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Will Tennessee’s Ninth Stop the Socialist Surge? · ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes

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  Speaker 1: A mighty nine ninety k WHAM exclusive the ninth Congressional
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  Speaker 2: Good evening everyone across the Mid South. I'm Todd Starns
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  Speaker 2: and you are listening to an exclusive conversation on the
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  Speaker 2: mighty nine ninety k WAM. The ninth Congressional District Republican
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  Speaker 2: Primary is folks, It is fired up, and we have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of great candidates in the race, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of great choices for you. And one of the things
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  Speaker 2: those moments when we have that kind of a conversation.
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  Speaker 2: Here for the next ninety minutes, not only are we
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  Speaker 2: going to be taking questions from the candidates, but also
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  Speaker 2: we're going to be taking your questions as well. I
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  Speaker 2: a question. That number nine oh one two six zero
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  Speaker 2: zero five nine two six. Well for us, before we
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  Speaker 2: get started, I wanted to introduce all four of the
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  Speaker 2: candidates who have graciously taken time off of the campaign
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  Speaker 2: trail to hang out with us. First, we're excited to
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  Speaker 2: welcome Charlotte Bergman, a native Memphion, a lifelong Christian, and
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  Speaker 2: a dedicated Conservative leader here in the Mid South. She
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  Speaker 2: is a graduate of Northside High School and was the
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  Speaker 2: first person in her family to pursue higher education, earning
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  Speaker 2: an associate degree from State Technical Institute and also getting
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  Speaker 2: a Bachelor of Science degree from Christian Brothers University. She
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  Speaker 2: began her professional career at FedEx, where she worked as
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  Speaker 2: an information technology project manager. She went on to become
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  Speaker 2: a small business owner. She has been actively involved in
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  Speaker 2: the Republican Party both statewide, locally and nationally, serving on
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  Speaker 2: the Tennessee Republican Party State Executive Committee. She was named
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  Speaker 2: Statesman of the Year in twenty eighteen and twenty nineteen.
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  Speaker 2: She authored the book The Last Trumpet, which addresses the
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  Speaker 2: battle for America's future and the dangers of government dependency.
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  Speaker 2: Charlotte is a mother, a grandmother, and a great grandmother.
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  Speaker 2: And we are also excited to welcome Jeremy Thompson. In Afghanistan,
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  Speaker 2: Special Operations and Military Intelligence, Combat veteran. A retired US
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  Speaker 2: Army Sergeant first Class, he served as executive director of
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  Speaker 2: the Special Operations Association of America, where he advocated for
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  Speaker 2: veterans military readiness and national security and help shape federal policy.
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  Speaker 2: Mister Thompson has served as a reserve deputy sheriff, a
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  Speaker 2: volunteer firefighter, and EMT in his community for many years.
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  Speaker 2: Is also a small business owner, operating the Revolutionary Tavern
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  Speaker 2: in downtown Fayetteville with his wife, Lindsay, and their two children.
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  Speaker 2: Our Senator Brent Taylor a successful small business owner, an
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  Speaker 2: outspoken conservative leader, and of course a state senator who
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  Speaker 2: who spent his career fighting for Tennesseeans. Born and raised
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  Speaker 2: in a rural community before moving to Tennessee after school,
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  Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety five, he became the youngest person ever
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  Speaker 2: elected to the Memphis City Council at the age of
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  Speaker 2: twenty seven. Senator Taylor, who never voted for a tax increase,
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  Speaker 2: was viewed as the leading conservative voice on the council.
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  Speaker 2: He and his wife, Kimberly, purchased their first funeral home
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  Speaker 2: in two thousand and four. They have been married for
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  Speaker 2: over thirty years, and they are parents of two adult children.
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  Speaker 2: They reside in the Ads community and are active members
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  Speaker 2: of Trinity Baptist Church and state representative. Todd Warner in
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  Speaker 2: eighth generation Tennesseean born and raised on a dairy farm
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  Speaker 2: in Chapel Hill in northern Marshall County. To this day,
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  Speaker 2: he is a row crop farmer of corn and soybeans,
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  Speaker 2: and he's worked the same land his family has worked
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  Speaker 2: for eight generations. He graduated from Forrest High School in
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  Speaker 2: nineteen eighty nine, married his wife, Cindy, in nineteen ninety one.
