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James Lankford | 06-24-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: James Langford from Oklahoma joining us right now. We're making
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  Speaker 1: broadcast history because we got two Oklahoma natives speaking to
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  Speaker 1: each other on the national airways outside of Oklahoma. That
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  Speaker 1: doesn't usually happen. So thanks for joining us. But you
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  Speaker 1: know we've got we're reeling here in New York. Senator
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  Speaker 1: from these socialist, communist anti semites winning in these elections
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  Speaker 1: last night, tell me please, things are better in Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, things are better than in Oklahoma. If you get
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  Speaker 2: outside the comedy corridor there, you end up with a
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  Speaker 2: much better reality of where the rest of the country is.
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  Speaker 2: The rest of the country is scratching their head and saying,
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  Speaker 2: what in the world who looks at Cuba and says
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  Speaker 2: that's going great, let's do that other than certain areas
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  Speaker 2: there around New York and you're a wonderful mayor.
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  Speaker 3: So it is.
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  Speaker 2: It is a fascinating thing for the rest of the
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  Speaker 2: country to be able to watch. But literally everyone's scratching
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  Speaker 2: their head. The good folks in Florida are jumping up
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  Speaker 2: and down because they're saying more folks are about to
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  Speaker 2: move to Florida by land and move out. So we're
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  Speaker 2: all watching at this point in saying New York's going
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  Speaker 2: to figure out how to be able to heal itself.
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  Speaker 1: What about Oklahoma take it? I mean, I know Oklahoma,
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  Speaker 1: the University of Oklahoma. Oh, they've been trying to attract
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  Speaker 1: students in addition to businesses from New York. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: is there an effort in Oklahoma to attract New York
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  Speaker 1: money and students and things like that.
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  Speaker 2: There is, Actually, so Oklahoma is very open for business.
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  Speaker 2: We've had a lot of major businesses that have come in,
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  Speaker 2: both of manufacturing, a lot of high tech businesses. Aerospace.
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  Speaker 2: Our number two industry in Oklahoma is actually aerospace, and
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  Speaker 2: so we have quite a bit of that engineering work
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  Speaker 2: and everything else coming in. We're currently stealing most of
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  Speaker 2: it from California. But we're definitely open to New York
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  Speaker 2: businesses as well that want to be able to come
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  Speaker 2: in and live a little freer.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, Exxon moved out of New Jersey. We
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  Speaker 1: just got that news. I mean that was there since
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  Speaker 1: the time of JD.
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  Speaker 3: John D.
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  Speaker 1: Rockefeller. But what are some of the other major issues
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  Speaker 1: that you're tackling right now? I mean, we're talking about elections,
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  Speaker 1: and obviously this is a midterm election year. And that's
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  Speaker 1: very important for us. It's more for us on the media,
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  Speaker 1: but work gets done as well. We just had this
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  Speaker 1: housing bill. You guys in the Senate passed it already.
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  Speaker 1: The House passed it something like three hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: eight to thirty. It was very you know, a rare bipartisanship.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's a nice that's a nice result for
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  Speaker 1: the American people, and it's got a lot to do
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  Speaker 1: with supply and demand.
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  Speaker 2: It is actually this the Housing build the twenty first
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  Speaker 2: century Road to Housing really focuses on what are federal
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  Speaker 2: regulations that are actually slowing down more access to more homes.
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  Speaker 2: And the hope of this legislation is to say what
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  Speaker 2: can we do to do on the federal side what
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  Speaker 2: needs be done, because.
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  Speaker 3: It really needs to be done on the local side.
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  Speaker 2: So state and local regulations are much higher than the
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  Speaker 2: federal regulations on housing. But we're trying to be able
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  Speaker 2: to lead by example here to say if we can
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  Speaker 2: bring down a lot of the regulations that are bringing
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  Speaker 2: up the costs, then we can actually.
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  Speaker 3: Do better on this.
