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Rep. Don Bacon Joins the Comment Line · The KFAB Comment Line with Jean Stothert

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  Speaker 2: today and in the studio with us today is Congressman
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  Speaker 2: Don Bacon.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning.
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  Speaker 4: It's going to be with you well.
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  Speaker 2: And glad, glad you're here, and glad you're here in
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  Speaker 2: the studio. It seems like most of the time you're
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  Speaker 2: running around like a crazy person in DC and coming
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  Speaker 2: back and forth.
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  Speaker 1: But today he is in the studio.
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  Speaker 2: And I also want to tell our listeners if you
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  Speaker 2: with our conversation, If you have questions for Don Bacon,
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  Speaker 2: please call in or email your questions in and we'll
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  Speaker 2: try to get Congressman Bacon to answer those while he's
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  Speaker 2: here today.
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  Speaker 1: Right, We're going to keep you here.
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  Speaker 2: As long as we possibly can keep you ready, But
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  Speaker 2: there is so much going on that we can talk about. Boy,
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  Speaker 2: just even listening to the news last night when we
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  Speaker 2: talk about a lot of these elections that are happening
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  Speaker 2: all over the country.
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  Speaker 1: Lots to talk about.
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  Speaker 2: But you know what, first, I want to talk about
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  Speaker 2: you a little bit because I think everybody knows that
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  Speaker 2: you have been a representative for Congressional District two since
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  Speaker 2: twenty seventeen, so congressional terms two years. You are always
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  Speaker 2: campaigning that you have won five elections, so you have
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  Speaker 2: been a congressman for ten years.
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  Speaker 4: You got it, And I think that's sort of what
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  Speaker 4: did me in Every two year election cycles just takes.
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  Speaker 1: A toll that would be terrible.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, we have an election, you know, like
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  Speaker 4: first week of November, and then by January you already
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  Speaker 4: have to start campaigning and raising money.
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  Speaker 1: And that means a constant campaign office toll.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I finally just said I I lost my appetite
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  Speaker 4: for try to do this a sixth time. We better
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  Speaker 4: have somebody else that's hungry and wants to do it.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, And you know I said that about not being
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  Speaker 2: made anymore. I love doing it, and I'm sure you
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  Speaker 2: like doing being a you know, our congressman. But I said,
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to ask for another penny or knocking
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  Speaker 2: another door the rest of my life.
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  Speaker 1: I've done that enough.
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  Speaker 2: But before that, Congressman, you had a very notable career
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  Speaker 2: in the military. You retired from the US Air Force
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  Speaker 2: as a brigadier general and you served I believe almost
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  Speaker 2: thirty years.
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  Speaker 4: It was like twenty nine years, seven months, two weeks
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  Speaker 4: or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: But who's counting, right, But I liked it.
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  Speaker 2: But talk about that because I believe you commanded a
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  Speaker 2: wing in Germany, and you commanded the fifty fifth wing
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  Speaker 2: right here at office.
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  Speaker 1: Those are that little.
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  Speaker 4: Those are two of my favorite jobs of all time.
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  Speaker 4: I still got to be the base commander at Ramstein.
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  Speaker 4: It was sort of the mayor of fifty five thousand people.
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  Speaker 4: The biggest challenge I had there was I also was
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  Speaker 4: like the landlord for five headquarters with generals there, so
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  Speaker 4: I was sort of having a work with all of
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  Speaker 4: the different headquarters that ran all of Europe's military was
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  Speaker 4: on that base. But I was the mayor of it.
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  Speaker 4: And when I inherited that base, we had the highest
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  Speaker 4: UI rate, highest sexual assault rate. So I had to
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  Speaker 4: fix all that stuff and we did, and so I
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  Speaker 4: ended up making general out of that job, and they
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  Speaker 4: came to off it. And I love being an office commander.
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  Speaker 4: It was four times in the fifty fifth winning and
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  Speaker 4: I felt so prepared to do it, and I really
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  Speaker 4: it was my dream job to be the fifty fifth
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  Speaker 4: winning commander commanded eight thousand people. There was ten thousand
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  Speaker 4: folks on Base Lo because you have strat Com and
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  Speaker 4: the weather wing and other stuff. And I still when
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  Speaker 4: I go on Bass on base twice this past couple
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  Speaker 4: of weeks, it feels like home.
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  Speaker 2: Quite a huge job, isn't it. And once you were
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  Speaker 2: elected to Congress, you were very, very vocal, a very
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  Speaker 2: vocal advocate of national security and also conservative values.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's really with my hobby. National security is
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  Speaker 4: what I love. When I go to the meetings at
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  Speaker 4: the Armed Services Committee, it's not work. I feel like
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  Speaker 4: I'm on my playground. I'm just having fun because I'm
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  Speaker 4: hearing about China, I'm hearing about Iran, I'm hearing about Russia,
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  Speaker 4: hearing about what kind of military weapons we need to buy,
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  Speaker 4: what's working, what's not working, And it's that's what I
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  Speaker 4: like doing. And it's just get a job that you
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  Speaker 4: love because that part I love. Now there's other parts
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  Speaker 4: of the congressional job it's not so much fun, but
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  Speaker 4: I did love the national security aspects to it.
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  Speaker 2: And during your tenure as a congressman, you focused on
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  Speaker 2: some other issues I think that we could highlight, and
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  Speaker 2: that is healthcare reform and of course agriculture too besides defense.
