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Thursday 3pm hour 06/11/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 1: All right, here we go. News Radio 570.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you carry on and run for 307 here in
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  Speaker 2: the afternoon. Nice to be with you here. What are
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  Speaker 2: we sitting with? Seventy nine degrees and cloudy. Some rain
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  Speaker 2: in the forecast and in various vicinities here as we
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  Speaker 2: get underway on this Thursday. Legal show at five tonight.
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  Speaker 2: John Arnold's money talks at six. And in the meantime,
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  Speaker 2: we conversate. I get to phone calls momentarily, but I
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  Speaker 2: think Dave Thomas is out there as well.
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  Speaker 1: Hello?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, hi. How are you doing, Ron?
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  Speaker 4: Good.
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  Speaker 1: How are you? Good.
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  Speaker 3: I had a call back. I called right at the
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  Speaker 3: tail end of the G2 yesterday. You had fascinating callers on,
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  Speaker 3: and I enjoyed that gentleman from Palestine, the Palestinian, talking
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  Speaker 3: about his relatives.
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  Speaker 2: I thought he was– he offered great insight. I mean, yes,
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  Speaker 2: I thought the guy was just– I just saw the..
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  Speaker 3: I remember him calling in the past, and I wish
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  Speaker 3: he would call more often.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And then you had the guy that called. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know if he was Mark Levin. He was saying, where
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  Speaker 3: are the bodies buried in Gaza? He goes, in other words,
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  Speaker 3: there wasn't a genocide. And if he's listening, there were
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  Speaker 3: 72,000 Palestinians killed. They were buried in mass graves. There
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  Speaker 3: are two big mass graves, Nasser Hospital and Air Sharif Hospital.
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  Speaker 3: They're in parking lots. They're in backyards. They're under rubble.
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  Speaker 3: And if you ever look at it, Elon Musk put
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  Speaker 3: a picture up on X of Gaza before and after
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  Speaker 3: the attacks. Beautiful, beautiful. It was a wonderful area. And
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  Speaker 3: then after the attacks, it looks like the moonscape. There's
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  Speaker 3: rubble everywhere. And then what really touched a nerve was
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  Speaker 3: when G2 brought up the attack on the USS Liberty.
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  Speaker 3: And I followed that for many years, and I've read
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  Speaker 3: a couple of books on it. And that was a
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  Speaker 3: premeditated attack. And what I wanted to tell G2, and
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  Speaker 3: I think he knew this, was that they called off
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  Speaker 3: the rescue, LBJ and Robert McNamara, personally called off the
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  Speaker 3: rescue jets that were going to come to the aid
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  Speaker 3: of the USS Liberty. And it was sad. Those pilots
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  Speaker 3: turned around and not like, I don't know if you
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  Speaker 3: remember Benghazi, when you had our embassy was being attacked
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  Speaker 3: and you had four ex-SEALs that worked for the CIA
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  Speaker 3: as security contractors. They were Tyrone Woods, Glenn Daugherty. They
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  Speaker 3: were told to stand down by the State Department and
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  Speaker 3: Hillary Clinton, and they refused to do so. They rescued
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  Speaker 3: so many people in Benghazi, and it only resulted in
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  Speaker 3: four deaths. One was the ambassador, and the others were
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  Speaker 3: the ex-SEALs and CIA contractors. But I can't believe that
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  Speaker 3: those pilots would have turned back and said, i don't
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  Speaker 3: know if she to notice but in in the book
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  Speaker 3: at the it's called the attack on the liberty it
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  Speaker 3: was from two thousand nine the authors uh... but james
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  Speaker 3: scott he gives a timeline of the assault and the
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  Speaker 3: declassified documents and that's when it came out about uh...
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  Speaker 3: lbj our president our democratic president and mac the mayor
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  Speaker 3: how could you what your assail would be attacked you're
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  Speaker 3: the leader of the country but uh... Getting back to
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  Speaker 3: it real quick, showing that it was premeditated, that happened
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  Speaker 3: on June the 8th, 1967. But in the book, on
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  Speaker 3: the timeline, on June the 7th, the day before the Liberty,
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  Speaker 3: this was day four of the Six-Day Israeli War. On
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  Speaker 3: the 7th, the Israeli jets were flying over the Liberty,
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  Speaker 3: Flying around it, they had boats flying around it. It
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  Speaker 3: was identified as a U.S.
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  Speaker 5: Ship.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't until the next day that the attack occurred.
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  Speaker 3: And what they did when they were sending out SOS calls..
