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Trump Considers Pulling Out of NATO · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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Speaker 1: Well, live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Speaker 1: It's America's favorite, gun toting, bible clinging, deplorable America.
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Speaker 2: That's love this American. Todd starts, well.
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Speaker 3: Ye, ladies and gentlemen, Ladies and gentlemen of the Todd
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Speaker 3: Starnes Radio Show listening audience. I want to get something
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Speaker 3: out of the way right away, and this is well,
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Speaker 3: it's just vitally important for us to have this little
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Speaker 3: conversation before we before we delve into the big issues
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Speaker 3: of the day. Today is April first, April Fool's Day,
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Speaker 3: and I am telling you I forgot about that. And
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Speaker 3: I woke up this morning and Dylan, you don't know
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Speaker 3: how many times I almost panicked as I'm reading through
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Speaker 3: the Twitter feeds, the X feeds, but I forgot it
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Speaker 3: was It's April Fool's Day. So here on this program
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Speaker 3: for the next three hours, we're not gonna be yanking
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Speaker 3: your chain, We're not gonna be pulling your leg. We're
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Speaker 3: just gonna we're gonna give you everything right down the
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Speaker 3: just right down the middle, ladies and gentlemen, as best
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Speaker 3: we can, because there is so much stuff going on
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Speaker 3: around Dylan. So, so last night the uh, the White
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Speaker 3: House and House, President Trump is addressing the nation on
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Speaker 3: a matter of utmost importance, and that's happening at nine
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Speaker 3: o'clock Eastern. You'll be able to listen to that on
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Speaker 3: your local radio station.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 3: Then we got word that the Australian Prime Minister was
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Speaker 3: gonna hold a major in a major national address, and
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Speaker 3: the British Prime Minister was going to hold a national address.
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Speaker 3: And Dylan, I can't tell you, there must have been
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Speaker 3: millions of people. Next thing, the aliens they're going to
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Speaker 3: an outs the invasion. We have people that are not
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Speaker 3: Earthlings living among us. I know people really thought that.
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Speaker 3: And then you've got to remember disgraced Congressman Matt Gates.
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Speaker 3: Apparently Americans have been pro creating with the alien people.
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Speaker 3: So now we have what human hybrids out there? I
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Speaker 3: have a I just want to know who they are.
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Speaker 3: I have a I have a running list. Many of
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Speaker 3: them I believe to be in Hollywood, and one may
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Speaker 3: in fact be a senator from South Carolina who a
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Speaker 3: grown man who likes to wander around Disney World. Possibly.
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Speaker 3: So I'm just wondering who are those people who are
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Speaker 3: the who are the offspring of the alien the alien species.
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Speaker 3: So I don't think that's it. People, So I think
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Speaker 3: you can breathe easy. But I'm telling you, people are
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Speaker 3: really getting like riled up over this, and there's there's
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Speaker 3: a lot of anxiety out there about what they're President
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Speaker 3: is going to say tonight. We we know that it's
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Speaker 3: gonna be something about uh and around update reach down
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Speaker 3: to the White House and they're keeping they're keeping the
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Speaker 3: cards close to the vest on this, so, uh, what
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Speaker 3: was it? Alex Jones is saying that that Trump has
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Speaker 3: done that, he's he's not the guy he used to be.
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Speaker 3: We're gonna play this audio a little bit later. It's insane,
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Speaker 3: but it seems as though Mago World, you know, the
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Speaker 3: big influencers of Maga World, and and look, let's get real.
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Speaker 3: There are a lot of grifters that have jumped on to,
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Speaker 3: you know, the Maga agenda, and that's really not it.
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Speaker 3: And I want to if they have they don't believe
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Speaker 3: what you and I believe, even though they may profess to.
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Speaker 3: And I think that's ultimately what we're beginning to see.
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Speaker 3: The great I'm calling it the Great Unveiling because a
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Speaker 3: lot of these people, much like the the aliens who
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Speaker 3: use I don't know, human skin to disguise themselves. Allegedly,
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Speaker 3: that's exactly what these grifters had been doing for many,
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Speaker 3: many years, going all the way back to twenty sixteen.
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Speaker 3: And it's easy to forget that many of these people
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Speaker 3: hated Donald Trump. They despised Donald Trump. But you know what,
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Speaker 3: when Donald Trump won, all of a sudden, they threw
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Speaker 3: themselves at his feet. And the reason why is they
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Speaker 3: wanted access to power, They wanted access to the money,
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Speaker 3: they wanted access to the celebrity. And here are a
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Speaker 3: couple of warning signs about all of that. You know,
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Speaker 3: we had Franklin Graham on the show yesterday, and I
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Speaker 3: love Franklin Graham's he's a good man. I remember when
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Speaker 3: the word leaked out about my contract not being renewed
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Speaker 3: at Fox, there are two people that called me just
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Speaker 3: to see how I was doing. One of them was
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Speaker 3: Jerry Folwell Junior and the other was Franklin Graham. Right away,
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Speaker 3: those were the very first first calls I got, and
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Speaker 3: it surprised me, but there were there were, it was
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Speaker 3: no strings attached phone calls saying how can I help you?
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Speaker 3: What can I do? And of course we had already
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Speaker 3: had a plan in place. But man, that meant the
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Speaker 3: world to me, because that tells that told me those
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Speaker 3: guys were the real deal. You know, they never they
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Speaker 3: never mentioned in public that they had made a phone
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Speaker 3: call to me. And so when I when I saw
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Speaker 3: the post from President Trump about Franklin Graham and you know,
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Speaker 3: President Trump's out there and again I've had conversations with
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Speaker 3: the President about this particular matter, and I'm not going
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Speaker 3: to divulge it, but but the President shared a private
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Speaker 3: letter that Franklin had written to him about his the
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Speaker 3: state of his soul and where you know, this idea
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Speaker 3: that the President wasn't quite sure where he was going
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Speaker 3: to be spending eternity, and you know, Franklin Graham didn't know.
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Speaker 3: Is that a joke, mister President? Were you just being
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Speaker 3: you know, some good natured humor or are you serious
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Speaker 3: about that? And if you if you are having doubts?
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Speaker 3: And Franklin sort of laid it out in this letter
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Speaker 3: that President Trump shared. You know what I respect most
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Speaker 3: about that is that we never would have known that
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Speaker 3: that letter had been written had it not been for
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Speaker 3: President Trump sharing it, because Franklin Graham never mentioned it,
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Speaker 3: and he never would have because it was a private,
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Speaker 3: personal manner. Franklin Graham is the real deal. You know
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Speaker 3: who I have a problem with all of these preachers
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Speaker 3: and you know who, you know who I'm talking about.
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Speaker 3: And they just rushed to the White House, so you know,
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Speaker 3: they can, you know, publicly say that they counseled and
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Speaker 3: gave spiritual counsel to President Trump, and they held a
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Speaker 3: worship service in the Oval Office, and you know, they
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Speaker 3: spoke in tongues, you know, over President Trump and all
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Speaker 3: this kind And I'm not saying any of that is wrong.
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Speaker 3: I'm just really questioning their motives. That's what I'm doing,
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Speaker 3: because you know what, it's all about you, and it's
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Speaker 3: not about the President of the United States at that point.
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Speaker 3: Right by the way, look at all those folks that
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Speaker 3: are going down to mar A Lago, the business people
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Speaker 3: and the want to be business people, the grifters trying
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Speaker 3: to get intomorrow Lago. So there's a whole lot of
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Speaker 3: that happening. And I'm trying to get around to the
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Speaker 3: point here because we have so much ground to cover
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Speaker 3: tod But point number one, ladies and gentlemen, is that
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Speaker 3: Donald Trump is still the same man that he was
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Speaker 3: when he came down that Golden escalator to announce that
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Speaker 3: he was running for president the first time around. Donald
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Speaker 3: Trump is the same guy who back in the nineteen
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Speaker 3: seventies and eighties said that we need to go after Iran.
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Speaker 3: That is the same Donald Trump that we have in
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Speaker 3: office today. His views have not deviated one iota. So
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Speaker 3: all of these people, now the grifter crowd, the reason
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Speaker 3: why they're breaking from Donald Trump is they believe that
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Speaker 3: Trump is losing some sort of status in America and
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Speaker 3: so they're trying to both. They believe that they're not
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Speaker 3: going to be able to grift at the same levels anymore.
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Speaker 3: So that's why they're beginning to bolt, and they're beginning
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Speaker 3: to show their true colors. And it's really despicable. And
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Speaker 3: I have no problem talking about this because, just like
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Speaker 3: President Trump, our positions have never changed. And I truly
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Speaker 3: do believe that we must have a secure border, and
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Speaker 3: I also believe that every single illegal alien in this
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Speaker 3: country must go back to their home country and apply
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Speaker 3: to come to this nation the right way. That that
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Speaker 3: position has never changed and has never wavered period. When
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Speaker 3: President Trump, and he's at the Supreme Court this morning,
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Speaker 3: and the President is watching the arguments over birthright citizenship.
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Speaker 3: The fact of the matter is and our our us.
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Speaker 3: The Solicitor General made an excellent point today when he said, ultimately,
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Speaker 3: do you realize that the under the interpretation of the
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Speaker 3: demark it's eight billion people in the world. Eight billion
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Speaker 3: people could book an airline flight and they could have
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Speaker 3: a baby on American soil and they would be an
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Speaker 3: American citizen. And that's got to stop. That's not what
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Speaker 3: our founding fathers intended. So we'll place on audio from
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Speaker 3: the Supreme Court. There's some really riveting stuff going on there.
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Speaker 3: But again, going back to President Trump and what's happening
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Speaker 3: in Iran and the address tonight, and a lot of
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Speaker 3: people are freaked out about this. Well I knew it. MTG.
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Speaker 3: No boots on the ground, you know, folks, Can we
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Speaker 3: all just take a deep breath here. Donald Trump has
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Speaker 3: not gotten us into a forever war. And Donald Trump
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Speaker 3: is not a war hawk by any stretch of the imagination.
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Speaker 3: Donald Trump is looking out for what is best for America, period.
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Speaker 3: That's when he wakes up in the morning after two
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Speaker 3: hours of sleep, and he sits down for breakfast. The
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Speaker 3: most important question of the day him is is this
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Speaker 3: good for America? And the President made the determination that
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Speaker 3: a radioactive nuclear cloud, a mushroom cloud over Chicago or
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Speaker 3: Des Moines or Nashville would not be in the best
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Speaker 3: interest of the nation. So the President said, We're going
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Speaker 3: to put a stop to this. And that's what's happening
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Speaker 3: in Iran right now.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 3: Do I believe Am I concerned about that?
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Speaker 5: Well?
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Speaker 3: Of course, who would not be concerned because we all
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Speaker 3: know what happened in afghanist and we all know what
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Speaker 3: happened in Iraq. But there's one big difference. The difference
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Speaker 3: is that Donald J. Trump is in the Oval office
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Speaker 3: right now, and Donald Trump has made the determination. He's
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Speaker 3: done the calculations, and he's determined that this is what
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Speaker 3: needed to happen. And I'm willing to give the man
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Speaker 3: the benefit of the doubt. You said, well, what about
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Speaker 3: all the boots on the ground, the thousands of soldiers
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Speaker 3: and marines that are being prepositioned in the Middle East?
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Speaker 3: What about it? What about it? I'm I'm willing to
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Speaker 3: say this. I don't believe And look, I may be
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Speaker 3: wrong about this, but I don't believe we're gonna see
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Speaker 3: boots on the ground. But the Iranians don't know that.
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Speaker 3: Nobody knows what Trump is going to do right now,
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Speaker 3: and that is the strategy. That's the whole point. I mean,
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Speaker 3: you had previous presidents who got out there and literally said,
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Speaker 3: all right, Rod, if you don't do this by this date,
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Speaker 3: we're gonna do X, Y and Z and they we're
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Speaker 3: gonna leave.
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Speaker 5: No.
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Speaker 3: Well, that is such a losing strategy. So now you
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Speaker 3: have everybody in the world on edge, and you know
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Speaker 3: why they're on edge because they don't know what Donald
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Speaker 3: Trump's gonna do. And that's the exact kind of leader
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Speaker 3: we need in the White House right now. And all
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Speaker 3: of these grifters, all of these folks like Marjorie Taylor
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Speaker 3: Green and Tucker Carlson and Megan Kelly and Candace Owens
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Speaker 3: and Alex Jones, everybody out there, Ah, he's gonna get
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Speaker 3: We're gonna lose thousands of our fighting men and women. No, well,
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Speaker 3: I don't think we all are, because ultimately Donald Trump
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Speaker 3: wants Iran and all the rest of the world to
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Speaker 3: see that we are willing to do what needs to
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Speaker 3: be done. No, matter the cost. We can't do that
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Speaker 3: if our fighting men and women are still on military
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Speaker 3: basis in the United States, we are. We are demonstrating
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Speaker 3: a massive, a massive show of force, not only to
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Speaker 3: Iran but to the rest of the world that we
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Speaker 3: will protect American interest no matter what. And I love
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Speaker 3: the President for that. So, you know, maybe instead of
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Speaker 3: all these people panicking on social media, maybe they should
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Speaker 3: just step back and we get it. We've heard your opinions.
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Speaker 3: Just step back and watch what President Trump does. Nine
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Speaker 3: oh one two six zero five nine two six is
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Speaker 3: our telephone number. That's nine oh one two six zero
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Speaker 3: five nine two six. I mean, the polling data has
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Speaker 3: not changed at all, Ladies and gentlemen. An overwhelming number
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Speaker 3: of Americans support what the President is doing here. And
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Speaker 3: I think one of the reasons why the younger people
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Speaker 3: and I'm talking about millennials and gen zers, why they
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Speaker 3: are not on board, is because they simply have not
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Speaker 3: been taught the history. They are not paying attention to
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Speaker 3: what Iran has done to this nation. So look, we're
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Speaker 3: all of you folks that are concerned about Donald Trump. Oh,
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Speaker 3: he's off his rocker. He's starting to lose it mentally.
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Speaker 3: I mean, that's what Alex Jones is saying. Folks, take
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Speaker 3: a deep, deep breath. We want the rest of the
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Speaker 3: world to think President Trump is crazy because with that
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Speaker 3: we take the upper hands. We want people wondering what
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Speaker 3: this guy is going to do next. But ladies and gentlemen,
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Speaker 3: Donald Trump has delivered on every single thing that he
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Speaker 3: is promised to us. He has not done anything that
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Speaker 3: is remotely problematic in my estimation. Now, if we put
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Speaker 3: boots on the ground in Iran, well I'm going to
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Speaker 3: have a conversation about that if and when that happens.
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Speaker 3: But again, right now, the Iranians, all they need to
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Speaker 3: know is they're getting their butts blown to smithereens. And
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Speaker 3: you've got about I know, four or five thousand, who
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Speaker 3: knows how many troops waiting on ships right off of
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Speaker 3: their coastline. You think they're really sleeping well these days,
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Speaker 3: not even with the Mapello the Iranian version. All right,
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Speaker 3: let's go to the phone lines here, nine oh one
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Speaker 3: two six to zero six Steve and Little Rock, Arkansas. Steve,
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Speaker 3: what's on your mind?
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Speaker 2: Todd?
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Speaker 6: I believe it is a crying shame that we finally
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Speaker 6: have a president that is trained to do in the
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Speaker 6: Middle East what should have been done back in nineteen
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Speaker 6: seventy three during the first Opec coaling bargo, when they
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Speaker 6: started using oil like a cock doon against the rest
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Speaker 6: of the world's head to get their way and push
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Speaker 6: their agenda. And now that somebody is finally trying to
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Speaker 6: do something about that and give some stability in that
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Speaker 6: part of the world when it comes oil, which is
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Speaker 6: me that's just as important as air and water to
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Speaker 6: our civilization. The best weapon the rhyme has right now
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Speaker 6: are the American public. They're so dang wishy wash, They're
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Speaker 6: so dame whining. They sound like a bunch of four
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Speaker 6: year olds that are in the car going on a
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Speaker 6: trip asking every five minutes when are we going to
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Speaker 6: get there? When are we going to get there?
