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55KRC Wednesday Show - Oval of Honor, AFP, Vivek, Judge Napolitano · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: Five O five fifty k r C the talk station
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Speaker 1: end of Congressman Massy. I suppose there's a conclusion one
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Speaker 1: might draw, I'm gonna endeavor to be optimistic. Of course, folks,
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Speaker 1: mostly he listened to my show. You know that I've
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Speaker 1: always been friends with and a fan of Congressman Massy,
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Speaker 1: sort of you know, consistent with my personal little l
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Speaker 1: libertary event. And I was hoping that, uh, he was
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Speaker 1: gonna pull it off yesterday, but sadly, in spite of
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Speaker 1: the fact that he's beat back multiple challenges over the year,
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Speaker 1: Congressman Thomas Massey was defeated by Ed Gollryan. So congratulations
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Speaker 1: to Ed Glryan. I wish he had come on the
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Speaker 1: program to talk about his campaign or what he actually
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Speaker 1: moves is planning on doing moving forward, because I still
1:04
Speaker 1: it's a swirling mystery to me what the man actually
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Speaker 1: stands for, except that he was quoted as saying, yesterday's
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Speaker 1: well Trump's agenda. So there is your outcome and a
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Speaker 1: pretty solid win by Ed golryin with ten percent. Basically
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Speaker 1: the margin of victory there ten percent. And you know,
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Speaker 1: to this moment, I asked Joe if he could find
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Speaker 1: anything I couldn't find anything about voter turnout in Kentucky,
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Speaker 1: like percentage of folks showing up, you know, how many
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Speaker 1: people that were registered to vote actually showed up and voted.
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Speaker 1: And here's a question for you, because Ed's going to
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Speaker 1: be up against Melissa Strange, who secured the Democratic nomination
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Speaker 1: for the fourth congressional district yesterday. I don't know think
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Speaker 1: about Melissa's strange except her campaign website. She's pro pre
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Speaker 1: k education, which me suggests to me that she's, you know,
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Speaker 1: pro indoctrinating children. And the whole idea is taking a
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Speaker 1: baby out of the womb of a mother and handing
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Speaker 1: it over to some educator. Why because well, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: That's just a bad idea, but that's one of her
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Speaker 1: That's one of the things she's on record as being.
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Speaker 1: She's also pro abortion, and everything else on the site
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Speaker 1: is pretty vanilla, really not much there. So I don't
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Speaker 1: know who moils the strange it is, but it's Strange
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Speaker 1: versus a gall Rain question. Will the Massy supporters show
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Speaker 1: up and actually cast to vote in November in favor
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Speaker 1: of Ed Gallwright? Do you does anybody think that is
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Speaker 1: a possibility that you know, a I refuse to vote
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Speaker 1: for that guy kind of attitude out in the among
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Speaker 1: the Kentucky Republicans going to the polls in November. I
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Speaker 1: don't think it's you know, there are other issues on
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Speaker 1: the ballot. Of course you're going to go to the
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Speaker 1: polls for other races, but it's one of those. I
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Speaker 1: really don't like the party nominee. Do I even punch
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Speaker 1: the hole or fill in the little box and vote
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Speaker 1: for him? Hold my nose in other words, you know,
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Speaker 1: standing up for the perfect, at least in an individual's mind,
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Speaker 1: and not going for the quote unquote good. And I'm
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Speaker 1: hoping that at gall Ryan proves to be at least good.
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Speaker 1: I think, you know, he's got to be back in
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Speaker 1: whatever Trump backs. That's an assurance, and I think that's
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Speaker 1: obviously why a lot of people voted for him. You know,
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Speaker 1: Massy's an obstructionist to a certain degree and obviously not
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Speaker 1: one hundred percent lockstep in line with Donald Trump. That
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Speaker 1: irked a whole lot of people. Many of them called
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Speaker 1: the Morning Show and explain that. And I get the
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Speaker 1: point that's being made. So another person's going to be
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Speaker 1: a little upset about that. Judge Editor Politano today's subject,
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Speaker 1: do we still have a constitution? It's a really interesting
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Speaker 1: op ed piece. Judge ed An Apolitano. I suppose since
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Speaker 1: he and I both were art was still And to
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Speaker 1: those out there who are positing or questioning whether or
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Speaker 1: not Congressman Thomas Massey will continue to come on the
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Speaker 1: thirty five Carrison Morney Show after he is no longer
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Speaker 1: in the seat, that is a okay with me. And
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Speaker 1: we hear from Winstrip all the time. Former Congressman brad
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Speaker 1: Winstrip comes in. He's still very closely connected with matters
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Speaker 1: involving government. And of course, philosophically speaking, I appreciate where
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Speaker 1: Congressman Messy comes from. So maybe we can view future
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Speaker 1: just discussion through the libertarian lens of objective analysis. Anyhow, well,
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Speaker 1: that remains to be seen, and I'm not sure if
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Speaker 1: congress from Messi is going to be interested in doing that,
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Speaker 1: but he has a welcome spot to do. So. What's
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Speaker 1: coming up this morning? V Vague Rama Swamy eight oh five.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to reverse order that was judging of Poulton
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Speaker 1: are preceded by Governor goobatorial candidate Ramaswamy. We'll talk about
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Speaker 1: medicaid fraud. And I recommend strongly if I don't get
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Speaker 1: to do it today. Great op ed piece from VVG
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Speaker 1: Ramaswamy an easy way to defeat Medicaid fraud, and it
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Speaker 1: is an interesting point. I guess states just don't get
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Speaker 1: enough of the fraud money they flagg the federal government.
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Speaker 1: Most of it goes back to them. So where is
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Speaker 1: the incentive And I'm just boiling down Vvag's ultimate point,
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Speaker 1: which you can talk about at eight oh five. Let
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Speaker 1: the states keep more of the fraud money they recover. Oh,
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Speaker 1: there's an idea. It's an incentive to stop fraud, waste,
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Speaker 1: and abuse. So the state's coffers will increase because you know,
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Speaker 1: we've I think pretty much solidly identified billions of dollars
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Speaker 1: in fraud here in the state of Ohio, and that's
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Speaker 1: just becomes a question of prosecution and recovery to the
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Speaker 1: extent as possible. If you can get out in front
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Speaker 1: of that, incentivized states to do the leg work to
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Speaker 1: get those federal dollars, stop those federal dollars from going
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Speaker 1: into the hands of criminals, that incentive will do it.
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Speaker 1: I really wish the incentive to do it was just
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Speaker 1: there out of principle, Hell knows you or God knows you.
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Speaker 1: Can't rely on just principle to get politicians to do anything.
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Speaker 1: There's got to be some money incentive involved. But it's
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Speaker 1: a practical solution, you know. Interestingly enough, another topic we'll
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Speaker 1: talk about with good notorial candidate ramasweby his proposal to
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Speaker 1: eliminate property taxes. I'm sorry, his proposal will eliminate income
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Speaker 1: tax in the state of Ohio. Yes, he has floated
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Speaker 1: that as well. People pulling their hair out over. Oh
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Speaker 1: my god, that's ten billion dollars a year that won't
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Speaker 1: be going to the state coffers. Now, he's a little
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Speaker 1: bit more optimistic than the gloom and doom predictions in that.
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Speaker 1: So he'll be joining the program. At eight oh five,
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Speaker 1: we'll talk about data centers in Ohio and of course
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Speaker 1: get a rundown on the camp paying trail. Preceded he
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Speaker 1: is by Donaldannil. It's Wednesday, Donovanill, Senior Advisor for Americans
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Speaker 1: for Prosperity with his AFP Action hat on. He too
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Speaker 1: will be talking about Medicaid oversight as well as fiscal sustainability.
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Speaker 1: And then at seven oh five an event that I
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Speaker 1: have been honored to be a part of since twenty eleven.
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Speaker 1: The first Ford Oval of Honor event was held back
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Speaker 1: on nine to eleven and twenty eleven over a Great
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Speaker 1: American ballpark. Dozens of veterans were there, saluted by Ford Day.
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Speaker 1: These are kind of hand selected veterans, representative and illustrative
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Speaker 1: of great the just the veteran community at large. That
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Speaker 1: was where I got to meet Dolittle Raider Mike Griffin.
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Speaker 1: That was back and again twenty eleven. But I've been
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Speaker 1: doing this for the honored, just to say a few
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Speaker 1: words in front of the veterans who are being honored
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Speaker 1: this Sunday at the Reds game, Red's Ford Oval of
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Speaker 1: Honor event. It's happening Sunday and Greg's gonna be into
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Speaker 1: talking about it. And thanks to the Ford Dealerships and
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Speaker 1: everyone else involved with that. It's just outstanding what they do.
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Speaker 1: Uh five twelve Right now for you have Kcity Talk
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Speaker 1: Station five one, three, seven four nine fifty five hundred,
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Speaker 1: eight hundred and eight two three talk Pound Fight fifty
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Speaker 1: on at and T phone. Another question real quick because
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Speaker 1: I got Kirk Gon on the phone. It's so far
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Speaker 1: as the Massy Gallrain Race does anybody think is there
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Speaker 1: a separation between Trump's personal influence. Obviously, he was mad
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Speaker 1: as a horde about Massy and said some pretty vile
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Speaker 1: things about Congressman Massy. I didn't like that at all. Personally,
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Speaker 1: I'd like consistent with many things that I know criticized
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Speaker 1: Trump over the It's just not to me presidential subjective.
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Speaker 1: I know a lot of people love Donald Trump because
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Speaker 1: of his mouth, but I'm not one of those that
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Speaker 1: likes that. But was it Donald Trump's endorsement of Gallrain
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Speaker 1: and Donald Trump's criticism of Massey that pushed voters over
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Speaker 1: with a ten percent advantage to Gallrain or was it
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Speaker 1: the money that poured in? Because Donald Trump did not
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Speaker 1: fund the thirty billion dollars or thirty sorry, thirty million
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Speaker 1: dollars that was behind that race. He wasn't writing checks
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Speaker 1: for that. He was telling other groups and organizations and
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Speaker 1: entities to pour money into that race. So if you
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Speaker 1: took the money out, and I realized in the political race,
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Speaker 1: of course, of this magnitude, there's always going to be
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Speaker 1: money there. But this was the biggest primary race in
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Speaker 1: the history of our country in terms of money spent.
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Speaker 1: So if you took the money out or the extra
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Speaker 1: money out, would the result be the same. I know
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Speaker 1: we'll never know, but I'm just kind of curious to
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Speaker 1: know what you think. Let's see what Kirk's got. Hey, Kirk,
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Speaker 1: thanks for calling this morning. Happy Wednesday to you, Happy
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Speaker 1: Wednesday to you.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I was at the election party last night and I
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Speaker 3: can safely say that there was at least two hundred
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Speaker 3: social media influencers there and I spoke to at least
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Speaker 3: fifty of them. And this isn't over. There's going to
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Speaker 3: be a huge push to get Nassy to either run
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Speaker 3: as an independent or just we'll write him in just
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Speaker 3: to just to kind of you know, operation chaos, as
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Speaker 3: Rush Limbaugh would say.
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Speaker 1: So okay to my and I hear you, and you know,
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Speaker 1: part of me wants to be enthused about that, because
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Speaker 1: you know, I like Massy being around. You know, at
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Speaker 1: least it's a you know, a guide post for what
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Speaker 1: is constitutional, moral and right. But if that were to happen,
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Speaker 1: dividing the Republican vote let's say forty sixty or you know,
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Speaker 1: whatever it turns out to be, won't that guarantee me
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Speaker 1: less a strange a victory in November?
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Speaker 3: Potentially potentially, But as as the Democrats famously say, you
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Speaker 3: know it, it does the was it say that the
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Speaker 3: how did they say that? The causes justifies the means?
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Speaker 1: You know, yeah, justify the means.
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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, the ends justify the means. So you know,
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Speaker 3: you can, like Thomas Mann see campaigned on I was.
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Speaker 3: I helped his campaign the last three times he's ran,
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Speaker 3: and he's always famously said you can support Donald Trump
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Speaker 3: and you can support me too, and well we can
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Speaker 3: do that. We can do that the same way we
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Speaker 3: can also give Donald Trump the metaphorical middle finger and
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Speaker 3: tell them to go pineapple himself and vote for Massey
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Speaker 3: at the same time.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for the signal ninety nine sec compliant mentioned there, Kirk.
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Speaker 4: That's good as you can see.
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Speaker 3: I'm I'm I'm a loyal listener. I appreciate the rules.
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Speaker 5: I know the rules.
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Speaker 1: I appreciate it, brother, and excellent observations. My popcord will
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Speaker 1: remain out. Will Massy be a right? And that's gonna
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Speaker 1: be interesting. We'll see if I can't get in touch
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Speaker 1: with them and find out about that. Feel free to
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Speaker 1: call I five went three seven two three talk five
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Speaker 1: fifty on AT and T phones. Yeah. That uh that
10:51
Speaker 1: that that Cassidy thing Senator Bill Cassidy, who lost because
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Speaker 1: Trump endorsed the opponent. So Cassidy out that chicken may
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Speaker 1: come home to russ yesterday. I got a point on
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Speaker 1: that one coming up, but a lot more than that,
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Speaker 1: so please stick her on. Be right back. Remember five
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11:13
Speaker 1: and another dreary production prediction from Daniel Davis and seemingly
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Speaker 1: backing up all that Daniel Davis was saying about what's
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Speaker 1: going on with the Iranian situation jihad. Yeah, Iranians are
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Speaker 1: being remaining ultimately defiant. But the Supreme Leader Mojaba kamanis
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Speaker 1: who did post yesterday on x among the most valuable
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Speaker 1: achievements of the capital T third capital S sacred capital
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Speaker 1: D defense. Third sacred defense reference to against the American
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Speaker 1: and Zionist invasion is the emergence of Iran at the
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Speaker 1: level of a major influential power. Some are are viewing
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Speaker 1: that statement as a declaration of jihad. The third sacred defense,
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Speaker 1: apparently is the Islamic Republic's preferred term for jihad against
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Speaker 1: an aggressor carries according to religious observers and folks in
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Speaker 1: the know, like doctor Omar Mohammad, who's a terrorism expert
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Speaker 1: with the expert with the program on Extremism at George
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Speaker 1: Washington University. He was speaking of Fox News about that.
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Speaker 1: He said, sacred defense is the Islamic Republic's preferred term
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Speaker 1: for jihad against an aggressor. It carries the full weight
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Speaker 1: of religious obligation in Sharia jurisprudence. By framing the war
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Speaker 1: with America and Israel this way, come in, he is
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Speaker 1: not describing a geopolitical conflict. He's declaring a holy war
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Speaker 1: and casting it as a religious duty. Keep your eyes peeled, folks,
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Speaker 1: you might want to learn how to arm yourself. Just
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Speaker 1: a little worried about domestic terrorist acts as a consequence
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Speaker 1: of some declaration of jihad. Anyway, over the GP Cassidy.
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Speaker 1: In a related topic, Senator Bill Cassidy ousted in Louisiana's
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Speaker 1: GP primary elections. This was one of the targets from
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump. Why I certainly understand Donald Trump's going after Cassidy.
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Speaker 1: He's the one who voted to impeach him, so with
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Speaker 1: that baggage carried into it, he lost. But he's still
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Speaker 1: a Senator procedural vote yesterday for advancing a resolution limiting
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump's build it Away wage war, a war powers
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Speaker 1: measure advanced for the first time procedural vote fifty to
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Speaker 1: forty seven in the Senate, the first time Cassidy has
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Speaker 1: supported such a resolution because he's voted against him and
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Speaker 1: every other opportunity I think there's been seven of or
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Speaker 1: something like that so far. So along with Cassidy on
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Speaker 1: the Republican side, Senators Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collinsamine,
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Speaker 1: and Ran Paul of Kentucky, striking no one as unusual
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Speaker 1: given their pronouncements previously on this very topic, And of
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Speaker 1: course every Democrat with the exception of right John Fatterman,
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Speaker 1: vote in favor of the resolution. Apparently in a statement
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Speaker 1: our next Kensidy, Cassidy said the White House and the
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Speaker 1: Pentagon have left Congress in the dark on the conflict, saying,
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Speaker 1: quote in Louisiana, I've heard from people, including President Trump supporters,
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Speaker 1: who are concerned about this war. Until the administration provides clarity,
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Speaker 1: no congressional authorization or extension can be justified now given
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Speaker 1: the makeup of the House and Senate, as you know,
14:28
Speaker 1: no it's you all know it's squeaky clean or squeaky close.
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Speaker 1: And the ultimate point here is whatever comes out, even
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Speaker 1: if there's a war powers resolution pass, you know it's
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Speaker 1: not going to be with a veto proof majority. Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump can veto any war powers measure. Which leads me
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Speaker 1: back to the point I've been making all along. Where
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Speaker 1: does that leave us? No declaration of war, no war
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Speaker 1: powers resolution? We have, you know, Donald Trump acting alone,
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Speaker 1: claiming there was an emergency, so it allows him to
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Speaker 1: go in for sixty days plus a thirty day extension
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Speaker 1: under the war Powers resolution that's in place. Now you
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Speaker 1: can argue all day long whether as ceasefire such as
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Speaker 1: it is, pauses the clock on that that is an
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Speaker 1: issue that I do not believe has ever been resolved legally.
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Speaker 1: So you can say that's an issue, and you can
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Speaker 1: say it's paused and the clock is not ticking. Ultimately, though,
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Speaker 1: since Donald Trump just issued another declaration, who is maybe well,
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Speaker 1: we're going to go in a few days. We're only
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Speaker 1: going to give the Iranians a few days, we'll be
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Speaker 1: back at war. So give him the benefit of doubt.
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Speaker 1: It was he gets the sixty days plus thirty the
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Speaker 1: clock is going to start running and we're going to
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Speaker 1: be finding ourselves back in the controversy that exists right now.
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Speaker 1: Does he have the authority to do this? That can
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Speaker 1: Congress put the brakes on it? Of course, they can
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Speaker 1: subject to a veto by Donald Trump under the War
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Speaker 1: Powers Resolution. Huh, I guess we're back into literally every
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Speaker 1: conflict since World War Two. Republican president's Democrat presidents alike,
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Speaker 1: just going on their merry way waging war without any
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Speaker 1: particular authorization or guidance from Congress. I don't know how
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Speaker 1: you feel about that. I'm a bit uncomfortab and recognizing
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Speaker 1: as so many people are, like Daniel Davis, you know,
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Speaker 1: it's I want to not believe the guy. So far
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Speaker 1: he's been right now. All of the missiles were not destroyed.
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Speaker 1: They've got a whole bunch of them left, and the
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Speaker 1: Arab countries surrounding the area of Saudi Arabia, United Emirates
16:17
Speaker 1: and the others oil producers are going to have their
16:20
Speaker 1: stuff hit and have had their stuff. The countries have
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Speaker 1: been under attacked by random drone and missile strikes from
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Speaker 1: the Iranians. That's going to increase if we go back
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Speaker 1: to war. It's a foregone conclusion, and the malls in
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Speaker 1: the that are in charge of the Iranians can just
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Speaker 1: sit and wait it out and even talk about guerrilla warfare,
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Speaker 1: which is certainly something that happens if you go after
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Speaker 1: a smaller target. They are still armed, but they can
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Speaker 1: be a thorn in any invading countryside for years. See literally,
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Speaker 1: I think every conflict you can come up with, including
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Speaker 1: our intervention into Afghanistan. Right, the Taliban's in charge and Afghanistan, Joe,
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Speaker 1: weren't they in charge when we went in? Yeah, I think,
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Speaker 1: and Cuba successfully beat back to Batista regime from the mountains.
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Speaker 1: The North Vietnamese were successful in fighting back I guess
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Speaker 1: the French as well as the United States for all
17:15
Speaker 1: those years and we pulled out. Remember that. Now, granted
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Speaker 1: that they had arms and backing from the Chinese. I
17:21
Speaker 1: understand all that. But you can really fight off a
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Speaker 1: foreign power if you have the will and the mic
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Speaker 1: and the determination. That's kind of what Davis's point has
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Speaker 1: been all along. You know, it's not going to be
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Speaker 1: an easy thing to accomplish. The place is so big.
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Speaker 1: For two point four times the state of Texas, Iran
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Speaker 1: is they have deep bunkers with weapons in them that
17:42
Speaker 1: they can haul out on a moment's notice, apparently, and
17:46
Speaker 1: they still control the straight of horror news right now.
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Speaker 1: So a waiting game as we rapidly approach November and
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Speaker 1: the American people getting more and more fed up with
17:54
Speaker 1: the inflationary reality of this war and what it's doing
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Speaker 1: to our economy. I could spell trouble for the Iranians
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Speaker 1: and they know damn well that that's the case. Five
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Speaker 1: back to the fifty five Cars Morning Show. Tom always
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Speaker 1: a pleasure hearing from me. I guess all's right with
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Speaker 1: the world, at least on some level.
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Speaker 2: I guess I had my lovely bride sitting next to
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Speaker 2: me in the car right now. He's out here with
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Speaker 2: me this week.
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Speaker 1: Did you out kick your coverage?
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Speaker 2: Oh, without a doubt.
