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Trump Campaigns in Texas, School Choice Victory, Talarico Caught on Tape & Terror Attack Heroically Stopped · The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson

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  Speaker 1: Welcome.
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  Speaker 2: It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with
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  Speaker 2: I got to say, you had a really fun end
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  Speaker 2: of the week as you flew with the president on
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  Speaker 2: Air Force One back to Texas.
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  Speaker 1: That's a great way to get home for the weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I will admit it beats Southwest Airlines. I spent
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  Speaker 3: the whole day with the president. He came back to Texas.
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  Speaker 3: He did a rally. He toured the Peterbilt factory, which
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  Speaker 3: is awesome. I've actually been to it before. I've toured
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  Speaker 3: it before where they build 18 wheelers in North Texas.
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  Speaker 3: And so he got to tour that and meet a
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  Speaker 3: number of the workers. And then he did a rally
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  Speaker 3: speech to the workers. And then he headed off to Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 3: And I came back to Houston, so I'm home in Houston.
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  Speaker 3: It's about midnight Thursday night, and I'm back home in Houston.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it was obviously a really exciting trip. We're going
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  Speaker 2: to get into what you and the president got to
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  Speaker 2: talk about, also about the midterms as well. And we're
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  Speaker 2: also going to talk about something else that was really
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  Speaker 2: a hero's moment, and that was the people that got
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  Speaker 2: involved to save that airplane that was being hijacked by
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  Speaker 2: one of those co-pilots. We're going to deal with all
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  Speaker 2: of that coming up. in just a moment. But before
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  Speaker 2: we get to that, something just happened in Massachusetts, and
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  Speaker 2: most of the country has no idea. The state just
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  Speaker 2: passed a law allowing abortion through the eighth and ninth
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  Speaker 2: months of pregnancy, right up until birth, based on any
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  Speaker 2: reason an abortion doctor gives. No exceptions, no limits. Now,
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  Speaker 2: this could include babies capable of obviously surviving outside the womb.
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  Speaker 2: And under this law, the fact would not stop it.
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  Speaker 2: The law also strips away formally mandatory safety requirements for
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  Speaker 2: abortion providers and removes specific accountability when women are harmed.
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  Speaker 2: Less oversight, less protection, no consequences. Gallup's polling shows that
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  Speaker 2: most Americans, including most who call themselves pro-choice, don't support
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  Speaker 2: abortion this late in pregnancy. This isn't a friend's position.
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  Speaker 2: This is common ground, and Massachusetts just ignored all of it.
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  Speaker 2: slash verdict today. All right, so Senator, let's start at
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  Speaker 2: the beginning of this trip. The president was coming to Texas.
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  Speaker 2: That's the fun part. He was coming to tour Texas.
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  Speaker 2: But I have a feeling there was a lot that
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  Speaker 2: you guys talked about even before you got to Texas
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  Speaker 2: on Air Force One.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there was. So the White House reached out to
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  Speaker 3: me yesterday and invited me to come join the president
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  Speaker 3: and fly down. He was coming down today to campaign
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  Speaker 3: in Texas. And so I joined him at Air Force One.
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  Speaker 3: And so that means the day started, I went to
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  Speaker 3: Andrews Air Force Base, which is where Air Force One
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  Speaker 3: is based. And there were a number of members of
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  Speaker 3: Congress on the trip. So we had James Lankford, Senator
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  Speaker 3: from Oklahoma, was on the trip. And we had a
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  Speaker 3: half dozen Texas House members who were on the trip
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  Speaker 3: as well. And so we all met at Andrews Air
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  Speaker 3: Force Base about an hour before wheels up and boarded
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  Speaker 3: the plane. And then the president takes Marine One, the helicopter,
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  Speaker 3: from the White House to Andrews and boards the plane.