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Speaker 7: Steve?
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Speaker 3: There are actually people, I think there are, well, there
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Speaker 3: certainly are people in the media, but I think there
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Speaker 3: are even people on on the Republican side of the
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Speaker 3: aisle who are I don't know rooting for Iran here
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Speaker 3: it's you know what, where is your patriotism. I'm getting
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Speaker 3: sick and tired of these grifters out there, the Tucker
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Speaker 3: Carlson and Alex Jones, all of that crowd. They sound
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Speaker 3: they are spewing the same talking points that are coming
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Speaker 3: from MSNBC and CNN right now.
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Speaker 6: It don't making a chance to be I don't think
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Speaker 6: it makes sense.
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Speaker 8: It's for money.
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Speaker 6: That's the only thing that makes any logical scene.
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Speaker 3: Steve appreciate the call, and it's look, it's a valid
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Speaker 3: point you raise. But again, ladies and gentlemen, who side
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Speaker 3: are you one here? Do you support the United States
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Speaker 3: of America and our commander in chief or are you
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Speaker 3: with the Iranians. By the way, President Trump already hinting
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Speaker 3: that he may pull out of NATO, and the reason
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Speaker 3: why is none not a single NATO nations offering to
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Speaker 3: contribute any money to the cause. Then you've got a
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Speaker 3: number of NATO nations that are refusing to allow our
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Speaker 3: military to use their bases their runways as staging areas
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Speaker 3: for our operation in Iran. Right now, you know, at
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Speaker 3: that point, I don't blame the president one bit NATO
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Speaker 3: comes as screaming every time Russia decides to invade a
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Speaker 3: country and we have to come running to their defense. Well,
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Speaker 3: what's the point, ladies and gentlemen. The only time the
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Speaker 3: European nations need us is when somebody invades their country.
18:53
Speaker 3: I say, you know what, folks, You're on your own.
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Speaker 3: That's it. No more money from us, no more support
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Speaker 3: from us. You're run your own. You had a chance
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Speaker 3: and you blew it. So I don't blame the President
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Speaker 3: one bit for what he's about to do with NATO.
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Speaker 3: And I'm telling you all of those Europeans they better
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Speaker 3: be trembling in their boots. All right, coming up, I
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Speaker 3: really don't want to do this, but we got to
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Speaker 3: talk about We got to talk about Christy Nooms's husband.
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Speaker 3: Who would have thought he was the bigger boob in
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Speaker 3: the relationship. All Right, we'll be right back. The very
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Speaker 3: latest coming up. All right, welcome back to the Todd
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Speaker 3: Stearns Radio Show. Coming up tonight, nine o'clock Eastern. President
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Speaker 3: Trump addresses the nation on Iran and also it's pretty exciting.
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Speaker 3: We've got a a huge space launch coming up tonight
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Speaker 3: around six o'clock Eastern. We understand, Artemis two is going
20:08
Speaker 3: to be launching from the Kennedy Space Center. We're going
20:10
Speaker 3: to talk about that a little bit later on. You know,
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Speaker 3: we've been talking, pardon me, a lot about fraud across
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Speaker 3: the nation. We've been focusing on Minneapolis and the just
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Speaker 3: the millions, millions of dollars in in fraudulent spending, the grift,
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Speaker 3: the waste, the abuse. But it's not just Minneapolis. As
20:32
Speaker 3: a matter of fact, earlier today in the state of Tennessee,
20:37
Speaker 3: they released a partial audit of the state's largest school
20:42
Speaker 3: district that would be in Memphis and Shelby County, and
20:46
Speaker 3: they say it is the worst example of fraud and
20:52
Speaker 3: abuse and wasteful spending they have ever ever seen. One
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Speaker 3: of the people spearheading all of this joins us on
20:59
Speaker 3: our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line. He has also spearheaded the
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Speaker 3: effort that led to President Trump sitting in the National Guard.
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Speaker 3: He is a senator, State Senator Brent Taylor, and he
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Speaker 3: joins us on our Patriot Mobile Newsmaker line today. Senator,
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Speaker 3: good to have you with us, and wow, what a
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Speaker 3: what a shock today. Tell us about some of the
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Speaker 3: what what you guys have discovered so far.
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Speaker 5: Well, it's good, great to be with you, Todd. Thank
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Speaker 5: you for allowing me to come on and talk about
21:29
Speaker 5: this this issue, because you're right, this is I believe,
21:33
Speaker 5: on the scale of the Minnesota type fraud and what
21:38
Speaker 5: this audit and this is a forensic artist, so this
21:41
Speaker 5: is different than just a run of the newle financial audit.
21:45
Speaker 5: They're they're doing a deep dive. They've uncovered a lot
21:48
Speaker 5: of things. Just to give you a good example, this
21:53
Speaker 5: shows that that the Memphis Ulbican School District, they bought
21:58
Speaker 5: a building for six million dollars and spent thirty three
22:02
Speaker 5: million dollars renovating it, and then they sold the building
22:07
Speaker 5: for five million dollars or a million dollars less than
22:09
Speaker 5: they paid for it. And then they sold it to
22:12
Speaker 5: a group called New Day Tennessee I believe is the name,
22:17
Speaker 5: and it is headed by a former school board member.
22:21
Speaker 5: And the building they bought the building with they were
22:24
Speaker 5: the only bidd and so that's an example. It also
22:29
Speaker 5: gets into them, Oh.
22:31
Speaker 3: I think we lost the senator there. Sorry about that, folks,
22:35
Speaker 3: but it is shocking, shocking the amount of fraud. And
22:38
Speaker 3: get this, the worst part about all of this is
22:41
Speaker 3: not the entire school board made up of Democrats, not
22:44
Speaker 3: a single Republican on the school board at all. You
22:49
Speaker 3: also have this little nugget that seventy percent, seventy percent
22:55
Speaker 3: of the children and Memphis schools cannot read at at
22:59
Speaker 3: grade level. They simply cannot read at grade level. It's unacceptable.
23:04
Speaker 3: And by the way, when you talk about what is
23:07
Speaker 3: broken in many of our major American cities, that's a
23:10
Speaker 3: common denominator, every single one of them. Take a look
23:12
Speaker 3: at the top two issues, crime and education, and every
23:16
Speaker 3: single major American city that is controlled by Democrats. This
23:20
Speaker 3: is what we get. I think we've got the senator
23:22
Speaker 3: back with us. Senator, this is just shockings. He're telling
23:25
Speaker 3: me that they bought this building it was worth what
23:30
Speaker 3: so what thirty sei million dollars and then they sold
23:33
Speaker 3: it to a nonprofit run by a former school board
23:36
Speaker 3: member for what pennies on the dollar?
23:39
Speaker 5: That's right, the building. They bought it for five million,
23:43
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, bought it for six million, made thirty three
23:45
Speaker 5: million dollars in improvements, and then sold it for five
23:48
Speaker 5: million dollars. And another example is the operations. There are
23:53
Speaker 5: no internal controls. They basically have a computer program or
23:58
Speaker 5: computer system that they manage all their contracts, and as
24:01
Speaker 5: people came and went from the school district, they never
24:04
Speaker 5: removed them from access to the computer. So technically a
24:10
Speaker 5: former employee could have set up a fake company, sent
24:14
Speaker 5: in a contract, then sent in invoices and paid the invoice,
24:18
Speaker 5: all from outside the district. And we don't know that
24:21
Speaker 5: that happened. But there are a lot of shady things
24:24
Speaker 5: going on with this school district. And the thing that
24:27
Speaker 5: this audit revealed is that the memphiship became school district.
24:31
Speaker 5: There is organized as a five dollars bin at Walmart,
24:35
Speaker 5: and we have to get control of it.
24:36
Speaker 3: Oh, that's not very well organized, a senator. No, I've
24:40
Speaker 3: seen those bins, you know. I think it's just shocking
24:44
Speaker 3: for a lot of people to realize that there has
24:47
Speaker 3: been an, i think, an intentional dumbing down of our
24:50
Speaker 3: society through the education system. And when you've got a
24:54
Speaker 3: situation where seventy percent of the kids are not reading
24:56
Speaker 3: at grade level, what do you make of that?
25:00
Speaker 5: But that's what's that's the reason we're doing this. I mean,
25:03
Speaker 5: Memphis has had a lot of things going wrong for
25:06
Speaker 5: a long time, and crime was ramped at our education system,
25:10
Speaker 5: only a quarter of the kids that graduated or reading
25:14
Speaker 5: at proficiency. And it took President Trump. And by the way,
25:18
Speaker 5: you paid a huge role in getting the President to
25:22
Speaker 5: send the Memphis State Task Force to Memphis. It was
25:25
Speaker 5: from a radio interview that you had a conversation with
25:28
Speaker 5: the President first planted that seed in his mind, and
25:32
Speaker 5: it was Senator Marshall Blackburn who ran with it and
25:35
Speaker 5: ultimately got the President send the Memphis Say Task Force
25:38
Speaker 5: to Memphis, and they have cut crime in half. The
25:41
Speaker 5: other thing that's been holding Memphis back has been our
25:43
Speaker 5: education system. And what we're going to do at the
25:46
Speaker 5: state level is really a Memphis Education Task Force where
25:50
Speaker 5: we're going to take over the school district. We're going
25:52
Speaker 5: to put in people who know how to manage large
25:55
Speaker 5: organizations to get this thing turned around. And if we
25:58
Speaker 5: saw crime and education, Memphis could be the next Southern
26:02
Speaker 5: It's city. Much like Dallas, Atlanta, Charlotte, and Nashville. Memphis
26:08
Speaker 5: could be that next city.
26:09
Speaker 3: You know, it's interesting. We have a lot of listeners
26:11
Speaker 3: in Houston, Texas, and my understanding is the same thing
26:15
Speaker 3: happened there where there was a takeover of the public
26:18
Speaker 3: school system.
26:19
Speaker 5: There, and we're actually using the Houston model as the
26:24
Speaker 5: Houston Independent School District. We're using their model here in Memphis,
26:29
Speaker 5: and we have the superintendent there and Houston has been
26:33
Speaker 5: to Nashville and met with lawmakers. We are borrowing all
26:37
Speaker 5: the things that they did in Houston. The one thing
26:41
Speaker 5: that the Houston district said that they wish they had
26:43
Speaker 5: done differently is what we're doing. They should have started
26:47
Speaker 5: with a forensic audit of the school district, and they
26:49
Speaker 5: think it would have helped avoid a lot of the
26:52
Speaker 5: lawsuits that resulted in that takeover. But they had done
26:56
Speaker 5: a phenomenal job, and we helped to replicate that in Monphis.
26:58
Speaker 3: Well, well, I know, I'd love to hear from some
27:00
Speaker 3: of our Houston listeners to know how that's worked out,
27:03
Speaker 3: you know, because again, what we've seen happen in the
27:05
Speaker 3: Memphis area. You've had a lot of moms and dads
27:09
Speaker 3: and many of them have been voting Democrat, and all
27:12
Speaker 3: of a sudden, they're waking up and they're realizing that
27:14
Speaker 3: the Democrat Party has failed them, and the people they
27:18
Speaker 3: put on that school board have failed them as well.
27:22
Speaker 5: They have failed them miserably, and matter of fact, the
27:25
Speaker 5: clown cartel that is in charge of the Metishovychanic schools system.
27:31
Speaker 5: If they had led the Israelites out of Egypt instead
27:35
Speaker 5: of Moses, they would have ended up in a cornfield
27:38
Speaker 5: in Indiana somewhere.
27:40
Speaker 3: Wow. That's it's it's insane to think about, Senator. But again,
27:46
Speaker 3: this is where we are, and you know it's not right,
27:49
Speaker 3: and we've got we've got to make sure these kids
27:51
Speaker 3: are learning and that the money is going where it's
27:54
Speaker 3: supposed to be going. Now, I understand you. It's only
27:57
Speaker 3: what twenty five percent of the audit is has has
28:00
Speaker 3: been completed. So the level of how much I mean
28:03
Speaker 3: dollar have you guys been able to put a dollar
28:05
Speaker 3: amount so far just on that twenty five percent.
28:09
Speaker 5: Yes, So they have identified one point one million dollars
28:12
Speaker 5: that the auditors deem is waste and abuse. There's an
28:17
Speaker 5: additional one point seven million dollars that's separate from the
28:22
Speaker 5: one point one that is contracts that they have entered
28:27
Speaker 5: into that were outside board policy. And I mean there
28:31
Speaker 5: are a slew of ninety nine thousand dollars contracts, which
28:34
Speaker 5: you know there's a reason there ninety nine thousand dollars
28:37
Speaker 5: they're trying to escape having to go out to bid,
28:41
Speaker 5: and so they're only twenty five percent of the way through.
28:43
Speaker 5: There is a lot of waste and abuse in this
28:47
Speaker 5: matter of fact. I had dinner last night with our friend,
28:49
Speaker 5: Congressman Tim Burchett of Tennessee, who is now the chairman
28:53
Speaker 5: of the do Doze Commission Committee in Congress, and I
28:57
Speaker 5: plan on sending him a copy of this audit, and
29:00
Speaker 5: it's complete, because the Doose Committee needs to know what
29:04
Speaker 5: federal dollars have been wasted by this group of NF
29:08
Speaker 5: clown cartail to shrun the school system here.
29:10
Speaker 3: Wow, all right, Senator, one final comment here. I know
29:14
Speaker 3: you've been so tough on crime. We had the no
29:17
Speaker 3: Kings protest over the weekend. Now we understand that the
29:21
Speaker 3: Memphis Police Department has placed a number of officers on leave
29:25
Speaker 3: because they simply enforced the law. You had a mob
29:28
Speaker 3: that they were blocking roadways, which is illegal. Forty five
29:33
Speaker 3: minutes the officers told them, you've got to move, and
29:35
Speaker 3: they didn't move, and so finally they moved them for them.
29:38
Speaker 3: And it looks as though City Hall not exactly standing
29:43
Speaker 3: alongside the police officers here.
29:46
Speaker 5: They're not. And I sent a letter to the Memphis
29:49
Speaker 5: mayor yesterday which popped a phone call from him, and
29:54
Speaker 5: he indicated that that they are on paid leave and
29:59
Speaker 5: that they will do the investigation. But I, you know,
30:02
Speaker 5: shared with the mayor. I said, look, everything that's going
30:05
Speaker 5: on with crime, we finally have things turned around and
30:08
Speaker 5: hitded it in the right direction. And the police and
30:11
Speaker 5: law enforcement have done that, and we have to stand
30:14
Speaker 5: behind our law enforcement. And you cannot allow this group
30:19
Speaker 5: of weathered, purple haired hippies waiving their signs no kings
30:25
Speaker 5: and blocking roadways and preventing people from getting down the road.
30:29
Speaker 5: Look that everyone has the First Amendment right to protest
30:34
Speaker 5: and freedom of expression, but it does not give you
30:37
Speaker 5: the right to break the law in doing that. And
30:40
Speaker 5: so that's the police acted appropriately and they need to
30:45
Speaker 5: be put back on the street. And more important, we
30:47
Speaker 5: have to stand behind our law enforcement because we have
30:49
Speaker 5: a recruitment problem in Memphis, and that does nothing to
30:53
Speaker 5: help with recruitment. When they think the political leadership won't
30:56
Speaker 5: be behind them when they have to make tough decisions.
