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"Bryce Reeves on Perspective" (Tuesday, December 30 2025, Hour 3) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 7: Thing Today. Mark Warner will spare no time telling you
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  Speaker 7: he is the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee
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  Speaker 7: for a few years, even it's chair.
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  Speaker 8: He never leaves. And is there a more.
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  Speaker 7: Tensile position in the US Senate than the Intelligence Committee?
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  Speaker 7: Right now, as we look at the state craft that's
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  Speaker 7: what is really happening in a lot of these stories.
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  Speaker 7: So when he faced a challenger coming up in the midterms,
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  Speaker 7: that was a big story. A big story yesterday was
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  Speaker 7: that challenger bowed out of the race early because of
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  Speaker 7: health concerns within his family. He's joining us now is
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  Speaker 7: Virginia State Senator Bryce Reeves.
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  Speaker 8: Bryce.
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  Speaker 7: Good morning, stir, how are you doing today? And prayers
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  Speaker 7: for your family. I hope all is going well.
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  Speaker 9: Hlloe Joe, good morning, and Merry Christmas and a happy
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  Speaker 9: New Year coming. Yeah, we were we were disappointed.
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  Speaker 3: To say the least. We had put in a lot
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  Speaker 3: of efforts so far, and we.
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  Speaker 9: Feel like that we would have made a pretty good
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  Speaker 9: challenger to Mark Warner. You know, the guy promised that
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  Speaker 9: he would only be there two terms, and now he's
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  Speaker 9: eighteen years in and he has TDS so bad that
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  Speaker 9: he's not well. In military terms, I would call him
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  Speaker 9: combat ineffective. He's not focusing on working trying to work
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  Speaker 9: with the administration at all.
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  Speaker 3: On anything, and you know, that's not good.
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  Speaker 9: And we've got to have he even said it, fresh
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  Speaker 9: ideas and fresh leadership, and hopefully the party will be
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  Speaker 9: able to find that person in this process, and you
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  Speaker 9: know it's you and I've been longtime friends ever since
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  Speaker 9: we first won that first selection, and we know our families,
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  Speaker 9: and you know it was a critical decision.
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  Speaker 3: That needed to be made.
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  Speaker 9: I've lived by the motto to honor God, love my family,
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  Speaker 9: and protect the country. And I can't protect the country
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  Speaker 9: if I can't do the first two and my significant
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  Speaker 9: other mothers very very ill, and we were notified on
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  Speaker 9: that on Christmas. And in order to run statewide. It's
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  Speaker 9: for your listeners. I tried it once before.
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  Speaker 3: As you know.
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  Speaker 9: We did one hundred and fifty four thousand traveling miles
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  Speaker 9: in fifteen months.
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  Speaker 3: And there's no downtime.
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  Speaker 9: It's you're sitting in a cart, you're making calls for funds,
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  Speaker 9: and if you're not doing that, then you're eating a
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  Speaker 9: whole chicken on a six ince plate with a toothpick
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  Speaker 9: and speaking. And you know, for anybody that's really thought
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  Speaker 9: about it, it's not the huge job in the world
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  Speaker 9: to try to hold a full time job of being
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  Speaker 9: elected member and run.
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  Speaker 3: For statewide office.
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  Speaker 9: And that's just too much and there's just no way
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  Speaker 9: I could do it and be faithful to what I
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  Speaker 9: need to be faithful to and so you know.
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  Speaker 3: We're doing what we should be doing.
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  Speaker 9: We're going to be focused on going back into session
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  Speaker 9: this year, a very important session, I think, with a
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  Speaker 9: new governor trying to trying to make sure we don't
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  Speaker 9: lose everything that we've worked for under Governor Younkins.
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  Speaker 3: Leadership the last four years. But there's been a lot
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  Speaker 3: of bills.
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  Speaker 9: Filed, and I think the Senate is going to be
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  Speaker 9: critically important this year, Joe, as you and I have
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  Speaker 9: taught that the Senate's going to be the backstop. I
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  Speaker 9: think if we can pull one or two of my
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  Speaker 9: colleagues that I find to be a little more moderate
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  Speaker 9: over on some of these very extreme positions.
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  Speaker 7: Well, and for those who don't know, Virginia Senate is
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  Speaker 7: only separated by a seat. There's twenty one Republican, twenty
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  Speaker 7: one Democrats, and nineteen Republicans, and so all you need
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  Speaker 7: to do is get one to come over and ties.
