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Congressman Warren Davidson joins Brian Thomas this morning · Brian Thomas

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Speaker 1: Seven oh six here at fifty five KRCD Talk station.
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Speaker 1: Very Happy Friday, e to you extra special welcome back
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Speaker 1: to the fifty five krc Morning Show. It's always a
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Speaker 1: pleasure to have you on. Congressman Warren Davidson's Good morning, Sir.
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Speaker 2: Brian. It's always an honor to join you.
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Speaker 1: Thank you. You were there State of the Union address.
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Speaker 1: What was it like? What was your reaction? We can
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Speaker 1: talk into some of the details on it, but I
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Speaker 1: just want to get your initial response to it. Congressman Davidson.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's always an honor to be there
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Speaker 2: president on the floor for the State of the Union,
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Speaker 2: but this one was pretty exceptional. I thought, you know,
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Speaker 2: President Trump made a great case. I mean, I think
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Speaker 2: the theme of the speech probably should have been normal
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Speaker 2: versus crazy, and he summed it up, I think, really
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Speaker 2: succinctly when he said, you know what a difference a
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Speaker 2: president makes because you know, for the most part, what
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Speaker 2: he's done is apply existing law. People say, oh, we
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Speaker 2: got to have different laws for everything else, and no,
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Speaker 2: we didn't need a different law to secure the border.
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Speaker 2: He just applied the law and secured the border. We
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Speaker 2: don't need a different law to remove people from the
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Speaker 2: United States, which Democrats are still fighting for and have
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Speaker 2: the government shut down over He's just using the same
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Speaker 2: process and frankly the same guy, Tom Homan, to lead
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Speaker 2: ice and remove people who are here illegally. You look
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Speaker 2: at some of the things we did need a law
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Speaker 2: on we got done. We passed a big, beautiful bill
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Speaker 2: to get tax reform done, and that made it is
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Speaker 2: making a real difference for you know, everyday Americans. No
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Speaker 2: tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on
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Speaker 2: social security. And so I think he's made a great
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Speaker 2: case for things that are normal, good policy things that
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Speaker 2: but it pivoted what he's talking about crime and partially
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Speaker 2: on illegal immigration and just talking about how you know,
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Speaker 2: when Arena's root Skill was murdered in Charlotte for writing
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Speaker 2: public transportation. Basically this crazy, I mean, horrific crime and
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Speaker 2: painful to make yourself watch it and see it. But
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Speaker 2: in about twelve seconds, this young lady's got her throat
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Speaker 2: slit and stabbed and dies. And you know, this monster
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Speaker 2: who's been repeat offenders, has let out a no bail,
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Speaker 2: no bail and to be in a position to commit
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Speaker 2: the crime. And we see those kind of soft on
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Speaker 2: crime policies in Cincinnati all over Hamilton County, but you
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Speaker 2: go one county away, judges aren't doing that. And so
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Speaker 2: these are the things. And it was probably just a
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Speaker 2: mind blowing moment for anybody watching. But it was insane
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Speaker 2: in the room to look at Arena Ziruzka's mother, who's
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Speaker 2: up there grieving her daughter and being recognized for you know,
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Speaker 2: we're doing something about this by the President of the
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Speaker 2: United States. And what the Democrats were doing is sitting
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Speaker 2: on their hands. They wouldn't even stand for that. And
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Speaker 2: you know, President Trump's just like, how do you not
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Speaker 2: stand for that? I mean, this is crazy. And it
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Speaker 2: was like that for a lot of things. I mean,
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Speaker 2: I was grateful they did stand for the hockey team
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Speaker 2: and the two Medal of Honor winners. Those were real
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Speaker 2: high points and unifying things. But just you know, locally,
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Speaker 2: I don't think people really, regardless of your political persuasion,
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Speaker 2: are unsympathetic to Arena Zerutzka's mother or the mother of
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Speaker 2: someone who lost their daughter, regardless of how but an
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Speaker 2: illegal immigrant comes in and stabs her dozens of times
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Speaker 2: and kills her. I mean, how do you not show sympathy?
