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Dan Carroll in for Brian Thomas · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Fifty five KRC the top station Wednesday morning. It is
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  Speaker 1: May thirteenth, which I realized just a little while ago.
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  Speaker 1: Joe Strecker is five to one three day. Right, May
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  Speaker 1: is the fifth month and today is the thirteenth, so
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  Speaker 1: today is five to one three. So there you go,
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  Speaker 1: and we are in the five one three Cincinnati Cincinnati area.
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  Speaker 1: How how far out does the five to one three
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  Speaker 1: area code go? I wonder, I wonder if if all
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  Speaker 1: that has changed with the because you know, everyone has
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  Speaker 1: cell phones now. Joe, do you used to have a landline? No,
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  Speaker 1: I don't have I haven't had a landline for I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how long. But it's Stan Carroll once again
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  Speaker 1: for Brian Thomas. Joe. Do we expect Brian to be
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  Speaker 1: back in the seat tomorrow morning? That is what we
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  Speaker 1: are told that Brian Thomas will be back tomorrow, so
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  Speaker 1: we are all looking forward to that. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: stuff going on today. I want to thank Joe for
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  Speaker 1: a lining up all the guests today. We've got. Of
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  Speaker 1: course Jack Atherton, my old pal from my Fox nineteen days,
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  Speaker 1: will be here with the Big Picture and he's going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about this one is entitled Iran and Never Land, Iran,
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  Speaker 1: and never Land. I can't wait to see how he
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  Speaker 1: connects those dots because in the in only the way
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  Speaker 1: that Jack Atherton can do it. Will he do that?
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  Speaker 1: Then Donovan O'Neill, who's a regular guest here on the
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  Speaker 1: fifty five KORC Morning Show, senior advisor with Americans for
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  Speaker 1: Prosperity Prosperity Action in Ohio, will talk about budget discipline
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  Speaker 1: here in Ohio and they've got they're they're calling for,
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  Speaker 1: I think, really some sensible ideas as far as that go.
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  Speaker 1: And then Congressman Massey is going to be here at
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  Speaker 1: eight o five this morning and we'll talk about some
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  Speaker 1: issues with him. And until then, you know, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: prepare for these shows. I got a lot of stuff
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  Speaker 1: that I don't get to during the day, so I
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  Speaker 1: was getting ready for the show last night. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there's a ton of new stuff that I want to
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  Speaker 1: get to, including some audio from the hearings that were
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  Speaker 1: going on on Capitol Hill yesterday. And Cash Patel was
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  Speaker 1: just on fire. And Cash Patel doesn't take any crap
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  Speaker 1: at all from these disgraceful members of Congress, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and they and they get these members of the Trump
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  Speaker 1: administration in front of them, and all they try to
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  Speaker 1: do is make them look bad. Throw out whatever accusation
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  Speaker 1: is written up in the Hill or on the Daily
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  Speaker 1: Coast or any left wing rag that they can find,
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  Speaker 1: and they throw out all these accusations. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: they accuse cash Pattel of being and I think The
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  Speaker 1: Atlantic did a big story on cash Battel having all
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  Speaker 1: these drinking problems, that his staff can't rely on him,
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  Speaker 1: that he won't answer the phone in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the night, all that kind of crap. They just throw
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  Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff out there when they have
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  Speaker 1: these hearings, and cash Battel just fires right back them.
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  Speaker 1: So we've got a little bit of that this morning.
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  Speaker 1: What else, Something weird happened, Joe. This something really weird
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  Speaker 1: happened to me this morning. I have for many years
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  Speaker 1: been in the habit of when I get in the car,
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  Speaker 1: either when I'm driving or I'm a passenger, the first
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  Speaker 1: thing I do is I put my seatbelt on. It
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  Speaker 1: is just force of habit. And I got I got
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  Speaker 1: into the habit. And I can't tell you how many
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  Speaker 1: years ago my dad used to drive around back when
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  Speaker 1: we were kids. And this is back when Joe, are
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  Speaker 1: you old enough to remember the old dashboards on the
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  Speaker 1: cars that were made of steal and they'd sit out
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  Speaker 1: in the sun and if you touch them, they they
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  Speaker 1: would they would leave a second degree burn on your hand.
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  Speaker 1: They are unbelievably hot. But my dad used to drive.
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  Speaker 1: My dad never wore a seatbelt. But I got in
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  Speaker 1: the habit and and this doesn't have anything to do with,
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  Speaker 1: you know, what my dad did or didn't do. And
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  Speaker 1: it didn't have anything to do with me being an
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  Speaker 1: accident anything like that. It's just I just got in
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  Speaker 1: the habit many many, many years ago of putting my
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  Speaker 1: seatbelt on. Whether I'm a driver or passenger. Typically, if
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  Speaker 1: I sit in the back seat of a car, I
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  Speaker 1: guess I don't put my seatbelt on. I was right
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  Speaker 1: in the backseat of the car. We had a little
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  Speaker 1: road trip last week down to down to Hilton Head
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  Speaker 1: and for part of that trip, I sat in the
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  Speaker 1: back seat and I just plopped my plopped myself down
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  Speaker 1: and was enjoying the comfort stretching out in the back seat.
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  Speaker 1: But in any case, so it's weird for me not
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  Speaker 1: to have my seatbelt on. And I'm driving here this morning,
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  Speaker 1: and I get about halfway here, and I noticed a
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  Speaker 1: red light that is lit up on my on my dashboard,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm thinking to myself, what the heck is that?
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  Speaker 1: And I squint my eyes and I looked a little closer,
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  Speaker 1: and it's the it's the the light that tells you
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  Speaker 1: that you don't have your seat belt on. I guess,
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  Speaker 1: I guess I'm lucky. I don't have one of those.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if you don't have your seatbelt on your
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  Speaker 1: you get that right, you get the ding ding ding thing.
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  Speaker 1: My wife's car has that, annoying as can be. But
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  Speaker 1: my car just said it has a light that lights.
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  Speaker 2: Up and.
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  Speaker 1: Lets you know your seatbelt's not on it. And I thought, man,
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  Speaker 1: that is weird. I've never seen that light before in
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  Speaker 1: my car because I always had my seatbedal. So I
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  Speaker 1: drove about halfway here this morning, realized that no seatbettal.
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  Speaker 1: And it's raining outside, not a heavy rain, I'd call
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  Speaker 1: it a light rain. And that rain should be moving
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  Speaker 1: out before too long this morning, so we'll have a
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  Speaker 1: complete forecast coming up. But I this is one of
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  Speaker 1: those weird things. Saw that red light this morning. I
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  Speaker 1: don't I have my seatbedal, and I don't know why.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I ride my motorcycle, I don't always wear
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  Speaker 1: a helmet, but I always put my seatbot on. But
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  Speaker 1: that is was not the case this morning. One of
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  Speaker 1: the things, what is it with Democrats and Chinese spies?
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  Speaker 1: I did not I had the story earlier this week,
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  Speaker 1: but I did not have a chance to get to it.
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  Speaker 1: Was this mayor in California, Aileen Wang. She was accused
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  Speaker 1: of being a China spy. And that was on Monday.
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  Speaker 1: Today is Wednesday, and now she has admitted to being
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  Speaker 1: a Chinese spy. California mayor admits to acting The New
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  Speaker 1: York Post as a story, electing acting as an illegal
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  Speaker 1: agent an illegal foreign agent for China, resigning from her
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  Speaker 1: position in a plea deal that was unsealed this week,
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  Speaker 1: Eileen Wang, Democrat, agreed with prosecutors that she worked with
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  Speaker 1: the People's Republic of China to boost propaganda with a
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  Speaker 1: fake news website on US soil between twenty twenty and
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. She was elected to the city council
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  Speaker 1: in Arcadia, a city in the San Gabriel Valley within
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles County, in November of twenty twenty two, Wang,
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  Speaker 1: who has fifty eight, worked with her then fiance I'll
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  Speaker 1: call him Mike on a website called US News, which
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  Speaker 1: claimed to be a news source for Chinese Americans according
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  Speaker 1: to court documents, but in reality the pair were carrying
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  Speaker 1: out Beijing's orders. Through the site. Wang and Sun executed
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  Speaker 1: directors from the Chinese government, posting propaganda designed to boost China,
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  Speaker 1: all while reporting back to their masters with screenshots showing
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  Speaker 1: how many people viewed the stories, according to the plea agreement.
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  Speaker 1: And so I think about this, and I think of
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  Speaker 1: all the conversations I've had with Dave Hatter over the year.
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  Speaker 1: If you're going to set up a website and you're
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  Speaker 1: going to perpetrate propaganda, I guess for consumption by the
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  Speaker 1: American people, Why do you actually need operatives in the
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  Speaker 1: United States. Can't you do that from China? I would
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  Speaker 1: think you could. In one case, when Ing spymaster ordered
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  Speaker 1: her to post pre written news articles, including a PRC
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  Speaker 1: official written essay in the Los Angeles Times, there is
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  Speaker 1: no genocide in xing Xiang. There is no such thing
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  Speaker 1: as forced labor in any production activity, including cotton products.
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  Speaker 1: Spreading such rumors as to defame China destroyed Xingxiang's safety
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  Speaker 1: and stability, wrote Wang's master. According to the plea agreement,
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  Speaker 1: Wang complied and her handler wrote back, so fast, thank
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  Speaker 1: you everyone. In another case, Wang's PRC boss commented on
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  Speaker 1: her page on her page views received by a certain
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  Speaker 1: piece of propaganda, wrote back, thank you leader. So this
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  Speaker 1: gal who was the mayor of this town has now
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  Speaker 1: pleaded guilty to being a Chinese operative right here in
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  Speaker 1: the United States. And so this appears to be part
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  Speaker 1: of a pattern. I mean, we had Eric Swalwell, who
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  Speaker 1: was first you know, hooked up with Fang Fang Chinese spy.
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  Speaker 1: That was when he was a city council member in California.
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  Speaker 1: And then we had Dianne Feinstein, remember that one Joe
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  Speaker 1: She had apparently a driver for many years who was
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  Speaker 1: a Chinese operative. So to my way of thinking, this
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  Speaker 1: is something that needs to be investigated in a serious way.
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  Speaker 1: Chinese operatives working with city council members throughout the United States.
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  Speaker 1: Who would be the most likely city council member on
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  Speaker 1: Cincinnati City Council to be a Chinese operative? Any members
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  Speaker 1: of city Council listening right now if you want to
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  Speaker 1: come clean on that now, the phone lines are open
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  Speaker 1: at five one three, seven four nine fifty five hundred
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  Speaker 1: if you would like to admit to being a Chinese spy.
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  Speaker 1: Five sixteen, Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas on fifty five KRC,
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  Speaker 1: the talk station, fifty five krs. Oh, let me dial
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  Speaker 1: this up right here. It is sixty three at fifty
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  Speaker 1: five KRC, the talk station. One more morning, Dan Carroll,
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  Speaker 1: and for Brian Thomas. Brian Thomas back tomorrow. And we
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  Speaker 1: got a caller earlier this morning, five one three, seven
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  Speaker 1: four nine fifty five hundred. And this this is Jeff. Jeff,
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  Speaker 1: how are you doing this morning?
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  Speaker 2: Oh goodness, happy hump day.
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  Speaker 1: Hump day today is five one three day? How about that?
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  Speaker 2: Hey?
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  Speaker 3: Coincidence?
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  Speaker 1: Five to one three? Here you go.
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  Speaker 2: Not sure what's scarier lately?
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  Speaker 3: A cruise ships, b foucaus, square s, congress or.
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  Speaker 2: T all of the above?
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  Speaker 1: All the above? I do I do not want I
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  Speaker 1: do not want to go on a cruise and I
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  Speaker 1: haven't wanted to go on a cruise for as long
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  Speaker 1: as I can remember. And when I see stuff like
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  Speaker 1: the look, I know it's rare, But how many times
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  Speaker 1: do we hear stories like this of cruise ship passengers
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  Speaker 1: being stranded on board, some kind of sickness, some kind
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  Speaker 1: of virus going on. I don't like that stuff. I
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  Speaker 1: don't like being I don't like being stuck on.
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  Speaker 2: That doctor Fauci two point zero.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I got no use for Fauci. And why isn't
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  Speaker 1: he being prosecuted?
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  Speaker 2: Good question?
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  Speaker 1: How come? How come he's not facing any any legal charges?
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  Speaker 1: And we and we saw and I remember when I
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  Speaker 1: had brad I was in this studio and brad Winstrop
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  Speaker 1: had just released his report, you know, from the committee
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  Speaker 1: that he had looking into the Wuhan all that time.
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  Speaker 1: And we sat right here and we talked about how
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  Speaker 1: Fauci and his buddy who just got indicted were writing
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  Speaker 1: those emails with full knowledge that they were either at
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  Speaker 1: best skirting the law and at worst fragrant fragrantly flagrantly
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  Speaker 1: breaking the law. But the the and they were writing
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  Speaker 1: the emails in such a way that they were they
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  Speaker 1: they were trying, you know, they knew that if they
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  Speaker 1: got caught that hopefully they would they would avoid these things.
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  Speaker 1: So it seems to me that there's there's little or
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  Speaker 1: no question that Fauci was involved in misdeeds things that
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  Speaker 1: are probably illegal, and why he isn't being prosecuted is
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  Speaker 1: beyond them, all right, Jeff, I appreciate the call this morning,
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  Speaker 1: and sounded like he might have been making some toasters.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on there. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how I missed this yesterday. But I got out of
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  Speaker 1: here yesterday and I'm heading home. Well, actually I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: head to I had some other things I had to do.
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  Speaker 1: I had Glenn beck On in the car and he
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  Speaker 1: starts talking about this survey that has come out, talking
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  Speaker 1: about how one in three Democrats I think the assassination
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  Speaker 1: attempts against Trump were staged. A new survey by NewsGuard
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  Speaker 1: finds that it's mostly Democrats who are engaging this in fact,
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  Speaker 1: in fact, up to two thirds of Democrats now embraced
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  Speaker 1: this particular theory about the shooting at the White House
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  Speaker 1: Correspondence dinner. About one in four Americans think the April
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  Speaker 1: shooting at the White House Correspondence Center was staged, with
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  Speaker 1: a marked partisan divide, according to the survey published on Monday.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know how I missed that on Monday
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  Speaker 1: and didn't have it yesterday. Roughly one in three Democrat
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  Speaker 1: respondents say they believe the event was staged, compared with
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  Speaker 1: about one in eight Republicans. I wonder how Thomas Massey
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  Speaker 1: feels about this. I might bring this up to him
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  Speaker 1: when we have him on later today. According to a
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  Speaker 1: survey a company that rates the reliability of online news outlets,
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  Speaker 1: respondence between the ages of eighteen and twenty nine were
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  Speaker 1: also more likely than older people. Do you think the
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  Speaker 1: incident was staged? There is zero evidence of any of
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  Speaker 1: the three assassination attempts were faked. He had a slight
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  Speaker 1: majority of people in each survey says each of the
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  Speaker 1: three assassination attempts was either fake or they're unsure. So
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  Speaker 1: I look at this and the fifty three percent believe
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  Speaker 1: the Butler shooting was either faked or they are unsure,
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  Speaker 1: compared to forty seven percent who agreed that it was real.
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  Speaker 1: And I remember it was Joy Reid who was the
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  Speaker 1: first one I saw, and she and by this time
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  Speaker 1: she was already I believe she was already gone from
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  Speaker 1: or no one. I can't remember, Joe, Joe, can you remember?
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  Speaker 1: Was Joy Reid already gone from MSNBC when the Butler
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  Speaker 1: assassination happened? But she was probably the first one I saw.
