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Congressman Warren Davidson joins the show this morning · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: I can be heard on krc the talk station seven
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Speaker 1: six fifty about KRCD talk station right Happy Friday, needs
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Speaker 1: to you. Great day you listening to the fifty about
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Speaker 1: karrsee morning ship. This moment in time, the return of
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Speaker 1: Congressman Warren Davidson. We do have some good members of Congress.
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Speaker 1: He is one of them. At least that's my subjective opinion.
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Speaker 1: I think it's an opinion shared widely by my listeners.
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Speaker 1: And thanks to the folks that he represents for voting
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Speaker 1: him into office time and time again. Welcome back, Congressman Davidson.
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Speaker 1: It's always great to have you on the fifty five
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Speaker 1: KRC Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Always an honor. Thanks Brian. Good to talk.
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Speaker 1: So the government's still shut down if I missed any
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Speaker 1: news breaking their Congressman Davidson.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is in fact still shut down. I mean so, uh,
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Speaker 2: you know a lot of people are coming up to
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Speaker 2: me going, well, this is great. I don't really notice anything.
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Speaker 2: People that live closer to write Patterson Air Force Base,
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Speaker 2: if not directly affected, have a friend or family member
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Speaker 2: that works at the base, and some of them are
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Speaker 2: people that are considered quote not essential. People are like, well,
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Speaker 2: why do we have non essential workers in the first place, well,
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Speaker 2: right Patison Air Force Base, largest employer in the state,
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Speaker 2: and the Air Force procurement hub is at right Patterson
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Speaker 2: Air Force Base. When you buy stuff for the Air Force,
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Speaker 2: you know, not necessarily if they buy it this afternoon,
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Speaker 2: but you've got to buy it eventually. So you know,
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Speaker 2: those are people that are quote furlough. They're they're not
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Speaker 2: at work today. The military people at write Patterson Air
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Speaker 2: Force Base are at work, but then if they're working
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Speaker 2: on any procurement stuff, their productivity is totally disrupted because
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Speaker 2: the people that they need to work with day in
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Speaker 2: and day out, who are civilians, aren't at work in
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Speaker 2: a lot of cases. So you know, those kinds of
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Speaker 2: things go on, they're going to be more and more felt,
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Speaker 2: and it's certainly going to be more noticeable when at
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Speaker 2: the end of the month a lot of people don't get.
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Speaker 1: Well, No question, they're gonna start feeling the sting of that.
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Speaker 1: Now are there. My understanding is that most government employees
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Speaker 1: have resources available to them where they can get no
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Speaker 1: interest loans from banks because the banks know full well
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Speaker 1: that they are going to get paid and fully reimbursed
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Speaker 1: once the government opens back up, so it's a no
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Speaker 1: risk loan for them. Is that a widely available thing?
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Speaker 1: So people aren't literally not eating or incapable of paying
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Speaker 1: their rent that kind of thing.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, those resources are out there. Everyone's communicating that
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Speaker 2: to employees, including the companies that want their business. But
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Speaker 2: if they don't already have an account with you know,
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Speaker 2: USA Navy, Federal Credit Union, Congressional Credit Union, you know,
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Speaker 2: et cetera, all those kinds of things, and a lot
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Speaker 2: of normal privacy right credit Union will do the same
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Speaker 2: for a lot of people. You know, a lot of
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Speaker 2: a lot of banks will do it even you know,
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Speaker 2: depending on your relationship with them and the fact that
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Speaker 2: you have direct depositive with the government paid check. They
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Speaker 2: know the money's going to eventually be there. So you know,
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Speaker 2: we're working right now, obviously occasionally trying to convince Democrats
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Speaker 2: that they should change their mind. I think a lot
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Speaker 2: of people are rooting for the congressional staffers on the
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Speaker 2: Senate Democrat staff to say, hey, boss, you know, maybe
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Speaker 2: we should consider the CR thing as the ended month approaches.
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Speaker 2: But in the meantime, you know, right now, if we
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Speaker 2: head past the CR and Democrats had just said Okay,
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Speaker 2: we would be right now doing hearings and meetings and
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Speaker 2: working on appropriations so that come November twenty first, we
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Speaker 2: don't need another cr We've actually got everything funded on time.
