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"Red Flags" (Friday, April 17, 2026, Hour 1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Would you want to again if the older tailer's dollar,
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  Speaker 1: I would.
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  Speaker 2: I would go to practist back from the home of
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  Speaker 2: the First Amendment.
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  Speaker 3: First thing today, your works that steal men.
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  Speaker 4: You have a day.
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  Speaker 5: At least for work.
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  Speaker 6: When the sun comes up, drops a pet of to scoop.
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  Speaker 7: The way Joe has everything.
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  Speaker 4: A dream do all the treasures needs the one that
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  Speaker 4: Joe's as smiled he only is.
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  Speaker 7: Let her be Joe.
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  Speaker 8: Bless you for letting me be of service to you
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  Speaker 8: this morning.
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  Speaker 9: I want to.
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  Speaker 8: We wrap up metaphorically anyway or work week. I love
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  Speaker 8: the way, you know, people say, oh, yeah, the work
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  Speaker 8: week coming to an end. Thank god, it's right. That's
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  Speaker 8: such an achronism for these days. Your work week isn't
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  Speaker 8: over at five again. And if it is, you're one
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  Speaker 8: of very dwindling percentage of population. You're like the people
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  Speaker 8: who still shop on QVC. I used to live in Westchester, Pennsylvania,
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  Speaker 8: and the story of QVC finaling chapter eleven astounded me.
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  Speaker 8: I was amazed they were still around in an era
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  Speaker 8: where it seems like every major radio broadcast group is restructuring.
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  Speaker 8: They almost use it as as a fiscal tool. They're
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  Speaker 8: not actually in bankruptcy. I think QVC is actually in bankruptcy.
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  Speaker 8: In a world full of TMU and Shine, anyone buying
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  Speaker 8: stuff on TV anymore. It used to be a great
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  Speaker 8: way to get new products out to a market. It
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  Speaker 8: was a huge industry. They had studio tours in Westchester, Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 8: They're actually you know, were buses and things like that.
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  Speaker 8: It was like Disney for jewelry.
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  Speaker 10: You know.
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  Speaker 8: Kathy Lee Gifford would all the time and products she
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  Speaker 8: had in her line. Oh, it was a big deal
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  Speaker 8: in a couple of decades ago. Like I said, I
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  Speaker 8: was just astounded to find out they were in chapter
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  Speaker 8: eleven bankruptcy because I was surprised they were even still around.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, And and maybe a good point to make
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  Speaker 8: a note about adaptability, because just like the newspapers who
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  Speaker 8: didn't adapt to a changing market when Craigslist came along
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  Speaker 8: and they lost their funding stream through classified what you've
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  Speaker 8: never heard that story. We don't have time at the moment,
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  Speaker 8: but we we could detail for you certainly much to
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  Speaker 8: do this morning, and of course your chance to tell
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  Speaker 8: us how all this news of the day is impacting you.
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  Speaker 8: On our Alton Brown memorial. Multitasking hotline four three four
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  Speaker 8: eight eight two four to two one seven in Texas,
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  Speaker 8: or you can call us. But here are the first things.
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  Speaker 8: President Trump's pushed to extend the FISA warrantless surveillance powers
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  Speaker 8: suffered a set back in the early hours of this morning.
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  Speaker 8: Shortly before two am, the House of Representatives approved a
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  Speaker 8: two week extension of section seven oh two of the
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  Speaker 8: FISA Act, giving lawmakers until April thirtieth to reach a deal.
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  Speaker 8: But Conservative leaders had scuttled the clean extension, which would
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  Speaker 8: have left out an amendment calling for warrants before approaching
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  Speaker 8: telecom companies. Ten day truce appeared to be holding in
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  Speaker 8: lebanon early Friday, promising a pause in fighting between Israel
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  Speaker 8: and the country anyway. However, it's unclear whether Hezbola was
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  Speaker 8: not represented in the truce talks will recognize the ceasefire.
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  Speaker 8: Although US and Israel have seized airstrikes on one another,
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  Speaker 8: Iranian hackers haven't stopped on the digital battlefield. While the
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  Speaker 8: rest of the Iranian citizens suffer through another day of
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  Speaker 8: internet blackouts. Hackers are able to attack several different Western
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  Speaker 8: cyber security firewalls, and US intelligence officials say Iran is
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  Speaker 8: not only seeking to keep up the pressure on the
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  Speaker 8: US and Israel through cyber terrorism and posting of memes
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  Speaker 8: now mocking Newsmax the website. President Trump said Thursday Washington
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  Speaker 8: and Tehran are very close to a peace deal and
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  Speaker 8: insisted that Iran had agreed to hand over its rich
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  Speaker 8: uranium and said he would travel to Pakistan if a
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  Speaker 8: deal was on the table. Tragedy befell the Virginia political
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  Speaker 8: landscape and a quiet suburb outside of Washington, d c.
