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Brian talks with Congressman Warren Davidson · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: It's seven six here five Karrecity Talk Station. Happy Friday
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Speaker 1: Eve too. She's already in house, but she'll be joining
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Speaker 1: the program in studio. COmON Police Court Judge Honorable Leah Dennglocker.
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Speaker 1: We're talking about her well, running for another term this year.
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Speaker 1: She's a great judge. We need to elect her. And
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Speaker 1: Jay Ratlif at eight thirty without further ado, though, I
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Speaker 1: love when Congressman Moarn Davidson joins the program. Welcome back,
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Speaker 1: Congressman Davidson. Is always a pleasure to have you on
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Speaker 1: the fifty five Karrose Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Ryan, It's always an honor. Nice to talk with you.
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Speaker 1: Too bad, there's nothing to talk about, Congressman Davidson. How's
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Speaker 1: the family house life treating you?
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Speaker 2: Now?
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Speaker 1: Let's move over to Ice. Minneapolis obviously the epicenter of
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Speaker 1: all the violence that's going on, although it's spread to
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Speaker 1: a variety of different cities. They're a well organized machine.
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Speaker 1: These protesters have a question or two about that. But this,
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Speaker 1: I don't know how it could devolve into it, he said.
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Speaker 1: She said thing without question. I mean the Constitution as
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Speaker 1: it's been interpreted and as the Supreme Court has pronounced
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Speaker 1: federal law exclusively the purview of federal agencies and federal
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Speaker 1: law enfor enforcement officers don't have to succumb to the
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Speaker 1: whim of a local municipality or jurisdiction or state. They're
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Speaker 1: entitled to enter into the area to conduct the federal
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Speaker 1: law enforcement actions. And that's exactly what they're doing. The
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Speaker 1: immigration laws have not changed since I don't know what
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Speaker 1: the nineties or something, the last time we had any change.
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Speaker 1: They're on the books, they are being enforced now. The
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Speaker 1: Biden administration just chose not to enforce them. So this
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Speaker 1: is all above board legitimate activity, is it not?
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Speaker 2: Well? Look, I mean when we went from the Articles
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Speaker 2: of Confederation to the Constitution way back in seventeen eighty nine,
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Speaker 2: one of the main things was you would have a
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Speaker 2: uniform standard for naturalization, like who's a citizen? You know why,
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Speaker 2: because who's the citizen matters? Know how you become a
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Speaker 2: citizen matters. And I won't say we've got that nailed
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Speaker 2: down perfectly. There's problems with how you become a citizen
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Speaker 2: and everything. So Democrats decided, oh well, just worrying about
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Speaker 2: the distinction and flood the country with tens of millions
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Speaker 2: of people who are here illegally, and they don't just
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Speaker 2: go anywhere. They tend to go towards sanctuary cities and
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Speaker 2: states where they know immigration law isn't going to be forced.
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Speaker 2: You've got local law enforcement running interference on it. And
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Speaker 2: why are these things happening in Minneapolis and Minnesota because
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Speaker 2: they're huge sanctuary and so they've flooded that area with illegals.
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Speaker 2: Other areas, you know, like Butler County, Ohio, well you
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Speaker 2: don't have this problem because local law enforcements engage. They're
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Speaker 2: applying the law there and they're helping. So when they
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Speaker 2: pull somebody over and they're not here legally, they will
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Speaker 2: detain them and call ICE. ICE will come by pick
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Speaker 2: them up. Everything's nice and orderly. But in Minneapolis, they're
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Speaker 2: literally obstructing justice in blocking and then you've got these
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Speaker 2: citizen observers who want to drive off and disrupt and
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Speaker 2: make the job very challenging for ICE. And unfortunately, this lady,
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Speaker 2: you know, she was somehow doing some kind of righteous
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Speaker 2: cause by preventing there being any accountability for people here
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Speaker 2: illegally and preventing ICE from doing their job, and unfortunately
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Speaker 2: she drove a vehicle at an ICE agent hit him,
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Speaker 2: and you know, he responded in a defensive way with
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Speaker 2: a very accurate shot, several shots. So in tragic that
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Speaker 2: she died. In a powerful interview with her father in law.