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Speaker 2: So you know, that's what brings me to DC this
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Speaker 2: week working on legislation, trying to make sure that we
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Speaker 2: have our ducks in a row so that we know
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Speaker 2: what we want funded, what the priorities are, because we're
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Speaker 2: going to have to run a faster playbook if we
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Speaker 2: ever get open. But in some of the collaboration on
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Speaker 2: a non appropriations bills, working with a Democrat colleague to
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Speaker 2: strategize how we might get this across the finish line,
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Speaker 2: and they're like, well, you know, if it's not open
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Speaker 2: by mid November, you know it's kind of going to
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Speaker 2: push us probably into twenty twenty six before we can
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Speaker 2: even get a vote on the floor. And you're like, wow, okay,
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Speaker 2: well thanks for talking about topic X, but interesting perspective
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Speaker 2: on the shutdown. So I think mentally there are a
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Speaker 2: lot of Democrats are like, yeah, I mean, we're not
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Speaker 2: upset that Republicans haven't held hearings and aren't making progress
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Speaker 2: on their agenda, so it's really up to the public
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Speaker 2: to persuade Democrats to say, you know, you've got to
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Speaker 2: open it up, or it's up to the Senate to say, Okay,
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Speaker 2: this sixty vote rule probably has to go away on
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Speaker 2: appropriations because they've got a majority of the Senate. They
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Speaker 2: just don't have that sixty vote rule. And that isn't
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Speaker 2: actually even on the bill that it's called cloture. It's
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Speaker 2: like the rules they say, all right, we're going to
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Speaker 2: have a vote on X on the topic, and they
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Speaker 2: need sixty votes to get that done. Well, see what happens.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, do you see any in the dam on the
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Speaker 1: Democrats side. I guess I'm kind of wondering if if
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Speaker 1: anybody takes the moment in time to look at this
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Speaker 1: logically and reasonably, they would understand that the CR is
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Speaker 1: Biden era funding level. You didn't do anything to interrupt
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Speaker 1: that level of funding. That was their level of funding.
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Speaker 1: So they don't have any to complain about keeping things
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Speaker 1: as status quo on that Now. I know the big
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Speaker 1: Beautiful bill did some things they're very unhappy with, but
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Speaker 1: a Republicans shouldn't be unringing that bell. The Democrats are
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Speaker 1: responsible for the deadline of the subsidies. They incorporated that
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Speaker 1: into what was the Inflation Reduction Act. It was an
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Speaker 1: extension that took it to the end of this year.
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Speaker 1: They have no one to blame for themselves for ending
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Speaker 1: the subsidies in the original legislation. You know, something that
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Speaker 1: was a big red flag that's been waiving since the
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Speaker 1: moment Biden signed that into law. So it you know,
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Speaker 1: and just get there of another so you can do
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Speaker 1: the work to get the twelve appropriations bills fully passed.
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Speaker 1: I don't get it. Is there any like poll out
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Speaker 1: there that you can rely on. Is there any perception
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Speaker 1: that you've reached that the American public is painfully aware
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Speaker 1: this is squarely in the day Democrats' hands.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that's with the polling shows. But you know,
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Speaker 2: there are people that will still try to blame Republicans.
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Speaker 2: You have a control of the House, the Senate, and
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Speaker 2: the White House, and the controlled media will publish whatever
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Speaker 2: the Democrats tell them to.
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Speaker 1: Overlooking the sixty vote majority needed in the Senate. I
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Speaker 1: mean that that goes back to the rules, and that
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Speaker 1: was what my next question was going to be. Congressman Davidson,
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Speaker 1: Is that where we're headed to get rid of that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I think some of the Democrats want
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Speaker 2: that because they were trying to get it done in
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Speaker 2: the first place, yep. And they want Republicans to break
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Speaker 2: the day on that so they don't have to take
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Speaker 2: the blame for breaking it, you know. But for oh gosh,
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Speaker 2: I'm drawing her name from Arizona and mansion from West Virginia.
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Speaker 2: They had two Democrats that didn't go along with the plan.
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Speaker 2: They were going to pack the courts, recognize Puerto Rico
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Speaker 2: and DC estates and all kinds of stuff right with
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Speaker 2: civil majorities. But you had two Democrats that didn't go
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Speaker 2: along with the plan to break the sixty vote rule.
