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Congressman David Taylor joins the program this morning · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: The talk station. It was sick a fifty five KR
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  Speaker 1: see the talk station. Brian Thomas welcoming back to the
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  Speaker 1: fifty five Karensee Morning Show and appreciate his willingness to
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  Speaker 1: discuss political matters that come on the program to talk
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  Speaker 1: about it. Congressman David Taylor, representing the second District care
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  Speaker 1: in Ohio and proudly doing so. Congressman Taylor, welcome back
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  Speaker 1: to the morning show. It's always great having you on
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  Speaker 1: the show.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks Brian, thank you for having me. I'm always happy
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  Speaker 2: to talk to you.
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  Speaker 1: I am pleased about that. My listeners are pleased to
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  Speaker 1: hear from him as well. Now I talk about start
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  Speaker 1: off with the Epstein and not quite sure much time
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  Speaker 1: you want to spend with it. That's fine, But finally
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  Speaker 1: we move forward. Everybody says, let's get the Epstein files
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  Speaker 1: out there. A weird thing happened with Donald Trump. First
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  Speaker 1: he campaigns on releasing them, then he says, no, there's
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  Speaker 1: nothing to see here, and then the Democrats get start
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  Speaker 1: to salivate, thinking maybe there's something in there they want
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  Speaker 1: to that he wants to keep from the American public.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, but we finally ended up to the
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  Speaker 1: point where they're all going to be released subject to
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  Speaker 1: DOJ redactions, which we will all anxiously await and probably
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  Speaker 1: chuckle over. But I mean, I think a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people seem to have lost sight of what this is
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  Speaker 1: all about. I'm my understanding. For example, the discharged Physician
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  Speaker 1: petition Congress from Massey wanted from some justice for these
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  Speaker 1: women who came forward and demanded accountability by those that
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  Speaker 1: molested them, molested them when they were young, before they
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  Speaker 1: were adults, like age fourteen, for example. The point was
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  Speaker 1: there have been no prosecutions with the exception of Epstein
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  Speaker 1: and his you know, Julane Maxwell, where are all the
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there are a thousand victims out there where
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  Speaker 1: I know it wasn't just Epstein molesting them. There's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people out there that were involved and maybe
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  Speaker 1: engaged in that conduct. Isn't it important for these women
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  Speaker 1: to get some justice for what they went through?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Absolutely, Brian. It's like you said, it's not just
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  Speaker 2: the gravity of the crime and the huge number of victims.
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  Speaker 2: That's also we don't know who the all the perpetrators were.
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  Speaker 2: You know, some of the few names that have snuck
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  Speaker 2: out from the British Royalty to others. Obviously, there are
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  Speaker 2: people in positions of considerable influence who may still be
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  Speaker 2: in positions of considerable influence. And the people deserve to
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  Speaker 2: know that the victims deserve justice, and we deserve to
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  Speaker 2: know they were governed by and I appreciate Congressman Matthew's
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  Speaker 2: efforts to get these documents out. It's vitally important that
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  Speaker 2: we do it. There are some concerns about, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the sort of what's within the four corners of the
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  Speaker 2: discharged petition that results in these releases. There's a security
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  Speaker 2: of the victims information is a vital concern, the possible
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  Speaker 2: release of the child sexual abuse materials, right, we have
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  Speaker 2: to be very careful about those things. But this is
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  Speaker 2: a you know, transparent first step towards holding perpetrators accountable.
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  Speaker 2: Passed four hundred and twenty seven to one. I was
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  Speaker 2: happy to vote yes on it. What's not been talked
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  Speaker 2: about a lot is back on September third, we passed
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  Speaker 2: a measure to release even more breadth and depth of information,
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  Speaker 2: including Epstein's a state documentation where you can do some
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  Speaker 2: real tracking of who he dealt with and when, and
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  Speaker 2: that passed the House floor, but two hundred and eight
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  Speaker 2: Democrats voted against that, so that leads to the question
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  Speaker 2: of what their real motivations are. But I agree with
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  Speaker 2: you one hundred percent, Brian, that all of this needs
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  Speaker 2: to come out. And since the Republicans have been in charge,
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  Speaker 2: tens of thousands of pages of documentation have been released.
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  Speaker 2: Zero pages came out under the previous administration. So it
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  Speaker 2: makes it look like political grandstanding on their part, But
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  Speaker 2: it really doesn't matter because between you and me and
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  Speaker 2: the people of the second District, we want to know
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  Speaker 2: what happened and who did it.
