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Thank you, President Trump! · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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  Speaker 1: From the principal Toyota studios, it's Morning in Memphis with
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  Speaker 1: Todd Starnes.
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  Speaker 2: And a very good morning it is. Hello, everybody. Thank
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  Speaker 2: you for joining us today. We have a lot happening.
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  Speaker 2: Senator Marsha Blackburn is here today. Also, and just so
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  Speaker 2: you know, we are literally every person running for governor
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  Speaker 2: has reached out to us. They've asked for airtime, sit
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  Speaker 2: down for an interview, and we have agreed to do that.
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  Speaker 2: So all of the candidates are going to be coming
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  Speaker 2: through the KWAM studios. It doesn't matter if they're running
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  Speaker 2: for Congress, local. We've got both candidates running for Lakeland
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  Speaker 2: mayor that are going to be joining us in the
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  Speaker 2: coming days. So we've got a lot of political news happening.
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  Speaker 2: And again, this is why KWAM, the Mighty 990, is
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  Speaker 2: the number one news talk radio station in the Mid-South.
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  Speaker 2: Our numbers just on streaming are off the charts. And
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  Speaker 2: it's because you folks want to hear from these candidates.
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  Speaker 2: So coming up in just a little while, Marsha Blackburn
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  Speaker 2: is going to be here. As we go through the
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  Speaker 2: political season, Steve Gill, who is the publisher of TriStar Daily,
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  Speaker 2: he'll be joining us at least twice a week to
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  Speaker 2: break down a lot of the political news. And there
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  Speaker 2: really is a lot of political news. But Memphis was
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  Speaker 2: right in the middle of national headline stories yesterday. And
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  Speaker 2: yesterday afternoon, the Attorney General Todd Blanch coming out in
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  Speaker 2: a Rose Garden press conference late yesterday and talking about
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  Speaker 2: the incredible, the incredible success story that is Memphis, Tennessee.
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  Speaker 2: And of course, President Trump bringing the National Guard to
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  Speaker 2: our city after we asked him about it right here
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  Speaker 2: on KWAM, on our airwaves in this very studio. And
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  Speaker 2: the president promised he would take a long, hard look
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  Speaker 2: at Memphis and He ended up a couple of weeks
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  Speaker 2: later making the move to send in the National Guard.
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  Speaker 2: At the time, we were the nation's most violent city.
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  Speaker 2: We were the nation's deadliest city. And that was coming
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  Speaker 2: from the FBI director himself, Kash Patel. And now when
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  Speaker 2: you look at where we are, it is just truly remarkable.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the attorney general yesterday talking about Memphis on the
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  Speaker 2: national media. Cut 27, please.
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  Speaker 1: Done in Memphis. Today is the one-year anniversary of us
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  Speaker 1: signing the Memorandum of Understanding with Memphis to do the
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  Speaker 1: great work that we've done over the past year. Nearly
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  Speaker 1: 13,000 arrests in the Memphis area, more than 2,000 illegal
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  Speaker 1: firearms seized, and nearly 1,500 known gang members arrested over
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  Speaker 1: the past year. We also located more than 200 missing children.
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  Speaker 3: St.
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  Speaker 4: Louis, over the past four weeks.
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  Speaker 1: Our HSTF platform has been extraordinarily successful, arresting over 250
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  Speaker 1: violent criminals, many with outstanding warrants and extensive criminal history.
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  Speaker 1: And they've taken over 100 illegal firearms off the streets.
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  Speaker 3: That's just in the.
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  Speaker 1: Past four weeks. And today, you may have heard Director
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  Speaker 1: Patel announce that the FBI has arrested 10 out of
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  Speaker 1: 10 of the criminals on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted
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  Speaker 1: list today. in the first 18 months of the administration.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it really is remarkable what this administration has
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  Speaker 2: done for Memphis. And, you know, the carjackings, there was
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  Speaker 2: a time when you had to be very careful about
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  Speaker 2: going to get gas, very careful about going to the
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  Speaker 2: grocery store, especially if you were a woman, because you
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  Speaker 2: were targeted by these thug carjackers. And look, there is
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  Speaker 2: still a lot of work that has to be done.
