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Brian Thomas spends a full hour with Private Citizen Brad Wenstrup · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: Seven oh six on a Friday, and a very happy Friday.
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Speaker 1: It is. It's always happy in my world with a Friday,
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Speaker 1: but it's even better coming off the tech Friday, A
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Speaker 1: day of how today have private citizen former Congressman and
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Speaker 1: retired Colonel Brad Winsterpin, City of Brad my friend. It's
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Speaker 1: always great to see you, brother.
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Speaker 2: Pleasure to be with you. And I will say, Brian,
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Speaker 2: you're looking well well, thank you. I know you've got
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Speaker 2: some treatment ahead, yeah, but you're looking good.
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Speaker 1: Thanks. Try positive. We just sticking to that diet routine.
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Speaker 1: It's really been beneficial for my health generally speaking. And
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Speaker 1: I don't even I literally don't even think about the
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Speaker 1: cancer except when you got to go and get a
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Speaker 1: cancer treatment. But everybody's been so kind and all the
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Speaker 1: well wishes are truly appreciated. But again I always like
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Speaker 1: to say, you got a limited number of prayers and
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Speaker 1: well wishes and thoughts out there, direct them to someone
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Speaker 1: who is more worthy and in me because I feel fine,
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Speaker 1: and although I will be out Monday and Tuesday because
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Speaker 1: I have this ripple effect from the chemo, makes me
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Speaker 1: kind of space KIDETI you know it's no big deal.
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Speaker 1: This two shall pass, just playing the hand that I
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Speaker 1: was dealt and going along with my life like nothing
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Speaker 1: else is wrong. But it's kind of you to share
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Speaker 1: your thoughts and concerns as it is with everyone, and
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Speaker 1: speaking of thoughts against as we were talking about. And
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Speaker 1: of course we'll start with the situation, the war as
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Speaker 1: I'm going to label it in despite this semantical debate
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Speaker 1: we seem to be having, we have launch actions against Iran,
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Speaker 1: stating the obvious. Iran seems to be in a position
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Speaker 1: of having one singular strategy and one singular threat, and
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Speaker 1: that is the closure of the strait of horror moves.
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Speaker 1: And it's something that they have had in their back
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Speaker 1: pocket now since the I total it took over. Fundamentally.
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Speaker 1: I was amazed yesterday, first off, shocked in Iran's strategy
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Speaker 1: of starting to shoot weapons into their surrounding neighbors country
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Speaker 1: as opposed to just focusing on Israel. That was kind
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Speaker 1: of weird. It sort of backfired on them right out
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Speaker 1: of the gate, with the leaders of those various countries
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Speaker 1: stepping up going whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. And then you
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Speaker 1: have the resolution yet the other day from the UN,
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Speaker 1: which is profound one hundred and thirty five coast sponsors
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Speaker 1: of this condemnation of Iran for its strikes on the
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Speaker 1: Gulf region, with China and Russia abstaining, notwithstanding in fact
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Speaker 1: they have the veto power. It was unanimous. The world
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Speaker 1: is finally seeing a potential end the Iranians, which will
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Speaker 1: benefit everybody. That one country controls in essence, the straight
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Speaker 1: of hormones and the traffic it flows through it. If
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Speaker 1: you get rid of that one country, you've got lower
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Speaker 1: price of fuel and stability.
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Speaker 2: Right, And it's so huge. And look that control and
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Speaker 2: the abuses with fossil fuels and their oil capabilities and
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Speaker 2: all those things. That has been their nuclear weapon for
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Speaker 2: a long time, yep. And they want a nuclear weapon
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Speaker 2: and that was for the effort of killing. So it's
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Speaker 2: all about control and killing. They are about killing, Let's
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Speaker 2: get that straight. That's what they have been doing. And
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Speaker 2: this has been going on. You know what, are we
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Speaker 2: on day fourteen roughly? Okay, they're on your forty seven
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Speaker 2: going on forty eight, And that's a fact. And so
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Speaker 2: we're finally doing something. And the Strait of Hormuz is important.
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Speaker 2: But you mentioned the firing on the other people in
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Speaker 2: their neighborhood, right, I mean, I don't think they ever
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Speaker 2: heard of Dale Carnegie. But winning friends and influencing people.
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Speaker 2: I mean, this is unbelievably stupid, stupid in the course
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Speaker 2: of history. Let's put it that way, because that may
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Speaker 2: have some effect that they think is going to be
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Speaker 2: helpful to them in a while.
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Speaker 1: They're like everyone getting together at the same location and
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Speaker 1: meeting right when the bombs are dropping. They didn't think
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Speaker 1: about a zoom conference. These are clearly idiots. I'm just
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Speaker 1: going to say it out loud like that. I don't get.
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Speaker 2: Oh, it's unbelievable. Well, fortunately we have good intel on
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Speaker 2: that time, remember two, and from what I understand was
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Speaker 2: human intelligence, which is even more amazing that it came
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Speaker 2: from within somebody on the end of the Israel. The
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Speaker 2: Israelis are obviously very good at this, and let's face it,
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Speaker 2: we have been very strategic. I would say. You know,
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Speaker 2: as you heard the administration saying from the beginning, this
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Speaker 2: is going to be six weeks or so, So they
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Speaker 2: weren't saying from the get go, they were saying, this
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Speaker 2: is going to take a while, and there will be casualties.
