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55KRC Wednesday Show - Jack Atherton, AFP, Massie, Judge Napolitano, Empower U · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: At fifty five KRC the talk station. Seriously happy Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: no ideal, summon it up for me. Joe good one
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  Speaker 1: bright time, it's right here. Glad to be Glad to
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  Speaker 1: have Joe trek Or he belongs to the Executi Producer
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  Speaker 1: booth and looking forward to seven oh five first guests
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  Speaker 1: of the fifty five KRC Morning Show this morning. Of
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  Speaker 1: course it's Wednesday, that means Jack ovident with a big
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  Speaker 1: picture today. Two topics. Got the filibuster, which may not
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  Speaker 1: be going anywhere according to UH set up Majority leader
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  Speaker 1: John Thune. Get to that in the moment, but we
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  Speaker 1: will be talking about the filibuster, but also a second
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  Speaker 1: topic and completely unrelated and I don't know, suicidal universities.
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  Speaker 1: That's why we have Jack added in a round followed
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  Speaker 1: by Americans for Prosperity, Donovan and Neil will talk about
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  Speaker 1: the affordability agenda and look, gasoline prices up a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Congressman Thomas Massey Trump coming to town. He's here today
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  Speaker 1: and we'll talk about the War Powers Act, and we'll
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  Speaker 1: talk about Congressional Sexual Hate slush Fund. Yeah, they voted.
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  Speaker 1: That was an interesting one. Apparently there's multiple millions of
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  Speaker 1: dollars in payouts to settle congressionally related sexual harassment claims.
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  Speaker 1: When asked to reveal the documents behind the scenes, what
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  Speaker 1: was it like three hundred plus to like double digits,
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  Speaker 1: said now, we're not going to release the documents. I
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  Speaker 1: can't remember the overall vote, but a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: suppressing outrage from both sides of the political ledger. Wait
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  Speaker 1: a minute, you've got all these documents, and the American
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  Speaker 1: taxpayers have settled harassment claims, sexually related and otherwise against
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  Speaker 1: congress people, against elected officials, and we settled it, we
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  Speaker 1: paid for it, and you're not gonna let us know
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  Speaker 1: what we paid for. Wow, whatever happened to transparency? I'm
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  Speaker 1: glad Congressman Massy's gonna be talking about that one. And
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  Speaker 1: I judge genital and depolitanus silent attacks on personal freedom. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: Faiza is back, so real quick addressing some of the
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  Speaker 1: issues insofar as the philibuster is concerned. And I'll look
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  Speaker 1: forward to hearing what Jack Athenan says in reaction to
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  Speaker 1: Center Majority leader John Thune yesterday rejecting Trump's call to
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  Speaker 1: pass the Save Act by forcing Democrats to deploy a
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  Speaker 1: talking filibuster but also nuking the sixty vote threshold required
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  Speaker 1: in the Senate that also apparently is not an option
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  Speaker 1: neither way. Thune said, the votes aren't there one to
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  Speaker 1: nuke the filibuster, and the votes aren't there for a
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  Speaker 1: talking filibuster. It's just a reality. I'm the person who
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  Speaker 1: has to deliver sometimes the not so good news that
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  Speaker 1: the math doesn't add up. But those are the facts,
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  Speaker 1: and there's no getting around it. So we can't go
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  Speaker 1: nuclear and we can't go talking filibuster. So again, looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to have Jack talking about that breaking it down.
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  Speaker 1: Trump's threat not to sign any law passed by Congress,
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  Speaker 1: with the possible exception of legislation to fund Department of
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  Speaker 1: Homeland Security. They're talking about doing a continuing resolution. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: we've got a war going on and Department Homeland Security
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  Speaker 1: might play an integral part of that. You know, maybe
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  Speaker 1: funding the Coastguard might be a good idea. Let's get
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  Speaker 1: those folks paid, so a cr to get the people
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  Speaker 1: paid who deserve to get paid while they endeavor to
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  Speaker 1: hammer out all these fixes to ice, immigrations and customs enforcement.
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  Speaker 1: Of course that's the reason. And did you get the
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  Speaker 1: memo we're still in a government shutdown. Hmm, how about that?
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  Speaker 1: And you know, I hate to joke about it. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know that anybody's feeling it except for the folks
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  Speaker 1: that aren't getting a paycheck. And as we proceed closer
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  Speaker 1: to Thursday with Jay Ratliffe, I guess if you're flying,
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  Speaker 1: you may as well plan on showing up several hours
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  Speaker 1: early because TSAs and having a bit of a problem
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  Speaker 1: keeping up with the demand. So Donovan II with affordability agenda. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: gas prices in the United States have jumped, of course,
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  Speaker 1: since the invasion of the Iranians, the straight of horror
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  Speaker 1: moves being shut down, rising more than fifty five cents
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  Speaker 1: per gallon in a moment's time, going from two ninety
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  Speaker 1: eight national average to three dollars in fifty nine or
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  Speaker 1: fifty four cents yesterday. Average nationwide gas prices now stands
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  Speaker 1: three dollars and fifty three cents per gall almost fifty
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  Speaker 1: four cents per gallon. That's increase as of March tenth.
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  Speaker 1: Excuse me. Analysts are predicting the prices can continue climbing.
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  Speaker 1: Gas stations of course, passing along these higher wholesale fuel
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  Speaker 1: costs to US it seems counterintuitive, but you know, wait
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  Speaker 1: a second. They bought the barrels of oil and the
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  Speaker 1: refined gasoling at a much lower price, and yet the
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  Speaker 1: price immediately goes up. You know, well, they buy wholesale
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  Speaker 1: gasoling on futures market and all that. So whatever we're
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  Speaker 1: dealing with the reality of a gas buddy estimating price
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  Speaker 1: in many states could increase another twenty to fifty cents
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  Speaker 1: per gallon this week. Although the price of oil those
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  Speaker 1: kind of volnerable, as the word immediately comes to mind,
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  Speaker 1: it went down a lot yesterday, fairly dramatically off It's
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  Speaker 1: high of north of one hundred dollars a barrel landed
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  Speaker 1: somewhere around eighty five dollars a barrel. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: volatle situations means volatile gasoline prices and barrel of oil prices.
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  Speaker 1: And then, of course, when you pivot over to California,
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  Speaker 1: go ahead and laugh at these idiots and what they've
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  Speaker 1: done to themselves. Price of the regular gasoline in California,
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  Speaker 1: I hope it makes you feel better since you're paying
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  Speaker 1: three fifty locally, it's five dollars and twenty nine cents
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  Speaker 1: highest in the country in about seventy five higher than
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  Speaker 1: the national average. They did it to themselves. Why higher
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  Speaker 1: fuel taxes, specialized environmental fuel blends, limited refining capacity. Did
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  Speaker 1: any of those events have to happen now? Of course not.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going back to the self inflicted wound. We got
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  Speaker 1: to get rid of plant food in the environment. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I know, I'm on a tear and I have been
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  Speaker 1: on one for a long time. With that, Someday we'll
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  Speaker 1: convince everybody that's it's a believer in that religion that well,
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  Speaker 1: they're idiots. You're gonna love this. I always joke about
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  Speaker 1: that gas station over on Camargo, because you know regular
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  Speaker 1: price and gasoline, let's say it's three dollars. Well, over there,
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  Speaker 1: it's always like five. I don't know how anybody ever
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  Speaker 1: fills their gas tank up there. And people who know
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  Speaker 1: that gas station that I'm talking about, yeah, it's always
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  Speaker 1: through the roof. Not as bad as reports from Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 1: At least one station there charging eight dollars and twenty
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  Speaker 1: one cents a gallon opportunists. So there's an affordability issue
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  Speaker 1: that Donovan O'Neil may be willing to address. As I note,
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  Speaker 1: there's a brand new refinery. Trump an asked it yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: the first new oil refinery built in the United States
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  Speaker 1: in five decades. I find that so hard to believe.
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  Speaker 1: The announced yesterday on truth America is returning to real
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  Speaker 1: energy dominancy road to today, I'm proud to announce America's
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  Speaker 1: first refinery opening in the first new US oil refinery
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  Speaker 1: in fifty years, Brownsville, Texas. He said it'd be the
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  Speaker 1: cleanest refinery in the world, So you know, you and
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  Speaker 1: you people worried about the environment, It's going to be clean.
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  Speaker 1: Three hundred billion dollars for this thing. Apparently India is involved.
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  Speaker 1: He gave India some credit for joining him the fund
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  Speaker 1: and the investment in the United States. He's he's his
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  Speaker 1: America First agenda. Look, I've attracted billions of dollars in
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  Speaker 1: investments in the United States. So apparently the Indian the
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  Speaker 1: country of India is involved in some capacity. Three hundred
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  Speaker 1: billion dollars for an oil refinery. Well, at least we've
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  Speaker 1: got one. Of course, California is shutting theirs down and
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  Speaker 1: one more thing, so that's affordability and Congressman MESSI Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump not shocking really anybody, I know, he really has
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  Speaker 1: a problem with Congressman Thomas Massey. My friends in northern Kentucky,
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  Speaker 1: my friends in the Commonwealth, what do you think does
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump's endorsement mean something? Ed Gowring has been endorsed
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  Speaker 1: by Donald Trump as of yesterday. It's official made the
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  Speaker 1: endorsement for Kentucky's fourth yesterday on social media, of course,
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  Speaker 1: So we'll run that by Congressom Massy as well, and
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  Speaker 1: then pivoting over to Judge Enter to Polaitanos silent attacks
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  Speaker 1: on personal freedom, that's PISA.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump previously said he would not renew FIZA. This
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  Speaker 1: is some time ago when he found out they were
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  Speaker 1: using PHIZA to spy on him. Yes, if you speak
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  Speaker 1: with anybody in a foreign land, you are open to
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  Speaker 1: have your communications spied on. And it goes beyond that,
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  Speaker 1: it goes out to like six people. So as I
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  Speaker 1: understand it, and Judge entit of Polton will break it down.
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  Speaker 1: Yet again, we've been down this road before because we
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  Speaker 1: both believe that FISA is in and of itself unconstitutional.
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  Speaker 1: But Section seven oh two is what we're talking about extending.
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  Speaker 1: And this is the one that allows, well, if you
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  Speaker 1: talk to anyone in a foreign land, you are automatically
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  Speaker 1: basically waiving your Fourth Amendment right to be free of
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  Speaker 1: unreasonable searches and caeizure. You're supposed to have probable cause
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  Speaker 1: that a crime has been committed. You know, probable cause
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  Speaker 1: that you're engaged in criminal activity. Go to the court
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  Speaker 1: and say, here's all the reasons why we need to
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  Speaker 1: spy on this person. Section seven and two of five said, whatever,
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  Speaker 1: we got a file the court, We'll go ahead and
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  Speaker 1: allow you to take a look at everybody's records. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So yesterday, House Republican leaders said they are advancing a
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  Speaker 1: plan to extend fis A section seven and two. Intelligence
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  Speaker 1: Committee chair Rick Crawford, Republican from Arkansas, as well as
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  Speaker 1: majority Leavers Steve Scalise said they will advance section seven
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  Speaker 1: to two of FIZA before the April twentieth deadline when
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  Speaker 1: it is set to expire with no new restrictions on
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  Speaker 1: intelligence agency. So just complete well you get it now,
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  Speaker 1: Folks like me, Folks who believe in the Fourth Amendment,
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  Speaker 1: we think warrants are required before looking at data for
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  Speaker 1: people in the United States. Scalise said, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: be talking to all our members, but the President made
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  Speaker 1: it clear why it's important again, one hundred and eighty
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  Speaker 1: degree shift from President Trump. Now he's back to renewal
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  Speaker 1: section of seven oh two. When he met with House
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  Speaker 1: Republicans during the annual retreat this pass or just Monday,
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  Speaker 1: Trump proposed attaching here's a good one. The Democrats like
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  Speaker 1: PISA two, and they've voted to extend and renew it before.
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  Speaker 1: Trump is now proposed attaching the PHISA reauthorization to the
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  Speaker 1: Save America Act. That's the one that, of course it
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  Speaker 1: requires proof of citizenship to register to vote. This is
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  Speaker 1: the one that he said he's not going to sign
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  Speaker 1: any legislation until it gets passed. This is the one
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  Speaker 1: I think that's the subject matter of the filibuster vote.
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  Speaker 1: But if the Democrats are really clamoring to get PHISA
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  Speaker 1: renewed and it will expire on its own terms by
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  Speaker 1: April twentieth, would they vote to pass the Save Act
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  Speaker 1: along with FISA or would they stand in the opposition
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  Speaker 1: to both of them. It's an interesting gamble. I suppose
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  Speaker 1: Section seven to two First and Act in two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and eight periodically reauthorized by Congress. A yes, permits warrantless
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  Speaker 1: surveillance and surveillance of foreign targets. But again, if you're
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  Speaker 1: talking with a foreign target, I think that's an overstatement.
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  Speaker 1: Foreign person judge and Polatano of course has friends in Italy.
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  Speaker 1: He always likes to refer to that. So I'm speaking
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  Speaker 1: with my cousin in Naples. Automatically I can get my
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  Speaker 1: record spot on and then every person I talk to,
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  Speaker 1: like you, Brian, when I speak to you on Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: since I've talked with a foreign national, you will also
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  Speaker 1: have your record search. I've kind of given into the
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  Speaker 1: reality that I have. I also have a friend in
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  Speaker 1: France that I have occasionally communicated with. Guy went to
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  Speaker 1: church with when he's a kid. He's now French citizen,
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: he has been for a long long time, every once
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  Speaker 1: in a while, and of course every time I have
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  Speaker 1: done that, it opens me up to being spied on.
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  Speaker 1: Is that right? But security? Yeah, you know the old
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  Speaker 1: adage about giving up your rights in the name of
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  Speaker 1: maybe getting more security. Anyway, that's you run down. They
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  Speaker 1: plus Janie Heisel, she's gonna be doing tompower you someon
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  Speaker 1: are fraud in Minnesota but also brought in Kentucky or
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  Speaker 1: at least waste eight hundred million dollars of waste Medicaid
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  Speaker 1: related waste in my friend from my friends in the Commonwealth,
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  Speaker 1: but probably more fundamentally corrupt hospices in Los Angeles. This
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  Speaker 1: is insane. We are a wash in fraud. It would
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  Speaker 1: someone stand up for the American taxpayer and put an
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  Speaker 1: end to this five eighteen fifty five KRC detalk station
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  Speaker 1: five one, three, seven, four nine fifty five hundred, eight
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  Speaker 1: hundred and eight two three talk Time five fifty on
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  Speaker 1: AT and T phones.
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  Speaker 3: Will be right back when you jump on the back
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  Speaker 3: of a pole and a gay swing spacen middle.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I went over to gas Buddy real quick here,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm making fun of that gas state notorious gas
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  Speaker 1: station on Camargo, right. I looked it up, so there.
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: I just typed in Indian Hills zip code that is
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  Speaker 1: Indian Hill. I don't live there. Three forty nine at
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  Speaker 1: two stations, and then if you go to the Camargo Marathon,
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  Speaker 1: it's three ninety nine. So there you have it. People
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  Speaker 1: like trying to show off to get their gas there.
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  Speaker 1: You only drive it likes an extra quarter of a
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  Speaker 1: mile and you can get fifty cents off your gas.