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  Speaker 2: Todd and Cindy have three children, and Patrick, Kathleen, and Cason,
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  Speaker 2: and he began his career with United Telephone. Well, we're
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  Speaker 2: going to get to know a lot more about these
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  Speaker 2: four wonderful great American patriots. If nothing else, they they
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  Speaker 2: took a stand, and as Theodore Roosevelt said, our great
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  Speaker 2: Republican President, they are men and women in the arena,
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  Speaker 2: and we certainly respect that. Welcome to everybody, Thank you
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  Speaker 2: for having us, you appreciation all right. Well, you know
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  Speaker 2: we were going to start out talking about the squad
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  Speaker 2: coming to town, and we're going to get to that
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  Speaker 2: in just a moment. But we do have some breaking
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  Speaker 2: news to share with everybody. President Trump earlier this afternoon
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  Speaker 2: announced that he is endorsing State Senator Brent Taylor in
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  Speaker 2: the ninth congressional district race. And I want to ask
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  Speaker 2: all of you, and we'll start with you, Charlotte Bergman,
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  Speaker 2: how does this impact your race moving forward? Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Great question, Todd. I'm so glad you asked. I respect
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  Speaker 3: President Trump. I respect his decision. When you have people
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  Speaker 3: like Marshall Blackburn, Bill Haggerty and the state Senators Jack
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  Speaker 3: Johnson advocating for an individually, they wouldn't know mister Senator
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  Speaker 3: Taylor better than the president.
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  Speaker 4: But I respect him.
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  Speaker 3: But President Trump do not know what is happening on
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  Speaker 3: the ground. And we are meeting people on a daily
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  Speaker 3: basis and it has been exciting and I love it.
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  Speaker 4: So I respect our president.
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  Speaker 5: Representative Warner, same question, same question. Yeah, I respect our
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  Speaker 5: President Donald Trump. But he just endorsed the biggest rhino
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  Speaker 5: in the race.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Before we get to that, he just called
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  Speaker 2: you a big rhino. First of all? Makes what makes
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  Speaker 2: him a rhino? U?
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  Speaker 5: First of all, we passed fifteen two A bills this
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  Speaker 5: year in the House. Send him over to the Senate.
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  Speaker 5: I think he said its own Judiciary committee with Senator
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  Speaker 5: Todd garden Hier. He allowed the senator to close that
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  Speaker 5: committee without objecting with those two A bills that we
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  Speaker 5: were trying to fix here in Tennessee.
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  Speaker 2: Senator, the representative called you a rhino. How do you
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  Speaker 2: respond to that?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I'm not sure he understands what a rhino is,
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  Speaker 6: but I will say on the second amendment, the NRA
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  Speaker 6: just sent out their grades today and I received an
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  Speaker 6: A grade from the National Rifle Association. So I'm not
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  Speaker 6: sure why he is trying to assign Todd garden Hire's
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  Speaker 6: refusal to hear those bills in committee, which he's chairman,
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  Speaker 6: why he's trying to sign that to me? Obviously, the
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  Speaker 6: National Right National Rifle Association did not. They gave me
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  Speaker 6: an A grade on their endorsement to that or their
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  Speaker 6: A grade on their announcement today.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Todd, real quick? You wanted to respond to that?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he didn't object to the chairman closing committee. Had
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  Speaker 5: I been sitting on that committee, I would have object
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  Speaker 5: to a close and I would say, mimster, chairman, we
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  Speaker 5: have unfinished business. We have bills on the table. Let's
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  Speaker 5: take care of it. We could have done it real quick,
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  Speaker 5: no doubt. The President's endorsements the gold standard, but it
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  Speaker 5: doesn't necessarily equate to victory. As we just saw in
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  Speaker 5: South Carolina and the gubernatorial race, the President's nominee there
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  Speaker 5: did not exactly win.
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  Speaker 2: Jeremy, So, what is your path forward? You're the new
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  Speaker 2: guy all the block jumping into the race.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, so are Our strategy for the whole race so
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  Speaker 7: far is just to be to be the best candidate,
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  Speaker 7: to tell the people our story and let them know
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  Speaker 7: that we're going to Congress to serve them and let
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  Speaker 7: them make the decision between now in August and sixth.
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  Speaker 7: You know, early vote starts next week, and we're trusting
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  Speaker 7: that the people do not have to depend on endorsements
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  Speaker 7: or any other kind of following to get into the
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  Speaker 7: House of Representatives. The House of Representatives is an honorable
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  Speaker 7: position of respect, and that's what we plan on going to.