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  Speaker 1: Who did it, who is involved in disgusting criminal conduct,
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  Speaker 1: and the whole thing that was just seen to become
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  Speaker 1: more of a who's going to get more shoden Freud
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  Speaker 1: out of this has become a political weapon. You have
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  Speaker 1: people levying accusations against Trump based upon some random musings
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  Speaker 1: in some email between some folks, and that you know,
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  Speaker 1: you could take it out of context, have it in context.
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  Speaker 1: Either way, it looks like every single document release is
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  Speaker 1: going to be weaponized, or at least there's going to
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  Speaker 1: be in an effort to weaponize it against other politicians,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps for political motivations. None of that has anything to
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  Speaker 1: do with whether these women are going to get some justice.
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  Speaker 2: No, I agree, it's you know, it's sort of been
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  Speaker 2: political theater somewhat since the Democrats have decided they want
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  Speaker 2: these documents released. Oh, they have victims in the who
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  Speaker 2: they betrayed the last four years in the on the
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  Speaker 2: House floor, and you know, play to them. And you know, honestly,
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  Speaker 2: I hope when we get to the bottom of this horrible,
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  Speaker 2: you know, child sex abuse nightmare, we see the Democrats
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  Speaker 2: pursue the huge child sex slave track trafficking the perpetrated
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  Speaker 2: under the previous administration. But I'm not too optimistic that
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  Speaker 2: that'll happen.
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  Speaker 1: Oh and following that statement, the big question is, well,
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  Speaker 1: why why they seem to be like non political, no
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  Speaker 1: brainer type the things Congressman I I don't understand the
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  Speaker 1: division over something that doesn't even bear a political stripe.
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  Speaker 1: You know, justice for these women going after child molesters
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  Speaker 1: and child predators. Does that bear a political stripe?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think it shouldn't. I mean, as we've as
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  Speaker 2: we've discussed, it should have been released long ago. It
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  Speaker 2: should have been we should have been digging into it
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  Speaker 2: right away. The way this has been handled from back
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  Speaker 2: to the the the prosecutions of Epstein and Maxwell themselves.
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  Speaker 2: It's always been uh, there's a list of perpetrators, but
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  Speaker 2: none of them have been in dieted. None of them
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  Speaker 2: have been named publicly except your uh, a British royal
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  Speaker 2: no one particularly cares about, has no influence on American politics.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, it's it's puzzling, but they managed to caush
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  Speaker 2: it for the four years that Biden was in office.
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  Speaker 2: What makes it sort of a I think they pulled
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  Speaker 2: it and people went to the ste documents and they said, well,
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  Speaker 2: we got to jump on something. We're on the twenty
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  Speaker 2: percent side of every eighty twenty issue in the country.
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  Speaker 2: We need to get on the positive side of one. Look,
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  Speaker 2: I've always been on the side of full transparency business case.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, well, and then the public is demanding some
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  Speaker 1: information or know how in the hell this Epstein guy,
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  Speaker 1: coming from basic obscurity, could rise to a position where
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  Speaker 1: he could be having one point two billion dollars in
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  Speaker 1: suspicious trading transactions through JP Morgan. How is it that
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  Speaker 1: he became connected with all these power bloker brokers in
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  Speaker 1: these players. I mean, there's a lot of conspiracy theorist
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  Speaker 1: listeners out there. I think there's some evil cabal of
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  Speaker 1: like eight people that run and make decisions for the
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  Speaker 1: entire world. That's not me. But when you see something
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  Speaker 1: like this and all of these global players and multi
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  Speaker 1: millionaire business people all working together and exchanging communications, it
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  Speaker 1: just feeds that narrative and it causes people to what
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  Speaker 1: is going on here?
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  Speaker 2: Well? No, absolutely, and I'm glad to see that the
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  Speaker 2: JP Morgan documents are already coming out. As I said,
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  Speaker 2: we've been the Oversight Committee has been pursuing this, trying
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  Speaker 2: to do it in a very responsible way, protecting victims' names,
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  Speaker 2: protecting the public from being exposed to the term of
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  Speaker 2: art is cesan. But a child's sexual abuse materials that
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  Speaker 2: you are maybe forced into the public domain by this
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  Speaker 2: discharge petition. But hopefully uh out media outlets are responsible
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  Speaker 2: when that stuff comes out. It doesn't, you know, get
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  Speaker 2: to presented to the eyes of children. You know, no
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  Speaker 2: one wants to see that kind of thing release. But
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  Speaker 2: if that's what's necessary to get to the bottom of
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  Speaker 2: this case, then hopefully it's done responsibly. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know part of me, you know, the the
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  Speaker 1: attorney in the suspects that there has been some measure
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  Speaker 1: of accountability against these people in the form of settlement
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  Speaker 1: agreements that have confidentiality clauses in them. Congressman, maybe that's
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  Speaker 1: why there hasn't been any prosecution, because they've all settled
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  Speaker 1: out of court.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Just because you settle on a civil from a civil
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  Speaker 1: liability perspective, out of court, doesn't mean the Prosecutor's office
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  Speaker 1: or the US Attorney General couldn't still go after them
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  Speaker 1: for blesting children.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, exactly. Those settlements, I'm sure sure all include
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  Speaker 2: nbas of varying strength. I'm sure they did all they
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  Speaker 2: could to try to make it so that their payment
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  Speaker 2: led to them that were being exposed to the light.
