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Senate Refuses to Budge on Save America Act · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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  Speaker 1: Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. It's
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  Speaker 1: America's favorite gun, total bible clinging, deplorable American.
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  Speaker 2: That's us, that.
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  Speaker 3: American.
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  Speaker 2: Todd Starns And Hello everybody. This is the Todd Starns
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  Speaker 2: Radio Show. I am your host, Todd Starns broadcasting border
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  Speaker 2: to border, coast to coast across the Fruited Plain. And wow,
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  Speaker 2: do we have a very busy show for you today, everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Great to have you with us. And can we start
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  Speaker 2: out with the great big elephant in the room. And
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  Speaker 2: that elephant would be none other than Senate Majority Leader
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  Speaker 2: John Thoon. Now, I watched the President's remarks yesterday and
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  Speaker 2: the President did a terrific job. He was doing two
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  Speaker 2: big events and yesterday a lot of just about all
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  Speaker 2: of the congressional delegation in the Congressional Caucus rather was
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  Speaker 2: in Miami for this meeting, Republicans meeting with the President
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  Speaker 2: who is not only the leader of the free world,
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  Speaker 2: but he's also the leader of the Republican Party. And
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  Speaker 2: the President gave a terrific speech. Did I think a
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  Speaker 2: wonderful job of outlining all of the incredible successes that
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  Speaker 2: he has achieved over the very brief I mean not
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  Speaker 2: even a year and a half in office, and the
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  Speaker 2: President has just really done some pretty remarkable things for
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  Speaker 2: the country. But one of the big challenges here is
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  Speaker 2: the voter ID, and ladies and gentlemen, if we do
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  Speaker 2: not get voter ID across the finish line, the republic
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  Speaker 2: is going to be in serious trouble here, and the
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  Speaker 2: President is catching all sorts of blowback. And what really
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  Speaker 2: bothered me about yesterday, and I don't know if you
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  Speaker 2: had a chance to watch it on Newsmax, but it
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  Speaker 2: was we broadcast the entire speech, and it really angered
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  Speaker 2: me to watch our president, a man who literally took
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  Speaker 2: a bullet to the head for this nation, a man
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  Speaker 2: who literally provided the coattails that the Republicans needed to
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  Speaker 2: win Congress. It was alarming to me to watch this
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  Speaker 2: man beg and plead with members of his own party
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  Speaker 2: to get this legislation across the finish line. It was
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  Speaker 2: it was embarrassing. But this is the position that John
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  Speaker 2: Thune and the Republicans in the US Senate have placed
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  Speaker 2: our president in, and it's really it's just unacceptable. Here
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  Speaker 2: is the president pleading with these four to five senators
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  Speaker 2: that simply refuse to vote on the same act take
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  Speaker 2: a lesson, and.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to have to push the Senate because you
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  Speaker 4: have four or five senators that are I don't know,
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  Speaker 4: four or five Republican senators. You'll have to explain them
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  Speaker 4: to me. But we're not going to get into that.
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  Speaker 4: But we're going to push them to get it done
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  Speaker 4: because I don't think you can politically exist if you're
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  Speaker 4: not going to do voter idea in these things. I
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  Speaker 4: don't think the people in this country will stand for it.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm making my biggest plea tonight. It'll make you
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  Speaker 4: and I'm not doing it for this reason at all.
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  Speaker 4: It'll guarantee the midterms. It'll guarantee the midterms. If you
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  Speaker 4: don't get it, big trouble. My opinion. If you get
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  Speaker 4: this your midterms and they know it for two reasons.
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  Speaker 4: Number one, they won't be able to cheat, and number two,
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  Speaker 4: the people are demanding it. Every time I go out,
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  Speaker 4: Save America, sir, Save America Act. We want the Save
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  Speaker 4: America Acts, sir. That's all they talk about. They don't
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  Speaker 4: talk about housing, they don't talk about anything. That's what
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  Speaker 4: they talk about. And if you send it up that
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  Speaker 4: you're gonna win the midterms at levels that you can't
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  Speaker 4: even believe, and you're gonna win every election for a
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  Speaker 4: long time until somebody really screws things up, and hopefully
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  Speaker 4: that won't happen.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the President. And he went back to this
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  Speaker 2: theme several times, and every single time he went back,
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  Speaker 2: I just felt my blood pressure going up. I had
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  Speaker 2: to stop what I was doing and go drink an
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  Speaker 2: emergency doctor pepper. That's how bad it got. So it
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  Speaker 2: frustrates me because now the Senate Majority Leader is coming
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  Speaker 2: out and he is saying John Thune is now saying
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  Speaker 2: that the American people really don't want the Save America Act,
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  Speaker 2: that it's just a bunch of paid influencers. So the
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  Speaker 2: Majority Leader is trying to convince and maybe he has
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  Speaker 2: convinced all of the folks up on Capitol hilp that
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  Speaker 2: the majority of the American people just simply do not
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  Speaker 2: want voter integrity. This is something that the paid social
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  Speaker 2: media influencers are getting money to advance this cause. I
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  Speaker 2: just want to go on the record here, yours truly
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  Speaker 2: has not received a single penny from anyone to promote
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  Speaker 2: the Save America Act. Not a single penny, you say, Todd,
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  Speaker 2: what are you doing here? You're playing with words. You
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  Speaker 2: know they don't make pennies anymore. Okay, fine, not a
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  Speaker 2: plug nickel. They haven't given me a plug nickel to
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  Speaker 2: promote the Save America Act, and it bothers me, and
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  Speaker 2: quite frankly, it's offensive that John Thune would somehow suggest
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  Speaker 2: that my support of the Save America Act is based
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  Speaker 2: on how much money I'm getting from lobbyists, which is
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  Speaker 2: really rich coming from someone like John Thune who was
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  Speaker 2: a multimillionaire many times over, How exactly did Senate majority
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  Speaker 2: of Leader John Thune get his riches, get his treasure?
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  Speaker 2: I do wonder so. Senator Mike Lee is now firing
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  Speaker 2: back at John Thune. Here's what he had to say,
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  Speaker 2: got number three.
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  Speaker 5: Over the last few months, tens of millions of Americans
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  Speaker 5: have jumped on the cause of supporting the Save America
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  Speaker 5: Act and using the talking filibuster to advance it. I
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  Speaker 5: regret that Smon Washington tonight are dismissing all those who
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  Speaker 5: feel this way and who have weighed in as somehow
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  Speaker 5: paid influencers or the product of paid influencers.
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  Speaker 3: This is wrong.
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  Speaker 5: So if you're hearing this message and you agree with
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  Speaker 5: these objectives, please redouble your efforts. Make clear this is
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  Speaker 5: not the product of paid influencers. These are real Americans
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  Speaker 5: doing what Americans do best.
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  Speaker 2: So look, here's what needs to happen. We need to
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  Speaker 2: know from the President officially who are the four to
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  Speaker 2: five senators. I mean, I've got a pretty good idea,
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  Speaker 2: but we need to know officially from the White House
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  Speaker 2: who are the senators who are standing in the way.
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  Speaker 2: You ladies and gentlemen need to be calling your senators
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  Speaker 2: from your states to make sure that they're supporting this
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  Speaker 2: and they know that you want them to support the
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  Speaker 2: Save America Act. And all of us need to be
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  Speaker 2: deluging Senate Majority Leader John Thune's office. This is an
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  Speaker 2: all hands on deck moment because now Thune is saying, well,
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  Speaker 2: we just don't know if we got the time to
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  Speaker 2: do it. No, no, no, you got to make the time.
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  Speaker 2: You have to make the time to get this across
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  Speaker 2: the finish line. But my question is very simple, and
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  Speaker 2: we have i would say thousands of people in our
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  Speaker 2: nation's capital that listen to this program, and they need
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  Speaker 2: to hear from you. Senator John Thune says, all you
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  Speaker 2: people really don't care about this. The only folks who
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  Speaker 2: care are the paid social media influencers. Is that true?
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  Speaker 2: parts today. But ladies and gentlemen, I think, and it
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  Speaker 2: is not an understatement to say that the fate of
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  Speaker 2: the Republic really does lie with what the Senate does
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  Speaker 2: here or does not do when it comes to the
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  Speaker 2: Save Act and the Save America Act. And I do
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  Speaker 2: encourage you to call your senators and let them know
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  Speaker 2: where you stand on this. There's really and again you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna hear, You're gonna hear your senators say, oh no, no, no,
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  Speaker 2: I do support the Save Act, but we just don't
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  Speaker 2: have the votes. No, they do have the votes. They
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  Speaker 2: can force a talking filibuster, but they don't want to
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  Speaker 2: do it. And John Thune is hiding behind And there's
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  Speaker 2: not even a rule. Do you know when you look
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  Speaker 2: at the rules of the US Senate that have been
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  Speaker 2: around since the start of the Republic, the word filibuster
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  Speaker 2: is not even in the rules of the Senate. So
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  Speaker 2: this is nothing more than the Republicans trying to slow
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  Speaker 2: down President Trump's agenda and his plans. Look Dick Durbin
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  Speaker 2: just a few moments ago, speaking in the Senate said
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  Speaker 2: flat out, and he said Look, if this thing passes,
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  Speaker 2: millions of people are going to be coming off the
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  Speaker 2: voter rules. Yeah. Absolutely, And that's the point of all
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  Speaker 2: of this, is that we have so many people voting
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  Speaker 2: that should not be voting, and the Save America Act
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  Speaker 2: is going to take care of that. We're finally going
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  Speaker 2: to have fair elections. We're going to have integrity at
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  Speaker 2: the ballot box. And by the way, Senator John Cornyn,
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  Speaker 2: he's already exposed himself on this. He's already exposed himself.
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  Speaker 2: And I know the President still waiting to endorse in
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  Speaker 2: the Texas Senate race the primary. I think the President
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  Speaker 2: needs to go ahead, jump in there and throw his
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  Speaker 2: full support behind Ken Paxton, because at least we know
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  Speaker 2: where Ken Paxton's going to stand on all of this.
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  Speaker 2: We don't know where John Cornet. John Cornyn will say
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  Speaker 2: one thing and do another. And that's one of the
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  Speaker 2: reasons why the good people of Texas are done with
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  Speaker 2: this guy. The level of animosity being directed at John
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  Speaker 2: Cornyn by his fellow Republicans there in the Loan Star
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  Speaker 2: State is simply breathtaking, ladies and gentlemen. So this is
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  Speaker 2: where we are now. I got to note what's a
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  Speaker 2: couple of nights ago, they said, Starne, what is going
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  Speaker 2: on here? This makes absolutely no sense. And it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: make any sense. Again, going back to the CNN data,
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  Speaker 2: eighty percent of the American people believed that we should
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  Speaker 2: show an ID when we go to vote. Eighty percent.
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  Speaker 2: This is common sense. And yet the Republicans refused to.
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  Speaker 2: They refused to bunch and thess Tom, what's going on here?
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  Speaker 2: What am I missing?
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  Speaker 6: Well?
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  Speaker 2: I want you to think about something. And this goes
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  Speaker 2: all the way back to twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen, when
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  Speaker 2: Trump finally announced that you came down the Golden Escalator,
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  Speaker 2: announced that he was going to be running for the
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  Speaker 2: White House, and everybody thought Trump was a joke. Everybody did.
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  Speaker 2: But then Trump started to debate. Keep in mind that
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  Speaker 2: this was back in twenty sixteen. That should have been
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  Speaker 2: a Jeb Bush election. Jeb Bush was the guy. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I know, we had what seventeen people running in that
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  Speaker 2: Remember what though you had Mi Kackabee, you had Rick Perry,
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  Speaker 2: Carly Fiorina, Ted Cruz, But it was Jeb Bush. He
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  Speaker 2: was the establishment's choice. And they were enraged not only
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  Speaker 2: that Jeb Bush lost, but that Donald Trump took him out.
