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Congressman Dave Taylor joins the show this morning · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: A six and fifty five pariseeed he Talk station and
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  Speaker 1: Thomas wishing everyone a very happy Friday, inviting you to
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  Speaker 1: stick around all the whole hour. Jack Wins from the
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  Speaker 1: Hoigh Press Network on the bottom of the hour on
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  Speaker 1: the Hio Medicaid scandal, which is just outrageous. Plus Ohio's
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  Speaker 1: ed Choice program, And good morning to my friends over
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  Speaker 1: at Since a classical academy which I visited yesterday. What
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  Speaker 1: a great school that is. We need more of those,
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  Speaker 1: and that's one of the benefits of education choice. Welcome
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  Speaker 1: back to the fifty five Karosee Morning Show, Congressman David Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: It's always a distinct pleasure to have you on the
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  Speaker 1: morning show, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Brian, thank you for having me back. And
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  Speaker 2: was over at this since any classical academy's ribbon cutting
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  Speaker 2: and that place is amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I can't agree with you, Congressman Taylor. I specifically mentioned
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  Speaker 1: them again. I started the morning show out because I
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  Speaker 1: toured it yesterday. All my word, what an amazing, amazing
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  Speaker 1: And you know, people are lining up around the block,
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  Speaker 1: more than seventy zip code, sir, people driving from as
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  Speaker 1: far as Hillsborough to get to the school because they
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  Speaker 1: all my word, you know, if you build it, day
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  Speaker 1: will come. And the weird thing about it, because your
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  Speaker 1: name did come up during my tour as a big
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  Speaker 1: supporter and you were at the ribbon cutting ceremony, how
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  Speaker 1: much the Teachers' Union stood in the way of them
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  Speaker 1: making any progress toward opening. Every time they saw a
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  Speaker 1: building or looked at a property, the teachers Union would
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  Speaker 1: rally around and prevent them from acquiring a building. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: I mean that's nefarious, it is.
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  Speaker 2: And it's unfortunate. But what they do there is incredible work.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't know what the current number is, but
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  Speaker 2: they just had a huge number of families wanted to
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  Speaker 2: find their kids there. They just didn't have enough space
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  Speaker 2: for them. So hopefully they are able to expand.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they have two schools now, it's I believe K
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  Speaker 1: through four in the one building and then five through
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  Speaker 1: not I could have it wrong. They have up to
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  Speaker 1: ninth grade. They had a year every year, so soon
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  Speaker 1: they'll have a full K through twelve. But no, there
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  Speaker 1: are hundreds and hundreds of people that don't get an
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  Speaker 1: option or don't get an opportunity to go. They have
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  Speaker 1: a wait list and more people applied to get into
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  Speaker 1: the school than are available. So it's just the pent
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  Speaker 1: up demand is so obvious and so illustrated. The success
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  Speaker 1: is since ant, classical, and what an amazing environment. Those
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  Speaker 1: children are so well behaved. The one thing I noted
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  Speaker 1: right by the way they pointed it out, there are
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  Speaker 1: lockers in that building, and I'm sure you've seen at
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  Speaker 1: the upper campus or lower campus. There's not a single
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  Speaker 1: lock on any of the lockers. Children there do not steal,
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  Speaker 1: They just don't, right, Nope, ethics and an amazing place.
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  Speaker 2: We need to try to replicate it as many places
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  Speaker 2: as we can.
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  Speaker 1: We do, and that's really one of the reasons I
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  Speaker 1: brought it up, because the demand is so huge. More
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  Speaker 1: schools like that would benefit our young people immeasurably, and
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  Speaker 1: of course that benefits America generally speaking. Congressman Taylor, we
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  Speaker 1: haven't talked for since the primary elections. If we get
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  Speaker 1: your reaction, any of them stand out to you or
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  Speaker 1: do you draw any conclusions. I know the turnout was
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  Speaker 1: a little subpar, but maybe a little bit better than
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  Speaker 1: normal primary elections.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the turnout ended up being pretty decent for what
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  Speaker 2: it was. Our primary went well, which I was relieved
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  Speaker 2: to have that behind me. But you know, I think
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  Speaker 2: generally things were pretty positive. I think it was you know,
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  Speaker 2: there was a sort of a concern about enthusiasm on
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  Speaker 2: the Republican side there, and I think that proved to
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  Speaker 2: be fall through. What we saw in Indiana was was impressive.
