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Trump Attempts to Hide Cozy Past with Pedophiles Epstien and Maxwell; Ukraine Fights On- TPN 8/31/25 · The People's News

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Speaker 1: It's the first week of September twenty twenty five, and
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Speaker 1: this is what's on the People's News. Congressman Al Green
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Speaker 1: speaks out on the attempted and illegal firing of Lisa Cook.
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Speaker 1: An assassination in Ukraine brings further uncertainty. The integrity of
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Speaker 1: Texas Parks is under threat. Latest news on the Dynamo
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Speaker 1: and the Dash. All that and more on the People's News.
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Speaker 1: I'm Steve Gallington. This is the People's News, and the
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Speaker 1: People's News starts next. We start off the spistion of
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Speaker 1: the People's News with a reading from Timothy Snyder's on Tyranny,
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Speaker 1: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, which was published in
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Speaker 1: twenty seventeen and something I used as a guidebook to
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Speaker 1: get me through the first Donald Trump presidency. We're reading
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Speaker 1: number fourteen of the twenty Lessons, which is entitled establish
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Speaker 1: a private life. Nastier rulers will use what they know
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Speaker 1: about you to push you around, scrub your computer of
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Speaker 1: malware on a regular basis. Remember that email is skywriting.
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Speaker 1: Consider using alternative forms of the Internet or simply using
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Speaker 1: it less. Have personal exchanges in person for the same reason.
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Speaker 1: Resolve any legal trouble. Tyrants seek the hook on which
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Speaker 1: to hang you. Try not to have hooks. What the
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Speaker 1: great political thinker Hannah Arendt meant by totalitarianism was not
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Speaker 1: an all powerful state, but the erasure of the difference
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Speaker 1: between private and public life. We are free only in
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Speaker 1: so far as we exercise control over what people know
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Speaker 1: about us, and in what circumstances they come to know it.
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Speaker 1: During the campaign of twenty sixteen, we took a step
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Speaker 1: toward totalitarianism without even noticing it, by accepting as normal
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Speaker 1: the violation of electronic privacy, whether it is done by
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Speaker 1: American or Russian intelligence agencies, or for that matter, by
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Speaker 1: any institution. The theft, discussion, or publication of personal communications
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Speaker 1: destroys a basic foundation of our rights. If we have
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Speaker 1: no control over who reads what and when, we have
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Speaker 1: no ability to act in the present or plan for
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Speaker 1: the future. Whoever can pierce your privacy can humiliate you
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Speaker 1: and disrupt your relationships at will. No one, except perhaps
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Speaker 1: a tyrant, has a private life that can survive public
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Speaker 1: exposure by hostile directive. The timed email bombs of the
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Speaker 1: twenty sixteen presidential campaign were also a powerful form of
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Speaker 1: disinformation words written in one situation makes sense only in
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Speaker 1: that context. The very act of removing them from their
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Speaker 1: historical moment and dropping them in another is an act
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Speaker 1: of falsification. What is worse, when media followed the email
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Speaker 1: bombs as if they were news, they betrayed their own mission.
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Speaker 1: Few journalists made an effort to explain why people said
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Speaker 1: or wrote the things they did at the time. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: in transmitting privacy violations as news, the media allowed themselves
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Speaker 1: to be distracted from the actual events of the day.
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Speaker 1: Rather than reporting the violation of basic rights, our media
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Speaker 1: generally preferred to mindlessly indulge in the inherently salacious interest
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Speaker 1: we have in other people's affairs. Our appetite for the
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Speaker 1: secret thought aarrant is dangerously political. Totalitarianism removes the difference
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Speaker 1: between private and public, not just to make individuals unfree,
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Speaker 1: but also to draw the whole society away from normal
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Speaker 1: politics and toward conspiracy theories. Rather than defending facts or
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Speaker 1: generating interpretations, we are seduced by the notion of hidden
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Speaker 1: realities and dark conspiracies that explain everything. As we learn
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Speaker 1: from these email bombs, this mechanism works even when it
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Speaker 1: is revealed. It is of no interest. The revelation of
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Speaker 1: what was once confidential becomes the story itself. It is
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Speaker 1: striking that the news media are much worse at this than, say,
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Speaker 1: fashion or sports reporters. Fashion reporters know that models are
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Speaker 1: taking off their clothes in the changing rooms, and sports
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Speaker 1: reporters know that their athletes shower in the locker room,
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Speaker 1: but neither allow private matters to supplant the public story
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Speaker 1: that they are supposed to be covering. When we take
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Speaker 1: an active interest in the matters of doubtful relevance at
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Speaker 1: moments that are chosen by tyrants and spooks, we participate
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Speaker 1: in the demolition of our own political order. To be sure,
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Speaker 1: we might feel that we are doing nothing more than
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Speaker 1: going along with everyone else. This is true, and it
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Speaker 1: is what aren't described as the devolution of society into
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Speaker 1: a mob. We can try to solve this problem individually
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Speaker 1: by securing our own computers. We can also try to
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Speaker 1: solve it collectively by supporting, for example, organizations that are
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Speaker 1: concerned with human rights. That was an excerpt of the
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Speaker 1: book on Tyranny, Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by
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Speaker 1: Timothy Snyder, and yet another move to distract away from
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Speaker 1: his decades long relationship with convicted sex predator and pedophile
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Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein and Glaine Maxwell. The convicted felon, criminal, corrupt,
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Speaker 1: and incompetent Donald Trump has called on his toady, Bill Poulty,
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Speaker 1: to go after his perceived enemies. Bill Poulty of Pulty Holmes.
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Speaker 1: Yes that Bill Poulty was named by Trump as the
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Speaker 1: director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency and as such
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Speaker 1: has been filing criminal referrals to the Justice Apartment against
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Speaker 1: Trump's perceived enemies, Adam shift Letitia James and now finally
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Speaker 1: one of the FED governor's Lisa Cook, Congressman of the
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Speaker 1: ninth Congressional District in Houston, Al Green, the top Democrat
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Speaker 1: on the US House Financial Services Committee's Subcommittee on Oversight
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Speaker 1: and Investigations, which oversees the Federal Reserve system. The FED
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Speaker 1: condemned the felon's unjustified and unprecedented firing of doctor Lisa Cook,
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Speaker 1: the first black woman appointed to the Fed's Board of Governors,
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Speaker 1: as well as his unbridled efforts to undermine the independence
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Speaker 1: of the FED. The Federal Reserve is the central bank
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Speaker 1: of the United States. Its dual mandate is to promote
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Speaker 1: maximum employment and insure stable prices. In pursuing this dual mandate,
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Speaker 1: the FED was designed to function independently of political pressure
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Speaker 1: from either the President or Congress. Doctor Cook was appointed
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Speaker 1: to the fed's Board of Governor's by President Biden and approved
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Speaker 1: by the Congress in twenty twenty two. He spoke on
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Speaker 1: this and his thoughts on not representing the district because
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Speaker 1: of the new redistricting map in Texas.