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Speaker 2: For that, But that's the difference Democrats. They're sitting on
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Speaker 2: their hands versus locally, I think everybody's looking at that
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Speaker 2: with a sense of outrage, like, how could this happen
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Speaker 2: in our country?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you know, not standing for a number
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Speaker 1: of those the points he brought up was really kind
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Speaker 1: of strange. Well, I mean I think that they created
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Speaker 1: a great campaign ads for the Republicans going in November
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Speaker 1: with some of their antics on the state of the
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Speaker 1: Union addresser. Has it showed up anyway?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's the other part is, you know,
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Speaker 2: seventy or selve of them, we're off doing some kind
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Speaker 2: of event with furres out there on the mall somewhere
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Speaker 2: doing crazy stuff. They thought that'd be a better use
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Speaker 2: of their time. And then one guy's get the same antics,
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Speaker 2: you know, trying to disrupt the president and everything. So
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Speaker 2: he was quickly removed, but you know, it's disappointing. But yeah,
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Speaker 2: I think, look, why would it be an effective ad
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Speaker 2: because I think the country, you know, these are like
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Speaker 2: eighty percent issues, ninety percent issues. They're not partisan issues here.
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Speaker 2: But then you see, you know, Democrats in Ohio act
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Speaker 2: like Ohio doesn't have voter ID for example. Well, you know,
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Speaker 2: women in minorities and Democrats and Republicans can vote in Ohio.
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Speaker 2: There's only fourteen states where you don't have voter ID,
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Speaker 2: you know, and so but all Democrats are in lockstep
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Speaker 2: against the same America Act. And it just shows you
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Speaker 2: got to have voter ID to vote already the law
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Speaker 2: at Ohio, and to be register to vote, you got
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Speaker 2: to show you're a citizen. Well, pretty straight up stuff.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's already been passing the House. You guys
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Speaker 1: did that last year, Am I right?
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Speaker 2: We did it last year. We did it again this
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Speaker 2: year just to kind of keep the pressure on the
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Speaker 2: Senate saying hey, please give us a vote.
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Speaker 1: Well, I am. It was widely reported. I pointed this
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Speaker 1: out yesterday. We need to be lighting up Mitch McConnell's
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Speaker 1: phone because he's sitting on the committee and as head
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Speaker 1: of the committee, and he won't allow the bill to
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Speaker 1: be advanced out of committee. So he's the hold up.
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Speaker 1: And why why would Mitch McConnell hold the advancement of
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Speaker 1: that bill up over in the Senate.
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Speaker 2: He's an anti Trump guy at this point. That's the
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Speaker 2: best explanation I've heard but you know, the Thune goes
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Speaker 2: out and says, you know, we just don't have the
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Speaker 2: votes to go to the real filibuster, which is you
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Speaker 2: get a hold floor time. I mean, it's really an
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Speaker 2: adaptation of the filibuster to go with the sixty vote
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Speaker 2: rules because they didn't want to have to sit on
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Speaker 2: the floor and have their time tied up. So they
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Speaker 2: should say, well, I would do that. Well I would
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Speaker 2: is different than I did, you know, right, And so
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Speaker 2: we're trying to make them actually use the real filibuster
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Speaker 2: and be on the floor and hold floor time to
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Speaker 2: get us a vote on that. But even if they
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Speaker 2: won't go to have the vote on it, they have
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Speaker 2: a vote on cloture, which okay, isn't the same as
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Speaker 2: a vote on the bill. But let us know who
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Speaker 2: the obstructors are. Put it on the floor, senator. So
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Speaker 2: Thune won't put it on the floor, and well I
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Speaker 2: don't have the votes, we'll show us who where the
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Speaker 2: problem is.
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Speaker 1: I agree, I agree completely. We need to know. And
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Speaker 1: again this is one of the eighty twenty issues you're
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Speaker 1: talking about. Everybody can get a photo ID. You gotta
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Speaker 1: have them everywhere you need it. In New York city
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Speaker 1: to shovel snow, and we could go on ad nauseum
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Speaker 1: about the the the ubiquitous reality of photo IDs. And
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Speaker 1: this is the hill the Democrats want to die on
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Speaker 1: when we are the only developed country in the world
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Speaker 1: that doesn't require it.