30:59
Speaker 3: Well, all right, we're gonna leave it there. Wow, what
31:02
Speaker 3: an amazing day and really a breathtaking day for the city.
31:06
Speaker 3: Of Memphis as we now understand, just we're getting a
31:11
Speaker 3: glimpse of what because again, just twenty five percent when
31:14
Speaker 3: it's all said and done, I mean you could be
31:15
Speaker 3: looking at millions and millions more right, that's.
31:19
Speaker 5: Correct, and you know we've reduced crime. We're now focused
31:22
Speaker 5: on education, and these are the two things we have
31:25
Speaker 5: to do to make Memphis matter. All right?
31:28
Speaker 3: State Senator Brent Taylor from Nashville at the State Capitol. Senator,
31:32
Speaker 3: thank you and folks. Again, it's a great example. Memphis
31:35
Speaker 3: is a great example here. Everybody thought Memphis was a
31:38
Speaker 3: lost cause. Donald Trump sent in the National Guard, created
31:42
Speaker 3: the Memphis Save Task Force. In under six months, crime
31:45
Speaker 3: down forty three percent. And now with the education situation,
31:49
Speaker 3: your tax dollars were being squandered and abused in Memphis,
31:53
Speaker 3: and the Republicans are all over this and they're going
31:56
Speaker 3: to get it fixed. And if Memphis can, if we
31:59
Speaker 3: can turnaround Memphis, this is a blueprint for every other
32:03
Speaker 3: major American city controlled by the Democrats. I mean, it
32:06
Speaker 3: really is that simple, all right. Nine oh one two
32:08
Speaker 3: six zero five nine two six our number, that's nine
32:11
Speaker 3: oh one two six zero five nine two six coming
32:15
Speaker 3: up I've got a few things to say about this
32:16
Speaker 3: Christie Nomes story that broke yesterday. It's a pretty wild folks,
32:21
Speaker 3: just pretty wild. But it should not be surprising to anybody,
32:25
Speaker 3: and I'll explain why coming up next. All right, So, look,
32:36
Speaker 3: I know everybody is feigning surprise here that Christy Holmes's
32:41
Speaker 3: husband was was a cross dresser who you know, preferred
32:48
Speaker 3: big bosomed woman women. I mean, that's that's that was
32:52
Speaker 3: the worst kept secret in Washington, d C. And President
32:56
Speaker 3: I mean, look, the White House knew about it. My
32:58
Speaker 3: biggest concern about all of that is that this posed
33:02
Speaker 3: a significant national security risk. And the reason why is
33:06
Speaker 3: that Christinome could have been blackmailed over this, or anybody
33:09
Speaker 3: else in you know, connected could have been blackmailed. Her
33:13
Speaker 3: husband could have been blackmailed. We're dealing with very high
33:16
Speaker 3: profile positions here, and I know it's funny. I'm getting
33:19
Speaker 3: a lot of blowback from you guys on social media saying, tod,
33:23
Speaker 3: this is nobody's business that there's nothing wrong with There's
33:26
Speaker 3: nothing illegal with you know, wearing big bosomed you know, appendages,
33:33
Speaker 3: there's nothing wrong with men wearing pink hot pants. It's
33:38
Speaker 3: their business and I get it. I understand why people
33:42
Speaker 3: are saying that, but the reality of it, it's kind
33:45
Speaker 3: of weird. Man, It's really kind of weird. And I
33:48
Speaker 3: don't know many people in my circle of friends that
33:52
Speaker 3: you know, run around on social media and on fetish
33:55
Speaker 3: websites displaying big bosoms. Go to the phone line here
34:01
Speaker 3: nine oh one two six zero five nine two six,
34:03
Speaker 3: Mark from the Villages, America's friendliest hometown. Hey, Mark, what's
34:08
Speaker 3: your take on all of that?
34:09
Speaker 9: Hey, cod, You're not going to believe who I'm standing
34:12
Speaker 9: next to you right now. I have all ears Christine
34:16
Speaker 9: Olmes's husband.
34:18
Speaker 3: Wait what, Oh he's at the.
34:23
Speaker 9: I thought great, probably told you because you brought her name.
34:26
Speaker 3: Of She told Oh no, no, no, did not did
34:29
Speaker 3: not know that? Very very clever, very well. Hey, you know, Mark,
34:33
Speaker 3: is interesting. It seems as though the Republican Party at
34:36
Speaker 3: large is just kind of like, what's the big deal.
34:39
Speaker 3: It's their private life, and you know, if the if
34:41
Speaker 3: the guy wants to, you know, dress up like a woman,
34:45
Speaker 3: that's his business.
34:47
Speaker 9: Yeah, but it was a security risk.
34:49
Speaker 5: Click.
34:49
Speaker 9: You said off the subject a second. What are you're
34:52
Speaker 9: not talking much about March madness?
34:56
Speaker 3: No, I'm not And there's a reason for that, and
34:58
Speaker 3: you know the reason why. And you are about to
35:00
Speaker 3: be banned from this program.
35:03
Speaker 9: I told you, I told you to get on the
35:05
Speaker 9: Yukon red wagon, but you just didn't listen. But boy,
35:08
Speaker 9: I'll tell you what.
35:09
Speaker 10: See.
35:10
Speaker 9: I'm close to Yukon because Rebecca Lobo, who's the commentator
35:13
Speaker 9: for ESPN, her mom and daddy. I know them well,
35:17
Speaker 9: and so I've always been in a Yukon stand because
35:19
Speaker 9: of that, and it's just incredible. I think they're on
35:23
Speaker 9: a good mission now. And I'm looking forward to Friday
35:26
Speaker 9: and Saturday because the girls are in the final four
35:28
Speaker 9: and the guys and usually when they get to this point,
35:31
Speaker 9: they usually win. And the last thing I wanted to
35:34
Speaker 9: tell you is that be Easter. I hope you have
35:36
Speaker 9: a blessed East through you and your family and your staff.
35:39
Speaker 3: Well, Mark, that's very kind of you, and likewise, thank you.
35:43
Speaker 3: And yes, of course we've got Good Friday coming up.
35:47
Speaker 3: I feel like I'm a day ahead all week for
35:49
Speaker 3: some reason. But we have good Friday coming up, and
35:51
Speaker 3: of course Easter Sunday and a lot of churches around
35:55
Speaker 3: the nation are going to be filled to overflowing. It
35:58
Speaker 3: is really the most important time of the year for
36:00
Speaker 3: Christians as we remember the sacrifice made and the prophecy fulfilled.
36:06
Speaker 3: So Mark God, bless you, and thank you for calling in,
36:09
Speaker 3: and certainly wish all of you great folks. They're a
36:13
Speaker 3: very very happy Easter. So but yeah, so it's it
36:18
Speaker 3: was really interesting. I was going through a lot of
36:20
Speaker 3: the messages last night, and people are just really upset.
36:23
Speaker 3: They're they're saying that we have no business talking about christ.
36:27
Speaker 3: You know that we have no business talking about their
36:32
Speaker 3: their personal life. But the reality is, when you're the
36:35
Speaker 3: secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, that is a
36:39
Speaker 3: that is a very very important question. Gilbert writes in
36:46
Speaker 3: tod How are you even asking that question? How do
36:49
Speaker 3: you miss it in a background check? Well, I think
36:52
Speaker 3: it's a very clear to me the FBI was not
36:55
Speaker 3: doing what they were supposed to be doing. Derek wighing in, well,
37:00
Speaker 3: he had a nice rank though, huh. Nancy says, as
37:06
Speaker 3: someone else pointed out, there are cross dressers in Congress.
37:09
Speaker 3: So as Hillary Clinton would say, what difference does it make?
37:13
Speaker 10: You know?
37:13
Speaker 3: Here's the problem. Here's the problem. The Republicans have lost
37:17
Speaker 3: their moral center, right, and the Republicans are in grave
37:22
Speaker 3: danger of becoming just like the Democrats. So it's wrong
37:25
Speaker 3: if their people do it, but it's okay if our
37:27
Speaker 3: people do it. That's not if you're going to go after.
37:31
Speaker 3: If you're going to go after the Democrats or something,
37:34
Speaker 3: you got to go after the Republicans are there. Well, yeah,
37:39
Speaker 3: you got the Democrat the dude from Delaware, I guess
37:42
Speaker 3: he would be, but he's a transgender dude, so that
37:45
Speaker 3: takes it up a notch. So anyway, the ball Shanklind Symbias,
37:52
Speaker 3: I can't read this on the air, Shankland, she's a loop.
37:55
Speaker 3: All right, Our two of the big show coming up,
37:58
Speaker 3: Liz Pete, Congressman John Rowe, and your calls. We'll be
38:01
Speaker 3: right back.
38:16
Speaker 1: Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. It's
38:20
Speaker 1: common sense conservative commentary from Todd stars Amaritan.
38:32
Speaker 3: All Right, Hello, everybody, Welcome to the Todd Stearns Radio Show,
38:36
Speaker 3: Hour two and tonight. Any space fans in the crowd
38:42
Speaker 3: very excited about the launch of Artemis two. This is
38:47
Speaker 3: going to be the first time in more than fifty
38:50
Speaker 3: years that humans have traveled beyond low Earth orbit, and
38:56
Speaker 3: they're going to loop around the Moon. They're gonna get
39:01
Speaker 3: to see the far side of the Moon. Maybe we'll
39:03
Speaker 3: finally understand where all the alien ships are located. I'm
39:06
Speaker 3: just kidding. I'm just kidding. Anyway, all of this is
39:10
Speaker 3: happening a later time at the Kennedy Space Center, and
39:14
Speaker 3: we've got four astronauts on board. It's going they're gonna
39:17
Speaker 3: be up there for about ten days. So this is
39:21
Speaker 3: pretty darn exciting and we'll see how all of that
39:24
Speaker 3: plays out. So remember I don't Dylan, this may have
39:28
Speaker 3: been before your time. Any of you old timers out
39:30
Speaker 3: there remember the Stomp Rocket. Any of you guys have
39:35
Speaker 3: the Stomp rocket when you were a kid. So as
39:38
Speaker 3: a way to celebrate Artemis two, the family owned brand
39:43
Speaker 3: called Stomp Rocket. So it's a mom and pop business.
39:46
Speaker 3: They have these kid powered rockets and toys and they're
39:50
Speaker 3: doing a version just for Artemis two, which is pretty awesome.
39:54
Speaker 3: So these are rocket launching toys where you have the
39:58
Speaker 3: rocket and you have this thing and you on it
40:00
Speaker 3: and the harder you stomp, the higher up your rocket goes.
40:04
Speaker 3: So and they've got them at Walmart and some of
40:08
Speaker 3: the other toy stores around time, I think that's pretty cool,
40:13
Speaker 3: not too bad. You know, they've stomped. The stomp rockets
40:17
Speaker 3: have been around for what more than thirty years and
40:21
Speaker 3: they're based in Minden, Nevada. I'm sure some of our
40:24
Speaker 3: Nevada listeners know where Menden is and made by the
40:28
Speaker 3: DNL company, so locally owned, family run company there. So
40:34
Speaker 3: how about that stamp rocket, so you do want you know,
40:36
Speaker 3: it's interesting back in the day, even when I remember
40:39
Speaker 3: when if you go all the way back to when
40:41
Speaker 3: the space shuttles were launched, and that's all anybody could
40:44
Speaker 3: talk about. Everybody had the big NASA logo. It was
40:48
Speaker 3: plastered on everything, your school books, your cars. Everybody was
40:53
Speaker 3: all about you know, space and astronauts. And now it
40:56
Speaker 3: just I guess after a while it became ho hum.
41:00
Speaker 3: And even now I'm not seeing a lot of excitement
41:02
Speaker 3: or energy about the launch today. But I'm I'm really
41:05
Speaker 3: fascinated by this and it will be our first voyage
41:10
Speaker 3: towards the Moon in over fifty years. That's pretty awesome.
41:16
Speaker 3: By the way, the rocket ship is as tall as
41:18
Speaker 3: the Statue of Liberty. That is one big rocket. So
41:25
Speaker 3: nine oh one two six to zero five nine two
41:27
Speaker 3: six is our telephone number. That's nine oh one two
41:30
Speaker 3: six zero five nine two six. The Supreme Court hearing
41:33
Speaker 3: arguments today over birthright citizenship. So the controversy comes from
41:40
Speaker 3: the fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution that says that anybody
41:46
Speaker 3: born on American soil is automatically a citizen, regardless of
41:51
Speaker 3: their parents' immigration status. Now there are a few exceptions
41:58
Speaker 3: to that, for example, children of foreign born diplomats. So
42:02
Speaker 3: President Trump is his argument is that the policy creates
42:07
Speaker 3: incentives for illegal immigration and what they call birth tourism,
42:13
Speaker 3: and that children of illegal aliens should not automatically receive
42:17
Speaker 3: US citizenship. And I'm curious to hear your thoughts on that.
42:21
Speaker 3: So the Supreme Court talking about it today. Here is
42:24
Speaker 3: Justice sam Alito, one of the good guys, and he
42:28
Speaker 3: says that just because illegal aliens were not a problem
42:31
Speaker 3: at the time of the fourteenth Amendment does not mean
42:34
Speaker 3: that this should not be addressed today.
42:36
Speaker 11: Take a listenations that they had in mind when they
42:40
Speaker 11: adopted the general rule, or do we say they adopted
42:45
Speaker 11: a general rule, They meant for that to apply to
42:49
Speaker 11: later applications that might come up. Justice Scalia had an
42:53
Speaker 11: example that dealt with this situation. He imagined an old
42:58
Speaker 11: theft statute that was it acted well before anybody conceived
43:03
Speaker 11: of a microwave oven. And then afterwards someone is charged
43:07
Speaker 11: with the crime of stealing a microwave oven, and this
43:10
Speaker 11: fellow says, well, I can't be convicted under this because
43:13
Speaker 11: the microwave oven didn't exist at that time, and he
43:17
Speaker 11: dismissed that. There's a general rule there, and you'll apply
43:20
Speaker 11: it to future applications. And what we're dealing with here
43:24
Speaker 11: is something that was basically unknown at the time when
43:27
Speaker 11: the fourteenth Amendment was adopted, which is illegal immigration. So
43:31
Speaker 11: how did we deal with that situation when we have
43:33
Speaker 11: a general rule?
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Speaker 12: Yeah, I strongly agree with the way that you framed it.
43:36
Speaker 12: That there is a general principle, that's a broad principle
43:39
Speaker 12: that's adopted the phrase under the jurisdiction thereof. And we
43:41
Speaker 12: submit that our theory of allegiance and domicile based allegiance
43:45
Speaker 12: what explains those specific exceptions that everybody was aware of,
43:48
Speaker 12: but it is broad enough to sweep in future situations.
43:51
Speaker 12: And as you point out, illegal immigration did not exist then.
43:53
Speaker 12: Now the problem of temporary visitors did exist, and it's
43:56
Speaker 12: very interesting that as you look at pages twenty six
43:58
Speaker 12: and twenty eight of our commentators going from you know.
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Speaker 2: Eighteen eighty one until nineteen twenty.
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Speaker 12: Two are uniformly saying that children of temporary visitors are
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Speaker 12: not included. Now that logic, we say, it's a naturally
44:10
Speaker 12: extens it's really an off force uri case.
44:12
Speaker 2: If you are someone who enters illegally.
44:14
Speaker 12: By the eighteen eighties, there are restrictions on immigration if
44:17
Speaker 12: you've entered illegally. It's kind of, you know, a well
44:20
Speaker 12: established principle of law, going back to the Code of
44:22
Speaker 12: Justinian that says you're not allowed to be there, you cannot.