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  Speaker 1: You go there because you can prove to the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the world, you can afford to pay outrageous prices
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  Speaker 1: for gas. I don't know anyway. Look, City of Cincinnati,
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  Speaker 1: facing a twenty nine and a half million dollar budget deficit,
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  Speaker 1: calling for five percent cuts in the next budget didn't
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  Speaker 1: share a Long's review include praises about her handling of
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  Speaker 1: the budget. Joe, I seem to recall talking about that yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: We are not a washing cast, Joe. Budget director Andrew
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  Speaker 1: Dida said, the general fund departments have been asked to prepare,
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  Speaker 1: prepare for it, Brace for it. Cuts a five point
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  Speaker 1: one percent. I love this. Reductions don't have to be
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  Speaker 1: the only solution to closing the deficit, as we've done
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  Speaker 1: in the past years. With deficit situations, it's usually a
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  Speaker 1: combination of ready additional revenue increases in revenue along with
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: that would be two mentions to additional revenue in one
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  Speaker 1: sentence from the budget direct additional revenue increases in revenue
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  Speaker 1: along with expenditure reductions, and I expect the same this year.
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  Speaker 1: So that sounds like tax increases along with reduction in services.
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  Speaker 1: Wait for it and just sort of you know, thought exercise.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of message does it project to the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the world about the stat of Incineti's finances and
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  Speaker 1: claims for increased tax revenue or increased revenue right open
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  Speaker 1: for business sign may be hanging there, but no one's
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  Speaker 1: paying any attention to it. Over to my friends. In
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  Speaker 1: the Commonwealth, State auditor Alison Balluh released a special examination
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  Speaker 1: of the Kentucky Department of Medical Services AKADMS. It says
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: the failure on the part of DMS led to more
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  Speaker 1: than eight hundred million dollars in wasted tax payer money.
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: Now your pikers compared with the waste fraud abuse of
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  Speaker 1: Minneapolis as well as what they're finding a Los Angeles. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: investigations are growing, more and more fraud, waste and abuse
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  Speaker 1: being revealed. And again I go back to why isn't
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  Speaker 1: this the ultimate issue for I want to say the Republicans,
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  Speaker 1: but for all taxpayers. Who is against ferreting out fraud,
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  Speaker 1: waste and abuse. Apparently, according to the auditor, DMS did
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  Speaker 1: not take basic steps to ensure it wasn't making duplicate
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: payments payments made by other states. For example, when a
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: recipient moved out of Kentucky and enrolled in another medicaid program.
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  Speaker 1: The law requires it's a check for and investigate alerts
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  Speaker 1: from the federal government about double payments and that they're occurring.
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  Speaker 1: DMS failed to do that, leading to again eight hundred
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  Speaker 1: million dollars worth of well necessary pay payments made. Thank you,
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  Speaker 1: Just do your job, It's all we're asking. Do your job.
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  Speaker 1: Five twenty five firty five care CE detalk station in
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  Speaker 1: local story five one three seven nine fifty five hundred,
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  Speaker 1: eight hundred and eighty two to three talk five five
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  Speaker 1: fifty on AT and T phones. Getting used to looking
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  Speaker 1: up and seeing Tom on the phone there, I kind
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  Speaker 1: of feel like I'm I'm lost. I guess I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to have to do local stories since nobody else has
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  Speaker 1: calling in.
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  Speaker 4: Don't vote Democrats, Thank you, Joe just tracker.
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  Speaker 1: At least he's on record. So Donald Trump's coming to
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  Speaker 1: town today. We don't know a whole lot specifics about
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  Speaker 1: where he's going to be at any given time. We
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  Speaker 1: got some general margins. Apparently flight restrictions at CBG are
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  Speaker 1: in effect between one pm and six thirty pm, so
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: there's your kind of narrowing down to the window. I
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  Speaker 1: guess he's going to be landing around one scheduled to
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  Speaker 1: visit in Ohio and Kentucky. In Ohio, Thermo Fisher Scientific
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  Speaker 1: that's in Redding apparently going to go there to talk
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  Speaker 1: about Trump r X dot GO. But I anticipate he's
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  Speaker 1: going to stop in Kentucky first, since it's widely reported
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  Speaker 1: that he's visiting Verse Logistic contract packing facility in northern Kentucky.
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  Speaker 1: Road to closures and traffic impacts have not yet been announced,
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  Speaker 1: but considering he's landing at one and it's widely reported
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  Speaker 1: that the visit there would be around one o'clock, I
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  Speaker 1: suspect there first, then traveling up to Reading. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: even though we don't know where the motorcaide is going
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  Speaker 1: to be at any given time, Redding Community Schools are
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: operating on an early dismissal schedule led it to parents,
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  Speaker 1: said readings Junior and Senior High School dismissed at twelve
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  Speaker 1: thirty pm. Elementary schools out of twelve pm due to
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  Speaker 1: the anticipated traffic disruptions. But as he travels around, you
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  Speaker 1: can expect roads will be closed for the motorcade, and
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  Speaker 1: they're recommending that you steer clear of any major roads
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  Speaker 1: like I seventy five and I seventy five. During his
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  Speaker 1: visit so the window one to six pm. Cosmic crapshoot
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  Speaker 1: about where he's going to be at any given time.
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  Speaker 1: Just expect that you may run into a traffic delay.
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  Speaker 1: My son works at a business it's really close to
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  Speaker 1: the reading locations. He's already wondering about that anyhow, Good luck, Jerry.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: We have a Cincinnati man sentenced to more than three
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  Speaker 1: years in prison for his involvement in a romance fraud scheme,
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  Speaker 1: apparently scamming lally and bereaved victims that are more than
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  Speaker 1: two million dollars. This according to the US Attorney's Office
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  Speaker 1: for the Southern District of Ohio. It's probably something Dave
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  Speaker 1: had to may bring up on Tech Friday. Richard Opuku Agimang,
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  Speaker 1: That's about the best I can do, Agimang, forty one
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  Speaker 1: years old. It conspired with scammers in Ghana. Apparently you
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  Speaker 1: stolen pictures and false information to create profiles on dating sides,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: targeting vulnerable people. Do you believe anything you see online anymore?
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Fortunately for me, describe my relationship as happily married. I
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: haven't had to go to a dating site ever. I
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: just kind of wonder what it would be like to
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: be single in this world. But when you see a
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: picture anywhere, really anymore, can you believe it's real? Just
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Trekker can come up with a picture of a real
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: human being using chat, GPT or some other AI program.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: It looked like a real human being. Look that's me
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: on the dating site. Well, obviously scammers are using this
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: to their advantage. Scammers established relationships with these elderly victim
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: tricked them into sending money to cover medical expenses. Some victims,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: it's reported, having to sell their homes, vehicles, cash in
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: life insurance, are four toh one K accounts and max
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: out their credit cards due to the scheme red flag
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: much this Agumen guy open American bank accounts where the
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: victims would wire the funds or deposit checks directly. Court
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: documents say previously defrauds it for defraud of the Small
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: Business Administration by fraudulently obtaining nearly twenty one thousand dollars
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: in Paycheck Protection Program loans. Oh look more fraud related
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: to the PPP loans. Thank you. COVID court ordered him
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: to pay almost one point four million in restitution to
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: the victims, twenty eight hundred dollars to the small Business administration.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: I guess I have to ask out loud whether that
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: money is still around anymore. And I have to double
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: down and say, listen, if somebody's asking you for money,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: you never met him before. And I got to imagine
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: that's the case here. You've never met this person before.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: It is an image on a dating app. How is
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: it that they were able to finagle you into giving
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: them money. I remember one point in time, I had
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: a really good friend. He hit me up for money.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: I was thinking to myself. I looked at him, I said, no,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: why not, I said, because friends don't lend friends money.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: You know, if you don't pay me back, that's going
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: to be a real problem for our relationship anyhow, even
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: someone I know. Since I police investigated the death of
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: a man found at a construction site in the Carthage neighborhood.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: The second body discovered to the same address, Dispatchers sent
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: over about one point thirty yesterday the sixty four hundred
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: block of Rosewood Street for reportedly a person believed to
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: be dead. Officers got there and the Cincinnta Fire Department arrived, confirming, yeah,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: that guy's dead. Cruise were demolishing a condemned home on
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Rosewood Street when they fo on the body. Cause of
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: death under investigation. Home has been the sight of multiple fires.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Back in August at twenty four killed one person. Second
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: fire approximately three weeks ago about three am, destroyed what
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: remained of the structure. Neighbors said no one had lived
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: in the home for some time before it had been condemned.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: According to a neighbor, Michelle, twenty three year old resident
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: of Rosewood Street, said she was aware the demolition, but
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: was caught off guard by the discovery of the body.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Those people had been working on the house for a
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: couple of weeks. They tore it down. They didn't have
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: a body yesterday they didn't work on and all of
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: a sudden, they have a body, she said. People experiencing
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: homelessness had been known to come and go from the property.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Despite incidents at the address, she said, the surrounding area
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: remains peaceful. All we have a nice neighborhood, she said, quiet.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: No matter what anybody thinks, it's a nice neighborhood. Everybody
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: goes to bed at eleven o'clock. So don't let the
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: one home ruin your perception of that entire neighborhood. Say
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: here and again, twenty five million dollar deficit for the
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: city of Cincinnati. Oh and look, Cincinnati's facing a general
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: fund deficit for the last for ten of the last
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: thirteen fiscal years. Oh my god, we don't get America
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Rescue Plan funds anymore. Yeah, COVID's over. You shouldn't have
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: been relying on those to balance your budget anyway. And
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: that's one of the more nefarious elements coming out of COVID.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: The billions and billions of dollars thrown out trillions, I
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: should say, thrown out into the world on all these
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: underwater cities, obviously mostly left leaning cities with their massive
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: budgetary problems. Yeah, used to pay off those the jam
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: they got themselves in because they couldn't say no to anything.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: So you've got an opportunity to speak. First public hearing
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: was last Wednesday, and according to The Enquirer, I'm sorry
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: apologies to Becka Costello, a WVXU reporting on this one.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Most of the people who showed up, all twenty of them,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: advocated for a few specific nonprofits who were asking for
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: more money this year year. Yeah. Good, So you know,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: their opportunity to speak about this tonight or today five
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: thirty pm North Avondel Rec Center. That's six seventeen Clinton Springs.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: You can chime in on it since any council is
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: going to be hearing from residents who show up there.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: I hope more than twenty show up. You think Todd
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Zenzer might be there our citizen watchdog and next opportunity
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Monday March sixteenth, five point thirty pm at Salor Park
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Rec Center, Chuck Barcoltz. If you're out there, I have
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: a feeling he will be there. Then the department heads
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: present their needs and budget request the council several meetings
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: for that in March and April. Cheryl long expected to
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: submit her first draft of the budget to mayor have
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: to have per bowl by the third week of May.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Then they typically hold a joint press conference to discuss
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: the first draft, and then a final public hearing the
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: first week of June. Residents can also give feedback on
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: the budget proposal during regularly scheduled meetings of the Budget
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: and Finance Committee that does take place Mondays at one pm,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: and any of Todd Zenzer's report from the front lines
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: at those meetings as any indication you can speak but
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: they won't listen. Five point thirty six five KRC the
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: talk station. We'll do a stack of stupid. It is
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: five forty one and fifty five KR City Talk Station,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: and Brian Thomas right here looking forward to talking to
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Bobby was on the phone. I look forward to talking
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: to you too. Anybody wants to call in. It's an
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: enjoyable exchange. Five one, three, seven, four nine fifty five hundred,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: eight hundred eighty twenty three talk pound five fifty on
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: AT and T phone. Joe Strecker trying to save the
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: City of Cincinnati some money. He started with, well, maybe
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: don't do the five million dollar reparations thing, so that
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: takes our budget deficit from what twenty nine and a
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: half million down to twenty four and a half. He
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: recommended maybe terminating IRIS rollies seven hundred thousand, roughly little
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: more than a little rounding up on that one seven
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars contract, bringing us down to roughly maybe
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: twenty four twenty three nine, And then maybe we don't
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: build the solar project. The one hundred megawatt new Market
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: solar array apparently was one hundred and twenty five million
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: dollars to build it. We didn't pay anything for that
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: upfront anyway. They utilized what they call a twenty year
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: power purchase agreement with some energy company to build their
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: thing at a fixed rate. I know we're paying for
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: it in some level, but it's the separate one. The
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: smaller project in Center Hill Landfill estimated cost over twelve
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: million dollars, So we could cut twelve million right there,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Joe Man, We've already eradicated about half of the overall
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: budget deficit without having to raise taxes. Now, if we
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: just get rid of funding the NGOs that the city
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: taxpayers are paying for, god knows what work they're actually
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: doing or what the money's going for, I think we've
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: gotten down to zero. Just to thought, Bobby, welcome to
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: the program. Thanks for indulging me on that. Good to
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: hear from you.
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: Happy hump Day, my brother face Flag's family and budget
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: dipss is that it? Well, I don't know in my
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: household if I'm to depths and how in the world
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: am I outloading people money? I just don't understand. How
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: are you giving fifty million dollars to a hotel projects
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: and everything else and not heavy money?
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Well, con all the foot traffic and revenue that's going
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: to be generated by the activity going on inside the
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: hotel and the surrounding businesses that have also been supplemented
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: by the taxpayer dollars. They're going to cover the cost
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: and also additional profit.
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: Well, I got one more thing. It's really close to
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: my heart. With beautiful weather coming and summertime and springtime,
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: what about the million and a half dollars for.
• 26:39
  Speaker 6: A skateboard park.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: There's another one.
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: I mean it doesn't end. I mean, you know, it
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: doesn't got people there. We got people walking on the
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: sidewalks holding skateboards. I see them all the time.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: I know they're just waiting around for their own skate park.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Nowhere to go, Bobby, I understand that you know the
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: same thing about the skate park. It only provided the
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: mayor with one ribbon coming cutting opportunity. You can't go
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: back there and keep going ribbon cutting ceremonies and talk
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: about how awesome you are for having brought a skateboark
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: skateboard park to one neighborhood while the rest of the
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: city's infrastructure collapses. Hey, look, skateboard park. Yeah, you mentioned
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: that one already. Mayor, you could throw a lot of
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: potholes with that money. Hell yeah, the list is endless.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Maybe hire some more police officers with the money, make
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: your own list, show up at one of the budget
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: meetings and see if they listen to you. Maybe a
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: fool's errand all right, maybe we've got an award to
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: give out. We've got to Las Vegas, Nevada, a Canadian
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: tourist has been charged with animal cruelty. Police say he
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: stole a flamingo from the famed Las Vegas hotel. Specifically,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: thirty three year old Mitchell Fairbarn of Ontario, Canada. Rest
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: report says he broke into the wildlife habitat at Flamingo
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Hotel Casino, dragged and cornered flamingos before carrying one of
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: the birds to his room. Of course, it's all on video.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Best gonna say. You can be seen on surveillance video
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: entering the habitat around five am grabbing the flamingos as
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: the birds are heard screaming and crying. He reportedly told
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: police he was drunk, said he took the flamingo to
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: his room to pop its wing back into place, later
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: taken to custody in charge with do you think they
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: do that to people who harm animals. Joe taking the
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: custody charge of four counts of animal cry cruelty bail
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: twelve thousand dollars. Last year in Nevada passed the new
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: lost strengthening penalties for those convicted of abusing animals, inspired
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: by the death of a dog named Riba signing the
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Governor signing the law by Governor Joe Lombardo Riba the
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: English bulldog. It died after being rescued from a sealed
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: plastic container during extreme heat. Multiple awards to give out
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: under the animal law. This does not include human race,
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: but includes other living creatures. He remains in custody at
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: the Clark County Detention Center, apparently incapable of coming with
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: a twenty ten percent of twelve thousand dollars.
• 29:13
  Speaker 7: There you go, Peri is the biggest douche of the universe,
• 29:20
  Speaker 7: in all the galaxies, there's no bigger douche than you.
• 29:25
  Speaker 7: You've reached the top, the pinnacle of douche them good going, douce,
• 29:32
  Speaker 7: Your dreams have come true.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Since nineteen ninety nine. The folks to rely on for
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: household electric.