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Speaker 2: And I appreciate that upfront NOSS and maybe it'll take longer,
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Speaker 2: but you're seeing really like UAE doing a pretty good
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Speaker 2: job of defending themselves. And so you know, the neighbors
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Speaker 2: at one time weren't necessarily our friends. Everyone's coming together
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Speaker 2: and that un resolution is the same. And you talk
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Speaker 2: about China and Russia, and we were talking about this
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Speaker 2: offline beforehand. They don't want Iran to have nuclear weapons?
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Speaker 2: Why would they? Yeah, why would they? Well, they're depending
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Speaker 2: a lot on the Iranian oil too. You know, it's
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Speaker 2: not in China's interest that flow being stopped in the
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Speaker 2: straight of horn moves. But they still wanted to be
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Speaker 2: the big brother to I RAN. So of course you'd say,
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Speaker 2: you know, you look at it. We were always saying
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Speaker 2: there's the Big four, right, you know, North Korea, Ran, China,
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Speaker 2: and Russia. Well, they're not Russian to their aid at all.
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Speaker 1: No. Well, you know it's like having a friendship with
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Speaker 1: Epstein before he got busted for being a pedophile. Apparently
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Speaker 1: it was a pretty good thing. You got to hang
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Speaker 1: out with this rich guy and go to rich places
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Speaker 1: and experience lap of luxury, and then all of a
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Speaker 1: sudden you find out, well he's a moluster of children,
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Speaker 1: so you stay away from them. Well, maybe they were
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Speaker 1: hanging out with Iran up to this time because it
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Speaker 1: was in their best interest globally, strategically or whatever, and
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Speaker 1: then they find out maybe not. I'm going to take
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Speaker 1: a pass on this one.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we got to deal with a lot of these
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Speaker 2: neighbors ourselves, and that you are now firing.
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Speaker 1: On point trading partners all. Yes, well, it sounds me
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Speaker 1: like they've set themselves up for even more entries into
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Speaker 1: the Abraham Accords.
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Speaker 2: You just took the words out of my mouth, because
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Speaker 2: if you look at the Abraham Accords, you know that again,
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Speaker 2: through the course of history, that is phenomenal.
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Speaker 1: I know, no one gives Trump credit for that awesome,
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Speaker 1: awesome accomplishment totally.
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Speaker 2: I mean, you're talking about areas of the world where
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Speaker 2: they have been fighting for thousands of years. Yes, and
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Speaker 2: they're willing to bring some logic to what they are
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Speaker 2: doing and saying, well, why don't we just be a
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Speaker 2: little more economically sound and reasonable and work with our
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Speaker 2: neighbors and maybe we can all live in peace and
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Speaker 2: thrive and absolutely thrive, and.
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Speaker 1: Hey, rebuild Gaza, you know, I mean, it's the next
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Speaker 1: seaside resort potentially, and a more terrorist stability. We can
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Speaker 1: trade together, we can go across each other's borders, we
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Speaker 1: can enjoy each other's comfort and safety. And wow, we'll
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Speaker 1: just put aside the you hatred and for our own
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Speaker 1: best interest.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you are not going to wipe out
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Speaker 2: Jews from the face of the earth. Sorry, Hitler tried it.
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Speaker 2: It's not going to work. And it's a bad idea,
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Speaker 2: and it's a stupid idea. These are peace loving people.
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Speaker 2: Why do we want to do that? Now? We've got
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Speaker 2: war loving people, death loving people to others, even well
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Speaker 2: not even others. They kill their own people willingly they do.
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Speaker 2: This is a cancer on the globe. And you know,
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Speaker 2: if we can show that we can make this difference,
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Speaker 2: as painful as it may be for a while, wars
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Speaker 2: are painful, there's no doubt about it. But what's the
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Speaker 2: net result of this?
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Speaker 1: That's right?
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Speaker 2: And you know, when I was in Iraq, I found
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Speaker 2: this Wartime Prayer book by Bishop Fulton Sheen, who in
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Speaker 2: the fifties was well probably the first TV evangelical, I guess,
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Speaker 2: you'd say. But one of the things that he had
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Speaker 2: in there that really brought some solace to me. He said,
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Speaker 2: I didn't come to this war to leave the world
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Speaker 2: the way it was. I came to this world to
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Speaker 2: rid the world of tyrants and dictators.
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Speaker 1: That is a profound point, right So, and you know,
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Speaker 1: I mentioned it to a caller early in the program.
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Speaker 1: We think that somehow I've changed gears on the legality component.
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Speaker 1: There's the law and an open debate on whether this
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Speaker 1: action was justified and constitutional. That is not a discussion
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Speaker 1: of the potential benefits or even downsides of the war.
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Speaker 1: And it looked like I'm going back to this un resolution.
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Speaker 1: This action has finally given everyone in the world an
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Speaker 1: opportunity to do exactly what that preacher said to make
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Speaker 1: the world a better place.
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Speaker 2: And you know, Brian, if this action had taken place
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Speaker 2: under Joe Biden, I would I know it's would be
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Speaker 2: applauding it. Unreal I would I would be bit backing it.
