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Assessing last night's response in Iran, The SAVE America Act, and Democrats blocking NDAA · The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated

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Speaker 1: Joined now by the majority leader of the United States Senate,
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Speaker 1: Senator John Tune of South Dakota. Senator, good to have
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Speaker 1: you back on h Thank you for joining me to
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Speaker 1: I've got a lot of stuff to cover with you,
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Speaker 1: and I always start with my personal favorite, which is
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Speaker 1: judicial confirmation. I think you're setting some records, but you
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Speaker 1: want to confirm that for me.
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Speaker 2: We are, Hugh, and I know you care deeply and
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Speaker 2: does do a lot of Americans, and they should because
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Speaker 2: nothing shapes the future of the country more than these
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Speaker 2: lifetime appointments to the court. So yeah, we are actually
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Speaker 2: about ten ahead of where we were in the first
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Speaker 2: Trump administration in terms of getting people on the bench.
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Speaker 2: So we're going to continue to focus on that and
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Speaker 2: on the executive branch as well. We're going to move
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Speaker 2: a package next week of seventy four of those, which
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Speaker 2: will keep us well ahead of where the first Trump
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Speaker 2: administration was in terms of getting people confirmed to the
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Speaker 2: departments and agencies that run the government as well. So
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Speaker 2: it's a focus the personnel Department, as we've talked about before,
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Speaker 2: human resources for better or worse. It's something that's a
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Speaker 2: constitutional imperative for us and in the Senate, and we're
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Speaker 2: going to stay focused on it, especially when it comes
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Speaker 2: to the court.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, if in fact the Democrats take the White House
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Speaker 1: down the road, they'll have the same ability to confirm.
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Speaker 1: But I think that's the way the Constitution intended it
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Speaker 1: up or down votes by the.
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Speaker 2: Senate, correct, And that's you know, and again when we've
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Speaker 2: got the House, the White House and the Senate, which
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Speaker 2: is rare historically, I think in the last one hundred years,
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Speaker 2: it's only happened about four times. So we are working
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Speaker 2: into clear, you know, virtually clear the executive calendar, which
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Speaker 2: is both judicial and executive branch noms and we're going
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Speaker 2: to stay focused on that. But yeah, it's part of
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Speaker 2: the part of the Article one responsibility that we have,
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Speaker 2: and I think that getting these on the floor for
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Speaker 2: a vote and ensuring that we're fulfilling that responsibility and
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Speaker 2: setting the country up for success by ensuring that we
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Speaker 2: have constitutionalist judges on the court, to me is a
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Speaker 2: really high priority.
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Speaker 1: That's number one for me. Now, Senator, every time you're
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Speaker 1: on I get emails afterwards. Why didn't you ask them
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Speaker 1: about to say act people apparently do not hear that
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Speaker 1: you support it. I support it, but I support the
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Speaker 1: filibuster and you reflect the caucus. Is it correct to
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Speaker 1: say that there is not a majority of the Republican
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Speaker 1: caucus that supports changing the filibuster?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's correct, I mean, and there are a lot
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Speaker 2: of Republicans and frankly, you know, the president's argument is
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Speaker 2: the Democrats are going to do it anyway, and that
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Speaker 2: you know, I can't. I don't know the answer to that.
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Speaker 2: That's a hypothetical. Maybe it happens, maybe it doesn't. But
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Speaker 2: a lot of our Republican senators believe, and is one
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Speaker 2: one of them described it at some point the Democrats
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Speaker 2: may try to steal the car, but we're not going
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Speaker 2: to hand them the keys. In other words, if all
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Speaker 2: the things they want to do, DC and Puerto Rico statehood,
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Speaker 2: packing the Supreme Court, abortion on demand, federalizing elections. If
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Speaker 2: we open the door to allow them to do that,
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Speaker 2: then we're going to own it. And I think that's
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Speaker 2: the view of a lot of Senate Republicans. But on
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Speaker 2: the Save Act, I mean, you're right, I strongly support it.
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Speaker 2: I sponsored the original version last Congress, and I'll do
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Speaker 2: whatever I can to pass it if there's a clear
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Speaker 2: path of doing it. But we did put it on
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Speaker 2: the floor for debate, and we had it on the
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Speaker 2: floor for over a couple of weeks. We forced Democrats
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Speaker 2: to take a position on all of those common sense policies.
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Speaker 2: We've had five votes now on the entire Save America
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Speaker 2: Act for pieces of it, including photo ID, including citizenship
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Speaker 2: to register. I'm during the debate, no one's worked more
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Speaker 2: consistently in support of the bill than I did. So
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Speaker 2: they're common sense policies, widely supported by Republican and Democrat voters.
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Speaker 2: They ought to get an automatic yes from literally every
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Speaker 2: member of this body, but as the Democrats who consistently
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Speaker 2: block it, there hasn't been a single Democrat and the
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Speaker 2: five votes that we've had that has voted for it,
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Speaker 2: And so that's what we ought to be doing is
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Speaker 2: turning our fire on the Democrats, and you know, given
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Speaker 2: their staunch on wavering opposition to the bill, I think
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Speaker 2: it would be a message we should carry the voters
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Speaker 2: across the country and further highlight the contrast between Democrats
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Speaker 2: and Republicans on the issue and get away if we can,
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Speaker 2: from attacking each other.
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Speaker 1: And I've told the President on this program, Leader that
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Speaker 1: I support the filibuster and I don't believe actually that
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Speaker 1: Democrats will break it unless they get an overwhelming majority,
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Speaker 1: because I don't think I think they're like your caucus.
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Speaker 1: There are a lot of people who don't talk about
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Speaker 1: it much, but they respect the institution enough that they're
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Speaker 1: not going to break it. Am I right about that?
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Speaker 3: I think you are.
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Speaker 2: And I know it was probably highlighted this last week
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Speaker 2: when you saw John Fettermann, who was out there actively
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Speaker 2: supporting getting rid of the filibuster, write an op ed
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Speaker 2: and the whe Washington Poast Washington Post defending the filibuster
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Speaker 2: and saying that he completely changed his position on that.
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Speaker 2: And I've been approached by Democrats on the floor with
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Speaker 2: the same basically view. But I think that you're right,
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Speaker 2: doesn't get talked a lot about, and there's pressure on
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Speaker 2: their side, just like there is on ours to get
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Speaker 2: rid of it from some base voters. And you know,
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Speaker 2: anytime you have a president, every president wants to get
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Speaker 2: rid of the Senate filibuster because they viewed as an
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Speaker 2: impediment to getting things done. But it has served as
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Speaker 2: an important check and balance through the years, and if
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Speaker 2: you're a conservative in this country, it has been allowed
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Speaker 2: us to stop more really crazy, horrific ideas to expand
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Speaker 2: and grow government and create a lot of really left
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Speaker 2: leaning liberal Democrat policy through the years. And that's the
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Speaker 2: way a lot of Republicans view it.
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Speaker 1: As has been good legislation gets through. Example the Russia
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Speaker 1: sanctions bill this week that got through with a bipartisan,
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Speaker 1: big bulge of support it did.
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Speaker 2: I think that's evidence again that it does work, it
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Speaker 2: can work. We've seen a number of examples of that
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Speaker 2: bipartisan legislation. There's a number of things I think that
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Speaker 2: are still ahead of us on the agenda that we
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Speaker 2: could get done with bipartisan votes. To you, but yeah,
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Speaker 2: Russia sanctions, of course, and there's a huge, as you
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Speaker 2: would expect around here, desire to do this for Lindsay
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Speaker 2: is a tribute to him, but also because it's the
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Speaker 2: right thing to do for the country. I mean, we've
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Speaker 2: really got a chance to do something that helped shift
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Speaker 2: the playing field in Iraq, and these sanctions tart Or
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Speaker 2: I should say, not rac Ukraine, but these sanctions target
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Speaker 2: Russian officials, oligarchs, family members, foreign persons, Russian banks and
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Speaker 2: financial institutions, as well as this Russian shadow fleet which
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Speaker 2: continues to allow Russian oil and gas to fund Putin's war.
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Speaker 2: So it's important we get this done. And there was
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Speaker 2: a big bipartisan vote for it yesterday, and we've got
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Speaker 2: to finish it now. You've got to get it across
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Speaker 2: the finish line. But I think we should hopefully continue
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Speaker 2: to see strong bipartisan support for it, which is an
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Speaker 2: example of how this place can and should work.
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Speaker 1: Now, everything I want to turn to the midterms, because
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Speaker 1: we got hold onto the Senate and I'm doing everything
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Speaker 1: you can for Senator Collins is the most powerful women
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Speaker 1: in the United States Congress, probably in Washington, Senator Sullivan
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Speaker 1: and Alaska where they're trying trickery up there. Senator Houston
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Speaker 1: in Ohio. Senator Ricketts Nebraska, Mortrty tricks with Ricketts, and
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Speaker 1: then we got challenges Rogers in Georgia, Mike Collins, accuse me,
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Speaker 1: Mike Collins in Georgia, Johnson or Scott Brown in New Hampshire.
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Speaker 1: What do you make of the mid term outlook right now?
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Speaker 2: I you know, I think you know, given the fact
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Speaker 2: that if you look at into polling and the you know,
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Speaker 2: the so called generic ballot, we're facing some political headwinds.
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Speaker 2: We're probably facing, arguably too, depending on what happens in
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Speaker 2: the Middle East, some economic headwinds. But the truth is
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Speaker 2: we were as well positioned as we possibly can't possibly
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Speaker 2: can be. You mentioned some of our candidates. We have
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Speaker 2: high quality candidates and all the right places, all the
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Speaker 2: competitive races around the country, and you know, we've got
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Speaker 2: a firewall that we've got to keep. I think the
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Speaker 2: Senate is the firewall for the country. If the House flips,
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Speaker 2: hopefully we can keep them both, but we've got to
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Speaker 2: protect the Senate, and that firewall runs through places like
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Speaker 2: you said, it's Maine, it's Ohio, it's Iowa, it's Alaska.
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Speaker 2: We got an open seat in North Carolina. We're taken
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Speaker 2: on incumbents in Georgia and New Hampshire and Michigan, and
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Speaker 2: we've got great candidates in all those places. You've got
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Speaker 2: to make sure they're well resourced and that we're out
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Speaker 2: communicating our message and drawing a contrast with the Democrats.
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Speaker 2: I mean, this is where I think, you know, instead
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Speaker 2: of turning our fire on each other, we really ought
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Speaker 2: to be because we have there's a Democrat party in
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Speaker 2: this country that's so far out of the political mainstream.
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Speaker 2: They are so extreme and so radical in a lot
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Speaker 2: of their ideas, and so we just got to take
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Speaker 2: take that case to the American people and draw the
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Speaker 2: contrast between their vision of the future and ours.
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Speaker 1: Later, we got two minutes left. I know, you've got
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Speaker 1: a work period before the August work period back in
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Speaker 1: the state. Will that include the NDAA because the National
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Speaker 1: Defense Authorization has been held up for Democrats. It's the
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Speaker 1: first time I've been on there for twenty seven years
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Speaker 1: that this has happened, that Democrats have been so obstructions.
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Speaker 1: Is that they held up the NDAA. Is that going
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Speaker 1: to break? Are they going to change their minds?