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  Speaker 3: And as soon as the president gets on board, you
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  Speaker 3: take off. And so the trip was actually a very
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  Speaker 3: productive trip. The way Air Force One is set up,
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  Speaker 3: we were not on the new Air Force One. We
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  Speaker 3: were not on the Qatari one, which I was kind
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  Speaker 3: of curious about.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not, yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I was kind of curious. I'm not particularly thrilled that
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  Speaker 3: we took the plane from Qatar. I think there's some,
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  Speaker 3: some real security risks and downsides to that. And then
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  Speaker 3: I've detailed those in the past, but I was kind
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  Speaker 3: of curious to see it and see what, uh, uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you know, I was sort of, sort of
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  Speaker 3: joking that, that, that I wanted to use the restroom
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  Speaker 3: cause I hadn't seen a solid gold toilet before. Um,
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  Speaker 3: but which I don't know if, I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: that's on the plane or not, but it just seemed
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  Speaker 3: kind of funny that a Qatari plane may well have that. Um,
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  Speaker 3: But we were on the regular Air Force One, actually
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  Speaker 3: the one that my understanding is Nancy Reagan picked out
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  Speaker 3: the carpets and decorated it. So this one became operational
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  Speaker 3: in the 80s. And Air Force One, the Air Force
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  Speaker 3: One that's been in service since then, there's a big
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  Speaker 3: conference room. with a big conference table, and that's where
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  Speaker 3: all the members of Congress were seated. And then in
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  Speaker 3: front of that, there's a smaller room that is a
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  Speaker 3: senior staff room, and they had four of us in there,
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  Speaker 3: which is Senator Lankford and myself, and then Susie Wiles,
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  Speaker 3: President Trump's Chief of Staff, and Howard Lutnick, the Secretary
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  Speaker 3: of Commerce. And so the four of us were in there,
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  Speaker 3: and I will say all the House members came up
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  Speaker 3: there and were razzing us, that we thought we were
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  Speaker 3: too she-she to sit in the conference room. And by
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  Speaker 3: the way, they give you an assigned seat. You don't
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  Speaker 3: pick where to seat. You go in and you have
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  Speaker 3: a little card and you sit where your card is.
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  Speaker 3: And so my immediate response is I said, look, I
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  Speaker 3: can't help it that you guys threw us out of
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  Speaker 3: the conference room. We wanted to hang out with you.
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  Speaker 3: But I said, listen, the Senate, I mean, we're kind
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  Speaker 3: of geriatric. You know, the median age in our body
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  Speaker 3: is about 85. And so, you know, you guys are
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  Speaker 3: rambunctious for us. You kind of, you know, we get
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  Speaker 3: heart palpitations, can't quite handle the rowdiness. And look, these
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  Speaker 3: are all Texas House members. So a bunch of guys
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  Speaker 3: I know really well. So we were giving each other
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  Speaker 3: very substantial amounts of grief. The president came on, he
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  Speaker 3: hung out with us for a while, and then he
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  Speaker 3: went up. In the front of the plane, the president
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  Speaker 3: has his office. Um, by, by the way, one of
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  Speaker 3: the congressmen who was on the plane with us was,
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  Speaker 3: was Ronnie Jackson.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Who Ronnie Jackson used to be the president's doctor. And
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  Speaker 3: he was actually Trump's doctor. And before that he was
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  Speaker 3: Bush's doctor, he's Bush's doctor and Obama's doctor. And he's
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  Speaker 3: a Navy Admiral and a great friend, but, but, uh,
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  Speaker 3: I will confess there were more than a few jokes
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  Speaker 3: told about, uh, uh, about Ronnie, uh, uh, doing exams
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  Speaker 3: and pulling out the rubber gloves. Um, And Ronnie happily
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  Speaker 3: went along with those jokes. And I did also tell
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  Speaker 3: the president that Ronnie was giving us all amphetamines. We
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  Speaker 3: didn't know why. So, you know, look, you got to
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  Speaker 3: have some fun. The president was in a very good mood.
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  Speaker 3: He was working on his speech. So the office in
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  Speaker 3: the front where he sits, there's a desk. You've been
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  Speaker 3: in there many times. There's a desk with a chair
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  Speaker 3: in front of it and then kind of a couch
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  Speaker 3: in the office. And so for the tail part of
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  Speaker 3: the flight, we went up and hung out with the president.
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  Speaker 3: He was working on the speech for the first chunk
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  Speaker 3: of the flight. And so it was productive. You're talking
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  Speaker 3: about a lot of issues going on. You're talking about
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  Speaker 3: what's happening. And so anytime I join the president on
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  Speaker 3: Air Force One, I usually go in with several issues
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  Speaker 3: that I want to raise with him and talk about.
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  Speaker 3: And this was no exception.