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  Speaker 1: Whether or not she was working for MSNBC at time
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter, but she was one of the first ones
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  Speaker 1: to suggest that what happened in Butler was a ruse,
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  Speaker 1: was a fault. And I'm thinking to myself, a guy
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  Speaker 1: died in that trying to protect his family. Corey kop
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  Speaker 1: a Tory firefighter, heard the gunshot, dove on top of
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  Speaker 1: his wife and his daughter and took a bullet for
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  Speaker 1: them and lost his life. And yet there are people
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  Speaker 1: out there who think that this was fake, that it
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  Speaker 1: was stage, that it was that it was a ruse
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  Speaker 1: to help Trump get reelected. So I'm gonna we gotta
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  Speaker 1: get to a break. I'm going to get into this
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more a little bit later on. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is it's a serious sickness if if
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  Speaker 1: you believe it that these things were faked, absolutely unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: Five twenty six, fifty five KRCD Talk Station is your
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  Speaker 1: retirement fifty five KRCD talk station thanks to Joe Strecker.
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  Speaker 1: I've got some local news here in front of me,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll start off with this one. Andy Wilson, the
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  Speaker 1: new Attorney General. You may have heard about that yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Dave Yost, of course, leaving office seven months early take
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  Speaker 1: a job at a nonprofit Christian legal advocacy group. So
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  Speaker 1: Andy Wilson has been chosen by Mike DeWine to take
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  Speaker 1: the place of David Yost. Wilson began his legal career
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two as an assistant prosecutor in Clark County,
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  Speaker 1: specializing in crimes against children. Served in the Ohio National Guard.
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  Speaker 1: Later it appointed to and then elected as Clark County Prosecutor.
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  Speaker 1: He joined the Thewine administration in twenty nineteen as a special
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  Speaker 1: advisor for criminal justice issues. Wilson was a star prosecutor
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  Speaker 1: in the fall of twenty twenty two the Pike County
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  Speaker 1: massacre trial of George Wagner, the fourth of Public Safety
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  Speaker 1: Director or as Public Safety Director, Wilson was on the
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  Speaker 1: ground in the hours after the East Palestine trained around it,
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  Speaker 1: helping the highway patrol evacuate residents. Wilson has an undergraduate
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  Speaker 1: from Wright State jurisd doctorate from the University of Dayton,
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  Speaker 1: and that's about it. So we'll see what kind of
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  Speaker 1: job this guy does as Attorney General. I would say
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  Speaker 1: he's got a few issues on his plate that need
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  Speaker 1: to be looked at. Approximately a thousand parking spaces near
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  Speaker 1: pay Course Stadium have closed because of the Brent Spence
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  Speaker 1: Bridge Corridor project. Do we have to Are we going
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  Speaker 1: to have to spend the next Joe, what's a completion
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  Speaker 1: date on this, like twenty thirty two or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: Are we gonna spend the entire time calling this the
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  Speaker 1: Brent Spence Bridge Quarter Project. Do we have a shortened
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  Speaker 1: name for that yet? The BS Bridge, the new bs Bridge,
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  Speaker 1: the BSBCP, something like that. That just doesn't really it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't really rule. I can't. I cannot sit here and
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  Speaker 1: then look, God will and I'll be here for the
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  Speaker 1: next four or five years doing radio here on fifty
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  Speaker 1: five KRC and seven hundred WLW. But I cannot spend
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  Speaker 1: the next four or five years calling this the Brent
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  Speaker 1: Spence Bridge Quarter Project. I can't do it. Well, they
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  Speaker 1: got to come up with There's there's got to be
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  Speaker 1: some kind of catchy, snappy nickname for the new bridge
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  Speaker 1: that is going in. So if you've got any ideas
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  Speaker 1: on that, send them to me. Maybe I'll be looking
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  Speaker 1: on Maybe the Inquirer should have a contest that. Now.
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  Speaker 1: You know what, if the Inquirer has a contest, they'll
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  Speaker 1: they'll come up with something stupid, something that might even
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  Speaker 1: be worse than than what this is called. Yeah, but
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  Speaker 1: the the Brent Spence Bridge Quarter project just does not
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  Speaker 1: roll off or roll off the tongue very easily. The closure,
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  Speaker 1: the loss of a thousand parking spaces will impact Bengals
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  Speaker 1: and Reds other riverfront events. Some lots remain closed until
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  Speaker 1: twenty thirty three. So there you go. That partially answers
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  Speaker 1: my question. The affected lots are popular for tailgating for
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  Speaker 1: Bengals games, raising concerns about the game day experience. You know,
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  Speaker 1: if I was the mayor, I would get out front
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  Speaker 1: on this and I would go out of my way
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  Speaker 1: to open up spaces, find and maybe is shut down
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  Speaker 1: a street, find some way to accommodate people who want
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  Speaker 1: to go to Bengals games and want to have tailgate parties.
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  Speaker 1: I would be that that would be one of my
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  Speaker 1: one of my main missions, figure out a way. I'd
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  Speaker 1: call in some people and I say, look, I'd be
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  Speaker 1: showing in this article right here, we gotta we gotta
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  Speaker 1: find a way to allow Bengals fans to have tailgate parties,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: because when Bengals season rolls around, and if people are
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: able to have have easy access to tailgate parties, that's
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: going to be a great thing that will accrue to
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  Speaker 1: his great benefit. So there you go, mister Mayor, get
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: out front on this and let's uh, you know, maybe
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: maybe open up some space that usually isn't open for parking,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: figure out figure out that there. I think. I think
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: there's plenty of nooks and crannies down there in that
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  Speaker 1: whole area surrounding pay Course Stadium where you can allow
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: for some tailgating. You do that and you're gonna win
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  Speaker 1: a whole lot of new friends, just my thought. So
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: those lots are going to be closed until twenty thirty three,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: but get out there, and this is only the beginning
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: of what is going to be major traffic nightmares for
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: as long as this part. But Joe, are you making
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: plans now to try and stay away from the whole
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  Speaker 1: downtown brent S Bence area. He doesn't go there now,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, I'm going to do everything I can to
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  Speaker 1: to stay away from that area. Five thirty six Dan
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  Speaker 1: Carroll for Brian Thomas fifty five k r CV Talk
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  Speaker 1: station Hello, I'm a Robert Schmichel find forty. On this
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday morning Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas. I was looking
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  Speaker 1: at the story about these the assassination attempts on President
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Trump and what the American people think about that. I
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: found a link to the actual piece on NewsGuard and
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Joe are you are you familiar with newsguardrealitycheck dot com. Look,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of different websites I look at when
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: I get ready for these shows, and I've got a
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: pretty good sense of which websites are are are reliable?
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Which ones are you know, you gotta take with a
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: grain of salt, or you gotta look a little bit
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: further and cooberate whatever they write about. I have to
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: admit I am not familiar with this website called NewsGuard,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: but a lot of other sites that I trust that
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: I look at have picked up on this story, which
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: leads me to the belief that this is And I'll
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: do my own research on this later to I don't
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: have time to do it during the show, but I'll
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: do my own research on this later today. And there's
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: some places you can go to look up and see
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: how actually reliable these websites are. But yeah, the NewsGuard
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: is the one that has the that has the survey,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: and here's what they write. Nearly a third of Americans
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  Speaker 1: believe that at least one of the three attempts on
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  Speaker 1: President Trump's life over the last two years was staged.
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  Speaker 1: According to a NewsGuard you gov poll, for each assassination attempt,
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  Speaker 1: a majority of Americans said that either it was staged
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  Speaker 1: or they were not sure, averaging fifty four percent across
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  Speaker 1: all three. Only thirty eight percent of Americans believed that
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  Speaker 1: all three assassination attempts were authentic. National survey one thousand
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Americans conducted by you gov on behalf of NewsGuard asked
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  Speaker 1: respondents whether they believe any of the three attempts on
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  Speaker 1: Trump's life at the July twenty twenty four campaign rally
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  Speaker 1: in Butler, Pennsylvania at the West Palm Beach Golf Course
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  Speaker 1: at the White House correspondence dinner was staged. Respondents indicated
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  Speaker 1: whether they thought the statement that the assassination attempt was
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: stage was either true or false, or they were not sure,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: so they were only given those possible responses. In fact,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: there is no evidence that any of the attempt at
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: assassinations of Trump were stage authorities say the alleged perpetrators
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  Speaker 1: in every incident acted alone and had no known connection
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: to the Trump administration. The contention that all three events
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  Speaker 1: may have been staged correlate strongly with party identification. Across
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  Speaker 1: all three events, Democrats were far more likely than Republicans
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  Speaker 1: to endorse the staged framing. In total, twenty percent of
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Democrat respondents responded that they thought all three events were staged,
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  Speaker 1: as did eleven percent of Independence three percent of Republicans,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: which even at three percent, I guess there's always going
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: to be some Republicans who fall for this kind of stuff.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: But three percent of Republicans believe that all three events
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  Speaker 1: were staged. Let's see, Of the twelve percent of Americans
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  Speaker 1: who at all three attempts were staged, fifty five percent
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  Speaker 1: were Democrats, thirty eight percent Independence, seven percent Republicans. Of
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: the respondents who said all three incidents were authentic, only
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  Speaker 1: fifteen percent were Democrats, thirty eight percent Independence, forty seven
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  Speaker 1: percent Republicans. So even amongst Republicans, less than half say
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  Speaker 1: all three incidents were authentic. For the most recent event,
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  Speaker 1: the White House Correspondence dinner, thirty four percent of Democrats
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  Speaker 1: thirteen percent Republicans said it was staged. And according to
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: the information that I've read on this, that is because
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: after the White House Correspondence dinner, we had all this
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: talk about, well, see, this is why we need to
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: have the ballroom at the White House. And so people
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: of course who want to engage in stuff like this
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: took that to me and that wow, this is just
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: a ruse by Trump to get people on board so
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: he can build the ballroom at the White House. So
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: there's there's more on this, and I'm gonna continue on
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: with this, but we got to get to a quick
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: break right now. Fire if you want to get on board.
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  Speaker 1: Five at fifty five krc the talk station.
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  Speaker 4: You know who's listening to the radio, voters see the
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  Speaker 4: talk station.
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  Speaker 1: Fifty five KRCD talk Station's continuing on with the the
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  Speaker 1: News Guard poll about how many Americans think that these
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  Speaker 1: assassination attempts were staged. Let's see, let's see, let's see
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: where do we leave off. Young people are more skeptical.
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  Speaker 1: Young respondents ages eighteen to twenty nine were more likely
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: than older respondents to say the incidents were staged. Largest
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: gap was for the April twenty six assassination attempt in Washington,
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  Speaker 1: thirty two percent of eighteen to twenty nine year olds
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  Speaker 1: say it was stage, compared with fifteen percent of those
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: sixty five and older. Of the respondents who believe all
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: three incidents were legitimate, only thirteen percent were eighteen to
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: twenty nine. Left wing conspiracy theory that stage shootings are
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: part of Trump's playbook have been persistent since the first
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: attempt on Trump's life at the Pennsylvania rally in July
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: of twenty twenty four. Minutes after the Secret Service has
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: scored to Trump bleeding off the stage, social media lit
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: up with claims that the shooting was staged, arguing, for example,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: and if you remember the news coverage on this, the
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: initial coverage on this, and as I've still never got
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: a satisfactory answer on the whole notion that CNN and MSNBC,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: which at that point in the Trump campaign had refused
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: to take the Trump events live because they constantly said, well,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: we know he's going to come on and tell falsehoods
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: and lies, and of course the under the guise of
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: being responsible journalists, they said they could not knowingly let
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: him be on live television two to lie to the
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: American people, as they were one hundred percent sure that
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: he would do so, they would routinely not take his
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: events live, but this day they did. Coincidence, I don't know,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: but I've never and maybe I missed it, but I've
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: never heard a really good explanation for that. Let's see.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Minutes after Secret Service took Trump leading off the stage,
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: social media lit up with claims the shooting was staged, arguing,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: for example, that Trump faked the shooting with a blood
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: pill that photojournalists at the scene have been tipped off.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Nearly two years later, the narrative continues to gain traction,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: with claims by some social media users that an actual
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Russian plot to stage and assassination in Hungary never came
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: to fruition is proof that the Pennsylvania shooting rally was
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: also staged. Pattern repeated itself when circuit Secret Service agent
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: spotted a gunman on the edge of the Trump International
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: Golf Club in West Beach, where Trump was golfing on
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: September a fifteenth of twenty twenty four. Anti Trump accounts
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: used the incident as further ammunition to support their staged conspiracies,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: claiming that Trump orchestrated the attempt to gain support ahead
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: of the November twenty fourth election. After the attempt on
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Trump's life at the White House correspondence dinner in April
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: of twenty six, NewsGuard found that many of the same
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: viral accounts that pushed the earlier stage shooting conspiracies were
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: advancing the same claim. Social media users claimed the incident
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: was staged to distract from the Iran war or Trump's
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: unfavorable polling numbers. So there's a good number of people
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: out there who believed that all three events, all three
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: of these attempts on Trump's life, were all staged, aged, fake.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: It just goes on and on and on. I think
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: it would be helpful if we had some stronger prosecution
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: on this. The idea and one of the things that
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: I remember just really struck me about the shooting and
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: Butler was I was talking with a buddy of mine
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: who spent a lot of time with the CIA and
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: has great familiarity with the way things like this get investigated.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: And I remember seeing a picture of a guy with
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: an FBI blazer on, and this was less than seventy
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: two hours after the shooting, up on the roof of
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: that building where the gunman was, and the gunman had
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: been killed up there, and the dude had a hose,
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: not like a garden hose but and not like a
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: fire hose, but something in between, a hose that was
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: putting out a pretty good amount of water, hosing down
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: the area. And I guess, I guess there was some
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: blood and brain matter or whatever else up there on
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: that roof. And I'm thinking to myself, how can this
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: guy be up there hosing down the area where the
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: sniper was. To my way of thinking, that area should
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: have been preserved, It should have been covered up to
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: avoid any further contamination, and then thorough every square inch
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: of that roof should have been thoroughly examined for any
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: possible evidence and getting to the bottom of that matter.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: So I thought that was weird and should not have happened.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: So are there questions about the Butler shooting. I believe
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: there are, But the notion that this was staged, to
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: me just seems completely and totally far fetched. Five point
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  Speaker 1: coming up top of the hour. Dan Carroll for Bright
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  Speaker 1: and Thomas fifty five k r c V talk station
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  Speaker 1: weep with my hard Radio. Yeah, fifty five k r
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  Speaker 1: c V talk station six oh five. On this Wednesday morning,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas One more day, Brian Thomas
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: back tomorrow. Got a text Joe Strecker from Dave Hatter yesterday.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: He said, I'm digging all the all the Uh well,
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: what was the word he used? He didn't say ancient
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: or old is. I think he's a classic VH which
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: of course stands for Van Halen. And I gave Joe
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: Strecker credit because Joe Strecker is the one who rolls
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: that out. So I always appreciate Joe Strecker being here.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: What are we going to talk about today? We got
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: we got some some great guests coming up. Jack Averton,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: we'll be here one hour from now. In his regular
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: segment The Big Picture with Jack Averton, today he talks
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: about Iran and Neverland. I'd have no idea how he's
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: going to connect those dots, but and the only the
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: way Jack Atherton can do it. We are looking forward
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: to that. Donovan O'Neill, senior advisor for Americans for Prosperity
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: Action in Ohio. We'll be talking to him at seven
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: thirty and then Congressman Massy. We'll be checking in at
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: eight oh five this morning. And I did not know
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: this until I was just looking up some stuff about Massy,
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: and I've got a number of things I want to
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: talk to him about. But the primary race with him
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: and Ed gowright, spending on that race has eclipsed twenty
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: five million dollars twenty five million, and this is the
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: most expensive US House primary in history. Did you know that, Joe,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: twenty five million, most expensive primary in history. It's a
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: lot of money. I wonder if MASSI will tell me
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: where all that money's coming from. Maybe I'll have to
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: go to their campaign websites and see which one is
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: spending more twenty five million dollars. And the Kentucky primary
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: is coming up Tuesday. We'll say finally say goodbye to
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell. God he was. He was chairing one of
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: those hearings yesterday. Did you see that video, Joe. Mitch
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: McConnell was chairing that hearing with Pete Hegseth and just
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: totally I think he said the secretary isn't here because
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: he's on his way to China, and Pete Hegseth was
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: sitting right in front of and then he turned to
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: Mercall and he said, I'm going to ask the Senator
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: mccowskey to take over this hearing. And Mitch McConnell had
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: just totally locked up, lost his way, had no idea
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: what was going on in the hearing, was talking about
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: how they you know, they were out of time, and
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: someone comes up and whispers in his ear you know
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: that the hearing hasn't started yet. And that's when he said,
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: I'm going to ask mccowsky to take over. I mean,
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell, come on, I don't have anything. Well, I'm
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: not going to say anything, but I have not been
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: a fan of Mitch McConnell for a long time. I
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: think he's done over the course of his career. I
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: think he has done, from time to time, done a
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: lot of things right. When it comes to doing what
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: he can to get some federal judges, I think that
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: has probably been the strongest thing that he has done.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: But the guy has just been around way, way, way
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: too long. To my way of thinking, he should have
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: stepped down fifteen ten to fifteen years ago, and I
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: don't know that he has been particularly effective in these
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: last ten or fifteen years. Not to say that he
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: hasn't done good things. I think he has. But the
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: thing is he will be remembered by younger generations for
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: the way he is now not the way he was
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: when he was when he was on his game, and
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: he is nowhere close to being on his game. Every
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: time I mean, think think about every time you see
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: video now of Mitch McConnell. It is just it's it's sad,
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: and it's pathetic and it's pitiful, and it's a shame
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: that that is the way he is going out and
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: how he'll be remembered. I mean, the dude just stuck
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: around way, way, way too long. And I want to
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: And I've talked about this before about the as politicians
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: they get in office and and uh, you know, we
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: had the guy that is running for the first district Congress,
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: Eric Conroy, Is that right? Joe Eric Conroy was here yesterday,
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: first time I had met him, elder guy, and I
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: brought up the notion of going to d C and
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: how DC affects some people, not everyone, but the vast
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: majority of people who get elected to Congress. Talk about
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: how I'm only going to go there for one or
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: two terms and I'll be done and I'll get handed
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: over to somebody else. Well, I mean that doesn't happen.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: I think Steve Shabbit fell into that a little bit.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: I don't think, deep down inside, I don't think Steve
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: Shabbit really changed all that much. I certainly don't think
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: brad Winstrop became a swamp creature with the way so
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: many seemed to do. And I was talking about this
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: one night. I was talking about Mitch McConnell and how
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: he has just hung around way too long, and I
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: would think about people like Diane Feinstein. I mean, she
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: had all the money she could possibly want. Mitch McConnell
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: has all the money he could possibly ever want, but
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: instead of walking away and enjoying whatever time left he
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: has left on this earth, he continues to go to Washington,
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: sit in Washington, and I think become at this stage
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: in his career, more of an obstruction, more of a
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: paperweight than really doing anything useful. And why you can't
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: walk away from that. Diane Feinstein literally died in office.
