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Congressman Warren Davidson joins the show this morning · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: The talk station.
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  Speaker 2: about Senator rand Paul at bottom of this hour. And
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  Speaker 2: I am always excited and polase to welcome with the
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  Speaker 2: fifty five krsee Morning show. Congressman Warren Davidson, Welcome back,
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  Speaker 2: my friend. Pleasure having you on the show.
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  Speaker 1: Brian's always an honor, great to talk with you.
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  Speaker 2: Let us dive on into Well, we're still in a shutdown,
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  Speaker 2: said a voted again said no. Democrats are insisting that
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  Speaker 2: we extend the COVID area era, basically premium supplements covering
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  Speaker 2: the American taxpayers covering the cost of the Obamacare premiums,
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  Speaker 2: which was successfully expanded the program. They doubled the size
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  Speaker 2: of the Obamacare folks during COVID nineteen. But that was
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  Speaker 2: the predicate for allowing these supplements. COVID nineteen. Oh my god,
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  Speaker 2: we're all going to die. Businesses are shut down. People
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  Speaker 2: need relief. Let's give them free insurance, which isn't really free. Well,
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  Speaker 2: that period of time has gone yet the Democrats and
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  Speaker 2: an obvious effort to get everyone under one size fits
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  Speaker 2: all medically run government healthcare or government run medical care.
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  Speaker 2: They're fighting and that looks like they're going to die
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  Speaker 2: on this hill? Or are they? Congressman Davidson, what's your
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  Speaker 2: assessment on this? I know you had some very strong
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  Speaker 2: words about the Continuing Resolution which kept the Biden era
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  Speaker 2: funding levels to try to get this through. So where
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  Speaker 2: are we on this, Congressman Davidson, Yeah, I mean.
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  Speaker 1: That's basically it. Democrats could have chosen to just keep
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  Speaker 1: the funding level that they helped implement. I mean, this
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  Speaker 1: isn't like a partisan funding bill. This was the Republicans
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  Speaker 1: had the House, the Democrats had the Senate, Joe Biden
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  Speaker 1: was the president, and this is the same policy, same
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  Speaker 1: funding level the pass at that we haven't passed a
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  Speaker 1: different funding goal. We've had lots of debates about it.
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  Speaker 1: But that's the whole point is we could continue having
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  Speaker 1: the debates and call the votes on other policy issues
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  Speaker 1: with a government that's open, or we could have this shutdown.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, Democrats decided that they were going to
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  Speaker 1: hold their votes and not supply the seven that you need.
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  Speaker 1: In the Senate, we passed it out of the House
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  Speaker 1: because we just need a majority, and a majority of
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  Speaker 1: the Senate's passed it. You've got fifty six Senators that
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  Speaker 1: say yeah, let's keep the government open, so that's bipartisan,
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  Speaker 1: but you need four more Democrats frankly, to join and
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  Speaker 1: say let's keep it open. And realities, we know we
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  Speaker 1: need less government, we need a budget that balances. Democrats said, no,
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  Speaker 1: if you don't give us a one and a half
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  Speaker 1: train dollars that we can spend on our priorities, which
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  Speaker 1: includes he'll care for illegals, includes you know, COVID plucks
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  Speaker 1: ups for Obamacare, which never worked in the first place.
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  Speaker 1: It was failing in twenty twenty one, and they used
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  Speaker 1: COVID as a pretext to flood it with even more cash.
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  Speaker 1: And now it's expiring, and they're like, oh, well, maybe
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  Speaker 1: if we subsidy it more, it'll keep you know, we'll
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  Speaker 1: reach this magic tipping point where somehow it'll be affordable.
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  Speaker 1: And it's like, no, you know, I'm almost tempted to say,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, you should triple them, because just to
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  Speaker 1: prove the point, the subsidies aren't lowering the costs, not
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  Speaker 1: helping people get lower health insurance. Now it benefits to
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  Speaker 1: people to get the subsidy for sure, but for the
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  Speaker 1: broader average consumer, it's raising the premiums and the quality
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  Speaker 1: of care since Obamacare hasn't done better. Health outcomes haven't
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  Speaker 1: done better since Obamacare was worked. So when are we
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  Speaker 1: going to finally concede that Obamacare didn't work? And Democrats
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  Speaker 1: want to shut the government down over that and other
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  Speaker 1: priorities they've.