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  Speaker 2: It's always a blast to get on Air Force One.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's never, ever, ever gets old. If it does,
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  Speaker 2: you got a problem is what I tell people. I
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  Speaker 2: want to talk about the midterms as well. And what
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  Speaker 2: all you guys chatted about there, because that had to
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  Speaker 2: be an obvious, serious point of conversation is we're getting
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  Speaker 2: really close.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of the conversation with the president was
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  Speaker 3: about the midterms and in particular about Texas. He was
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  Speaker 3: asking about Ken Paxton, how the race looks, how confident
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  Speaker 3: I was that we were going to win. And I said, yes,
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  Speaker 3: we are going to win this race, but it is
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  Speaker 3: a very serious race. And we talked about how I
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  Speaker 3: was glad he was coming there, that winning the race,
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  Speaker 3: I think, is going to come down to turnout. And
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  Speaker 3: President Trump coming down and energizing his base to come
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  Speaker 3: out and vote will make a real difference. We're going
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  Speaker 3: to win, but the president's help makes a difference.
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  Speaker 2: This was a campaign trip for the president coming to Texas.
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  Speaker 2: You said that was obviously very important for him to
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  Speaker 2: get down here. But he's about to hit the campaign
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  Speaker 2: trail really all over the country. What did the president
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  Speaker 2: have to say about that in the midterms in general?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, look, he said for the next 32 days, he's
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  Speaker 3: going to be on the road and he's going to
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  Speaker 3: be doing rallies all over the country to energize voters
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  Speaker 3: to turn out for the midterms. He actually was kind
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  Speaker 3: of a little apologetic in that he said in the
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  Speaker 3: tail part of his election in 24, He said he
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  Speaker 3: was on the road for 120 days straight. So he says,
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  Speaker 3: I feel kind of bad. I'm only doing 32 days.
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  Speaker 3: But well, that was my election and then 32 days.
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  Speaker 3: But look, this last month, he's planning to be on
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  Speaker 3: the road nonstop and campaign across the country. And I
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  Speaker 3: think that that will be very helpful.
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  Speaker 2: Now, it's a long flight from from from, you know,
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  Speaker 2: injuries all the way down to I'm assuming you guys
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  Speaker 2: came into Love Field. And that means you had a
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  Speaker 2: lot of time to talk about other issues as well.
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  Speaker 2: What else did you and the president chat about?
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  Speaker 3: You know, one of the things we talked the most
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  Speaker 3: about is the president had two big, big victories this
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  Speaker 3: week that are really consequential, and they're on two issues
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  Speaker 3: that matter dearly to me and that I've been very
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  Speaker 3: engaged on. The first was the Trump accounts, and as
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  Speaker 3: you know, I wrote the legislation that became the Trump accounts,
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  Speaker 3: and for a year we had been having a battle
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  Speaker 3: because the way I wrote the Trump accounts was for
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  Speaker 3: them to be auto-enrolled, for them to automatically be created
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  Speaker 3: for every kid in America. When they were launched, the
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  Speaker 3: Treasury Department did not do auto-enrollment. What it did instead
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  Speaker 3: is parents had to go and opt in and actually
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  Speaker 3: affirmatively open the account. And so to date, about 7
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  Speaker 3: million kids have opened an account, 7 million parents have
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  Speaker 3: opened the accounts for their kids. But there are about
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  Speaker 3: 70 million kids in America under 18. And so I
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  Speaker 3: wrote the legislation for those to be automatically open for everyone.
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  Speaker 3: And the lawyers at Treasury, the career lawyers, the deep state,
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  Speaker 3: they did not want to do it. And they battled
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  Speaker 3: and battled and battled. So for a year, I had
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  Speaker 3: been fighting the career lawyers at Treasury who were just
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  Speaker 3: dug in and were resisting auto-enrollment like crazy. Well, when
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  Speaker 3: we did the official launch of the Trump accounts, which
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  Speaker 3: was on July 4th of this year, we had a
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  Speaker 3: big event in the Oval Office, and I talked with
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  Speaker 3: the President at length about the need for auto-enrollment, and
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  Speaker 3: the President there ordered Treasury, make this happen. It's important.
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  Speaker 3: And it's important for a couple of reasons. One, it's
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  Speaker 3: important because Trump accounts for newborn kids, $ 1, 000 are provided
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  Speaker 3: in Trump accounts for newborn kids. Well, they can't go
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  Speaker 3: there if you don't have the account open, and there
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  Speaker 3: are about 3.7 million newborns each year, so you need
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  Speaker 3: the accounts open so those newborns can receive that $ 1, 000,
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  Speaker 3: have it invested in the stock market, and have it
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  Speaker 3: begin compounding. But secondly, there was another even more compelling reason,
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  Speaker 3: which is the Trump accounts are designed to be able
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  Speaker 3: to receive charity. We've seen big charitable gifts like Michael
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  Speaker 3: Dell giving $ 250 to 25 million kids across the country. Well,
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  Speaker 3: those 25 million kids can't receive that $ 250 unless they
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  Speaker 3: have an account open that you can put it in.