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: Detalk station.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Five fifty one fifty five kr c DE talk station Wednesday,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Big Picture with Jack Advian at seven oh five Donnel
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: about affordability agenda that AFP rolled out, Americans for Prosperity,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Conress and Massy Judgent and Apolitano and a fraud in
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Minnesota Power Empower use Suminar with Janie Heizel. That's the
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: guest in the run on the day, and score of
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: the phones, that's what Tom's got. Tom, there you are.
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I tried calling my normal time and somethings up
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: with the phones, and phones were busy, So anyway, got
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: through now, so I heard Bobby was honestly, I'll try again.
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: So and behold they're working. And I'm just kind of
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: curious how many how many of these flaming, bleeding heart
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: liberals are gonna have to call in sick today because
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: evil Orange Man is in town.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm underneath the board. I'm underneath the studio
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: board here in a feudal position. As I talked Tom,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: that's crazy.
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: People get so worked up over stuff and they just
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: don't use common sense. So topic of the morning, Uh,
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: they're spending your money people, They're just taking your money
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: anything they can take, and then they're just gonna blow
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: it on whatever they feel like they need to spend
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: it on. And then and you're gonna keep voting for him.
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: I bet, I bet all these citizens of voters in
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: Cincinnati they're just gonna keep voting Democrat because uh, oh
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: well they care about us and and and if nothing else,
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: God forbid, we we get some Republicans in there to
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: try to be fiscally irresponsible and oh no, we can't
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: have that. Let's let's just let's just keep letting them
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: bow your money and uh, you know, they'll throw they'll
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: throw a little bit here and there at you, you know,
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: and they'll they'll make it sound like they're helping pay
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: for this, that and the other. By the way, the
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: idea of Bobby on a skateboard.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Is is that good one?
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: That's one of the better ones live. That's pretty good.
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: How could you see him? Know, when it's like the
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: weather's bad, I can see him sitting in front of
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: a TV playing Tony Hawk or something like that. So, yeah, that.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: I've met Bobby. And this isn't a shot of Bobby,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: but the vision absolutely completely unlikely to ever see anything
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: like that.
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: So are we gonna are we gonna say that with sarcasm,
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: we're gonna is that where we're going at.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Well, I you know, to your to your fiscal response ononsibility.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: You know, maybe one of the reasons I no longer
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: self identify as a Republican is because here I have
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: been waiting my entire life for Republicans to actually be
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: fiscally responsible and deliver on dealing a massive across the
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: board budget cuts from government.
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: But oh oh yeah, we've had that conversation many times.
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: Republicans are not, you know, angels in any way, They're
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: not the saviors of the country or in any way,
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: shape or form, but they're way better than what we have. Yeah,
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: we have to at least agree on that we've got
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: to get better before we can get it right. So
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: and and you know what, what other option is there, Brian?
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: I mean, okay, we've got people like Christomers Smeatherman, so
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: and and well we get a bunch of into something
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: anything other than Democrats. And by the way, you got
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: a lot of bad weather coming at you, kid titting
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: us right now. We're in a likening delay at the
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: job right now. So very heavy rain, heavy winds, lightning,
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: thunder bitstorm. So anyway, So all that being said, people
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: don't vote Democrat, have a great have.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: A great day, bin, and you're going to vote Republican.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: Try to find one that actually will embark on fiscal responsibility.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: Got time forward there, you got. I can get another
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: stack of stupid story in here, and we'll go to Brooksville, Florida,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: where a woman allegedly stuck a pedestrian with her car,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: dragging him almost ninety feet, killing him, and then went
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: to work at McDonald's. Forty five year old carry Walden,
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: on her way to work at McDonald's four o'clock in
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: the morning, hit a forty five year old guy named
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Jacob Maull. He was crossing the street in the intersection.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: According to the rest report, she stopped at the intersection,
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: waited for the light to turn green, and then drove
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: forward in spite of the fact that maul was still
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: crossing the street, apparently right in front of her car.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: She reportedly dragged his body almost ninety feet before leaving
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: him in the middle of the road, where he was
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: later found dead. She continued driving for three more miles
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: got to McDonald's where she worked. Investigators claimed that they
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: used traffic cameras to track her vehicle to the fast
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: food restaurant, and when they arrived, they observed her vehicle
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: was missing the front bumper and had blood underneath. Walden
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: mirandized then told officers that she hit something, but she
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: thought it was just a deer. Total authority. She made
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: a stop at a seven eleven between the crash site
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: in her workplace so that she could put her front
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: bumper in her back seat. She was arrested in charge
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: with hit and run, which led to a death fifty
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: five K see talk station. Oh yeah, I saw that
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: you put the ruber the the Uber women only option
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: in the stack of stupid Joe. Yeah, he can. He
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: can request. It's called women's women preferences. So when you're
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: you're you're calling for your Uber ride, you can you
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: can request a female driver. I don't know that they've
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: necessarily addressed the transagender issue in this one, Joe, but
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: you got I guess you gotta be a woman task
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: for a woman driver. This is a women only things.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: The only women are in the car. I just wonder
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: whether if I got an Uber, if I could request
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: a women only option. Hey, I don't know, make it
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: lucky with a pretty uber driver, just a shot, just
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: a possibility, five or six fifty five kr SE Detalk Station. Oh, look,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: people are not in favor of war new pulling out
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: complicating matters. Maybe as we move forward toward November with
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: gasoline prices through the roof, is that going to make
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: you change your vote? Don't go away. We got lots
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: to talk about in the six o'clock hour. Be right back.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: We put the app in six or six to fifty
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: five KRCD talk station. My name is Brian Thomas, host
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: for the fifty five KRSE Morning Show. Hey, glad to
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: be sitting here and glad to be able to look
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: at Joe Strekker through the little video screen that I
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: have to look at him through. I missed the old days,
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Joe and we had a booth that I could look
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: up and see you through the window. I miss your
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: obscene finger gestures and things like that. Anyway, I welcome
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: phone calls here on the fifty five KRS Morning Show.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: You can feel free to chime in if there's a
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: topic you want to speak about. Five one, three, seven, four, nine,
• 35:53
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• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Apparently Americans aren't interested in the war in a round
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: on at least a new Quinnipiac poll and other polls
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: suggesting not so popular. Coming up seven oh five, Big
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: Picture with Jack add and we got to talk about
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: the filibuster and also unrelated but independent topic. Two topics
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: with Jack athered in today suicidal universities. We have to
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: wait till seven oh five. Didn't know what he's talking
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: about on that one. Donald and Neil on Affordability Agenda
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: for America that rolled out a brand new affordability agenda.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: We're going to talk about the details on that with
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Americans for Prosperities Donald and Neil seven thirty Fast forward
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: two hours eight oh five with Congressman Thomas Massy. Trump
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: came out and endorsed Ed gowerin yesterday, not shocking anyone.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: Of course, he's at war with Thomas mass He might
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: get his you have him chime in on that. But
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: we'll also talk about Trump's visit to town today, which
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: includes the stopping in Northern Kentucky, the War Powers Act.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: Maybe on the FISA vote that's coming up, since Donald
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: Trump went one eighty on that previously saying no, we
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: will not renew FISA. Now they're fast tracking. Apparently Fourth
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: Amendment doesn't mean anything.
• 36:57
  Speaker 8: I know.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: That's what Congressman Judge entered. Apaula Tanna is going to
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: talk about after Congressman Massey as well with his op
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: ed piece Silent Attacks on Personal Freedom. We'll also talk
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: about with Congressman Massy about Congressional Sexual Hate SLUS slush fund.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: That'll be a tasty topic with Congressman Massy. And finally,
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: Janice Heisel joins a program at the tail end of
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: the eight o'clock hour, Got an empower youth Suminar fraud
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: in Minnesota. Yeah, a lot of it. And we pivot
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: over to the latest national polling. And I know polling
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: will it's it reflects people's attitudes and thoughts at a
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: moment in time, and we do have shifting views on things.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: But as of right now, Quinnipiac University suggesting that more
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: than half of American voters oppose the US military action,
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: and specifically fifty three percent of voters question in the poll,
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: so the opposed US military action against Iran, forty percent
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: support it. There are other surveys which kind of track
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: that as well. The MPR, PBS, Marist poll forty four favor,
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: fifty five against CBS forty four in favor, fifty six
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: against NBC, forty one in favor, fifty four against Washington
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: Post thirty nine in favor, fifty two against CNN forty
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: one fifty nine. Reuters ipsos twenty seven forty three. That's
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: an odd one bottom line, indicating across the multiple polls
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: that came out recently, minority support for the action. Fox
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: poll conducted the twenty eight through March second fifty to
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: fifty split and of course shocking. There are differences in
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: polling between Democrats and Republicans. Eight and ten Republicans in
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: the Fox survey approved the US use of force against
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: Iran six and ten, saying the President's actions on Iran
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: are making the US safer over the Democrats side of
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: the ledger. Oh my god, I'm shocked. Eight and ten
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: Democrats six in ten independence disapprove of the military action.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: The vast majority of Democrats in the Quinnipiac University poll,
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: as well as six and ten independents opposed to strike again.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: That's pivoting over to Quinnipiac as opposed to the Fox.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: Although tracking similar results. Eighty five percent in the Quinnipiac
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: support the military action Republicans uh fifty. All of those
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: questioned the Quinnipiac poll said they did not think that
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: Iran posed an eminent threat to the United States, which
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: was the predict good for the launching of the action.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: Partisan divide on that eighty three percent of Democrats, sixty
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: three percent of Independence that Iran did not pose an
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: imminent threat. Seventy five percent of Republicans said it did.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: I suppose that is a subjective determination. Is it not? Well,
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: since we're already bombing around, I guess these things really
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: don't matter. And this is kind of one of the
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: reasons you're supposed to seek congressional authorization. So you have
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: these things going back and forth. Wait a second, isn't
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: an eminent threat. Let's talk about the eminence of the threat.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: Let's go back and forth on that. Maybe they're points
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: in favor of concluding that it was imminent. Maybe not,
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: But at least if you have a discussion about it,
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: make an informed decision. That's the way I lean. Insofar
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: as a ground troops, Yeah, that's a bad idea, at
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: least in so far as polling's concerned. Three quarters of
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: voters opposed sending US ground troops into Iraan, ninety percent
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: of Democrats, seventy five percent of independence and even fifty
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: two percent of Republicans. Now reach around and pull out
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: your own guests on this one. How long is it
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: going to last? A question that no one can answer,
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: although I would argue, since we're we're right in the
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: middle of the War Powers resolution ticking clocks, the Congress
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: didn't authorize military force. In fact, they rejected to pass
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: an authorization for use of military force. But they also
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: rejected withdrawing the troops right away. So it leaves us
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: in a kind of state of limbo, which is what
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: we've been operating in this country under since World War
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: Two as far as military action goes. But how long
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: do you think it's going to last? In the Quinnipiac poll,
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: three percent said days, optimists, eighteen percent suggested weeks, thirty
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: two percent say months, thirteen percent said last a last
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: a year, and twenty five percent or over a quarter,
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: said it's going to last more than a year. Meanwhile,
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: Trump approvals rating is down thirty seven percent in the
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: Quinnipiac poll, which is close to the recent polls in
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: Fox which forty three percent approval forty four percent for
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: NBC News. Kind of the polls are at least tracking
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: each other. But how does the war end? And I
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: can dive into a part of what Walter Russell means
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: article which addresses this sort of the tide shift that
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: people have during war, points out his energy prices surge,
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: stock market declient's worldwide drive driven by the vibe shift,
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: the reaction to the straight of horn moves being shut off,
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: primarily the right to Many analysts and foreign leaders conclude
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: that Iran's strategies are working or were working. In the
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: United States would have to choose between ending the war
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: well short of victory or committing large numbers of ground
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: troops to another Middle East quagmire in the making, But
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: he points out the pessimism is likely premature. Vibe shifts,
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: going back to the polling are common in war as fear, hope,
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: and rage swirl together. Less than so far, Iran's threat
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: to America is both greater than many Iran doves understood
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: and more difficult to address than many Iran hawks hope.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: With missile and drone attacks, and we had Hezbala launching
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: these cluster bomb attacks yesterday, coordinated raining down cluster munitions
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: over Israel, which are really bad ideas, they're indiscriminate, they
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: kill the civilian population, and I think they're kind of
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: outlawed at least under some treaty or something. Has Bala
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: doesn't pay attention to that though. Anyway. With the missile
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: and drone attacks, Tehran has succeeded in at least temporarily
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: blocking nearly all traffic in and out of the Strait
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: of Hormuz and forced some golf countries to curtail oil
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: and gas production. They say, if the waterway remains largely closed,
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: we can expect what analysts call the greatest energy shocks
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: since the nineteen seventies. Right the OPEC oil embargo in
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy three. Fun times, they were I even kind
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: of have a memory of that. People my age and
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: order remember the gas lines golf. The golf is more
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: than fossil fuels rights. As the Golf Cooperation Council, countries
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: have sought to reduce their dependence on oil and gas exports.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: They have built up energy intensive industries, data centers, aluminum smelters.
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: These are vulnerable to iranium missiles and drone attacks. Additionally,
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: exports of helium, described as vital for South Korean semiconductor production,
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: have been blocked. Golf also an importance center for fertilizer production,
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: worrying a lot of countries that they may enter a
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: period of starvation without fertilizer, White House and Congress can
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: expect calls from frantic farmers has cost shooed up. Poor
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: countries may be priced out of the fertilizer market. Since
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: World War Two, US presidents of both parties believe that
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: preventing any hostile country from blackmailing the rest of the
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: world by blocking exports from the Golf was a vital
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: national interest. This reality, not Israeli lobbying, has been the
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: driving force behind American Middle East policy. The war shocks
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: rattling global financial markets show how important this factor remains.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: If Iron pressures the United States and the war before
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: it can break the blockade and cripple Tehran's ability to
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: impose new blockades down the road, the Mulas will hold
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: and acknowledge veto power over the ability of their Golf
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: neighbors to trade with the world. The urting regime could
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: then threaten a global economic crisis at will, and would
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: build up the weapons and war chests that will make
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: its position unassailable. That's if we pull out prematurely. No
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: phrasing button on That holds another lesson. Tehran's nuclear weapons
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: program is an important element of the threat to the region.
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: But nukes are But nukes are only one of the
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: weapons Iran could use to block the trade there. Ron
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: already in Ron's missiles and drones have blocked the Golf,
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: at least temporarily. This capability would only grow in time
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: as the Mullas replenish their arsenals, and unless checked, Ron
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: could soon deter attacks on its nuclear program by threatening
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: to close the golf. The war looks to set looks
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: set to end in one of three ways. Again, this
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: is Walter Russell means opinion. One, a clear and damaging
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: American defeat. If a mix of global pressure and domestic
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: opposition forces the Trump administration and the conflict before full
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: trade is restored to the golf, a battered to Iran
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: will have emerged, having demonstrated its ability to close the
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: golf against everything the world's greatest military power can throw
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: at it. America's power and prestige, not to mention, Trumps
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: would struggle to recover from such a fiasco. Yeah, I
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: doubt Trump's going to go down that road. Alternatively, Number two,
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: the Americans could reopen the golf as a new Iranian
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: government more focused on developing the country than on dominating
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: its neighbors emerges. This would be a major victory for
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: the Trump administration. But note who they just put as
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: the Supreme Leader, a guy probably far more radical than
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: the prior Supreme leader that we blew up. Most likely,
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: scenario three is an in between scenario in which the
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: US largely clears the Golf, but the current regime survives
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: Operation Epic Theory would in that case be remembered as
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: the mother of all lawnmowers, solving nothing fundamental but preserving
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: a fragile balance of power in a vital part of
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: the world. And it's only one scenario in there that
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: sounds like a big win for the United States. Israel
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: and I would argue all the surrounding Arab countries and
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: that will be the overall win. I'm not holding my
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: breath though. Five one, three, seven, four, nine, fifty five hundred,
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: eight hundred and eight two three talk pound five fifty
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  Speaker 1: fifty dot karsee the talk station Happy Wednesday five went
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: three seven, four nine to fifty five hundred eight hundred
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: eight to two three talk or pound five fifty on
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: AT and T funds. I mentioned Trump announcing the three
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: hundred billion dollar Texas refinery, calling it a massive win
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: and also the cleanest refinery in the world three hundred
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: billion dollars. I still can't cover the price tag for
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: that anyway. Brownsville, Texas is the recipient of the award
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: for the new refinery. Obviously a lot of jobs and
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: course energy stability gasoloone stability, first refinery in fifty years.