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  Speaker 2: No doubt about that. No doubt about it. People are
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  Speaker 2: still getting shot. And what I love about the president
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  Speaker 2: is he did something that the Democrats in this town
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  Speaker 2: did not do. President Trump realized that most of the victims,
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  Speaker 2: most of the victims of these criminal thugs are black folks.
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  Speaker 2: And the president said, not on my watch. The Democrats
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  Speaker 2: in Memphis turned a blind eye as black people have
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  Speaker 2: been killed in the streets. They've been carjacked. They've been robbed.
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  Speaker 2: They've been beaten and not a scene. They did absolutely
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  Speaker 2: nothing to stop them. Nothing at all. Nothing at all.
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  Speaker 2: Trump comes in and says, we're going to do something
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  Speaker 2: about this. This is not right. This is not normal.
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  Speaker 2: People in America should not have to live like this.
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  Speaker 2: So I just say, and honestly, you know, the NAACP
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  Speaker 2: and all of these race baiting grifters out there, they
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  Speaker 2: really ought to thank President Trump for what he did,
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  Speaker 2: but they'll never do it. And honestly, City Hall ought
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  Speaker 2: to do it as well. But instead, Bill Dries has
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  Speaker 2: a piece up on the Daily Memphian today. Here's the headline.
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  Speaker 2: City Council members plan to ask the Memphis Task Force
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  Speaker 2: to leave. And according to the Daily Memphian, City Council
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  Speaker 2: members Yolanda Cooper-Sutton and you've got Easter Thomas will ask
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  Speaker 2: the council to approve a resolution asking the Memphis Safe
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  Speaker 2: Task Force to leave the city. They say, of course,
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  Speaker 2: it is a non-binding resolution, but they say they have
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  Speaker 2: heard from several family members of people arrested by ICE.
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  Speaker 2: And they say the task force has to go. I'm curious,
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  Speaker 2: do you want to see the task force go? Do
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  Speaker 2: you support Memphis City Council here? By the way, the
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  Speaker 2: two people bringing up the resolution, again, Democrats. My question
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  Speaker 2: to Yolanda, and by the way, this is the same moment.
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  Speaker 2: Do you remember it was a couple of years ago,
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  Speaker 2: she was being interviewed by a reporter, and all of
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  Speaker 2: a sudden there was a drive-by shooting, and she was
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  Speaker 2: as calm as a cucumber and telling the reporter it
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  Speaker 2: was going to be okay, and she started praying. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm just curious, what does Yolanda Cooper Sutton tell the
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  Speaker 2: black citizens of her district who have been victims of crimes?
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  Speaker 2: I just I find it just appalling the way the
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  Speaker 2: city council has behaved lately only because of this. And
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  Speaker 2: just understand our city and you and you were going
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  Speaker 2: to hear Marsha Blackburn talking about small businesses. Our city
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  Speaker 2: has been suffering. When you look at the actual numbers
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  Speaker 2: of people that have left Memphis and Shelby County, it's staggering,
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  Speaker 2: just staggering. And we were on a trajectory to become
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  Speaker 2: the next Detroit, where the population just evaporated because it
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  Speaker 2: was so bad. So anyway, do you agree with the
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  Speaker 2: city council wanting to introduce a resolution to ask the
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  Speaker 2: task force to leave town? Now, here's what we're going
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  Speaker 2: to do. We're going to compile an audio tape of
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  Speaker 2: you folks calling in and thanking President Trump We're sending
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  Speaker 2: in the task force, and I'm going to send that
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  Speaker 2: directly to the president's assistant, and we're going to make
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  Speaker 2: sure the president knows there are people here in Memphis
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  Speaker 2: and Shelby County. who are very appreciative of what the
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  Speaker 2: president did. If you want to join that effort, all
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  Speaker 2: you have to do is pick up the phone and
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  Speaker 2: call and say, thank you, Mr. President, and we're going
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  Speaker 2: to send your message directly to the president of the
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  Speaker 2: United States. 901-260-5926 is our telephone number. Again, that's 901-260-5926.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's check in now with Commander Chuck here
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  Speaker 2: in the principal Toyota Memphis studio. All right, good morning, everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to The Morning Show. I'm Todd Stearns, proudly
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  Speaker 2: broadcasting in our principal Toyota Memphis studio. Let's go right