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  Speaker 2: Remember low Energy Jeb. Remember that there was payback for
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  Speaker 2: that moment. Payback, and that's what we're watching right now
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  Speaker 2: because the Republicans know they really can't they can't do
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  Speaker 2: anything to stop President Trump's agenda. Keep in mind, President
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  Speaker 2: Trump's agenda is not the Republican Party's agenda. It is
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  Speaker 2: a populist agenda. It's the Republicans that kept getting us
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  Speaker 2: into these endless wars. And I'll get to Iran in
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  Speaker 2: just a moment. It was the Republicans who wanted to
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  Speaker 2: play nice with the Democrats, and Donald Trump came in
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  Speaker 2: and he blew all of that up. It's a new
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  Speaker 2: day in DC, and they know the only way they
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  Speaker 2: can stop his agenda, and there are two ways, and
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  Speaker 2: we're about to see both of these play out. I'm
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  Speaker 2: afraid Number one is to to use the system up
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  Speaker 2: on Capitol Hill to slow down and stop the president's agenda,
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  Speaker 2: which is what's happened here. That's why they've slow rolled
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  Speaker 2: a lot of these judicial nominations, that's why they're stopping
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  Speaker 2: the Save America Act, and they're blaming it all on
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  Speaker 2: Senate procedure, but it's really not procedure. It's about the
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  Speaker 2: Senate Republicans themselves. They're the ones that are doing this.
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  Speaker 2: You say, well, what's the point of all of that, Well,
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  Speaker 2: the second point is this, the only way that Trump
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  Speaker 2: can succeed is with a Republican majority. And these guys
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  Speaker 2: hate Donald Trump so much they are willing to sacrifice
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  Speaker 2: leadership in the House of Representatives and the Senate if
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  Speaker 2: it stops Donald Trump's agenda. So I think what's happening
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  Speaker 2: here and what we're going to see moving into the midterms,
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  Speaker 2: you are going to see establishment Republicans working behind the
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  Speaker 2: scenes to try and sabotage the midterm elections. By the way,
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  Speaker 2: you pay attention to Tucker Carlson. Tucker's out there now
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  Speaker 2: and he's man. That guy is completely off the reservation.
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  Speaker 2: And you've got Nick Fuintes who is now saying he's
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  Speaker 2: going to be voting for Democrats. He's not voting for
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  Speaker 2: Republicans anymore. All the puzzle pieces are coming together here,
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  Speaker 2: and you're going to have all of these forces lining
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  Speaker 2: up to stop Donald Trump. That's what the midterms is
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  Speaker 2: really about. It's about stopping the Trump train. And when
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats finally when they finally take control of the
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  Speaker 2: House and the Senate. It comes to a stop. Mission accomplished.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, people ask that all the time. Would Republicans
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  Speaker 2: really give up all that power? Yes, they would. They've
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  Speaker 2: done it before and they will do it again. That's
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  Speaker 2: how much they hate this man. So we've got a
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  Speaker 2: lot of work to do, and a lot of that
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  Speaker 2: depends upon you making sure you do your homework on
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  Speaker 2: all these Republicans running for Congress. You've got to make
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  Speaker 2: sure that you are voting for America first Republicans, not
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  Speaker 2: the establishment Republicans. I'm just going to tell you right now,
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  Speaker 2: North Carolina, it's going to be a miracle if Michael
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  Speaker 2: Watley wins that Senate race. It truly is. So we've
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  Speaker 2: got we've got a lot, We've got a lot to
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  Speaker 2: talk about. We've got a lot to a lot of
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  Speaker 2: ground to cover. Today. Our telephone number nine oh one
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  Speaker 7: Hey, Todd devourneen. You know, Todd, for all that we know,
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  Speaker 7: all these price pikes could be caused by the Democrats
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  Speaker 7: and their followers to cause division and have people not
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  Speaker 7: of doing. And if we don't get out and vote
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  Speaker 7: against them. You're selling your soul to the devil. My
• 20:34
  Speaker 7: question is simple, Todd, what price are you willing to
• 20:38
  Speaker 7: spend for your freedom? For your freedom gas and gas
• 20:42
  Speaker 7: and food price is going up? Is not worth losing
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: my freedom?
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  Speaker 2: Well, and you know that's exactly how people are going
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: to be voting in the midterms if if these prices
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: are still I don't and I don't think the prices
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: are going to be high right. I understand gas prices
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: are going up, still much lower than what they were
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: during the Biden administration, but those gas prices are going
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: to come back. I will say this. Grocery prices are
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: still struggling, you know, they're still high and people are
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: complaining about that. The affordability issue I think is getting
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: under control. But mark this. The administration does have a
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: challenge here because right now it's all about the the
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: international crises, whether it's Venezuela, Colombia, Uh, what is it you, Iran,
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: and of course Cuba, which apparently, according to Lindsey Graham,
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: we're about to we're about to, you know, blow up.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: I don't know what's going on with that guy. But
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: all that to say, we've got to get this administration
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: focused back on the main narrative, which is domestic policy.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, gas prices here jumped up seventy five cents to
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  Speaker 7: a dollar here in Florida. And the thing is Trump
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: is trump stating he's working with Venezuela. They're getting their
• 21:55
  Speaker 7: equipment backed up. We're going to be getting the oil
• 21:57
  Speaker 7: coming back in. You know, they're protecting and now so
• 22:00
  Speaker 7: the oil can get into them. I don't know what
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: kind of skill's going on there, but the thing is,
• 22:04
  Speaker 7: if we don't get out both, you know, we're gonna
• 22:07
  Speaker 7: lose it. And they're just trying to destroy this country?
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: Is that that's all these Democrats are trying to do.
• 22:13
  Speaker 7: You're right, they're just trying to destroy it and sabotize it.
• 22:16
  Speaker 7: We can't let that happen because are you ready? Is
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: this country ready to deal with what we dealt with
• 22:21
  Speaker 7: with Biden? Do you want to deal with that again?
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  Speaker 2: No? No, no, no. And it's not dealing with Biden, it's
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: dealing with radical progressive I mean these folks. You know
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Biden was not running his White House. You have the
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: radical progressives running the White House, and you're going to
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: have them. I mean, whether it's a Kamala Harris or
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: who you will have somebody And this is going to
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: if we're not careful, the base of the party will
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: become demoralized. And there are a lot of folks that
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: are very upset, a lot of conservatives very upset that
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: we are we're bombing Iran. That you know, a lot
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: of people don't understand why we had to do it,
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: now what the big deal was. Also, there's some reporting
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: out there that Israel told Obama the same thing they
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: told Trump that if you guys, if you Americans don't
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: start the bombing, we're going in without you. And Obama
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: called their bluff and they didn't. Of course, now is
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: a different story.
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  Speaker 7: Well, you got to get out and vote, these Christians,
• 23:26
  Speaker 7: you got to get out and vote. And we went
• 23:28
  Speaker 7: after Iran for a reason. Do your research, Do your
• 23:32
  Speaker 7: research before you vote for somebody into Congress or the Senate.
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  Speaker 7: Do your freaking research before you put somebody in office.
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  Speaker 7: Because if you don't understand something, don't vote.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. I mean, it's a great point. You bring up,
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  Speaker 2: Mark and again when you go back and look at
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Iran and the history of Iran, going back to nineteen
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  Speaker 2: seventy nine, which is where our starting point is on
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: all of this. This was a war that should have
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: been declared right then and there. It never was. They
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: kicked the can down the road. And again it just
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: what troubles me, Mark, is that you've got a certain
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: segment of the population and they're almost willing to say
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: that the moral high ground is for us not to
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: attack Iran. And yet we would have to absorb some
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: sort of a terrifying nuclear attack, a mushroom cloud over
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: New York City or Chicago or Los Angeles. And I
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: don't think Trump was willing to take that chance. And
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: that's why he did what he did.
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  Speaker 7: If he was telling people that in nineteen seventy something,
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: remember when he was on that show talking before he
• 24:43
  Speaker 7: even ever thought.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: About a president nineteen eighty, you're right, going on, yeah, no,
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: you're right, you're right, all right, Mark, Thank you for
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: the call, my friend. And Mark is right. You got
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: to do your homework at the polls. By the way,
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: here is Senator Rick Scott from Florida, cut number nine.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: Now, we have to secure elections.
• 25:00
  Speaker 8: If you you have, you have to show an ID
• 25:03
  Speaker 8: for almost everything in this country, show an ID to
• 25:05
  Speaker 8: vote you have. You have to make sure where us
• 25:08
  Speaker 8: is and the rich to vote. So I'm gonna do
• 25:09
  Speaker 8: everything I want holding it up because I agree with you,
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  Speaker 8: and most Americans do.
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  Speaker 3: Eighty five percent of Americans.
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  Speaker 9: Believe, yeah, we should have we should we should.
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  Speaker 3: Have proof of citizenship before we vote.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: So what's holding it up?
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: Then?
• 25:21
  Speaker 8: In the Senate, one of three things. I get to
• 25:23
  Speaker 8: sixty votes, we don't have them yet. We don't have fifty.
• 25:26
  Speaker 8: Number two, you got to add it to a must
• 25:28
  Speaker 8: pass bill. And number three we got to do the
• 25:30
  Speaker 8: talking filibuster. So we've got to do one of those
• 25:33
  Speaker 8: three things to get this pass. You know, the public
• 25:36
  Speaker 8: wants this done. On top of Donald Trump want and
• 25:39
  Speaker 8: this done. And the public wants this done. Every Republican,
• 25:42
  Speaker 8: Democrat and Independent needs to make sure they go vote
• 25:45
  Speaker 8: for this. I have to ask your rate, call your senator,
• 25:47
  Speaker 8: all of them republic even if the people have been
• 25:49
  Speaker 8: on board, say you've got to get this done. And
• 25:52
  Speaker 8: call every Democrat senator say, if you believe in this
• 25:55
  Speaker 8: country and you what safe elections, you have got to
• 25:58
  Speaker 8: get this bill passed. And just what they if you
• 26:01
  Speaker 8: keep telling everybody do.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: It, they'll do it.
• 26:03
  Speaker 8: Do you expect to talking for guys, you can't have
• 26:06
  Speaker 8: a talking filibuster until the Department of Homeland Security is open.
• 26:09
  Speaker 8: I'm told, well, then it's right, very important that we
• 26:13
  Speaker 8: get homeland security. I mean, you can look at the
• 26:15
  Speaker 8: airports at the risk of this country. What the Democrats
• 26:18
  Speaker 8: are doing. They don't care about Americans citizens. They don't
• 26:20
  Speaker 8: care about the risk of a drone attack in this
• 26:23
  Speaker 8: country or somebody doing a ID like they did in
• 26:25
  Speaker 8: New York City.
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  Speaker 3: They don't care. But we do.
• 26:27
  Speaker 8: We've got to figure out how to get this done.
• 26:30
  Speaker 8: I think what's going to put the presh on is
• 26:31
  Speaker 8: when these airports are just packed with people that can't fly.
• 26:35
  Speaker 8: It's the reason we got the government open to the fall.
• 26:37
  Speaker 8: The same thing will happen this time. I don't get
• 26:39
  Speaker 8: what the Democrats are doing.
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  Speaker 2: All right, there you have it, Senator. Look, I appreciate
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: what Senator Scott is trying to say here, but again
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: the issue is are we going to get it done
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: or not? And if John Thune is holding all of
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: this up, I mean he's the majority leader. The bunk
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: stops with him. So if he's not budget it is
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: up to Marsha Blackburn and Bill Haggerty and Tom Cotton
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: and Rake Scott and Ted Cruz for all of them
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: to come out openly condemning their leadership. Nobody's done that
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: because nobody wants to upset the Apple card in the Senate.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: So so now we just have this gridlock. And I
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: know that people want to go out there and blame
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: the Democrats. It's not the Democrats, it's the Republicans. It's
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: the Republicans. By the way, Senator Lindsey Graham, I want
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: to get your thoughts on this that the guy may
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: as well be a Fox News host. Some people call
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: him Lady Graham. That's a conversation for another time off
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: the air. Anyway, Lindsey Graham is demanding. He's been demanding
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: that we bomb Iran for years, and now he wants
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: us to go into a Cuba. So anyway, here he
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: is now talking about the Middle East, and Lindsey Graham
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: is upset. Are you ready for this? Well, I'm going
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: to play and then we'll go back and rehash what
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: he had to say. Cut fine, please up to.
• 28:03
  Speaker 10: Our allies, step up, get our air bases out of Spain.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: They're not reliable. Move all those airplanes.
• 28:09
  Speaker 10: To a country that would let us use them when
• 28:11
  Speaker 10: we're threatened by a regime like Iran. To our friends
• 28:15
  Speaker 10: in Spain, men, you have lost your way. I don't
• 28:17
  Speaker 10: want to do business with you anymore. I want our bases,
• 28:20
  Speaker 10: our air bases, out of Spain into a country that
• 28:23
  Speaker 10: will let us chose them. To our air friends, I've
• 28:25
  Speaker 10: tried to help you construct a new Mideast.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: You need to up your game here.
