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'It's like the game room in a mental hospital' Senator Kennedy · THE DAILY BRIEF

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  Speaker 1: Senator Schumer is he's nervous as a pregnant nun. It's
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  Speaker 1: hard to believe that anyone can can fit that much
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  Speaker 1: stupid into their head.
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  Speaker 2: I think all.
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  Speaker 1: Those those people need to popo zoeloft and relax a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. Anybody that tells you that they know what
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  Speaker 1: the short term impact of these tariffs is going to
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  Speaker 1: be on the economy has been homeschooled by day drinker.
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  Speaker 2: If you hate.
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  Speaker 1: Cops just because of their cops, you don't know anything
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  Speaker 1: about them, then next time you get in trouble, call
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  Speaker 1: a crackhead.
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  Speaker 3: Few people roast Washington and logic more with charm and
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  Speaker 3: more truth than my next guest. He's the most quotable
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  Speaker 3: Senator maybe ever. He is John Kennedy, And the Senator
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  Speaker 3: has a brand new book out, Pulling No Punches.
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  Speaker 2: It's called How to Test Negative for.
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  Speaker 3: Stupid and Why Washington Never Will And joining us now
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  Speaker 3: is Senator Kennedy himself. Senator, who prompted you to write
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  Speaker 3: this book? Was it because you were seeming to be
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  Speaker 3: so quotable and bookable for those people who have shows
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  Speaker 3: like this?
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  Speaker 1: Well after I had been in the Senate for an
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  Speaker 1: acceptable reasonable period of time, Brian, I just decided I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to write a.
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  Speaker 2: Story book.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a policy book, though I talk about policy
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  Speaker 1: some a story book about what Washington and specifically the
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  Speaker 1: Senate is really like and why in Washington normal is
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  Speaker 1: just a setting on the Cloches Drive. Many of the
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  Speaker 1: stories are funny, some of them are deeply bizarre. Right,
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  Speaker 1: and I think the book you'll understand this shutdown much
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  Speaker 1: better if you read the book well.
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  Speaker 3: I can hear your voice in every word, because you
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  Speaker 3: love to read, and now we know you love to write.
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  Speaker 2: Here's an excerpt I think stood out.
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  Speaker 3: He said, I don't hate anyone though my people skills
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  Speaker 3: are generally fine.
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  Speaker 2: I have a low.
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  Speaker 3: Tolerance for more runs and blue bleep. I like breakfast
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  Speaker 3: food and straight answers. It's hard to get straight answers
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  Speaker 3: in Washington, d C. In part because common sense is illegal.
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  Speaker 3: That's why I am so direct. That's why I ask
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  Speaker 3: tough questions, which we have.
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  Speaker 2: Seen in action.
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  Speaker 3: And now we're sitting now with something happening.
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  Speaker 2: That backs up the premise of your book.
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  Speaker 3: It seems like we are in a shutdown despite being
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  Speaker 3: the most successful country in the world. We can't agree
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  Speaker 3: how to fund it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I think that's a reflection. This shutdown is a
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  Speaker 1: reflection of how absurd the demands are of the socialist
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  Speaker 1: wing of the Democratic Party, which is of course telling
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  Speaker 1: Senator Schumer what to do. We asked for you've heard
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  Speaker 1: the term clean cr That just means we didn't ask
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  Speaker 1: for anything. To open government and negotiate a new budget
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  Speaker 1: for the next six or seven weeks, and the loon
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  Speaker 1: wing Senctor Schumer said, we'll only agree to open it
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  Speaker 1: if you give us one point five trillion dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we're not going to do that. If we did
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  Speaker 2: do that.
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  Speaker 1: Brian, you would see inflation go through the roof. You
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  Speaker 1: would see long term interest rates go through the roof.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't see an end in sight. I really don't.
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  Speaker 1: If we're still shut down in two weeks, my suggestion
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  Speaker 1: is that we locked Foon and Schumer into a room
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  Speaker 1: with Katie Porter and tell them they can't come out
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  Speaker 1: till they.
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  Speaker 2: Make a deal. Absolutely, that would be a scary sight.
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  Speaker 2: And lastly, just.
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  Speaker 3: As we try to fund the government, I think the
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  Speaker 3: problem is to a degree, is that you're asking for
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  Speaker 3: nothing and they're asking you to undo the big beautiful
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  Speaker 3: bill including a lot of the recisions that went through.
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  Speaker 2: So therefore, when they say meet halfway.
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  Speaker 3: You're not even out of the blocks, Like you, where
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  Speaker 3: do you want to meet?
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  Speaker 2: You haven't asked for anything.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well this is this is this is just crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody asked me yesterday to describe it. I said, it's
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  Speaker 1: like it's like the game room in a mental hospital.
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  Speaker 1: That's what the Senate is like right now. It's and
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  Speaker 1: it's I mean, I'm prepared to just stay shut down.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry for all the pain it's causing. You know,
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  Speaker 1: our military is not going to be paid for a while,
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  Speaker 1: and I mean, I'm really The pain that is causing
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  Speaker 1: the American people breaks my heart.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't know what else to do.
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  Speaker 1: We can't just they basically want us to repeal the
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  Speaker 1: one big, beautiful bill to spend one point five trillion dollars,
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  Speaker 1: and we can't do that.
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  Speaker 2: It would really hurt the country.
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  Speaker 1: But we can't just give the moon wing of the
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  Speaker 1: Democratic Party one point five trillion dollars. Right, you can't
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  Speaker 1: do it. I'm not gonna I'm not going to vote
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  Speaker 1: to do it.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Meanwhile, you can pick up Center Kennedy's book.
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  Speaker 3: It's had to test negative for stupid and why Washington
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  Speaker 3: never will? Your premise is backed up every day this
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  Speaker 3: shutdown goes on.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks Enner, always great to have you.
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