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Jon Decker, WOR White House Correspondent Interview · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Well, Donald Trump hinted at it, and Scott Besson, the
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  Speaker 1: Treasury Secretary, laid it out. That has a couple of names,
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  Speaker 1: Operation Economic Outcast or Economic d Day. So let's find
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  Speaker 1: out what that is all about. From John Decker, wr
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  Speaker 1: White House and Washington correspondent and host of the podcast
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  Speaker 1: The White House Briefing Room with John Decker, which can
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  Speaker 1: be found on the iHeart Radio app. So, John, there
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  Speaker 1: seems to be a lot of moving parts to this.
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  Speaker 1: One is that it seems like it's not going to
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  Speaker 1: be military action but purely economic action, and with that
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  Speaker 1: came a threat to the rest of the world to
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  Speaker 1: get on board or else. How is that playing out?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we don't actually know, Larry and Curtis, because a
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  Speaker 2: lot of those conversations, in fact, all of those conversations
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  Speaker 2: are happening behind closed doors, other private conversations between the
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  Speaker 2: President and his counterparts around the world world. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know of any country, aside from the United Arab Emirates
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  Speaker 2: that has announced publicly that they're essentially dropping all types
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  Speaker 2: of trade relations with Iran. Only the UAE announced that,
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  Speaker 2: and they did that over the weekend, but no other
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  Speaker 2: country has done that since that press conference that Scott
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  Speaker 2: Bessant had yesterday. Also, keep in mind that the sanctions
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  Speaker 2: that Besson announced yesterday have not already been put in place.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, Besson says he's giving time for Iran to
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  Speaker 2: come to the negotiating table. There's no deadline for that.
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  Speaker 2: He also said it's not infinite, but that is something
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  Speaker 2: to keep in mind in regards to what Scott Besson,
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  Speaker 2: the Treasury Secretary announced yesterday at the Treasury Department.
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  Speaker 3: Now, John Dekker, are all roads in almost every situation
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  Speaker 3: leading up to the midterms leads to Red China. Red
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  Speaker 3: China gets eighty percent of Iran's oil. They need it,
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  Speaker 3: they don't have their own source, Red China, AI, Red
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  Speaker 3: China and tariffs. How can you economically strangle Iran if
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  Speaker 3: the number one customer in the world, Red China, continues
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  Speaker 3: to do business with them.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's the ultimate question, Curtis. You know there's that
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  Speaker 2: the other country that also is a lifeline to Iran
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  Speaker 2: is Russia. And as long as you have Russia and
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  Speaker 2: China not cooperating, not getting on board, not imposing tough
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  Speaker 2: sanctions of their own, then what the President announced through
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  Speaker 2: his Treasury secretary yesterday is really not going to likely
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  Speaker 2: make any difference in terms of squeezing Iran and its
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  Speaker 2: economy beyond what it already is. They have this economic lifeline,
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  Speaker 2: and it's China, and China and Russia for that matter,
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  Speaker 2: have essentially propped up Iran economically, not only over the
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  Speaker 2: course of the last six months, during the course of
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  Speaker 2: this conflict, but beyond that, you know, since sanctions have
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  Speaker 2: been put in place against Iran, and that goes back
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  Speaker 2: a full decade.
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  Speaker 1: You know, as you've probably figured out, I am an
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  Speaker 1: absolute Trump supporter, but I can't figure out what he's
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  Speaker 1: doing right now because my feeling was that he tried
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  Speaker 1: to get everything cleared up if he could by September,
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  Speaker 1: just in time for the mid terms, so that he
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  Speaker 1: could bring gas prices down, he could bring other prices down.
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  Speaker 1: But it seems like almost every step he's taking is
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  Speaker 1: going to raise prices against Canada and now against Iran
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  Speaker 1: and possibly the rest of the world if they don't
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  Speaker 1: get in line. So I don't I understand what the
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  Speaker 1: endgame is when it comes to Iran, But when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to the midterms, this seems like a fool's journey.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know, The frustration that you have, Larry, as
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  Speaker 2: a Trump supporter, is shared by many who are running
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  Speaker 2: for reelection, Republicans, you know, who are very much concerned
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  Speaker 2: about their prospects for reelection, you know, given the un
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  Speaker 2: certainty with the US economy, high gas prices, high prices
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  Speaker 2: at the grocery store. They've expressed that to the President.