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  Speaker 2: But there's all kinds of ways to pursue those cases,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm sure the DJI will use every angle they
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  Speaker 2: possibly can. It's been a very active dj during the
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  Speaker 2: first eleven months or so of this Congress. I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: they'll turn their attention to that. Well. President Trump refers
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  Speaker 2: to it as a distraction. I think basically what he's
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  Speaker 2: referring to is he's not involved and it's distracting from
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  Speaker 2: his agenda. He's fully focused on trying to get his
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  Speaker 2: policies across the line. I assume what he means is
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  Speaker 2: they're trying to prevent him from enacting his agenda by
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  Speaker 2: using something in which he is really not involved. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: more right, More and more people who are were deeply
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  Speaker 2: involved in the case say that, you know, as soon
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  Speaker 2: as he found out that Epstein was involved in this
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  Speaker 2: kind of activity, he not only banned him from his resource,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, reported to appropriate people that he respected.
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  Speaker 2: It was going on.
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  Speaker 1: Cut ties with the guy like everybody else should have
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  Speaker 1: the minute they found out he was a child moll
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  Speaker 1: last year. Congressman. We're going to continue with Congressman Dave Taylor. Now,
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  Speaker 1: something else that should bear no political stripe should be
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  Speaker 1: in the talks Station eight, nineteen fifty five KCD Talk
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  Speaker 1: Station Bryan Thomas with Congressman David Taylor. Let me quote you,
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  Speaker 1: Congressman David Taylor, along the lines of the should and
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  Speaker 1: or a political stripe. Quote. It's a no brainer. If
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  Speaker 1: you want to drive an eighty thousand pound vehicle on
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  Speaker 1: America's roads, you should be able to read the road
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  Speaker 1: signs that that's an irrefutable statement, sir. But there are
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  Speaker 1: people who think that that shouldn't be a requirement. What
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  Speaker 1: is the Commercial Motor Vehicle English Proficiency Act, which you
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  Speaker 1: are a coho sponsor of, Sir, Yeah, Brian.
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  Speaker 2: It's this sort of goes hand in hand with Connor's Law,
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  Speaker 2: which we talked about just briefly last time I was
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  Speaker 2: with you. This covers the testing procedure. Currently, the written
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  Speaker 2: part of the CDL test can be given in any language.
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  Speaker 2: The driving portion of it is given in English, but
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  Speaker 2: there's very little English proficiency required to pass the driving
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  Speaker 2: part anyway. Basically, the passing the driving part is no
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  Speaker 2: indication that you are proficient in English. So this will
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  Speaker 2: require you to take the test in English before getting
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  Speaker 2: a CDL, Whereas Connor's law covers folks already have a
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  Speaker 2: CDL that are driving, they get pulled over for this,
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  Speaker 2: that or the other thing, and if they're not proficient
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  Speaker 2: in English, then they're taken out of service. It's such
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  Speaker 2: a common sense law that it was the law starting
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  Speaker 2: in nineteen thirty seven up until the Obama administration. They
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  Speaker 2: gutted the teeth of the law. That taking you out
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  Speaker 2: of service part was taken out of the law. So
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  Speaker 2: if they pull you over you can't read or speak English,
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  Speaker 2: they give you a ticket and on you go, continuing
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  Speaker 2: to endanger everybody on the road. So these two things
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  Speaker 2: go hand in hand, and I expect them to have
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  Speaker 2: considerable bipartisan support. But with the way we've seen Democrats
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  Speaker 2: absolutely go to the mastresses to protect illegals and keep
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  Speaker 2: them in the United States, I don't know, but I'm
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  Speaker 2: expecting this is a very common sense law. Is the
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  Speaker 2: law for most of the last hundred years, hopefully it
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  Speaker 2: can be again.
