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Wednesday 3pm hour 05/20/26 · Ron Verb

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  Speaker 1: All right, Heidi Ho, NewsRadio 570, Dodie Kubien and Ron Verm. Welcome,
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  Speaker 1: 306 here on a Wednesday afternoon. How about this, man?
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  Speaker 1: It's getting awful dry out there, wasn't it? So it's
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  Speaker 1: another overcast, rainy day. And been that way most of
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  Speaker 1: the day today. And so more rain in my neck
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  Speaker 1: of the woods as I sit here on Tiffany Boulevard
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  Speaker 1: in Boardman on a overcast, rainy day on this Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: May 20th. Sunshine to you, though, no matter what the weather.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: It's chilly out there, too, 55 degrees this afternoon from
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  Speaker 1: NewsRadio 570. Well, let me sit down and see what
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  Speaker 1: awaits me here on today's broadcast. You're on the air.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, Ron.
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  Speaker 4: How are you today?
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  Speaker 1: J.J. the Liberal. Fine. Go ahead, please.
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  Speaker 4: Did you see his introduction to Trump Rx last night?
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  Speaker 4: But he's starting where you get cheaper prescriptions, and I
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  Speaker 4: guess he's implementing something where on certain prescriptions you're going
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  Speaker 4: to get some discounts. And I don't know if you
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  Speaker 4: saw that last night.
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  Speaker 1: No, I did not. I was more interested in watching.
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  Speaker 1: The only thing that I was really interested in was
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  Speaker 1: the outcome in Kentucky with Massey. And I'm one of
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  Speaker 1: those people, I think it's definitely sad that he lost re-election.
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  Speaker 1: I think what you saw last night, that's what I
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  Speaker 1: was most interested in because I agreed with Tom Massey
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  Speaker 1: on so many things. But basically, I agreed with Tom
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  Speaker 1: Massey on the Epstein files. I agreed with him as
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  Speaker 1: far as the war in Iran is concerned. And I
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  Speaker 1: also agreed with him on foreign aid and eliminating foreign aid.
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  Speaker 1: And he was eliminated. with $ 10 million that's outside money
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  Speaker 1: just coming from Israel to defeat Thomas Massey. So the
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  Speaker 1: people that are opposed to the influence of all this
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  Speaker 1: foreign aid money, the Marjorie Taylor Greene's, the Tommy Massey
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  Speaker 1: and these people are all being eliminated. So everybody else
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  Speaker 1: will be on the hook who takes huge donations from
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  Speaker 1: from these lobbyists and will sell their soul, not necessarily
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  Speaker 1: in the best interest of the country, in my opinion.
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  Speaker 4: I agree. Again, I think I can be reasonable, not
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  Speaker 4: because Thomas Massey so much was disagreeing with Trump, but
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  Speaker 4: he was still holding his position as far as a
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  Speaker 4: lot of the things you just suggested, which I agree
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  Speaker 4: with also. I believe that we should keep the money
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  Speaker 4: at home when you're in a position that you can't
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  Speaker 4: help out other people from other countries based on only
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  Speaker 4: certain circumstances. I think that we are, as a country
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  Speaker 4: that leads the way, we should be able to assist
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  Speaker 4: a little bit. But in the way that things are
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  Speaker 4: going right now, that we need to keep things at home,
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  Speaker 4: I agree with the Epstein files and keeping that open because, again,
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  Speaker 4: it was certain people in the Republican Party that opened
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  Speaker 4: up that that bag of worms there. But nonetheless, it
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  Speaker 4: was a sad thing that once you speak out, it
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  Speaker 4: can be detrimental to you, not only in your career,
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  Speaker 4: but people view you. So I was very disappointed as well.
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  Speaker 4: But the reason why I brought that up is that
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  Speaker 4: in between that, he was asked a question about the
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  Speaker 4: $ 1. 8 billion that was going to assist people that were
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  Speaker 4: supposedly wronged by the The Department of Justice during Biden's administration,
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  Speaker 4: which I thought it's not good because that money can
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  Speaker 4: be dispersed by people that want to help out people. Again,
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  Speaker 4: whether you agree or not, but about January 6th, these
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  Speaker 4: people are going to get money. Not only did they
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  Speaker 4: get their freedom, they're going to get assistance based on
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  Speaker 4: the idea that they were being mistreated by the government.
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  Speaker 4: And the Department, which I, again, I don't want to
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  Speaker 4: keep beating up, but it was that corruption right there.
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  Speaker 4: And I have to make, I have to call it
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  Speaker 4: when I see it.
