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We now KNOW, where in the World, was James Talarico · The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson

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  Speaker 4: Good Monday morning. So nice to have you with us
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  Speaker 4: on the 47 Morning Update. And we've got one big story,
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  Speaker 4: and it involves the crazy Senate race in Texas. President
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  Speaker 4: Donald Trump called out James Tallarico for disappearing. Well, the
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  Speaker 4: mystery surrounding Tallarico's disappearance has gotten even stranger. Not only
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  Speaker 4: did he disappear, but he claimed he had the flu.
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  Speaker 4: Then now new questions have come about where he received treatment. First,
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  Speaker 4: he said it was Dallas.
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  Speaker 2: Then it was Austin. Then it was Austin.
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  Speaker 4: And that followed up by an explosive allegation involving an
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  Speaker 2: Story number one.
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  Speaker 4: All right, we got to just start with this insane
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  Speaker 4: story out of Texas, and it's the disappearance of James Tallarico.
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  Speaker 2: Like, I'm not joking, folks.
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  Speaker 4: This guy claims he's got the flu.
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  Speaker 2: Then there's changing explanations.
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  Speaker 4: And then there's new allegations about him actually not being
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  Speaker 4: in Texas at all when he disappeared for more than
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  Speaker 4: two weeks. Instead, he was at an Ohio mental health facility. Now,
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  Speaker 4: let me just go to that part of the story first,
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  Speaker 4: all right? An Ohio mental health hospital confirmed over the
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  Speaker 4: phone that they had discharged James Tallarico from the facility
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  Speaker 4: earlier this week. His campaign and James Tallarico actually said
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  Speaker 4: that he had the flu. The audio of that recording
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  Speaker 4: with the mental health facility, this is what it sounded like.
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  Speaker 2: Again, this is a phone call, a reporter asking questions. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so nothing for James Tallarico?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it looks well- This is what it's today.
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  Speaker 5: It looks like he was discharged this evening.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I don't have it.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, he was discharged then?
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  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 6: And this is the Hope Blender?
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  Speaker 3: They should be.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sorry. Let me make sure I have it right.
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  Speaker 5: This is Hope Blender? Yes. Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. And you're in Hamilton, Ohio?
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  Speaker 5: No, we're not in Hamilton.
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  Speaker 1: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: We're in Mason.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So that's why he's not on the system. He's in recent. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Bye-bye.
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  Speaker 4: Now, that facility, by the way, is not a flu
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  Speaker 4: treatment facility.
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  Speaker 2: It's a mental health facility.
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  Speaker 4: And you've got a candidate now in James Tallarico who
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  Speaker 4: wants to represent more than 30 million Texans. He suddenly
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  Speaker 4: disappears from the campaign trail while still sending out emails
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  Speaker 4: for money. And then his campaign says he has the flu. Now,
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  Speaker 4: the story gets even crazier because James Tallarico has changed
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  Speaker 4: his own story. He first said he went to an
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  Speaker 4: urgent care center in Dallas. Then questions began circulating about
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  Speaker 4: where he was actually receiving treatment and why he has
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  Speaker 4: been missing during the final weeks of this incredibly important election.
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  Speaker 4: And then when you just think that story can't get
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  Speaker 4: any stranger, then you get the emerging of the mental
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  Speaker 4: health treatment facility in Ohio in the phone call that
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  Speaker 4: you just heard there. Now, before we go any further,
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  Speaker 4: I want to be crystal clear about this. James Tallarico
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  Speaker 4: is the reason why this story has exploded because he's
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  Speaker 4: now lied about where he even got treatment for the flu.
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  Speaker 4: He's now done a interview.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 4: And again, he changed his story about where he went
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  Speaker 4: to the doctor. The flu originally said he went to
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  Speaker 4: an urgent care in Dallas. Then today he did this
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  Speaker 4: interview and he claimed he had just gone to his
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  Speaker 4: primary care physician in Austin and So Dallas and Austin
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  Speaker 4: are just two very different cities.
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  Speaker 2: They're far apart from one another, like hours away. And
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  Speaker 2: so which one was it?