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  Speaker 3: So even though he's given the money, it doesn't land
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  Speaker 3: anywhere if the accounts are not open. Well, this week, finally,
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  Speaker 3: the Treasury did it and opened 70 million accounts. In fact,
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  Speaker 3: we're going to have a big event. next week with
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  Speaker 3: the president in the Oval Office, so I'll be back
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  Speaker 3: in D.C. with the president next week, focused on the auto-enrollment,
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  Speaker 3: but Treasury just did it. We'll talk further in a
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  Speaker 3: pod next week about auto-enrollment, but that was a big victory,
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  Speaker 3: and it was a battle. I mean, it took a year.
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  Speaker 3: There was a second victory that we also got from Treasury,
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  Speaker 3: and as you know, the two most consequential elements that
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  Speaker 3: I wrote in the Working Families Tax Cut were the
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  Speaker 3: Trump accounts, and the school choice tax credit. And the
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  Speaker 3: school choice tax credit, it will kick in next year.
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  Speaker 3: And it is written that every taxpayer in America can
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  Speaker 3: give up to $ 1, 700 to a scholarship granting organization in
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  Speaker 3: the States. And you get a dollar for dollar tax credit,
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  Speaker 3: not a deduction, a credit, which means it's basically free
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  Speaker 3: money that if you write $ 1, 700, you owe $ 1, 700 less
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  Speaker 3: to Uncle Sam. So for you, it costs you nothing.
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  Speaker 3: That will unleash tens of billions of dollars of new
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  Speaker 3: scholarships starting next year that will benefit millions of kids
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  Speaker 3: trapped in failing schools. Well, there was a really important interpretation,
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  Speaker 3: which is it's $ 1, 700 per taxpayer, but what about for
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  Speaker 3: a married couple filing jointly? And again, These same career
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  Speaker 3: lawyers at Treasury were dug in and they were adamant.
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  Speaker 1: At least they're consistent, right?
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  Speaker 3: They're just stuck in the mud. They were adamant. Nope,
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  Speaker 3: married couple, it's just $ 1, 700. So you get a marriage penalty.
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  Speaker 3: They were like, you get a marriage penalty. If you're single,
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  Speaker 3: you both get $ 1, 700. But if you get married, one
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  Speaker 3: of you loses that and you only have $ 1, 700 as
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  Speaker 3: a couple. And so I had leaned in. Look, I
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  Speaker 3: had gone. I went and had breakfast with Scott Besson
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  Speaker 3: at the Treasury Department. Scott is a friend of mine.
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  Speaker 3: I'd leaned in hard with him. I'd leaned in with
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  Speaker 3: Frank Bisognano, who's running the IRS and is implementing this.
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  Speaker 3: And I'd leaned in with the president. Again, it had
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  Speaker 3: taken a year. A year ago, I was fighting on
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  Speaker 3: the Trump accounts on auto enroll. And a year ago,
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  Speaker 3: I was fighting for a married couple to get the full,
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  Speaker 3: the double tax credit. Well, just this week, Treasury announced
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  Speaker 3: that a married couple now gets $ 3, 400. So you don't
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  Speaker 3: get a marriage penalty. And my argument to them Look,
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  Speaker 3: the wonky tax lawyers, what they said is they said, well,
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  Speaker 3: the IRS code, the way it is written, is typically
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  Speaker 3: if there's a creditor deduction, it will say a single
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  Speaker 3: filer gets X and a joint filer gets 2X. And
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  Speaker 3: it specifies single and joint filer. They said it doesn't
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  Speaker 3: say this here. And my response, which I said to
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  Speaker 3: Besson and I said to the lawyers there, I said, look,
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  Speaker 3: Number one, I wrote this provision, and I'm telling you
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  Speaker 3: my legislative intent was to give the full deduction to
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  Speaker 3: a couple, not to cut it in half when you
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  Speaker 3: get married. But I said, number two, here's what the
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  Speaker 3: statutory text says. It says every taxpayer gets the credit. Now,
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  Speaker 3: last I checked, I'm a taxpayer. But you know what?