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Speaker 2: I want to thank the members of the press for
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Speaker 2: appearing on what I consider short notice, but I do
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Speaker 2: believe that there's good reason for us to have this
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Speaker 2: press event. The President has said that he has fired
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Speaker 2: FED board member Lisa Cook.
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Speaker 3: The board member Lisa Cook has indicated that she is
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Speaker 3: suing the president and in fact has done so. The
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Speaker 3: FED Chair Powell has indicated that he will abide by
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Speaker 3: the court's decision. President says he's fired her as Cook
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Speaker 3: has indicated that she is suing the President with regards
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Speaker 3: to what she believes to be an unjust firing, and
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Speaker 3: the chair of the FED has indicated that he will
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Speaker 3: abide by the court's decision. I think that the chair
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Speaker 3: Chair Powell did not say enough It is my opinion
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Speaker 3: that he is surrendering some of the independence of the
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Speaker 3: FED by giving an incomplete statement. I believe he should
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Speaker 3: have gone on to indicate that until the court renders
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Speaker 3: a decision, he will consider her a member of the FED.
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Speaker 3: The President is playing with economic fire. In doing this,
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Speaker 3: the President is putting the credibility of our central bank,
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Speaker 3: which is thought to be an independent agency. The President
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Speaker 3: is putting the credibility of our independent bank at risk.
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Speaker 3: Global markets do not want our central bank to become
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Speaker 3: a presidential tool, something that he can at a whim
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Speaker 3: decide that interest rates may escalate or they may decline,
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Speaker 3: and the President does do things on a whim. It
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Speaker 3: seems in doing this, the President is demonstrating once again
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Speaker 3: that he has little respect for due process. Ms Cook
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Speaker 3: has not been charged with a crime. She has not
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Speaker 3: obviously been convicted. If she hasn't been charged, she hasn't
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Speaker 3: been convicted of any crime, not charged with any crime.
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Speaker 3: The President does not have proper respect for a process,
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Speaker 3: a due process. The President does not have respect for
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Speaker 3: the independence of the FED. The independence of the FED
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Speaker 3: is the means by which the FED maintains its credibility.
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Speaker 3: Global markets depend on this independence, and the President is
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Speaker 3: eroding the independence of the FED, and unfortunately, mister Powell,
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Speaker 3: in not standing with his Governor Cook, has to a
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Speaker 3: limited extent, surrendered some of that independence. The President has
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Speaker 3: demonstrated to us that he believes he is more than
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Speaker 3: the President of the United States. He is the jury president,
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Speaker 3: but he sees himself as a de facto king, a
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Speaker 3: de facto authoritarian president who can do anything that he wants,
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Speaker 3: and has said as much. The President cannot be allowed
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Speaker 3: to destroy the dollar as the world's supreme currency. It
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Speaker 3: is the currency of choice, the reserve currency of choice,
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Speaker 3: and it is the currency of choice because people have
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Speaker 3: faith in the FED, and they have faith in the
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Speaker 3: FED because they don't believe the FED is tied to
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Speaker 3: the president. The President is playing with economic fire. If
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Speaker 3: we lose dollar supremacy, it will have an impact on
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Speaker 3: our bond market. Our bond market is sought after globally.
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Speaker 3: The bond market is what is used by municipalities when
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Speaker 3: they're issuing new debts, by corporations when they issue new debt.
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Speaker 3: The bond market is something that is not only helping
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Speaker 3: to stabilize this country, it really is important in geopolitical stabilization.
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Speaker 3: We have a duty and a responsibility to protect the
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Speaker 3: independence of the FED. Now let me define the weed
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Speaker 3: and use a person pronoun. I have served on the
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Speaker 3: Financial Services Committee since I arrived in Congress. I've had
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Speaker 3: the pre eminent honor and privilege of being the chairperson
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Speaker 3: of Oversight and Investigations, the subcommittee of the Financial Services Committee.
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Speaker 3: I am now the ranking member of the Oversight Subcommittee
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Speaker 3: of Financial Services. It is Financial Services that has jurisdiction
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Speaker 3: of oversight for the FED. When I say we, I'm
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Speaker 3: talking about now members of the Financial Services Committee. We
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Speaker 3: have a responsibility to take the stand to protect the
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Speaker 3: independence of the FED. I as a member of that committee,
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Speaker 3: I'm going to do all that I can, especially as
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Speaker 3: the ranking member on Oversight. That means that I'm the
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Speaker 3: top Democrat on the Oversight subcommittee, and I'm gonna do
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Speaker 3: everything that i can to protect the dependence of the FED,
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Speaker 3: because in so doing, I'm protecting the independence of our economy,
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Speaker 3: our sovereignty. This is bigger than the President simplifying a person.
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Speaker 3: This is an assault on the institution that has made
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Speaker 3: our economy the envy of the world. Yes, we in
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Speaker 3: Congress play a role, Yes we do. Yes, the President
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Speaker 3: plays a role. But friends, that independence of the FED
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Speaker 3: is what global markets and leaders look to when they
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Speaker 3: want to invest in the United States of America. So
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Speaker 3: I'm calling on the President to cease and desist with
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Speaker 3: this unreasonable behavior. He has gone too far. He's playing
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Speaker 3: with economic fire and he must he must retract what
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Speaker 3: he is doing. If he does not, then it's to
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Speaker 3: the courts. And I say the courts because this could
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Speaker 3: matriculate to the Supreme Court, and it's up to these
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Speaker 3: courts to do what they must to protect the independence
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Speaker 3: of the FED. Because the FED, as it was designed,
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Speaker 3: was to be an independent agency within the federal government.
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Speaker 3: It's not a separate government into itself, but it is
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Speaker 3: an independent agency within the federal government, and that independence
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Speaker 3: makes all the difference. Now, I want to close with
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Speaker 3: something before I take your questions. It's important for us
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Speaker 3: to note that our president is going after agency after agency,
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Speaker 3: and in so doing, he is taking away the credibility
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Speaker 3: of these agencies. He has looked at the Labor Marcus
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Speaker 3: in the sense of the way he behaves when he
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Speaker 3: sees a report that he doesn't like. If it indicates
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Speaker 3: that employment is great, it's valid, it's legitimate. If the
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Speaker 3: number is not something that he finds favor with, he
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Speaker 3: not only expresses his displeasure, he goes after the entity,
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Speaker 3: the agency that has acquired the empirical evidence to produce
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Speaker 3: the numbers that he finds this favor with. The President
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Speaker 3: believes that only he is right and the world is wrong.