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: And I remember when she had what I don't remember
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: exactly what the medical difficulty was, but she left Congress
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: for a time to deal with whatever medical issue she had.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: Came back. She was in a wheelchair, and I remember
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: a reporter asked her, you know, how is it now
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: that you're back, how is you know, how how they
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: been treating you? How's you know, how's everything at work?
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: And she just looked completely befuddled, and she said, and
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: she said with a straight face, and sincerely believing, she said,
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: I've no, I've never left. I've been here the whole time,
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: and no recollection at all that she had been away
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: for at that point. I believe it was months, months
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: and months and dealing with whatever medical issues she had,
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: but yet she couldn't step down, and then I eventually
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: wound up dying while she was still in office. And
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: so many of these politicians do. I mean, you go
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: to Washington, you see that all that power going around,
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: You get into proximity to that power. And I really
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: think that's what part of the problem with Hillary Clinton
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: is is that look how close she has been the
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: power for most of her adult life. Right, And she
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: married Bill at a young age. I believe he was
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: the attorney general of Arkansas when they got married. And
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: then you know that that comes with its own I'm
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: sure whatever trappings of power you can have in Arkansas.
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: I would imagine being the attorney general in Arkansas is
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: a pretty nice position. I'm sure you got some nice
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: perks that come along with that. Then he becomes the governor,
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: and I'm sure she loved all of that. Then he
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: becomes president, and of course she's in the White House
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: every day, and she's running the well, I guess it's
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: the East Wing, and they were going to put forth
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: Remember the Hillary Care, Remember that, Joe, Remember Hillary Care?
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: How Hillary was going to be in charge. Hillary is
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: going to have a great plan and healthcare for everyone.
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: I mean, if she was first lady, she didn't have
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: any government position. Then after you know, eight years, his
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: first lady becomes a senator from New York. So all
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: this proximity to power. You can see it, you can
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: smell it, you can almost touch it, but you don't
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: have it. Someone else has it, and you gotta you
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: gotta got an orbit around that. And I think I
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: think this is what happens with so many of these
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: members of Congress. They go there, they they they can
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: feel the power, they sense the power. They've got to
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: they've got some of it, you know, some of it
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: radiates out to them. They don't have the real power,
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: and some of them, I think a lot of them
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: realize that they will never touch it, but they're happy
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: with it, the amount of power that they have, and
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: it makes it hard to walk away, and it makes
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  Speaker 1: it more likely that you'll become a member of the
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  Speaker 1: creature of the swamp, part of the deep state, or
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  Speaker 1: whatever the case may be. I think that's happened to
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  Speaker 1: Mitch McConnell. And then you know, when I was talking
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  Speaker 1: yesterday with this young young man the elder high school
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: doesn't want that to happen to him. So you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'd say follow the example of brad Winstrop and hopefully
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  Speaker 1: you'll be in good shape there, because I do not
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  Speaker 1: think brad Winster got sucked in by that. Six sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: Got to get to a break. Fifty five KRCV Talk station.
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  Speaker 5: This is home, It always has been and it always
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  Speaker 5: will be.
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  Speaker 1: Six twenty one, fifty five KRCB Talk Station. Another poll
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  Speaker 1: about the midterm elections is out. This one put up
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  Speaker 1: in Bright Part poll finds registered voters closely split in
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  Speaker 1: their partisan preferences ahead of the midterms, forty five percent
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  Speaker 1: saying they'd support a Democrat candidate for Congress forty two percent,
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  Speaker 1: a Republican candidate forty five percent, Democrat forty two percent
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  Speaker 1: Republican fourteen percent said neither. So here we go again.
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  Speaker 1: That fourteen percent who are undecided, who may vote third party.
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  Speaker 1: That is where you have to convince voters to come
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  Speaker 1: your way. Let's see. Harvard Harris poll found Republicans had
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  Speaker 1: shifted to a better position as they prepare for the midterms.
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  Speaker 1: The poll ask respondence, if congressional elections were held today,
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  Speaker 1: would they be more likely to vote for a Democrat
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  Speaker 1: or Republican for Congress. Finding likely midterm voters split down
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  Speaker 1: the middle, the result marks an eight point swing towards
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: Republicans in the Harvard Harris poll, an eight point swing
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  Speaker 1: since January, when fifty four percent said they'd be more
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  Speaker 1: likely to vote for Democrats. Jim Jordan of Ohio simplified
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: the battle for the midterms, saying the argument in favor
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: of Republicans essentially comes down to one thing. Let's see,
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: let me see. I think the election comes down to
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: two sentences, and those sentences are they're crazy, We're not,
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: they're crazy? Where not I agree they're crazy? And a
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: lot of stuff that has been going on has been
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: absolutely crazy. I think one of the things that would
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  Speaker 1: be a huge boost for Republicans is to get with
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: the American Save Act, and I think that is something
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  Speaker 1: that Thomas Massey is in favor of. A great piece
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: in American Thinker about that written by Hook Davenport. Founding
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  Speaker 1: fathers distrusted democracy and abhorrent direct elections and important direct elections.
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  Speaker 1: They gave us republic in which the president is chosen
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  Speaker 1: by the electoral college and senators by state legislature. If
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: they could see their republic today and what passes for elections,
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: they'd be appalled. And he mentioned a mail in ballots,
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: ballot harvesting, election season drop boxes, ballot curing, jerrymandering would
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: have stopped the Constitutional Convention cold. The massive election fraud,
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: i mean irregularities of the twenty twenty election made it
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: unmistakably clear that the country is not to be torn
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  Speaker 1: into election reform is imperative. Rarely has this fractured country
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: been more united on this fact. Eighty percent of Americans
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  Speaker 1: support requiring that people present a photo ID to vote,
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: eighty three percent support requiring proof of citizenship to register,
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: and three times as many voters believe there is a
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  Speaker 1: lot of voter fraud in mail ins compared to in
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: person voting. Just like switching the clocks twice a year,
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  Speaker 1: approved by just twelve percent of Americans. Somehow, nothing changes.
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: The deep state is not interested in what Americans want
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: and never has been. Yeah, so get the Get to
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  Speaker 1: Save America Act pass, asked, I think that is the
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  Speaker 1: one thing that could solidify more than anything else. And look,
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  Speaker 1: I think all this gerrymandering stuff is great. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know that. I don't know that voters totally have their
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  Speaker 1: head wrapped around that. I think people who who work
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  Speaker 1: for a living every day who I mean, I think
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  Speaker 1: obviously people who listen to talk radio, like the vast
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: majority of this audience does have an understanding of what
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: all the gerrymandering and the court rulings have been about
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: telling the Democrats that they cannot draw districts based on race.
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: I think a lot of the vast majority of this
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: audience has a good understanding of all of that. When
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: it comes to other Americans who maybe don't have the
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  Speaker 1: chance to listen to radio shows like this and other
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: radio shows, or these things get talked about all the time.
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: Maybe you don't have such a clear understanding of that.
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  Speaker 1: But I think when you talk about the Save America
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  Speaker 1: Act and the idea that you need to have id
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: you need to be a citizen to vote, very simple
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  Speaker 1: concept there, and it just it just bothers me more
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  Speaker 1: than more than most things bother me that this cannot
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  Speaker 1: get approved. And I just don't understand. We got to
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  Speaker 1: get to a break six twenty six, Dan Carroll for
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  Speaker 1: Brian Thomas, fifty five KRC, the e talk station.
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  Speaker 1: Trustation, fifty five KRC, the talk station, Dan Carroll for
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  Speaker 1: Brian Thomas. Brian Thomas back tomorrow, six point thirty on
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  Speaker 1: this Wednesday morning, And Mississippi James has picked up the phone.
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: This isn't James McGee. Is it my buddy James McGee
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: from Mississippi? No, no, no, I can hear your voice
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: of different, James. I got a buddy down of Mississippi's
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: name is James, and he well, he might be in Louisiana. Louisiana,
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: Mississippi is all kind of the same, isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, A lot of the principles in the South.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Look yeah, what you come in peace, Yes, sir,
• 53:16
  Speaker 3: I come in peace.
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: I love everybody and there's nothing you can do about it.
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: And I am a self proclaimed talk show junkie star.
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  Speaker 2: Listen up the dial, down, the dials now here, all
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: kind of opinion, all right now with you. I can
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: agree with you seventy to eighty percent of what you're saying,
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: all right, But you're only saying fifty percent of what
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: need to be said. You're not even touching the other
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: side of other people's reality.
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: Don't give me, give me a for instance.
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: Okay, like your bash everything the Democrat do, but never
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: have a problem with what the Republican is doing.
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: You know, this war that's not necessarily true. There's Look,
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: there's plenty of times when I have disagreements with what
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: Trump is doing, and I didn't. When I have those disagreements,
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: I talk about it all the time. I am not
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: I am not one hundred percent on board with everything
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: that Trump does. I am not one hundred percent on
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: board with area. I just criticized Republicans. I just criticized
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: the Republican leadership. Right before we got to that last break,
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: I was just talking about the Save America Act, Republicans
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: in Congress, in the Senate could put that through if
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: they put their nose to the grindstone and got this done,
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: got rid of the filibuster, all the rest of it.
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: I have been talking about that for months now, Mississippi
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: James and I have been highly critical of Republicans for
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: not doing that.
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: So now you don't see what you just did. You
• 54:53
  Speaker 2: criticize them for not putting it through. Yeah, okay, but you.
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: Don't see that the inaction I criticized. Were you listening yesterday? Okay?
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: Yesterday I talked about extensively, and I had the reporter
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: on from the Daily Wire, Luke Rosiak, and he wrote
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: extensively about the runaway fraud that has been going on
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: in Columbus, Ohio. And this is fraud where you have
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: these individuals, many of them from out of the country,
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: many the vast majority of them from Somalia, who come
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: into this country set up these fake and phony home
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: health care companies and rip off the American people, the
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: federal government, the state government of Ohio to the tune
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: of hundreds of millions of dollars just plane ripping off.
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: And so I criticized Mike the Wine who is Republican
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: governor from Ohio has largely looked at this and turned
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: his head and essentially said, you know what, there's really
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: nothing to see here, but not that big of a deal.
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: I tend to take issue with that, and and the
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: fact that we have a Republican administration, that we have
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: Republicans in powers of position at the Attorney General's office,
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: the the Auditor's office, and all the rest of it.
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: And this has been allowed to go on for years.
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  Speaker 1: Only now that this story is starting to get some
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  Speaker 1: national attention, is anyone in Columbus saying that, yeah, it's
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: time to crack down on this kind of stuff. There's
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: been a handful of lawmakers who have been calling for
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: investigations into this and for something to happen on this.
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: But when it comes to the administration and the leadership
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: that is in charge that could have done something about this,
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: they have not lifted a finger. They have done absolutely nothing,
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: And I'm thoroughly disgusted by that. So, Mississippi James, I
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: appreciate your phone call, but you've got to listen to
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: the show a little bit more, brother, And if you
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: want to criticize me, you're welcome to do it, but
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna put push back on you a little bit.
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: And Missy Slippy James is gone. So I appreciate, I
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: appreciate the phone call, and they look, uh, there's plenty
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: of there's plenty of finger pointing, and plenty of blame
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: to go around. Yeah. I bashed Democrats a lot because
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: Democrats are completely out of control and the liberal leftist
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: agenda is not good for anyone, and I fight against
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: that all the time. But when I see so many
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: Republicans who and and this used to be true yours,
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: and part of it is partly still true, and so
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: many Republicans that whenever they stand up for what they
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: believe in, and the moment they get an ounce of criticism,
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: they get some negative media coverage, what do they do?
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: They turn tail and run. And I'll give Thomas Mann. Look,
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't have a I am not
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: in total lockstep with a guy like Thomas Massey. But
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: Massey is a guy who takes his positions. When he
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: gets called out on those positions, he is not afraid
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: to face the music, and he will, generally speaking just
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: about every single time, give a clear and understandable explanation
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: of why he takes the positions that he does even
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: though they may not be the most popular things, and
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: so I give him credit for that. I mean, you know,
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: the whole conversation about politics, and I love talking about
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: this kind of stuff. It really doesn't come down on
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: the lines that this is one hundred percent right, this
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: is one hundred percent wrong. There's a lot of overlap
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: that goes on in between there, and it's fun to
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: splash around in that overlap and talk about what happens.
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  Speaker 1: Five point thirty six fifty five krc DE talk station.
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  Speaker 1: It's time to get ready for spring by having your
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  Speaker 1: roof gutters and sighting as well as your fifty five
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  Speaker 1: kr CD talk station. A cleavesman who had a collection
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  Speaker 1: of more than three thousand photos and videos of young kids,
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  Speaker 1: including infants, being sexually abused, shared responsibility for that abuse
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  Speaker 1: and tried to, I guess put part of the blame
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: on adult who other adults who perpetrate this kind of
• 59:33
  Speaker 1: the most horrific material material imaginable. Hamilton County Common Please,
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  Speaker 1: Judge Kristin Jenkins told fifty one year old Robert Shepherd
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  Speaker 1: possessing these photos and videos was quote the furthest thing
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  Speaker 1: from a victimless crime, because there are people like you
• 59:55
  Speaker 1: who consume this material, there are people who produce, so
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  Speaker 1: that is pretty basic when it comes to supply and demand.