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Speaker 2: I would say yes because my personal experience, you know,
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Speaker 2: I'd say go back forty seven years, nineteen seventy nine,
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Speaker 2: nineteen seventy nine. You know, we get hostages taken and
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Speaker 2: Jimmy Carter's the president. But if you can get them
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Speaker 2: out of there, I'm going to be for it. Unfortunately
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Speaker 2: that that failed and it took really I think Ronald
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Speaker 2: Reagan coming into office that that got them out. There're
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Speaker 2: the but Jesus out of them, didn't it? It did,
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Speaker 2: and it was day one. Man here here they come home.
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Speaker 2: But you know, I was thinking the other day of
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Speaker 2: the Jimmy Buffett song that came out right at the
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Speaker 2: same time, and then his song Volcano. He says, don't
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Speaker 2: want to land on no Aya toll, and I'm like,
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Speaker 2: what's an ayatola? And so since nineteen seventy nine, I've
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Speaker 2: been well aware of what an iatola is.
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Speaker 1: Well, the new one says he's going to use the
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Speaker 1: Horror News closure as a weapon and as leverage. So
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Speaker 1: he's going to stick by this, assuming the cardboard cutout
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Speaker 1: is still with us. That was the position that came
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Speaker 1: out from Lebron just yesterday. So yeah, if that's the strategy,
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Speaker 1: then well it's glad to have the rest of the
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Speaker 1: world on our side for a change. We'll continue with
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Speaker 1: citizen Former Congressman Brad Winster been studio after I mentioned
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Speaker 1: Jimmy car fireplace in Stowe. Yes, they do it seventy
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Speaker 1: fifty five KRCD talk station Brian Thomas with citizen and
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Speaker 1: former congressman, former retire he's retired lieutenant or retired colonel
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Speaker 1: Brad Weinster. I. He's in studio and happens to be
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Speaker 1: a good friend of mine, and I just love talking
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Speaker 1: to Brad, and he's going to provide some wonderful Insight'll
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Speaker 1: let us pivot over briefly if we may. And it's
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Speaker 1: funny because I had fraud written down on my list
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Speaker 1: of things that bring by you, and you said, just
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Speaker 1: a moment before the mic went on, what a gift
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Speaker 1: this war has been to Governor Tim Walton inn is So,
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Speaker 1: who is not running for reelection because of the rampant
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Speaker 1: fraud that apparently he knew all about for years going
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Speaker 1: on in Minnesota, stealing stealing our tax pair dollars collectively
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Speaker 1: billions and billions and billions of dollars through just a
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Speaker 1: handful of federal programs, of being exploited by it was
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Speaker 1: within the Somali community. No, it's not racist to me
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Speaker 1: to say that these are criminals within any broader set
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Speaker 1: of people and humanity, there is a subset that we
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Speaker 1: can be critical of without being called a racist. These
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Speaker 1: were people that were within the Somali community that figured
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Speaker 1: out how easy it was to rip us all off,
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Speaker 1: and they did on a massive, massive scale.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I would think that there was a component
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Speaker 2: of recognizing a certain voting block, and so if you
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Speaker 2: turn your head you can keep those votes coming for you.
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Speaker 1: You end up with an ilion omar.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, you mentioned that. I remember something happened
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Speaker 2: downtown years ago, probably thirty years ago, when I had
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Speaker 2: a practice downtown and there was a guy, apparently a
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Speaker 2: black man, was robbing a white man outside of like
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Speaker 2: RB's or something downtown, and a black man came to
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Speaker 2: the aid of the white guy who was being beaten,
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Speaker 2: and the black guy, the one who was doing the attacking, said, hey, brother,
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Speaker 2: what are you doing? You know? And he goes, he goes,
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Speaker 2: You're not my brother, You're a criminal.
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Speaker 1: There you are, thank you, right, illustrating my point with
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Speaker 1: the real life. Obviously not racist, No, it's not racist
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Speaker 1: to go after people who are committing crimes exactly white people,
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Speaker 1: black people, Asian people, doesn't matter. Stating the obvious. Okay,
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Speaker 1: so we've got massive fraud, Obviously there needs to be
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Speaker 1: a crackdown pivoting over in My favorite point to make
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Speaker 1: is in this huge country of ours, that's one city,
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Speaker 1: and pivot over to what they're just finding now out
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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles County with regard to the hospice care.
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Speaker 1: The number of hospice organizations balloon eighteen hundred percent a
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Speaker 1: matter of a few years, and of course been a
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Speaker 1: vehicle for fraud, waste, and abuse. Okay, one program in
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Speaker 1: one city. This has got to be going on all
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Speaker 1: over the place, depending on how closely are the alleged
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Speaker 1: overseers are supposed to be paying attention to this stuff.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I believe that these workarounds, if you will have
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Speaker 2: ways to milk the system develop because they just do it.
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Speaker 2: There's an opportunity and people take it and it's unfortunate
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Speaker 2: and they get away with it for a long time.
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Speaker 2: And that's one of the biggest concerns that we had
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Speaker 2: when it comes to fraud. And there is a component
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Speaker 2: of the government. This goes back to the Biden administration too,
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Speaker 2: where they are saying we are finally finally finding ways
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Speaker 2: to detect this fraud and get to it sooner. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: and they met with the doctor's caucus. But see, here's
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Speaker 2: where we want to.
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Speaker 1: Share records to help us get to the root of
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Speaker 1: the fraud.