• 47:40
  Speaker 8: Uh.
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: In other i'd say somewhat related Texas. Again, it's a
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: big magnet Texas and Florida. Why yes, the regulatory environment
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: excellon mobiles moving. They've been in New Jersey for one
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: hundred and forty four years. They are pulling out and
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: going to Texas. They announced the plan to move from
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: New Jersey to Texas the other day in search of
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: a more busininess friendly environment.
• 48:01
  Speaker 9: Hmmm.
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: March tenth Annual Board Meeting recommended the shaffholders approved the
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: change incorporated in New Jersey in nine eighteen eighty two.
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: Things were different back then. Now, they do point out
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: it's kind of a New Jersey is a historical location.
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: A lot of their business had already shifted to Texas
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: over the past multiple years with good reason. The board
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: said ditching New Jersey for Texas, in their words, may
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: reduce the risk of future frivolous litigation. According to the filing,
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: Texas legislators, judges, and juries who might make decisions that
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: impact Exxon Mobile are generally more familiar with our complex
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: business and operations. That kind of familiarity means we are
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: more likely to get reasonable, productive decisions from Texas officials
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: and citizens. They suggest the residents of Texas are more
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: likely to recognize their industry and how much it benefits
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: the state. Yes reliable and affordable energy, jobs, tax revenue,
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: long standing community involvement. There's a lot of reasons to
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: have Exonmobile in your neighborhood. Excell Mobile also says provisions
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: in the Texas Business Organization Code, we'll better protect the
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: company from opportunistic or frivolous inspection demands from that New
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: Jersey law reduced provides see. The regulatory environment is so
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: damn important, you know. And I mentioned the price of gasoline.
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: You know that we popped up over three dollars and
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: fifty cents nationally, and the article pointed out they're paying
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: a bucks seventy five more in California because of it's
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: just boiled out regulations, these self inflicted wounds in the
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: name of whatever. You know, we're on competition together. And
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: I think of the city of Cincinnati. It's budget deficit
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: and they're desperately trying to attract businesses. They got a
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: twenty almost twenty nine million dollar budget, hold of fill again.
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: Ten of the last thirteen years they've had a budget deficit.
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: They're talking about raising taxes. Is that a magnet for investment?
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: You ready to move down there? Six thirty one the
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: Big five KR see the talk station. Hey, very happy
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: Wednesday to you. Looking forward to the Big Picture with
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: Jack Addan coming up after the top of the OIR
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: News plus the Donald and Neil Americans for Prosperity rolling
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: out an affordability agenda for America. That's one hour from now.
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: In the meantime, over to the phones, we go. Let's
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: see what my submarine or friend cribbage Mike has got
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: today cribbage Mike. Welcome back, buddy. It's always great hearing
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: from you.
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: Thanks Brian. Before I get to my quick, thanks about
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: Honor flight. Real quick about the budget. Maybe a homemark
• 50:36
  Speaker 2: assignment for Todd Zenz or next time he's in. Last week,
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: we celebrated our thirteenth anniversary of being open at the
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: casino downtown and by law, so the state gets thirty
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: three percent of our gross revenue. Out of that thirty
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: three percent, fifty one percent comes back to Hamilton County.
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: And because being a host county at a host city
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: of the four casinos, Cincinnati gets fifty percent of whatever
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: Hamilton County gets. So you multiply that over thirteen years.
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: I would love to just see how that will be allocated.
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: Okay, let me just turn to again WVXUS Becca Costela
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: reporting on this. This is what the breakdown. Where does
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: city revenue come from? She writes in this article about
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: the deficit twenty nine and a half million deficit, earnings
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: taxes sixty one and a half, property taxes eight point
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: four percent, shared or state shared revenue two point eight percent,
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: casino tax one point seven percent. So the revenue of
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: all the revenue taking into the city is one point
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: seven percent of the total. Now, I know that doesn't
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: address you know, the percentage coming from Hamilton County, but
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: I guess fifty percent of what goes to Hamilton County
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: goes to the city. That still only covers one point
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: seven percent of all of the city's revenue. So it's
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: not a very substantial amount.
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: It's just you know, just like a famous man once said,
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: we don't have earnings problem, we have a spending problem.
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: But yeah, hey, they broke ground on the land the
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: new landfill solar array. That's twelve million dollars. You know, look,
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: we got a budget deficit of twenty nine and a
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: half million cut down that. Who needs to build one
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: of those damn things? Global warming? Yeah, we're going to
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: solve it right here in the City of Cincinnati. Mike.
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: That's our Yeah, Yeah, that's us.
• 52:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: And then real quick, the flightless Honor flight that we
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: had Sunday was just a phenomenal success. The one thing
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: that we had no control over and being over the top,
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: and of course that was the weather. Over years now,
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: it has grown with the amount of veterans that are
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: coming before It used to be pretty much just restricted
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: to the amount of assisted living facilities that we would
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: pull together and have it near their location. But more
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: than half of those fifty veterans are being brought because
• 52:49
  Speaker 2: the words getting out or was brought by family members,
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: and for the most part, they get the entire honor
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: flight experience, with the exception of actually being on that
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: plane and taking up sixteen hours. We put together a beautiful,
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: well produced video for forty five minutes, so they get
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: to see their memorials, they get to hear the thanks
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: from the people in the video, and then of course
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: when they went through the parade, just a phenomenal turnout
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: by the citizens of Anderson Township, the family members, police,
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: fire boy scouts, great school kids. You know the guy
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: I was helping around, you know, he basically said, I'd
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: never been to a New York City ticker tape parade,
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: but this is even better than that. That's great, and
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: I want to thank you and Joe again once again,
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: because I talked to a couple from Anderson Township regular
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: listeners who didn't know about it until they heard it
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: on your show. They were there, and you know, they
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: basically said, is this is what happens over at CBG.
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: I said multiply times one hundred, and they said we
• 53:42
  Speaker 2: will definitely be there. O great, so no better way
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: to kick off our season and of course for everyone,
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: our very next flight is in a couple of weeks
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: Tuesday April seventh.
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: Tuesday April seventh. Of course I'll be talking about it
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: here in the fifty five Kersey Morns Trump'm sure you
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: or Cheryl Pop or one of the other folks that's
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: involved in on our fly will be on the pro
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: around to talk about it. Get people ginned up for
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: the return home celebration at CVEG. It is a gorgeous, beautiful,
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: patriotic make you cry with joy experience. And God bless
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: you Mike for all the work you could do for
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: Honor Flight, and thank you as always for your service
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: to our country. God bless the American veteran and active
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: service people, particularly in times of war. If you want
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: to call it that, I know there's a debate about this.
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• 56:00
  Speaker 1: know a lot of my listeners, including me, were a
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: little upset with the Ohio budget which included what six
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: hundred million dollars for a new Dome stadium for the
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns. Where do they get that money from the
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  Speaker 1: unclaimed fund You know, we have one of those. So
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: if you close a bank account, or a bank account
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: gets closed, maybe you don't claim a lottery ticket, whatever,
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: it goes into the unclaimed funds. Now you can make
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: a claim on that, and there's a way to do that,
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: but you got to have the right paperwork. Some have
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: been successful, some have not. Joe Strecker got what was it?
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  Speaker 1: A buck? Twenty five? Buck twenty seven? Sorry, I short
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  Speaker 1: change your two cents there, Joe. Of course he needed
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: that little extra buck twenty seven to pay his energy bill.
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: But from that they're taking six hundred million dollars. And
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you could come up with a better thing
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: to spend the money on if that money is readily available. Oh,
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: a lawsuit says no, it's not. A judge put a
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  Speaker 1: temporary block on it. On Monday, Pleminary injunction, Franklin County
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: Magistrate Jennifer Hunt found that the planefs in this lawsuit,
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: filed by former Ohio Attorney General Mark Dan Democrat, are
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: substantially likely to win the case on the marriage I remember,
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: when you go in for an injunction, you're asking for
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: the relief you want in the lawsuit right away, irreparable
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: harm if you have to stop this now, and a
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: judge only issues an injunction if an analysis of the
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: law based on the faction in front of the judge
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  Speaker 1: suggests that the planners are going to win likelihood of
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: success on the merits. That's what the judge said, so
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: now the plan to use that money has paused while
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: the case moves forward. It's a class action lawsuit arguing
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: that provisions of Ohio's two year sixty billion dollar budget
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: that took about a billion dollars from the unclaimed funds
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: account that pay for the stadium, and notably that haslam
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: Sports Group is planning. Yeah, they owned the Browns. You see,
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: if you can figure out how much the Haslum's Sports
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: Group is worth, Joe right behind Elon Musk probably anyway,
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: they judge had violated. They the planets claim it violates
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  Speaker 1: constitutional prohibitions against taking people's private property for government use
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: and also as well as citizens due process rights. Dan
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  Speaker 1: and former Representative Jeffrey Crossman, both Democrats, filed the legal
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  Speaker 1: action on behalf of three named Ohio residents, as well
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: as all other individuals whose unclaimed funds were being held
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  Speaker 1: by the state. Litigation challengings to the specific budget provisions
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  Speaker 1: diverting more than a billion dollars in unclaimed funds to
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: create an Ohio Cultural and Sports Facility Performance Grant Fund. Yeah,
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: and didn't everybody stick their hand in the cookie jar
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: on that one once it was created wasn't there a
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: church they had a sports facility that've had a hand
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: in the cookie jar or tried to get some money
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: out of that too, Joe, Yes there was. It wasn't
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: ten billion. All the haslands are worth ten billion, huh,
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: which means or suggests very loudly that they don't need
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: this six hundred million dollars in your high one claim funds. Yeah,
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: we've been down that road before. Hio Attorney General Dave
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: Joe's office said it's reviewing the decision and determining its
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: next steps. Call it a minor victory and maybe an
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: overall victory. You know, I don't care. Republican Democrat, I
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: don't care if a communist filed that lawsuit. I love it,
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: and I like the injunction being put in place. No,
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: the money shouldn't go for sports, period. List of demands
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: and needs from government seems to be endless, and maybe
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: we should start focusing our attention elsewhere and quit expecting
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: something from the government. They usually screw it up, don't they.
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  Speaker 1: Five three seven fifty eight hundred eight two three talk
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  Speaker 1: station update from Joe Strack. He said, the rain, looking
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: at the radar just crossed La Lawrenceburg, Indiana. So my
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: friends in Cincinnati, it is right there at the doorstep
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: here and pretty significant too. Tom called about that earlier
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  Speaker 1: and his job got shut down because a lightning strike.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: So God speed guy, Tom, and real quick before I
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: get to Jay, did a little look into Jimmy Haslin.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: I talked about, you know, the six hundred million dollars
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: that was gonna come from the unclaimed funds that's been
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: put on hold, thank god, because the injunction was issued. Ah.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: Joe said he saw because Joe's tracker looked it up.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: He made ten billion dollars by selling the Pilot truck
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: stops to the Berkshire Hathaway Group back in twenty twelve,
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  Speaker 1: so he was sitting pretty there. Happens down seventy percent
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: of the Cleveland Browns, one hundred percent of the Columbus
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: Crew soccer team, twenty five percent of the Milwaukee Bucks
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: NBA team, also described as in the top five wealthiest
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: sports owners Top five. Joe seemed to think that Jimmy
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  Speaker 1: could find the six hundred million dollars of taxpayers are
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  Speaker 1: going to give him in his couch. I think you're
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: right on that, Jay, Welcome to the Morning Show. Always
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: good to hear from me. A happy Wednesday, Hey, Happy Wednesday, Brian.
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  Speaker 1: A fantastic interview with Tom Zawistowski yesterday.
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  Speaker 10: If I got with me, Oh, he validated everything I
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  Speaker 10: ever suspected about Ohio Central Committee.
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  Speaker 1: That's funny.
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  Speaker 3: Jay.
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  Speaker 1: I actually your name popped in my head when he
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  Speaker 1: was going on his terrier. So I hope Jay's out
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  Speaker 1: there listening. I'm glad you were.
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  Speaker 10: Oh I was, and you know, anytime, just a lesson
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  Speaker 10: for anybody listening. When there's a political group that calls
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 10: themselves central committee, that is communism, that is the birth
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 10: of communism is And also, if you take a look
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 10: at when this country went off the rails, it was
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 10: I believe it was during the Huber administration that there
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 10: was this idea of we're going to have government by experts, unappointed, unelected.
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  Speaker 10: We're going to get a bunch of smart people who
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 10: can't be fireired their elections.
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  Speaker 1: Wasn't that Wilson?
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  Speaker 10: It was Wilson. Brian, well done. When I said Hoover,
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  Speaker 10: I thought, I don't think that's right.
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  Speaker 4: It was Wilson.
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  Speaker 1: That's the Wilson methodology. Yeah, we're going to hire we
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  Speaker 1: all know better than you people to surround yourself with
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: the eggheads who are superior to you intellectually and will
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: leave all the decision making for them. Damn the people
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: and their thoughts, ideas and well the concept of representative
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  Speaker 1: government exactly.
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  Speaker 10: And we don't even know. I mean, you can look
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 10: them up, but it's not easy to find who these
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  Speaker 10: shadow people are. Now here's what's interesting about this race
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  Speaker 10: for treasurer. Jay Edwards was one of the Blue twenty two,
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  Speaker 10: and Tom called him out. Yeah, I did a little research.
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  Speaker 10: The Blue twenty two were censored by the same Ohio
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  Speaker 10: Central Committee after they abandoned the conservative speaker Derek Man
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  Speaker 10: maybe was his name. I'm not great with my names
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  Speaker 10: this morning, but we had a very conservative speaker. It
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 10: was lined up. Everybody was going to vote for this guy.
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  Speaker 10: Twenty two jumped over with Democrats to abandon that idea
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  Speaker 10: to make sure that that didn't happen. The same Ohio
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  Speaker 10: Central Committee that censored those Blue twenty two are now
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  Speaker 10: backing Jay Edwards. And I would light up Bernie Marino.
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  Speaker 10: I think if he said Bernie Marino is supporting this person,
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  Speaker 10: it's time for us to light up Bernie Morino's phone
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  Speaker 10: number and every one of our elected politicians, and it's
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  Speaker 10: time for us if anybody is voting with the Ohio
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  Speaker 10: Central Committee, then vote them out. If it's true what
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 10: Tom said, and we have politicians Republican Party is scared
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 10: of Ohio Central Committee, it's our job to make them
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 10: more scared of us than more scared of Central Committee,
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  Speaker 10: and maybe have a strong suggestion shut down the Central Committee.
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  Speaker 10: It didn't exist until nineteen eighty five. What problem did
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 10: it solve being formed?
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  Speaker 4: All this was exactly what.