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  Speaker 8: As former Virginia tenant Governor Justin Fairfax, who was one
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  Speaker 8: of the front runners for the gubernatorial nomination in twenty
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  Speaker 8: twenty one before a sex scandal derailed his career. According
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  Speaker 8: to police, shot and killed his wife, Serena, in the
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  Speaker 8: family's basement, and then went upstairs and killed himself in
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  Speaker 8: the bathroom. Their teenage son found the bodies and called
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  Speaker 8: nine to one one. Virginia Senators Tim Kane and Mark
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  Speaker 8: Warner urged anyone who is impacted by domestic violence to
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  Speaker 8: call the National Domestic Violence Hotline for support. The Illinois
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  Speaker 8: home of Pope Leo the fourteenth Brother was the target
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  Speaker 8: of a bomb threat. Police said that was unsubstantiated. No
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  Speaker 8: bomb was found, and President Trump said he would be
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  Speaker 8: fine with Congress holding public hearings with survivors of sex
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  Speaker 8: You don't really want to know, so I want so
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  Speaker 8: much to get into But everybody is calling me again
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  Speaker 8: because Virginia has decided it's been too long since anyone's
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  Speaker 8: paid attention to us, so we're going to have a
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  Speaker 8: news fit, and everyone across the country is now instead
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  Speaker 8: of talking about our redistricting battles, which are coming down
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  Speaker 8: to the wire even and really quickly. Since I have
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  Speaker 8: your attention, three times as much money has been spent
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  Speaker 8: on ads, TV ads, Internet ads mailers promoting the temporary
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  Speaker 8: suspension of a United States constitution. A state in the
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  Speaker 8: United States is going to suspend its constitution temporarily, they say,
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  Speaker 8: for six years. We're going to suspend our constitution and
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  Speaker 8: do whatever we want because we're in charge, and I
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  Speaker 8: have a warning. We'll get back to the Justin Fairfax story,
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  Speaker 8: which is why everyone is calling me, all of my
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  Speaker 8: friends in the industry. What the hell is going on, Joe.
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  Speaker 8: It is the ugly end of a Swallwell esque story.
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  Speaker 8: But I want to go into a more thorough warning
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  Speaker 8: label then even then we had yesterday, when as my
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  Speaker 8: friends in Virginia are approaching the last couple of days
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  Speaker 8: for early voting today and tomorrow and then tuesdays at
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  Speaker 8: election culmination day, I want to go to Hungary for
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  Speaker 8: a moment incoming Prime Minister Peter Magar what most people
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  Speaker 8: are comparing to America's Democratic Party won the majority in
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  Speaker 8: the parliament and he's formed a government globalist World Economic
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  Speaker 8: Forum poster boy. It's got to be prickly in Canada
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  Speaker 8: right now that all those wannabes they thought they had
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  Speaker 8: the inside track for being the favored one at the
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  Speaker 8: World Economic Forum. That's Hungary now. So Mayar takes a
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  Speaker 8: picture with President doctor Thomas Suliak and then tells him
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  Speaker 8: get the whatever the Hungarian word for coitus is out
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  Speaker 8: of office. Told tells him in the office after taking
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  Speaker 8: a picture with brother that he needs to leave office
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  Speaker 8: right away, calls him to his face, and I got
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  Speaker 8: to give a guy credit, but we call him to
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  Speaker 8: your face. He says, you are an unworthy representative of
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  Speaker 8: the unity of the Hungarian nation, said this Marxist fascist.
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  Speaker 8: You are unfit to serve as the guardian of legality,
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  Speaker 8: not fit to serve as the moral authority or a
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  Speaker 8: role model. I'm warning everyone one who thinks that there
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  Speaker 8: are people who just disagree with each other on you know,
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  Speaker 8: maybe twenty percent of the things that are going on
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  Speaker 8: in life. Yes, they do exist. They don't have a
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  Speaker 8: political representation because the political party that portends to be
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  Speaker 8: the representative of those twenty percent, Oh, we just disagree
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  Speaker 8: on you know, how many months or whatever. They're lying
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  Speaker 8: to you, just like Abigail Spanberger lied to everyone to
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  Speaker 8: get elected governor of Virginia, thus her plummeting approval ratings
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  Speaker 8: because Democrats in Virginia said, hold it, this isn't what
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  Speaker 8: we voted for. You said, you're going to be like
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  Speaker 8: all those learned, scholarly democrats that my parents told me about.