• 28:29
  Speaker 10: I can't go to South Carolina and say we're fighting
• 28:32
  Speaker 10: and you won't publicly fight what you're doing behind the scenes.
• 28:36
  Speaker 10: That has to stop the double dealing of the air
• 28:38
  Speaker 10: world when it comes to this stuff. Needs Then I
• 28:40
  Speaker 10: go back to South Carolina. I'm asking them to send
• 28:43
  Speaker 10: their sons and daughters over to the Mid East.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: What I want you to do in the Mid East.
• 28:46
  Speaker 10: To our friends in Sardy, Raven and other places, step
• 28:49
  Speaker 10: forward and.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: Say this is my fight too. I join America.
• 28:52
  Speaker 10: I'm publicly involved in bringing this regime down. If you don't,
• 28:55
  Speaker 10: you're making a great mistake and you're going to cut
• 28:57
  Speaker 10: off the ability to have a better relatelationship with the
• 29:00
  Speaker 10: United States.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: I say this as a friend.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: All right, There you have it, Lady Graham, from South Carolina.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: A couple of thoughts here. So first of all, I'm
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: just curious what exactly do the sons and daughters of
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: South Carolina think about that, that idea you heard Lindsay Graham, Right, Well,
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: our Arab neighbors, they're just they're just not willing to
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: get out there from behind the shatters and get out
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: there and fight. So we're going to have to send
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: the sons and the daughters of South Carolina to get
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: out there and fight on their behalf. Uh yeah, I
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: got a problem with that. To be perfectly blunt about it.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: I had a problem with that idea back when we
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: invaded Iraq, right, Remember that nobody in I Rock wanted
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: to fight for their freedom nobody. So what happened, Well,
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: George w and the military industrial complex, they and over
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: all of our sons and daughters to go and fight,
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: and many of them did not come back, and many
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: of those who did came back missing limbs. And I'm
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: just going to be as blun as I can be
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: right now, Iran has been attacking a lot of these
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: Arab nations. It's up to the Arab nations to fight back.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: And if the Arab nations don't want to fight back,
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, Why should we Why should we risk
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: American treasure over there? Why should we do that? There
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: are some people out there that agree with everything Lindsey
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Graham said. But I've got a problem sending America's sons
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: and daughters to fight somebody else's war. Big problem. And
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: by the way, what is this, what is this? How
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: difficult is it for us to say no boots on
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: the ground, Because I'm hearing every single day more rumblings
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: inside our nation's capital that that is a very real
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: possibility that we could have American troops boots on the ground.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: I don't think that's going to go over well with
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: what's left of the MAGA coalition. Here's Lindsay Graham again,
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: cut number four.
• 31:10
  Speaker 10: All the anti Seminis, to all the isolationists, I don't believe,
• 31:15
  Speaker 10: forget it. I'm not with you. I'm with Israel. I'll
• 31:17
  Speaker 10: be with Israel to our dying day. They're the best
• 31:20
  Speaker 10: ally we could owe for. So we have a commander
• 31:22
  Speaker 10: chief in President Trump, who I think is Ronald W.
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: Reagan plus plus plus.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: I just don't like all you anti Seminits out there,
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: You anti seminits. I'm not with you. I'm with Israel
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: until my dying day. Okay, I get that, But I'm
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: just I'm not sincing. I've never heard Lindsay Graham actually
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: use I bear with me for a moment. I've never
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: heard him use that sort of language or passion when
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: talking about the United States of America. And isn't that
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: the country that he represents. By the way, Lindsay Graham
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: out there talking about how he's going out and he's
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: making all these deals, telling the Saudi Arabians this, and
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: the United Arab Emirates this. Okay, when John Kerry was
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: doing that, we said that was a violation of the
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: Logan Act. So I'm just wondering exactly who is giving
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: Lindsey Graham all of this authority to go out and
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: make deals with foreign countries, Because if you read the
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: Logan Act, even lawmakers elected senators and congress peoples, even
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: lawmakers can be held accountable under the Logan Act. Something's
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: weird there. And all I'm telling you is that Israel
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: is our most cherished ally, but we still have to
• 32:45
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  Speaker 11: As spring break travel ramps up, chaos at multiple US airports,
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  Speaker 5: The guy said to me, heads up, it's a mess
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  Speaker 13: He was right.
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  Speaker 11: In New Orleans, lines stretched through multiple floors and into
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  Speaker 11: the parking garage. The disruptions come as airlines brace for
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  Speaker 11: a four percent increase in spring break travelers compared to
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  Speaker 2: severe storms, tornadoes ravaging places like Michigan, for example, and
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  Speaker 2: City and homeland security is hamstrung because the Democrats refuse,
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• 36:23
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  Speaker 2: Nine oh one two six zero five nine two six.
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  Speaker 2: That's nine oh one two six zero five nine two six. Well,
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  Speaker 2: as I mentioned there is, there's a lot of controversy
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  Speaker 2: right now in the state of Texas, a lot of conversations,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of debates over the Democrat nominee for the
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  Speaker 2: US Senate, a guy by the name of James Tallerico
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  Speaker 2: who has cloaked himself in the LGBT rainbow flag. He
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: is a Presbyterian theologian, and he is making all sorts
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  Speaker 2: of headlines for all the wrong reasons. I could think
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  Speaker 2: of no better person to help us understand exactly what
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  Speaker 2: is going on and who this guy is than our
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  Speaker 2: good friend. He is the pastor of the Great First
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  Speaker 2: Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas. Also, he has a great
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  Speaker 2: new book on miracles coming out in September called Divine Invasions,
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: Doctor Robert Jeffers, Doctor Jeffers, good to have you on
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  Speaker 2: the show today.
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  Speaker 13: Great to be back with you, Todd.
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  Speaker 6: Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 2: You know, doctor Jeffers, I want to talk about your
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  Speaker 2: book in just a moment. But first, James Tallerrico, this
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: guy claims to, you know, be the spokesman I guess
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  Speaker 2: we Christianity, and he's got some pretty far fetched ideas
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to God being non binary, suggesting that
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  Speaker 2: the virgin birth is an example of why the Bible
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: is pro abortion. What say you, well, I what.
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  Speaker 6: Say me is maloney. The fact is this guy is
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  Speaker 6: a wolf in sheep's clothing, and you know, he is
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  Speaker 6: so appealing. He's very eloquent, he's pleasant natured, and you know,
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  Speaker 6: the un discerning voter might say, what, that's a nice guy.
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  Speaker 6: And he's gone to the seminary. He must know the Bible,
• 40:43
  Speaker 6: and he's talking about Jesus and things we believe in.
• 40:48
  Speaker 6: But you have to listen very carefully to what he's saying.
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  Speaker 6: Here's the thing about progressive theologians, Todd. They use our
• 40:54
  Speaker 6: same vocabulary, but they don't use the same dictionary. Their
• 40:59
  Speaker 6: words means something different. For example, when they talk about salvation,
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  Speaker 6: they're not talking about salvation from Hell. They're talking about
• 41:06
  Speaker 6: salvation from the hell of the inequality. When they talk
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  Speaker 6: about Jesus, they're not talking about the Jesus of the Bible.
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  Speaker 6: They're talking about the Jesus of their imagination. They're talking
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  Speaker 6: about what they wish Jesus had said, not what he
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  Speaker 6: actually said. And when they talk about the value of Christianity,
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  Speaker 6: they say Christianity is a path to God, but they
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  Speaker 6: don't say it's the only path to God. They say
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  Speaker 6: it's one of many paths to God. I mean this guy,
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  Speaker 6: Tyler Rico, he said Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, these are different
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  Speaker 6: paths to God. And he said he's on the Christian path,
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  Speaker 6: but all paths lead to the same God. That is
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  Speaker 6: heresy and he needs to be rejected out rightly for.
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  Speaker 2: What he's saying. You know, some of his comments regarding,
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  Speaker 2: for example, transgenderism, where he actually said, I think the
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  Speaker 2: question was you know when you know when you don't
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  Speaker 2: think about your family you don't think about your close friends.
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: What do you think about And the first thing he said,
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  Speaker 2: transgender kids, What do you make of that?
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  Speaker 6: Well, he's really hung up on this. And you know
• 42:09
  Speaker 6: he says they're not two genders, there may be six genders. Well,
• 42:14
  Speaker 6: the Jesus, whom he says he loves and follows, I
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  Speaker 6: beg to differ. You know. In Matthew nineteen, Jesus said
• 42:21
  Speaker 6: to the Pharisees, God made them male and female, two genders.
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  Speaker 6: And when he says God is not binary, well it's true.
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  Speaker 6: God is neither male nor female. But his son Jesus
• 42:35
  Speaker 6: came in the form of a male, and Jesus taught
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  Speaker 6: us that God has made mankind binary male or female.
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  Speaker 6: So again, all we have to do is test what
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  Speaker 6: this heretic is saying against the truth of scripture.
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  Speaker 2: Doctor Robert Jeffers joining us, the pastor of the First
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  Speaker 2: Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas. You know, it's interesting when
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  Speaker 2: you see all the political maneuvering happening in the state
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  Speaker 2: right now. Of course, that contention a Republican primary, Doctor Jeffers,
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  Speaker 2: you're looking towards the midterms. What are you hearing from
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  Speaker 2: the congregation there. What are you hearing from people there
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  Speaker 2: in Texas about the big issues on their minds?
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  Speaker 6: Well, one thing I'm hearing, and I don't lagle myself
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  Speaker 6: as a Republican. I'm an independent. I vote for the
• 43:19
  Speaker 6: candidate I think best represents biblical values. But what I
• 43:23
  Speaker 6: hear from people like me in our congregation is whomever
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  Speaker 6: is the Republican nominee, We've got to get somebody who
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  Speaker 6: can defeat James Tallerico. I mean, I think there's a
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  Speaker 6: very real possibility of losing the state of Texas turning
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  Speaker 6: up purple turning up blue if the wrong person is elected.
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  Speaker 6: And so there are no perfect candidates. But we need
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  Speaker 6: to look for one, yes, that votes like we do
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  Speaker 6: and upholds our values. But we need one that can win.
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  Speaker 6: And I hope Texas Republicans will make the right choice
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  Speaker 6: in that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, doctor Jeffers, There's a congressman out of Tennessee.
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  Speaker 2: Has name is Andy Ogles, and he's making a lot
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  Speaker 2: of headlines. He's calling for the deportation of all Muslims
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  Speaker 2: in America. After the terrorist attacks in New York City,
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  Speaker 2: they still have not qualified what happened in Austin Texas
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  Speaker 2: to be a terrorist attack, but all the indications are
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  Speaker 2: certainly there. What do you say to people who want
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  Speaker 2: to deport all of the Muslims. A lot of folks
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: will push back and say, wait a second, we've got
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  Speaker 2: freedom of religion here.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'd say be careful of asking for that, because
• 44:31
  Speaker 6: the day may come somebody wants to deport all Christians,
• 44:35
  Speaker 6: and as we further fall into a minority status, I
• 44:38
  Speaker 6: think we need to be real careful. Look, Islam is
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  Speaker 6: a false religion. I talked about it on Sunday in
• 44:45
  Speaker 6: my sermon. A false prophet named Mohammad claimed Gabriel gave
• 44:49
  Speaker 6: him this revelation that became the Qur'an. It's a false
• 44:53
  Speaker 6: book built on the premise that Muslims ought to kill
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  Speaker 6: the infidels, which would be you and me and ju use.
• 45:01
  Speaker 6: It is a religion of violence. Now, most Muslims are
• 45:06
  Speaker 6: not violent people, very few of them are violent. But
• 45:09
  Speaker 6: of one point five billion Muslims in the world, if
• 45:12
  Speaker 6: only one percent are radicalized, that's something very scary, and
• 45:16
  Speaker 6: we need to understand how wrong Islam is. But Todd
• 45:20
  Speaker 6: tolerance means giving people the right to be wrong, and
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  Speaker 6: I do believe that if we infringe on people's right
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  Speaker 6: to believe the wrong thing, to embrace a heresy like Islam,
• 45:31
  Speaker 6: if we try to outlaw that, it will boomerang on
• 45:34
  Speaker 6: it on us. I believe that our forefathers bled and
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  Speaker 6: died to found a Christian nation, but a nation that
• 45:43
  Speaker 6: exercises tolerance and the allowance of people to be wrong
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  Speaker 6: in their belief in God.
