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  Speaker 3: are the most embarrassing and I answer them spontaneously. I
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  Speaker 3: haven't heard them before. On Friday at eight thirty. Now,
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  Speaker 3: what happened yesterday? Actually it didn't stun me, but I
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  Speaker 3: reached a new level of fear in terms of what's
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  Speaker 3: going on with this country. And it had to do
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  Speaker 3: obviously with the elections and the losses among Republicans and
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  Speaker 3: anybody who spoke against Donald Trump loses his seat primaried out.
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  Speaker 3: And the control that Donald Trump has over the Republican
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  Speaker 3: Party is I've never seen before and I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if we'll ever see again. And because of what happened,
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  Speaker 3: well I'll share what my fear is going to be
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  Speaker 3: the way I see everything going. So let's start with
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  Speaker 3: the lawsuit that President Trump filed against the IRS, basically
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  Speaker 3: filed against his own administration. There was a contractor that
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  Speaker 3: worked for the IRS, and one of the individuals leaked
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  Speaker 3: his tax returns to a news organize, and he obviously
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  Speaker 3: got a little upset as all of us, as all
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  Speaker 3: of us do.
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  Speaker 2: So he filed a ten billion dollar lawsuit.
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  Speaker 3: Now, when a president files a lawsuit against one of
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  Speaker 3: his agencies that work for him, the executive branch, and
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  Speaker 3: I guess he had to settle with himself. I guess
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  Speaker 3: that's what happens. And so I don't know where you go.
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  Speaker 3: One of the judges said, I'd never A judge who
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  Speaker 3: was asked for a quote, said, I don't know how
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  Speaker 3: that works when you are both the plaintiff and the defendant,
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  Speaker 3: and you can settle with yourself. So with that in mind,
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  Speaker 3: the President agreed to drop the lawsuit against the government,
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  Speaker 3: and in return he part of the settlement with his
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  Speaker 3: branch of government.
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  Speaker 2: So part of the settlement with himself was.
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  Speaker 3: Number one, any tax return will never be audited involving
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  Speaker 3: his family, himself, or anything revolving the Trump organizations in
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  Speaker 3: the past. And so it's that's in perpetuity, is.
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  Speaker 2: What the argument is. The Department of Justice that.
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  Speaker 3: He heads, by the way, and of course the sittying
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  Speaker 3: secretary the DOJ Department of Justice said, oh no, this
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  Speaker 3: is not about President Trump. This is a legitimate negotiation
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  Speaker 3: with someone who is a plaintiff. Huh okay, that starts.
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  Speaker 3: So there's win number one for the president. No, absolutely
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  Speaker 3: no audit of any tax return dealing with him, his family, members,
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  Speaker 3: his companies, because remember, no one is above the law
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  Speaker 3: in this country. So effectively, what he can do is
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  Speaker 3: decide what he is going to pay a taxes what
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  Speaker 3: he thinks is fair and cannot be audited and cannot
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  Speaker 3: be nailed for it. Nice nice place to be, isn't
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  Speaker 3: it when you're dealing with the taxes. The other thing,
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  Speaker 3: and this one stunned me, also crazy, is that he
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  Speaker 3: created a fund of almost one point eight billion dollars
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  Speaker 3: to pay those people who were victims of the weaponization
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  Speaker 3: of the Joe Biden White House that were weaponized against them,
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  Speaker 3: including the January sixth rioters, because as Trump said when
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  Speaker 3: he signed the pardon, these were patriots.
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  Speaker 2: This was a peaceful.
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  Speaker 3: Demonstration, and to arrest them, to prosecute them is political persecution.
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  Speaker 3: It is the weaponization of the DOJ and the FBI
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  Speaker 3: and all man of the executive branch, the law enforcement
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  Speaker 3: branch of the United States that unfairly targeted them, unfairly
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  Speaker 3: targeted the January sixth, the January sixth rioters. And are
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  Speaker 3: we hearing anybody screaming about that the Republican Party. No,
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  Speaker 3: there were some Republicans who were there and were threatened
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  Speaker 3: with their lives that had to be squirreled away and
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  Speaker 3: put into a secure part of the Capitol because they
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  Speaker 3: were threatened to be killed. And they're saying, okay, okay,
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  Speaker 3: that is tough to stomach. I must tell you, and
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  Speaker 3: it's gonna happen. I mean, it's and what in this one,
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't believe it was Hegsath, I think at a
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  Speaker 3: press conference when he was asked about this, he said, Oh,
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  Speaker 3: anybody can file a claim.
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  Speaker 2: Anybody. Well, I'd like to see a Republican.
