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Congressman Warren Davidson joins Brian Thomas this morning · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: It's 7.06 at 55KRC Talk Station. Brian Thomas, always happy
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  Speaker 1: to welcome to the 55KRC Morning Show, Congressman Warren Davidson.
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  Speaker 1: Warren Davidson, welcome back to the morning show. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: for spending time with my listeners and me.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Brian. It's an honor to join you.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and early voting's on, so get out and vote.
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  Speaker 1: When you do, if you can vote for Warren Davidson,
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  Speaker 1: you're in his district, vote for him. I want to
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  Speaker 1: assure that Congressman Davidson stays where he is. Not that
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  Speaker 1: I think you have a risk here, but this whole
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  Speaker 1: idea that Democrats are leading in the polls is mind-boggling
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  Speaker 1: to me. considering the only thing they seem to be
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  Speaker 1: running on is absolute disdain for Donald Trump. And, of course,
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  Speaker 1: the gasoline bill is up. But, you know, people have
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  Speaker 1: short-term memories, don't they, Congressman Davidson? It was up higher
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  Speaker 1: under Biden.
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  Speaker 2: Well, look, I like the way you're thinking, Brian, and
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  Speaker 2: you've got to think, hey, your vote counts. You've got
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  Speaker 2: to get out and vote. People in Hamilton County, the
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  Speaker 2: maps are different. People don't know, but 1st and 8th
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  Speaker 2: District split Hamilton County, and the 8th District moved over
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  Speaker 2: to the east side, north suburbs. So we got a
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  Speaker 2: link on Davidson for Congress dot com. And there's a
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  Speaker 2: tab there where you can go to district, put in
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  Speaker 2: your address or look at the maps on the secretary
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  Speaker 2: of state's Web site. And it'll tell you right where
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  Speaker 2: you are at, whether you're in the first district with
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  Speaker 2: Greg Lansman or the eighth. And, you know, hopefully we'll
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  Speaker 2: get Eric Conroy in there and we'll flip. We'll keep
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  Speaker 2: the eighth strong. But yeah, early voting, you know, they're
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  Speaker 2: trying to talk about how that's out. Early voting in
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  Speaker 2: Hamilton County is skewing in favor of Democrats. So for
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  Speaker 2: those people that are, you know, on the West Side,
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  Speaker 2: Warren County, Clinton County in the first district, you've got
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  Speaker 2: to show up and vote. And people that live in
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  Speaker 2: Butler County, Preble County, you know, Dart County, they've got
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  Speaker 2: to show up and vote. You know, the people in
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  Speaker 2: Hamilton County could dominate this election. And Republicans in Hamilton County, hey,
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  Speaker 2: don't give in to dismay. You know, your vote counts, too.
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  Speaker 2: We need everybody to show up. And there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: on the line in this election.
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  Speaker 1: Truly a lot on the line. pivoting over, speaking of
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  Speaker 1: things on the line, you know, this reminded me sort
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  Speaker 1: of suspiciously, like, uh, the weaponization of the IRS under
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  Speaker 1: Lois Lerner, the office of the comptroller of currency that
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  Speaker 1: gets OCC. We've got one of those barely, uh, did an, uh,
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  Speaker 1: an analysis of a banking transaction and uncovered in their words,
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  Speaker 1: irrefutable evidence of the nation's largest banks have denied debanked
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  Speaker 1: and discriminated against customers and lawful businesses based on political views,
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  Speaker 1: among other things. Um, Congressman Davidson, you can dive into
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  Speaker 1: details on this, and I think it's rather alarming, but
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  Speaker 1: were these banks doing this, claiming, quote-unquote, reputational risk, like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God, my bank's reputation is going to be ruined
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  Speaker 1: if the world knows that I'm actually allowing a firearms
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  Speaker 1: manufacturer to conduct transactions using our bank? I'm not quite
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  Speaker 1: sure how much business they could hope to lose, but
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  Speaker 1: that was the argument they were advancing, that, oh, we
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  Speaker 1: can't do business with these different organizations because it'll damage
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  Speaker 1: our reputation.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's exactly right. That's exactly what was going on, Brian.
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  Speaker 2: And here's the worst part. Right as this is coming
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  Speaker 2: out and validated, look, we knew this. We did the
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  Speaker 2: weaponization committee in Congress, last Congress. But finally, the executive
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  Speaker 2: branch has said, yeah, OK, we did do that. As regulators,
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  Speaker 2: they were pushing the banks to do this. So whose
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  Speaker 2: reputation was it? were the banks in trouble with? Well,
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  Speaker 2: the reputations were in trouble with the Biden administration. So
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  Speaker 2: the bank regulators were the ones who were judging your reputation.