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Speaker 1: Good, didn't we all? No? No, no, no, no, not
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Speaker 1: all of us, my friend, no, I did. But you
18:51
Speaker 1: know what, I've been around long enough, and I've got
18:53
Speaker 1: a lot of friends I've known since you know, I
18:55
Speaker 1: was a child, a lot of friends from college, and
18:58
Speaker 1: you know a lot of them didn't over the years.
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Speaker 1: They find themselves now in second marriages or divorce. So
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Speaker 1: that does happen right off?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? This, uh, this, that's disappointing with Massy that I know.
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Speaker 2: But your your your last caller there.
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Speaker 5: Now.
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Speaker 2: We can't do that. We cannot run the risk we got,
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Speaker 2: as you mentioned, we have two two cent of them
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Speaker 2: a margin right now. You can't lose. You can't lose
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Speaker 2: the house. You can't let the Democrats take over. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: absolutely not, Paul, that's that's there's no way, that's okay.
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Speaker 1: The right in option, might you know achieve what I
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Speaker 1: suggested could happen in the absence of Massy having anything
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Speaker 1: to do with the November race. Because some people may
19:43
Speaker 1: say I am angry at Trump for picking on Massy,
19:46
Speaker 1: I don't like the challenger because I don't know a
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Speaker 1: damn thing about him whatever, and just not vote in
19:51
Speaker 1: that particular race, and that, of course would assure would
19:53
Speaker 1: would lean toward assuring Melissa Strange victory there. But if
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Speaker 1: you put Massy as a right in and he active
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Speaker 1: encourages people to write it, I think that's a foregone conclusion,
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Speaker 1: as apparently you do.
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Speaker 6: Tom.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I just I we just can't take it. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know, you've noticed over the years,
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Speaker 2: I've kind of leaned towards voting one way or the other. Really,
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Speaker 2: I've dropped I've dropped some hints here and there. Uh
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Speaker 2: so that and and just we we have seen enough
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Speaker 2: of what the Democrats do when they get in control
20:24
Speaker 2: of anything, uh a little town council or or you know,
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Speaker 2: city of Cincinnati, Hamilton County school, you know, you name
20:34
Speaker 2: the city, you name the state. When they're in charge,
20:37
Speaker 2: it's bad. And you cannot run that risk, absolutely, And
20:40
Speaker 2: so you have to You've got to vote against the Democrat.
20:44
Speaker 2: Can't just don't vote Democrat. Yet that that's not good enough,
20:48
Speaker 2: because if you sit home and say, screw it, I'm
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Speaker 2: not voting at all. This pisses me off. No, that's
20:53
Speaker 2: you're going to hand the win to the Democrat and
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Speaker 2: you cannot do that. That's not it's not an option.
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Speaker 2: It's not okay. You want to you want to write something,
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Speaker 2: you want to find some other way to voice your displeasure. Fine,
21:05
Speaker 2: but when when you get in that voting boot, you've
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Speaker 2: got to vote. You gotta, we got to vote to
21:10
Speaker 2: make sure the Republicans state. Look, I'm not happy with them.
21:13
Speaker 2: We've mentioned that. There's all kinds of stuff about Republicans,
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Speaker 2: but the alternative is unacceptable, absolutely unacceptable. Cannot don't vote Democrat,
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Speaker 2: but you got to vote, but don't vote Democrat. Have
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Speaker 2: a great game with Hey, good Tom.
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Speaker 1: I think that's a thoughtful analysis as well. Five and
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Speaker 1: thirty seven, four nine two three you talk, don't if
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Speaker 1: I fifty on eighteen and t fund real quick here. Well,
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Speaker 1: we saw a little bit of justice the other day too.
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Speaker 1: Of the defendants involved. Remember the July brawl. If you
21:37
Speaker 1: just say July brawl, everyone knows what you're talking about.
21:39
Speaker 1: In the greater Cincinnati area. Oh yeah, that's right. I
21:42
Speaker 1: remember Holly getting cole cocked in the face for no
21:44
Speaker 1: reason whatsoever. I remember them is running around demanding that
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Speaker 1: they have to prosecute a white guy. A little bit
21:50
Speaker 1: of racism comments came out of some of our elected
21:52
Speaker 1: officials out of that one. Anyway, Two of the defendants
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Speaker 1: involved in that July brawl sentenced hamilt. Can you come
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Speaker 1: and please? Judge Virginia Talent sentenced Montanez Merriweather to ten
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Speaker 1: months in jail, with two hunred and ninety six days
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Speaker 1: credited to him because he's been behind bars. Merriweather pleaded
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Speaker 1: guilty to aggravated riot and aggravated assault. His attorney says, well,
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Speaker 1: he wasn't that bad. He left when the fight became violent. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: pleaded guilty to aggravated riot aggravated assault. Prosecutors say Merriweather
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Speaker 1: put the victim in a headlock, knocked him to the ground,
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Speaker 1: and kicked the victim while I was already down. Victim
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Speaker 1: identified in court, it's just at sustained severe cuts to
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Speaker 1: his face, concussion, potentially permanent damage to his sinus, cavity,
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Speaker 1: and head trauma. Judge Talent said what happened last summer
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Speaker 1: was not just disorder, it was violence. Conduct of this
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Speaker 1: type creates fear, creates instability, and not only to the victim,
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Speaker 1: not just to at but to the public at large. Yes,
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Speaker 1: he'll be subject to two years of post release control
22:52
Speaker 1: after he finishes his time serve or his time in prison,
22:55
Speaker 1: and he'll have to go back to jail for nine
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Speaker 1: months if he breaks rules. If he commits another felony,
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Speaker 1: he could be eligible for another twelve months in jail.
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Speaker 1: Also sentenced Dikaira Vernon, who's twenty five and pleaded guilty
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Speaker 1: to disorderly conduct and assault, now sentenced to two years
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Speaker 1: probation and required a complete one hundred hours of community service.
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Speaker 1: Her attorney argued that she did not need to serve
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Speaker 1: any prison time, and the judge said that's fine. Three
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Speaker 1: other individuals involved in the July brawl, Gregory Wright, Jeremiah Matthews,
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Speaker 1: and Aisha DeVaughn, will be sentenced June tenth. As to
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Speaker 1: the other remaining suspects, two of them thirty eight year
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Speaker 1: old Dominique Kittle and thirty nine year old Patrick Roseman,
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Speaker 1: they didn't enterny new please. Kittle not competent to stand
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Speaker 1: trial apparently, and Roseman's trial begins May twenty eighth. Popcorn
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Speaker 1: out five thirty six Right now if if you have care,
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Speaker 1: see the talk station Memorial Day coming up fast approaching Monday.
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Speaker 1: May see the talk station five forty one if you
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Speaker 1: have krc DE talk station A very happy ondes say,
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Speaker 1: if you're trying to make it so anyway, I know
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Speaker 1: massive supporters not real happy this morning, and I share
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Speaker 1: in that feeling right now. But you know what, we
24:02
Speaker 1: got to move forward and to Tom's point before we
24:04
Speaker 1: get to the stack of stupid. And I'm going to
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Speaker 1: get another Tom who's online right now the phone calls
24:08
Speaker 1: to Tom's point. You know, it's one thing, don't vote Democrat,
24:12
Speaker 1: but you got to vote Republican. So with that in mind,
24:15
Speaker 1: you know, an extension of an opportunity for Ed Gollrain
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Speaker 1: to come on this program before November, because well, don't
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Speaker 1: we have to support him at this juncture. I would
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Speaker 1: think so. But Joe Strecker has a prediction here. Joe
24:32
Speaker 1: asked me on the break there, how likely it is
24:34
Speaker 1: it that Al gall Rain will will take advantage of
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Speaker 1: an opportunity to show up the FIFY five Kersey Morning Show.
24:38
Speaker 1: Joe said he Joe Strecker has a better chance of
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Speaker 1: becoming a ballerina, And I really don't think that's a possibility. Joe,
24:47
Speaker 1: I know you're not aspiring to be one. So that's
24:51
Speaker 1: Joe's prediction on it. But to the extending, what's to
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Speaker 1: go on the show? Absolutely, you know I've tried to.
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Speaker 1: I've opened opportunities for even you know, Democrats to come
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Speaker 1: on the show. They doesn't never take him up, take
25:02
Speaker 1: me up on the opportunity to talk about it. But
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Speaker 1: important vote It will be in November, no doubt. Let's
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Speaker 1: see what this time's got. Tom other Tom, I guess,
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Speaker 1: welcome to show, my friend, thanks for calling this morning.
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Speaker 7: And Brian, So, I think Thomas Massey he's a good man.
25:16
Speaker 7: He's cut from the same fabric that your wife's parents
25:20
Speaker 7: are cut from farm farmers. They're very conservative on spending
25:25
Speaker 7: and making things work and inventing different things. I think
25:29
Speaker 7: his political career is not over. I think if he
25:31
Speaker 7: wants to do something, stay in the state of Kentucky,
25:35
Speaker 7: run for state auditor, get rid of those learner centers
25:39
Speaker 7: and all those other fraud, waste and abuse in the state.
25:43
Speaker 7: Because the majority of population in this country voted for
25:46
Speaker 7: Donald Trump's agenda, and that's what we got to follow.
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Speaker 7: We can't have any you know, eighty five percent voting
25:53
Speaker 7: or ninety eight percent. We need one hundred percent, you know,
25:58
Speaker 7: straight ticket voting on this republic and issues, because we're
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Speaker 7: going to lose this country and we're going to take
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Speaker 7: everything you ever worked for and to be that the
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Speaker 7: people that don't even belong here. So yes, my.
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Speaker 1: Point, Yeah, I share in your overall concern. I mean, hell,
26:14
Speaker 1: that's kind of what the fifty five Caresy Morning Show
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Speaker 1: is about, to warn people out the direction we're going
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Speaker 1: to this country and try to get people to weigh
26:20
Speaker 1: I could wake up and do the right thing, but yeah,
26:22
Speaker 1: we're all going to have to unite. I know, people
26:25
Speaker 1: talking about, oh, I feel terrible Donald Trump is insulting
26:28
Speaker 1: to me because he criticized my favorite guy, Thomas Messey
26:30
Speaker 1: or or. I understand that, and I understand what feeling
26:33
Speaker 1: burned is feeling is like. But going back to my
26:36
Speaker 1: comments about the November election, generally speaking, are you going
26:39
Speaker 1: to vote the other side because you're angry about, let's say,
26:42
Speaker 1: in some cases the economy and inflation, will that push
26:46
Speaker 1: you over to vote for a Democrat? Well, I can't
26:48
Speaker 1: imagine any Republican who really has some sense of value
26:51
Speaker 1: in their in their ideology would do that, but they
26:53
Speaker 1: may not show up. That is a huge concern. And
26:59
Speaker 1: so people in terms of this Massy Gallrain may not
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Speaker 1: show up out of anger it may not cast a
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Speaker 1: vote in that election because they feel like, I can't
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Speaker 1: vote for a Gallrain. He defeated my guy, and I
27:09
Speaker 1: don't think that is a positive thing to maybe do. Really,
27:13
Speaker 1: based on one everything we're talking about here today, appreciate
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Speaker 1: the call. Calls are welcome here. Real quick stack of
27:17
Speaker 1: stupid story. Registered sex offender in Parker County arrested after
27:23
Speaker 1: investigators say he accidentally dropped a thumb drive with thousands
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Speaker 1: of child porn files on it, dropped him in the
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Speaker 1: parking lot of the Sheriff's office.
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Speaker 6: Idiots doing idiot things because they're idiots.
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Speaker 1: Karma. This is after a routine compliance to Parker County
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Speaker 1: Sheriff's Office. William Raymond Canton taking into cant this can't
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Speaker 1: can't catch run, Sorry I got the name wrong. Do
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Speaker 1: that often taken in a custoy after w's linkedlim to
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Speaker 1: a digital thumb drive foun outside the agency's main building.
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Speaker 1: Device turned in by a visitor contained more than two
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Speaker 1: thousand images and one hundred videos of child porn. Sheriff
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Speaker 1: Russ Authier said Katrin had just completed a required sex
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Speaker 1: offender compliance appointment that's where registrants munth periodically verify their information.
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Speaker 1: Then he left the Building's later viewed surveillance video that
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Speaker 1: showed the thumb drive falling out of his pocket as
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Speaker 1: he retrieved his keys from his pocket. Already said the footage,
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Speaker 1: along with the contents of the device, helped them confirm
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Speaker 1: the thumb drive belonged to this cattering guy and was
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Speaker 1: in his possession during the compliance check. He brought it
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Speaker 1: with him Amen brother. During a recorded interview, Offish'll say
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Speaker 1: he confessed to possessing the child porn. Subsequent search of
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Speaker 1: his home, conducted with the assistance of the Weatherward Police
28:45
Speaker 1: Department as well as the Department of Public Safety in Texas,
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Speaker 1: turned up Yes, additional electronic device is believed to contain,
28:52
Speaker 1: of course, similar material sick and twisted people in the world.
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Speaker 1: You know that's what he's being subjected to right now, Joe,
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Speaker 1: enjoy it, buddy, something else You're gonna thoroughly enjoy his
29:07
Speaker 1: getting galaxy concrete codings. Since can you see the talk
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Speaker 1: station five fifty one if fifty five krc DE talk station.
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Speaker 1: Try to make it a happy Wednesday. Stick around. We'll
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Speaker 1: talk about Ford over Little Honor that's coming up with
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Speaker 1: this Sunday for the Reds game. Donaldan and Eiel with
29:26
Speaker 1: Medicaid oversight and fiscal sustainability. Vvank Ramaswami Dato five on
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Speaker 1: Medicaid fraud among other topics, and Judge Nneda Paula Titald
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Speaker 1: thirty ship over the phone. See what Larry's got for
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Speaker 1: a get to the stack. It's stupid, Larry, thanks for
29:36
Speaker 1: calling this morning.
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Speaker 5: Good morning. Yeah, I've heard Gal Ryan's name methus pronounced
29:44
Speaker 5: so many different ways. I don't think anybody knows how
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Speaker 5: to pronounce it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he said, I think Trump pronounced it gil Rain.
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Speaker 1: And in the reporting on that they said, no, no,
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Speaker 1: it's gall rhine, as in like over the rhine. So
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Speaker 1: that made sense to me.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I heard it was Gal Ryan. So anyway, what's right?
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Speaker 5: Who knows? But about Ben in Kentucky. I'm in Ohio,
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Speaker 5: but I would have voted for Massy myself. But anyway,
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Speaker 5: it seemed like someone should be able to find a pronunciation,
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Speaker 5: correct pronunciation. And also I got an abbreviation for Tom's
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Speaker 5: famous saying DVD, don't vote Democrats.
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Speaker 1: And vote Republican. You gotta have to. We're gonna have
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Speaker 1: to do a tack on on that one from now.
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Speaker 1: I've given Tom's point on that this morning. Thank you
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Speaker 1: for the call. This is a great stack of stupid story.
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Speaker 1: You can get you more on SoundBite nowt to Aaron
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Speaker 1: Nelson is our stupid stack of stupid winner today, forty
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Speaker 1: three years old, arrested for the murder and disappearance of
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Speaker 1: his wife. Her body has not been found since she
30:53
Speaker 1: vanished over a year ago. A couple last spotted on
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Speaker 1: surveillance footage March of twenty twenty five and a quick
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Speaker 1: convenience store where they shared an apartment. According to the
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Speaker 1: court documents, alex Uh Alexis Nelson his wife phone record
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Speaker 1: so she s a show. She moved away to sun Prairie, Wisconsin,
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Speaker 1: about thirty miles away, and shortly after that her husband
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Speaker 1: bought a thirty two gallon trash can, which we'll come
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Speaker 1: into play here at a moment. Days later, he Aaron
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Speaker 1: Nelson created a new Facebook account under the name James Nelson,
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Speaker 1: which listed his relationship status as widowed red Flag. April thirtieth,
31:35
Speaker 1: last year, he met with a new woman described as
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Speaker 1: his lover and met her on tender I'm sure that's
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Speaker 1: a solid relationship. Total. Investigators that she and the alleged
31:42
Speaker 1: killer had already moved in together by the end of May. Well.
31:45
Speaker 1: Talking with Aaron Nelson's new girlfriend, cops noted that she
31:48
Speaker 1: was wearing an engagement ring that ring later conferred to
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Speaker 1: belong to his missing wife. Engine and police uncovered the
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Speaker 1: thirty two gallon trash can at the widowers new fiance's home.
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Speaker 1: It later tested positive for Alexis Nelson's blood, and a
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Speaker 1: cadaverdog recognized the Senator king human remains in a shed
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Speaker 1: on the property. However, the remains were never located. Aaron
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Speaker 1: Nelson was nonetheless arrested on charges of first degree intentional
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Speaker 1: homicide and hiding a corpse, booked into the Dodge County Jail,
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Speaker 1: ordered held on a one million dollar cashpot. Clearly not
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Speaker 1: someone subjected to the criminal justice system in Hamilton County
32:28
Speaker 1: again doing idiot things because their idiot juice and a
32:32
Speaker 1: cookie year in Hamilton County. And finally, federal authorities or
32:36
Speaker 1: rather Florida authorities say a daycare worker now facing charges
32:39
Speaker 1: after a baby suffered severe injuries in her care. Bay
32:43
Speaker 1: County Sheriff's Office say kait La Kayla Hamilton arrested in
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Speaker 1: charge with the accravated child to be stemming from an
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Speaker 1: investigation to the child being injured at the Quality Leering
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Speaker 1: childcare center. That was my joke, w say. The respond
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Speaker 1: to the hospital after a medical person and no identity
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Speaker 1: report of the CT scan showing this three month old
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Speaker 1: baby having multiple injuries including skull fractured, fractured leg, ribs,
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Speaker 1: and a brain bleed. Jesus Bay County Lieutenant Stephen Reiner
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Speaker 1: quoted as saying these injuries were not consistent with something
33:16
Speaker 1: that would be from an accidental type of fall. This
33:18
Speaker 1: was definitely an inflicted trauma that someone did to this child.
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Speaker 1: Investigators noted that the baby was not injured before being
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Speaker 1: dropped off of the childcare center, and the injuries occurred
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Speaker 1: while the infant was there with u Hamilton. The sketta
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Speaker 1: says she first lied about what happened before telling them
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Speaker 1: she quote spazzed out close quote. They say she told
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Speaker 1: him that she came back from work that day upset
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Speaker 1: over personal issues and then received a text that made
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Speaker 1: her anger worse. During the confession, she said she directed
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Speaker 1: the rage toward the three month old baby by violently
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Speaker 1: slamming him multiple times into his crib and under the
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Speaker 1: changing table so hard she said she could hear the
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Speaker 1: baby's head strike the crib frame beneath the mattress also
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Speaker 1: struck the boy in the head with toys, squeezing and
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Speaker 1: shaking him. It was in court on Friday last Judge
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Speaker 1: Dwyer the affidaval will certainly disturbing at best. I don't
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Speaker 1: know what I've I don't know what that I've seen
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Speaker 1: worse than this as far as child abuse is concerned.
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Speaker 1: He barred her from having unsupervised contact with children and
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Speaker 1: from working at any daycare facility. Also given a one
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Speaker 1: million dollar bond. Fortunately, the child in stable condition, receiving
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Speaker 1: medical care and Pensacola, but unknown if there's going to
34:33
Speaker 1: be long term health implications, Yeah, we'll just scud ahead.
34:36
Speaker 1: Since r out of time the biggest douche of the universe,
34:42
Speaker 1: in all the galaxies, there's no bigger douche than you. Yes, indeed,
34:47
Speaker 1: stick around. I've got a lot to talk about. In
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Speaker 1: the six o'clock hour, and then the guests begin at
34:51
Speaker 1: seven oh five. Sure love hearing from you, so feel
34:53
Speaker 1: free to give me a call. Be right back. We
34:55
Speaker 1: put the app in happening, But that's what's happen to you.
35:03
Speaker 1: Five and fifty five k RC he talks station by
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Speaker 1: the time, is trying to make it a happy Wednesday
35:08
Speaker 1: in spite of my disappointment over the Massy gallrain race.
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Speaker 1: But you know what, heading into November, do you want
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Speaker 1: the Democrat to win? Kind of pose that question in
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Speaker 1: the last hour will people show up and vote for
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Speaker 1: Ed Gaulryn And I think that's a better opportunity to
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Speaker 1: better outcome. If I was in Kentucky he had you
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Speaker 1: build her to vote, I sure as hell wouldn't be
35:23
Speaker 1: voting for the Democrat. Melissa Strange will be the will
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Speaker 1: be the Democrat, or is rather the Democrats nominee for
35:30
Speaker 1: Kentucky's fourth congressional district. So Melissa Strange really vanilla website
35:34
Speaker 1: It doesn't really say much, although suggest he is far more,
35:38
Speaker 1: far more to the left than I care to be.
35:40
Speaker 1: She's in favor of pre K education, which I find offensive.
35:43
Speaker 1: Beginning the indoctrination camp from womb all the way through
35:46
Speaker 1: College also pro abortion. The rest of it's really vanilla.