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  Speaker 2: Got, Yes, they do. And you know it's funny because
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  Speaker 2: the premiums going basically going directly to healthcare providers like hospitals.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the American people aren't seeing any of that.
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  Speaker 2: So it is it is continued to sport. But it's not.
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  Speaker 2: They haven't gone away. I think that's really critical point here.
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  Speaker 2: It's not. It doesn't become free just because the government says, well,
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  Speaker 2: now it's free. They're not providing health care for nothing.
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  Speaker 2: The American taxpayers covering the nut of the premium. That's
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  Speaker 2: your one point five trillion dollars right there, basically, or
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  Speaker 2: maybe hundreds of millions of dollars, billions of dollars anyway, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That portions hundreds of billions. They've got all kinds of
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  Speaker 1: other stuff. In there. They want to restore USAID funding,
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  Speaker 1: which we intentionally turned off. They want to restore our
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  Speaker 1: funding for NPR, which we intentionally told them to go
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  Speaker 1: fund themselves. And you know, all these things they want
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  Speaker 1: to relitigate that we've already had the votes on, and
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  Speaker 1: they just want to use the government shutdown as extortion.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, I hope we put single things in there,
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  Speaker 1: Like you know, right now, you know, we've got essential
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  Speaker 1: people working, and you know that begs the question why
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  Speaker 1: do we have non essentially? But if you say, all right, well,
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  Speaker 1: these people are so important that they need to keep working,
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  Speaker 1: why isn't the payroll clerk that pays them so important
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  Speaker 1: that the payroll clerk keeps working? So we can put
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  Speaker 1: some line at them bills on there so that it's like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: if you don't want to fund the government all the way,
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  Speaker 1: could we at least fund the payroll clerk so that
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  Speaker 1: our troops can get paid this month.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good idea, Congressman Davidson. But now, what of
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  Speaker 2: the concern that I have that Republicans now seem to
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  Speaker 2: be maybe wavering a little bit headline Wall Street Journal
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  Speaker 2: Republicans cautioned White House on inflicting shut down pain, referring
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  Speaker 2: to Donald Trump's comment earlier this week about the Office
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  Speaker 2: Management and Budget compiling a list of folks that will
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  Speaker 2: be fired or departments that will be permanently closed. He
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  Speaker 2: did suggest that was coming our way in a matter
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  Speaker 2: of four or five days. Now we're down to maybe
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  Speaker 2: three or four days for that. But isn't that something
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  Speaker 2: that we kind of want out of this shut down?
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  Speaker 2: An opportunity to reduce the size and scope of government,
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  Speaker 2: which some of these wavering Republicans are saying, well, wait
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  Speaker 2: a second, that I'll give the Democrats a win in
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  Speaker 2: the who's responsible for this shutdown argument? Aha? See, the
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  Speaker 2: only pretext for this is Republicans want to cut out
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  Speaker 2: the government and oh my god, people are going to
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  Speaker 2: die or whatever. But I don't care. I would think
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  Speaker 2: you could wear that as a badge of honor. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I did shut the government down for the purposes of
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  Speaker 2: getting it smaller. We campaigned on doing exactly that.
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  Speaker 1: Well that's the thing. Look, I voted for the CRS
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  Speaker 1: so we could keep having this debate because frankly, I
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  Speaker 1: want the outcome of a smaller government. So you know, okay,
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  Speaker 1: if we're going to have a revote, and I can
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  Speaker 1: take credit for helping get RUSS vote to power to
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  Speaker 1: start aligning a budget with our priorities. Well good, that's
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  Speaker 1: exactly what we've been fighting to do. With the appropriations process.