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  Speaker 6: Urgent weather message The National Weather Service in Pittsburgh has
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  Speaker 6: issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Northeastern Belmont County in
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  Speaker 6: East Central Ohio, Southeastern Jefferson, Ohio County in East Central Ohio,
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  Speaker 6: Allegheny County in Southwestern Pennsylvania, Washington County in Southwestern Pennsylvania,
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  Speaker 6: Northwestern Westmoreland County in Southwestern Pennsylvania, Southwestern Armstrong County in
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  Speaker 6: West Central Pennsylvania, Butler County in West Central Pennsylvania, South
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  Speaker 6: Central Clarion County in West Central Pennsylvania, Eastern Beaver County
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  Speaker 6: in western Pennsylvania, southeastern Lawrence County in western Pennsylvania, Brooke
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  Speaker 6: County in northern West Virginia, Ohio County in northern West Virginia,
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  Speaker 6: until 4.15 p.m.
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  Speaker 5: EDT.
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  Speaker 6: At 3.10 p.m. EDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a
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  Speaker 6: line from 7 miles north of Zillianople to near West Liberty,
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  Speaker 6: or along a line from 11 miles west of Butler
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  Speaker 6: to near Clearview, moving east at 30 mph. Hazard, 70
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  Speaker 6: miles per hour wind gusts. Source, law enforcement reported. Impact,
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  Speaker 6: expect considerable tree damage. Damage is likely to mobile homes, roofs.
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  Speaker 5: And outbuildings.
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  Speaker 6: Locations impacted include Pittsburgh, Penn Hills, Mount Lebanon, Bethel Park,
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  Speaker 6: Ross Township, Wheeling, McCandless Township, Monroeville, Cranberry, Moon Township, McMurray, McKeesport, Butler, Washington,
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  Speaker 6: Franklin Park, Aliquippa, Canonsburg, Martins Ferry, and Monica. Numerous trees
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  Speaker 6: and wires have been reported down along this line of storms.
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  Speaker 6: Anyone outdoors should move to shelter inside a well-built structure
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  Speaker 6: and stay away from windows. These storms have produced widespread
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  Speaker 6: damaging winds. Report severe weather to your nearest law enforcement
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  Speaker 6: agency or the National Weather Service office in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Repeating,
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  Speaker 6: a severe thunderstorm warning has been issued until 4.15 p.m.
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  Speaker 2: Eastern.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so be advised of that. All right, go
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  Speaker 1: ahead and finish your thoughts, please.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, real quick. It's a good day to stay inside
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  Speaker 3: and listen to the radio in the air conditioning. I
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  Speaker 3: was golfing up in Kent yesterday with a cousin of mine.
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  Speaker 3: He said, how often do you call that show? I said,
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  Speaker 3: what show? He said, the Ron Verb show. I said,
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  Speaker 3: do you listen to that? His name's Dr. Ford. If
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  Speaker 3: he's listening, you have a strong signal. He lives in Hudson,
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  Speaker 3: but he follows you, and I was surprised about that.
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  Speaker 3: But getting back real quick to the... Liberty. If it
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  Speaker 3: wasn't for Congressman Massey that had the survivors in Washington,
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  Speaker 3: he's getting a lot more attention coming out. And the
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  Speaker 3: Israelis finally admitted, at first they said it was an accident.
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  Speaker 3: It was a blatant attack. But in 1968, the victims'
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  Speaker 3: families filed suit, and the Israelis were forced to pay
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  Speaker 3: $ 12. 8 million in compensation to went to the families, and
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  Speaker 3: then in 1969, the wounded crew members got part of
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  Speaker 3: the settlement. And then in 1980, the Israelis paid for
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  Speaker 3: the ship itself, the damages to the ship, due to lawsuits.
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  Speaker 3: But they paid with, I believe it was U.S. taxpayer
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  Speaker 3: money from the United States.
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  Speaker 1: Naturally, we give them billions.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, we give them billions. And to talk about giving
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  Speaker 3: them billions, we're still giving the Taliban billions. $ 40 million
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  Speaker 3: a week, thanks to John Toon, Senator Toon. And I
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  Speaker 3: don't know why they can't stop that. But anyway, you
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  Speaker 3: see the markets turned around because of the announcement from
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  Speaker 3: Trump saying that he's not going to attack tonight. And
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  Speaker 3: what he did do yesterday, and I was telling G2
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  Speaker 3: when it was towards the tail end, that we did
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  Speaker 3: attack two water reservoirs. that are very important because they're
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  Speaker 3: having a severe water water shortage now in iran it's
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  Speaker 3: affecting civilians and uh... that would classify as a war
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  Speaker 3: crime and were complicit or involved will be only country
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  Speaker 3: that this with israel on the genocide in gaza and
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  Speaker 3: lebanon and now we're attacking water reservoirs but thank god
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  Speaker 3: that uh... trump called it off Speaking of calling it off,
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  Speaker 3: I wish I would have had that inside information at
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  Speaker 3: 1.30 when that announcement came out and everything spiked. I'm
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  Speaker 3: sure there were people that made a few bucks in
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  Speaker 3: the market on that.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't be.