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  Speaker 2: But the President, you know, is pushing ahead with this
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  Speaker 2: new you know, strategy essentially of trying to squeeze Iran economically,
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  Speaker 2: even though you know, they haven't come to the negotiating
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  Speaker 2: table to reopen the straight up for Mouse despite all
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  Speaker 2: of the military operations that have been taken against that country.
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  Speaker 2: Also keep in mind, Larry and Curtis, you know, if
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  Speaker 2: this sounds like deja vu in terms of what Scott
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  Speaker 2: Besson announced yesterday, it is because back in April, Operation
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  Speaker 2: Economic Fury was announced. How is this any different from
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  Speaker 2: Operation Epic Fury, which of course did not lead Iran
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  Speaker 2: to reopen the straight up formuz or essentially end this
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  Speaker 2: military conflict that's gone on since late February.
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  Speaker 3: So John Decer, towards the end of the day, the
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  Speaker 3: President of the United States, Donald Trump and his administration
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  Speaker 3: got good news from the United States Supreme Court. They
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  Speaker 3: ruled on his behalf involving United States Postal Service and
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  Speaker 3: mail in ballots by six'. Three the three liberals were
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  Speaker 3: obviously part of the. Opposition but can you explain this
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  Speaker 3: because it seems like it's a complicated, case and what
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  Speaker 3: there's a little more than two months before the actual
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  Speaker 3: midterm elections kick, in, Right.
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  Speaker 2: So, yeah there's some confusion because there's a different federal
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  Speaker 2: judge involving a different, case and it's not yet clear
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  Speaker 2: whether or not The Supreme court was. Ruling it's ruling
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  Speaker 2: impacts that other. Case that other case has essentially put
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  Speaker 2: The president's executive order as it relates to mail in
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  Speaker 2: ballots on. Hold there's an, injunction and that, injunction according
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  Speaker 2: to those who are seeking, it they say it remains in.
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  Speaker 2: Place the administration says. No what The Supreme court ruled
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  Speaker 2: on yesterday essentially does away with that, Injunction so that
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  Speaker 2: likely will have to be. Litigated here's the bottom line
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  Speaker 2: in all of. THIS i don't think that The president's
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  Speaker 2: executive order as it relates to mail in ballots will
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  Speaker 2: impact in any way in a positive way or a negative.
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  Speaker 2: Way that depending upon how you view that executive order
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  Speaker 2: the midterm. Elections it's a different case entirely when you're
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  Speaker 2: talking about twenty twenty, eight because in, fact we may
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  Speaker 2: have litigation which essentially allows The president to put in
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  Speaker 2: place many of the things that he would like to
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  Speaker 2: see put in place as it relates to mail in
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  Speaker 2: ballots by twenty twenty. EIGHT i don't think that the
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  Speaker 2: litigation that is likely to, ensue even after The Supreme
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  Speaker 2: court decision, yesterday will allow The president's executive order to
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  Speaker 2: be in place and affect what happens during the upcoming midterm.
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  Speaker 2: Elections there just simply is not enough.
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  Speaker 1: Time one are the places where they had the vociferous
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  Speaker 1: outcry AGAINST ai data centers at city council meetings and
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  Speaker 1: town hall. Meetings one of the first was In New,
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  Speaker 1: jersey and we've been covering that for just about the
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  Speaker 1: last month and a. Half and now it is what
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  Speaker 1: started In New jersey and some other states has now
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  Speaker 1: spread across the country and has become an issue now
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  Speaker 1: for the. Midterms and it sounds like The republicans are
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  Speaker 1: changing their. Position Even President trump softened his position a little.