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Speaker 2: So I think that that this is part of the
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Speaker 2: play for Democrats is they want Republicans to break the
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Speaker 2: sixty vote rules so that if they ever get, you know,
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Speaker 2: back into the role of the Senate, they can do
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Speaker 2: everything with the central majority in the Senate. So that's
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Speaker 2: that's that's at play here. There are a lot of
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Speaker 2: people that feel like the sixty vote rule is an
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Speaker 2: important time on our tradition, it does develop some form
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Speaker 2: of consensus. But the idea that to your point, this
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Speaker 2: isn't like the Republican appropriation package that you know, massively
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Speaker 2: changes funding on our regular appropriations process. We haven't got
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Speaker 2: that done yet. We're still negotiating that. And the cr
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Speaker 2: is just status quote funding what they voted for when
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Speaker 2: Joe Biden was president and they controlled the Senate. So
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Speaker 2: this is the first time ever that anyone is used
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Speaker 2: the leverage of votes to shut down the government over
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Speaker 2: status quot fund People have had objections over a priority
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Speaker 2: or another and said well, I'm not going to give
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Speaker 2: my vote to that, and that resulted in a shutdown.
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Speaker 2: But this is the first time that it was well, okay,
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Speaker 2: we're going to call a truce and just do status
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Speaker 2: quo as we negotiate all these things, and then the
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Speaker 2: other party said, well, we'll just shut it down. So
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Speaker 2: the problem is Democrats are being rewarded for it with
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Speaker 2: their base and a lot of public quotes. I mean
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Speaker 2: the Whip, the Democrat Whip Clark from Massachusetts. She's out
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Speaker 2: there saying, yeah, we're fine with it if it causes
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Speaker 2: us some suffering. This is going to create leverage for us.
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Speaker 2: It's very intentional play, and they basically want the headlines
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Speaker 2: of families that need whatever, people that aren't getting food
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Speaker 2: stamps and everything, and then try to put pressure on Trump.
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Speaker 2: And honestly, I think that's why they want to get
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Speaker 2: to Thanksgiving because they'll say these heartless people are letting
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Speaker 2: people go into Thanksgiving, and the media will cover the lies.
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Speaker 2: It's like, well, look, you guys are the ones that
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Speaker 2: shut it down. The votes are called, they're recorded. People
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Speaker 2: can check who voted to keep the government open and
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Speaker 2: who didn't.
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Speaker 1: It's Democrats, a congressman, David's a real quick here before
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Speaker 1: we part company and come back and talk about the irs,
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Speaker 1: among other things. In terms of the sixty vote majority,
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Speaker 1: how many votes does it take to change that rule?
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Speaker 2: You know, that's a good question. It's a Senate rule,
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Speaker 2: and I think they can do it with a simple
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Speaker 2: majority of majority.
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Speaker 1: Okay, how about this real quick.
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Speaker 2: Of the majority of the Senate, So all the all
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Speaker 2: the a majority of the Senate does it? So if
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Speaker 2: all the Republicans in the Senate work together, they would
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Speaker 2: be able to do it.
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Speaker 1: All right, how about this is a plague just to
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Speaker 1: let you leave it there. I'm just saying, do the
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Speaker 1: change and rule. Vote get the government back open, and
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Speaker 1: then the next day vote to change the rule back
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Speaker 1: to sixty and move on.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. You know, one of the proposals, and this is
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Speaker 2: from a guy in the House, is is what if
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Speaker 2: we made it a law that there's a sixty vote rule,
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Speaker 2: and then you make the Democrats take the vote so
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Speaker 2: you can see who really wants to get rid of
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Speaker 2: the sixty vote rule and who doesn't, and then it
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Speaker 2: would require the House, the Senate, and the President to
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Speaker 2: change the sixty vote rule. And I was like, well,
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Speaker 2: that's an interesting strategy. I personally liked the old sixty
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Speaker 2: vote rule. Before it was a sixty vote rule, it
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Speaker 2: was three fifths of the members present on the floor
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Speaker 2: of the Senate. Change this in the seventies, and then
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Speaker 2: if you wanted to shut everything down, you had to
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Speaker 2: actually be present on the floor of the Senate. So, yeah,
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Speaker 2: you could do it, you could work together, but you
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Speaker 2: would literally have to hold the floor and the only
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Speaker 2: thing that could get done is what was being held
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Speaker 2: up on the floor. So then public pressure mounted, and
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Speaker 2: of course everybody's attention was focused because four to seven
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Speaker 2: the only thing going on in the Senate, and that's
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Speaker 2: the mister Smith goes to Washington. He eventually ran out
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Speaker 2: of steam because you didn't have anyone to hand the
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Speaker 2: baton too. But if you just have you know, two
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Speaker 2: people doing it, you could take you know, two hours
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Speaker 2: at a time, three hours at a time, and take
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Speaker 2: blocks and rotate. So obviously, if you've got forty forty
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Speaker 2: seven Democrats working together, you can schedule shifts and keep
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Speaker 2: the floor held open. But you would literally have to
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Speaker 2: hold the floor to do it. And that's the old
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Speaker 2: filibuster rule.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, people I guess don't want to show up Senate,
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Speaker 1: so they don't want to show up and do their job.