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  Speaker 2: Shocked about it at all. You mean as far as
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  Speaker 2: insiders out of D.C.? the Trump circle or whatever. I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure that there are many insiders that made a bundle
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  Speaker 2: of money because the Dow jumped 700 points. Oil tumbles
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  Speaker 2: as Trump cancels evening strikes against Iran.
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  Speaker 1: It's interesting.
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  Speaker 2: It's interesting how he can change, spike the markets and
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  Speaker 2: bring it down simply by what he's saying. And if
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  Speaker 2: you've got that inside information, you obviously can make a
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  Speaker 2: lot of money on it. And I suspect people are.
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  Speaker 3: You know how many times this year he's announced a
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  Speaker 3: peace deal was near or imminent?
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  Speaker 1: About 30. About 30. 38 times.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That's the poll.
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  Speaker 1: And now they're announcing today that... a deal is near.
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  Speaker 1: So we shall see.
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  Speaker 2: I really hope there is because this has got to
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  Speaker 2: come to a conclusion. I hope there is a deal.
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  Speaker 2: I hope there is one that's near. If not, I
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  Speaker 2: think we have big trouble. Well, you heard the inflation
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  Speaker 2: numbers that were just given out during our news at
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  Speaker 2: 3 o'clock. They're significant. And if this continues to go on,
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  Speaker 2: I'll say once again, I think your gasoline prices, oil prices,
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  Speaker 2: and inflation will all go up if this continues on.
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  Speaker 2: through July and August. I don't think it will be
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  Speaker 2: a pleasant economic experience for us here at all.
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  Speaker 3: I think we're in big trouble. And you know what?
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  Speaker 3: I like Trump. I support Trump. I wouldn't vote for
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  Speaker 3: a Democrat. But when it comes to real estate and
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  Speaker 3: making deals, the art of the deal, he's good. But
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  Speaker 3: when it comes to... foreign policy, it seems he's got
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  Speaker 3: the Midas touch in reverse. I mean, he doesn't know
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  Speaker 3: how to get out of conflicts that he put us in.
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  Speaker 3: And Tucker had a fascinating..
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  Speaker 1: Well, the best way to get out of them is
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  Speaker 1: don't get in them in the first place.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly. And Tucker had a guy on his latest interview,
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  Speaker 3: Professor Mearsheimer. It's International Relations from the University of Chicago
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  Speaker 3: talking about... well, he was talking about Russia and Ukraine, that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and I really, it opened my eyes because
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  Speaker 3: I was always critical of General Milley and Obama, but, and,
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  Speaker 3: and Biden. But during, during the war, when it started,
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  Speaker 3: with Ukraine and Russia, General Milley advised that we come
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  Speaker 3: to a negotiated peace settlement and, um, He was told
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  Speaker 3: to stand down and shut up, cease and desist. That
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  Speaker 3: was in 2023. Because we wanted to, we, I don't
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  Speaker 3: know who that was, IPAC, the lobbyists, whoever, wanted the
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  Speaker 3: conflict to go on and keep the sanctions in place.
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  Speaker 3: But it didn't work out. And now it's coming out
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  Speaker 3: that Russia is talking about attacking NATO. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if you saw that.
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  Speaker 1: I did not.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, and what bothers me, that might escalate into using nukes.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we can only hope not. That's a whole other topic.
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  Speaker 2: We shall see where this goes. I certainly hope Trump
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  Speaker 2: is accurate that a deal is near or he's once
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  Speaker 2: again talking about one.
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  Speaker 1: As I look at it today. I hope that's accurate.
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  Speaker 2: I've been down this road 30-something times with him, and
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  Speaker 2: he called off the strike and the market has ticked up.
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  Speaker 2: I hope this time it happens and we can reach
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  Speaker 2: a conclusion on this. and hopefully get time to heal
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  Speaker 2: as far as our economy is concerned and our energy prices.
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  Speaker 2: We shall see. Stay in touch with me tomorrow and
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  Speaker 2: let me know. It's an ever-changing event. I appreciate your insight.
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  Speaker 2: Smart guy.
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  Speaker 1: You're on the air.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, Ron, it's David.
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  Speaker 2: That's who I'm looking for. Dave Thomas, state rep, NewsRadio
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  Speaker 2: 570 WQN. All right, so a few things that we
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  Speaker 2: have to cover with you here. Call us a line standby.
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  Speaker 2: I'll get to you. Coming up, that's... we are going
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  Speaker 2: on as far as the states uh... is concerns that uh...