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Speaker 3: This cannot continue. The president has got to be brought
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Speaker 3: back into control. If the courts can't do it because
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Speaker 3: he disrespects them, and the Congress won't do it because
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Speaker 3: he controls the Republican majority, then we the people have
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Speaker 3: the final option, and we have to say to the
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Speaker 3: President and know on certain terms you will not miss
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Speaker 3: the president destroy the American economy. We the people can
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Speaker 3: do this with many things. We have our voices, but
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Speaker 3: we also have the right to protest. I'm a believer
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Speaker 3: in Protestation. It was Protestation that brought me to Congress.
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Speaker 3: It was the Edmund Pettis Bridge on Bloody Sunday in
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Speaker 3: nineteen sixty five, when persons were beaten back to the
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Speaker 3: church where they started as they approached this bridge, they
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Speaker 3: were beaten back to the church where they started John
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Speaker 3: Lewis was there and he told me the story, said
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Speaker 3: he thought he was gonna die, and they had the
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Speaker 3: Petties Bridge. After that, the Voting Rights Act was signed.
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Speaker 3: Many of us who are in Congress now are there
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Speaker 3: because of the Voting Rights Act. President is assaulting the
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Speaker 3: Voting Rights Act. The courts are abiding with his assault,
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Speaker 3: and unfortunately Section two is under great threat. Just today
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Speaker 3: the governor has signed I believe his new gerrymandering, unlawful
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Speaker 3: jerry mandering that will challenge in court. But the point
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Speaker 3: is the President is doing all that he can to
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Speaker 3: destroy these institutions, and many of us in Congress because
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Speaker 3: of these institutions. So we have to protect what has
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Speaker 3: caused us to have the greatest economy in the world,
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Speaker 3: and we have to protect it with all lawful means necessary.
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Speaker 3: And Protestation, what happened at the Edmund Pettis Bridge is
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Speaker 3: a supreme superb example of how Protestation could make a difference,
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Speaker 3: because it's made a difference in who's in the Congress
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Speaker 3: of the United States of America. The diversity in the
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Speaker 3: Congress of the United States of America. Protestation lead legal, lawful, peaceful,
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Speaker 3: non violent, Protestation is a methodology by which change can
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Speaker 3: be made. And I believe that the President is going
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Speaker 3: to see more and more of this as he continues
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Speaker 3: his unbridled assault on American institutions. I welcome your questions.
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Speaker 3: Why do you, in your opinion, why do you think
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Speaker 3: he did what he did? To be tho there? Well,
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Speaker 3: let's hear from the American Banker. The American Banker published
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Speaker 3: an independent piece and it is styled Fed's Independent Hangs
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Speaker 3: on Meaning of four Calls, published on August twenty ninth,
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Speaker 3: twenty five. Let's read some of what they say here
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Speaker 3: to answer the question. The question is why do I
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Speaker 3: believe he has done this, committed this act of firing.
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Speaker 3: Let's read what the American Banker says. It's indicates here
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Speaker 3: in part ms Cook has not been charged with the crime,
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Speaker 3: let alone convicted of what. The claim that she listed
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Speaker 3: two homes as her primary residents was first made by
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Speaker 3: someone with another agency, the Federal Housing Finance Agency. And
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Speaker 3: then he loudly and publicly demanded interest rates cuts, and
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Speaker 3: he blames the FED for constraining the housing market with
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Speaker 3: high interest rates. The President wants the FED to do
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Speaker 3: his bidding. The President wants the Fed to lower interest
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Speaker 3: rates because he understands that if this happens, there would
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Speaker 3: be a better demand for homes because people can use
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Speaker 3: low interest rates to buy their homes. So he wants
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Speaker 3: lower interest rates. Well, mister Powell and the members of
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Speaker 3: the Fed have not decided to cut interest rates, and
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Speaker 3: they haven't because they have concerns with the tariffs that
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Speaker 3: the President continually manipulates. One day they're high, the next
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Speaker 3: day they're low. The markets are responding as he raises
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Speaker 3: tariffs and lowers tariffs. The President is fiddling with the economy, fiddling.
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Speaker 3: It would be too polite to say that he is managing.
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Speaker 3: He is just doing things in a willy nilly way
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Speaker 3: with the economy. They go on to indicate in this article,
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Speaker 3: Marcus have become more skeptical of America during his second term.
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Speaker 3: The dollar has fallen nine percent against other rich world currencies.
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Speaker 3: They go on to indicate, although short term treasury yields
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Speaker 3: have fallen as the American economy has softened, longer terms
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Speaker 3: have stayed high, reflecting investor concern about America's death load
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Speaker 3: and threatens the economic institutions such as the FED. This
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Speaker 3: is what the American banker has said so, yes, the
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Speaker 3: rational for his behavior appears to be his desire to
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Speaker 3: see interest rates lord. But the governors at the Fed
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Speaker 3: seem to understand that keeping these interest rates where they
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Speaker 3: are until they get a better sense of what the
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Speaker 3: tariffs are going to do to the economy makes sense.
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Speaker 3: And quite frankly, that makes sense to me, makes sense
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Speaker 3: to a good many other persons who are supposed to
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Speaker 3: know how to manage our currency. I hope that the
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Speaker 3: President understands that he's playing with economic fire. This impacts
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Speaker 3: all of us. Every person in this country should be
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Speaker 3: concerned about what the President is attempting to do to
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Speaker 3: governor cook. You should be concerned because it can impact
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Speaker 3: your interest rates. It can impact your ability to buy
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Speaker 3: a car, to buy a whole. It can impact your
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Speaker 3: ability to borrow money to start your business or to
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Speaker 3: maintain your business. This is the through line to almost
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Speaker 3: everything that we do in this economy. We have to
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Speaker 3: be concerned about what the President is doing, and the
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Speaker 3: Course should be the last stand against this. But if
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Speaker 3: the court should fail us, then we have to do
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Speaker 3: what the Republican Congress won't do, and that is to
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Speaker 3: take our calls to the streets of America in a
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Speaker 3: peaceful way, in a peaceful, non violent way, to show
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Speaker 3: the country that Americans are concerned about what's happening.
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Speaker 1: That was Congressman Al Green from the ninth Congressional District
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Speaker 1: in Houston, Texas, holding a press conference of the firing
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Speaker 1: of Federal Reserve Board member Lisa Cook. Former Ukrainian parliamentary
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Speaker 1: speaker Andrey Perubi was shot dead in the western city
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Speaker 1: of Kiev on Saturday, with authorities launching an extensive manhunt
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Speaker 1: for his killer. The Prosecutor General's office confirmed that an
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Speaker 1: unidentified gunman fired multiple shots at Perubi, killing the fifty
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Speaker 1: four year old on the spot before fleeing the scene.
