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Congressman Massie Joined the show this morning · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: Longer complete military objectives shortly how much longer the recent
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Speaker 2: Every day something new, the hard part is done every
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Speaker 2: Here at fifty five KRCD Talk Station, bry Thomas wishing
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Speaker 2: every one a very happy Wednesday, and welcoming back to
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Speaker 2: the fifty five krc Morning Show, Congressman Thomas Massy. It's
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Speaker 2: always a great pleasure to have you on the show.
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Speaker 2: Congressman Massy, welcome back.
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Speaker 1: Great to be on. I heard the weather update thirty
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Speaker 1: two degrees. I covered my plants with the tarp yesterday,
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Speaker 1: and I'm wondering if I can uncover them before I
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Speaker 1: go out campaigning and working in the district today.
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Speaker 2: So I'm gonna go with yes. Tonight it's going to
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Speaker 2: be a low of fifty tomorrow night a low of
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Speaker 2: fifty two, and it looks like we're trending in that direction.
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Speaker 2: So don't rely on me. I'm just telling you what
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Speaker 2: Channel nine says, and good luck with that. So far,
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Speaker 2: we've we've been unscathed in the Thomas backyard, so all
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Speaker 2: of our tree and I'll still have buds on that
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Speaker 2: I'm thankful for that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, listen, today I'm speaking at the Optimist Club, and
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Speaker 1: so I have to remain optimistic about this frost on
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Speaker 1: my peaches. I think it'll be just fine. They can
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Speaker 1: take weather down to about twenty eight degrees right now,
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Speaker 1: fair enough.
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Speaker 2: And I thought you're getting ready to pivot over the
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Speaker 2: two week pause and the bombing over between US and Iran,
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Speaker 2: And is there a reason to be optimistic about this?
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Speaker 2: I mean, we can stop. We paused for a moment
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Speaker 2: before you and I might discuss the legality of the
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Speaker 2: We appearing to be this sort of state of flux,
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Speaker 2: not even really a gray area with war powers act
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Speaker 2: on one side and declaration of war on another. We
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Speaker 2: seem to be a rudderless ship legally speaking. But there
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Speaker 2: we are. We're in it, We're bombing. So this leads
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Speaker 2: us to the ceasefire, a two weeks ceasefire, as long
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Speaker 2: as the straight of Horror movez remains open. Although there's
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Speaker 2: mixed messages kind of from the Iranians as to what
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Speaker 2: the scope of that and what that exactly means. What
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Speaker 2: is your reaction at least as to where we are
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Speaker 2: right now, Congressman MASSI.
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Speaker 1: Well, I was optimistic for about thirty minutes, and then
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Speaker 1: I saw Israel got bombed, the UAE allegedly got bombed,
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Speaker 1: Iran got bombed. It sounds like they're still doing strikes
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Speaker 1: in Lebanon, which was allegedly part of the peace or
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Speaker 1: the ceasefire. There is no peace deal. It's a ceasefire,
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Speaker 1: so there's still room for the final deal to come out.
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Speaker 1: I don't like the idea that now that the Straits
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Speaker 1: of Hormuz will be taxed two million dollars per passage
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Speaker 1: of a ship. But you know, any deal that stops
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Speaker 1: the destruction of infrastructure that you know they were probably
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Speaker 1: will end up paying to a bit back. I'm afraid
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Speaker 1: I'm not for that. I would rather build our own infrastructure. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and anything that stops the destruction of civilian life, and
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Speaker 1: most importantly, as soon as we can get our men
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Speaker 1: and women out of harms way, that would be great. Well.
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Speaker 2: You know, the interesting thing is if you look back
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Speaker 2: historically speaking, the wars that we have won, we rebuild
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Speaker 2: the countries that we defeat World War two, notably on
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Speaker 2: that one, it seems to me be the Iranian people's
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Speaker 2: best interest if they just declared they lose and then
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Speaker 2: we go in. It's not reparation so much as we
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Speaker 2: want to build a stronger Iran nation that will provide
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Speaker 2: some stability in the region and allow them to trade
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Speaker 2: and cooperate economically with everyone else. That would anner to
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Speaker 2: their benefit. But the Mullahs aren't going down that road.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're not. And so we'll see you. I've heard
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Speaker 1: it's a ten point plan, a fifteen point plan. We'll
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Speaker 1: see how many points come out, and I'll just remain optimistic.