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Speaker 2: It's crazy, you, I mean, they're making it all about Iran.
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Speaker 2: But the fact of the matter is this. Defunding the
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Speaker 2: military is job number one. I mean, if you don't
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Speaker 2: get that right, the rest is conversation. So we're going
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Speaker 2: to do everything we can to get that voted on
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Speaker 2: again if they won't give us the vote. We did
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Speaker 2: get a bill reported out of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
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Speaker 2: The House passed an Armed Defense Authorization bill. We could
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Speaker 2: go to conference with the committee passed version of that,
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Speaker 2: and then you know, try and get something out of
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Speaker 2: the conference the Democrats will vote for when it comes
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Speaker 2: back to the floor. But is incredibly irresponsible on their part.
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Speaker 2: It is, frankly, I mean inexcusable if you think about
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Speaker 2: what the state for a country for them to hold
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Speaker 2: up the thing that authorizes taking care of our troops
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Speaker 2: they're paid, taking care of the military families, ensuring that
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Speaker 2: we've got the right weaponry and technology to keep our
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Speaker 2: country safe and to deter and defeat any threat that's
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Speaker 2: out there to America's national security interest. So it's critically important.
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Speaker 2: The other thing they're blocking right now, which I know
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Speaker 2: appreciate as well, is FAISA, which is the Foreign Intelligence
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Speaker 2: Surveillance Act.
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Speaker 1: Now that we've got to got a security thing, so
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Speaker 1: we got to get it. Lada Johnthun always good to
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Speaker 1: talk to you. Thank you for the updates on all
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Speaker 1: of that, and I appreciate it very much. Touch you
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Speaker 1: again soon, Thank you, Thank you, Lada Johnson. I'll be
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Speaker 1: right back. America states that welcome back in America. Congressman
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Speaker 1: Dan Muser is from the great state of Pennsylvania. Now
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Speaker 1: you know, I normally keep Steelers and Eagles fans off
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Speaker 1: the show because they're hostile to the Browns. But Selena
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Speaker 1: Zeta likes Dan News and Vince Steve Bendade likes Dan Muser.
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Speaker 1: So I'm glad to have you on. Congressman. How are
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Speaker 1: you and how are things up in Wilkesbarre.
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Speaker 3: Hey, how are you?
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Speaker 2: You?
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Speaker 4: Great to be with you and Boyle boy, I'm in
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Speaker 4: good company with Selena and all.
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Speaker 3: Thank you. Well.
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Speaker 5: Right now, I'm in Lebanon County.
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Speaker 4: Met there Lebanon County Fair, which is just tremendous, very
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Speaker 4: well attended, some great people. I got our GOP friend
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Speaker 4: Mike Feirestein and the county directors. The fair directors show
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Speaker 4: me around, very well attended, lots of lots of great
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Speaker 4: milkshakes and food, and so if anybody's around, come on
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Speaker 4: down to the Lebanon County Fair.
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Speaker 3: Actually we got it.
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Speaker 4: It's fair time of year, so I mean, I was
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Speaker 4: at the schoogl yesterday. I've been to Lambing down in
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Speaker 4: Burks County, so making the rounds.
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Speaker 5: I'm in the district.
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Speaker 1: I love county fairs. I'm from Trumbull County congressman, right
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Speaker 1: over the Pennsylvania border near Sharon. Never missed it any summer.
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Speaker 1: It's a great way to spend some time. But you've
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Speaker 1: been busy in Congress as well. Reck Andillytion three point zero.
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Speaker 1: I'm very happy to see that pretty narrow win. But
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Speaker 1: a win's a win.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we have our fights on our hands.
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Speaker 1: We've got our challenges.
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Speaker 4: You saw probably how a few Republicans, of course weren't
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Speaker 4: there initially, and we have a three vote majority, so
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Speaker 4: we need everybody basically with We're able to give up
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Speaker 4: two this past week. So but look the reconciliation. You know,
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Speaker 4: we passed the budget resolution. It's important primarily because Republicans
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Speaker 4: are the only ones voting for measures that will strengthen
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Speaker 4: our country. And frankly, our friends to the left, colleague,
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Speaker 4: some of them friends, not all are four disrupting things
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Speaker 4: as well as possible, because their whole goal is I'm
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Speaker 4: winning the mid terms, and if things are not going
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Speaker 4: well and they can point that out, then you know
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Speaker 4: they feel that helps them politically, and frankly, I think
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Speaker 4: that's pretty damn sad.
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Speaker 5: I would prefer that they help us, that we.
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Speaker 4: All work to make our country as strong as it
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Speaker 4: should be and then fight over who gets the credit.
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Speaker 4: That's what I think politics should be about. But unfortunately, man,
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Speaker 4: it's it's not. But but within this, we've got the
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Speaker 4: Save America Act.
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Speaker 5: We've got some big.
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Speaker 4: Farm money, agriculture money, and we have some added defense funding,
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Speaker 4: which which is essential and we'll see. We also looking
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Speaker 4: to pass a continued resolution since the budget is stuck
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Speaker 4: for for a little bit, hopefully not too long into December.
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Speaker 4: UH And but we had a lot of other things
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Speaker 4: going on right We passed the Stock Trading Act stop
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Speaker 4: stop inside of Trading Act.
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Speaker 5: So we're trying.
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Speaker 4: To do the things that America expects us to do,
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Speaker 4: and all the while, UH cover the macros, National cover the.
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Speaker 1: Macro, but also got a district to take care of.
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Speaker 1: Every congressman in America has got to take care of
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Speaker 1: their district. I think there's nine and a half million
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Speaker 1: dollars heading into Pennsylvania. Ninth Am. I right about that.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, we just recently received nine and a half million
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Speaker 4: dollars for rural Hospital fund, very very important. I outlined
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Speaker 4: carefully which hospitals needed what, and we were able to
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Speaker 4: come through. I mean, that's also a bill, by the way,
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Speaker 4: that came out of the one big beautiful bill, the
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Speaker 4: Working Families Tax cut portion of it, whereby we found
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Speaker 4: fifty billion dollars for rural hospitals.
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Speaker 5: That'll be allocated over a five year period.
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Speaker 4: Pennsylvania's receiving one hundred and ninety three million of that,
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Speaker 4: and in the first trunch my district received nine million dollars.
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Speaker 4: There were a number of Pennsylvanians that were strongly behind that.
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Speaker 4: In particular, I'm going to mention Rob Resihan, who's a
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Speaker 4: freshman who led a lot of It's there. I was
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Speaker 4: with him when he was telling the speaker, I've got
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Speaker 4: to have this. Here are the losses that I'm getting
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Speaker 4: from my rural hospitals. And by the way, they had
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Speaker 4: nothing to do with the work requirements that haven't even
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Speaker 4: gone to effect yet that the Democrats or excuse me.
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Speaker 4: The Social Democrats, as they insist on being called, run
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Speaker 4: ad stating how we're we've cut medicaid and people are
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Speaker 4: losing their medicaid.
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Speaker 5: No Medicaid, nothing's been cut.
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Speaker 4: The only thing that's going to be changed is work
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Speaker 4: our work requirements and they won't go into effect until
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Speaker 4: January one, twenty twenty seven. So the ads that they're
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Speaker 4: running now and for this campaign on healthcare are completely false, completely.
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Speaker 5: Fabricated, and frankly alives.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Congressman Dan Music, I've been watching the Democrats run
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Speaker 1: against good, solid, serious legislators like you for twenty seven years.
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Speaker 1: They always run the same ad, you know, the same ad,
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Speaker 1: always trying to destroy healthcare. You're not. You just saved
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Speaker 1: the Royal Hospital in your district. I'm curious. Did they
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Speaker 1: nominate what I'll call a normy liberal, you know, just
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Speaker 1: a just a normy Democrat from the city council or
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Speaker 1: a supervisor, or did they go full ds A on
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Speaker 1: you and send up a leftist.
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Speaker 5: You know, I'm not sure yet.
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Speaker 4: I do see our colleagues such as Ryan McKenzie, Scott
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Speaker 4: Perry uh and Rob Residinhan have those that are just
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Speaker 4: falling in line.
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Speaker 5: You know, Hugh, Hugh, I see.
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Speaker 4: You on on Fox. I'll tell you what you do
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Speaker 4: an amazing job messaging. I find myself taking notes.
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Speaker 5: Very often when when when you're uh speaking.
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Speaker 4: But but the left is many aren't extremists. Many are
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Speaker 4: not necessarily traditional Democrats, but they are not as extreme
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Speaker 4: as the you know, the social Democrats or the communists
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Speaker 4: or whom that are that are being elected out there.
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Speaker 4: And they're not just being elected in New York like
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Speaker 4: we're looking at Mandani, uh, but they're being elected.
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Speaker 5: In Philadelphia, They're being elected in Michigan.
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Speaker 1: They're being elected in a lot of places.
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Speaker 4: And I think what many see that the tail is
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Speaker 4: going to be wagging the dog, the socialist tale is
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Speaker 4: going to be wagging the Democrat dog, and they're absolutely
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Speaker 4: fearful of pushing back on them. And the sad part
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Speaker 4: is those that get even if they portray themselves as
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Speaker 4: a moderate, and they happen to win in Pennsylvania because
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Speaker 4: those are the opponents that.
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Speaker 5: I know best.
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Speaker 4: They will vote with the extreme ents, with the Progressive Caucus,
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Speaker 4: with the squad, with AOC and with omar my estimate
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Speaker 4: and my guarantee ninety eight, if ninety eight percent of
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Speaker 4: the time, if not one hundred percent of the time.
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Speaker 4: But but to answer your question, I don't know yet.
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Speaker 4: My opponent is not really engaged at so much at
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Speaker 4: this point. I'm sure that'll change, except for social media
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Speaker 4: and that sort of thing.
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Speaker 5: So we'll see, you.
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Speaker 4: Know, I hope to have a policy debate, but i'll
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Speaker 4: see how extreme that that that my opponent gets.
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Speaker 1: Last question Congress a muser. First time we've met, Vince
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Speaker 1: told me wonderful things about you, so I wanted to
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Speaker 1: talk to you. You're a Norman, you were a businessman
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Speaker 1: before you went to Congress. That really matters to me,
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Speaker 1: because you don't vote for stupid stuff. Is it? Is
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Speaker 1: it better or worse than you thought when you first
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Speaker 1: got there. I mean, you got good speaker and Mike Johnson.
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Speaker 1: You had a good speaker and Kevin McCarthy. But the
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Speaker 1: Democrats are losing their mind. Got a minute, Yeah, Democrats
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Speaker 1: all lose.
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Speaker 5: Well, it's not some days, it's worse.
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Speaker 2: See.
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Speaker 5: I put it this way.
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Speaker 4: The best part of Congress probably is actually the quality
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Speaker 4: of the people. And I tell that to my district
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Speaker 4: and the crowds and they look at me like I'm crazy.
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Speaker 5: But no, we've got.
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Speaker 4: Generals, we've got successful business people, we got doctors, we've
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Speaker 4: got Navy seals, we've got you know you, Nick, I
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Speaker 4: mean we there for the right reason.
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Speaker 5: And you know what.
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Speaker 4: On the Democrats side you get talking, many of them too,
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Speaker 4: are truly there for the right reasons.