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  Speaker 10: The problem that occurs after it's formed is that our vote,
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 10: our primaries are no longer our primaries. They're getting involved,
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 10: putting their money in influence behind who they want. So
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 10: what I would say is, don't vote Rhino, figure out
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 10: who's in. DJ Swerringen, by the way, was another one.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 10: I know he was backing Holly's act and I applaud that,
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 10: but he was another one who jumped the fence. So
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 10: we need to memorize those names and also need to
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 10: call our representatives and our politicians right down the line
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  Speaker 10: and tell them that they're voting with Ohio Central Committee,
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  Speaker 10: they're going to lose your job.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and I'll head off maybe an email that's being
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  Speaker 1: typed right now, Rick, I will tell Jay right now
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  Speaker 1: join Central Committee. Jay, I get an email for Rick
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: allif I Jay should get on Central Committee and change
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: the dynamic. Just the thought, Jay, But I appreciate where
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: you're coming from, and I sure am glad you're able
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 1: to hear Tom's Awastowski yesterday. For those folks that don't
• 1:04:46
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  Speaker 1: after the top of the our news the return of
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  Speaker 11: You only get about two hours of sleep. But at
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  Speaker 11: Here you go one quick urgent point before we get
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  Speaker 11: to the topic suicidal universities, and you run, says the FCC.
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  Speaker 11: Let me say, damnable on your show, Brian, damn right
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  Speaker 11: they do, all right, good, it is damnable. The Democrats
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  Speaker 11: are holding up funding not for the hated ICE, which
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  Speaker 11: was fully funded by big beautiful bill. No, Democrats are
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  Speaker 11: withholding funds for a month then counting, and paychecks for
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  Speaker 11: airport security, the Coast Guard, FEMA, the entire Department of
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  Speaker 11: Homeland Security in the middle of a war, a war that,
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  Speaker 11: in compliance with the War Powers Act, the House and
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  Speaker 11: the Senate last week voted not to stop at least
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  Speaker 11: for now. What are Democrats demanding to avoid a filibuster
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  Speaker 11: on the funding of Homeland security that ICE be reformed.
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  Speaker 11: They don't mention that no reforms are requested by thirty
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  Speaker 11: nine states because those states already signed agreements to cooperate
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  Speaker 11: with ICE on deportation detainers. They hand over deportees over
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  Speaker 11: de ICE peacefully, and even in never Trump states like Minnesota,
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  Speaker 11: which refuse to turn over the worst of the worst,
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  Speaker 11: excuse me, I'm Backbrian protesters in the face of ICE agents,
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  Speaker 11: people who sometimes use a car to drive the isations.
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  Speaker 11: Even in anti America Minnesota, DHS has already caved in
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  Speaker 11: to many Democratic demands. Tom Holman's quietly scaled back the
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  Speaker 11: initial surge. President Trump's fired DHS supermodel Christy Nome. He's
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  Speaker 11: now trying to replace her with Senator Mark Wayne Mullen,
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  Speaker 11: who should thrill DEI Democrats because he's the only Native
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  Speaker 11: American in the US Senate apart from Elizabeth Warren.
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  Speaker 6: Mullen is jeroch d.
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  Speaker 11: Warren is a fraud, as all Democrats are, because rather
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 11: than accept good faith concessions, Democrats only grow more ravetous.
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  Speaker 11: These political worst of the worst don't want to protect
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  Speaker 11: America from illegal migrants. Democrats invited tens of millions of
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  Speaker 11: them to invade Americamerica so they could become a new
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  Speaker 11: base of voters for Democrats, totally dependent on big government,
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  Speaker 11: which is why Democrats also oppose voter id the Save
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  Speaker 11: America Bill. So what do we have to do right now? Well,
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 11: a lot of people may disagree, a lot of people
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  Speaker 11: in Congress, but it's some things Democrats surely will do
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  Speaker 11: as soon as they regain Congress. Do a way with
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  Speaker 11: Senate filibusters. As you know, counselor philibusters are not a
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  Speaker 11: part of the Constitution. These reason our founders required super
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 11: majorities only for things like treaties and impeachment convictions. It's
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 11: because the founders wanted legislators to legislate with simple Senate majorities,
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  Speaker 11: not sixty votes. Thanks to the filibuster threat, our current
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 11: Congress has passed nothing but the one big, beautiful bill.
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  Speaker 11: Filibusters work only when we have political parties that will
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 11: willing to compromise, willing to work together. Today's top down
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 11: Democrats are beyond that. They care only about sabotaging Republicans,
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 11: f Trump and regaining power. Folks, the model of this
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 11: segment is power corrupts. The new Democrats are corrupt to
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  Speaker 11: the core and filibusters. Now do we have Tom Brian
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  Speaker 11: to discuss the universities in America and Iran.
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  Speaker 1: Of course we do. I would just say that I
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: mentioned this morning as far as the filibusters concerned, if
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  Speaker 1: you want to get rid of it soon, A Senate
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  Speaker 1: Majority leader John Thune said they don't have the votes
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  Speaker 1: for that. His quote was, the votes aren't there one
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  Speaker 1: to nuke the filibuster, in other words, to get rid
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  Speaker 1: of it. And the votes aren't there for a talking filibuster.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a reality. I'm the person who has to deliver.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes they're not so good news that the math doesn't
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  Speaker 1: add up. But those are the facts and there's no
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: getting around it.
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  Speaker 11: So well the facts for now. But we can get
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 11: in touch with our representatives, in this case, our senators.
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  Speaker 6: And make sure that they change their minds. Look, they
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 6: changed their minds before.
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  Speaker 11: Oh yeah, Democrats and establishment Republicans and Donald.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: Trump he did a one eighty on Piza. He used
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 1: to be against renewing it. Now it's up for renewal
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: and he's all in favor of renewing it. So even
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump doesn't want eighty from time to time.
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  Speaker 11: Well, as far as the philibuster goes, he has nothing
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 11: to say, but senators do. Democrat Senator Harry Reid made
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 11: an exception for the confirmation of federal judges, which is
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 11: why we have so many Democrat operators on the lower
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 11: federal benches. Then uniting Republicans for once, Mitch McConnell expanded
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 11: that philibuster exception to include Supreme Court justices.
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  Speaker 6: Although you know the problem.
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  Speaker 11: It's not a problem in my opinion, but as a
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 11: working matter, Democrats, when you put them on the Supreme Court,
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 11: they all vote one way. When you put Republicans on
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 11: the Supreme Court, it's a crapshoot. Take Amy Coney Barrett.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 11: She doesn't even support consistently the First Amendment. We had
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 11: a Democrat, Anthony Kennedy, who could always be counted on
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 11: to support the First Amendment. That was his one exception.
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  Speaker 11: But with Republicans, we'll just have to see expanding the
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 11: court though, when Democrats do it when they take power,
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 11: you're just going to get more Democrat robots. Anyway, you
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 11: want to go on to.
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  Speaker 1: University, absolutely, go ahead, We got time.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: We mentioned last week how self destructive Iranian university students
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 11: were back in nineteen seventy nine Jimmy Carter's time when
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 11: they helped kick out the Shah and replaced him with
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 11: Iyatola Polmani, the first one. As one observer gleefully noted, quote,
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 11: a fibrant array of left wing parties, from liberal to Marxist,
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 11: played a role in the Iranian revolution. Okay, However, almost
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 11: immediately women gaze any opponents of Radici Islam realized what
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  Speaker 11: they had done, that it was suicidal. But it was
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 11: too late, because what Iran's repentant students lacked then and
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 11: now is not just freedom. They lacked what made freedom
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  Speaker 11: possible here in America. In seventeen seventy six, the right
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  Speaker 11: to bear arms. Iran has no second Amendment. Our founders
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 11: added that amendment to the Constitution because the revolutionary war
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 11: was not just about General Washington. His continental army was
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 11: mostly comprised of local militias and volunteers who brought their
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 11: own guns. Beyond Washington's army, a lot of the fighting
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 11: was guerrilla warfare, waged by militias and by ordinary Americans
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 11: on their own. One of my heroes as a kid,
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 11: listeners my age, we're a little older than you or
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 11: Brian may remember him from a Walt Disney TV series,
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 11: Francis Marion the Swamp Fox. He pounced on the British
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  Speaker 11: and said Carolina with his dreaded irregular militia. One of
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  Speaker 11: the biggest challenges we now face in Iran is how
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  Speaker 11: to distribute arms that have been outlawed there for decades. So,
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  Speaker 11: even though I'm not a gun owner like you, Brian
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 11: and our friends John and Tom, I'm awfully glad that
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 11: we all have the right and the means to defend ourselves.
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  Speaker 6: Now.
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  Speaker 11: The Persian people, look through history, have always been brilliant.
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 11: How did Iranian universities turn suicidal? By following the pattern
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 11: of American universities, Starting with the most prestigious, they became
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 11: incubators and weapons for Marxism, sworn enemies of Western values
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 11: dating back to our friends the ancient Greeks. Marxists suppose
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  Speaker 11: individual rights, defending instead the collective, the theocracy, the big state.
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 11: They oppose unfettered thought, defending instead leftist orthodoxy regarding the economy, climate, gender,
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  Speaker 11: anything that promotes elite dictatorship. For helping Greeks think for themselves.
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 11: Athens condemned Socrates to drink hemlock on the other side
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 11: of the world to suppress dissent. The first emperor of
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  Speaker 11: a Unified China, Chin Shi Huang burned books and buried
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 11: four hundred and sixty scholars alive. Twenty two centuries later,
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 11: Maoseedung's Cultural Revolution kept the flames burning, as had Nazi Germany,
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 11: but censorship actually led to Hitler's undoing. In nineteen seventeen,
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  Speaker 11: the Max Planck Institute for Physics opened in Berlin. Its
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 11: first director was a Jew who, in nineteen oh five
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 11: had rethought our whole notion of space and time until
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 11: Albert Einstein had to flee from Germany with the rise
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 11: of the Nazis. Hitler dismissed as Jewish science Einstein's insights
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 11: in to Adam splitting, so the Nazis, thank goodness, never
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 11: got the atomic bomb. American universities today teach all kinds
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 11: of things. Harvard offers more than three thousand, seven hundred courses,
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 11: everything from physics to immigrant justice.
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 6: That's a four credit course.
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 11: Brian I could entertain everybody with a laundry list of
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 11: other woke offerings and an even longer list of conservative
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 11: thinkers who were censored for being politically incorrect.
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 6: Don't take my word for it.
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 11: A survey by the student newspaper The Harvard, Crimson found
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 11: that only one percent of faculty described their political beliefs
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 11: as very conservative. A former Yale professor, Robert Bork, was
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 11: blackballed from joining the US Supreme Court by Democrats in
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 11: nineteen eighty seven, not because he was unqualified. Pork had
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 11: already served as Solicitor General, acting Attorney General, and judge
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 11: on the US US Court of Appeals Jush. Bork was
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 11: universally recognized as one of America's most brilliant legal minds.
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 11: But Bork was a judicial conservative. He did not believe
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 11: in courts making up new law, and he could have
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 11: argued the likes of Sonya Sotomayor and Katanji Brown Jackson
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 11: under the table. Worst of all, Bork eviscerated leftist universities,
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 11: including his school and mine Yale, that surrendered to anti American,
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 11: anti Western radicals in the nineteen sixties. Bork's book Slouching
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 11: toward Gomorrah hurls this thunderbolt quote when the use of
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 11: the nineteen sixties generation listened to often leftist faculty members,
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 11: we had our invasion of the barbarians, only they are
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 11: now tenured barbarians. And Bork went on to write modern
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 11: liberalism is what fascism looks like when it has captured
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 11: significant institutions, most notably universities. The danger of university bias
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 11: Brian is not just that it spreads lies. It's that
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 11: bias censors truth. Bias stands opposed to debate, which is
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 11: required to arrive at truth. As we've discussed many times,
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 11: the supposed best and brightester being not educated but credentialed,
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 11: and even disciplines that used to be meritocracies they had
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 11: to be medicine architecture, they're now being forced to lower
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 11: their standards, so folks walk quickly past new buildings designed
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 11: by dei architects. They may collapse to talitarian regimes like
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 11: Nazi Germany, China and Iran thankfully cripple themselves by suppressing
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 11: the truth. And even in the Land of the Free
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 11: and the Home of the brave, during this two hundred
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 11: and fiftieth anniversary of our independence, our independence from top
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 11: down government and censorship, even in America, we must fight
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  Speaker 11: every day for freedom because if it's up to democrats,
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  Speaker 11: we won't fight for the people of a run and
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 11: we won't fight for ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: What do you say now, I say that that course
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: you mentioned over at Harvard University is going to set
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: you back three thousand, seven hundred dollars per credit hour.
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: Can you imagine that?
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  Speaker 11: Well? O of that it's paid by tankspayers.
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  Speaker 1: Thirty seven hundred dollars per credit hour. Oh and I
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  Speaker 1: just I going back to my college teaching and all
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: the courses I took. I recall a lot of this
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: left wing activism began in the late sixties. At Berkeley
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: was a hotbed for it, with the Student for Democrats
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 1: Society in the free speech movement, Mario Savvio marching around
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: campus and leading protests. And I don't know if that's
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: where the fire started for all this left wing ism
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: on college campuses. But you know, sadly, Jack, you know
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: it as well as I do. You can't find, really,
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 1: with the exception of Hillsdale College, a university you can
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: count on to at least be neutral in terms of
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 1: teaching its students. It's all left wing propaganda and indoctrination
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: up with woke ideologues that come out with these worthless degrees.
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: And I don't know what they do except take to
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: the streets and get paid by the George Soroses of
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: the world to be activists.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, but you gotta have a degree. Gotta have what
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 11: do you, Brian? Have you heard Democrat claims that Mark
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 11: Wayne Mullen, the Senator, is unqualified to head Homeland Security
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 11: because he has only an associate degree in construction technology,
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 11: not a bachelor's degree. Mullen left school early. I don't
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 11: care if he didn't go at all, but he did
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 11: leave school early to care for his dying father and
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 11: then take over the family plumbing business. Yes, he turned
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 11: into four thriving businesses.
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  Speaker 8: Right.
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  Speaker 11: I wish more people in Washington were as uneducated as
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 11: Senator Mark Wayne Mullen.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, demonstrably qualified a skill said that few people on
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats side of the aisle actually have the ability
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: to work and think and in earn a living for
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: his family and become successful. Maybe I overlooked at jack
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  Speaker 1: other than where is it in the Constitution that running
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 1: for a political office on a national level requires a degree?
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: I thought there was just an age cutoff. You had
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: to be a minimum age of what twenty five and
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: in the Constitution or something. That's it. Any US citizen.
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 6: Luckley William F.
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  Speaker 11: Buckley Junior used to say he'd rather be governed by
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 11: one hundred names out of the Boston phone Book than
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 11: by anybody from Harvard.
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  Speaker 1: Words you can live by like yours, Jack Avid. Always
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  Speaker 1: a pleasure having you on the show. Love what you
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  Speaker 1: have to say. Every week we'll hear from Jack Big picture,
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: looking forward all right in the next week, Jack with
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  Speaker 1: another conversation, and as always, best of health and love
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  Speaker 1: to you and your much better half.
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  Speaker 6: And Paula, thanks so much, of.
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  Speaker 1: Course, I admit it. Thanks Jack. Seven twenty two to
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  Speaker 1: fifty five KCD talk station.
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  Speaker 6: Talk Station.
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  Speaker 1: Seven thirty one, fifty five KRCD talk Station, Happy Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: After the top of the hour news a TOOFI would
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  Speaker 1: Congressman Thomas Massey, followed by Judge Ennita Paulatano, a couple
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 1: of my favorite libertarians, and we're gonna hear from Jesse.
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: Heislding the power you summoner on fraud and Minnesota. But
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 1: without further Ado, it's that time of week we get
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  Speaker 1: to talk with Donovan and Neil from Americans for Prosperita,
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  Speaker 1: and today we got the affordability agenda and I really
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: like what the key takeaways are from this national survey.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back Donovan and Neil. Great to have you on
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  Speaker 1: the show.
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  Speaker 2: Brian, always great to spend my Wednesday morning with you.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, it's a really great thing to see
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  Speaker 1: this very well done survey survey and you can talk
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  Speaker 1: about it public opinion strategies and what the vast majority
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  Speaker 1: of people want, which confirms kind of a lot of
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: what my political philosophy is, and it gives me kind
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: of confidence and being on the side of what I
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  Speaker 1: think is right. We're talking cost of living, and we're
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: talking about what voters believe about government and whether government
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  Speaker 1: is going to solve our problems, make things easier or harder.