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  Speaker 3: I would like to see a Democrat file acclaim saying
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  Speaker 3: that he was unfairly he or she was unfairly targeted.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, why not? Why not?
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  Speaker 3: And you were going to see You're gonna see some
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  Speaker 3: oathkeepers filing acclaim who were convicted and were in prison
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  Speaker 3: when they were pardoned. And I, I can't imagine. I
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't have guessed that this could happen. I would say
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  Speaker 3: this is science fiction that the government would pay taxpayer money,
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  Speaker 3: would pay these cockroaches and what they did to the
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  Speaker 3: US government and over in an overreach and attacking the
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  Speaker 3: US Capitol the second time in the history of the
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  Speaker 3: United States where the Capitol was overrun, the first time
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  Speaker 3: being by the British in the War of eighteen twelve,
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  Speaker 3: the second time by American citizens to overturn an election
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  Speaker 3: that they say was rigged. That's very scary stuff. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: that's the irs part of it. What happened yesterday is
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  Speaker 3: I explained this morning going into it yesterday, there was
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  Speaker 3: a line that was drawn for me in which I
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  Speaker 3: went to I went from a command. This is crazy too.
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  Speaker 3: I'm genuinely scared now as to which way the country
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  Speaker 3: is going, truly. So I told you about the IRS,
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  Speaker 3: that the President had sued the IRS for ten billion dollars,
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  Speaker 3: and he it was because his tax return was leaked
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  Speaker 3: by a contractor who worked for the IRS, not an employee,
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  Speaker 3: and he sued for ten billion dollars in damages. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know where ten billion dollars came from, and it
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  Speaker 3: so he sued himself because the IRS is under his auspices,
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  Speaker 3: and he ct a deal with himself. I'll drop the
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  Speaker 3: ten billion dollars if you never ever audit my returns,
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  Speaker 3: my kids, any business involved with me.
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  Speaker 2: That's the deal.
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  Speaker 3: And I want one point eight billion dollars for anybody
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  Speaker 3: who claims or and we give that claim that they
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  Speaker 3: were persecuted and by a weaponize Biden a White House
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  Speaker 3: and there'll be a panel of five people, which four
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  Speaker 3: he appoints to make that decision. So he's just he's
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  Speaker 3: just negotiated with himself. A pretty good deal when you
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  Speaker 3: negotiate with yourself. So now let's move to the elections.
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  Speaker 3: And the two big ones that came down were Senator
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  Speaker 3: Bill Cassidy in Louisiana, who lost was primaried out, and
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  Speaker 3: I mean by a big number.
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  Speaker 2: Wasn't even close.
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  Speaker 3: And then last night in Kentucky you have Massey, Thomas Massey,
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  Speaker 3: and actually he's the most prominent GOP critic of mister Trump,
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  Speaker 3: and he went out because the President said I want
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  Speaker 3: him out and endorsed other Republicans and effectively said you
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  Speaker 3: vote him out to his base, and they did. And
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  Speaker 3: it's not because these guys he was against them politically,
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  Speaker 3: maybe they were too liberal. It's because they went against
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  Speaker 3: him on a couple of points.
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 3: If you go against Donald Trump, you do it at
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  Speaker 3: your risk. Which is why it doesn't matter what the
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  Speaker 3: president says or does. No one speaks negatively about him
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  Speaker 3: in Congress. He can do whatever he wants legitimately, whether
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  Speaker 3: it's illegitimate or not. And out they go. They are
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  Speaker 3: primaried out, and they are out of politics. That is
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  Speaker 3: pretty scary. You've got a one man rule, certainly in
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  Speaker 3: the Republican Party and he was elected. So now let's
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  Speaker 3: move on to what I think is going to happen prognostication,
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  Speaker 3: and that is at first I thought that the move
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  Speaker 3: to undo repeal the twenty second Amendment giving a person
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  Speaker 3: only two.
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  Speaker 2: Terms as president.
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  Speaker 3: I thought it was going to be introduced by some
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  Speaker 3: crazy congress person. There's going to be a movement in
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  Speaker 3: Congress to undo the twenty second Amendment. Is it going
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  Speaker 3: to pass? I don't think so, because the numbers just
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  Speaker 3: don't pan out. But and how does it pass? How
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  Speaker 3: do you do a constitutional amendment? Two ways of doing it.
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  Speaker 3: You either do it with a constitucial convention, which has
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  Speaker 3: never happened, or you do it with the states coming
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  Speaker 3: in and you get to three quarters of the states
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  Speaker 3: voting for it, and the convention you need two thirds
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  Speaker 3: of Congress. I don't think you're going to see those numbers.