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  Speaker 1: And for his behavior, mister Jenkins will be sentenced to
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm not Jenkins, but mister Shepherd will be
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  Speaker 1: sentenced to ten to eleven years in prison. And he's
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  Speaker 1: fifty one years old now, and I hope he does
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  Speaker 1: every single of that.
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  Speaker 7: The biggest douche of the universe, in all the galaxies,
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  Speaker 7: there's no bigger douche than you. You've reached the top,
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  Speaker 7: the pinnacle of douche them. Good going, Douze, your dreams
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  Speaker 7: have come true.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for that. Joe, very appropriate right there for that.
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  Speaker 1: That's comebag. A guy who comes in close second in
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 1: to my way of thinking this morning is James Comy.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: James Comy is on CNN and he's telling, Oh, what's
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  Speaker 1: this gal's name. It'll come to me in a minute.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: Caitlyn Collins that he says that the guy is not
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 1: okay talking about President Trump. Comy said, quote, the guy
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: is not okay, our president, and for some reason, I'm
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: burrowed into his head he's tweeting about me when I'm
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 1: sound asleep or truthing about me. I don't understand it
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: and can't explain it. So James Comy is now walking
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: around thinking that he is he is in Trump's living
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: I guess, living rent free in Trump's head. Caitlyn Collins says,
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: you know he posted a lot overnight and have we
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: not known that about Trump from the very beginning? That
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: Trump does the s he's up late at night, sleeps
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: what maybe four or five hours a night, maybe less
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: than that, and the guy cannot sit still. So James
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: Comy is out there talking about how messed up Trump is. Well,
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, mister Comy. You're the one who was messed up.
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  Speaker 1: You're the one who tried to pretend that you put
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: some seashells in an arrangement that's at eighty six forty seven.
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  Speaker 1: You're the one who tried to pretend that you didn't
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 1: know what that was about. You're the one who, as
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: the FBI director, were sharing memos detailing private conversations with
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: President Trump to a friend. You admitted to this. You
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: admitted passing these memos about your meeting with President Trump
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: to a friend Columbia law professor Daniel Richmond, with the
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: intent of sharing this with the media, so information that
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: was the property of the federal government. You gave this
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: a way, you admitted to it. That is a clear
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: policy violation. And you want to act as if you're
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: the one who is a boy scout and all this.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: You want to act as if you're the one who
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: is pure as the wind driven snow. You are the
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: one who has done just despicable things. You're the one
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: who allowed, in my opinion, the politicization of the FBI
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: because you could not separate your disdain for Trump and
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: your desire to see him go down. So you acquiesced
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: to the desires and demands of Barack Hussein Obama and
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 1: Joe Biden when you went after Trump the way you did.
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  Speaker 1: You're an absolute disgrace. And for you to be out
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  Speaker 1: there saying that you think there's something wrong with Trump
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  Speaker 1: is laughable. Six forty five fifty five k r C
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  Speaker 1: Brian Thomas. I was wondering that this guy was going
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  Speaker 1: to check in this week, and we say hello to
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  Speaker 1: west Side Jim, west Side gym. What's going on man.
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  Speaker 8: Good morning, Dan Carroll.
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  Speaker 3: I let you alone until the last day.
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  Speaker 1: So the last day, it's well, look, if Papas calls me,
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  Speaker 1: you can certainly you can, certainly weigh in. I have
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  Speaker 1: no problem with it.
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  Speaker 8: I was just going to say, you had Papas on
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  Speaker 8: there for a couple of days, so I figured you
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  Speaker 8: had to go into a recovery act.
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  Speaker 2: Put it that way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there is. There is definitely some recovery time needed
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  Speaker 1: after talking with them.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, you know what bugs me? Oh a lot bugs me.
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  Speaker 8: But on the Republicans. You know, when I watch regular TV,
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  Speaker 8: and I guess I watch too much of it because
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 8: I see the Republicans we want to be a bunch
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 8: of horrible people because all we do is eat our
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 8: own where you don't see this from the Democrats. I
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 8: don't see any any commercials or anything run or maybe
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 8: one or two, but that the Democrats eat each other up.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, I don't see how horrible human beings they are.
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  Speaker 8: If you watch it and see the Republicans, none of
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 8: these people should be in public office. I mean they
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 8: should or not public office, but in office, because they're
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 8: horrible people. Everybody, everybody is a Republican. Is this a
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  Speaker 8: horrible person? And I don't know. I don't know who
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 8: can be in there that's not just a horrible person.
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  Speaker 8: You know, you watch these ads and right, god, you know,
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 8: they're the weird uncles of the Thing family and so forth.
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  Speaker 2: And it's this.
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  Speaker 8: It amazes me that we can actually elect somebody. You know,
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  Speaker 8: you see these Massy ads and he go, oh my god,
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 8: the guys is terrible. And then you see his opponent
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 8: and he's got you know, four bronze stars and this
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 8: and that, and then you see the ads that Massy
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 8: puts out and that guy is terrible. So I don't
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 8: know what it's like. But you know, when brad Winstrop
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  Speaker 8: the first time he was elected, we had a listener
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 8: lunch up at the rook Wood and I looked at
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 8: him and I said, why are you doing this?
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  Speaker 2: You know, you're a.
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  Speaker 8: Successful veteran number one, but you're a successful person when
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 8: it comes into the medical industry. He said, general, I'm trying.
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  Speaker 8: I'm trying to make a difference. And he said, I'm
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 8: not going to be one of these politicians, just like
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 8: what you said this morning, I'm not going to stay
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 8: there that long. Maybe one maybe two terms, and that's it.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 8: I'm done, I'm gone. And he lived up to that,
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  Speaker 8: you know, I think he stayed one too long, according
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  Speaker 8: to what he said.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I want to say he did at
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  Speaker 1: least three or four terms. Maybe maybe maybe four or five.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, but yeah, but no, But you know,
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  Speaker 1: he left and occasionally I didn't talk to him all
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: that much when he was in Congress, but we had
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: certain times when he would pop into the studio, either
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: here or down the hall at seven hundred and and
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: we did I don't know, a handful of interviews over
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  Speaker 1: the phone. And so the uh, the guy that I
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: knew then is pretty much the guy that I've talked
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: to him, I don't know, three or four times in
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  Speaker 1: person since he's been out of office. It seems to
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  Speaker 1: me that he's the same guy now that he was
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  Speaker 1: when he first went into Congress. So yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: a guy like that I think is a great example.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, perfect, But you know, these guys, guys and gals
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 8: get in there, and what you've been talking about all
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 8: morning about being power hungry. They get a taste of this,
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 8: and they get a taste of that one hundred and
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  Speaker 8: seventy five thousand dollars and.
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  Speaker 2: How easy it is.
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  Speaker 8: And when they when I heard a term, we're working
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  Speaker 8: so hard, and that makes me lay up.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you see, did you see the video that I
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  Speaker 1: was talking about of Mitch McConnell. Go look at it.
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  Speaker 1: Go on with your social media and look that up,
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: and it's Mitch McConnell.
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  Speaker 2: I did see it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And Pete hex'seeth is sitting right in front of
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: and he says, oh, we you know we're gonna continue
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  Speaker 1: the hearing because the secretary is on his way to China.
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  Speaker 1: Well no, mister, mister McConnell, Pete Hex Seth is right there.
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: He's right there, ready to answer your question. And he
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: had he had absolutely no clue of what was going on.
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  Speaker 1: And and I just look at Mitch McConnell, and other
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: than what I said about him just craving that power
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: and to be and remain in proximity to that power,
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  Speaker 1: I really can't think of another reason why he would
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: hang around for the time that he's hung around.
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  Speaker 8: Well, these guys, all of them stay too long, and
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 8: it's just a shame. But like they can't get into
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 8: the private sector. I mean that's the problem they If
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 8: they do get in a private sector, you never hear
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 8: brom mc.
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  Speaker 1: How many, how many hundreds of millions is he worth? Though?
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: I mean, the guy is rich beyond his wildest dream.
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: He doesn't need anything from the prime. He's got everything
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: he could possibly want. So I don't know, I just
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: I'm just thinking. You know, if I, if I was
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: in his shoes, I would have left long ago and
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: sought out to enjoy my life and get as far
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: away from Washington as I possibly could. West Side, Jim,
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: we got a run. We got who's coming up here
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: on top of our west Side Jim, thank you very much.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: And then after the news at the top of the hour,
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: our buddy Jack Afton is going to be here with
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  Speaker 1: a big picture, so we are all looking forward to that.
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  Speaker 1: Carroll in for Brian Thomas. Always glad to be here.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: For Ryan Thomas, glad you are here too, Always glad
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: to be hanging out with Joe Strecker and always glad
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: that at this time on Wednesday mornings we get to
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  Speaker 1: hear from my old buddy Jack Atherton and the Big
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  Speaker 1: Picture and Jack, how are you doing this morning?
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  Speaker 9: I'm doing okay, And boy, it's great to be with
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 9: you while we're sending like everybody healing thoughts to Brian.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 9: But being on the air with you, Dan Carroll is
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 9: like being teenagers again at Fox nineteen.
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: Those were the days. Those were the days, weren't they.
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 9: In fact, rather than my usual pompous commentary, beppppep, we
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  Speaker 9: interrupt this program with breaking news.
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  Speaker 4: This just in.
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  Speaker 9: White House sources now confirm that President Trump will be
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 9: leaving office as required by the Constitution, on January twentieth,
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 9: twenty twenty nine. However, they have not told the president.
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  Speaker 9: That's why he insists that Iran will never ever obtain
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 9: nuclear weapons, whether a Kamala Harris, a Gavin Newsom, or
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 9: even some weak Republican president takes over. Now back to
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 9: family feud. Okay, the trouble is, Dan never is a
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 9: tricky word. Remember how George H. W. Bush succeeded Ronald
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 9: Reagan by pledging read my lips, no new taxes only
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 9: to raise taxes and lose reelection. More to the point,
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 9: when it comes to the Middle East. After Iraq's dictator
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 9: Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait Bush forty one, Papa Bush kicked
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 9: him out, but Papa Bush, a very nice man, let
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 9: Saddam remain in power. The dictator then killed his own
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 9: Kurdish people with poisoned guests and may or may not
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 9: have retained other weapons of mass destruction that left forty
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 9: one Son Bush forty three to finish the job with
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  Speaker 9: an a year war that claimed five thousand American lives
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 9: and thirty two thousand casualties. Is President Trump making the
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 9: same mistake as Papa Bush by letting Iran off the
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  Speaker 9: hook by letting a terror regime remain in power, Trump
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 9: was right. He was righteous obliterating Iran's nuclear program, starting
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 9: with Operation Midnight Hammer last June and then Operation Epic
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  Speaker 9: Fury in February, after Iran boasted that it was back
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 9: with enough highly enriched uranium to make eleven nuclear bombs
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  Speaker 9: in a matter of weeks. We decapitated the theocracy at
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 9: that pancake breakfast, but not for long and with no
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 9: clear results. While President Trump claims we've achieved effective regime
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 9: change because Iran today, he says, no leaders. He also
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 9: says that Iran's new leaders are begging for a deal,
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 9: and that the leaders we're negotiating with are reasonable. But wait,
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 9: there's more. On the other hand, President Trump concedes that
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  Speaker 9: those reasonable leaders may or may not have power to
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  Speaker 9: enforce a deal, and I'm running out of hands now.
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 9: Trump admits that Iron's jihadists have a forty seven year
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  Speaker 9: history of buying time by dragging out negotiations and then
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  Speaker 9: violating deals. Is all that clear?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 9: Nevertheless, Trump stands by his pledge that Iran will never,
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  Speaker 9: never reconstitute its nuclear weapons program even after he leaves office.
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  Speaker 9: Dan someone we've all known since we were kids, also
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 9: like to use the word never. In fact, Peter Pan
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  Speaker 9: lived in neverland. Look, as regular listeners know, I am
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 9: anything but a never Trumper. I am not Thomas Massey,
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  Speaker 9: but neither am I an always Trumper. While while our
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  Speaker 9: president is usually right epically on the border, energy independence,
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 9: tax cuts, fighting crime, returning manufacturing jobs to Ohio and
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 9: the rest of America, and so much else, they ought
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 9: to put him on Mount Rushmore. Still, contrary to what
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 9: you read on Baseball Caps. Trump is not always right,
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  Speaker 9: and I think he's dead wrong even to be negotiating
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  Speaker 9: with death to America Islamic terrorists because they never never
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 9: tell the truth. So where does that leave us? Letting
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  Speaker 9: Iran play good cop bad cop while US gas prices
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  Speaker 9: remain over four dollars a gallon and may cost Republicans
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  Speaker 9: the midterms. And for what the possibility of a promise
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  Speaker 9: that the jihadists will never seek nuclear weapons even though
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 9: Iran's chief ally communist China imports ninety percent of Iran's
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 9: oil at a discount. Forget the smiles we're going to
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 9: see on TV. The Trump will find in Beijing? Don't
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 9: you think that China's president not for the next two
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  Speaker 9: and a half years, president for life. Jijingping will do
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  Speaker 9: all he can to rebuild Iran's anti Western regime just
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 9: waiting Trump out, and he'll keep America from bringing peace
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  Speaker 9: to the Mid East through Trump's historic Abraham Accords. The
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 9: current commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, Ahmed Fahiti, isn't even
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 9: bloodier fanatic than the predecessor we killed at that all
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 9: you can eat breakfast until you died, begging the question,
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  Speaker 9: why haven't we killed Fahdi too, or at least let
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 9: Israel's Massad kill him. They're chomping at the bit. Why
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 9: are we negotiating with the Mallahs and the IRGC. It's
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 9: not why President Trump is protecting the Iranian people that
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  Speaker 9: jahadists have already mowed down more than forty thousand protesters
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  Speaker 9: in a single month and kept the rest of Iran's
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  Speaker 9: ninety million people under house arrest, without incomes, without food,
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  Speaker 9: without weapons to fight on their own. Yet there are
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  Speaker 9: no reports that the White House is working with dissidents
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  Speaker 9: or with Iranian ex page triots led by Razapolavi, the
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  Speaker 9: son of the proposed Shah Dan. You're the veteran. I
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  Speaker 9: am not a chicken hawk. I am not calling for
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  Speaker 9: another forever war like the ones in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
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  Speaker 9: If the best we can do is delay rearmament again,
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  Speaker 9: that's still better than having Iran become a nuclear power
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  Speaker 9: in a matter of weeks, because unlike Pakistan and even
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  Speaker 9: North Korea, Iran is run by a death cult religious
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 9: fanatics vowing death to America and meaning it. But if
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  Speaker 9: you want Iran never to have nukes, we got to
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 9: stick to our guns. We got to get rid of
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 9: these terrorists. We need a deal with a real deadline
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 9: wars comes to worse, and one that immediately turns over
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  Speaker 9: Iran's highly enriched uranium, allows immediate full throated inspections, and
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 9: reopens the Strait of Horror moves. Twenty percent of the
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 9: words world's oil flows through that strait, and it's been
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 9: closed for more than a month. Immediately enforce those demands
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 9: with the resumption of ethic fury or whatever you want
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 9: to call the next phase of the war, or better still,
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 9: what the President calls economic fury. Continuing the blockade of
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 9: Iranian ports while destroying Iran's electrical grid as he had
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 9: proposed previously, and also a shipping capacity at carg Island.
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  Speaker 9: We don't have to occupy it, only destroy it, while
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  Speaker 9: freezing the bank accounts worldwide of Iran's billionaire bully boys. Yes,
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  Speaker 9: the Iranian people will suffer, but no more than they're
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  Speaker 9: suffering now. And for the first time in half a century,
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 9: those people will have hope. We've made a start at
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 9: doing all of these things. Now we have to finish
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  Speaker 9: the job. President Trump cannot promise that I Ron will
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  Speaker 9: never obtain nuclear weapons, but he has two and a
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 9: half years. I hope it's just two and a half
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  Speaker 9: weeks to act decisively. Hope our president heeds the warning
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  Speaker 9: that Peter Pan's captain hook heard from inside the crocodile's belly,
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  Speaker 9: because the clock is ticking.