44:25
Speaker 10: You don't have the legal capacity to create domicile.
44:27
Speaker 3: Then all right there, Solicitor General is that sounds like
44:31
Speaker 3: he's got a little chess cold. So anyway, this is
44:35
Speaker 3: this is going to ultimately be the designed by the
44:38
Speaker 3: Supreme Court. And the issue is whether or not the
44:40
Speaker 3: president could end outright end birthright citizenship or limit birthright
44:46
Speaker 3: citizenship via the executive order. And again the president and
44:52
Speaker 3: the point of this is the President says illegal aliens
44:55
Speaker 3: are abusing this, they're coming to America to have their baby.
45:00
Speaker 3: He's on American soil. They have absolutely no allegiance to America.
45:04
Speaker 3: They just want all of our welfare. So I'm curious
45:07
Speaker 3: to hear your thoughts on this. Do you believe that
45:11
Speaker 3: we should have limitations on birthright citizenship? Nine oh one
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Speaker 3: two six zero five nine two six is our number.
45:18
Speaker 3: That's nine oh one two six zero five nine two six.
45:23
Speaker 3: I want to go back to Alex Jones for just
45:26
Speaker 3: a moment, and Alex Jones has now turned on the
45:28
Speaker 3: president and he is Alex Jones is saying that he's
45:33
Speaker 3: talking to people inside the administration that Trump is gone,
45:38
Speaker 3: He's really having some health problems. He said that Pete
45:42
Speaker 3: Hegseth and Caroline Leavitt are freaked out, but they're being loyal.
45:47
Speaker 3: I don't know where he's getting any of this intel,
45:50
Speaker 3: but he said that that Trump is aging quickly and
45:54
Speaker 3: is no longer up for the job. And he says
45:58
Speaker 3: that the Trump we all knew and loved is well
46:03
Speaker 3: no longer there do we have. Let's take a listen
46:08
Speaker 3: to that audio.
46:09
Speaker 10: When your ankles swell up three times the size and
46:11
Speaker 10: they were before, that means heart failure. And he does
46:14
Speaker 10: look sick, and he does babble and you don't sound
46:21
Speaker 10: like the brain's not doing too hot. And so we
46:26
Speaker 10: just cut bait on Trump, and we just mobilize against
46:29
Speaker 10: the Democrats, and we mobilize against neocons. We primary them,
46:33
Speaker 10: and we just fight even harder because look at how
46:36
Speaker 10: we've turned the tide. Look at all the good we've done.
46:39
Speaker 10: There's a fourth turning. Populist nationalist conservatives are winning everywhere,
46:43
Speaker 10: there's a Christian reawakening. And Trump is just a minor
46:46
Speaker 10: figure in all of that now. And we have to
46:48
Speaker 10: be appreciative of the old Trump that went through so
46:51
Speaker 10: much and got so much done. And that's what Trump
46:54
Speaker 10: we remember, and we're just sad because that happens. We
46:58
Speaker 10: need to be sad about Trump. This is not fun,
47:01
Speaker 10: this is not good. But he's gone and that's it.
47:08
Speaker 10: And all the people rallied around him. You can see
47:10
Speaker 10: hegsas freaked out. You see the Presidenttory's freaked out. They're
47:13
Speaker 10: being loyal. They think it's a lesser of two evils.
47:17
Speaker 10: And I okay, but I just Trump needs an intervention.
47:21
Speaker 10: He's to take some time off. We need to pray
47:24
Speaker 10: for Trump, the Holy Spirit, touch his heart and loose
47:27
Speaker 10: him for whatever evil control he's under. I'm serious, and
47:29
Speaker 10: I think that's the answer. We need to pray for
47:31
Speaker 10: President Trump. We need to we need to pray for
47:40
Speaker 10: other people to be awakened. We need to pray for
47:42
Speaker 10: justice and peace.
47:43
Speaker 3: All right. So I'm just curious, do you believe, as
47:47
Speaker 3: Alex Jones just said, that President Trump is what possessed
47:50
Speaker 3: perhaps by some sort of an evil spirit. Do you
47:54
Speaker 3: believe that President Trump is not doing well, that his
47:57
Speaker 3: health has taken a turn. I'm I'm just not seeing that, yeah,
48:02
Speaker 3: and the conversations I've had with him. As a matter
48:04
Speaker 3: of fact, I was with the President a couple of
48:06
Speaker 3: weeks ago when he was in Memphis and got to
48:08
Speaker 3: spend a very very brief time. But he he put
48:13
Speaker 3: out that hand and had a good, firm handshake. The
48:16
Speaker 3: President was in good spirits and he was cognizant to
48:20
Speaker 3: He seemed to be just fine. To me. I'm not
48:23
Speaker 3: seeing the kind of person that Alex Jones is describing here.
48:26
Speaker 3: So are you are you seeing what Alex Jones is seeing?
48:30
Speaker 3: And if not, what do you think Jones is up
48:32
Speaker 3: to here? Why do you think that he is making
48:34
Speaker 3: this turn against the President and it's I mean, you can't.
48:38
Speaker 3: The guy did not mince any words by what he
48:41
Speaker 3: just said. There nine oh one two six zero five
48:43
Speaker 3: nine two six. That's nine oh one two six zero
48:47
Speaker 3: five to nine two six. I mean the president's taking
48:51
Speaker 3: questions he you know, he doesn't. He doesn't ask for
48:55
Speaker 3: the questions in advance from the press corps whenever they're around. Yesterday,
49:00
Speaker 3: the President signing executive orders, and he was doing Q
49:03
Speaker 3: and A off the cuff with reporters. He was giving
49:06
Speaker 3: and taking, and I mean he seemed pretty cognizant to me.
49:11
Speaker 3: But it does appear that the populist wing of the
49:15
Speaker 3: Republican Party is trying to make a break now, and
49:18
Speaker 3: maybe they're trying to set themselves up for twenty twenty
49:21
Speaker 3: eight and putting out a candidate, whether that be JD.
49:25
Speaker 3: Vans or whoever. I think the Republican nominee in twenty
49:29
Speaker 3: twenty eight is going to be Marco Rubio. But we'll
49:32
Speaker 3: talk about that another day. Let's go to Charles in
49:34
Speaker 3: North Carolina. Charles, what's on your mind today? Hey?
49:39
Speaker 13: After day Ton so Ton, I listened to the entire
49:43
Speaker 13: two hours of the of what was going on with
49:45
Speaker 13: the Supreme Court today and I heard both sides, and
49:50
Speaker 13: I'm not a lawyer, but to me, Tyd, it just
49:52
Speaker 13: seemed like they were really overthinking this. To me, it's
49:57
Speaker 13: a very simple issue. You break it making this country illegally,
50:03
Speaker 13: you're subject to the jurisdiction of the country from which
50:06
Speaker 13: she came, as are your children. And also the fourteenth Amendment,
50:12
Speaker 13: in my opinion, was very specific. It was ratified right
50:16
Speaker 13: after the Civil War, and it dealt with slaves and
50:21
Speaker 13: children of slaves to make them citizens because of the
50:25
Speaker 13: dread Scott decision going back to the eighteen fifties, and
50:29
Speaker 13: also the three fist falls of the Constitution. But I
50:35
Speaker 13: just to me, it just sounded like they were losing
50:38
Speaker 13: sight of that. And I didn't know if he had
50:40
Speaker 13: a chance to listen to it. But did she get
50:42
Speaker 13: a sense of where you think that justices are on this?
50:47
Speaker 3: Well, I know where the rock solid conservatives are. I
50:51
Speaker 3: got the impression from Amy Cony Barrett that she may
50:56
Speaker 3: be waffling on this, so I didn't get good read there.
51:01
Speaker 3: And John Roberts, it was hard to understand what sign
51:05
Speaker 3: he was coming down on. I think the argument could
51:07
Speaker 3: be made that he actually idle know supports the change
51:11
Speaker 3: or cracking down, but I'm not sure what are you
51:13
Speaker 3: getting at.
51:15
Speaker 13: Well, so, you know, they were talking about how back
51:22
Speaker 13: during the eighteen fifties and sixties they never could have
51:25
Speaker 13: foreseen illegal immigration like we have today, which is true.
51:30
Speaker 13: And I would also argue, we don't know what's going
51:34
Speaker 13: to happen fifty or one hundred years from now. I mean,
51:37
Speaker 13: let's say that fifty years from now, we have a
51:39
Speaker 13: spaceship that enters an atmosphere and it lands in Wyoming
51:44
Speaker 13: or someplace, and it's got ten million people on it
51:46
Speaker 13: and they all have children. Are they going to be
51:49
Speaker 13: considered citizens of the United States?
51:51
Speaker 8: Do they act?
51:52
Speaker 13: Do they think that that's what the you know, the
51:54
Speaker 13: little interpretation of the fourteenth Amendment is. I'm going to
51:58
Speaker 13: argue not again, it's very specific to slaves and children
52:03
Speaker 13: of freed slaves. So I hope the Supreme Court rules
52:10
Speaker 13: like that. I'm not sure where this executive order is
52:13
Speaker 13: gonna go where if that has much force, But uh,
52:16
Speaker 13: there's just no way we can let these these babies
52:19
Speaker 13: be considered citizens of the United States. So because it's
52:22
Speaker 13: just gonna, in my opinion, is just gonna destroy the country.
52:25
Speaker 3: I mean, what do you think, well, it will lead
52:27
Speaker 3: to I mean, and we've already seen this happen. I
52:29
Speaker 3: think it would lead to even more millions of people
52:32
Speaker 3: crossing the border, illegals coming into this country so they
52:35
Speaker 3: can have a baby on American soil and immediately get
52:39
Speaker 3: all the resources of the American taxpayers. Because that's what
52:43
Speaker 3: has been happening, you know, for years.
52:48
Speaker 13: Yeah, and that was not the that's not the original
52:51
Speaker 13: intent of the fourteenth Amendment. I think. I think it's
52:54
Speaker 13: the people that offered that. If they could come back
52:56
Speaker 13: to date and hear the arguments and see what's going
52:59
Speaker 13: on in this, they would say, absolutely not. This is
53:03
Speaker 13: not what we meant when we penned the fourteenth Amendment.
53:06
Speaker 13: It was to deal with the aftermath of the Civil
53:09
Speaker 13: War and to make citizens of slaves who, through no
53:14
Speaker 13: fall to their own came here and they and their
53:17
Speaker 13: children are subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
53:21
Speaker 13: They have allegiance to the United States. These illegal aliens
53:25
Speaker 13: have no allegiance to the United States.
53:27
Speaker 3: And just to put this in perspective of Charles, We're
53:29
Speaker 3: going to have to run here for a break. But
53:30
Speaker 3: just to put this in perspective. According to the last
53:33
Speaker 3: census data we have, which is from twenty twenty three,
53:36
Speaker 3: there are right now twenty two point eight million foreign
53:39
Speaker 3: born non US citizens living in the country. So let
53:44
Speaker 3: that sink in. That's a lot of folks. Got to
53:46
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Speaker 3: one two six zero five nine two six Andre and Memphis,
55:20
Speaker 3: Tennessee listening to us on k Raam. Hi, Andre, what's
55:24
Speaker 3: on your mind?
55:25
Speaker 8: Hey Todd, how are you today?
55:26
Speaker 3: I'm good? Thanks for asking.
55:29
Speaker 8: Look, coming from a man that I don't class by
55:32
Speaker 8: myself as black, I cast by myself by the content
55:35
Speaker 8: of my character, but I am classified as black. It
55:38
Speaker 8: is frustrating to me that black people are not outraged
55:42
Speaker 8: about these people trying to make illegal citizens citizens when
55:45
Speaker 8: black dad to go to getting enslaved and in order
55:49
Speaker 8: they didn't get the right the voter citizenship, to go
55:52
Speaker 8: through Jim Crow to get the right the voter citizenship.
55:54
Speaker 8: And now you're basically saying that all you've got to
55:57
Speaker 8: do now is just break into the country and we're
55:59
Speaker 8: gonna reward you with citizenship. Anytime you start rewarding in
56:03
Speaker 8: legal behavior, you encourage in legal behavior. And it is
56:06
Speaker 8: frustrating to me that how black people have been hypnotized
56:09
Speaker 8: by this Democratic Party to it. No matter what platform
56:13
Speaker 8: they put out there, you go along with it because
56:15
Speaker 8: they've convinced you from that. I grew up in the city,
56:18
Speaker 8: So we will.
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Speaker 14: Andre.
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Speaker 3: Here's what I want to do. We've got to take
56:21
Speaker 3: a quick break, but I want you to be able
56:22
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56:25
Speaker 3: on till after the break? I will, all right, don't
56:28
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57:30
Speaker 3: I won't do it again. We have Andre, who's listening
57:35
Speaker 3: to us from Memphis, Tennessee. And Andre, you're you're pretty
57:38
Speaker 3: upset about this whole birthright citizenship. Before we finish our
57:42
Speaker 3: conversation here, I want to share some numbers. Andre, Do
57:45
Speaker 3: you realize the number of unauthorized immigrants in the United States?
57:49
Speaker 3: Go back to nineteen ninety that number was three point
57:52
Speaker 3: five million. In twenty twenty three, that number was fourteen million.
57:59
Speaker 3: And when you look at the we call them anchor babies.
58:02
Speaker 3: These are the babies of the illegals. All right, just
58:05
Speaker 3: in one year alone, the numbers were working with are
58:08
Speaker 3: from twenty twenty three so they're a little bit old,
58:10
Speaker 3: but it gives you an idea of what we're dealing
58:12
Speaker 3: with here. We're talking about nine percent of all the
58:15
Speaker 3: berths in America andre are coming from anchor babies, and
58:19
Speaker 3: every single one of those anchor babies is eligible for welfare,
58:22
Speaker 3: food stamps, whatever resources they need, the American taxpayers have
58:27
Speaker 3: to provide for them.
58:30
Speaker 8: That's what's frustrating me. You know, Todd, I grew up
58:34
Speaker 8: in the sixties, so I was a part of what
58:36
Speaker 8: they're those real peaceful protests. Well, when you got through
58:39
Speaker 8: protests and you didn't see buildings on fire, you didn't
58:42
Speaker 8: see police officers being attacked, you didn't see people getting murdered,
58:45
Speaker 8: you didn't see graffiti everywhere. And you're sitting around here
58:48
Speaker 8: in a Democratic Party hypnotized black people to well, whatever
58:52
Speaker 8: jenda we're putting out there, who did you think when
58:54
Speaker 8: they give away all that wefare and all that what
58:57
Speaker 8: group you think is going to fect the most other
59:00
Speaker 8: than black people? And it's so sad because they so
59:04
Speaker 8: busy caught up on the color the skin. When we
59:06
Speaker 8: gonna get to the counting of my character part, when
59:09
Speaker 8: we're gonna get back to love in America. We've got
59:11
Speaker 8: a school system. Does it doctrinate these children if they
59:14
Speaker 8: hate in America? When I got news for y'all. Once
59:16
Speaker 8: they get rid of us America, they don't have another
59:19
Speaker 8: one out there. And I don't know no place in
59:21
Speaker 8: them in the world that's looking to recruit Black Americans
59:23
Speaker 8: because they don't want your mentality.
59:25
Speaker 3: Well, I would push back justice a bit on that, Andre,
59:30
Speaker 3: because I think white people. Actually there are more white
59:33
Speaker 3: people just by the sheer numbers of white people in
59:35
Speaker 3: America on welfare than there are blacks or Hispanics. But
59:40
Speaker 3: to your point, every dollar that is going to an
59:43
Speaker 3: illegal is one less dollar going to a law abiding
59:46
Speaker 3: American citizen, no matter the color of their skin.