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  Speaker 1: Right. There's a couple of things that you brought up,
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  Speaker 1: that you bring up that I'd like to talk about. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not opposed to the, first of all, you've got
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  Speaker 1: to start with the background here. Obviously, Trump's tax return,
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  Speaker 1: I think Trump, Sean Hannity, so many of these people,
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  Speaker 1: if you remember the time, were given, done an injustice
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  Speaker 1: to by their tax returns being leaked to the media. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I fault, obviously, the guy that leaked him. Ultimately, they've
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  Speaker 1: tracked down who that was. And he was actually got
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  Speaker 1: a prison sentence for that, as he should have. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he seemed to be a guy in the IRS that
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  Speaker 1: hated conservatives, hated Sean Hannity, hated Trump. Trump and he
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  Speaker 1: released their private information. And that is that is wrong.
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  Speaker 1: It should never have been done. As far as I'm concerned,
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  Speaker 1: they tracked him down and and he's punished as a
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  Speaker 1: result of it. However, I also fault I have to
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  Speaker 1: fault the media outlets. that received this information, they knew
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  Speaker 1: it was gathered illegally, that it was illegal how it
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  Speaker 1: was gathered, and they published it because of their hatred
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  Speaker 1: of Trump. So you take the New York Times and
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  Speaker 1: these entities that when this information was released, Knowing that
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  Speaker 1: it was stolen, knowing that it violated the laws, they
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  Speaker 1: looked the other way. They could care less because it
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  Speaker 1: had to do with the hatred of Trump. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think that was right if it was Biden's tax return,
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  Speaker 1: Trump's tax return, or J.J. the liberal's tax return. When
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  Speaker 1: you file your tax return, that is private. It's supposed
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  Speaker 1: to remain that way. And Trump's was exposed. That is
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  Speaker 1: what the precedent was. Not precedent. That's what the... reason
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  Speaker 1: was for his lawsuit against the IRS because, because he
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  Speaker 1: was wronged by the IRS for political purposes. If you remember,
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  Speaker 1: people would say, I didn't pay any taxes and they're
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  Speaker 1: trying to use it politically. So he was wronged. He
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  Speaker 1: had a justifiable case against him as any of you would,
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  Speaker 1: if they did that to you. So he had a
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  Speaker 1: justifiable case. So he reached his settlements with the IRS
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  Speaker 1: of getting this much money. And basically he's saying, this
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  Speaker 1: is a fund that, for other people that have been
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  Speaker 1: targeted for political purposes so that they can be made whole.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not opposed to that because you're starting to see
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  Speaker 1: some of this happen. I don't care if it's Democrats
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  Speaker 1: or Republicans. For example, they targeted the Tea Party with
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  Speaker 1: the IRS. So I'm not opposed to this fund being
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  Speaker 1: established For people that are targeted for political purposes. I'm
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  Speaker 1: perfectly fine with that. Unfortunately, I think we're seeing a
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  Speaker 1: lot of that anymore. And I don't believe the power
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  Speaker 1: of government should be used against its own citizens, Democrats
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  Speaker 1: or Republicans, that you sick the IRS on them or
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  Speaker 1: you sick whatever on them. I just think that that's wrong.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen it over the years. And so I'm not
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  Speaker 1: opposed to that settlement. This part I found a little
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  Speaker 1: bit troubling, I will say to you. It's a nine-page
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  Speaker 1: settlement agreement the DOJ released Monday setting up a $ 1. 8
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  Speaker 1: billion fund to compensate victims of alleged weaponization of law enforcement.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm not opposed to that because we know there's
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  Speaker 1: been weaponization. We've seen it against Trump and his family.
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  Speaker 1: And so that should be there. This is the one
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  Speaker 1: thing that bothers me, though, if I go one step further. However,
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  Speaker 1: a one-page document posted on the DOJ website early Tuesday
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  Speaker 1: includes a sweeping release under which the IRS is— listen to this—
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  Speaker 1: forever barred and precluded from pursuing examinations of Trump related
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  Speaker 1: or affiliated individuals and related trust in businesses. So, so,
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  Speaker 1: so they are, as, as it says, forever barred and
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  Speaker 1: precluded the IRS from pursuing examinations of Trump related or
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  Speaker 1: affiliated individuals. That would mean his kids and, and, uh, and, um,
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  Speaker 1: related trust and businesses. So basically in this agreement, this
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  Speaker 1: one page thing, the IRS is forever banned, barred from
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  Speaker 1: examining Trump's returns or his company or his children or anyone.
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  Speaker 1: So they can do anything in there. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 1: kind of, when I read that, I saw that just
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  Speaker 1: set me back because I don't necessarily agree with that.