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  Speaker 2: It does seem to be especially in Texas, where there's
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: I guess here lately there's been a lot of concern
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  Speaker 2: over the number of mosques that are being built, and
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  Speaker 2: it certainly seems as though that's to accommodate law larger
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  Speaker 2: populations of Muslims coming into the country and coming into
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  Speaker 2: the state of Texas.
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  Speaker 6: Well. I mean, we've got, you know, what some people
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  Speaker 6: would consider some mooney been Christians, And from a nunbeliever's
• 46:13
  Speaker 6: point of view, Christians look like they're insane having their
• 46:17
  Speaker 6: own way of worship and what they do on Sundays
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  Speaker 6: or don't do. But remember, Christians have no right to
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  Speaker 6: follow a legal system that is in opposition to the
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  Speaker 6: congregation of the Constitution, and in the same way Muslims,
• 46:32
  Speaker 6: they can set up whatever mosque they want to, and
• 46:35
  Speaker 6: whatever systems of behavior they want to, but what they
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  Speaker 6: can't do is violate the constitution of the United States
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  Speaker 6: of America. And I think that's clear and needs to
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  Speaker 6: continue to be made clear. There is no sanctuary city
• 46:48
  Speaker 6: or sanctuary mosque or sanctuary church. We all live under
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  Speaker 6: the laws of the United States of America.
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: You have a brand new book coming out in September.
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  Speaker 2: It's called it's called Divine Invasions. Tell us what an
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: unusual What an unusual title for a book.
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  Speaker 6: Well, it's a hope filled book about God who is
• 47:11
  Speaker 6: still at work today. You know, I grew up in
• 47:13
  Speaker 6: a theological tradition that taught that seemingly miracles were over.
• 47:18
  Speaker 6: They were just for the first century before the Bible
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  Speaker 6: was written, and there's no need for miracles today and
• 47:25
  Speaker 6: the only miracles that may occur in third world countries. Well,
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  Speaker 6: I don't believe that, Todd.
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  Speaker 13: I believe God.
• 47:30
  Speaker 6: Is the same. I believe he performs miracles a provision
• 47:34
  Speaker 6: of protection of providence. And this is a book about
• 47:38
  Speaker 6: how to discern real miracles from unreal miracles. So I
• 47:42
  Speaker 6: hope I'll be back with you in September to talk
• 47:44
  Speaker 6: about the book when it comes out. But we had
• 47:47
  Speaker 6: an interesting opportunity Thursday to go to the Oval Office
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  Speaker 6: and pray for President Trump, and I'll just give you
• 47:56
  Speaker 6: the report of frontline view of how the war's going.
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  Speaker 6: He told us, quote, we are kicking ass. I was
• 48:04
  Speaker 6: a little hesitant to share that with my congregation, but
• 48:07
  Speaker 6: somebody reminded me ass is a biblical word. So we
• 48:11
  Speaker 6: need to continue to pray for President Trump and for
• 48:14
  Speaker 6: our troops in this important action. I got to say
• 48:17
  Speaker 6: to the president. You know, mister President, we are here
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  Speaker 6: to thank you for your courage in pushing back not
• 48:23
  Speaker 6: against another nation or even another religion. You are pushing
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  Speaker 6: it back against evil itself. This is a war between
• 48:31
  Speaker 6: good and evil, and I think this is the case
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  Speaker 6: and why we all need to be in prayer for
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  Speaker 6: our great president and for our troops around the world.
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  Speaker 2: I'm stunned. I've never heard such language coming out of
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  Speaker 2: the mouth of a pastor before, a Baptist. I was
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: just quoting. I was just quoting. By the way, did
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: he give you any shoes? We've been hearing reports.
• 48:52
  Speaker 6: You know, I felt jip I didn't get my Floorsheim's shoes.
• 48:55
  Speaker 6: I'm gonna have to. He gave me a nice challenge coin,
• 48:58
  Speaker 6: but I'm gonna have to ask for some shoes.
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  Speaker 2: So I got one of those challenge coins when I
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: was there. And it's so funny. I had a little
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: PTSD because I read a piece yesterday that the President
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: really pays attention to the shine on his shoes, and
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: I thought, oh boy, I forgot to shine my shoes
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  Speaker 2: when I went into the Oval Office. I hope I
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  Speaker 2: didn't have a bad impression there.
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  Speaker 6: He does notice the little things as well as the
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  Speaker 6: big thing.
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  Speaker 2: Boy, he certainly does. He certainly does. Oh my goodness, well,
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: doctor Jeffers, we're so glad that you were able to
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: get to see the President, and we know you've been
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: a great friend to him and a great counselor as well.
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: And we look forward to the book coming out in September.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you for having me.
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: Todd really appreciate it, all right, the great doctor Robert Jeffers, everybody,
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: pastor of the First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas. A
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: great new book coming on at September. We'll get him
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: back between now and then, but we certainly I have
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: every single one of his books I have in my
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: library so he is a great, great writer and a
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: great Bible teacher. All right, got to take a break
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  Speaker 2: here of folks. Nine oh one two six zero five
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  Speaker 2: nine two six. This is the Todd Stern Show. All right,
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  Speaker 2: welcome back to the ton Searns Radio Show. So, I
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: don't know if you've been following this story out of Iran,
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: where there are allegations the United States accidentally bombed a
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: school and killed a bunch of kids. Now, the President
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: was asked about this yesterday and the President said, look,
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: I don't think we did this. I believe he said
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: he believes Iran is responsible. Then he said, I don't know.
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: I just don't know enough about it. I think it's
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: something that I was told was under investigation. So that's
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: been the administration. And then the President wanted to say, hey,
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: look tomahawks were used, but other nations used tomahawks, and
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: he doesn't seem to think that it was us. Then
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana comes out yesterday and he
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  Speaker 2: tells reporters, Oh, yeah, we did it. We bombed the girls'
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  Speaker 2: school in Iran. It was terrible. We made a mistake.
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: Other countries do that sort of thing. Intentionally like Russia,
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: we would never do that intentionally. I think the Department
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: is investigating it now. So look, terrible tragedy, no doubt
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: about it. But I'm just wondering, and some of you
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: old timers will remember. I have to think that back
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: during World War Two, there were many, many, many bombs dropped,
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: and I'm wondering, did the United States ever apologize for
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: any of the bombs that were dropped that took out,
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: you know, inadvertently civilian civilian buildings, like a school or
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: a hospital or a church. I don't recall that happening.
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: What about during the in conflict as they call it,
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  Speaker 2: or Vietnam. So anyway, a lot of people are very
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  Speaker 2: upset about this. They're calling the United States immoral. They're
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: saying that we should pay reparations. I'm looking at this,
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  Speaker 2: I mean as a terrible tragedy. But ladies and gentlemen,
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: I mean, we are in a war against Iran. Well
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: it's really not there. They're pushing back now, they're not
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: calling it a war. We're in an operation with Iran.
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: So anyway, we'll follow that story. It's it's troubling and
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: it's an unfortunate set of circumstances. But the reality is
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: horrible things happen in conflicts like wars. I'm gonna call
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: it a war because it's a war. I mean, we're
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: blowing a lot of stuff up. Nine oh one two
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  Speaker 2: six zero five nine two six are number. That's nine
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  Speaker 2: oh one two six zero five nine two six. Rampaul
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  Speaker 2: is now saying that he doesn't believe Donald Trump's reason
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: for going into Iran. Does that matter to you at all? Again?
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  Speaker 2: For me, I think we should have been We should
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: have gone into Iran a long time ago. So now
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: that we're there, we're there, let's get it done. Let's
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: accomplish whatever mission needs to be accomplished, and then go
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: back home. I mean, it seems to me that's the
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: right thing to do. Here, I want to play some audio,
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: this again from Well let's see here, Jonathan Carl from
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: ABC News giving the president a little bit of a compliment.
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 14: I've covered five different presidents. I have never seen one
• 53:43
  Speaker 14: other than Donald Trump, who regularly takes phone calls from reporters.
• 53:46
  Speaker 13: So I thought I would talk a little bit about that.
• 53:50
  Speaker 14: I've spoken to him over the phone three times since
• 53:54
  Speaker 14: the military operation. The war against Iran started and each
• 53:59
  Speaker 14: of the cases I simply called him and he answered.
• 54:03
  Speaker 14: Some of the conversations are short, some of them can
• 54:05
  Speaker 14: be quite lengthy. I talked to him today during the
• 54:09
  Speaker 14: middle of the afternoon and the call lasted for about
• 54:13
  Speaker 14: twenty minutes. When I called, I was actually calling to
• 54:17
  Speaker 14: ask him because if he was firing Christinome, because ABC
• 54:21
  Speaker 14: News was about to report.
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: That had happened.
• 54:24
  Speaker 14: And it turned out that he was. As I was
• 54:27
  Speaker 14: talking to him, reviewing the statement that he would put
• 54:30
  Speaker 14: out saying that she was leaving office, and he told
• 54:34
  Speaker 14: me he was sitting there with Marco Rubio and he
• 54:37
  Speaker 14: started to read the statement to me, and then he
• 54:40
  Speaker 14: pressed to send and said, look, you can see it now.
• 54:45
  Speaker 14: You can see it now. And sure enough, while we
• 54:47
  Speaker 14: were talking, it appeared on True Social him saying that
• 54:51
  Speaker 14: Christy Nooam was leaving and being replaced by Mark Wayne Mullen.
• 54:55
  Speaker 14: The conversation then turned to Iran, obviously the really big
• 55:00
  Speaker 14: story and major decision which made define not just his
• 55:05
  Speaker 14: presidency but his entire political career, and I have to
• 55:10
  Speaker 14: say he just sounded incredibly triumphant. He said to me,
• 55:15
  Speaker 14: they're calling me the goat greatest of all time. And
• 55:19
  Speaker 14: he asked me, then this again, this is one of
• 55:21
  Speaker 14: the unusual things. He asked me if I thought it
• 55:26
  Speaker 14: was impressive, meaning the war, He said, what do you make?
• 55:31
  Speaker 14: What do you think of the performance? He clearly feels
• 55:36
  Speaker 14: that he is a president right now that is almost
• 55:41
  Speaker 14: unlimited in his power, and he feels that he can
• 55:47
  Speaker 14: do no wrong. And he told me, well, in the
• 55:50
  Speaker 14: first term, I built the military. In my second term,
• 55:55
  Speaker 14: I am using it. But again, the conversation goes on,
• 56:01
  Speaker 14: and it's in the middle of the day, in the
• 56:03
  Speaker 14: middle of the war. He had just fired his secretary
• 56:09
  Speaker 14: of Homeland Security, just replaced her, and you know, he's
• 56:17
  Speaker 14: available and talking about it. It's very unique. Let's just
• 56:21
  Speaker 14: say it that way. It's a very unique situation.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think it's pretty darn remarkable. The president is
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: able to multitask like nobody else, and the fact that
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: he's making himself accessible to these reporters, it's something that
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: no other president has done. All right, nine oh one
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  Speaker 2: two six zero five nine two six, this is the
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: Ton Starne Show. All right, welcome back. By the way,
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: this just in Aparently there's a suspicious package that's being
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: investigated in New York City near the area where those
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: Muslims trying to blow everybody up over the weekend. So
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: we'll keep you updated on Man, there doesn't seem to
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: be a great I don't think people are freaking out,
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: but still it's a little discombobulating. Let's go to the
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  Speaker 2: phone lines nine oh one two six zero five nine
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  Speaker 2: two six. Say hello to our good friend, great republic
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: Republican strategist Josh Jones. Josh, hope you're doing well today.
• 57:34
  Speaker 3: I'm doing good.
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: How are you good? Good? Good? So we've been following
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: the developments of I mean, there's this all sorts of
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: stuff breaking loose, and I know a lot of people
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: are freaking out about the midterm elections. You've got a
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: lot of candidates out there. How are things looking. What
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: is the mood of the country.
• 57:54
  Speaker 15: I think very competitive across the country right now between
• 57:58
  Speaker 15: Republicans and Democrats.
• 57:59
  Speaker 16: Especially.