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  Speaker 1: Bit but right, Now, john it is going to play
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  Speaker 1: heavy into the midterms because seventy five percent Of americans
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  Speaker 1: are against having AN ai data center in their, communities
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  Speaker 1: and that seems like where they're. Going But Donald, trump
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  Speaker 1: did you hear him the other day when he said
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  Speaker 1: he just softened it a little. Bit he still said
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  Speaker 1: there's the, jobs and they should, come but he said
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  Speaker 1: if the communities.
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  Speaker 2: Won, it, well that's exactly, right you, Know AND i
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  Speaker 2: think that he's hearing that from the members Of congress
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  Speaker 2: who are A republican who tell The president that there
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  Speaker 2: can stills do not want these data centers in their,
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  Speaker 2: communities and it is becoming in some cases an election.
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  Speaker 2: Issue and you, know that's the reason, why as you point, Out,
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  Speaker 2: larry there are members Of congress who have done a
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  Speaker 2: complete one to. Eighty they've switched their positions on data
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  Speaker 2: centers and are not necessarily for, them despite some of
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  Speaker 2: the benefits that they bring to, communities as you point,
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  Speaker 2: out including jobs and just benefiting the overall. Economy you,
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  Speaker 2: know if your constituents are saying we don't want, them
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  Speaker 2: and as you point, out seventy five percent of those
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  Speaker 2: polled in recent polls indicate they don't want, them then,
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  Speaker 2: you as a smart, politician are going to listen to
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  Speaker 2: your constituents and come out against. Them and that's what's
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  Speaker 2: happening in many districts all across the.
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  Speaker 3: Country now tonight is the final primary we're on In
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  Speaker 3: South carolina for the Seat Don Graham Darlene graham. Again Tralph,
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  Speaker 3: norman The president went in. There, man he had his
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  Speaker 3: verbal gatling gun going In Myrtle. Beach he's dropped close
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  Speaker 3: to a million dollars in a pack to Help. Darlen
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  Speaker 3: BUT i found it Interesting John deck here for the
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  Speaker 3: first time he, said you got to imagine it If
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  Speaker 3: i'm at the top of the. Ticket you that's because
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  Speaker 3: they always say If i'm at the top of the,
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  Speaker 3: Ticket republicans. Vote, hey if you don't, Vote i'm gonna get.
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  Speaker 3: Impeached that's the first Time i've heard him say that
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  Speaker 3: in this election.
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  Speaker 2: Cycle, YEAH i, mean that's what's at, stake you, know
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  Speaker 2: in terms of the, midterms as far As President trump is,
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  Speaker 2: concerned and you, know his reputations on the line in
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  Speaker 2: terms of the power that he has siding with One
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  Speaker 2: republican over another in these Competitive republican. Primary so he's
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  Speaker 2: put a lot on the line. Here as you point, Out,
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  Speaker 2: curtis he traveled down To Myrtle, Beach South carolina On
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  Speaker 2: friday to that campaign. Rally So Senator Darling, graham she's
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  Speaker 2: going up Against Ralph. Norman she's got a lot going for.
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  Speaker 2: Her she's got the endorsement Of President, trump the endorsement
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  Speaker 2: Of South carolina's, Governor henry, McMaster the endorsement Of Tim.
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  Speaker 2: Scott but now it's up to the, voters you. Know
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  Speaker 2: and voting began just a few moments ago seven am
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  Speaker 2: In South. Carolina it runs through seven pm. Tonight so
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  Speaker 2: we should have an idea in terms of who emerges
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  Speaker 2: victorious relatively early in the, evening and whoever wins That
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  Speaker 2: republican primary runoff will be the, nominee and whoever is
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  Speaker 2: the nominee likely will be The senator For South carolina
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  Speaker 2: in the next few.
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  Speaker 1: Years all, Right John decker as always Great John, decker
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  Speaker 1: Woor White house And washington, correspondent host of the Podcast
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  Speaker 1: The White House Briefing room With John, decker which you
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  Speaker 1: should be checking out every. Day it can be found
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  Speaker 1: on The iHeartRadio. App talked to you again, Soon, John thank.
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  Speaker 2: You Thanks, Larry Thanks, curtis have a good. One bye,
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  Speaker 2: bye