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  Speaker 7: Especially when it comes to constitutional amendments like the abortion
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  Speaker 7: law that they're trying to open up abortions all the
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  Speaker 7: way to the moment of birth without even a second
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  Speaker 7: opinion from a doctor or a family member. It's it's
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  Speaker 7: amazing to think about these things. But beyond that, tearing
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  Speaker 7: up the Virginia Constitution for redistricting, Bryce, do you think,
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  Speaker 7: you know, given the fact that the Virginia Senate voted
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  Speaker 7: overwhelmingly for the nonpartisan redistricting commission that drew these congressional
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  Speaker 7: districts in the place, is there somebody we can shame
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  Speaker 7: into saying, holl that you voted against this four years ago,
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  Speaker 7: five years ago. You know, you know, as you said,
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  Speaker 7: win over that one vote, and all of a sudden
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  Speaker 7: it's not an issue anymore.
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  Speaker 3: Well, there are, but you know, Luise Lucas and.
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  Speaker 8: Leader Cerevel.
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  Speaker 9: Have both come out with statements saying they're gonna move forward.
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  Speaker 9: Senator Van Backenberg was one of the uh, greatest advocates
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  Speaker 9: for the committee structure that we have now that's drawn
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  Speaker 9: by you know, a committee, uh in which you know,
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  Speaker 9: they couldn't reach consensus last time in a in a
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  Speaker 9: three judge panel appointed two special masters to draw our maps.
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  Speaker 9: But it was voted on overwhelmingly by our colleagues and
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  Speaker 9: both the Houses.
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  Speaker 3: Senate, and by all those that are listening as constituents.
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  Speaker 7: Right yeah, public, And and that's one of the things
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  Speaker 7: about amending Virginia's constitution. At the end of the day,
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  Speaker 7: it lands in the lap of the voters. So, you know,
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  Speaker 7: there's a lot still going on in this redistricting battle here.
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  Speaker 7: We're seeing it come apart in places like Indiana, uh
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  Speaker 7: and uh, you know, and actually it seems like it's
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  Speaker 7: caused some rancor in California amongst you know, the two
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  Speaker 7: political parties they are the far left and the middle left,
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  Speaker 7: which seems to be what you.
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  Speaker 3: High.
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  Speaker 4: Virus, seriously, last, I feel again.
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  Speaker 7: A map of Virginia, Bryce Reeves represents an area that
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  Speaker 7: is leveling, referred to as fred Vegas.
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  Speaker 16: Uh.
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  Speaker 7: It is the southern southern suburbs where all the you know,
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  Speaker 7: if they're not already you know, messing in politics, they are.
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  Speaker 7: This is where they live in the southern suburbs in
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  Speaker 7: Virginia because gosh, Maryland's just too expensive.
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  Speaker 8: For some of these folks to live in.
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  Speaker 7: But that Fredericksburg area around Virginia and that northern Virginia area, Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: there's a conservative there and he has lived to tell
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  Speaker 7: the tale for it. Bryce, we were talking about the
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  Speaker 7: incoming administration, and one of the sidebars to the story,
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  Speaker 7: I think is that you said that you were suspending
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  Speaker 7: and getting out of the Senate race US Senate race,
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  Speaker 7: but you were going to stay in the Virginia Senate.
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  Speaker 7: And the institutional recognition of somebody who is a conservative
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  Speaker 7: but is in an area that most people say is
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  Speaker 7: blue blue, and then just for variety's sake blue, You know,
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  Speaker 7: it is important too because I certainly, I'm sure there
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  Speaker 7: are the political nose counters that would say it's going
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  Speaker 7: to be hard for a Republican to win that seat.
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  Speaker 7: If Bryce was blessedly successful at winning the US Senate race.
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  Speaker 9: Well, you know, and I heard from my situents Joe
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  Speaker 9: about that as well. They'd love to see me in
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  Speaker 9: the US Senate, but they certainly didn't want me leaving
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  Speaker 9: and vacating the seat, especially now that you know I
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  Speaker 9: have seniority and I actually can bring home some bacon.
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  Speaker 9: You know, Orange County was without water for fourteen days
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  Speaker 9: due to aging infrastructure. Saying with Green County and you know,
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  Speaker 9: working with Senator Deeds.
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  Speaker 7: We were able to collectively put together.
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  Speaker 9: About twenty five million dollars for localities to go for
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  Speaker 9: grants to try to help alleviate some of that. You know,
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  Speaker 9: that's what government's supposed to do is help fix problems
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  Speaker 9: waters a need that everybody has to have that's not
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  Speaker 9: a not a Republican or a Democrat. Yeah, and so
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  Speaker 9: you know, I love the job.
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  Speaker 3: I absolutely love the job.