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  Speaker 4: Now, what I came in Ben SaaS was leaving the
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  Speaker 4: AD Committee in the Senate, so we were gonna have
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  Speaker 4: nobody on the AD committees in the House or Senate
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  Speaker 4: from Nebraska. So I thought I better do it. And
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  Speaker 4: even though Omaha's not a huge you know, like farming
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  Speaker 4: or ranching, we're huge on agribusiness. And even the First
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  Speaker 4: National Bank will tell you the number one lending is
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  Speaker 4: to agriculture, right, So even everything about Omaha is still
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  Speaker 4: connected to the agriculture economy. So I did that. You know. Also,
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  Speaker 4: it's the Foster Care Caucus chair We adopted you know,
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  Speaker 4: two children, my wife and I, so I have an
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  Speaker 4: interest in that. I was the Baltic Security chairman partly
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  Speaker 4: because my NATO experience, and I did also traumatic brain
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  Speaker 4: injury of firsts because of my military experience there. We
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  Speaker 4: made some huge strides. So I tried to find some
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  Speaker 4: things that I knew a little bit about, uh from before
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  Speaker 4: I got into Congress in and then try to take
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  Speaker 4: some leadership roles in those areas.
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  Speaker 1: You think you're gonna miss it, well, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: miss parts of it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I'm gonna I love working national security stuff,
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  Speaker 4: but I hope I can still, you know, help the
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  Speaker 4: God opens up doors for me in different ways. I
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  Speaker 4: can serve in different capacities. I don't miss the dysfunction.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, both parties are dysfunctional right now. We can't
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  Speaker 4: even pass rules, votes to vote on something right, and
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  Speaker 4: and there's there's just so much division and the folks
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  Speaker 4: undercutting the speaker. And I just that part I won't
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  Speaker 4: won't miss. And it's an ugly environment.
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  Speaker 1: You know, and people definitely is to people.
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  Speaker 4: Have no problem just saying that. Just the worst stuff
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  Speaker 4: to other people. And it's just a I had protesters
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  Speaker 4: in my house a couple of times. My wife goes,
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  Speaker 4: you know, don we're going to find those spot where
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  Speaker 4: we've got more privacy, and my god, what we did.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've never seen it is rough.
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  Speaker 2: I would I'll use that word as it is right
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  Speaker 2: now I think social media has made politics really take
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  Speaker 2: a turn for the worse. You have a lot of trolls,
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  Speaker 2: you have a lot of people commenting. You know, in
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  Speaker 2: my last year as mayor, we might put a positive
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  Speaker 2: story up and get eight hundred one thousand comments on
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  Speaker 2: one story, and they were I would say ninety percent
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  Speaker 2: were negative. And you know a lot of the people
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  Speaker 2: that were saying things weren't even real people. It's just
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  Speaker 2: taken such a term. And you know, both you and
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  Speaker 2: I are Republican, and I believe we both consider ourselves
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  Speaker 2: that term Reagan Republicans because I was raised Yeah, and
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  Speaker 2: we believe in the tenets of the Republican Party, which
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  Speaker 2: is limited government, you know, individual rights, smaller government, free market,
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  Speaker 2: free enterprise. We oppose excessive regulation, strong national defense, which
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  Speaker 2: you have already talked about. Traditional values. We're pro life,
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  Speaker 2: family values, and personal responsibility, meaning less government, more self reliance,
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  Speaker 2: less government programs. We both feel that way, and I
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  Speaker 2: know we do because we've talked about it many, many times.
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  Speaker 2: But at the same time, you and I both have
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  Speaker 2: been labeled off and on with that term you're a
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  Speaker 2: rhino because you're not right enough.
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  Speaker 1: Does that just irritate you to death.
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  Speaker 4: Oh a little bit. I think it's ironica. So I
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  Speaker 4: haven't changed my views. I was most folks, I was
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  Speaker 4: very conservative ten years ago because I was a Ronald
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  Speaker 4: Reagan and I believed it in my heart his principles.
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  Speaker 4: But frankly, you know, under a President Trump, he has
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  Speaker 4: some of Reagan's views, some mom he doesn't like. Ronald
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  Speaker 4: Reagan was anti terriffs. You would have been stronger against Russia,
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  Speaker 4: for example. So but if you don't embrace the president's
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  Speaker 4: line right now than your rhino. But actually, I'm the
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  Speaker 4: old school Republican that hasn't changed, and I don't apologize
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  Speaker 4: for it. No, it's who I am. And by the way,
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  Speaker 4: that wins in this district. If you find out the
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  Speaker 4: new brand of Republicanism does not win a district two.
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  Speaker 4: In fact, if you look at polling right now, it's
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  Speaker 4: very much underwater. But if you're an old fashioned Republican,
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  Speaker 4: you win in this district, Romney one in this district
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  Speaker 4: right and you have twelve years tracial Republicanism, you can
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  Speaker 4: take fifty two to fifty five percent of a vote
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  Speaker 4: in this district and win.
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  Speaker 2: Now your races you have always won by one two
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  Speaker 2: percent on one to five percent. So we're going to
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  Speaker 2: get into the Congressional District two race in just a second.
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  Speaker 2: But now when we talk about how things have changed,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I always said when I was mayor that
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  Speaker 2: I represent everybody, whether you're Democrat, Republican or independent. That
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  Speaker 2: aggravated a lot of Republicans. You know, they wanted me
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  Speaker 2: to say I am against every Democrat there is, which
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  Speaker 2: I am not. There are a lot of good Democrats
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  Speaker 2: in this district, and there's a lot of good Democrat
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  Speaker 2: leaders out there. However, it seems like the new movement
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  Speaker 2: with the Democrat Party is it seems like their agenda
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  Speaker 2: is about three things.
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  Speaker 1: Get rid of Trump, get rid of Ice, get rid
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  Speaker 1: of the police.