59:49
Speaker 8: Well you can see it in Chicago, Oh yeah, libraries
59:52
Speaker 8: and Commuter Center project that they had to put off
59:55
Speaker 8: because they had to provide resources, but the illegal immigrants
59:58
Speaker 8: coming in and it's so sad and for somebody who's
1:00:03
Speaker 8: classified as a black people. I want people in America
1:00:05
Speaker 8: to know all black people don't think like the majority
1:00:08
Speaker 8: of them. There some of us out here that are
1:00:10
Speaker 8: waking up and they're realizing that the Democratic Party has
1:00:13
Speaker 8: never been a friend of black people. Is not a
1:00:15
Speaker 8: friend of black people and will never be a friend
1:00:17
Speaker 8: of black people.
1:00:19
Speaker 3: What is what is it going to take to change voter?
1:00:22
Speaker 3: Because you know how it is in Memphis. I mean,
1:00:24
Speaker 3: everybody sees the problems, and yet people still vote for
1:00:28
Speaker 3: the same folks, the same political party. How do we
1:00:31
Speaker 3: how do we break that cycle?
1:00:34
Speaker 8: Well, the first thing, Republicans do a poor job of marketing.
1:00:39
Speaker 8: They need to start pointing out the Black America. These
1:00:42
Speaker 8: areas were I'll tell you example, this woman Jail Paul
1:00:45
Speaker 8: that went up there yesterday and she's talking about she
1:00:47
Speaker 8: wants to get reparation for legal everygrich and every time
1:00:52
Speaker 8: Barack Obama had a supermajority in the Congress and the
1:00:56
Speaker 8: Senate and the President said, they never brought up the
1:00:58
Speaker 8: conversation of reparation for black somebody's got exposed to black
1:01:02
Speaker 8: people that Democrats got you hat carried in front of
1:01:05
Speaker 8: a muse head to fool him and his Republicity do
1:01:08
Speaker 8: a better job of marketing to the black community.
1:01:13
Speaker 3: I do not disagree with that. I'll give you an
1:01:14
Speaker 3: example of that here in the Memphis area. You guys
1:01:17
Speaker 3: were about to elect a county mayor and you have
1:01:21
Speaker 3: a gentleman by the name of John G. Berry. He
1:01:23
Speaker 3: was a longtime Democrat, kicked out of his party on
1:01:25
Speaker 3: among other things, because of his position on pro life,
1:01:28
Speaker 3: and now he is the Republican nominee. They announced his
1:01:33
Speaker 3: campaign from a high end car dealership and I got
1:01:36
Speaker 3: no problem with that. But imagine what kind of a
1:01:38
Speaker 3: statement they could have made had they made that announcement
1:01:41
Speaker 3: in Robert Church Park, a park that was that was
1:01:45
Speaker 3: named after the black man who founded the Republican Party
1:01:49
Speaker 3: in Shelby County because Democrats were preventing blacks from from
1:01:53
Speaker 3: getting the vote. I mean, what kind of a statement
1:01:56
Speaker 3: would that? Again, going back to the marketing of it,
1:01:59
Speaker 3: because I guarank to you, most black children in Memphis
1:02:02
Speaker 3: don't realize that the first millionaires, the people who owned
1:02:06
Speaker 3: the first baseball team in Memphis, all happened to be
1:02:09
Speaker 3: black people who were also Republican.
1:02:13
Speaker 8: And don't leave out Robert Church was born a slave
1:02:16
Speaker 8: but died Apeakonaire. And it's funny you brought up John T.
1:02:19
Speaker 8: Beer because John was on my show. And when John
1:02:21
Speaker 8: came up and said that that he was on an
1:02:23
Speaker 8: abortion and field that they were pushing into Tennessee, legislature.
1:02:26
Speaker 8: I told John Did, I said, you can get ready
1:02:28
Speaker 8: to find yourself another party, because they're coming after you.
1:02:31
Speaker 3: And they did, they sure did. They kicked him right,
1:02:34
Speaker 3: I gave him right out the door. My goodness, pastor Andre.
1:02:39
Speaker 3: It's always good hearing from you, my friend, and I
1:02:41
Speaker 3: appreciate you.
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Speaker 15: Now.
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Speaker 3: Look, you're spot on, and it all goes back to
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Speaker 3: putting the needs of the American people first. And if
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Speaker 3: we can just get rid of all of this fraud
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Speaker 3: and all of this waste and abuse in our country,
1:02:53
Speaker 3: like I think it was Stephen Miller said, we're going
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Speaker 3: to be able to balance our budget without having to
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Speaker 3: make any cuts. So there you go, Andre, thank you
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Speaker 3: for that call. Great to hear from you. By the way,
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Speaker 3: I just want you to hear me on this and
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Speaker 3: all these numbers I'm sharing with you, they're low ball
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Speaker 3: and probably are double, probably double. But right now, there
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Speaker 3: are about five point three million children in American public
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Speaker 3: schools almost well, and again that number is about eleven
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Speaker 3: percent of the total enrollment of kids in US schools.
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Speaker 3: All right, they don't speak a look of English. You say, well, well,
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Speaker 3: what does that mean. Well, it means that a lot
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Speaker 3: of public schools are having to hire EESL teachers, so
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Speaker 3: they're having to hire teachers to teach these kids how
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Speaker 3: to speak English. And as a result of that, that
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Speaker 3: means that if the budgets are tight in these school districts,
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Speaker 3: and so if let's just say, you know, you've got
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Speaker 3: a couple of one hundred kids in your local elementary
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Speaker 3: school and they don't speak English, that tells me they're
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Speaker 3: going to have to They'll have to sacrifice somewhere else.
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Speaker 3: That made me no reading teacher, no math teacher, no
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Speaker 3: pe teacher, because they've got to use those resources to
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Speaker 3: hire teachers to teach these kids how to speak English.
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Speaker 3: That's what we're dealing with here. So it's not just
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Speaker 3: a matter of you're born here that makes you an
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Speaker 3: American citizen. That's not what this is about. This is
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Speaker 3: about people coming here to this country illegally having a
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Speaker 3: baby so they can take advantage of the of the
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Speaker 3: welfare of the great taxpayers of America. That's what is
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Speaker 3: really going on here. Nine oh one two six zero
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Speaker 3: oh one two six zero five nine two six. Last night,
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Speaker 3: had a great conversation on Newsmax with our good buddy
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Speaker 3: Ben Ferguson. You see him on CNN a lot, but
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Speaker 3: he also comes on My Newsmax show, and Ben is
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Speaker 3: really fired up over a couple of things. First of all,
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Speaker 3: what's happening with the with Jaden Ivy and boy has
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Speaker 3: that story just exploded. There's a lot of controversy over
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Speaker 3: the NBA. People are now calling for us to boycott
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Speaker 3: the Chicago Bulls and the NBA in general. A lot
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Speaker 3: of sportscasters are now saying that this guy is mentally
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Speaker 3: off his rocker. So fergus and joined us to talk
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Speaker 3: about that. Also had some things to say about John
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Speaker 3: Thune as well. Let's take a listen your take on
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Speaker 3: what we've seen take place over the past twenty four hours.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 16: I thought the LGBTQ plus II plus plus AA community
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Speaker 16: was supposed to be all about tolerance, right, Well, there's
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Speaker 16: no tolerance here for someone that disagrees with what you're demanding.
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Speaker 16: And what the NBA has done is they basically now
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Speaker 16: sanctioned political speech. And you must agree with what the
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Speaker 16: NBA says you have to believe in.
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Speaker 2: You know, I challenge.
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Speaker 16: Every single Christian, every single person that believes differently than
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Speaker 16: someone else in Chicago. Don't go to the game, don't
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Speaker 16: sell your ticket. By the way, have an empty stadium.
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Speaker 16: I assume there's a lot of people that identify as
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Speaker 16: being people of faith that go to Chicago Bulls teams.
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Speaker 16: There's a lot of churches in Chicago. And if you
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Speaker 16: are watching this right now, they will do this to you.
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Speaker 16: This is how you silence people. This is what happens
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Speaker 16: in other countries around the world. This individual did not
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Speaker 16: attack anyone. What he said was he was being persecuted
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Speaker 16: for his beliefs during a mandate by the NBA when
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Speaker 16: it comes to Pride Month and everything else that goes
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Speaker 16: along with it. I also hope, by the way, there's
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Speaker 16: a lawsuit here. I hope he gets amazing lawyers, and
1:06:34
Speaker 16: I hope there's a real lawsuit here so that he
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Speaker 16: can sit up for what he believes in. And clearly
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Speaker 16: they fired him for his religious beliefs. This attack on Christians,
1:06:43
Speaker 16: this attack on anybody that has faith in God in general.
1:06:48
Speaker 16: And so I go back to the NBA, and let's
1:06:52
Speaker 16: be clear, this is the same NBA that put Black
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Speaker 16: Lives Matter all over their stadiums and on their courts,
1:06:58
Speaker 16: and they talk about tolerant and they say, look, if
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Speaker 16: we tell you you can believe in it, will allow
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Speaker 16: you to believe in it. But if you do something
1:07:05
Speaker 16: we don't like, we will fire you. That's not religious
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Speaker 16: freedom in America. And I hope he sues, and I
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Speaker 16: hope he gets a lot of money.
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Speaker 3: Here's yeah, And the great irony here is you've got
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Speaker 3: players out there doing all sorts of terrible things. They've
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Speaker 3: attacked women, they've broken the law, and if those guys
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Speaker 3: are giving a second chance, they keep those guys around,
1:07:24
Speaker 3: but they're going to give the Christian guy the heave ho.
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Speaker 2: Ben. Yeah, Look, I have no problem with second chances.
1:07:30
Speaker 16: I want to be clear about that that you shouldn't
1:07:31
Speaker 16: be able to buy your way back on a team
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Speaker 16: after you have used women. And we have multiple cases
1:07:35
Speaker 16: that happening of wife beaters and girlfriend beaters who were
1:07:40
Speaker 16: given a pathway right back to play because.
1:07:42
Speaker 2: They were good.
1:07:43
Speaker 16: The difference here is this, Todd, he didn't do anything wrong.
1:07:48
Speaker 2: He didn't beat up a woman in an elevator.
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Speaker 16: He didn't beat up a girlfriend in a hotel room
1:07:53
Speaker 16: or a wife in a hotel room. He didn't beat
1:07:55
Speaker 16: up a kid, he didn't take drugs, he didn't have
1:07:58
Speaker 16: a gun on him. For example, We've seen Jay Moran
1:08:01
Speaker 16: in Memphis, Tennessee, for example, I had a lot of
1:08:03
Speaker 16: problems with guns in his hands, and they found a
1:08:06
Speaker 16: pathway for him to come back. This individual did nothing
1:08:09
Speaker 16: wrong but to say, this is what I believe because
1:08:13
Speaker 16: of my faith. And now he's been fired because he
1:08:17
Speaker 16: believes in God more than he believes in the NBA
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Speaker 16: and their propaganda. The NBA is a liberal organization. Look
1:08:23
Speaker 16: at their courts, look at what's on their uniforms, look
1:08:26
Speaker 16: at their hypocrisy. When had they have no problem being
1:08:28
Speaker 16: in business with China. Look at the shoes that are
1:08:31
Speaker 16: played by many of the NBA players that are done
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Speaker 16: in sweatshops of children in China and the slave labor
1:08:36
Speaker 16: that goes on there. So don't lecture me, NBA about
1:08:40
Speaker 16: human rights when you guys are in business with China
1:08:43
Speaker 16: and they're enslaving children who are making almost all of
1:08:46
Speaker 16: your sneakers.
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Speaker 2: Like, spare me the fake outrage here.
1:08:49
Speaker 16: What this really is is a persecution by the NBA
1:08:52
Speaker 16: of Christians. And they were telling every Christian in every
1:08:56
Speaker 16: team in that league, you better shut up and sit
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Speaker 16: down during Pride Month and any other propaganda politically we
1:09:01
Speaker 16: want to put.
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Speaker 2: On your uniform or on the court you play on.
1:09:04
Speaker 16: You better stand proud and loud when it happens, or
1:09:07
Speaker 16: we'll get rid of you as well.
1:09:09
Speaker 3: Ben, I want to move on real quick. Get your
1:09:11
Speaker 3: take on what we're watching take place up in Capitol
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Speaker 3: kill right now in Congress. You've got to send it
1:09:17
Speaker 3: out on what spring break to me, facation, Lindsey Graham,
1:09:19
Speaker 3: town at Disney World, to and lord knows what. And
1:09:22
Speaker 3: the American people been. They're sick and tired of this nonsense.
1:09:26
Speaker 3: And I'm telling you, if we don't get it together,
1:09:29
Speaker 3: we can have some big problems come to midterms. Yeah,
1:09:32
Speaker 3: I agree with you.
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Speaker 16: And look, I think what you've witnessed now is the
1:09:35
Speaker 16: president saying is time for them to get back to work.
1:09:37
Speaker 16: I want to be clear, I do not think the
1:09:39
Speaker 16: sin is going to come back early. John Thing doesn't
1:09:41
Speaker 16: give a crap as long as he has power, even
1:09:43
Speaker 16: if he's a minority and he's still in charge, He's
1:09:45
Speaker 16: happy with that.
1:09:46
Speaker 2: Right.
1:09:46
Speaker 16: Lindsey Graham is the same way. He's a guy that's like, hey,
1:09:49
Speaker 16: I've had a good year. I've gotten this into a
1:09:50
Speaker 16: couple of wars. I'm advocating for some more. I'm going
1:09:53
Speaker 16: to go down to Disneyland and walk around with some
1:09:55
Speaker 16: sort of kid's toy Like that's a whole other level
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Speaker 16: of leird.
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Speaker 2: We can deal with that another day.
1:10:00
Speaker 16: But what I do think the American people need to
1:10:02
Speaker 16: do here is they need to be calling their sinners
1:10:04
Speaker 16: and saying, do your damn job, get back to work
1:10:07
Speaker 16: and pay the people that protect and defend this country.
1:10:10
Speaker 16: Pay the TSA agents, do not hold them hostage. And also,
1:10:14
Speaker 16: just I think to Thune, like I'm sorry, grow a
1:10:16
Speaker 16: pair to be blunt and do your job like the
1:10:19
Speaker 16: American people gave you the majority, act like it you
1:10:22
Speaker 16: need to have. If you need to have a talking
1:10:24
Speaker 16: filibuster to get them paid, then do it, because I
1:10:27
Speaker 16: promise you Democrats would do it.
1:10:29
Speaker 2: And John Thune is a wuss.
1:10:31
Speaker 16: He's a useful idiot for the left, and he's useless
1:10:33
Speaker 16: for the Republican Party and conservatives right now, including Donald Trump.
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Speaker 1: Live from the Liberty University Studio in Memphis, Tennessee. It's
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Speaker 3: Well, Hello, everybody, welcome, Welcome to our three of the
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Speaker 3: When it comes to Iran, We're going to get the
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Speaker 3: and we'll be sharing more information about that as well,
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Speaker 3: but right now, more pressing matters. It's always fun when
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Speaker 3: we have a guest in studio, and we do have
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Speaker 3: a guest, a great American patriot. He is a longtime
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Speaker 3: congressman and wants to be the next governor of the
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Speaker 3: state of Tennessee. We're talking about Congressman John Rose. Good
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Speaker 3: to see you here in Memphis today.
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Speaker 18: Thank you, Todd. It's a great honor and privileged to
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Speaker 18: be on the show today.
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Speaker 3: You know, I'm just curious here, and this is not
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Speaker 3: a gotcha question. Did you have to stand in a
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Speaker 3: line at the airport to get here or did you
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Speaker 3: get the special security escort?