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  Speaker 1: And bottom line is I like what I see if
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  Speaker 1: we can just translate these numbers into people waking up
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  Speaker 1: and realizing what they want is the antithesis of what
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats are offering.
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  Speaker 10: Donovan absolutely, And I think what you oftentimes find in
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  Speaker 10: midterm elections, midcycle littions, right, it supplies the Democrats and Republicans.
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  Speaker 10: Republicans are the ones doing it right now. They bunker
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 10: down and get into a defensive posture and just try
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 10: to you know, you get in that fetal position. You're
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 10: just trying to take in coming fire and avoid you know,
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 10: losing in November, minimizing your damages in November in an election.
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 10: But what we're driving forward with the Supportability Agenda saying,
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 10: here are the things the American people want, and while
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 10: Republicans are still a control in Washington and voters are
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 10: starting to tune in and pay attention to elections, these
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 10: are the things we need to deliver on and they're
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 10: simple stuff, Brian, Right, energy abundance to fuel the future.
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 10: We're talking about empowering patients with their healthcare decision making
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 10: off the system, reducing what it costs to rent by
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 10: finance a home, by cutting red tape and regulations.
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  Speaker 2: And then, as you.
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  Speaker 10: Know myself and my wife with we got three kids
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 10: and they're getting older, Brian, as you know this with
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 10: your own children over the years, is food and groceries
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 10: that don't cost your whole paycheck, especially when you have
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 10: teenagers in your home consuming large amounts of food. These
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  Speaker 10: are the things, right, we can get out there and
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 10: get done that are big wins when it cut. You know,
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 10: the pulling affirms that. So it's good policy equal in
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 10: good politics. And we got the opportunity to get this
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  Speaker 10: stuff done if we just have the courage, right or
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 10: all makers of the courage to do it.
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  Speaker 4: That's what we're gonna do it.
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  Speaker 10: I b We're gonna give them.
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  Speaker 2: The courage to do it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no question about it. And not you know, everyday
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  Speaker 1: essential driving economic anxiety. I understand that utility is one
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: of them, you know, And that allows me to go
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: back to the whole idea that green agenda is intentionally
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: causing the price of everything to go up. It is
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 1: a self inflicted wound. Compare California to say some you know,
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: like like Texas or some other state that's got energy independence.
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: I mean, things are terrible out there, all because of
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: the regulatory environment, which people point to as well in
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: your survey, voters believe the government action raises prices point
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: of itch. They say government regulations specifically increased costs. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's nice to know the people who took this survey
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 1: are aware of that. I mean, this seems to me
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  Speaker 1: it's low hanging fruit. Are the Republicans missing out on
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  Speaker 1: a messaging opportunity? Because I have heard these things, and
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  Speaker 1: if this is what people truly believe, I just can't
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: really quite fathom the whole idea that anybody to go
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  Speaker 1: out and vote for a Democrat if they're worried about
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: the cost of living.
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  Speaker 5: Well.
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  Speaker 10: And it's one of the things that you know, we
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 10: sort of took a look around the room at America's
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 10: Prosperity and said, hey, you know, we're the president's talking
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 10: about these things in the state of the Union. You
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 10: talk to an elected official or their staff and they're
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 10: talking about these things. You talk to a voter, neighbor, friend, fellow,
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 10: you know, citizen about these things and they're tuned in.
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 10: But we've got to bring it all together. And that's
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  Speaker 10: what we can do at AFP right as a grassroots
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 10: organization and the leading grassroots organizations. We've got to bring
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 10: that package, that agenda together and then get out there
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 10: and talk to our friends and neighbors about it. So
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 10: that's what we're you know, that's why we were launching
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 10: this with a multimillion dollar spend, is to take these
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 10: spring and summer months to really go out there and
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 10: hammer home what these solutions can be that are going
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 10: to have an impact on the American people a positive way.
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 10: It doesn't involve more government government intervention.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, let's pause. Bring Donovan Neil from Americans for Prosperity
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  Speaker 1: back probably have a call of action website. We can
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 1: get this survey the talk station. It's seven fifty five
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 1: car City Talk Station Brian Thomas with Donovan and Neil
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 1: from Americans for Prosperity going through this affordability agenda for
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: America and some outstanding points in the at least in
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: terms of you identify first what people's largest concerns are.
• 1:25:28
  Speaker 1: You get this comprehensive national poll. And of course you
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 1: know affordability generally speaking is a problem, but broken down
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: into subsets like energy, for example, and healthcare is another one.
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: And this sounds like a wonderful idea. It's not like
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: you guys came up with it, but the whole point.
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  Speaker 1: School choice is kind of gaining a lot of steam
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: in this country. Donovan. I know you've noticed that more
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: and more states are allowing options for school choice. A
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: lot of them may be allowing the money to flow
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: to the family slash child as opposed directly to the schools.
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  Speaker 1: I like that, And there may be a solution for
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 1: lowering healthcare costs. Why not allow the Americans to have
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: control over the dollars so everything doesn't go directly to
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 1: insurance companies get the money flow into the individual that
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: gives them the choice of where they get their medical care,
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: and that of course would result in more competition. Donovan.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: In fact, ninety percent of healthcare spending flows through insurance
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 10: companies or government programs. And you know, a lot of
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 10: folks I think equate insurance, insurance equals healthcare. We know
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 10: that's not true, right. Insurance just means you, you know,
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 10: you pay a premium for the privilege to be able
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 10: to go to a select sect section of you know,
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 10: healthcare professionals, and then you got to kind of work.
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 10: You don't know what you're going to end up paying
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 10: at the end of the day, even with price transparency.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 10: What we're advocating for is funding patients.
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 6: Not insurers.
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 10: Let folks have start to work to expand these health
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 10: savings accounts. These are this existing policy, but we want.
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 5: To expand it.
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 10: We want to make it so that more folks have
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 10: access to these programs. And with government subsidies, like you know,
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 10: we're a long way away, unfortunately, Brian, from ever cutting
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 10: or making strong substantial reforms to these government subsidy programs
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 10: that are draining the American economy. But what we could do, right,
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 10: is instead of funneling them over to the six largest
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 10: health insurance companies, why not put that money in the
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 10: hands of people through hsas who need that healthcare right, Medicaid,
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 10: Medicare and let them make those decisions about their healthcare
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 10: health care needs. What you do is you then begin
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 10: to create a market.
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 10: You create some market, you create some competition. You have
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 10: folks who understand what it costs to go do a
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 10: doctor's visit. Maybe folks are a little more prudent about
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 10: when they're consuming that product. At the end of the day,
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 10: it's a win win win, right. It's a win for
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 10: the American people with the growing debt burden that we
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 10: have in this country. It's a win for the healthcare
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 10: professional because they're not stuck making decisions based on an
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 10: insurance middleman. And it's a win most importantly for the
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 10: healthcare consumer because now they're in the driver's seat. They're
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 10: not waiting to find out Blue Cross, Blue Shield or
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 10: Anthem are going to approve their healthcare. They go and
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 10: they have that decision making because of the Health Savings Account.
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 10: It's phenomenal policy, and I think it puts Republicans. It
• 1:28:14
  Speaker 10: gives Republicans an opportunity they really get out there and
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 10: advocate for this stuff hard. The opportunity for the first
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 10: time in what fifteen some years, to be in the
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 10: driver's seat and win on healthcare policy in this country.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds like a great idea, what I mean? Donald and Neil. Also,
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: you also point to another thing, a component of this,
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 1: and I wrote down PBMs Pharmacy benefit managers and when
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 1: that God in God's name, can we get rid of
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  Speaker 1: those allowed direct consumer sales of medical items, including prescription
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 1: prescription drugs. So you're working directly with the manufacturer as
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: opposed to dealing with like three layers of metal men,
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  Speaker 1: including the PBMs.
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  Speaker 10: Well, yeah, and I think in a lot of cases right,
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 10: whether it's PBMs for so called price controls or direct
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  Speaker 10: to the medical the healthcare industry through you know, safety
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 10: mechanisms that the FDA said that they need to have
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 10: because you know, Brian, we can't trust consumers to make
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  Speaker 10: smart decisions here. We need a government bureaucrat in the
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  Speaker 10: middle of all of this. We can break down some
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 10: of the red tape barriers and regulations that just artificially
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 10: drive up the costs of health care. I was talking
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  Speaker 10: to a senator last night, actually a state senator last night,
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 10: and a then Columbus who is looking at healthcare, and
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 10: he's talked about how other countries. You know, We've got
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 10: a phenomenal health care system in this country, right, no
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 10: doubt about it. But the barriers to access to care,
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 10: to being able to get that care that can maybe
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 10: meet that need or fulfill his treatment. It's not available here,
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 10: but it's available in other countries because they don't have
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 10: the same bureaucratic red tape. Things are all messed up
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 10: in healthcare. We have a really good system for business,
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 10: a business model for healthcare in this country makes a
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 10: lot of profit for the health insurance companies and the hospitals,
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 10: but we don't have a good way to make it
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  Speaker 10: available to more people. It doesn't mean letting the government
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 10: take control, by the way. It just means bringing the
• 1:30:04
  Speaker 10: same market forces that have made this country great and
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 10: create opportunity around the world. Bring the free market to it,
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 10: allow competition, allow consumers to be in the driver's seat,
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 10: not bureaucrats in middlemen.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, you also have some policy solutions for
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 1: dealing with the cost of rent buying or financing a home,
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 1: you deal with food and groceries, it shouldn't cost your
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 1: whole paycheck. A whole lot of ideas and thoughts, agenda
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 1: items from Americans for Prosperity and Donald, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate you bringing at least a lot of this to
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  Speaker 1: our attention this morning. Where do my listeners go to
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 1: see the entire affordability agenda for America? And what's the
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 1: call to action today? Donovan? How do we get the
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 1: word out on this? Or what do you need the
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: listeners to do to the extent they have pretty much
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 1: any free time, because I know you'll take as little
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 1: or as much as people can offer.
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  Speaker 10: Yep, Go to Americans for Prosperity dot org. You can
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 10: look up the affordability agenda there. And then what we
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 10: need folks to do is get involved in our county chapters.
• 1:30:56
  Speaker 10: We got chapters across the state all over southwest Ohio.
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 10: Go to America for Prosperty dot org. Sign up, take action,
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  Speaker 10: Join us. We're gonna We're gonna not only save the country,
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 10: but we're gonna we're gonna make America the next winter
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 10: fifty years of America more prosperous.
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  Speaker 2: Than ever before.
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  Speaker 1: Love your optimism, Donovan, and I really will encourage my
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 1: listeners to do just that.
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  Speaker 8: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: It's Americans for Prosperity dot org. Great organization. They make
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 1: it so easy to help out, and I encourage all
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 1: my listeners to do that to save America. Yeah, let's
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 1: get for another couple of hundred years, Donovan. Great having
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 1: you on the program. Keep up the great work, my friend.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk again next.
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  Speaker 2: Week box soon, Bryan.
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  Speaker 1: Talk station A very Happy Wednesday, Extra special Wednesday. What
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  Speaker 1: I like to call my favorite radio Congressman Thomas Massey
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 1: follow by Judge Endena, Paula Tan and welcome back congress
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  Speaker 1: from Massie. I love having you on the show, sir.
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  Speaker 1: It's a real pleasure.
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  Speaker 8: What a day to be on your show. Thanks for
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 8: having me.
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  Speaker 1: You know, a day when there's really nothing going on
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 1: to talk about how's thing on the farm? Congress from Massie,
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  Speaker 1: since you know there's no agenda items for us as
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 1: a congressman.
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  Speaker 8: Right.
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  Speaker 12: You know, as I drove off my farm this morning
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 12: in my f two fifty, I just looked at my
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 12: cattle there loitering, enjoying the daylight savings, time or whatever
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 12: the do time change?
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  Speaker 8: He is, Yeah, they're oblivious to it.
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  Speaker 1: Really, you know, I was joking about that the other day.
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 1: You know, a farmer, Hell, they can get up whenever
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 1: they want. And I think farmers are really in tune
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 1: to what needs to be done regardless of the hour
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 1: of the day, and that fake changes of time do
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 1: absolutely nothing except frustrate the vast majority of Americans.
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  Speaker 12: Right, And my cattle were unfazed, though, I'm happy to report.
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  Speaker 12: But we should we should really just change it to
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 12: one time and stick with it.
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  Speaker 6: Can we?
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  Speaker 10: We can?
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  Speaker 8: And you know I studied this.
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  Speaker 12: If you look at the Constitution, it says that Congress
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 12: is responsible for setting the weights and measures, and one
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  Speaker 12: of those things is time. I mean, we we keep
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 12: time at the National Institutes of Standards and Technology, which
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 12: used to be called the Bureau of measurements or something,
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 12: and it's a constitutional obligation of Congress to design what time,
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  Speaker 12: what time it is?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, then they can change it back. Just let's stick
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  Speaker 1: with it. Who is it out west? Is it Montana
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  Speaker 1: or something? There's a stay in Arizona, Arizona? Do they
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  Speaker 1: leave it a daylight savings time? To leave it at
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 1: just a standard time?
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  Speaker 8: Standard time? Right now?
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 12: The federal law allows you to leave it at standard
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 12: time but not daylight saving time.
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  Speaker 8: And some people get in the debate about which one
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 8: is better.
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  Speaker 12: But again, you just you would adjust after a year,
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  Speaker 12: would and the schools could set their clocks based on whatever.
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  Speaker 8: Uh you know.
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  Speaker 12: I was in Arizona once I woke up and I
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 12: had a plan to catch and I looked at my
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 12: clock and the time had changed, and I was like,
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 12: oh my gosh, I've missed this plane. But I'll go
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 12: to the airport. Maybe the plane's delayed. I got to
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 12: the airport and realized that Arizona doesn't do this stupid
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 12: time change, and I made my plane.
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  Speaker 1: See it.
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  Speaker 8: We can even make your planes.
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  Speaker 1: Well, well, they can leave time alone, since they really
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  Speaker 1: don't have the magical power to actually literally move an
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  Speaker 1: hour away or give it or taketh away. Can while
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 1: you're at it, can you get them to repeal the
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 1: laws of physics, because apparently that's a real problem with
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 1: cafe standards, those pesky physics laws. Congressman Thomas Massey any
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 1: comment about Trump visiting the Northern Kentucky in Greater Cincinnati
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 1: area today, Well.
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  Speaker 12: I'm glad he's visiting our area. I'm glad he's here
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  Speaker 12: at a logistics facility. You know, logistics are a big
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 12: part of my congressional district, and that's why I'm on
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 12: the Transportation committee.
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  Speaker 8: To keep the locks and dams, you know, full of.
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  Speaker 12: Water, to keep the airport working well, and to keep
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 12: the interstates going.
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  Speaker 8: So I'm glad he here.
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  Speaker 12: I wonder if he'll talk about the fact that Diesel's
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  Speaker 12: gone up a dollar in two weeks. Yeah, and the
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  Speaker 12: tariffs are hitting some of those logistics companies that you
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 12: know are importing and exporting things.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I guess it's a question whether anybody poses those
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 1: rather difficult and challenging auestions.
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  Speaker 12: True, I doubt he's going to be taking questions. I
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  Speaker 12: do suspect he will try to breathe some life into
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  Speaker 12: my opponent's lifeless campaign.
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  Speaker 1: Well he did. I'm glad you brought it up because
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 1: that I was going to have to bring it up.
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  Speaker 1: He did endorse your opponent in the primary just yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: I believe he made a formal endorsement.
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  Speaker 12: Well that's that's a tweet from four or five months ago.