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Speaker 1: In addition, there was a Russian drone attack in southern
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Speaker 1: Ukraine and an air attack on Kiev. While the rest
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Speaker 1: of the world is allied behind the Ukraine, The convicted
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Speaker 1: felon and commander in cheat Donny Trump, is still waiting
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Speaker 1: for his boss, Russian President Vladimir Putin to agree with
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Speaker 1: a meeting with President Vlotomar Zelensky of Ukraine. Instead of
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Speaker 1: calling out Russia and his boss Vladimir Putin, the convicted
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Speaker 1: felon Donald Trump has stated that Europe is standing in
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Speaker 1: the way of peace. We spent some time with the
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Speaker 1: former president of the Ukrainian American Cultural Club of Houston,
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Speaker 1: Michael B. Balahutrak. He spoke on the situation on the ground.
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Speaker 4: One of the things that I want to first start
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Speaker 4: with is that Ukrainians, both in Ukraine and in the Aspara,
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Speaker 4: are grateful to the United States and all the citizens,
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Speaker 4: particularly citizens in Houston with all their Ukrainian flags hanging
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Speaker 4: on their houses, for the support that they have shown
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Speaker 4: and given to Ukraine and Ukrainians for their fight for
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Speaker 4: democracy and independence in Ukraine against the Russian attacks and
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Speaker 4: Russian invasion. Now, the Russian invasion has taken land early
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Speaker 4: on in the war in March and April of twenty
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Speaker 4: twenty two. Since then, Ukraine has fought back and pushed
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Speaker 4: back to Russians and reco at about five percent of
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Speaker 4: the land that they took. Now that is over one thousand,
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Speaker 4: two hundred and fifty days ago. Don't quote me in
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Speaker 4: the exact numbers, but as of the past one thousand
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Speaker 4: and some thirty days, which is roughly for years, the
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Speaker 4: Russians have not been able to take even one percent
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Speaker 4: of the land that they want to take. So the
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Speaker 4: Russians are fighting very very hard for there to be
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Speaker 4: an exchange of land, a tit for tat type of
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Speaker 4: exchange of land. Why are they doing it? Because they
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Speaker 4: cannot take additional land very rapidly and they know that
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Speaker 4: this war will take a long time. And meanwhile they
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Speaker 4: have lost over a million million, some one hundred soldiers
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Speaker 4: either dead or wounded terribly that they can't serve anymore. Therefore,
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Speaker 4: they have to rely on soldiers from Korea, from other
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Speaker 4: parts of the world, as well as as arms and
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Speaker 4: arms deliveries. The question, the question is is basic? Is basic?
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Speaker 4: How come the West is thinking about exchanging land when
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Speaker 4: it is an invader that took the land. They didn't
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Speaker 4: have the right to that land in the first place,
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Speaker 4: So how can somebody that doesn't have the right to
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Speaker 4: that land exchange it for something else? Okay, So that's
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Speaker 4: the first question. The second question that begs that begs
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Speaker 4: to be given is if Russia gets or reaches their
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Speaker 4: objective of getting the land that they claim that they want,
26:45
Speaker 4: which is the Donbas area, which is lu Hansen Donesk.
26:50
Speaker 4: You have to know that the biggest fortifications against invasion
26:58
Speaker 4: of further invasion of Russia is in Dunesque along the
27:04
Speaker 4: eastern side, I'm sorry, the western side of Donesk. If
27:08
Speaker 4: those two cities fall from a tusk, then I can't
27:12
Speaker 4: remember the name of the other one right now, fall
27:16
Speaker 4: then there is no bockade anymore to Russia because everything
27:21
Speaker 4: from there all the way to the Nipois River basically
27:24
Speaker 4: into Zappoisia is basically farmland, and they'll just roll over it.
27:29
Speaker 4: That's why they want those two cities. If they get
27:31
Speaker 4: those two cities, it's over with. It's over with. So
27:36
Speaker 4: Ukraine can in no way, from a strategic point of way,
27:41
Speaker 4: agree to a land swap, an illegal land swap that
27:45
Speaker 4: the Russians don't have a right to anyway. So that
27:48
Speaker 4: is the situation that Ukraine clind it south and between
27:52
Speaker 4: a rock and a hard spot, that they cannot possibly
27:56
Speaker 4: do this otherwise they're going to be giving up their
27:59
Speaker 4: independence just bye bye, by swapping land, which is not
28:06
Speaker 4: not not not not possible. Anyway, you had a question, Well,
28:12
Speaker 4: the time.
28:12
Speaker 5: The time he is spent by the US every time
28:16
Speaker 5: they go to not agreeing to a seat fight and
28:21
Speaker 5: gives Russia even more opportunity to try and take more land.
28:24
Speaker 5: This is this is something that Putin is in putent
28:27
Speaker 5: hands and that's what he wants. And it seems like
28:30
Speaker 5: the United States is caving in to UH Russia's Russia's
28:36
Speaker 5: more effort.
28:38
Speaker 4: Well as as as we all know that President Trump
28:43
Speaker 4: has threatened to put sanctions on Russia. But every time
28:47
Speaker 4: he puts the sanctions on Russia and meets meets was
28:51
Speaker 4: representatives of Russia or in this case in in UH
28:54
Speaker 4: on the fifteenth of August, when he met with Putin
28:58
Speaker 4: in Alaska. You know all he did. He threatened beforehand,
29:02
Speaker 4: a day beforehand to put sanctions in place. If putting
29:08
Speaker 4: them agreed to cease fire. Well, he delayed them by
29:11
Speaker 4: two weeks. Again, so it seems that mister Trump continues
29:16
Speaker 4: to pull to never go onto the red blind that
29:21
Speaker 4: he was in place. He threatened sanctions and delays them threatens.
29:26
Speaker 4: He's done that about five or six times now where
29:29
Speaker 4: he's delayed sanctions. Each time he begs the questions, why
29:34
Speaker 4: does he continue to delay sanctions? Why does he continue
29:38
Speaker 4: to do this? I don't know the answer, but that
29:41
Speaker 4: should be something that should be key by the Senate
29:44
Speaker 4: and the House to investigate why these sanctions keep being
29:49
Speaker 4: further delayed each time. Why is not the House and
29:53
Speaker 4: the Senate asking those serious questions.
29:59
Speaker 5: I don't think he we're understanding. Also, the the magnitude
30:03
Speaker 5: of Ukraine and Russia. I think Ukraine just hit close
30:07
Speaker 5: to Russia's nuclear power plant, and Russia has came close also,
30:12
Speaker 5: And the world is always has already acknowledged that this
30:16
Speaker 5: would be a threat to the West, even a threat
30:19
Speaker 5: to the United States if if one of those is
30:21
Speaker 5: one of those new reactors gets hit. Is that something
30:25
Speaker 5: that you're looking at Also, I'm.
30:29
Speaker 4: Sure the UK is looking at. I'm absolutely sure that
30:33
Speaker 4: the White of nuclear uh accidents no Christian about it.