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  Speaker 2: And they are getting more more and more to the left,
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  Speaker 2: more and more socialists. When I see congressmen, some of
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  Speaker 2: these candidates, especially I'll pick New York that are being
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  Speaker 2: elected and winning primaries and being elected, and there are
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  Speaker 2: some all over the country that are winning primaries. The
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  Speaker 2: socialists or communists that are beating really good Democrat incumbents
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  Speaker 2: that have.
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  Speaker 1: Done a pretty darn good job. They're winning.
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  Speaker 2: Now, this is scary, and this is what really I
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  Speaker 2: want you to talk a bit about that, because especially
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  Speaker 2: the DSA to the Democrat Socialist of America, what we
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  Speaker 2: are hearing is frightening. And the other day when what's
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  Speaker 2: his name, Abduell, doctor Abduell lsied got elected by one
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  Speaker 2: percent for senator in Michigan, Holy cow, what are we doing?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know how this works. They say they're gonna
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  Speaker 4: get rid of prisons. We got to do with felons, rapists,
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  Speaker 4: and murders. I don't living on a different planet that
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  Speaker 4: they're not. We're just we're just gonna of reality. But
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  Speaker 4: they're going to get rid of the Senate. No borders,
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  Speaker 4: no ice, no police, no prisons. That's that's in the
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  Speaker 4: DSA platform. Really, it's an anti American, it's an anti
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  Speaker 4: constitution that's gonna put.
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  Speaker 1: They want to get rid of the constitution.
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  Speaker 4: And they're pulling the whole party to the loft. Even
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  Speaker 4: the nominees you see in Omaha, which are they're not Bernie's.
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  Speaker 4: This district does not like the Bernie Sanders Democrats. They're
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  Speaker 4: very hard to elect. But they're pulling the whole party
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  Speaker 4: and the Democrat Party in Omaha area to the Bernie
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  Speaker 4: Anders area, which you know for Republicans that that that
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  Speaker 4: gives us hope in the elections because they're going too
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  Speaker 4: far aloft. If we if we can run normal traditionary Republicans,
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  Speaker 4: you you can still win here as the Democrat Party
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  Speaker 4: keeps going to the loft.
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  Speaker 2: This is Congressman Don Bacon with us in this studio today. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I was watching chef who they call Chef Hong last night,
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  Speaker 2: Francesca Hong, who looks like she might the Democrat nominee
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  Speaker 2: for governor in Wisconsin. Oh my goodness. Now that is
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  Speaker 2: something that we really should talk about, because she was
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  Speaker 2: some of the things she was saying, like when she
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  Speaker 2: said we should get rid of Thanksgiving and then she
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  Speaker 2: flipped on that no, I like Thanksgiving. I think when
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  Speaker 2: I was listening to her talk, I mean, I thought,
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  Speaker 2: what in the world is happening in her campaign manager?
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  Speaker 2: Apparently her deputy campaign manager is a porn star and
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  Speaker 2: has been in Penthouse magazine.
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  Speaker 1: This is who might win the nomination.
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  Speaker 4: Holy cow, I overhear saying what's wrong with that?
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  Speaker 1: I know, I know Scott's over here with his eyes
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  Speaker 1: are bugging out of his head. But this is true.
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  Speaker 2: And if you heard Francesca Hong talk. She could very
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  Speaker 2: well be the Democrat nominee for governor of Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 4: So in normal elections, the Republicans should have no problem
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  Speaker 4: beaten lsiad this lady from Wisconsin. The issue that's scares
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  Speaker 4: us right now Prisident Trump's sitting around thirty five percent,
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  Speaker 4: So that's going to give some opportunity for some of
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  Speaker 4: these crazies to get their foot in the door. But
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  Speaker 4: in a normal election, these folks have no chance. But
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  Speaker 4: I don't think we should take it for granted. We're
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  Speaker 4: gonna have to work doubly hard. In Michigan. We cannot
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  Speaker 4: let this guy be a US Senator. We can't have
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  Speaker 4: a governor that's a nut case from Wisconsin, and so
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  Speaker 4: we're gonna have to We cannot take it for granted.
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  Speaker 4: We're gonna have to work doubly hard, and we've got
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  Speaker 4: to contrast ourselves with the craziness and talk about where
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  Speaker 4: we stand too. It can't just be about the other guy.
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  Speaker 4: But these folks should have no chance to win. But
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  Speaker 4: yet I think this election cycle it's up in the air.
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  Speaker 4: We gotta be careful.
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  Speaker 2: Look at I can't remember her first name, Chevalier in
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  Speaker 2: New York with the white glasses. Some of the things
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  Speaker 2: she said when she said the other day that I
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  Speaker 2: left a restaurant and I couldn't find a napkin to
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  Speaker 2: wipe my dirty hands, so I wiped it on the
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  Speaker 2: American flag.
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  Speaker 4: Such they hate our country.
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  Speaker 2: They hate our country, and they are winning primaries and
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  Speaker 2: they're all standing up.
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  Speaker 4: We're the greatest country in the world with the freedoms,
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  Speaker 4: the strongest economy in the world, and they hate it.
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  Speaker 2: It's they I think these candidates are dangerous, and I
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  Speaker 2: think we got to go back to what we originally
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  Speaker 2: did with campaigns and said, what are you people offering us?