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Speaker 1: Recently, I saw that on CNN. Yeah, yeah, I guess
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Speaker 1: it's her fault. According to her father in law, don't
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Speaker 1: do that, don't interfere with law enforcement doing their job,
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Speaker 1: and you won't get hurt. But it's no surprise that
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Speaker 1: there are people like her out there, and obviously quite
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Speaker 1: a few of them. We have elected officials, the mayor
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Speaker 1: of Minneapolis, you got the governor Tim Wallas, and then
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Speaker 1: locally here we have since a city council passing a
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Speaker 1: resolution during which discussion one councilman said that these ICE
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Speaker 1: agents are terror arising our neighborhoods. We had the vice
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Speaker 1: mayors say that the that ICE is an illegal entity,
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Speaker 1: and and the egging on and encouragement of this outright
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Speaker 1: defiance by saying, in spite of the fact that it
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Speaker 1: is an absolute, absolute, outright lie, that ICE is illegal
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Speaker 1: and that they're engaging in illegal activities. Going back to
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Speaker 1: my initial point, the laws are on the books. They
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Speaker 1: are enforcing federal law.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they are. And look it's obvious they are. I
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Speaker 2: mean go back to I mean, you know, iconically for
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Speaker 2: anybody illd enough to remember, you know, Bill Clinton sent
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Speaker 2: in you know, you see a swat team to go
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Speaker 2: extract this little Cuban kid in Florida and they get
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Speaker 2: a guy with an MP five grabbing the kid to
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Speaker 2: send them back to Cuba. Apparently they didn't want them
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Speaker 2: to get exposed to freedom. They needed to make sure
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Speaker 2: he stayed in a communist place. Now they're bringing the
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Speaker 2: communism to America and they don't want anybody to leave.
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Speaker 2: And look, this is what it is. It's a how
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Speaker 2: Er politics thing, right. I mean, they flooded the country
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Speaker 2: with tens of millions illegals and they went to sanctuary cities.
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Speaker 2: Why because they run their cities and states like crap,
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Speaker 2: so people who can voluntarily leave. So that's where like
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Speaker 2: you know, the counties the belt around big cities they're growing,
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Speaker 2: the affluence tends to get out of the city where
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Speaker 2: they're going to you know, get terrible service for the money,
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Speaker 2: heavy taxes that they're paying and the heavy regulation they're
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Speaker 2: dealing with. So they keep moving. And if they can't
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Speaker 2: get out of the city far enough, they'll get all
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Speaker 2: the way out of the state. Is California's finding out.
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Speaker 2: And then when you do the census, you go, wow,
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Speaker 2: nobody lives in the city. You guys don't have a
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Speaker 2: full representative anymore. Well, your state's losing representatives and and
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Speaker 2: they're countering that by flooding it with people. And this
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Speaker 2: is where we need an honest census. You should only
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Speaker 2: count citizens when you do the census. California would lose
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Speaker 2: six or seven representatives if that were true and fair enough.
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Speaker 2: Other states Texas, Arizona might lose some too. Ohio would
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Speaker 2: probably gain one or more. But that would be an
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Speaker 2: honest thing. Right. In Congress, we represent American citizens. We
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Speaker 2: don't represent foreign nationals. That's why you have embassies and consulates.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I always struggle with the concept of that.
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Speaker 1: The argument, well, the illegal immigrants, while illegal not here
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Speaker 1: within the United States or here lawfully, they are in
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Speaker 1: our area, consuming goods and services and things brought by
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Speaker 1: the government. Ergo, they're impacted by their by whatever vote
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Speaker 1: is cast, so they should have a vote. And I'm
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Speaker 1: not buying into that at all. I Mean, the best
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Speaker 1: you can argue is that someone who is here maybe
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Speaker 1: not a citizen, but who is lawfully here, is given
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Speaker 1: a work permit, for example, and is paying taxes, you
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Speaker 1: at least have a plausible argument for counting them. But
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Speaker 1: the minutias where the whole thing falls apart.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, we'll hopefully get a good decision out
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Speaker 2: of the court Supreme Court here on that and clarify
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Speaker 2: this hasn't been litigated the right way. And you know,
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Speaker 2: I think we have a chance to get a better decision.
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Speaker 2: I think you shouldn't count period unless you're a citizen.