35:49
Speaker 1: But are you going to stay at home in November
35:52
Speaker 1: or not cast to vote? Are you going to join
35:54
Speaker 1: in the Gallreen support group? That just remains to be
35:58
Speaker 1: seen again. I would lean toward votevoting for a Republican
36:01
Speaker 1: over a Democrat, because I'd rather have good as opposed
36:03
Speaker 1: to great, and knowing full well that you wouldn't get
36:06
Speaker 1: either of those if you voted on the Democrat side. Anyway,
36:08
Speaker 1: if you have a comment about that, your reaction to
36:10
Speaker 1: that five one, three, seven, four nine fifty eight hundred
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Speaker 1: eight two three talk, that'd be two wins for Donald Trump.
36:15
Speaker 1: And yesterday's primary, Andy Barr over Dan Cameron and and
36:19
Speaker 1: Andy Barr got to support of Trump, and of course
36:21
Speaker 1: Collraine got the support of Trump as well, and the
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Speaker 1: money flowed in. I just I got. I was stepping
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Speaker 1: back from it. Everybody's giving Donald Trump credit for this,
36:28
Speaker 1: And of course there was a lot of activity coordinator
36:30
Speaker 1: behind the scenes. Trump strategist Chris Lasvida Polster Tunny for Brezio,
36:39
Speaker 1: started the ads running against Massi early on, even before
36:42
Speaker 1: he had an opponent. Then you had Maga Kentucky with
36:44
Speaker 1: millions of dollars. You had the billionaire Israeli coalition of
36:49
Speaker 1: money flowing in, and you know they're entitled to throw
36:51
Speaker 1: the money where they want. But would this race be
36:53
Speaker 1: have been different in the absence of the insane spending
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Speaker 1: or do you give the win solely to Donald Trump
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Speaker 1: and his criticism of Massy? Just something to ponder anyway.
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Speaker 1: The other thing I was looking at real quick. I
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Speaker 1: did the there's a county by county breakdown how each
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Speaker 1: of the counties in northern Kentucky that were able to
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Speaker 1: vote in the fourth mass he only won two of them. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: because every single county with the exception of Lewis County
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Speaker 1: and Mason County, went Gowride. So he beat him by
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Speaker 1: ten He beat Massy by ten percent. So there's that's
37:32
Speaker 1: it boiled down. Coming up one hour from now, Gregor Minsky,
37:36
Speaker 1: he's with the he's the Ford regional sales manager. Kind
37:38
Speaker 1: of outstanding opportunity again this Sunday, the Ford Oval of
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Speaker 1: Honor where they handpicked some really bright stars among the
37:45
Speaker 1: various branches of military. And these are certainly veterans. We're
37:47
Speaker 1: not talking about a Memorial Day issue here, that's Monday,
37:50
Speaker 1: So hand selected great, great folks, and Ford really steps
37:54
Speaker 1: up every single year. They've been doing this for like
37:56
Speaker 1: sixty five years, and they've been doing it since nine
37:59
Speaker 1: to eleven twenty one. This oval of honor event in
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Speaker 1: downtown Cincinnati at the Reds game. So I get to
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Speaker 1: be there, and I've spoken every single one of those
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Speaker 1: for a few moments, and it is duly an honor
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Speaker 1: to do that. Greg's going to give us the details
38:10
Speaker 1: coming up at seven to five, follow by Donald and Neil,
38:12
Speaker 1: senior advisor for Americans for Prosperity Action. We'll talk with
38:15
Speaker 1: Donovan about medicaid oversight and fiscal sustainability. Great topics as
38:20
Speaker 1: we segue into V. Vag Ramaswami at eight toh five,
38:23
Speaker 1: who'll be talking about medicaid fraud, also about his proposal
38:27
Speaker 1: to eliminate income tax in the state of Ohio. While
38:29
Speaker 1: we all contemplate getting rid of property tax, teachers' unions
38:32
Speaker 1: are sweating bullets over that. One. Be vague on that topic,
38:35
Speaker 1: and I'll encourage you to read his op ed piece
38:37
Speaker 1: in the Wall Street Journal this morning about medicaid fraud
38:41
Speaker 1: and a pretty simple solution, and he even captioned the
38:44
Speaker 1: article headline an easy way to defeat medicaid fraud. I
38:47
Speaker 1: like his idea. Let the states who find the fraud
38:50
Speaker 1: and eliminate it keep more of the money that they
38:52
Speaker 1: find that has been fraud or has has been stolen.
38:56
Speaker 1: And there's not a whole lot of incentive apparently right
38:58
Speaker 1: now for states to take the lift they bring or
39:00
Speaker 1: on that because they don't get enough of the slice
39:02
Speaker 1: of the pie. Give the states more, they'll let have
39:04
Speaker 1: been sented to do it. They can help balance their
39:06
Speaker 1: budget or whatever bottom line is. We would all benefit
39:09
Speaker 1: from that. So that and he'll also have a commentat
39:11
Speaker 1: tool on data centers in Ohio. Then, of course Judge
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Speaker 1: Ennital Paul Atana Everyondnesday year in the fifty five Case
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39:25
Speaker 1: What else is going on here? Well, Eran, we got
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Speaker 1: a new timeline and this I don't know that this
39:32
Speaker 1: is going really well, quite honest with you, Trump said
39:36
Speaker 1: he gave him a clear ultimatum, This was yesterday, demanding
39:38
Speaker 1: Taran either agree to a peace deal that prevents them
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Speaker 1: from getting a nuclear weapon, or we're going to launch
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Speaker 1: bombs and drop bombs on him. He said. Short time
39:46
Speaker 1: frame his words, two or three days to make a
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Speaker 1: deal or face again in his words, another big hit.
39:53
Speaker 1: Following up, I said, maybe Friday or Saturday, early next week,
39:57
Speaker 1: a limited period of time. Problem is there the middle
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Speaker 1: of a stalemate here, and the comments from the Iran
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Speaker 1: Supreme Leader yesterday suggests that he's maybe ramping things up
40:10
Speaker 1: in terms of declaring a jihad or holy war. That's
40:14
Speaker 1: a bit of a concern. The chief spokesman for Iran's army,
40:20
Speaker 1: if you're keeping track, it's Mohammed Akromania said, the Islamic
40:24
Speaker 1: Republic's armed forces have treated the ceasefire again. I joke
40:28
Speaker 1: about that if you can call it a ceasefire, since
40:30
Speaker 1: we're still swapping bombs on each other. Anyway. He called
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Speaker 1: it that they use the ceasefire as a time to
40:36
Speaker 1: bolster their positions and you know, prepare for yet another
40:40
Speaker 1: wave of attacks. He said that the Iranian military will open,
40:44
Speaker 1: in his words, new fronts with new tools and methods.
40:48
Speaker 1: Didn't elaborate on any of that, but of course, if
40:50
Speaker 1: you got a pause in the action, you're certainly going
40:52
Speaker 1: to look out for your own best interest, I would imagine. Washington,
40:56
Speaker 1: of course, has demanded that Iran dismantled its nuclear infrastructure,
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Speaker 1: hand over the stuff piles that the amount of previously
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Speaker 1: enriched uranium. And isn't it interesting under an agreement back
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Speaker 1: from twenty fifteen, they were captain enriching uranium to a
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Speaker 1: nuclear power generation level in the low percentages, like three
41:13
Speaker 1: or four percent. How is it that they came to
41:15
Speaker 1: enrich to sixty percent? Right? Because the first agreement didn't
41:18
Speaker 1: work anyhow, Teyron said it's open to discussing pauses of
41:25
Speaker 1: its nuclear issues nuclear program after receiving assurances that we
41:29
Speaker 1: will never resume attacks. They've also demanded that we recognize
41:32
Speaker 1: the Iranian control over the Strait of Horn moves on
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Speaker 1: into the future and insisted that it will govern the
41:38
Speaker 1: passage even after the war ends. Does that sound like
41:40
Speaker 1: a non start at anybody else? Now? Trump, for his part,
41:47
Speaker 1: not sure that he phrased this properly, although he did
41:50
Speaker 1: backped a little bit. He said, we want to see
41:54
Speaker 1: the world exploded. You want to see a problem. This
41:58
Speaker 1: meaning the current economic situation in the price of gasoline,
42:00
Speaker 1: et cetera, is peanuts and I appreciate everyone putting up
42:04
Speaker 1: putting up with it for a while. It won't be
42:06
Speaker 1: much longer. That question remains if the Iranians dig in
42:11
Speaker 1: and again, going back to Daniel Davis every Tuesday in
42:13
Speaker 1: the Morning Show at eight thirty, he went down this
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Speaker 1: road again. Iranians don't have an incentive to give up
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Speaker 1: or capitulate. This is basically a holy war of sorts.
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Speaker 1: They can lock themselves in their bunkers, they can do
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Speaker 1: guerrilla warfare from the mountains, and this is what they
42:26
Speaker 1: intend to do. And they're also I thought this was
42:29
Speaker 1: strange little development here. I saw over at Zero Heads
42:31
Speaker 1: the Iranians are reportedly arming themselves, not in the way
42:36
Speaker 1: that you and I would hope to well fight against
42:38
Speaker 1: their oppressors, but to fight us.
42:43
Speaker 8: Now.
42:43
Speaker 1: I know the bias over at CNN, but they captured
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Speaker 1: video of citizens being given gun lessons in the middle
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Speaker 1: of the streets and over in busy bazaars. Also, State
42:54
Speaker 1: Iranian State TV, of all Things, has been featuring detailed
42:57
Speaker 1: tutorials and presentations on how to effect use an AK
43:01
Speaker 1: forty seven. You should have the skills anyway, so one
43:06
Speaker 1: young woman reportedly saying, I am so ready to sacrifice
43:09
Speaker 1: my life for my country and for my people. When
43:12
Speaker 1: you factor in religion into this, that is an extraordinarily
43:16
Speaker 1: complex factor. Put yourself in a position of an Iranian.
43:19
Speaker 1: You're wed to your faith, you believe in it. You're
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Speaker 1: gonna get your reward in heaven by fighting against the
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Speaker 1: evil Satanic United States of America and those evil Jews
43:28
Speaker 1: in the world. You've been raised that way. You've got
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Speaker 1: stories from your parents and grandparents about the evil Americans
43:35
Speaker 1: and all the evil that they're responsible for.
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Speaker 9: Uh.
43:38
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't just erase that. If someone walked up
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Speaker 1: to you and asked you to renounce your faith because
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Speaker 1: the Iranians were coming over the hill, and if in
43:48
Speaker 1: a Cincinari situation where the Iranians had far more power
43:51
Speaker 1: than you and I, don't you think you might want
43:53
Speaker 1: to make a stand of it. Yeah, and then you
43:56
Speaker 1: end up in a quagmire, some long protracted military operation,
44:00
Speaker 1: because you know, darnick grillas can fight a long time.
44:02
Speaker 1: They're tenacious, most notably when they got a religious conviction
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Speaker 1: behind it. So there is that. Of course, you have
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Speaker 1: the Jewish forces, the Israeli Defense Forces, who have a
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Speaker 1: similarly profound religious belief system that obviously would spur them
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Speaker 1: to action, but one of the United States of America
44:21
Speaker 1: and an angry population that is really struggling with the
44:24
Speaker 1: cost of inflation brought about by this conflict. So the
44:28
Speaker 1: Iridians have an incentive for them to hold off as
44:30
Speaker 1: long as possible, even if they're taking a brutal pounding.
44:33
Speaker 1: They can launch missiles at our friends around the Abraham
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Speaker 1: Accord friends that we made under the first Trump administration,
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Speaker 1: United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia. They're worried about their infrastructure
44:43
Speaker 1: being attacked. And the Ruanians, of course, still have the
44:45
Speaker 1: ability to do that with all the rockets and missiles
44:47
Speaker 1: that they have kept in spite of our constant pounding
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Speaker 1: in the first part of the war. So it's and
44:54
Speaker 1: you know, couple that in with the fact that we
44:56
Speaker 1: have this Iran Supreme Leader basically declaring the Holy War
45:00
Speaker 1: least many analysts perceive his statement yesterday among the most
45:04
Speaker 1: valuable achievements of the Third Sacred Defense. Those are your
45:08
Speaker 1: operative words right there. Third Sacred Defense is the emergency
45:11
Speaker 1: of Iran at the level of a major influential power.
45:14
Speaker 1: See what they've been able to accomplish the Iranians shut
45:19
Speaker 1: down the Straight of Horror moves. You know, we've all
45:20
Speaker 1: been reeling because twenty percent of the global supplies of
45:23
Speaker 1: a lot of things aren't moving anymore. This has elevated
45:26
Speaker 1: their stature. They continue to control the strait of Horror moves.
45:32
Speaker 1: That's one of the more curious elements of this conflict.
45:35
Speaker 1: I mean, I would think, and of course my thoughts
45:38
Speaker 1: on this have been defeated by the likes of Daniel
45:40
Speaker 1: Davis and other military commentators, and by the fact that
45:42
Speaker 1: we haven't done anything to try to open the straight
45:44
Speaker 1: of Horror moves up. We have blocked the Iranian ports,
45:47
Speaker 1: but we haven't opened the straight of horror moves. We
45:49
Speaker 1: got the biggest, most powerful military on the planet. We're
45:53
Speaker 1: talking about a width of roughly fifteen or twenty miles.
45:57
Speaker 1: You would think that we could scomplished that and ferry
46:01
Speaker 1: the votes through. Apparently we can't. And that goes back
46:04
Speaker 1: to the Iranian Supreme Leader statement. The emergence of Iran
46:07
Speaker 1: at a level of a major influential power, and I
46:11
Speaker 1: know it would be considered an l a loss if
46:15
Speaker 1: we walked away from this conflict without opening it up.
46:17
Speaker 1: And preventing the Iranians from doing it again. Oh look,
46:20
Speaker 1: we've got control. We were able to screw at the
46:22
Speaker 1: entire globe's economy. Let's do it again. We've got control
46:26
Speaker 1: over it. Still, might say the Iranians six seventeen, Right now,
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46:47
Speaker 1: to me with regard to this vote yesterday. He said,
46:50
Speaker 1: I've been voting without missing since nineteen seventy two, so
46:53
Speaker 1: this year because the lack of justice and no one
46:55
Speaker 1: going to jail for vast Medicaid fraud, fake daycare in Minneapolis,
47:00
Speaker 1: bilking millions of dollars, ballot harvesting, illegal voting, transactivities in schools,
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Speaker 1: soft on crime judges, et cetera. I have lost faith
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Speaker 1: in the system. I voted for one person, a local constable,
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Speaker 1: and that was it. I will keep my faith and
47:14
Speaker 1: prayers in Christ. Well, he's handed over the control of
47:18
Speaker 1: the United States of America to his religious convictions. And
47:20
Speaker 1: that's all well and good, But you know what, you
47:22
Speaker 1: can't throw in the towel and give up. You never
47:27
Speaker 1: stop fighting. So Steve's conclusion, by just walking away from
47:32
Speaker 1: the whole process, I think hands a victory over to
47:36
Speaker 1: the opposition, whatever you perceive the opposition to be. You
47:38
Speaker 1: got to participate. Voter turnout as critical, and I perhaps
47:43
Speaker 1: the reason people don't show up with the polls is
47:45
Speaker 1: maybe they are struggling with the same conclusion Steve reached
47:50
Speaker 1: the other day. Anyhow, I considering v. B Romswam is
47:57
Speaker 1: going to be coming on, We're going to talk to
47:58
Speaker 1: him about his proposal to get rid of income tax
48:00
Speaker 1: in the as a way of attracting major investments, luring
48:04
Speaker 1: more people like you know, Texas and Florida. Do they
48:07
Speaker 1: say that's going to result in a ten billion dollar
48:09
Speaker 1: hit to the budget. That's how much the state of
48:12
Speaker 1: Ohio takes in, and of course the ripple effect of that.
48:16
Speaker 1: Where are the cuts going to come from?
48:17
Speaker 4: Now?
48:17
Speaker 1: He points out that a lot of initial money flowing
48:19
Speaker 1: into the state is a consequence of lowering or getting
48:22
Speaker 1: rid of the income tax. Over time will bring additional
48:24
Speaker 1: revenue in the coffers of the state. How much remains
48:28
Speaker 1: to be seen as always but here locally, since a
48:31
Speaker 1: public school had a budget debate the other day, the
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Speaker 1: attempting to deal with what is described and thank you
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Speaker 1: to Grace Tucker over at the enquire fifty eight point
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Speaker 1: six million dollars in excess expenses. And they got to
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Speaker 1: do this before the fiscal year runs out July our
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Speaker 1: June thirtieth. Now, thus far they proposed, at least of
48:50
Speaker 1: the board meeting, most recently eliminating some nurses, social workers, counselors,
48:54
Speaker 1: and other positions. And I love this and again props
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Speaker 1: to the reporter, Grace Tucker, some of which were sustained
49:00
Speaker 1: aim through the now dry pandemic relief funds. So you
49:04
Speaker 1: hire new people built upon a temporary funding mechanism that
49:08
Speaker 1: you know is going to go away. Don't you think
49:10
Speaker 1: that logically suggests when the money's not there anymore and
49:13
Speaker 1: you got a tight budget situation, that you're gonna have
49:16
Speaker 1: to get rid of those positions you did without them
49:19
Speaker 1: before the new money started flowing in COVID nineteen provided
49:22
Speaker 1: a convenient incentive for people to start running the printing
49:24
Speaker 1: press in Washington, DC and handing it out to literally
49:27
Speaker 1: everyone on the planet. But it was finite, so I
49:36
Speaker 1: don't really weep a tear on this. I remember when
49:42
Speaker 1: Bill Clinton did this. We're gonna go, We're gonna spend
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Speaker 1: out money to you are a one hundred thousand new
49:46
Speaker 1: police officers, back when the Democrats really had an appreciation
49:48
Speaker 1: for police. Yeah, that was a one time handover of
49:52
Speaker 1: money from the federal government. What do you do next
49:55
Speaker 1: year when that money's not there anymore and you've got
49:57
Speaker 1: new police officers that, yes, are drawing and annual salary
50:01
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50:03
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50:39
Speaker 1: the problem there on I seventy one. The reason for
50:41
Speaker 1: that one is they had a semi crash expecting lengthy delays.
50:46
Speaker 1: Is still closed. In part least they've opened, but part
50:48
Speaker 1: of it they weren't really even sure as of six
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Speaker 1: o'clock this morning if they'd to be able to get
50:52
Speaker 1: things open. Diesel fuel leak it happened early this morning.
50:55
Speaker 1: Cord of the Ohio State Highway Patrol left land A
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Speaker 1: reopen near forty eight about six o'clock. The troopers said,
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Speaker 1: though they're not sure if that's permanent or just to
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Speaker 1: clear out these stacked up vehicles. Sounds like though they
51:05
Speaker 1: are making progress. What else is going on? Traffick on
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Speaker 1: I seventy five northbound was down to one lane of
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Speaker 1: traffic yesterday. Truck carrying a crane hit a bridge over
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Speaker 1: the highway. Happened to the decommission railroad overpass at the
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Speaker 1: Rona Reagan Cross County Highway exit yesterday afternoon. According to
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Speaker 1: the Cincinni Police, northbound road Bay was down to one lane.
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Speaker 1: Southbound lane down to two for a few hours, but
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Speaker 1: of course they've been reopened since then, So I guess
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Speaker 1: got to check your bridge height. Verona man sentenced after
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Speaker 1: being indicted in connection with the rape of dozens of
51:41
Speaker 1: women in northern Kentucky. Can he can share the award
51:45
Speaker 1: we gave out this morning? Joe Paul Snow Junior, forty
51:48
Speaker 1: four years old, sentenced to seventy years and trust me,
51:52
Speaker 1: that wasn't enough. You learn why in Kenton County. Happened
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Speaker 1: yesterday evening maximum in Kentucky. That is the maximum sentence
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Speaker 1: allowed after numerous women testified and accordingly the reporting, despite
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Speaker 1: the limit, prosecutors, the judge, and the jury made it
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Speaker 1: known on the record that they recommended three hundred and
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Speaker 1: fifty six years in prison. This in the hope that
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Speaker 1: down the road the parole board will consider that, given
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Speaker 1: the severity of his crimes, when they are deliberating over
52:20
Speaker 1: whether this scumbag can be let out of prison, Snow'll
52:25
Speaker 1: be sent for his pre trial hearing May twenty ninth
52:27
Speaker 1: in Gallatin County, where he was initially arrested accurt to
52:30
Speaker 1: the Gallen County Sheriff's Office in a statement, multiple counties,
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Speaker 1: multiple departments, and some of the best business worked this
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Speaker 1: for nearly three best in the business worked this for
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Speaker 1: nearly three years. This is a big win, but we
52:40
Speaker 1: still have one more step to complete this for good.