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  Speaker 1: So commercial driver's license are those the purview of the
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  Speaker 1: states or is that a federal issue? Because my understanding
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  Speaker 1: that the laws regarding the roads and the issuance of
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  Speaker 1: licenses commercial or you know, like my own driver's license
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  Speaker 1: are a state law. Is this is this through the
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  Speaker 1: exercises or the use of the commerce clause, you can
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  Speaker 1: reach out there and sort of even the playing field
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  Speaker 1: in terms of what's required to get a cd L.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the states are handing out CDL with their own
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  Speaker 2: rules to a large extent. But uh, these hopefully both
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  Speaker 2: of these laws will be rolled into the surface reauthorization law,
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  Speaker 2: what usually called the Highway Bill. Yeah, it's here because
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  Speaker 2: you you know, as an attorney. You know, there's no
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  Speaker 2: more abused clause of the Constitution than the Commerce clause.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, don't get me started, Commress from Taylor.
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  Speaker 2: But that's like we can all agree that.
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  Speaker 1: No, that's always hesitant to even bring up the topic
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  Speaker 1: because I'm arguing in favor of using the commerce clause
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  Speaker 1: to keep dangerous drivers off the road. And you're right,
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  Speaker 1: it's the worst one ever.
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  Speaker 2: Right, But I mean this is pretty clear nextus to uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, national commerce when you're hauling big rigs are
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  Speaker 2: going from LA to New York, much.
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  Speaker 1: More southern, much more so than growing private wheat on
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  Speaker 1: your own private property for your own private consumption, which
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  Speaker 1: is the genesis of how we went off the rails
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  Speaker 1: here in the United States from the Wicked versus Philburn case.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry to subject around you. All right, So, so is
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  Speaker 1: this teed up? Is it ready to go? Is it
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  Speaker 1: ill still in committee? Are we going to see a
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  Speaker 1: vote on this one?
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  Speaker 2: We're hoping that it'll be out of committee soon. The
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  Speaker 2: Connors Law we've we sponsored quite a while ago, and
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  Speaker 2: I think it's it's it should be close, honest. We're
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  Speaker 2: hoping the reauthorization we'll come through t and I and
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  Speaker 2: we're hoping both of these bills are are added to that.
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  Speaker 2: That's the highway build I'm talking about, and that sort
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  Speaker 2: of slated for spring for a final passage, So hopefully
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  Speaker 2: we'll get marked up maybe before the end of the year,
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  Speaker 2: if not early part of twenty six, and I have
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  Speaker 2: that passed in the spring and be off and running
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  Speaker 2: all right.
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  Speaker 1: Other than the fact that a lot of Republicans sponsored this,
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  Speaker 1: have you heard an argument articulating against this and saying
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  Speaker 1: why this is not a good idea? That's kind of
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  Speaker 1: the where I'm where I'm especially my curiosity, why isn't
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  Speaker 1: this a good idea?
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  Speaker 2: I'd love to hear it bright. I know no one.
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  Speaker 2: No one has come to me and said that's dumb.
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  Speaker 2: So that gives me hope that then we'll get some
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  Speaker 2: bipartisan support for it. And I really do think we will.
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  Speaker 2: The trucking groups or the lobbying groups or advocacy groups,
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  Speaker 2: whatever you want to call them, are all in favor
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  Speaker 2: of it. It will be The flip side of the
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  Speaker 2: coin is that it'll be good for American workers. You know,
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  Speaker 2: since COVID the long haul truckers are trucking in general,
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  Speaker 2: they're very lucrative careers, and I think that's part of
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  Speaker 2: why some of these companies are in these CDL mills,
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  Speaker 2: are putting illegals and trucks and paying them less than
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  Speaker 2: what they have to pay an American work driver. So
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  Speaker 2: that's guide of the coin too.
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  Speaker 1: No question about it. Well, we'll keep our fingers crossed
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  Speaker 1: on that. Congres and David Taylor, thank you so much
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  Speaker 1: for spending time with my listeners with me today, and
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  Speaker 1: I want to wish you on behalf of my family
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  Speaker 1: and my listening audience, that you and your family have
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  Speaker 1: a truly wonderful and joyous Thanksgiving holiday, and I'll look
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  Speaker 1: forward to having you back on the program real soon.
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  Speaker 2: Sir, Same to you and yours, Brian, have a great day.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks my friend. I'll try to do that. It's Friday,
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  Speaker 1: probably will We're going to help some folks out