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  Speaker 1: What do you say now, Well, Jack Atherton, as always,
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: you have provided commentary that is thought provoking in the extreme,
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  Speaker 1: and I knew ahead of time that I was going
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: to have a lot of things I wanted to say
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: about what you had to say. So I've taken some
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: notes and if with your permission, we'll get to a
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: quick break and then we'll go over some of those
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  Speaker 1: notes on the other side of this.
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  Speaker 9: So I will deny everything in those notes. I'm like
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  Speaker 9: a member of Congress. I never said that.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely sounds good. Jack, stay right there. We'll get to
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  Speaker 1: a quick break and we will continue with the big
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  Speaker 1: conversation with Jack Averton and the very thought provoking commentary
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: about Iran and never Land. Jack, I'm in total agreement
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: with you that never is a tricky word, and maybe
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump should refrain from throwing that word around so often.
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  Speaker 1: But I think the underlying principle here that Iran cannot
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  Speaker 1: have the leadership of Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon,
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  Speaker 1: because I think we know with the highest degree of
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  Speaker 1: certainty that we can know that if they were to
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  Speaker 1: obtain a nuclear weapon and we're able to attach it
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: to an intercontinental ballistic missile, that they certainly would have
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: no hesitation in using that weapon. But wouldn't it be nice, Jack,
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  Speaker 1: if we had a high degree of certainty that whatever
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  Speaker 1: administration comes next after January twentieth, twenty twenty nine, whatever
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  Speaker 1: administration comes next, would adhere to that same way of
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: thinking that Iran can never obtain a nuclear weapon, and
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: that they would enforce the same policies that would see
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  Speaker 1: to it that that would never happen. It would be
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: nice if we were able to have and rely on
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: that way of thinking that even as Americans, and even
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: though we may differ politically, there are certain things that
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: are without question in the best interest of America. Maybe
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 1: not the best interest of your political party or your
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: political philosophy when it comes to being far left, but
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: certain interest in certain ideas, in the best interests of
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: America that you would adhere to to make sure that
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: at least this bottom line remains the bottom line, and
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: instead of just talking about Iran not being able to
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  Speaker 1: have a nuclear weapon, actually enforce policies that lead to
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: that end.
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  Speaker 9: Donald J. Trump was the first president when he started
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 9: this in forty six years who actually did something. And
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  Speaker 9: you know, we all applauded what was Midnight Hammer. That
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 9: was the name of that incredible, extraordinary raided by pilots
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  Speaker 9: like you, who wiped out the nuclear capacity of Iran.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I was I was never I think thanks for
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  Speaker 1: trying to give me credit, but I was never a pilot.
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  Speaker 1: I was on the ground. I put the fuel in
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  Speaker 1: the jets. That's all I did.
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  Speaker 9: Hey, everybody who was involved in that rate is a
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  Speaker 9: hero and legendary. The thing is ivan reconstituted in less
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  Speaker 9: than a year. So I mean, how often are we
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  Speaker 9: going to do this? How often are we going to
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 9: put the refuelers and the pilots and everybody else in jeopardy?
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  Speaker 9: When we can get rid of this regime. That's all
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 9: I'm talking about. As far as what's going to come
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 9: after Trump, I mean that's up to us as taxpayers.
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  Speaker 9: Look at the choice we had last time on the
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 9: Democrat side, and she still came closer than Donald Trump
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 9: likes to admit in winning the White House. But what
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 9: about President Trump himself, because he's our leader now and
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 9: he's fantastic. But I think one reason President Trump is
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 9: not demanding unconditional surrender is that he's a contrarian. He
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 9: doesn't like to be told what to do. So, to
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 9: cite just one example of a triumph on Trump's part
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 9: in Venezuela, he installed Maduro's vice president, Delse Rodriguez. That's great.
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 9: He also refused to back free elections, which Maria Machado
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 9: probably would have won. It didn't help that Machado did
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 9: win last year's Nobel Peace Prize, even though she offered
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 9: it to President Trump. And there's one other thing, Dan
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 9: Trump seems to be no fan of the Powell doctrine.
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 9: Does anybody out there remember Colin Powell's great General Secretary
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 9: of State. Colin Powell said we should not go to
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 9: war unless a president has a clear objective and exit strategy,
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 9: then once we are an a war, General Powell said,
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 9: and General Jack Keene says this too, we must win
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 9: decisively with overwhelming force, which we have. America did not
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 9: negotiate with Tojo or Adolf Hitler, who never never would
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 9: have honored any deal, just as these Arnians won't again.
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 9: I think Trump was right to set back Iran's nuclear program,
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 9: but it's jihadists will re arm yet again unless they
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 9: lose power, and then we'll have to fight again. That's
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 9: why a war should only be worth fighting if it's
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 9: worth winning.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm trying to hang on to giving President Trump
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: some credit here. I think the American people deserve an
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: explanation of what his overall policy is when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to Iran. I don't think that we know thing that
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: he is thinking about at this point. I would like
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: to think, and I am holding out hope that this
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: trip to China will be a catalyst to bringing all
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: of this to a conclusion. I think he's got China
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: in a position right now where they may be more
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: acceptable to putting whatever pressure China can on the leadership
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: of Iran to get them to at least sign a
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: deal and move forward, and whatever the current stalemate might be,
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: to move beyond that and bring this to a resolution.
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: So I'm holding out hope that whatever happens in China,
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: despite whatever pictures we see, that there's actually more going
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: on behind the scenes than meets the eyes. So I'm
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: willing to give him a little bit some more. I'm
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 1: willing to give him some more slack here to get
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: this thing moving. And then, but at the very least,
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: at the end of all of this, the American people
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: deserve a clear explanation of what this policy is all about.
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 9: I think it's got to be about getting rid of
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 9: the IRGC. But you know something about you know, I
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 9: not only hope, I trust in Donald Trump, and I
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 9: think that one of the reasons that he has been
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 9: down in the dumps, and I believe he has been.
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 9: He's been snapping at people, and he's been his body
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 9: language is not great. I think he feels betrayed by
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 9: so many of our allies, certainly by NATO, and Donald
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 9: Trump may be thinking let them open the strait of
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 9: horror movies. They need it more than we do. He
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 9: says that all the time, thanks to Donald Trump's policy
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 9: of energy independence. We are now energy exporters. But all this,
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 9: you know, the fighting dragging on and and a number
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 9: of other things. The terror policy, but we don't have
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 9: time to get into that. The way it's been implemented,
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 9: not the idea of reciprocity. All that has been leading
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 9: to current three point eight percent inflation for Americans. That's
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 9: not Joe Biden's nine percent, but it's not good, as
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 9: anybody who's listening will knows.
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  Speaker 1: Jack. With that, we will we will call it a
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: big picture with Jack Atherton. Jack, as always, thank you
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: very much for all the thought provoking commentary. And Brian
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  Speaker 1: Thomas should be back in this seat next week and
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  Speaker 1: we'll be looking forward to the next episode. Great to
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  Speaker 1: talk with you, all right, Jack, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: Seven twenty six, and we've got Donathan O'Neil coming up
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  Speaker 1: Fifty five KRC, the Talk station seven point thirty On
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  Speaker 1: this Wednesday morning, May thirteenth, five to one, three day,
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  Speaker 1: if you want to call it that, So you want
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  Speaker 1: to do that yourself out there hearing on in Columbus
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  Speaker 1: talking about a bill, a House Bill six five, and
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  Speaker 1: this is legislation that would established a zero based budgeting
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  Speaker 1: requirement for state agencies here in Ohio. I had thought,
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  Speaker 1: and I guess I thought wrongly, that the idea of
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  Speaker 1: and I think it's an old, antiquated idea of baseline
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  Speaker 1: budgeting had gone away, But apparently that still exists here
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  Speaker 1: in Ohio. Joining us now is Senior advisor for Americans
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  Speaker 1: for Prosperity, the director of Americans for Prosperity, the legislative director,
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  Speaker 1: Hannah Coubin's was the one testifying on not on Capitol
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  Speaker 1: Hill but in Columbus yesterday. And Donovan O'Neill is a
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  Speaker 1: senior advisor for Americans for Prosperity and joins the show
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  Speaker 1: fifty five KRC and Donovan, great to talk to you
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  Speaker 1: this morning.
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  Speaker 2: How are you, Dan? Good to have you in sitting
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  Speaker 2: in for Brian pleasure, were with you?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this idea of baseline budgeting has been around for
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  Speaker 1: as long as I can remember. I really if you
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  Speaker 1: would have told me that this is still a practice
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  Speaker 1: that is still in effect here in Ohio. I would
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  Speaker 1: have maybe pushed back on that a little bit, thinking that,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, we we've seen the error of this
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  Speaker 1: way long ago. And I would think that the whole
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  Speaker 1: idea of baseline budgeting, where you have you know, you
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  Speaker 1: have whatever department, say they spent one hundred million dollars
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  Speaker 1: last year, and they come in and saying, well, we
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  Speaker 1: spent one hundred million in that last year, and now
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  Speaker 1: we need one hundred and twenty or one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: thirty million this year. I would have thought that process
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  Speaker 1: would have been done away with, Oh.
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  Speaker 2: We are we are still doing it.
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  Speaker 6: Why are our state budget and our perspective at Americans
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  Speaker 6: for prosperity and our perspective. These budgets are inflated because
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  Speaker 6: the assumption is, well, all the money you needed last time,
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  Speaker 6: you're just gonna need it plus one two, five eight
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  Speaker 6: percent more than you did a year prior, and there's
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  Speaker 6: never any any real strategic evaluation in that process. This
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  Speaker 6: legislation by Representative Mike Davilla HB six forty five would
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  Speaker 6: change that practice and actually bring some good fiscal stewardship
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  Speaker 6: to the state of Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have a sense that there's an appetite in
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  Speaker 1: Columbus for this kind of reform?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think.
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  Speaker 6: Generally yes, And I think, but you know, what you're
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  Speaker 6: working against are the forces that love to maintain the
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  Speaker 6: status quo. And that's what's really that's what really is
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  Speaker 6: working against this process. I think in private, you talk
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  Speaker 6: to any member, they'll say, yeah, it makes sense. But
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  Speaker 6: as a collective, the challenge is there. Here's why, though,
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  Speaker 6: I think the time is right to do it, and
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  Speaker 6: why it actually could be something we get done is
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  Speaker 6: you know, Governor Dwine is in his final.
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  Speaker 2: Year as governor.
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  Speaker 6: We're going to have a new governor one way or
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  Speaker 6: another next year as we go into the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 6: seven budgeting process. There is no better better time right now,
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  Speaker 6: Dan than to put this into place than when you
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 6: have a new administration. Democratic Republican doesn't really matter, right
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  Speaker 6: new administration coming in because they should do that right.
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  Speaker 6: If the voters are sending somebody new to represent them
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  Speaker 6: in the executive branch, that executive should take the liberty
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  Speaker 6: and utilize the political capital to evaluate what the state
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  Speaker 6: spending priority should be, not just operate off of the
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  Speaker 6: baseline from the prior administration. Right, So we're actually at
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  Speaker 6: a perfect time. And it's why I have a glimmer
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  Speaker 6: of hope in the dark landscape that is Ohio cap
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  Speaker 6: Square that there might be an opportunity to do something
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  Speaker 6: like this in a very real way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you would think, and this has been I think
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  Speaker 1: an issue for a long long time, but so many
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  Speaker 1: of these agencies that are out there to serve constituents,
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 1: serve people, serve whatever population needs, whatever services are off
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  Speaker 1: You would think that they're in the business of helping
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  Speaker 1: the solve problems, of getting maybe eradicate whatever is the
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  Speaker 1: cause of a certain problem, and that eventually, if they're successful,
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  Speaker 1: that their services, the need for their services would diminish
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  Speaker 1: instead of increase. And that never seems to be the case.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, you know, there's you never made a
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  Speaker 6: government program that is the contemporary government program that doesn't
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  Speaker 6: go away.
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  Speaker 1: Right, It's true on the federal level, and apparently it's
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  Speaker 1: true on the state level too, oh.
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  Speaker 6: One hundred percent. Well, you know something interesting to point
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  Speaker 6: on here, too, Right, this isn't just a you know,
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  Speaker 6: I think some of them, the detractors of the naysayers
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  Speaker 6: here would say, well, this is just another ploy by
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  Speaker 6: Upesky conservatives to you know, cut government programs and hit gramall.
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  Speaker 2: Out on the street.
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  Speaker 6: Right, it's anything's foresting from this. In fact, the pioneer
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  Speaker 6: of this type of budgeting. And I don't know if
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  Speaker 6: this is actually a point in the favor of the
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  Speaker 6: idea or not, but I think it is. It's actually
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  Speaker 6: Jimmy Carter Georgia pioneered this this process, and it really
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  Speaker 6: just boils down to good fiscal stewardship. Right, every few years,
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  Speaker 6: reset the deck, evaluate actually where the state where the
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  Speaker 6: government entities need to be spending their resources, engaging in
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  Speaker 6: their you know, their their public services. And what we'll get,
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  Speaker 6: I think is actually a better state government, a more
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  Speaker 6: fiscally responsible state government. And we might find by the way, too,
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  Speaker 6: I could see this playing out certain departments actually need
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  Speaker 6: more funding than we're giving them. Right if we determine
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 6: that those things like roads, bridges, things like that are
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  Speaker 6: where we need to be putting more of our resources
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  Speaker 6: than these programs that we you know, are funding today
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  Speaker 6: because we funded them yesterday, and we funded them the
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  Speaker 6: day before, and we don't quite know why we started
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  Speaker 6: funding them. But Dan, we did, and uh, we're just
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  Speaker 6: going to keep doing it because nobody's you know, everybody's
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  Speaker 6: too nervous to ask the question why zero based budgeting
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  Speaker 6: allows everybody, you know, resets the deck, allows everybody to say,
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  Speaker 6: you know, to ask that question, Hey, what do we
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  Speaker 6: actually need to be funding here with the people's dollars
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  Speaker 6: that they're sending to us for their income tax, their
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  Speaker 6: sales tax.
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  Speaker 1: There, all right, Donovan, you can hang around from the segment, right, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: absolutely great, I got some more stuff for you. Stay
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  Speaker 1: right there, Donovan O'Neil with the Americans for Prosperity and
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: we talk Station fifty five KRC Dan Carolyn for Brian Thomas,
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 1: and we continue our conversation with Donovan O'Neill with Americans
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  Speaker 1: for Prosperity and Donovan, we then lived with the specter
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  Speaker 1: of the reporting about what appears to be just massive
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  Speaker 1: fraud going on as it relates to Medicaid in Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: The numerous home health care companies that have been billing
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  Speaker 1: the government for tens of millions and hundreds of millions
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  Speaker 1: of dollars in some cases over the last five six years.
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  Speaker 1: This seems to be massive fraud. There are multiple calls
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  Speaker 1: now for investigations into this. Mike de Wine has tried
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  Speaker 1: to downplay this entire situation, but I can't help but
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  Speaker 1: think that if we had a budgeting process like the
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  Speaker 1: one you are calling for, that it would help identify
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  Speaker 1: something like this much sooner and maybe be able to
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  Speaker 1: nip something like this in the bud instead of letting
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  Speaker 1: it get to such a runaway perspective to where it
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  Speaker 1: is now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't doubt that.
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  Speaker 6: In fact, you know, on the medicaid item, I'm glad
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  Speaker 6: you bring that up, because the lead sponsor of this bill,
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  Speaker 6: this euro based budgeting bill, actually was lead sponsor of
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  Speaker 6: another piece of legislation, House Built three five six that
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  Speaker 6: was rolled into last year's state operating budget. And what
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  Speaker 6: that did is that actually, you know, Representive Mike Deville has.