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Speaker 5: They might believe things a lot differently than us, but
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Speaker 5: they're not crazy.
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Speaker 1: They don't deliberately lie.
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Speaker 5: But the hipocrisy do. The hipocrisy that takes.
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Speaker 4: Place, and ninety five percent of it on the Democrat side,
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Speaker 4: that's hard to take.
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Speaker 1: It is, especially on things like insiders stock trading, which
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Speaker 1: you've got through or helped get through their newser good
19:21
Speaker 1: first time. I hope you come back, enjoy the fair
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Speaker 1: in Lebanon County, Corn and glory and evening grace America.
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Speaker 1: I'm Hugh Hewett, hour number two on this Thursday edition
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Speaker 1: of the program. I'm kicking it off with our next
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Speaker 1: senator from North Carolina, Michael Wattley, former chairman of the
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Speaker 1: Republican National Committee. Of course, he's all over the tar
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Speaker 1: Heel State as we are. Michael tell us how goes
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Speaker 1: the campaign. The website is Michael Wattley dot com. Wh
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Speaker 1: A T l e Y Michael Wattley dot com. I'm
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Speaker 1: sure you would like donations and volunteers. Tell us how
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Speaker 1: it's going.
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Speaker 6: It's going great. You know, we have finished our hundred
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Speaker 6: county tour and we're back on the road making sure
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Speaker 6: that we're getting to every one of US county is
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Speaker 6: having conversations with folks. You know, we are meeting with farmers,
20:04
Speaker 6: we're meeting with manufacturers, small business owners, and of course
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Speaker 6: voters from across the state and talking about what they want.
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Speaker 6: You know, one of the things that I saw when
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Speaker 6: I was the RNC chair, when I was the North
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Speaker 6: Carolina Republican Party chair, is that people want to know
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Speaker 6: who you're going to fight for, and they want to
20:20
Speaker 6: know you're going to fight for them, You're going to
20:22
Speaker 6: fight for their families and their communities. And that's exactly
20:26
Speaker 6: what we're going to do. We're going to make sure
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Speaker 6: that we're having you know, policies in position at the
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Speaker 6: federal level. They're going to help people make more and
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Speaker 6: keep more. That we're going to keep our kids in
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Speaker 6: our communities safe, and of course we're going to have
20:37
Speaker 6: a strong presence around the world, a strong military. And
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Speaker 6: my opponent Roy Cooper's made it very clear throughout the
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Speaker 6: course of his campaign, and he's been out to you know,
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Speaker 6: maybe eight, ten, fifteen counties, something like that. He's running
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Speaker 6: from the basement. He's going to fight for criminals. He's
20:53
Speaker 6: going to fight for illegal aliens. He's going to fight
20:54
Speaker 6: for men who want to play in girls' sports and
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Speaker 6: go in women's locker rooms. He's going to fight for
20:59
Speaker 6: higher taxes, going to fight for higher energy prices. That's
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Speaker 6: not what the North Carolina people want to see.
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Speaker 1: Now, Michael lot Lay, Roy Cooper is beige. I've been
21:09
Speaker 1: asked to describe various candidates. I can talk to you
21:12
Speaker 1: about Monounty all day long. I know what else Sayid
21:15
Speaker 1: is gonna do. I know who Susan Collins is running again,
21:18
Speaker 1: sort of a lightweight grand platner. But it comes to
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Speaker 1: Roy Cooper, he's beige. And I just fall back on
21:23
Speaker 1: the fact. Take a look at the Charlotte transportation system.
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Speaker 1: He was governor for a year. How can that be
21:28
Speaker 1: so dangerous? What's his connection to that?
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Speaker 6: Michael, Well, look, I mean Roy Cooper as the governor
21:35
Speaker 6: was the worst governor in the history of North Carolina.
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Speaker 6: And you look at the transportation system North Carolina. Roy
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Speaker 6: Cooper let forty two hundred criminals out of prison, forty
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Speaker 6: two hundred hardened criminals. I mean, we're talking the worst
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Speaker 6: of the worst, pedophiles, rapists, and murderers, right. And of course,
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Speaker 6: when you let forty two hundred criminals out of prison,
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Speaker 6: what do you think they're going to do? They went
21:55
Speaker 6: right back to the life of crime. And over half
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Speaker 6: of them, twenty two hundred of them, have since been rearrested.
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Speaker 6: And we've seen hundreds of them who've been rearrested for
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Speaker 6: violent felonies, aggravated assault, assault with a deadly weapon, ninety
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Speaker 6: nine of them have been re arrested and convicted for
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Speaker 6: sexual assault, for rape, for child pornography charges, and twenty
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Speaker 6: five of them have been rearrested for murder have been
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Speaker 6: convicted of murder, including de Carlos Brown Junior, probably the
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Speaker 6: most famous guy on the list. You know who got
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Speaker 6: rearrested and re released thirteen more times under Roy Cooper's
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Speaker 6: policies before he got on a light railcar in Charlotte
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Speaker 6: last year and brutally murdered Arena's Rootska, who's a beautiful
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Speaker 6: young Ukrainian refugee in cold blood, and that murder has
22:41
Speaker 6: gotten a lot of national attention because it was on video,
22:45
Speaker 6: and you know, if you haven't seen a video, don't
22:47
Speaker 6: go look at it's horrifying, but it got a lot
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Speaker 6: of national attention. Well, that monster should have never been
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Speaker 6: on that car. He should not have been on the
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Speaker 6: streets in North Carolina. Arenas or Ropeska should be alive today.
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Speaker 6: And her blood is on Roy Cooper's as you know.
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Speaker 6: And I wish that's where the story ended, but it doesn't,
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Speaker 6: you know, because there were twenty four other people, you know,
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Speaker 6: who got murdered by convicts that Roy Cooper let out.
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Speaker 6: And so you think about this year at Thanksgiving or
23:13
Speaker 6: this year at Christmas, you're gonna have twenty five empty
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Speaker 6: seats around those tables in North Carolina because Roy Cooper
23:19
Speaker 6: put these criminals back on the streets.
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Speaker 1: Well, I think that's issue number one. Has to be
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Speaker 1: issue number two. Democrats in the Senate, and he'll just
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Speaker 1: be a loyal, go along to get along freshman. He'll serve.
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Speaker 1: He's not going to serve long enough to have any
23:32
Speaker 1: swing in the Senate. They're stopping the National Defense Authorization
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Speaker 1: Act right now. They're stopping the appropriation for the pentagont
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Speaker 1: Does everyone in the military community, in the retired military
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Speaker 1: community in North Carolina know that, Michael Whitley.
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Speaker 6: It's tremendously important here in North Carolina. Who you raise
23:49
Speaker 6: an absolutely great point. You know, we have about ten
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Speaker 6: percent of all of the men and women in uniform
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Speaker 6: between the Army and Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast
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Speaker 6: Guard are actually based in North Carolina. The military families
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Speaker 6: that support them are tremendously important part of our fabric
24:05
Speaker 6: here in North Carolina. We have seven hundred and twenty
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Speaker 6: thousand veterans who live in North Carolina, more than any
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Speaker 6: other state in the country. So yeah, you know, these
24:12
Speaker 6: issues really affect folks. And what Roy Cooper has done
24:17
Speaker 6: in terms of going after our troops, denigrating their service,
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Speaker 6: trying to belittle it what's happening in the Middle East
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Speaker 6: right now is.
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Speaker 3: A real disgrace.
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Speaker 6: You know, I was last night down at Camp La June.
24:29
Speaker 6: I was down at an event in Onslow County, North Carolina,
24:33
Speaker 6: and when we talked about Roy Cooper and his failure
24:36
Speaker 6: to support our troops and support the mission that they
24:38
Speaker 6: have right now over in Iran. You know, round boots,
24:42
Speaker 6: like the people really really opposed to him, and the
24:45
Speaker 6: fact that he's not going to stand up for our troops.
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Speaker 6: I'm gonna fight for him every single.
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Speaker 1: Day, and I'm just afraid people don't understand what the
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Speaker 1: Democrats are doing is unprecedented. The NDAA National Defense Authorization
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Speaker 1: nine has never failed to advance, and the Democrat you're
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Speaker 1: blocking it. Roy Cooper, I'm sure right in line with that.
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Speaker 1: Let me ask you about his money. I was on
25:05
Speaker 1: Fox today talking about the dark money operation over on
25:08
Speaker 1: the left, Sheldon white House, Democrat from Rhode Island, always
25:11
Speaker 1: talking about dark money. In fact, it's coming from Arabella Advisors,
25:14
Speaker 1: Sorrows Junior, sorrow Senior. It's hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Speaker 1: Is that where Roy Cooper is getting his bank from.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely?
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Speaker 6: You know, Chuck Schumer's made it very clear he is
25:25
Speaker 6: desperate to win this seat that he's going to put
25:27
Speaker 6: hundreds of millions of dollars into North Carolina to elect
25:31
Speaker 6: Roy Cooper is his puppet because he knows he's going
25:33
Speaker 6: to be a reliable vote there. He'll vote with James
25:35
Speaker 6: tall Rico, He'll vote with Abdul Lsaeid, He'll vote on
25:39
Speaker 6: the Democratic platform, champion by Zorn Mom Donnie in AOC,
25:43
Speaker 6: He's going to be a card carrying member of the
25:45
Speaker 6: woke mob. So we do know that you're going to
25:47
Speaker 6: see hundreds of millions of dollars coming through those Democratic
25:51
Speaker 6: pipelines into North Carolina. We will have enough money to
25:53
Speaker 6: put our message out there.
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Speaker 3: It's very important.
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Speaker 6: And I know that your viewers go to Michael Wattley
25:58
Speaker 6: dot com and sign up and so sport the campaign.
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Speaker 6: But we're getting out there. We're going to all one
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Speaker 6: hundred counties. We're having those conversations. And the one thing
26:06
Speaker 6: that we consistently hear across that state they want a
26:09
Speaker 6: strong North Carolina.
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Speaker 3: They want a strong America.
26:12
Speaker 6: They want a strong economy, they want strong borders, they
26:15
Speaker 6: want a strong national security, they want safe communities.
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Speaker 3: That's what we're fighting for.
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Speaker 6: You know, Kamala Harris outspent us in the twenty twenty
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Speaker 6: four election cycle, outspent President Trump by over a billion dollars,
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Speaker 6: and she lost because she was not a good candidate.
26:29
Speaker 6: Candidates and campaigns really matter. And the fact is good
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Speaker 6: policy is good politics. And that's what we're running on
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Speaker 6: in North Carolina and.
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Speaker 1: The people of Western North Carolina. Remember how Joe Biden
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Speaker 1: and Roy Cooper did not show up when they were hurting.
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Speaker 3: They absolutely do.
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Speaker 6: I hear it every single time I go up to
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Speaker 6: the mountains, you know, And every single time I talked
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Speaker 6: to President Trump, he asked how's Western North Carolina recovering?