52:43
Speaker 1: April twenty twenty three, Gallen County Sheriff's Office arrested and
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Speaker 1: charged him this Snow pervert on twenty one counts of rape, sodomy, kidnapping, strangulation, assault,
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Speaker 1: terroristic threatening, and handgun position by a convicted felon women
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Speaker 1: in Kinkenton County. After hearing about the investigation, came forward
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Speaker 1: and reported similar crimes. He received twenty two additional charges
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Speaker 1: from a string of sexual assaults that happened in Kenton
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Speaker 1: County between twenty fourteen and twenty seventeen. In Kenton County,
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Speaker 1: they say Snow was charged with eight counts of sodomny,
53:16
Speaker 1: five counts of rape, five counts of wanton endangerment, two
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Speaker 1: counts of human trafficking, one kind of kidnapping, and one
53:21
Speaker 1: kind of possessing a handgun. Court documents say Snow told
53:24
Speaker 1: one of the victims he used he used to be
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Speaker 1: a police officer, threatened to call nine to one one
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Speaker 1: and reporter for DUI if she left. He's never been
53:35
Speaker 1: a police officer. Parenthetically, criminal complaint said he strangled several
53:39
Speaker 1: of his victims. One said she passed out and woke
53:41
Speaker 1: up to him having sex with her. Got the horror
53:45
Speaker 1: of that. Another victims said she was assaulted in front
53:49
Speaker 1: of her one year old child. They say Snow was
53:53
Speaker 1: there supposing supposedly to fix her iPhone cord of the report,
53:56
Speaker 1: victims said she performed a sex act on Snow out
53:59
Speaker 1: of fear for her her and her child's safety. Also
54:03
Speaker 1: at twenty fifteen, reports said he sodomized a woman after
54:06
Speaker 1: he put something in her drink and she lost consciousness.
54:09
Speaker 1: Snow apparently kept her from her phone, said he had
54:11
Speaker 1: taken hundreds of photos and videos of her. I guess
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Speaker 1: while passed out that he was threatening to send out
54:16
Speaker 1: into the world. Man, Well, I suspect Joe. Much like
54:26
Speaker 1: child molesters in prison. You know, many prisoners are married
54:29
Speaker 1: and have significant others there and they tend to take
54:31
Speaker 1: out their anger about someone who might have molested their
54:33
Speaker 1: significant other or wife. Yeah, so have fun there, mister Snow.
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Speaker 1: I had been anticipating all morning. So, in addition to
54:59
Speaker 1: the it turned out to be not a celebration party
55:01
Speaker 1: for Congressman Massi over by CVG. CVG was the place
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Speaker 1: to be last night for the welcome home ceremony. And
55:06
Speaker 1: I know man that was there there. He is my
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Speaker 1: submariner friend and huge supporter of Honor Fly Trice date.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back, Mike Cribbage.
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Speaker 4: Mike.
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Speaker 1: It's good to hear from you this morning. So how
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Speaker 1: was it.
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Speaker 2: Is he there?
55:22
Speaker 1: Mike? We got a connection problem here, Joe. You don't
55:28
Speaker 1: think Mike fell asleep, do you? We've had that happen before.
55:34
Speaker 1: I don't know what to do. Hang up, I'm being
55:35
Speaker 1: called back anyhow. Sorry about that, Mike. So I was
55:40
Speaker 1: gonna do a plug update. We got ticks and we
55:45
Speaker 1: got ibola. So we haven't done a plague update in
55:48
Speaker 1: for quite a while. So we'll assume the music was
55:50
Speaker 1: played we've got a global emergency, declared last week by
55:54
Speaker 1: the World Health Organization chief Taedros and Jibresius. Deeply concerned,
55:59
Speaker 1: he said about the scale and speed of the epidemic.
56:01
Speaker 1: Apparently more than one hundred and thirty people have already died,
56:04
Speaker 1: and they reported more than five hundred infections. Ebola outbreak
56:09
Speaker 1: over in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Is it going
56:11
Speaker 1: to impact us? Is this going to be COVID nineteen
56:15
Speaker 1: number two modeling by this place called the London MRC
56:19
Speaker 1: Center for Global Infectious Disease Analysis suggested, well, there could
56:23
Speaker 1: be under detection and substantial under detection because well, it's
56:28
Speaker 1: an isolated region of the world, it's cut off, and
56:30
Speaker 1: it's very war torn. And the war torn component is
56:32
Speaker 1: really what got people. Got people worried because when you
56:36
Speaker 1: have rebel factions slaughtering each other, the population tends to
56:40
Speaker 1: move out of the area, and it's difficult to get
56:43
Speaker 1: medical resources into an area that is war torn. So
56:47
Speaker 1: to the extent they have access to airplanes, maybe we
56:50
Speaker 1: got to worry about ebola coming our way before I
56:53
Speaker 1: get to ticks. We're gonna give it another shot, Mike,
56:55
Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Morning show. Does it work this time?
56:58
Speaker 2: Think two there.
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Speaker 1: It is good to hear from me, man, I've been
57:01
Speaker 1: looking forward to hearing from you this morning. So how
57:04
Speaker 1: was the Honor Fly welcome home ceremony?
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Speaker 2: Uh?
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Speaker 10: If the ceremony was extremely rejuvenating, because in a word,
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Speaker 10: and as I told Joe, that was pretty challenging yesterday
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Speaker 10: with ninety six degree temperatures. But throughout the day, you know,
57:19
Speaker 10: when we were at different memorials and at this time
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Speaker 10: of year, you have a ton of eighth grade and
57:24
Speaker 10: high school kids there for their go to d C
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Speaker 10: end of school year trip and as what you know,
57:32
Speaker 10: that kind of heat would wear on you. And ironically
57:34
Speaker 10: that's the whole reason we had Honor Fly. We fly
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Speaker 10: in April and May and September, October. We don't want
57:40
Speaker 10: to be up there June, July, on August for days
57:42
Speaker 10: just like yesterday. But you know what those when those
57:45
Speaker 10: kids come up and they shake those veterans' hands and
57:47
Speaker 10: you could just see that spark. But nothing more of
57:50
Speaker 10: a rejuvenating than that welcome home ceremony last night.
57:53
Speaker 1: That's great, That is great. So what in terms of
57:55
Speaker 1: the welcome home serremony, I presume that the children. You said,
57:58
Speaker 1: you know in spring break with were they there at
58:01
Speaker 1: the mall and around the veterans in Washington, DC? Are
58:03
Speaker 1: you just referring to the hounter flights return home ceremony?
58:06
Speaker 11: All?
58:06
Speaker 10: No, yeah, no, yeah, throughout d C.
58:09
Speaker 1: Good.
58:09
Speaker 5: You know.
58:09
Speaker 10: In fact, when we got to the Marine Corps Memorial,
58:12
Speaker 10: as you know, that's our first stop, there were eleven
58:14
Speaker 10: buses that had nothing to do with on a flight.
58:17
Speaker 10: Those are just kids, you know, so just you know
58:21
Speaker 10: when you see that, and just I'm sure they're prompted
58:25
Speaker 10: somewhat by their chaperons, but you know they know because
58:28
Speaker 10: they see the looks on those veteran faces. And of
58:30
Speaker 10: course there's a chaperone or two or somebody wear an
58:33
Speaker 10: honor flight stamp shirt too, right, it gets choked up.
58:36
Speaker 1: Well, and you know, that's one of the most profound
58:38
Speaker 1: moments that I that I had. I took a World
58:40
Speaker 1: War Two veteran as the guardian for my first honor flight,
58:43
Speaker 1: and that was the most memorable point. We had a
58:46
Speaker 1: group of maybe ten fifteen I'd say they were probably
58:50
Speaker 1: like seventh graders, maybe sixth graders, and they on their
58:53
Speaker 1: own initiative. I didn't see anybody prodding them, went over
58:56
Speaker 1: to the veterans, reached out their hands, shook them, smiling,
58:59
Speaker 1: just it was just they were fascinated by the veterans.
59:01
Speaker 1: They were honored to see the veterans. And boy, the veterans'
59:04
Speaker 1: faces just lit up, knowing that the young people actually
59:06
Speaker 1: had some measure of careen concern for them, it was
59:08
Speaker 1: just beautiful.
59:10
Speaker 10: Well there, welcome home. I imagine the young toddler was
59:13
Speaker 10: probably I don't know, probably about four or five, and
59:17
Speaker 10: she was holding this picture looked like either well obviously
59:21
Speaker 10: it was Vietnam War because that was the most of
59:22
Speaker 10: our bets, but a very aged military picture, you know,
59:26
Speaker 10: and I bent over a point and said, who is
59:27
Speaker 10: that and with pride like you would not believe that's
59:31
Speaker 10: my grandpa.
59:32
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's great.
59:35
Speaker 10: And that one picture, I said, yeah, that's the first
59:37
Speaker 10: time I've seen that many scouts from a troop, and
59:40
Speaker 10: you know, Eagle scouts. And you know, there were definitely
59:43
Speaker 10: a lot of kids there, and I know most of
59:44
Speaker 10: them are almost out of school, but still, you know,
59:47
Speaker 10: by the time we got in, because a little bit
59:49
Speaker 10: of a bumpy ride coming in, but for the most part,
59:51
Speaker 10: we avoided some of the thunder boomers, y'all had here yesterday,
59:54
Speaker 10: but you know, for them to stick around because it
59:57
Speaker 10: was almost about nine thirty by the time the parade started.
1:00:00
Speaker 10: Still thousands.
1:00:02
Speaker 1: Oh that's just music to my ears, Mike, it really is.
1:00:05
Speaker 1: And I presume you would like to pass along thanks
1:00:07
Speaker 1: as I was going to do to the staff over
1:00:09
Speaker 1: at CBG, because they really are wonderfully accommodating for the
1:00:13
Speaker 1: honor flight folks.
1:00:15
Speaker 10: The local fire department. They're there when we get there
1:00:18
Speaker 10: because we had sixteen that needed wheelchair assistance, so they're
1:00:23
Speaker 10: there at the gate to push them down. We always
1:00:25
Speaker 10: have two staff members right there at the gate to
1:00:27
Speaker 10: a system in the elevators and down the escalators, and
1:00:31
Speaker 10: I would say there's probably at least five to ten
1:00:33
Speaker 10: because at that point, you know, the airport's pretty dead,
1:00:36
Speaker 10: you know, so I'm sure people either staying over or
1:00:38
Speaker 10: coming in late. And then the other beauty too, because
1:00:41
Speaker 10: we were told one family showed up with sixty different individuals.
1:00:44
Speaker 10: Now I'm sure it wasn't sixty cars, but probably there
1:00:46
Speaker 10: was about thirty or forty, but that parking lot was full.
1:00:49
Speaker 10: But CBG staffs that you know, those exits, I don't
1:00:52
Speaker 10: know there's probably what ten gates, there's a person at
1:00:55
Speaker 10: every gate to make sure get everybody out. So CBG Major.
1:00:59
Speaker 1: Coude wonderful and kudos to you and all the folks
1:01:03
Speaker 1: that are involved with Honor Flight tri State a beautiful organization.
1:01:06
Speaker 1: And you'll let us know when the next Honor flight's going.
1:01:09
Speaker 10: Correct Mike, September twenty second, Market on counter.
1:01:12
Speaker 1: Day after my birthday. Happy birthday, yeah, early, Yeah, it's
1:01:17
Speaker 1: not a milestone banner birthday there, Mike. And you know
1:01:20
Speaker 1: when you get to be my age, you really don't
1:01:21
Speaker 1: care anymore. Just happened to coincide with close to my
1:01:23
Speaker 1: birthday anyway, far more important on her flight. So we'll
1:01:26
Speaker 1: have another opportunity to welcome home to the veterans at
1:01:28
Speaker 1: CVEG then and we'll hear from Mike on that, and again,
1:01:31
Speaker 1: thank you and God bless you, Mike for what you're doing.
1:01:32
Speaker 1: Six forty seven right now, ifty five car see the
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Speaker 1: up streaming back to a comment that Tommy this morning
1:01:48
Speaker 1: he was referring to his significant other there next to him,
1:01:50
Speaker 1: and I asked him if he had outkicked his coverage
1:01:52
Speaker 1: like I did, and he said, oh, hell yeah, Well
1:01:54
Speaker 1: he've been with her that long. I guess you did.
1:01:57
Speaker 1: Those who chose poorly probably aren't married anymore. But anyway
1:02:00
Speaker 1: to Good Morning Laura. Laura was the former manager or
1:02:04
Speaker 1: Capital Girl. She used to set us up with listener
1:02:06
Speaker 1: lunch and she listens to the program and she has
1:02:08
Speaker 1: some funny things going on. This is from Laura Mary,
1:02:12
Speaker 1: a girl who says things like I love you, I'm
1:02:16
Speaker 1: proud of you. I can't believe your mind. Taxation is theft.
1:02:21
Speaker 1: I don't know where that extra gun safe with those
1:02:23
Speaker 1: new guns came from, but it really looks great sitting
1:02:25
Speaker 1: there next to all of your other gun saves. Later,
1:02:28
Speaker 1: we should go buy you some more, Ammo. You're right, Laura.
1:02:33
Speaker 1: One of the reasons I admit that I outkicked my coverage.
1:02:36
Speaker 1: Proud I am of that. That sounds like my wife.
1:02:40
Speaker 1: Anybody following this ridiculous trans so called controversy out in California, Okay,
1:02:46
Speaker 1: so you have guys competing against women in sports, and
1:02:50
Speaker 1: of course the guy won, so I proclaimed transgen I guess,
1:02:57
Speaker 1: and they put the winner of the women's winner on
1:03:00
Speaker 1: the podium with the trans guy who won at least
1:03:04
Speaker 1: in terms of the time is concerned. Now here's the
1:03:07
Speaker 1: interesting quandary about that. This is the new policy. I
1:03:10
Speaker 1: guess in California, you're gonna give two first place medals out,
1:03:15
Speaker 1: one for the slower competitor, one of course going to
1:03:18
Speaker 1: the guy. I thought we were told that if someone
1:03:24
Speaker 1: professes to be a member of the opposite sex, it
1:03:28
Speaker 1: wasn't just that we were supposed to go along with them.
1:03:30
Speaker 1: And although that's part of it, is that we're supposed
1:03:32
Speaker 1: to believe that they are in fact a woman. Now
1:03:38
Speaker 1: I know that's insane, but this is the reality of
1:03:41
Speaker 1: what the left argues for in this kind of thing.
1:03:43
Speaker 1: Wait a second, just saying you're a woman makes you
1:03:46
Speaker 1: a woman, not like you know, you get the point
1:03:51
Speaker 1: on that. So by placing a man biological up there
1:03:55
Speaker 1: with another woman, you are negating that point. Why would
1:03:58
Speaker 1: you give two awards out If by saying you're a woman,
1:04:01
Speaker 1: then you are a woman, then that means only one
1:04:03
Speaker 1: woman prevailed. There can only be one winner unless there's
1:04:06
Speaker 1: a tie. This is not a tie. So their own
1:04:10
Speaker 1: policy defeats the argument that these crazies make that I
1:04:13
Speaker 1: am a woman. No, you're not reached down or are
1:04:18
Speaker 1: we new a chromosome check if you've surgically dealt with
1:04:22
Speaker 1: the foregoing regality. Anyway, even the lefties are upset about
1:04:27
Speaker 1: the reality that I just pointed out. A liberal and
1:04:30
Speaker 1: trans rights activists organization called One on Blue Sky the
1:04:35
Speaker 1: morning of the Track and Field State Championship CIF quietly
1:04:39
Speaker 1: and suddenly announced its trans exclusionary policy will continue sis girls.
1:04:44
Speaker 1: That will be a real woman. We'll get a consolation
1:04:47
Speaker 1: spot in events with a trans girl, apparently targeting ab Hernandez.
1:04:51
Speaker 1: That will be the guy who won the competition against
1:04:53
Speaker 1: a woman. They claim that it could violate California law
1:04:57
Speaker 1: and CIF some bylaws. Well maybe, but there they are,
1:05:02
Speaker 1: all those lefty liberals out in California having to give
1:05:05
Speaker 1: out two awards. Why because men and women are different?
1:05:08
Speaker 1: Men heavy distinct advantage in many sports. I know that's steady,
1:05:13
Speaker 1: the obvious. Don't go away. Gregor Misky is going to
1:05:15
Speaker 1: be in studio Ford Regional sales manager on the Oval
1:05:18
Speaker 1: Honor at Red's game this Sunday. I'm gonna be there.
1:05:20
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to doing that again, Donald and Neil
1:05:22
Speaker 1: Americans for Prosperity on Medicaid Oversight and fiscal Sustainability. Donovan
1:05:26
Speaker 1: joins the program at seven thirty seven oh six at
1:05:42
Speaker 1: fifty five ker Cee Talk Stations. Try to make it
1:05:45
Speaker 1: a happy Wednesday if you can. I'm making it a
1:05:49
Speaker 1: happy Wednesday because I'm looking up and seeing across the
1:05:51
Speaker 1: board here Gregor Minsky. Greg is here to talk about
1:05:54
Speaker 1: the fod To Oval of Honor event that's taking place
1:05:57
Speaker 1: on Sunday that I get the benefit of attending as
1:05:59
Speaker 1: I have since twenty twenty one. Gregor Minski is the
1:06:02
Speaker 1: Ford Regional sales manager. Welcome Greg, It's a pleasure to
1:06:06
Speaker 1: see you, and I'm really excited about the event. Again,
1:06:08
Speaker 1: this is a lot of fun and what just a
1:06:10
Speaker 1: big salute to Ford and everyone involved for hand selecting
1:06:14
Speaker 1: these veterans and honoring them at the Reds Game. Yeah. No,
1:06:17
Speaker 1: it's a great event. We look forward to it.
1:06:18
Speaker 6: You and I have done this many years together and
1:06:21
Speaker 6: it's always a pleasure to recognize those veterans who certainly
1:06:25
Speaker 6: deserve the recognition and the love.
1:06:27
Speaker 1: And to see their families be part of it as well.
1:06:29
Speaker 6: Because I'm guessing a lot of times the families haven't
1:06:31
Speaker 6: had an opportunity to see their loved one get recognized
1:06:34
Speaker 6: and appreciated quite like we do on that.
1:06:36
Speaker 1: Day, no question about it. And let me if I
1:06:40
Speaker 1: recall correctly. Will there be veterans from each branch of
1:06:45
Speaker 1: the service represented on Sunday at the event?
1:06:47
Speaker 5: Yes?
1:06:48
Speaker 1: Wonderful to hear that Space Force too, Yeah, I do so. Yeah,
1:06:52
Speaker 1: this is the first year for a Space Force person.
1:06:55
Speaker 1: Isn't it pretty neat? How about that? That's wonderful? So
1:06:57
Speaker 1: how many how many years has this been going on?
1:06:59
Speaker 1: I know the first Ford Oval of Honor event was
1:07:01
Speaker 1: held on nine to eleven back in twenty eleven at
1:07:04
Speaker 1: Great American Ballpark, But this concept has been going on
1:07:06
Speaker 1: a lot longer than that.
1:07:08
Speaker 6: Yeah, it has been, and this is going to be
1:07:10
Speaker 6: the sixty fourth. So it's not just the event we
1:07:12
Speaker 6: do at Great American Ballpark, which is a great one.
1:07:14
Speaker 6: We do them across the state of Ohio. It's been
1:07:16
Speaker 6: into Kentucky, West Virginia. There's been a lot of locations
1:07:19
Speaker 6: in Indiana. So it's something that's super special. It gives
1:07:23
Speaker 6: our local area Ford dealerships an opportunity to give back
1:07:26
Speaker 6: to the community and to recognize again those who certainly
1:07:29
Speaker 6: greatly deserve the recognition for what they've done for our country.
1:07:32
Speaker 1: And I understand you have Ford has honored in this
1:07:35
Speaker 1: event more than five hundred veterans over the life of
1:07:39
Speaker 1: this event.
1:07:40
Speaker 6: Yeah, it adds up quick since since he said, since
1:07:44
Speaker 6: nine eleven, in twenty eleven, there's been a lot of
1:07:46
Speaker 6: folks and all very well deserved of that recognition.
1:07:50
Speaker 1: Well, you know, sometimes it's really cool to be Brian Thomas,
1:07:53
Speaker 1: And one of those days was that the first one
1:07:54
Speaker 1: when I got to meet do Little Raider Mike Griffin.
1:07:56
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, shaking hands with history right there,
1:08:00
Speaker 1: that was truly, I mean just great. Not that you know,
1:08:03
Speaker 1: I'm not discounting any of the other veterans have been
1:08:05
Speaker 1: able to meet over the years, but that's particularly cool.
1:08:08
Speaker 1: That's a slice history.
1:08:09
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's unbelievable what these folks have been through. And
1:08:12
Speaker 6: there's reminders that day of the stories and their background
1:08:15
Speaker 6: and the trials and tribulations, and it's it's it's unbelievable
1:08:18
Speaker 6: that they've bought through all that for us, and it's
1:08:21
Speaker 6: it's again an honor for us to be able to
1:08:23
Speaker 6: recognize them.
1:08:24
Speaker 1: So is Frank going to be there?
1:08:26
Speaker 6: Of course, he is awesome, the legend of Great Yea
1:08:31
Speaker 6: of the four Oval of Honor.
1:08:32
Speaker 1: This is kind of his baby, is it is?
1:08:34
Speaker 6: This is his passion project, and that passion certainly comes
1:08:37
Speaker 6: through and anyone in the room can sense that.