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  Speaker 3: Heidi is also a taxpayer. And so, as a litigator,
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  Speaker 3: I can make a very simple, plain statement plain language,
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  Speaker 3: plain text argument that we're a taxpayer, each of us
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  Speaker 3: is a taxpayer, and the impact of this decision is massive.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to double the impact of this tax credit.
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  Speaker 3: It means twice as many scholarships are going to go
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  Speaker 3: out next year because now couples, look, every taxpayer... ought
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  Speaker 3: to be giving the $ 3, 400 if you pay at least
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  Speaker 3: that much in taxes, which most taxpayers do. It's free money,
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  Speaker 3: and that is going to be billions more that are
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  Speaker 3: going to help kids in need get out of failing schools,
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  Speaker 3: get out of violent schools, be able to learn to
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  Speaker 3: read and write, get a better future. And so both
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  Speaker 3: of those were huge victories. And so on the plane,
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  Speaker 3: I was talking with the president and thanking him for
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  Speaker 3: his leadership because... For both of those, what it took
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  Speaker 3: to get that done is the president instructing Treasury, get
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  Speaker 3: this right and do this right.
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• 17:21
  Speaker 2: Senator, I want to go back to one of the
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: things that you guys did, and that was to go
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: to the Peterbilt plant. This was part of laying out,
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: I think, really the record of this president and what
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: we need in this country, what we need more of,
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: especially in the race that he was certainly in Texas
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: to deal with, and that was the Tallarico race.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: So, yeah, we arrived at the Peterbilt factory, and I've
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: been to the Peterbilt factory before. I've toured it. Years ago,
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: I toured it, and it is an amazing place. Have
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: you ever seen an 18-wheeler being built?
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: No, I have not.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: Okay, it is so cool. And they have a big,
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: long assembly line, and these big, massive, badass trucks they're building. Yeah.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: How many trucks do you think they build in a day?
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: Oh, gosh. I mean, I'm going to go out with 10.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: They build 218 wheelers a day. A day. I mean,
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: it just... So.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: There's a need for 200. Is that in America or
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: just around the world?
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: That's in America.
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: No, no.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: They're selling these in America. They make them there. And
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: I mean, these are, you know, big monster.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're huge.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: You know, the Peterbelts and... They were very cool. And
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: the workers there, I got to say that the workers there,
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: they love Trump. And so we started by he's visiting
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: with a number of workers and shaking their hands and
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: I'm visiting with them. And look, those are my peeps.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: I have like like that's his base and my base
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: have a very strong overlap.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: But, you know, they're thrilled to meet him and they're
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: shaking his hand. And then I actually several times said, here,
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: give me your phone. And I would take a picture
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: of them with with the president on their phone, which
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: which made them really happy. But watching the love that
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: those factory workers have for the president is really amazing.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: We were there with the CEO. The CEO said that
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: the plant was booming, that they were having their best
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: year because of the president's economic policies. And look, the
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: president's whole message at the rally was, we have incredible
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: economic numbers and the media is lying to the voters
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: and telling everyone the economy is lousy. And you and
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: I have covered on this podcast. Look, just this last month,
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: the data came out that we have right now the
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: highest family income ever recorded. Median income is the highest
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: it's ever been recorded in the history of America. We
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: also have the lowest poverty rate that has ever been
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: recorded in the history of America. That includes the lowest...
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: African-American poverty rate, the lowest Hispanic poverty rate, and the
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: lowest Native American poverty rate ever recorded in the history
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: of the country. And the media doesn't talk about any
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: of that. They don't want you to know any of that.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: And so the president is frustrated. He's visibly frustrated. He
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: was venting on Air Force One. And at the rally,
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: he's speaking to the rally, and he's saying, look, you
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: look at these numbers. We're doing really, really well. But
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: the media is trying to convince people, well, it's terrible.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: It's terrible affordability. And they say gas prices. And the
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: president rightly pointed out, yes, gas prices are higher because
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: we're taking out an Ayatollah and stopping Iran from getting
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: a nuclear weapon. But gas prices are still a lot
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: lower than they were under Joe Biden. And he made
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: that point, and that point is right. So that was
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: really important for him to make. And then he was also,
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: Ken Paxton was there at the rally, and Ken got
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: a good chair. And he was urging people, you got
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: to come out and vote for Ken Paxton. He was
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: giving Ken a lot of love. He was also, you know,
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: he was also emphasizing, look, Tallarico is extreme. This guy
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: is radical radical. And he would be incredibly dangerous. And
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: I think that is valuable for people to know just
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: how far out of step from the mainstream Tallarico is
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: that he is a left-wing radical. Yeah.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, not only is he a left-wing radical, but this
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: race has obviously caught the attention of a lot of
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: Democratic donors. A lot of his money is coming in
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: from out of state.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: And that's what's funny.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: And by the way, there's a trend there as well.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: And that's one of the reasons why this race has
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: gotten so expensive.