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  Speaker 1: It's broken, and so all you've really got left is
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  Speaker 1: executive power. And you know, the administration put out a
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  Speaker 1: budget earlier this year. I would be surprised if they
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  Speaker 1: don't start doing basically what they said they believe the
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  Speaker 1: budget should look like, and they send over, you know, ideas,
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  Speaker 1: and then Congress just well, yeah, but we can't do that,
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  Speaker 1: and they never get around to doing it. So, you know,
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  Speaker 1: RUSS voted at offstin management and budgets, got the task
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  Speaker 1: of saying, look, I have to follow the law. I
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  Speaker 1: have to pay people that we're considering essential. You know,
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  Speaker 1: the prisons guards at the federal prisons, they're going to
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  Speaker 1: have to show up to work, keep the prisoners locked up.
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  Speaker 1: The FAA is going to have to work and keep
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  Speaker 1: the planes in the air, et cetera. But there are
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  Speaker 1: agencies that they said, for example, we don't think we
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  Speaker 1: need as many IRS agents. So they're talking about for
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  Speaker 1: a lowing or eliminating a substantial portion of the RS.
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  Speaker 1: I think forty six percent. I want the whole place closed.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, it's a good start to get rid
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  Speaker 1: of forty six percent of it.
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  Speaker 2: Couldn't agree more. It seems to me that you know,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of jobs out in the world are threatened
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  Speaker 2: by artificial intelligence, Congressman Davidson, isn't that sort of a
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  Speaker 2: role that artificial intelligence may be able to fill quite nicely?
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  Speaker 2: It is just dollars and cents and calculations based upon
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  Speaker 2: an obscenely thick and fat tax code.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, look, the tasticulously complex. That's why we
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  Speaker 1: need a different way to tax people and get rid
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  Speaker 1: of the income tax, which also serves as a giant
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  Speaker 1: surveillance tool. It's pretty nosy all the things that you have
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  Speaker 1: to disclose in it. But anyway, it is one hundred
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  Speaker 1: percent right. For more automation and more tech and the
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  Speaker 1: innovation that can happen there is going to eliminate a
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  Speaker 1: lot of jobs in terms of compliance. But in the meantime,
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  Speaker 1: when we're operating the government, look, we've got tons of agencies.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, if you look at HUD for example, housing
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  Speaker 1: an urban development, they had like forty four percent coming
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  Speaker 1: into the office period, not like every day of the week,
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  Speaker 1: but like coming into the office period. There's still This
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  Speaker 1: is when I was talking with Secretary Fudge before the
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  Speaker 1: current administration. You know, Marcia Fudge, a former member of
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  Speaker 1: Congress from Cleveland area here in Ohio, became secretary of
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  Speaker 1: HUD and she's like, look, you can't get all these
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  Speaker 1: people to come in. COVID is long since gone, and
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  Speaker 1: they still couldn't get people to show up to work.
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  Speaker 1: You've got the same dynamic and IRS, same dynamic and
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  Speaker 1: Social Security administration. So a lot of these people that
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  Speaker 1: haven't come into work, the Trump administration has already tried
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  Speaker 1: dealing with them. They've offered buyouts, They've done all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of things. There are lots of positions like that we
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  Speaker 1: can say, you know, maybe we just don't need all
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  Speaker 1: these people.
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  Speaker 2: Congressman Warren Davis, one more question on this shutdown we'll
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  Speaker 2: address before we take a break and bring it back
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  Speaker 2: and talk about an amazing development yesterday regarding peace in
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  Speaker 2: the Middle East. There was a floated around proposal which
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  Speaker 2: is widely described as bipartisan, extending these tax supplements, these
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  Speaker 2: credits that were COVID nineteen era related for one year,
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  Speaker 2: sort of as a way to kick the can down
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  Speaker 2: the road, so we'd have a new expiration date for them.
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  Speaker 2: But is that something that you would be willing to
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  Speaker 2: go along with, because I think it's a step in
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  Speaker 2: the wrong direction.
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  Speaker 1: Personally, No, the status quo is completely broken, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't think it's a good idea to extend them for
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  Speaker 1: one month. Personally, I think we should have already repealed
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  Speaker 1: Obamacare and gone on to a more market or oriented approach.