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  Speaker 4: Do for them.
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  Speaker 2: I want to switch gears here and get back to
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  Speaker 2: and Well, First of all, Senator, I should give you
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity to respond to the President putting out that
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  Speaker 2: endorsement this afternoon on True Social Your response to what
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  Speaker 2: the President had to say.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I appreciate that the President called me this afternoon.
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  Speaker 6: We had a brief conversation. Obviously I thanked him for
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  Speaker 6: the endorsement, But you know, Todd, what we spent the
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  Speaker 6: most of the time talking about was something you were
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  Speaker 6: actually involved in, and that was asking the President to
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  Speaker 6: send the Memphis Safe Task Force to Memphis. We talked
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  Speaker 6: about how crime has been cut in half, and he
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  Speaker 6: said that a part of this endorsement of me in
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  Speaker 6: this race was because of my work here fighting crime,
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  Speaker 6: fighting illegal immigration, and fighting China and the state Senate.
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  Speaker 6: And that's part of why he was able to make
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  Speaker 6: that endorsement at this point in the race was because
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  Speaker 6: of that. But we did talk about you and the
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  Speaker 6: fact that you had invited him to send the Memphis
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  Speaker 6: Safe Task Force here.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad the President did. To be honest with you, Charlotte,
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  Speaker 2: there is no denying that you have been standing in
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  Speaker 2: the arena when nobody else would stand in the arena.
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  Speaker 2: I mean going, you know, election cycle after election cycle
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  Speaker 2: up against Steve Cohen and that KFC Fried Chicken that
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  Speaker 2: he brought up up on the Capitol Hill. You've also
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  Speaker 2: been sounding the alarm on socialism that has become a
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  Speaker 2: big thing on your campaign plate. We now know the
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  Speaker 2: later on this week the squad is coming. Alexandria Casio Cortes,
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  Speaker 2: Iana Pressley as well as Summerly are coming to campaign
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  Speaker 2: for Justin Pearson in Memphis. And I'm wondering, should mister
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  Speaker 2: Pearson be the nominee, how will that impact the race
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  Speaker 2: you are running? And how concerned should we be about socialism?
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  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, let me tell you.
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  Speaker 3: And it is imperative that we get on the road
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  Speaker 3: and share with people the dangers of associations socialism. This
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  Speaker 3: nation is at war. It is not a war whereby
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  Speaker 3: we're shooting bullets.
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  Speaker 4: Is a mental war.
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  Speaker 3: It's an ideology. But here's what is happening. The people
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  Speaker 3: that are coming here to support Justin Pearson, aoc IONI,
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  Speaker 3: Pressley and Summarily they are members of the Democrat Sociist
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  Speaker 3: Socialists of America organization. What they want to do is
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  Speaker 3: eliminate the United States Senate. They want to grant emnescy
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  Speaker 3: to illegal aliens. They want to defund the Department of Defense,
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  Speaker 3: replace the President in the Supreme Court with an executive
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  Speaker 3: and judiciary group, and have them subordinate to the Congress.
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  Speaker 4: They want to defund police and they want.
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  Speaker 3: To encourage more woke and LGBTQ agenda. Now Pearson is
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  Speaker 3: not he has not been endorsed by that organization, AOC
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  Speaker 3: and the others have.
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  Speaker 4: But you know what this is about.
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  Speaker 3: This is about trying to destroy our communities, and we're
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  Speaker 3: just not gonna have it. We're not We're not gonna
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  Speaker 3: sit back and allow it to happen without pushing back.
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  Speaker 3: This guy is dangerous to our community. But I'm the
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  Speaker 3: only one who had stood up with him. I'm the
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  Speaker 3: only one in this room who have gone in rooms
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  Speaker 3: with him and let him know and the people around
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  Speaker 3: him know that.
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  Speaker 4: First of all, a.
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  Speaker 3: Republican will win this district. Secondly, if you want to
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  Speaker 3: ensure that you have your rights here or not, and
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  Speaker 3: it's not associates, you need to vote for me, Charlotte Bergman,
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  Speaker 3: because everybody else, justin Pearson is going to actually take
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  Speaker 3: down and call them racist, KKK and etcetera.
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  Speaker 2: You don't think Todd Warner here would take on.