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  Speaker 9: I get to where I hate politics a lot more
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  Speaker 9: today because of all the e skew my language, the
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  Speaker 9: crap that you have to deal with. And you know,
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  Speaker 9: quite frankly, some of the people that are just keyboard
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  Speaker 9: hero just don't know.
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  Speaker 3: You for anything.
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  Speaker 9: Like even with my situation of bowing out, they're they're
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  Speaker 9: making up this stuff and it's just irritating as hell,
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  Speaker 9: And you know, as much as I want to tell them, look,
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  Speaker 9: I've got a family member's dying of cancer. Like like,
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  Speaker 9: I'm not bowing out because I'm afraid of Mark Warner
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  Speaker 9: or anything else. It's like, I've got a need. And
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  Speaker 9: if you can't have enough respect for people.
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  Speaker 8: Like that, in hell with you.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's just irritating both, you know.
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  Speaker 7: And and that's that's why I don't read anyone else's stuff.
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  Speaker 7: I have enough trouble putting my own stuff together.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 7: Most I listened to most four hours of my program. Uh,
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  Speaker 7: there are moments where I'm like.
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  Speaker 8: Did I say that but Bryce reeves on with us. Uh,
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  Speaker 8: you know, you.
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  Speaker 7: Overlapped some of Abigail Spanberger's congressional district. I believe in
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  Speaker 7: your Senate district, or you're very close to it. And
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  Speaker 7: and and at some point today there's going to be
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  Speaker 7: a column posting at Daily Signal dot com, by the way,
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  Speaker 7: speaking of health. Prayers out also to Bryce's mother in law,
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  Speaker 7: but to Victor Davis Hansen, who's stepping away, and for
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  Speaker 7: at least a few months, I got to call him
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  Speaker 7: my coworker at the Daily Signal, so I can gain
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  Speaker 7: gravitas for circling his orbit. But I pend apiece about stories.
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  Speaker 7: I'm hearing rumblings that Abigail Spanberger has become the darling
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  Speaker 7: of the twenty twenty eight set, that they're looking at JB.
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  Speaker 7: Pritzker and the continue flagging poll numbers of Gavin Newsom,
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  Speaker 7: and they're like, hold it. This woman just won a
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  Speaker 7: seat that had been held by a Republican. It's a
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  Speaker 7: purple state. This might be our answer, and that she
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  Speaker 7: might govern. The warning I have is don't expect the
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  Speaker 7: veto pen to be thrown away this session, because I think,
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  Speaker 7: and I've been told by a lot of smart people
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  Speaker 7: that she's going to govern moderately, and she might veto
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  Speaker 7: a lot of the nuttier stuff to put the playing
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  Speaker 7: under her towards the twenty twenty eight presidential run.
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  Speaker 8: Are you sensing that?
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  Speaker 21: Are you?
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  Speaker 8: Would you even be hopeful for that? If that's the case, Bryce, Well.
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  Speaker 9: I will tell you this, and I don't know who
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  Speaker 9: was tongue in cheek Joe, but during this last year's session,
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  Speaker 9: she had made a visit down to Richmond and asked
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  Speaker 9: me if I was ready to go to work in
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  Speaker 9: her administration. I kind of, and I said, really. She goes, well,
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  Speaker 9: I need a Secretary of Veteran Defense Affairs, because you
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  Speaker 9: know that's my Willhols. And I said, I'd love to,
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  Speaker 9: but I'd never be able to work in politics again
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  Speaker 9: after that, because that's something near and dear to my heart.
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  Speaker 8: But lo and behold.
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  Speaker 3: You know we talked a little bit earlier offline.
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  Speaker 9: I think she's made a phenomenal appointment with who she's
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  Speaker 9: put into that position. Our former Agent in General Tim Williams,
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  Speaker 9: who you know, led through several administrations as our agent
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  Speaker 9: in General in the National Guard, with you know, almost
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  Speaker 9: twenty five thousand of our our airmen and guardsman forward
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  Speaker 9: in the theater. And uh, you know, now he's going
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  Speaker 9: to be the secretary hopefully if we can get him
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  Speaker 9: confirmed of Veterans Offensive Affairs. And you know that's uh,
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  Speaker 3: I do, and and I'm happy to and that's great appointment.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, it's mission. It's like look out for the veterans
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  Speaker 7: not fixed problems. Well, but you know, we have we
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  Speaker 7: you know, in Virginia, because if the Senate stops it,
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  Speaker 7: if you can knock out a Senator that voted for it.
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  Speaker 8: Four years ago, then it's gone.
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  Speaker 7: It vanishes faster than you can say the Indiana redistricting
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  Speaker 7: or anything like that. But beyond that, I also look
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  Speaker 7: Commonwealth of Virginia to try to create big, massive, incontiguous districts.
