. That comes from Chuck.
24:55
Speaker 2: You can fold that into it. But when it comes
24:58
Speaker 2: to the accomplished President Trump in such a short period
25:02
Speaker 2: of time when it comes to the you know, the
25:04
Speaker 2: economy and taxing tips and all of the rest, talk
25:07
Speaker 2: to us about that.
25:08
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean to that question, Look, there's that's
25:11
Speaker 1: a double edged sword because, first of all, Elon Musk,
25:15
Speaker 1: if you're having him pay more in Social Security taxes,
25:18
Speaker 1: is not like he's gonna get more. He's not gonna
25:20
Speaker 1: get a billion dollars worth of Social Security benefits because
25:23
Speaker 1: those benefits are also capped to people at a certain level.
25:27
Speaker 1: So so I understand what you're saying on that, but look,
25:32
Speaker 1: here's the reality. Elon Musk probably pays a lot more
25:36
Speaker 1: in income tax. I don't know specifically what Elon Musk pays.
25:39
Speaker 1: He pays a lot more than I do in income tax.
25:42
Speaker 1: It's easy to blame billionaires for the problems of the world.
25:46
Speaker 1: That's called envy. I don't really care for envy. I
25:48
Speaker 1: like for people to just go out and do what
25:50
Speaker 1: they can to make their life a better place. But
25:52
Speaker 1: I will say this, We've done great work in Congress
25:57
Speaker 1: this year working with President Trump to bring about tax
26:01
Speaker 1: relief for the American people, and you're going to feel
26:03
Speaker 1: it in the next couple of months. For sure. We
26:06
Speaker 1: did no tax on tips in the One Big Beautiful bill.
26:09
Speaker 1: We did no tax on Social Security. There's actually, well
26:13
Speaker 1: there is a tax on social Security at a certain level,
26:15
Speaker 1: but there's a senior tax exemption that we passed, so
26:19
Speaker 1: seniors will get tax relief this time as well. No
26:23
Speaker 1: tax on overtime, So if you're a police officer, EMT,
26:27
Speaker 1: first responder, most a lot of that will not be taxed.
26:30
Speaker 1: That you're going to feel that. We doubled the child
26:34
Speaker 1: tax credit for people, and we made it, made it permanent,
26:38
Speaker 1: indexed it for inflation, so if you have kids, you're
26:42
Speaker 1: going to feel that accounts for kids saving these accounts,
26:45
Speaker 1: these Trump accounts are are amazing. One thousand dollars that
26:49
Speaker 1: the federal government's going to put in if you if
26:50
Speaker 1: you got a new kid born into an account. You
26:53
Speaker 1: can't access that until you're eighteen years old. But just
26:56
Speaker 1: think what a thousand dollars invested in the stock market
27:00
Speaker 1: you're eighteen for eighteen years, what difference that would mean.
27:02
Speaker 1: You can put more money into it. And they're even
27:05
Speaker 1: going out and getting philanthropists to put money into this.
27:08
Speaker 1: Michael Dell and others are saying they'll put money into
27:10
Speaker 1: these accounts. So that's a great thing. No, a lot
27:14
Speaker 1: of people don't know this. We did no tax on
27:17
Speaker 1: car loan interest if you buy an American made car.
27:20
Speaker 1: So starting at the beginning of twenty twenty five, if
27:25
Speaker 1: if you bought an American made car, all of that
27:28
Speaker 1: interest is tax deductible, which has never been done before.
27:32
Speaker 1: I will say this. The American people will do their taxes,
27:34
Speaker 1: They'll look and they'll say, man, I got a big
27:36
Speaker 1: refund this year. Here's the other thing you should do.
27:38
Speaker 1: Go back in adjusture withholding to this new lower tax rate,
27:43
Speaker 1: so you got more money coming in every single month.
27:45
Speaker 1: That's the real secret to this is make sure that
27:47
Speaker 1: you do that. You're not going to get as big
27:49
Speaker 1: of a tax refund in twenty twenty seven on twenty
27:52
Speaker 1: twenty six, but you're gonna have more take on pay
27:55
Speaker 1: month to month. It's a great thing.
27:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, We'll say here's a tough one when it comes
27:58
Speaker 2: to Venezuela, Greenland andarticularly some of these things. I keep
28:01
Speaker 2: saying to myself, well, I didn't vote for that necessarily.
28:04
Speaker 2: I didn't vote for B twos to get over Iran necessarily.
28:08
Speaker 2: Is the world safer or not. And he's done some
28:11
Speaker 2: things that he didn't run on. Good things are bad things.
28:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, look I think it's a much safer world today. Look,
28:17
Speaker 1: the narco terrorist state of Venezuela is no longer a
28:22
Speaker 1: narco terrorist state. And to the people who say, oh,
28:24
Speaker 1: you know, Donald Trump, you know takes us to war
28:27
Speaker 1: in Congress House, to are we at war in Venezuela,
28:29
Speaker 1: We're not at war in Venezuela. We struck Venezuela for
28:32
Speaker 1: the purpose of getting a bad person who was indicted
28:36
Speaker 1: in the United States, just like Manuel Noriega, out of
28:39
Speaker 1: the country. It was a judicial operation. It was done flawlessly,
28:43
Speaker 1: and I'll tell you what I was briefed on that.
28:45
Speaker 1: Let me just say this, when the movie comes out
28:47
Speaker 1: about the operation in Venezuela, buy your ticket because I
28:51
Speaker 1: can tell you there were some things done in that
28:53
Speaker 1: that if you saw it, you would be so proud
28:55
Speaker 1: of our men and women who wear the uniform in
28:58
Speaker 1: the American military. They did a stuff in that operation
29:02
Speaker 1: in Venezuela.
29:03
Speaker 2: So talk to me about eight thousand people show up.
29:06
Speaker 2: They say, you won't address crowds or questions from people.
29:10
Speaker 2: Eight thousand people the other day talk about that and
29:12
Speaker 2: your news life.
29:13
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I'm not allowing a mob to rule. There's
29:15
Speaker 1: people who run around, go bang on doors or go
29:19
Speaker 1: and you know, spray paint stuff and things like that,
29:23
Speaker 1: who demand in person town hall so that they can
29:26
Speaker 1: do to people what they just did to ilhan Omar.
29:29
Speaker 1: That's not something I'm gonna do. But look, here's the
29:33
Speaker 1: reality of it. I've had three town hall meetings. I
29:36
Speaker 1: believe I've had three already. I think we had twelve
29:39
Speaker 1: thousand at one, eight thousand at another, seventy five hundred
29:42
Speaker 1: at another. We do that all the time.
29:44
Speaker 2: But you take questions for the will take.
29:46
Speaker 1: We take questions from everybody. In fact, I think this
29:49
Speaker 1: last one, which was last week, we had more questions
29:51
Speaker 1: for people who disagreed with me than people who agreed
29:54
Speaker 1: with me. So we take the questions as they come.
29:57
Speaker 2: We got a minute here it is your birthday, or
29:59
Speaker 2: to make a big deal about that. But it turns
30:01
Speaker 2: out that Republicans in Washington, while acknowledging birthdays, don't make
30:06
Speaker 2: a big deal or spend a lot of time on it.
30:08
Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't have a lot of time usually in
30:10
Speaker 1: Republican caucus. But we have a little birthday song, so
30:13
Speaker 1: it goes like this, Hey, it's your birthday song. It
30:17
Speaker 1: doesn't last too long. Hey, that's it. There you go,
30:21
Speaker 1: Happy birthday, Get to work.
30:22
Speaker 2: You got about forty five seconds, thirty seconds for a
30:25
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