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Speaker 2: We're also one of the only developed countries. Of course,
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Speaker 2: the EU and Democrats are governed the same way, the
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Speaker 2: same invasion operation to flood the country with people that
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Speaker 2: aren't really supposed to be here. And we have a
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Speaker 2: very generous way to be here legally. I won't say
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Speaker 2: it's a perfect way, but we have lots of I mean,
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Speaker 2: no country brings in as many people legally as the
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Speaker 2: United States. And frankly, even with that, we need to
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Speaker 2: do a better job on building an assimilation mindset. And
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Speaker 2: Democrats are sort of anti assimilate because they they're working
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Speaker 2: to tear down America. They're working to undermine this country
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Speaker 2: right and left, and not all Democrats, but the National Party,
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Speaker 2: the people that are advancing the policies out there. They
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Speaker 2: want to tear down the United States, and they're trying
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Speaker 2: to do it by keeping a hyphen or an abridgment
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Speaker 2: or some sort of shame on the heritage of the
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Speaker 2: United States with four percent of the world's population. I mean,
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Speaker 2: look at all the things that we've done. No country
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Speaker 2: has done more to defend freedom than the United States.
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Speaker 2: You know, without US, no win in World War One,
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Speaker 2: no win in World War two. The whole Korean Peninsula
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Speaker 2: would look like North Korea. You know, terrorists would be
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Speaker 2: running all over the place because there the jihad would
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Speaker 2: continue to go unchecked. Set aside all the innovation, you know,
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Speaker 2: the industrial revolution, aviation, aerospace, the innovations in ag the Internet.
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Speaker 2: Fifty percent of the world's invested capitals invested in the
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Speaker 2: United States capital markets. Everyone in the world wants to
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Speaker 2: be here. And these guys can't stop trash in America.
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Speaker 2: They wouldn't even stand to say the chief duty of
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Speaker 2: the United States of America is to defend its citizens,
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Speaker 2: not illegal aliens.
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Speaker 1: That's that was quite hard.
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Speaker 2: Wouldn't stand for that.
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Speaker 1: That was unbelievably revealing right there, And I think that
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Speaker 1: disappointed a whole lot of folks. We're going to continue
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Speaker 1: with Congressman Warn Davis and we'll talk about tariff and
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Speaker 1: the decision and the impact on that. Are we going
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Speaker 1: to war with Iran? People have time for a comment
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Speaker 1: Brent Thomas. The Congressman Warren Davidson, pivoting it away from
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Speaker 1: the specifics of the state of the Union over to tariffs.
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Speaker 1: I know Donald Trump was a little disappointed with the
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Speaker 1: outcome of the Supreme Court overturning his tariff decision six
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Speaker 1: to three. Now come the claims of the refunds.
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Speaker 2: I know.
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Speaker 1: I saw Shared Brown, the Congressman Davidson, calling for a
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Speaker 1: thirteen hundred and thirty six dollars refund for every Ohio household,
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Speaker 1: and I scratched my head over that one. Lots and
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Speaker 1: lots of lawsuits have been filed for the refund of tariffs.
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Speaker 1: A lot of claims have been placed on paper Sharf
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Speaker 1: Brown claims. I guess each and every one of us
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Speaker 1: overspent by thirteen hundred and thirty six bucks. I know
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Speaker 1: all households do not spend equally, but clearly he's trying
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Speaker 1: to buy votes on that one. How is this going
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Speaker 1: to this bell going to be unwrung. Congressman Davidson.
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Speaker 2: Well, I think there's a huge fallacy that all of
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Speaker 2: Trump's tariffs were struck down by the Supreme Court, and
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Speaker 2: that should be obvious that he took immediate action to
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Speaker 2: just use different authorities for some of the tariffs. There
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Speaker 2: was the AIPA tariffs that were passed in the seventies,
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Speaker 2: the authority for IEPA, and they are saying, you can
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Speaker 2: use AEPA to turn trade on or off, but you
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Speaker 2: can't use it to you know, change the flow of it,
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Speaker 2: which you know, there were seven different opinions. There's only
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Speaker 2: nine justices. Seven of them wrote opinions. So I think
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Speaker 2: the real problem is that particular law was very ambiguous,
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Speaker 2: and you know, President Trump read into it the maximum
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Speaker 2: amount of things that you could read into it. And
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Speaker 2: I think Gorsich made some very good points, which is,
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Speaker 2: you know, Congress needs to pass a law, and we
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Speaker 2: have passed other laws that are very clear. You know,
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Speaker 2: three h two tariffs, two thirty two tariffs. President Trump's
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Speaker 2: using those to revitalize our steel industry, for example, which
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Speaker 2: is essential for national security. And you know, so there
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Speaker 2: are things like that but yeah, nevertheless, you know, I've
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Speaker 2: introduced legislation that would make it clear, Look, you've got
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Speaker 2: a US trade representative for a reason. You can't have
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Speaker 2: five hundred and thirty five people negotiating with foreign countries.