30:41
Speaker 4: The Nuclear Agency is also looking for that. I don't
30:46
Speaker 4: believe that that either army of the Ukrainian Army nor
30:50
Speaker 4: the Russian Army wants to have a nuclear fallout. Remember,
30:54
Speaker 4: if if, if the if any reactors hit, there's no
30:59
Speaker 4: guarantee that the winds will not take the nuclear fallout
31:01
Speaker 4: into Moscow. There's no guarantee that that won't happen. So
31:05
Speaker 4: in effect, if they have a nuclear they are risking,
31:10
Speaker 4: in effect getting getting the fall out into Moscow. Of
31:14
Speaker 4: nuclear foruma, so that, in my mind is a stupid
31:18
Speaker 4: of course, the governments have to be careful not to
31:21
Speaker 4: not to hit them, but the fear of that, I
31:23
Speaker 4: think is overblown on purpose to avoid to avoid discussions
31:28
Speaker 4: where we need to discuss. Why why does the Assistant
31:32
Speaker 4: Secretary of Defense have the rights to stop long range
31:37
Speaker 4: missile firing into Russia? Why does the Assistant Secretary of
31:41
Speaker 4: State of the Defense have the rights to stop to
31:46
Speaker 4: stop the use of delivery of the missiles into Ukraine
31:52
Speaker 4: for defense and attacks into Russia. Why does he have
31:56
Speaker 4: to do it? Why did not President Trump punt this
32:00
Speaker 4: person for not following his instructions when he publicly stated
32:05
Speaker 4: after this last week, as a matter of fact, when
32:09
Speaker 4: you publicly stand the Ukraine should have the right and
32:13
Speaker 4: should their long range missiles into Russia to destroy their refineries,
32:20
Speaker 4: their supply chains, their airports, their military planes so that
32:26
Speaker 4: it can it can avoid all the bombing that Russia
32:31
Speaker 4: sends into Ukraine. So the question is why as somebody
32:37
Speaker 4: in the Defense department overrule what the president says? Is
32:43
Speaker 4: President Trump in control of the read the Illustreet Journal,
32:46
Speaker 4: a very conservative newspaper, and they ask those same questions.
32:51
Speaker 4: They ask those same questions. So, so who's running foreign
32:56
Speaker 4: policy is here? What's going on in the administry? Those
33:00
Speaker 4: are the questions that need to be asked. And again
33:04
Speaker 4: I go back to our Senate, in our house. Why
33:07
Speaker 4: are they Why are not the committees in charge of defense,
33:15
Speaker 4: in charge of state? Why are they not asking these questions?
33:19
Speaker 4: Why are we talking about stupidities of the issues in
33:26
Speaker 4: our society. It's to take away from the fact that
33:30
Speaker 4: the government is not working the way it's supposed to
33:33
Speaker 4: be working. That's why.
33:36
Speaker 5: What do you feel. Don't you feel that having long
33:39
Speaker 5: range missiles would intensified the war?
33:43
Speaker 4: No? No, no, quite the contrary, Russia is actually in
33:48
Speaker 4: a very weak position, both militarily and economically. Take a
33:53
Speaker 4: look at what's happening. Putin would not have to go
33:56
Speaker 4: to Korea for troops if he had enough troops at home.
34:00
Speaker 4: So this is something that he had to do because
34:02
Speaker 4: he's weak. He doesn't have enough troops at home. Many
34:05
Speaker 4: of his young people have left the country and are
34:08
Speaker 4: hiding all over the world, so he is he's in
34:12
Speaker 4: short supply of troops of what he wants to have,
34:16
Speaker 4: so he has to go outsources these to other places.
34:20
Speaker 4: Same goes for his economy. Ukraine his attack many many
34:24
Speaker 4: refineries learn range far away from the border with its
34:30
Speaker 4: own drones and its own missiles, and what has happened.
34:35
Speaker 4: There's long fuel lines in Moscow in villages. You can't
34:39
Speaker 4: get fuel in Saint Petersburg. There's long supply lines for
34:45
Speaker 4: gasoline and fuel in those towns. What that creates is
34:49
Speaker 4: a question by the general Russian populace. Is this putin
34:55
Speaker 4: strategy good or not? He has to keep control of
34:58
Speaker 4: the populace. If he loses control of populace, he'll lose power.
35:02
Speaker 4: The question is how long will the populace be able
35:04
Speaker 4: to stand for this and how long before they rebel
35:08
Speaker 4: against him? And this is what he is facing. His
35:11
Speaker 4: economy is weak because it's only a war economy. A
35:15
Speaker 4: war economy is not sustainable because all you're doing is
35:18
Speaker 4: spending money, and oil sales are down, even though he's
35:22
Speaker 4: increased in China and India, but they're still down from
35:25
Speaker 4: what they were. So income is down and he's spending
35:29
Speaker 4: tons of money on the military, So how long is
35:33
Speaker 4: that sustainable. He is pushing the US to push Ukraine
35:37
Speaker 4: in an agreement. Good for him, but what the US
35:41
Speaker 4: and the West has to realize is that they need
35:44
Speaker 4: to support Ukraine because this is the time when Russia
35:47
Speaker 4: is weak to really finally end Russian imperialism all over
35:53
Speaker 4: the world, not only in against Ukraine, but against Europe
35:57
Speaker 4: and against nations in Africa and South America. Remember, Russia's
36:02
Speaker 4: all over South America, particularly in Argentina, They're all over Africa,
36:08
Speaker 4: They're everywhere. They fenders in every place in the world.
36:13
Speaker 4: So there you go. What's the solution. The solution is
36:16
Speaker 4: to hit him when he's down and make it easier
36:19
Speaker 4: or let him roll over. And that's the big question
36:22
Speaker 4: that the West has to face.
36:24
Speaker 5: This one more quick question is is the Ukrainian army.
36:29
Speaker 5: Ukrainian military is strong enough to defeat Russia. Because before
36:33
Speaker 5: every Russians Toldia can be replaced, Ukrainian is is even
36:38
Speaker 5: harder to replace.
36:40
Speaker 4: Okay, listen, listen, listen. You are you are in your
36:43
Speaker 4: house right and and somebody attacks your house. Are you
36:47
Speaker 4: going to defend that or not? That's the question you
36:49
Speaker 4: have to ask. And this is the case in Ukraine.
36:53
Speaker 4: Ukraine people know that if they don't defend their country,
36:56
Speaker 4: and this is this has been done by many, many
37:02
Speaker 4: organizations have studied this in Ukraine. Serious organizations have studied
37:06
Speaker 4: this in Ukraine. That the Ukrainians realized that if they
37:11
Speaker 4: don't defend their country, they will be subjugated to Russia,
37:16
Speaker 4: and Russia will destroy it and kill them and send
37:21
Speaker 4: them off to Siberia or murder them or rape them
37:25
Speaker 4: or whatever they will do, because that is the That's
37:27
Speaker 4: what happened during Stalin times, and that's what's happening now
37:31
Speaker 4: all over again. Now you have three hundred billion dollars
37:33
Speaker 4: in assets that the West is holding of Russian asses.
