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"Fighting 'Electile Dysfunction' in Florida" (Friday November 21 2025, Hour 3) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Very pleased to welcome a man who has been an
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  Speaker 1: incredible champion for.
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  Speaker 2: So many of these values that we all share, and
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  Speaker 2: we've shared it for a long time.
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  Speaker 3: First thing today on the Talk media Network by Joe Thomas,
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  Speaker 3: the second most famous Thomas and Charlottesville jewort.
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  Speaker 4: Said, steal me have a day, please for work.
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  Speaker 5: When the sun comes up, drops at the school.
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  Speaker 6: Jo has everything, agenda, all the treasure said, and needs
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  Speaker 6: no one.
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  Speaker 4: That Joe's as smiled.
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  Speaker 7: He only is.
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  Speaker 3: Joe here hold these truths.
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  Speaker 8: Joe, thank you for letting us be of service to
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  Speaker 8: you this morning, where we tell you what went on
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  Speaker 8: last night. We will even analyze the evidence left behind
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  Speaker 8: at the crime scene uh and tell you what we
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  Speaker 8: found owned when it gets back from the lab. But
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  Speaker 8: mostly I want to hear about how it's impacting you
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  Speaker 8: where you are at four three four eight eight two
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  Speaker 8: four to two one seven. That's our phone number. Emails
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  Speaker 8: come into JT in the morning radio at gmail dot com.
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  Speaker 8: By the way, the phone number also obviously available for
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  Speaker 8: telephone conversations as well. I want to get into this
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  Speaker 8: a little bit. James Madison Institute, Great Conservative Leadership group
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  Speaker 8: in Florida. So many of our dear friends down Tampa
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  Speaker 8: and Daytona and Treasure Coast, Love Treasure Coast and Saint
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  Speaker 8: Augustine as well. Bob McClure is the president Save Act
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  Speaker 8: policy and how Florida is becoming even better at securing
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  Speaker 8: people's votes.
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  Speaker 3: Bob, what are you.
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  Speaker 8: Guys doing down there at in Florida to make voting safe,
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  Speaker 8: transparent and understandable.
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  Speaker 9: You know, I think it's important in this discussion to
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  Speaker 9: understand the history a little bit. Obviously, many of your
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  Speaker 9: listeners will remember the disastrous Bush v. Gore when Tim
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  Speaker 9: Russers came on TV with his whiteboard and said, Florida, Florida, Florida,
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  Speaker 9: It's all about Florida, and that was quite a humiliating
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  Speaker 9: experience for our state, from hanging chads and confusing ballots
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  Speaker 9: and all of those kinds of things. You fast forward though, Joe,
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  Speaker 9: twenty years, and I would argue, it's not me, it's
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  Speaker 9: you know, it's national outlets that say Florida has kind
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  Speaker 9: of become the gold standard for elections. We had in
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  Speaker 9: the last election, we had eleven million people vote, We
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  Speaker 9: have two time zones, we have a thousand people moving
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  Speaker 9: here today, and we know by midnight who's won every
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  Speaker 9: single race up and down the ballot in the state
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  Speaker 9: of Florida. And so what has happened is over the
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  Speaker 9: last twenty years, we have put in place so many reforms,
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  Speaker 9: in so many guardrails that has allowed us to really
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  Speaker 9: become that gold standard. And I'll add one more thing.
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  Speaker 9: People want to say that, oh, this is you know, you're, you're, you're,
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  Speaker 9: you're adding a poll tax, You're this is Jim Crow
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  Speaker 9: two point zero. You're trying to keep people from from voting.
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  Speaker 9: In actuality, what has happened is African American voting and
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  Speaker 9: Hispanic voting has risen more rapidly than white voting in
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  Speaker 9: the state of Florida since we've implemented.
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  Speaker 4: These reforms, Bob, that's it, you know.
