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Dan Carroll talks to former Congressman Brad Wenstrup · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Chuck Ingram fifty five K see the talk station. It's
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  Speaker 1: like nothing to it, right, Chris Smitheman is with us
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  Speaker 1: in studio this morning, and when Chris Smithaman is here,
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  Speaker 1: the celebrity hotline just blows up. So we just got
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  Speaker 1: done talking with a vike Ramaswami. Now we turned to
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  Speaker 1: the former congressman. Well, I guess I'm never really a
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  Speaker 1: former congressman, but you know it's all. It's my pleasure
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  Speaker 1: to welcome in brad Winstrip to the show today and Congressman,
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  Speaker 1: how are you today?
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing fine. Thank you. It's been a pleasure to
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  Speaker 2: listen to two of my friends, top common Sense, actually
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  Speaker 2: three with the Veke coming on there.
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  Speaker 1: He's terrific. You know, we were talking about a little
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  Speaker 1: bit about Amy acting and what was going on during
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  Speaker 1: the Wuhan, and I was telling Chris, it was several
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  Speaker 1: months ago when your committee came out with the report
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  Speaker 1: on what happened during the COVID nineteen and just how
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  Speaker 1: eye opening and how revealing that report was. And I
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  Speaker 1: still remember that day. You sat right across from me
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  Speaker 1: and we had an hour in the studio to talk
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  Speaker 1: about that and really only scratch the surface of what
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  Speaker 1: was revealed during that time, But the educational aspect of
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  Speaker 1: this is something that I think gets overlooked a lot.
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  Speaker 1: And the damage that was in They talked about that,
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  Speaker 1: the damage that was done to these kids by the
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  Speaker 1: way they were handled during the Wuhan and really how
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  Speaker 1: they were poorly served. The Teachers' Union was probably served
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  Speaker 1: just fine, but when it came to actually dealing with
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  Speaker 1: the kids, they got the short end of the stick.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it was interesting. We had Randy Weingarten and
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  Speaker 2: for an open hearing, and the day before her people
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  Speaker 2: came in, counted how many seats are in the hearing room.
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  Speaker 2: They made sure that they brought in all their people
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  Speaker 2: and took up every seat in the hearing room to
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  Speaker 2: be there to support her. But you know, we conducted
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  Speaker 2: the entire two year pandemic review in a way that
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  Speaker 2: you don't see very often in two years. On the
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  Speaker 2: Republican side, we didn't mention Republican or Democrat. One time.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't. We didn't talk about political party. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: when she was in there, she was getting kudos from
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats. But as we went through things and we
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  Speaker 2: were able to go through their emails during this time
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  Speaker 2: and what they were talking about. One of the things
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  Speaker 2: that stood out with the conversations amongst the teachers' union
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  Speaker 2: leadership was that they said we need a trigger to close.
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  Speaker 2: Not once did I find anything that said we need
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  Speaker 2: to get the kids back in the classroom. It's important
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  Speaker 2: that we get them caught up. They're never going to
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  Speaker 2: be able to succeed if we don't get them in
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  Speaker 2: the classroom and teaching them one way or another.
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  Speaker 1: Well don't I don't want to interrupt you. But was
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  Speaker 1: that the hearing where she was trying to rewrite history
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  Speaker 1: where she was saying I never advocated for schools to
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  Speaker 1: be closed. We were the ones who were trying to
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  Speaker 1: get them reopen. Was that was that the hearing where
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  Speaker 1: she was trying to do that?
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  Speaker 2: She she did have statements like that, And then I
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  Speaker 2: think there was some group they worked with, maybe in
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  Speaker 2: Massachusetts later to talk about school reopenings, But that was
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  Speaker 2: way late in the whole situation. And what you guys
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  Speaker 2: were talking about is fair. You know, there was a
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  Speaker 2: there were the schools, and I would tell you my
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  Speaker 2: rural schools were open too, and the district that I
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  Speaker 2: represented went all the way to West Virginia and the
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  Speaker 2: rural schools they went to class, they went to class.
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  Speaker 2: It was more city based than anywhere else, but it
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  Speaker 2: was it was a problem for sure. And they've done nothing,
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  Speaker 2: and they still that I know, have not addressed how
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  Speaker 2: we're going to get our kids up up to speed.
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  Speaker 2: And we're falling terribly behind other countries as we know.
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  Speaker 2: I saw recently one that said a seventh grader in
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  Speaker 2: America on average, is at the level of a third
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  Speaker 2: grader in China.
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  Speaker 1: How about that. Let me let me ask you another
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  Speaker 1: question about something that has come up recently, and Scott Assent,
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  Speaker 1: the Secretary of the Treasury, said it was probably three
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  Speaker 1: or four weeks ago that he was looking at putting
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  Speaker 1: a number on the amount of fraud that goes on
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  Speaker 1: with various government programs, and he put that number at
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  Speaker 1: six hundred billion dollars every year. Brad winstrip that gets
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  Speaker 1: wasted and is just flushed down the drain. As it
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  Speaker 1: relates to fraud in this country. The number is probably
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  Speaker 1: actually bigger than that. But when you hear a number
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  Speaker 1: like that every single year that we are losing six
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  Speaker 1: hundred billion dollars, it's a fraud in this country. Does
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  Speaker 1: that shock you or surprise you at all? The number
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  Speaker 1: is that big?
