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Congressman Warren Davidson joins Brian Thomas this morning · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: Station at seven oh six. Here fifty five kr CD
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Speaker 1: talk station, Brian Thomas, please as I can be as
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Speaker 1: always when Congressman Warren Davidson joins the fifty five kr
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Speaker 1: SEE Morning Show, Congressman Davidson was always a pleasure to
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Speaker 1: have you on the program. Welcome back, my friend.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, good morning, Brian. Hey.
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Speaker 1: Let us start off on a positive note. A congratulations
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Speaker 1: to you from Cribbage Mike aka my submariner friend who
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Speaker 1: has a soft spot and it's hard for the USS
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Speaker 1: Cincinnati PEACEPOOLI and at Voa Park, what he described as
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Speaker 1: the latest gem in your Congressman Davidson's district. Have you
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Speaker 1: been out to see the Voa Park yet? Before we
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Speaker 1: get into the headier topics of the war with Iran.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I wasn't there for the big ceremony that they
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Speaker 2: had Saturday. I had some other commitments on Saturday. But
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Speaker 2: I've been out to the park. I've watched the construction.
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Speaker 2: I was there for the groundbreaking. I'm supposed to take
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Speaker 2: a tour there, you know, next week or the first
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Speaker 2: week of June. I was supposed to be out there
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Speaker 2: and look at it. But it is a gem, and
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Speaker 2: you look kid you know Voice of America and the
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Speaker 2: iconic role that played and getting the truth on the
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Speaker 2: other side of the Iron curtain. You know, once people
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Speaker 2: found out the truth and finally found a way, they
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Speaker 2: tore their own wall down, and the USS Cincinnati was
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Speaker 2: a part of the path to getting from the hot
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Speaker 2: wards of the Cold War. It's great that people have
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Speaker 2: come together to do that. And you know, Jack Schiff
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Speaker 2: and the folks of Cincinnati financial donators a lot, and
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Speaker 2: maybe League and Cincinnati donated a lot, and it's really
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Speaker 2: cool to see it there.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's jump over to this situation where they're
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Speaker 1: on on again, off again negotiations. Of course, you sit down,
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Speaker 1: talk to them a little while. We send over a
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Speaker 1: list of demands. Iran completely rejects him, sends over a
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Speaker 1: counterlist of demands, which seems to be the polar opposite
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Speaker 1: of what we want. Wash Rents repeat, it doesn't seem
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Speaker 1: that the Iranians really care whether or not Trump bumps
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Speaker 1: drops bombs. They don't seem to believe him. Then he
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Speaker 1: says he's going to do it, and he always ends
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Speaker 1: up stepping back up saying, well, I'm going to pause
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Speaker 1: for a moment because negotiations are going well, they don't
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Speaker 1: seem to be. One of the big festering questions I've
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Speaker 1: gotten was a little bit critical of the Wall Street Journal.
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Speaker 1: I think they did a great job of outlining the
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Speaker 1: options that exist. They don't explain how in the hell
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Speaker 1: we can accomplish the various options. One seizing the iranium
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Speaker 1: uranium and destroying its potential enrichment sites. Well, that sounds good,
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Speaker 1: Sure that's what we want, but that would involve a
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Speaker 1: major military operation. I would imagine Congressman Davidson. The other one.
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Speaker 1: This is a swirling one for me because they suggest
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Speaker 1: escorting shipping through the Strait of Hormuz with our great military.
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Speaker 1: We've got a great one. But if we could do that,
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Speaker 1: take them up on their suggestion over the journal. Why
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Speaker 1: haven't we done that yet? Congressman Davidson escorting shipping through
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Speaker 1: the Strait of Horror moves? Could it be those pesky
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Speaker 1: Iranians have thousands of drones and can watch launch a
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Speaker 1: massive drone swarm blowing up the boats that are going
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Speaker 1: through the narrow strait of Horrm moves?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean this is a whole way to illustrate.
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Speaker 2: You know, you can choose your own actions, but you
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Speaker 2: can't choose the consequences. And that's the reality of a war.
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Speaker 2: You know, the enemy always gets a vote. They do something,
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Speaker 2: you do something. And what Iran was doing really prior
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Speaker 2: to February twenty eighth was what they're doing today is
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Speaker 2: running out. The negotiations keep coming up with another well
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Speaker 2: almost but maybe not, but well let's see, and there's
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Speaker 2: never actually a resolution to the negotiation. You know, I
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Speaker 2: think Trump rightly grew impatient with that and then took
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Speaker 2: it to it to a whole other level with a
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Speaker 2: strike that killed their leadership. You know, the Isatola and
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Speaker 2: the top forty or so leaders in Iran's government at
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Speaker 2: the time all died. You know, they decided to come
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Speaker 2: together for a meeting and a bunker, and they took
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Speaker 2: that opportunity to take out the top leaders of the country.