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  Speaker 2: we want you to be cognizant of let's see uh...
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  Speaker 2: let's talk about medicaid fraud what's the latest on that
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  Speaker 2: and daycare fraud.
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  Speaker 5: Yes so we passed um... tuesday and wednesday we were
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  Speaker 5: actually uh... in session late into the evening slash morning uh...
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  Speaker 5: passing almost about fifty bills lot different topics uh... two
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  Speaker 5: of them dealt with medicare I'm sorry, Medicaid and the
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  Speaker 5: child care fraud issues. So, on the child care side,
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  Speaker 5: folks can look up House Bill 647. This one deals
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  Speaker 5: specifically with child care. And what we saw that came
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  Speaker 5: out of some of the reports back in January with
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  Speaker 5: child care issues, essentially... Daycare centers billing for kids that
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  Speaker 5: went there.
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  Speaker 1: Right. You've got to hold that thought.
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  Speaker 2: Let me do my commercial so I can write back,
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  Speaker 2: chat with Dave Thomas about a few areas, get to
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  Speaker 2: calls and more.
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  Speaker 1: Straight ahead, NewsRadio 570. WKBN. Youngstown's news, weather, and talk station,
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  Speaker 2: Back to it, 325 in the afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: All right, pick it up. We're talking about daycare and
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  Speaker 1: Medicaid fraud.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: So this daycare one, hospital 647, this does a lot
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  Speaker 5: of things that you think are pretty common sense, but
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  Speaker 5: we didn't have in place prior to what happened in January.
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  Speaker 5: So there's kind of direct data with each individual child
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  Speaker 5: that goes then to the Department of Children and Youth
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  Speaker 5: in Columbus. That way they can track where the kids are.
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  Speaker 5: There's actual kind of digital tracking with them so that
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  Speaker 5: they know when they're in the building, when they're not,
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  Speaker 5: how many days they're there. reimbursement wise. We change up
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  Speaker 5: some of the reimbursement side too. So there were centers
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  Speaker 5: that were just saying, Hey, Johnny's here, you know, four
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  Speaker 5: days a week. Hey us, Johnny was never there. Now
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  Speaker 5: we'll actually be able to track. We'll know. This also
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  Speaker 5: gives the attorney general the authority right now. They do
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  Speaker 5: not have this. If Franklin County, if there's a fraud
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  Speaker 5: issue in Franklin County, that prosecutor is the one that's
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  Speaker 5: responsible for it. Prosecutor in Franklin County is not going
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  Speaker 5: to prosecute. or go after these types of things. The
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  Speaker 5: attorney general can then step in, even in these types
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  Speaker 5: of situations, take over, um, and, uh, prosecute. So that's
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  Speaker 5: a handful of things that just right away we're able
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  Speaker 5: to pass with 647. Um, those are some of the
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  Speaker 5: loopholes that folks have kind of exploited, um, especially some
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  Speaker 5: of those zip codes in Franklin County, um, some of
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  Speaker 5: those different populations and, uh, This now moves over to
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  Speaker 5: the Senate. So we passed it late last night. It
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  Speaker 5: moves over to the Senate, and they'll have to take
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  Speaker 5: action on it now.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think it'll pass there? Yes or no?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: So, I mean, this thing has to happen relatively quickly,
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  Speaker 2: so there's accountability for the money being paid out and
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  Speaker 2: Medicaid fraud and daycare fraud, correct?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and that was just the daycare one, the Medicaid one,
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  Speaker 5: and there's a lot here. This is Senate Bill 315.
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  Speaker 5: This is actually already going to the governor's desk. So
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  Speaker 5: we passed this one very late last night. And this
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  Speaker 5: one hits at all of the Medicaid issues that we've
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  Speaker 5: been seeing as well. And it's somewhat similar. There was
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  Speaker 5: just never the actual ability to track, have electronic verification,
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  Speaker 5: GPS verification for these different providers that said that they
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  Speaker 5: were visiting grandma or visiting their someone who is disabled,
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  Speaker 5: to provide health care services or respite care, for example,
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  Speaker 5: is what they call it. So this sets up, after
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  Speaker 5: the governor vetoed that last budget, this sets up that
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  Speaker 5: type of tracking to make sure that they are going
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  Speaker 5: where they're going. We're increasing the penalties quite heavily for
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  Speaker 5: Medicaid fraud, which previously were almost misdemeanors. They were very,
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  Speaker 5: very little. Now we're ramping those up quite a bit
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  Speaker 5: for the actual penalties if you're found guilty of stealing
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  Speaker 5: his money or committing fraud with Medicaid.
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  Speaker 2: All right, and that's a done deal other than DeWine
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  Speaker 2: has to sign it. Do you believe he will?
