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FTTxJT 062626 "House Rules" with Bob Good · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Christmas challenge, but the College.
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  Speaker 2: Amaze your friends here in First Thing Today by Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I always look forward to the perspective we
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  Speaker 3: can get from one of those rare birds in the
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  Speaker 3: world of podcasting, somebody who's actually done something in their
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  Speaker 3: field that they're commentating on. But he is former Chair
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  Speaker 3: of the House Freedom concus, former congressman, but now host
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  Speaker 3: of the Good for America podcasts at the same address
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  Speaker 3: Good for America dot org. He is Bob. Good Good morning, Bob.
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  Speaker 3: How are you doing, sir? You are excellent as well.
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  Speaker 3: The reason I've been so keen on talking to you,
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  Speaker 3: more so than even a regular time is for the
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  Speaker 3: for a rare opportunity, And it isn't surprising to me
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  Speaker 3: considering who's involved. Conservatives have used the parliamentary procedures afforded
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  Speaker 3: to them so that the minority voices don't get trampled
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  Speaker 3: to hang up something, to get something done. And it's
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  Speaker 3: not a surprise that Chip Roy, you know, a man
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  Speaker 3: who I only know because you introduced me to him,
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  Speaker 3: is at the center square of this fight to get
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  Speaker 3: the Save Act back in front of the House, to
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  Speaker 3: the point where Mike Johnson I'm not sure whether it
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  Speaker 3: was a snit or not. Just sent everyone home yesterday
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  Speaker 3: afternoon without their supper. What are you hearing? What do
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  Speaker 3: you know about this whole battle to bring the Save
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  Speaker 3: Act back in the House.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the Save Act, as you know, Save America Act.
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  Speaker 3: I guess he's right, fold down.
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  Speaker 1: Accomplished two primary things. One proof of citizenship to register
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  Speaker 1: to vote. Imagine that, and only American citizens on the
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  Speaker 1: vote in our legend.
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  Speaker 2: How controversy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that should be supported by everybody, even even Democrats. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And also our voter ID uh. You know we you
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  Speaker 1: and I can and many others continue to be annoyed
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  Speaker 1: sometimes the amount of times we have to present IDs
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  Speaker 1: in our society and our culture to do simple things
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  Speaker 1: like check into a hotel. I'm always laugh a little
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  Speaker 1: bit when I get to a hotel desk in the
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  Speaker 1: evening and I say I'm checking in for Bob Good
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  Speaker 1: and someone wants to see my ID as if they
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  Speaker 1: have a problem. People knowing where my hotel stays are
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  Speaker 1: showing up pretending to be me and claiming my spot.
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  Speaker 1: But we're not. You know we we we we manage
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  Speaker 1: those inconveniences because they're necessary at times, but certainly to
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  Speaker 1: to vote to participate in republic countries. So Mike Lee
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  Speaker 1: is my good friend from Utah, is the primary driver
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  Speaker 1: and the Senate, I would suggest to your point, Ship boys,
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  Speaker 1: probably the primary driver in the House for this legislation,
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  Speaker 1: that President desires it because he's concerned about the midterms.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously he doesn't produce the House and the Senate midterms.
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  Speaker 1: And I think most well also that what some eighty
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  Speaker 1: percent of Americans support the principals of only citizens and
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  Speaker 1: voter ide. So what they're trying to do is put
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  Speaker 1: some leverage on John Thun. Senate is a different animal,
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  Speaker 1: and it's been complicated by the fact you've got these
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  Speaker 1: departing senators like Tom Tillis and Bill Cassidy and John
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  Speaker 1: Cornyn who were disgruntled or upset with Trump, and so
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  Speaker 1: Trump can't put the same kind of leverage on them
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  Speaker 1: because they'll not stand for re election ever again perhaps
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  Speaker 1: and they're sort of mavericky even more so, these guys
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  Speaker 1: are more liberal, more moderate senators anyway, but there doesn't
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  Speaker 1: seem to be legitimately the votes to change the filibuster,
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  Speaker 1: which I think the filibuster ought to be changed in
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  Speaker 1: order to attack the debt and the deficit and the
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  Speaker 1: fiscal crisis. Unfortunately, that's not the reason that it's being
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  Speaker 1: pushed by some. But I think that would be worth it,
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  Speaker 1: because if we're going to continue to spend us to
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  Speaker 1: forty twillion dollars in beyond debt, what's the point of
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  Speaker 1: voting or having a distinction between the two parties to
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  Speaker 1: some degree, And that's might be the greatest crisis. But
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  Speaker 1: so what you've got is on a Luna from Florida
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  Speaker 1: trying to say kind of leaving the move and let's
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  Speaker 1: shut down. The House allowed nothing to happen until the
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  Speaker 1: Senate passes the say back. The President even refused, as
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  Speaker 1: you notice, signed the popular bipartisan housing bill, which I
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  Speaker 1: think is a mistake. By the way, you can measure
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  Speaker 1: the validity of that bill by who voted against to
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  Speaker 1: the best, five best senators, best House members voted against it,
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  Speaker 1: but it passed on a bipartian assistant. The President was
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  Speaker 1: going to trumpet it, but he's trying to pressure as well.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure that it will ultimately succeed, but you
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  Speaker 1: do see some as you said, But how is.
