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'DIPLOMACY IS BEING TESTED' US-Iran talks continue · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: Alex Hogan joins us from the North Lawn.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, Alex, Good morning Shannon. President Trump is in New
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  Speaker 3: Jersey this weekend. He says he has directly involved in
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  Speaker 3: talks with Iran. This as polls indicate new pressure on
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  Speaker 3: the administration over the conflict as the conflict continues here
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  Speaker 3: at home. A recent Quinnipiac poll finding six and ten
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  Speaker 3: voters now oppose US military action in Iran. Democrats blasting
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  Speaker 3: thank you very much, joining us now do itp Senator
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  Speaker 3: Member of the Foreign Relations Committee, Bill Haggerty, Senator, welcome
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  Speaker 6: Good morning, Shannon, Thank you for having me this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I want to get to the domestic, but first
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  Speaker 1: two kind of the top news of the day. This
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  Speaker 1: new list of demands from Iran apparently includes we've got
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  Speaker 1: to lift our naval blockade, withdraw all of our military
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  Speaker 1: from the area, compensate Iran for war damage, lift all sanctions,
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  Speaker 1: and unconditionally release their frozen assets. I want to put
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  Speaker 1: up this new Fox News pulling that we have on
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  Speaker 1: this issue about whether or not people think we're going
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  Speaker 1: to reach a deal. Seventy three percent of Americans now
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  Speaker 1: think we either get a bad deal or no deal.
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  Speaker 1: Where do you think we're going diplomatically.
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  Speaker 6: Well, you know, diplomacy is being tested at every turn
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  Speaker 6: with the Iranian regime. They don't seem to favor diplomacy
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  Speaker 6: unless they can use it to tap us along. President
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  Speaker 6: Trump is seen right through this. We've maintained maximum military
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  Speaker 6: capabilities and factories, enhanced our military capability, and what you
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  Speaker 6: see now as an act of desperation. I think because
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  Speaker 6: President Trump had prepared to unleash unmitigated fury on Iran
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  Speaker 6: just the past weekend when they came to the table
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  Speaker 6: again and said no, we want to make a deal,
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  Speaker 6: and let's not forget Shannon that Secretary Bestin and the
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  Speaker 6: team at Treasury have put incredible financial pressure on Iran.
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  Speaker 6: Their economy is in tatters right now. They're doing the
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  Speaker 6: same thing over and over again. I know people call
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  Speaker 6: that the definition of insanity. I think that's diplomacy Iranian style,
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  Speaker 6: by coming back with more of the same demands, etc. Etc.
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  Speaker 6: But what has happened is that they continue degrade in
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  Speaker 6: their position. We continue to advance in terms of economic
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  Speaker 6: pressure military pressure. There's going to have to be a deal.
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  Speaker 6: I think the American public are indicating they're ready for
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  Speaker 6: a deal to be done, and that deal could be
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  Speaker 6: at the end of a military operation as opposed to diplomacy.
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  Speaker 6: It's up to the Iranians. But I think we're very close,
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  Speaker 6: particularly as I listen to Secretary Bess, I think we're
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  Speaker 6: very close to having a deal.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, can we trust them as a reliable partner?
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  Speaker 1: Though? Even if we get something to hammer down on
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  Speaker 1: paper and all of the details, are they a reliable partner?
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  Speaker 1: You know, this is a country that's been from nearly
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  Speaker 1: fifty years chanting death to America and death Israel.