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no. I mean, it has been a massively
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: expensive race. And Tallarico has money flooding in from New York,
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: from California, from Hollywood. They want to elect a woke
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: left-wing radical from Texas in particular. And by the way,
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: to understand who he is, look, we've talked a lot
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: about Hassan Piker, the radical, Islamist, communist, America-hating zealot. You know,
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: the guy who says, among other things, America deserved 9-11.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: Hassan Piker has become, Abdul Al-Sayed does not win his
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: primary without campaigning alongside Hassan Piker. The Democrats are not
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: running away from this guy. Well, Piker was in Texas
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: this past week, and he had a message for Tallarico
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: and all of his supporters. Give a listen to what
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: Hassan Piker said about James Tallarico.
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: Hopefully, inshallah, after James Tallarico wins, okay?
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, after.
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: I'm not allowed, I feel like, I shouldn't even say that.
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: I feel like in the state of Texas, no Sharia state.
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: They're going to they're going to throw me in prison. But, yeah,
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: hopefully after James Seller wins, we got to hold him
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: to account. We got to make sure that he doesn't
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: become another do nothing Democrat business as usual. And we
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: got to keep up that pressure. And we have to
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: remind him that we are the force that backed him
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: both early on. And we are the force that allowed
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: him to win this seat of power. And if he
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: wants to maintain it, he's got.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: To play ball.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: If he wants to maintain it, Senator, he's just got
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: to play ball.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: Well, look, Hassan Piker, I'm going to give him credit
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: for being honest there. I mean, he starts by saying, hopefully, inshallah,
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: James Tallarica wins. Now, inshallah is Arabic for if God
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: is willing. And Piker is an open Islamist. And he
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: is saying the Islamists, the radicals, they're the ones who
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: elected James Tallarico. They're the ones who helped him win
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: the primary. They're the ones who put him in power.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: He will owe them if he's elected. That tells you
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: where this guy is. I mean, Piker understands this is
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: our guy. And Tallarico and Abdul Al-Sayed are the two
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: most radical Senate candidates in the country. And Piker is...
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: critical to both of them. By the way, I don't
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: think there's any chance that Tallarica would forget where he
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: comes from, because he's a true believer. He believes this nonsense.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: I mean, he was really raised and grew up in
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: this sort of woke DEI, social justice warrior nonsense. And
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: now that he's running, he's trying to pretend to moderate.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: But he's lying, and he's not very good at it,
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: so he keeps getting caught lying. So he went on
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: Fox News, and he said now he no longer supports
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: mutilating and sterilizing kids who think they're transgender. He no
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: longer supports that. He's abandoned that position because, you know,
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: it turns out Texans don't like mutilating and sterilizing kids.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: Except for one problem. Well, two problems. One, Tallarico has
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: a long record of voting for that over and over again,
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: so that's his longstanding position. But two, he was actually
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: caught on camera admitting that his position hasn't changed. So
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: give a listen. This is an undercover camera that caught
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: him admitting that he's lying when he says he no
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: longer wants to sterilize kids. Give a listen.
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: It's so nice to see you. So nice to see
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: you too.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: Thank you for being here.
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: I'm so glad you came.
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: It means a lot.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Let's get a picture.
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: So, really quick, I'm just so happy that you're running
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: and everything you're doing for our country and making everyone
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: feel included.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Really quick, I have a niece who's trans. I want
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: to let her know.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: That our government hears her. Can I count on you
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: to support her?
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: She's not able to participate in the court.
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: The way I fought for trans kids in the legislature
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: is how I will fight for the U.S.
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: Senate.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: And my position hasn't changed.
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: I still think these should be local decisions, sport by sport,
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: athlete by athlete.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: And I think I have the most inclusive policy.
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: Of any candidate who's running. I know things are getting
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: clipped and stuff, but my views, my position hasn't changed.