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Speaker 1: I will tell you legally, though, that within sixty days
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Speaker 1: of introducing forces into hostilities that the President requires under
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Speaker 1: the Warpowers Act, a positive vote of Congress. So we
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Speaker 1: had a different vote a few weeks ago on a
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Speaker 1: resolution that I wrote, which was to say that you
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Speaker 1: need to get permission to go any further. That failed
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Speaker 1: by just one or two votes. But and if it
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Speaker 1: had passed, could have vetoed it right. But what happens
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Speaker 1: on April twenty ninth is his sixty day window under
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Speaker 1: the nineteen seventy three War Powers of Resolution Act expires.
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Speaker 1: He can have a thirty day extension that puts us
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Speaker 1: at May twenty ninth, and on May twenty ninth, The
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Speaker 1: House and the Senate both need to vote in the
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Speaker 1: majority to allow the troops to remain deployed or he
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Speaker 1: has to bring them back. So that's mark your calendars.
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Speaker 1: May twenty ninth is going to be an important date.
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Speaker 1: You know, even if we're in some kind of ceasefire,
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Speaker 1: it would require us to withdraw if there's a positive
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Speaker 1: vote or I'm sorry, if there's not a positive vote
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Speaker 1: of Congress. And the significance of the way I'm phrasing
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Speaker 1: that is there's no way the president could veto something
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Speaker 1: that allows him to and then subsequently keep troops there.
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Speaker 2: Well, what of the I mean, we're currently in a
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Speaker 2: situation where none of this exists right now. Some are
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Speaker 2: asserting that the warpower Is Act isn't even implicated here,
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Speaker 2: and people can feel free to argue amongst themselves. Many
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Speaker 2: other Republicans and some Democrats are also suggesting exactly what
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Speaker 2: you said. You know, come ninety days, you're gonna need
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Speaker 2: to have a vote on this. But what if there
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Speaker 2: isn't approval that means the troops automatically must be withdrawn? Yeah,
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Speaker 2: and how does one bring about that reality?
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Speaker 1: Possessions nine tenths of the law, and he is the
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Speaker 1: commander in chief. Yeah, so you know, there's no way
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Speaker 1: to enforce it. In reality, each Congress wanted to, they
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Speaker 1: could not appropriate the money to continue the war. But
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Speaker 1: that puts that puts congressmen in a really bad position.
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Speaker 1: There's no you know, scenario in which we wouldn't want
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Speaker 1: to fund them. Now here's the problem though. The military
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Speaker 1: supplemental they've asked for is two hundred billion dollars. And
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Speaker 1: if this is costing let's say one point two billion
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Speaker 1: dollars a day, it's probably costs more than that. But
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Speaker 1: if it costs one point two billion dollar a day,
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Speaker 1: they're asking for another six months of war funding. And
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Speaker 1: that's not you know, that's going to be a problem there.
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Speaker 1: So there's different ways you could enforce it, but it'd
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Speaker 1: be better if everybody just followed the law that's written down.
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Speaker 1: I do believe the War Powers Resolution, which is a
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Speaker 1: law from nineteen seventy three, is implicated here. It would
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Speaker 1: be very hard at this point to say this is
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Speaker 1: not a war.
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Speaker 2: Oh, he's even used the word war since he originally
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Speaker 2: was trying to stay away from it. And we call
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Speaker 2: it a police action. Like we did in Korea or whatever.
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Speaker 2: Semantics is semantics, and I think that's all we're dealing
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Speaker 2: with here. And he did when quote unquote notified Congress
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Speaker 2: within forty eight hours after the bomb started dropping. But
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Speaker 2: I guess the press provided notification to Congress too, because
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Speaker 2: we all knew the bombs were dropping, right, So well.
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Speaker 1: Let's just pray for peace. Yeah, hopefully this is all
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Speaker 1: a moot point. I just wanted to put those dates
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Speaker 1: on your calendar. Hopefully it's all a moot point. Hopefully
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Speaker 1: the ceasefire holds and it turns into some kind of
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Speaker 1: law and lasting peace agreement. And let's be optimistic because
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Speaker 1: I'm going to the Optimist Club to speak today. Right,
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Speaker 1: the last time I was at the Optimist Club, I
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Speaker 1: started out by saying, listen, I'm here to make a withdrawal,
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Speaker 1: not a deposit at the Optimist.