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  Speaker 12: He's endorsed my opponent with the same tweet three or
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 12: four times.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, is that what happened? Because I thought he had
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 1: done an endorsement before, because obviously he has been critical
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  Speaker 1: of you, Congressman Massey, who still believes in the Constitution.
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  Speaker 12: Well, listen, I've got the endorsement of Northern Kentucky Right
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  Speaker 12: to Life. I have the endorsement of gon Owners of
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 12: America because I have an A plus rating, spent a
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 12: national association for gun rights, and you know the people.
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  Speaker 8: Here's the thing.
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  Speaker 12: If you look at the Cincinnati Inquirer this morning, at
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 12: the cover of it, pretty interesting it says Massey or Trump,
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 12: some Northern Kentucky Republicans choose both.
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  Speaker 8: And that's true.
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  Speaker 12: I'm not running against Donald Trump. I'm running against a
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  Speaker 12: nobody who lost a state Senate race that they you know,
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 12: dusted off.
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  Speaker 8: Donald Trump says he came from central casting. I don't
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 8: think that's that's a compliment.
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 12: That's usually a pejorative, and he is a poser my opponent,
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  Speaker 12: and I don't think the world knew this until yesterday.
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  Speaker 12: We had to go down to Shelby County and get
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  Speaker 12: his voter registration cards. But my opponent left the Republican
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  Speaker 12: Party in May of twenty sixteen, as soon as Donald
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 12: Trump secured the nomination for president. He left in discussed
• 1:36:57
  Speaker 12: and stayed out of the party for five years. He
• 1:37:00
  Speaker 12: only came back two days after his own state senator
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 12: resigned because he wanted to use the party as a
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 12: vehicle to get elected to the state Senate, even though
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 12: he wasn't part of the party for five years, having
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 12: been exiled himself in disgust over Donald Trump. He only
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 12: came back after Joe Biden won president and beat Donald Trump,
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 12: and he lost that state Senate race. And a lot
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 12: of people don't know that. I suspect Donald Trump doesn't
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 12: even know that he's endorsed an never Trumper.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, as my response to Judge Onopoltana's comment
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 1: about the renewal of Section seven to two one FIZA,
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 1: my response is because Trump previously said that would never
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 1: do that because they spied on him. Using that, I said, well,
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 1: political one to eighties are all the rage these days,
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 1: so you got one more to add to the list.
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 1: And it also allows me to pivot over to the
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 1: renewal of Section seven ZHO two. Trump did say he wouldn't.
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 1: Now he's pushing to have it renewed, and it's on
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 1: fast track to get voted on really soon because it's
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 1: going to expire, what in about a month from now
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 1: or so. You're I think, I know your take on
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 1: the renewal. Is it going to happen? I mean, are
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 1: you at the foregone conclusion where the Fourth Amendment really
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 1: doesn't mean anything? Congressom Massey, you know what.
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  Speaker 12: You could renew it with one sentence added to it,
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 12: and I would vote for it, and the sentence would
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 12: say get a warrant.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, that's judicial warrant. That's the only problem.
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 12: It's called FISET stands for Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 12: what they're doing is they're spying on Americans using the
• 1:38:26
  Speaker 12: Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and the Constitution requires you to
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 12: get a warrant, so that's all they gotta do.
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  Speaker 8: To fix that bill for me to vote for it.
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  Speaker 8: And you don't need a warrant to spy on foreigners.
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  Speaker 12: I'm not saying you need a warrant to spy on
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 12: somebody who's overseas, not on American soil, or not an American.
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 12: Just if you're going after an American who's overseas or
• 1:38:49
  Speaker 12: somebody here on US soil, our constitution requires the Fourth
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 12: Amendment requires to get a warrant well.
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  Speaker 1: Under seven oh two. Well beside the American who has
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 1: a friend or business acquaintance in a foreign land, because
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 1: communicating with that person opens up all of their records
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 1: to government spying without a warrant. That's listen, that's crazy.
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  Speaker 8: Listen.
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  Speaker 12: If the Internet, if your email gets a route through
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 12: Canada or.
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  Speaker 1: Somewhere else, Internet service provider.
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it goes.
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 12: This stuff goes all around the world, your datae IPN rather, yeah,
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 12: it may be cheaper to store this stuff somewhere else
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 12: in the world. And so if your provider does that,
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 12: if your iCloud is somewhere else, I mean, nobody knows
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 12: where their iCloud is, right.
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 8: Right, that's the whole point of it.
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 1: Fortuitous that your iCloud may exist in a foreign land
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 1: without you knowing it, which opens up your records of
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 1: being spied on by our government without a warrant. I
• 1:39:42
  Speaker 1: just really can't believe we live in.
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  Speaker 12: This world and listen this this will go through my committee.
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 12: Well it's it's got joint jurisdiction, and Jim Jordan and
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 12: myself because Jordan's the chairman, we're always fighting to say, look,
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 12: this is our jurisdiction because the other is the Intelligence Committee.
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 12: Here's the problem they are. They have jurisdiction over things
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 12: that the CIA and the NSA does the outwardly facing
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 12: part of intelligence, and we have jurisdiction over FBI, the
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 12: inwardly facing part of intelligence. And so the FISA bill
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 12: is it's dual jurisdiction, but the parts that apply to
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 12: Americans go through our committee. And last time the Speaker
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 12: of the House tipped the scales, I mean it failed
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 12: by one vote to fix FAISA. He tipped the scales
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 12: and gave the base bill to the Intelligence Committee, which
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 12: is wrong.
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 1: Well, i'll tell you what We're at a break time.
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 1: We're going to talk Warpowers Act. Is the clock ticking
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  Speaker 1: for the sixty day Provision of the War Powers Acts.
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  Speaker 8: See the talk station.
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  Speaker 1: Take nineteen fifty bock here see the talk tdation Brian
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  Speaker 1: Thomas and Congressan Thomas messee pivoting over congressmanssy Warpowers Act.
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  Speaker 1: And please feel free to correct meeting and to correct
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  Speaker 1: the record if I'm wrong. The clock I believe is
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 1: ticking Donald Trump, he unifies Congress, he goes to war.
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 1: There's no authorization for you some military force. There's no
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 1: declaration of war. Both of those options passed on. So
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 1: it seems to me like we're in a state of
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 1: limbo here where the sixty day clock is ticking. And
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 1: after sixty days, Donald Trump must withdraw the troops or
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 1: get a thirty day extension to do that, which I
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 1: presume will happen. So if this say, sixty to ninety
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 1: day period passes with no additional Congressional action, does he
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 1: have to pull the troops out?
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  Speaker 12: I believe he does under the War Powers Resolution of
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 12: nineteen seventy three.
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 8: That resolution is.
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 1: Flawed by the way, it's unconstitutional.
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 12: Right, he shouldn't be there at all right now, and
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 12: so last week without congressional authorization. And let me tell
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 12: you why this is important. You know, Congress does fund
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 12: the war. Yeah, when we passed the National Defense Authorization Act,
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 12: we're tacitly funding any and every war. The problem is,
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 12: our troops deserve a debate among their representatives and you know,
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 12: a set of goals and a mission that's accomplishable with
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 12: rules of engagement that are reasonable. Right, don't tie their
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 12: hands behind their back, give them a mission, and then
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 12: once they achieve those objectives and milestones, let them come
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 12: home instead of getting them drug into a twenty year,
• 1:42:32
  Speaker 12: you know, two decade long war where you've got dads
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 12: and sons who fought in the same war. And the
• 1:42:39
  Speaker 12: way you avoid that is Congress has got a debate,
• 1:42:42
  Speaker 12: set the parameters of it, geographically, temporarily, you know, things
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 12: like that, and then let the president wage the war
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 12: that's his authority. Put to introduce into hostilities requires Congress
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 12: to act. So yeah, last week we I forced now
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 12: there were other people obviously that forced us to a vote,
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 12: but we forced Congress to debate for two hours, and
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 12: they debated the resolution I wrote last summer, because it
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 12: takes a while for such a resolution to ripen, and
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 12: they had mine was already written from last summer, which
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 12: we didn't force a vote on because he did withdrawal
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 12: from hostilities almost as soon as it happened. And so
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 12: we've debated my resolution for two hours last week.
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 8: And it failed narrowly.
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 12: But you're right, according to the War Powers Resolution, which
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 12: itself is flawed, you know, the president's got to get
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 12: a positive authorization of Congress. And by the way, not
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 12: only is the Warpowers resolution of nineteen seventy three constitutionally flawed,
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 12: it doesn't mean what it used to mean because there
• 1:43:48
  Speaker 12: was a nineteen eighty three decision Chada versus Ions that
• 1:43:52
  Speaker 12: said everything that a house in the Senate votes on
• 1:43:56
  Speaker 12: that's going to be legally binding has to go to
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  Speaker 12: the president. So you can't have congressional vetos.
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  Speaker 8: So even if my.
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  Speaker 12: Resolution had passed last week, it would set up a
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  Speaker 12: constitutional question.
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  Speaker 1: Of whether you know, Donald Trump could veto it, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: whether he.
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  Speaker 12: Could veto it or not, because when it was originally
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  Speaker 12: written they anticipated that he couldn't. And the right way
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  Speaker 12: I was telling my colleagues when we're on the floor,
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  Speaker 12: I said, the only right way to do this is
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  Speaker 12: for one of you all who believes we should be
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  Speaker 12: at war, to come down here with a with a
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  Speaker 12: declaration of war and then we debate that. Now, if
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  Speaker 12: I thought people would understand and I wouldn't get attacked
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 12: on that, you're going, yeah, I would introduce the declaration
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  Speaker 12: of war myself and vote against it at the end
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  Speaker 12: of the debate.
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  Speaker 1: I understand that, understand that all right? When our limited time,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't mean to cut off that particular subject matter.
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  Speaker 1: But people are really puzzled about this one. You pointed
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  Speaker 1: out that Congress spent a combined roughly seventeen million dollars
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 1: a taxpayer money to settle sexual harassment claims made against
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 1: members of Congress, and there was to vote to maybe
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  Speaker 1: release all those documents, with three hundred and fifty seven
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  Speaker 1: Republicans and Democrats joined together bipartisan support to not allow
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  Speaker 1: us to have access to these documents. Can you explain
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  Speaker 1: this to my listeners Congress with massy.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, they referred it to committee, and we know what
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  Speaker 12: that means, don't you die?
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  Speaker 6: Yes?
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, I was one of sixty five who voted to
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  Speaker 12: expose the members of Congress. By the way, that's taxpayer funds,
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 12: that's out their campaign funds, that's not their private checks,
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 12: that's taxpayer funds. And I exposed this slush fund two
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 12: years ago in a hearing when the Democrats were trying
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 12: to put Donald Trump in prison because he paid story
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  Speaker 12: being Daniels and didn't disclose it. And I said, wait,
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  Speaker 12: if you're going to start disclosing stuff, how about this
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  Speaker 12: slush fund. I bet there's some of you on this
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  Speaker 12: dais here who've used that slush fund. And they you
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  Speaker 12: could hear a pin drop right, yep. Well, it was
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  Speaker 12: last week. I worked with Nancy Mace again to force these.
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  Speaker 8: People to vote. They did not want to vote on this.
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  Speaker 8: And within Kentucky I can tell you.
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  Speaker 12: I can't tell you how High and Indiana had voted,
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  Speaker 12: but only myself and Jamie Comer voted to expose the
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 12: slush fund. People like Andy Barr, and I'll call him
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  Speaker 12: out because he's going to be in my district this today.
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  Speaker 12: I assume with the President, people like Andy Barr voted
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  Speaker 12: to refer it to committee, which means to kill it.
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  Speaker 12: And there's a false narrative out there that says that, oh, well,
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  Speaker 12: this would have exposed the victim's information.
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  Speaker 8: No, that's read the bill. It's not a long bill.
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  Speaker 12: It says that you're going to redact all that, and
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  Speaker 12: you're only going to give out the congressman's names.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I guess the argument is that this happened is
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 1: a consequence of there being a congress person, that this
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  Speaker 1: is connected to their job in some way, shape or form.
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  Speaker 1: Last time I checked, sexual harassment is not part of
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 1: the job description for any description for any elected official.
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  Speaker 1: If they're going to settle something, it should have been
• 1:46:47
  Speaker 1: on their dime. And I personally am insulted that they
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 1: allocated these scar taxpayer resources to pay off their sexual
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 1: harassment claims. Who among us has that luxury.
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  Speaker 12: Here's the other interesting thing. We're each give a budget
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 12: to operate our office. It doesn't even come out of
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  Speaker 12: that budget. That's why we're calling it a slush fund.
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 12: There's as much money there as you want, and it
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 12: doesn't even cost you, you know, one office, you know,
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 12: a ream of paper to pay one of these off.
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  Speaker 8: There's no trade off. It's terrible.
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  Speaker 12: The members of Congress who dip into this slush fund
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 12: that's paid for by you need to be known. And
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 12: we've got some issues right now in Congress. We've got
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 12: a member of Congress who was caught having an affair
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 12: with his staffer she later set herself.
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 8: On fire and dies. I saw that.
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  Speaker 1: That is so horrific.
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  Speaker 12: And the Speaker of the House will not even call
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  Speaker 12: for him to step down or resign because the Speaker
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 12: wants to keep the slim narrow majority. And the problem
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 12: is if he does things like this, we're going to
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 12: lose the majority in the midterms. Just like the Speaker
• 1:47:53
  Speaker 12: was against releasing the Epstein files, and the Speaker himself
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 12: voted against releasing this slush fund.
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  Speaker 1: So you can't call fromise on these kinds of values.
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 1: It will come back to haunt you. Congressman Thomas Massey,
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate your being principled and true to the Constitution
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  Speaker 1: in spite of the fact that you do face the
• 1:48:08
  Speaker 1: slings and arrows from folks who are looking for a
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 1: more expedient path that doesn't involve Constitution. You're at least
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 1: someone we can count on for that, and I appreciate
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 1: you for it. And I appreciate you coming to the
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  Speaker 1: morning show and sharing your time with my listeners and me.
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  Speaker 12: Thanks, Brian. Remember you can support Donald Trump and vote
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 12: for me. Most people are there. You go go wake
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 12: your cows up. Yeah, on the time change, we'll talk
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 12: again real soon. Congress of Massy and Judgment Polton is
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  Speaker 12: coming up.
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  Speaker 1: Hey thirty one. Yeah, that's a great Irish name, Napolitano.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's Irish on Saint Patrick's Day. I happen to have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of Irish blood and me Judge Na Polatana,
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  Speaker 1: but we do not claim cultural appropriation when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to St Patrick's Day. We Irish. Everyone is invited to
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  Speaker 1: the fund. Welcome back, Judge Anna Paulatan. I love having
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  Speaker 1: you on the show, sir, especially on the heels of
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 1: Congressman Thomas Massey, who also I got him to comment
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 1: on the upcoming potential renewal FAIZA section seven oh two,
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 1: which is a subject matter of your column which comes
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 1: out tonight. I'm fortunate to get it early. Silent attacks
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  Speaker 1: on personal freedom, Judge Napolitano, I love that you started
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 1: out with zero Click, which you can remind my listeners
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 1: what it is because we've talked about it before. This
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 1: nefarious Israeli created software zero Click, coupled with I'm boiling
• 1:49:42
  Speaker 1: your article down, coupled with Section seven oh two means
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  Speaker 1: we no longer have a Fourth Amendment in our country.
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  Speaker 13: I'm sorry to say that I agree with you fully.