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  Speaker 8: My eye threatened Suyak. If he doesn't resign, he would
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  Speaker 8: use his party mandate to amend the Constitution of Hungary
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  Speaker 8: and other legislation to force him from office, along with
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  Speaker 8: what Mayar called other puppets holding over from the Orbon government.
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  Speaker 8: Mayar separately shared a video from the palace of himself
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  Speaker 8: and his team watching Orbon alone pacing on an adjacent balcony.
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  Speaker 8: He framed the image with his hand and said absolute cinema.
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  Speaker 8: The Respect and Freedom Party TISA won many seats in
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  Speaker 8: the parliamentary election, hoisting Mayor to the Prime Minister's seat.
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  Speaker 8: But I tell you this story, because this is who
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  Speaker 8: you're going to be voting for in the midterms. You're
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  Speaker 8: going to vote for a party who has quite a
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  Speaker 8: bit of dysfunction. But at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 8: does things like say, hold on a second, here, how
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  Speaker 8: about we make sure that the intelligence operations of America
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  Speaker 8: have to get a warrant before they go to your
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  Speaker 8: cell phone provider and give them information on who you've
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  Speaker 8: been calling and win and believe it or not, everyone says, oh,
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  Speaker 8: it's just an international They have to get all the
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  Speaker 8: information before they get just the international calls. So don't
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  Speaker 8: be gas lit on that those folks have the majority.
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  Speaker 8: Folks like Chip Roy they have the majority right now,
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  Speaker 8: Morgan Griffith, they have the majority. Ben Klein, these folks
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  Speaker 8: have the majority. Ted Cruz, Folks like Peter Mayard of
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  Speaker 8: Hungary want the majority. This is the Hungarian version of
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  Speaker 8: Hakim Jeffries. And if Hakim Jeffries comes to your town
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  Speaker 8: and says, no, we just we just want, you know,
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  Speaker 8: everyone to get along and we want peace in our
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  Speaker 8: time and we want this isn't what they want. This
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  Speaker 8: is a program going on in Hungary to purge the
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  Speaker 8: country of people who supported Victor Orbon. Now you can
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  Speaker 8: dislike like Orbon or not, it's not the point. A
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  Speaker 8: constitutionally established republic doesn't get programs of people who just
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  Speaker 8: disagree with you, especially under the band of Respect and Freedom.
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  Speaker 8: And the first thing Mayar has done is brought in Europe.
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  Speaker 8: He's not cleaning up, he says, I want to clean
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  Speaker 8: up Hungary. I want to clean up Hungary, and I'm
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  Speaker 8: going to do it by bringing in the European Public
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  Speaker 8: Prosecutor's Office. Just like Virginia signed on to the National
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  Speaker 8: Popular Vote Compact, ceeding Virginia if the majority comes to pass,
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  Speaker 8: saying that if enough states sign in, we no longer
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  Speaker 8: count in the election of presidents outside of adding our
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  Speaker 8: votes to whatever the national Popular vote would be. This
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  Speaker 8: Respect and Freedom Party has turned over the keys to
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  Speaker 8: Hungary to Europe and ceded all individual sovereignty in the country.
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  Speaker 8: And that's who's on the ballot in the United States
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  Speaker 8: in November.
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  Speaker 8: remember that's what did in Ja and at Kilo was
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  Speaker 8: New London, Connecticut said if we take your house and
• 47:05
  Speaker 8: all the houses around it, tear it down, give it
• 47:07
  Speaker 8: to somebody who's going to build high price condos, we
• 47:11
  Speaker 8: will make more tax revenue. Therefore that's a public benefit.
• 47:18
  Speaker 8: And the courts went, yeah, that's kind of what the
• 47:21
  Speaker 8: law says they are allowed to do. So anyway, back
• 47:23
  Speaker 8: to eminent domain and taking over buildings that have gone
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  Speaker 8: empty in your community, because this is happening where you
• 47:31
  Speaker 8: are too. Office space going empty is everywhere.
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  Speaker 21: This fifty five thousand square foot office tower at Fredericksburg
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  Speaker 21: Road and Loop four ten will soon house Precinct two's
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  Speaker 21: JP Court, Constable and tax assessors offices.
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  Speaker 8: The county says it was a steal.
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  Speaker 21: But it paid more than two million dollars more than
• 47:52
  Speaker 21: it had budgeted for the purchase.
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  Speaker 2: Did they?
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  Speaker 8: And the story goes on that's Channel four out of
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  Speaker 8: San Antonio. The story goes on to detail how there
• 48:09
  Speaker 8: was still no complete public understanding as to why they
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  Speaker 8: needed all this extra office space. And one of the
• 48:21
  Speaker 8: things I was told about this story is that what
• 48:24
  Speaker 8: you don't know is so the use of eminent domain
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  Speaker 8: in this case is a false flag. So it was
• 48:33
  Speaker 8: a deal. They bought the building to bail out the
• 48:36
  Speaker 8: owner of the building who couldn't find a resident for it,
• 48:40
  Speaker 8: a tenant for it because ECPI had closed up their
• 48:44
  Speaker 8: branch there because of course Democrats are against for profit colleges.