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Speaker 2: Club Congress of Massy. I have to interject this because
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Speaker 2: I am no huge fan of the United Nations. They
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Speaker 2: seem to be a complete exercise and pointlessness, and yesterday
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Speaker 2: served to prove that once again. So they couldn't even
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Speaker 2: come up with a holy watered down resolution about reopening
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Speaker 2: the Strait of Horn moves. Why, Well, because Russia and
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Speaker 2: China have a veto power and they vetoed it. So
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Speaker 2: pointlessness of the United Nation revealed yet again your reaction
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Speaker 2: to my assessment, Sir.
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Speaker 1: It is pointless. And I've sponsored legislation every year I've
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Speaker 1: been in Congress to get us out of the United
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Speaker 1: Nations and to get the United Nations out of the
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Speaker 1: United States. There's you know, there are a bunch of
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Speaker 1: dictators that have veto power and sometimes it's just sort
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Speaker 1: of whitewashing things that shouldn't be done. There's, in my opinion,
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Speaker 1: there's no good that comes out of it. I'd get
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Speaker 1: us out of the WHO and frankly, I'd get us
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Speaker 1: out of NATO. They can put on their big boy
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Speaker 1: pants and take care of Europe. The European Union exists now,
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Speaker 1: they're united, and we shouldn't be subsidizing the defense of
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Speaker 1: socialism in Europe.
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Speaker 2: Well, and this has been i think just revealed to everyone,
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Speaker 2: in spite of the fact that it seems weird that
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Speaker 2: we might want to get out of NATO. Oh my god,
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Speaker 2: we've been a number of NATO since after World War Two.
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Speaker 2: There is no Soviet Union left, and that's what NATO
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Speaker 2: has started to defend them against the Soviet Union. There
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Speaker 2: is a mutual defense agreement. And it takes a point
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Speaker 2: in time like now to find out they either won't
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Speaker 2: defend us, but let's just say they wanted to and
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Speaker 2: say yes, we'll come to your aid United States. They
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Speaker 2: don't have the military ability to do it.
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Speaker 1: No, it's a Cold War relic. There may have been
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Speaker 1: a time immediately after World War Two where they still
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Speaker 1: needed our assistance to protect them during the Cold War,
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Speaker 1: but it doesn't exist now. There's totally different geopolitical reality
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Speaker 1: and they're on a different standing. They can support themselves.
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Speaker 1: We don't need to be there well.
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Speaker 2: And I don't think that they would turn their back
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Speaker 2: on us as a trading partner, but we would no
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Speaker 2: longer have an author's z or we would no longer
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Speaker 2: have the obligation to defend them or them us.
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Speaker 1: Do you have anything? And by the way, it looks
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Speaker 1: like they're you know, whether you're for the war in
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Speaker 1: Iran or not. They're not letting us use their Tonado
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Speaker 1: countries are not letting use their bases to well.
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Speaker 2: Considering Donald Trump me could act in defiance of the will,
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Speaker 2: whatever can we not since there are we control the
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Speaker 2: bases that are there. There are bases, and why would
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Speaker 2: we say capitulate and say, okay, Spain, we won't use
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Speaker 2: the bases to fly in and out for missions. We're
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Speaker 2: just going to use the bases to fly in and
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Speaker 2: out for maybe maybe whatever. Can we just ignore them
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Speaker 2: and use them anyway and go ahead and fly missions
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Speaker 2: in and out of places like Spain where they have
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Speaker 2: said we can't.
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Speaker 1: If you can't, what good is a milli military base?
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Speaker 1: If it's the mother may I thank you? I don't
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Speaker 1: get it. And by the way, I heard you say
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Speaker 1: something about data centers, and I don't know if we
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Speaker 1: have time after the break to talk about that. There
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Speaker 1: have been some activity in Congress I wanted to report on.
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Speaker 2: I'd love to hear it. We will bring you back
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Speaker 2: to talk about that. Maybe a word or two on
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Speaker 2: Pambondy and question is the government still shut down? And
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Speaker 2: whatever happened to the Epstein files? More with Congress mass
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Speaker 2: the It's eight fifteen right now, stick around you, right back.