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Speaker 2: That began, you know, an intense bombing campaign, and you know,
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Speaker 2: we took out a lot of their missile capability, but
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Speaker 2: not all of it. We took out a lot of
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Speaker 2: their naval naval ships, but they got a lot of
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Speaker 2: what they call fast boats, smaller boats that they still operate.
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Speaker 2: And Iran has since you know, totally disrupted the flow
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Speaker 2: of ships through the straight up horor moves. So you know,
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Speaker 2: along the way, they've got to cease fire agreement and
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Speaker 2: that's mostly held where there's not a quote active engagements
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Speaker 2: for the most part. But when the US started escorting
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Speaker 2: ships through the strait, we used our navy, you know,
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Speaker 2: Iran shot back at them, and ultimately, not just the navy,
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Speaker 2: but really some of our allies said, well, let's not
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Speaker 2: do that, you know, we please don't because we don't
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Speaker 2: want Iran to keep bombing and striking some of our infrastructure.
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Speaker 2: So President said, fine, you know, we'll continue to negotiate.
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Speaker 2: And that's where we are, you know, so we're clearly
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Speaker 2: in a conflict. We haven't resolved the conflict. But it's
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Speaker 2: the same kind of characteristic that's gone for a long
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Speaker 2: time as Iran keeps talking and doing and the question is, well,
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Speaker 2: what are you going to do about it? And what
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Speaker 2: they're not doing inside the United States is kellty Congress
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Speaker 2: and get an authorization from military force. And the case
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Speaker 2: that's being made to the public is diminishing in support.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, I talked to people that were enthusiastic early,
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Speaker 2: you know, with the passage of time and kind of inaction.
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Speaker 2: Support for action in Iran seems to be going down.
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Speaker 2: And certainly as people notice, you know, the obvious impact
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Speaker 2: on fuel prices and other goods, they're they're not as
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Speaker 2: supportive on that either. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I mean, if you could have pulled off a Venezuela operation,
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Speaker 1: already been smiling and happy and giddy with excitement. But
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Speaker 1: clearly that is not the situation with the Iranians. I mean,
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Speaker 1: you're looking at a pretty significant potential quagmire. And to
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Speaker 1: your point, the Iranians continue to just launch missiles not
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Speaker 1: only at our fellow our friends in the Saudi Arabia
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Speaker 1: and United Arab Emirates, et cetera, whose oil infrastructure is
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Speaker 1: critical to the global economy. Isn't that one of the
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Speaker 1: reasons why we haven't started bombing Iran's infrastructure because if
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Speaker 1: we do that, they're going to launch actions against the
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Speaker 1: other oil infrastructure to other countries they can do it,
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Speaker 1: which means the world's problems would only get exacerbated by that,
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Speaker 1: wouldn't it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I mean this is this is the downside
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Speaker 2: is even if there was a perfect resolution with Iran,
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Speaker 2: and you know, it was trustworthy, validated the best peace
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Speaker 2: agreement ever reached. Oil isn't going to come back to
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Speaker 2: natural price immediately because you've taken on a massive amount
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Speaker 2: of infrastructure there in the whole Persian Gulf, not just
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Speaker 2: in Iran. So you know, demand is still, you know,
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Speaker 2: a semi constant thing. People modify their behavior to some
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Speaker 2: extent because it's cost in a lot. So there's some
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Speaker 2: behavior modifications that will ultimately lower prices a little bit
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Speaker 2: because there's less demand. But people want to go back
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Speaker 2: to the things that they do, and it's going to
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Speaker 2: be a while before the supplies there. So as long
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Speaker 2: as you have a high demand and you're going to
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Speaker 2: have high prices, Yeah, I.
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Speaker 1: Suppose if we rallied around the flag on this and
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Speaker 1: sort of viewed it the way the American population viewed
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Speaker 1: World War two, and did you know they collected scrabs
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Speaker 1: and they bought war bonds and they sucked it up
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Speaker 1: and dealt with the allocations of meat with their little
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Speaker 1: meat stamps and things like that.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I wasn't around at the time. It doesn't seem like,
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Speaker 1: upon reflection, there was a whole lot of complaining. We
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Speaker 1: were collectively sharing in the pain for the greater good.