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  Speaker 2: And they would say, well, if you're doing business with
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  Speaker 2: the Sinaloa cartel, that's not a big deal. That's what
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  Speaker 2: Bank of America just got caught doing. And Treasury fined
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  Speaker 2: them $ 1. 2 billion. Now, we haven't seen the prosecutions. That's
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  Speaker 2: the other thing that's rare here. Even when banks do
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  Speaker 2: clearly do reputational risk. They launder money and engage in
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  Speaker 2: illicit finance. They would say, well, they didn't knowingly do it.
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  Speaker 2: And then they'll say, well, but they did willfully do it.
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  Speaker 2: And there were crimes committed. Like, well, OK, who committed
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  Speaker 2: the crimes? Because there's no prosecutions of people. And this
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  Speaker 2: kind of game with the banks needs to end. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you just need to hold these people to account.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and don't you think it's a bit subjective to determine,
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  Speaker 1: quote unquote, reputational risk? I mean, how can a bank
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  Speaker 1: have a reputational risk on one side or the other.
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  Speaker 1: Because let's face it, if I'm banking with one of
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  Speaker 1: these big banks, U.S. Bank, J.P. Morgan, Chase, Bank of America,
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  Speaker 1: the big ones, and I find out that they are
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  Speaker 1: banking with, I don't know, some like Southern Poverty Law Center,
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  Speaker 1: let's say Southern Poverty Law Center has a bank account there.
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  Speaker 1: I am not going to close my account because of that.
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  Speaker 1: But how is it that It's OK for the Southern
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  Speaker 1: Poverty Law Center to bank there, but it's not OK
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  Speaker 1: for pick some conservative organization to bank there. Who chose
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  Speaker 1: the right wing, left wing reputational risk one side or
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  Speaker 1: the other? It's just it's also arbitrary and subjective. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's how you end up the company that made MAGA
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  Speaker 1: gear and clothing promoting President Trump ended up getting debanked.
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  Speaker 1: It just obviously partisan and biased. And you're saying this
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  Speaker 1: was at the behest of the Biden administration that they
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  Speaker 1: started doing this?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. So the bank regulators, it's called Operation Chokepoint.
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  Speaker 2: They did this under Obama. Oh, sure. And then we
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  Speaker 2: said it was Operation Chokepoint 2.0 or 5.0, whatever iteration
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  Speaker 2: we're on here, where the banks are weaponized. And look,
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  Speaker 2: this is the same thing, right? If you think about
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  Speaker 2: cancel culture, this is kind of the whole woke heresy code, right?
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  Speaker 2: You're a heretic. You're in violation of this radical left.
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  Speaker 2: It's really more like a religion. And anybody that doesn't
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  Speaker 2: conform to it is a heretic. And therefore, must have
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  Speaker 2: your speech canceled because those are crimes too. So beginning
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  Speaker 2: with the freedoms, the speech is messed up, the elections
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  Speaker 2: are messed up, the jury selection is messed up, justice
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  Speaker 2: is skewed. That's why you say woke and weaponized government.
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  Speaker 2: This is exactly what was underway by the Biden administration.
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  Speaker 2: Just like they were filtering and canceling speech, they were
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  Speaker 2: doing it with bank accounts. And this went on aggressively.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Jack Smith actually had your information. If you
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  Speaker 2: ordered a MAGA hat, you wound up on Jack Smith's
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  Speaker 2: watch list. If you're a pro-life Catholic, you wound up
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  Speaker 2: on the FBI's watch list. If you're a parent and
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  Speaker 2: went to school board meetings in the wake of some
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  Speaker 2: of these things where they were hiding transgender, they were
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  Speaker 2: gender transitioning kids at school and not telling their parents
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  Speaker 2: about it at home. And if you went to school
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  Speaker 2: board meetings in the wake of that, you wound up
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  Speaker 2: on a watch list. And think how bad it would
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  Speaker 2: be if you went to a school board meeting because
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  Speaker 2: you were concerned about what's going on at your school.
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  Speaker 2: You happened to buy a MAGA hat, and you were
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  Speaker 2: a pro-life Catholic. I mean, you were enemy number one
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  Speaker 2: to the Biden administration.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and let us not stop at the Biden administration.
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  Speaker 1: If you recall, it wasn't Eric Holder under Obama's administration
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  Speaker 1: that engaged in Operation Chokepoint, which was threatening banks with
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  Speaker 1: massive compliance audits if they didn't bend to the will
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  Speaker 1: of the Obama administration. That was Chokepoint 1, wasn't it?
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly what was going on in Chokepoint 1, and
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  Speaker 2: it was related to what Lois Lerner right here in
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  Speaker 2: the area was doing with the IRS. They go after it,
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  Speaker 2: and look, it's time to let the money be the money.