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  Speaker 13: Zero Click is a software which the FBI, without authorization,
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 13: purchased during the first Trump administer The existence of this
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 13: purchase became known during the Biden administration. Then the FBI
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 13: Director Chris Ray was summoned before Congress. He insisted on
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 13: meeting with them in secret. He did, and then some
• 1:50:14
  Speaker 13: of them revealed what he said in secret, which is
• 1:50:17
  Speaker 13: that the FBI did purchase it. He wants people to
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 13: believe they didn't use it, that they bought it because
• 1:50:23
  Speaker 13: they wanted to see how it worked. Now nobody believed that,
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 13: But he said it was locked up in a warehouse
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 13: in New Jersey. You can't make this up New Jersey,
• 1:50:33
  Speaker 13: of all places. I say, nobody believed that. The President
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 13: of the United States at the time, Joe Biden, didn't
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 13: believe his own FBI director and he's issued an executive
• 1:50:43
  Speaker 13: order prohibiting the use of zero click. So you know
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 13: how when people are phishing or spamming and you get
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 13: a crazy link saying click on this link and you'll
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 13: make this money. Click on this link to security or
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 13: internet usage, and you click on it, and bingo, a
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 13: virus infects your contacts. Zero click allows the user of
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 13: the product to gain access to the target the contents
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 13: of the target's digital device without having to trick the
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 13: target into clicking on the link. You just install it,
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 13: and bingo, you've engaged in computer hacking on whomever you
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 13: want to hack. Joe Biden prohibited its use.
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  Speaker 1: That's a crime, computer hacking.
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  Speaker 13: Correct, It's punishable by five years in jail per hack. Ooh,
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  Speaker 13: and the FBI aggressively prosecutes people for this, except when
• 1:51:46
  Speaker 13: they do it. Because we learned this week that President
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  Speaker 13: Trump very quietly rescinded Joe Biden's executive order and a
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 13: prohibiting the use of zero click. Now, this comes at
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 13: the same time that the President announced one hundred and
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 13: eighty degree change of heart, change of mind on Section
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 13: seven O two of PISA seven or two of PISA
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  Speaker 13: allows American spies to spy on foreigners without a warrant.
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  Speaker 13: It also allows them to spy on the Americans with
• 1:52:19
  Speaker 13: whom they speak without a warrant. It also allows them
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  Speaker 13: to spy on the persons to whom those Americans speak
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  Speaker 13: out to the sixth degree without a warrant.
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  Speaker 8: Now do the math.
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  Speaker 13: This six degree grows exponentially. In twenty twenty three, they
• 1:52:35
  Speaker 13: spied on three million Americans without a warrant because these
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 13: Americans spoke to a foreign person. Could be an innocuous
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 13: phone call, to a hotel, to a relative, to an
• 1:52:46
  Speaker 13: art dealer. But once you make that communication phone call
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  Speaker 13: or text or email, all of the government gains in
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 13: ability to spy in everything you do and everyone to
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  Speaker 13: whom you and your communicants speak out to this six degree.
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  Speaker 8: Do the math.
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  Speaker 13: The three million foreign views grow exponentially to three hundred
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 13: and thirty million Americans.
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  Speaker 6: So seven oh two.
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  Speaker 13: Congressman Massey is one of the few members of Congress
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  Speaker 13: who knows this seven oh two allows American spies to
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  Speaker 13: spy on all Americans without a warrant. But if you
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  Speaker 13: give them zero click, they don't need seven oh two. No,
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  Speaker 13: they don't need Phiza phizus just a figley. Pizis just
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 13: a charade. Look, we're going to the fies A court. Blooney,
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  Speaker 13: you're going to the phis A court to make yourself
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 13: look legal. In reality, with zero click, you can download
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  Speaker 13: any computer, desktop, or mobile device at any time without
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 13: a warrant, without suspicion, just because you want to.
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  Speaker 6: Well, thank you, thank you, Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: Well and the other well Donald Trump and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of members of Congress who voted for seven to two
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 1: the first place. But Massy pointed out something that it
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 1: never really cost my field of vision, at least conceptually speaking,
• 1:54:06
  Speaker 1: in terms of FIZA and seven oh two. Your cloud
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 1: information could be stored in a foreign land. You may
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 1: not even know that. You could be using a VPN,
• 1:54:15
  Speaker 1: which makes it appear as though and you are working
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 1: through a computer outside of the United States, immediately subjecting
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 1: you to automatic surveillance because it's a foreign nation which
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 1: doesn't require a search warn here in the United States
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 1: to spy on those records. I mean, the layers of
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 1: this are crazy. I'm just I wonder how many times
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 1: they've searched Kevin Bacon's records, considering we're all six degrees
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 1: or seven degrees separated from Kevin Bacon. Your illustration of
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 1: the of the six degrees out it fulfills that that point.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone is subject to a warrantless search.
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  Speaker 13: But to go back to what you said at the
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  Speaker 13: outset of our conversation, this is a mockery of the
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  Speaker 13: Fourth Amendment, the effectively the clause of the Fourth Amendment,
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  Speaker 13: which as the people shall be secure in their persons, houses, papers,
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 13: and effects, and no warrant shall issue but on probable cause,
• 1:55:10
  Speaker 13: which means probable cause of crime, crime sworn to under oath,
• 1:55:16
  Speaker 13: and no warrant shall issue unless it specifically describes the
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 13: places to be searched and the persons are things to
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 13: be seized. This is just a mockery. Now Madison would
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  Speaker 13: be sending down thunderbolts from heaven if he could, if
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 13: such a feature is available to him. Because we have
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 13: no privacy any longer. Congress and a series of presidents
• 1:55:42
  Speaker 13: are responsible for this. I'll tell you this story. I
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 13: may have told it before if I have stopped me.
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  Speaker 13: When seven oh two was about to be reauthorized in
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 13: twenty nineteen, I was one of the co hosts son
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 13: Fox and Friends, looked into the camera said mister President,
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 13: I think you're probably watching veto this extension.
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  Speaker 8: These are the powers that were used on you.
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  Speaker 13: You and I have discussed this, yes before you were president,
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 13: and they're probably being used on you now. Ten minutes
• 1:56:15
  Speaker 13: later on truth social or whatever it was called at
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 13: the time, I'm vetoing seven ZH two. An hour later,
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 13: Paul Ryan, then the Speaker of the House, Mitch McConnell,
• 1:56:27
  Speaker 13: then the leader of the Republicans in the Senate, Mike Pence,
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 13: then the Vice President of the United States, and a
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 13: few others. Mark Meadows ran to the Oval offices.
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  Speaker 2: You can't do this.
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  Speaker 6: You can't do well.
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  Speaker 13: The judge says, it violates the Fourth Amendment. Oh, the
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 13: judge thinks the Constitution means what it says. Said someone
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  Speaker 13: who is in the room to me, and then the
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 13: President sends a message to me through this same person.
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 13: I can't tell you who it was who was in
• 1:56:55
  Speaker 13: the room. Sorry, judge, they twisted my arm.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, Okay, this is reprehensible.
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  Speaker 6: Where we are in this, Brian.
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  Speaker 13: The only saving grace is that most federal judges would
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 13: not allow anything gathered in this way to be used
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 13: in a federal court. But the Feds are very very
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 13: adept at disguising how they've got how they've their initial
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 13: acquisition of this data.
• 1:57:27
  Speaker 1: And of course in my reply to you, I said,
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 1: now I'm off in search of someone with standing who
• 1:57:32
  Speaker 1: can challenge this in court. And the reason we don't
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 1: have standings because they don't bother using the evidence they gather,
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 1: because they know damn well if they go, if you
• 1:57:40
  Speaker 1: go into court on a motion to quash emotion to
• 1:57:42
  Speaker 1: suppress evidence, all of this comes out and a court
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 1: rules the entire concept to be unconstitutional. We just can't
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 1: get into court on.
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  Speaker 11: It, right right.
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  Speaker 13: Oh well, now, Brian, before we go, I have to
• 1:57:55
  Speaker 13: congratulate you on making the Barretton Media top ten mid
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  Speaker 13: As somebody that knows you well, that article captures your
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  Speaker 6: I could on my.
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  Speaker 1: it's because of guests like you, I think that I
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  Speaker 1: and put people in a hard position. Do you support
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  Speaker 1: the Constitution or do you support this expedient road we're
• 1:58:41
  Speaker 1: going down to? And you and I usually end up
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  Speaker 13: I appreciate what you say. I am acutely aware of
• 1:58:49
  Speaker 13: the Brian Thomas fans whom I rubbed the wrong way,
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 13: because some of.
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  Speaker 1: Them tell me how good I'm glad they reach out.
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  Speaker 6: To you less.
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  Speaker 13: As long as we can make people think we are
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  Speaker 13: serving our purpose.
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  Speaker 1: Amen, brother, And that's one of the reasons I love
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  Speaker 1: you so much. You know you're always welcome here, sir.
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  Speaker 1: Agree or disagree, it's the point of talking and engaging
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  Speaker 1: in these important conversations and getting people thinking about it.
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  Speaker 1: God bless you, Judge, Ena, Paula, Tan And we'll do
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  Speaker 1: this next Wednesday. And I hope between now and then
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  Speaker 1: you have a fantastic week, sir.
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  Speaker 13: Right back at you, Brian, all the best to you,
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  Speaker 1: Happy to do it. Listen. You know I appreciate what
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  Speaker 1: you're doing over at the Times. It's an outstanding source
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  Speaker 1: of information, one of the sites that I do rely
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  Speaker 1: on for preparation of the fifty five Ksey Morning Show.
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  Speaker 1: I'm appreciative of you being there, and I love the
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  Speaker 1: fact that you're doing a seminar on the fraud in Minnesota,
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  Speaker 1: just the tip of the fraud iceberg in this country
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  Speaker 1: when you consider literally billions and billions of dollars in fraud,
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  Speaker 1: waste and abuse in one city. One And as I
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  Speaker 1: wake up this morning, I read the CBS news account
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  Speaker 1: They're looking at hospices out in California at Los Angeles County,
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  Speaker 1: another hotbed of obvious fraud. Are we ever going to
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  Speaker 1: get to the bottom of this anyway? Pivoting over to Minnesota,
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  Speaker 1: it's incomprehensible. And what I learned about this, and correct
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  Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong, janis the estate officials were painfully
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  Speaker 1: aware of this fraud going on and yet did nothing
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  Speaker 1: to stop it when they knew what was going on.
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  Speaker 1: It's they either enabled it or they were benefiting from it.
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  Speaker 1: I can't come out any conclusion yet.
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  Speaker 9: We know that was precisely the topic of a hearing
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  Speaker 9: that I covered. The Oversight Committee recently had both Governor
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  Speaker 9: Tim Wallas and the Attorney General Keith Ellison in there
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  Speaker 9: for testimony, and they were confronting with the finds that
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  Speaker 9: they had by doing many many plants, sitting over thirty
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  Speaker 9: whistleblowers who worked for garment agencies in Minnesota, and they
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  Speaker 9: were like, look, you know, for example, you knew they
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  Speaker 9: told governor in twenty twenty about concerned one specific organization,
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  Speaker 9: yet you didn't stop the payments. Why And then they
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  Speaker 9: also confronted him our own Jim Georgian, another representative, He said,
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  Speaker 9: why didn't you tell the truth him Wals when when
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  Speaker 9: he the public Walls did and said, uh, we restarted
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  Speaker 9: imminent to that same organization because the judge made us.
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  Speaker 9: But that judge had actually issued a rare public teatment
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  Speaker 9: it's still available on I from twenty twenty two saying
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  Speaker 9: I never issued such an order and reporting this.
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  Speaker 1: Judges never do that.
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  Speaker 10: It was very rare.
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  Speaker 9: And that was a moment during the hearing for sure,
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  Speaker 9: when Jim Jordan said why didn't you tell the truth,
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  Speaker 9: and Walt's response he said, uh, well the agency believed
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  Speaker 9: that's what the court said, Thanks so, But most of
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  Speaker 9: this whole thing go so deep. And that was one
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  Speaker 9: of the biggest things that I tried to figure out.
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  Speaker 9: I've been to this Minnesota on reporting trips more times
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  Speaker 9: than I teared up. Now, I would have joked that
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  Speaker 9: I should set up like a pup tent and stay
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  Speaker 9: there with with the ice protesters. I don't know, but
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  Speaker 9: it might be a little dangerous. But so here is
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  Speaker 9: one of the things that I think a lot of
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  Speaker 9: people don't realize. I was asking myself, you know, yes,
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  Speaker 9: with just a fraud and a lot of other places,
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  Speaker 9: it's pretty much if you've got program, people got a
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  Speaker 9: way to work. This is But is it Is it
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  Speaker 9: worse in Minnesota. I'm not sure on that one, But
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  Speaker 9: I wanted to know, is there a climate? Is there
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  Speaker 9: an attitude here? Is there a cultural kind of factor
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  Speaker 9: that that is making Minnesota fertile ground for fraud? And
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  Speaker 9: when I came to realize through wording, was there is
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  Speaker 9: an agate Minnesota and Ice and that attitude has to
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  Speaker 9: deal with particularly the people who came to Minnesota came
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  Speaker 9: from like Norwegian Ante in those yes, Scandinavia and in
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  Speaker 9: those countries, if you do not help your neighbor, you
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  Speaker 9: may die in the cold and things like that, and
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  Speaker 9: so that whole mentality really went on steroids that they
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  Speaker 9: have some of the most generous social programs in the country,
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  Speaker 9: but that means guess what everybody's paid. And then they
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  Speaker 9: have an attitude, well, we're not going to ask you
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  Speaker 9: why you need help, because that's too embarrassing. We don't
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  Speaker 9: want to offend you. And oh, by the way, we're
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  Speaker 9: also the people who offer to provide that help also
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  Speaker 9: aren't questioned because oh, that's insulting. They want to help,
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  Speaker 9: we should just accept. And so you know when a
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  Speaker 9: company comes forward to non supposedly and quotes air quotes
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  Speaker 9: comes forward and says, I would like to provide these services, sure,
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  Speaker 9: and then they don't get asked that many questions, and
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  Speaker 9: people who try to quote unquote youth services.
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  Speaker 2: Same thing.
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  Speaker 9: So that is one component of this. Once again, I
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  Speaker 9: do not know for certain whether per capita Minnesota has
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  Speaker 9: it worse than other places, because a lot of this
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  Speaker 9: information is still emerging. But if I were a bet woman,
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  Speaker 9: I would say that yes, it either is the worst
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  Speaker 9: in the nation in terms of per capita or it would.
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  Speaker 1: Rank right up there, well, ranking right up there. That
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  Speaker 1: this can even happen, This is American taxpayer dollars. I
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  Speaker 1: always like to point this out, Janis Heidel, Republicans, Democrats, Independence,
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  Speaker 1: Communist Marxists. If they're working and they're paying taxes, their
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  Speaker 1: money has been stolen. So this should be a bipartisan
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  Speaker 1: outrage and revolved and demand to get this out of
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  Speaker 1: the system. Fraud, wasting, abuse is a problem. We've got
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  Speaker 1: national debt, We've got money issues in this country. And hey,
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  Speaker 1: if we just start here, this seems to be low
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  Speaker 1: hanging fruit. Janice Heidel's doing this seminar. It's tomorrow night
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  Speaker 1: beginning at seven pm. Log in from home or show
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  Speaker 1: up at the Empower You Studio Seminar three hundred Great
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  Speaker 1: Oaks Drive. And that's a fun place to be. And
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  Speaker 1: you're also going to be treated to the new laws
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  Speaker 1: to conceal carry that may affect you with Speaker Bob Jewel,
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  Speaker 1: so that one and Janis Heizel on fraud of Minnesota. Janis,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for doing the work you're doing. Keep up
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  Speaker 1: the great work at the epic times. And I'm looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to seeing the seminar tomorrow night.
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  Speaker 9: Betch I think thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: It's been my pleasure. Janizal, Tomorrow night, seven pm. Make
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  Speaker 1: sure you register if you're gonna log in from home.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you had a chance to listen to the
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  Speaker 1: whole show. A Big Picture with Jack