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Speaker 2: Well, certain components of the government are and will tell you.
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Speaker 2: Most of this though that we're discovering is not happening
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Speaker 2: with the doctor in his practice. They're not the ones
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Speaker 2: committing medicaid usually. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, because
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Speaker 2: it does.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they had one doctor that was present at forty
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Speaker 1: five locations on one day. Well bad, No, he wasn't
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Speaker 1: built in the system. That's doctor winstru But that was.
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Speaker 2: Believe believe me, you take medicaid and you do it right,
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Speaker 2: you're doing it out of the goodness of your heart.
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Speaker 1: But see, artificial intelligence can find all of that. We
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Speaker 1: were doing that back in Anthem when I was there
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Speaker 1: twenty years ago with this stars program. They in fact
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Speaker 1: discovered one doctor build for the exact same service at
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Speaker 1: eight or ten locations in the state of ohioan one day,
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Speaker 1: and there's no way you could get to there. It's
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Speaker 1: this is something that's old school, we.
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Speaker 2: Don't even bother and those things should rise to the
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Speaker 2: surface quickly. It should be easy to detect. But what
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Speaker 2: I was going to say, Brian is a lot of
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Speaker 2: this comes in when there's like Medicaid approval for devices
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Speaker 2: or like you said, hospice, right, that's where a lot
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Speaker 2: of the money goes out. It's not necessarily in the
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Speaker 2: care that a doctor gives. It's associated with the care,
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Speaker 2: and that's where a lot of the abuse comes in.
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Speaker 2: At least that's what they were telling us. They reached
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Speaker 2: out to meet with the Doctor's Caucus. They wanted to
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Speaker 2: show that there was a component of the government that's
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Speaker 2: looking within this and trying to make it better for
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Speaker 2: the future. And I hope that we get that at
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Speaker 2: this time in our history because it's huge waste of
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Speaker 2: the taxpayer dollars and it's just so damaging to medicine
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Speaker 2: in general, especially to those that are trying to do
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Speaker 2: the right thing.
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Speaker 1: Amen to that, we'll continue with former Congressman Brad Weinstrup
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Speaker 1: after a word for a perfect timing on this twenty
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Speaker 1: two to three on Route forty seventy nine. If you've
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Speaker 1: got kar CD talk station Brian Thomas with former Congressman
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Speaker 1: retired colonel doctor defending the doctors. Of that last segment,
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Speaker 1: I caught that Weinstrup Brad Weinstrop in studio and source speak.
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Speaker 1: The doctor thing is critically important because, of course, one
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Speaker 1: of the problems we've got in America is the out
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Speaker 1: insane cost of medicine. Wasn't Obamacare supposed to solve this problem?
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Speaker 1: But look, the premiums have gone through the roof and
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Speaker 1: the out of pocket responsibility is ten thousand, five hundred dollars.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how you even call that insurance, but
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Speaker 1: that's a real problem. Donald Trump stepped up and suggested
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Speaker 1: this most Favored Nation status with pharmaceuticals, meaning we pay
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Speaker 1: the price the lowest price that any pharmaceutical company is
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Speaker 1: paying to the other countries in the world, which sounds
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Speaker 1: logical and reasonable. Although protectionist, it is not traditionally something
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Speaker 1: Republicans do, like price mandating, but of course it could
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Speaker 1: offer a solution for us, and there was a limited
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Speaker 1: number of pharmaceuticals on the list that have qualified for this.
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Speaker 1: It seems a step in the right direction to bring
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Speaker 1: some relief to American people in so far as pharmaceuticals.
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Speaker 1: What about the broader implications we have here?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you know, going to the you know what
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Speaker 2: other countries pay. Here's my take on it, Brian, is
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Speaker 2: it's an exploitation of the American people. That they've gotten
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Speaker 2: away with in many ways.
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Speaker 1: Well, it's an evil form of wealth redistribution. We pay
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Speaker 1: for everything, for all the research and development and everything
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Speaker 1: with the high cost we pay, which the pharmaceutical companies
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Speaker 1: then give to the rest of the world in the
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Speaker 1: form of far lower prices than we pay.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and to me, that's a problem because what it
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Speaker 2: shows me, and if you're in those countries, what it
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Speaker 2: says is they are not willing to pay more for
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Speaker 2: life saving drugs for their people unless, oh, they pay
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Speaker 2: less than the American people do.
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Speaker 1: It's sort of like NATO countries not having militaries because
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Speaker 1: we are providing the service to them.
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Speaker 2: Hmmm, you know that's an here. Yeah, that's a good analogy, Brian.
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Speaker 2: I think it really is is, well, let the American
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Speaker 2: people pay for it, because you know, when we are
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Speaker 2: paying for funding NATO basically more so than the others,
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Speaker 2: that's the American people.
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Speaker 1: But it doesn't give us a reciprocal benefit. We've got
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Speaker 1: a mutual defense agreement with a bunch of countries that
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Speaker 1: can't defend themselves. How good is it to be in
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Speaker 1: that agreement? What?
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Speaker 2: Well, I think that we see this administration trying to
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Speaker 2: change that. And I also hope that through what's going
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Speaker 2: on right now today and this willingness for Iran, So
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Speaker 2: it's not just Russia to be concerned about, it's it's Iran.