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Speaker 2: We've got legislation trying to make that happen, and they're
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Speaker 2: fighting in court to make that happen. But in the meantime, Look,
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Speaker 2: the way that illegal immigrants should be impacted is you're
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Speaker 2: you're leaving because you're not here legally, and you know, well,
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Speaker 2: there should be a path to be here legally. There is.
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Speaker 2: We have an immigration law and you need to follow it.
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Speaker 2: And you know, a lot of the people that are
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Speaker 2: most resentful about illegal immigration are the legal immigrants, the
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Speaker 2: people that did come here legally. And you know, we
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Speaker 2: talk to these people all the time, and that that's
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Speaker 2: the thing. And look, we've got some communities Lachland, for example,
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Speaker 2: where you have a large flood of people from Eritrea
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Speaker 2: that you know, you have about as many people who
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Speaker 2: came there as the whole population of Lachlan. And people say, well,
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Speaker 2: you know, they're making up resources. We need federal dollars
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Speaker 2: to deal with this. The federal dollars you need is
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Speaker 2: to extract the people that aren't here lawfully. That's what
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Speaker 2: needs to happen. And you know, it's disappointing that we're
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Speaker 2: having to do this. It seems so bad to have
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Speaker 2: to get these people out of the country or detained
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Speaker 2: or whatever. This is all because the Biden administration facilitated
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Speaker 2: an invasion of our country. They perverted our laws, which
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Speaker 2: are supposed to be upheld by the executive branch. They're
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Speaker 2: supposed to go faithfully execute the laws, and they literally
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Speaker 2: undermine those laws. And we couldn't get a judge to
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Speaker 2: take action to stop them from ignoring the law and
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Speaker 2: make them enforced and apply the law. So this is
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Speaker 2: the corrupted judiciary branch. And now you've got the judiciary
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Speaker 2: branch out there trying to block President Trump from enforcing
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Speaker 2: the clear meaning of the law. And when you talk
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Speaker 2: about clear meaning, of the law. I mean, you get
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Speaker 2: the Supreme Court this week here in cases where well
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Speaker 2: we don't really know what a difference between a man
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Speaker 2: and a woman is in law. I mean, so it's
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Speaker 2: just nonsensical stuff going on, and it's just hard to
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Speaker 2: fathom that you're even having these discussions.
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Speaker 1: Hard to fathom. Indeed, we'll continue with Congressman Warren Davidson.
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Speaker 1: me every week for a little while. Congressman Davidson pivoting
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Speaker 1: over are we gonna have another government shutdown? And if so,
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Speaker 1: is this going to be over Obamacare subsidies, which merely
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Speaker 1: masks the failing reality of obamacaren does nothing about the
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Speaker 1: cost of healthcare? Or is this going to be about
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Speaker 1: maybe funding Ice and its operations. Congressman Davidson, it sounds
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Speaker 1: like a little bit of both.
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Speaker 2: I mean, if you listen to Chuck Schumer in the
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Speaker 2: Senate that seems to say, you know, six weeks wasn't
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Speaker 2: enough back in the fall. We want to go ahead
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Speaker 2: and do it some more. And we saw some polling
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Speaker 2: where Democrats at approval rating with their base actually went
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Speaker 2: down when they reopened the government. They were happier with
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Speaker 2: their Democrat leaders when they had the government shut down.
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Speaker 2: So they seem to say, yeah, let's do it. And
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Speaker 2: I think, look, the other thing at play here is
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Speaker 2: the economy is starting to move in the right direction.
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Speaker 2: There's good momentum behind a lot of things, and Democrats
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Speaker 2: don't want that to happen in an election year. It
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Speaker 2: don't want all the results from these policies that have
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Speaker 2: happened last year, keeping taxes low, driving investment in jobs
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Speaker 2: coming in, and investment groundbreakings, announced new work out there
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Speaker 2: for people. They don't want those things to kick in
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Speaker 2: and have people with more cash in their pocket and
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Speaker 2: able to deal with the affordability challenges that have been
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Speaker 2: out there better than they have been. They don't want
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Speaker 2: that to happen between now and November. And I think
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Speaker 2: that's part of it.