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: And I'm going to have your loved ones back. Thank
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: you so much.
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: Thank you. God bless you.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Senator, there it is.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: My views haven't changed at all. So when he went
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: on Fox News Channel with the mea culpa, that was
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: a lie, right?
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: That was just all a big lie. He was flat
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: out lying. And by the way, this undercover camera was
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: on September 13th. So that was just a couple of
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: weeks ago that he was caught in camera saying, oh, no, no, no,
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: my views haven't changed. I'm still for operating and sterilizing kids.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: And I'm still for boys and girls sports and men
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: and women's sports. I mean, that's what he's urging. Nothing
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: has changed. I'm just having to lie to the voters
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: because I think I can dupe them. You know, there
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: also is footage showing one of his field organizers saying,
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: talking about how Tallarico's views are much more anti-Israel than
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: he's admitted publicly. Give a listen to this radical field
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: organizer working for Tallarico.
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: I completely understand. Most of my coworkers are also that part.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: So we get it.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: It's more so the thing of like, I guess like
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: the vehicle kind of, because we're trying to split his
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: right seat. So basically he stands on the outside. Morally,
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: what is being done to the Palestinians is morally reprehensible.
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: It should not be done. No funding should be given
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: to do the things that Israel is doing to Palestinians.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: I'm just glad she's wearing the Tallarico shirt at the
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: campaign headquarters and is saying we're a bunch of Marxists.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, that is her position. She's saying he
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: is too, but we have a chance to fool the voters.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: And don't worry, he hates Israel every bit as much
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: as you do. He also told the other voter he's
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: for sterilizing kids every bit as much as they are.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: This is who that guy is, and that's not where
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: the voters of Texas are.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Senator, I want to move into something else that we
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: did not get to talk about earlier, but it's a really...
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: important story. It's also one where heroes have come out
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: and they should be celebrated. And that is the attack
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: inside that cockpit on an airplane that was headed towards
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Tel Aviv, 170 on board. And by the grace of God,
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: that pilot fought back that was being attacked, was able
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: to open that door. And then the citizens were able
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: to get involved that were on that plane. There are
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: heroes that we're hearing about that it's amazing.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: Look, it could have been a truly horrific terror attack.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: It could have murdered 174 people in a fiery crash.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: And it was a remarkable instance of heroism that averted that.
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: So this was a flight, a fly Dubai flight that
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: was going from Dubai to Israel. 174 people on board.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: And midway through the flight, actually pretty near Israel, so
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: it's the tail end of the flight, the co-pilot stabbed
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: the pilot. And the pilot is bleeding. He was severely stabbed.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: And while he's bleeding and fighting back, he reached back
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: and unlocked the cockpit door and pushed it open. Because
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: the cockpit door is normally locked and sealed so passengers
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: can't get in. He opens the cockpit door. And mind you,
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: the plane was, at the time, it was flying at
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: 33,000 feet. And it ended up plummeting down. and dropping
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: 13,000 feet in less than two minutes. So if you
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: can imagine how terrifying this is, you're on a plane,
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: and it starts going down because the pilot's been stabbed,
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: and the co-pilot, and he's fighting with the co-pilot, and
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: when the pilot opened the door, the passengers saw what
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: was going on, and they rushed forward, and a number
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: of Israeli passengers rushed forward, and they subdued the terror.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: And so the pilot, the one who was stabbed, was Indian,
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: of Indian descent, and the guy was really heroic. He
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: saved the lives of every passenger there. If he'd not
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: opened that cockpit door, that plane would have crashed in
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: the ground, and everyone would have died. And then the
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: Israelis who rushed in there, I mean, they were, you know,
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: this was a terrorist with a knife who had just
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: stabbed the pilot and they subdued him forcibly. And in particular, one,
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: an Israeli dentist who was like the lead guy in
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: subduing him, and they got control of the plane and
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: it diverted to Saudi Arabia. The terrorist was from Oman.
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: We don't know We don't know the details yet. We
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: don't know if it's connected to Iran. We don't know
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: if it's connected to Hamas or Hezbollah or what. It
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: was clearly a terrorist attack, but it has not been
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: publicly reported, but it was an extraordinary moment of heroism.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Not only that, it was one of those moments where
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: I think the story of the heroism and people coming
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: together and also this just reality, people now know since 9-11,
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: if your plane is hijacked, the chance of survival increases.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: are extremely low. This is not people grabbing a plane
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: for money. This is usually terrorists, like you said, and
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: described in the way that you did. But I also
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: think just the other part of the story that's incredible
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: to me is that dentist you mentioned is the one
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: that apparently saved the life of that pilot who'd been
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: severely wounded. That was another part of the story that
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: came out. And then you saw even some of the
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: people that were involved had blood still on their clothes
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: as one of those heroes met Benjamin Netanyahu.