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  Speaker 5: That's going to be one of the questions.
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  Speaker 1: NewsRadio 570 WKVN. All right, back to it. NewsRadio 570 WKVN.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't this interesting, State Rep. Dave Thomas?
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  Speaker 2: So you don't know if DeWine is going to sign
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  Speaker 2: this bill. Explain the bill once again and what it does.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: So this is Senate bill three 15. This was passed
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  Speaker 5: late last night. It's on its way to the governor.
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  Speaker 5: This overhauls the Medicaid system. So it puts a lot
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  Speaker 5: of checks and balances into Medicaid that were not there
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  Speaker 5: and was the reason you saw a lot of the
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  Speaker 5: issues earlier this year and still with Medicaid, especially around
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  Speaker 5: Franklin County. Um, you do a lot of kind of
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  Speaker 5: basic things like even additionally from what I said earlier,
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  Speaker 5: requiring on-site in-person inspections before you get a license to
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  Speaker 5: become a Medicaid provider, um, have a certain kind of
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  Speaker 5: like payment systems set up where if, if there's a
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  Speaker 5: strange payment, um, kind of like a back pattern where
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  Speaker 5: they're going, a lot of payments from different organizations are
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  Speaker 5: going to one same account or going to one same address,
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  Speaker 5: like there's something wrong with that, setting up things like that. Um,
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  Speaker 5: or even, um, actual pre-authorization before certain expenses are made
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  Speaker 5: for patients. On top of all the GPS verification, all
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  Speaker 5: the auditing verification, a lot of this is what legislatures
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  Speaker 5: try to do. The governor's vetoed. That's why we're not
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  Speaker 5: really sure quite how he's going to respond yet, but
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  Speaker 5: I'm hopeful he's going to sign it.
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  Speaker 1: We shall see.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why he wouldn't sign it other than he, well,
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  Speaker 2: he should sign it.
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  Speaker 1: Let's put it that way.
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  Speaker 2: Anything he does doesn't surprise me, to say the least,
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to Governor DeWine.
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  Speaker 1: It's been very disappointing.
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  Speaker 2: So that is Medicaid fraud, daycare fraud bill, tax relief
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  Speaker 2: bill passed.
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  Speaker 1: What's that?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, so you've probably heard a little bit about the
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  Speaker 5: overages that the state has. So we cut the income
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: tax again last year, another almost half a percent. Now
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: Ohio has the lowest flat tax in the nation. But
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: we've actually been bringing in even more money by cutting
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: the tax, which just shows market activity. People are making
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: more type of thing. So we budgeted for less in
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: our budget this past year, but we've gotten them more
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: because So we have about a $ 1. 5 billion kind of
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: overage right now. And there's been a lot of questions
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: about what to actually do with some of that money.
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: So one of our bills that we passed late yesterday
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: as well, it's House Bill 479. Folks can look this up.
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: It directs some of this money different places. One of
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: the provisions, there will be a $ 350 million credit given
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: to those on homes instead. That is seniors who are
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: over 65, those that are essentially making social security or
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: a little over social security, about $ 38, 000 a year. Those
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: folks that are on Homestead will see on average, especially
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: in our area, a doubling of their Homestead credit from
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: this overage amount. So we are actually reimbursing locals and
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: we're saying those folks on Homestead will see a doubling,
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: about $ 500 on average. to their tax bills in January
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: of next year, every homestead recipient in the state.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: Um, all right.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: So remember when you had the overage one other year,
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: you made the sales tax holiday include a bunch of
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: other stuff and up the limits.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, why don't we do that?
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: And that's next. So on top of that 350, the
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: homestead folks were doing 320 million into that sales tax
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: holiday fund for, um, I'm not entirely sure. I think
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: we have to do it in the budget prior to
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: the year. So this will be for next year's sales
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: tax holiday. That will be extended once again, just like
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: we've had in previous years. This will be half of
• 22:12
  Speaker 5: the month of August, so the 1st through the 15th.
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: And then anything under $ 500, sales tax-free for that whole period.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: In what, 2027? Correct, yep, next year.
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: This is all for next year's.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: Next year's budget.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: All right. So, I mean, I thought that was a
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: good idea. So anything you bought.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Anything, $ 500 or less, there wasn't a sales tax on it.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: So I thought that was good. So that'll be coming
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: as a result of the overage. Why don't we stop
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: the overage in the future?
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: I kind of joke with folks. Not that we tried,
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: but I cut an income tax again. We actually cut
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: the income tax roughly $ 2 billion. And the Democrats during
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: that budget, they were saying, we're going to be in
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: the deficit. We're going to lose this $ 2 billion.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: And they were wrong. You cut it and erased more money.