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Speaker 1: This is fifty five chaos coming up.
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Speaker 2: An eight eighteen twenty five krcity talk station Bright Time
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Speaker 2: was with the Congressman Thomas MASSI of course judged out
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Speaker 2: Politana after this segment, and we are going to be
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Speaker 2: talking later at the talent of the program with Tom
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Speaker 2: Dewis doing a powaseemon on the dangers of AI and
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Speaker 2: explosive growth of data centers. You heard me comment on that,
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Speaker 2: Congressman mass You wanted to comment about legislation or activity
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Speaker 2: in Congress on that. So where are we going?
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Speaker 1: Well, it keep trying to pass a bill on AI
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Speaker 1: about every week in Congress, and one of these was
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Speaker 1: moving through Judiciary Committee last week and I helped kill it.
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Speaker 1: It was on the docket to be marked up. What
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Speaker 1: it would do would give AI data centers immunity from
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Speaker 1: lawsuits on environmental concerns, and it cited like eight federal
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Speaker 1: environmental laws that they would be immune from stopping their construction.
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Speaker 1: And my point is this, look, I don't necessarily agree
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Speaker 1: with those eight federal laws, and if you wanted to
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Speaker 1: give everybody some relief from over regulation, I could be
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Speaker 1: for it. But to go in and to carve out
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Speaker 1: data centers and say they are now not subject to
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Speaker 1: these laws, that is cronyism. And so I was live
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Speaker 1: tweeting during the Judiciary markup about this bill, and I
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Speaker 1: had an amendment to try to change the bill, and
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Speaker 1: I live tweeted that and they pulled the bill from
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Speaker 1: the docket in real time, and we never marked it up.
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Speaker 1: We never debated it because I had a few other
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Speaker 1: Republicans who were thinking the same thing as me. Look,
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Speaker 1: this is cronious. They also try to give AI centers
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Speaker 1: in the big Beautiful Bill. Marjorie Taylor Green and I
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Speaker 1: helped get this stripped out. They were trying to give
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Speaker 1: them authority that exceeds the local zoning laws and so
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Speaker 1: that your local community would have no say over where
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Speaker 1: the data center could go. And they're also trying to
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Speaker 1: give them liability immunity. Now they cloak all of this
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Speaker 1: briant and they say it's about national security. You're going
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Speaker 1: to say that national security that China's building data centers.
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Speaker 1: You know, our enemies are building data centers. So we
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Speaker 1: got to build data centers quicker than they're building data centers,
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Speaker 1: and we can't be bothered with the constitution.
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Speaker 2: Well, they're also building coal plants and gas plants and
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Speaker 2: fossil fuel plants to generate energy. They're building nuclear plants.
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Speaker 2: We're not because we've got all these environmental rules. Why
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Speaker 2: don't we stop that from happening? Congressome messy.
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Speaker 1: Oh, and that's a big problem. I mean, the future
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Speaker 1: is energy, and you measure progress of civilization based on
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Speaker 1: how much energy you can harness and control. And China
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Speaker 1: is beating us on this. They're expanding their energy production
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Speaker 1: and we are not. And this is going to be critical.
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Speaker 1: It's also a problem. You know, that's another problem with
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Speaker 1: these data centers. They come in, they consume water resources,
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Speaker 1: they consume electricity resources, land resources, and you know, these
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Speaker 1: are all things that are in short supply because of regulation.
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Speaker 1: And they're trying to cut a swath right through these
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Speaker 1: regulations for these data centers, but not do the same
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Speaker 1: thing for everybody else. It's cronyism. And I just want
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Speaker 1: to let you know twice I've helped defeat it at
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Speaker 1: the federal level.
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Speaker 2: Appreciate your efforts in that regard. Well, let us move over.
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Speaker 2: I guess the government is still shut down. And it
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Speaker 2: was an agreement reached that Donald Trump supports. Democrats didn't
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Speaker 2: get anything for all their effort, they didn't get any
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Speaker 2: reforms on ice, and so was this. I guess this
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Speaker 2: whole exercise was much ado about it. Nothing congresso messy.
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Speaker 1: Well it's still not resolved.