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  Speaker 7: I use that word because because it's in our constitution.
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  Speaker 7: Just as a reminder of this to me, it makes
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  Speaker 7: these districts more winnable if you are out there working hard,
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  Speaker 7: because it's not a party registration. This is just D
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  Speaker 7: plus twenty around the Richmond area based on previous election results.
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  Speaker 7: You stretch that district all the way into central Virginia.
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  Speaker 7: and Fredericksburg like yourself in our congressional am I am
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  Speaker 7: I crazy to say that.
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  Speaker 3: I think you're right. We have actually talked about some
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  Speaker 9: But I think the greater implication in all of this,
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: all so it's not going to be just Congress if
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  Speaker 9: I'm running the show.
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  Speaker 3: And I can't be.
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  Speaker 9: I can't think that my Democrat colleagues haven't thought about
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  Speaker 9: this already, because there's some bright people there. But if
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  Speaker 9: they're going to do that, why wouldn't you just change
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  Speaker 9: the whole state in general and make the House of
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  Speaker 9: it never gets undone again. I mean so so people
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  Speaker 7: Well, yeah, I appreciate it as always priced prayers for
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  Speaker 9: I'm glad you're still Joe. Let me tell you, you
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  Speaker 7: Well, it's good doctors and good good family. And that's
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  Speaker 9: I hope absolutely we'll come on as much as you
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  Speaker 8: God bless you, sir, have a great day.
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  Speaker 3: You too, Thanks bobbye.
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  Speaker 21: The the.
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  Speaker 7: of things we agree to have in the process in
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  Speaker 7: in here you mean like public schools. Yeah, like public schools,
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  Speaker 18: And it is.
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  Speaker 7: That corruption that allows bigger and bigger and bigger government
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  Speaker 7: to go in there. So when you you say, well,
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  Speaker 7: to have enough space in between each house to have
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  Speaker 8: And it doesn't have to be unpopulated. Gosh, when I
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  Speaker 7: I can't smell rotten broccoli without having, you know, the
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  Speaker 8: But you have certain things roads.
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  Speaker 8: Well now.
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• 37:44
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  Speaker 22: There's no way that this kid walking around uncovered one
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  Speaker 7: So the question who's behind the door? And apparently not
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  Speaker 7: as many almost one hundred arrests so far in just
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  Speaker 7: this Somali community over it. But a couple of quick
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  Speaker 7: points that I nobody else getting on, and I feel
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  Speaker 7: like it has to be remade. Eighteen billion dollars surplus
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  Speaker 7: is vanished in the state to Minnesota has become a
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  Speaker 7: three billion dollar deficit. The General Assembly in Minnesota is
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  Speaker 7: trying to figure out how to refill the coffers. What
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  Speaker 7: taxes can they add? Can we go after wealthy people
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  Speaker 7: as targets? CEO is still living there, And seriously, I mean,
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  Speaker 7: this is what California is doing, is a five percent
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  Speaker 7: wealth tax for five years. Five years they're going to
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  Speaker 7: tax anyone's amassed fortunes and if you leave, they're still
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  Speaker 7: going to come after you for it. Because it's adjunct
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  Speaker 7: in California, There'll be cases made, probably wound up spending
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  Speaker 7: more on the lawyers involved just to adjudicate it. Matt
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  Speaker 7: writes in the Republicans in Minnesota are calling on Tim
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  Speaker 7: Waltz to resign now that he is wounded and bleeding
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  Speaker 7: in the water. But did the Minnesota Republican do anything
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  Speaker 7: to expose this fraud? And why are they talking about
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  Speaker 7: Waltz's resignation instead of his imprisonment. Did the Minnesota Republicans
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  Speaker 7: benefit at all from the Somali fraud. Well, no, but
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  Speaker 7: what their consultants are telling him is don't don't look
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  Speaker 7: to mean, don't don't look like the bad guy. This
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  Speaker 7: is why the consultant class can be very dangerous. There's
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  Speaker 7: nothing conceptually wrong about somebody coming in from the outside
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  Speaker 7: and telling you what you may not see in an enterprise,
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  Speaker 7: whether it be a political one or a commercial one.