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  Speaker 2: away to our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. Say hello to
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  Speaker 2: our good friend, Steve Gill, publisher of TriStar Daily. Steve,
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  Speaker 2: good to have you with us. And the starting point
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  Speaker 2: is a story that's making the rounds today. that President Trump,
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  Speaker 2: not doing well in the latest polling data coming out,
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  Speaker 2: he was, his net approval, this is according to the
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  Speaker 2: Commercial Appeal, his net approval was at 1% in the state,
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  Speaker 2: now has flipped to a negative 4% as of September 12th. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the caveat here, and we will always do this on
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  Speaker 2: the show, Steve, The poll was conducted by Civics, which
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  Speaker 2: is known to be a left-leaning polling agency. So that's
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  Speaker 2: important to factor into this. But what do you make
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  Speaker 2: of these numbers?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think there's probably been some slippage
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  Speaker 3: because President Trump has recently, and I think because of
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  Speaker 3: world events to a large extent, been so focused on
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  Speaker 3: foreign policy, which is not the top of mind thing
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  Speaker 3: that most Americans, most Memphians are concerned about. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: we're concerned about gas prices, affordability, crime, illegal immigration. And
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  Speaker 3: I think the administration continues to find itself dragged into,
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  Speaker 3: or in some cases, prioritizing foreign policy. And our default
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  Speaker 3: setting as a nation has always been sort of a
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  Speaker 3: isolationist mentality. Sometimes that's good, sometimes that's bad. But I
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  Speaker 3: think that's part of the reflection. And as you point out,
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  Speaker 3: this polling company is a left-leaning polling company. I think
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  Speaker 3: they were polling registered rather than likely voters, which is ridiculous,
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  Speaker 3: 48 days before an election. So I think there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of questions to be raised about the polling data itself.
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  Speaker 3: But I do think there's been a softening of support
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  Speaker 3: for Trump. He's got to turn the tide on that.
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  Speaker 3: Getting gas prices down would be a huge step.
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  Speaker 2: Well, gas, yes, absolutely. And again, the question is, is
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  Speaker 2: it really Iran that's the cause of the high gas prices,
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  Speaker 2: or are the oil companies taking advantage of what's happening
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  Speaker 2: there to say, oh, yeah, we have to raise your price?
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  Speaker 2: It's almost $ 4 a gallon here in Memphis.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and I think there's no question that the oil companies,
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  Speaker 3: the gas companies are taking advantage of the opportunity to
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  Speaker 3: artificially raise the prices. When you look at the price
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  Speaker 3: of a barrel of oil, we've had higher barrel of
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  Speaker 3: oil prices in the past, and the gas prices were
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  Speaker 3: still a little bit lower. So there is something disconnected there.
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  Speaker 3: The other disconnect, and I think the Trump administration has
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  Speaker 3: not hammered this home enough over the last two years,
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  Speaker 3: we haven't built a new refinery in America since 1977.
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  Speaker 3: You don't take a barrel of oil and then just
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  Speaker 3: put it into your car's engine. You have to convert
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  Speaker 3: it to gasoline and diesel and aircraft aviation fuel. So
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  Speaker 3: no new refineries that would be more efficient, more effective,
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  Speaker 3: more costly, cleaner for the environment is because the left
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  Speaker 3: has for all these decades blocked us from building new
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  Speaker 3: refineries here. We've now got access to all this amazing
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  Speaker 3: oil in Venezuela. Now it's a dirtier oil that requires
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  Speaker 3: a bit more to refine it. We're going to be
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  Speaker 3: helping them build refineries in Venezuela because to build refineries
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  Speaker 3: to convert that new accessed oil here.
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  Speaker 4: In the U.S.
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  Speaker 3: Would take decades. We can help them. Again, it will
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  Speaker 3: cost a little bit from the taxpayers, but it will
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  Speaker 3: help rebuild the Venezuelan economy. We could be rebuilding our own,
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  Speaker 3: creating jobs here, but we're going to have to do
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  Speaker 3: it there because our environmental wackos, the people who told
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  Speaker 3: us climate change would have us all dead by now,
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  Speaker 3: won't let us build the resources we need to convert
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  Speaker 3: resources gasoline. All right.