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  Speaker 1: That's so they, they have, They've been given something none
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  Speaker 1: of you would ever get. So, yeah, they were given
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  Speaker 1: a free pass that they can basically file anything and
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  Speaker 1: there's not going to be a review. I mean, I
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  Speaker 1: don't have a problem with this fund being set up
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  Speaker 1: because I've seen it over the years, even before Trump,
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  Speaker 1: where they would sick the IRS on people. I think
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  Speaker 1: Nixon was the first one who did it. Remember, they
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  Speaker 1: would sick the IRS on some reporters that they didn't
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  Speaker 1: like and they sicked it on the Tea Party. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm opposed to that. And so I'm not opposed to
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  Speaker 1: this fund being set up for people to be made
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  Speaker 1: hold from this. But I am opposed to this idea
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  Speaker 1: that the IRS is banned from looking at anything with Trump. Now,
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  Speaker 1: some would argue that they have to do that because
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  Speaker 1: if the Democrats take control again, they'll just put his
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  Speaker 1: family through a living hell on all of this kind
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  Speaker 1: of stuff. And perhaps so. But in general, how do
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  Speaker 1: you give a family and its businesses– and and all
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  Speaker 1: this stuff a ban from all of this i mean
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  Speaker 1: that is strange to me. I'll just say that's strange.
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  Speaker 4: And I appreciate, again, I've come to respect you much,
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  Speaker 4: even much more not that I've ever, I always respected you,
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  Speaker 4: but especially recently within the last couple months, and this
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  Speaker 4: is another, again, another example of that. Again, I am very,
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  Speaker 4: I'm 50-50 on the idea of setting up a fund.
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  Speaker 4: If it is, there are people that have been, on
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  Speaker 4: the right, have been abused by our legal system. and
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  Speaker 4: so i i believe that they they should get uh..
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  Speaker 3: Uh..
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  Speaker 4: The initiative may hold like you said uh... however but
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  Speaker 4: that would look like a but that because that was
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  Speaker 4: my final thing is that that disney and somebody uh...
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  Speaker 4: the ability to make as much money as they want uh...
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  Speaker 4: and again i understand your point by saying both the
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  Speaker 4: democrats go back to power making attacking they can attack
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  Speaker 4: his money uh... and that is another old uh... bag
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  Speaker 4: of uh... the warm so to speak that you can
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  Speaker 4: open up uh... but i i i believe that that
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  Speaker 4: What I meant by the corruption of it is that
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  Speaker 4: it is really a very dangerous slope when you do
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  Speaker 4: that kind of thing. So I'm very much worried about that.
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  Speaker 4: And it is something that... again, should be looked at.
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  Speaker 4: And again, it is what it is. There's nothing I
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  Speaker 4: can do about it.
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  Speaker 5: Or pretty much anybody can do about it.
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  Speaker 1: It's a done deal. I just thought that that... Listen,
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  Speaker 1: I think a lot of these people, people who dwell
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  Speaker 1: on this January 6th, I think a lot of these
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  Speaker 1: people that did no harm, that simply walked in and
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  Speaker 1: looked around and walked out with respect like they wanted
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  Speaker 1: to or that were hunted down and their lives were
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  Speaker 1: destroyed for political purposes... I think those people should be
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  Speaker 1: made whole. I don't think they did any damage to anything.
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  Speaker 1: The police were standing there and they walked in and
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  Speaker 1: looked and left. That's different from anybody who broke a
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  Speaker 1: window or anybody who stole Nancy Pelosi's lectern or any
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  Speaker 1: of that kind of stuff. I understand all of that.
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  Speaker 1: It got to an extreme where a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: were persecuted for political purposes, and they should be made whole.
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  Speaker 1: As I said, you had it in the past. Reporters
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  Speaker 1: that were Washington, reporters that were... gone after through the
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  Speaker 1: IRS or the tea party was, I'm just trying to
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  Speaker 1: think of examples from both sides. And I think, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm opposed to this. I'm opposed to politics entering this
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  Speaker 1: kind of stuff. So if there's a fund to make
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  Speaker 1: these people whole, I support it a hundred percent. And
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  Speaker 1: then I think that's a good idea. But once again,
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  Speaker 1: to completely ban the IRS from anything doing with the
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  Speaker 1: Trump and the Trump family and businesses, um, That's interesting.
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  Speaker 1: On one hand, I understand it because of what they
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  Speaker 1: went through over the years. On the other hand, well,
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  Speaker 1: how many of you listening out there would ever be
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  Speaker 1: granted that waiver? And keep in mind, this was given
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  Speaker 1: by the attorney general who used to be Trump's lawyer.
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  Speaker 1: So you got to look at that with a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of suspicion saying, well, wait a minute. This guy
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  Speaker 1: was Trump's lawyer. He's now the attorney general. And so now,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they put this through that gives Trump this waiver.
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  Speaker 1: I would be probably I would hope you would be
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  Speaker 1: as outraged if Biden did it for the Biden family
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  Speaker 1: as you would be for the Trump family.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It shouldn't matter who the figure is. I don't care
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  Speaker 1: if it's Clinton, Biden or Gore or.
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  Speaker 4: D in front of your name.