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the dentist, when he came off the plane, I mean,
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: he was covered in blood, and Benjamin Netanyahu embraced him
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: and hugged him. I mean, it was really, this guy's
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: a hero, and the passengers that stopped this terrorist, I mean,
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: they saved their lives and the lives of every other passenger,
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: and there were a bunch of kids on that plane
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: who could easily, easily have been killed, and You know,
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: the point you made is an important one, and a
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: lot of our listeners are younger, and so they may
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: not realize this, but before 9-11, people's reaction to a
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: plane hijacking was different. Because before 9-11, the hijackings that
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: had happened, and there hadn't been many, but there'd been some,
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: was usually a hijacker that wanted a ransom or wanted something,
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: and they would divert the plane, say, to Cuba or somewhere.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: And try to get a ransom. And so if you
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: think that it's a hijacking where that's the end game,
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: the passengers are more likely to go along with it.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: 9-11 changed all of that because obviously the hijackers there
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: used the plane as bombs to murder nearly 3,000 people
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: and flew them into the World Trade Centers and the
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: Pentagon and then the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania that, that, that,
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: We believe was targeting either the White House or the Capitol.
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: We don't know which one was the target, but it
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: was headed to Washington and believed to be one of
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: those two. If you know that if the terrorist succeeds,
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: the plane is going to crash and everyone's going to
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: be killed. you're a lot more likely to say, okay,
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: let's go stop the terrorist. And by the way.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Because you're now fighting for your survival.
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the heroes who took the plane down in Pennsylvania
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: that stopped it from crashing into the Pentagon or the
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: White House or Capitol, they may have saved thousands more lives.
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: We don't know how many lives would have been taken
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: had that plane gone the distance. And we obviously don't
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: know exactly what transpired other than that they violently took
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: it on and it ended up crashing in an open
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: field But you're incentivized, okay, if I don't stop them,
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: we're all going to die. And in this case, that's
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: exactly what happened. They stopped them and everyone lived as
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: a result.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: You know, just some of the aspect of we're all
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: humans came into place with this. When they landed in
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: Saudi Arabia, they do not have diplomatic relations with Israel.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: And yet they treated them like they were their own.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: And it's just another part of that story. When things
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: like this happen, watching people come together, it's what I
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: remember after 9-11. It's what you and I have talked
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: about before, but just that Saudi aspect of the story
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: is also truly incredible.
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is, and the terrorist is now in custody
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: in Saudi Arabia, is being questioned there. I will say this.
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure anyone really wants to be questioned in
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: Saudi Arabia. I think it.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: Is likely to be.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: A very, very thorough questioning. I feel pretty confident of.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's an amazing story. It could have ended out
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: a lot worse than it did. But because those heroes,
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: we should celebrate it and just take a moment and
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: recognize them as well.
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: Well, and look, this terror attack comes at a time
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: where we also had multiple terrorists arrested in the United
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: Kingdom for planning a terror attack on a military base there,
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  Speaker 3: a base that the U.S. military used. It was a
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  Speaker 3: British base, but it was a base that we used
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  Speaker 3: to launch air attacks on Iran. And at this point,
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  Speaker 3: the British prime minister has said that that terror attack
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  Speaker 3: that was thwarted was directly connected to Iran. And so
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  Speaker 3: we'll find out more details about that Actually, President Trump,
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  Speaker 3: when we landed in Texas, he did a press conference
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  Speaker 3: with reporters and they asked him about that. And President
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  Speaker 3: Trump was not yet ready to confirm that Iran was
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  Speaker 3: behind that attempted terror attack, but he said it looks
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  Speaker 3: like that may well be and we're trying to ascertain that.
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  Speaker 3: You put these together, and it's a dangerous time. We
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  Speaker 3: have enemies who want to kill Americans. They want to
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  Speaker 3: kill Israelis. And these terrorists are dangerous. And President Trump,
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  Speaker 3: I think, is being a strong and effective commander-in-chief, acting
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  Speaker 3: to protect us from these terrorists.
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  Speaker 1: Amen to that.
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