• 57:59
  Speaker 15: The big thing that you want to be looking for
• 58:01
  Speaker 15: right now is the turnout in some of these primaries.
• 58:05
  Speaker 15: And look, some of them should be a warning time
• 58:07
  Speaker 15: for Republicans right now in terms of motivating the base
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  Speaker 15: to come out. If you looked down at Texas, you
• 58:13
  Speaker 15: had a competitive primary on the Democrat and the Republican
• 58:16
  Speaker 15: size state wide for that Senate nomination on both sides,
• 58:20
  Speaker 15: and yet Democrats still got more people to turn out
• 58:22
  Speaker 15: in their primary. Now, is that being Texas is turning blue?
• 58:25
  Speaker 15: Probably not, But what it does tell you is that
• 58:27
  Speaker 15: the Democratic base is energized more so the Republicans right
• 58:31
  Speaker 15: now to get out and vote. To Republicans in Congress
• 58:34
  Speaker 15: that are running these ni terms, you have to give
• 58:36
  Speaker 15: a reason to your voters to come out on election day,
• 58:38
  Speaker 15: otherwise you just won't have the numbers and you can't win.
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  Speaker 2: John Shaw, I know that John Thune has created a
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: lot of anger around the nation. Looks like the Senate
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: Republicans are not going to budge on the Save Act,
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: the Save America Act. What is it going to take
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: to get the Republican base ramped up and ready to
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  Speaker 2: vot vote in the midterms.
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  Speaker 15: I think a lot of it has to do with
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  Speaker 15: and it's true to the conservative movement ever since twenty sixteen.
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  Speaker 15: Honestly circling back to president and having the president out
• 59:13
  Speaker 15: in the campaign drawing what he said, and he's been
• 59:15
  Speaker 15: out and about, but he said that he was going
• 59:17
  Speaker 15: to campaign this mid term like he was on the
• 59:19
  Speaker 15: ballot himself, and I think, look, that will motivate people
• 59:23
  Speaker 15: they get to the polls. That will get his base
• 59:24
  Speaker 15: out to the polls. Now, the question is twenty eight
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  Speaker 15: and onwards. Once President Trump, you know, completes the second term,
• 59:31
  Speaker 15: is it keeps showing up. So I think that's the
• 59:33
  Speaker 15: thing that Republicans in the mid terms right now, and
• 59:37
  Speaker 15: the short term is Look, we're in crunch time. Frankly,
• 59:39
  Speaker 15: it's already March and we're on the on our way
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  Speaker 15: to November. So I think it's getting the president's base
• 59:45
  Speaker 15: motivation motivated by bringing him out into the campaign trail
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  Speaker 15: with you as part of it. But also too, it's
• 59:50
  Speaker 15: it's spending the coalition. So whenever President Trump is done,
• 59:54
  Speaker 15: like I said, with his second term, we can still
• 59:56
  Speaker 15: have those voters be part of the Republican team coming
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  Speaker 15: out in future life.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I gotta tell you, I don't see that happening.
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  Speaker 2: I am looking at significant divisions in the party post Trump,
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  Speaker 2: and it may it may be, it may happen even
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: before he leaves office. And I think you've got the
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: Marco Rubio and I think it'll be some It'll be
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: multiple divisions. One of them is going to be the
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: Marco Rubio camp. I think the other is going to
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: be the JD Vance camp, and then probably the John
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: Thune establishment camp. And the question is who can bring
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: all of those folks together because I think we may
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: have some big problems post midterms.
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  Speaker 15: You're absolutely correct, that's totally a possibility, because I mean,
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 15: Donald Trump has been the leader of the party going
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 15: back to twenty sixteen till now, so we're going on
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 15: ten years of Donald Trump leading the Republican Party, which
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 15: has been great for the Republicans in terms of having
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 15: unity and not really having a major division within the party.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 15: But to your point, once there's a power backing at
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 15: the top and President Trump can't run anymore, you are
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 15: going to have these different divisions in the Republican Party
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 15: that are going to start in fighting. And look, that's
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 15: not always a bad thing, because the primaries is meant
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 15: to grind grind your acts against each other, so whenever
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 15: you head to the general election, we have of the
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 15: best candidate that we can possibly put forward. So primary
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 15: not inherently a bad thing, but you're definitely very easily
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 15: and I don't need to ex plays to your listeners.
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  Speaker 15: But like paulitics can get dirty sometimes, So it'd be
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 15: interesting to see if Trump trying to be a king
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  Speaker 15: maker and kind of annoint his successor, or if I
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 15: like everybody, you know, I like Rubio, like man, you
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 15: guys fight it out kind of situation.
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  Speaker 2: I will say this, I think Rubio stock has certainly
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  Speaker 2: gone up. He's showing himself to be the statesman. I
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: wouldn't say the elder statesman of the guy is not
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: all that old. But but again, he's got the experience.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: And when you look at who's in the room and
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: who Trump is talking to and giving praise, it's here. Lately,
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: it has not been the vice president. It's been Marco Rubio.
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  Speaker 15: You're right, I mean Mark Rubio is kind of became
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 15: a joke on Twitter and online everywhere else about how
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 15: many jobs he has in this administration. I mean, he
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 15: is a Secretary of State, but he's also a national
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 15: security advisor, a special envoy to all these different initiatives
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 15: that that presidents initiated. So look, who is a workforce,
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 15: who is you know, pushing through one of the biggest
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 15: people pushing through President Trump's agenda, but also too he's
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 15: well alike across a large swath of the Republican Party
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 15: because he kind of checks that box for your more
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 15: traditional establishment. So you know, if this was going to
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 15: call it conservative, but he's also i mean proven himself
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 15: to be a magna fighter as well. So and to
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 15: your point, I think President Trump is tarting to pick
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  Speaker 15: up on that, especially with his inner circle. I mean,
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  Speaker 15: he was just that Martin Lago, the President was a
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 15: couple like a week ago. I was asking some high
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 15: value Republican donors there who they prefer, and the rooms
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 15: leaning towards Rubio.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, that was the huge cheer
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: in the room was for Rubio. And I love the
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 2: fact that you know, he's able to dispatch Rubio to
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  Speaker 2: all of these countries and these folks have they have
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: great respect for the guy.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 15: I think you see that internationally. I mean, if you
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 15: go back to the Munich conference a month or two ago,
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 15: even the international leaders seem to respect him, you know,
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 15: and take him seriously. So I think, look, this is
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 15: a testament to the Republican Party across the board.
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  Speaker 17: Right now.
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  Speaker 15: We have a deep bench, we have a lot of
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 15: qualified candidates. Mark Ribo, J D.
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  Speaker 3: Dance.
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  Speaker 15: You have plenty of great governors across the country that
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 15: could potentially run, So you know, it's not the discredit
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 15: anybody else, but he's really been you know this past
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 15: year since taking office, are really standing out amongst the crowd.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: Josh Jones, Republicans Stranded, just joining us on the Patriot
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: Mobile news maker line today. Josh, just curious how things
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: are going in Virginia. I know there's been a lot
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: of pushback over the plans to gut the Republican congressional delegation.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: Do you think that could end up still happening or
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: are we gonna be able to save those rusial seats.
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  Speaker 15: Look, the path we're on right now, it's not looking
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 15: good for Republicans. Frankly, you have a lot of Democrats
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 15: special interests getting involved in in this referendum. It's going
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 15: to the voters. The courts have already ruled that this
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 15: is going to happen. So the last, the last way
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 15: to stop this is the voters to beat the referendum
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 15: in April. And look, you have a lot of Democrats
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 15: pouring money in. President Obama just cut an ad for
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 15: the Democrat effort to get these Republican maps. So my
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 15: message Republicans, particularly in Virginia is get out and vote. No,
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 15: you can actually get out and vote right now because
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 15: early voting has already started on the referendum, but also too,
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 15: get your friends to kill vote, and if you're not
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 15: in Virginia, get send your money to the r n
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 15: C and tell them send us to Virginia. For some reason,
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 15: it doesn't seem like a lot of these national Republican
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  Speaker 15: organizations are getting involved.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, by the way, speaking of the r n C,
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  Speaker 2: what the heck, I don't even know. I don't even
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: know what they're open. Are they open for business? If
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 2: you asked me right now who's the chair of the RNC,
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: I could not tell you. And Josh, someone in my position,
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  Speaker 2: I think that's a problem.
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  Speaker 15: I know I do too. Look the r and C,
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 15: it is their primary responsibility is to be fighting for
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 15: Republican candidates that causes across the entire country, and organizing
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 15: those efforts and allocating resources. So the fact that you know,
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 15: as people who kind of live and breathe this stuff
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 15: and we don't know what they're doing is you know,
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 15: just an absolutely awful.
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  Speaker 2: Test of it.
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  Speaker 15: What they're currently organizing. Oh look, you got other organizations
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 15: who are getting involved. So I don't want to paint
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 15: a picture if nobody's humping into this fight. But if
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 15: you're trying to make the argument that the entire national
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 15: Republican apparatus is coming in to try and save these
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 15: congressional tees, it's just not happening, at least not yet.
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  Speaker 2: No, are you ready for these numbers, Josh? I can't
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: wait for you to hear these numbers. They spent nearly
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: one hundred million on campaign advertising for the Senate seat
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: in Texas, the one fent they still don't have a
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: nominee for. Can you believe that that was just outrageous
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: the amount of money the Republicans spent, it.
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  Speaker 15: Is outrageous to your point, one hundred million dollars spent
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 15: in Texas. Mind you look, whether whether you're on John
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 15: qure Inside or Kim Paxson, frankly who for the Republican
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 15: armen they used, they have a pretty good chance of winning,
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 15: which probably be like the person or not. You know,
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 15: while we don't have a chance of winning, is that
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 15: the jerrymandered these naps in Virginia. There's just no passive victory,
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 15: we lose four Republicans feeds. So look raises a lot
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 15: of questions about their priorities with some of these organizations
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 15: and people at the top of where they're allocating their
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 15: time and money. Because reality is Texas is probably going
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 15: to stay red when we keep that Senate see red.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 15: You know, how are about to lose four House seats
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 15: and nobody seems to be doing anything.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: And if everybody went and here's the thing, there's so
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: many Republicans that are retiring from safe district that that
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: leaves those seats up for grams now. But let's just
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: say everybody wins what they're supposed to win, and we
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: lose those seats in Virginia, we lose the.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 15: House exactly exactly he road to majority. And look, Democrats
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 15: recognize this. That's why they're all getting involved. That's Obama
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 15: hiking Jeffries obviously, Governor Spamberger. That's why they're all pushing
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 15: this go hard and getting involved because they know they
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 15: want a majority in the House. This is the easiest
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 15: way for.
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  Speaker 7: Them to do it.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Josh, be safe out there. I know you're
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  Speaker 2: on the road, my friend, and we hope to see
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: it anight on Newsmax. Thanks DoD Josh Jones. Everybody a
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: smart guy. He's he knows, and he's got his he's
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: got his finger on the pulse of America. They spent
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: are you ready for this, ninety eight point two million
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: dollars in that Senate race so far. Fifty nine million
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: dollars of that was spent by John Cornyn. That is
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 2: fifty nine million dollars that could have been used to
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: fight the Democrats in the general election that we will
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: not have now. So there you go. That is the
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: state of affairs in Texas. But that also shows you
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: the amount of money and when you take a look
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: at dollar numbers, that big John Cornyn is not the
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  Speaker 2: Senator for the good people of Texas. He is the
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: Senator for the good people who gave him fifty nine
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  Speaker 2: Now here's some intel on these two men eighteen and
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  Speaker 2: nineteen years old from wealthy families in Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania
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  Speaker 2: rather and they are the suspects in the bombing at
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  Speaker 2: the failed bombing at the protest over the weekend Cut
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  Speaker 2: twenty five pledged.
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  Speaker 18: Both defendants have admitted that they acted on Saturday because
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  Speaker 18: of ISIS. As Kyumi was being placed into an NYPD
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  Speaker 18: vehicle following his arrest, a person in the crowd asked
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  Speaker 18: why he had done this, as shown on NYPD body
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  Speaker 18: warn camera footage reference in the complaint, Coyumi responded with
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  Speaker 18: ISIS and at the precinct after being advised of his
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  Speaker 18: miranda rights and waiving those rights, Coyumi said in recorded
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  Speaker 18: post arrest statements that he had watched ISIS propaganda on
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  Speaker 18: his phone and that his actions that day were partly
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  Speaker 18: inspired by ISIS. The complaint also detailed statements made by
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  Speaker 18: Emir Balat after his arrests En route to.