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  Speaker 2: What do you watch it? What are you offering the
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  Speaker 2: American people? You know, midterms elections seem like they're all
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  Speaker 2: about enthusiasm, and this is another thing I wanted to
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  Speaker 2: get to. What what can we do with Republicans to
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  Speaker 2: get our Republican base enthused again. The last the primary
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  Speaker 2: that we had in May, the voter turnout was twenty
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  Speaker 2: six percent in Douglas County. My last election, it was
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  Speaker 2: twenty seven percent for the general. A lot of people
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  Speaker 2: are just so frustrated with what they hear on the
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  Speaker 2: news and with these candidates say just stay home. How
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  Speaker 2: can we get our party activated again and get out
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  Speaker 2: there and vote? Because you know, if we are saying
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  Speaker 2: we want every voice heard, they're not being heard if
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  Speaker 2: twenty six percent of the people come out and.
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  Speaker 4: Vote, and it's normally the angry folks who turn out,
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  Speaker 4: situation are the ones who are most angry at the incumbent.
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  Speaker 4: So at twenty six percent, turnus what we had in
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  Speaker 4: my last primary that I ran, you get you. It
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  Speaker 4: tilts the election in a certain way and it's not healthy.
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  Speaker 4: And yet we knew pulling pulling, we pulled, and we
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  Speaker 4: assumed in the last primary I was in that we
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  Speaker 4: have a thirty three percent turnout. And at a thirty
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  Speaker 4: three percent turnout, we knew we get seventy percent in
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  Speaker 4: the primary. But for every percent it goes down, my
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  Speaker 4: number is going to go down. So we got twenty
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  Speaker 4: six percent. I ended up wunning with sixty two or
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  Speaker 4: sixty four, but still that's what that But a lower
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  Speaker 4: turnout affects the results. And I think the best way
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  Speaker 4: to enthuse our voters is we got to talk about
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  Speaker 4: the DSA platform. Yes, and you know, let's be honest,
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  Speaker 4: it's tilted the candidates, and the Democratic candidates in Nebraska
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  Speaker 4: have gone left, and even the so called independence are
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  Speaker 4: not independence there fake, but they're also embracing a lot
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  Speaker 4: of the fire left messages. And so the DSA has
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  Speaker 4: pulled the Democrats all the way over and we cannot
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: and that's what that will choose our voters, because if
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: you talk about the things that you know, we're gonna
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: have no prisons, right, no.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: Open borders, no prisons, no police right.
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: It's crazy.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: No, no, it's yes. I don't understand it. It's baffling.
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: And as of July twenty twenty six, it was estimated
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: that there's about one hundred and twenty thousand members of
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: the DSA, the Democrat Socialist of America.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: That's that's that's worrisome.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: And then when, like I said, you hear these these
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: candidates like doctor l Sayed, who by the way, went
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: to medical school but never took his boards, I something
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: is wrong right there. I mean, he's very eloquent, well spoken,
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: and but Francesca Hong is one that really really throws me.
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: In Colorado, now we have them, it's really propping up
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: all over the place.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: And then you have this Hassan Piker.
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: Holy, okay, I mean he's got he's he's about thirty
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: five years old, very very young. They say he's worth
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: about eight million dollars and he identifies himself as a
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: whitch streamer, an influencer, and a left wing political commentator.
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: Is he in a fairy porn?
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well let's get.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: To that, because you know, here we let's talk about
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: your position. Is it's Scott still is rolling his eyes
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: over there. I'm not even I'm not even looking at
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: Scott to get through this interview right now today, but
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: I want to.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: Talk about Fauci.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: But I want to get to the congressional district to
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: race right now too. You know, the two that made
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: it through the primary or Brinker Harding is a Republican
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: and Denise Powell, who, by the way, I have asked
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: several times if she would be on my show, and
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: we get the cricket treatment nothing.
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: So I come, Zacharie, ask her what is fairy porn?
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: Because she said you like fairy porn? I don't know
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: what that is.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: I you know what, honest to god, I mean, call
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: me naive, but when I heard that, she said, I
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: am into fairy porn. I had asked my daughter, I go,
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: what am I stupid? But what is fairy porn?
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: I didn't know.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: Some one gave me an explanation. I still don't get it.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: Or she called it very smut, I think, but apparently
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: there's books that. But Denise Powell was quoted in saying,
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: I'm really into very smut now, And that's how I
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: calm myself down talking about Donald Trump.
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: Scott's on Amazon right now.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: He's got a book over there that he's looking at.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: But you know, here's okay, So here's this race very important.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: Who's going to be your successor? Denise introduced herself to
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: us by calling herself in a commercial, I'm just a
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: pod mom. That's how she first introduced herself.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: Now, when you.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Read things, she is been the leader and the champion
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: and everything to everybody in this whole area for years now.
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: I never heard of her. I mean I was out
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: there attending things. I worked with nonprofits. I know that
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: she was involved in Women Who Run and I always
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: thought that was baffling. I learned that later because she
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: never ran for anything. It's just for you now, yeah, yeah,
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: I know. No, Well, I I was the wrong political
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: party because women who run usually are are are Democrats
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: are usually more liberal. But you know, now she is
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: the leader, self proclaimed leader in everything. I just the
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: other day she posted something on her Facebook saying, Denise
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Palell is the champion to lower your energy cost? What
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: are you going to do, Denise Powell to lower energy cost?