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Speaker 2: That's job of the executive branch. But at some point
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Speaker 2: Congress does need to lock them in. And the example
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Speaker 2: I used lately is is South Korea reached an agreement
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Speaker 2: with President Trump on trade and tariffs, and President Trump
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Speaker 2: was frustrated because their legislature hasn't ratified that agreement. And
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Speaker 2: you know, so he raised the tariffs because they weren't
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Speaker 2: taking it seriously. They said, okay, well we're going to
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Speaker 2: move it. So he kind of, you know, held back
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Speaker 2: his announced plan to raise it. But that shouldn't we
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Speaker 2: be working the same thing in hours and okay, fine,
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Speaker 2: South Korea should go first. At some point we need
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Speaker 2: to lock these in so that there is a sense
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Speaker 2: of permanence. And that's where even you know, some of
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Speaker 2: the most pro Trump business people I know, one of
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Speaker 2: the guys I've met, he's like, look, our business is
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Speaker 2: losing a million dollars a month on tariffs. I can't
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Speaker 2: keep doing this. Even though I completely support it. We're
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Speaker 2: getting wrecked by China, and so I'm glad President Trump's
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Speaker 2: taking the fight to them. And frankly the people that
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Speaker 2: are helping them, including like Canada right up north, that
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Speaker 2: they'd rather kind of deal with Huju paying than President Trump. So,
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Speaker 2: you know, not not helpful and so. But but at
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Speaker 2: some point we need to get resolution and for just
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Speaker 2: the benefit of our own economy. But as for refunds
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Speaker 2: and rebates, I mean, there isn't a rational way to say, oh, well,
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Speaker 2: this is how much you were of.
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Speaker 1: I know, I thought it was a laughable suggestion, just
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Speaker 1: obviously pandering to folks by promising the money that he's
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Speaker 1: not you know, they're not necessarily entitled to, right right, Yeah, But.
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Speaker 2: You know that's the that's the socialist mindset is you
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Speaker 2: take take five hundred dollars from somebody that's working and
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Speaker 2: give one hundred to five different people that aren't, and
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Speaker 2: now you get five votes.
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Speaker 1: Well, and I got an interject because we talked about
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Speaker 1: this earlier. I'm just disturbed, as I have been disturbed
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Speaker 1: by our national debt. Federal debt is you know, it's
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Speaker 1: all about thirty five or so whatever, the trillions and
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Speaker 1: dollars are William Golson wrote a column about the America's bill,
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Speaker 1: will come do this? This is shocking all type of reality.
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Speaker 1: It's is legitimate, truly existential threat. We're alady one hundred
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Speaker 1: percent of gross domestic product on our debt service. It's
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Speaker 1: going to be one hundred and twenty percent and not
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Speaker 1: too far down the road the way we're spending. No
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Speaker 1: one seems to care about this. And someone suggested we
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Speaker 1: need like a contract with America thing, like a new
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Speaker 1: Gangrid style thing to promise the Americans we're going to
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Speaker 1: start tightening the belt so we don't dig ourselves into bankruptcy.
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Speaker 1: Congressman Davidson, this is a genuine problem on our hands.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's massive. I mean, look, that was one of
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Speaker 2: my first campaign tings, don't bankrupt America, and then I
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Speaker 2: quickly started talking about it differently. It's not compassionate to
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Speaker 2: bankrupt America, because that's that's the path we're on. You know,
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Speaker 2: sometimes you can vote for a plan that spends a
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Speaker 2: little less money, and that's the thing I've wrestled with.
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Speaker 2: Should I vote for only things that balance or should
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Speaker 2: I vote for things that are better than the next
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Speaker 2: alternative because the momentum is to spend even more, and
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Speaker 2: when they can't pass something with the Republican votes, they
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Speaker 2: go cut a deal with Democrats to make it even worse.