• 48:52
  Speaker 8: But so now the building was empty and the post
• 48:56
  Speaker 8: COVID landscape because the Democrats like Joe Biden had done
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  Speaker 8: such an artful job of scaring the living bejibbers out
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  Speaker 8: of everyone, no one wants to go back into an
• 49:06
  Speaker 8: office anymore. And most businesses realized, huh, we could get
• 49:10
  Speaker 8: by with a lot less office space just to make
• 49:14
  Speaker 8: people work from home. Yeah, and I know, little by
• 49:18
  Speaker 8: little that's changing, but certainly not at the breakneck pace
• 49:23
  Speaker 8: that a lot of these empty office building owners want
• 49:26
  Speaker 8: so the office building is the shady side of this
• 49:31
  Speaker 8: is not whether or not San Antonio taxpayers paid too
• 49:35
  Speaker 8: much for the building, but that they paid anything at
• 49:38
  Speaker 8: all for a building that there's questions as to whether
• 49:41
  Speaker 8: they actually need it or not. Now, I'll be the
• 49:43
  Speaker 8: first one to tell you we need more courtrooms so
• 49:47
  Speaker 8: that we can pursue justice in front of juries of
• 49:51
  Speaker 8: our peers. However, this isn't about more court space. It's
• 49:56
  Speaker 8: about moving court space, and it's about bailing out a
• 50:02
  Speaker 8: business owner whose business model has gone away. Big office
• 50:07
  Speaker 8: buildings are going away, and more and more municipalities are
• 50:13
  Speaker 8: quote using eminent domain to make it look like they're
• 50:17
  Speaker 8: not bailing out these property owners who are stuck with
• 50:22
  Speaker 8: stiffs empty office spaces that no one wants. And it
• 50:28
  Speaker 8: would be prohibitively expensive to convert the plumbing and electrical
• 50:32
  Speaker 8: to turn these buildings into oh, I don't know, housing.
• 50:39
  Speaker 8: So rather than do this, here comes the government again
• 50:42
  Speaker 8: just to say we'll buy it. We don't need it,
• 50:44
  Speaker 8: but we'll buy it. We have taxpayer money because you
• 50:47
  Speaker 8: know what, just like in Virginia and Greenwich, Connecticut, san
• 50:52
  Speaker 8: Antonio taxpayers have to give up your tax money or
• 50:55
  Speaker 8: you go to jail or you lose your property, and
• 50:58
  Speaker 8: they don't have to go through Eminent Domain for it.
• 51:05
  Speaker 8: But this story speaks of so many other problems that
• 51:09
  Speaker 8: look at what's happening with QBC. I actually have a
• 51:12
  Speaker 8: friend who's still in Westchester County, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and
• 51:17
  Speaker 8: Westchester where QVC headquarters is. There's actually a move in
• 51:21
  Speaker 8: Pennsylvania to try to bail out QVC to keep it
• 51:26
  Speaker 8: going because it's an important part quote unquote of the
• 51:30
  Speaker 8: Pennsylvania economy. Have you have when was the last time
• 51:38
  Speaker 8: you met someone who bought something off of QVC or
• 51:43
  Speaker 8: the home shopping network. It's not how it happens anymore.
• 51:47
  Speaker 8: And QVC did themselves in because just like the newspapers
• 51:52
  Speaker 8: that ignored all the warning signs, like Craigslist, they didn't
• 51:58
  Speaker 8: adapt their business model to a changing landscape. QVC could
• 52:03
  Speaker 8: have gone on, like you what, you don't think QVC
• 52:06
  Speaker 8: could have had a YouTube channel with sellable links? Do
• 52:08
  Speaker 8: you don't think QVC could have been what's the TMU
• 52:15
  Speaker 8: before TMU came along. TMU is just knocking off what
• 52:20
  Speaker 8: QVC did and shine in these other operators. But QVC
• 52:26
  Speaker 8: had their head in the cloud saying no, we are
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  Speaker 8: a TV station and that's much more important than being
• 52:32
  Speaker 8: an Internet site. Sorry, that's where everyone is now, and
• 52:37
  Speaker 8: the people who understand that that's where TV is. TV
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  Speaker 8: is video. I hate phrase changing, but everyone who hides
• 52:46
  Speaker 8: behind the fact that we're a TV station, you're you're
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  Speaker 8: gonna lose.
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