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  Speaker 3: The NYPD precinct.
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  Speaker 18: Ballot made spontaneous statements without being questioned by NYPD officers
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  Speaker 18: that were captured on body works camera footage. He said,
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  Speaker 18: this isn't a religion that just stands when people talk
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  Speaker 18: about the blessed name of the prophet.
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  Speaker 3: We take action.
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  Speaker 18: We take action as well as if I didn't do it,
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  Speaker 18: some will else, someone else will come and do it.
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  Speaker 18: And later, after waiving his rights, he requested paper and
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  Speaker 18: wrote a message declaring, in part, I pledge my allegiance
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  Speaker 18: to the Islamic state. Die in your rage, you kufar,
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  Speaker 18: now die in your rage is a commonly known ISIS slogan,
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  Speaker 18: and kufar is an Arabic term that refers to non believers.
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  Speaker 18: He also told investigators that he had hoped to carry
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  Speaker 18: out an attack even bigger than the Boston Marathon bombing,
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  Speaker 18: which he noted resulted in only three deaths. These statements,
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  Speaker 18: it's as set forth in the complaint, make clear that
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  Speaker 18: this was not random violence. This was a planned attack,
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  Speaker 18: motivated by extremist ideology and inspired by a violand foreign
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  Speaker 18: terrorist organization. The complaint alleges not only why the defendants acted,
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  Speaker 18: but how. Preliminary testing has determined that one of the
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  Speaker 18: devices contained triacetone triperoxide or TATP, also commonly referred to
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  Speaker 18: as mother of Satan, a highly volatile explosive that has
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  Speaker 18: been used in multiple terrorist attacks over the last decade.
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  Speaker 18: As we have previously discussed, the NYPD identified a vehicle
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  Speaker 18: yesterday on East End Avenue that was linked to the defendants.
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  Speaker 18: Inside that vehicle, investigators recovered handwritten notes referencing TATP explosive
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  Speaker 18: and listing chemical ingredients for the type of explosive device
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  Speaker 18: used by the defendants on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: All right, that was Jessica Tish, she's the NYPD Police Commissioner. Now. Yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: President Trump and this press conference, said hey, look, there
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  Speaker 2: are thousands of Iranian sleeper cells all over America. Did
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  Speaker 2: he say thousands? I don't know if he said a number,
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  Speaker 2: but there were a lot of them, but he said
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  Speaker 2: they He said they had them all under surveillance. All right.
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  Speaker 2: I got a question about that. So, if we've got
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  Speaker 2: known Iranian sleeper cells in America and they're under surveillance,
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  Speaker 2: why aren't those sleeper cells in custody right now? Why
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  Speaker 2: are we not actively arresting these dangerous people and deporting
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  Speaker 2: them out of our country? Why are we not doing that?
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  Speaker 2: So it's it's a question that deserves to have a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more of an answer than we got yesterday
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  Speaker 2: at the press briefing at the news conference in Miami.
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  Speaker 2: But again President Trump says, hey, look, we know where
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  Speaker 2: these people are. We've got tabs on them. I got
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  Speaker 2: to tell you, folks, it's too much of a risk,
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  Speaker 2: especially with what happened in Austin, Texas last weekend, with
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  Speaker 2: what happened in New York City just recently over the weekend,
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  Speaker 2: and now we've got another situation unfolding in New York
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, hello, everybody, welcome to hour three of The
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  Speaker 2: Big Show. Great to have you with us this hour
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  Speaker 2: of the program. So we're dealing with some breaking news
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  Speaker 2: out of New York City right now. We understand that
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  Speaker 2: as many as ten blocks have been completely evacuated. Gracie Mansion,
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  Speaker 2: which is the residence of the New York City Mayor,
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  Speaker 2: has been evacuated because of a suspicious device. Now, this
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  Speaker 2: device was located near the area where you had the
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  Speaker 2: attempted Islamic bombing just a couple of days ago. Traffic
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  Speaker 2: is blocked off in the streets as well. The device
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  Speaker 2: was located in a nearby park and somebody called it in.
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  Speaker 2: So they're taking whatever is going on there at Gracie
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  Speaker 2: Mansion they're taking very seriously, and we're going to keep
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  Speaker 2: you updated on this particular story throughout the hour. Yesterday
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  Speaker 2: on my Newsmak's TV show, New York City council Woman
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  Speaker 2: Joanne Ariola drop by, and she is very concerned about
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  Speaker 2: the situation in New York City, and she had a
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  Speaker 2: message for all of you Christians and all of you
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  Speaker 2: you Jews. Let's take a listen. Well, joining me now,
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  Speaker 2: Joanna Ariola, Republican New York City council member, Good to
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  Speaker 2: have you with us. Just let's get right to the point.
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  Speaker 2: Here are the Christian and Jewish citizens of New York
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  Speaker 2: City safe tonight?
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  Speaker 3: They're not safe.
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  Speaker 9: No one is safe because finally our mayor has recognized
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  Speaker 9: that these are radical Muslim Islamic Isis driven terrorists and
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  Speaker 9: they are in our midst and we can thank the
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  Speaker 9: Biden and Obama administration for these cells being allowed to
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  Speaker 9: cross into our borders and be in our city, in
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  Speaker 9: many cities across the United States of America. And when
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  Speaker 9: you have and we can just talk about the police department,
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  Speaker 9: the job that they did protecting the peaceful protesters, because
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  Speaker 9: this is being portrayed as an attempt on the mayor
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  Speaker 9: and his wife's life, which they were adjacent actually to
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  Speaker 9: this terrorist attack, but it really was an attack on
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  Speaker 9: a peaceful protest with people with conservative values, and that's
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  Speaker 9: very scary.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the mayor actually downplayed the Islamic angle. He did
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  Speaker 2: that all weekend and instead accused the victims of being
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  Speaker 2: white supremacist.
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  Speaker 3: Let's take a listen.
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  Speaker 16: On Saturday, a protest was held outside Gracie Mansion, where
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  Speaker 16: I live with my wife Rama. Neither of us were
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  Speaker 16: home at the time. This was a vile protest rooted
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  Speaker 16: in white supremacy, entitled stop the Islamic Takeover of New
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  Speaker 16: York City.
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  Speaker 2: All right, council member, you just heard the mayor there.
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  Speaker 2: How do you respond.
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  Speaker 9: I think that if he doesn't want the Muslim community
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  Speaker 9: painted with a wide brush, he shouldn't paint other communities.
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  Speaker 6: With a wide brush.
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  Speaker 9: They were peaceful protesters, They were not being disruptive. Police
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  Speaker 9: were on site. They were exercising their first Amendment right
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  Speaker 9: when Islamic radical ISIS terrorists came to throw bombs at them,
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  Speaker 9: and admittedly have been motivated by ISIS, admittedly wanted.
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  Speaker 18: More depths at that.
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  Speaker 9: Incident than they had at the Boston marathon. This is
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  Speaker 9: what we have in our borders, in our cities, and
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  Speaker 9: New York isn't safe and New York will be less
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  Speaker 9: safe because the mayor has now canceled any additional police
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  Speaker 9: recruitment classes coming out of the MIPD, which Mayor Adams
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  Speaker 9: during his term had funded and allowed. I don't know
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  Speaker 9: why he wanted to cut that. We need our police,
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  Speaker 9: it's shown right there in the video.
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  Speaker 2: Why how concerned? How concern should New Yorkers be that
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  Speaker 2: the Mayor's wife has been liking a lot of very
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  Speaker 2: very dangerous and disturbing messages on social media, seemingly backing
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  Speaker 2: the terror who committed those great atrocities in Israel back
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  Speaker 2: October seventh.
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  Speaker 9: Well, I came out and came out against that right away,
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  Speaker 9: and the Mayor's response was, well, she's a private citizen.
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  Speaker 3: No, she's married to the mayor.
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  Speaker 9: One of the greatest cities in the world. She is
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  Speaker 9: his wife, She is our first lady. She has staffing
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  Speaker 9: that is funded by our taxpayers. She needs to be
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  Speaker 9: held accountable. And what my tweet said was not only
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  Speaker 9: affiliates with radical Islamic terrorists, he's actually married to someone
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  Speaker 9: else who believes the same way. And we've said from
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  Speaker 9: day one, show me who your friends are, and I'll
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  Speaker 9: tell you who you are and this mayor is certainly showing.
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  Speaker 17: Us who he is.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he certainly is ladies and gentlemen. And we always
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  Speaker 2: appreciate Joanne Ariola joining us on our NEWSMAC show. They
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  Speaker 2: were in meetings today, she was able to join us live.
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  Speaker 2: Also Vicki Palladino, who hopes to be with us tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: But again, it is a very chaotic situation. Uh, and
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  Speaker 2: it's unacceptable. Now the question is what's gonna happen. Well,
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  Speaker 2: there's not much that can happen. This is the guy
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  Speaker 2: the New York City voters wanted. So what you get
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  Speaker 19: that per Fox News, those who served in the military,
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  Speaker 19: they like what's going on on average. Look at that,
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  Speaker 19: the net approval rating plus eight points for Trump's foreign policy.
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  Speaker 19: But look at those overall, way way down there at
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  Speaker 2: to play some audio here going back to this this
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  Speaker 2: report of what happened outside of Gracie Mansion in New
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  Speaker 2: York City. This is from Fox News Channel cut number seven.
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  Speaker 20: Hi, Dana, we'll overnight. The investigation escalated once again, federal
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  Speaker 20: sources telling me more IEDs were discovered in a Pennsylvania
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  Speaker 20: storage unit connected to this case. You can hear an
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  Speaker 20: explosion as a bomb squad conducted a control detonation to
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  Speaker 20: safely remove these devices for further analysis. Investigators say the
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  Speaker 20: homemade bombs Ibraheim Kayumi and Amir Blot carried to a
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  Speaker 20: Saturday anti Muslim protest in New York City. Never detonated,
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  Speaker 20: but could have, but if they had, it would have
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  Speaker 20: been catastrophic. Both men appeared in Federal Core yesterday. The
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  Speaker 20: one of them expressed a desire to carry out an
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  Speaker 20: attack even bigger than the Boston Marathon bombing. Fox News
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  Speaker 20: Digital captured these images of the homes of the two suspects,
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  Speaker 20: both located in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Both men are US citizens.
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  Speaker 20: One suspects parents naturalized US citizens from Turkey, the other
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  Speaker 20: naturalized US citizens from Afghanistan. An attorney for a mere
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  Speaker 20: Blot on the left said his client was a high
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  Speaker 20: school senior with quote complicated stuff going on in his
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  Speaker 20: personal life. Ibrahim Kayumi on the right, graduated from high
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  Speaker 20: school and twenty twenty four, According to a Pennsylvania school.
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  Speaker 12: District, younger and younger individuals who are radicalizing and mobilizing
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  Speaker 12: to violence, and this is taking place against the backdrop
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  Speaker 12: of social media, the dynamics of online culture. It's not
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  Speaker 12: limited to isis, It's across the ideological spectrum.
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  Speaker 20: Both men are being held without bail and are due
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  Speaker 20: back in court early next month.
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  Speaker 2: All right, there you go. The very latest Congressman Rae
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  Speaker 2: in Define from Florida weighing out on that cut number eight.
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  Speaker 17: One word, it's deport I mean. The fact of the
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  Speaker 17: matter is Mondami hates America, hates the Judeo Christian civilization
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  Speaker 17: that we have here. You know, we're allowed to protest
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  Speaker 17: whatever we want. We hear this all the time from
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  Speaker 17: the left. When they were doing all this ridiculous stuff
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  Speaker 17: on our college campuses, people like this jerk mayor talked
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  Speaker 17: about how they had a First Amendment right to say
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  Speaker 17: whatever they want.
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  Speaker 3: That's not the issue.
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  Speaker 13: The issue is two.
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  Speaker 17: Muslim terrorists who were inspired by Isis, who traveled to
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  Speaker 17: the Middle East threw bombs at people.
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  Speaker 3: That is the issue.
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  Speaker 17: You are allowed to say whatever you want in this country.