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: Exactly.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: It was exactly opposite what the Democrats said. You lowered
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: the income tax rate and it brought in more money,
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: not less money.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: And on the back end, so we keep using some
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: of this to then decrease more of the income tax.
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: You'll see that again next year. And the sales tax
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: holiday fund, more money for seniors for that homestead side.
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: And then we're using $ 200 million to actually pay off
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: certain debts that we're not spending more on. interest on
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: bonds and different things like that. It's trying to lower
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: than our actual debt amount as well.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Wouldn't it be refreshing?
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: I was listening where Governor DeSantis in Florida is bragging
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: how this is another year where they're spending less money
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: than they did the year before. And they did that
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: the year before that. I mean, he's got a consistent
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: record as governor of spending less money each year than
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: he did the year before. Wouldn't that be refreshing to
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: see that happen for a change by government?
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: That absolutely would be.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: But I shouldn't hold my breath. But, I mean, they're
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: doing it in Florida. I mean, it's really something to
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: watch that happen. And basically to brag about it, hey,
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: guess what? We're spending less money this year than we
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: did last year than we did the year before. So
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: they're going in the right direction as opposed to increasing
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: government spending every year.
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: I would say hold your breath until our next budget
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: with Governor Ramaswamy.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Hopefully.
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: And like I tell folks, buckle up.
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and that's hopefully because if you believe polling,
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: I mean, polling, it could be neck and neck with
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Amy Acton and Ramaswamy. And if you believe the polling,
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: then Sherrod Brown is ahead of Houston, if you believe
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: the polling.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: We shall see.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Of course, it's a long time between then and now,
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: and a lot depends on what happens in Iran and
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: inflation and this war situation. And if you have a
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: blue wave as a result of all of that. I mean,
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: so there's so many variables, it's hard to predict. But
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: if you look at what it is now, Amy Acton's
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: doing pretty good as far as governor, and Sherrod Brown's
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: doing pretty good as far as returning to the Senate.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Much to my chagrin.
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: I think once folks, Sherrod Brown's his own thing. But
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: especially Amy Acton, once folks pay a little bit of
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: attention to what she's actually proposing, what an Ohio would
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: look like under her, those polls, even if they're frustrated
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: and they're upset, I think we're going to see those
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: polls tightening, especially over the summer. But you're right. If
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: we still have $ 5 gas, if inflation keeps going up
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: through the roof and people just don't see a reason
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: to vote to stay.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Home, Right.
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: And, yeah, we'll have an Amy Acton governor.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Right. And then you'll really see a nightmare happen.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: I mean, this is the Amy Acton that quits when
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: she couldn't take the heat as the state's doctor.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: How's she going to handle governor?
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: This is the Amy Acton who's promising to spend about
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: $ 20 billion in her first budget on... above and beyond
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: things that we're already spending now on top of giving
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: schools all that they want on top.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: Of everything else. Yeah, growing governments, needing more money. I mean,
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: it's going in totally the opposite direction. If you vote
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: for Sherrod Brown or Amy Acton, you should have your
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: head examined.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, absolutely.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Sherrod Brown supported every lunatic thing Joe Biden was for.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: Every single thing. And Amy Acton is a far left
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: person as well. So DeWine's got to get his act together, though,
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: as far as I'm concerned, and start signing his stuff.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: I mean, first and foremost, this stuff should have never
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: happened in the first place. Are we in agreement there,
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: this fraud in Ohio? Should have never happened in the
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: first place.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: 100%.
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: And it's horrible that It took what it did.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Here's what happened.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: I mean, would you not agree this was going on?
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: We're never going to get the money back. It was
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: going on in Minnesota. The only way this came to
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: light was because of this young Nick Shirley who brought
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: it to light in Minnesota, and then it started to
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: come to light in Ohio. If it wasn't for him
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: and that old guy that was really his research guy,
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: I don't.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: Know that we would even be aware of it in Ohio.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: But I'm glad we are aware of it.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: But I sit back as a taxpayer saying, where was
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: the check and balance system when all of this was
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: going on?
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Once the money's stolen and gone, it's stolen and gone.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: You're never going to get the money back from the
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: Somalian community. So will anybody go to jail? I mean,
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: I'll wait to see that. And I'm glad to see
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: that there's check and balances. You say you've got a daycare,
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: you say these kids are showing up, well, now you've
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: got to prove it. You say you're taking care of
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: some relative, well, now you've got to prove it. And
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: stop the fraud that's going on. And I think all
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: of this should be signed, it should get underway immediately.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Would you agree?
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and these were things, and it just shows that sometimes,
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: I hate to say it, but sometimes it takes a
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: crisis to actually move people into action. we have put
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: a lot of this in the previous year's budgets, vetoed,
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: weren't able to get enough votes to override vetoes, weren't
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: able to get enough public support behind us to motivate members.