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Speaker 2: The willingness of Iran to be able to attack their
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Speaker 2: neighbors and do all these things, maybe we should be
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Speaker 2: able to defend ourselves a little bit better. The world
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Speaker 2: is more dangerous than a lot of people assumed, and
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Speaker 2: they assumed that they could rely on the American people.
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Speaker 2: But going back to the pharmaceuticals, if we can't, Wow,
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Speaker 2: that was yeah, it was But you know, you made
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Speaker 2: a good analogy there. In my mind, we have a problem.
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Speaker 2: It's a national security problem. I mean, we rely on China.
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Speaker 2: You have for the IPAs, the ingredients that go into
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Speaker 2: the drugs, the pharmaceutical ingredients, and the Chinese they control that.
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Speaker 2: And we have the capability here to make the ksms,
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Speaker 2: the key starting materials, and this is where we're going
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Speaker 2: as a nation, that we make them here. Those are
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Speaker 2: the starting materials to make the pharmaceutical ingredients that we
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Speaker 2: need for our drugs, so we can make our own
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Speaker 2: fentanyl precursors. Well, China's doing a good job with that
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Speaker 2: we don't have to worry about that. They covered death.
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Speaker 2: That's the point.
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Speaker 1: Though precursors are the key components to the larger fully
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Speaker 1: manufactured pharmaceutical We should be making all of that so
18:24
Speaker 1: we can have a supply of our own pharmaceuticals. If
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Speaker 1: for no other reason then our American military depends upon
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Speaker 1: China for pharmaceuticals.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, as I've said, I've said it on here many times.
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Speaker 2: If you'd have told me i was in Iraq that
18:34
Speaker 2: we got to the point that our military relied on
18:37
Speaker 2: China for the for the drugs we use on the battlefield,
18:41
Speaker 2: how did we let ourselves get here? But that's the
18:43
Speaker 2: situation we're in, and this administration is trying to, you know,
18:46
Speaker 2: bring that back. So let's let's get domestic. Let's have
18:49
Speaker 2: these capabilities to synthetically make the materials that we need,
18:53
Speaker 2: not rely on China. Because that's another thing. When when
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Speaker 2: President Trump goes to talk to President Chi about trade,
19:01
Speaker 2: President she knows he goes, hey, mister President, you can't
19:06
Speaker 2: make your own drugs. They're made here, right And not
19:09
Speaker 2: only that, there's the danger of sabotage and everything else
19:13
Speaker 2: that China can put into our drugs because they're made there.
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Speaker 2: The FDA is not over there each and every day
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Speaker 2: making sure that these things are done right now.
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Speaker 1: No, you might want to think about that when you're
19:21
Speaker 1: buying your imported seafood as well. Farm raised are not
19:24
Speaker 1: there studying and seeing if it's clean. We don't have
19:28
Speaker 1: any permanent presence there at food manufacturing facilities or in
19:33
Speaker 1: the pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities, which of course are far more
19:35
Speaker 1: important than the food. We have choices when it comes
19:37
Speaker 1: to food. We don't have choices when it comes to
19:39
Speaker 1: pharmaceuticals and their origin. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And the President was at Thermo Fisher here in since
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Speaker 2: the other day. That's in the vein that we are
19:46
Speaker 2: talking about what can we do on the domestic front
19:50
Speaker 2: to do more to bring this stuff home. And you
19:53
Speaker 2: know what, let's continue to be the country that is
19:56
Speaker 2: the innovator of treatments and cures. You know, I think
20:00
Speaker 2: one of the one of the most amazing ones in
20:03
Speaker 2: recent history is a cure for hepatitis C. Yeah, you know,
20:06
Speaker 2: and in Washington, when you the immediate response is what's
20:10
Speaker 2: that going to cost? Well, if it costs twenty five
20:13
Speaker 2: thousand dollars, I understand that's an expense. But do you
20:16
Speaker 2: know what a liver transplant costs? Do you know what
20:18
Speaker 2: repeated hospitalizations and missing work is for the American economy?
20:24
Speaker 2: When people with hepatitis CE become ill, it's a problem. Well,
20:28
Speaker 2: and then now we have a cure.
20:29
Speaker 1: Well, they don't see a word about costs when it
20:31
Speaker 1: comes to fentyl overdose is they just talk about the
20:32
Speaker 1: human carnage and hundreds of one hundred thousand people died.
20:35
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Oh my god. Let's throw all the
20:37
Speaker 1: resources in the world to the front lines on that
20:40
Speaker 1: and hand out needles and issue free narke. And they
20:41
Speaker 1: don't care about the expense of that. We have people
20:43
Speaker 1: dying a drug over This is something that is obviously preventable.
20:46
Speaker 1: Don't take drugs, correct, right, Yeah, solution. Look, I'm in
20:51
Speaker 1: a situation right now with my kids. It's like you
20:54
Speaker 1: don't take candy from somebody else, you don't take anything.
20:57
Speaker 2: You don't take pills from somebody else. I mean, no
21:00
Speaker 2: one's offering them pills at their age, fortunately, or you know,
21:03
Speaker 2: as far as I know, right, But they get it.
21:08
Speaker 2: And I've told my son, and you know, all you
21:12
Speaker 2: gotta do is visit a Morgue.