37:37
Speaker 4: This money should go to re arm Ukraine. Ukraine will
37:41
Speaker 4: handle the war by itself very well. The problem is
37:45
Speaker 4: it is short on arms. It is short on long
37:49
Speaker 4: range missiles, It is short short cover. It desperately needs
37:53
Speaker 4: air cover, It desperately needs long range missiles, and it
37:58
Speaker 4: desperately needs standard arms lies. The people, the people so
38:03
Speaker 4: far are able to hold hold on. If Russia has
38:06
Speaker 4: not been able to gain more than one percent of
38:09
Speaker 4: the land in the past one thousand and some twenty
38:13
Speaker 4: six days, how are they going to gain anymore? If
38:17
Speaker 4: we if Ukraine gets the supplies they need. You understand
38:22
Speaker 4: this is this is this is an existential threat for Ukraine.
38:25
Speaker 4: They know that. They recognize that. I have had meetings
38:29
Speaker 4: recently from the from people from Odessa, I level people
38:33
Speaker 4: from Odessa back home. They're looking at how to rebuild
38:37
Speaker 4: the port facility is there, how to expand them to
38:40
Speaker 4: become the center of a part for because it's a
38:43
Speaker 4: deep water port for all of Eastern Europe to Romania, Moldavia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Serbia,
38:50
Speaker 4: Southern Poland, Slovakia. It's amazing. It's a major facility there
38:55
Speaker 4: that could support that. They want. They looking at the
38:59
Speaker 4: future of what they can do. There is a lot
39:02
Speaker 4: of projects. Ukraine is so key. Ukraine supplies wheat. They
39:07
Speaker 4: have shippen over a thousand million tons of wheat fifty
39:13
Speaker 4: five countries this year so far to feed the world.
39:17
Speaker 4: I mean, it's a major supply. If it falls, that's
39:20
Speaker 4: all goes away. So the West has to realize that
39:24
Speaker 4: the cost is not only supporting Ukraine. What will happen
39:27
Speaker 4: around the world will have long range consequences of hunger,
39:32
Speaker 4: of of of disease, of military actions which will cost
39:39
Speaker 4: a lot more. If this imperious Russia has not stopped today.
39:44
Speaker 4: This is this is critical. It's critical, it's very important,
39:47
Speaker 4: and the West has to must that. Read Read with
39:52
Speaker 4: banana rites, Read with other former US people that worked
40:00
Speaker 4: the State Department and CIA. Look at what Trump has
40:04
Speaker 4: done last week. He has fired a bunch of Russian
40:09
Speaker 4: experts at the CIA. Why fire a bunch of Russian
40:12
Speaker 4: experts at the CIA? What's going on? That's the question
40:16
Speaker 4: that the Senate, then the House has to ask. The
40:19
Speaker 4: Senate and the House is not doing their job. They're
40:22
Speaker 4: not doing this job. They must stand up and really
40:26
Speaker 4: take a strong action of what their constitutional responsibilities are
40:33
Speaker 4: and carry on their constitutional responsibilities. They're not supposed to
40:38
Speaker 4: be a rubber staff for a president, no matter who
40:41
Speaker 4: the president is. Well, that's a democratic republican. We're not
40:45
Speaker 4: talking to any more democrat and republican here. We're talking
40:47
Speaker 4: about what's happening in the US today and the existence
40:52
Speaker 4: of democracy not only in Ukraine, but in the US
40:55
Speaker 4: and other places in the world.
40:58
Speaker 1: That was a former president of the Ukraine American Cultural
41:00
Speaker 1: Club of Houston, Michael B. Balahutrak, speaking on the situation
41:05
Speaker 1: in Ukraine. Hi. This is Steve Gallington, producer and host
41:11
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41:37
Speaker 1: has formerly begun to rescind the two thousand and one
41:40
Speaker 1: Roadless Rule, which protects fifty eight point five million acres
41:45
Speaker 1: of wild areas in national forests, including four thousand acres
41:50
Speaker 1: in the Sam Houston National Forest north of Houston. Trump's
41:54
Speaker 1: appointee USDA Secretary Brook Rawlins initially announced plan to roll
42:00
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42:03
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42:22
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42:25
Speaker 1: a twenty one day public comment period will commence. Environment
42:30
Speaker 1: Texas has spoken out against rescinding the Roadless Rule, which
42:34
Speaker 1: allows roads to be built on pristine public lands. We
42:39
Speaker 1: spoke to Luke Metzger, Executive Director of Environment Texas.
42:44
Speaker 4: Yeah.
42:44
Speaker 6: Sure, well folks might not know, but we have four
42:48
Speaker 6: national forests here in Texas. In the Santa Houston National
42:52
Speaker 6: Forest is the closest to Houston and probably the most popular.
42:58
Speaker 6: And unlike a national park, the national forests are actually
43:01
Speaker 6: managed by the Department of Agriculture, and a lot of
43:06
Speaker 6: logging and mining, well Ashley and other things are actually
43:11
Speaker 6: allowed international forests. But about twenty four years ago the US,
43:17
Speaker 6: the federal government and Forest Service, President Clinton decided to
43:23
Speaker 6: set aside almost sixty million acres of the national forests
43:28
Speaker 6: to stay. Let's leave these places are so special, they're untouched,
43:32
Speaker 6: they're wild forests. Let's leave them alone. And there's already
43:35
Speaker 6: so many places you can log intern let's leave them. Well,
43:41
Speaker 6: they're they're not. There aren't roads through them now, there
43:43
Speaker 6: is much logging allowed, so let's protect them. And that's
43:48
Speaker 6: been the all of the land, you know, for a
43:50
Speaker 6: couple of dozen years now. And unfortunately the subjecty enrolments,
43:56
Speaker 6: as in Trump's Agriculture now today that they're going to
44:01
Speaker 6: undo that rule, and that means that in Texas, we
44:05
Speaker 6: have about four thousand acres in the San Houstern National
44:08
Speaker 6: Forests that are currently protected as roadless areas. And that
44:13
Speaker 6: includes the really popular Big Creek Scenic Area where hikers
44:19
Speaker 6: can visit it through the Lone Star Hiking Trail. And
44:22
Speaker 6: you know, if if that, uh, this proposal is successful,
44:25
Speaker 6: you know that what those wildforests really could be opened
44:28
Speaker 6: up and loost you know to road building, logging, well
44:33
Speaker 6: gas trilling and other activities.