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: At least what I would read about brinker Harding. He says,
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: here is what I want to do for you, and
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: here is how I'm going to do it, not just
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: throwing things out over and over to confuse things. And
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: you know, we'll talk about this in just a second,
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: but I will go back when we were talking how
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: do we get the Republicans energized and activated? You were
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: at the same event. I was with Speaker Mike Johnson,
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: and I asked the same question to Speaker Johnson, and
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: he said, people vote out of fear and out of anger,
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: and you just said that. You said it's more out
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: of anger now. But I mean, h and we low
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: the low voter turnout, and I think we really need
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: to get both sides really energized. The true Democrats, not
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: the socialists or the communists, but the two Democrats, the
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: two Republicans, get them energizing, get them out, because this
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: means a lot. Now the blue dot that Denise pal
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: says that she is going to fight for the blue dot.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: This is confusing to me too, because the blue dot
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: are being blue or red. Used to just be signify
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: whether you are heavy Republican or heavy Democrat. That's about it.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: Now it's the symbol of the Democrat Party. It seems
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: the blue dot.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: We have to.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: Maintain this blue dot. It means what their agenda is.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: The maintaining the blue dot means all of these things
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: that they say they stand for. Now, it's it's very
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: confusing to me that somebody like Denise Powell, and again
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: she won the Trimement primary by absolutely trashing Senator Kavanaugh.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, five million dollars.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Worth absolutely, with a lot of money coming from out
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: of state. John Cavan was one of those Democrats that
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: I mean, I really like the guy. He's very personable,
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: he's very personable, and he loves Omaha, he loves our district.
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: He would have been a very strong, strong candidate. And
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: you know Mary Barrett that was a lifelong Democrat, has
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: been on this show twice right now, I know when
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: she left the Democrat Party. She came in and worked
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: for you. She's not a Republican, she is an independent.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: But I mean talk about angry about what Denise Powell
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: did to John Cavanaugh. I know a lot of diehard
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Republicans that are that I'm friends with, and they have
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: not come around to support her because they said, me
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: and all my friends are for John Cavanaugh, and look
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: what she did to get elected.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: I've ran into him too. They're not going to vote
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: or they're voting for Brinker. But so we're not going
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: to vote for that part of the ticket, and that's
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: out of anger. There is an anger there. You know,
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: this could be a tough race way I see it.
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: I mean, Brinker does have I think speaks to the
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: normies of our He's a pragmatic Republican. President Trump is
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: underwater here that that's probably to her Denise's advantage. You
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: got the DSA stuff though going on. That's that's gonna
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: wake people are going to vote for for Brinker, but
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: it's gonna be a tough election and we're just gonna
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: to outwork on the other side. And to your point,
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: she has a lot of empty sayings, I mean, just buzzwords,
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: but there's nothing behind it. I felt the same way
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: with Tony and Carr before that, a lot of blanket
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: statements that had no meat behind it, and debates you
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: got to push on that, what do you mean by that?
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: And for someone to because there's nothing behind it.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: I would love to see them in a debate because
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: you know, even some of her posts are are meant
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: to be misleading, and they are. After National Night Out,
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: she posted a post and she said with the Omaha
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Police Department, the Omaha Sheriff's Department pace. I mean, she
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: named everybody she could possibly name in a picture with
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: her with a few officers. But you know, she wants
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: people to believe that they are there supporting her, but
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: they haven't come out and said they're supporting her yet.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: I don't think they've even done their endorsements yet. And
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: then when you think of some of the things that
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: she does come out with. Another example is a video
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: she posted after speaker Mike Johnson was here a few
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: weeks ago, and in her video she said there were
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: five people there, Denise, you weren't there. I was, and
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: there were a lot more than five people there. When
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: they were in wheat fields.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: It was packed.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: It was that capacity people were waiting outside. So to
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: tell her public that is just misleading and deceiving. And
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: this is what I want to talk to after you
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: about the break because so many of these political commercials
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: now they've reached an all time low. Except I got
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: to admit I liked Pete Rickets and the Democrat a
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: fake Democrat Ozborn. That one's catchy. I find myself singing
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: that at home. But a lot of these commercials are
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: just meant to deceive you and confuse you. And I
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: know we're going to see a lot of these coming up.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: So we're going to talk about that in a minute,
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: and then I want to jump to talk about Iran
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: and what's going on in Israel and Lebanon with you
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: before we let you go.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Can you stay on after breaky?
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: But if Breaker is his own man, he can win.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: If they got to know he's not Donald Trump. He
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: supports Trump in these areas, he's a few other things
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: that he does, he's different than Trump. If he can
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: make that case, he can win this race.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: And I think he can too, and I think it'll
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: be close like it always is. But I mean, already
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: I just took a few minutes to look at his
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: web or his Facebook page this morning. And holy cow,
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: now I know why I don't like to look at
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Facebook anymore. But he's just they're just calling him, Oh,
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: you're just gonna do whatever Trump tells you to do.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: That is not brinker harding at all. I mean, he
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: stands up for what he thinks is right, and he
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: tells you how he's gonna, how he's going to achieve
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: these things, what he's going to do, and he has
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: always said I will I will represent all of you.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: I'm not just representing the far right or the right.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: And yet the Douglas County Republican Party did not endorse
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: him in the primary, and they didn't endorse you as well,
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: and they didn't endorse you, and they suffer the consequences it,
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: I know it. They don't represent the vast majority of Republicans.
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: That's the shame of it. And and that that and that's
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: what we all need. I mean, we need the support
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: of the state Republican Party. We need the support.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: Weakend us in the mayor's race. And they up up
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: and down ticket.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: Right absolutely comment at kfab dot com to interact here
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: with the k fab comment line that's Gene Stothard. I'm
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: producer Scott Vorhees Nebraska second District Congressman Don Bacon here.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: This question is for the Congressman. Comes from Billy sent
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: to comment to kfa B dot com said, should avowed
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: members of the d s A, the Democratic Socialists of
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: America be allowed to hold federal security clearances?
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: Congressman, it's a really good question. If they get elected,
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: it's automatic unless they show that they have a security violation.