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  Speaker 2: Not at this point it might. It might have surprised
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  Speaker 2: me when I first started the in Congress, but it
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  Speaker 2: didn't when I got towards the end, because I could
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  Speaker 2: see exactly why this was happening in so many fronts.
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  Speaker 2: Part of it is that the agencies don't really have
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  Speaker 2: the capabilities to catch. And then the other thing is
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  Speaker 2: when we went through the COVID era, for example, on
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  Speaker 2: Ways and Means Committee, when they were talking about unemployment
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  Speaker 2: and taking care of those benefits and getting all that out,
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats insisted on self attestation. In other words, you
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  Speaker 2: can have to prove in any way, shape and shape
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  Speaker 2: or form really who you were and are you really unemployed?
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  Speaker 2: And we thought that and they insisted on no, you
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  Speaker 2: don't have to attest and improve in any way. It's
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  Speaker 2: kind of goes with the voting thing. You don't have
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  Speaker 2: to prove really who you are. And I don't get this,
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  Speaker 2: but it's created a lot of mayhem and certainly has
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  Speaker 2: ripped off the taxpayers. So everyone who goes to work
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  Speaker 2: and pay taxes need to know that it's these types
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  Speaker 2: of policies and deficiencies within the agencies. That is throwing
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  Speaker 2: their hard earned dollars out the window to people not
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  Speaker 2: only in this country that are committing fraud, but overseas.
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  Speaker 1: As you look at why it has become in pops
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  Speaker 1: to pass legislation that would deal with voter identification, why
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  Speaker 1: has this debate gone the way it's gone.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think that they have their reasons. They'll they'll
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  Speaker 2: try and throw out everything is is Jim Crow and
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  Speaker 2: this and that, but they know that they can go
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  Speaker 2: around and rally people to vote in California, you know,
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  Speaker 2: going door to door. The policies are somewhat crazy and
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  Speaker 2: requiring an ID would make it more difficult for them
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  Speaker 2: to be able to do that, I guess is their reason.
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  Speaker 2: But there really is no good reason. Everything requires an
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  Speaker 2: ID today and they know it. And I think that
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  Speaker 2: real American citizens, people that care about this country, people
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  Speaker 2: that value their citizenship, will be the ones to say, yes,
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  Speaker 2: you should value your citizenship the same way I do,
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  Speaker 2: and prove that you are a US citizen and you
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  Speaker 2: are who you are. And I think the majority of people,
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  Speaker 2: as we know, this is the common sense issue that
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  Speaker 2: has high value, and I don't understand why they want
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  Speaker 2: to keep pursuing just the opposite. It doesn't even make.
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  Speaker 1: Eighty plus percent of Republicans agree with this. Seventy six
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  Speaker 1: seventy seven percent of Democrats want this. You've got Hispanics
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  Speaker 1: and other minorities in the seventy percent range that want this,
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  Speaker 1: and the notion that we can't get the Save America
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  Speaker 1: Act through and have common sense legislation that says, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we want American citizens to vote in our elections and
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  Speaker 1: we don't want illegal aliens voting in our elections. It
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  Speaker 1: just if you would have told me ten years ago
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  Speaker 1: that we'd be having a problem getting legislation like this approved,
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  Speaker 1: especially when Republicans have control of the White House, the House,
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  Speaker 1: and the Senate, I would have said that you're crazy
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  Speaker 1: about that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, of course, the problem predominantly lives in the Senate.
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  Speaker 2: And let's just face it, there are just too many
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  Speaker 2: people in the Democrat Party that if Donald Trump says
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  Speaker 2: he's in favor of something, they will be against it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, just you watch it visibly during the State
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  Speaker 2: of the Union. I mean, the wonderful things that he
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  Speaker 2: was pointing out many times they couldn't even applaud because
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  Speaker 2: he said it. And when you let your hatred dominate
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  Speaker 2: your common sense and overrule your common sense, it's really
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  Speaker 2: a problem for us as a country, especially if you're
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  Speaker 2: in a position of leadership serving in the House of
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  Speaker 2: the Senate. That is a problem for America today. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm ashamed that some people can't get over it. And
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  Speaker 2: it's been interesting to hear the comments from John Fetterman,
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  Speaker 2: Democrat senator who seems to be going in the other
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  Speaker 2: direction from many of his Democrat colleagues.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's turned out to be a bit of a surprise,
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  Speaker 1: and it turned out to be actually courageous in the
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  Speaker 1: fact that and he's not doing anything that's all that radical.
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  Speaker 1: He's simply looking at the facts and the truth of
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  Speaker 1: the situation and speaking truth to what's actually going on.
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  Speaker 1: But brad Winstrip, we're up against the clock. We gotta run.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for checking in this morning, and
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  Speaker 1: Chris Smitheman has something for you real quick.
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  Speaker 2: Congressman, thank you so much for coming on. Great and
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  Speaker 2: I and and both both Dan Carroll and I and
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  Speaker 2: I think I thanked him for his service, and we
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  Speaker 2: thank you for your service, your military service to our country.
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  Speaker 2: Well Dame of you fellows. Thank you so much, God
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  Speaker 2: bless you
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  Speaker 1: All right, Brad,