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  Speaker 2: So I think generally was it was a good primary season.
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  Speaker 2: And when how we UH have to ramp button keep
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  Speaker 2: the enthusiasm through November.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm like, I'm hoping that we do, uh, Conservatives,
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  Speaker 1: a little libertarians like myself whatever going up and getting
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  Speaker 1: up and voting. I know a lot of people, and
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  Speaker 1: rightfully so, are angry about inflation. The numbers spike pretty
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  Speaker 1: significantly because of the closing of the Strait of Hormus
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  Speaker 1: and who knew that that one small uh stretch of
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  Speaker 1: waterway could have such a profound impact on the globe.
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  Speaker 1: But of course November elections typically is in the in
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  Speaker 1: the off year cycle, the party in the presidency loses,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what the Democrats are hoping for. But I
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  Speaker 1: can't imagine rewarding the insanity from the Democrats by either
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  Speaker 1: sitting at home or do you think anyone would actually
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  Speaker 1: vote for a Democrat if they're typically voting Republican because well,
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  Speaker 1: gasoline's four dollars and fifty cents a gallon.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think they'll do that. But what you've touched
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  Speaker 2: on there is the concern they just won't go vote
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  Speaker 2: at all. What you know, what I see among conservative
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  Speaker 2: voters is they don't compare the candidate against their opponent.
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  Speaker 2: They compare the candidate against the candidate they wish they had. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and if they don't have a candidate they wish they had,
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  Speaker 2: then they're not, you know, as motivated to go vote.
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  Speaker 2: But if we can, as you said, convince them that
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  Speaker 2: the comparison should be between the absolute lunacy of the
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  Speaker 2: left and the conservative candidate in your in your district,
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  Speaker 2: you need to get out there and vote, or your
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  Speaker 2: state or nationally, whatever the case may be. If you
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  Speaker 2: don't go vote for the conservative side, you might as
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  Speaker 2: well be voting for the other side, because you're making
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  Speaker 2: their path a lot easier.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no question about it. And one of the things
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  Speaker 1: that actually was an op ed piece that I read
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  Speaker 1: from earlier this morning about school choice, going back for example,
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  Speaker 1: to the since I Classical Academy, that's a winning issue
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  Speaker 1: I mean, and you have this, this this program out there,
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  Speaker 1: the seventeen hundred dollars tax credit for donating to you know,
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  Speaker 1: institutes of learning that will you know, private schools and
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  Speaker 1: the like. You get a tax credit for doing that.
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  Speaker 1: You have to adopt that program. All the Republican states
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  Speaker 1: mostly have adopted it and embraced it. Democrat states don't,
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  Speaker 1: in spite of the fact that school choice polls really
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  Speaker 1: well among Democrats, Independence folks of different you know, skin
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  Speaker 1: colors or however they pull these things. Everyone wants it,
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  Speaker 1: and yet the Democrats are against it. I mean, you're
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  Speaker 1: voting against your own best interest.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think the thought process behind that, Brian, is
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  Speaker 2: if they don't send them through the schools where they
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  Speaker 2: know the curriculum has all tilted their way, they're going
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  Speaker 2: to lose voters in the long run, even though in
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  Speaker 2: the short term they might be frustrating some of their voters.
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  Speaker 2: But to your point earlier, if we don't do something
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  Speaker 2: about that issue, what's going on in our school and
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  Speaker 2: what's the end product that we're getting out of our schools?
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  Speaker 2: Fixing everything else that we're working on right now will
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  Speaker 2: be rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. We really
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  Speaker 2: have to address that piece and unapologetically. And school choice
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  Speaker 2: is a big, big part of how we do that well.
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  Speaker 1: And consider you're you're, you're you're phrasing and explaining why
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  Speaker 1: they are where they are on school choice. They don't
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  Speaker 1: want someone to be deprived of the indoctrination that they
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  Speaker 1: know they're going to get it they go to a
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  Speaker 1: public school. Talk about nefarious, right.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, I think about that a lot, right,
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  Speaker 2: And it's a big concern, and it's it feels like
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  Speaker 2: an intractable problem. It's it's so pervasive, but it's really
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  Speaker 2: got to be tackled.