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  Speaker 3: I don't, But I think there's going to be a
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  Speaker 3: big move to undo it among Republicans, among Republicans, Republican
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  Speaker 3: congress people. I do believe that. So with that being said,
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  Speaker 3: is Trump going to lose his power? Not even close.
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  Speaker 3: He will be a king maker. He will have the
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  Speaker 3: same power he does now. He will say this is
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  Speaker 3: who I want you to vote for, and this is
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  Speaker 3: who I want out of the party, this is who
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  Speaker 3: I want you to unelect. Even incumbent popular candidates if
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  Speaker 3: they're in. If they cross Trump, they'll be gone. He'll
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  Speaker 3: be the king maker. That's until he dies. Now let
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  Speaker 3: me take it one step further, and that is inheriting
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  Speaker 3: the mantle of Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: A Republican runs for office.
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  Speaker 3: This is what Donald Trump would do, much like Republicans
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  Speaker 3: today deify Ronald Reagan. They call themselves Reagan Republicans. They're
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  Speaker 3: not Ronald Reagan would turn over in his grave if
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  Speaker 3: he found out what was happening to the Republican Party.
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  Speaker 3: So they give lips or is to Ronald Reagan and
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  Speaker 3: he's deified somehow, and he would have nothing to do
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  Speaker 3: with what's going on. Ronald Reagan was a conciliatory I mean,
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  Speaker 3: he was collegiate. He talked to the other side, he negotiated,
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  Speaker 3: he came to a consensus. You think that's happening today.
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  Speaker 3: So it's going to go into what would Donald Trump do?
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  Speaker 3: That is what I'm running on. If I'm a Republican,
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  Speaker 3: and if you disagree with what he would do, we're
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  Speaker 3: talking ten years after he's dead. By the way, then
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  Speaker 3: you are primaried out. Then you are done in politics.
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  Speaker 3: That's what I think is the power and scope of
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  Speaker 3: this president. I've never seen anything like this.
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  Speaker 4: Doesn't it come down to the people. Though he did come,
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  Speaker 4: he can't shut someone down. They got voted out because
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  Speaker 4: people in his party not you know, I didn't vote
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  Speaker 4: for him, You didn't vote for him, right, but people
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  Speaker 4: did vot for him.
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  Speaker 2: People. Oh yeah, No, absolutely, no, he can't. But that's
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  Speaker 2: that's a very comp party has just changed.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a very complicated, very complicated question. We're talking
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  Speaker 3: about Kamala Harris, We're talking about Joe Biden, We're talking
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  Speaker 3: about I mean, all.
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  Speaker 2: Of that in there.
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  Speaker 3: This is just straight out. This is simplistic. This is
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  Speaker 3: you cross me, you are out, you lose, Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I get that. And we did elect And I'm saying,
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  Speaker 2: of course, the comfort in the country. He's not doing it.
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  Speaker 2: He's motivating the base.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, he's doing it. He's ordering it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: because he's and they're listening to him. Now, we're going
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  Speaker 3: to see what happens in the general. We'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 3: Independents don't like him. He's got a thirty seven percent
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  Speaker 3: approval rating. I mean, that is horrific, and yet he
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  Speaker 3: still controls the Republican Party. We'll see what happens in
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  Speaker 3: the general. By the way, if he if the Republicans,
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  Speaker 3: if the Trump Republicans win in the general, that is
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  Speaker 3: the Senate seats, and if well, Senate may be flipped.
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  Speaker 3: The House should be flipped. But if not, he is
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  Speaker 3: the kingmaker, he will stay in office. Well, if he
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  Speaker 3: can get rid of the twenty second Amendment, which I
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  Speaker 3: know is going to happen, well, the attempt is I
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  Speaker 3: know is going to happen. This is why I'm so uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 3: This is why I am just coming out of my mind. Okay, Now,
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  Speaker 3: gun control, Oh God, I love gun control, and you
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  Speaker 3: know not that it matters anymore because the whole issue
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  Speaker 3: of gun control is moot because a whole bunch of
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  Speaker 3: decisions by the Supreme Court and the power of the
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  Speaker 3: NRA and other gun lobbies. But here's the latest. In California,
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  Speaker 3: which already has the stiffest gun laws in the country,
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  Speaker 3: there's a bill that's just been introduced and it would
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  Speaker 3: require Californians to take a four hour course with live
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  Speaker 3: live fire training to buy a gun. It's sent a
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  Speaker 3: bill nine also would require gun owners moving to California
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  Speaker 3: to obtain a Firearms Safety Certificate and register their firearms
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  Speaker 3: within one hundred and eighty days of their arrival, and
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  Speaker 3: beginning in twenty twenty eight, getting that certificate would require
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  Speaker 3: completing the.