26:55
Speaker 6: And the fact that I brought President Trump up to
26:58
Speaker 6: Ashville and Swannanoah during the campaign, and we brought him
27:02
Speaker 6: up right after he was sworn in. His first trip
27:04
Speaker 6: as president, in fact, was to western North Carolina. And
27:08
Speaker 6: the fact that people will never forget. On that day
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Speaker 6: September twenty seventh, twenty twenty four, when the hurricane slammed
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Speaker 6: into Western North Carolina, Roy Cooper was up at a
27:18
Speaker 6: celebration a climate change gala in New York City. He
27:21
Speaker 6: wasn't even in North Carolina. He didn't show up for
27:24
Speaker 6: the next three months as governor. He was completely derelict
27:27
Speaker 6: and his duty failed Western North Carolina. Since the President
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Speaker 6: came in, I have actually been asked to help make
27:33
Speaker 6: sure that we get relief. In ten point seventy five
27:36
Speaker 6: billion dollars that we've brought to Western North Carolina. It's
27:39
Speaker 6: the largest storm recovery program in the history of the state.
27:43
Speaker 6: Roads are being rebuilt, Bridges have been rebuilt, water systems
27:46
Speaker 6: are up and running. The Blue Ridge Parkway is open,
27:48
Speaker 6: you know, and we've seen cultural icons like Lake Lure
27:51
Speaker 6: and Chimney Rock that are back open. You know, we're
27:54
Speaker 6: not ready to hang out a mission accomplished sign. There's
27:56
Speaker 6: still a lot of work to do. The people of
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Speaker 6: Western North Carolina are really wrong. Those communities are resilient,
28:02
Speaker 6: but they know Roy Cooper let them down. Roy Cooper
28:05
Speaker 6: failed Western North Carolina.
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Speaker 1: So just some raw politics here, Michael Wattley. We've got Charlotte,
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Speaker 1: it's a deep blue dot. Does the rest of the
28:14
Speaker 1: state have to come through for you? Is it the
28:16
Speaker 1: rest of the state versus Charlotte in an RD Senate race?
28:20
Speaker 3: They do?
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Speaker 6: You know, And if you think about you know, Charlotte, Raleigh, Durham, Greensboro, Asheville. Yeah,
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Speaker 6: these are blue cities, but we've got red counties all
28:28
Speaker 6: across the state.
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Speaker 3: We are very evenly divided.
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Speaker 6: We're thirty percent Republican, We're thirty percent Democrat, We're forty
28:34
Speaker 6: percent unaffiliated, which is our version of independence, you know,
28:38
Speaker 6: plus plus you know, one point five percent other In there,
28:41
Speaker 6: but we're a purple state. We need to go out
28:45
Speaker 6: and talk to every voter, you know, and we're seeing
28:47
Speaker 6: six hundred and fifty people a week who are moving
28:49
Speaker 6: into Charlotte, hundreds are moving into Raleigh and the other cities.
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Speaker 3: So that's why we're going out.
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Speaker 6: We're having those conversations not just in the big cities,
28:57
Speaker 6: but in the rural areas, the suburban areas. We've been
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Speaker 6: to the mountains, we've been to the coast. I want
29:02
Speaker 6: to have this conversation with every voter in North Carolina.
29:05
Speaker 6: How can I help you? What can I do to
29:07
Speaker 6: make sure that you make more and you keep more?
29:09
Speaker 6: How are we gonna keep our community safe? You know
29:12
Speaker 6: I've been endorsed by the Police Benevolent Association, the highwaytroopers
29:16
Speaker 6: and sheriffs from one end of the state to the
29:18
Speaker 6: other because they know I'm going to back the blue
29:20
Speaker 6: and I'm gonna keep our community safe.
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Speaker 1: Superb candidate in North Carolina. He'll be a great senator
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Speaker 1: for the tar Hill state. Michael Wattley, go and get
29:28
Speaker 1: involved in the campaign Michael Wattley dot com. If you've
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Speaker 1: got a state where you've got a safe in coming
29:32
Speaker 1: or no race at all. That's a place to invest
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Speaker 1: some money. Michael Wattley dot com. If you're a North Carolinian,
29:38
Speaker 1: you want to walk a precinct, make some phone calls,
29:40
Speaker 1: get involved in the process. Michaelwattley dot com Chairman Wattley,
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Speaker 1: good to talk to you again, See you again. I'll
29:46
Speaker 1: check in again next month. Michael Wattley dot com. Stay tuned, America.
29:50
Speaker 1: Jayfeely is next from Arizona. I'm Hugh Heurett. Welcome back America,
30:03
Speaker 1: Hugh Hewitt. I want my friends in Phoenix listening. I'm
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Speaker 1: am nine sixty. The answer to lean in a little
30:09
Speaker 1: bit closer because your next congressman is here. Jay Feely
30:12
Speaker 1: is running for the first congressional district outside of Phoenix.
30:15
Speaker 1: You'll know the name because very successful NFL kicker for
30:18
Speaker 1: a long time. Jay Feely. Welcome. Somehow you manage not
30:22
Speaker 1: to kick for the Browns. Maybe because Bill Dawson was
30:25
Speaker 1: there for a long time. But my club's gone through
30:28
Speaker 1: like one hundred kickers. Did you just refuse to go
30:30
Speaker 1: try out for them?
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Speaker 2: Ever?
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Speaker 7: No, Phil was amazing. He's one of the best kickers
30:35
Speaker 7: of my generation for sure. And you know, big fans
30:38
Speaker 7: of the Haslam family, hoping that they can turn that
30:40
Speaker 7: franchise around and get it back to some glory. Cleveland
30:43
Speaker 7: fans need it, sort of the Arizona fans. We need
30:45
Speaker 7: to start winning again as well.
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Speaker 1: Amen, both of the Cardinals and end of the Browns
30:49
Speaker 1: a good year and maybe they can meet in the
30:51
Speaker 1: super Bowl and throw everybody overboard.
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Speaker 5: Jay, why do this?
30:55
Speaker 1: You don't have to run for Congress. Why are you
30:57
Speaker 1: doing it?
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Speaker 7: We need more people in office who have already been successful,
31:03
Speaker 7: who want to go there for the right reasons and
31:05
Speaker 7: aren't going there to enrich themselves.
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Speaker 3: We have so many politicians that.
31:08
Speaker 7: Go there, make a career out of it, grow their
31:11
Speaker 7: net worth.
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Speaker 3: I'm the opposite.
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Speaker 7: I'm the guy who my wife and I've always tried
31:15
Speaker 7: to utilize the blessings God gave us to impact others,
31:17
Speaker 7: and we wanted to do this on a political level,
31:20
Speaker 7: and felt like that was the next progression and step
31:23
Speaker 7: for us was Okay, I'm willing to give up a
31:25
Speaker 7: job in broadcasting that I only have to work five
31:28
Speaker 7: months of the year, you.
31:29
Speaker 3: Get seven months off. It pays really well.
31:31
Speaker 7: But I felt like there's things that were more important
31:33
Speaker 7: and I could effectuate change in politics, and I just
31:36
Speaker 7: felt like it was my time. It was my time
31:38
Speaker 7: to serve, and that was why we decided to do this.
31:41
Speaker 3: I think it's we've.
31:42
Speaker 7: Never been out a time I don't think in my
31:45
Speaker 7: lifetime where the two parties have been further apart ideologically
31:48
Speaker 7: and their vision for this country has never been further apart.
31:52
Speaker 7: And it's one of the reasons why I wanted to
31:54
Speaker 7: get into office and keep this seat a Republican seat.
31:56
Speaker 7: It's one of the most important seats in the country
31:58
Speaker 7: and we need to make sure we keep this a
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Speaker 7: Republican seat so we keep the majority.
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Speaker 1: Jay, it's a pivot heere for Arizona. Somehow Katie hop
32:05
Speaker 1: snuck in there four years ago. And I think Andy
32:07
Speaker 1: Biggs is going to retire. But you've got a ballot
32:11
Speaker 1: measure to try and repeal school choice. You got a
32:13
Speaker 1: bunch of new faces like you, Jay Feely. How is
32:16
Speaker 1: it all coalescing? Is everyone working together? Which is what? Yeah.
32:20
Speaker 1: I've been going over there for years with Steve Twist
32:22
Speaker 1: and John Shattick and our friends Danny Sidon and all
32:25
Speaker 1: sorts of friends, and I just can't believe that Arizona
32:29
Speaker 1: isn't a red state. It's always been a red state.
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Speaker 7: Well, you just brought up a bunch of guys supporting
32:34
Speaker 7: our campaign and grateful for what they've done for this state.
32:38
Speaker 7: My wife, who is a former teacher, you know, we've
32:40
Speaker 7: always been I was on the school board, so we've
32:42
Speaker 7: always been big advocates of school choice and the ESA
32:45
Speaker 7: program and giving low income people the opportunity to choose
32:49
Speaker 7: where their kids go and to put them in private
32:52
Speaker 7: schools that they want to, to give them the choice
32:53
Speaker 7: to be able to help their kids. And you know,
32:56
Speaker 7: I love that about this state and we need to
32:58
Speaker 7: make sure that we protect it. And I do think
33:00
Speaker 7: everybody is coalescing because we do know when you look
33:03
Speaker 7: around the country and you look at New York, in
33:06
Speaker 7: those three house seats in Colorado and Pennsylvania and the
33:09
Speaker 7: DC mayor, so many people Michigan and it's happening now.
33:13
Speaker 7: So many people getting elected that believe in Democrats, socialism,
33:16
Speaker 7: that believe in the changing the foundations of what our
33:20
Speaker 7: country has stood on. Abolishing prisons, abolishing borders, getting rid
33:23
Speaker 7: of the Senate, getting rid of the electoral college, stacking
33:26
Speaker 7: the Supreme Court. They are honest about what they want
33:29
Speaker 7: to do to this country. It is fundamentally changing it.
33:31
Speaker 7: And I think that's going to be a big issue
33:33
Speaker 7: in this election, in particular because my district, it cares
33:37
Speaker 7: about the economy, it cares about affordability. It wants the
33:40
Speaker 7: right future for our children and our grandchildren.
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Speaker 3: That's what I'm going to fight for.
33:44
Speaker 1: So, Jay Feely, let's tell people where the district is.
33:46
Speaker 1: Arizona First has got an interesting aspect. What are some
33:49
Speaker 1: of the suburb cities around Phoenix that are in it?
33:53
Speaker 7: Yeah, if you think of the greater Scottsdale area, Paradise, Valley,
33:56
Speaker 7: Cave Creek, all the way out to los sends down
34:00
Speaker 7: into Phoenix as well, it is really the Scottsdale area.
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Speaker 7: It's a very educated district. Over fifty percent of people
34:07
Speaker 7: have college degrees. It's a wealthy district. It's a district
34:10
Speaker 7: that cares about the economy. You know, they don't love
34:13
Speaker 7: all the partisan stuff. They want somebody who's going to
34:15
Speaker 7: go there, who's honest, who's transparent about what they believe,
34:18
Speaker 7: is going to fight to create the right type of
34:20
Speaker 7: economic environment so your businesses can succeed, and so that
34:23
Speaker 7: you can see succeed individually. Individually, raising your family and
34:28
Speaker 7: that your kids can have that opportunity to go and
34:30
Speaker 7: do the same thing.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. One of my closest friends for many years is
34:33
Speaker 1: named John Campbell. He's a California congressman. He's retired to Scottsdale.