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  Speaker 2: So there's a lot of regulations that have been just
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  Speaker 2: sitting there for a long time that we think Okay,
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  Speaker 2: somebody had a good idea and they wanted to impose
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  Speaker 2: on everybody. It just drives up the costs over and
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  Speaker 2: over and over again. People just want to get into
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  Speaker 2: a house that's safe, that they can afford, and so
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  Speaker 2: that's the key aspect here. So this is not a
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  Speaker 2: big spending built. This is not throwing billions of dollars
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  Speaker 2: in saying we'll fix about throwing more money. This is
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  Speaker 2: trying to get at the root of the problem, saying
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  Speaker 2: what is causing housing to cost more? Regulatory side on it,
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  Speaker 2: and so let's actually deal with those.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: This is not taking out every regulation on It's just
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  Speaker 2: taking out the dumb ones that actually just cost more
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  Speaker 2: money for the consumer and aren't gaining anything. So that's
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  Speaker 2: the main focus there. It also has lots of different
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  Speaker 2: what are called pilot programs. Let's test out some different
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  Speaker 2: ideas that are happening in different parts of the country
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  Speaker 2: unto we can do to actually find areas that are
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  Speaker 2: successful and then do more of that.
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  Speaker 4: Senator's Judge Richard Winberg, good to talk to you again, sir.
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  Speaker 4: You and Senator Cotton, Secretary of Rubio, have been champions
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  Speaker 4: about protecting human rights and the victims of Chinese aggression
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  Speaker 4: within China, and you also have pointed out the threats
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  Speaker 4: of China post it to the United States and to
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  Speaker 4: to the West. Can you tell me what you see
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  Speaker 4: going forward in terms of our relationship with China, what
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  Speaker 4: we should be doing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're going to continue to do business with China
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  Speaker 2: long term, but we've got to do it with eyes
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  Speaker 2: wide open on it. This is not a full withdrawal
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  Speaker 2: from China. But everybody pay attention to what this really is.
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  Speaker 2: This is a communist nation that wants to control its
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  Speaker 2: own people, that wants to spread this kind of control
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  Speaker 2: around the world, and also to be able to manage
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  Speaker 2: everyone else's economy based on theirs. So they've they've stolen
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  Speaker 2: our intellectual property for decades now, copyed it, try to
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  Speaker 2: sell it back to us or sell it to different
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  Speaker 2: parts of the world. So that's been something everyone knows
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  Speaker 2: over and over again. But what we're seeing in the
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  Speaker 2: AI race right now is Chinese AI that's been trained
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  Speaker 2: with Chinese models, with Chinese communism for the answers to
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  Speaker 2: try to send out AI agents all over.
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  Speaker 3: The world to say, use Chinese.
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  Speaker 2: AI to be able to solve your problems and give
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  Speaker 2: a communist flair, how you run your business and your
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  Speaker 2: family and what are theirs opectives. So that's a very
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  Speaker 2: big threat. We faced a different threat in Oklahoma the
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  Speaker 2: Chinese illegal aliens coming into Oklahoma actually producing marijuana farms
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  Speaker 2: and then shipping out marijuana all over the country based
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  Speaker 2: on that. That's something we've actually shut down by the
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  Speaker 2: thousands of operations in my state that we have aggressively
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  Speaker 2: gone after. But the Chinese criminal organizations just determine they
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  Speaker 2: could pump lots of drugs into the country, like what
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  Speaker 2: they're doing with fentanyl, they try to do with marijuana
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  Speaker 2: as well for legal operations there. That has actually been
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  Speaker 2: shut down on the whole in my state.
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  Speaker 3: But we have to be eyes wide open on the.
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  Speaker 2: Very real threats both of our families, to our society
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  Speaker 2: and to our business with culture.
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  Speaker 5: Senator, this is Fernando Matteo. I have a question for you.
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  Speaker 5: You led the twenty twenty four border security negotiations. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: who do you see as trying to get into this
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  Speaker 5: country in abundance other than Central and South Americans? Were
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  Speaker 5: they from? Who do we need to be watching out
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  Speaker 5: for right now?