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  Speaker 8: And as we also watched happen in Georgia as well,
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  Speaker 8: it shouldn't be a surprise to people that when you
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  Speaker 8: have confidence in your election, voter turnout goes up. Hang
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  Speaker 8: on the line with us. We need to do our
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  Speaker 8: first things this morning so people know what we're talking
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  Speaker 8: about here. News wise, and so much happening and fast
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  Speaker 8: and furious. One of the top teachers unions is in
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  Speaker 8: trouble now having been outed for a seminar a conference
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  Speaker 8: coming up. Three million educator members in the National Education Association.
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  Speaker 8: We're going to be subjected to a scheduled conference and
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  Speaker 8: training session from December second through the fourth called Advancing
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  Speaker 8: LGBTQ plus Justice, and it would be teaching them not
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  Speaker 8: just how to recognize transgenderism, but how to participate in
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  Speaker 8: it as well. Department of Justice subpoenaed the personal phone
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  Speaker 8: records of House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan in twenty
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  Speaker 8: twenty two, seeking the Ohio Republican's phone data covering two
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  Speaker 8: years starting in January of twenty twenty. Same investigator wound
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  Speaker 8: up part of the January sixth, twenty twenty one investigation,
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  Speaker 8: but had been looking into Jordan for a year earlier.
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  Speaker 8: Congressman Eric Swallwell of California announced he is going to
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  Speaker 8: try to run for California's opening governor's seat. He did
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  Speaker 8: it on the notable political conversation show Jimmy Kimmel Live.
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  Speaker 8: Although he did tell traditional newspaper Golden State San Francisco Chronicle,
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  Speaker 8: one of the two objectives is to keep Trump out
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  Speaker 8: of our homes, our streets, our lives. He also says
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  Speaker 8: he wants to write the story of a new California
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  Speaker 8: on lower prices, business growth, and modernizing our state. Centers
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  Speaker 8: for Disease Control and Prevention updated its website with a
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  Speaker 8: new stance on links between vaccines and autism. The site
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  Speaker 8: now says quote the claim vaccines do not cause autism
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  Speaker 8: is not an evidence based claim because studies have not
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  Speaker 8: ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. Florida
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  Speaker 8: authorities around Jacksonville are pushing back on the narrative burning
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  Speaker 8: The Jacksonville Sheriff's office says that they are aware of
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  Speaker 8: rumors circulating of a serial killer on the loose, we
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  Speaker 8: can confirm that those claims are false, despite the fact
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  Speaker 8: of three separate incidents with women's bodies turning up dead
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  Speaker 8: in three consecutive days, and a federal judge ruled Thursday
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  Speaker 8: the Department of War's deployment of National Guard forces to Washington,
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  Speaker 3: Amaze your friends here in the first thing today by
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  Speaker 3: Joe Thomas.
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  Speaker 11: The kind of build the rights the constitutions.
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  Speaker 22: What's it work?
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  Speaker 5: You know they're going to grind us down us.
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  Speaker 4: Until he really.
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  Speaker 22: So.
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  Speaker 8: And it's on us to make sure that these documents
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  Speaker 8: are adhered to. And we too frequently just you know,
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  Speaker 8: look the other way. And I've made the comparison, and
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  Speaker 8: we brought this up at Bob mcclauryson with us from
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  Speaker 8: the James Madison Institute out of Florida, a conservative leadership
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  Speaker 8: group much like the Virginia Institute for Public Policy that
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  Speaker 8: I'm a member of. And uh, you know where you brought.
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  Speaker 8: You brought up Bush v.
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  Speaker 23: Gore.
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  Speaker 8: And you know, it's interesting that we were just yesterday
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  Speaker 8: talking about this piece that the Deseret News published and
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  Speaker 8: you can find it linked to yesterday's podcasts about how
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  Speaker 8: the whole idea of derangement over a presidential election really
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  Speaker 8: started there and all the cars with the bumper stickers
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  Speaker 8: and everything else. But you know, it wasn't trumped arrangement syndrome.