1:08:39
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you get cheers up your spine and down
1:08:41
Speaker 1: your spine when you hear Frank address the crowd at
1:08:43
Speaker 1: the event. Now is the the the ceremony itself inside
1:08:47
Speaker 1: the hall they have there at the Reds Hall of Fame,
1:08:50
Speaker 1: which is where we always do it. That's not open
1:08:51
Speaker 1: to the public. That's for the family and the veterans. Correct.
1:08:54
Speaker 6: We would love for it to be open, but because
1:08:56
Speaker 6: of the size of the room, it is family and
1:08:57
Speaker 6: as you know, it's jam packed. It's hardway get the
1:08:59
Speaker 6: family there, which is a great sign when it's packed
1:09:01
Speaker 6: from wall to wall. So, yes, it is a private
1:09:03
Speaker 6: event at the Reds Hall of Fame prior to but
1:09:06
Speaker 6: then there'll be vignettes and pictures and things shown throughout
1:09:09
Speaker 6: the game to help those who are at the game
1:09:11
Speaker 6: see a little.
1:09:12
Speaker 1: Bit of what happened. Yeah, and some of them go
1:09:13
Speaker 1: down on the field.
1:09:14
Speaker 6: Yes, some will do some will throw out the first pitch.
1:09:16
Speaker 6: Some will bring out the lineup card. There's a lot
1:09:18
Speaker 6: of interaction in bringing those folks into the game as
1:09:21
Speaker 6: much as we can.
1:09:22
Speaker 1: So we up in the is it the what is
1:09:25
Speaker 1: it the boiler rooms?
1:09:26
Speaker 4: What they call it?
1:09:27
Speaker 1: Up there in the upper left corner of the steam room.
1:09:29
Speaker 1: It's the what is the name of that area?
1:09:32
Speaker 8: Check?
1:09:32
Speaker 1: Because I was just there last week at Red's game.
1:09:35
Speaker 1: I can't recall anyhow. If you look at left field
1:09:38
Speaker 1: and look up, it's that area up there, you see
1:09:40
Speaker 1: the veterans and maybe swing by and shake hands with them.
1:09:43
Speaker 1: So what was I mean Ford? I understand honoring veterans,
1:09:47
Speaker 1: but how did Frank and Ford just come to just
1:09:50
Speaker 1: glom onto this and do this all these years?
1:09:53
Speaker 6: I think it was Frank's idea. Yeah, and the local
1:09:56
Speaker 6: dealerships loved it. It's an opportunity to give back. In
1:09:59
Speaker 6: our dealer ships are always giving back in many different ways.
1:10:02
Speaker 6: Sometimes it's public, sometimes it's not. But it's an opportunity
1:10:05
Speaker 6: to recognize and again, everyone appreciates more than you can
1:10:09
Speaker 6: imagine what the veterans have done for us and their
1:10:12
Speaker 6: key to everything we have today and the freedoms we have,
1:10:14
Speaker 6: so what a great opportunity to do that.
1:10:16
Speaker 1: Well, Greg, you and I were talking about that Mustang,
1:10:18
Speaker 1: that three hundred and thirty thousand dollars Ford Mustang, the
1:10:22
Speaker 1: Nuremberg Ring record car, and yeah, I have a friend
1:10:27
Speaker 1: Austin is out there from FORID Exchange. He's signed up
1:10:29
Speaker 1: the paperwork to try to get his hands on one
1:10:31
Speaker 1: of those guys. Is that going to be subject to
1:10:34
Speaker 1: employee pricing? That is likely clear? You are offering that now, Yes,
1:10:39
Speaker 1: they're back in the day. If you were if you
1:10:41
Speaker 1: worked for like GM or Ford to one of the
1:10:43
Speaker 1: major motor companies, if you got employee pricing, and everybody's
1:10:46
Speaker 1: always envious about that on the A plan or whatever
1:10:48
Speaker 1: they used to call it, that's exactly right. You're rolling
1:10:51
Speaker 1: that out to the world. Yes, yeah, right now. It
1:10:53
Speaker 1: is open.
1:10:54
Speaker 6: There are a few exclusions, the GTDB wanting being one
1:10:57
Speaker 6: of them, but very few others. But most everything you
1:11:00
Speaker 6: see on the showroom floor and the dealerships loot is
1:11:03
Speaker 6: open to employee pricing, and that is for everyone. That's
1:11:05
Speaker 6: recognition of the United States two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
1:11:09
Speaker 6: coming up this summer, and the company wanted to do
1:11:11
Speaker 6: something special for everyone. So it is employee pricing, which
1:11:14
Speaker 6: is truly a great deal, and it honestly is the
1:11:16
Speaker 6: same deal that I get as a Ford employee.
1:11:18
Speaker 1: Well that's wonderful. And of course this time in our
1:11:20
Speaker 1: current economy and as cars has gotten as expensive they are,
1:11:24
Speaker 1: that's a nice little perk that we get right now.
1:11:26
Speaker 1: So I used to own the most things I told
1:11:28
Speaker 1: you off air back in right after nine to eleven,
1:11:31
Speaker 1: speaking of which, remember zero percent finite face was everywhere
1:11:35
Speaker 1: they were trying to get people because oh my god,
1:11:37
Speaker 1: you know, the economy shut down and what's going to
1:11:39
Speaker 1: happen next. So I got a two thousand and one
1:11:43
Speaker 1: Ford SVT Cobra, and I always wanted a muscle car.
1:11:47
Speaker 1: And when I fired that thing up, was like, this
1:11:49
Speaker 1: is I'm sold. You got a employ car. There're only
1:11:51
Speaker 1: two left in the city at the time. So I
1:11:54
Speaker 1: bought it and I had such a great time with it.
1:11:57
Speaker 1: I put all kinds of money in it. I changed
1:11:59
Speaker 1: the idea, I got four ten gears over it came
1:12:01
Speaker 1: with three twenty sevens and I just on and on
1:12:03
Speaker 1: and on, and it was the best time I had
1:12:06
Speaker 1: just building that car over time, exhaust building race valve shocks.
1:12:12
Speaker 1: Just I did everything I possibly could three twenty seven
1:12:16
Speaker 1: at the flywheel horse power, which at the time was
1:12:20
Speaker 1: like that was pretty good.
1:12:21
Speaker 5: Wrong.
1:12:21
Speaker 1: So when I sold it, I got the rear real
1:12:23
Speaker 1: horsepower up the three seventy five. That was the work
1:12:26
Speaker 1: I did in upgrades. But the modern four GT the
1:12:30
Speaker 1: standard or the V eight line, not the real high
1:12:33
Speaker 1: end line. But this comes out of with four point
1:12:35
Speaker 1: fifty or something off the showroom floor. It's amazing.
1:12:38
Speaker 6: Yeah, we get a lot of SUVs in the three
1:12:39
Speaker 6: hundred horsepower range these days.
1:12:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, imagine powers come along really has modern technology. So
1:12:47
Speaker 1: employee pricing for but you just get in touch with
1:12:48
Speaker 1: a Ford dealer for that.
1:12:49
Speaker 6: Absolutely, yes, any any local Ford dealership would be happy
1:12:52
Speaker 6: to help anyone. Again, employee pricing is super simple, super easy,
1:12:56
Speaker 6: no negotiation. You walk in, they'll tell you the price
1:12:58
Speaker 6: and you'll be very happy with that they give you
1:13:00
Speaker 6: all Right.
1:13:01
Speaker 1: So the Ford Oval of Honor event, what time does
1:13:03
Speaker 1: it start for the veterans? And I acknowledge right up front,
1:13:07
Speaker 1: we know it's Memorial Day on Monday. This is to
1:13:09
Speaker 1: celebrate veterans, So this is not a Memorial Day related thing.
1:13:13
Speaker 1: It's the Ford to Oval of Honor event to honor
1:13:15
Speaker 1: veterans from various service divisions. So what times the whole
1:13:19
Speaker 1: thing kick off? What times is this the baseball game?
1:13:21
Speaker 1: Start games at?
1:13:23
Speaker 6: I think you and I need to be there on eleven.
1:13:25
Speaker 1: I know we do, Yeah, we do. That's okay. And
1:13:28
Speaker 1: you gave tickets to everybody. All none of the families
1:13:31
Speaker 1: of the veterans.
1:13:31
Speaker 6: Have to pay for tickets, correct, They all get taken
1:13:33
Speaker 6: care of them. Have a great time, the veterans and
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Speaker 6: the family that came with them to celebrate. So it's
1:13:38
Speaker 6: just an all around awesome day.
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Speaker 1: Well, and I have to imagine the tickets of the
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Speaker 1: Reds game are still available, so I hope the weather holds.
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Speaker 1: I'm a little concerned about the wash out of the time.
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Speaker 6: Temperature wise, it looks good, but there's a chance of rain.
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Speaker 1: All right, Well, we're going to have a great time,
1:13:52
Speaker 1: and thank you to Ford, to you specifically Greg Wos
1:13:55
Speaker 1: the again regional sales manager, to Frank Bodwell, who's out
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Speaker 1: there somewhere. Even though he's retired, he continues to support
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Speaker 1: the American veterans through his efforts with the Ford Oval
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Speaker 1: of Honor events. So God bless you, Frank for everything
1:14:06
Speaker 1: that you've done over the years, and I know the
1:14:07
Speaker 1: veterans truly appreciate it. Greg.
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Speaker 6: We'll talk again, I guess on Sunday, won't we sounds
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Speaker 6: good and we thank you for your partner right, any big.
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Speaker 1: Anything I can do, I only speak for a short
1:14:16
Speaker 1: period of time. No one wants to hear Thomas ramble on.
1:14:18
Speaker 1: But it's just a real pleasure to be a part
1:14:21
Speaker 1: of that wonderful event. God bless the American veteran again,
1:14:24
Speaker 1: and for those who pay the ultimate sacrifice. Monday is
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Speaker 1: the day to contemplate that seven point fifteen Right now,
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Speaker 1: fifty five car see talk station TI to make it
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Speaker 1: a happy Wednesday. And a lot of my listeners, including me,
1:14:45
Speaker 1: of course, upset that Connors Soon Massey got shot down.
1:14:48
Speaker 1: A lot of people are very happy about it. I
1:14:49
Speaker 1: mean he did get shot down by ten percent of
1:14:51
Speaker 1: the vote in only two counties in Kentucky's fourth favored Massy.
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Speaker 10: So.
1:14:58
Speaker 1: Awash it is, That's what it is. Ed Golran, Now
1:15:01
Speaker 1: he's the man we got to get behind, I suppose,
1:15:04
Speaker 1: And yeah, I brought this up this morning. I think
1:15:07
Speaker 1: it is certainly a possibility that the Massy supporters might
1:15:11
Speaker 1: not be willing to vote for Ed Gallran simply because
1:15:13
Speaker 1: of well, how Massey was treated by Trump and people's
1:15:17
Speaker 1: just you know, adoration for Massy for a lot of reasons.
1:15:21
Speaker 1: I don't know that that would be a good path
1:15:22
Speaker 1: to go down, because it probably would assure Miss Melissa's
1:15:25
Speaker 1: Strange a victory. An earlier caller this morning in the
1:15:27
Speaker 1: five o'clock hour, and I thought, hm, well that's an
1:15:30
Speaker 1: interesting take. Perhaps push Massy and get him to agree
1:15:35
Speaker 1: to be and push for a write in. Now, I
1:15:39
Speaker 1: think that would rather. It would ultimately be disastrous because
1:15:41
Speaker 1: to the extent you're dividing the Republican vote between Gallurin
1:15:45
Speaker 1: and some writing candidates for Massy, obviously that's going to
1:15:48
Speaker 1: mean more support for the sole Democrat, Melissa Strange. And
1:15:53
Speaker 1: I know very little about her. I checked her campaign
1:15:55
Speaker 1: website and I can't imagine voting for her for no
1:15:58
Speaker 1: other reason than she's pro pre k education, and I
1:16:03
Speaker 1: find that to be horrific, that indoctrination camp begins really
1:16:07
Speaker 1: early on with the public education system. But then she's
1:16:09
Speaker 1: also a pro abortion. Everything else is really vanilla. So
1:16:12
Speaker 1: the choices I think will be a star contrast to
1:16:15
Speaker 1: each other. I can't imagine Ed Gowrain once we find
1:16:17
Speaker 1: out what he's really for other than what Trump stands for,
1:16:20
Speaker 1: you know, going all full leftists on us. But I
1:16:23
Speaker 1: know there was a suggestion that the actually is a
1:16:24
Speaker 1: closet leftist during the campaign trail. Another question I have
1:16:28
Speaker 1: for anybody wants to volunteer their thoughts on this. Obviously,
1:16:31
Speaker 1: Trump got another win category there. He's been successful going
1:16:34
Speaker 1: after candidates that disagree with him, and you know, it's
1:16:39
Speaker 1: just a fact he got another win with Andy Barr
1:16:42
Speaker 1: over Dan Cameron, and he supported Andy bar in Kentucky.
1:16:45
Speaker 1: If the money wasn't there. Going back to the Massi
1:16:48
Speaker 1: Gallrain Gallryan race, most expensive primary race that has ever
1:16:54
Speaker 1: been run in this country, people were gunning for Massi
1:16:57
Speaker 1: millions and millions of dollars, you know, reportedly excess of
1:17:00
Speaker 1: thirty two thirty three. Congress from Messi was on yesterday saying,
1:17:03
Speaker 1: you know, what when you add up all the other
1:17:05
Speaker 1: extraneous spending that's been going on, probably closer to forty
1:17:08
Speaker 1: million dollars if it had been a quote unquote normal
1:17:13
Speaker 1: primary race where the four corners of the globe weren't
1:17:16
Speaker 1: throwing cash at one or the other candidate, and it
1:17:20
Speaker 1: was just Trump criticizing Congress from Massy. I'm just wondering
1:17:25
Speaker 1: if that alone would have enough to push Collerin over
1:17:28
Speaker 1: or it was this incessant constant And gee, doesn't it
1:17:31
Speaker 1: seem to be a lot quieter here in the Morning
1:17:33
Speaker 1: Show Joe, without the all the ads coming in every
1:17:35
Speaker 1: two seconds. So just wondering for a friend. But I
1:17:39
Speaker 1: do believe, and you know, ed if you want, if
1:17:40
Speaker 1: you ever want to be in the Morning Show between
1:17:42
Speaker 1: now November, I know you passed up the opportunity in
1:17:44
Speaker 1: advance of the primary. We need to know what you're about.
1:17:46
Speaker 1: And of course, I think the vast majority of my
1:17:48
Speaker 1: listening audience would rather have someone that they didn't necessarily
1:17:52
Speaker 1: favor prevail in the election over someone who probably they
1:17:56
Speaker 1: absolutely would outright reject under all other circumstances. I email
1:17:59
Speaker 1: us a strange So we'll see if that happens. Not
1:18:05
Speaker 1: hold my breath, but we'll see if it happens. Five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty,
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Speaker 1: five hundred, eight hundred and eight two to three talk
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Speaker 1: found five fifty on eight and t funds the vike
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Speaker 1: Ramaswami coming up after the top of the our news
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Speaker 1: looking forward to him talking about medicaid. If you have
1:18:16
Speaker 1: an opportunity to read the whole thing. An easy way
1:18:18
Speaker 1: to defeat medicaid fraud set in rights in the Wall
1:18:22
Speaker 1: Street Journal. Yes, the vike ramas swamming. Simple way to
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Speaker 1: lower healthcare costs without requiring Americans to bear unacceptable trade offs.
1:18:30
Speaker 1: Prosecute medicaid fraud, and put the recovered funds back into
1:18:35
Speaker 1: citizens pockets. Simple concept. He elaborates on recent weeks of
1:18:39
Speaker 1: Trump administration focusing on this, but long term progress requires
1:18:42
Speaker 1: changing the miss excuse me, misaligned incentives between federal and
1:18:47
Speaker 1: state government. He points out the underlying problem is that
1:18:49
Speaker 1: medicaid rewards states with more money when they waste money.
1:18:54
Speaker 1: His solution a deal with the federal government allowing states
1:18:58
Speaker 1: to combat medicaid fraud to keep a greater share of
1:19:03
Speaker 1: what they save by going after medicaid fraud, says, if
1:19:07
Speaker 1: I'm elected governor of Ohio November. My state will be
1:19:10
Speaker 1: ready to commit in January. So consider the math facing
1:19:13
Speaker 1: the governor today. In Ohio, about sixty five percent of
1:19:16
Speaker 1: every traditional medicaid dollar comes from the federal government. Meaning
1:19:19
Speaker 1: for every dollar the state recovers by hunting down a
1:19:22
Speaker 1: fraudulent home health agency or phantom hospice, less than thirty
1:19:25
Speaker 1: five cents returns to the state treasury. The rest goes
1:19:28
Speaker 1: back to Washington. This is reverse the math. On January eighth,
1:19:32
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, the first Trump administration approved an agreement that,
1:19:36
Speaker 1: for the first time, let a state, Tennessee, keep a
1:19:41
Speaker 1: share of the savings it generated through a better management
1:19:44
Speaker 1: of its Medicaid program, and by late twenty twenty five,
1:19:47
Speaker 1: Tennessee Cares shared savings had exceeded one billion dollars, and
1:19:52
Speaker 1: that's money the state used for rural health coverage for children,
1:19:55
Speaker 1: pregnant women, no interest, disaster relief loans for counties hit
1:19:59
Speaker 1: by the twenty twenty car current Hurricane Helen. Dollars recover
1:20:02
Speaker 1: from fraudsters became dollars spent on care for law abiding
1:20:05
Speaker 1: families and most notably, morbid in the state of Tennessee,
1:20:08
Speaker 1: now he elaborates on the concept throughout the whole op
1:20:11
Speaker 1: ed piece and dives down to some of the details.
1:20:13
Speaker 1: Doesn't that make total sense? First off, I'll acknowledge it
1:20:16
Speaker 1: is pathetic and sad in spite of the fact that
1:20:19
Speaker 1: fraud dollars recovered by the state are kepped in part
1:20:22
Speaker 1: by the state. But because the percentage isn't more, the
1:20:27
Speaker 1: states basically throw their hands up and say, now, screw it.
1:20:29
Speaker 1: I'm not going to bother even going after it. Why
1:20:32
Speaker 1: would I work for the federal government. That's the bad
1:20:35
Speaker 1: attitude that so many states have about this. And of
1:20:37
Speaker 1: course there are a lot of politicians that just want
1:20:39
Speaker 1: the fraud waste and of used to continue because it
1:20:42
Speaker 1: benefits a lot of their illegal immigrant constituents that are
1:20:45
Speaker 1: builking every taxpayer out of the money. So, but Videk's
1:20:49
Speaker 1: gonna join the program at eight oh five talk about that.
1:20:52
Speaker 1: We'll talk about data centers and his proposal to eliminate
1:20:56
Speaker 1: income tax in the state of Ohio. A lot to
1:20:58
Speaker 1: dive onto with the gubernatorial candidate for the Republican side
1:21:01
Speaker 1: here in Ohio. I like vivig Ramas Swammy and get
1:21:04
Speaker 1: my fingers crossed for that man seven to twenty five.
1:21:06
Speaker 1: Right now, fifty five kr CD talk station. Guess who's
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Speaker 1: been hanging out in our yard a lot late talkstation
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Speaker 1: seven thirty Here fifty five KRCD talk station. Happy Wednesday,
1:21:17
Speaker 1: It's that time of week today with his State director
1:21:22
Speaker 1: for Americans for Prosperity Action hat On. Welcome back, Donald
1:21:26
Speaker 1: and Neil. It's a pleasure to have you on the
1:21:27
Speaker 1: show today, Brian. Always a pleasure to be with you.
1:21:30
Speaker 1: How many hats do you have? Anyway? Too many?
1:21:33
Speaker 11: And I don't even like wearing hats quite honestly, so.
1:21:36
Speaker 1: I never wear hats any hell I can I just
1:21:40
Speaker 1: I know we're gonna talk about medicaid fraud. I mentioned
1:21:42
Speaker 1: Viva Granma Swamy's coming up on the program afro the
1:21:44
Speaker 1: top of the Our News. He had an op ed
1:21:46
Speaker 1: piece in the Wall Street Journal today talking about his
1:21:47
Speaker 1: way to reform to Medicaid, basically to defeat medicaid fraud
1:21:51
Speaker 1: by letting states keep a larger share of what they
1:21:54
Speaker 1: recover rather than sending it back to the Feds. And
1:21:56
Speaker 1: that's all well and good, but I just wanted to
1:21:58
Speaker 1: get your inn issiar reaction and Donald Trump Man, he
1:22:01
Speaker 1: has scoring some big wins in so far as who
1:22:03
Speaker 1: he is endorsing. Yesterday Thomas Massey's lost to Ed gole
1:22:07
Speaker 1: Ran another illustration of that. And I've just been sort
1:22:09
Speaker 1: of wondering out loud and just want to hit you
1:22:11
Speaker 1: over the head with it out of the brut question.