34:38
Speaker 1: He's out there in your neck of the woods. Now
34:40
Speaker 1: say tap in and find out what it's like to
34:42
Speaker 1: be a congressman. But I mean, who recruited you into this?
34:44
Speaker 1: Did Tom Emmer come out there or Speaker Jonathan who
34:47
Speaker 1: put the arm on Jay Feely?
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Speaker 3: You know all of the above.
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Speaker 7: Tom Emmer and Jim Jordan and I have done things
34:54
Speaker 7: for a number of years when they've come out here
34:56
Speaker 7: to help politicians. And I didn't need anything for many
34:59
Speaker 7: pol Tian so I could just go there and help
35:01
Speaker 7: support people that I wanted to see in office. And
35:05
Speaker 7: you know, President Trump has been talking to me about
35:07
Speaker 7: running for a few years, and I kept saying no
35:09
Speaker 7: because I had two kids at home. My two youngest
35:11
Speaker 7: daughters were at home, and we wanted to wait until
35:13
Speaker 7: they got out of the house. And we were empty
35:15
Speaker 7: nesslers this year and felt like it was the right time,
35:18
Speaker 7: felt like it was the time for people to be
35:20
Speaker 7: willing to sacrifice to be willing to stand up for their.
35:22
Speaker 3: Beliefs and have the fortitude.
35:24
Speaker 7: You know, fourteen years in the NFL and then ten
35:27
Speaker 7: years broadcasting certainly has given me thick skin to be
35:30
Speaker 7: able to get into the political fire and not care
35:32
Speaker 7: when people lie about you and say things about you.
35:36
Speaker 3: My wife certainly has been through with me.
35:37
Speaker 7: She sat in the stands when I missed game winners
35:40
Speaker 7: and had people disparage me. And so we've been down
35:43
Speaker 7: that road and we're ready to get into this political
35:45
Speaker 7: fight and try to make this country better.
35:47
Speaker 1: Yeah, Jay Pheeley, I've never thought about the spouse of
35:49
Speaker 1: an NFL kicker. I thought about NFL kickers because I'm
35:52
Speaker 1: sure you had a best kick and a worst kick.
35:53
Speaker 1: Everyone does, but your poor spouse. They're on the spent
35:56
Speaker 1: every time, right you're thinking of your teammates will patch
35:59
Speaker 1: you on the back, but no matter what happens, but
36:01
Speaker 1: your poor spouse is up there. Why did you guys
36:04
Speaker 1: settle in Phoenix in Scottsdale.
36:07
Speaker 3: We love the area here.
36:09
Speaker 7: We had been on six different teams, and you know,
36:11
Speaker 7: we could have moved back to Michigan, where my wife's from,
36:13
Speaker 7: or Florida, where I'm from and decided to raise our
36:16
Speaker 7: family here in Arizona because we loved it, and we
36:18
Speaker 7: loved the school that our kids were going to, you know,
36:21
Speaker 7: and just felt like this was the right area to
36:23
Speaker 7: raise our kids and now our grandkids.
36:24
Speaker 3: We got four grandkids here. Hugh love it.
36:27
Speaker 7: My wife, when we had our first grandchild, she said, Okay,
36:29
Speaker 7: I'm not teaching anymore. I want to be home hanging
36:32
Speaker 7: out with those grandkids. And our grandsaid facetimeser every morning.
36:36
Speaker 7: So she just loves it.
36:37
Speaker 3: And you know, when you have an.
36:39
Speaker 7: Area where you love raising your kids and your family,
36:42
Speaker 7: you want to stay there and you want to invest
36:43
Speaker 7: in the community. That's what we've always done here, and
36:45
Speaker 7: you know, having a heart for people and trying to
36:48
Speaker 7: effectuate change.
36:49
Speaker 1: You know.
36:49
Speaker 3: I went to a Jesuit high school.
36:51
Speaker 7: Their model was men for others, and I tried to
36:53
Speaker 7: take that into my career in the NFL, and then
36:56
Speaker 7: I tried to take it into raising our kids. It's
36:59
Speaker 7: one of the reasons why we took our kids around
37:00
Speaker 7: the world to do projects we didn't you know, we
37:03
Speaker 7: built homes in Mexico. We went down to Haiti with
37:05
Speaker 7: them after the earthquake many times, took them over to Africa,
37:08
Speaker 7: to Malawi. I wanted them to have an appreciation for
37:11
Speaker 7: this country and.
37:12
Speaker 3: To have a heart for service.
37:14
Speaker 7: And that was the best way that I could figure
37:16
Speaker 7: out how to do it, not only engaging here in
37:18
Speaker 7: Arizona in our community, but showing them what some of
37:21
Speaker 7: the other countries in the world look like. So if
37:23
Speaker 7: they could look back and say, I'm living in the
37:25
Speaker 7: greatest country in the world, and I want to appreciate
37:27
Speaker 7: that country.
37:28
Speaker 1: And boy, do you have broadcaster chops. I can tell
37:31
Speaker 1: you know some candidates are a little bit slow. Not Jaypheely.
37:34
Speaker 1: What's the website? Jay, Let's make sure people in the
37:37
Speaker 1: Phoenix area can volunteer and contribute.
37:40
Speaker 3: Bangs you.
37:40
Speaker 7: Japhey Forcongress dot Com. We are going to be all
37:43
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37:45
Speaker 7: part of it, be a part of our huge, great
37:47
Speaker 7: team that's going out communicating with arizonas.
37:49
Speaker 3: Please reach out to us.
37:51
Speaker 1: Japheey for Congress dot Com. Japheeley for Congress dot Com.
37:55
Speaker 1: Keep coming back, Jake, great to talk to you. Don't
37:57
Speaker 1: go anywhere, America. I got lots more ahead in this hour,
38:00
Speaker 1: including Elizabeth Patton. Our Kansas contact for Americans for Prosperity,
38:05
Speaker 1: Josh Crosscher will be along and we got update you
38:07
Speaker 1: on Iran sent Com has put out a notice that
38:10
Speaker 1: everything Iron is saying, everything they're saying is a lie.
38:13
Speaker 1: I really wouldn't even deal with these people until they
38:14
Speaker 1: stopped lying about blowing up American ships and shooting down
38:18
Speaker 1: F thirty five. They're gonna lie on the propaganda outlets,
38:21
Speaker 1: They're gonna lie in the negotiations. Don't deal with them,
38:24
Speaker 1: mister President. I'll be right back on the Duke Hewitt Show.
38:35
Speaker 1: Welcome back in America. I'm Duke Cuitt. We have a
38:38
Speaker 1: great sponsor in Americans for Prosperity, and one of the
38:40
Speaker 1: things I like to do is to talk to their
38:42
Speaker 1: regional directors, in this case, Elizabeth Patton in Kansas. She
38:46
Speaker 1: joins us from Kansas. I think you're in Kansas, aren't you, Elizabeth?
38:50
Speaker 7: I am.
38:51
Speaker 8: I'm in Topeka, Kansas, all right.
38:53
Speaker 1: I was at the American Legislative Exchange Council last week,
38:56
Speaker 1: talked to the next governor of Kansas, talked to the
38:59
Speaker 1: House Speaker. What's going on in Kansas that people need
39:03
Speaker 1: to know about?
39:05
Speaker 9: Our primary election is on Tuesday, August fourth, And you're right,
39:09
Speaker 9: you did get to talk to our next governor, hopefully,
39:12
Speaker 9: which we will find out how that primary goes for
39:14
Speaker 9: him on Tuesday.
39:15
Speaker 8: But we also have.
39:16
Speaker 9: A Supreme Court constitutional amendment on our ballots, and we
39:21
Speaker 9: are looking to change Kansas from the nominating commission we
39:24
Speaker 9: have currently to direct elections for our Supreme Court, change
39:29
Speaker 9: the makeup of our court.
39:30
Speaker 8: It's a big deal.
39:31
Speaker 1: Oh, excellent idea, because those nominating commissions always are stand
39:36
Speaker 1: patters run by the Bar Association always and everywhere across
39:40
Speaker 1: the United States. I hate him. So how's that polling?
39:43
Speaker 1: What do you think?
39:45
Speaker 9: It's rather finn So it's really important that all of
39:48
Speaker 9: our people in Kansas get out and vote. This is
39:50
Speaker 9: a once in a generation opportunity. And you're exactly right.
39:53
Speaker 9: In Kansas, the Bar Association controls controls, the Court, controls
39:58
Speaker 9: the nominating commission eight out of ten, and our Democrat
40:00
Speaker 9: donors they are liberals picking liberals. And this is our
40:03
Speaker 9: chance to get the Court to better reflect Kansas and.
40:06
Speaker 5: What we are.
40:07
Speaker 1: If the initiative passes, how will the transition in the
40:11
Speaker 1: court take place? Two judges a year, three justices a year.
40:16
Speaker 9: Yes, so starting in twenty twenty eight, about two judges
40:19
Speaker 9: a year staggered over time is how it looks like
40:21
Speaker 9: right now. But the biggest thing is we are taking
40:26
Speaker 9: several over eight hundred words in the Kansas Constitution and
40:29
Speaker 9: replacing it with four simple sentences. And that will also
40:32
Speaker 9: allow the legislature to make all of the specifics and
40:36
Speaker 9: the rules and ethics around that, and so we're not
40:39
Speaker 9: over constitutionalizing things, and we can make sure to get
40:42
Speaker 9: that right with the legislature next year.
40:44
Speaker 1: How many members on the Kansas Supreme Court, Elizabeth.
40:48
Speaker 9: So there's seven right now and only only one I
40:53
Speaker 9: think is even potentially aligned at all the real that's.
40:58
Speaker 1: So amazing to me that a very red state, and
41:02
Speaker 1: Kansas is very read. Occasional throw out a blue goather, right,
41:05
Speaker 1: but mostly it's a red state. The delegation has read,
41:08
Speaker 1: the Senators are read. How do they end up with
41:11
Speaker 1: a left wing Supreme Court? How's that happen?
41:14
Speaker 9: They're getting picked by left wing lawyers. And lawyers are
41:18
Speaker 9: less than one percent of the Kansas population, but they're
41:20
Speaker 9: the ones who vote on the nominating Commission, and the
41:22
Speaker 9: nominating Commission votes on the Supreme Court and they have
41:25
Speaker 9: a controlling majority of the Nominating Commission and they only
41:29
Speaker 9: need five votes to pass names on to the governor
41:32
Speaker 9: for the Supreme Court. So the appointed members are in
41:35
Speaker 9: the minority and their votes don't matter, so we get
41:38
Speaker 9: liberals picking liberals.
41:40
Speaker 1: What's the number or the letter of the initiative in Kansas,
41:45
Speaker 1: it's just the right to vote amendment.
41:47
Speaker 9: It's the only one on the ballot, So Amendment one
41:50
Speaker 9: or the one that you'll have, and it's vote yes.
41:53
Speaker 9: There might be a few local ones depending on where
41:55
Speaker 9: you live, but it's the big ballot for the judges.
41:58
Speaker 8: Vote yes.
41:59
Speaker 1: Are you going to get a good turnout? Because common
42:01
Speaker 1: sense initiatives like Measure one benefit when a lot of
42:05
Speaker 1: people vote.