21:14
Speaker 1: Really that may be a good family weekend visit. Well,
21:18
Speaker 1: you know this that's like scared straight. You know, this
21:20
Speaker 1: is something that doctor Odell Owens. May he rest in peace.
21:24
Speaker 1: When he went brand for Corner, That's what he was
21:26
Speaker 1: telling me. He wanted to do. This is why I
21:28
Speaker 1: supported him. He said, I'm going to bring high school
21:30
Speaker 1: kids into Morgue. I want them to see it. And
21:33
Speaker 1: you know it's also the gang warfare, but the drugs.
21:36
Speaker 1: This is where you'll end up. You know, that's the
21:38
Speaker 1: second stop after you take them through the Justice Center.
21:41
Speaker 1: From the Justice Center over to the Morgue. From fifty
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Speaker 1: five care and see the talk station seven forty if
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Speaker 1: I have KRC the talk station, a very happy Friday
21:50
Speaker 1: to you former Congressman, retired colonel doctor and speaking of
21:55
Speaker 1: Catholic friends, they mentioned Gato having a congress a former
21:59
Speaker 1: congres and Brad weinsterorborin studio for a full hour here
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Speaker 1: really enjoying our conversation. And of course that trigger to
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Speaker 1: comment from you. When I mentioned Kate Heaven Cemetery.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mentioned that my wife and I have our
22:10
Speaker 2: plots out there already and they have a beautiful section
22:14
Speaker 2: for veterans, and that's that's what spurred us on. I
22:17
Speaker 2: gave a talk out there on Vietnam veterans, and it
22:20
Speaker 2: was held there at this beautiful site with all the
22:22
Speaker 2: military reverence present, and I was like, well, since my
22:26
Speaker 2: parents and grandparents and everybody else have their plots out here,
22:30
Speaker 2: why don't we go ahead and get that taken care
22:32
Speaker 2: of now.
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Speaker 1: I just wrote it's for Gate of Heaven, of course,
22:36
Speaker 1: since I speak on their behalf, and I'm happy to
22:37
Speaker 1: do it. I just wrote down they have an area
22:40
Speaker 1: dedicated for veterans on my notes, so I'm going to
22:42
Speaker 1: be sure and bring that up every time I mentioned
22:43
Speaker 1: them in a spot.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really it's really a beautiful spot. So I
22:47
Speaker 2: was please pleased to do that. But you know, you
22:53
Speaker 2: mentioned prayer during that commercial.
22:55
Speaker 1: Speaking of Catholic and prayer, we had a pope make
22:58
Speaker 1: a request in connect with the war, yeah, that it
23:02
Speaker 1: should engage in dialogue.
23:03
Speaker 2: I knew American pope you know, said, you know, it
23:07
Speaker 2: should be done through dialogue. That is the way. Well,
23:10
Speaker 2: that is a way, and that is certainly a way
23:13
Speaker 2: that has been tried, and we've been at this for
23:16
Speaker 2: forty some years. So maybe the dialogue needs to be
23:18
Speaker 2: more with God, because I can tell you that's one
23:21
Speaker 2: of the things that my family is doing is we
23:23
Speaker 2: are praying for our troops, we are praying for our country,
23:25
Speaker 2: and we're really praying for the world that we can
23:28
Speaker 2: eliminate this evil that has been here for so long.
23:31
Speaker 1: This goes back so deadly Bishop that you mentioned earlier
23:34
Speaker 1: in the Prare book from the nineteen fifties. You want
23:36
Speaker 1: to be the world a better place as a consequence
23:38
Speaker 1: of the war.
23:39
Speaker 2: That's the idea of war. And you know we we
23:44
Speaker 2: were then talking offline about how we were able to
23:48
Speaker 2: take out the leadership over in Iran so easily. Well,
23:55
Speaker 2: we were using dialogue. We were using dialogue with them,
23:58
Speaker 2: which was going nowhere.
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Speaker 1: Right, And don't forget we also used bribes. Barack Obama
24:03
Speaker 1: shipped them over billions of dollars in cash. Cash.
24:08
Speaker 2: You know, we've been doing this too long. You took
24:09
Speaker 2: the words out of my mouth again, you know, No,
24:12
Speaker 2: that's fine.
24:13
Speaker 1: The pallet I mean, if not a wire transfer, not
24:16
Speaker 1: going to a bank, which had been simple, they delivered
24:19
Speaker 1: palettes of cash.
24:21
Speaker 2: Yes, and that was their form of dialogue also with cash,
24:24
Speaker 2: and I really think that over time, especially in that situation,
24:28
Speaker 2: I think this was a president that was hoping that
24:30
Speaker 2: any type of problem, them getting nuclear whatever. They were
24:34
Speaker 2: even saying, we're just trying, We're just putting it off
24:36
Speaker 2: for a while. What are you putting it off until
24:38
Speaker 2: your term is done to make somebody else's problem? And
24:41
Speaker 2: today I think that this the Trump administration. Donald Trump
24:44
Speaker 2: is saying, I don't want this to be the next
24:46
Speaker 2: president's problem. This is now going to be something that
24:49
Speaker 2: we we want to we want to settle. But you know,
24:52
Speaker 2: we took out, we took out their leadership with the
24:56
Speaker 2: dialogue we were trying. We we've feigned that we were continuing.