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  Speaker 2: Training four hours of training.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, this is the latest effort by California Democrats to
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  Speaker 3: add even more restrictions to some of the toughestkun laws
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  Speaker 3: in the country. Last year, a similar measure died in
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  Speaker 3: the legislature. So the proposal advanced from the Senate Proporations
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  Speaker 3: Committee on Thursday and on a party line vote. How unusual,
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  Speaker 3: Republicans oppose it, and of course Democrats were in favor. Now,
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  Speaker 3: the committee members who moved it forward no comment, did
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  Speaker 3: not take any public testimony, which, by the way, that's
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  Speaker 3: what this committee doesn't do usually. In March and earlier
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  Speaker 3: version would have required eight hours of training. And the
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  Speaker 3: argument is the training in fact just helps the accidental shooting.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that's the one, that's the big one. According
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  Speaker 3: to those proponents of the bill, two thirds of the
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  Speaker 3: deaths of guns in California happened because of accidental shooting.
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  Speaker 3: That's what came.
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  Speaker 2: Out of the committee.
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  Speaker 3: Rebecca Marcus told the committee she testified she's a lobbyist
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  Speaker 3: for the Brady Campaign, as you would think it's a
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  Speaker 3: gun control lobby said, sixty nine thousand shootings requiring urgent
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  Speaker 3: medical care in California in twenty sixteen to twenty twenty one.
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  Speaker 3: In those five years, one in three were accidental. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: so we've got that going through. Anybody opposed to it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know. How about gun.
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  Speaker 3: Rights activists, because according to the gun folks advocacy groups,
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  Speaker 3: any limitation on gun rights ownership, requiring licenses, requiring background checks,
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  Speaker 3: which they couldn't stop, gets in the way of the
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  Speaker 3: Second Amendment. And you can't stop the rights of a
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  Speaker 3: second amendment to own guns. Well, how about all the killings, Well,
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  Speaker 3: guns don't kill. Guns don't kill. People kill. And then
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  Speaker 3: my argument was, how does someone kill with the gun
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  Speaker 3: if they don't have a gun. Explain that one to me. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: but everybody has a gun. Now it's a question of restricting.
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  Speaker 3: Do you force training? Do you force people that have
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  Speaker 3: a gun. And the other argument is, well, you certainly do.
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  Speaker 3: When it comes to driver's licenses, for example, you have
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  Speaker 3: to in order to get a driver's license, you have
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  Speaker 3: to prove that you had training. That's the laws, certainly
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  Speaker 3: for minors, and you have to be licensed to have
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  Speaker 3: a driver's license, obviously, and so therefore why wouldn't it
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  Speaker 3: be with guns.
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  Speaker 2: And the argument that.
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  Speaker 3: They bring in, which is true, is driver's licenses are
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  Speaker 3: not in the constitution. The right to own a gun
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  Speaker 3: is in the Constitution the Second Amendment, because we don't
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  Speaker 3: have for example, twenty ninth Amendment says everybody's entitled to
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  Speaker 3: the government shall make no will not get in the
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  Speaker 3: way I'm just paraphrasing, get in the way of you
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  Speaker 3: driving with this pesky little thing called the driver's license.
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  Speaker 3: So the NRA, of course, is against it. The gun
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  Speaker 3: lobby is totally against it. Now, you know, for those
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  Speaker 3: people that are gun advocates, and I'm saying, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not a big fan, as you know, but let
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  Speaker 3: me ask you a question. I mean, do you really care?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, do you not think it's a good idea
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  Speaker 3: for mandatory training? I mean, buy all the guns you want,
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  Speaker 3: but a trait?
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  Speaker 4: How does that go against your constitutional right to have
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  Speaker 4: to be trained?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we're going to find out no.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, it's a Supreme Court issue. Having to
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  Speaker 3: be trained is at a violation of the Second Amendment.
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  Speaker 3: There are a lot of issues that you could argue,
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  Speaker 3: for example.
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  Speaker 2: Machine guns.
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  Speaker 3: Owning machine guns are a violation or not a violation
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  Speaker 3: of the Second Amendment, And this up to the courts,
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  Speaker 3: up to the Supreme Court to decide, well, okay, this
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  Speaker 3: is a violation, that is not a violation. The Heller decision,
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  Speaker 3: when it was illegal in Detroit to have a handgun
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  Speaker 3: even at home, well guess what Supreme Court ruled that
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  Speaker 3: at home for your protection you can have a handgun.