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: So by getting elected, you get to get a clearance.
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: But here's the interesting thing is they got to give
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: an oath to the Constitution, and yet they're against the Senate,
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: they're against the you know, they want to they're posed
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: of things that are in the Constitution. But we were
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: a free country and if they won an election, the
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: good clearance you can also it works.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: You can also call four h two five to five
• 26:04
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• 26:06
  Speaker 3: eleven ten, or send a message in here via the
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: talkback mike the on our free iHeartRadio app a little
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: microphone on the screen. Number of questions are kind of
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: along this line. I'll paraphrase three or four of them
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: that came in it had to do with the angling
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: for the Save Act, the discussion here by Republicans yesterday.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: The Democrats have held up the Farm Bill and the
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: insistence by the President that the Senate in this instance
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: do away with the filibuster proof option and go with
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: the nuclear option and just go a straight up or
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: down vote, kind of like you guys do in the House.
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: Your thoughts on that, Congressman.
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: Well, the Farm Bill, the Democrats are against it because
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: we penalize states who have high error rates. So if
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: let's say that if Nebraska gave out a lot of
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: food stamps to people who don't deserve it, well, we
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: want to hold people accountable. We want to hold states
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: accountab if they do that. Now, Nebraska has a very
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: low error rate, so we don't wouldn't pay much of
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: a penalty. But there's other states, and mainly Democrat states,
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: who have high err rates like ten percent, and we
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: want to say, if you have a high aer rate,
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: you got to pay more. And it's a way to
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: help push down those error rates. But that's what the
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: Democrats are opposing here, and I think it's I think
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: it's a mistake. I think they're trying to well they're
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: trying to defend Democrats states who have these high error
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: rates on the Save Act. We have voted for the
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: Save Act three times out of the House. Frankly, voter
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: ID is very popular. That should we could just maybe
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: take that out and just vote for that up or
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: down that would pass. The area that the Democrats are
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: pushing back on is how do you verify you're a citizen?
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: I think we could solve that, frankly and find a
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: way that meets everybody. This doesn't seem like that heart
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: of a job to do.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: No, it doesn't either, I mean, but that's what the.
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: Democrats are pushing back on the way, and it's in
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: the Senate. They can't get sixty votes in the Senate
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: for that because you've got to get at least seven
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: Democrats to vote for it, and we have a couple
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: of Republicans who don't supported either. The best where we're at,
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: but I want people to know we did vote for
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: this three times out of the House, so we are there,
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: and the filibuster, you know, there's not enough votes for it.
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: I even know that our own senators support the full
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: of buster because it forces consensus building, it forces less
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: partisan bills. And that's just the reality. I say, half
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: the Republicans, I think we should you should be able
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: to negotiate and try to get sixty votes. The scary
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: thing was when the Democrats last held the Senate, we
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: were within two votes of getting rid of the filibuster.
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: Cinema and then Mansion from West Virginia were the only
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: two Democrats who defended the full buster. But it was
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: enough to stop the Democrats from getting rid of the
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: full of buster. But the bottom line is the filibuster
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: is there to create a less partisan bills and I
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: tend to follow that same I tend to agree with
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: Senator Fisher and Centa Ricketts on this.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Okay, good, thank you, thank you for that, and thank
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: you for your emails. Congressman.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: I wanted to get into the conflict in Iran. First
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: of all, the President had called it in the past
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: a conflict. Now he is addressing it as a war.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Is it a war?
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: It is a war. Real people are dying, We're hitting
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: real targets. We have real objectives and Iran has they're objectives.
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: This is a war.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: And I mean, but let's talk about where we are
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: at right now. Your opinion, I mean, we started out
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: calling it epic fury. They're not even calling it that anymore,
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: are they.
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: They're not. The President got himself in a corner here
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: because he didn't want to go to Congress. He didn't
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: want to work with Democrats on this, and really we
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: needed to make this a more bipartisan effort. You can't
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: go to war with just one party. And if I
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: would have encouraged and bring over the leadership, here's how
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: I would phrase it. Iran has been a war with
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: us since nineteen seventy nine. They've killed a thousand Americans.
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: I have lost friends from these guys. I hate the
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: leadership of Iran. I mean they called my friend Tim
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: Hahn at Kobar Towers. It was an Iranian practice group
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: who did that. When I was in Baghdad in proxy
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: groups attacked us every single day. There wasn't a day
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: we weren't attacked with rockets, mortars and those kinds of things.
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: Every day we were attacked, and we lost good Americans
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: from these Iranian practicy groups in Iraq. To the tune
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: that we did some studies on it, six hundred and
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: nine Americans have believed to be killed by the Iranian
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: practy groups in Iraq, and that's six hundred and nine alone,
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: and that one conflict. Those deadly roadside bombs came from Iran.
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: Explosively formed penetrators becall they go through tanks, and so
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: I feel like this had to be done. It should
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: have been done a decade ago, or you know, by
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: a previous president. But the president knew he had to
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: deal with these guys who hate us, the export terror.
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: They're trying to build a nuclear bomb. Now where I
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: fought the president, like I said, we should have made
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: this a bipartisan effort to the bust of his ability
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: and try to bring some Democrats on board because they
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: now they are one hundred percent opposed and two you
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: can't fight a war. And then every other day say
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: we're trying to make a deal. Hope, now we're gonna
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: kill them. Now we're gonna make a deal. The President
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: just needs to say LUs and just beat the living
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: crap out of these guys until they say uncle.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: Is there no longer a nuclear program in Iran? I mean,
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: has that been totally wiped out? I mean, I know
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: so many targets have been decimated. Right now, do you
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: feel like we've already won.