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  Speaker 2: That's where This is why central bank digital currency is
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  Speaker 2: such a big deal to me, because then you've got
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  Speaker 2: the government not even having to go through an intermediary
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  Speaker 2: like a bank. You've got the government truly in control
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  Speaker 2: of your money. If it stays account-based, you don't even
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  Speaker 2: have access to your money except through the conditions of
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  Speaker 2: the government. The left loves it. It's really communist money
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  Speaker 2: for the digital age. They call it programmable money and
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  Speaker 2: tout the features. But it is like the most dystopian
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  Speaker 2: tool imaginable. So that's why we're working so hard to
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  Speaker 2: not just ban it. I want to criminalize it and
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  Speaker 2: treat it as if it's counterfeit money. So if you're
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  Speaker 2: developing a plan to counterfeit money, you get in trouble.
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  Speaker 2: If you're making plates to counterfeit money, you get in
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  Speaker 2: a lot more trouble. But if you're actually underway in
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  Speaker 2: the counterfeiting, you get in a whole lot of trouble.
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  Speaker 2: And I think this is one of the big things
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  Speaker 2: for government officials. Some of these folks need to go
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  Speaker 2: to jail for the way that they're violating American citizens' rights.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's no question. And this is one of the
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  Speaker 1: reasons I'm really frightened of the idea of getting rid
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  Speaker 1: of physical currency. I mean, I like to pay in cash.
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  Speaker 1: I got the money in my hand. I can use
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  Speaker 1: it anytime I want. And there is no record of
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is I bought with it. And that's not
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  Speaker 1: the same with digital currency. That's big brother all across
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  Speaker 1: the financial marketplace.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, there's ways to do it and be
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  Speaker 2: more private. But, you know, I think cash is an
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  Speaker 2: essential part of our economy. A lot of places you
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  Speaker 2: can't even do it. I mean, I'm disciplined. I love
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  Speaker 2: going to Bengals games, Reds games. But you go to
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  Speaker 2: the stadium. You can't spend cash. I mean, my kids
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  Speaker 2: are young adults at this point, but you go back
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  Speaker 2: to the day, you give your kid $ 20, he goes up,
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  Speaker 2: buys a hot dog and a Coke, and it's probably
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  Speaker 2: about a little while these days. He used to buy
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  Speaker 2: a few more things, right? You don't want to hand
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  Speaker 2: him your credit card and just say, hey, go spend money.
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  Speaker 2: And so it's shifting, but I hope that we preserve
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  Speaker 2: the nature of cash because you get direct access to
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  Speaker 2: your own money. There's no filter buffer between you and
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  Speaker 2: your money, and it doesn't turn into a tool for surveillance.
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  Speaker 2: But you see, like, that's the thing. Like the Biden administration,
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  Speaker 2: Obama administration, if they can weaponize the government, they have.
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  Speaker 1: Indeed. Illustration after illustration. Now, we don't see this from
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  Speaker 1: the Republican side, unless you can come up with an
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  Speaker 1: illustration of that while we're taking a break here, Congressman Davidson.
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  Speaker 1: Don't recall that ever going on.
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  Speaker 2: KRC, the talk station.
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  Speaker 1: It is 720-55-KRC-D Talk Station. Ryan Thomas with Congressman Warren Davidson. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: real quick here before we get to Operation Blackout, I
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  Speaker 1: want to just go back to the Jack Smith thing.
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  Speaker 1: This is absolutely a frightening abuse of power. They were
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  Speaker 1: investigating Trump, and so they hoovered up the personal data
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  Speaker 1: of almost 640,000 Republican donors, voters, and supporters. It was
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  Speaker 1: ostensibly the January 6th investigation which led to this, but
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  Speaker 1: they got data all the way back to 2005. The
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  Speaker 1: January 6th event was 2020, so I don't get that.
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  Speaker 1: They treated everybody like parties to a criminal conspiracy. What's more,
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  Speaker 1: we know from prior revelations that Grassley showed that Smith
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  Speaker 1: eavesdropped on Trump White House, 16 members of Congress, and
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  Speaker 1: media outlets, and also that the Smith team obtained just
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  Speaker 1: shy of 5,000 checks, as in campaign contributions, that everyday
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  Speaker 1: Americans made like small-dollar contributions. What in God's name? How can... Hmm.
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  Speaker 1: how come this guy's not in jail? Is he going
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  Speaker 1: to ultimately be held accountable for this? But this should
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  Speaker 1: really bother anybody, because if the Democrat administration can weaponize
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  Speaker 1: the Department of Justice, then anybody can.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, and it's not a new thing that they've
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  Speaker 2: weaponized the Department of Justice. And that's why, look, I
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  Speaker 2: think we may need to just restructure the whole FBI.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Cash Patel's at the head of it, but
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  Speaker 2: there's still a lot of A lot of, I just
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  Speaker 2: sort of think, dormant malfeasance there that there hasn't been
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  Speaker 2: a reckoning for a lot of things in a lot
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  Speaker 2: of sectors of our government. And this is where we're
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  Speaker 2: hoping Todd Blanch is going to be the first real
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  Speaker 2: attorney general in forever, because that's still the number one
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  Speaker 2: question I get is, when is somebody going to jail?