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: And now, you know, these bills were put together in
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: about one month, signed by both chambers, passed, pushed.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, they're moving at great speed, as they should
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: be moving. The constitutional amendment... Did it pass for voter
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: ID in Ohio?
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: So, um, so, uh, that's SGR. And that is a
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: constitutional amendment that folks will see on their ballot this November.
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: And what this constitutional amendment says is that photo ID,
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: it's a floor, it's essentially a base level that puts
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: our current practice into law, into the constitution. As we're worried,
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: future inter-assemblies, future governors, future, Democratic Secretary of State, she
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: actually voted against this, the Democrat running for Secretary of State.
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: We're worried if they get into office, they'll then pull
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: back our photo ID requirements for voting.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: So this will be on my ballot in November? Yes.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: All right, which basically says we keep the system we have.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: When I show up at the church, I've got to
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: show my ID to vote, right?
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: Yes, photo ID in person, and then there's a huge question,
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: lots of conversations over mail-in ballots. And what type of ID,
• 29:43
  Speaker 5: photo ID, do you have to show with mail-in ballots?
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: So constitutional amendment is that floor. It's that guaranteed amount
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: of essentially validation of the photo. But we simultaneously passed
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: House Bill 472. And folks can look at any of
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: these house bills on our website and read them and
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: see summaries. And what House Bill 472 says is that
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: if you are doing mail-in balloting, you are requesting an
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: absentee ballot to be mailed to you, filling it out,
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: mailing it back in, there are now extra levels of
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: essentially protection you have to go through in order to
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: get that ballot in return.
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: And that will include... either having an actual copy of
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: your photo ID. So instead of you going, voting in person,
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: showing them your ID, you're actually making a copy, turning
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: it out, putting it into the envelope, sending it in
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: the board of elections to show this is the person,
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: this is who's submitting, or we're following a model from Kentucky.
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: She uses an online portal, similar to like the Bureau
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: of Motor Vehicles, but their secretary of state's office. That's
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: how you can request your absentee ballot instead. If you
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: don't want to do it through the mail, you request
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: it that way. They'll mail it to you. But you
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: can actually upload your driver's license as a way to show,
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: I am who I say I am. Here's my ID.
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: Here's my Social Security number. Here's my details. Send me
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: my absentee mail-in ballot.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: Well, I'll be voting for that in November because I
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: think how we do elections in Ohio is the right way,
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: unlike California where they mail everybody a ballot.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: They just mail it out, like I say a million times.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: How do they know that you're not dead? How do
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: they know that you haven't moved? Who's voting that ballot?
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: It's ripe for fraud. I mean, how do you get
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: 25,000 ballots returned? And what's interesting is the 25,000 ballots
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: that are returned, not a single one voted for the Republican.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: and all of them voted to increase the state sales
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: tax to 10%.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: How does that happen?
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: I mean, who says, give me this ballot, I'm going
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: to vote for these incompetent Democrats that don't do anything right, 25,000,
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: and also they all vote to raise the state sales
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: tax to 10% in California.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: So, I mean, it's ridiculous. It's just so fraudulent.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: And to see Kristen Welker on Meet the Press tell Trump,
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: what makes you think, what proof do you have? My
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: commenter is, what proof do you have that things are
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: done legitimately? Mathematically, none of this stuff adds up. And
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: I'm glad to see we make the commitment in Ohio
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: to see that something like that doesn't happen if we
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: get Democrats in the future, because it makes a joke
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: of your it takes all confidence you have out of
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: your out of the power of your of your vote.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: I don't want to see the fraud in Ohio like
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: I see in other states. So I think that's one
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: of the most important issues you could have on our
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: November ballots. And I'm glad to see you lowered the
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: state income tax, and yet it generated more revenue. And
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: I'm glad to see that the additional revenue will go
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: to benefit seniors on homestead exemptions. And it will go
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: to benefit the tax holiday in 2027. I'm glad to
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: see that. And what else? I mean, you're working on
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: data centers, right?
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: Yes. So that was going to be the last kind
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: of large bill. We, like I said, had a lot
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: of other bills that folks will care about. You can
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: see that on our website, what we passed. A data
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: center bill was supposed to be passed last night that
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: added a whole bunch of extra regulations. That could not
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: get the votes.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Why not?
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: Not because of what you might think. So they've had
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: a select committee. to kind of dive into data centers, energy, water,
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: tax side, all the different pieces, bring them all together.
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: The compromise kind of bill was what was produced from
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: that select committee. A lot of it is very good.
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: It actually includes my House Bill 706, which prevents the
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: cost shifting on electricity when a data center comes in.