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Speaker 18: Well, I've always stood in the line. Sometimes there isn't one,
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Speaker 18: and that's a great thing, but very often there is.
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Speaker 18: So Remarkably flying out of Memphis, flying out of Nashville
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Speaker 18: and into Nashville and Memphis from DC, there haven't been
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Speaker 18: particularly long lines, even in the heart of the shutdown,
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Speaker 18: and so been thankful for that.
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Speaker 3: Because you know, I don't know if you heard the
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Speaker 3: news TMZ, they're kind of like the gotcha you know
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Speaker 3: magazine of Hollywood they're launching a political division. So I
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Speaker 3: guess they're setting up shop in our nation's capital now
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Speaker 3: and they're already like naming and cataloging which lawmakers are
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Speaker 3: getting that special walk around the long lines.
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Speaker 18: I've seen the video.
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Speaker 3: You have seen in the video. Yes, all right, okay,
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Speaker 3: we're not I won't go any further than that. But Congressman,
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Speaker 3: there is a lot, there is a lot of turmoil
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Speaker 3: right now. I know you were the very first, the
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Speaker 3: very first lawmaker to say the Senators need to do
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Speaker 3: something about their leadership over in this on the Senate side,
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Speaker 3: and now a lot of other lawmakers are saying the
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Speaker 3: same thing.
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Speaker 18: Absolutely, I think there's no question about it. And the
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Speaker 18: more that I think this rests from their really inexplicable
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Speaker 18: action last the week hours of Thursday night Friday morning
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Speaker 18: last week, I think becomes clearer and clearer that Leader
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Speaker 18: Thune is not providing the kind of conservative leadership that
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Speaker 18: we need right now as a country, that we need
1:18:25
Speaker 18: from the Republican Party and the senators in the United
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Speaker 18: States Senate.
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Speaker 3: My concern is that this is just really demoralizing the
1:18:33
Speaker 3: base of the party and it's not so much you're
1:18:35
Speaker 3: going to have Republicans vote Democrat. You're just going to
1:18:38
Speaker 3: have a lot of Republicans stay home in November. And
1:18:40
Speaker 3: I'm concerned about that.
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Speaker 18: I am as well, and I think for good reason
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Speaker 18: at some level. I mean, I would argue they shouldn't
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Speaker 18: because this is essentially a binary choice, as we so
1:18:51
Speaker 18: often face in Congress and technically the voters face, and
1:18:55
Speaker 18: so you know, it's not as though if you don't
1:18:56
Speaker 18: vote for Republicans that you're going to get something better.
1:19:00
Speaker 18: You're going to get something far worse. You're going to
1:19:02
Speaker 18: get Democrats. And Democratic control of the House or Senate
1:19:06
Speaker 18: will take us down a very dark road. We know
1:19:09
Speaker 18: if they get control of the House, the very first
1:19:12
Speaker 18: thing they will do is to impeach the president and
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Speaker 18: then start chasing other people in his administration, and that's
1:19:17
Speaker 18: where they'll spend all of their time and energy.
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Speaker 3: I have been impressed with Speaker Johnson. It seems like
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Speaker 3: he has changed, maybe going from a timid leader to
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Speaker 3: one who is really out there speaking truth to the
1:19:30
Speaker 3: powers that be. What's your assessment of how he is
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Speaker 3: leading the Republicans.
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Speaker 18: Well, I think you're right. I think he really sized
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Speaker 18: up the moment last Friday and understood that going along
1:19:42
Speaker 18: with what the Senate had done was a non starter.
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Speaker 18: It was a non starter among those of us who
1:19:48
Speaker 18: are conservative in the Republican Conference, but it was a
1:19:50
Speaker 18: non starter for the Republican Party and the Republican voters
1:19:53
Speaker 18: across the country.
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Speaker 3: What would you recommend people do? How many? Because people
1:19:57
Speaker 3: are frustrating or they want to be able to do
1:19:59
Speaker 3: something and they don't feel like the Senate is listening
1:20:02
Speaker 3: to them. And before you answer that, though, I think
1:20:05
Speaker 3: the broader issue is where are all of the other
1:20:08
Speaker 3: Republican senators calling out their leadership? That's that's my.
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Speaker 18: Concern, absolutely, and I think that's what I was going
1:20:14
Speaker 18: to recommend to the listeners is you need to be
1:20:16
Speaker 18: calling your senator, you know, whoever that is, whatever state
1:20:18
Speaker 18: you're in here in Tennessee, Senator Blackburn, Senator Haggerty, you
1:20:23
Speaker 18: need to let them know that you expect them to
1:20:25
Speaker 18: call their leader, John Thune, to task for what happened.
1:20:29
Speaker 18: And as we know, and we alluded to earlier, they
1:20:32
Speaker 18: left town. Some of them left town even before the
1:20:35
Speaker 18: vote at three am on Friday morning, and so they
1:20:40
Speaker 18: clearly knew what the deal was we didn't know. Speaker
1:20:44
Speaker 18: Johnson didn't know, but clearly the Republican senators in the
1:20:48
Speaker 18: majority knew what was coming, and they left town knowing
1:20:51
Speaker 18: that they didn't need to be there.
1:20:53
Speaker 3: I'm I have already endorsed early early on, and I
1:20:56
Speaker 3: endorsed Marshall Blackburn. I think that's important for people to
1:20:58
Speaker 3: know in the gubernatorial race. But I want to hear
1:21:01
Speaker 3: your reaction when you saw her leaving early and at
1:21:05
Speaker 3: that airport getting the private you know, escort. What was
1:21:09
Speaker 3: going through your mind. I mean, you're not only a candidate,
1:21:11
Speaker 3: but you're a constituent.
1:21:12
Speaker 18: Yeah, So I think it's a pattern. We saw this
1:21:15
Speaker 18: with the payday provision that was put pushed through last
1:21:18
Speaker 18: fall from the Senate to the to the House to
1:21:22
Speaker 18: give her and other members of the Senate a chance
1:21:25
Speaker 18: to reap potentially millions of dollars from taxpayers at taxpayers expense.
1:21:30
Speaker 18: We saw it again, you know, with this example of
1:21:35
Speaker 18: her leaving town bypassing security, leaving her post before the
1:21:40
Speaker 18: job was done. And we saw it in Nashville when
1:21:44
Speaker 18: the ice storm came and she requested to get put
1:21:48
Speaker 18: to the head of the line for having her home
1:21:51
Speaker 18: electricity put back on. And I think that's exactly backwards.
1:21:54
Speaker 18: I think we need leaders who understand that leaders eat last.
1:21:58
Speaker 18: We should put the people that we represent first. And
1:22:02
Speaker 18: and so I think it's just a troubling pattern.
1:22:05
Speaker 5: Now.
1:22:05
Speaker 3: You know, as a business owner, you know there and
1:22:08
Speaker 3: the radio business, you know they're going to be great
1:22:09
Speaker 3: years and not so great years. And and to your point,
1:22:12
Speaker 3: the owner of the station is the last person that
1:22:14
Speaker 3: gets paid. You know, that's that's a part of leadership,
1:22:16
Speaker 3: is putting the needs of others ahead of yours.
1:22:19
Speaker 18: And I know that as a as a business owner
1:22:21
Speaker 18: and a person who's built businesses, you you know, you
1:22:24
Speaker 18: get paid last. Sometimes you get paid the most if
1:22:28
Speaker 18: things go really well, but oftentimes you don't get paid
1:22:30
Speaker 18: at all.
1:22:31
Speaker 3: Exactly, which is why we love President Trump coming on
1:22:33
Speaker 3: the show at boost our ratings. Just getting well, it
1:22:37
Speaker 3: does boost our ratings. We have Congressman Genres from Tennessee
1:22:41
Speaker 3: joining us, weighing in on the chaos in our nation's capital.
1:22:45
Speaker 3: Of course, you know, another part of that is you know,
1:22:47
Speaker 3: getting d HS funded. And again, as much as you
1:22:50
Speaker 3: know we we focus on the Republicans, this is a
1:22:53
Speaker 3: Democrat issue. They're the ones that want that want DHS
1:22:57
Speaker 3: shut down.
1:22:57
Speaker 18: That's right, and we need to remember all the way
1:22:59
Speaker 18: back to last fall. So now three times Leader Schumer,
1:23:04
Speaker 18: Minority Leader Chuck Schumer in the in the Senate has
1:23:07
Speaker 18: led a Democrat instigated shut down this of the of
1:23:12
Speaker 18: the government, this time partial, just affecting the Department of
1:23:15
Speaker 18: Homeland Security. But in each case they were putting illegal
1:23:19
Speaker 18: immigrants above American citizens. Last fall, it was health care
1:23:23
Speaker 18: for free health care for illegal immigrants. Now it is
1:23:26
Speaker 18: stopping Ice and the customers of Border Protection from protecting
1:23:30
Speaker 18: Americans from criminal illegal aliens. They're putting them ahead of
1:23:33
Speaker 18: American citizens and it's shameful and it should stop, and
1:23:37
Speaker 18: we should call it out. And frankly, the Senate should
1:23:40
Speaker 18: have stated Washington, and I believe they might have capitulated
1:23:44
Speaker 18: with all of the news that was bearing down on them.
1:23:47
Speaker 18: I think had had Leader Thune said we're staying here
1:23:51
Speaker 18: until we get the job done. I suspect there might
1:23:53
Speaker 18: have been some Democratic senators who would have said, maybe
1:23:57
Speaker 18: it's time to make a deal.
1:23:59
Speaker 3: I'm curious, Congressman about boots on the ground. There's been
1:24:02
Speaker 3: a lot of talk about that. One of the things
1:24:05
Speaker 3: I've realized about President Trump. He has really never changed
1:24:08
Speaker 3: his position on any of his issues. He knows what
1:24:10
Speaker 3: he believes in, and it's been that way since the
1:24:12
Speaker 3: nineteen eighties when he first said we got to go
1:24:14
Speaker 3: after Iran, and now here we are so many years later. Look,
1:24:19
Speaker 3: I think the President is just sending a message. I
1:24:21
Speaker 3: don't know if he's going to put boots on the
1:24:23
Speaker 3: ground or not, but I think Iran doesn't know that.
1:24:26
Speaker 3: And the enemy has to be very concerned about the
1:24:30
Speaker 3: president because they can't read his mind. But I am
1:24:32
Speaker 3: curious about in your congressional district, what are people telling
1:24:34
Speaker 3: you about boots on the ground.
1:24:36
Speaker 18: Well, I think generally the American people are tired of
1:24:38
Speaker 18: forever wars, and we saw that with many who supported
1:24:42
Speaker 18: the president because I think he correctly identified that concern
1:24:46
Speaker 18: among the American populace. But I think this is a
1:24:49
Speaker 18: different situation, and I hope and I believe that Americans
1:24:53
Speaker 18: understand that for forty seven years, Iran has terrorized the world,
1:24:57
Speaker 18: including the United States. They've been the primary state sponsor
1:25:00
Speaker 18: of terrorism. They've killed literally thousands of Americans, maimed and
1:25:04
Speaker 18: injured others, many countless others, and so we can't allow
1:25:08
Speaker 18: them to get their hands on a nuclear weapon, and
1:25:11
Speaker 18: the President recognized that, and I think he is the
1:25:14
Speaker 18: master negotiator, and sometimes he makes threats, but what we
1:25:19
Speaker 18: know is he's willing to follow through on those and
1:25:22
Speaker 18: the Iranians would be well advised to take note of
1:25:24
Speaker 18: what he's saying. So will there be boots on the ground.
1:25:27
Speaker 18: I think most Americans hope there will not. But if
1:25:30
Speaker 18: it is what is required to get this enriched uranium
1:25:33
Speaker 18: out of the country and ensure that it doesn't fall
1:25:36
Speaker 18: into the hands of some new despotic leader there in Iran,
1:25:40
Speaker 18: I think it's worth it.
1:25:40
Speaker 3: I want to get to your run for the governor's
1:25:44
Speaker 3: office just a moment, but I'm curious about what's going
1:25:46
Speaker 3: on in Washington. It seems like, I mean, it's always
1:25:48
Speaker 3: sort of been, you know, a chaos, but we're seeing
1:25:52
Speaker 3: really unusually large numbers of even Republicans saying, you know what,
1:25:55
Speaker 3: I'm retiring, I'm done here. We can't get anything done.
1:25:58
Speaker 3: What's going on? What is broken in Washington, d C.
1:26:02
Speaker 18: Well, so I would argue that I don't think there's
1:26:04
Speaker 18: anything broken. It is very frustrating, and I will personally
1:26:08
Speaker 18: attest to that being in Congress is very frustrating. I
1:26:11
Speaker 18: certainly wouldn't say enjoyable. But I think if the founders,
1:26:15
Speaker 18: if the framers of the Constitution came back and they
1:26:18
Speaker 18: saw how Congress operates, I actually think they'd be pretty
1:26:21
Speaker 18: tickled about it. Because they distrusted government. They wanted to
1:26:25
Speaker 18: tie government in knoughts, and they achieved the purpose that
1:26:28
Speaker 18: they had, so I think they would appreciate the ranker
1:26:32
Speaker 18: and the debate that's going on they and I think
1:26:34
Speaker 18: that's what they hoped that they were creating.
1:26:36
Speaker 3: I suppose, you know, if you're looking at the brighter side,
1:26:39
Speaker 3: there are no canings and there are no duels that
1:26:43
Speaker 3: we know of.
1:26:43
Speaker 18: That's right, and so you know, I mean, if you
1:26:46
Speaker 18: view it through the full lens of history, I think
1:26:49
Speaker 18: Congress is working kind of like it always has, with
1:26:52
Speaker 18: lots of angst and lots of disagreement, but ultimately that's
1:26:56
Speaker 18: leading to the consensus of what we should do, and
1:26:59
Speaker 18: sometimes that's very just satisfying the way that that works out.
1:27:02
Speaker 3: I want to play some audio. There are three Republicans
1:27:05
Speaker 3: running to be the next governor of Tennessee, and Tennessee
1:27:08
Speaker 3: is a very important state for the entire conservative movement.
1:27:11
Speaker 3: Senator Marshall Blackburn's running, You are running, and there's a
1:27:14
Speaker 3: state representative by Monti Fritz and he's upset with you
1:27:18
Speaker 3: and Senator Blackburn. I want to take a listen, Adyla,
1:27:21
Speaker 3: let's play this audio. Wethan.
1:27:23
Speaker 7: You were talking about hands refusing to debate.
1:27:25
Speaker 4: Was it just Marshalls John confusing? No, it's absolutely both
1:27:29
Speaker 4: of them.
1:27:29
Speaker 10: It's John and Marcia.
1:27:32
Speaker 19: Early on, I thought he was going to be willing
1:27:34
Speaker 19: to debate, but then he backed out. I think what
1:27:37
Speaker 19: I heard from their campaigns, he wasn't willing to debate
1:27:40
Speaker 19: unless she was there. And so that's what brought my
1:27:42
Speaker 19: football coach phrase of one of them scared and the
1:27:44
Speaker 19: other one's glad of it. And you know, there's a
1:27:48
Speaker 19: big libertarian thing in Chattanooga in a few weeks. Everybody
1:27:53
Speaker 19: should go for both parties.
1:27:55
Speaker 2: Let's put everything.
1:27:56
Speaker 19: Out on the table and talk about their positions and platforms.
1:28:00
Speaker 3: I think the people deserve that.
1:28:02
Speaker 18: When do you think about the fact that he complained
1:28:03
Speaker 18: about her name debating and now.
1:28:06
Speaker 19: Again one I'm scared and the other.
1:28:09
Speaker 2: Wouldn't help you vote.
1:28:10
Speaker 7: If you have some sort of forum where there's an
1:28:12
Speaker 7: empty chair where she would be sitting.