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  Speaker 1: But if we're going to do a dime for these
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  Speaker 1: COVID era plus ups for Obamacare, I hope we triple them,
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  Speaker 1: ten x them. Whatever proof once and for all that
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  Speaker 1: subsidies don't work, and it proved that, Okay, we can't
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  Speaker 1: arrive at a crash site. People act like money is
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  Speaker 1: irrelevant and we can just print it. Well, you don't.
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  Speaker 1: Can you not connect the dots that the massive spending
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  Speaker 1: causes inflation? And they're like, oh no, it's corporate greed,
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  Speaker 1: And you're like, the companies always want to make money,
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  Speaker 1: but when you spend massively more money, it causes inflation.
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  Speaker 1: And we're seeing that in the areas that you subsidize.
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  Speaker 1: The most like education and healthcare. You get the most
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  Speaker 1: inflation and in the economy when you spend massively more
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  Speaker 1: two trillion more than we then we generate in revenue.
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  Speaker 1: You're dumping two trillion extra dollars into the economy every year.
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  Speaker 1: How do you not have inflation? And for some reason
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  Speaker 1: people can't do this cause effect relationship. It's mind blowing.
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  Speaker 2: That's a failure of the US education system. I would
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  Speaker 2: argue anyhow, will continue the Congress More and Davidson. Peace
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  Speaker 2: in the Middle East, the concept within our reach. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: seven sixteen fifty five KC detox stations US above KS
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  Speaker 2: the talk station Brian Times with Congressman Warren Davidson followed
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  Speaker 2: by Senator Ran Paul Bottom of the hour, Congressman Davidson,
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  Speaker 2: A wonderful revelation. Yesterday Hamas and Israel agreed to Phase
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  Speaker 2: I guess they're calling it Phase one. A lot of devils,
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  Speaker 2: devil in details, a lot of things to be ironed out,
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  Speaker 2: but a remarkable advancement toward peace between Israel and Hamas,
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  Speaker 2: the terrorist organization Israel's agreed to withdraw. There's some question
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  Speaker 2: marks about where the lines of withdraw are going to
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  Speaker 2: be drawn. And who's going to be providing sort of
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  Speaker 2: a peacekeeping force there. But I guess the Egyptian border
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  Speaker 2: Rafa is now open, which allows Palestinians to exit the
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  Speaker 2: area and allows for if food deliveries to be brought in.
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  Speaker 2: This seems to be a huge accomplishment. Congressman Davidson, what's
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  Speaker 2: your perception of where we are on this look?
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  Speaker 1: I think Donald Trump has been very clear that his
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  Speaker 1: goal is peace. He wants people to stop dying. He's
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  Speaker 1: been very active on the world stage, and what a
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  Speaker 1: great use of America's influence around the world and Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump's personal role in it. And it's been amazing to watch.
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  Speaker 1: He's been incredibly effective. No, I mean, no one really
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  Speaker 1: believes there's going to be peace in the Middle East.
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  Speaker 1: Whenever you starts working on it, you're like, well, okay,
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  Speaker 1: why don't you tilted some other woodmill. This is a
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  Speaker 1: very entrenched conflict, and it's amazing to see that he's
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  Speaker 1: brought the parties together to get to a point where
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  Speaker 1: they're close to peace. They're agreed to do it. Now
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  Speaker 1: let's see if they actually do it. And you know, exchange,
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  Speaker 1: you got to give up the hostages and you've got
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  Speaker 1: to stop. You know, Hamas cannot govern Gaza. That's the
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  Speaker 1: base thing for Israel and then for you know, the
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  Speaker 1: people of Gaza. All Right, if those things are met,
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  Speaker 1: then Israel can start pulling troops out of the Gaza area.
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  Speaker 1: And if it changes, well, then okay, then it's all
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  Speaker 1: back on. But hopefully peace we'll get there. I've spent
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  Speaker 1: a lot of time praying for this peace and it's
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  Speaker 1: just terrible to see what's going on. War's a thing, well.