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  Speaker 3: It, Bob, that people now You've been an elected official,
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  Speaker 3: so you understand you have to do what your constituents
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  Speaker 3: want or they won't vote for you. This is, as
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  Speaker 3: you mentioned, eighty percent issue nationwide. Even amongst Democrats, seventy
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  Speaker 3: percent of them say this is what we need to do.
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  Speaker 3: How is this something you know? What small minority of
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  Speaker 3: I guess their campaign contributors not to be callous about it.
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  Speaker 3: Are they listening to rather than the actual people who
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  Speaker 3: live in their districts?
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  Speaker 1: I think you raise a great point. If eighty percent
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  Speaker 1: of the public wants this, how important must it be
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  Speaker 1: to democrats political future or their political presence that they
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  Speaker 1: don't want to require an ID to vote to try
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  Speaker 1: to strengthen election integrity, and or they don't want to
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  Speaker 1: require proof of citizenship so that only citizens, non citizens
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  Speaker 1: and illegals prohibitive and voting in our elections. Democrats must
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  Speaker 1: recognize that they cannot win elections if it's only US
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  Speaker 1: citizens with an ID. They must recognize that that is
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  Speaker 1: key to their political power today and even more so
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  Speaker 1: to their political power in the future. To buck eighty percent,
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  Speaker 1: and whether it's because of the donor base, the donor class,
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  Speaker 1: the controlling influences and Democrat Party. I think it's Democrat
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  Speaker 1: Party officials themselves, Democrat elected Democrat representatives so forth, who
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  Speaker 1: know they cannot win elections if it's only American citizens
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  Speaker 1: who demonstrate they are who they say they are to
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  Speaker 1: try to restrict cheating fraud in our elections, it must
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  Speaker 1: be that important to Democrats in their pursuit of power.
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  Speaker 3: It reminds me of when e verify was all the thing,
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  Speaker 3: probably what six seven years ago, maybe even ten years ago,
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  Speaker 3: and it seemed to be there was this coalition of
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  Speaker 3: people saying, well, I don't want to make the businesses
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  Speaker 3: have to verify that their employees are citizens. And I said, well,
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  Speaker 3: hang out and saying why wouldn't you do that? And
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  Speaker 3: I'm hearkening back to what Marjorie Taylor Green said about
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  Speaker 3: her opposition to this was that she found out her
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  Speaker 3: own contracting company, you know, and I love the way
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  Speaker 3: she worded it. She worded it in such a way
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  Speaker 3: as to not to admit that she's employing non citizens
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  Speaker 3: in her con contracting company, but it would greatly impact
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  Speaker 3: our business. It seems like you're admitting something there. There
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  Speaker 3: is there a bigger question though about our labor laws
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  Speaker 3: if this is if this is so prevalent in business
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  Speaker 3: in the United States that we have to work under
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  Speaker 3: the table just to get the basic functions of too
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  Speaker 3: many businesses done.
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  Speaker 1: Bob, it is interesting on e verify specifically, Joe, that
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  Speaker 1: you're right there is a split on the right. There's
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  Speaker 1: a split among Republicans or amongst both conservatives on everify.
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  Speaker 1: For a number of reasons, I do support you verify.
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  Speaker 1: I think on the whole it's better and it's positive
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  Speaker 1: and on balance is what we should do. But it
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  Speaker 1: is telling that there are apparently some Republicans that employ illegals.
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  Speaker 1: But but I'm concerned coming to the price day. Another
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  Speaker 1: related issue, the President and the administration just expanded H
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  Speaker 1: two A visas to apply the dairy industry. The dairy
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  Speaker 1: industry wasn't able to capitalize on those. Now they are,
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  Speaker 1: so we're going to be bringing more seasonal temporary non
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  Speaker 1: citizen workers. I wouldn't say illegals in the sense that
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  Speaker 1: I do temporary worker status to come in what ten
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  Speaker 1: months out of the year, what have you. But now
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  Speaker 1: they're expanding it to the dairy industry. H you know,
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  Speaker 1: and what we really need to do is attack is
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  Speaker 1: get Americans back working again. Stop all the subsidies and
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  Speaker 1: the benefits and welfare make it make people comfortable not working, so.