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Speaker 1: Dialogue, didn't stop the nuclear development that they were still
25:03
Speaker 1: engaging in in spite of the prior agreement we had
25:06
Speaker 1: reached for them. Right, And because Maureen's listening, I'm gonna say,
25:09
Speaker 1: maybe he was actually wanted the caliphate to be formed. Brock,
25:12
Speaker 1: going back to your comment about black Obama as opposed
25:14
Speaker 1: to just, you know, let him get through his first term.
25:16
Speaker 1: There you go, Marine, I said it out loud.
25:17
Speaker 2: Yeah, And certainly that may be on it.
25:20
Speaker 1: It could have been on his mind.
25:22
Speaker 2: I don't know a lot of people on, yeah, he's
25:25
Speaker 2: gone and we're moving on. But we took out all
25:28
Speaker 2: those leaders and one day because they thought we were
25:31
Speaker 2: still having dialogue, and which was unbelievable that they, hey,
25:35
Speaker 2: we're going to get together at the same place at
25:37
Speaker 2: the same time. This is a concern I always had
25:41
Speaker 2: with things like the State of the Union address for us,
25:44
Speaker 2: for you know, everyone knows when this is taking place,
25:47
Speaker 2: and we have virtually our entire government there in this
25:52
Speaker 2: situation that that's that seems to me to be dangerous.
25:55
Speaker 2: And how do we have continuity of government? You know
25:57
Speaker 2: in the Senate. In the Senate, if a senator dies
26:03
Speaker 2: or is killed, right, they can be replaced by the
26:06
Speaker 2: governor immediately immediately. Not so in the House. You wait
26:11
Speaker 2: for the next election.
26:13
Speaker 1: So there's the gunfire that you experienced when they in
26:16
Speaker 1: that Paris unleashed fire on all of the Republican members
26:19
Speaker 1: of Congress. If they had all been eradicated, the Democrats
26:22
Speaker 1: would have hit full control until special elections had been
26:25
Speaker 1: held and we elected replacements for the slaughtered members of
26:28
Speaker 1: the Republican Party. That's the creepy, crazy thing.
26:30
Speaker 2: I pointed out to the Democrats more than once that
26:33
Speaker 2: was an insurrection, amen, and you didn't want to call
26:35
Speaker 2: that an insurrection.
26:36
Speaker 1: I had a list of targets planned ahead of time.
26:39
Speaker 1: So what this bill does. And it was a Democrat
26:42
Speaker 1: from Washington. It came to me and said we should
26:45
Speaker 1: do something about this.
26:47
Speaker 2: And you mentioned the baseball field, so did he. He said,
26:50
Speaker 2: you lived through a potential problem like this. So the
26:54
Speaker 2: idea on our bill is, and it's still hanging out there,
26:58
Speaker 2: is that if you get elected to Congress, you set
27:01
Speaker 2: aside five names of people to replace you, and if
27:04
Speaker 2: you are killed or die while you're in office, then
27:08
Speaker 2: the governor can pick one of those people to take
27:10
Speaker 2: your place, keeping the continuity of government in place. Plus, also,
27:14
Speaker 2: if you're in the majority, you still maintain the majority.
27:18
Speaker 2: It doesn't mean you get to hold that seat. You
27:21
Speaker 2: only hold it until there is a special election. And
27:25
Speaker 2: you can run for that seat, sure, but you hold
27:28
Speaker 2: it until there is a special election. And you know,
27:31
Speaker 2: this was a bipartisan idea, and I think it's a
27:34
Speaker 2: good one, and I still think that the House needs
27:36
Speaker 2: to act on it because that is a threat and
27:40
Speaker 2: it is and we drop the bill on the day
27:42
Speaker 2: of the State of the Union intentionally why we still
27:45
Speaker 2: in Congress.
27:46
Speaker 1: Well, I would get around that one all day long,
27:48
Speaker 1: because you know, it's not difficult to envision the cold,
27:52
Speaker 1: harsh reality that, yeah, a bomb could be dropped on
27:55
Speaker 1: any one of the meetings where they are gathering together,
27:58
Speaker 1: and that would knock us back on our heels for
27:59
Speaker 1: god knows how long. Simple solution too, and it's an
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Speaker 1: outstanding idea, bipartisanship. One more with former Congressman Brad Winster. First,
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Speaker 1: a word for color happy Friday. One more here with
28:11
Speaker 1: season Citizen Former Congressman Brad Winster. Get in your resume
28:14
Speaker 1: all day long, but we use up the rest of
28:15
Speaker 1: the time, and where we're going to pivot over to
28:17
Speaker 1: in our remaining moments of time.
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Speaker 2: Congressman, Well, you know, I'm feeling pretty patriotic this morning.
28:23
Speaker 2: You know, as a member of the military, form a
28:25
Speaker 2: member retired, still engaged in a lot of ways through
28:30
Speaker 2: my role on the Advisory Board Intelligence Advisory Board. I
28:35
Speaker 2: just I'm so proud of our military and the things
28:38
Speaker 2: that they've been carrying out in this last year.
28:41
Speaker 1: You know, I mean, say what you want about it.
28:43
Speaker 1: The predicate for whatever that even as well and raid was.
28:46
Speaker 2: Amazing totally amazing, right and zip in, zip out like
28:51
Speaker 2: going to Wisconsin exactly. Actually it might have been tougher
28:55
Speaker 2: in Wisconsin.