42:07
Speaker 9: It does and that's what we're really working on right
42:09
Speaker 9: now is making sure that you know, folks get out
42:12
Speaker 9: and vote. It really matters. Like I said, it's a
42:14
Speaker 9: once in a generation opportunity. We also have the governor's
42:18
Speaker 9: race on the ballot, and it's so important for the
42:20
Speaker 9: future of our state that people get out and don't
42:23
Speaker 9: take it for granted and make that vote and vote yes.
42:25
Speaker 9: We're not going to get another shot at this.
42:27
Speaker 1: How do we get involved with AFP and Kansas Elizabeth.
42:30
Speaker 1: Where's the website for the Kansas chapter.
42:34
Speaker 9: So the best way to do that is to go
42:36
Speaker 9: to Sunflowerstatesolutions dot com. That is the Kansas specific website
42:41
Speaker 9: where you can find out what we're up to and
42:43
Speaker 9: reach out that way. Also on social media, follow us
42:46
Speaker 9: on x reach out on Instagram or Facebook to our
42:49
Speaker 9: chapter pages. That is also a great way to get involved.
42:52
Speaker 9: So any of those options, we'd love to hear from you.
42:55
Speaker 9: We'd love to get people plugged in.
42:57
Speaker 1: They can also follow liz An at Lizanne and Patent
43:00
Speaker 1: with two t's l I Z A N N P
43:03
Speaker 1: A T T O and how long you have been with
43:04
Speaker 1: AFP lit in.
43:07
Speaker 9: I've been with AFP on nine years this month. Actually,
43:10
Speaker 9: he's gone.
43:11
Speaker 1: Look old enough. Yeah you're starting high school?
43:14
Speaker 5: Thank you?
43:15
Speaker 1: Well, No, that's always in Kansas.
43:20
Speaker 9: Always in Kansas. But before that, I worked for US
43:22
Speaker 9: Senator Jerry Moran, and before that's some other political nonprofits
43:26
Speaker 9: in the ESPN world, But always in Kansas since since
43:30
Speaker 9: college moved here. My husband's actually a lawyer, although he's
43:34
Speaker 9: one of the good ones. Even though he's a trial lawyer.
43:36
Speaker 9: He's voting yes on this Amendment, and so we've been
43:40
Speaker 9: here for the last twenty years.
43:42
Speaker 1: I think you'd be surprised. A lot of lawyers just
43:44
Speaker 1: want a fair shot when they go up to the
43:46
Speaker 1: state Supreme Court, and you don't get a fair shot
43:48
Speaker 1: when it's a bar assistiate. I just can't tell you
43:51
Speaker 1: how glad I'm not doing that. Remember, Americans for Prosperity
43:54
Speaker 1: in Kansas, vote yes on Measure one, follow Lizon on
43:58
Speaker 1: x at l I Z and and patent. Thank you Liz,
44:02
Speaker 1: and thanks to Americans for Prosperity as well. I'll be
44:04
Speaker 1: right back with Josh Croshauer. Stay tuned, lorgom back America.
44:16
Speaker 1: Josh Krashauer is executive editor Aaron Chief of Josh Insider.
44:20
Speaker 1: Josh sent Com. Has put out a press release pushing
44:24
Speaker 1: back against the Iranian state media in the IRGC claims
44:27
Speaker 1: that they blew up a bunch you have thirty five.
44:29
Speaker 1: They hit American ships and we are continuing to intercept
44:33
Speaker 1: Iranian drones and missiles aimed at things. What I think
44:37
Speaker 1: President Trump does tonight hit them pretty hard last night.
44:39
Speaker 1: Was that a one night in don night or is
44:41
Speaker 1: it the beginning?
44:43
Speaker 10: Well, he hit them pretty hard last night. It was
44:46
Speaker 10: in response for the Iranian surprise attack against US military
44:51
Speaker 10: facilities in Jordan, and increasingly there's an expectation that, you know,
44:55
Speaker 10: we are in this kind of holding pattern where I think,
44:59
Speaker 10: you know, the President isn't calling it war, but boy,
45:01
Speaker 10: there's a lot of knetic kinetic action in the region,
45:04
Speaker 10: and the President has said he's going to respond to
45:07
Speaker 10: any Iranian provocation with a very strong response. Now the
45:11
Speaker 10: question is are we going to is this going to
45:13
Speaker 10: be a tit for cat that's you know, going on indefinitely,
45:16
Speaker 10: or we back at a more escalatory phase, And right
45:19
Speaker 10: now it looks more of the former, but I think
45:21
Speaker 10: everyone is prepared for the latter.
45:23
Speaker 1: Last night, the Wall Street Journal broke a story which
45:26
Speaker 1: is still up over at their website, that Admiral Brad
45:29
Speaker 1: Cooper had a sent com has prepared a two week
45:32
Speaker 1: plan to devastate Iran's remaining targets. That's what I want. Uh,
45:37
Speaker 1: did Prime Minister and you know who have a position yesterday?
45:40
Speaker 1: As far as you can tell from the reporting out
45:41
Speaker 1: of that meeting.
45:43
Speaker 10: Yeah, everything I've heard about the presidential meeting with the
45:46
Speaker 10: Prime minister is that the Prime Minister did not say
45:49
Speaker 10: this is what we kind of want that he just
45:52
Speaker 10: kind of offered the intelligence that the Israelis had the
45:56
Speaker 10: kind of sense that these are these would be the
45:59
Speaker 10: options that you could tackle Iranian e RAN's economy and
46:03
Speaker 10: deal with it that way. He could tackle the military
46:06
Speaker 10: options with these with these options, but did not offer
46:08
Speaker 10: any preferred course of action, just had more of a
46:11
Speaker 10: conversation and a sharing of intelligence. Look, Brad Cooper, I
46:16
Speaker 10: think he has been the most wary of Iran and
46:20
Speaker 10: has been, you know, I think among the most hawkish
46:23
Speaker 10: advisors in the President's inner circle. There's also a lot
46:26
Speaker 10: of concern that you know, the the interceptors that some
46:30
Speaker 10: of the defensive you know, equipment is not is running low,
46:36
Speaker 10: and that's been leaked into the press in recent weeks.
46:39
Speaker 10: And the question is, I think, to the Pentagon and
46:42
Speaker 10: to the President, whether a two week escalatory period could
46:47
Speaker 10: actually do serious damage to Iran's missile capacity and really
46:51
Speaker 10: set them back a significant way.
46:53
Speaker 1: All right, now, let me do it one ady on
46:55
Speaker 1: you and switch to Michigan. Against all my expectations, outside
47:00
Speaker 1: is hanging in there. According to polymarket and various polls
47:04
Speaker 1: that have shown out with late breaking voters going to
47:07
Speaker 1: him as opposed to sort of Democrat, normy lefty Hailey Stevens,
47:12
Speaker 1: what's your sense of that race.
47:14
Speaker 10: Well, we're in a strange new world in politics, in
47:18
Speaker 10: primary politics, where the Democratic Party, we've learned since the
47:23
Speaker 10: rise of Mamdani in New York, has been drawn to
47:27
Speaker 10: the Socialists, has been drawn to the extreme anti Israel
47:30
Speaker 10: wing of the party. Has the things that having a
47:32
Speaker 10: Nazi tattoo did not make it. It actually probably enhanced someone
47:36
Speaker 10: like grand plattin it took it took the most serious
47:38
Speaker 10: of charges about rape to get Platinum out of that
47:42
Speaker 10: main Senate race. So the kind of things that normally
47:44
Speaker 10: were advantages in primaries, getting the governor's endorsement, having you know, leadership,
47:50
Speaker 10: the mainstream leadership with the party being behind you, having
47:53
Speaker 10: the financial advantage in terms of outside groups spending more
47:56
Speaker 10: money on your behalf. Usually those are the things that
47:58
Speaker 10: win nominations, win elections. Frankly, it's actually having the opposite
48:02
Speaker 10: effect where this anti you know, you can call it
48:04
Speaker 10: anti establishment, but it's a pretty radical faction of the
48:07
Speaker 10: Democratic Party is gaining steam. And it's not just in
48:10
Speaker 10: deep blue districts, it's in a whole state, like Michigan
48:13
Speaker 10: and also in Missouri. You know the districts in upcoming
48:16
Speaker 10: primaries in Missouri as well. So this is a national Wisconsin.
48:22
Speaker 10: But the Democrats are both the nominate an out and
48:24
Speaker 10: out socialist who wants to basically defund the police in
48:28
Speaker 10: the state of Wisconsin, a perennial swing state. So this
48:31
Speaker 10: is you know, I think you're the polling suggests that
48:34
Speaker 10: el Sayed has the late advantage. It was a pull
48:36
Speaker 10: about out by Emerson showing him with a double digit
48:38
Speaker 10: lead over Stevens even after Gretchen Whitmer endorsed Stevens. So
48:43
Speaker 10: the energy is with the far left, and I expect
48:45
Speaker 10: that pattern to continue until they actually get you know,
48:49
Speaker 10: until they lose general elections, until this ideology shows it
48:52
Speaker 10: can't win to get actually elected against the Republican in November.
48:55
Speaker 1: Now, flying again will be their Senate nominee, right, and
48:58
Speaker 1: she'll be up against Tom Wyler or Michelle Tafoya, either
49:01
Speaker 1: of them going to make a great general election candidate.
49:04
Speaker 1: But it's Flannagan is the crazy what lieutenant governor?
49:09
Speaker 10: Yeah, well, so Flannagan is going up against Anngie Craig.
49:11
Speaker 10: She's the swing district congresswoman from the suburbs of Minnesota.
49:15
Speaker 10: Of Minneapolis, again, Anngie Craig would have been this battle
49:19
Speaker 10: tested Democrat who would have been favored in any other
49:21
Speaker 10: election cycle. But the very left wing Lieutenant Governor Peggy
49:25
Speaker 10: Flanagan probably is the is the favorite. The poll suggests
49:28
Speaker 10: she's got the edge in that primary. You know, Michelle
49:32
Speaker 10: Tavoy Dafoya would be I think a pretty formidable Republican nominee.
49:35
Speaker 10: The Republicans need to figure out who their candidate is
49:39
Speaker 10: in Minnesota is a blue or state that Michigan and
49:41
Speaker 10: Wisconsin and a few of these other battlegrounds. But you know,
49:45
Speaker 10: that's the same dynamic in the Democratic Party in Minnesota
49:48
Speaker 10: that you're seeing everywhere else where. The furthest left candidate
49:51
Speaker 10: is the one that has the momentum. You know, Hugh
49:54
Speaker 10: I talked to a Democratic strategist involved in a lot
49:56
Speaker 10: of these races. They said that like, if you get
49:57
Speaker 10: the Bernie endorsement, if you've got the Bernie endorsement like
50:00
Speaker 10: four years ago, that might be five percent of the
50:02
Speaker 10: vote in a Democratic primary, maybe ten percent in a
50:04
Speaker 10: deeper blue district. If you get the far left, the
50:07
Speaker 10: Bernie Bros. On the same side, it's about a third
50:10
Speaker 10: now of the Democratic electorate in any primary almost across
50:14
Speaker 10: the country, and that's just a huge number. That just
50:17
Speaker 10: shows how the growing influence of the far left in
50:19
Speaker 10: Democratic Party politics.