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  Speaker 3: That an American guy can work at a dairy farm
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  Speaker 3: and I could still afford a gallon of milk. At
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  Speaker 3: the end, Hey, Bob, good on with us.
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  Speaker 2: My name is Bobby. I'm a veteran and lost my
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  Speaker 2: leg to a roadside bomb. My victory was going from
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  Speaker 2: a wheelchair to becoming a weightlifting champion. I'm Sam. I'm
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  Speaker 2: a veteran.
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  Speaker 1: My victory was fine a career I can be proud
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  Speaker 1: of and supporting my family.
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  Speaker 4: America's veterans are on their most important tour, the tour
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  Speaker 4: of their lives.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a veteran. My victory was going from homeless to home.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a veteran and my victory was finishing my education.
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  Speaker 2: From the Home of the First that's the first thing today.
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  Speaker 3: Oh one, one segment to go. And I say that
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  Speaker 3: only because people are like, well, why are you to
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  Speaker 3: stay on? Well, because there are other people who've got
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  Speaker 3: other things they want to say to you. On all
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  Speaker 3: the folks who carry us, like Wgow down in Chattanooga,
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  Speaker 3: and again thanks for the letters, especially about the teacher
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  Speaker 3: issue down there. And it's again, you know, a point
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  Speaker 3: of order to say, look at what's happening with these schools,
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  Speaker 3: and we're told that we're not supposed to have any
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  Speaker 3: questions for the folks who administer the schools. Joel is
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  Speaker 3: on the line with us. We've got Bob and Bryce
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  Speaker 3: both hanging around for us. Joel, how are you doing
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  Speaker 3: this morning, sir.
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  Speaker 5: Good morning. I'm doing okay, it's already at let's see
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  Speaker 5: five point fifty one our time. That's already a cool
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  Speaker 5: eighty nine.
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  Speaker 3: Degrees here, all right there, you know, it's yeah, we're
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  Speaker 3: approaching that as well. We got the humidity factor going
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  Speaker 3: on there. So what's on your mind?
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  Speaker 5: I wanted to say this real quick. Well, we have
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  Speaker 5: laws in America. We also have our freedoms. But if
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  Speaker 5: you look at I like the FIFA Games in the
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  Speaker 5: sense that they're showing things that are just not necessarily
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  Speaker 5: the soccer or football, but showing how other countries are
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  Speaker 5: doing things and enjoy And they showed Japan and after
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  Speaker 5: the games they show them cleaning up the seats and
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  Speaker 5: making sure they pick up and they actually went around
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  Speaker 5: and did other seats too, besides the ones they sat on.
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  Speaker 5: But you know, in America, it's it's like trash it
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  Speaker 5: and leave it. And I'm not saying everybody's that way,
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  Speaker 5: but it's considered a badge of being cool. But in
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  Speaker 5: Japan that's quite the opposite. Just like the flag burning
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  Speaker 5: the flag. In Japan, you get two years and then
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  Speaker 5: you get put on a list of people that need
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  Speaker 5: to do, you know, improvement for the community.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's a it's a different constitution, but it's
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  Speaker 3: also a different society in terms of what is considered,
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  Speaker 3: what is what is permitted to be considered honorable. And
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  Speaker 3: you know, I think we've gone too far down that
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  Speaker 3: liberal libertarian is kind of mean spirited to people who
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  Speaker 3: just want to be left alone. But this idea of
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  Speaker 3: I can do whatever the hell I want because I'm
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  Speaker 3: an American, that's not liberty.
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  Speaker 5: And and Joe, the honor that is lost for the
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  Speaker 5: for the Japanese is is leaving a place worse than
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  Speaker 5: they got it and making it better. That and the honors,
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  Speaker 5: making it better than when they received it.
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  Speaker 3: That's a great point, I think.
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  Speaker 5: And I think a lot of people, the people, the
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  Speaker 5: senators who are listening to Joe showed and I or
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  Speaker 5: that this morning this morning, get out there and and
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  Speaker 5: get get back to Washington and vote for the Save
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  Speaker 5: Act and and and and have a real if you
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  Speaker 5: want to do the stupid philibuster, have an actual philibuster.
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  Speaker 3: You have to stand there with all.
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  Speaker 5: Your Republican whims.
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  Speaker 3: Get some testicles, and Joels and Nursey might know where
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  Speaker 3: you can rent some. Thank you, sir, I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: You have a good weekend, all right? You know, Bob
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  Speaker 3: is speaking of Congress and in testical fortitude. What do
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  Speaker 3: you make out of what happened?
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  Speaker 2: Bob?
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  Speaker 3: Good On with Us, host of the Good for America podcast,
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  Speaker 3: What do you make of what happened in New York?