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  Speaker 8: It was bushed arrangement syndrome. I know that people will
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  Speaker 8: look at election results. And the thing that made Bush v.
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  Speaker 8: Gore so studying was, up until that day, Florida was
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  Speaker 8: a reliably blue state full of expat New Yorkers and
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  Speaker 8: New Jerseyans who had moved down there and carried their
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  Speaker 8: voting histories with them. So to see reforms like this
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  Speaker 8: come in what, even through the Scott and Bondi eras,
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  Speaker 8: was still a teetering light pink state, not so much
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  Speaker 8: a red state. You know, that kind of reform to
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  Speaker 8: work in the face of what I'm sure at the
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  Speaker 8: time was unyielding rhetoric of as you said, poll taxes
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  Speaker 8: and you know, voter suppression and that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 8: Talk about the courage or what needed to happen and
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  Speaker 8: what kind of steeled reserve the politicians the office holders
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  Speaker 8: had to have in order to make that work in.
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  Speaker 4: Florida, well, it was tremendous.
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  Speaker 9: I mean, we had withering criticism from the national media,
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  Speaker 9: from every democratically elected official in Washington, from our own
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  Speaker 9: democrats here in the state. And these are common sense
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  Speaker 9: reforms we did. We put in place things like strict
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  Speaker 9: voter ID requirements in signature verification, when you go to
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  Speaker 9: the polls, paper ballot trail after you vote, if you
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  Speaker 9: can't get an ID, the state will provide one for you.
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  Speaker 9: Statewide voter registration databases in real time, so that I mean,
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  Speaker 9: think about it. We have a state where people are
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  Speaker 9: moving here a thousand people a day. We have a
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  Speaker 9: very significant elderly population. It is the voter roles are
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  Speaker 9: constantly fluid in the ability to have a statewide voter
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  Speaker 9: registration database in real time allows us to update the
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  Speaker 9: voter roles, things like enhancing transparency with real time reporting results. So,
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  Speaker 9: for example, we have early voting here in Florida. We
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  Speaker 9: have every form of voting here in Florida, and yet
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  Speaker 9: we once early voting starts every day, you can go
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  Speaker 9: on Twitter and you can find out how many Democrats voted,
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  Speaker 9: how many Republicans voted, and how many NPAs voted on
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  Speaker 9: that day. We start counting votes when they come in.
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  Speaker 9: Now you don't know how people voted, but you know
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  Speaker 9: that they have voted. So you think you take a state,
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  Speaker 9: you know, like Virginia or other states that are counting
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  Speaker 9: votes after you know, California is counting for weeks Pennsylvania
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  Speaker 9: that are counting votes far far weeks later. We don't
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  Speaker 9: do that. We count them ahead of time, and it
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  Speaker 9: allows people to know in real time how many votes
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  Speaker 9: have come in. And so it's things like that that
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  Speaker 9: allow for more transparency, that allow for more monitoring. We
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  Speaker 9: have a Republican and a Democrat secure ballot intake stations,
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  Speaker 9: all with daily monitoring, monitoring, and voter ID requirements. And
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  Speaker 9: that's just some of the things. Those are just some
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  Speaker 9: of the things we've.
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  Speaker 8: Done, it sounds like it takes quite a commitment from
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  Speaker 8: the state, you know, bureaucracy, if you will, the professionals
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  Speaker 8: in the government, not necessarily the elected officials to make
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  Speaker 8: this work. Talk about your election board and the people,
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  Speaker 8: because in Virginia it's you know, there's a small handful
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  Speaker 8: of people who are permanent election officials, and then it's
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  Speaker 8: you know, hey, can we get some volunteers to help
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  Speaker 8: us after that? Talk about that commitment to the Department
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  Speaker 8: of Elections. In Florida, that seems like it would have
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  Speaker 8: to be necessary to make that work for sure, and.