50:21
Speaker 1: Okay, quick ex good question, josh I Blankman is the
50:24
Speaker 1: Republican nominee for governor of New York. Do you think
50:27
Speaker 1: some New York dams who are normy will vote for
50:29
Speaker 1: him as a check on Mom Donnie, who's basically waging
50:32
Speaker 1: war on private property now, as well as the Jews.
50:36
Speaker 10: So it's interesting because in twenty twenty two, which was
50:40
Speaker 10: a surprisingly good year for Democrats in the midterms, New
50:44
Speaker 10: York was the exception to that rule because of fears
50:47
Speaker 10: of crime, law and order issues with the Democratic Party
50:50
Speaker 10: and immigration, and Nassau County went red and a lot
50:53
Speaker 10: of the Long Island suburbs, some of the other suburbs
50:55
Speaker 10: across the state actually swung very much to the right. Now, look,
51:00
Speaker 10: I don't think it's going to be an easy election
51:02
Speaker 10: for New York Republicans just given where the national environment is.
51:05
Speaker 10: But if there's an issue, sorry, if there's a state
51:08
Speaker 10: where Republicans kind of out kick the coverage it would
51:11
Speaker 10: be in New York where you can run against Mambani
51:14
Speaker 10: outside the city. And I think there are a lot
51:15
Speaker 10: of voters that are moderate, that are suburbanites, Jewish voters certainly,
51:19
Speaker 10: that have real worries and fears about the direction of
51:21
Speaker 10: the Democratic Party.
51:23
Speaker 1: Boy, if you've got a piece of property in the
51:25
Speaker 1: city of New York, you really don't want mom. Donnie
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Speaker 1: America. I'm you, Hewett. Jim Garrity's music is up. That
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Speaker 1: means the indispensable Garrity is here. Washington Post columnust, host
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Speaker 1: of the Three Martini Lunch, frequent contributor to the Editor's podcast,
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Speaker 1: and of course the morning joke comes from Jim every morning.
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Speaker 1: If you've signed up at National Review, Garrity, I heard
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Speaker 1: you talking about the fact that you had one of
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Speaker 1: your boys off at camp. Has that blissful piece.
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Speaker 8: Ended one more day? A younger one comes back tomorrow,
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Speaker 8: and my older one is working at a DC area
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Speaker 8: college doing kind of a summer camp sort of thing
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Speaker 8: teaching kids. So it's been a buch quieter than usual one.
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Speaker 8: By the way, Hugh, before we jump in, I just
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Speaker 8: want to point out I'm not always on your program
54:17
Speaker 8: nine times out of ten. It's just because I've completely forgotten,
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Speaker 8: and poor Dwayne is calling me in a panic today.
54:23
Speaker 8: I am coming to you via my cell phone because
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Speaker 8: Virginia Governor Abigail Spenberger has found a brilliant way to
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Speaker 8: keep down Virginian's electric bills. If you don't get any electricity,
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Speaker 8: they can't charge you. And so I'm dealing with the
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Speaker 8: power outage coming through my cell phone. I hope your
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Speaker 8: viewers and listeners can tolerate all this.
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm a little bit alarmed because you're pretty
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Speaker 1: close to the Pentagon, not that far from the Central
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Speaker 1: Intelligence Agency. It's a Marine Corps Parcks headquarters is there.
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Speaker 1: They are kind of a lot of things we need
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Speaker 1: to work in northern Virginia.
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Speaker 8: I'd like to think they have their own generators that
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Speaker 8: they're doing fine, but you know, I can't. It's not
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Speaker 8: like I can check on the internet to see if
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Speaker 8: they do.
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Speaker 1: I've just I just it's California has become I joked
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Speaker 1: about Virginia becoming California, and I ran away from California.
55:09
Speaker 1: But Virginia really is becoming California. Rolling blackouts a way
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Speaker 1: of life. It's a feature, not a bug. Uh. I
55:15
Speaker 1: just had leader thud on Jim Garritty, and I want
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Speaker 1: to review some numbers for you. Number of judges confirmed
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Speaker 1: in the second Trump administration at this point fifty two
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Speaker 1: in the first Trump administration at this point forty two
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Speaker 1: number of nomination total civilian nominees total in the second
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Speaker 1: Trump term five hundred and ninety in the first Trump
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Speaker 1: term five hundred and thirty. I think Fune has done
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Speaker 1: a great job as leader because he changed the rule
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Speaker 1: on nomination. But I also talked with him, I don't
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Speaker 1: want to change the filibuster rule, and I've told the
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Speaker 1: President that on this show, and he mad at me
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Speaker 1: about that. But that's okay, It's what conservatives should support.
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Speaker 1: What do you think about the filibuster.
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Speaker 8: You, you and I have been doing this for a while,
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Speaker 8: and we can remember when Republicans were frustrated with true
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Speaker 8: lot with fairly justifiable reasons at various points. Then Bill Frist,
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Speaker 8: then Mitch McConnell. It's almost a fact of life that
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Speaker 8: if you are leader of Republicans of the Senate, there's
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Speaker 8: going to be some chunk of your caucus and certainly
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Speaker 8: a chunk of the you know what we used to
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Speaker 8: call the conservative blog of sphere, now you might call it,
56:17
Speaker 8: you know, the social media sphere, that it's frustrated that
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Speaker 8: they can't get everything they want and blame the majority
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Speaker 8: leader now the majority leader. If the votes aren't there,
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Speaker 8: the votes aren't there, they can try whipping them, they
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Speaker 8: can try cajolling them, they can try bargaining and all
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Speaker 8: that stuff. But in the end, you know, if you
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Speaker 8: want to get more stuff passed through Republican Senate, you
56:37
Speaker 8: need more Republican senators. And I think I think it's
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Speaker 8: assessment of the midterms pretty correct. There a couple of
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Speaker 8: deal I think Collins is looking stronger against it. But
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Speaker 8: it's gonna be the biggest fall of Troy since the
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Speaker 8: Odyssey when we see that how Troy Jackson comes against
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Speaker 8: Susan Collins. But yeah, all in all, this midterm elections
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Speaker 8: traditionally go badly for the president's party. You know, there
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Speaker 8: are a bunch of states that are just not great,
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Speaker 8: not easy, and we'll see how things shake out from here.
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Speaker 8: But you know, he's doing the best. He's doing the
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Speaker 8: best with the cards that he's been dealt, which were
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Speaker 8: not great in the first place.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I was on Fox earlier to talk about the
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Speaker 1: DSA and out radical they are, and the leader Thoon
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Speaker 1: made the point that the Democrats have kind of collectively
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Speaker 1: lost their minds at the national level because of the DSA.
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Speaker 1: Do you think the average American understand they're Marxists. They
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Speaker 1: don't believe in private property. They want the house you're in,
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Speaker 1: they want the house I in. They want every apartment
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Speaker 1: to be owned collectively. They won't call themselves communists, but
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Speaker 1: they are. Do you think people get that?
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Speaker 8: I think your audience gets it, my readers get it,
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Speaker 8: the right of center world gets it. I think the
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Speaker 8: average independent probably doesn't. And so the topic today's Morning
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Speaker 8: joelt today, Hugh, was this interesting. I actually saw it
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Speaker 8: in vox Don't Don't Faint. There's actually an interesting argument
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Speaker 8: in Vox arguing that it wasn't really that the social
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Speaker 8: have risen, it's that the establishment or centrist Democrats have collapsed.
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Speaker 8: And it's not just the DSA candidates. They're winning mostly
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Speaker 8: deep blue house districts. We'll see how things go in Wisconsin,
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Speaker 8: We'll see how things go in Michigan. But also this
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Speaker 8: is interest like Michael Bennett, the Colorado Senator who's like
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Speaker 8: been in third terms, and as I described him, he
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Speaker 8: looks like the kind of guy who you'd cast to
58:20
Speaker 8: play a Colorado senator lost the governor's race to the
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Speaker 8: state attorney general. So I think part of it is that, like,
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Speaker 8: if you're a Democratic member of the grassroots, over the
58:30
Speaker 8: last ten years, you've been told Hillary wants Donald Trump
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Speaker 8: ca still be the easiest to beat back in twenty sixteen,
58:36
Speaker 8: don't worry, Joe Biden is fine, and that Joe Biden's
58:38
Speaker 8: gonna definitely be good for another four years. And obviously
58:41
Speaker 8: the debate did that, we don't have time for a primary.
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Speaker 8: We're gonna we're gonna go with Kamala Harris and don't worry,
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Speaker 8: she's gonna be fine. When Tim Walls was picked as
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Speaker 8: the running mate, we end up with, Oh, don't worry.
58:51
Speaker 8: Tim Walls is an inspired choice. He'll do terrific. And
58:54
Speaker 8: then you know Tim Walls. At every step the Democratic
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Speaker 8: establishment has said to the base, don't worry, We've got
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Speaker 8: this handled, trust us, and it hasn't worked out. And
59:05
Speaker 8: so I think if you're a typical Democratic voter, you're
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Speaker 8: fed up with the Democratic leadership you have right now.
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Speaker 8: You're fed up with the establishment because these guys were
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Speaker 8: supposed to be the ones who knew what they were
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Speaker 8: talking about compared to these crazy idealists who are in
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Speaker 8: the DSA. And now it's like well, if we're gonna
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Speaker 8: if neither one of them knows what they're doing, we
59:22
Speaker 8: might as well go with the ones who are inspiring
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Speaker 8: and revolutionary and all that nonsense.
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Speaker 1: Well, after the break, I'm going to ask you about Iran,
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Speaker 1: but I want to read to you the dsay's Housing
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Speaker 1: Justice Committee statement capitalism requires the private ownership of land
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Speaker 1: upon which the very possibility of surplus value extraction is based.
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Speaker 1: A definition of social housing must challenge this fundamental relation
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Speaker 1: of the capitalist mode of production. Social housing does not
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Speaker 1: offer an equal seat at the table to developers, investors
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Speaker 1: or city councilors. Social housing prioritize it and makes real the
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Speaker 1: collective will of the tenants. All right, Jim, what's that
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Speaker 1: mean to you?
1:00:01
Speaker 8: We don't want to pay rent? Remember that guy in
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Speaker 8: the government's race. Yes, if the rent is too darn
1:00:07
Speaker 8: high on cleaning up a little bit. Uh, That's that's
1:00:10
Speaker 8: basically I don't we don't want to pay rent, you know,
1:00:12
Speaker 8: Daniel landlords for you know, building the buildings and all that.
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Speaker 8: But my suspicion is is that democrats have be built
1:00:19
Speaker 8: in advantage in that when you accurately describe what the
1:00:22
Speaker 8: left flank of their party genuinely believes. The average voter
1:00:26
Speaker 8: just says, oh, come on, nobody, they don't believe, They
1:00:29
Speaker 8: don't really believe that, they don't really want to abolish
1:00:32
Speaker 8: the police, And then they write off ed saying, yes,
1:00:35
Speaker 8: we literally want to abolish the police, but nobody seems
1:00:39
Speaker 8: to believe them. That's not an advantage of being so
1:00:40
Speaker 8: far in the extreme that nobody believes you actually believe
1:00:43
Speaker 8: what you claim to believe.
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Speaker 1: Well, if you're an investor, would you build or buy
1:00:48
Speaker 1: an apartment building in New York right now? New York City?