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  Speaker 1: This certainly does. And the way you tackle that you
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  Speaker 1: get up and vote in spite of the fact that
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  Speaker 1: the great guy that you wanted isn't the one that
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  Speaker 1: got the primary win. Just a good guy certainly much
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  Speaker 1: better than the Democrat opposition you face. So don't do
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  Speaker 1: something it's against our collective best interest, and don't support
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  Speaker 1: this this in doctrination system that we are currently stuck with.
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  Speaker 1: In many cases, let us see here pivoting over inflation
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  Speaker 1: driven again by the war in Iran. We're currently still
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  Speaker 1: in some sort of cease fire. Another effort by the
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  Speaker 1: Senate to do a war powers authorization otherwise pull the
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  Speaker 1: plug on funding. I guess I wonder I personally, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm on record, I think the Congress should have been involved,
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  Speaker 1: either through a war powers authorization or through a declaration
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  Speaker 1: of war. We weren't in an eminent threat from my perspective,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, the genies out of the bottle. We
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  Speaker 1: launched missiles and bombs and around the middle we're in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of after making great progress against the Iranians,
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  Speaker 1: of this discussion over how to stop the conflict or
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  Speaker 1: maybe start bombing again. What would happen if the plug
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  Speaker 1: was pulled or a war powers authorization was issued. We
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  Speaker 1: just gonna walk away from it. That doesn't seem like
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  Speaker 1: a very good option.
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  Speaker 2: Congressman Taylor, Yeah, I don't like that option either, and
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  Speaker 2: I don't think we'll we'll see that, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: I understand the frustration. But we decided that this needed
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  Speaker 2: to be done based on our intelligence. That and obviously
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  Speaker 2: I think most of us know for for a decade
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  Speaker 2: something should have been done about Iran, but we determined
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  Speaker 2: it it needed to be done, and that determination wasn't
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  Speaker 2: it needs to be done if we can get it
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  Speaker 2: done within five weeks, it has to be done, and
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  Speaker 2: then we hope that we get it done in five weeks,
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  Speaker 2: but if we don't, we still have to finish the job.
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  Speaker 2: And the geography of the straight or horror moves makes
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  Speaker 2: it easy pinch point where a handful of you know,
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  Speaker 2: pretty basic, not highly technological terrorists can create some real
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  Speaker 2: problems in that area. But hopefully the President's visit with
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  Speaker 2: the President she of China and their agreement to cooperate
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  Speaker 2: in the system that enforcing the opening of the straight
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  Speaker 2: oh horror moves will make a big difference. I know
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  Speaker 2: sometimes they say they're going to do things, then they do.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have to watch that carefully, but if they
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  Speaker 2: actually get on board with that, I think we could
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  Speaker 2: have an open straight here pretty soon, and that's going
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  Speaker 2: to have a profound downward impact on inflation.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's pause. We'll bring Congressman David Taylor back. Got
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  Speaker 1: to break here and we'll bring it right back. Talk
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more about the situation. Also the AFI
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  Speaker 1: KCV talk station Brian Thomas with Congressman and David Taylor,
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  Speaker 1: kind of staying in the region, the straight of horror moves,
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  Speaker 1: and of course the conflict with the Iranians. President Jijinping
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  Speaker 1: and Donald Trump of course met for this, you know,
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  Speaker 1: very very broad based set of conversations, you know, trade
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  Speaker 1: and relationships. Of course, Taiwan came up. We got kind
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  Speaker 1: of a veiled threat from the Chinese Foreign Ministry about Taiwan,
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  Speaker 1: saying the two countries have will have clashes and even conflicts,
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  Speaker 1: plunging the entire relationship in great jeopardy if it isn't
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  Speaker 1: handled property properly. I guess I have to ask Congressman Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: He's the cough. I apologize. China's suffering from the straight
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  Speaker 1: of horror moves closure as well, are they not?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they get by a ton of their oil
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  Speaker 2: from Iran, and they're a very energy dependent nation. They're
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  Speaker 2: trying to fix that through solar and other things, but
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  Speaker 2: it's a very difficult situation for them when they can't
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  Speaker 2: get oil from Iran.