1:22:13
Speaker 1: If the money wasn't there in that race, if it
1:22:16
Speaker 1: was just Donald Trump saying don't vote for mass you
1:22:18
Speaker 1: vote for Ed Gollran, and there weren't literally millions and
1:22:22
Speaker 1: millions of pack dollars and outside money influence in it,
1:22:24
Speaker 1: do you think that really had the profound impact on it?
1:22:27
Speaker 1: Or was it just Donald Trump's endorsement.
1:22:30
Speaker 11: Wiser men than me will do the do the analysis,
1:22:33
Speaker 11: and they'll send it to the data nerds, so we'll
1:22:35
Speaker 11: do even deeper analysis and then we'll all forget about
1:22:38
Speaker 11: it for the next election.
1:22:39
Speaker 1: But you know, I think you will.
1:22:40
Speaker 11: You know, it's what you see in elect But what
1:22:42
Speaker 11: you do see in elections though, in all seriousness, right
1:22:44
Speaker 11: is it's one thing to put endorsements out there, but
1:22:47
Speaker 11: if you don't have the money the resources to get
1:22:50
Speaker 11: that message to you penetrate the minds of the voter
1:22:53
Speaker 11: to help connect them to that message. It doesn't go anywhere.
1:22:56
Speaker 11: So certainly the money has an impact, and that's not
1:22:59
Speaker 11: necessarily various or dark intention here, right, But you know,
1:23:05
Speaker 11: it takes resources to get the message out there. It's
1:23:08
Speaker 11: you know, you can't just you know, word of mouth
1:23:10
Speaker 11: doesn't just work the way you know it might have
1:23:12
Speaker 11: years ago.
1:23:13
Speaker 1: And so yeah, I think I think, you know.
1:23:15
Speaker 11: The financial resources certainly have an impact, but at the
1:23:18
Speaker 11: end of the day, the voters make those decisions themselves
1:23:21
Speaker 11: with the information they're given or seek. We need more people, though,
1:23:25
Speaker 11: I would say soft pitch.
1:23:26
Speaker 1: For the work we do it a You see, you're
1:23:28
Speaker 1: doing exactly why I asked you the question. You're pivoting over.
1:23:32
Speaker 1: The better inform the voters are, the better the choices
1:23:35
Speaker 1: they will make. And that's why I'm always critical of
1:23:38
Speaker 1: the fact that money has such a profound influence and
1:23:40
Speaker 1: you can literally lie in a campaign ad and people
1:23:43
Speaker 1: will say, oh, listen, I heard this, and therefore I'm
1:23:46
Speaker 1: gonna vote for that guy, when in fact, if you
1:23:48
Speaker 1: did a little bit of research or maybe you had
1:23:50
Speaker 1: an actual conversation with the voters, they would understand what
1:23:52
Speaker 1: the truth is in the face of the various lies
1:23:55
Speaker 1: perpetuated by well everyone in politics. Absolutely.
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Speaker 11: It's why we do doors, right, we do the digital ads,
1:24:03
Speaker 11: we send the mail, but I'll tell you what. The
1:24:05
Speaker 11: doors cut through the noise, and it's those conversations. And
1:24:09
Speaker 11: you know, you need two things to happen though. You
1:24:11
Speaker 11: need one grassroots to be out there doing that, but
1:24:15
Speaker 11: then you also need to have, you know, voters who
1:24:17
Speaker 11: want to be receptive to that message. And so you
1:24:21
Speaker 11: might catch, you know, somebody when they're cutting their grass
1:24:23
Speaker 11: and they're not ready to talk politics. That's why you
1:24:24
Speaker 11: got to go back and knock the door again. But
1:24:26
Speaker 11: at the end of the day, you can cut through
1:24:28
Speaker 11: the spending noise with with some good grassroots work. Doesn't
1:24:32
Speaker 11: always work, but it's a key part of the process
1:24:34
Speaker 11: and it's really our civic responsibility to get there.
1:24:37
Speaker 1: It is and do that work. And on that note,
1:24:38
Speaker 1: the civic responsibility note, I feel that maybe some of
1:24:42
Speaker 1: the massive voters might say, screw it. They went after
1:24:44
Speaker 1: my guy. You know, Donald Trump was mean about it,
1:24:47
Speaker 1: and all this money from these outside lobbies. I am
1:24:49
Speaker 1: not going to vote for ed Gowrain cause well he
1:24:51
Speaker 1: defeated my guy. If they have that attitude and they
1:24:54
Speaker 1: won't vote in November or otherwise maybe won't make a
1:24:56
Speaker 1: choice for gall Rain over his opponent, which is a
1:24:59
Speaker 1: woman named Melissa Strange, that's going to secure a secure
1:25:02
Speaker 1: Democrat victory. I'm the kind of guy that's like, well,
1:25:05
Speaker 1: settle for the good if you don't get the great,
1:25:07
Speaker 1: because if you don't settle for the good, you're gonna
1:25:09
Speaker 1: get Oh maybe Melissa Strange.
1:25:12
Speaker 11: I mean the day I've had money many many wednesdays
1:25:16
Speaker 11: after an election, where very disappointed with the results and
1:25:20
Speaker 11: ready to just you know, pick up your toys and
1:25:23
Speaker 11: go home. But I think, you know, you need to
1:25:25
Speaker 11: have a long view point perspective on these things.
1:25:28
Speaker 2: Right.
1:25:28
Speaker 11: One election can have a major impact on the direction
1:25:32
Speaker 11: of the country. But you know, I think in the
1:25:35
Speaker 11: in the long run, we want to stay focused on
1:25:38
Speaker 11: making sure that we're supporting folks are going to be
1:25:40
Speaker 11: for limited government, lower taxes. And you know, you know,
1:25:44
Speaker 11: I'm not sure the specifics of that race of the
1:25:45
Speaker 11: candidate's there.
1:25:46
Speaker 1: That's okay. You know, voters looking for everybody on the
1:25:50
Speaker 1: planet seemed to be looking at that one yesterday, So
1:25:52
Speaker 1: there's no reason I bring it up. Want to get
1:25:54
Speaker 1: your thoughts and analysis on that, and now we're gonna pause.
1:25:56
Speaker 1: We'll pivot back to why you came on the program
1:25:58
Speaker 1: Medicaid fraud. What are the things we've got medicaid oversight
1:26:01
Speaker 1: of viv Ramas from He's got some good ideas. We
1:26:03
Speaker 1: talk a little bit about that, but also fiscal responsibility
1:26:05
Speaker 1: and sustainability more with AFP State Director AFP Action Donovan
1:26:09
Speaker 1: and Neil. Don't go away. It's seven thirty five right now,
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Speaker 1: and I want you to get in touch with QC
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1:26:16
Speaker 1: Brian Thomas with Donovan and Neil with the State Director
1:26:18
Speaker 1: for Americans for Prosperity Action cap ON. Americans for Prosperity
1:26:22
Speaker 1: is there for you, my friends, and they will help
1:26:25
Speaker 1: you do the door knocking train you walk you through
1:26:28
Speaker 1: it with you and Donovan. You and I have talked
1:26:30
Speaker 1: so many times over the years about that door to
1:26:32
Speaker 1: door knocking and rarely do you encounter some jerk that
1:26:35
Speaker 1: you don't want to deal with. So the likelihood of that,
1:26:37
Speaker 1: apparently statistically is very small. So to the extent you're
1:26:40
Speaker 1: worried about being uncomfortable, AFP is going to help you
1:26:43
Speaker 1: through that process. So anyway, moving forward you have vv
1:26:46
Speaker 1: ramas from me Donovan, as I mentioned showing up on
1:26:48
Speaker 1: the program at the top of the air news, he's
1:26:49
Speaker 1: got some ideas about dealing with medicaid fraud, and I
1:26:51
Speaker 1: know that's a topic you want to talk about, Medicaid oversight.
1:26:54
Speaker 1: The Daily Wire series that came out really raise some
1:26:58
Speaker 1: serious questions about what in God's name is going on
1:27:01
Speaker 1: here in Ohio. Donovan.
1:27:04
Speaker 11: Oh, yeah, as you can imagine, you know, the grassroots
1:27:07
Speaker 11: communities around the state are fired up by this. You know,
1:27:12
Speaker 11: anytime there's fraud, waste abuse in you know, state federal government,
1:27:17
Speaker 11: those are taxpayer dollars going down the drain, good money
1:27:20
Speaker 11: after bad and we want to see it rooted out.
1:27:23
Speaker 11: And I think, you know, as we've this is something
1:27:26
Speaker 11: that we highlight in a number of ways, especially as
1:27:28
Speaker 11: we you know, seek to you know, empower families with
1:27:31
Speaker 11: school choice or move Ohio to that zero percent income
1:27:35
Speaker 11: tax place. Yeah, if we've got fraud, waste and abuse
1:27:37
Speaker 11: in the system, that's money that isn't able to be
1:27:41
Speaker 11: spent going to its proper purpose and keeps us from
1:27:44
Speaker 11: getting the big, bold things done we want to see
1:27:46
Speaker 11: happen here in the Buckeye State.
1:27:48
Speaker 1: Well, and it's so much fraud by all accounts, you know,
1:27:52
Speaker 1: we're talking billions of dollars here. And when they go
1:27:55
Speaker 1: ahead improve office buildings like multiple, multiple of these medicaid
1:27:58
Speaker 1: facilities all located one place. When you walk through and
1:28:01
Speaker 1: there's no one around, and you see the concentration of
1:28:04
Speaker 1: claims paid in Franklin County alone, it's way way off
1:28:08
Speaker 1: any statistical likelihood of absent fraud that so much of
1:28:12
Speaker 1: the Medicaid money could go to one specific area of
1:28:15
Speaker 1: the state. I mean, all of this screams out loud
1:28:19
Speaker 1: to anybody's responsible for oversight. Something is wrong here. And
1:28:22
Speaker 1: yet this has gone on for such a long time,
1:28:25
Speaker 1: and I guess I just wonder. And the Ramasomi's plan is, well,
1:28:29
Speaker 1: let states keep more of what they recover from the
1:28:31
Speaker 1: fraud in Medicaid. And I understand that's a good idea,
1:28:34
Speaker 1: but we do get to keep some of it. And
1:28:36
Speaker 1: isn't looking out for the taxpayer dollars something that every
1:28:39
Speaker 1: elected official should be interested in doing, even if they
1:28:41
Speaker 1: don't get enough that they think it's worth it.
1:28:45
Speaker 11: Well, it just real quick on the oversight piece, right,
1:28:49
Speaker 11: that's what we expect the executive yuge to.
1:28:52
Speaker 1: Do, right, that's my point.
1:28:53
Speaker 11: You know, Marine Cochrane wasn't minding the store, and that
1:28:58
Speaker 11: as these issues a puplic So this came up last
1:29:01
Speaker 11: year as well, right, investigating where some of these money,
1:29:05
Speaker 11: so these federal moneys were going into these these places
1:29:08
Speaker 11: in Columbus. You know, Dwine administration was dismissive.
1:29:11
Speaker 1: I think the quote was even you know, this is
1:29:13
Speaker 1: the cost of doing business.
1:29:14
Speaker 11: Yeah, that's a problem, right when you have an executive
1:29:16
Speaker 11: that looks that way. Coupled with the fact that the
1:29:19
Speaker 11: legislature multiple times has tried to implement oversight yet is
1:29:25
Speaker 11: vetoed by the administration. And so it's just, you know,
1:29:29
Speaker 11: it's very clear how much of a blind eye has
1:29:32
Speaker 11: been been turned to this problem here in the state.
1:29:35
Speaker 1: Isn't it more than a blind eye?
1:29:36
Speaker 11: Though?
1:29:38
Speaker 1: I mean willful it willful, It seems willful. And I
1:29:41
Speaker 1: go back to the Daily wire piece which pointed out
1:29:43
Speaker 1: that Congress passed a law I've believing in like twenty
1:29:45
Speaker 1: fifteen that required electronic verification that sort of GPS coordination,
1:29:50
Speaker 1: proving that the caregiver is actually where he or she
1:29:52
Speaker 1: says that they are when they're providing services a little
1:29:55
Speaker 1: bit of oversight there that that is a law on
1:29:58
Speaker 1: the books, and it's an obligation der the Medicaid program
1:30:00
Speaker 1: and if you receive money from Medicaid, which we do,
1:30:02
Speaker 1: but then it was turned off in Ohio. I mean,
1:30:04
Speaker 1: I don't I haven't gotten answer to the question who
1:30:06
Speaker 1: is responsible for issuing the order to turn off the
1:30:08
Speaker 1: electronic verification. But that was a source of a lot
1:30:10
Speaker 1: of fraud.
1:30:12
Speaker 11: Well, the buck stops with the executive, right, Yeah, it
1:30:16
Speaker 11: also need an executive who's going to have oversight over there,
1:30:19
Speaker 11: over the people they appoint to run these programs. And
1:30:22
Speaker 11: I think I think Speaker Hoffman had said it, you know,
1:30:24
Speaker 11: there was more of a focus on getting money out
1:30:26
Speaker 11: the door than actually making sure that.
1:30:28
Speaker 1: Money is going to the right exact people.
1:30:30
Speaker 11: And I think we need to you know, we need
1:30:33
Speaker 11: to see that shift in our next governor to make
1:30:36
Speaker 11: sure we're getting you know, the results, because look, this
1:30:39
Speaker 11: is a money that is spent on, you know, in
1:30:43
Speaker 11: a fraudulent, wasteful, or abusive manner, is money that isn't
1:30:46
Speaker 11: going to the people these programs were designed for. And
1:30:49
Speaker 11: what that does is it it makes the taxpayer, who
1:30:53
Speaker 11: is paying for these programs less confident in their ability
1:30:57
Speaker 11: to work, but also hurts the actual family leads, the
1:31:00
Speaker 11: people that these programs were designed to support. We all
1:31:03
Speaker 11: benefit by getting to the bottom of the fraud, waste,
1:31:05
Speaker 11: and abuse. But it's gonna take, you know, it takes
1:31:08
Speaker 11: executive leadership to implement those reforms that the legislative branch
1:31:13
Speaker 11: has and I'm sure we'll continue to send over to
1:31:16
Speaker 11: uh to make these programs strong for the future.
1:31:19
Speaker 1: And in an effort to make Ohio more competitive we
1:31:22
Speaker 1: have UH. Well, maybe getting ound of fraud, waste and abuse,
1:31:24
Speaker 1: we will be an advantage for Ohio compared to a
1:31:27
Speaker 1: lot of other states. But vivik Ramasom he planned to
1:31:29
Speaker 1: phase out Ohio income taxes over time. Can this be accomplished?
1:31:33
Speaker 1: I know this is a goal of Americans for prosperity.
1:31:35
Speaker 1: I guess he initially plans to eliminate income tax on
1:31:38
Speaker 1: capital gains, stocks, bonds proper to other investments, and then
1:31:41
Speaker 1: gradually broaden it. We're currently at what two point four
1:31:45
Speaker 1: percent in the state of Ohio.
1:31:48
Speaker 11: Unfortunately two point seven five people get We're going to
1:31:51
Speaker 11: work to get to two point four here real soon though.
1:31:54
Speaker 1: Can the state we're going to keep ticking that down. Well,
1:31:57
Speaker 1: it's ten billion dollars a year widely reported. That goes
1:32:00
Speaker 1: a lot of money goes to schools, of course and
1:32:02
Speaker 1: other programs. But can we continue to function as a
1:32:06
Speaker 1: state and provide what's necessary from state government in the
1:32:08
Speaker 1: absence of the income tax. There's the kind of big
1:32:10
Speaker 1: million dollar question going on there.
1:32:13
Speaker 11: Well, yeah, we actually did a study alongside our friends
1:32:16
Speaker 11: at the Buckeye Institute a few years ago to answer
1:32:18
Speaker 11: that question. And it's possible, and it's really simple, and
1:32:21
Speaker 11: it's actually the formula we've used to get to where
1:32:24
Speaker 11: we are today, from nine brackets down to one. All
1:32:27
Speaker 11: we need to do well two things. We need a
1:32:29
Speaker 11: legislature to continue to tick that number down, and then
1:32:33
Speaker 11: what we need is the government to not grow as
1:32:37
Speaker 11: much as it does. So for instance, I think last
1:32:40
Speaker 11: biennium the state budget grew about seven percent. By any
1:32:46
Speaker 11: before that, I think it was about ten to twelve percent.
1:32:48
Speaker 1: If we would just.
1:32:49
Speaker 11: Grow, we can still grow the government, believe it or not, Brian,
1:32:52
Speaker 11: which is hurtful to good fiscal conservatives like you and
1:32:56
Speaker 11: I to hear, but we can. But if we just
1:32:59
Speaker 11: don't grow it as what happens, right is it's the
1:33:01
Speaker 11: lacker curve that money finds its way into other forms
1:33:06
Speaker 11: of tax revenue. But the key here is the people,
1:33:09
Speaker 11: right the workers in the state of Ohio, the people
1:33:12
Speaker 11: earning income working jobs to make ends meet. They decide
1:33:16
Speaker 11: how that money is going to get spent, rather than
1:33:18
Speaker 11: the government taking it out of their paycheck before it
1:33:20
Speaker 11: ever hits their pocketbook. It's a key fundamental difference in
1:33:25
Speaker 11: belief of does the government decide how best to use
1:33:28
Speaker 11: your money or do the people know how best to
1:33:30
Speaker 11: use their money? We believe the people do, and as
1:33:32
Speaker 11: zero percent income tax affirms that it's possible. And I
1:33:36
Speaker 11: think if a couple that just don't grow the government
1:33:40
Speaker 11: so dang much so fast principle with rooting out fraud, waste,
1:33:44
Speaker 11: and abuse. A forty forty billion dollar program, Medicaid has
1:33:48
Speaker 11: grown into it's twice as much as what we spend
1:33:52
Speaker 11: K through twelve education here in the state. And there's
1:33:54
Speaker 11: no end in sight if we don't get some serious
1:33:58
Speaker 11: reform under our belts here and right size of this program.
1:34:02
Speaker 1: Well, at least we have a work obligation for the
1:34:04
Speaker 1: medicaid issue here in the state of Ohio. So maybe
1:34:07
Speaker 1: that'll curb it back a little bit. How about just
1:34:09
Speaker 1: capping the size of government at the rate of inflation, Well,
1:34:14
Speaker 1: that would be that would be that would be great.
1:34:17
Speaker 1: So much of those ten percent years, although we do
1:34:20
Speaker 1: some bumpy rides when it comes to inflation. Donald and Neil,
1:34:22
Speaker 1: Americans for Prosperity State Director. Where do you want my
1:34:26
Speaker 1: listeners to go? Donovan, Always end with a website so
1:34:28
Speaker 1: they can get in touch with you and the crew
1:34:29
Speaker 1: at Americans for Prosperity.
1:34:31
Speaker 11: Go to Buckeye Blueprint dot com. Buckeye Blueprint dot com.
1:34:34
Speaker 11: Join one of our local chapter meetings coming up in
1:34:37
Speaker 11: a community near.
1:34:38
Speaker 1: You, and make some friends at the same time. Donovan,
1:34:41
Speaker 1: speaking of friends, we'll talk next week. Have a wonderful
1:34:43
Speaker 1: week and keep up the great work you as well.
1:34:45
Speaker 1: Brian some forty eight. Right now, if you have Kcity
1:34:48
Speaker 1: Talk station, Joe, if you open to the phone lines,
1:34:49
Speaker 1: good natorial candidate dvak Ramaswami. We'll talk medicaid with him.
1:34:53
Speaker 1: We'll talk data centers and maybe his proposal to get
1:34:55
Speaker 1: rid of income tax in the state of Ohio. Without
1:34:57
Speaker 1: furtherdo morning promised, And there she is on the phone morning.
1:34:59
Speaker 8: Welcome back, Good morning, Brian. You mentioned earlier this morning
1:35:04
Speaker 8: about a friend of your message to you about giving
1:35:07
Speaker 8: up hope on voting because there haven't been any arrests
1:35:10
Speaker 8: or any action taken to correct things that are going
1:35:14
Speaker 8: to kind of go in hayway.
1:35:15
Speaker 1: We've used the world as the country has having been
1:35:17
Speaker 1: taken over, and he's given up on the political process,
1:35:20
Speaker 1: and I didn't view that as a positive thing.
1:35:24
Speaker 8: Well, there was an article on the eighteenth of May
1:35:27
Speaker 8: in the American Media Group website is Edward Snowden is
1:35:33
Speaker 8: poised to detonate the deep state. Trump pardon deal could
1:35:37
Speaker 8: unleash historic reckoning against Komi, Klapper and Brennan. And that
1:35:41
Speaker 8: was a very interesting article that that's a possibility that
1:35:44
Speaker 8: could happen and that would blow things wide open with
1:35:47
Speaker 8: all that testimony that Snowden would have. And then there's
1:35:50
Speaker 8: a lot of few articles coming out about Fauci and
1:35:54
Speaker 8: how people shouldn't give up on the fact that he
1:35:56
Speaker 8: is going to be dealt with, because there's an article
1:36:01
Speaker 8: that was in the Federalist Times and it says Justice
1:36:04
Speaker 8: Department considers fresh criminal case against Fauci even after Biden
1:36:09
Speaker 8: pardon and expired deadline, and it goes into all the
1:36:12
Speaker 8: detail about how his top advisor, Moren was a lot
1:36:17
Speaker 8: of the things that he's being alleged convicted of he
1:36:20
Speaker 8: will be that will be tied to Fauci. And then
1:36:23
Speaker 8: that Trump also made the pardons null and void last December.