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  Speaker 2: Steve Gill on our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. He is
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  Speaker 2: publisher of TristarDaily.com. Today, Steve, independent candidate for governor. Her
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  Speaker 2: name is Lauren Pinkston. P-I-N-K-S-T-O-N. Lauren Pinkston is going to
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  Speaker 2: be in Memphis. She's hosting a meet and greet with
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  Speaker 2: Rhodes College students later this afternoon. Before that, she's going
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  Speaker 2: to be sitting down with us here at KWAM for
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  Speaker 2: an interview. What can you tell us about Lauren Pinkston?
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  Speaker 3: You know, she's smart. She's articulate. You know, she's been
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  Speaker 3: out there working, you know, aggressively, you know, meeting with groups,
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  Speaker 3: talking to people for several months now. The problem is
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  Speaker 3: she has no resources. She has no money. And as
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  Speaker 3: you know, the mother's bill to politics is cash. And
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  Speaker 3: in case people don't realize it, you can't get mail,
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  Speaker 3: you can't get TV, you can't buy radio for free.
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  Speaker 3: Her big disadvantage is nobody knows who she is. She
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  Speaker 3: has zero name recognition, and that's why you see her
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  Speaker 3: lagging so far behind in the polls. I mean, I
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  Speaker 3: think she's got some good ideas. I think you're going
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  Speaker 3: to hear those on your show today. But I think
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  Speaker 3: she's going to ultimately be a 2% to 3% kind
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  Speaker 3: of factor in the race, while you've got Jerry Green,
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  Speaker 3: the Democrat candidate. When you look at the numbers, Kamala
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  Speaker 3: Harris got, what, 40% or so against Donald Trump. So
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  Speaker 3: that's kind of the baseline percentage. number for Democrats. It
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  Speaker 3: all depends on turnout. Can they turn out their vote?
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  Speaker 3: Can Republicans turn out their vote? It all is going
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  Speaker 3: to be a turnout game. And whether she can get
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  Speaker 3: to that 40 percent is a question or higher. And
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  Speaker 3: then you've got David Hatley, who I know you've talked
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  Speaker 3: to before.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I wanted to kind of go through one
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  Speaker 2: by one here. So, yeah, let's let me let me
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  Speaker 2: jump in here. So so we had Blackburn on the
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  Speaker 2: national show yesterday. We're going to play more clips of this.
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  Speaker 2: But I wanted to play this clip because I brought
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  Speaker 2: up Jerry Greene, To the senator, Jerry Green actually calling
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  Speaker 2: Blackburn a coward. And I asked the senator about that.
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  Speaker 2: Let's take a listen. The gubernatorial race is heating up there.
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  Speaker 2: You have a Democrat opponent, a woman by the name
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  Speaker 2: of Jerry Green, who sits on the council in Memphis.
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  Speaker 2: She posted something about you. She said that you are
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  Speaker 2: a coward. I'm curious to get your reaction to the
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  Speaker 2: rhetoric coming from the Democrats in this race.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we are running our race. We've got a
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  Speaker 4: great message. We have a history of working with and
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  Speaker 4: for Tennesseans and working to make their lives better every day.
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  Speaker 4: We are going to stay focused on that. and leave
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  Speaker 4: the noise to others. I said I've got an opponent
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  Speaker 4: that is a socialist. I've got another one with quite
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  Speaker 4: a colorful record, but we are focused on the people
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  Speaker 4: of Tennessee and how we best serve them. It is
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  Speaker 4: an honor every day. to work for the people of Tennessee.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I know your team has actually put out this website, deadbeatdave.com,
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  Speaker 2: this independent guy, David Hatley. And you're right. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the guy is a convicted criminal. He says that he's
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  Speaker 2: written about all of his past crimes and mistakes that
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  Speaker 2: he made, he said, younger in life. What is it
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  Speaker 2: about this guy that would disqualify him to be governor
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  Speaker 2: of Tennessee?
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  Speaker 4: And one of the things we know is that Tennesseans
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  Speaker 4: want somebody who has a history of delivering for them,
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  Speaker 4: somebody that understands the states, each grand division, and has
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  Speaker 4: solutions to problems. We are a great state. We're not
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  Speaker 4: a bad state. We're not bad people. We are one
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  Speaker 4: of the best states in the country, and we've got
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  Speaker 4: the lowest per capita debt burden in the country, the
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  Speaker 4: lowest tax burden. This is a good thing.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, let me jump in here. Steve, so first, she
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  Speaker 2: didn't answer the question, but I thought it was interesting.