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  Speaker 2: Had his nose to the grindston on this issue.
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  Speaker 1: For a while.
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  Speaker 6: What this bill did was require the state auditor, Keith Faber,
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  Speaker 6: to do an audit of certain aspects of the Medicaid Department,
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  Speaker 6: because you know, folks, folks know where these things are.
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  Speaker 6: We know where the fraud is. People, It's not hard
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  Speaker 6: to get to it. But the problem is, you know,
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  Speaker 6: having the political willpower to go where you know the
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  Speaker 6: smoke is and actually put the fire out. And that's
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  Speaker 6: you know, they already had the Cammel's nose under the
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  Speaker 6: tent on this thing.
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  Speaker 2: With the performance audits.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks to that great reporting, more people are aware of
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  Speaker 6: the issue. But yeah, absolutely, sorry, just some.
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  Speaker 2: Additional background there. We've known about this medicaid issue, I
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  Speaker 2: would say.
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  Speaker 6: For a number of a while now, and folks like
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  Speaker 6: Mike Devilla, who are fiscal stewards and champions of these issues,
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  Speaker 6: have been working to make sure we bring that trend,
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  Speaker 6: you know, bring those issues to light.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I think the knowledge out there has been there
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  Speaker 1: for such a long time. But when it's it's so
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  Speaker 1: plain to see and you know, and I was talking
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 1: with Luke Rosiak, the investigative reporter from the Daily Wire
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 1: who came to Columbus after the information was put out
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 1: by Doze on a national level and went to these
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 1: office buildings, looked at and and physically went to where
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 1: these companies represent are their offices. And you go there
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 1: and you see nothing but a piece of paper taped
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 1: up on a door saying we're out to lunch. There's
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  Speaker 1: there's mail that's been sitting there, you know, with a
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 1: with a postmark from five months prior. Uh, all these
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 1: indicators that that that there is nothing more going on
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: than someone who has created an llc UH maybe rented
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 1: a very small office space. In one case, there was
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 1: an office space that appeared to be a closet. And
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 1: then they start building the government, the state and local government,
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 1: to the tunes of hundreds of hundreds of millions of dollars.
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  Speaker 1: To my way of thinking, I just don't know why
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  Speaker 1: there cannot be or were unable to muster the political
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  Speaker 1: will to actually look into something like this and try
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  Speaker 1: and cut it out.
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  Speaker 6: Well, yeah, and I think that's where, you know, you
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  Speaker 6: look to the next administration to be able to address that,
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 6: and you elevate champions like Mike Devella who are doing
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  Speaker 6: the job legislators are elected to do, which is hold
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  Speaker 6: you know, executive agency feet to the fire.
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  Speaker 2: But again, just on the budgeting thing, I took a
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  Speaker 2: quick look.
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  Speaker 6: At the numbers here. You know, medicaid is we spend
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  Speaker 6: twice as much money on Medicaid in the state of
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  Speaker 6: Ohio than we do on education, about eleven billion dollars
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 6: on K through twelve Education spend. We've appropriated twenty two
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  Speaker 6: billion dollars this fiscal year in medicaid that's grown by
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 6: five billion dollars over the last ten years. I mean, again,
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  Speaker 6: when you talk about smoke and fire and where do
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  Speaker 6: we need to be paying attention for these things when
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 6: you have a program that's grown by five billion dollars
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  Speaker 6: in that period of time in a.
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  Speaker 2: State of Ohio. State like Ohio, there's a lot you know,
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  Speaker 2: things aren't going good.
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  Speaker 6: You don't want to see programs like that increasing and spending,
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  Speaker 6: right because that's I mean that either we're getting worse
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 6: health outcomes or fraudust rampant and abundant. And then I
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 6: think in the case of medicaid here instead of with
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 6: both of those things, we're not getting good outcomes for
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 6: the tax payer dollars spent, and it's fueling rampant fraud, waste,
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 6: and abuse within a system that's really designed to help
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  Speaker 6: you know, the age, elderly, blind, the people who actually
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  Speaker 6: need it.
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  Speaker 2: It's just it's dirty all around.
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  Speaker 6: And you know, while as a grassroots organization, we plan
• 1:38:21
  Speaker 6: to keep legislators feeding the fire on this and we'll
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 6: count change that. Et of the members like Rep. Mike Devilla,
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  Speaker 6: who are you know advocating for reform in the space.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think the idea of having some transparency
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 1: and accountability on these issues is the first step, the
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  Speaker 1: first major step towards getting these sorts of things under control.
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  Speaker 1: Donovan O'Neil, great to talk to you this morning, as always,
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  Speaker 1: appreciate the time and keep up the great work at Americans.
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  Speaker 2: For Thank you much, sir. Have a good one.
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  Speaker 1: All right, there you go, Donovan, fifty five krc DE
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  Speaker 1: We are going to be talking with Thomas Massey after
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 1: the news here at the top of the hour. Joe,
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 1: let me I've brought some audio with me today. Let
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 1: me get one that I think we have time to play.
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 1: This is This is Cash Battel. He was up in
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 1: front of the Senate Committee yesterday and Chris van Holland
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 1: went to tried to knock down cash Battel on all
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 1: these issues of him being a drunk, and it sounded
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  Speaker 1: like this. Joe, let's hear cut number three. Please.
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  Speaker 10: Multiple reports, including reporting by the Atlantic, have alleged episodes
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 10: of excessive drinking, unexplained absences and behavior the concerned current
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  Speaker 10: and former FBI and DJ officials. You have publicly denied
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 10: those allegations and filed a defamation lawsuits. So today, as
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 10: you testify before Congress, is your testimony that those allegations
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 10: are categorically.
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  Speaker 5: False, unequivocally categorically false.
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  Speaker 10: So there have been no occasions during your tenure when
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  Speaker 10: FBI personnel were unable to promptly reach you.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely not.
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  Speaker 5: You can ask my entire workforce. They hear from me
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 5: at every single hour of the day, as do these
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 5: great gentlemen here, as do the men and women of
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 5: the interagency in state and local law enforcement in the
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 5: White House.
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  Speaker 10: And so there have been no occasions when your security
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 10: detail had difficulty waking or locating you.
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  Speaker 2: Is that right?
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  Speaker 5: No, if it's a total force, I don't even know
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 5: where you get this stuff. But it doesn't make it
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 5: credible because you say so.
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  Speaker 10: I'm not saying it, Director Patel. It's been written and documented.
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  Speaker 5: You are literally saying it.
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  Speaker 10: No, I'm saying that these are reports, Director Patel.
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  Speaker 5: Unlike reports. You're the only person that was slinging Margarita
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 5: is in New Salvador on the taxpayer dollar with a
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 5: convicted gangbanging rapist. Was you, you know, the person that ran
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 5: up a director thousand dollar bar tab in Washington, DC's
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 5: lobby bark.
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  Speaker 1: In this room drinking.
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  Speaker 10: On taxpayer dime during the day, Director Patel, Come on,
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 10: these are serious allegations that were made against you.
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 5: Filed you drinking Margarita's with a gang actual.
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 1: Running a seven thousand dollar.
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 5: Bar tab at the lobby bar, but has been filed
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 5: by your own office during the day.
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  Speaker 2: That's you.
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  Speaker 1: So there you go. This is part of what I
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 1: love about the Trump administration. You got these individuals that
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 1: they come up before these you know, people like Van
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 1: Holland here, I mean he made he's an absolute disgrace.
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 1: And Patel is one hundred percent right because you remember
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 1: the photo when this guy went to El Salvador and
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 1: had the the Margarita sit down with the guy who's
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 1: commonly referred to as the Maryland Dad, right, and he
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 1: went out of his way to make sure that this
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 1: guy was going to be able to get back in
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 1: the United States and all of that. And then Cash
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 1: Battel brings the receipt and you see the seven thousand
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 1: dollars bar tab that was run up for a quote
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 1: holiday party for him and his staff. Seven Grand Joe
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 1: is a seven thousand bar tab? Is that pretty even?
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 1: In DC? I think that would be a pretty hefty
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 1: bar tab. So, I mean, drink, you're going to go
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 1: off boozing in DC. It's going to be expensive. But
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 1: Cash Battel and the other members of the administration, you're
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 1: going to try and run rough shot over them. You
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 1: got to bring your air game, your a game every time,
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 1: and this particular time, I'm going to give the wind Battel.
• 1:42:50
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• 1:42:51
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• 1:42:54
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  Speaker 1: hour to go, fifty five krc DE Talk station eight
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  Speaker 1: o five, Dan Carroll for Brian Thomas. Brian Thomas back
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  Speaker 1: in the big chair tomorrow. And at this time it
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  Speaker 1: is my pleasure to welcome in Congressman Thomas Massey and
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  Speaker 1: Thomas Massey. Great to talk to you again. How are you, sir?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, good to be on your show.
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  Speaker 3: Dan. Now we're about yeah, go ahead away from an election.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, a big, big primary election coming up. And I
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  Speaker 1: did not know this until I read this on the
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  Speaker 1: Channel five website this morning. According to Axios, ad spending
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  Speaker 1: in the race between Massy and gowran As eclipsed twenty
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  Speaker 1: five million dollars, making it the most expensive house primary
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  Speaker 1: in history. Thomas Massey, I would imagine, you know, fifteen
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  Speaker 1: or twenty years ago, as someone told you you're going
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  Speaker 1: to be involved in the most expensive house primary in history, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: you may have maybe thought that that might not have
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  Speaker 1: been possible. Where's all this money coming from?
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  Speaker 3: Well, listen, dogs don't bark at parked cars.
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  Speaker 2: And I've been told.
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  Speaker 3: If you're if you're taking flak, you're over the target. Man,
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  Speaker 3: I must be right on target because I'm they're taking
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  Speaker 3: the nuclear weapons, not the flack against me. Ninety five
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  Speaker 3: percent of the money comes from foreign lobby interests, and
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  Speaker 3: it's not some ninety five percent of my opponent's money.
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  Speaker 3: Now my money. Most of my money comes from grassroots
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  Speaker 3: individuals who are giving less than one hundred dollars each
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  Speaker 3: and there are tens of thousands of those people donating
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  Speaker 3: to my campaign. Because I'm up against three billion on
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  Speaker 3: the other side who They've donated to Chuck Schumer.
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  Speaker 2: They called it.
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  Speaker 3: These billionaires or Republican mega donors, but they're woke. They
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  Speaker 3: donate the transgender activist programs with George Soros. They've done
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  Speaker 3: fundraisers for Chuck Schumer. They fund pro abortion Democrats. Their
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  Speaker 3: names are Miriam Adelson, Paul Singer, and John Paulson. These
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  Speaker 3: are the three billionaires in the Epstein class. Ironically, you know,
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  Speaker 3: one of them is one of was one of Epstein's
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  Speaker 3: friends in Any Black Book, but the other two go
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  Speaker 3: to dinners with all those same billionaires.
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  Speaker 1: So Donald Trump has been banging you pretty good, calling
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  Speaker 1: you a rhino, talking about how you need to be
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  Speaker 1: sent on your way, that he can't rely on you,
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  Speaker 1: all these sorts of things. How is that playing out
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  Speaker 1: amongst the constituents that you have as you travel around
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  Speaker 1: during the campaign.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he also called me a moron at the prayer breakfast.
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  Speaker 1: I must have missed that one.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, more on, Okay, I'm just glad I'm any prayers.
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  Speaker 1: Thank God for that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, obviously I'd rather not be running against somebody who
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  Speaker 3: has the president's endorsement. But here's the reality, Dan, I
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  Speaker 3: vote with the president ninety percent of the time. I
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  Speaker 3: voted for the Save Act, I voted for the Wall,
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  Speaker 3: I voted for fun dhs to deport illegal aliens. I
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  Speaker 3: have co sponsored legislation in the tax on Social Security.
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  Speaker 3: I'm actually the one who introduced that legislation many years ago.
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  Speaker 3: And so I'm for ninety percent of the stuff Donald
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  Speaker 3: Trump and the other Republicans are for. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: when the people elected me from Kentucky, I did not
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  Speaker 3: agree to go into a suicide pact with John Thune
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  Speaker 3: and Lindsey Graham and Mike Johnson and all the other
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  Speaker 3: rhinos up there. See, the rhinos up there have one
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  Speaker 3: hundred percent track record of voting with Trump because ten
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  Speaker 3: percent of the time they're bankrupting the country. They're trying
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  Speaker 3: to spy on you without warrants, and I don't go
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  Speaker 3: along with that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So, so on one hand, you refer to some
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  Speaker 1: of these individuals as rhinos, and I think a case
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  Speaker 1: can be made for that. But then there are others
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  Speaker 1: who look at you and call you a rhino, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think anyone who thinks about these
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  Speaker 1: things in a critical way expects any member of Congress
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  Speaker 1: to be if they're being honest about it, and they
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  Speaker 1: want to have a member of Congress who is a
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  Speaker 1: legitimate member of Congress to be in lockstep with whatever
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  Speaker 1: leadership there is or whatever president there is one hundred
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  Speaker 1: percent of the time. So I give you, I give
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  Speaker 1: you credit for for doing that, and I give you
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  Speaker 1: credit for uh for being willing to uh to face
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  Speaker 1: the music on all these questions. But I go ahead,
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  Speaker 1: go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know on the on the Epstein files, you know,
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  Speaker 3: they said, oh, you're just doing this to help the Democrats.
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  Speaker 3: And I fought five months to bring that bill to
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  Speaker 3: the floor. But when they had to vote on it,
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  Speaker 3: it passed one hundred to nothing in the Senate at
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  Speaker 3: four hundred and twenty seven to one in the House.
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  Speaker 3: How is that being a rhino when every freaking Republican
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  Speaker 3: but won in the House and the Senate vote for it.
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  Speaker 3: But I was called that because people just didn't want
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  Speaker 3: to have to vote on it. And then when we
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  Speaker 3: voted on it, and I've got three million files released,
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  Speaker 3: it's taken out the CEO of the World Economic Forum,
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  Speaker 3: Like remember the World Economic Forum. Those are the guys
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  Speaker 3: that say you'll you'll you should be eating bugs instead
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  Speaker 3: of beef, and that you'll own nothing and be happy
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  Speaker 3: about it. And these are the kind of people that
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  Speaker 3: are against me, these globalist billionaires, because I upset the
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  Speaker 3: apple cart by exposing them and their friends and these
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  Speaker 3: Epstein files. And that's so, that's also another part of
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  Speaker 3: that ten percent where we disagree. But you know, people,
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  Speaker 3: anybody who's been married, it's hard to have more than
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  Speaker 3: ninety percent agreement, even with your spouse. So don't expect
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  Speaker 3: me to be closer to these guys up here than
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  Speaker 3: I would be to my wife.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and let me ask you, since you brought up
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  Speaker 1: the Epstein files. When it comes to the Epstein files,
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  Speaker 1: the only thing that I want, and I think that
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people want out of the Epstein files,
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  Speaker 1: is for those individuals who are guilty or engaged in
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  Speaker 1: the abuse of young girls, young women under the you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know, at the Epstein's Island or whatever the case
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  Speaker 1: may be. I think they and I know that I want.
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  Speaker 1: I want those people to be exposed and I want
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  Speaker 1: them brought to justice. All the other stuff I really
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  Speaker 1: I could care less about, you know, who hung out
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  Speaker 1: with him, what parties he went to, I mean all
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  Speaker 1: that kind of stuff, But the individuals who engaged in
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  Speaker 1: this activity, who abuse these young women, bring them to justice,
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  Speaker 1: and they need to answer for their misdeeds. Other than that,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think most of the American people could
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  Speaker 1: care less. So it just baffles me as to why
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  Speaker 1: it's been so difficult to bring this information to light.
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  Speaker 3: Correct And I said this on the floor of the House.
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  Speaker 3: This effort is not successful until we see rich and
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  Speaker 3: powerful men perp walk to jail for the things they
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  Speaker 3: did on Rape Island when they were with Jeffrey Epstein
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  Speaker 3: and on his plane. And I can list some of
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  Speaker 3: those names, jess Daley, Leon Black. Those are two of
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  Speaker 3: the names that need to be investigated, possibly indicted and arrested.