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: I think we've done significant damage to their nuclear course,
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: but it can be reconstituted. China and Russia will help them,
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: and so I think it's not a short term problem,
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: but I think we will have a long term problem
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: with Iran on nuclear stuff if we don't deal with
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: the regime. Are they ring? It is made of a stake.
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: After we targeted them the first time Epic Fury, and
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: then we were having negotiations and the President was trying
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: to make a deal with them, the negotiators admitted to
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: our team that they had enough nuclear fuel still for
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: ten nuclear weapons, and that pushed us into the uranium yep,
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: that pushed us in a round two of this war.
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: We said, oh, you got enough for ten bombs. So
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: then the President went back in and that's when we
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: started having further operations in January and February.
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  Speaker 1: Has there been a regime changed, No.
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: It's their sun. I mean it's the Iatola son right,
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: So it's really it's a new generation of IRGC who
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: hate us just as much. Now, we did kill the
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: whole first tier leadership of Iran and they were terrible,
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: but the next tier is they're cut from the same
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: cloth in the end. You know, the Iranian people are
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: the most pro American people in the Middle East. I
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: wish we could help them get their country back. They
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: want democracy, they hate that. Thirty to forty thousand Iranians
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: were murdered last December and January because they've protested this regime.
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: Can you think this thing about thirty to thirty five thousand.
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: That's what we lost in the Korean War, right, And
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: so it's this regime has the guns, the people don't.
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: But our goal should be to get a new regime.
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: And then what do we need to do to end
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: the conflict? Then well, I would say luss and I
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: would pound the living bajeebers out of these guys until
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: they said, Okay, we're gonna die. We need they need
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: to stick their hand out first saying we want peace.
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: What they're hearing is the President keeps saying I want
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: a deal. I want to make a deal, and they
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: interpret that as weakness and they're playing them. And so
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: the President, I'm a Theodore Roosevelt guy in this case,
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: speak softly, carry a big stick, and I would use
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: that big stick and keep whopping them over the head
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: until they want peace.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: And then the Israeli Lebanese conflict enters into this. This
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: is a long running conflict, sometimes involving Syria, and I
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: think it was back in twenty twenty four the Israelis
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: invaded Lebanon, so that continues.
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: They and Hamas are proxy groups to Iran. Okay, so
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: that's how they've waged war against Israel. They've they propped
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: up abol and Hamas. So these guys are you know,
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: they're they're proxy groups. So I ran to wage war
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: against Israel. So that's what's going on there. So when
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: they're fighting at Habal, and Hamas are really fighting Iran.
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: Iran As the guys propping these groups up.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: And you know, it seems like this war is going
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: to make a big difference I think in the upcoming election,
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: and that so many people say, you know everything, the
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: prices are going up, you know, the the gas prices
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: are going up, food prices are going up. But imagine,
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: I mean, just imagine if they still had nuclear power,
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: that they could be able to have nuclear weapons and
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: they controlled or shut down the Strait of Hermus, the
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: gas prices would.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Be a lot more than they are now.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: We're trying to protect us, the United States, now, the
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: world and in the future.
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: You know, the leadership in Iran they have a religious
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: belief that they can create an apocalypse and bring back
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: bring heaven earlier, and so they actually talk about using
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: nuclear weapons to help bring the end times together. They're
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: not like Russia or China where they don't want Moscow
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: or Beijing to be bombed, right. I mean, the deterrence
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: works for Russia and China. Deterrence is different with Iran
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: because they don't fear an apocalypse. I mean they talk
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: about it, want to bring it, they want to they
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: want to speed it up, and that's that's what and
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: they when they openly talk about destroying Israel and United States,
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: we should take them at their word.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: Let's hit well, thank you so much for being with
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: us today. Congressman Don Bacon, do we need to take
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: another break out? And what one last thing because this
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: is so important with this election coming up, But what
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: seems to be all over the news continuously lately, just
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: to get your take on this, is this issue with
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: the w nb A and allowing transgender men to play
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: in the w NBA. I guess you would call them
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: women now when you talk about you know, back when
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: Title nine. The fight for Title nine was the right
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: for women to play sports together. And when you hear
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: what is going on now, you know I would say,
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: I am not anti it's not anti trans, but it's
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: pro woman.
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: You're absolutely right and we should defie women's sports. My
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: sister was all state in three sports, got a free
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: ride at a university, she played two sports, started on
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: their teams, got an engineering degree. Some of the first
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: engineers at Ford, women engineers at Ford. But she got
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: that opportunity because of the Title nine. And it's ludicrous
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: to think you can take a biological meal and put
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: them on a women's team and you have the the
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: somehow the Democrats defend that, yes, repeatedly, and it's just
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: against Collins.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: And now some of these WNBA coaches are coming out.
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: It's anti woman to the core. It is, and it's
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: and it's unexplainable. Frankly. They're biggest defense is so it
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: doesn't happen often. Yeah, but when it does happen, when
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: it does happen, and you know it took that poor
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: one lady. She would have won a bronze medal. She
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: didn't get a bronze medal, right, And there's enough of
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: that where it is a problem.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: And we you know, and we go back to high
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: school biology, that your your DNA is determined at conception.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: You are either x X, which you are then a
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: woman am or you are x Y, which means you
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: are a male. That happens at conception, and it never changes.
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: And that DNA is in every single cell of your
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: body and it doesn't changed no matter if you identify differently,
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: it still doesn't change. And there is some physiological differences
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: between a male and a female. And the other thing
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: is is a lot of these coaches are saying, well,
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: we need to be inclusive in the w NBA. When
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: has ever sports been inclusive? It's it's it's exclusive. I mean,
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: I mean you you are on a team, whether it's
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: a football team or a basketball team because of your
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: merit and your talent and your ability to be good.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: In all men's teams, there are men that are being transferred.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: There are dropped from the team, traded all the time.