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  Speaker 2: She said, leave the noise to others. It was her
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  Speaker 2: campaign that actually created the deadbeatdave.com website.
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  Speaker 3: And created it directly. I mean, these are people that
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  Speaker 3: are political professionals. And they didn't create a third-party PAC,
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  Speaker 3: as is normally done, to create this attack smear campaign
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  Speaker 3: on Hatley. By the way, contrary to Marsha Blackburn, he
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  Speaker 3: signed the front of a check, actually created in the
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  Speaker 3: business world jobs in Tennessee, and actually employed people and
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  Speaker 3: hired people and grown a company. So the claim that somehow,
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  Speaker 3: I guess she's trying to claim that he's called Tennessee
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  Speaker 3: bad when he's the one that's actually been on the
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  Speaker 3: front lines actually doing things. And they're attacking him left
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  Speaker 3: and right. If she truly has an insurmountable lead, can't lose,
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  Speaker 3: why is she so busy attacking her opponents rather than
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  Speaker 3: simply talking about the issues? And as you heard in
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  Speaker 3: that clip and others, she's not talking specifically about what
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  Speaker 3: she's actually done or will do. as governor of Tennessee.
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  Speaker 3: I think that's interesting. Also, this whole, you know, he's
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  Speaker 3: a convicted felon business. You know, he was kiting checks.
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  Speaker 3: He was passing money from one account to another as
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  Speaker 3: he was creating his business, you know, what, 30 years ago,
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  Speaker 3: 20 years ago, had, you know, got caught with, I think,
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  Speaker 3: about $ 35, 000, $ 40, 000 in moving this money around. Went to
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  Speaker 3: Knox County Jail, not federal prison, as Marsh's team has lied.
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  Speaker 3: He went to Knox County Jail for 23 days. And
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  Speaker 3: as you mentioned, he revealed it in his own book
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  Speaker 3: and has not been hiding it. But again, I think
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  Speaker 3: it's the desperation of attacking him. And my question about
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  Speaker 3: the debate, and I've said this publicly before, can Marshall
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  Speaker 3: Blackburn not defend capitalism against the socialists? In Tennessee, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: socialism is bad. It would be horrible. Can Marsha Blackburn
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  Speaker 3: not go one-on-one and defend capitalism against socialism?
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  Speaker 2: I will– and we address that later. We're going to
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  Speaker 2: go in the next half hour of the show, and
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  Speaker 2: we're going to play some of that audio. And I
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  Speaker 2: do ask her about the debate situation. I do think
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  Speaker 2: it's interesting. One of my staffers was at one of
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  Speaker 2: our sponsors yesterday while this interview was playing, and the
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  Speaker 2: guy said, one of the customers just chimed in and said,
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  Speaker 2: I'm voting for that Hatley guy because he wants to
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  Speaker 2: get rid of the flock cameras. So flock cameras may
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  Speaker 2: become a campaign issue. Who knew? Steve, we've got to
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  Speaker 2: leave it there. We're up against a break here. Again, TristarDaily.com.
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  Speaker 2: Steve Gill, thank you, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks, my friend.
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  Speaker 2: All right. There you go. A lot of news coming
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  Speaker 2: out and exclusive news right here on the Mighty 990.
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  Speaker 2: Our number, 901-260-5926. And welcome back, everybody. I'm Todd Starnes
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  Speaker 2: and the principal to you at a Memphis studio. If
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: you think it's crazy here in Tennessee with politics, wait
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: until you hear what's going on across the river in Arkansas.
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  Speaker 2: There is a Democrat who is running against Tom Cotton.
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  Speaker 2: Her name is Hallie Schaffner, and she is as woke
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  Speaker 2: as the day is long. I want you to listen
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  Speaker 2: to what she had to say about illegal aliens. Cut
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  Speaker 2: twenty nine.
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  Speaker 5: Every farmer will tell you, yeah, at one point we
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  Speaker 5: did or still do employ undocumented immigrants. And it's absolutely
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  Speaker 5: ridiculous that these folks are being round up because they're
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  Speaker 5: hardworking people. They're some of the best people we know.
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  Speaker 5: And honestly, we trade five Americans for just one of
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  Speaker 5: them because of how hard they work. And why is
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  Speaker 5: it that there's no pathway for them to work here
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  Speaker 5: legally when they're good workers?