1:00:52
Speaker 5: Oh?
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Speaker 8: If I were in New York City, the only thing
1:00:54
Speaker 8: I would be building is a Nick's merchandise kiosk. I
1:00:58
Speaker 8: would not be building, Like I don't know what mom,
1:01:02
Speaker 8: Donnie is going to be like for the next you know,
1:01:04
Speaker 8: two and a half years that he has in his term,
1:01:06
Speaker 8: or I guess its closer to three years, but it's
1:01:09
Speaker 8: not gonna be good. There's a whole bunch of cities.
1:01:11
Speaker 8: Or you could build apartments where you're not gonna have
1:01:13
Speaker 8: to deal with a you know, with the threat of
1:01:15
Speaker 8: an eminent communist revolution and nationalizing all of your resources.
1:01:19
Speaker 8: So yeah, like, why would you baba doing that.
1:01:22
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, I'll be right back with Jim Garretty. Don't
1:01:24
Speaker 1: go Anywhere, America. But I think a lot of New
1:01:26
Speaker 1: York City Democrats are going to vote for mister Blakeman
1:01:29
Speaker 1: against Kathy Okl, the Democrat incumbent, in order to have
1:01:33
Speaker 1: a check on Mom Donnie, because he's proven to be
1:01:35
Speaker 1: every bit as crazy as we warned you he was.
1:01:37
Speaker 1: Don't go Anywhere America, Jim Garritty indispensable. Follow him on exit,
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Speaker 1: Jim Garretty, Liken subscribe to the three Martini Lunch. Jim
1:01:44
Speaker 1: has not been to one of those yet today because
1:01:46
Speaker 1: he can't get the power going in his wonderful house,
1:01:49
Speaker 1: and I hope his cell phone hangs on until I
1:01:51
Speaker 1: come back and ask him about Iran and where he
1:01:53
Speaker 1: sees it going next. Don't go anywhere. I'm huge to it.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back, America. I'm you here at Jim Garritty is
1:02:06
Speaker 1: still with me from National Review. Jim, yesterday, your colleague
1:02:09
Speaker 1: from National Review, Noah C. Rothman, was on with me
1:02:12
Speaker 1: and we agreed on what we helped the president dead,
1:02:14
Speaker 1: which is bombing the living daylight thought of Iran last night,
1:02:16
Speaker 1: which he did, and then we want him to go
1:02:18
Speaker 1: on as Admiral Cooper's plan said for two weeks of
1:02:22
Speaker 1: massive infrastructure destruction belonging to the IRGC. I don't think
1:02:27
Speaker 1: he's gonna do that. What do you think the situation is?
1:02:31
Speaker 8: No, And you know how I right now at my house,
1:02:34
Speaker 8: if I try to flick the light switch, nothing happens.
1:02:36
Speaker 8: The president has two settings. The first setting is we're
1:02:40
Speaker 8: mad as hell. You have repeatedly broken your promises. You
1:02:44
Speaker 8: keep firing an infrastructure in the Middle East, to keep
1:02:46
Speaker 8: firing and chips. We're gonna bomb the hell out of you,
1:02:48
Speaker 8: and we got that last night. The second one is, oh,
1:02:52
Speaker 8: I think we got a real opportunity for talks here.
1:02:54
Speaker 8: Things are looking really good. Head over there, Kushner, Head
1:02:57
Speaker 8: over there, Witkov and I'm sure we'll have a deal
1:03:00
Speaker 8: tenty second now, and the strait will be reopened. That
1:03:03
Speaker 8: part never works out, that part never quite comes there.
1:03:05
Speaker 8: So there's there's one. There's really only two options you
1:03:08
Speaker 8: could do. One is like, all right, we're all in.
1:03:10
Speaker 8: We're pushing for regime change. We're not gonna let up.
1:03:13
Speaker 8: We're not gonna be fooled by another up. There's no
1:03:15
Speaker 8: more memorandums of understanding. Or anything like that. We know
1:03:18
Speaker 8: who this regime is, we know they can't be trusted.
1:03:21
Speaker 8: The other alternative, if that strikes you as too bloody,
1:03:24
Speaker 8: if that strikes you as too much of a commitment,
1:03:26
Speaker 8: then you basically withdrawal and say all right, we were
1:03:28
Speaker 8: declaring victory and we're going home. But then you leave
1:03:32
Speaker 8: the regime in Iran with nothing but its own problems.
1:03:36
Speaker 8: And we all know the Uranian currency has become worthless.
1:03:39
Speaker 8: The infrastructure, even without additional attack on their energy infrastructure
1:03:42
Speaker 8: has been serially slee damaged bridges, the international airport, all
1:03:46
Speaker 8: that kind of stuff. Iran is in really rough shapes.
1:03:48
Speaker 8: And I said this at the beginning of the word,
1:03:49
Speaker 8: They're gonna end, the moments, will end, the war bankrupt.
1:03:52
Speaker 8: The only question is what comes out of that? And
1:03:54
Speaker 8: you know, is there a circumstance where I suspect you
1:03:57
Speaker 8: end up within a couple of months right back where
1:03:58
Speaker 8: we started, the people in the streets starving, saying they
1:04:01
Speaker 8: can't feed their families, saying they can't afford anything, angry again.
1:04:06
Speaker 8: And maybe the second time around, now we've killed a
1:04:08
Speaker 8: whole bunch of Iranian soldiers, maybe they had a second
1:04:10
Speaker 8: stroud up. The other question is are there ways to
1:04:13
Speaker 8: get weapons to the Iranian people? The Long Coastline, a
1:04:16
Speaker 8: lot of borders with the Turkey and places like that.
1:04:19
Speaker 8: Are there ways where the next time the Iranian people
1:04:21
Speaker 8: rise up against the regime, we can even the odds
1:04:24
Speaker 8: and give them some guns to shoot back with. Otherwise,
1:04:29
Speaker 8: I want to do you.
1:04:30
Speaker 1: Agree with me on this. We're not taking that blockade
1:04:33
Speaker 1: off until Rolling correspondent Jim Garrity has a camera and
1:04:37
Speaker 1: a flashlight and gets to go to the basement in
1:04:39
Speaker 1: Pickaxe Mountain. That's step number one. Nothing else. Until we
1:04:42
Speaker 1: get into Pickaxe Mountain and we see what's in there,
1:04:46
Speaker 1: we're not gonna lift the blockade. And it may not
1:04:49
Speaker 1: have to be Garrity, it could be the IAEA, but
1:04:51
Speaker 1: we gotta know because that's the last nuclear production facility
1:04:56
Speaker 1: that's left. And the President says, we got eyes on
1:04:58
Speaker 1: it from space, but we didn't have those eyes on
1:05:01
Speaker 1: it the way we think we had those eyes on
1:05:02
Speaker 1: it early on. What do you think?
1:05:05
Speaker 8: Well, first of all, I've been to some crazy places
1:05:07
Speaker 8: like Syria, and I've been to neighboring Turkey and Ukraine
1:05:11
Speaker 8: a bunch of times. Ironically, when the when the bombing started,
1:05:14
Speaker 8: my friend said, is there a way too? It's like,
1:05:17
Speaker 8: what are you interested in going to Iran this year?
1:05:19
Speaker 8: And I was like, let's see how this goes. I've
1:05:22
Speaker 8: been to some crazy places. I only want to go
1:05:24
Speaker 8: to Iran when I know the good people are running
1:05:26
Speaker 8: because things don't work out well for Washington Post journalists
1:05:29
Speaker 8: to go to Iran. But yeah, I think your excormation
1:05:33
Speaker 8: about Pickax Mountain is more than uh, it is more
1:05:37
Speaker 8: than than worth a worthwhile one. But I think just generally,
1:05:42
Speaker 8: we've seen through the use of drones against the straight
1:05:45
Speaker 8: ships and the Strait of Woormus and straights and the
1:05:47
Speaker 8: ships in the Persian Gulf, the oil and jenny energy
1:05:50
Speaker 8: infrastructure in places like Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States.
1:05:53
Speaker 8: Iran can threaten a lot and they can shut off
1:05:56
Speaker 8: the world's energy markets and just cause you a lot
1:05:58
Speaker 8: of problems for everybody else. And it's it's been frustrating
1:06:00
Speaker 8: to see a lack of co operation from allies. The
1:06:02
Speaker 8: president could have been a better case of reeking out
1:06:04
Speaker 8: to them than building support for everybody feeling like they
1:06:07
Speaker 8: have an interest in this. But Iran is a worldwide problem.
1:06:10
Speaker 8: Iran is the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism. They've
1:06:12
Speaker 8: bombed places as far away as Argentina. Well, yo, say
1:06:16
Speaker 8: why you can't say with the rest of the world, like, look,
1:06:17
Speaker 8: we're all for national sovereignty, but these guys' problems do
1:06:20
Speaker 8: not stay within their own border. They do everything possible
1:06:23
Speaker 8: to create problems for every one of their SONI Shia.
1:06:25
Speaker 8: It doesn't really matter they are, they are sorts of
1:06:28
Speaker 8: They are effectively a cancer on the Middle East. We
1:06:30
Speaker 8: can do something about this. Join us, Let's get rid
1:06:34
Speaker 8: of this regime. Let's allow the Iranian people to use
1:06:36
Speaker 8: their own leaders and to pick a different course, and
1:06:39
Speaker 8: we're all going to have been much better in the end.
1:06:41
Speaker 8: I think it was a strong case to be made
1:06:42
Speaker 8: for that. I'd like to see the administration try to
1:06:44
Speaker 8: make it to you know, both golf allies and your allies,
1:06:48
Speaker 8: and do you.
1:06:48
Speaker 1: Believe from them that that Pakistan is the people we
1:06:51
Speaker 1: ought to be using as an intermediar area we had
1:06:53
Speaker 1: thirty seconds. I just would never trust Pakistan I had
1:06:55
Speaker 1: done anything.
1:06:57
Speaker 8: It's been Laden's home address, right, Like, no, no, of
1:07:00
Speaker 8: course not there was you know, Yeah, I'm baffled by this,
1:07:04
Speaker 8: and I just kind of this feeling, you know. So
1:07:06
Speaker 8: last year had a chance to take to India and
1:07:08
Speaker 8: the Indians are just absolutely baffled by the fact that
1:07:11
Speaker 8: the Trump administration is so friendly to Pakistan. Obviously, India
1:07:15
Speaker 8: has its own axes to grind against Pakistan for a
1:07:18
Speaker 8: bunch of good reasons. But in the end, look me
1:07:21
Speaker 8: the way the US relationship with the India we've had
1:07:23
Speaker 8: some complications, and the US relationship with Pakistan, I know
1:07:27
Speaker 8: which thought I'm instinctively more more close.
1:07:29
Speaker 1: To Jim Garretty. Always good to catch up with you,
1:07:32
Speaker 1: especially when the power is on in Virginia. We can
1:07:35
Speaker 1: work it this way, but I prefer the power was on.
1:07:37
Speaker 1: Follow Jim on exit, Jim Garretty, and Jim, if you
1:07:40
Speaker 1: get a DM from me, don't answer it. I've been hacked.
1:07:43
Speaker 1: Stay tuned, America. I'll be right back.