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  Speaker 2: Well, what's interesting is. Our border is completely different now
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  Speaker 2: than what it was two years ago when I was
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  Speaker 2: trying to shut down the Biden administration open from their
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  Speaker 2: open borders. If you go back to two years ago,
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  Speaker 2: we had ten thousand people a day illegally crossing the border.
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  Speaker 2: Now it is zero. People are not getting through the
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  Speaker 2: system as they were before. On it President Biden was
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  Speaker 2: just literally everyone all over the world could come, and
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  Speaker 2: so we had lots of Chinese nationals. We had people
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  Speaker 2: from all over the world that were coming into the
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  Speaker 2: country and they're just being released. Now those folks are
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  Speaker 2: actually being picked up, they're being prosecuted, or they're going
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  Speaker 2: through the court system to actually get an answer to
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  Speaker 2: their case and then being removed because it is very
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  Speaker 2: difficult to get asylum in the United States. The law
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  Speaker 2: is already strong. But what the Biden administration is doing
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  Speaker 2: is saying we'll investigate your status later, and would give
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  Speaker 2: people years to be in the country before they even
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  Speaker 2: had any investigation. What Trump administration is doing is saying,
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  Speaker 2: when you cross the border, we're going to check it
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  Speaker 2: right then if you don't qualify it, you don't get
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  Speaker 2: in the country. So we actually don't have a big
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  Speaker 2: push from any single country that's trying to be able
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  Speaker 2: to come at the United States right out.
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  Speaker 3: With the legal aliens.
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  Speaker 1: Senator James Langford is our guest right now from the
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  Speaker 1: state of Oklahoma, and Senator obviously oil and gas a
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  Speaker 1: big part of your issues in the state there. And
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  Speaker 1: we've got US crewde oil WTI at seventy one dollars
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  Speaker 1: a hour right now.
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  Speaker 4: You know most of that sixty five I predicted a
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  Speaker 4: couple of weeks ago.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, look, you know, I'm sure Oklahoma is happy
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  Speaker 1: with the businesses that have made a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: extra money in these couple of months, but they okay
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  Speaker 1: now with going back to the sixty dollars level.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, at sixty dollars, the consumers really excited and the
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  Speaker 2: producers start to slow down so you don't get as
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  Speaker 2: much drilling. It actually hurts economies. So there is kind
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  Speaker 2: of that magic number there where it works for consumers,
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  Speaker 2: it works for production as well.
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  Speaker 3: Well.
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  Speaker 2: We found when the prices jumped up on it, the producers,
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  Speaker 2: the folks that are doing the drilling, didn't add more
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  Speaker 2: wells because everyone knew it was the straight horn moves reopened.
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  Speaker 2: We do the prices, we're going to go down. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: they would go down significantly. John just mentioned I've heard
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  Speaker 2: because there'd be just a flood of oil that would
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  Speaker 2: hit the market in prices would drop precipitously. We've seen
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  Speaker 2: the enormous drop in Oklahoma on prices, and I don't
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  Speaker 2: know what it is there obviously in New York, but
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  Speaker 2: we've seen a big drop just in the last week
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  Speaker 2: in Oklahoma. So that's going to happen for consumers all
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  Speaker 2: around the country. With the straight of horor moves open
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  Speaker 2: and with the amount of oil it's finally hitting the
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  Speaker 2: world market again. Long term, you got to hit that
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  Speaker 2: sweet spot where it works for consumers, it works for
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  Speaker 2: the companies that actually produce it, that creates enough product
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  Speaker 2: to be able to be out there at a price
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  Speaker 2: that people can afford it.
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  Speaker 1: Supplying to Man, Senator James Langford, the Republican.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, way, that's basic capitalism. That's not socialism. That's not
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  Speaker 2: setting the price. That's just basic capitalism.
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  Speaker 1: It works if it isn't set by the law. Supplying
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  Speaker 1: to Man, it isn't going to last. Same, Senator James Langford,
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  Speaker 1: State of Oklahoma. Thank you so much, Thanks for listening
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