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  Speaker 1: That shouldn't matter. But it seems to me this is
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  Speaker 1: like a sweetheart deal. It was done for him by,
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  Speaker 1: like I say, his lawyer, who's now the head of
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  Speaker 1: the DOJ. And that's that's troubling to me.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I appreciate that. Just one other thing. When
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  Speaker 4: I was saying yesterday about using the analogy of the
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  Speaker 4: swimming pool with everything, it was an example of just saying,
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  Speaker 4: why would I invest in something that I cannot enjoy
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  Speaker 4: and not use?
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  Speaker 1: But I don't think that was a good example in
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  Speaker 1: a sense. Listen, he's building a ballroom. It's not like
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  Speaker 1: he's going to stay there. He's just building it for
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  Speaker 1: the country because it's necessary, in his opinion, to have
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  Speaker 1: events on. He's going to move on and the next
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  Speaker 1: president and the one after that and the one long
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  Speaker 1: after we're dead, they'll be able to use it and
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  Speaker 1: just be part. It's something that's needed and necessary. He's
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  Speaker 1: not building it because he thinks he's going to stay forever.
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  Speaker 1: He's just building it with private donations and some taxpayer money,
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  Speaker 1: as I understand it now. So build the damn thing,
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  Speaker 1: get it done, and don't put your name on it,
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  Speaker 1: and then it'll be there for him and future presidents
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  Speaker 1: to use.
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  Speaker 5: Period.
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  Speaker 1: End of story. Nothing more to it than that. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not critical of the... of some of this uh...
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  Speaker 1: some of this uh..
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  Speaker 4: Stuff i mean let me and i understand your point
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  Speaker 4: of it but it said it would be made a
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  Speaker 4: comment that it's america's ballroom and i don't like to
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  Speaker 4: know what my date is there that i can bring
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  Speaker 4: my wife and but i didn't joke but it's nonetheless
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  Speaker 4: the thing is that he's doing with the the reflecting
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  Speaker 4: pond He does it with the Rose Garden. These are
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  Speaker 4: things that, again, like Teddy complained about a big screen.
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  Speaker 4: That's not even close to being the same example. But nonetheless,
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  Speaker 4: I appreciate your viewpoints, and you're doing a great job,
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  Speaker 4: my friend.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. There you go. J.J., the liberal, starting it
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  Speaker 1: good afternoon. 325 in the afternoon, and you're on the air.
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  Speaker 5: Hello.
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  Speaker 3: Ronald.
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  Speaker 1: Ted the Conservative.
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  Speaker 5: So much to talk about. Don't even know where to begin.
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  Speaker 1: Well, fire away. I'll be all ears. Take it in.
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  Speaker 6: Go.
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  Speaker 5: I will say one thing. The last comment you made
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  Speaker 5: to J.J., hopefully he doesn't put his name on the ballroom.
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  Speaker 5: That's concerning. But the guy's got to have things named
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  Speaker 5: after him. You know, we talk about his narcissism and
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  Speaker 5: all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Like the Kennedy Center and this kind of stuff. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 5: And I mean, so childish. And it speaks to the
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  Speaker 5: bigger problem, I think, with this guy. He just causes
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  Speaker 5: so much division. And he's doing it in the party now.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I really don't know that I had a
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  Speaker 5: position on Matthews. but I would probably lean in agreement
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  Speaker 5: with you. I was just trying to point out yesterday
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  Speaker 5: the differences. He's not a conservative. He is a libertarian.
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  Speaker 5: He came along through the Tea Party. None of that
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  Speaker 5: matters now because, like.
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  Speaker 7: GT said yesterday, we'll have to flip the script on him.
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  Speaker 7: He said yesterday the people of Kentucky voted for him
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  Speaker 7: and he was a representative. Well, people of kentucky just
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  Speaker 7: kicked them out of office he's no longer their representative.
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  Speaker 1: But hold the phone for a second because i'll be
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  Speaker 1: curious i'm i'm i'm glad you called folks i just
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  Speaker 1: tell you all of this i am fascinated by ted
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  Speaker 1: the conservative all right i'm just uh find him a
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  Speaker 1: very interesting person so let me let me bounce this
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  Speaker 1: off of you when i hear this uh you know
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  Speaker 1: trump wins another one you got it this was the
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  Speaker 1: most expensive congressional race in our history And you had..
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  Speaker 5: And both guys spent a ton of money. You have
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  Speaker 5: to realize also..
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  Speaker 1: But just hang on a second.
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  Speaker 5: You're going to go with the Israel and all this stuff,
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  Speaker 5: but what about the anti-Israel money that came pouring in
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  Speaker 5: from Iranians and everyone else?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know about..
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  Speaker 5: It goes both ways.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't see Iran giving a lot of money, but
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  Speaker 1: I saw $ 10 million..
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  Speaker 5: Iranian business owners. It goes both ways.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it does go both ways. I think that...