44:36
Speaker 5: What does this mean? And also you know, like I
44:39
Speaker 5: know in California, when they started making developments in this
44:43
Speaker 5: in areas that that were known this forest areas, it's
44:48
Speaker 5: been it's been known to affect the environment in that community,
44:52
Speaker 5: especially you see more wildfires and more landslides and stuff
44:57
Speaker 5: like that. You know in floating, do you see this
45:01
Speaker 5: something that possibly can happen here as far as them
45:06
Speaker 5: trying to develop and then trying to then trying to sell.
45:08
Speaker 6: Off the floors, Yeah, certainly, no. I think you know,
45:12
Speaker 6: there is a role for kind of you know what's
45:14
Speaker 6: called finning practices, you know, in order to uh, you know,
45:17
Speaker 6: help prevent the spread of wildfires in our forests. But
45:22
Speaker 6: you know, we've actually seen the opposite happen where you
45:25
Speaker 6: have you know, lots of logging, which then creates underbrush
45:29
Speaker 6: that can easily become flammable and start fires. It also
45:34
Speaker 6: allows you to wind draft to more easily kind of
45:36
Speaker 6: get in there and fan the planes. And so there
45:39
Speaker 6: is direct connection between you know, increased logging activity and wildfires.
45:44
Speaker 6: And so that's yeah, definitely on the important reasons why
45:48
Speaker 6: we need to protect these here. And Sam Houston actually
45:50
Speaker 6: just had a wildfire this spring, you know, the result
45:53
Speaker 6: of a prescribed burn that kind of got out of control.
45:56
Speaker 6: And so we've seen you know, the dangers of of
46:01
Speaker 6: of wildfires in our forests and this proposal definitely is
46:04
Speaker 6: not going to make us safer.
46:07
Speaker 5: And this is this is a this is a trend
46:09
Speaker 5: now as far as selling off, the selling off the environment,
46:13
Speaker 5: that we're selling out the forest because not only that
46:18
Speaker 5: they're not only doing that, they're also talking about putting
46:23
Speaker 5: putting some part to the forest of forbid. So is
46:26
Speaker 5: this something that's just trying to privatize our parts?
46:30
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, unfortunately, I think that in the current administration,
46:33
Speaker 6: you see a lot of our public lands as an
46:36
Speaker 6: opportunity to you know, extract as many resources as possible
46:42
Speaker 6: at the at the extent of you know, protecting these
46:46
Speaker 6: wild areas, wildlife habitat, ensuring that you know, strong recreation
46:51
Speaker 6: opportunities that are available and including uh, you know, hiking
46:54
Speaker 6: and fishing and h and also you know, the ignoring
46:59
Speaker 6: the role that our forests play protecting our drinking water,
47:04
Speaker 6: which you know, the technas national forests do you know,
47:06
Speaker 6: really help protect and clean you know, the water that
47:10
Speaker 6: provides the Houston region. And so you know, I think
47:13
Speaker 6: it really is short sighted to look at how you
47:16
Speaker 6: maximize profit in the short term at the extense of
47:20
Speaker 6: these more important values.
47:22
Speaker 5: How to day, what do you think the feature is
47:25
Speaker 5: for the.
47:26
Speaker 7: For the for the forest and Texas is not well
47:31
Speaker 7: the you know, there was a really big logging boom,
47:35
Speaker 7: you know, around the end of the nineteenth century in
47:37
Speaker 7: East Texas, and you know most of those those trees,
47:42
Speaker 7: some of which were centuries old, were lost around that time.
47:46
Speaker 6: And starting in around the nineteen thirties under President Roosevelt's
47:49
Speaker 6: you know, they started you know creating these national forests
47:53
Speaker 6: and replanting and so now we've got you know, booth
47:56
Speaker 6: on the national forest side and on the private lands
47:58
Speaker 6: in East Texas, a number of trees that are starting
48:01
Speaker 6: to become more mature at eighty years old, one hundred
48:04
Speaker 6: years old, and if we just leave them alone, they
48:07
Speaker 6: could become you know, proper oldbrook forests again, which has
48:10
Speaker 6: so many benefits, you know, for for wildlife and just
48:15
Speaker 6: you know, for you know, edit our employment. And but
48:20
Speaker 6: you know, so we're we're facing this situation now where
48:24
Speaker 6: you know, there's already lots of logging in East Texas,
48:26
Speaker 6: especially on private lands. There's already some that happens in
48:30
Speaker 6: our national forests, and we have very few places left
48:34
Speaker 6: that really are are remote and untouched in wild and
48:39
Speaker 6: I think it's not too much to ask that we
48:41
Speaker 6: preserve just these small areas for one thousand acres in
48:44
Speaker 6: the state beside the Texas, let's just leave them alone
48:46
Speaker 6: and keep our forests wild.
48:50
Speaker 5: What do you get? What do you kind of do
48:52
Speaker 5: about this? This the problem we have right now that
48:56
Speaker 5: you're true talking about as far at the Bank of
48:58
Speaker 5: the Land.
49:00
Speaker 6: Well, we're certainly going to participate in the public comment periods.
49:04
Speaker 6: You know, the Forest Service will the initiating and working
49:07
Speaker 6: to organize public opposition to this proposal. And you know
49:12
Speaker 6: this is I think been you know, many decades long
49:15
Speaker 6: fight to preserve our core us and you know we've
49:19
Speaker 6: we've won many times before. So we're gonna We're gonna
49:23
Speaker 6: put up a fight and do what we can to
49:24
Speaker 6: preserve these areas.
49:27
Speaker 5: And Okay, so how do you get in touch with
49:29
Speaker 5: your organization and how if they want to if they
49:31
Speaker 5: want to get into the fight so to speak.
49:34
Speaker 6: Yeah, you've got the Environment Texas dot org. Have a
49:37
Speaker 6: position on our website targeting the governor. You know, we
49:41
Speaker 6: we particularly want to demonstrate to the federal government that
49:45
Speaker 6: a lot of states are opposed to this of these
49:47
Speaker 6: actions and you know, unclear whether we can appen to
49:51
Speaker 6: speak out on it, but we think that all the
49:53
Speaker 6: pressure really adds up. And you know, you know what
49:58
Speaker 6: we're talking that is not just the land here in Texas,
50:00
Speaker 6: but at Lapels in Alaska and a lot of Montana,
50:04
Speaker 6: you know, all throughout the country. And I think we
50:07
Speaker 6: all worked together we have a big shot at saving
50:09
Speaker 6: these places.
50:11
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50:15
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Speaker 1: defeated Saint Louis three to two on the road on Saturday.
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Speaker 1: Midfielder Dwayne Holmes scored his first Dynamo goal in the
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Speaker 1: seventy second minute, while midfielder andreje Linger registered his third
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Speaker 1: assist on the play. Houston returns to Shell Energy Stadium
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Speaker 1: on Saturday, September sixth to host the LA Galaxy on
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Speaker 1: Military Appreciation Night. Kickoff is scheduled for seven thirty pm.