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  Speaker 4: Were you in an urgent care facility in Dallas when
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  Speaker 4: it got so bad? Or were you in Austin with
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  Speaker 4: your primary care physician? That is the reason why the
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  Speaker 4: psychiatric facility that was named in that phone call is
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  Speaker 4: the X factor of the story. Because now these allegations
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  Speaker 4: are generating national headlines. And the questions surrounding his absence...
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  Speaker 4: are obviously now a major political controversy a scandal as
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  Speaker 4: you would describe it in the closing weeks because it's
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  Speaker 4: not normal for someone to disappear by the way it's
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  Speaker 4: not normal to disappear for like two weeks even if
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  Speaker 4: you had the flu that is not normal and then
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  Speaker 4: to not know where you got your treatment did you
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  Speaker 4: get treatment in Dallas that's where you said you went
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  Speaker 4: to an urgent care doctor and instead now you're saying
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  Speaker 4: no no I actually just saw my primary care physician
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  Speaker 4: in Austin This is a problem for the Democrats because
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  Speaker 4: you have a man Democrats have been promoting as their
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  Speaker 4: opportunity to turn Texas blue. And with early voting approaching,
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  Speaker 4: this absence has become one of the strangest stories I've
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  Speaker 4: ever seen. The candidate who vanishes rarely wins, by the way.
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  Speaker 4: Let's just start with that. And I'll give you the
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  Speaker 4: timeline so you understand this a little better. On September
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  Speaker 4: the 30th, James Talrico was supposed to participate in an
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  Speaker 4: event with the United States Hispanic Business Council. Instead of
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  Speaker 4: appearing in person, he joined virtually and he did not
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  Speaker 4: look well. I want to be clear. He looked unwell.
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  Speaker 4: He sounded sick. And he told the audience he'd been
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  Speaker 4: diagnosed with influenza. Now, according to his own explanation.
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  Speaker 2: All right. This is his own words.
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  Speaker 4: He had been feeling sick, quote, for several days and
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  Speaker 4: symptoms became severe enough that he visited an urgent care
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  Speaker 4: facility in Dallas the previous evening. He said he was
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  Speaker 4: running a fever and didn't want to expose other people
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  Speaker 4: to the virus. Now, on its face, that is perfectly reasonable.
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  Speaker 4: All right, explanation, I've been sick before. In fact, I
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  Speaker 4: had to cancel going to a speaking engagement because I
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  Speaker 4: had to have a surgery last Friday. Um, and, and
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  Speaker 4: I couldn't go and speak last minute, unfortunately in, uh,
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  Speaker 4: where was it?
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  Speaker 2: Toronto.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: So that happens.
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  Speaker 4: I buy it. That makes sense. Now he said he
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  Speaker 4: was around the fever. He didn't want to expose anybody now.
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  Speaker 4: And then look, people get sick.
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  Speaker 2: That's normal. Political candidates get sick, right? They're normal.
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  Speaker 4: In fact, I think you get sick more when you're
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  Speaker 4: running for office because of all the hands you shake.
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  Speaker 4: That's my personal opinion. You're constantly in packed rooms. There's
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  Speaker 4: people around you that could be sick. You're just exposed
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  Speaker 4: to a lot of different people. So when you run
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  Speaker 4: for office, you get run down. It is very normal
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  Speaker 4: to get sick. I don't criticize that, all right? Now,
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  Speaker 4: if you have influenza, staying away from large crowds is
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  Speaker 4: generally the responsible thing to do, right?
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  Speaker 2: Again, not a problem.
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  Speaker 4: Now, if Tallarico is publicly disclosed that he has also
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  Speaker 4: type 1 diabetes, according to the CDC, people with diabetes
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  Speaker 4: can face an increased risk of serious complications from influenza.
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  Speaker 4: So the idea that he could need additional time to recover,
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  Speaker 4: all right, not necessarily suspicious. I'm trying to give the
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  Speaker 4: benefit of the doubt to anyone that's ever sick. But
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  Speaker 4: here's where the story takes that political turn. You have
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  Speaker 4: days that go by. You have no public appearances. You
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  Speaker 4: have no normal campaign schedule. You're in the closing weeks
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  Speaker 4: of your campaign, not months, weeks. And then people start
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  Speaker 4: asking questions like, hey, where's James Alrico? President Trump then
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  Speaker 4: joined the conversation. Trump publicly described Tallarico as missing in
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  Speaker 4: action and asked what is happening to the Democratic candidate,
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  Speaker 4: then Ken Paxton, who's running against him, right? And even
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  Speaker 4: the Ken Paxton campaign launched what it called the Talla
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  Speaker 4: Freak Out tip line, inviting people to report sightings of Tallarico.