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  Speaker 1: Let me put it this way. I think what you're
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  Speaker 1: seeing with Marjorie Taylor Greene and with Thomas Massey is...
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  Speaker 1: I'm afraid to say you're not going to see anybody
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  Speaker 1: go against anything with Israel, even if they feel it's
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  Speaker 1: not in America's best interest, because of the political ramifications
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  Speaker 1: that are coming from it. And the amount of money
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  Speaker 1: that is poured into these races to eliminate... the people
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  Speaker 1: who are opposed to that. Thomas Massey was opposed to
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  Speaker 1: all foreign aid, which I just will say to Ted
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  Speaker 1: and to all of you, I am as well. This
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  Speaker 1: country's $ 40 trillion in debt. I'm concerned about the future
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: of your Social Security, which is not economically in the
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: best of shape. I'm concerned about the future of Medicare.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: When do we start taking care of our American citizens first?
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Without giving billions of dollars away and going further in debt,
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: which this debt is going to destroy us, our American economy,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: and eating up our tax dollars interest-wise. But when are
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: we going to look after our American people as opposed
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: to the billions of dollars? If I had to make
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: a choice, this would get Ted the conservative, but I
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: think he might agree with this. See, I'm trying to
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: get you, Ted. I would rather that money go to
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: supplement people's health care costs than go to billions of
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: dollars to Egypt or Israel or anybody else. I don't
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: disagree with you. In my own country. So I'm saying
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: if you take a look at what's going on, free-minded
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: thinkers not influenced by the huge amount of money from
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: that PAC and the ramifications, you will have politicians that
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: will be afraid to vote against anything And it don't
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: matter if it's in America's best interest or not. They'll
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: go along with it out of fear of their own
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: political survival. Because there's a reason why they pump that
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: kind of money into that race. Hang on, Ted. All
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: of you guys stand by. I'm going to talk to
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Ted for a while. Then I'll get to you. I promise.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: I enjoy my conversations with Ted. I hope you do.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: All right. Ted.
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: Yes. All right. Before we get going, let me ask
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: you this real quick. Yeah. Is Cuba going to be
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: the next crisis now? I mean, I'm a little bit
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: alarmed at what I'm hearing out of there.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I haven't really paid much attention at
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: this point in time. But take it away with your thoughts.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's where I'm at. I just don't want...
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: to lose independent thinking within the Republican Party. As I
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: said to Ted, as I say to you, I do
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: not agree with... I believe that what happened with Epstein
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: is deplorable. I believe all that information should be out there.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: I believe that's what he ran on. And I believe
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: the people who've done it, I don't care if Trump's
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: involved or Clinton's involved or not involved, everyone should be
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: held accountable because this was raping, basically, children. And Prince Andrew,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: all the rest of them. And what I'm seeing here
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: is a double standard of justice where I am. It's
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: deplorable to me that the intelligence community created Epstein and
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: created this and was so debolical that they would say
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: we're going to have exploit children to get the goods
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: on some of these people and children. And when you
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: see the connections to the intelligence community, when you see
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: how the cases were handled, it's troubling me. And I
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: think there are ties of this to Israel and potentially
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: the CIA, one or both, if you will. And I
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: find it that this should be exposed. And who's got
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: all this information that they can hold over these people's
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: heads today? Where did it go? What happened to Pam Bondi?
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: And I got the files and she's gone. And where
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: is this information? People are saying this is a double
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: standard of justice. Trump did a 180 on it. And
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: I just don't, I agree with Massey. I agree with
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor Greene. I agree with all of these people
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: that say, you ran on this. This is the public's business.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: We have a right to know. We are losing faith
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: in our government and all of you that ran as
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: people that are going to change that and not doing
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: anything about it. And we're concerned about that.
• 21:58
  Speaker 5: I can't disagree with you. I agree with you. And,
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: you know, this may not make sense to other people,
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: but this is who I am. I always tell you
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: when I vote for a Democrat or Republican, if I
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: vote for a Republican, that guy airs. He's going to
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: air like we're seeing Trump air. You know, he's not
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: going to release the Epstein file. He's not going to
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: do the things he said.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: But can I ask you something?
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: Kamala Harris.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Oh, I would never vote for her.
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: You know, we're going off the rails.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: If you're asking me, I say it all the time.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: I couldn't vote for Sherrod Brown. I would never vote
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: for the Democrats, period. I want to make that perfectly clear.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: But I sometimes wonder, and I ask this of you
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: because I think you have great political insights. I think
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Trump has incredible political skills. I think he can read
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: from understanding politics and people, okay?
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: His ego blinds him at times.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: It blinds him at times, and I just don't understand
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: why he did a total reversal literally overnight on Epstein
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: and on Iran as far as... I'm very troubled by that,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: that that happens.