1:36:27
Speaker 8: Even though that hasn't been challenged in the justice system yet,
1:36:31
Speaker 8: it could be one of the first cases that that's challenged.
1:36:34
Speaker 1: It certainly would be. But yeah, the other component is,
1:36:36
Speaker 1: and I've read at least several accounts from litical legal
1:36:39
Speaker 1: analysts saying the statute limitations is run on prosecuting Faucie,
1:36:42
Speaker 1: so he's got kind of scott free at this point.
1:36:45
Speaker 8: But that would kind of give it more length of
1:36:48
Speaker 8: time because you've got the Morenz case, so that would
1:36:51
Speaker 8: make it extended and.
1:36:52
Speaker 1: State action and there are other also state prosecutions that
1:36:55
Speaker 1: can take place that are not governed by either the
1:36:58
Speaker 1: pardon or the statute limitations on federal charges. So possibility.
1:37:02
Speaker 1: But you know, real quick, Maureen, because you're the one
1:37:04
Speaker 1: that I think about when I talk about how long
1:37:06
Speaker 1: it takes to get this information out. If Snowden still
1:37:08
Speaker 1: got information, he's given given an opportunity to maybe give
1:37:11
Speaker 1: us even more information. It was June of twenty thirteen
1:37:15
Speaker 1: when they unsealed charges against him for violating the Espionage Act.
1:37:18
Speaker 1: That's been a while, I mean, you.
1:37:20
Speaker 8: Know, yeah, a long time, ye right, and Trumps he
1:37:24
Speaker 8: has said some negative things about him, but he seems
1:37:27
Speaker 8: to be changing his tone with new evidence apparently, at
1:37:29
Speaker 8: least that's what it is in that article. But also
1:37:32
Speaker 8: Tulcy gabberts she's probing funding it to the biolabs in Ukraine,
1:37:36
Speaker 8: well actually all around the country one hundred.
1:37:38
Speaker 4: And twenty biolabs that are proposed.
1:37:40
Speaker 8: US funded, but in Ukraine especially forty that could could
1:37:45
Speaker 8: also bring Faucian to call there. And also Hunter's laptop
1:37:49
Speaker 8: and all the BioMed you know, the oh gosh, what
1:37:52
Speaker 8: with Rosemont Senata BioMed.
1:37:55
Speaker 1: But Maureen, since around of time, you got to remember
1:37:57
Speaker 1: that Biden laptop courted espionage that had all the earmarks
1:38:01
Speaker 1: of Rush inclusion marine, So you know nothing there, Marien.
1:38:05
Speaker 1: You know, I love you and I appreciate you being
1:38:07
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1:38:11
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Speaker 1: Vike ramas swam me. Welcome back to the fifty five
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Speaker 1: KRC Morning Show, my friend. Is a pleasure to have
1:38:38
Speaker 1: you back on.
1:38:40
Speaker 4: It's good to be on. Just a completed morning, drop
1:38:43
Speaker 4: off of the kids at school and ready to start.
1:38:45
Speaker 1: The day, still doing the obligations as a parrot. Of
1:38:47
Speaker 1: course you are family man, is he? And real quick here,
1:38:50
Speaker 1: I got to start off by asking you because a
1:38:52
Speaker 1: little bird name Christopher Smitheman told me this morning that
1:38:55
Speaker 1: you're going to be coming into town at Jim and
1:38:56
Speaker 1: Jacks later in this summer. Is that is that accurate?
1:39:00
Speaker 5: Yeah?
1:39:00
Speaker 4: He and I actually did a great event with Jim
1:39:01
Speaker 4: and Jacks. You'll remember, you know, even after some of
1:39:03
Speaker 4: the turbulence in Cincinnati talking about public safety last time,
1:39:07
Speaker 4: and we'll be to another one talking about broader issues
1:39:10
Speaker 4: related to the economy. How do we increase wages? How
1:39:13
Speaker 4: do we make the American dream more affordable? And he's
1:39:15
Speaker 4: been obviously a great vice mayor and a good allied us,
1:39:18
Speaker 4: and I think we're going to continue the conversation in
1:39:21
Speaker 4: Cincinnati and across the state. Good what we're going to do.
1:39:24
Speaker 1: I hope you do, and your of course always welcome
1:39:25
Speaker 1: here on the fifty five Kersey Morning Show Notes notably
1:39:27
Speaker 1: to talk about and I saw your op ed piece
1:39:29
Speaker 1: and I did you know, read a couple of lines
1:39:31
Speaker 1: from when I gave my listeners the general gist of
1:39:33
Speaker 1: it in today's Wall Street Journal, an easy way to
1:39:35
Speaker 1: defeat Medicaid fraud. Listen, this is a problem, and I
1:39:39
Speaker 1: sure as heck hoped that in November. One of the
1:39:41
Speaker 1: main issues going into the campaign is getting rid of
1:39:44
Speaker 1: government fraud, waste and abuse. We are getting ripped off
1:39:47
Speaker 1: and no one seems to care about it. Your suggestion is, well,
1:39:50
Speaker 1: we need to incentivize. And I don't know why we
1:39:52
Speaker 1: need incentive ve because it's an obligation of a politician
1:39:55
Speaker 1: to look out for taxpayer dollars seems to me a
1:39:57
Speaker 1: bit of a fiduciary obligation. I wish they had one,
1:40:00
Speaker 1: but that by incentivizing states giving them a bigger slice
1:40:04
Speaker 1: of the fraud that they catch might incentivize them to
1:40:07
Speaker 1: do it, because of course it would pad their coffers
1:40:09
Speaker 1: with the money that they caught in fraud. It sounds
1:40:11
Speaker 1: like a dynamic or a dynamite proposal. Any problem getting
1:40:14
Speaker 1: it off the ground, you think?
1:40:16
Speaker 4: Now, look, I think this is one of the examples
1:40:18
Speaker 4: of where if we have a governor of our state
1:40:21
Speaker 4: who is willing to work constructively with the federal government
1:40:25
Speaker 4: instead of trying to make a hostile show of relationships
1:40:28
Speaker 4: with the federal government, we actually help the people of Ohio.
1:40:31
Speaker 4: So the way it works right now is even if
1:40:33
Speaker 4: and I will make this a top priority, But even
1:40:35
Speaker 4: if I make this a top priority of combating fraud,
1:40:37
Speaker 4: and we say billions of dollars, we would only keep
1:40:40
Speaker 4: thirty five cents on the dollar. What I want to
1:40:43
Speaker 4: do with the federal government, And I've already talked to
1:40:45
Speaker 4: doctor Oz who's the administrator of CMS in the federal
1:40:48
Speaker 4: government that administer's Medicaid. It's a win win deal where
1:40:51
Speaker 4: the federal government can still keep a third of it
1:40:53
Speaker 4: and we'd keep two thirds of it instead. So that's
1:40:56
Speaker 4: billions of additional dollars for Ohio. Right to bring down copaise,
1:41:02
Speaker 4: to bring down health insurance premiums, to increase the value
1:41:05
Speaker 4: of health savings accounts. This is how we actually do.
1:41:09
Speaker 4: It is a practical plan, doesn't require any new taxes,
1:41:12
Speaker 4: doesn't require cuts in care, doesn't require any access issues.
1:41:17
Speaker 4: This has taking money from the criminals and putting it
1:41:20
Speaker 4: in the pockets of Ohioans. And it turns out that
1:41:23
Speaker 4: there are literally billions of dollars in for our state.
1:41:25
Speaker 4: That's a lot of money, and yet it isn't happening today.
1:41:28
Speaker 4: And this is why I do think we need a
1:41:31
Speaker 4: different kind of leader at the top. We need a
1:41:33
Speaker 4: new generation of leadership. I'm an entrepreneur of running businesses.
1:41:37
Speaker 4: I understand how this works. But you're saying, I hope
1:41:40
Speaker 4: the media makes it a top priority. I don't know
1:41:42
Speaker 4: if they will going into November, but it is a
1:41:44
Speaker 4: top priority for me regardless as the next governor.
1:41:47
Speaker 1: Of the state.
1:41:47
Speaker 4: Whether or not the media pays attention to it, and
1:41:49
Speaker 4: we're going to put that money back into pockets of
1:41:52
Speaker 4: law abiding That's the key part, law abiding Ohioans taking
1:41:56
Speaker 4: it from the criminals who are defrauding the system today.
1:42:00
Speaker 1: When your proposal is not unique. Apparently Tennessee was given
1:42:04
Speaker 1: the opportunity to keep more of its savings that they
1:42:06
Speaker 1: uh when they better manage the Medicaid program.
1:42:08
Speaker 4: So there's precedent for this absolutely. You know, Look, we
1:42:12
Speaker 4: don't have to reinvent the wheel. The Tennessee saved one
1:42:15
Speaker 4: point three billion extra that went directly to for example,
1:42:20
Speaker 4: Hurricane Helene relief and other forms of relief, but they
1:42:23
Speaker 4: otherwise wouldn't have been able to fund out of the
1:42:25
Speaker 4: state coffers. So I want to take the Tennessee model
1:42:28
Speaker 4: to the next level. So that's what I laid out
1:42:30
Speaker 4: in the Wall Street Journal. And this is part of
1:42:33
Speaker 4: a broader policy roll out yesterday, Brian, we did in Columbus.
1:42:36
Speaker 4: Where that's the first prong. The second prong is we
1:42:40
Speaker 4: also have to simplify the Medicaid bureaucracy. This is what's
1:42:44
Speaker 4: crushing healthcare in the state. Those Medicaid dollars are administered
1:42:48
Speaker 4: through I kid you, not ten different government agencies within Ohio.
1:42:54
Speaker 4: So there's the Department of Medicaid. You might think that
1:42:55
Speaker 4: they're the ones who handle it. Turns out they're not.
1:42:57
Speaker 4: There's also nine others along with them who do and
1:43:01
Speaker 4: that creates confusion. It limits our ability to have transparency
1:43:06
Speaker 4: into how the dollars are being spent. It limits accountability.
1:43:09
Speaker 4: So it's always a he said, she said, silo problem.
1:43:13
Speaker 4: I want to fix that bureaucracy. I want to rationalize it.
1:43:16
Speaker 4: I'm a friend of the people, I'm an enemy of bureaucracy,
1:43:18
Speaker 4: and I think that that's going to be good for
1:43:20
Speaker 4: saving dollars for the taxpayer. And then you combine that
1:43:24
Speaker 4: with making this a top law enforcement priority, which the
1:43:28
Speaker 4: hard truth is it hasn't been a top law enforcement priority.
1:43:32
Speaker 4: That's going to change on my watch. Deters the bad
1:43:35
Speaker 4: behavior and again prosecute the bad guys. Take the billions
1:43:38
Speaker 4: they've stolen from fake home health care centers or phantom
1:43:42
Speaker 4: hospice centers, or for that matter, many people starting next
1:43:45
Speaker 4: year who may not work but they say they fulfill
1:43:47
Speaker 4: the work requirements. That too, would be a form of
1:43:49
Speaker 4: Medicaid fraud. Take the money from the people who shouldn't
1:43:52
Speaker 4: be getting these benefits, use the billions of dollars and
1:43:55
Speaker 4: put it back in the pockets of ohioans. That's how
1:43:58
Speaker 4: we're going to actually make healthcare more and it is
1:44:00
Speaker 4: an eminently practical.
1:44:02
Speaker 2: Plan to do it well.
1:44:03
Speaker 1: This Medicaid fraud apparently was just simply ignored. There was
1:44:06
Speaker 1: an electronic verification program by federal law is a precondition
1:44:10
Speaker 1: to getting the Medicaid money. You had to do an
1:44:12
Speaker 1: EVV to make sure that you know family members, for example,
1:44:15
Speaker 1: who are providing care for their own family members were
1:44:16
Speaker 1: at least in the place where they say they were
1:44:18
Speaker 1: providing the care you don't provide that you don't get paid. Well,
1:44:21
Speaker 1: they turned that system off. They weren't even tracking it.
1:44:26
Speaker 1: Who who is in a position to ignore federal law
1:44:30
Speaker 1: and just say now we're not going to do it
1:44:31
Speaker 1: here to Ohio. I want to get to the bottom
1:44:33
Speaker 1: of that. Is that, Governor de Wine.
1:44:35
Speaker 4: Look, you could play a there's a giant historical exercise
1:44:40
Speaker 4: of who's to blame for what. I'm focused on the
1:44:42
Speaker 4: future and for me, Brian, here's what I'll tell you.
1:44:44
Speaker 4: This is, if I fail to get it right, the
1:44:47
Speaker 4: person to blame is me. Okay, the buck stops with
1:44:49
Speaker 4: me when I'm in charge. But I'm confident that we're
1:44:52
Speaker 4: going to move so quickly in the first six months
1:44:56
Speaker 4: the bad guys won't know it hit them. Okay, I
1:44:58
Speaker 4: think the fraudsters have unfortunately thrived in Ohio and this
1:45:02
Speaker 4: has not been a top law enforcement priority. And so
1:45:04
Speaker 4: what I'm trying to do is to take a practical, dispassionate,
1:45:08
Speaker 4: comprehensive look at this and say, I'm going to fix
1:45:10
Speaker 4: the incentives. I'm going to make this a top priority
1:45:12
Speaker 4: for my administration. I'm going to strike a deal with
1:45:14
Speaker 4: the Feds of have a good relationship with all the
1:45:16
Speaker 4: folks involved to keep the majority.
1:45:19
Speaker 1: Of dollars that Ohio saves.
1:45:20
Speaker 4: That's a big deal. And then we're going to simplify
1:45:23
Speaker 4: the bureaucracy. We don't need ten different agencies touching Medicaid dollars.
1:45:26
Speaker 4: And then, in addition to that, make it a top
1:45:28
Speaker 4: law enforcement priority with our next ag I've already spoken
1:45:31
Speaker 4: to the likely next age keep favor about it. We're aligned,
1:45:35
Speaker 4: and that's the way we're going to move. And because
1:45:36
Speaker 4: in my administration, the actions speak louder than words, and
1:45:41
Speaker 4: that's the way I'm wired. I do think now is
1:45:43
Speaker 4: the moment where Ohio can benefit from a more business
1:45:47
Speaker 4: like operation and leadership and government true government efficiency, true
1:45:52
Speaker 4: government effectiveness. That's what people are hungry for. And even
1:45:57
Speaker 4: if you think about a program like Medicaid, I mean
1:45:59
Speaker 4: it was meant for this single mom and over the rhine,
1:46:01
Speaker 4: it was meant for a father of five in Toledo
1:46:03
Speaker 4: who might be working two jobs temporarily, or a disabled
1:46:07
Speaker 4: veteran or a college grad who hasn't yet gotten that job.
1:46:11
Speaker 4: A temporary hand up for people who are hard working
1:46:14
Speaker 4: and trying to.
1:46:15
Speaker 1: Make it work.
1:46:16
Speaker 4: The program won't exist for them if the fraudsters are
1:46:19
Speaker 4: actually siphoning money away. The other thing to remember Brian, though,
1:46:23
Speaker 4: is when you have Medicaid fraud, it's not just people
1:46:26
Speaker 4: in Medicaid who suffer, the true law abiding ones. It's
1:46:29
Speaker 4: also people in Medicare. It's also people who are covered
1:46:32
Speaker 4: by commercial health insurance or even uninsured Ohioans.
1:46:36
Speaker 3: Why.
1:46:37
Speaker 4: Because Medicaid is defrauding the system, they're bidding up the
1:46:41
Speaker 4: price such that the healthcare price is paid by everyone
1:46:45
Speaker 4: else are way higher. So here's an interesting fact on this,
1:46:48
Speaker 4: because that may be news to some people. If you
1:46:51
Speaker 4: look at Medicaid enrollment in the last decade, it's up
1:46:54
Speaker 4: from two point nine million to three million in Ohio
1:46:57
Speaker 4: by one hundred thousand people over there. That same period,
1:47:01
Speaker 4: the amount that Medicaid is spending is up from twenty
1:47:04
Speaker 4: seven billion to forty seven billion. So one hundred thousand
1:47:09
Speaker 4: more people in the last decade cost twenty billion more
1:47:13
Speaker 4: to the system. That is insane. That is a waste
1:47:16
Speaker 4: of taxpayer dollars. And it is also upward pricing demand,
1:47:20
Speaker 4: artificial pricing demand on the healthcare services that you and
1:47:24
Speaker 4: I and your listeners pay for.
1:47:26
Speaker 2: That is galling.
1:47:28
Speaker 4: And this is something that certainly Democrats have swept under
1:47:31
Speaker 4: the rug for too long, But to be honest, Republicans
1:47:34
Speaker 4: have not yet been aggressive enough in going after either.
1:47:37
Speaker 4: So I don't want to make this a Republican versus
1:47:39
Speaker 4: Democrat issue. I think it's a past versus future issue,
1:47:43
Speaker 4: and I want to represent the future for the state,
1:47:46
Speaker 4: where healthcare costs are lower, where people have more money
1:47:49
Speaker 4: in their pockets, where the American dream is affordable, and
1:47:52
Speaker 4: you feel wealthy in a first world country. Once again,
1:47:55
Speaker 4: that's I think what every Cincinnatian in every Ohioan deserve.
1:48:00
Speaker 4: But it does require a new model of fresh leadership,
1:48:04
Speaker 4: and that's what I'm bringing to the state. And I
1:48:06
Speaker 4: think we're gonna, you know, with the help of people
1:48:08
Speaker 4: in Cincinnati and deeple across Ohio. We're not going to
1:48:11
Speaker 4: do it alone, but with your help, we're going to
1:48:13
Speaker 4: get there in November, and this starts in January, including
1:48:17
Speaker 4: the new deal I'm going to strike with the federal government. V.
1:48:19
Speaker 1: Gromase saw me hitting the ground running in January campaign
1:48:21
Speaker 1: promise that I know he's going to make good on,
1:48:23
Speaker 1: and you know, approven a successful business model in order
1:48:25
Speaker 1: to bring major investment. Maybe look at Florida and taxes
1:48:29
Speaker 1: that have no income tax and no property tax. That's
1:48:32
Speaker 1: what your planning to roll out. Can you phase out
1:48:34
Speaker 1: income taxes as you're proposing over time, not immediately, But
1:48:38
Speaker 1: will the money that say that we don't pay out
1:48:40
Speaker 1: in fraud, waste abuse and medicaid cover the lost tax
1:48:42
Speaker 1: revenue going into a Columbus pursuing to the income tax.
1:48:46
Speaker 4: Look, there's so much that can cover that, and I
1:48:48
Speaker 4: think it's all it all adds up. It's not a
1:48:50
Speaker 4: one silver bullet, but we're phasing it out. We have
1:48:52
Speaker 4: a clear plan. We've laid it out over ten years,
1:48:55
Speaker 4: and then we have an eight year version, and I
1:48:57
Speaker 4: personally think we're going to hit the eight year version.
1:48:59
Speaker 4: We may beat that expectation, but an eight to ten
1:49:02
Speaker 4: year plan that we're solid on which phases it out
1:49:05
Speaker 4: over time, and we're going to go into details over
1:49:07
Speaker 4: the course of the year to really lay it out
1:49:09
Speaker 4: for folks on exactly how the budget math works. One
1:49:12
Speaker 4: thing we've seen already, Brian, though, and people should remember
1:49:15
Speaker 4: this is Ohio and led by my lieutenant governor candidate right,
1:49:19
Speaker 4: Rob McCauley, who's the President of the Senate, had a
1:49:22
Speaker 4: plan that they implemented last year to get to a
1:49:24
Speaker 4: single flat income tax rate. And when they did that,
1:49:27
Speaker 4: everyone said, well, how are you going to make up
1:49:28
Speaker 4: for the lost revenue? What are we seeing this year
1:49:31
Speaker 4: now as income tax has declined led by Rob McCauley,
1:49:34
Speaker 4: my running mate, is that the revenues that Ohio has
1:49:37
Speaker 4: gotten from income taxes have actually far exceeded the expectations
1:49:42
Speaker 4: of the people who made the projections. Why is that
1:49:45
Speaker 4: because fewer people leave the state to Texas and Tennessee
1:49:49
Speaker 4: and Florida, those neighbors you know, and you have them
1:49:51
Speaker 4: viit Sinnati. I grew up in Cincinnati. You have been
1:49:53
Speaker 4: Columbus where I live Now, they go spend six months
1:49:56
Speaker 4: in a day in Texas or Florida or Tennessee, and
1:49:59
Speaker 4: we're missing out on their sales tax revenue, we're missing
1:50:02
Speaker 4: out on their economic activity. But when the tax rate
1:50:05
Speaker 4: goes down, more of those people opt to live in
1:50:07
Speaker 4: what I think is the greatest state. If we make
1:50:10
Speaker 4: it that the state of Ohio, a lot of those
1:50:12
Speaker 4: people want to be here, we should stop chasing them away.