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  Speaker 4: Now the candidate's illness has become a national story. And
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  Speaker 4: his campaign still isn't responding. That's the other part. If
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  Speaker 4: you're just sick, you would hammer back hard. You'd have
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  Speaker 4: your staff go out there and hammer on this and say,
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  Speaker 4: look at you terrible people out there criticizing me.
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  Speaker 2: It's a no brainer, right?
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  Speaker 4: You even may do like a little video from the
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  Speaker 4: doctor's office or from a hospital bed if you're in
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  Speaker 4: the hospital and you would you would hit back hard. Now,
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  Speaker 4: I think Ken Paxton's campaign smart. I think they knew
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  Speaker 4: that something was up. And that's the reason why they
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  Speaker 4: did the tip line.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 4: And there were rumors starting to swirl online. And then
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  Speaker 4: there was rumors that he checked himself into a mental
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  Speaker 4: health facility. So you add all this up and the
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  Speaker 4: clock's still ticking. Early voting begins the 19th. Look at
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  Speaker 4: your watch right now. Look at the date. You get
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  Speaker 4: my point. This isn't six months before Election Day. This
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  Speaker 4: is happening the exact moment that candidates are supposed to
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  Speaker 4: be traveling across Texas, meeting voters, giving their closing arguments,
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  Speaker 4: raising last-minute money, It's all the most important time and
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  Speaker 4: he's nowhere to be found. All that adds into the
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  Speaker 4: back to the core issue here. You have Dallas, you
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  Speaker 4: have Austin, you have the questions about his medical care
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  Speaker 4: and then the explanations. His original public account was he's
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  Speaker 4: gone to the urgent care in Dallas.
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  Speaker 2: Now we know that's a lie.
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  Speaker 4: Not necessarily a hospital admission, by the way, not an
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  Speaker 4: extended hospitalization, urgent care.
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  Speaker 2: That's an important distinction as well.
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  Speaker 4: His campaign describes him as recovering from flu at home.
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  Speaker 4: And in his last statements, the campaign specifically says Tallarico
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  Speaker 4: was home in Austin recovering from the flu. Okay, so
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  Speaker 4: let's fast forward to the interview that James Tallarico did today.
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  Speaker 4: So listen to his explanation. He gets very irritated in
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  Speaker 4: an interview that he did with a reporter. Here is
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  Speaker 4: James Tallarico. I'm not going to play the highlights. I'm
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  Speaker 4: going to play the majority of it.
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  Speaker 1: Listen.
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  Speaker 6: You were off the campaign for more than a week,
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  Speaker 6: roughly nine days, I believe. Your campaign said you had
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  Speaker 6: the flu.
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  Speaker 2: What happened?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I got the flu, and I'm feeling much better,
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  Speaker 5: and I'm glad I had a chance to recover. If
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  Speaker 5: you don't take the opportunity to get well, sometimes you
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  Speaker 5: can get even sicker, and so I'm glad we made
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  Speaker 5: the decision to just take the week, get better, and
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  Speaker 5: now I'm glad to be back on the trail.
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  Speaker 6: You've talked about how you're a diabetic, and that when
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  Speaker 6: diabetics get the flu.
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  Speaker 2: It can get really bad. How bad was it for.
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  Speaker 6: Somebody who wants to know? Is this just like in
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  Speaker 6: bed rest or did you ever have to go to
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  Speaker 6: a doctor or a hospital?
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  Speaker 5: I just went to my primary care physician, but it
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  Speaker 5: wasn't anything worse than a nasty case of the flu.
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  Speaker 5: And so I was in bed and drinking lots of liquids. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 5: the campaign made me work from home, so I didn't
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  Speaker 5: even get full days off. But I didn't want to
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  Speaker 5: be out on the trail and didn't want to get
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  Speaker 5: anyone else sick. It's important, I think, for leaders to
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  Speaker 5: be responsible in these moments. And I'm glad to be back.
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  Speaker 5: Feeling much better.
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  Speaker 6: I want to get your response because the internet was.