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  Speaker 6: We pay them well. They spend money here. They have
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  Speaker 6: family here. We're acting like all Republicans like what's happening
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: with ICE. And Tom Cotton's basically saying, yes.
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  Speaker 5: Andy, if you're a Republican and you disagree with my
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: position on ICE, or if you're asking any kind of
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: questions about it, well, you must be anti-American and anti-safety.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm like, I have a seven-year-old boy. All I
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: think about is safety.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So there you have it. An illegal alien, according
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: to Ms. Schaffner, who wants to be the next senator
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  Speaker 2: from Arkansas, according to her own words, she says that
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: one illegal alien can do the work of five red-blooded
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: American patriots. So this is the Democrat Party's mindset. They
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: truly believe that the illegals are better than all of us,
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: which is why they want to replace all of us
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: with the illegals. That's why they had the open borders
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: during the auto-pin presidency of Joe Biden. They wanted these
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: people to flood in here. So I'm just curious, do
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: you agree with Ms. Schaffner, the Democrat candidate from Arkansas,
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: who believes that American workers, I guess you guys are lazy.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: She says one illegal can do the work of five Americans.
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  Speaker 4: 901-260-5926.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: That's 901-260-5926.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: Unbelievable.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Also unbelievable, this story out of the Daily Memphian today.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: So if you've driven by the old Commercial Appeal Building...
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: You know that they're in the process of tearing it
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: all down, and they're building a $ 1 billion brand-spanking-new Regional
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: 1 hospital. And there were all sorts of ceremonies and celebrations,
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: and all the Democrats were out there talking about how
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: this was going to be the most state-of-the-art hospital in America. Well,
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: they left out one tiny little detail. According to the
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Daily Memphian, there's no plan in place to actually pay
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: for the $ 1 billion hospital. I'm not making this up.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: This is the Daily Memphian. They got their Freedom of
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Information Act request. They did a deep dive into the numbers,
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: and they realized there's no way to pay for this thing. Now,
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Regional 1 provided limited information to the Daily Memphian. In
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: a statement, the hospital said they keep detailed records of
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: all expenditures related to the project and provide them to
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: the county. Former Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris' administration did
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: not answer phone calls or emails about the project throughout August. Well,
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: that's a red flag. One of the questions they had
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: was how it planned to finance the $ 150 million in
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: capital projects the county had planned for the current fiscal year.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: The former mayor did not answer those questions at all.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: So now, is it possible that the new commission could
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: get stuck with all of this? According to the Daily Memphian,
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: there is a contract between Regional One and Cavallis All World,
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: which is a joint venture of a healthcare consultant. And
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: the contract started in May, and there's a four-year construction
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: timeline for The hospital hopes to have everything built by 2030.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: They say the maximum price is $ 1 billion. You know
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: it's going to be more than that. And it gives
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: the joint venture a 2% fee based on that value.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: So the consultants are getting $ 20 million, which is $ 330, 000
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: a month. In June and July, Regional 1 paid more
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: than $ 700, 000 from its own funds. So big problems are
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: afoot at Regional 1 and the Shelby County Commission, and
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: they just had their very first meeting. What a mess
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: that is going to be. But my bigger question is,
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: how in the world did the previous commission sign off
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: on all of this without even knowing how they plan
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: to pay for the new $ 1 billion hospital? Unbelievable. 901-260-5926
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: is our telephone number. That's 901-260-5926. So yesterday we had
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: the chance to sit down with Senator Marsha Blackburn talking
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: about the great success of the Memphis Safe Task Force.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Let's listen to Blackburn explain why the Democrats did not
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: fix Memphis. Take a listen. You know, what's really shocking
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: about all of this, Senator, is that the Democrats who
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: have run Memphis for generations could have done something about this,
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: but they did not do anything. They didn't do anything
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: at all. And it took your efforts. It took the
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: efforts of people like State Senator Brent Taylor, now running
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: for Congress, and it took President Trump. You took that
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: to President Trump and said, Mr. President, we need help
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: in Memphis. And he delivered when the Democrats failed to
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: do so.
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: You're exactly right about that. And Director Patel and the
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: Attorney General listened when we said, we need your help.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: We can't do this on our own. And they said,
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: we will help you. And indeed, Director Patel, when he
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: was with us a year ago, gave me that public commitment.