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: The problem was the tax side. So the compromise that
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: they had come up with was not removing the sales
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: tax exemption.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: Stand by. Okay, stand by. Now I'm starting to boil here.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: You've got to hear this part.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Stand by. Dave Thomas, state rep. I'm back with him
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: in a minute. All right, this.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: Is going to start to fry in you folks. So
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: this is the data center bill. And you're telling me,
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: Just tell me the side here about, as I said
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: a million times, we're the sweet spot. We don't have
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: to give them any tax breaks. DeWine folks gave data
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: centers this sales tax break. They don't have to pay
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: sales tax on anything they buy to build these giant centers.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: You have to if you're going to add on to
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: your garage, but these data centers don't have to do that.
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: When that information came out, the state lost over a
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: billion dollars because of that decision of his. He put
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: a hold on it as a result of the outcry
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: because we were informed about it. And you're telling me
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: in this new bill you can't prohibit this permanently? Give
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: me the details here.
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so if you remember in the budget last year,
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: we removed the exemption, we vetoed it, and then what happens,
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: like you just said, so this select committee, dive into
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: data centers, their kind of compromise recommendation that we were
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: going to vote on yesterday, there's a whole bunch of
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: good things, but on the sales tax side, It changed
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: the exemption from the potential of 100%, which is what
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: is current, down to then 50% if data centers locate
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: on essentially brownfields, if they have closed-loop water, if they
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: bring their own electric power, and if they're larger than
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: 25 megawatts, if I remember correctly. So that was essentially
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: that select committee's compromise. That was the bill that we
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: were all discussing. But I give a lot of kudos
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: to Tex Fisher. He was one of the ones as
• 36:05
  Speaker 5: well that has been pushing back on granting these exemptions
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: and still having them in law.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: They couldn't come to an agreement over what could be done.
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: So that bill, which there's good and bad because the
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: rest of the bill was exactly what we needed.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: Now, hang on a second. Just let me do my
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: break and just bear with me a little bit after
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: 4 o'clock. I want you to explain this, what the
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: good and the bad was of this, then I'll let
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: you go, okay?
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: Stand by. State Rep. Dave Thomas, back with him in
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: a minute. Stay tuned.
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: From ABC News, I'm Michelle Franzen. At the White House,
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: President Trump signaling a peace agreement with Iran is close.
• 36:47
  Speaker 7: We have a signing soon, and the documents are in
• 36:53
  Speaker 7: pretty final shape, so we'll see.
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: A source with knowledge of the negotiations tells ABC News
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: the deal is very close as mediators hit some breakthroughs.
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: The president now backing away from new strikes against Iran.
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: ABC's Stephen Portnoy has details.
• 37:08
  Speaker 7: What we heard the president say is that he has
• 37:10
  Speaker 7: just spoken to the prime minister of Israel, the heads
• 37:12
  Speaker 7: of Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, will soon be
• 37:15
  Speaker 7: talking to Turkey. He said the Strait of Hormuz will
• 37:18
  Speaker 7: be open. He mentioned that the U.S. has been engaged
• 37:20
  Speaker 7: in uh... what had been secret missions to take ships
• 37:24
  Speaker 7: oil tankers out of the state of hormuz transiting them
• 37:26
  Speaker 7: through to the global market place.
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: Just hours after five extension measures failed in both the
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: house and senate over bill polti's role as acting d
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: and i director President Trump announced the nomination of U.S.
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: Attorney and former SEC Chair Jay Clayton to lead the agency.
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: ABC's Catherine Falders has more on Clayton's experience.
• 37:45
  Speaker 8: While he is a highly respected lawyer, he sits at
• 37:49
  Speaker 8: the top of one of the most largest and arguably
• 37:54
  Speaker 8: one of the most important U.S. Attorney's offices in the country.
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  Speaker 8: The question is, does he really have that much more
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  Speaker 8: national security experience than Bill Pulte, the previous person who
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  Speaker 8: Trump said was going to serve as acting, does?
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  Speaker 4: Celebrations in New York City over the New York Knicks.
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  Speaker 4: Last-minute Game 4 win last night against the San Antonio Spurs,
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  Speaker 4: leading police to arrest more than 50 people. Outside Madison
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  Speaker 4: Square Garden, New York police say due to rowdy fans
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  Speaker 4: and picking fights and climbing poles, authorities say 10 officers
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  Speaker 4: were injured. And in Mexico, protests ahead of the World
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  Speaker 4: Cup's first match in Mexico City. Demonstrators using the high-profile
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  Speaker 4: event to bring light to other causes, including missing individuals.
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  Speaker 4: Mexico now co-hosting the World Cup with Canada and the U.S.
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