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Speaker 1: Congressmanre Davidson, should we just tell the irs to go away?
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Speaker 1: We're going to ask him that question coming up seven
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Speaker 1: to seventeen fifty five KRCD Talk Station.
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Speaker 2: The talk station.
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Speaker 1: Seven twenty one fifty five KRSD Talk Station. Brian Thomas
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Speaker 1: here with Congressman Warren Davidson. Appreciate his willingness to come
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Speaker 1: on with fifty five krc mornings and talk about important
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Speaker 1: issues like here's a quote from somebody, Congressman Davidson, do
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Speaker 1: you know who said this quote? I'm rooting for the
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Speaker 1: irs to be closed. I've got a constitutional amendment to
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Speaker 1: repeal the sixteenth Amendment. I think it's a massive invasion
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Speaker 1: of price obviously to collect all this information from citizens
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Speaker 1: in the first place. And so I hope we will
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Speaker 1: be we will completely repeal the sixteenth Amendment and fully
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Speaker 1: close the IRS. That sounds like a great idea. Who
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Speaker 1: came up with that one?
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Speaker 2: Oh that's Warren Davidson. That's a pretty good quote. I'm
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Speaker 2: glad you found it. Uh. Yeah, I was doing a
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Speaker 2: CNN interview and they wanted to try to say, oh,
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Speaker 2: Trump's doing these bad things to the IRS and people
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Speaker 2: are getting laid off and he's going to abuse the
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Speaker 2: power of the IRS and weaponized government and everything, and
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Speaker 2: they brought me on to try to try to get
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Speaker 2: me to box into that corner. I mean, well, the
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Speaker 2: purpose of the interview was something else, but that's always
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Speaker 2: sit you with some ambush stuff. So that was one
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Speaker 2: of their little ambush things. And I'm like, well, I
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Speaker 2: don't even want the IRS to exist. I'm trying to
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Speaker 2: close the whole thing. So that certainly changed the conversation
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Speaker 2: a bit. They weren't really prepared for that angle.
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Speaker 1: Well, the comical part of that is weize Donald Trump
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Speaker 1: weaponized the government against the IRS. Well, Okay, you know,
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Speaker 1: go back to who's responsible for the shutdown. I think
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Speaker 1: we've clearly conclude the Democrats are so that gives Donald
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Speaker 1: Trump an opportunity to quote unquote weaponize the executive brands
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Speaker 1: to do a whole lot of things the otherwise wouldn't
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Speaker 1: have the power to do if the government was open. Fine,
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Speaker 1: they created that scenario, But the irs itself was weaponized
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Speaker 1: against the are the American people, Lois Lerner. She was
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Speaker 1: treating the conservative organizations terribly and denying them five oh
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Speaker 1: one to three C status, much like you know, Eric
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Speaker 1: Holder's Justice Department went after banks who were doing business
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Speaker 1: with lawful firearms manufacturers and pay day lenders, weaponizing these
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Speaker 1: governments against the own people. And even more comical Congress
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Speaker 1: than Davidson. I got to get this in. The tax
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Speaker 1: code itself is weaponized to protect the interest of politicians
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Speaker 1: and special interests in large money donors like major corporations.