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: Well, I think it goes to the Massey, the MTG,
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: the Boebert now, and even in Texas getting involved.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: You know..
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: I don't live in Texas. I don't live in Kentucky.
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: I only know about these guys what I read and
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: what I read. I do know history has shown us. Yeah,
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: Donald Trump's really good in selecting candidates in primary elections.
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: He's horrible.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: Horrible in general elections. And I think he possibly gave
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: the Texas seat away. Now, I hear what GQ said
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: yesterday about Cornyn.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: First of all, that's an important point that Ted just made.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't want you just to drop that
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: and move on.
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: These are primary elections. And he's terrible at general elections.
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: He stands up on the American First platform, I think.
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: That's what I would call it. I think you know
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: what I'm talking about. We know what G2 stands for
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: and what he wants.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: I think you stand for the American First agenda, too.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: I think we all do.
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: Yes, yes, but I don't know that I'm to the extreme, maybe,
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: that G2 is. And I'm not saying that in a
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: negative way. G2 is very firm in what he stands on.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: He believes you've got to save this country.
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: I think G2 is, I wonder, you know, I don't
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: know a lot about him. None of us do. You
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: keep him in the bunker. But I would wonder, I
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: would love to know the evolution of G2. When I
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: hear G2 talk, I hear a little bit of the
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: Tea Party. I hear a little bit of the Libertarian Party.
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: He's a fascinating guy, very intelligent guy.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: I'm conservative, and that's why I can tell you Matthew's
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: not a conservative.
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: But regardless, I don't want to get off on a tangent.
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: I'll just go back to what I said. My concern
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: now is in Texas, if Trump throws his weight behind
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: Paxson and Paxson wins, well, that's concerning because Paxson can
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: lose that seat to the Democrats. I was looking at
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: a poll out of the Texas Tribune, I think it was,
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: this morning. And I had heard rumors about this, but
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: I hadn't dug into it until this morning. And Cronin
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: had a slight lead on a head-to-head with this guy,
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: this Democrat. Well, you throw Paxton's name in now instead
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: of Cronin's name, and you've got a dead heat.
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: And..
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: Well, yeah, I would like someone in those seats that
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: thinks more like I do and would do things that
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: you and I want or the things that you two
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: talked about. Bottom line for me, the most important thing
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: is winning elections. And then when you get in office,
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: you've got to govern somehow, and you've got to do
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: what your base wants you to do. You'll never please everybody.
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: You may not please half the people. But, you know,
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: I start from that standpoint. For me, I want to
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: win elections. When I was talking about the team sport,
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: G2 misunderstood that yesterday. And you have to be united,
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: and you have to win elections. Because if you don't
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: win elections, you don't even get to have a second conversation.
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: There's no longer talking about agendas. Your agenda compared to
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: the Libertarian, the Conservative, the Tea Party. You don't even
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: have those conversations.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: But here was the problem. Let me bounce this off
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: of you. The problem with Tim Ryan was Tim Ryan
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: became a politician. Tim Ryan went down and he did
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: whatever the Democrat Party told him. He was the lapdog
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: for Nancy Pelosi. He lost touch with his constituents and
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: what they stood for and what a good idea would
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: be if it was Republican or Democrat. Somewhat of what
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: you see a little bit with Fetterman. But he lost
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: track of that. I don't want to get to the
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: point where if you're a Republican, you check your brain
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: at the door and whatever the party tells you or
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: the president tells you, you vote for it whether you
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: agree with it or not. And that's just the way
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: it is. And if you don't, then we're going to
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: run your ass out of office. I'm not for that
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: type of thinking. They were talking about the people of
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: Black Massey, Rand Paul and all this. Are they the
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: next targeted to be eliminated because they're not walking in
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: lockstep with the party? Well, I certainly hope not, because
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: a debate in a party is not a bad thing
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: about issues like Epstein and issues like the war and
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: this kind of stuff. Those aren't bad things.
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: You know, Trump is in office, obviously, for a lot
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: of different reasons. A lot of people vote for Trump
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: just because they could not vote for Kamala Harris. It
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: doesn't mean that they agree with the guy, like the guy. Amen.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: I vote for Trump every time because I like the
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: majority of what he has done. And I still like
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: the majority of what he's done. But I'm telling you, Ted.
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: Let me flip back to something we talked about yesterday
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: real quick, and then we'll get back to this issue.
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: The one big, beautiful bill. You guys, because I'm confused. Now,
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: maybe you can help me understand this. You claimed, and
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: G2 said, that it was a bipartisan bill that extended
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: the Biden agenda. And I disagree completely with you guys.
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: And I even looked at that this morning.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: No, the Biden spending. The Biden spending.
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: Not one Democrat voted. So I don't know how G2
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: called it a bipartisan bill.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: Then..