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  Speaker 2: And part of me wants to believe the Democrats are
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  Speaker 2: actually quite upset about this, in spite of the fact
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  Speaker 2: that it's going to lead to maybe fewer deaths and
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  Speaker 2: maybe even a broader piece like the Abraham Accords we're
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  Speaker 2: bringing around. Can you imagine that extending throughout the entire region. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: let's live together independently, but play together nicely for the
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  Speaker 2: purposes of everybody's economic benefit. What an odd concept that,
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  Speaker 2: But I thought it was wonderful that all of the
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  Speaker 2: parties to these negotiations, from Hamas to Israel, to Cutter,
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  Speaker 2: to Egypt to Turkey, all much to the chagrin of Democrats.
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  Speaker 2: Giving Donald Trump specific praise for his efforts along these lines.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, as much as I have no value in
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  Speaker 2: the Nobel Peace Prize ever since Barack Obama got one
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  Speaker 2: for doing literally nothing, but this makes Donald Trump really
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  Speaker 2: quite eligible, if not well deserved, of a Nobel Peace Prize.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's what makes them lose their minds over it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, You've got people trying to overdose on talentled
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  Speaker 1: just because Donald Trump pointed out that talent all themselves,
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  Speaker 1: and Harvard did a study that said, hey, taking tell
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  Speaker 1: it all while you're pregnant could be bad for you.
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  Speaker 1: Talk to your doctor. And so there are people that
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  Speaker 1: are literally going to the ICU because well, to own Trump,
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  Speaker 1: I have to do this. And so now you see,
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  Speaker 1: on the biggest world stage possible, Donald Trump getting a win,
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  Speaker 1: which is, you know, win after win after win in
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of areas. They just can't stand it. And
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  Speaker 1: even if it meant more war, they would be like, well,
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  Speaker 1: but Trump can't succeed. I think one of the funniest
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  Speaker 1: things I saw was, you know, kind of one of
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  Speaker 1: those Babylon D type headlines is Federal judge rules that
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  Speaker 1: Trump cannot does not have the authority to facilitate peace
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  Speaker 1: in the Middle East. You know that this is the thing.
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  Speaker 1: Anything to stop Trump is basically the only thing that
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  Speaker 1: the Left stands for.
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  Speaker 2: These days, no question about it. Well, and the other
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  Speaker 2: component of this that remains a mystery to me because
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  Speaker 2: as we see all these pro Palestinian and pro Hamas
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  Speaker 2: agitator agitators tearing up college campuses and overrunning city, I
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  Speaker 2: didn't see any reference to the question of a Palestinian state.
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  Speaker 2: Does this have any open sort of least wiggle room
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  Speaker 2: for that to be brought about. Is that something that
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  Speaker 2: wasn't touch by this. I didn't hear any. I didn't
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  Speaker 2: really quite read anything which definitively answers that question. Congressman Davids, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That was very intentionally not included in this because there's
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  Speaker 1: just no way that there's going to be a discussion
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  Speaker 1: about that that involves Hamas. And so the condition is
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  Speaker 1: Hamas can't govern in Gaza, and then there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of rebuilding that needs to take place before that's even ripe.
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  Speaker 1: And there are a lot of people that are pushing
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  Speaker 1: for it, including some of the European Union, Democrats, radicals,
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  Speaker 1: campus folks in particular that you're talking about, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: the ten to seven massacre when hamas you know, went
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  Speaker 1: out and massacred innocent civilians in Israel. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: what their demand was is a separate state. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you can't reward that massacre, the ten seven massacre with
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  Speaker 1: talking about a separate Palconian state, but you can restore peace.
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  Speaker 1: And so it looks like they're well underway towards that
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  Speaker 1: and hopefully it continues.
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  Speaker 2: Amen to that, Congressman Warren Davidson, I certainly appreciate your
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  Speaker 2: willingness to join my listeners of me and have a
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  Speaker 2: discussion on these important issues, and I truly appreciate you
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  Speaker 2: and your standing on these matters As an elected official.
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  Speaker 2: We need more people like Congressman Warren Davidson, and I
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  Speaker 2: want to thank all of your voters for putting you
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  Speaker 2: in office, and hopefully we'll have continued great relations with
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  Speaker 2: you here in the fifty five Garrissey Morning. Should Congressman Davidson.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, always an honor. Thanks Brian, God bless you and
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  Speaker 1: all your listeners. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Right back at you. Coming up next, Senator Ran Paul