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  Speaker 17: You're not allowed to throw bombs. But Mandami is covering
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  Speaker 17: for the Muslim tears that he supports, whether it's in
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  Speaker 17: the Middle East or whether it's in America. He should
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  Speaker 17: be stripped of his citizenship and he should be deported.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with him. I agree with him. You
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  Speaker 2: got to you gotta do it. You gotta crank down.
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  Speaker 2: You do Dylan when was the last time he went
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  Speaker 2: out for dinner.
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  Speaker 13: Oh, it's been a minute. Actually, I always I tend
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  Speaker 13: to order in and that's not smart financially, but it's
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  Speaker 13: been a minute.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not judging. I mean we dis ordered. We
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  Speaker 2: had a Chick fil A, we had the whole staff.
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  Speaker 2: We grabbed Chick fil A.
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  Speaker 13: I've been trying to eat better as well.
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  Speaker 2: So the couples, we got a new guy and he
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  Speaker 2: was like, I'll have a number seven. We're like, wait,
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  Speaker 2: how do you you memorize your order?
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, I only know number one from Chick fil A,
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  Speaker 13: so number seven is way way down there. I don't
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  Speaker 13: even know what that is.
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  Speaker 2: That's very specific.
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  Speaker 13: It is. That is very specific, at least the grilled
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  Speaker 13: chicken sandwich. If you were curious, Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Was that right? Yeah, well I was somewhat curious.
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  Speaker 13: Well, since we're both, you know, kind of we're on
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  Speaker 13: a diet, so we need to know number seven.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's good to know. I did not have number seven.
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  Speaker 2: Number one. The reason I asked that is there somebody
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  Speaker 2: that wrote this on social media and it's getting a
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  Speaker 2: little attention. She said, my husband and I went out
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  Speaker 2: to dinner last night and the bill came out to
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  Speaker 2: two hundred dollars. I left a fifty dollars tip on
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  Speaker 2: the table. That's a pretty good tip for a two
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  Speaker 2: hundred dollars meal. That's not too bad, thinking it was
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  Speaker 2: pretty reasonable. But the waiter looked at it and refused
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  Speaker 2: to take the tip. The waiter then told the couple
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  Speaker 2: that if we weren't willing to leave at least eighty
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  Speaker 2: five dollars, we should not be eating out in the
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  Speaker 2: first place. What ow, the woman says, I was honestly
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  Speaker 2: caught off guard. I felt embarrassed sitting there, like we'd
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  Speaker 2: done something wrong. We weren't trying to be cheap or disrespectful.
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  Speaker 2: I genuinely thought fifty dollars was a fair tip for
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  Speaker 2: that bill. Now I keep replaying the whole thing in
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  Speaker 2: my head, wondering if I misjudged it, and questioning whether
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  Speaker 2: dollars really wasn't enough. SEEZ, could you imagine.
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  Speaker 13: I just said, yeah, i'll take I'll take it back
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  Speaker 13: then if you don't want it.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, that's you know what I would have done. I
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  Speaker 2: would have just slipped the I would you know, I
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  Speaker 2: would have taken the fifty dollars back, and I would
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  Speaker 2: have slipped a one dollar bill in there. You go, unbelievable,
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  Speaker 2: that's that's crazy. But anyway, that's and again it's I
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  Speaker 2: mean that's a pretty reasonable I mean that's above twenty percent.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah. Well maybe maybe he didn't deserve it, maybe he
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  Speaker 13: didn't deserve more than fifty dollars.
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  Speaker 2: You never know, but that's I mean, the average tip.
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  Speaker 2: What do you what is it? Twenty percent?
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  Speaker 14: Now?
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  Speaker 2: Is that what people say?
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  Speaker 13: Pretty average? Yeah? Twenty percent.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, look, I and I have a long history
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  Speaker 2: of doing this. I normally tip one hundred percent. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I just like to be generous and the service is
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  Speaker 2: really good. I I always, I always tip at least
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  Speaker 2: twenty five percent, and then if the service is really good,
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  Speaker 2: I'll do one hundred percent. And I'm it's an honor
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  Speaker 2: to be able to do that because all those guys
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  Speaker 2: and gals work very hard. But the reality is this
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 2: tipping thing, it's off the charts. I think we're going
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  Speaker 2: to have a civil war based on how much you
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  Speaker 2: should tip somebody.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, the the little tablets that they have sometimes at
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  Speaker 13: these coffee shops and they just flip it around, Oh
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  Speaker 13: my gosh, and then they stare at you until you
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  Speaker 13: press something.
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  Speaker 2: It happened to me today today and I'm sitting there
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  Speaker 2: and hold on, here's the thing. The only thing I
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  Speaker 2: did was get a cup of coffee, well actually was tea,
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  Speaker 2: and they flip it over and it's like, give you
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  Speaker 2: tipping options, and you're like.
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  Speaker 13: For what have you noticed that the default numbers on
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  Speaker 13: those tablets are getting higher and.
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  Speaker 2: High as they are it was almost so I picked
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  Speaker 2: a three dollars tip, but I'm like the tea was
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 2: like four bucks or something. That's seven dollars. What's the point?
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  Speaker 2: And then you have to deliver your own mug.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah you do.
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  Speaker 2: You have to bush your own.
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  Speaker 13: Table, you get to clean it, you got to put
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  Speaker 13: it back.
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  Speaker 2: There's got to be a better way. There has to
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 2: be a better way. But I just I don't understand
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 2: if you are if if you're not being served, why
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 2: should you tip somebody.
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 13: It's a good point. I don't really have any arguments
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 13: against that.
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 2: I'm just do you at what point? Fine? I mean,
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 2: why not just charge a set them out for the
• 1:33:19
  Speaker 2: food and be done with it. Yeah, that's what I
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 2: don't understand. Simple or the worst part. And I got
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 2: I called onto this really quickly. They automatically add for
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 2: larger groups, I'll just go ahead and throw in a
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 2: tap for you. And they don't tell you that though.
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 2: You have to read the fine print. And I've been
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 2: caught a time or two double tipping at one hundred
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 2: percent for crying out loud. That's insane, all right, What
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 2: would you do, ladies and gentlemen if the waiter said, yeah,
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm going to need more a better tip.
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 2: Nine oh one two six zero five nine two six
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 2: are number. That's nine oh one two six zero five
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 2: nine two six Dylan, And I'm furious. Do you tip
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 2: like when you're at a fast food joint, say you
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 2: go to Chick fil a? Is it really true? By
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 2: the way, that it's now called Satan's Chicken?
• 1:34:17
  Speaker 13: Is that I think we've changed it from the Lord's Chicken.
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 13: I don't know.
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 2: If it's Satan's Chicken, it's hard to keep up.
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 13: It's like in the middle now they need to redeem themselves.
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 13: But your question, I don't think so. I don't think
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 13: I tip it fast food.
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think I would have ever. I don't
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 2: think I've ever tipped at you know, at a fast food.
• 1:34:34
  Speaker 13: They're making it harder and harder because McDonald's is just
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 13: like a bunch of screens everywhere. Now you don't even
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 13: see a person McDonald's.
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 2: That's sad.
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 13: So Chick fil A probably would be the only place
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 13: I would tip because they actually bring your food.
• 1:34:46
  Speaker 2: Out to you, and they do it with a smile.
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 13: And they say my pleasure at the end.
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 2: They do, they do, And you got to try not
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 2: to run over the people. Those kids, you know, they're
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 2: running around the drying through and you know you don't.
• 1:34:56
  Speaker 13: Giving food out early, and you can't. You have to
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 13: watch out for him.
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 2: What happens is and and you know we've got the
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 2: double drive throughs now, so you have to be careful
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 2: because what will happen is somebody in the in the
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 2: drive through lane closest to the building will inevitably get
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 2: their food before the car in front of them. So
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 2: they'll try to, you know, lurch out.
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 13: Yeah, somehow it is an efficient system, they do know.
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 13: They have like little exits within the line that help
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 13: you get out, but it's a little chaotic.
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 2: What happened to the cows?
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 13: The cows?
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 2: I missed the cow.
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 13: I haven't seen the cows in a minute.
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 2: The illiterate cows.
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 13: Hope that's not what the new chicken sandwiches. I think
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 13: we're good.
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 2: There a burger.
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 13: Jeez, they start no chick fil I would never do that. Yeah,
• 1:35:39
  Speaker 13: but I haven't seen their mascot back in the in
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 13: the restaurant.
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're coming out with some apparently some new foods.
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 2: They lost me on kale.
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 13: The kale and then the uh oh gosh, the cauliflower breast.
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I had nightmares over that.
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 13: Yeah, a lot of people, you know.
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 2: I took a bite and I said, oh, I can't.
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 2: My tongue said, no, I can't all of this.
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 13: It knew immediately it wasn't real.
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 2: I had to just spit it out.
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 13: No amount of breading could fix that.
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 3: No.
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 2: But the weird thing was, you took a bite out
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 2: of that cauliflower thing and it like morphed back.
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 2: I don't know what's up with that. Speaking of cows,
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 2: Democrat Maxine Dexter, she is a white woman, and she
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 2: says that white milk is a sign of white supremacy.
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 2: I no, I'm not kidding. She says that putting white
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 2: milk in schools is akin to white supremacy. Now, I
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 2: didn't realize this was a thing, but apparently it is
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 2: a thing. This is the headline from the George Washington
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 2: University Law School, the troubling link between milk and racism.
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 2: Oh jeez, So there is a Huffington Post report and
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 2: they're saying that there appears the reason why they say
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 2: that milk is now connected to white supremacy is that apparently,
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 2: during a white nationalist podcast, some of the people on
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 2: the show actually drank from a glass of milk. According
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 2: to Havin and Post, these and other incidents have been
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 2: described as evidence that some white supremacist are co opting
• 1:37:22
  Speaker 2: cow's milk as a symbol of their belief that white
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 2: people are wholesome and pure. What if we like two percent.
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 13: You're a little better than if you like two percent.
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 2: I am a two percent guy, clearly not fat free, but.
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 13: I'm not any If you find me drinking milk by itself,
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 13: you should probably fire me.
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not a whole milk whole milk guy, or
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 2: whole milk for that matter.
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 13: See seems like the person that thinks choco milk comes
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 13: from brown cows.
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 2: Well that's the thing here. What about chocolate milk? I mean,
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 2: and don't don't get me started on the strawberry.
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 13: You who, yeah, who knows where that is?
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's frightening.
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 13: I don't even know what liquid that comes out of.
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 2: That is that native? Don't native milk? Hold on red, yellow, black, white?
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 2: They are precious. I'm trying to go through the Sunday
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 2: School saw.
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 13: There's probably another flavor of milk out there. We don't
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 13: even know so.
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 2: According to Huffington Post, right wing news sites like Brent
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 2: Bart have mocked the idea that milk is racist, no kidding,
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 2: no kidding, huffingdam Post. Those who noted milk's popularity with
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 2: white supremacists have been taunted as fools who fell for
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 2: what was just a prank that was not meant to
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 2: be taken seriously. But whether or not the alt right
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 2: was indulging in a trolling exercise, some academics say these
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 2: events are part of a murky history involving cow's milk. Well, okay,
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 2: I'm so, what are they recommending we do here? That's
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 2: the question. Are they suggesting that we we have to
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 2: eat something else with our cereal?
• 1:39:02
  Speaker 3: Now?
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 2: Do we compensate by drinking from brown milk? Pardon me?
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 2: Chocolate milk. Yeah, is that what they're suggesting?
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 13: Well, if you mix the white milk with say, cinnamonos crunch,
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 13: you know, it changes into a sort of cinnamoni milk,
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 13: it's not really white milk anymore.
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 12: You know.
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 2: That's a fair point.
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 13: Yeah, maybe that's what they want.
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 2: And don't even get me started with a lactose intolerant crowd.
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 13: Yeah, you know, isn't they milk milk for that?
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 4: Now?
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 13: It's like, I don't know what these drinks are. I
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 13: don't think it's milk anymore.
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 2: You would have loved this. So I I met Ho
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 2: Foods the other day and I parked again. They have
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 2: like seventy eight little you know, charging stations, and nobody
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 2: drives nobody drives a battery powered car in the neighborhood.
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 2: So I just pulled the Cadillac up, you know, and
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 2: everybody's looking at me. They're staring at me, and I'm like, hey,
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 2: how's it going?