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  Speaker 3: They're in the files. People keep saying, well, who are
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  Speaker 3: the names? I keep saying the names, and there's more people.
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  Speaker 3: And in Britain, you've seen Prince Andrew Lewis his title,
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  Speaker 3: he got arrested. You've seen the same thing happen to
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  Speaker 3: the British Prime British Ambassador of the United States, former
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  Speaker 3: Prime Minister of Norway, Minister of Culture. In France, it
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  Speaker 3: seems like there's arrest indictments, and investigations everywhere except for
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  Speaker 3: the United States. And that's why they hate me for
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  Speaker 3: breathing air here in the deep state, is because I'm
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  Speaker 3: exposing the fact that we've got a two tier system
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  Speaker 3: of justice this where anybody else, they've been nailed to
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  Speaker 3: the wall.
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  Speaker 1: The other issue where I think we are in agreement
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  Speaker 1: on is the idea of these stopgap spending bills. Why
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  Speaker 1: is it that we have gotten so far away from
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  Speaker 1: the function that Congress is supposed to have when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to appropriating funds when it comes to having separate
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  Speaker 1: funding bills for all these different entities of government, and
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  Speaker 1: we have instead relied on these omnibus bills that, to
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  Speaker 1: my way of thinking, certainly don't serve anyone well when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to being fiscally responsible.
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  Speaker 3: Dan, I couldn't agree with you more. The biggest reform
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  Speaker 3: we could have up here is to separate these bills
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  Speaker 3: into separate topics. I've been preaching that for twelve years.
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  Speaker 3: The reason they can run ads against me on TV
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  Speaker 3: saying you vote against this, you vote against that. He
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  Speaker 3: voted against this because I vote. If you vote against
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  Speaker 3: one omnibus bill, it's got everything in it, so everything
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  Speaker 3: that government does that you like, you can say that
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  Speaker 3: guy voted against and they can run the ads and
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  Speaker 3: put little fine print at the bottom and point to
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  Speaker 3: some kind of omnibus bill. And this is how they
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  Speaker 3: obfuscate what they're doing, because if they put, let's say,
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  Speaker 3: in three thousand pages, they put a pay raise for
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  Speaker 3: the soldiers, somebody can vote for that and go back
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  Speaker 3: home and say, I've voted for the pay raise for
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  Speaker 3: the soldiers. Well, guess what. You also voted to fund
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  Speaker 3: transgender surgeries for children.
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  Speaker 2: You voted to fund planned parenthood.
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  Speaker 3: All that crap was in there too, And so people say, well, Massey,
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  Speaker 3: you should vote for this stuff. What would happen if
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  Speaker 3: it didn't pass and the government shutdown. Well, we go
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  Speaker 3: back to the drawing board and we draw up a
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  Speaker 3: smaller bill that spends less money. But here's one of
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  Speaker 3: my crimes, crimes against the swamp. Is I have the
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  Speaker 3: audacity to point out, since Republicans have been in the
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  Speaker 3: House and the Senate and the White House for sixteen months,
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  Speaker 3: we've added two point seven trillion dollars to the debt.
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  Speaker 1: All right, well, Congressman Massey, stay right there, if you would, sir.
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  Speaker 1: We got to get to a quick break and we'll
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  Speaker 1: continue on. You're on fifty five KRCV talk station.
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  Speaker 1: Fifty five KRCV talk station talking with Congressman Thomas Massey
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  Speaker 1: right now and Congressman a bill at you help sponsor
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  Speaker 1: Hr two to sixty seven, which calls for the Attorney
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  Speaker 1: General to give Congress report on individuals who I guess
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  Speaker 1: fail a background check to purchase a firearm, to provide
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  Speaker 1: information on those who fail the background check. It seems
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  Speaker 1: to me that it's it's almost incomprehensible why we don't
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  Speaker 1: have this information available now. But what's you know, what's
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  Speaker 1: to be what's to be learned by being having the
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  Speaker 1: availability to this information?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, thanks for asking. I wrote this bill from scratch
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  Speaker 3: and I got it passed yesterday past the House that
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  Speaker 3: represented unanimously. And we're not talking about collecting more information
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  Speaker 3: on gun owners, and we're not talking about having information
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  Speaker 3: on specific individual gun owners. What we want is the
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  Speaker 3: aggregate data because here's what it will show when you
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  Speaker 3: go to get a background check, when you purchase a
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  Speaker 3: firearm at since dealer, they run a background check, and
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  Speaker 3: if you have a name that is similar to somebody
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  Speaker 3: who's been convicted, and your day is similar to somebody
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  Speaker 3: who's been convicted of crime of a year or more,
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  Speaker 3: you'll probably get automatically denied, and then you can appeal it.
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  Speaker 3: If you fail your appeal, you got to hire a lawyer.
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  Speaker 3: And there are a lot of people don't even get
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  Speaker 3: to buy a gun because the background checks failed. It
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  Speaker 3: merely identified that as the wrong person. Here's what happens, though,
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  Speaker 3: if you are black and you go do this, you're
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  Speaker 3: three times as likely to get failed to be failed
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  Speaker 3: by the next background check system if you're even if
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  Speaker 3: you're a law abiding individual, because it's likely that you'll
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  Speaker 3: share a name with somebody else who is black, who
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  Speaker 3: has been imprisoned. And that's because within certain races and
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  Speaker 3: ethnic groups you share names. If you're Hispanic, you're probably
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  Speaker 3: twice as likely as a white person to get denied
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  Speaker 3: of the purchase of a gun, even if you're a
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  Speaker 3: law abiding citizen, for the same reason Hispanics share names.
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  Speaker 3: And then if you have somebody with that name who's
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  Speaker 3: in jail or been in jail, you might be phibited.
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  Speaker 3: What this data will do, What my bill does it
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  Speaker 3: requires the DOJ to show this, and they already collect
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  Speaker 3: the data. If you've ever bought a gun at a
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  Speaker 3: gun dealer that you have to put your race, your ethnicity,
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  Speaker 3: your sex, you have to put that on the form.
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  Speaker 3: They're collecting the data. They just then publish it. And
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  Speaker 3: imagine this. If somebody found out that the background check
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  Speaker 3: system at a bank is as faulty and racially biased
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  Speaker 3: as it is for a gun check, then that bank
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  Speaker 3: would be sued out of existence, right because you have
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  Speaker 3: to go through background check to handle money at a bank. So,
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  Speaker 3: but this is the government, and I'm trying to make
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  Speaker 3: them accountable. And my hope is this, once we learn
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  Speaker 3: the data, Republicans and Democrats, they will be as inspired
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  Speaker 3: as I am to make this system more accurate so
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  Speaker 3: that fewer people get falsely denied their ability to buy
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  Speaker 3: a gun. There's over one hundred thousand denials a year
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  Speaker 3: and they are only about twelve federal convictions. So what
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  Speaker 3: does that tell you. That tells you most of the
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  Speaker 3: people who are denied were denied.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, let me ask you if you've only
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  Speaker 1: got a couple of minutes left here, but let me
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  Speaker 1: ask you this we've got the midterms coming up. There
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 1: are those who might suggest that a guy like Thomas
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  Speaker 1: Massey doesn't care if the Republicans hold onto the House
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  Speaker 1: in the midterm elections. What do you say to that?
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, Well, let me tell you what will
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  Speaker 2: happen if I do lose. I believe I represent a
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  Speaker 2: large part of that coalition that gave us the majority
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  Speaker 2: and gave us to the White House.
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  Speaker 3: What do I mean? There are Republicans who care about
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  Speaker 3: the Fourth Amendment. They want to make you have a
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  Speaker 3: warrant before you spy on individuals. There's Republicans who care
• 1:57:43
  Speaker 3: about making America healthy again, that food freedom, health freedom,
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 3: freedom from the vaccine mandates. I'm the leader of that
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  Speaker 3: in the House of Representatives. Into there are Republicans like
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  Speaker 3: me that don't want to get us stuck in a
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  Speaker 3: forever war. And if I'm not in Congress, that voice
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 3: goes away, and the people that are Republican for those reasons,
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 3: they're not going to switch to Democrat, but they'll be
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 3: apathetic and not show up in the fall. I desperately
• 1:58:13
  Speaker 3: want us to be in the majority. Want and I
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 3: think the best way we do that is following through
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  Speaker 3: on the promises we make when we run, which is
• 1:58:21
  Speaker 3: to balance a budget and to have transparency and justice
• 1:58:26
  Speaker 3: and to have follow the Bill of Rights. Those are
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  Speaker 3: the things I support if I get elected. I think
• 1:58:33
  Speaker 3: the future of our party looks bright in November.
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  Speaker 1: One of the greatest frustrations that I have is the
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  Speaker 1: inability to move the Save Act to completion, move it
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  Speaker 1: through the Senate, and get it approved. How frustrating is
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  Speaker 1: that for you?
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  Speaker 3: It's frustrating for me. The Save Act would require photo
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 3: ID and proof of American citizenship before you vote in
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  Speaker 3: a federal election. It seems just like common sense to me,
• 1:58:56
  Speaker 3: and you would think since every Republican and even most
• 1:58:59
  Speaker 3: Democrats outside of the Beltway support that, that you could
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  Speaker 3: get that pass. But you can't. I've voted for it
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  Speaker 3: twice in the House, but twice in the Senate they
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  Speaker 3: killed it because of the filibuster over there. I think
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 3: if they want a filibuster, they should have to do
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 3: like Senator Paul did and stand up and talk to
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 3: the point of exhaustion to show that they really mean it.
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 3: And if you had that, you could probably get it
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  Speaker 3: passed in the Senate. But you know, John Thuke could
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 3: bring that up and make the Democrats vote against it
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  Speaker 3: until they get so much public pressure that some of
• 1:59:31
  Speaker 3: them craft for it. I would hold the vote in
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  Speaker 3: the Senate over and over. I think the problem is
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  Speaker 3: you might have some Republicans over there that are against it.
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  Speaker 1: I wish he would do I wish he would do that,
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  Speaker 1: and I think that would go a long way to
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  Speaker 1: ensuring that Republicans are able to hold on to majorities
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  Speaker 1: in the House and Senate when the midterms come along.
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  Speaker 1: Thomas Massey, the primary is Tuesday. Best of luck to you,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, congratulations on being involved. Been the most
• 2:00:00
  Speaker 1: expensive primary ever at least you know you got to
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  Speaker 1: get that to hang your hat on.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the ads will end on May nineteenth, I promise.
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  Speaker 3: But you can vote on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday in Kentucky,
• 2:00:13
  Speaker 3: and you take Sunday and Monday off and then you
• 2:00:16
  Speaker 3: can show up on Tuesday and vote. But I encourage
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 3: everybody listening here, if you leave in the Constitution, if
• 2:00:22
  Speaker 3: you believe in limited government, personal freedom and economic liberty,
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  Speaker 3: go vote for me.
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  Speaker 2: Please. I'm asking for your vote, all.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Congress from Nassy, thank you very much for the
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  Speaker 1: time this morning. And all the best to you and
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  Speaker 1: hopefully we'll get a chance to talk on down the road.
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  Speaker 1: All right, there you go Thomas Massey and good to
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  Speaker 1: talk to him. Eight twenty six at fifty five krc
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday morning, care for Brian Thomas. Brian Thomas is back tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: and I've got some audio sound bites I want to
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  Speaker 1: run through here, but we have a few comb phone
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  Speaker 1: calls first five one, three, seven, five hundred and we
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  Speaker 1: say good morning to Jay J fifty five krc how's
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  Speaker 1: it going.
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  Speaker 4: Hey man, pretty good. You've been doing a heck of
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  Speaker 4: a job today, a great uh got some great guests. Hey,
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  Speaker 4: I want to jump into the Medicaid thing real quick.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the guests are all thanks to Joe Strecker. Joe
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  Speaker 1: Strecker sets him up and we just knock him down.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, well the uh, here's what I learned recently
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  Speaker 4: with and I don't hear anybody talking about it on
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  Speaker 4: this Medicaid fraud called my I called my representative, Michelle
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  Speaker 4: Tesca and asked her, hey, can you tell me what
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  Speaker 4: you're doing with regards to medicaid fraud because nothing's happening.
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  Speaker 4: And she told me that she and some other Republican
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  Speaker 4: lawmakers also were frustrated, and they sent a letter to
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  Speaker 4: Attorney General Yost's office asking for investigation to begin, and
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  Speaker 4: nothing happened.
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  Speaker 2: And that was.
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  Speaker 4: Corroborated on a interview with another state representative, Tex Fisher,
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  Speaker 4: who's up in Northeast Ohio. He was on a station
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  Speaker 4: up there in Northeast Ohio and he was being interviewed.
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  Speaker 2: He said the same thing.
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  Speaker 4: So we have elected representatives trying to get Attorney Yost
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  Speaker 4: and also Faber to get moving, and they've refused to
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  Speaker 4: do it. And they've been very quiet about that. I
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  Speaker 4: don't know why they're not stepping forward and calling in
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  Speaker 4: and saying here's the letter, here's how many people signed
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  Speaker 4: on it.
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  Speaker 2: We just like our constituents.
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  Speaker 1: Have had enough.
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  Speaker 2: But I've got a theory of why they're staying quiet.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well, I'd like to hear your theory. But before
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  Speaker 1: you do that, I just want to say that when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to David Yost, I'm a little surprised that
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  Speaker 1: he is seemingly just let this slide for as long
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  Speaker 1: as he has led this slide. Maybe there's something going
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  Speaker 1: on that I I haven't read about yet, or maybe
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  Speaker 1: something that I missed. Maybe there is something going on
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  Speaker 1: that hasn't been announced yet. But it seems to me
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  Speaker 1: that everything that I've heard and everything I've read that
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  Speaker 1: this has been known in Columbus for some time and
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  Speaker 1: there has really been no serious investigation and maybe just
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  Speaker 1: some minimal prosecutions related to this.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you're I think you hit it dead on,
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  Speaker 4: And I'll give you some personal experience. I've called the
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  Speaker 4: Attorney General's Office fraud hotline probably six times in the
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  Speaker 4: past six years to report fraud on medicaid, thinking what
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  Speaker 4: if nobody called in on this yet? I mean, it's unlikely,
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  Speaker 4: but I called in every time. I get a response
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  Speaker 4: from somebody saying, we've reviewed your request and we decided
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  Speaker 4: it wasn't worth forwarding to the Attorney General. I said,
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  Speaker 4: who's we, Well, we the admin staff. I said, who
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  Speaker 4: is the admin staff? To tell a Ohio one the
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  Speaker 4: pace taxes that my request for a fraud hotline?
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  Speaker 2: Who are you people? Well, we answered the phone. I said,
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  Speaker 2: are you a call bank?
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  Speaker 4: Well, no, we're full time government employees. But the administrative
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  Speaker 4: staff has the decision authority to figure out what goes
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  Speaker 4: forward and what doesn't go forward to the Attorney General's office.
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  Speaker 4: And I ran into the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: I called I just that last week.
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  Speaker 1: I called, and you're talking about the fraud hotline, which
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  Speaker 1: I see advertised all the time. Hey, you see something, right,
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  Speaker 1: see something, say something, pick up the phone, you know,
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  Speaker 1: be a whistleblower, call this number, let us know about it.
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  Speaker 1: And then when you do that, what do you do?
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  Speaker 1: You get the run around?
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  Speaker 4: You can't get past the admins called office. I called
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  Speaker 4: Faber's office this week and the lady then answered the phone.
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  Speaker 4: I said, about medicaid fraud. It's lighting up the press.
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  Speaker 4: She said, oh, well, that's not us, that's the Department
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  Speaker 4: of a Health and Human Servicess. I said, so what
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  Speaker 4: kind of fraud does somebody call the Auditor's office about
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  Speaker 4: exactly that? Can you help me with that? If this
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  Speaker 4: isn't the right kind of fraud, what is the right
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  Speaker 4: kind of fraud? She said, well, if it's like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: some sort of government office. I said, okay, I said,
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  Speaker 4: I want to retract my request. Here's a new request.