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Speaker 1: We just don't seem to have a tolerance for that anymore.
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Speaker 2: Well, we certainly don't seem to be you know, we
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Speaker 2: certainly don't seem to be doing that with respect to
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Speaker 2: Iran right now. So, you know, people were reluctant. You
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Speaker 2: know from history, people were reluctant to get into World
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Speaker 2: War One. They were reluctant to get into World War two, right.
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Speaker 2: I think that's the nature of the American people. You know,
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Speaker 2: we've been very successful in war, but we broadly as
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Speaker 2: a public, when the public gets a voice in a vote,
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Speaker 2: would prefer peace. You know, they want a strong military
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Speaker 2: so that deters war, and they don't like the endless wars.
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Speaker 2: It's very unpopular. And that's the reality. People don't want
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Speaker 2: Iran to have a nuclear weapon, but they don't necessarily
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Speaker 2: want to send their sons and daughters to go make
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Speaker 2: sure Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapon.
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Speaker 1: Well, and that's just one of the problems that Trump
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Speaker 1: is finding himself running into. There's an article I just
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Speaker 1: read of the Daily Caller about young Maga folks who
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Speaker 1: are really widely supportive of Donald Trump. They voted for him,
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Speaker 1: especially young men. Well, they also bought into the idea
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Speaker 1: that we weren't going to be involved in these wars,
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Speaker 1: and young men, obviously they're the ones that going to
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Speaker 1: be shipped off the wharf it happens. They're the ones
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Speaker 1: that had the biggest risk. But that seems to be
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Speaker 1: a campaign pledge that Donald Trump violated by launching the
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Speaker 1: war against Iran. So the numbers are not looking good,
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Speaker 1: going along with the pain we're all feeling. Looking bad
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Speaker 1: as we move in November. The Iranians know about the
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Speaker 1: November election, don't.
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Speaker 2: They, Well, they know about all this. I mean the
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Speaker 2: November election. The first week of June, the War Powers
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Speaker 2: Act expires the ninety days, which has been wrongly applied
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Speaker 2: to say the president could do it once for ninety days.
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Speaker 2: That's not literally what it says. But there'll be a
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Speaker 2: vote in early June, and I suspect that the War
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Speaker 2: Powers the Act will kick in. Every president has said
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Speaker 2: it's unconstitutional, but it's never been tested in court. So
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Speaker 2: I suspect that it'll pass in June, and it'll say, well,
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Speaker 2: you haven't gotten an authorization. You are engaged in a
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Speaker 2: conflict that you didn't get Congressional authorization for or therefore
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Speaker 2: your in violation of the War Powers Act. So I
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Speaker 2: suspect that the President won't get an authorization and therefore
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Speaker 2: will probably challenge it in court. You know, Iran, I'm
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Speaker 2: sure it's paying attention to all of these kinds of
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Speaker 2: things and the level of support for it, and you know,
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Speaker 2: I'd say, look, the reality is the cost of war.
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Speaker 2: The tip of the iceberg is high gas prices. I mean,
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Speaker 2: if you go back twenty years for the VA, we
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Speaker 2: were spending about sixty three billion dollars a year taking
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Speaker 2: care of our veterans, which is brightened just you ask
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Speaker 2: a lot of our veterans. You have a moral obligation
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Speaker 2: to care for them. And if you look last year,
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Speaker 2: we spent over four hundred billion dollars caring for our veterans,
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Speaker 2: and a lot of people still feel there's some inadequacies
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Speaker 2: in the care for them. We got more than twenty
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Speaker 2: veterans suicide. Today we talk about a cost of war.
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Speaker 2: I mean, this is a real tangible cost, you know,
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Speaker 2: and to me, far greater than an extra buck or
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Speaker 2: two for per gallon of gas. So that's why I
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Speaker 2: think it's really is important that the Congress really does
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Speaker 2: as the voice of the people unite and authorize a war.
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Speaker 2: That's the way the Constitution is drafted. And I think
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Speaker 2: that's where you get the public support. You want maximum
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Speaker 2: public support, because I think if ran knew that the
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Speaker 2: American public was bound and determined that they will not
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Speaker 2: not only not have a nuclear weapon, they will not
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Speaker 2: run blockade on the straight at Hermeuse and shut down
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Speaker 2: global energy, but they also won't massacre forty thousand other citizens.