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  Speaker 7: But when they when they become the industry, when simply
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  Speaker 7: the existence of a consultant means that it's it's a
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  Speaker 7: matter that will be handled, is dangerous. And they're the
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  Speaker 7: ones who have been consulting the Minnesota Republicans. Hey, we
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  Speaker 7: can make something out of this. Have you been trying
• 47:07
  Speaker 7: to make something out of it? As Matt said, because
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  Speaker 7: people and we have story after Dray. This is three
• 47:18
  Speaker 7: weeks ago we reported to you on the fraud and
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  Speaker 7: the missing money in Minnesota. Not that I'm trying to
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  Speaker 7: say I'm better than I'm not. I'm not saying that
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  Speaker 7: he did the walking around. But just keep in mind
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  Speaker 7: every time somebody tries to turn you against somebody else
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  Speaker 7: that does what I do, that is standing up for
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  Speaker 7: the Constitution and for the things that are right in
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  Speaker 7: this country. There's only one political ideology that thrives in division.
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  Speaker 7: It's Marxism. So when you watch somebody who's a socialist,
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  Speaker 7: albeit a nationalist socialist like a Nazi, claim to be
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  Speaker 7: a Trump supporter, it's designed to make you and me
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  Speaker 7: split over whither we should out them we should censure them.
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  Speaker 7: Thus how you wind up with that turning Point USA debacle,
• 48:25
  Speaker 7: And it's how states like Minnesota wind up with nothing
• 48:30
  Speaker 7: but Democrats all over the place, and the few Republicans
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  Speaker 7: that remain see this as an opportunity. And I know,
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  Speaker 7: I just was talking about the electoral opportunity of overplaying
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  Speaker 7: your hand. But these folks are just like, oh, Tim
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  Speaker 7: Wallas is in trouble, maybe we can wouldn't get is
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  Speaker 7: Jesse Ventura available? And that may have been the last
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  Speaker 7: time Minnesota Republicans wherever together was was when they all
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  Speaker 7: got behind Jesse Ventura, who was really run by some
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  Speaker 7: consultants to blow up the Republican Party in Minnesota.
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  Speaker 3: But the.
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  Speaker 16: The the.
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  Speaker 8: What's the phrase for these grifters who all of a.
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  Speaker 7: Sudden are like, oh, yeah, we're taking a principle to
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  Speaker 7: stand against Tim Walls opportunists. Is Tim Walls wrong.
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  Speaker 8: Matt, You're right.
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  Speaker 7: You know you should be going to prison for this,
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  Speaker 7: or at very least the people who in his administration
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  Speaker 7: administered this kind of fraud without oversight. But they weren't
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  Speaker 7: the only one. Remember we're talking about one hundred million
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  Speaker 7: dollars in the Somali drainage ditch. The state of Minnesota
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  Speaker 7: in just a few years have gone from an eighteen
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  Speaker 7: billion dollar surplus into a three billion dollar deficit. And
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  Speaker 7: that didn't all go into the Somali community. And state
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  Speaker 7: after state after state across the Fruited Plain are having
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  Speaker 7: these issues because they all got used to the federal
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  Speaker 7: government throwing money at them whenever they ran short on cash.
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  Speaker 7: They turned around, went to Elizabeth, went to Valerie Jarrett,
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  Speaker 7: turned their pocket out, and President Jarrett gave them a
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  Speaker 7: bag of money. I know you never heard of her.
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  Speaker 7: She's the puppet master behind both Obama and Joe Biden.
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  Speaker 7: She was the Chicago insider. And believe me, nothing says
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  Speaker 7: really really adept politician more than being a City of
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  Speaker 7: Chicago insider who hired a young girl named Michelle, met
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  Speaker 7: her husband Barry, and said I can do something with
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  Speaker 8: It was changed. She could believe in.
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  Speaker 7: So a couple other points here about infrastructure. This one, Joe,
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  Speaker 7: that's the camel's nose under the tent flap. We shouldn't
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  Speaker 7: have infrastructure needs. We should build our own roads as
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  Speaker 7: we need them, and do what put gates on them
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  Speaker 7: for people we don't want to drive across them. Again,
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  Speaker 7: this is why they put postal roots in the US Constitution,
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  Speaker 7: because that's what states were doing. They were putting gates
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  Speaker 7: up and saying you can't come here, or you have
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  Speaker 7: to pay tolls. And we've shrugged and allowed federal tolls.
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  Speaker 7: So it's not the existence of infrastructure or that. It
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  Speaker 7: is the people, the timber of the people, and the
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  Speaker 7: will tell you what to do with your water supply
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  Speaker 7: and how to do it. That's where the corruption is,
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  Speaker 7: at least from where I sit your results. That's why
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  Speaker 7: I like the text message line because people have time
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  Speaker 7: don't ever stop doing it even if we disagree on something.
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  Speaker 7: I don't think that that should be a deal breaker.
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  Speaker 7: Some people do. Until tomorrow morning at five. I am
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  Speaker 7: Joe Thomas. So long and thanks for all the fish.
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