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  Speaker 2: And they're talking about stuff like this, like big banks that, oh,
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  Speaker 2: we'll pay a fine, and it's a fraction of the
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  Speaker 2: money they made off of doing it. Or, you know,
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  Speaker 2: people that get into government office and they abuse the power.
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  Speaker 2: And it's been abused not just against President Trump, not
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  Speaker 2: just against members of Congress. I mean, they said the
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  Speaker 2: Speaker of the House might be a flight risk, for
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  Speaker 2: heaven's sakes. But they're doing it against ordinary Americans. And
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  Speaker 2: that's why January 6th was so crazy. It's not that
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  Speaker 2: no one did anything wrong then. But the government treated
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  Speaker 2: everyone that was– they got the bank records of everyone
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  Speaker 2: who had a financial transaction in Washington, D.C.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: In the day before, day of, and day after January 6th.
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  Speaker 1: That's amazing.
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  Speaker 2: That's how crazy that was. No warrant, just swept up data.
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  Speaker 1: If more people paid attention to this kind of thing,
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  Speaker 1: Congressman Davidson, we wouldn't have problems like this, I thoroughly believe.
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  Speaker 1: What about Operation Black? I've got a couple of minutes
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  Speaker 1: to address this one because it looks like, even though
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  Speaker 1: it sounds like yet one more nefarious operation coming out
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  Speaker 1: of government, this is going after some scammers.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, look, the scam folks is a big deal. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: the financial crimes are, I mean, just mind-blowing. Last October,
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  Speaker 2: they shut down a $ 15 billion scam center in Cambodia.
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  Speaker 2: And what you find, they're operating the scam center with
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  Speaker 2: human trafficking. So they get people. They hold them captive.
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  Speaker 2: They do all kinds of other horrible things to these folks.
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  Speaker 2: And then they give them some sort of hope for
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  Speaker 2: their freedom if they help scam American citizens. Now with AI,
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  Speaker 2: the capability of these data centers that they're using, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: this isn't like some guy, bored guy, you know, hanging
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  Speaker 2: out in mom and dad's basement, ripping off the neighbors.
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  Speaker 2: These are really sophisticated transnational criminal organizations. And you're seeing
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  Speaker 2: a whole of government approach go after shutting them down.
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  Speaker 2: So I think that's going to be a big, big
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  Speaker 2: win for us.
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  Speaker 1: That's great. Sort of extension of our efforts on fraud,
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  Speaker 1: waste and abuse going after these, you know, it's, Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: it's virtually impossible to get someone in a foreign country,
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  Speaker 1: you know, extradited or prosecuted because, you know, there are
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  Speaker 1: countries out there that don't have extradition treaties with us.
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  Speaker 1: Great place to set up shop if you're a scammer.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, and that's, you know, you look at it,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's almost like that bad if you've got
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  Speaker 2: an illegal alien in the United States in sanctuary cities.
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  Speaker 2: They're like, no, we don't allow extradition out of our country.
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  Speaker 2: sanctuary city, talk about a great place to do business.
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  Speaker 2: And not only are these cities strategic, they're violating the
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  Speaker 2: sovereignty of the United States with the illegal immigration, but
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  Speaker 2: they're essentially giving soft on crime prosecutors, soft on crime judges,
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  Speaker 2: giving sanctuary to the cartels. So that's where following the
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  Speaker 2: money and shutting down the money to the cartels is
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  Speaker 2: also a critical component here. And frankly, I've got a
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  Speaker 2: bill called the Stop the Cartels Act, We introduced early
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  Speaker 2: in the Biden administration trying to put pressure on them, say,
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  Speaker 2: if we can't agree on immigration reform or border security,
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  Speaker 2: at least we could agree to stop the cartels. These
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  Speaker 2: guys are bad guys. They're killing American citizens with fentanyl.
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  Speaker 2: And look at how much of a difference the president
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  Speaker 2: has made. We have a secure border. Fentanyl overdoses are
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  Speaker 2: a fraction of what they used to be. Crime is down.
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  Speaker 2: And now they're going after the money, shutting down these cartels.
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  Speaker 1: Great segue there, Congressman Warren Davidson. Love having you on
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  Speaker 1: the program. Appreciate this time you spent with my listeners
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  Speaker 1: and me every week, and we'll continue to do this,
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  Speaker 1: I hope. Maybe we'll see you next week here on
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  Speaker 1: the 55 KRC Morning Show.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, Brian. Always an honor to join you. God bless
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  Speaker 2: you and all your listeners.