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  Speaker 2: The internet's doing its thing.
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  Speaker 6: The internet was invested in your outcome.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sure it's because they care so much about me.
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  Speaker 6: Well, so conservative folks on Twitter and some of Paxton's
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  Speaker 6: ally were pushing the idea that you had a stress-induced
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  Speaker 6: episode and were getting treatment for it.
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  Speaker 2: What are your thoughts?
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  Speaker 5: That's not true. I just had the flu and I
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  Speaker 5: feel much better. But it's a good reminder that you
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  Speaker 5: can't believe everything you read on the internet.
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  Speaker 6: President Trump said that you and Attorney General Ken Paxton
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  Speaker 6: should debate. He says that Paxton is ready, willing, and
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  Speaker 6: able to debate. What are your thoughts on that?
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  Speaker 5: I agree with President Trump. I think Ken Paxton should debate.
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  Speaker 5: The president's saying he should debate. Fox News has said
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  Speaker 5: he should debate. The people of Texas have said he
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  Speaker 5: should debate. And I think it's mysterious that Ken Paxton
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  Speaker 5: hasn't responded to a request for a debate in 85 days.
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  Speaker 5: I hear that people are getting really concerned about the
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  Speaker 5: attorney general. And, you know, I've heard rumors that he
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  Speaker 5: has a rare medical condition that causes clinical levels of cowardice.
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  Speaker 5: So I know Ken Paxton has asked for proof of
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  Speaker 5: life for me. I'm asking for proof of spine from him.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 4: You can hear there how he tried to flip the script, right? Like,
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  Speaker 4: you know, well, I hear he has a medical condition
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  Speaker 4: where he doesn't have a spine, right? Like great one liner.
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  Speaker 4: Somebody in his campaign staff wrote that for him. He
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  Speaker 4: delivered that line. Is that going to be enough for
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  Speaker 4: all this to go away?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so. I don't think at all.
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  Speaker 4: Because voters want to know whether a candidate is healthy
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  Speaker 4: enough to campaign. And I'm not talking about the flu.
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  Speaker 4: I'm talking about mental health, right? And I want to
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  Speaker 4: be clear. I have an incredible amount of compassion for
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  Speaker 4: people that deal with mental health issues. I have lost
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  Speaker 4: a couple of different friends. Not distant friends or kind
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  Speaker 4: of friends. I'm talking like dear friends. to suicide, mental
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  Speaker 4: health issues. I am not one to weaponize mental health issues.
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  Speaker 4: The level of compassion I have for people that struggle
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  Speaker 4: with mental health issues is I'm hypersensitive to it.
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  Speaker 2: I want to be very clear.
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  Speaker 4: I absolutely believe you could have an episode if you're
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  Speaker 4: exhausted and you're on a campaign or you are out
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  Speaker 4: there and you're tired and you're doing this. And if
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  Speaker 4: you deal with mental health, that would be very possible.
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  Speaker 4: I also think, though, that if you deal with mental
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  Speaker 4: health issues and you're trying to be a United States
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  Speaker 4: senator for 30 million plus Texans, you should disclose that information.
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  Speaker 4: I also think you go back to look how the
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  Speaker 4: media tried to hide Joe Biden's decline. That was an
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  Speaker 4: important health issue to voters. It was a mental health issue.
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  Speaker 4: It was a mental decline.
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  Speaker 3: And.
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  Speaker 4: I don't trust the media. I don't trust the media
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  Speaker 4: to ask the tough questions. I don't trust them to
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  Speaker 4: go and do what these incredible Internet reporters do. Nick Sorter,
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  Speaker 4: by the way, is the one that put out the
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  Speaker 4: phone call and said, do you want to tell people
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  Speaker 4: where you actually were?
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  Speaker 2: Right. Do you want to be the one or do
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  Speaker 2: you want us to do it for you?
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  Speaker 4: And if you go back to the back and forth
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  Speaker 4: with Tallarico, I'm going to remind you to compare and contrast.
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  Speaker 2: And this is the lie. Right. Like if you can't
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  Speaker 2: get your story right about the flu. All right. And
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  Speaker 2: this is the first part. This is Tyreek in his
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  Speaker 2: own words. Listen.
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  Speaker 5: And last night it got so bad that I went
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  Speaker 5: to the urgent care here in Dallas and I was
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  Speaker 5: diagnosed with the flu.