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Speaker 1: Well, this affordability argument that they're making is nonsensical. First off,
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Speaker 1: inflation brought about a lot under the Biden administration for
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Speaker 1: chucking another eight or so trillion dollars into the economy,
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Speaker 1: feeding everyone with a whole lot of additional cash while
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Speaker 1: a lot of us, a lot of the business and
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Speaker 1: industry was shut down because of COVID. So the demand
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Speaker 1: went up precipitously because of the infusion of cash, and
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Speaker 1: yet the supply wasn't there. We all know what that happened.
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Speaker 1: That results in inflation. But then the vast majority of inflation,
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Speaker 1: and this so called affordability problem is brought about mostly
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Speaker 1: by regulation, government intervention, which forces us to have to
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Speaker 1: spend more to engage in our day to day activities.
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Speaker 1: The green whole get rid of carbon dioxide plant food
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Speaker 1: thing causing electricity plants to engage in massive, multi billion
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Speaker 1: dollar projects to capture carbon that drives our energy bill up.
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Speaker 1: The sporadic reality of green energy production windmills and solar
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Speaker 1: panels which go on and off and it ends up
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Speaker 1: spiking the cost of electricity that increases it all the
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Speaker 1: and mandates on our automobiles, which Trump thankfully got rid of,
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Speaker 1: drives the price of automobiles up. I mean, we could
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Speaker 1: go on and on the key and the most nefarious
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Speaker 1: element to affordability are massive government regulations and manipulations that
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Speaker 1: are that are heaped down upon us by oro elected officials.
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Speaker 1: That's an easy effects get rid of them.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's well said Brian. I mean that's exactly what's
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Speaker 2: been underway is ditching those crazy policies. And you know
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Speaker 2: the other component of is the spending in the subsidies.
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Speaker 2: So everything that you subsidize, like okay, get I get it,
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Speaker 2: it's expensive, Okay, well let's subsidize it. Well, that's going
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Speaker 2: to cause the inflation to be even higher than it
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Speaker 2: was before. And the things that are most heavily subsidized, education, healthcare, housing,
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Speaker 2: these things, the rate of inflation is bigger than the
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Speaker 2: things that aren't subsidized. And you know, you've just you're
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Speaker 2: choking on a fatal over to us a government right
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Speaker 2: out here. And that's what they want to mask with
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Speaker 2: the Obamacare subsidies. And look, these aren't like everything in Obamacare.
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Speaker 2: This is a small subset of Obamacare that were COVID
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Speaker 2: era subsidies. And they're like, well, we need an off ramp.
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Speaker 2: You're like, well, COVID's been over since twenty one. I
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Speaker 2: think you've had a pretty good long, pretty long off
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Speaker 2: ramp here. And Democrats built it. They put it in
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Speaker 2: in the first place. Yes, they're like, well, Republicans aren't
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Speaker 2: helping us, and you're like, well, we didn't help you
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Speaker 2: put it on. It was a whole party, party line
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Speaker 2: vote to put it in the first place. But there
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Speaker 2: are some Republicans that want to work with them in
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Speaker 2: exchange for some reform, but they're like, no, no, we
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Speaker 2: don't want any of the reform. Part like, oh, then
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Speaker 2: you don't have the votes, right.
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Speaker 1: Well, you know, the key, the outphant in the room
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Speaker 1: on this discussion is why does something need to be subsidized. Well,
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Speaker 1: you subsidize wind and solar because it's not affordable. It
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Speaker 1: doesn't produce sufficient energy, and the only reason anybody would
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Speaker 1: buy it is if you provide tax and centives and
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Speaker 1: subsidies for the stuff to be built in the first place.
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Speaker 1: So it's a faux market competition. The subsidies allow it
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Speaker 1: to compete with something that works really well, like gas
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Speaker 1: and oil, but then you heap massive energy taxes environmental
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Speaker 1: rules on the gas and oil production. It pushes that
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Speaker 1: price up artificially, making wind and sol look better. Same
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Speaker 1: thing with medical care. Why do you need an Obamacare subsidy?
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Speaker 2: What's it?
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Speaker 1: The root of the problem. It's the cost of health care.
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Speaker 1: They haven't done anything to lower the cost of health care.