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Speaker 2: You know, then that would be thinking. The massacres are
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Speaker 2: horrendous in their own right. But you know, you look
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Speaker 2: at the Armenian genocide. I mean that's a long time ago,
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Speaker 2: you know, World War One era with the Ottoman Empire.
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Speaker 2: What a million and a half people massacred. So you know,
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Speaker 2: it's just the things that one group of people does
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Speaker 2: to another around the world have been evil for a
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Speaker 2: long time. But we're seeing that in Iran. These aren't
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Speaker 2: good people. But the American people haven't been rallied to
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Speaker 2: say this is our war to fight.
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Speaker 1: Plaus fromonte, We'll being Congressman Davidson back, what in the
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Speaker 1: hell is the National Endowment for Democracy and why are
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Speaker 1: we funding it? Plus will the save America Act ever passed.
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Speaker 1: Congressman Davidson. We talked Dahan Brian Thomas with Congressman Warren
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Speaker 1: Davidson pivoting over away from Iran to the National Endowment
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Speaker 1: for Democracy. Oh, hey, it's a non profit organization. We
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Speaker 1: are dedicated to the growth and strengthening of democratic institutions
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Speaker 1: around the world. And what do they do this nonprofit NGO?
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Speaker 1: They are responsible for grants to other NGOs to achieve
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Speaker 1: some sort of nebulous goal of achieving democratic goals around
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Speaker 1: the world. Congressman Davidson, this sounds like a scam, is
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Speaker 1: he there?
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Speaker 2: Are you there? Hey? It's got a great origin story, Brian.
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Speaker 2: It started in nineteen eighty three and was going on
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Speaker 2: in the Cold War. It was part of Reagan's move
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Speaker 2: to kind of push the ideas and values of democracy
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Speaker 2: around the world. Now why is it created as a nonprofit? Well,
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Speaker 2: the CIA wanted to do it and make it so
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Speaker 2: that it wasn't the CIA doing it. So you had
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Speaker 2: a nonprofit that had money that was going to go
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Speaker 2: do it, do these things that advanced America's goals. And
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Speaker 2: you know, I had Ned's CEO, who's Damon Wilson In
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Speaker 2: yesterday to the Foreign Affairs Committee. And you know, prior
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Speaker 2: to being the CEO of NED, he was the boss
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Speaker 2: of the Atlantic Council DFR LAB, which is the censorship operation.
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Speaker 2: They were the ones throttling information about the twenty twenty
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Speaker 2: one election. And what do you know, the only misinformation
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Speaker 2: and disinformation about the twenty twenty election that they filtered
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Speaker 2: was pro Trump and you know, calling out election integrity issues.
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Speaker 2: From that perspective, everything else they were out there. The
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Speaker 2: truth is this is the most honest election ever held
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Speaker 2: in human history. Every critique, your criticism of it is
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Speaker 2: fake and it's a conspiracy theory. Donald Trump was fully
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Speaker 2: defeated Donald Trump. You know, claims about mail in ballots
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Speaker 2: are false, even though the reality is many states do
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Speaker 2: maile life ballots out all these things that we're still
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Speaker 2: fighting about with the Day of America Act they were
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Speaker 2: doing when they were doing this when he was at
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Speaker 2: the Atlantic Council of DFR. So this is the guy
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Speaker 2: who Biden put in charge of NED National and Downal
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Speaker 2: for Democracy, and at NED, they were putting out Spanish
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Speaker 2: language information you know in Latin American countries that contradicted
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Speaker 2: what they were putting out in public information. So basically,
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Speaker 2: instead of advancing America's interests, they were down there pushing
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Speaker 2: Marxist leftists all over South America instead of advancing democracy.
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Speaker 2: And you know, it's fitting because when democrats say, you know,
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Speaker 2: we have to save our democracy, well they mean it
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Speaker 2: in the way that NED is saving our democracy, which
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Speaker 2: is advancing Marxism. So these guys are doing it with
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Speaker 2: our tax dollars. And then they're overwhelmingly an overhead machine.
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Speaker 2: They suck up all the dollars at their organization and
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Speaker 2: then grant them out to other nonprofits and they do
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Speaker 2: similar So it is a terrible operation. And I hope
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Speaker 2: that we finally defund it this year.