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  Speaker 4: The governor's office is known about medicaid fraud, so has
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  Speaker 4: the Attorney general, so has the auditor, and representatives that
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  Speaker 4: have been elected have sent a letter and nothing's happening.
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  Speaker 4: Can you do something with that? She says, yeah, I
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  Speaker 4: think we can do something with that. But that's the
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  Speaker 4: kind of of screening and dysfunction that's going on up there.
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  Speaker 4: And back to my theory. The reason I think everybody's
• 2:05:30
  Speaker 4: keeping their heads down in mouth shut is who's got
• 2:05:33
  Speaker 4: all the power and money for these Republican lawmakers to
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 4: either support them or not support them, Central Committee, the
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 4: Republican Party of the State of Ohio. The last thing
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  Speaker 4: they want at this point is this breaking loose, this
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  Speaker 4: close to a general which is a conservative. I don't
• 2:05:50
  Speaker 4: like it either, But what are we.
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  Speaker 2: Going to do? Hold our nose and vote for thieves?
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  Speaker 1: No care. I don't care what time a year it is.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care where we are in the election site.
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  Speaker 1: If this information is coming to light in the in
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  Speaker 1: the manner in which it's coming to light now, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: steps need to be taken and political stuff needs to
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  Speaker 1: be set aside, and they want this is a time
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  Speaker 1: to show what you're really made of and you know
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  Speaker 1: how many of these politicians are going to go on
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 1: there and and when you hear them talk from time
• 2:06:22
  Speaker 1: to time, they want, you know, they want to bloviate
• 2:06:25
  Speaker 1: about how I don't care about politics, this, that and
• 2:06:27
  Speaker 1: the other thing. I just want to do what's right.
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  Speaker 1: And then all that's bull crap, that's completely crap. Do
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  Speaker 1: something here. It is right in front of your face.
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  Speaker 1: Do something about it.
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  Speaker 4: They have between now and November, and Faber was on
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  Speaker 4: the program in November.
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  Speaker 1: November is approaching fast.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but they can do something now instead of favor
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  Speaker 4: talking about that when he gets elected as attorney general,
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  Speaker 4: he's going to be on this fraud seven days a week,
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  Speaker 4: twice on Sundays, quote unquote, Well, how about doing something
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  Speaker 4: today while you're still auditor and attorney dressing. I think
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  Speaker 4: you're starting pressing us now because you've had how many years.
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  Speaker 1: I would I would believe, I would believe his auditor
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  Speaker 1: some of this is under his purview. And with that, Jay,
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  Speaker 1: we got to run. I thank you very much for
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  Speaker 1: the call, J, but we got to get to a break.
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  Speaker 1: Eight thirty six fifty five KRC. The talk stations. Hey
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  Speaker 1: looking for a good reputable talk station Oh, so much
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  Speaker 1: to talk about, so little time. Let's go back to
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  Speaker 1: the phones and see what Maureen has for us this morning. Maureene,
• 2:07:32
  Speaker 1: you're on fifty five KRC.
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  Speaker 11: Good morning, Dan. I just wanted to help fill in
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  Speaker 11: some of the gaps maybe with Congress and Nassey talking
• 2:07:40
  Speaker 11: about why the Epstein files haven't been released yet and
• 2:07:42
  Speaker 11: his frustration around that.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I listened to a podcast.
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  Speaker 11: I listened to a podcast of a bunch of retired generals,
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  Speaker 11: and one of the topics is discussed was the possibility
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  Speaker 11: of it's still being used as leverage, but in a
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  Speaker 11: good way, as opposed to being compromising judges and new
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  Speaker 11: politicians and that sort of thing. It's being used to
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  Speaker 11: rescue the children before they bring in the perpetrators, because
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  Speaker 11: the children would be killed if that weren't the case.
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  Speaker 11: And yesterday you mentioned Operation Iron Pursuit, where they rescued
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  Speaker 11: two hundred children and three hundred fifty sex offenders were arrested,
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  Speaker 11: and well, last December there was Operation Relentless Justice, two
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  Speaker 11: hundred and five children were rescued and two hundred ninety
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  Speaker 11: three of centers were arrested. And last May there was
• 2:08:23
  Speaker 11: Operation Restore Justice, which led to the rescue of one
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  Speaker 11: hundred and fifteen children and the rest of two hundred
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  Speaker 11: and five child predators. So Trump is doing things behind
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  Speaker 11: the scene and it's all going to work out. The
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  Speaker 11: Epstein files are going to come out, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 11: in an these general's opinion, But we need time to
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  Speaker 11: rescue these children that we use as evidence. You know,
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  Speaker 11: that's why they would kill these children before this happened.
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  Speaker 11: And Trump is working diligently to get these children rescued. Now.
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  Speaker 11: In regards to Comy, you mentioned about the eighty six
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  Speaker 11: forty seven rocks and his trial and indictment and that sortgrace. Oh,
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  Speaker 11: he's disgusting, and I think that his things are not
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  Speaker 11: They haven't come to head with him yet. Uh. These
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  Speaker 11: generals seem to think that he has slipped and he's
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  Speaker 11: going to turn on Obama and Hillary.
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  Speaker 1: All that'll be the are you kidding me?
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  Speaker 3: They have on him?
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  Speaker 11: He lied, he lied underthing.
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  Speaker 1: He goes out. I mean, look, I really I don't
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  Speaker 1: get this fixated or focused on on one And I
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 1: want to say politician here, but he's not a politician.
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  Speaker 1: He's a he's a bureaucrat ahead of the FBI. I
• 2:09:33
  Speaker 1: don't get fixated on on people singularly like this very often,
• 2:09:38
  Speaker 1: but for Kungmy because this strikes me because for as
• 2:09:43
  Speaker 1: long as I can remember, from from my earliest days,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, my dad used to watch right Ephraim Zimbalist
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  Speaker 1: Junior and the FBI on TV, and I was like, man,
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  Speaker 1: that is so cool, the FBI, such a great organization,
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  Speaker 1: so trustworthy, so smart. You can't defeat him, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: just just one of the And so I've always had
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  Speaker 1: this image in my head of the FBI as just
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  Speaker 1: being the elites of the elites, the best of the best.
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  Speaker 1: And James Comy destroyed all of that for me because
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  Speaker 1: he let himself be used as a political pawn. Instead
• 2:10:18
  Speaker 1: of standing up doing what was right, saying no to Obama,
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  Speaker 1: saying no to Hillary, saying no to Joe Biden, he
• 2:10:25
  Speaker 1: allowed himself to be used as a political pawn and
• 2:10:28
  Speaker 1: dragged down a great institution with it. And a guy
• 2:10:33
  Speaker 1: like Cash Mattel is dealing with the aftermath of that,
• 2:10:37
  Speaker 1: and I don't want to say he's single handley trying
• 2:10:39
  Speaker 1: to rebuild it, but he's trying to restore a lot
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  Speaker 1: of that lost credibility.
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  Speaker 11: I agree with that, and he is a dirty Coppist,
• 2:10:47
  Speaker 11: Trump says. And I also know that Tulcy Gabbert is
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 11: a labeled this in treason, his conspiracy, and she's preferred
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  Speaker 11: it to the Department of Justice and for prosecution. So
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  Speaker 11: we've not heard the end of what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what FBI director in their right mind would
• 2:11:02
  Speaker 1: falsify fis A warrants and allow, you know, allow their
• 2:11:06
  Speaker 1: agents to completely change important documentation and allow for the
• 2:11:13
  Speaker 1: spying on a presidential candidate or a president after he
• 2:11:18
  Speaker 1: takes office and help facilitate that sort of thing. What
• 2:11:21
  Speaker 1: what honest FBI director would allow for something like that.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, he is going to go down, but he's going
• 2:11:28
  Speaker 11: to flip on the others, but just for leniency. But
• 2:11:30
  Speaker 11: he is going to be prosecuted.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well yeah, I mean, Maureen, I mean I certainly, look,
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  Speaker 1: I hope you're right. But even if he does, he
• 2:11:40
  Speaker 1: is so disgraced and so discredited. Now how much I
• 2:11:43
  Speaker 1: think it would be easy for an attorney, either a
• 2:11:47
  Speaker 1: prosecutor or defense attorney to destroy his testimony because the
• 2:11:52
  Speaker 1: guy is so compromised and.
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  Speaker 11: He may end up in guantanobay. What do you do
• 2:11:57
  Speaker 11: with treason. That's where they end up.
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  Speaker 1: Maureen, thank you for the phone call. I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: Great talking to you this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: All right, thank you, Maureen. Let's get to one more
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  Speaker 1: break and then I've got this SoundBite of cash Battel
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  Speaker 1: square and off with Senator Patty Murray, another disgraceful individual,
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  Speaker 1: and you don't want to miss this eight forty five
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  Speaker 1: fifty five KRCD talk station. Hey, neighbor, Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 1: I talked a little bit earlier about the hearings that
• 2:12:24
  Speaker 1: were going on on Capitol Hill yesterday. You had Pete
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  Speaker 1: heg seth up there. Scott has sent the Treasury Secretary
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  Speaker 1: in Cash Battel from the FBI, and he was being
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  Speaker 1: questioned by the disgraceful senator from Washington, Patty Murray, and
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  Speaker 1: she was trying to belittle his leadership capabilities as some
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  Speaker 1: of the most of the Democrat senators we're trying to do.
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  Speaker 1: But Cash Bettel was ready for and this is what
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  Speaker 1: I would call an instant classic on behalf of Cash Battel. Joe,
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  Speaker 1: Let's here cut number four.
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  Speaker 12: Please now, Director Patel, I want to ask you about
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  Speaker 12: a number of extremely troubling stories recently about your leadership
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  Speaker 12: and temperament and what's happened to the FBI with you
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  Speaker 12: at the top. And in response to all the concerns
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  Speaker 12: about your leadership, instead of writing the ship, you've taken
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  Speaker 12: to polygraphing your employees to scare them and attempt to
• 2:13:20
  Speaker 12: rat out leakers. There are reports that you're using FBI
• 2:13:24
  Speaker 12: resources to investigate journalists for reporting what's going on, and
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  Speaker 12: that is absolutely not what this committee intended when we
• 2:13:31
  Speaker 12: funded the bureau. So can you commit to this committee
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  Speaker 12: today that no agent hours have been pulled from other
• 2:13:38
  Speaker 12: work like counter terrorism or violent crime investigations, to work
• 2:13:43
  Speaker 12: on matters related to negative press about you or your.
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  Speaker 2: Personal lawsuit center.
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  Speaker 5: I greatly appreciate the question, and I contended unequivocally, this
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  Speaker 5: FBI is targeting and investigating no journalists. This FBI is
• 2:13:56
  Speaker 5: targeting no journalists. The Obama and bidendministration's targeted dozens of journalists,
• 2:14:02
  Speaker 5: sent out twelve hundred interviews.
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  Speaker 12: I didn't ask you about the Giden administration. I asked,
• 2:14:06
  Speaker 12: if you can commit to this committee that no agent
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  Speaker 12: hours have been pulled from other work.
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  Speaker 5: We have not done.
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  Speaker 12: So, Okay, Well, there are reports that are using as
• 2:14:15
  Speaker 12: FBI resource to investigate journalists. You are saying to this
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  Speaker 12: committee today that that.
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  Speaker 6: Is not true.
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  Speaker 5: That's correct, man.
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  Speaker 12: Okay, well, let me just say direct for tell. We
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  Speaker 12: need a serious budget, but we also need serious leadership.
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  Speaker 12: And I will say this, there is one clear priority
• 2:14:35
  Speaker 12: in Trump's overall budget, and it isn't law and order.
• 2:14:38
  Speaker 12: It is war. Because while Trump is proposing cuts to
• 2:14:41
  Speaker 12: programs that really do keep people safe, he wants to
• 2:14:44
  Speaker 12: increase war spending by half a trillion dollars. And I
• 2:14:49
  Speaker 12: don't need to tell anyone here we are not going
• 2:14:51
  Speaker 12: to bomb our way to safer communities. So I intend
• 2:14:54
  Speaker 12: to help rip that budget up and write bills that
• 2:14:57
  Speaker 12: keep family safe. But beyond that budget, we need serious
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  Speaker 12: leadership at the FBI that the American people can trust.
• 2:15:05
  Speaker 12: And I am deeply concerned about the reports that your
• 2:15:08
  Speaker 12: leadership has not been serious. We need somebody at this
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  Speaker 12: agency who's focused on solving criminal cases, not passing out
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  Speaker 12: branded bourbon or jetting around the globe. Your job is
• 2:15:21
  Speaker 12: to be reachable. And I know Senator Van Holland asked
• 2:15:23
  Speaker 12: you about this, but I got to say, if you
• 2:15:26
  Speaker 12: want to pass out liquor or pop bottles in a
• 2:15:28
  Speaker 12: locker room, stick to podcasting, Leave law and order to
• 2:15:32
  Speaker 12: people who really do care about justice and appearances. That
• 2:15:35
  Speaker 12: is really critical, and it's what I am really deeply
• 2:15:39
  Speaker 12: concerned about, and so are many people. Thank you, mister chairman.
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  Speaker 5: Can I respond, this is what real leadership looks like
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  Speaker 5: at the FBI, every one of you was given it.
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  Speaker 5: This is what's happened under my tenure at the FBI
• 2:15:53
  Speaker 5: and the Trump administration. Twenty point drop in the homicide rate.
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  Speaker 5: Forty five thousand violent offenders arrested last year, twice as
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  Speaker 5: many as twenty twenty four. Twenty four hundred and fifty
• 2:16:03
  Speaker 5: criminal gangs disrupted. That's a three hundred and twenty two
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  Speaker 5: percent increase from twenty twenty four. Sixty nine hundred child
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  Speaker 5: victims have been located since I've been in the seat.
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  Speaker 5: That's one hundred and forty four percent increase. Twenty nine
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  Speaker 5: hundred child predators in human traffickers arrested, that's a seventy
• 2:16:18
  Speaker 5: percent increase. And we've arrested eight of the top ten
• 2:16:21
  Speaker 5: most wanted fugitives in the world in fourteen months. That's
• 2:16:23
  Speaker 5: twice as many in the four years combined. That is
• 2:16:26
  Speaker 5: what the men and women of the FBI are doing.
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  Speaker 5: Well resourced. Everyone should take a look at this. If
• 2:16:31
  Speaker 5: people want to continue the baseless, fraudulent, false personal attacks
• 2:16:34
  Speaker 5: that me. That's great, keep the target on me as
• 2:16:36
  Speaker 5: I've always said, but the mission has never been better.
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  Speaker 12: Miss Sherman. I FAC could just respond to the Murray.
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  Speaker 1: So there you go, there's cash Pttel So the disgraceful
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  Speaker 1: Patty Murray tries to accuse him of being a drunk,
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  Speaker 1: having parties, all the rest of it, and that his
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  Speaker 1: leadership style leads to the FBI not getting anything done.
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  Speaker 1: Does she really think there was effectively hip under James
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  Speaker 1: Comy and Cash Bettel was ready for twenty point dropping
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  Speaker 1: the homicide rate. Forty five thousand violent offenders arrested last year,
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  Speaker 1: six nine hundred child victims located since he's been in office,
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  Speaker 1: a one hundred and forty four percent increase over what
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  Speaker 1: the Biden administration does. Absolutely disgraceful. That is it for me.
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  Speaker 1: I am out of here. Glenn Beck is coming up next.
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  Speaker 1: Brian Thomas back in the seat tomorrow. But always my
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  Speaker 1: great honor to be here for Brian Thomas and have
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  Speaker 1: a chance to talk to the best audience in local
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  Speaker 1: Cincinnati radio. Joe Strecker, thank you for everything that you've
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  Speaker 1: done and we will see you next time on fifty
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