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  Speaker 1: So the benefit that the Chinese Communist Party does, so
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  Speaker 1: I'm not being racist. I'm talking about the Chinese Communist Party,
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  Speaker 1: which runs a whole show over there for that. Let's
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  Speaker 1: be on the record on that they get a benefit
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  Speaker 1: from our well using up a lot of arms and
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  Speaker 1: munitions and weapons bombing the Iranians, and there's been all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of reports, and maybe you can correct the record
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  Speaker 1: if it's wrong, but we're kind of running out of
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  Speaker 1: missiles and weapons depleting our stores. I guess that is
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  Speaker 1: some are suggesting in China is exploiting the US Aron
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  Speaker 1: War in order to strengthen its own position, because of
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  Speaker 1: course Taiwan is on the table, and if we are
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  Speaker 1: busy and exhausted in terms of resources, we wouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: able to come to Taiwan's eight if we even wanted to.
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  Speaker 2: It's certainly something that's worth considering. No cigaretary HEG SATs
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  Speaker 2: testified this. We can in front of the in front
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  Speaker 2: of committee that that wasn't the case. And I know
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  Speaker 2: that production is being ramped up even right in the
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  Speaker 2: second district. Anderill is a is actively at work. They're
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  Speaker 2: building things for the military. And I think that this
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  Speaker 2: administration rightly plays pretty close to the vest readiness issues,
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  Speaker 2: which I don't think those things should generally be shared publicly,
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  Speaker 2: but definitely when you're using stuff, and we've been sending
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  Speaker 2: stuff to Ukraine, and basically when you have that much
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  Speaker 2: stuff go out. Are we are we making plenty to
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  Speaker 2: make sure we are in an advantaged position against any
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  Speaker 2: possible foe.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I guess my other concern is it sort of
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  Speaker 1: dovetails into that because it's widely reported. Also, the Pentagon
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  Speaker 1: leaders claim they're going to start running out of money
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  Speaker 1: for the operations this summer unless Congress passes a new
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  Speaker 1: wartime spending. They've been apparently dipping into two reserves paying
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  Speaker 1: for the Iran war and other deployments out of the
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  Speaker 1: annual operations and maintenance budget, which certainly was not built
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  Speaker 1: with the additional missions in mind. So running out of money,
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  Speaker 1: this is where the power of the purse comes in.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think that Democrats would refuse to authorize additional
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  Speaker 1: spending for this as a mechanism to stop the conflict period,
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  Speaker 1: notwithstanding the fact that it would be a terrible end result.
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  Speaker 2: I certainly hope that would be the case. I know
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  Speaker 2: there's been talk of a supplemental budget request, and obviously
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  Speaker 2: there's a I think or so increase in the defense
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  Speaker 2: budget proposed in the upcoming budget. So those dollars, if
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  Speaker 2: those things go through, which they should, should be there
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  Speaker 2: for our military if needed and certainly. I don't think that,
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  Speaker 2: even though Democrats would try to compromise our readiness and
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  Speaker 2: a global situation like this.
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  Speaker 1: M yeah, I'm not quite sure if I was a
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  Speaker 1: betting man which side I would bet on that one
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  Speaker 1: cost Davids. We just need a couple of them, I know,
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  Speaker 1: I trust me, I'm aware of that. Any any final
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  Speaker 1: points of business for you before we part company today, Congressman.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I just want to point out, you know, our
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  Speaker 2: excitement about getting the Farm Bill pass through the House.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be huge for the Second district. And
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  Speaker 2: the next big thing on the horizon is the what
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  Speaker 2: we generally call the Highway Bill, the Surface for Authorization,
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  Speaker 2: which is also going to bring a lot of great
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  Speaker 2: improvements and expansions to the to the second District. So
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  Speaker 2: I'd say we should talk again in about a month,
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  Speaker 2: and hopefully some of those things are well down the road.
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  Speaker 2: We will do that.
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  Speaker 1: Congressman Taylor apologize for saying, Davidson, I you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: just me.
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  Speaker 2: That's okay, that's not I'll take that.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, it's if either way that road goes,
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  Speaker 1: it's a compliment either direction. At least it blessed with
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  Speaker 1: you and Congressman Davis and David Taylor. Thank you for
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  Speaker 1: your time. I'm today. God bless you, sir. I'll look
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  Speaker 1: forward to that next conversation.
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  Speaker 2: I look forward to it too, my friend.
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  Speaker 1: Have a great one, you two eight twenty five. Right now,
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  Speaker 1: stick around, we're gonna hear from Jack Windsor.