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  Speaker 3: The socialist toa's a good man. What they're going to
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  Speaker 3: do is bring those people here to the Civil Rights
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  Speaker 3: Museum and they're going to just make a big issue
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  Speaker 3: out of it and cause people to bleed in their heart, bleeding,
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  Speaker 3: whole bleeding heart liberals, and they are going to actually
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  Speaker 3: bring in money to this community, and we're going to
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  Speaker 3: have a war on our hand.
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  Speaker 2: I want to give our other other candidates a chance
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  Speaker 2: to respond to that. This is the ninth District of
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  Speaker 2: Tennessee we're talking about, and we're watching the rise of
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  Speaker 2: this radical progressivism. Uh, it's turned into democratic socialism in
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  Speaker 2: some other parts of the country. How concerned should we
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  Speaker 2: be here? And what are you going to do about it?
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  Speaker 2: If you're elected?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I'm going to be elected. And look, this district
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  Speaker 5: is plus twenty Republicans. Republicans go out and vote on
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  Speaker 5: election day, a Republican will be elected. I've stood told
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  Speaker 5: to Toad with Justin Pearson, with Justin Jones in the
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  Speaker 5: State House. I've seen them active, fool I know what
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  Speaker 5: they do. Yeah, they don't scare me one bit. I
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  Speaker 5: welcome him to come over, you know, come on down
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  Speaker 5: through the district. This district is made up of good
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  Speaker 5: Southern Christian folks and they're not going to stand for
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  Speaker 5: the radical left. You know, the you know, this ain't
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  Speaker 5: the old Democratic Party of our grandfathers. This is a
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  Speaker 5: radical left democratic.
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  Speaker 2: Party, Jeremy, the rise of socialism, the rise of radical Islam.
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  Speaker 2: We're seeing this fight played out, and this debate played
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  Speaker 2: out in many other states, including Texas. We're watching it
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  Speaker 2: unfold here in the volunteer state as well. Your platform,
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  Speaker 2: your race that you're running. How concerned are you about
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  Speaker 2: these this year?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: The reason we got in this race is because I
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  Speaker 7: have fought our nation's enemies in their own backyards. I
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  Speaker 7: know what it looks like. I know what the creeping
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  Speaker 7: of Marxism, socialism and communism looks like for this country.
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  Speaker 7: And that's really what we're looking at. We're not looking
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  Speaker 7: at self socialism anymore. And that's what we keep talking about.
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  Speaker 7: We're talking about full blown infiltration of Communism and now
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  Speaker 7: Islam and Shuria in the United States. And we're not compatible.
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  Speaker 7: We're not compatible in any way. It needs to be fought,
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  Speaker 7: it needs to be cut off, and it needs to
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  Speaker 7: be resisted. And I think you start with the House
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  Speaker 7: and Senate rules in the United States government, and you
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  Speaker 7: start this qualifying people who are running for these offices
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  Speaker 7: and pushing these agendas.
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  Speaker 2: Senator Jailer the same question, do you yeah.
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  Speaker 6: So, the best way, once I get to Congress that
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to fight this socialism that is creeping into
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  Speaker 6: our government and to our electorate is we need to
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  Speaker 6: stop illegal immigration, number one, and quite frankly, we need
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  Speaker 6: a pause on all immigration to allow these people an
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  Speaker 6: opportunity to assimilate into our Western culture. We're taking in
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  Speaker 6: way too many people from outside this country, and they're
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  Speaker 6: bringing those socialistic values with them. And what we need
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  Speaker 6: to do is to do what we did in the
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  Speaker 6: early nineteen twenties when they ended all immigration. They put
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  Speaker 6: a pause so that the people, particularly the Italians and
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  Speaker 6: the Irish, to give them time to assimilate into America
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  Speaker 6: and become Americans. We need to do the same thing now.
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  Speaker 6: America needs some me time, and the best way to
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  Speaker 6: fight this socialism is to fight those that are already
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  Speaker 6: here that are trying to infiltrate our society. But also
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  Speaker 6: we need to stop the illegal immigrants, and we also
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  Speaker 6: need a pause on our legal immigration as well.
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  Speaker 2: Representative Warner. That's an interesting point because there is a
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  Speaker 2: debate within the Republican Party over what to do, how
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  Speaker 2: far do we go in dealing with this illegal immigration issue.
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  Speaker 2: Some people say just we need to get rid of
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  Speaker 2: the worst of the worst and figure everybody else out.