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Speaker 2: You have to vote.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we still have to vote. Allegedly there's a deal.
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Speaker 1: I have voted to fund DHS. A lot of people
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Speaker 1: say I always vote no. I've voted at least twice
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Speaker 1: here recently, I think three times on every DHS funding
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Speaker 1: bill that funds. By the way, it's got the coast
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Speaker 1: Guard in there as well. Yes, they moved the coast
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Speaker 1: guard in and that's important. You wouldn't think it's important,
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Speaker 1: but it is important on the Ohio River because there's
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Speaker 1: some things that need to get done that only the
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Speaker 1: Coastguard can do, even though you don't see them a
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Speaker 1: lot on the river. So it funds TSA, it funds ICE,
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Speaker 1: it funds border control, and so I've been voting for it.
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Speaker 1: They're playing it. This is like their little hot potato.
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Speaker 1: They're trying to get something for it, and we should
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Speaker 1: just fund it and move on. And there's you know,
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Speaker 1: there's a talk. There's talk about fund part of it
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Speaker 1: and then doing the rest of it and reconciliation, right,
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Speaker 1: which that could work. Yeah, I could go for that. However,
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Speaker 1: we get it funded, all.
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Speaker 2: Right, well, we'll see what the vote turns out and
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Speaker 2: whether that plan moves forward, because that sounds to me
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Speaker 2: like exactly what the Republicans are planning. We'd go ahead
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Speaker 2: and sign off on this. We don't fund DHS because
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Speaker 2: of course it's already been funded by the one big
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Speaker 2: beautiful bill, and then do reconciliation get everything we want.
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Speaker 2: It sounds like a sound planned. Congressman Massy the Bondie issue,
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Speaker 2: I know that was on the list of things for
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Speaker 2: us to talk to. She's been released, and some suggest
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Speaker 2: that the reason that he fired top Ham Bondi last
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Speaker 2: week Trump did is part of his frustration that she
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Speaker 2: had not been more successful in prosecuting his political enemies.
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Speaker 2: But she has a problem. I mean she had a problem.
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Speaker 2: Efforts were blocked by courts and grand jury refused a case.
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Speaker 2: So there's only so much that she could have done.
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Speaker 2: Is that the reason she was let go? And can
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Speaker 2: Attorney General Todd Blanch she took over take a be
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Speaker 2: more successful in that regard or did this have nothing
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Speaker 2: to do with Trump's enemies?
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Speaker 1: Tell you nothing is going to change because Todd Blanche
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Speaker 1: was running the show anyway, and Pambondi was just a
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Speaker 1: face of DOJ. Now the one thing that does change,
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Speaker 1: and I pointed this out on social media, Todd Blanche
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Speaker 1: is now the one in the hot seat who is
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Speaker 1: legally responsible for not producing the Epstein files.
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Speaker 2: Ah, we did get to Epstein.
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Speaker 1: Yes, we did get to Epstein. Because they're still holding
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Speaker 1: probably millions of documents. I don't care what the actual
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Speaker 1: number is. I care about the types of documents they're withholding.
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Speaker 1: I think you and I talked about this before. Briefly,
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Speaker 1: they're claiming deliberative privilege, which applies to FOYA, and so
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Speaker 1: they're not releasing certain documents. They say, we're involved in deliberations.
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Speaker 1: But the problem is my bill specifically says that they
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Speaker 1: must release internal memos and emails about decisions on whether
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Speaker 1: to prosecute or not prosecute, investigator or not investigate. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's what we want to know. Why did Jeffrey Epstein
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Speaker 1: get a light sentence in two thousand and eight when
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Speaker 1: they had him nailed to the wall. Why did they
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Speaker 1: let him go and let him recommit all these crimes
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Speaker 1: at a much larger scale. Why did they let Leslie
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Speaker 1: Wexner off after they had decided he was a co
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Speaker 1: conspirator in a sex trafficking case. Why are they not
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Speaker 1: prosecuting Leon Black, just Staley? These are all names that
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Speaker 1: show up their sufficient evidence in these files to warrant investigations.
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Speaker 1: Why did they not do them? Well, the DOJ is saying,
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Speaker 1: they don't have to tell us what their deliberative process was.