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  Speaker 6: How bad was it for somebody who wants to know,
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  Speaker 6: is this just like in bed rest or did you
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  Speaker 6: ever have to go to a doctor or hospital?
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  Speaker 5: I just went to my primary care physician, but it
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  Speaker 5: wasn't anything worse than a nasty case of the flu.
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  Speaker 2: Which one is it?
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  Speaker 4: Did you go and it got so bad that you
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  Speaker 4: went to the urgent care facility in Dallas or did
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  Speaker 4: you just go to your doctor in Austin? That is
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  Speaker 4: the reason why this matters, because voters deserve to know
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  Speaker 4: if you struggle with mental health issues, they deserve to
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  Speaker 4: know if you're having a cognitive mental decline with Joe Biden.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Like we deserve to know that. And you want to
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  Speaker 4: know who's going to show up when.
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  Speaker 2: They're running for office.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 4: Like all all the people need is straightforward answers. Legitimate
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: questions arise. And by the way, if James Tallarico would
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: have come out. And said, I was mentally exhausted and
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: I wasn't sleeping and I was dealing with extreme stress
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: and anxiety from this campaign.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't hit him on that.
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  Speaker 4: Again, if he came out and said that publicly at
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: the beginning and it wasn't the flu, I'd be the
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: first one saying, I appreciate the honesty.
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  Speaker 2: I would actually think that voters would look at that
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  Speaker 2: and go, wow.
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  Speaker 4: That is a very real human being being really honest
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  Speaker 4: and straightforward with his answers to a legitimate question to rouse,
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: which is where the hell are you? But now we
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: have all this area. Now, the campaign has not communicated clearly.
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  Speaker 4: That is also the biggest part of the newest allegations.
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  Speaker 4: And when you have on Sunday conservative commentator Nick Sorter saying,
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  Speaker 4: And releasing this audio recording, they say came from a
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  Speaker 4: telephone call with the Linder Center of Hope. It's a
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: mental health facility in Mason, Ohio, near Cincinnati. And what
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  Speaker 4: they claim the recording reveals has created enormous political controversy
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: we're witnessing now.
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  Speaker 2: A woman answers the telephone. I played this for you earlier,
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: but let's go through it.
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: Indicating that someone named James Talrico, and that's not like
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: a common name, folks. OK, James Talrico is not a
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: common just out there name had been discharged from the facility.
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: The caller asked about James Talrico and the woman responds
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: that he appeared to have been discharged that evening.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: There is a real question there.
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  Speaker 4: Now, does this establish that James Talrico was actually the patient,
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  Speaker 4: the same one running for Senate?
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  Speaker 2: No, it does not.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: But.
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  Speaker 4: I do believe that James Tallarico has to answer the
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: question here. And the question is, is it fair for
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: us to ask, what is he hiding?
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: Yes. Is it fair to ask the question, why is
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: his story not match up?
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: Is it fair to ask him where he's been? You
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: better believe it. And I don't think right now we
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: have a good answer. So I have a feeling that
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: more is going to come out on this. I also
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: think that that audio call to that center is very damning.
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: And for him to just say, well, I hear that
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: Ken Paxton has no spine. He has a medical issue, too.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: As great as that one line is, I don't buy
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: that that's going to be enough to answer that question.
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: You've got two, by the way, big races in this
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: country right now. One of them is this one. The
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: other one's Mike Rogers and El Saeed. And they had
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: their big debate in front of Michigan voters. And there's
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: another issue of lying. Mike Rogers talked about how El
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: Saeed lied about being a physician. He said he lied
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: about being an Egyptian citizen. He can't figure out what
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: he is. And again, this goes back to the media
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: not doing their job. Both of these candidates are lying
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: and the media just says, oh, we'll take it at
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: face value. Don't ask questions. Okay, don't challenge people. Just
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: go with it. Just straight up go with whatever it
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: is they're selling and we will go out and we
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: will tell the people, nope, it's just this or it's
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: just that or it's just the flu or it's just
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: this thing. Nothing to see here. Nothing to do here.
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: Nothing going on here. Everything is fake.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Fine. It is a problem.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: And James Tallarico should have to answer these questions or
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: any other candidate out there just like El-Sayed.
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