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: When you look at the core concepts, it was a
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: mass deportation and border security. That's where spending went. Tax relief,
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: defense and national security spending, and spending cuts. Medicaid. You
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: talked about Medicaid cuts for months and months. So what
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: spending in that bill did you oppose? Or where did
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: you think that there was Biden? That was Trump's bill.
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: There was nothing about Joe Biden in there. The only
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: spending was military, defense, border security. deportations, a lot of
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: tax relief that caused the bill to go up in price,
• 29:00
  Speaker 5: and spending cuts, SNAP and Medicaid programs. So I think
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: we have to be careful sometimes that we don't just
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: muddy the water because we're getting, like I said to
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: you before, Trump throws so much stuff at the wall.
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: Some of it sticks, some of it doesn't, but we
• 29:16
  Speaker 5: have to be real clear. There were no Democrats that
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: voted for that big, beautiful bill, and it wasn't an
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: extension of the Biden spending. Let's go back to this.
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: Go ahead, I'm sorry.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Well, the problem that Republicans had, conservative Republicans, was how
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: it increased the debt and deficit and didn't address... continued
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: the Biden spending, let's put it that way. Well, it
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: didn't continue the.
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: Biden spending, it continued growing the national debt. Right. So
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: the simple solution was don't cut Ron Gerb's taxes and
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: it won't increase the debt. You can't have it both ways.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Well, no, there's a couple of things on there. I understand.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: I often sit back and wonder, if you want to
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: be blunt about it, why are you..
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: No, I'm not saying it was right or wrong.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: No, no, but I mean, listen, I'm all for the
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: tax cuts, but here's my problem with them. They're for
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: three years. They're not permanent. I mean, you know, this idea,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: no tax on tips, that's only for three years. The
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: deductions you get on your Social Security increases, deductions, is
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: only for three years. These things are not permanent in
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: the big, beautiful bill. They're three years. They have a sunset.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: And guess who's out of office at that time? Trump is.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: So all of that stuff can go away. So part
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: of my problem is this stuff should be permanent. It
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: is not.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: And..
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: I agree. Do you reach a point where... If I
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: feel strongly about something, I'll tell you. But oftentimes, I
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: just like for all the information and the facts to
• 30:53
  Speaker 5: be correct and let the tips fall where they may.
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: So going back to what we were talking about with Texas.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: But I just want to go back. Massey was opposed
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: to the big, beautiful bill because it didn't cut the
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: federal deficit enough and would increase the national debt. Well,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: that's a fiscal conservative that says, when are we going
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: to stop kicking the can down the road? We're continuing
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: to add, what are we, $ 40 trillion out of the
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: national debt? Folks, You know this. It's our second highest expense.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: We take in $ 4. 5 trillion a year, roughly, in federal
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: income tax.
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: As a member of a Tea Party, that was their
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: big thing.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: $ 2 trillion is going..
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: And they wanted to end this stuff.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: But it's going... We are spending all of this money...
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: The only thing higher than it, I believe, is Social Security.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: We're spending all of this money on paying interest. That's
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: what these conservatives are arguing. Stop kicking the can down
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: the road.
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: And..
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: How much more? I mean, we spend a lot in
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: the military and we keep increasing military spending. At some point,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: even that has got to stop because we're bankrupting the country.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: And there are other programs that are important. I mean,
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but Social Security and Medicare are vital to
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: our senior citizens.
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: As is the Medicaid program. Even though there's fraud in it,
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: it's vital. You know, people need help.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: That is true. That is true.
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: You know, the problem is, I think that We're racing
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: the financial clock. You can't just keep going into debt
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: not thinking that one day you're not going to have
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: to pay that bill. And we've got so many problems.
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: The only thing Trump did is slow the speed of
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: acceleration down. And I'm not sure he even slowed it
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: much because, like you said, the big, beautiful bill, it
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: accelerated debt. It didn't do anything to curb the debt,
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: you know. And I don't know that I don't know
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: what's going to cause. We know Democrats aren't going to
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: reduce that because they believe in tax and spend. And
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: the Republicans want to keep cutting taxes, but increasing spending
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: in the areas that they support, whether it's military or
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: other things. So, you know, I'll be honest with you.
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: I'm a guy. I'm one of those guys that looks
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: at the glass half full. I think a lot of
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: your callers look at the glass half empty. But, you know,
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: in the last week or so, it's become harder and
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: harder to look at that glass half empty.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: How about if we look at it realistically? I say
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: it all the time. I say it to you. I
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: want the best for all of you listening. We should
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: all start in thinking as Americans first. I don't want
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: decisions influenced by these lobbyists from other countries.
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: I am..
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Concerned about one country, this country. This is where I live.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: This is where my children are. They're all adults now.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: This is our country.
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: I agree with that, too. But, you know, if you
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: look at the countries that lobby the United States, not
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: only Israel. I don't know why we keep beating up
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: on Israel so much.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Because they have one of the strongest lobbyists group around.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: They are hugely influential countries. In our decisions. And I
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: just say we got to think of America first and
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: the financial security of America first.