• 1:40:02
  Speaker 13: They probably just know it's your spot.
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 2: Oh they know who I am too. So inconsiderate, So inconsiderate.
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 2: What if somebody need to plug their battery powered car
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 2: in for thirty minutes and you know what I would
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 2: have done. I actually have an electrical OUTLT in my
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 2: gas powered catleeg I would have. I'm like, you know what,
• 1:40:21
  Speaker 2: you can plug your car into mine. Well, I don't
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 2: like mating cars like that.
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 13: Yeah, you know what I mean.
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 2: So anyway, I'm in the I'm in the ho Foods
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 2: and I'm trying to get I was gonna get some milk.
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 2: I was looking for milk the two percent. So I'm
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 2: walking and there's like the these row after row of
• 1:40:40
  Speaker 2: these of the cases. And finally I'm throwing my hand.
• 1:40:44
  Speaker 2: They've got the cashew milk and the almond milk and
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 2: the squirrel milk and all this milk.
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 13: I forget about Kiefer is that brand? Oh?
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 2: I thought you smoke that.
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 13: That's like the raw. It's like an unfiltered milk.
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 2: So finally I'm tracking down one of the one of
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 2: the petuli scented Whole Foods workers and I'm like, pardon me,
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 2: can you help me? And they're like, yes, sir, what
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 2: the very polite people, very kind people there at Whole Foods.
• 1:41:12
  Speaker 2: And I said, I said, Whole Foods worker, I need
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 2: some help here. They said, what can we do for you? Sir?
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 2: I said, where is the milk for normal people. That's
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 2: exactly what I said.
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 13: Where's the pagan milk, ma'am.
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 2: I'm just I'm like, can you just help me, help
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 2: me out, help a brother out here. So anyway, they
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 2: trying to sell me on this almond milk, and I
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 2: just can't for the life of me. I'm like, how
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 2: do you squeeze the almond? I mean, that's what gets me,
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 2: is like these little tiny almonds and you're squeezing them.
• 1:41:43
  Speaker 13: It's a great question. The two percent is probably the
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 13: most normal milk that you can find in there.
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and it didn't taste like milk. I'm gonna have
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 2: to probably switch back to Kroger milk or or super
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 2: Low milk.
• 1:41:57
  Speaker 13: You're probably better off.
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 2: But I can't go to super Low because they they cook.
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 2: They have a like a deli there, but it's like
• 1:42:05
  Speaker 2: a Southern themed, you know, grocery, so a great grocery store.
• 1:42:08
  Speaker 2: But I can't go on Chitlan day. It just you
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 2: walk in and it just smacks you right upside the face.
• 1:42:16
  Speaker 2: Very pungent, yeah, very pungent. So anyway, I don't know
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 2: what they put in the milk over at Hope Foods,
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 2: but it's not for me. Yeah, I'm just saying, what
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 2: were we talking about? Oh, yes, tipping. So anyway back
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 2: to wow, that was sort of a roundabout sort of way.
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 2: But they've got to get this figured out. And you know,
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 2: one of the things I've noticed is that so many
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 2: restaurants are now shutting down, and everybody's blaming me on
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 2: the COVID. It's the COVID. It really changed people's eating hambits. No,
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 2: I don't think that's it. I think people are tired
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 2: of going out for dinner, which used to be a
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 2: nice It used to be a rare thing, right once
• 1:42:57
  Speaker 2: or twice a week. You go out for dinner and
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 2: you want to be treated well, and you know the
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 2: staff and a lot of these places they could care less
• 1:43:05
  Speaker 2: about you, and they make that known they you know,
• 1:43:10
  Speaker 2: you always have to you know, at one point I
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 2: was at a very nice restaurant. Had they gonna have
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 2: to ask for a glass of water or the waiter
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 2: just disappeared. So I think people are tired of that.
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 2: You know, the service industry really need some work. Then
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 2: you know, the food, it's good, I guess, but you know,
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 2: when you're dealing with an irate you know, gen z
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 2: or millennial server, and you know, they feel like, you
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 2: know that you ought to be serving them. People just said,
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 2: you know what, let's just stay home. And then when
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 2: you've got the folks. And I don't know if this
• 1:43:42
  Speaker 2: has been a big problem in your area, but people
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 2: will come in to nice restaurants and they smell of
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 2: the devil's lettuce, and that is an unappetizing thing. When
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 2: somebody comes in and you just smell like a weed factory.
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 2: And then you know, by the way, the rule of
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 2: thumb is when you go to a restaurant, you never
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 2: order the the what the appetizers. You know, they always
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 2: get you on the appetizers. You just go in there,
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 2: get your meal, order water, and get out of there.
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 2: But when you've got somebody coming into the restaurant and
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 2: they smell of weed, all of a sudden, you get
• 1:44:18
  Speaker 2: the munchies and the next thing you know, you're chowing
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 2: down through the entire appetiser section.
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 13: I didn't think that's where you were going with that,
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 13: but I can see how that works.
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 2: It be the case, man got any funians, any Cheetos,
• 1:44:34
  Speaker 2: hot fries? Wow, So I think that's the reason. And
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 2: then when you when you when you factor in the
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 2: you've got to you know, pay almost double for your tip.
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 2: People are like, you know what, let's just stay home
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 2: and with all the YouTube videos now you can actually
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 2: make you know. I made red lobster tartar sauce. Ooh,
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 2: it was life changing.
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 13: Is it like in the you got it from the
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 13: grocery store? It was like a mixed.
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 2: No, I made it from scratch. Went on the Instagram
• 1:45:05
  Speaker 2: and they had a red lobster turner sauce recipe and
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 2: it was good. It was delicious. You cannot tell the difference.
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 13: Hey, sounds pretty good.
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 2: I'm just telling you. And it didn't cost me thirty
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 2: forty bucks.
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 13: That's true. No tipping on that.
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 2: And no bad attitude. I'm just saying, all right, nine
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 2: oh one two six zero five, nine two six is
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 2: our telephone over? That's nine oh one two six zero
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 2: five to nine to six.
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 3: On to.
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 2: A disturbing story and this one, folks. I've often wondered
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 2: why they don't talk about this, and I have a
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 2: theory about why they're not talking about this. But Catherine
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 2: Herriage came out with an interesting report the other day
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 2: talking about the number of kids who have been assault
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 2: on school campuses. It's unbelievable the number of young people
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 2: that have been sexually assaulted by teachers and staff in
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 2: American classrooms, and it pales in comparison. Everybody talks about
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 2: all the Catholic schools, pales in comparison to those numbers,
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 2: and yet nobody's doing any stories about it at all.
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 2: And I think one of the reasons why it is
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 2: because you've got all these perverts that are out working
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 2: in public schools, and many of them are teaching these
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 2: kids all about the alphabet activist community. So I'm glad
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 2: to see that Catherine Herriage is exposing this, shining a
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 2: light on a very disturbing story here in America. Nine
• 1:46:42
  Speaker 2: oh one two six zero five nine two six are
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 2: a telephone number. That's nine oh one two six zero
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 2: five nine two six. New survey from the University of
• 1:46:51
  Speaker 2: Wisconsin Madison faculty. They released a new survey today and
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 2: it shows an overwhelming ideological bias at the University of
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 2: Wisconsin Madison. I know you are shocked. Here are some
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 2: of the key results from the study. At the Tommy G.
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 2: Thompson Center. Seventy percent seventy percent of the faculty identify
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 2: as liberal, only nine percent identify as conservative. Are you
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 2: surprised by those numbers? I'm surprised. It's not higher, to
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 2: be honest with you. The bias getting worse by the generation.
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 2: Assistant professors are more progressive than associate professors, who are
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 2: more progressive than full professors. So what does this mean? Well,
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 2: faculty said they would be less likely to support hiring
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 2: a candidate who expressed a conservative view compared to one
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 2: who expressed a liberal view on itsues like abortion, immigration,
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 2: transgender sports, or affirmative action. Faculty of all ideological background
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 2: said that people with progressive views would feel welcomed on campus.
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 2: They said conservatives would feel less welcome conservative faculty. We're
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 2: especially concerned about this. Liberal faculty were more likely to
• 1:48:14
  Speaker 2: value racial diversity, while conservatives were more likely to value
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 2: ideological diversity. Yeah, I'm not surprised by this, but this,
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 2: again is something that the president is going to have
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 2: to address it. I only they're going to be able
• 1:48:30
  Speaker 2: to get around to it. I really don't. I hope,
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 2: I hope that is not the case. But we shall see,
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 2: all right, got to take a break. Nine oh one
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  Speaker 2: two six zero five nine two six. This is the
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  Speaker 2: Todd Sterns Show. All right, welcome back, This is the
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 2: Todd Sterns Radio Show. Just a few moments oh over
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 2: Antony white House pre press briefing of the White House
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 2: doubling down, Caroline Lovett calling on John Thune to move
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 2: forward on the same act. It's it's not gonna happen.
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 2: It's gonna take. It's gonna take a lot, a lot
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 2: for for that to get across the finish line. Nine
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 2: oh one two six zero five nine two six hour
• 1:49:21
  Speaker 2: telephone number. That's nine oh one two six zero five
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 2: nine two six. Where is that story? I so this
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 2: is from a report out of New Orleans, Louis Armstrong
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  Speaker 2: International Airport where wait times still up to four hours
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  Speaker 2: to get through TSA checkpoints cut fourteen please and then I.
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  Speaker 20: Walked over here right and my dog dropped.
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  Speaker 21: Travelers were shocked to see massive TSA line span across
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  Speaker 21: Armstrong International Airport. Countless people were in the long line
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  Speaker 21: that spanned from the parking arrivee around the airline check
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  Speaker 21: in area and ended on the second level.
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  Speaker 19: Had a way through a bunch of lines that was
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  Speaker 19: actually just one line for the security that wove all
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  Speaker 19: around and it was where does it start?
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  Speaker 3: And they're like in the garage.
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  Speaker 21: According to airport leaders, it's an impact from the partial
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  Speaker 21: government shutdown. On Sunday, they experienced a shortage of TSA workers,
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  Speaker 21: causing major delays through the security checkpoint.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just this is ridiculous.
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  Speaker 8: This is crazy.
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  Speaker 21: The long wait times caused many travelers to miss their flights.
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  Speaker 20: We get here, we go through customs and it's so
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  Speaker 20: packed in here, you don't even you can't even find
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  Speaker 20: the direction they're trying to get.
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  Speaker 2: No one wants to stand in this line for over
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  Speaker 2: an hour.
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  Speaker 10: So I mean, I've flown it out of New Orleans
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  Speaker 10: a lot and it's a big hub.
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  Speaker 20: So I'm like, they have the TSA on log It's
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  Speaker 20: never been like this.
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  Speaker 21: While TSA workers tried to keep the lines moving, the
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  Speaker 21: DeLay's altered travel plans for a lot of people.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we're completely in shock, obviously, huge respect for
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  Speaker 2: the TSA workers that are here doing their jobs and
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  Speaker 2: making sure that people are able to get where they
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  Speaker 2: need to go. Well, there you go. Here's the thing.
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  Speaker 2: Once you get into the airport, they're at New Orleans,
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  Speaker 2: the brand new airport. You're okay, because some of the
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  Speaker 2: best restaurants in all of America are actually located in
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  Speaker 2: their brand new airport facility. Dylan, I know for spring break.
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  Speaker 2: Did you were you ever a spring breaker? Did you'd
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  Speaker 2: like to go travel cut out of the beach?
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  Speaker 13: I did? In high school. I think we went to
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  Speaker 13: the beach a couple of times.
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  Speaker 2: Redneck ravi era. Yes, of course, yeah, you can't. Those
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  Speaker 2: are the good old days. We would never fly. It
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  Speaker 2: was always you know, driving somewhere. And then in college
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  Speaker 2: we had a really strong like Baptist student union group
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  Speaker 2: and our college group, and we would always go out
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  Speaker 2: on mission trips during spring break, which were a lot
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  Speaker 2: of fun. You know, you do good and then you
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  Speaker 2: goof around.
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  Speaker 13: So yeah, but this time seems terrible to go anywhere.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, And I suspect even those college youth groups are
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  Speaker 2: losing their religion. Standing in lines out we're staying at
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  Speaker 2: home doing a mission trip. Now there you go, a staycation,
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  Speaker 2: stay mission cation something. Okay, we'll work on that, folks.
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