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  Speaker 3: Now we've got three House seats flipping in primary to
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  Speaker 3: Democratic Socialists. You know, folks that honestly, you know they
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  Speaker 3: they could make AOC the speaker now hackem Jeffries.
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  Speaker 1: Well, AOC and Bernie are almost centrious now in the
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  Speaker 1: new Democrat Party. They are almost watrous mainstream AOC. There's
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  Speaker 1: lots of reports to how she has worked in the
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  Speaker 1: past couple of years to build relationships with the old guard,
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  Speaker 1: the status of the establishment, if you will, to make
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  Speaker 1: her more of a player for committee chairs, for positions
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  Speaker 1: of influence, potentially to run for Speaker, potentially run for
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  Speaker 1: US and potentially run for president.
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  Speaker 4: What have you.
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  Speaker 1: But the radical left that's getting even more radical and
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  Speaker 1: more leftists, and Democrat Party is gaining a stronger foothold.
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  Speaker 1: Mom Donnie seems to be, if anything, the face of
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  Speaker 1: the Democrat Party. They think that Obama is a centrist,
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  Speaker 1: that Obama is a moderate, that and so that is
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  Speaker 1: the new Democrat Party. So it on the one it
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  Speaker 1: is a two sided point. The one hand, it could
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  Speaker 1: help Republicans in the midterms in twenty twenty eight, the
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  Speaker 1: presidential race because the Democrats are so extreme. However, be
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  Speaker 1: careful what we wish for. I can remember thinking in
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  Speaker 1: twenty two thousand and eight, gosh, we would be so
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  Speaker 1: blessed that the Democrats might nominate Barack Hussein Obama, the
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  Speaker 1: crazy radical leftist, as the nominee, and then of course
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  Speaker 1: he becomes president the elect and elected and as president.
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  Speaker 1: So some Republicans are kind of licking their chops and saying, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: the Demons are going so far left, this will help
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  Speaker 1: us to win the swing districts, these these competitive seats,
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  Speaker 1: and help us to win in twenty eight. We better
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  Speaker 1: be careful what we wish for. We need to expose
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  Speaker 1: them for how radical they are and reveal how radical
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  Speaker 1: they are and how harmful. These are communists, these are Marxists,
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  Speaker 1: these are Islamists.
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  Speaker 2: What do we have to do?
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  Speaker 3: You know, and you talk about the value of the dollar.
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  Speaker 3: I talk with my gold dealer every day. We did
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  Speaker 3: a little add for them. Gold is coming down in
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  Speaker 3: value because the dollar seems to be gaining some of
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  Speaker 3: it back there. But the economics of the world, fifty
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  Speaker 3: percent of the population doesn't contribute anything or actually gets
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  Speaker 3: money from the irs rather than contributes to the tax roles.
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  Speaker 3: Are we at a tipping point economically where people are,
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  Speaker 3: you know, poorer and poorer. They're going to fall prey
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  Speaker 3: to the Ramans in Los Angeles and the mom Donnie's
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  Speaker 3: in New York and the DC mayor's socialist. You know,
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  Speaker 3: That's where I see the root of this coming is
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  Speaker 3: that we've allowed the economy to get so bad. You
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  Speaker 3: talked about the dairy workers that people are like, you
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  Speaker 3: know what, Yeah, there must be some greedy solb that
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  Speaker 3: I can go take money from with pitchworks and torches.
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  Speaker 1: Great point, Joe, It's hard to win against Santa Claus
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  Speaker 1: and elections. How to out democrat or out socialist. The
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  Speaker 1: Democrats socialists and the Republican Party has been trying this populism,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, this big government republicanism where you know,
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  Speaker 1: more government, more spending, more benefits, more giveaways, and so forth.
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  Speaker 1: We're sort of democrat light in that respect because of
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  Speaker 1: the fiscal crisis, because of the insolvency that's coming from
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  Speaker 1: Medicare and social security, because the unsustainable debt and interest
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  Speaker 1: rates and the crushing burden we need to give Americans
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  Speaker 1: a clear choice to try to save the country, to
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  Speaker 1: draw a distinction between us and Democrats. If we're just
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  Speaker 1: perceived a Democrat life Democrats more giveaways, more subsidies, more handouts,
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  Speaker 1: more dependency, more benefits than us, then we're going to
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  Speaker 1: lose that fight. Instead, we ought to be given as
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  Speaker 1: an act pursuing true conservatism, true free market, free true
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  Speaker 1: self clients and those sorts of things. And the republic
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  Speaker 1: Party is not really offering that on the whole.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, sadly the case. But you know, and I've said
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  Speaker 3: this in the past, don't We can't be looking for
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  Speaker 3: other people to do stuff for us because they will
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  Speaker 3: gladly take authority over us. Last thoughts coming up on
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