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  Speaker 3: And that blew it wide open. The court said, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: under those circumstances, you are protected under the Second Amendment.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll see. Just makes sense to me.
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  Speaker 3: But again, you know the gun lobby, it's everything's a
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  Speaker 3: slippery slope. By the way, everything you have, you know,
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  Speaker 3: fully automatic weapons. Come on now, Second Amendment.
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  Speaker 4: Even the freedom of speech has limitations, right, thank you,
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  Speaker 4: that's the whole point.
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  Speaker 3: Well here, well, okay, how about this. Okay, freedom of
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  Speaker 3: speech is limited. You can't yell fire in a crowded theater. However,
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  Speaker 3: gun advocates saying, we agree, no fire in a crowded theater,
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  Speaker 3: but coming in with a fully automatic submachine gun and
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  Speaker 3: shooting up the theater. That's the Second Amendment issue is
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  Speaker 3: protected by the way. That's ridiculous. I understand that, and
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  Speaker 3: that analogy sucks. Okay, just wanted to make a ridiculous point. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: I want to tell you about a little Arkansas town, Camden, Arkansas.
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  Speaker 3: It has a worker shortage because of the defense manufacturing.
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  Speaker 3: Twenty twenty two, the Pentagon called for more weapons, a
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  Speaker 3: lot more weapons, because not only to give Ukraine, but
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  Speaker 3: to shore up our store of weaponry here because we're
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  Speaker 3: running low. Even though the Pentagon says, oh no, no,
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  Speaker 3: we have plenty. Well, I don't know. In any case,
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  Speaker 3: Lockey Market, Martin and other contractors have partnered with Southern
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  Speaker 3: Arkansas University Tech to expand apprenticeships and training.
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  Speaker 2: Huh. Aerospace and defense employment in.
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  Speaker 3: Owa, Cheetah and Calhoun Counties, very well known across the country,
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  Speaker 3: went up fifty four percent from twenty twenty and last
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  Speaker 3: year it was thirty one hundred and forty people. Now,
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  Speaker 3: that seems like a tiny little number of people that
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  Speaker 3: were employed in aerospace. The town has ten thousand people.
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  Speaker 2: This is thirty percent.
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  Speaker 3: Why because of the massive government spending for war material,
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  Speaker 3: for ammunition, for rocket launchers, et cetera. The Pentagon last
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: year had a budget of nine hundred billion dollars. This
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  Speaker 3: year it's one point for trillion dollars. The government is
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  Speaker 3: giving far more than the Pentagon even asks for. You know,
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  Speaker 3: while other programs are being gutted. And we've talked about
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: that and we will for example, and we talked about
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  Speaker 3: Jim on this one. How many people are dying of
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: a bola And us AID has doctors, had doctors that
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: would go in and fight this stuff gone because of
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  Speaker 3: the government cutting programs. But man, not when it comes
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  Speaker 3: to the Pentagon. So you have this little town that
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: is now reeling in government orders, and you've got the
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  Speaker 3: major companies coming in. And here's what was happening. Some
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: of these defense companies that came in, we're poaching talent
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: from each other and realize we're only hurting ourselves. So
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: what are they doing? Well, let me tell you what
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  Speaker 3: Lockey did. Expanded the pool of potential workers. Began inviting
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: local high schools to seniors and their parents to the
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: Camden facility, and started working with Southern Arkansas University Tech,
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  Speaker 3: a two year community college, to ramp up apprenticeships to
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: develop a Workforce Development grant. That's what the state did
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: and began funneling millions of dollars into the university.
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  Speaker 2: And how does this help you? Bet it has.
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  Speaker 3: It's turned the area into an engine for the war
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  Speaker 3: machine of America.
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  Speaker 2: Not bad, not bad.
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  Speaker 3: Circuxher of Defense Pete Heatsath in what is it February,
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  Speaker 3: went there and spoke at them, spoke to the town
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  Speaker 3: and said, this is what America is all about.
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  Speaker 2: This is what we do well.
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  Speaker 3: And so if you want a job, I would go
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: to this little town in Arkansas, and you are paid
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: pretty good money.
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  Speaker 2: Now. It started. Now, this seems very low to us.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: Beginning salaries was thirty six thousand dollars, which seems kills leo.
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  Speaker 3: But keep in mind this is Arkansas, where lawyers are
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: paid with sides of bacon. And it's just, hey, what
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: can I tell you?
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  Speaker 2: Now?
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  Speaker 3: It's fifty thousand dollars starting salary, and fifty thousand dollars
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  Speaker 3: in this part of Arkansas is the equivalent of one
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: point three billion dollars here in southern California. There isn't
• 24:25
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