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Speaker 1: In the National Women's Soccer League, the Houston dash gained
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Speaker 1: a point on the road with a one to one
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Speaker 1: draw against Racing Louisville. Houston's Jane Campbell's comment after the match,
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Speaker 1: I thought it was.
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Speaker 8: A good game, definitely scrappy and uh, you know, not
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Speaker 8: our not our prettiest game, you know, either team, But
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Speaker 8: we knew it was gonna be a battle coming in here.
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Speaker 8: Louisville's on a tear, and uh, really proud of the
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Speaker 8: group's response, and I'm really happy for ev to get
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Speaker 8: her goal, and uh that was huge, a huge moment
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Speaker 8: for us. And really yeah, I think in the second
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Speaker 8: half they definitely gained some momentum, and uh, you know,
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Speaker 8: they scored a really good goal off a set piece,
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Speaker 8: and Taylor Flint, we know, is a really dangerous target
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Speaker 8: for them in general, so you know, that was hard
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Speaker 8: being a little bit under siege. But I think once
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Speaker 8: we scored the goal, you know, it was back to
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Speaker 8: Zeros and uh, I think we just knew that momentum
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Speaker 8: was going to go one way or the other. And
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Speaker 8: at that point, you know, it was so late in
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Speaker 8: the game, I think it was good for us to
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Speaker 8: get a point, you know, not really try and push
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Speaker 8: for three. We need to get a point on the road.
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Speaker 8: So they definitely came with tons of momentum and some
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Speaker 8: waves and we're all just trying to do our job
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Speaker 8: and make some tackles. And you know, the defense did.
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Speaker 8: They really locked down a lot of their players, and
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Speaker 8: I want to tip my hats off to them because
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Speaker 8: my defenders helped me out and coming to Yeah, I
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Speaker 8: think it's great. You know, anytime that you know, even
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Speaker 8: the eleven can be the same is helpful. And I
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Speaker 8: think this this summer, when we had the summer break,
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Speaker 8: we were all really able to just like dig into
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Speaker 8: each other and and really learn each other's tendencies. It's
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Speaker 8: a new group, new staff, and you know this wasn't
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Speaker 8: gonna come together overnight, and it still isn't coming together yet.
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Speaker 8: You know, like we're on a good role right now.
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Speaker 8: But I think we all know in the locker room
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Speaker 8: we have so much more to give and to show
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Speaker 8: and to prove, and especially for a coach, for Bris,
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Speaker 8: I mean, he's working tirelessly and you know we need
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Speaker 8: to make sure we perform for him and his staff
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Speaker 8: as well. So you know, we're not peaking by any means.
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Speaker 8: But I think in the summer we were really really
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Speaker 8: able to really just dig in and learn more about
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Speaker 8: each other, learn more about coach fa Breese and the
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Speaker 8: style he wants. So anytime we have continuity on the field,
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Speaker 8: that's it's always going to help. And so yeah, big
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Speaker 8: shout out to the back fourth for sure, they're really
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Speaker 8: stepping it up the second half. I just thought, you know,
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Speaker 8: I saw her at the top of the box and
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Speaker 8: she took that touch and I was, you know, I
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Speaker 8: was kicking myself. I was like, no way, she's going
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Speaker 8: to shoot this thing, and sure enough she did so
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Speaker 8: a good hit by her, and you know, fortunate I
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Speaker 8: wear size nine glove to get a tip on it.
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Speaker 1: The Dash travel to Snapdragon Stadium next on Sunday, September
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Speaker 1: seventh to take on the San Diego Wave in the
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Speaker 1: second of three consecutive road games. The Wound's Rugby Union
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Speaker 1: World Cup is ongoing and the USA Eagles came back
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Speaker 1: to a draw with Australia thirty one to thirty one
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Speaker 1: in York, England, setting up a match next Friday with
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Speaker 1: Western Samoa, which if they win, can get them to
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Speaker 1: the next round of the Woman's World Rugby Cup, which
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Speaker 1: is being held in England. We end this week of
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Speaker 1: the People's News with the reading from Timothy Snyder's on Tyranny,
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Speaker 1: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, which was published in
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Speaker 1: twenty seventeen and something I used as a guidebook to
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Speaker 1: get me through the first Donald Trump presidency. Today we're
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Speaker 1: reading number fifteen of the twenty lessons. Contribute to good causes.
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Speaker 1: Be active in organizations political or not that express your
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Speaker 1: own view of life. Pick a charity or two and
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Speaker 1: set up auto pay. Then you will have made a
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Speaker 1: free choice that supports civil society and helps others to
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Speaker 1: do good. It is gratifying to know that whatever the
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Speaker 1: course of events, you are helping others to do good.
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Speaker 1: Many of us can afford to support some part of
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Speaker 1: the vast network of charities that one of our former
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Speaker 1: presidents called a thousand points of light. Those points of
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Speaker 1: light are best seen like stars at dusk against the
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Speaker 1: darkening sky. When Americans think of freedom, we usually imagine
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Speaker 1: a contest between the lone individual and a powerful government.
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Speaker 1: We tend to conclude that the individual should be empowered
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Speaker 1: and the government kept at bay. This is all well
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Speaker 1: and good, but one element of freedom is the choice
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Speaker 1: of associates, and one defense of freedom is the activity
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Speaker 1: of groups to sustain their members. This is why we
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Speaker 1: should engage in activities that are of interest to us,
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Speaker 1: our friends, and our families. These need not be expressly political.
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Speaker 1: Baclav Hovel, the Czech dissonant thinker, gave the example of
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Speaker 1: brewing good beer. Insofar as we take pride in these
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Speaker 1: activities and come to know others who do so as well,
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Speaker 1: we are creating civil society. Sharing as an undertaking teaches
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Speaker 1: us that we can trust people beyond a narrow circle
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Speaker 1: of friends and families, and helps us to recognize authorities
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Speaker 1: from whom we can learn. The capacity for trust and
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Speaker 1: learning can make life seem less chaotic and mysterious, and
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Speaker 1: democratic politics more plausible and attractive. The anti communist distance
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Speaker 1: of Eastern Europe, facing a situation more extreme than ours,
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Speaker 1: recognized the seemingly non political activity of civil society as
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Speaker 1: an expression and a safeguard of freedom. They were right.
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Speaker 1: In the twentieth century, all the major enemies of freedom
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Speaker 1: were hostile to non governmental organizations, charities and the like.
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Speaker 1: Communists required all such groups to be officially registered and
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Speaker 1: transformed them into institutions of control. Fascists created what they
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Speaker 1: called corporatist systems, in which every human activity had its
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Speaker 1: proper place subordinated to a party state. Today's authoritarians in India, Turkey,
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Speaker 1: and Russia are also highly allergic to the idea of
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Speaker 1: free associations and non governmental organizations. That was an excerpt
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Speaker 1: of the book on Tyranny, Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth
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