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  Speaker 9: We for us, it's you know, the mantra is driven
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  Speaker 9: obviously in Florida by the governor. So it was you know,
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  Speaker 9: since two thousand, we've had Rick Scott twice, we've had
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  Speaker 9: Ron DeSantis twice. You know, it was it was moving,
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  Speaker 9: you know, we were Jet Bush was finishing up his
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  Speaker 9: second term. So we've had some really good governors that
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  Speaker 9: set the tone. But then for us in Florida, it's
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  Speaker 9: all about the Secretary of State's office. So the Secretary
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  Speaker 9: of State, which is an appointed position, is the one
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  Speaker 9: who oversees the sixty seven counties in Florida, who then
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  Speaker 9: have Supervisors of Elections. So the legislature puts into place
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  Speaker 9: certain guard rails, certain security measures, and then the Secretary
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  Speaker 9: of State's office in Florida oversees these supervisors of elections
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  Speaker 9: who must implement these guardrails that have been put in place.
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  Speaker 9: But even things that that would not require a Secretary
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  Speaker 9: of State or a legislative action or or poll watchers,
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  Speaker 9: you know in in Arlington and Richmond and some of
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  Speaker 9: these very very large urban areas just have transparency, sunlight,
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  Speaker 9: and poll watchers from both parties and and and the
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  Speaker 9: voter ID if you just allow for voter ID. Those
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  Speaker 9: are some of the you know what is it, Sunshine's
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  Speaker 9: the best disinfectants. Those are the simple things that can
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  Speaker 9: be done in a in a in a state like Virginia.
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  Speaker 8: I've been a poll watcher for political parties before and
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  Speaker 8: pre COVID and post COVID, there were very different sets
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  Speaker 8: of rules. Distance became a factor. It's very difficult to
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  Speaker 8: be a poll watcher when you're across the room from
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  Speaker 8: where the ballots are being counted. Talking about yeah, and
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  Speaker 8: that sounds very wonky, but it's a subtle thing. That
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  Speaker 8: nobody would complain about until the function has to happen.
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  Speaker 8: You're like, well, I can't really verify that ballot because
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  Speaker 8: I'm sitting all the way over here, Whereas prior to COVID,
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  Speaker 8: the poll watchers were sitting right behind the desk where
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  Speaker 8: the votes were being cast.
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  Speaker 9: Sure, we have poll watchers at ballot drop offs. We
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  Speaker 9: have poll watchers when you walk in and vote, either
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  Speaker 9: you know, two weeks ahead of time or day of
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  Speaker 9: you they are they are right there, not crowding you
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  Speaker 9: when you're voting, but they're right there. We have machine
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  Speaker 9: means that then you fill in the little oval, you
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  Speaker 9: put it in the machine, and then there are paper
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  Speaker 9: ballots that get spit out that show you that you
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  Speaker 9: voted and that your vote has been counted and so
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  Speaker 26: He reached out to brenton. Brent was good in this
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 26: James kind of indicated to me this is the job
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 20: So one week ago. One week ago, there's a big, big, big,
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  Speaker 3: But goes, that's a good idea.
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  Speaker 8: Let's fly.
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  Speaker 20: But let's not fly in this day. College people can
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  Speaker 4: Probably.
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  Speaker 20: It's so true when we weren't, when we weren't recording
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• 36:14
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• 36:16
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  Speaker 20: Yeah, next week will be because Lane Kiffin said he
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  Speaker 8: Good morning, Bob. How are you doing this Friday morning?
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  Speaker 28: Sir?
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  Speaker 8: Again, I'm sorry I didn't I didn't catch you. Apologies
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  Speaker 8: for that.
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  Speaker 4: I had a.
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  Speaker 28: Doing well? Joe, Happy Friday? Thanks for having me again.