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: I agree with you.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: And we're not.
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: It's no one's fault but our own.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Well, it goes to show you.
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: We elect these guys. I think what it just goes
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: to show is that the beast is so big that
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: it's no longer controllable. The beast in government.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: It's too big. It's just too big to succeed. to
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: meet the purpose of why it was formed. Maybe we
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: need a Tea Party to come in and give us
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: an actual Boston Tea Party.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Let me put it this way.
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: I don't know. I don't know how you get to
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: train back on the track, but it's definitely off the track.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: I'll leave you with that. Well said.
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: Okay, bye.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: All right, Ted the Conservative. I think that's a good point.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: How do you get the train back off the track?
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Because it's definitely off the track. I think that's some
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: pretty good analysis, which I always get from Ted the Conservative.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: More of your calls coming up. Ron Verb, NewsRadio 570, WKBN.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: Kingdom of Mahoney, I am. The WKBN. I'm at 0357
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: in the afternoon, and you're on the air.
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: Hello.
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: Ron, the reason I'm calling today is because yesterday... Ted
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: and two emailers said I was wrong, but I was
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: actually right. First, Ted the warmonger said I told someone
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: to buy an investment, and he lost $ 30, 000. That's a lie.
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: I am not allowed to give investment.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: Okay. I don't want to dwell on everything every day.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: I am not going to let Ted the warmonger. I'm
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: not getting into any of this name calling it with callers.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: I have had enough of that. All right. I did
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: not lose anybody. Okay. I don't even want to discuss it. Okay.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: The guy said he did something and that was his
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: choice to do it. So I don't even want to
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  Speaker 1: dwell on it. So move on. I mean, you know,
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: it's ridiculous. You get bogged down in the weeds on
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: some of this crap.
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  Speaker 3: I disagree, but an emailer claimed the Wall Street Journal
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: contradicted me when I said interest on government bonds were
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: rising because governments are deep in debt and could technically deploy,
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: as California did.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: Stand by. I'll come back to you in a minute.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: From ABC News, I'm Chuck Sievertson.
• 36:34
  Speaker 6: So what now, now that the Justice Department has indicted
• 36:36
  Speaker 6: ex-Cuban dictator Raul Castro and several others for murder related
• 36:41
  Speaker 6: to Cuba shooting down two relief planes in the 1990s
• 36:44
  Speaker 6: that killed three American pilots?
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  Speaker 1: Acting Attorney General Todd Blanch in Miami.
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  Speaker 4: We didn't indict.
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  Speaker 8: This isn't a show indictment. This is an indictment because
• 36:53
  Speaker 8: we expect that there was a warrant issued for his arrest.
• 36:56
  Speaker 8: So we expect that he will show up here by
• 37:01
  Speaker 8: his own will or by another way.
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  Speaker 6: ABC News legal contributor Dan Abrams says Castro is still
• 37:06
  Speaker 6: in Cuba.
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  Speaker 5: Cuba doesn't extradite, right?
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  Speaker 9: So there's going to have to be some new policy
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  Speaker 9: that is implemented based on political force. to get Cuba
• 37:15
  Speaker 9: to suddenly give up Raul Castro. I don't see how
• 37:19
  Speaker 9: that would happen, but look, things are changing, and there's
• 37:22
  Speaker 9: a lot of pressure going on right now.
• 37:24
  Speaker 6: Two police officers who defended the Capitol in the January 6,
• 37:27
  Speaker 6: 2021 attack by Trump supporters are suing to stop the
• 37:30
  Speaker 6: creation of the nearly $ 2 billion Trump fund that could
• 37:34
  Speaker 6: potentially compensate rioters from that day.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: ABC's Peter Harlambous.
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: Former Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn and Metropolitan Police Department
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: Officer Daniel Hodges alleged the compensation fund would not only
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: encourage those who committed violence in the name of President Trump,
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: but also directly finance their operations.
• 37:51
  Speaker 6: Former Trump administration official Michael Caputo says he is requesting
• 37:55
  Speaker 6: $ 2. 7 million from that fund, claiming he was targeted in
• 37:59
  Speaker 6: the Russia investigation. Of the American missionary doctor who was
• 38:02
  Speaker 6: working in Congo and Africa and tested positive for the
• 38:05
  Speaker 6: Ebola virus, Dr. Satish Pillai with the CDC.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: The American has landed in Germany and is at the
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: hospital and in stable condition.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: At the hospital at the U.S. Air Base in Germany.
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  Speaker 6: At the close on Wall Street, the major indexes have gains.
• 38:19
  Speaker 6: The Dow up over 645 points. The Nasdaq up 399.
• 38:25
  Speaker 6: And oil is a little lower.
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