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Speaker 1: Well, I mean like a USAID when Elon Musk was
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Speaker 1: at there, we found out all this money's going under
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Speaker 1: the world. We didn't even follow up on what the
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Speaker 1: money is doing, whether it's accomplishing whatever nebulous goal it
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Speaker 1: was sent out into the world to do. You just
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Speaker 1: send up having a bunch of nonpropuit organizations with oh yeah,
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Speaker 1: members of boards of directors who are paid quite often
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Speaker 1: very handsome salaries. It's this has got to stop. But
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Speaker 1: will it ever stop? Or are they just going to
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Speaker 1: ride this out till another administration comes in with a
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Speaker 1: different political ideology and continue funding Marxism around the globe.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's only going to stop if we
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Speaker 2: make them. And and you know, kudos to the Trump
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Speaker 2: administration for turning off USAID in Trippy Dog, for exposing
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Speaker 2: some of the stuff that they've they've done. So in
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Speaker 2: this year's budget, we've got an opportunity to turn off
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Speaker 2: NED They got about three hundred and fifteen million dollars,
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Speaker 2: so you know, in the scheme of money, at least
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Speaker 2: we're measuring it in millions instead of billions. You know,
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Speaker 2: we can't get a lot of these things turned off.
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Speaker 2: So you know, we had language in the House build
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Speaker 2: that turned off all kinds of things that we got
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Speaker 2: to vote on. It just hasn't passed. And you know,
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Speaker 2: one of those things we're literally Tim Burchett's got to
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Speaker 2: build that's passed the House. We're still sending four million
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Speaker 2: dollars a week to the Taliban for what we left Afghanistan.
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Speaker 2: We shouldn't have been given the Taliban at dime anyway.
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Speaker 2: All along the way, and why the Senate blockade that
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Speaker 2: explained so many things people are like, when is Congress
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Speaker 2: going to do X. Well, the House largely has done
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Speaker 2: a lot of these things. We have a blockade far
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Speaker 2: tighter than Iran's blockade of the straight up or moves
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Speaker 2: going on in the United States Senate. It's in the
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Speaker 2: same building I go to just you know, a few
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Speaker 2: hundred yards north, and they won't hold the floor and
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Speaker 2: call votes and pass common sense legislation.
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Speaker 1: We have met the enemy and they are as Congressman Davidson.
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Speaker 1: Can you stay stick around just to talk about the
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Speaker 1: Save Act for a couple of minutes, Yeah, sure, happy
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Speaker 1: to great. Great, we'll continue with Congressman Davidson. Find out
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Speaker 1: what it's coming up. It seven thirty one fifty five
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Speaker 1: KRCD Talk station. Appreciate Congressman Warren Davidson stand over for
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Speaker 1: an extra segment, so we talk about the Save Act. Listen,
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Speaker 1: it doesn't seem to be a big deal to require
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Speaker 1: someone to prove that they're a citizen in the United
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Speaker 1: States to vote in a federal election, Wersman Davidson. It
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Speaker 1: is required that you be a citizen of the United
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Speaker 1: States vote in federal elections. The Save Actor, of course,
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Speaker 1: would address that and prevent that from happening to a
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Speaker 1: large extent. We don't want anyone who is not legally
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Speaker 1: allowed to vote to vote. So how could anyone be
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Speaker 1: against that? And where are we in terms of process?
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Speaker 1: Because I kind of thought this was going to get
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Speaker 1: through at some point, but it doesn't seem it seems
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Speaker 1: to have disappeared.
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Speaker 2: Congressman Davidson, Yeah, thanks, It's gotten through the House three
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Speaker 2: different times. I mean, it really only needed to go once.
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Speaker 2: But we just keep trying to make the point to
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Speaker 2: the United States Senate a pass our bill, do something
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Speaker 2: about our bill, and they have their sixty vote rule.
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Speaker 2: That's not the real filibuster. The real filibuster is you
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Speaker 2: hold the floor and you have to talk. Any One
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Speaker 2: senator can only speak two times on the subject, so
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Speaker 2: eventually you run through every speaker because the limits of
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Speaker 2: human endurance. Even if you get two turns and you
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Speaker 2: take an entire day of speaking, you only get two
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Speaker 2: days to talk about it. So if every Democrat did that,
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Speaker 2: you would you know, in one hundred days, you would
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Speaker 2: have exhausted all of their energy. So less than that,
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Speaker 2: and in my view, look if the only thing that
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Speaker 2: they talk about on the Senate floor between now and
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Speaker 2: election Day in November. Is whether it's crazy or saying
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Speaker 2: to have voter ID and to make sure that only
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Speaker 2: US citizens vote in US elections. I think that's great.