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  Speaker 2: Others are saying everybody's got to go and come back
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  Speaker 2: the legal way. You're elected to Congress, what say.
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  Speaker 5: You your last statement? Everybody that has come the wrong
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  Speaker 5: way must go. But I also got to mention Islam
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  Speaker 5: was brought up the Senator here voted this year and
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  Speaker 5: he voted last year to fund Islam here in the
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  Speaker 5: state through the school voucher program.
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  Speaker 2: I want to get to that, and that is actually
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  Speaker 2: one of my questions here. Charlotte Bergman can confirm the
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  Speaker 2: voucher question is coming up, So let's put a pin
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  Speaker 2: there and we'll get right back to that. Jeremy to
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  Speaker 2: you as well. I mean, if you're elected to Congress,
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  Speaker 2: you have a decision to make. Does everybody go or
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  Speaker 2: do some people get to stay?
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  Speaker 7: Illegal is illegal, and we have laws that have to
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  Speaker 7: be followed and enforced, and we're making it making it
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  Speaker 7: more and more difficult on our federal, local and state
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  Speaker 7: law enforcement officials every single day by not getting out
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  Speaker 7: in front of this. It's a failure for multiple generations
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  Speaker 7: now and immigration reform is necessary. But in the meantime
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  Speaker 7: they have to go. There has to be a moratorium
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  Speaker 7: on immigration right now.
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  Speaker 2: Charlotte Berman, what say you.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's imperative that we actually identify the fact
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  Speaker 3: that there are a number of illegals still in this country.
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  Speaker 3: And although there are measures that are being placed put
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  Speaker 3: into place right now to actually send them back home,
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  Speaker 3: it's just not enough. It's not fast enough. They're going
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  Speaker 3: to be involved in our.
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  Speaker 4: Voting pretty soon.
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  Speaker 3: They're coming here and they're taking jobs, and Americans don't
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  Speaker 3: have jobs, or if they, the wages are being lord
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  Speaker 3: People are suffering and they don't really realize that. And
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  Speaker 3: what the Democrat Socialist Socialists of American Party does is
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  Speaker 3: convince people that you're racist. If you object to that,
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  Speaker 3: forget about your own well being and go ahead and
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  Speaker 3: support people that are not in this country. That cannot
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  Speaker 3: be allowed to stand. And people have gone to realize
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  Speaker 3: the truth, and we're taking that message to them.
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  Speaker 2: So you, Charlotte Bermant, have been a little critical of
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  Speaker 2: Senator Taylor's support for this voucher program that Senator or
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  Speaker 2: Representative Warner just brought up. You're writing on social media
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  Speaker 2: that Tennessee taxpayer dollars are now funding Muslim schools as
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  Speaker 2: a result of the Senator's vote. So I'm curious and
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  Speaker 2: this is for you. And then, Senator, I want you
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  Speaker 2: to follow up with you. Where did the senator get
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  Speaker 2: this wrong?
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  Speaker 4: The senator got it wrong.
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  Speaker 3: First of all, I don't know what he was thinking
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  Speaker 3: about I just wonder if he knew what he was
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  Speaker 3: thinking about it. I think it was a go along
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  Speaker 3: to get a long type of issue whereby most people
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  Speaker 3: voted for the bill. He was told that President Trump
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  Speaker 3: wanted the school the boundary bill to be passed.
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  Speaker 6: But the problem is.
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  Speaker 3: The problem is the General Assembly put so much in there,
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  Speaker 3: including the allowance for the schools to be able to
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  Speaker 3: support Cheerier law, which is anathetical and anti Christian, anti constitutional.
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  Speaker 3: There needed to be thresholds, There needed to be oversight
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  Speaker 3: in those bills.
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  Speaker 4: And he wants to say.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: That the Department of Education and organizations like that should
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: do the oversight.
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  Speaker 4: No, it's yours responsibility to do the.
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  Speaker 6: Over Senator, Yeah, thank you.
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  Speaker 9: So.
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  Speaker 6: First of all, this was President Trump's signature education piece
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: of legency asked the states to pass. And the reason
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: I supported it, and look, none of us support funding
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: Muslim schools. The reason I supported this was because my
• 18:22
  Speaker 6: district is in Shelby County, and you know, Todd, you
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: live here. Shelby County has the absolute worst school district
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: in the state, and I wanted to empower parents to
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: be able to keep more of their tax dollars so
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: that they could send their children to the school that
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: best suits their needs. And we have seen we just
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: took over the state just did an intervention in MSCs.