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Speaker 2: And I will say that was the promise of Doge,
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Speaker 2: is that we were going to get after That's why
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Speaker 2: you know last June Alon Musk, you know, his mind
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Speaker 2: broke because it's like a computer, right, It's that he's like,
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Speaker 2: you know, it does not compute, does not compute. You said, Doge,
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Speaker 2: now we're doing what And you know that did help
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Speaker 2: make things a little better than they were looking like
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Speaker 2: they were going to be on spending, but we're certainly
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Speaker 2: not doing the things to get spending under control. And
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Speaker 2: that is at the end of the day, the real
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Speaker 2: driver of inflation is. You know, you take five trillion
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Speaker 2: out every year in taxes and then you add seven
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Speaker 2: trillion of government spending in of course you have to
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Speaker 2: have inflation. You pulled five trillion out of the economy,
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Speaker 2: and then central planners and the government said, no, these
14:46
Speaker 2: are the seven trillion dollars of things that need need
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Speaker 2: spent money on, not your own personal decisions with your
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Speaker 2: own money. So you know, there are things that we
14:56
Speaker 2: do need to work together to do But they're just
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Speaker 2: we have we're we're about to suffer a fatal Overnes's
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Speaker 2: a government I fear.
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Speaker 1: I think we're already there, Congressman Davidson, Real quick, Here
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Speaker 1: one thing that really jumped out of me this morning,
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Speaker 1: and sale I didn't see it when I read when
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Speaker 1: I read the State of the Union. Here's a statement
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Speaker 1: from Trump. There are already developed missiles that can threaten
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Speaker 1: europe Our bases overseas, and they refer to the Iranians.
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Speaker 1: They're working to build missiles that will soon reach the
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Speaker 1: United States of America, widely reported currently their missiles are
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Speaker 1: about nineteen hundred mile range. It would take six thousand
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Speaker 1: miles to reach here. Does Aron really pose a threat
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Speaker 1: to us as we all talk about dropping bombs and
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Speaker 1: engaging in war. I'm just I don't want to go
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Speaker 1: to war here, sir. I don't believe Donald Trump has
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Speaker 1: the authority to begin an engagement where we're not directly
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Speaker 1: threatened right now, because the Constitution says that power rests
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Speaker 1: with you, sir and the rest of Congress. Are we
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Speaker 1: going to war? Congressman Davidson, Where is the cries about
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Speaker 1: the Constitution and the authority.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was one of the things I think we
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Speaker 2: were supposed to vote on this week. Thomas Massey and
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Speaker 2: Rocana introduced it's a war powers resolution, which is privileged,
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Speaker 2: so it's supposed to come up. That means it will
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Speaker 2: come up next week because you know, they have so
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Speaker 2: many legislative days that you can ignore it and it
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Speaker 2: is ripe and this would turn off, you know, be
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Speaker 2: a clearer signal, I mean to the president that you
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Speaker 2: can't take offensive action, and the constitutions are already clear
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Speaker 2: on that, and yes, you can always defend the United States.
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Speaker 2: Even Venezuela was different than this because Venezuela was targeting Maduro,
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Speaker 2: who is really leading TDA, not the clear leader of
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Speaker 2: the country. Comani has been the leader of the country
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Speaker 2: for generation generations. Now, you know, the system of government
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Speaker 2: in Iran is terrible, and I hope the people free
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Speaker 2: themselves of their current form of government. But for the
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Speaker 2: United States to take offensive action, that would be the
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Speaker 2: United States of America going to war, and that requires
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Speaker 2: a vote. Bicigris, Yes, and I have not been given
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Speaker 2: the information to feel at a position where I would
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Speaker 2: vote for that war. Yet I've asked for briefings on it,
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Speaker 2: and I haven't received them. So you know, if that
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Speaker 2: resolution comes up and I'm not giving a briefing, that
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Speaker 2: changes my mind. I mean, I'm against a war with Iran.
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Speaker 2: I wouldn't want to go personally. I wouldn't want to
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Speaker 2: send my son, So I wouldn't want to send your son.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, you know, and I wouldn't want to send you,
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Speaker 2: But I'm happy to send Lindsey Graham, who can't wait
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Speaker 2: to get a war we're going with the're in.
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Speaker 1: I take great comfort in hearing that from you, sir,
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Speaker 1: I truly do. I thank you for your service to
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Speaker 1: our country. I think if your ongoing service to our
17:32
Speaker 1: country as Congressman Warren Davidson. I appreciate your coming on
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Speaker 1: the program and at least giving me some assurance that
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Speaker 1: at least you are not getching to drop bombs on
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Speaker 1: Iran at the present moment. Thank you, sir for what
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Speaker 1: you do. I look forward to having me back on
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Speaker 1: the program really soon.
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Speaker 2: Thanks Brian GeV bless you and all your listeners.
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Speaker 1: And you seven twenty seven right now, signal ninety nine
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Speaker 1: ready to go? What about the fire DEAs? Why is