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Speaker 2: I'm happy for Democrats to take the position and explain
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Speaker 2: to the American people why it's okay that non citizens
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Speaker 2: would even be in our country, let alone vote, you know,
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Speaker 2: in an election, you know, illegally be in our country
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Speaker 2: and not vote an election. And when you look at
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Speaker 2: the law, I mean, there are only fourteen states that
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Speaker 2: don't require some form of ID to vote, and the
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Speaker 2: abuses on no voter I D are also huge with
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Speaker 2: the non citizens are registered to vote and they don't
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Speaker 2: want the screening. So SAVE is actually an acronym for
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Speaker 2: a database in DHS, and you would compare the existing
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Speaker 2: voter registration file to known US citizen data and if
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Speaker 2: you've got mismatches, then that would be flagged where the
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Speaker 2: Secretary of State of each state would do further screening
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Speaker 2: to make sure that you're there. When you register to vote,
19:23
Speaker 2: you would have additional criteria. And that's the reality is
19:28
Speaker 2: it would affect when you register to vote unless it's
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Speaker 2: a screening for non citizens. And there's a lot of
19:35
Speaker 2: misinformation and disinformation out there. Every single voter in America
19:39
Speaker 2: would not have to reregister to vote. If you registered
19:41
Speaker 2: to vote, you would already be registered for new registrations.
19:44
Speaker 2: There would be additional screen and I think look, I
19:46
Speaker 2: abak Ramaswami was out saying, hey, if we can't get
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Speaker 2: it done at the federal level, we should at least
19:51
Speaker 2: do it at Ohio. And right now we do those things.
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Speaker 2: But we don't necessarily do those things because they're the
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Speaker 2: law or the constitution in Ohio. We do them because
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Speaker 2: we have smart officeholders we have fought to do it
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Speaker 2: the right way in Ohio who've been serving in secretary states.
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Speaker 1: Well, I guess you know, going back to the regular
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Speaker 1: filibuster that you spoke of, I don't think they would
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Speaker 1: engage in a thoughtful analysis of why these save Act
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Speaker 1: is a bad idea. I mean, the only thing they
20:17
Speaker 1: ever say in response to that, well, the voter fraud
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Speaker 1: doesn't happen that often. It's always qualified. Yeah, it rarely
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Speaker 1: ever happens. This isn't something we need to worry about.
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Speaker 2: It rare.
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Speaker 1: Well, the idea that it could happen at all, it's
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Speaker 1: me is enough. If there's an easy solution, and the
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Speaker 1: Save Act seems to be then fine, everybody's got to
20:33
Speaker 1: have a photo ID. Anyway, problem solved, doesn't cost a
20:36
Speaker 1: whole lot of money, and we eliminate that it could happen.
20:39
Speaker 1: I mean, the nefarious component of this is it just
20:42
Speaker 1: reveals the Democrats absolutely and actually want illegal immigrants to
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Speaker 1: vote in our elections. That just seems to be the
20:48
Speaker 1: only conclusion one can reach. But I don't think they
20:50
Speaker 1: would engage in that type of debate. I think they
20:52
Speaker 1: would do is pull out their phone books and just
20:54
Speaker 1: start reading from phone books, which has happened in the
20:56
Speaker 1: past so they can use up time and really anger
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Speaker 1: their fellow senators.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's usually what they do. And with
21:04
Speaker 2: their arguments, they don't have real arguments. They're out there
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Speaker 2: saying that it's oppressive to women and minorities and you're like, oh,
21:11
Speaker 2: so you think women and minorities couldn't figure out how
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Speaker 2: to get an ID. I mean they do, as does
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Speaker 2: everyone because they function in modern society. He use ID
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Speaker 2: for all kinds of things, and so yeah, it's in
21:26
Speaker 2: a nonsensical position, and it really is. I think on
21:29
Speaker 2: so many levels common sense versus crazy they're not going
21:32
Speaker 2: to defend their position because it's indefensible. But you know,
21:35
Speaker 2: to your point, like they didn't accidentally open the border
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Speaker 2: up and flood it with tens of millions of people
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Speaker 2: coming into our country illegally. They want to do it
21:44
Speaker 2: for a reason. At the most basic level, they do
21:46
Speaker 2: it because it changes the census and it does drive
21:49
Speaker 2: funding into these cities. But they also have future goals
21:53
Speaker 2: including amnesty for all these folks.
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Speaker 1: Yes, they do. That is just that's not even a
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Speaker 1: secret anymore. Congress and Warren Day, David Soon, thank you
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Speaker 1: very much for your time today with my listeners and me.
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Speaker 1: I truly appreciate it. Thank you,