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Speaker 1: That will be a reference to strike for those out
28:58
Speaker 1: they're too young to remember having seen the movie.
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Speaker 2: Love the movie. I always say it from that movie
29:06
Speaker 2: because my father's German and Irish, my mom's all Italian.
29:11
Speaker 2: Line from Stripes we get kicked out of every decent
29:14
Speaker 2: country in the world anyway, you know, I just I'm
29:20
Speaker 2: feeling pretty patriotic about the work that's being done, and
29:22
Speaker 2: we really need to keep our troops in mind. And
29:24
Speaker 2: I don't care what side of the aisle you're on.
29:26
Speaker 2: If you can't do that, then you have a problem
29:29
Speaker 2: because they're doing what they've been asked to do and
29:31
Speaker 2: they're doing it really with such precision. And war is difficult,
29:37
Speaker 2: and you know, I want to play respects to those
29:41
Speaker 2: that have lost their life, not only in our military,
29:45
Speaker 2: but now as you're seeing a Ran just launching missiles
29:48
Speaker 2: at other countries, you know people around the world that
29:51
Speaker 2: are innocently being killed, people that had nothing to do
29:53
Speaker 2: with this skirmish except quietly cheering us on to try
29:58
Speaker 2: and change this evil that's a existed but when I
30:01
Speaker 2: think about our military, Brian, there's a line that I've
30:03
Speaker 2: used in many talks and something that I wrote when
30:07
Speaker 2: I've got a tribute to the flag. One time I said,
30:11
Speaker 2: you know, evildoers fear her and those in need pray
30:16
Speaker 2: for her arrival. And I really think that that's something
30:19
Speaker 2: that we are doing right now. We're addressing the evil
30:22
Speaker 2: doers in the world, and those in need have prayed
30:26
Speaker 2: for this arrival for quite some time.
30:29
Speaker 1: And let us remind as we started out talking about it,
30:31
Speaker 1: the UN resolution passed overwhelming one hundred percent no votes.
30:36
Speaker 1: A couple of extempsons from the obvious China and Russia
30:38
Speaker 1: who could have vetoted it. That's the world telling Iran,
30:42
Speaker 1: I think it's over when you, I mean, can you.
30:45
Speaker 1: I don't want to go too far my assessment of
30:46
Speaker 1: that resolution, but they all correctively condemned Iran no reference
30:52
Speaker 1: to Israel.
30:54
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, this should really bring focus to
30:58
Speaker 2: the American people and people around the world about what
31:02
Speaker 2: can be good in the world and what is evil
31:05
Speaker 2: in the world. And we have our fights within. Let's
31:08
Speaker 2: keep them to policy, okay, Let's not keep them to
31:11
Speaker 2: the values that America should stand for. And you know,
31:14
Speaker 2: and everything I say in speeches a lot, especially when
31:16
Speaker 2: I'm talking about service, and sometimes I combine faith with service. Obviously,
31:23
Speaker 2: I say, you know, even if you have no faith,
31:25
Speaker 2: none of us are getting out of here alive. Why
31:27
Speaker 2: don't you do some good things while you're here?
31:29
Speaker 1: Life is heaven if you choose to make it so
31:32
Speaker 1: right or it could be helped. It's your of your
31:33
Speaker 1: own doing. That's my Dostoevsky quote. I always default to.
31:37
Speaker 1: You may not know what's coming after. Why not take
31:40
Speaker 1: the time to be a decent, beautiful, wonderful, happy human
31:43
Speaker 1: being making your life heavenly while you are living it.
31:48
Speaker 2: It's so much easier to go that way. I know
31:50
Speaker 2: before I went to a rack of precid to me,
31:52
Speaker 2: just go with God, and I'll tell you that removed
31:55
Speaker 2: a lot of my anxiety. I carried that into Congress too.
31:58
Speaker 2: I have to tell you, it's like I gotta let
32:00
Speaker 2: some things just bounce off my shoulder and drive forward
32:04
Speaker 2: and keep trying to do the right thing.
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Speaker 1: No atheist in a foxhole, that's right. Maybe some agnostics,
32:10
Speaker 1: but they haven't given up completely on the concept of
32:12
Speaker 1: God's Congressman former Congressman Windsor, Thank you for your service
32:16
Speaker 1: for our country, and your continued service and your willingness
32:19
Speaker 1: to come in here and talk about these critically important
32:20
Speaker 1: issues that you still have so much knowledge about. I
32:23
Speaker 1: appreciate your insights and your thoughts, and I appreciate your friendship. Brother.
32:27
Speaker 1: Wish you all the best in your life and best
32:28
Speaker 1: of health and love to you and your family. Man
32:30
Speaker 1: you too, Brian be Well, Thank you very much. Coming
32:33
Speaker 1: up next, the Return. It's been a while. Robert Sprague.
32:35
Speaker 1: He's running for Secretary of State. He's going to come
32:37
Speaker 1: on the morning show. Coming up next Cutter for a
32:38
Speaker 1: long segment, followed by Jack Windsor, editor in chief of
32:41
Speaker 1: the how Press Network, who will be talking about at
32:43
Speaker 1: least in part. It's on his website, Bigfoot. Seriously, we