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  Speaker 6: I think the Obama jcpoa the Iran deal that we
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  Speaker 6: saw in the past demonstrated that you can't just trust
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  Speaker 6: the Iranians. Everything that we agree to is going to
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  Speaker 6: have to be verifiable and enforceable. President Trump has already
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  Speaker 6: seen this movie before. You know, Obama just handed over
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  Speaker 6: palets of cash, billions of dollars, and instead of a
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  Speaker 6: body by the agreement, they continue their nuclear program surreptitiously,
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  Speaker 6: and they then began to foment terror that will not
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  Speaker 6: happen again. I think President Trump has been incredibly clear
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  Speaker 6: about this, and what we're trying to do is maintain
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  Speaker 6: a posture that we can allow the Iranian economy to rebuild,
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  Speaker 6: the ninety million Iranian people to actually prosper and as
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  Speaker 6: I think the entire region is responding to this. If
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  Speaker 6: you look at the stepping up that we've seen by
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  Speaker 6: other neighbors in the area, Iran is on a three
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  Speaker 6: hundred and sixty degree basis, made enemies with everybody in
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  Speaker 6: its neighborhood. Now we're all coming together. I expect to
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  Speaker 6: see more Saudi Arabia, for example, and more nations in
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  Speaker 6: the region step up and enter the Abraham Accords. We're
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  Speaker 6: going to see economic prosperity breakout. Like we've never seen
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  Speaker 6: before in that region, further isolating the Iranian regime. And
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  Speaker 6: I think it's just all part and parcel the major
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  Speaker 6: transformation that needed to happen forty seven years ago, and
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  Speaker 6: finally President Trump has been able to step up and
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  Speaker 6: address it. Right now. Once we get into that posture,
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  Speaker 6: I think you're going to see all the polling change.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: One of the questions though, is that they're not isolated
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  Speaker 1: from certain people, certain entities like Russia and China. Here
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  Speaker 1: is a former Secretary of State, former CIA director Mike
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  Speaker 1: Pompeo talking about their potential involvement here.
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  Speaker 5: I think the Chinese and the Russians are actively engaged
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  Speaker 5: in supporting this regime. I think the Russians are providing intelligence.
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  Speaker 5: I think the Chinese are providing the if not full
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  Speaker 5: weapon system, the guts for weapons, the software for these weapons.
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  Speaker 5: They have a deep interest in undermining not just keeping
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  Speaker 5: this war going, but undermining Western civilization.
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  Speaker 1: So President Trump has said he's gotten assurances from President
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  Speaker 1: g when it comes to some of those allegations about
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  Speaker 1: weapons and those kinds of things. But you are our
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  Speaker 1: ambassador to Japan, you know the region, Well, what kind
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  Speaker 1: of conversation should the President be having with President g
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  Speaker 1: now or when he comes here in September.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I think a lot of people are looking toward
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  Speaker 6: the summit in September, and I think there's much that
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  Speaker 6: will come from it. But I think President Trump has
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  Speaker 6: been increasingly clear with President she that they should not
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  Speaker 6: cooperate nor support in any way the Iranian regime. That
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  Speaker 6: seems to be there are multiple reports, none of them verified,
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  Speaker 6: but I think, taking what former Secretary Pompeo said, if
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  Speaker 6: that were true, we should assume that there is that possibility,
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  Speaker 6: and I think we do. What we are going to
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  Speaker 6: continue to do is mount increasing pressure on the Iranian
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  Speaker 6: regime directly, and we're going to increase sanctions. That's exactly
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  Speaker 6: what Secretary Beston has done. And if you look at
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  Speaker 6: what we did in the Senate, the sanctions bill that
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  Speaker 6: we passed in honor of Lindsey Graham, again more pressure
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  Speaker 6: on this axis of evil that was just described. We're
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  Speaker 6: going to continue with sanctions, We're going to continue with
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  Speaker 6: military pressure, and I think that everybody in the world
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  Speaker 6: needs to wake up and see this. That's all the
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  Speaker 6: more reason why this escalation with Iran has had to be.
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  Speaker 6: It has to be successful, and I think it's going
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  Speaker 6: to be incredibly important, not only for the Iranian situation,
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  Speaker 6: but also for others in the neighborhood, if you will, Russia, Iran,
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  Speaker 6: North Korea, China. They all need to see this.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the world is watching. Okay, I want to get
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  Speaker 1: to a couple of domestic things before you go. So
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  Speaker 1: the Senate Left Save America Act not addressed for now,
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  Speaker 1: Reconciliation not addressed for now. There's a lot to get done.