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: that they would do that, and they have lived up
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: to that. And now that other cities, St. Louis, other
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: cities are looking at Memphis. You've got Director Patel today
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: talking about the Project Viper, which was the first part
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: of putting this task force together. He now has that
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: in a couple dozen cities where they're looking at how
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: you work in partnership to get crime under control. And, Todd,
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: I'll say this. Also, the cartels that have moved into
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: some of these issues, we in Tennessee have sent this
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: message loud and clear. If you are here trafficking our children,
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: if you are trafficking drugs, we are going to hunt
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: you down. We're going to find you and apprehend you.
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: We are going to put you in jail. We are
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: going to prosecute you. But you are not going to
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: get away with this. And it has that message is
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: being understood by these cartels and they are leaving the area.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: And that is a positive.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: One of the other things we asked the senator about
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: is how we can keep Tennessee safe. Take a listen. Senator,
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: I thought it was interesting something you said in your
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: remarks to the FBI director. that you wanted to see
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: those numbers every single day, and I think that's going
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: to impress a lot of people who, you know, sometimes
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: this part of Tennessee gets left behind in the conversation,
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: but it certainly appears that you are paying very close
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: attention to what's going on here in the Memphis area.
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: Yes, indeed we are. Ben Blackman is our chief counsel,
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: and he grew up in Memphis, went to school at
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: Christian law school at Ole Miss, and he has really
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: drilled down on these numbers and As we have worked
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: right with your local state and federal agencies, every day
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: we check these. We look at the criminals that are
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: being detained and are being jailed. I will say this.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Our U.S.
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: Attorney, Mike Donovan, has been stellar on this. Tyrese Miller,
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: the U.S. Marshal, stellar. And these gentlemen are individuals that
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: are now recognized across the country. Chief Davis is getting
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: calls from around the country from other police chiefs saying,
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: how have you done this? This is good for Memphis. And,
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: you know, one of the things we're hearing, not only
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: from citizens about how much safer it is, but from
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: small business owners and about, you know, they're beginning to
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: have people Look at relocating businesses and reaching out to
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: them and saying, could you supply this? Would you be
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: a vendor for that? So it's opening up opportunities for
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: economic growth and development. A year ago, Memphis did not
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: have the Chamber of Commerce. It's getting more requests for information.
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: This is good. It means more jobs. It means higher wages.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Okay. All right, there you go. Just a bit of
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: our interview with Marsha Blackburn. Also had a chance, and
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: we'll get to this after the break, to ask her
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: about the debates. What's going on with the debate? And
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: my question to you, do you believe it's important for
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: the candidates to agree to a debate. Is that an
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: important factor in the election? Doesn't really matter. Our telephone number, 901-260-5926.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: That's 901-260-5926. Got a note from our friends in Millington.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: The Navy Mid-South Half Marathon coming up on September the 26th.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: That's a Saturday afternoon. And there is all sorts of great...
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: fun happening. There is a big vendor expo, a lot
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: of family fun as well. And if you'd like information,
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: go to kwamradio.com. That's kwamradio.com. And we have intel on
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: the Navy Mid-South half marathon, and it's just a wonderful
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: way to come out, show your support for the Navy,
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: and to show your support for the men and women
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: who are serving our nation, and get a little bit
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: of exercise too. Not just a half marathon, there are
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: smaller races as well, and you'll be able to take
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: part in all of that fun coming up next Saturday.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: at the Navy Mid-South Half Marathon. All right, we've got
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: to take a break. We'll be right back in the
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: principal Toyota Memphis studio. And welcome back. A very busy
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: morning here in the Mid-South. I'm Todd Starnes, and we
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: are proudly broadcasting in the principal Toyota Memphis studio. Want
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: to give a shout out to our good buddy, David Weimer.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: You know, David Weimer was the very first sponsor here
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: on the Mighty 990 when I bought this radio station.