1:50:15
Speaker 4: And I think that that's common sense. It is the
1:50:18
Speaker 4: math has to work on my model. It does, and
1:50:20
Speaker 4: it's going to be steady, as I promised. It's not
1:50:22
Speaker 4: going to be immediately overnight that we go to zero
1:50:24
Speaker 4: income tax everywhere. We'll start with zero capital gains tax,
1:50:28
Speaker 4: and then we have a steady plan to get us
1:50:30
Speaker 4: over eight to ten years to zero income The beauty
1:50:33
Speaker 4: of that, though, is if you articulate as a governor
1:50:36
Speaker 4: a credible plan to get there, people and businesses can
1:50:40
Speaker 4: make the decisions today knowing that Ohio is on a
1:50:43
Speaker 4: path to get there. And so again this is the
1:50:46
Speaker 4: kind of common sense business leadership we need in the state.
1:50:49
Speaker 4: I didn't come from money, as you know. I grew
1:50:52
Speaker 4: up and went to public schools in Cincinnati. I went
1:50:54
Speaker 4: to Saint X for high school. But I have built
1:50:57
Speaker 4: and I built a twenty billion dollar business called Royven
1:51:00
Speaker 4: listed on the NASDAC. I built another multi billion dollar
1:51:02
Speaker 4: business in Medicare. I was a co founder of a
1:51:04
Speaker 4: business called Chapter. I could go on. I want to
1:51:07
Speaker 4: bring those kinds of business oriented experiences as an entrepreneur,
1:51:12
Speaker 4: as a creator to the way that we shape up
1:51:15
Speaker 4: the bureaucracy here in Ohio and together, I think that's
1:51:19
Speaker 4: going to put more money in people's pockets, will deliver
1:51:22
Speaker 4: lower costs, bigger paychecks.
1:51:23
Speaker 5: That's my motto.
1:51:24
Speaker 4: And I think we're going to get it done well.
1:51:26
Speaker 1: Very briefly. The remaining moment of time or two we
1:51:28
Speaker 1: have here swirling behind the elimination of property tax or
1:51:30
Speaker 1: phasing our income tax, phasing them out. We have the
1:51:33
Speaker 1: maybe we're going to be eliminating property tax. And I
1:51:35
Speaker 1: know you are desirous of bringing about some property tax
1:51:38
Speaker 1: reform in Ohio, but can you have eradication or elimination
1:51:43
Speaker 1: phase out of income taxes and get some property tax
1:51:46
Speaker 1: relief at the same time.
1:51:48
Speaker 4: Absolutely either way. You said that absolutely. So we're going
1:51:51
Speaker 4: to phase out the income tax, not immediately, but have
1:51:53
Speaker 4: a clear plan starting next year to phase it out,
1:51:56
Speaker 4: and we will be able to deliver that while also
1:51:59
Speaker 4: delivering the biggest property tax cut that Ohio has ever
1:52:03
Speaker 4: seen in our history. And the way we're doing that, Brian,
1:52:06
Speaker 4: is we're just rolling it back to where property tax
1:52:09
Speaker 4: levels were before the end of the pandemic. Here's the issue.
1:52:13
Speaker 4: The pre pandemic, nobody was there weren't really a major
1:52:16
Speaker 4: issue with property taxes. You know, we're probably paid more
1:52:18
Speaker 4: than you want, maybe, but nobody was complaining about this
1:52:20
Speaker 4: as a top issue in Ohio. This is a post
1:52:23
Speaker 4: pandemic problem because the federal government printed a whole bunch
1:52:26
Speaker 4: of money under President Biden that caused prices of everything
1:52:29
Speaker 4: to go up. All assets, stocks, you think about, every
1:52:32
Speaker 4: other asset in real estate and your home you own.
1:52:35
Speaker 4: But if you don't own stocks, but you do own
1:52:37
Speaker 4: the real estate, your tax bill goes up and you
1:52:39
Speaker 4: don't have enough cash to pay it. That's a problem.
1:52:42
Speaker 4: So I'm fixing that problem by saying, let's just take
1:52:45
Speaker 4: it back to where it was before the end of
1:52:46
Speaker 4: the pandemic. We'll be able to do that without hurting police,
1:52:50
Speaker 4: fire or schools, make government operate more efficiently, and can
1:52:54
Speaker 4: I do that. We'll also bringing down the income tax
1:52:57
Speaker 4: over a ten year plan or eight year plan down
1:52:59
Speaker 4: to zero. Yeah, and we have clear plans to do it.
1:53:02
Speaker 4: I think it takes a new kind of leader who's
1:53:04
Speaker 4: thinking about the actual arithmetic, thinking about the actual math,
1:53:08
Speaker 4: bringing economic growth and business to the state, bringing high
1:53:12
Speaker 4: paying jobs to the state and the process. Absolutely, we're
1:53:15
Speaker 4: going to get that done. And in contrast, that's one
1:53:18
Speaker 4: Ohio we could wake up to, okay, this November. The
1:53:21
Speaker 4: other Ohio you could wake up to in November is electing,
1:53:25
Speaker 4: god forbid, a socialist leading Democrat who has pledged effectively
1:53:30
Speaker 4: a twenty one billion dollar tax hike. If she's elected,
1:53:34
Speaker 4: that would chase those same businesses out of this state,
1:53:37
Speaker 4: bringing us an economic devastation of a kind we probably
1:53:40
Speaker 4: haven't seen since the Great Depression. And I don't think
1:53:43
Speaker 4: that's a hyperbole when you look at her plans, when
1:53:45
Speaker 4: you look at the way she didn't hesitate to shut
1:53:47
Speaker 4: down the economy, shut down our public schools, then quit
1:53:51
Speaker 4: on the job when the legislature tried to get her
1:53:53
Speaker 4: to take a more moderate approach, or how can't afford
1:53:57
Speaker 4: a far left liberal like Amy Acton. But what we
1:54:00
Speaker 4: can afford and what we do aspire to is business growth.
1:54:04
Speaker 4: Take those income taxes and property taxes down, put more
1:54:08
Speaker 4: money in your pocket. Fight the medicaid fraud from the government,
1:54:12
Speaker 4: waste in government abuse. Put those billions back in your pocket.
1:54:16
Speaker 4: That's how we get it done. And I don't care
1:54:18
Speaker 4: whether you're independent or Democrat or Republican. It didn't matter.
1:54:21
Speaker 4: We're going to put that money in your pocket. Make
1:54:23
Speaker 4: your life better. That's what I'm in this to do
1:54:25
Speaker 4: as governor. And you know what, if we're successful, I
1:54:28
Speaker 4: think we'll be able to go much more quickly than
1:54:31
Speaker 4: people even imagine.
1:54:33
Speaker 1: A man. I appreciate your optimism, your ideas is obviously
1:54:35
Speaker 1: you didn't call looking for an argument from Brian Thomas
1:54:37
Speaker 1: Vivek for Ohio vivik Ramas from me, I sure look
1:54:40
Speaker 1: forward to our next conversation. Always typically say, and I'm
1:54:43
Speaker 1: going to say it again, try at least to make
1:54:45
Speaker 1: it a happy Wednesday. Even though my next guest every
1:54:48
Speaker 1: Wednesday with the thinking about KC Morning Show Judge and
1:54:50
Speaker 1: Napolitano is probably as disappointed as I am. We had
1:54:53
Speaker 1: to take a loss yesterday, Judge an Apolaitano congress from
1:54:56
Speaker 1: sc pretty much roundly defeated by Ed Gollryan ten percent
1:54:59
Speaker 1: margin margin between the two. I knew you and I
1:55:02
Speaker 1: were really hoping for Congressman Massey, A proud defender of
1:55:05
Speaker 1: the Constitution, unwavering defender of the constitution, and we have
1:55:09
Speaker 1: so few of those these days. Welcome back, you're honor boy.
1:55:11
Speaker 1: That hits right at home with your op ed piece today.
1:55:15
Speaker 1: Do we still have a constitution? Good to have you
1:55:17
Speaker 1: back on the show.
1:55:18
Speaker 9: I'm sick to my stomach to be honest with you,
1:55:22
Speaker 9: Thomas is the last man standing. There is no one
1:55:25
Speaker 9: as faithful to the Constitution or the primacy of the
1:55:30
Speaker 9: individual over the state as he is. And now he's
1:55:33
Speaker 9: going to be replaced by a two bit political hack.
1:55:36
Speaker 9: We'll just do whatever Republican leadership tells him to do.
1:55:40
Speaker 9: The people of that district were served by a giant,
1:55:45
Speaker 9: and now they'll be served by a mouse. And it's
1:55:48
Speaker 9: just reprehensible that the President of the United States is
1:55:51
Speaker 9: so extraordinarily thin skinned like most mobsters, bullies and thugs,
1:55:58
Speaker 9: that he had to the one person of the five
1:56:01
Speaker 9: hundred and thirty five who made sense when he spoke
1:56:04
Speaker 9: on the floor.
1:56:05
Speaker 1: Well, he's been having some pretty serious success with his
1:56:08
Speaker 1: attack efforts and various politicians, one of them Senator Bill Cassidy,
1:56:11
Speaker 1: who did vote to impeach him. Sw I understand perhaps
1:56:13
Speaker 1: the voter is not being thrilled with Bil Cassidy, but
1:56:16
Speaker 1: when you do things like that, it tends they have consequences.
1:56:18
Speaker 1: And one of the things I wanted to ask you
1:56:19
Speaker 1: about is since they did advance a war powers measure,
1:56:23
Speaker 1: because Senator Bill Cassidy changed sides after voting against them
1:56:26
Speaker 1: the other day, he said, no, I'm voting with them now,
1:56:28
Speaker 1: So one more Republican at least until after the top
1:56:32
Speaker 1: of the year next year. That was one of the
1:56:35
Speaker 1: ones that did Trump went after. But it allows me
1:56:37
Speaker 1: to pivot over and ask you this because I'm kind
1:56:40
Speaker 1: of in a state of confusion here. It looks like
1:56:43
Speaker 1: bombs are going to drop or they're not going to drop.
1:56:45
Speaker 1: Things status changed with the irrodience day in and day out.
1:56:47
Speaker 1: Are we in a pause under the War Powers resolution
1:56:50
Speaker 1: or not? I don't know there's any case law determining
1:56:52
Speaker 1: whether alleged cease fire, which I really don't think we
1:56:54
Speaker 1: have that pauses the ticking of the sixty day clock
1:56:58
Speaker 1: under the war powers resolute.
1:57:01
Speaker 9: People who argue in favor of the pause, like Secretary Hegseth,
1:57:09
Speaker 9: who committed a public violation of the Hatch Act by
1:57:12
Speaker 9: using military by appearing for this guy gal Rain while
1:57:17
Speaker 9: he was the Secretary of Defense. But listen to sob
1:57:20
Speaker 9: since crying over spilled milk. These people argue that if
1:57:26
Speaker 9: the bullets stopped for a period of time, the clock
1:57:29
Speaker 9: is reset.
1:57:30
Speaker 1: They have not read the law.
1:57:33
Speaker 9: The law says from sixty days after the introduction of
1:57:38
Speaker 9: the troops. So the introduction of the troops was on
1:57:43
Speaker 9: February twenty eighth. It doesn't matter what the troops do,
1:57:45
Speaker 9: it's sixty days after their introduction. The Congress has to
1:57:51
Speaker 9: approve it.
1:57:52
Speaker 3: This is more of the same.
1:57:56
Speaker 9: Cult like following of whatever Trump wants that we in
1:58:00
Speaker 9: the Gallrain defeat of Congressman Massey. But I will say
1:58:05
Speaker 9: this that probably will be another senator, Republican senator who
1:58:09
Speaker 9: will soon flip by the name of John Cornan after
1:58:13
Speaker 9: what happened to him yesterday.
1:58:16
Speaker 1: Another valid point. Okay, so since more traction is being made,
1:58:22
Speaker 1: toward getting a war powers measure passed, and assuming they
1:58:25
Speaker 1: do pass it, Donald Trump could veto it, and I
1:58:29
Speaker 1: doubt under any circumstance it's going to be a bulletproof
1:58:32
Speaker 1: veto override majority. They're going to vote for this, which
1:58:35
Speaker 1: leaves us where.
1:58:38
Speaker 9: Back where we started is where it is where it
1:58:43
Speaker 9: leaves us. And you can blame the Congress in nineteen
1:58:48
Speaker 9: seventy three for even crafting this monstrosity, which recognized that
1:58:53
Speaker 9: presidents will start wars without the authority of the Congress.
1:58:59
Speaker 9: The whole thing is unconstitutional that Congress would seede away
1:59:03
Speaker 9: for sixty days its war making power to the president. Now,
1:59:08
Speaker 9: President Nixon vetoed the War Powers Resolution. It's a statute,
1:59:12
Speaker 9: but for some reason they chose to call it resolution.
1:59:15
Speaker 9: I don't know why President Nixon vetoed it, not because
1:59:20
Speaker 9: it was an improper delegation, but because he felt, remember
1:59:24
Speaker 9: he famously said, if the president does it, then it's
1:59:27
Speaker 9: not illegal. He felt that the president could start any
1:59:30
Speaker 9: war against any adversary at any time and the Congress
1:59:34
Speaker 9: could not interfere. So he vetoted it for the opposite
1:59:38
Speaker 9: reasons that I am telling you. In my view, it's unconstitutional.
1:59:43
Speaker 9: So this has never happened before. No Congress has ever
1:59:50
Speaker 9: purported to negate the president's war authority since the enactment
1:59:56
Speaker 9: of this law, and so the issue of whether or
1:59:59
Speaker 9: not the president can veto it has never come to four.
2:00:04
Speaker 9: Under the Constitution, the president can veto anything that the
2:00:08
Speaker 9: two houses do, except for his own impeachment. The statute
2:00:14
Speaker 9: is silent on this, but it's silence must mean that
2:00:18
Speaker 9: they contemplated that the President could veto it. So all
2:00:22
Speaker 9: it is is a political statement. If it passes that
2:00:26
Speaker 9: a majority of the Republican controlled Congress of the United
2:00:32
Speaker 9: States of America wants the war stopped, that's political fodder
2:00:36
Speaker 9: for those of us who are anti war, even though
2:00:40
Speaker 9: it won't affect things legally. Look, Trump is so indifferent
2:00:43
Speaker 9: to the law. Even if Congress ordered in the stop,
2:00:46
Speaker 9: he wouldn't what is He's being told what to do
2:00:49
Speaker 9: by Miriam Adelson and Benjamin Attan Yahoo. He couldn't care
2:00:54
Speaker 9: less what the Congress wants. The Congress is, as Pat
2:00:58
Speaker 9: Buchanan famously said, is really occupied territory.
2:01:05
Speaker 1: I hate that to laugh at that. That is pretty
2:01:07
Speaker 1: it's dute observation.
2:01:09
Speaker 9: So either way, that great Congressman from the fourth District
2:01:12
Speaker 9: of Kentucky Use has used that phrase as well.
2:01:15
Speaker 1: It does sound very massy esque. Touch the thoughtout. So
2:01:19
Speaker 1: is there any now going back to the War Powers Resolution,
2:01:21
Speaker 1: the Warpowers Act, whatever the sixty o'clock running, isn't running?
2:01:24
Speaker 1: Is it not running? I hear your interpretation sounds logical, reasonable,
2:01:27
Speaker 1: and the lawful interpretation. No court has ever interpreted it yet.
2:01:31
Speaker 1: How who has standing to go in and challenge this?
2:01:36
Speaker 1: Is it or is it not? A pause argument?
2:01:40
Speaker 9: Yeah, here we go again. I don't know who would
2:01:42
Speaker 9: have standing under you know, gold Border against Carter, where
2:01:47
Speaker 9: Senator Barry Goldwater sued President Jimmy Carter to prevent him
2:01:53
Speaker 9: from giving his sounds ridiculous, but it happened to prevent
2:01:56
Speaker 9: him from giving away the Panama Canal. The Supreme Court
2:02:01
Speaker 9: said federal courts do not have jurisdiction over things that
2:02:04
Speaker 9: are essentially you know what's coming, Brian, because this is
2:02:07
Speaker 9: what they say when they don't have the fortitude to
2:02:10
Speaker 9: rule a political question. Yes, yes, political question theoretically means
2:02:17
Speaker 9: it is to be resolved by the other two branches.
2:02:20
Speaker 9: What it really means is we don't want to get involved,
2:02:22
Speaker 9: that's true. We don't want to get impeached. We don't
2:02:24
Speaker 9: want to get involved.
2:02:25
Speaker 1: But if there was standing and the War Powers resolution
2:02:27
Speaker 1: was being analyzed, they could also be analyzed for its
2:02:30
Speaker 1: own constitutionality, because it is an unconstitutional delegation of power.
2:02:35
Speaker 1: So if you eliminated the War Power's resolution, what we
2:02:38
Speaker 1: are left with is the constitution of the United States
2:02:40
Speaker 1: of America, which requires congressional approval and declaration of war.
2:02:45
Speaker 9: And who's going to stop the president if they enacted legislation.
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Speaker 9: If they put forward legislation saying thou shalt not spend
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Speaker 9: money on weapons in fighting Iran, it would veto that.
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Speaker 9: So they've created a monster.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and this has been building since World War Two,
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Speaker 1: overtime for time, Korea and Vietnam. We can go on
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Speaker 1: and on and on and multiple administrations real quick on
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Speaker 1: your column, which was outstanding, this creation of this fund
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Speaker 1: through Donald Trump settlement with the IRS over then releasing
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Speaker 1: his tax records, you know, kind of reminded me of
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Speaker 1: Obama forcing banks to donate money to LRAZA. Now, completely
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Speaker 1: different factual scenario, but you make a good case or
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Speaker 1: controversy question out this. You have the person responsible of
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Speaker 1: an oversight for the Justice Department, presiding over and directing
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Speaker 1: the Justice Department to settle with him. Clearly, it sounds
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Speaker 1: like a conflict of interest or something obviously wrong, and
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Speaker 1: you pointed that out quite well in your column today,
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Speaker 1: which I'm glad enough to get early.
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Speaker 9: Unconstitutional. It's unethical, and it's unenforceable. It's unconstitutional because only
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Speaker 9: Congress can appropriate money, yeah, under the Constitution, for the
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Speaker 9: expenditure of tax dollars. It's profoundly unethical. For time Blanche
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Speaker 9: should be disbarred from the practice of law. For him
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Speaker 9: to have divided loyalties. On one side is the man
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Speaker 9: who appointed him, his former client who's dangling the attorney
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Speaker 9: general's job in front of him, And on the other
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Speaker 9: side is the same person, Todd Blanche. You talk about
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Speaker 9: divided loyalties. This violates a very basic basic canons of
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Speaker 9: illegal ethics, and it's unenforceable because it says in Trumpian language.
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Speaker 9: You must have written this himself because it's in caps,
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Speaker 9: which is a violation of the English language. Forever barred
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Speaker 9: and precluded from prosecuting or pursuing pending tax claims against
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Speaker 9: Donald Trump, no court will uphold that. I don't even
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Speaker 9: know why the federal court in Miami, before whom this
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Speaker 9: case was originally venued, would permit itself to be used
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Speaker 9: in such a collusive, unethical, extraordinary, very unprecedented, unconstitutional manner.
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Speaker 9: But we haven't seen the end of.
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Speaker 1: This well, since it's an intrusion into the power of purse.
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Speaker 1: Going back to the whole issue of who might bring
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Speaker 1: this before a court of law to declare that he
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Speaker 1: can't Chris grab that money and park it wherever he wants.
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Speaker 1: Any standing there, Judge Napaul Tunnel.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, again, I don't know, but someone will be aggrieved
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Speaker 9: by this, perhaps another taxpayer. You know. All this started
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Speaker 9: when Trump's taxes tax returns were leaked by an IRS employee,
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Speaker 9: and they showed radically a different amount of payment than
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Speaker 9: what Trump claimed, radically different. His wasn't the only return leaked.
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Speaker 9: Four hundred and twenty five thousand returns were stolen by
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Speaker 9: this guy, who since served four years in a federal prison.
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Speaker 9: Some in that four hundred and twenty five thousand will
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Speaker 9: have standing to challenge this thing.
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Speaker 1: Just need a lawyer to reach out to him. Yes,
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Speaker 1: jud Jenna Polatino, excellent analysis today. I always enjoy our
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Speaker 1: exchanges and I look forward to next Wednesday with another
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Speaker 1: edition of this segment on the fifty five Carca Morning
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Speaker 1: shown me.
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Speaker 9: Oh thank you. And if you speak to Thomas, please
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Speaker 9: tell him.
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Speaker 4: I love him.
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Speaker 1: I will absolutely Well a matter of fact, we get
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Speaker 1: done here, I'll text him a message and tell him
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Speaker 1: just that. And he reappreciates all your support over the years.
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Speaker 1: And of course he is going to remain ideologically firm
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Speaker 1: and where he is. And I'm sure there are other
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Speaker 1: things for Thomas Massey and the country.
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Speaker 9: Oh h, the ranks so as well. Who knows he
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Speaker 9: could end up in the Senate by some circuitous route.