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  Speaker 1: When you guys come back and listen. You guys are
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  Speaker 1: looking to the midterms. That's part of the reason that
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  Speaker 1: a lot of folks wanted to go home. Our polling
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  Speaker 1: shows that the motivation, the excitement for Democrats is much
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  Speaker 1: higher to actually show up and turn out in these
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  Speaker 1: fall votes. The President was asked about this by punch
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  Speaker 1: Bowl about whether or not he thinks Republicans will turn
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  Speaker 1: out if he's not on the ballot.
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  Speaker 2: Here's part of his answer.
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  Speaker 5: The question is will they vote because a lot of
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  Speaker 5: them are very angry at Republicans.
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  Speaker 2: To be honest with.
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  Speaker 5: You, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they're angry at Republicans, but.
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  Speaker 5: They're not interesting why they're.
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  Speaker 2: Not angry at me, but they are angry at Republicans.
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  Speaker 1: Well, some Republicans say they're mad at them as lawmakers
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  Speaker 1: because the president has put targets on them for not
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  Speaker 1: getting some of these key things done on his agenda.
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  Speaker 1: Politico reported about a meeting this week. I know you
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  Speaker 1: don't talk about what happens in these meetings, but Senator
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  Speaker 1: Danes came out and he said this that they had
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  Speaker 1: talked to polsters and others in the meeting about when
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  Speaker 1: will President Trump start attacking Democrats instead of attacking Republicans?
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  Speaker 2: What about that?
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  Speaker 1: About this assessment that the president needs to go harder
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  Speaker 1: at his opponents than those of you who are trying
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  Speaker 1: to get things done in the Senate, Well.
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  Speaker 6: I think the president has ample room to do this.
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  Speaker 6: The only two things the Democrats have accomplished since he
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  Speaker 6: came into office, since in the past year and a half,
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  Speaker 6: almost two years, the only two things they've accomplished are
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  Speaker 6: two historically long government shutdowns. In fact, that was on
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  Speaker 6: tap this week. That's why we work so hard to
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  Speaker 6: make certain that we got a continuing resolution it's called,
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  Speaker 6: but that we keep the government open beyond the election
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  Speaker 6: and into December. That was Chuck Schumer's primary goal was
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  Speaker 6: to shut the government down to create more chaos. That
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  Speaker 6: seems to be the Democratic playbook is let's create chaos
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  Speaker 6: and mayhem and in so doing somehow get their friends
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  Speaker 6: in the media to blame that on the Republicans. I
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  Speaker 6: think the task is on us now. We got a
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  Speaker 6: lot of accomplished of legislation that put our Attorney general
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  Speaker 6: in place, the Russian Sanctions Act that I mentioned just
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  Speaker 6: a moment ago, and again extending the government keeping it open.
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  Speaker 6: When we get back, though, we're going to have to
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  Speaker 6: do something on election integrity. We tried again this week
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  Speaker 6: to get that done. Democrats again, every single one of them,
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  Speaker 6: even on something as simple as driver's license IDs, showing
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  Speaker 6: your ID to vote, show who you are, show that
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  Speaker 6: you are who you say you are to vote, they
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  Speaker 6: are against it full force. I think they've made it
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  Speaker 6: clear they want the ability to have insecure elections because
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  Speaker 6: that somehow advantages them. The American public hate this. We've
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  Speaker 6: got to do something about it, and I think we're
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  Speaker 6: going to have to move into a different type of vehicle,
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  Speaker 6: or reconciliation vehicle to make that happen. And that's what
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  Speaker 6: we're going to have a top the agenda when we
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  Speaker 6: get back.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we will see you in the meantime.
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  Speaker 1: I know there's lots to get done on your re
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  Speaker 1: election campaign and the things you have to do in
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  Speaker 1: the home district, and so we'll keep track of that
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  Speaker 1: and the long list waiting for you when you get back.
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  Speaker 2: Centrew Haggerty, thank you.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you. Sean.
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