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Speaker 1: It's what ten thousand plus pages long. It is filled
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Speaker 1: with loopholes and write ins and carve outs and exemptions
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Speaker 1: and incentives, and listen, I hate the code being used
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Speaker 1: to incentivize the American people for literally anything, and I
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Speaker 1: hate it being used as a carrot and stick mechanism
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Speaker 1: to get us to do what we might not want
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Speaker 1: to do.
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Speaker 2: I mean, one hundred percent all that is exactly like,
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Speaker 2: that's exactly it. I hate the income tax. I get
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Speaker 2: we got to pay some form of tax, right, you know, Okay,
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Speaker 2: I don't like property tax that much either, but at
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Speaker 2: least you vote on it locally and spend it locally.
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Speaker 2: The income tax is first and foremost this surveillance tool.
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Speaker 2: You know, did somebody pay you, did you pay somebody else?
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Speaker 2: Did you buy or sell something? Did you make or
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Speaker 2: lose money? Did somebody give you a gift? Did you
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Speaker 2: give a gift? Was the gift too generous? What kind
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Speaker 2: of car do you drive? What kind of windows do
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Speaker 2: you have in your house? How many kids are in
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Speaker 2: your house? You know, et cetera, et cetera, all this
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Speaker 2: insane stuff. You're like, get out of my life and
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Speaker 2: get a warrant if you need to know that. And
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Speaker 2: then it's so complicated. The Democrats wanted to hire eighty
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Speaker 2: seven thousand more IRS agents. I mean, it's five infantry
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Speaker 2: divisions worth of IRS agents. They wanted to add to
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Speaker 2: the already too large IRS. So thankfully we've installed the
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Speaker 2: plan to grow the irs. What we need to build
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Speaker 2: momentum towards just going ahead and deleting the whole thing.
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Speaker 1: Well, we eradicated slavery in this country, and I can't
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Speaker 1: view the income taxes anything more than slavery because I
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Speaker 1: can do the math when I look at the percentage
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Speaker 1: of my income the federal government takes out of my
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Speaker 1: check in form of income tax, and they can set
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Speaker 1: it at whatever level they want. Historically it's been eighty
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Speaker 1: plus percent in the old days. Right remember the Taxman
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Speaker 1: song from the Beatles, When the Brits are being tacked
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Speaker 1: at ninety five percent of a certain amount of income.
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Speaker 1: You are literally working for the government. They are taking
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Speaker 1: you are salary. In other words, they're taking your labor literally.
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Speaker 1: I suppose you could argue without your consent, although I
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Speaker 1: do know it's a constitutional amendment, but come on, it's
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Speaker 1: for slavery.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. You know, people talk about McCarthyism, and you know,
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Speaker 2: I certainly wasn't alive back in the McCarthy era, but
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Speaker 2: they talk about, you know, oh, it was all a
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Speaker 2: hoax and there wasn't really a big threat of communism,
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Speaker 2: And you're like, well, what was the tax rate at
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Speaker 2: that time? Well, okay it was ninety percent. Like okay, well,
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Speaker 2: I guess to go. Don't know everything, but ninety percent
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Speaker 2: quite a lot, right, So it's out of vindication of
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Speaker 2: everything the guy might have done. But you're like, yeah,
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Speaker 2: there were some concerns because the government's like, you know,
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Speaker 2: the Jesus famous saying, you know, render under Caesar what
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Speaker 2: is Caesar's and render under God? What is God's? Uh?
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Speaker 2: The problem with the communists they think everything is Caesar's.
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Speaker 1: Right, leaving nothing for God, which is part and part
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Speaker 1: of the communist strategy. They don't believe in God either.
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Speaker 1: Congressman Warren Davidson, what are the good ones? Keep going up,
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Speaker 1: keep up the great work. Congressman Davidson. You always have
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Speaker 1: a voice here in the fifty five Casite Morning Show
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Speaker 1: if you need to get some information out, and I
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Speaker 1: appreciate your willingness to do that. Thanks for your time
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Speaker 1: today and best to health you and your family, sir.
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Speaker 2: Thanks Brian, God bless you and all your listeners.
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Speaker 1: Seven twenty six, fifty five Casity Talk Station. Let's give
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