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Speaker 1: That's the root of the problem.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and they don't want to talk about changing any
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Speaker 2: of those things because they want the problem. I mean,
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Speaker 2: and look, they're trying to get so much government that
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Speaker 2: they completely take over healthcare like a lot of other
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Speaker 2: socialists utopias. Right, So this is the problem with their policies,
14:50
Speaker 2: and eventually you run out of other people's money, but
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Speaker 2: they haven't let that be a constraint. Right. So, look,
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Speaker 2: the idea of a balanced budget. It holds in state,
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Speaker 2: it's like Ohio where we have to by law. But
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Speaker 2: at the federal level, you know, we're spending seven trillion
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Speaker 2: dollars more than seven trillion dollars and five trillion come out.
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Speaker 2: And I mean, think about it. If you had like
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Speaker 2: a ten gallon barrel and you took five gallons of
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Speaker 2: water out of the barrel and you put seven gallons in, well,
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Speaker 2: the water levels higher if it was fully full to ten.
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Speaker 2: It's overflowing. That's what's inflation. You're dumping an extra two
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Speaker 2: trillion dollars in the economy every single year with the
15:36
Speaker 2: structural defenity we've got, and unfortunately, what we're seeing also
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Speaker 2: in the Sanctuary city of Minneapolis, or Little Mogadishue as
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Speaker 2: some have started calling it, you've got these Somali fraud issues,
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Speaker 2: and you know you're looking at as much as you know,
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Speaker 2: five to ten percent fraud. And that's why Doge came
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Speaker 2: in and started saying, look, we got to start shutting
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Speaker 2: this down. And look sadly, Republicans barely could muster the
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Speaker 2: votes to defund NPR right, so we haven't been as
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Speaker 2: aggressive on some of the cutting in Congress as the
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Speaker 2: administration is. They're like, well, we're simply withholding funds until
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Speaker 2: XYZ so that they can actually get after some of
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Speaker 2: the fraud. So I think a lot of things are
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Speaker 2: going the right way, yes, and Democrats don't like that,
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Speaker 2: and that's why we may well end up with a
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Speaker 2: shutdown here on January thirtieth.
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Speaker 1: Well, if the shutdown the name of getting rid of fraud, waste,
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Speaker 1: and abuse, I'm all in favor of it. I think
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Speaker 1: this whole Minneapolis. Reality has settled in Well. I can't
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Speaker 1: imagine any individual, regardless of political stripe, thinking that ferreting
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Speaker 1: out and preventing fraud, waste, and abuse is a bad idea, unless,
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Speaker 1: of course, you're part of the nefarious type which realizes that, well,
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Speaker 1: my political career or my political party will benefit because
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Speaker 1: these fraudulent tax dollars are going to end up in
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Speaker 1: my pocket. That's criminal. So the balance of us, the
16:53
Speaker 1: rest of us, the saint of us in the world,
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Speaker 1: realize that taxpayer dollars stolen harm every taxpayer, regardless of
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Speaker 1: political stripe, and prevent those who may be truly in
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Speaker 1: need of the services offered by any given program are
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Speaker 1: going to be deprived of that because of the criminal activity.
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Speaker 1: That is a bipartisan reality, Congressman Davids, And at least
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Speaker 1: that's my take.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, common sense, I mean, I think one of the
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Speaker 2: best phrases was Sarah Huckabye Sanders rebuttal to Joe Biden's
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Speaker 2: want of Joe Biden's State of the Union addresses is
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Speaker 2: a dividing lines, not red versus blue, Republican versus Democrat,
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Speaker 2: but really normal versus crazy at this point, and those
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Speaker 2: are so many of the kinds of discussions we're having,
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Speaker 2: and you know, I, you know, I think in our
17:36
Speaker 2: part of southwest Ohio people are in the We're in
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Speaker 2: the normal camp here, yep. With some exceptions, as you
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Speaker 2: point out in the city of Cincinnati, like where it's
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Speaker 2: controversial to have law and order and put people in
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Speaker 2: jail for committing crimes.
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Speaker 1: Some people just like to protest, not really a commitment
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Speaker 1: to the cause, it's just they want to buck whatever
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Speaker 1: system they live under. Congressman Warren Davis, and cannot thank
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Speaker 1: you enough for joining my listeners and me everyone. It's
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Speaker 1: always a wonderful conversation. It's nice to know that we
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Speaker 1: have an elected official who isn't insane and who always
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Speaker 1: does the right thing. Congressman, we'll get you on again
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Speaker 1: real soon. I hope you have a wonderful week.
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Speaker 2: You as well. Brian gav Bless you and all your listeners.
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