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Speaker 1: The spot of the law in spite of the law,
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Speaker 1: and this is, you know, this is a basic premise
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Speaker 1: of law making. New laws override the old laws. And
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Speaker 1: even the judges, the federal judges in the Southern District
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Speaker 1: of Florida and the two Southern Districts of New York
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Speaker 1: judges said that the Epstein Files Transparency Act overrode Rule sixty,
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Speaker 1: which was preventing grand jury material from being released. And
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Speaker 1: they said, because the new law states the old rule,
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Speaker 1: the new law applies, and they released that material. The
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Speaker 1: DOJ needs to get with the program. You know, I
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Speaker 1: think any first year law student, probably eighth grade Civics
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Speaker 1: student in high school would understand that new laws override
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Speaker 1: the old laws. This is a problem for Todd Blanche
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Speaker 1: because he's still upholding us. By the way, he says,
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Speaker 1: all the documents have been released, They're done releasing them.
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Speaker 1: They're not going to release anymore. Well, that's actually false
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Speaker 1: if you go back and look, I forced them to
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Speaker 1: unredact some documents. We've forced them to release some more documents.
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Speaker 1: Evidence of other documents that exist is in the files
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Speaker 1: they have released.
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Speaker 2: Reference to other documents that you don't have yet.
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Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, like literally table of contents of the three
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Speaker 1: h two witness interviews, and we know there's some of
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Speaker 1: those that haven't been released. So anyways, back to court.
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Speaker 2: Is it back to court diforce them, get an injunction,
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Speaker 2: affirmative injunction demanding and enforce the release of all the documents.
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Speaker 1: Well, one of the survivors would have standing, and so
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Speaker 1: they could take this to court where it would get adjudicated.
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Speaker 1: It wouldn't survive five minutes. Their legal theory wouldn't survive
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Speaker 1: five minutes in a court room, and so we have
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Speaker 1: to find somebody who has standing and get it in
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Speaker 1: front of a court that could work. The other alternative
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Speaker 1: is this is not a subpoena. This is not a
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Speaker 1: congressional committee that's compelled the release of these documents. This
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Speaker 1: is a law that saw both chambers signed by the President,
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Speaker 1: This law by the way, if I lose my election,
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Speaker 1: which I don't think I'm going to, but if I
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Speaker 1: did lose my election, I will watch this law play
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Speaker 1: out for the next twenty years because the next Attorney
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Speaker 1: General can prosecute Todd blanche for not following this law.
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Speaker 1: It's a novel concept for Congress because usually we just
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Speaker 1: beg for documents and then when the Congressional session is over,
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Speaker 1: everything then you just start a new fight and everything
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Speaker 1: goes away. This goes on forever unless they can repeal
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Speaker 1: the law, which would require both chambers and a signature
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Speaker 1: of the President.
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Speaker 2: Well, you know, I hope you retain your seat, but
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Speaker 2: if you end up retirement, Congress, mme mess he at
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Speaker 2: least you'll have something to have your popcorn out and
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Speaker 2: to watch with a big smile on your face.
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Speaker 1: Real quickly. My opponent has turned down five debates with me.
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Speaker 1: He is scared to death to show up on a
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Speaker 1: stage with me. I would love to debate him any topic.
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Speaker 1: I've said. I'll even let Donald Trump moderate the debate
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Speaker 1: if he wants.
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Speaker 2: Oh, that would be interesting, since Donald Trump has endorsed
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Speaker 2: your opponent as we enter the primary.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and conventional wisdom is if your head, don't debate.
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Speaker 1: I am ahead at my polls. I think there's some
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Speaker 1: public polls going to come out and show that. But
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Speaker 1: I want to debate this guy because we've he spent
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Speaker 1: seven million dollars a billionaire's money from out of state
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Speaker 1: to try to fund a campaign where he stays in
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Speaker 1: the basement and doesn't show up. And I think the
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Speaker 1: people deserve if they got to watch seven million dollars
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Speaker 1: at his commercials, they should at least he should at
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Speaker 1: least give him thirty minutes on a stage and answer questions.
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Speaker 2: Hey agree completely without Congressman Massey. That's rarely you and
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Speaker 2: I have a disagreement. Please have you on the program
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Speaker 2: as always. Keep up the great work. I wish you
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Speaker 2: the best.