1:28:14
Speaker 19: I think it's also might be I think most of
1:28:16
Speaker 19: the forums of I have there'll be two empty chairs.
1:28:20
Speaker 18: The people of Tennessee deserve to know, you know, what
1:28:22
Speaker 18: would she do as governor?
1:28:23
Speaker 2: Why does she want to be governor?
1:28:24
Speaker 18: And I think a debate, debates would be the way
1:28:27
Speaker 18: to get at that.
1:28:28
Speaker 3: All right, So he's saying, you don't want a debate.
1:28:31
Speaker 3: Do you want a debate?
1:28:33
Speaker 18: Absolutely, we want to debate, But I think we have
1:28:35
Speaker 18: to remember this is the Republican primary, and Republican voters
1:28:39
Speaker 18: deserve to hear from all the candidates. I mean, it's
1:28:42
Speaker 18: obvious what Representative Fritz is doing. He's hoping that he
1:28:46
Speaker 18: might get a lucky swipe in at me if I
1:28:49
Speaker 18: debate just him. But if we don't have Senator Blackburn there,
1:28:54
Speaker 18: then we're not really presenting the options to the people
1:28:57
Speaker 18: of Tennessee. So she should come out, We should have
1:29:00
Speaker 18: a full fledged debate. We should have all the Republican
1:29:03
Speaker 18: candidates there for the Republican primary. I will absolutely be
1:29:07
Speaker 18: there and hope that that happens.
1:29:09
Speaker 3: So on the record, you are willing to debate Marshall
1:29:12
Speaker 3: Blackburn and Monty friend absolutely. Oh well that settles that then,
1:29:16
Speaker 3: So all right, we'll have to try to make that happen.
1:29:18
Speaker 18: And I think the Republican voters deserve that debate. How
1:29:22
Speaker 18: do you ought to demand it?
1:29:24
Speaker 3: How do you how do you address the polling data?
1:29:26
Speaker 3: You know, there are polls out there and they're showing
1:29:28
Speaker 3: her with a decisive lead over both of you. How
1:29:32
Speaker 3: do you interpret that data?
1:29:34
Speaker 18: It's still driven almost entirely by name identification. So if
1:29:38
Speaker 18: you ask Tennessee voters have you heard of the following people?
1:29:41
Speaker 18: And you throw names in front of them. If you
1:29:43
Speaker 18: put in Marshall Blackburn's name in front of them, ninety
1:29:46
Speaker 18: ninety five percent of Tennessee's are going to say, yes,
1:29:48
Speaker 18: I know who that is. If you put John Rose's
1:29:50
Speaker 18: name in front of them, fifteen to twenty percent are
1:29:52
Speaker 18: going to say they've heard who I am at this point.
1:29:55
Speaker 18: And then so the results of those polls reflect that
1:30:00
Speaker 18: lack of awareness. We're going to fix that, but we
1:30:02
Speaker 18: have to wait until the voters are really ready to
1:30:05
Speaker 18: hear that message, and so that's coming, it's soon now.
1:30:08
Speaker 18: And when we do that, our polling data shows us
1:30:12
Speaker 18: that the Tennessee voters will come out the Republican voters
1:30:16
Speaker 18: in the primary will come our way.
1:30:17
Speaker 3: All right, where can people go, Congress But if they
1:30:19
Speaker 3: want to get more information about your platform.
1:30:21
Speaker 18: It's simple. John Rose dot com, j O H N
1:30:24
Speaker 18: R O S E dot com.
1:30:25
Speaker 3: All right, Congressman, good to see you. And I know
1:30:28
Speaker 3: you were hanging out with the Republican Women of Purpose
1:30:31
Speaker 3: earlier today and they always throw a great shindig.
1:30:34
Speaker 18: Yes, great meal and great people and great patriots.
1:30:38
Speaker 3: All Right, we got to leave it there, Congressman, good
1:30:40
Speaker 3: to see you. Good luck out there on the campaign trail.
1:30:42
Speaker 4: Thank you.
1:30:42
Speaker 3: All right, we'll be right back everybody. All right, welcome back, everybody.
1:30:51
Speaker 3: Good to have you with us. And we're going to
1:30:53
Speaker 3: be doing our best to get a number of candidates
1:30:56
Speaker 3: from around the nation on the show. And we you know,
1:31:00
Speaker 3: this is important. We need to talk about the midterms.
1:31:03
Speaker 3: And you heard Congressman Rose just a few moments ago,
1:31:06
Speaker 3: and he is rightfully concerned that the lack of action
1:31:11
Speaker 3: in the Senate could very well doom the entire Republican
1:31:15
Speaker 3: Party in the midterm elections. Uh, let's go to the
1:31:18
Speaker 3: phone lines here. Nine oh one two six zero five
1:31:20
Speaker 3: nine two six. Annadalonaga Georgia listening to us on wd
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Speaker 3: U N Hi Anna, what's on your mind today?
1:31:29
Speaker 14: Yeah, John, I'm I'm really concerned. I mean, after hearing
1:31:34
Speaker 14: Alex Stone in its obscenities about the president. But we
1:31:37
Speaker 14: get right down the bottom of this whole thing. Why
1:31:43
Speaker 14: why is Obama and why are Obama and Biden not
1:31:48
Speaker 14: being considered in this mix? They what they did contributed
1:31:54
Speaker 14: to a lot of the problems we're realizing now. A
1:31:59
Speaker 14: country of buying for the people, that is the government,
1:32:03
Speaker 14: but it seems like of buying for the politicians or
1:32:09
Speaker 14: their political parties Trumps. So I don't use that term loosely,
1:32:15
Speaker 14: but Trump's everything and no one, no one thinks to care.
1:32:23
Speaker 14: I'm concerned that our not all of them, but some
1:32:27
Speaker 14: of our politicians are treated like celebrities. They show up
1:32:31
Speaker 14: on late night. They don't have any kind of integrity,
1:32:37
Speaker 14: discipline and none of that, and it's just a big
1:32:41
Speaker 14: game show to them. And we're hurting out here. You know,
1:32:45
Speaker 14: we're the ones who have to deal with all these illegals.
1:32:51
Speaker 14: You know, I remember I came from a long line
1:32:53
Speaker 14: of Democrats back in the day. I mean, I'm seventy
1:32:57
Speaker 14: five years old, so it's been a long time. But
1:33:00
Speaker 14: my you know, my grandparents came here from France and
1:33:06
Speaker 14: you know they paid their dues. But now people just
1:33:09
Speaker 14: go through. And I'll tell you the bottom line is
1:33:12
Speaker 14: Obama and Biden are there are the reasons for this,
1:33:17
Speaker 14: and they should pay restitutions for this, but they're not.
1:33:22
Speaker 3: No, no, they're not. And you're right, Anna, and I
1:33:25
Speaker 3: would even contend that George W. Bush was responsible for
1:33:29
Speaker 3: a lot of this, got us involved in two wars
1:33:32
Speaker 3: that we had no business. Well, we had Afghanistan, I
1:33:35
Speaker 3: can understand, but Iraq, we had no business going in there,
1:33:39
Speaker 3: and we lost a lot of American treasure as a
1:33:42
Speaker 3: result of that. And Donald Trump is undoing all of
1:33:45
Speaker 3: this this damage and a thanks for the call. I'll
1:33:47
Speaker 3: have more to say about that on the other side
1:33:49
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1:33:58
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1:34:42
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1:34:45
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1:34:46
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Speaker 15: My wife and I went through the heck, we went
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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, that's it. That's it all right. Let's
1:35:27
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1:35:30
Speaker 3: maybe even unfamiliar with that term investment strategy. What what
1:35:34
Speaker 3: do you mean by that?
1:35:35
Speaker 15: Investment strategy is literally thinking about how do we need
1:35:38
Speaker 15: to deploy your capital to work for your goals? So
1:35:42
Speaker 15: is that a combination of growth investments, is it conservative investments?
1:35:46
Speaker 15: Is it a combination of market based investments and insurance products?
1:35:50
Speaker 3: So a lot of people, I would have to imagine
1:35:52
Speaker 3: think one size fits all. You know, is that is
1:35:54
Speaker 3: that correct? Or is that a big mistake?
1:35:56
Speaker 15: I would say if it seems like a one se
1:35:58
Speaker 15: fits all, it's not a good fit for you, because
1:36:01
Speaker 15: each person is different and your strategy should reflect what
1:36:04
Speaker 15: your goals are and not be the same as what
1:36:06
Speaker 15: somebody else's is.
1:36:08
Speaker 3: Again, folks, by the way, if you have questions, give
1:36:11
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1:36:13
Speaker 3: nine two six nine oh one two six zero five
1:36:17
Speaker 3: nine two six. So we're putting together an investment strategy.
1:36:20
Speaker 3: What are some of the common mistakes that you see people,
1:36:23
Speaker 3: you know, making as they try to go through the procedure.
1:36:26
Speaker 15: That's a great question, and one of the most common
1:36:28
Speaker 15: things that we see on a regular basis is somebody's
1:36:31
Speaker 15: just keeping their foot on the gas. Well beyond the ears,
1:36:34
Speaker 15: they should be keeping their foot on the gas, and
1:36:35
Speaker 15: they're too aggressive, or we see some people are just
1:36:39
Speaker 15: very scared of the market. They don't want to have
1:36:41
Speaker 15: the risk of a correction and it wipe out what
1:36:44
Speaker 15: they've saved, so they keep their money invested in like
1:36:47
Speaker 15: cash or are low yielding investments, and so what are
1:36:51
Speaker 15: the risks there? The risk is if you're too aggressive
1:36:54
Speaker 15: and we're not aligned with the timeframe from when you
1:36:56
Speaker 15: need those dollars, we could see a big market correction
1:37:00
Speaker 15: and that could be detrimental to the success of your plan.
1:37:02
Speaker 15: Or if we're two conservative, things like inflation erodes the
1:37:07
Speaker 15: purchasing power of the dollar, and we need to outpace inflation.
1:37:10
Speaker 15: So if that numbers three and a half percent, maybe
1:37:13
Speaker 15: we should be looking at five six percent.
1:37:15
Speaker 3: So it's talking really it's really about tailoring a you know,
1:37:18
Speaker 3: whatever your strategy is to to what you are and
1:37:21
Speaker 3: where you are at in life.
1:37:23
Speaker 15: Yeah, and I think that's what an advisor or financial professional,
1:37:27
Speaker 15: you know, provides the most value. There's a lot of misconceptions,
1:37:30
Speaker 15: you know, they see things like Wolf of Wall Street,
1:37:32
Speaker 15: or they hear other people talk bad about financial advisors.
1:37:36
Speaker 15: And what I really want people to understand is the
1:37:38
Speaker 15: best thing that we can do is build a plan first,
1:37:41
Speaker 15: and then we develop the investment strategy after that.
1:37:44
Speaker 3: I'm lifing. I actually I don't know why that movie
1:37:47
Speaker 3: was on somewhere and I just just the other day
1:37:50
Speaker 3: and it's such an awful movie, but it is.
1:37:54
Speaker 2: It is.
1:37:54
Speaker 15: They're not all good people, No.
1:37:56
Speaker 3: No, they're not. But but fortunately our friends that Strategic
1:37:59
Speaker 3: Financial are the good guys. And if you have a question,
1:38:03
Speaker 3: give us a call nine oh one two six zero
1:38:05
Speaker 3: five nine two six, even if you don't want to
1:38:07
Speaker 3: come on air, we'll take your question off air and
1:38:10
Speaker 3: we'll make sure the guys reach out to you. You know,
1:38:12
Speaker 3: a lot of people I think in our audience has
1:38:15
Speaker 3: maybe a four to zer one k or an ira
1:38:18
Speaker 3: from maybe an old job, and there's really no plan
1:38:22
Speaker 3: to tie it together because some people may have multiple
1:38:25
Speaker 3: plans out there. What should they do? What advice do
1:38:28
Speaker 3: you give those folks?
1:38:29
Speaker 15: Well, I would say if you're somebody who's in that
1:38:31
Speaker 15: position where you know you had a retirement plan at
1:38:33
Speaker 15: a previous employer and you're working at a new place
1:38:36
Speaker 15: and contributing to the new plan, You've.
1:38:39
Speaker 3: Got a couple options.
1:38:40
Speaker 15: And it could be let's move the old four h
1:38:43
Speaker 15: one k to an IRA, which is an individual retirement
1:38:45
Speaker 15: account which has got what we call open architecture, so
1:38:49
Speaker 15: the investment universe is wide open, and we sit down
1:38:52
Speaker 15: and ask you how you want to be allocated and
1:38:54
Speaker 15: come up with an investment strategy. Or it could be
1:38:56
Speaker 15: simply as if your new employer plan offersovers, you can
1:39:01
Speaker 15: move it into your new employer plan. So I always say,
1:39:04
Speaker 15: when you make a career change or a big life event,
1:39:07
Speaker 15: happens just like when you go see your doctor, you
1:39:09
Speaker 15: go see a dentist, go see your financial professional and
1:39:12
Speaker 15: see does this apply to me and what are my options.
1:39:15
Speaker 3: We had last night on the show my good friend
1:39:17
Speaker 3: Tracy Burns, she was at Fox Business forever and she
1:39:21
Speaker 3: has a brand new book out called Deduct Everything. You're
1:39:24
Speaker 3: talking about your taxes, and we were and she said
1:39:28
Speaker 3: it's important for people to reach out to a professional expert.
1:39:31
Speaker 3: I'm getting around to the point here, but that because,
1:39:34
Speaker 3: for example, she said, a lot of people may not
1:39:36
Speaker 3: be aware, but last year, if you purchased a brand
1:39:39
Speaker 3: new car, an American made car, you can actually deduct
1:39:44
Speaker 3: a huge chunk of the of the price of that car.
1:39:47
Speaker 3: Many people may not be aware of that. So again,
1:39:50
Speaker 3: that's why it's important to reach out to professionals like
1:39:54
Speaker 3: you guys that strategic financial partner.
1:39:56
Speaker 15: And one of the things that we recommend the most
1:39:58
Speaker 15: is to go and see your because we know in
1:40:01
Speaker 15: the investments, the investment world, and we know enough about
1:40:05
Speaker 15: the taxes to be dangerous. We always defer go see
1:40:07
Speaker 15: your CPA because that's what they specialize in.
1:40:10
Speaker 5: You know.
1:40:10
Speaker 15: You wouldn't go to a podiatrist to ask about your heart,
1:40:12
Speaker 15: you know, and that's why we have certain specialties.
1:40:15
Speaker 3: Well, that's a it's a great point when you know
1:40:20
Speaker 3: to that. We were talking with Tracy, and she also
1:40:22
Speaker 3: made another interesting point. For example, when they say no
1:40:26
Speaker 3: tax on tips, everybody thinks, oh great, I don't have
1:40:28
Speaker 3: to declare my tips. No, you do. You can deduct them,
1:40:32
Speaker 3: but you still have to declare. So she said that
1:40:34
Speaker 3: there's just so much, you know, so much information, which
1:40:37
Speaker 3: again is why it's so important for for all of
1:40:41
Speaker 3: us to go and get get help, and we need advice,
1:40:44
Speaker 3: which is why Adam is here, uh and Chris are
1:40:47
Speaker 3: here every Wednesday. You know, I want to talk about
1:40:51
Speaker 3: risk tolerance. There's a great other horrible movie people. Well
1:40:55
Speaker 3: the kids should not watch Casino. Remember Casino Casino? Oh
1:40:59
Speaker 3: my gosh, remember this. There's a scene to move with Joe.