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: It's very competitive, and you play if you're good. It's
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: exclusive and it's never going to be well, we got
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: to make all these sports incline so that everybody has
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: time to play one of.
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: The top players in France right now in the w
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: their women's basketball is a biological mail. Well duh, I
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: mean it's I mean it's not right and they're time
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: to bring that player over to United States.
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: No, and this is becoming part of this election. I mean,
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: this is what a big deal that people continue to
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: talk about. And with Sophie Cunningham, she's coming out with
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: her pointy finger there and now what she's saying, people
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: are booing her and trying to boo her off.
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: She's doing great and she's standing up to it. You know,
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: I've learned, you know, in this job, when you stand
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: for the truth and you do what you think is right,
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: you're gonna get some angry people. But in the end,
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: I think the vast majority end up agreeing. And you know,
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: Don Bates stand on principle.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: That's one thing I always admired about you because you
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: stand up for what you believe is right and your
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: principal and you're not you're not doing things to get
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: a vote, you're not changing who you are. You're sticking
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: up for what you believe in. And I think that's,
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: if that's anything, that's going to be your legacy it's
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: going to be that. It's that you stood up for
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: what you believed in, and you're not doing things just
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: and saying things to get a vote.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: You're doing things because you think it's right.
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: I never wanted to say one thing during the primary
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: and then do something else. I wanted to be transparent, authentic,
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: and defind what I believed in and not try to
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: change way right, be a study guide point in the
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: same direction.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: And you know, I never thought though it was wrong
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: for any candidate or any elected official to get more
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: information and to change your mind.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, the more.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: Information you get, but explain it, say you know, well,
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: I've felt this way before, but I've got all this
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: additional information and I'm looking at it differently and explain
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: it to people. They used to call it the flip flop.
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: Oh you said one thing and then the other. I mean,
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: there is there is some truth to that. But I
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: think there's nothing wrong too with getting more information and
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: telling your constituents I know more now, I learn more now,
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: and this is what I might change my position on
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: this issue. There's nothing wrong with that. That's not saying
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: you're not being sincere and honest. It's saying you get
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: total different information.
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: Over ten years. I think I got wiser on labor issues,
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: for example. I always try to get smarter and wiser
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: and more informed. But I've never tried to be one
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: way during our primary and then another way during the general.
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: And I've always tried just this is my core value.
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: So I believe in this is what you can expect
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: from me, and I've tried to be consistent, and I
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: think in the end that it worked for ten years,
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: and I appreciated the voters giving me that chance and
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: very grateful. I'm a purse of gratitude today for the
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: opportunities they've been given.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: Well, I think you've done a great job.
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: And this goes back to Francesca Hang saying I want
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: to do away with Thanksgiving.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: Oh now, I don't want.
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: To do away Thanksgiving. Good Lord, that is really something.
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: And last but not at least got your fauci. Holy cow,
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: that was really something.
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: And yeah, one hundred and eleven times we've plead in
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: the fifth and he already had a part, so he
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: was had a lot of protection on this. So I
• 41:04
  Speaker 4: tend to agree that he the American people deserve to
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: really know what happened during COVID, and I think it's
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: fair like I would tell you when when it first
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: came out that we had the initial outbreak, we were
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: briefed it was an accidental release out of the lab.
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: And then two or three months later we were told, no,
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: that's a conspiracy theory, as Fauci was pushing that out,
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: but it was a conspiracy. And now most I think
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: most people realize it was an accidental release out of
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: the Wuhan Wuhan lab. In fact, they had failed their
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: inspections right before the outbreak because they didn't have adequate
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: safety protocols, and so when you look put it all together.
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: But I think we want just want to hear the
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: truth what happened. And I don't really see it as
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: trying to hang the guy or anything. It just tell
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: us what happened.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: To tell us the truth, right, And you know that
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: the Senate obviously has now held him, voted to held
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: him in contempt for refusing to answer the question. He
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: pled the fifth what one hundred and eleven times during
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: the hearing on Capitol Hill, And now more than six
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: years after COVID nineteen pandemic, doctor Anthony Fauci remains a
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: center in Washington of one of the most polarizing political
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: battles that we have dealt with, and it was very political.
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: The whole mask issue was very political.
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: What's concerning that he was telling people that COVID probably
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: came from the markets through animal transmission somehow, but then
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: in his own diary says that that probably is not
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: the case. Yes, and that's what concerns were being. We
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: just want honesty, tell us the truth. Let the chips
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: fall where they fall.
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: So they have his diary and now they have his phone. OK,
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: so they're going, Yeah, they have his cell phone and
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: they're going through that now.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: So holy cow.
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: But what this is just so disappointing to see how
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: he presented himself and with his very expensive lawyers sitting
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: There were more lawyers in that hearing room than I
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: think there were people, but it was it was embarrassing
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: to sit there and listen to him.
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: I was gonna try to plead the fifth on the show,
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: but I didn't think it would work.
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: No, it wouldn't work, or say next question, but that's
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: another issue. There question yea, this in yes, Congress, and.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: You can't hang up on us in this studio. So
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: there you go.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: Congressman Don Bacon, thank you so much for being in
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: the studio with us today, and thank you for your
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: service to our country, both in the military and both
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: in in Congress.
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: We really appreciate it.
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: You're doing a great job. It's fun to listen to you. Well.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: Thank you. I appreciate it.