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  Speaker 8: Not at all. So I'm curious about something because at
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  Speaker 8: least eight times over the last week I have seen
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  Speaker 8: either a press release or heard somebody say we are
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  Speaker 8: here to lower costs for people. And I've been asked
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  Speaker 8: by listeners about how Abigail Spanberger, who you worked with
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  Speaker 8: in Congress, can go out and say we're going to
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  Speaker 8: lower costs for people's and insert. She's got a myriad
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  Speaker 8: healthcare costs. Eric Swallwell announcing his run for governor. I
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  Speaker 8: know you worked with him, or at least in the
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  Speaker 8: same building as him for some years. In the House.
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  Speaker 8: He's out there taking his chiicom spy paramore to the
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  Speaker 8: perhaps the governor's mansion in Sacramento, and he was on
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  Speaker 8: Jimmy Kimmel saying he welcomes Marjorie Taylor Green into their
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  Speaker 8: big tend to help lower people's costs for things. Nobody's
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  Speaker 8: lowering anyone's costs. They're just picking up the tab with
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  Speaker 8: other people's money, right, Bob Well.
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  Speaker 28: These leftist Democrats are incoming Governor Spanberger and the would
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  Speaker 28: be governor of California apparently launching his campaign, Eric Swolwell,
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  Speaker 28: and other Democrats, whether it's Mom Donnie in New York City.
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  Speaker 28: They certainly don't know how to lower costs. They don't
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  Speaker 28: understand it because the only that government can really do
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  Speaker 28: is not to do things that actually increase costs or
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  Speaker 28: whether they can undo things that have caused the cost
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  Speaker 28: to increase. They can reduce regulations, as President Trump has
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  Speaker 28: fought so hard to do in both his first and
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  Speaker 28: his second term, which you save people thousands of dollars
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  Speaker 28: on annual basis, and that is going to work again
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  Speaker 28: economically for this country. In the second term of the
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  Speaker 28: Digitzen's first term, they can take the shackles off affordable,
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  Speaker 28: reliable energy production so that we have cheap, plentiful energy,
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  Speaker 28: which is the one of the greatest drivers of cost
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  Speaker 28: in the country. Everything is made by petroleum, everything is
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  Speaker 28: shipped through petroleum. What they can do is stop subsidizing
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  Speaker 28: wind and solar or forcing wind and solar production, which
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  Speaker 28: is causing utility prices to skyrocket as we know. They
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  Speaker 28: can foster competition in the free market and get government
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  Speaker 28: out of the way and move barriers and restrictions and
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  Speaker 28: again costs and permitting and things like that, and they
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  Speaker 28: can stop. Obviously, we don't want price controls. That's what
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  Speaker 28: Mom Donnie means when talking about lowering costs. He means
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  Speaker 28: price controls, which obviously have never worked, never will work.
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  Speaker 28: But what they can do is foster competition the free
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  Speaker 28: market system, unleash the American economy. That's what truly drives
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  Speaker 28: cost and what we're suffering under the record inflation And
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  Speaker 28: even though it slowed this year, prices haven't actually went
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  Speaker 28: down that inflation has. The growth or the increase of
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  Speaker 28: prices has decreased. But what happened at the greatest government
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  Speaker 28: intervention into the economy with the harm that was done
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  Speaker 28: during COVID, which is what cast and all the spending
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  Speaker 28: that caused a massive inflation.
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  Speaker 8: And it is so hard to convince people because we
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  Speaker 8: all want to be activists, we all want to be
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  Speaker 8: doing something. But what you laid out is so perfectly
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  Speaker 8: Adam Smith capitalism. You let the marketplace punish the bad actors,
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  Speaker 8: you let the marketplace reward the good actors, and you
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  Speaker 8: go from there. But they're just looking to I guess
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  Speaker 8: to wind up happening exactly right.
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  Speaker 28: And I'll add in that President Trump's trade policies, his tariffs,
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  Speaker 28: are designed to try to reduce costs in this country
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  Speaker 28: by obviously go ahead.