1:41:01
Speaker 3: Pashi decides to go to the bank and the bank
1:41:04
Speaker 3: guy was like, well, you know, there may be some
1:41:07
Speaker 3: risk here, and Paschi was like, I better not lose anybody. Yeah,
1:41:10
Speaker 3: you know, but a lot of people are afraid. You know.
1:41:13
Speaker 3: That's a big thing is you know there may be
1:41:15
Speaker 3: are risk intolerance.
1:41:17
Speaker 15: That's right, and that's why we always when I say
1:41:20
Speaker 15: we build a plan first and then we figure out
1:41:22
Speaker 15: the investment piece. Second is in our conversations, we're gonna
1:41:26
Speaker 15: ask you about what do you want to do in
1:41:28
Speaker 15: retirement or what are we saving these dollars for? And
1:41:32
Speaker 15: what is that timeline? That timeline is the most important
1:41:35
Speaker 15: piece because we have to know when we need to
1:41:38
Speaker 15: scale back the risk to avoid a sell off, and
1:41:41
Speaker 15: we lose a lot of what we saved for. So
1:41:44
Speaker 15: that conversation helps us build the foundation for your plan,
1:41:47
Speaker 15: and then we put an investment strategy in place that
1:41:50
Speaker 15: matches what you're trying to accomplish, so that whole one
1:41:52
Speaker 15: size fits all. It can't be possible if we're talking
1:41:56
Speaker 15: to ten different people, because it's like a game of telephone.
1:41:59
Speaker 15: It starts with one thing and it ends with a
1:42:01
Speaker 15: totally different thing. So ten different people, they're gonna have
1:42:04
Speaker 15: ten different salts that we need to come up.
1:42:06
Speaker 3: How often should you you know, go back and look
1:42:08
Speaker 3: at things or maybe you know, adjust what your strategy is.
1:42:11
Speaker 15: Well, just like the tax we were talking about earlier,
1:42:14
Speaker 15: every year, same time of year, it's the tax deadline,
1:42:16
Speaker 15: it's the time to go to your CPA. Think about
1:42:18
Speaker 15: it the same way with your financial advisor. No doubt,
1:42:22
Speaker 15: every year this time of year, I'm gonna go and
1:42:24
Speaker 15: talk to him, regardless if you have anything to talk
1:42:26
Speaker 15: about or.
1:42:26
Speaker 3: Not, we will. We will go over.
1:42:28
Speaker 15: And say this is how you performed over the last year,
1:42:31
Speaker 15: this is what you incurred in the way of fees,
1:42:34
Speaker 15: and if there's any pressing things that we see just
1:42:37
Speaker 15: from the market standpoint, we may say, hey, you're getting
1:42:40
Speaker 15: five years away from that retirement date. I think now
1:42:43
Speaker 15: would be a good time to transition from being aggressive
1:42:46
Speaker 15: to being more moderate or moderate conservative, just so that
1:42:49
Speaker 15: we add a layer of downside protection.
1:42:51
Speaker 3: Adam Martin is a financial advisor with Strategic Financial Partners.
1:42:56
Speaker 3: Their their website address folks Strategic Financial Partners dot com.
1:43:00
Speaker 3: Our number nine oh one two six zero five nine
1:43:03
Speaker 3: two six. That's nine oh one two six zero five
1:43:05
Speaker 3: nine two six. Somebody's probably right now at lunch and
1:43:09
Speaker 3: they're poach Angles, WAA Burger. I don't know great restaurants,
1:43:12
Speaker 3: and they're thinking, you know, I don't have a strategy here,
1:43:15
Speaker 3: I just have accounts.
1:43:17
Speaker 15: Yeah, that's unfortunately more common than most, and that's okay.
1:43:23
Speaker 15: Having accounts is a good problem to have, and it's
1:43:25
Speaker 15: not too late. Go speak with somebody, whether it's us
1:43:28
Speaker 15: or whether it's a professional in your area that you're
1:43:30
Speaker 15: close to or you know about. Just get organized. That's
1:43:33
Speaker 15: what it all boils down to is have a plan.
1:43:35
Speaker 15: Because when we see volatility like we have here recently,
1:43:39
Speaker 15: I mean the markets have had a little bit of
1:43:40
Speaker 15: turbulence lately, it's those people that just have the accounts
1:43:44
Speaker 15: that are panicking. It's saying sales, sales sell, instead of hey,
1:43:47
Speaker 15: I have a plan we talked about we would see
1:43:49
Speaker 15: some turbulence like this and let's just hold let's hold
1:43:52
Speaker 15: the line because what goes down goes back up. Those
1:43:55
Speaker 15: people have more of a tranquil vibe to a whenever
1:44:00
Speaker 15: it comes to their their finances because they planned proactively.
1:44:04
Speaker 3: I love that. And again, Strategic Financial Partners dot com,
1:44:07
Speaker 3: so you got I mean, we've got people listening to
1:44:09
Speaker 3: us all over the nation and you guys can take
1:44:11
Speaker 3: those calls.
1:44:12
Speaker 4: We can.
1:44:12
Speaker 15: Yeah, we can be licensed in any state determining on
1:44:16
Speaker 15: you know, what we have to do. So if that's
1:44:18
Speaker 15: just investing, we could get a securities license. If it's
1:44:21
Speaker 15: an insurance solve, we can get an insurance license. But
1:44:23
Speaker 15: that's while we're here, Todd, I want to help as
1:44:26
Speaker 15: many people come up with a plan and feel confident
1:44:29
Speaker 15: about their future.
1:44:30
Speaker 3: I love that. And folks, you need to go and
1:44:32
Speaker 3: check them out. They're the good guys and they are
1:44:35
Speaker 3: very very effective at what they do. Strategic Financial Partners
1:44:39
Speaker 3: dot Com. Be sure to ask for Adam Martin, a
1:44:41
Speaker 3: financial advisor. I want you to write down Adam's number
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Speaker 3: nine oh one two six zero two four three eight.
1:44:49
Speaker 3: That's nine oh one two six zero two four three eight.
1:44:53
Speaker 3: All right, Adam, good to see you, my friend, seeing you.
1:44:56
Speaker 3: How are your bractets?
1:44:57
Speaker 15: I didn't even fill one out. I'm a Memphis Tiger fan.
1:44:59
Speaker 3: We were in it.
1:45:00
Speaker 15: So I had no involvement in the Cuba tournament.
1:45:03
Speaker 3: Tennessee Evalls fan right here.
1:45:05
Speaker 15: Well, they I fortunately didn't make it to the final
1:45:08
Speaker 15: four yet again, and I'm sorry.
1:45:09
Speaker 3: It's unfortunate. It's unfortunate. Thank you for that, Adam.
1:45:14
Speaker 4: Yeah, my condolences.
1:45:15
Speaker 3: All right, we'll be right back. All right, Welcome back, everybody.
1:45:30
Speaker 3: This is the Tom Searns Radio Show. By the way,
1:45:34
Speaker 3: California gave a news scum man are they? You know,
1:45:39
Speaker 3: if you think the fraud is bad in Minneapolis, what's
1:45:42
Speaker 3: happening in California. They haven't even begun to really do
1:45:46
Speaker 3: a deep dive into the maount of fraud. But I
1:45:48
Speaker 3: want you to listen to this Fox News report. So
1:45:50
Speaker 3: they found out that just one building allegedly housed nearly
1:45:56
Speaker 3: two hundred hospice and healthcare companies. You can't make this up.
1:46:00
Speaker 3: Take a listen.
1:46:01
Speaker 15: The building looks like that supposedly houses one hundred and
1:46:04
Speaker 15: ninety seven different hospice and healthcare companies.
1:46:07
Speaker 7: That's California lawmaker Ali Mercedo, investigating suspected hospice fraud in La.
1:46:13
Speaker 3: I did not see a single person coming in.
1:46:16
Speaker 2: Or out of the building.
1:46:17
Speaker 7: Neither did we in January on some offices, but no
1:46:21
Speaker 7: people three floors, no employees or patients. Yet, look at
1:46:26
Speaker 7: the dozens of providers licensed at this one address. Five
1:46:29
Speaker 7: years ago, state auditors flagged this location for potential fraud.
1:46:33
Speaker 7: They say they found non working phones, locked doors, and
1:46:36
Speaker 7: stolen Medicare numbers.
1:46:38
Speaker 12: In La County, California, eighty nine hospice companies are registered
1:46:42
Speaker 12: to a single address.
1:46:44
Speaker 7: Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill say California's week oversight help
1:46:48
Speaker 7: perpetuate fraud, a charged Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom denies.
1:46:53
Speaker 15: We've been very aggressive as it relates to going after
1:46:56
Speaker 15: the fraud and abuse.
1:46:57
Speaker 7: He also says hospice fraud involving Medicare under federal jurisdiction.
1:47:02
Speaker 7: That's misleading state losses. California is responsible for licensing, inspecting,
1:47:07
Speaker 7: and investigating hospice complaints and can deny, suspend, or evoke licenses.
1:47:12
Speaker 12: This problem is on his hands, and he's refusing to
1:47:15
Speaker 12: put in rules and regulations.
1:47:16
Speaker 7: The lawmakers mandated take effect by January this year, including
1:47:21
Speaker 7: better background checks, a ban on multiple hospices sharing a
1:47:25
Speaker 7: single office, more comprehensive on site inspections, and face to
1:47:29
Speaker 7: face meetings before awarding a license. We asked you some
1:47:33
Speaker 7: why his administration missed the deadline.
1:47:35
Speaker 2: We've elimited over two hundred and eighty licenses.
1:47:38
Speaker 3: We've been on this since late twenty twenty one.
1:47:41
Speaker 7: So what he governor does not say is the sweeping
1:47:43
Speaker 7: reforms that auditors want have largely not been imposed. And
1:47:46
Speaker 7: La County still has fifteen hundred more hospices Dana than
1:47:51
Speaker 7: New York and Florida combined, including five hundred and three
1:47:54
Speaker 7: mile rates. Makes no sense, and they're billing medicare double
1:47:58
Speaker 7: the national average.
1:47:59
Speaker 3: There you go, and this is the fraud that folks. Again,
1:48:03
Speaker 3: we have got to get a handle on this, and
1:48:05
Speaker 3: if we do, you're gonna heck, we may not. We
1:48:08
Speaker 3: may now even have to have an income tax if
1:48:11
Speaker 3: we can, If we can expose all of the fraud. Dylan,
1:48:14
Speaker 3: and I want to do another trivia question. Ooh, this
1:48:17
Speaker 3: is a tough one.
1:48:19
Speaker 4: I'm ready. The last one was tough for me.
1:48:21
Speaker 3: Here it was tough. Can you name the very first
1:48:24
Speaker 3: sitting president to attend an oral argument at the U. S.
1:48:27
Speaker 3: Supreme Court? You know President Trump was there earlier today.
1:48:30
Speaker 3: Can you name the first sitting president to attend an
1:48:34
Speaker 3: oral argument at the US Supreme Court?
1:48:37
Speaker 4: Are you going to give options for this one?
1:48:38
Speaker 17: This is no no, okay? Are you telling me a
1:48:42
Speaker 17: lot of people know this answer?
1:48:43
Speaker 3: They should nine oh one two six zero five nine
1:48:47
Speaker 3: two six. If you know the answer, the first sitting
1:48:49
Speaker 3: president to attend an oral argument at the U. S.
1:48:52
Speaker 3: Supreme Court? That's nine oh one two six zero five
1:48:56
Speaker 3: nine two six. Dylan, did did you ever use a typewriter.
1:49:05
Speaker 4: Keyboard?
1:49:05
Speaker 3: You mean, well, they were called typewriters and they weren't
1:49:09
Speaker 3: attached to a computer back back when I was in school.
1:49:13
Speaker 3: You actually had to take a typing class.
1:49:16
Speaker 4: Sound and it's like a vintage thing.
1:49:19
Speaker 10: Yeah.
1:49:20
Speaker 3: Yeah, So an Ivy League teacher is at Cornell University
1:49:26
Speaker 3: is now making students heck away at manual typewriters. This
1:49:33
Speaker 3: is great. Uh, this no screens, no online dictionaries, no
1:49:37
Speaker 3: spell check, no tlete keys. And you know why she's
1:49:40
Speaker 3: doing that to fight against AI, the AI work. You
1:49:44
Speaker 3: know the chant GPT interesting. That's why it's it's it's
1:49:49
Speaker 3: a brilliant strategy.
1:49:51
Speaker 4: I guess.
1:49:51
Speaker 2: So.
1:49:52
Speaker 17: You know, it's funny they actually make keyboards now that
1:49:54
Speaker 17: sound like typewriters.
1:49:55
Speaker 3: That's terrible, all right. Professor Matthias Phelps, a German language instructor,
1:50:04
Speaker 3: started this in twenty twenty three. Twenty twenty three, frustrated
1:50:08
Speaker 3: by the fact that students were using AI and online
1:50:11
Speaker 3: translation platforms to turn out grammatically perfect assignments and so anyway,
1:50:18
Speaker 3: the professor said she wanted students to understand what writing, thinking,
1:50:22
Speaker 3: and classrooms were like before everything turned digital. I love
1:50:25
Speaker 3: this idea. They're calling it an analog assignment. That's brilliant.
1:50:31
Speaker 3: All right. Let's go to the phone lines here. Let's
1:50:35
Speaker 3: go to John in Georgia, which is like our trivia
1:50:39
Speaker 3: capital of the show. John. How are you today?
1:50:43
Speaker 13: Great?
1:50:43
Speaker 5: God, you're great American?
1:50:45
Speaker 4: They do well.
1:50:46
Speaker 3: Thank you very much for that. I appreciate that. We're
1:50:49
Speaker 3: going to try to see if you can't win a
1:50:51
Speaker 3: prize here, can you tell us the very first president
1:50:55
Speaker 3: in American history to attend an oral argument at the
1:50:58
Speaker 3: US Supreme Court.
1:51:01
Speaker 6: I think that would be Donald Trump.
1:51:08
Speaker 3: Uh, yes, you are correct, Sean. Did you have to
1:51:13
Speaker 3: look that one up or did you know that, John?
1:51:17
Speaker 6: Well, I've been hearing it all day that he was
1:51:19
Speaker 6: the first one.
1:51:20
Speaker 3: So that's right, Donald Trump making American history today, became
1:51:25
Speaker 3: the first sitting president to attend an oral argument at
1:51:29
Speaker 3: the US Supreme Court. No April fools joke. How about
1:51:34
Speaker 3: that sat there on the front row.
1:51:37
Speaker 8: That's pretty cool.
1:51:38
Speaker 3: All right, John, We're going to hook you up with
1:51:40
Speaker 3: a copy of The Deplorables Guy to make an America
1:51:42
Speaker 3: great again. So don't go anywhere. Congratulations. Wow, that's that
1:51:46
Speaker 3: is seen till And I told you that's a great trivia.
1:51:49
Speaker 17: I feel dumb. Maybe I just haven't been listening to
1:51:51
Speaker 17: your show. I feel like you've said it at least
1:51:53
Speaker 17: once already.
1:51:54
Speaker 3: You gotta listen, man, you gotta listen. All right, folks,
1:51:57
Speaker 3: it's been a lot of fun today. We've got to
1:51:59
Speaker 3: get out of here tonight five o'clock Eastern. We're going
1:52:02
Speaker 3: to be looking at whatever the President is going to
1:52:03
Speaker 3: tell the nation tonight nine o'clock Eastern. Also Artemis two
1:52:08
Speaker 3: blasting off to the moon. That's at six o'clock. Busy,
1:52:12
Speaker 3: busy newsday, which is why you need to listen to
1:52:14
Speaker 3: the radio. Get out there and have a great one.
1:52:16
Speaker 3: Everybody will be back tomorrow noon o'clock right here on
1:52:19
Speaker 3: the Todd Stern Show.