• 30:49
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• 30:52
  Speaker 2: And if you haven't been down to special things, which
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: is right next door to Weimer's Jewelry, it's a wonderful
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: vibe going down over there in Bartlett. I call it
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: my little slice of Mayberry, which is the Germantown pharmacy.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: You go there, you get your drugs, and you pick
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: up some chicken spaghetti from Oh Great. They sell food there, too.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: And you never stay for a couple of minutes. You've
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: got to stay, and you've got to talk to folks,
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: and you've got to hang out. So anyway, we thank
• 31:24
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• 31:27
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• 31:31
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• 31:34
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• 31:38
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• 31:42
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• 31:46
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• 31:50
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• 32:00
  Speaker 2: That's 901-260-5926. By the way, congratulations once again, Memphis. Give
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: yourselves a pat on the back. U.S. News and World
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: Report naming Memphis as one of the best food cities
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: in the United States. We came in number eight on
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: their list. And they gave a couple of our local
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: places some shout-outs. They also praised our chicken wings and
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: the honey gold sauce. You know, I'm not a sauce guy.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: I like the roasted wings, and I'm good there. Elwood
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: Shack Cozy Corner got shout-outs and also Gibson's Donuts among
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: some of the restaurants there. that they highlighted there in
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: the U.S. News and World Report story. So congratulations, Memphis.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: We do have the best food in America. And I'm
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: going to go ahead and just mark us up as
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: the number one city, if that's okay with you guys. 901-260-5926.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: I want to go back and play some audio from
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: our interview, our exclusive interview with Senator Marsha Blackburn. And
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: I brought up the prickly issue of debate. So let's
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: take a listen. I'm also one of these guys that
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: just loves debates. I'm a journalist. I'm a broadcaster. I
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: love the debates, and I love hearing conservative ideas being debated.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: Is there any circumstance that you would consider or at
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: least think about doing a debate with your opponents?
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: You know, my opponent is a socialist. I'm a conservative.
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: This is a contrast election. And always, we love talking
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: about what we are for. But, Todd, I'm not going
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: to give air to the defund the police, put social
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: workers on the streets. Medicaid, not even Medicare, but Medicaid
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: for all. We're just not going to give the air
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: to that. All right.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: There you have it. She's not going to debate. I
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: will just say this. It's a missed opportunity because the
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: problem is the nation's education system is giving air to
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: socialist ideas. And that's why so many young Americans are
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: embracing socialism. And I think that's why it is imperative
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: for all of our candidates to get out there on
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: the debate stage and say, OK, here's what conservatives believe
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: and here's what the socialists believe. We need to see
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: those and people need to see those issues being debated.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, I'd love to see some
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: of these debates happen in high schools around the state
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: of Tennessee. Bring in the juniors and seniors and let
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: them see these candidates and let's talk about the issues.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: And maybe just maybe we can sway minds here because
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: right now we are very close to losing a generation again.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: to the socialist, and I don't want that to happen,
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: and I know you don't want that to happen either.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: So maybe we'll try to get, we're going to try
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: our best to make this happen. There will be a
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: debate on KWAM with or without the Republican nominee. I
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: will promise you that. We've reached out to all of
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: the other candidates, and they have agreed to a debate,
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: and we'll make that happen. And if I have to
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: be the guy that's debating the conservative side of things,
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: then I'm happy to do that. Happy to do it. 901-260-5926,
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: our telephone number. The Knowledge Bolt. Anybody remember the Knowledge Bowl?
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: This is what goes back 39. This would be the
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: 39th season of the Knowledge Bowl. And it's a lot
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: of fun for the kids. You know, they get on
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: TV and they answer the tough questions. And, you know,
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: there's scholarships and trophies and bragging rights and all that
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: kind of good stuff. Collierville High School won the championship
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: the most recent Knowledge Bowl season. Well, now Channel 3, WREG,
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: says that they're going to be pausing the the Knowledge Bowl.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: And Daily Memphian got an email, got a copy of
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: the email. They said, after careful consideration, I've decided we're
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: going to place Knowledge Bowl on hiatus for the upcoming season.
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: Over time, we have seen declining interest in the program,
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: as well as a decrease in scholarship funding available from
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: our donor partners. Given those changes, I believe it's appropriate
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: to pause the program and evaluate what the future of
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: Knowledge Bowl is. could look like. So, look, we're going
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: to look into this. We're going to find out what's
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: going on, and maybe there is a version of that
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: that we could do here on the Mighty 990, right
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: here on KWAM. So, we'll check it all out, and
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: we'll let you guys know how you might be able
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: to help out. Really disappointed in WREG. I mean, really, guys?
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: Come on now. All right, folks.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: Again, it has been a busy news day and a
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: lot more ahead. Armstrong and Getty coming up. My national
• 37:01
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• 37:05
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• 37:08
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