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  Speaker 8: Well that's in the interesting point because the word tariff
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  Speaker 8: is one of those that conservatives immediately will jump to us.
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  Speaker 8: I'm against tariff's but if you look at how he's
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  Speaker 8: used tariffs, and we just signed the deal last week
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  Speaker 8: with was it Ecuador, l Salvador, Argentina lowering the cost
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  Speaker 8: of meat and so many other of their goods but
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  Speaker 8: also opening their markets up to our agricultural and technological people.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, that's a big deal.
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  Speaker 4: And he did it.
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  Speaker 8: By saying, well, I'm going to have to hike your
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  Speaker 8: tariffs if you don't work with us.
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  Speaker 28: Well. In a recent episode of my podcast, I talked
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  Speaker 28: about how I agree with President trent Comes intentions what
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  Speaker 28: he's trying to do open our markets or open foreign
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  Speaker 28: markets to our exports, trying to level the playing fields
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  Speaker 28: top United States from taking advantage of bringing manufacturing jobs
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  Speaker 28: back here have fair trade, that we can have free trade.
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  Speaker 28: And he's also certainly trying to use tariffs to leverage
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  Speaker 28: foreign policy object actives. But I also made the point
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  Speaker 28: that Congress has the constitutional responsibility of taxes and tariffs.
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  Speaker 28: It's not an executive branch's responsibility or authority to do that.
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  Speaker 28: And I think the Supreme Coury is likely to rule
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  Speaker 28: against him and to suspend his his tariffs, if you will.
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  Speaker 28: But I agree with his intentions, and I think it
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  Speaker 28: will have a positive dire effect over time, even though
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  Speaker 28: I think he does need congressional approval constitutional to do.
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  Speaker 8: It, so he needs you know, the clock is taking
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  Speaker 8: for Stephen Miller and these folks to get the deals
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  Speaker 8: done before the Supreme Court. But that's the thing, and
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  Speaker 8: it's the competitiveness of America. We just visited with a
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  Speaker 8: fellow from a company called Graphite one yesterday. The chief
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  Speaker 8: development officer was on with us. They've just discovered a
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  Speaker 8: huge and I imagine it's just if you look at
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  Speaker 8: the way geology works. You know, the rare earths that
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  Speaker 8: China has been exploiting from their country and Rush has
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  Speaker 8: been exploiting from theirs. We have a deposited up in
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  Speaker 8: Alaska of rare earth elements that could level that playing field.
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  Speaker 8: That's a huge game changer from an economic standpoint, isn't it, Bob.
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  Speaker 28: Well, From an economic standpoint, and as well as from
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  Speaker 28: a national security standpoint, we need to reduce ours and
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  Speaker 28: the world's dependence on China for something so critical like
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  Speaker 28: rare earth minerals. And so President Trump has obviously been
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  Speaker 28: very positive on things like this, opening up our country
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  Speaker 28: to harvest our resources appropriately and responsibly. So and so
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  Speaker 28: I hope that will move forward accordingly.
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  Speaker 8: So what do you see now that the shutdown is
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  Speaker 8: waylaid until January thirtieth, Is anything going to move or
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  Speaker 8: are we just going to be back in shutdown mania
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  Speaker 8: come middle of January.
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  Speaker 28: I think you're going to be in a shutdown fight.
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  Speaker 28: And at the end of January, things don't look good
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  Speaker 28: from a fiscal standpoint, in the sense that again spending
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  Speaker 28: was increased by four percent on the three bills that
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  Speaker 28: were funded for a year. We squandered the opportunity to
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  Speaker 28: deal with food stamps and SNAP, which, if you know,
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  Speaker 28: the administration is highlighted that a couple hundred thousand people
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  Speaker 28: are fraudulently were fraudulently receiving SNAP and who were deceased,
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  Speaker 28: it for another year, but increased funding for a year
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  Speaker 28: The other nine bills were short term funded through the
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