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: The forensic audit found one hundred and twenty million dollars
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: in waste, fraud, and abuse. They were graduating, Todd, They
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: were graduating students that seventy percent of the students could
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: not even read when they graduated. So what we passed
• 19:01
  Speaker 6: and over the Democrats objection, was a school choice bill
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: that allows these students to get scholarships so their parents
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: can send them to a school that suits their needs.
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  Speaker 6: And many times that is Christian school.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: But sometimes it may be a Muslim school.
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: Though right the courts have said whatever you do for
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: a Christian school, you have to do for others. And
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: that's why I wanted it to make it clear I
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: was voting my district. My district is in Shelby County.
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: They have the worst school district in the state, one
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: hundred and twenty million dollars in waste, fraud and abuse,
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: the largest fraud in Tennessee history. And I wanted my
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: parents in my district to have the opportunity to send
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: their kids to the school of their choice, which could
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: include a Christian I.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Want to get to Jeremy Herell on another question, but first,
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: I know you've been wrangling to weigh in on this one.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. First of all, Todd, it's on this bill that
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: we pass is unconstitutional. Second, we've done it in a
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: special session. They cooked this up in a special session.
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: We gall out of session when we were already in session,
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: and we passed this bill. They rigged the committees, and
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: now it's resulted in funding Muslim schools in this state.
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: Seventy five percent of the voucher money it's going to
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: students is already in private schools. This is not helping
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: poor kids. This is helping to rich kids. Yeah, this
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: is this is taken from the poor.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: Jeremy jump in here.
• 20:23
  Speaker 7: Yeah, So the federal scholarship tax credit to create feet
• 20:26
  Speaker 7: free market competition, and what happened in the state of
• 20:29
  Speaker 7: Tennessee are two very different things, and I think it's
• 20:31
  Speaker 7: important for the listeners and the viewers to understand that
• 20:34
  Speaker 7: federal legislation and state legislation, while they sometimes mirror, they
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: don't always get it right. I don't think Tennessee got
• 20:39
  Speaker 7: this right at all. I think we implemented an allotment
• 20:43
  Speaker 7: of money from the federal government under an intended purpose
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: and program that got messed up in communication and implementation,
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: and now we're in recovery from it. I think it's
• 20:52
  Speaker 7: going to have to be revisited. As Todd's elluded, it's
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: probably an unconstitutional movement, and I think the Tennessee State
• 20:58
  Speaker 7: legislature is going to have to go back and get
• 21:00
  Speaker 7: this one right. Anything you push money toward in terms
• 21:03
  Speaker 7: of schools and educational programs has to come with some
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: kind of standard of accountability and oversight.
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  Speaker 6: Todd, the courts are already ruled on this. When they
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: passed the first school Choice from twenty nineteen, it was
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: challenged in court and it has already been withstood the
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: court challenge. But look, the important thing is, again, as
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: I said, this was Donald Trump's signature education legislation. He
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: tweeted out congratulations to Tennessee legislators who are working hard
• 21:28
  Speaker 6: to pass school choice this week, which I totally.
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: Support, minus Sosa.
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  Speaker 6: We passed this legislation at the request of President Trump.
• 21:37
  Speaker 7: Trump's initiative and what happened in Tennessee are two very different.
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  Speaker 4: Things, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, I love this community and I've always
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: felt safe in this community. But while that was going on,
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: mister Brent Taylor and I were at an event at
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: Fairley High School and the parents came up and they
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: wanted to attack mister Brent Taylor because he said the
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: children are like the last tooth in a crackhead's mouth.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: And I tell you what, he had protection and I didn't.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: But people started coming out to me because of what
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: mister Brent Taylor said.
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  Speaker 4: He is not for unity, not for this community, and.
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  Speaker 3: He does not deserve to have that distinction of representing
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: this community.
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  Speaker 2: Senator, thank you.
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  Speaker 6: Can you tell who the front runner is in this race?
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: Tod Let me let me, let me let me say this.
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: The comment she's referencing is when we were looking to
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: pass the school intervention bill, there was a move to
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: delay that on the Senate floor, and I agreed to
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: the delay for a week to allow us time to
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: get the votes necessary to pass the school intervention bills
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: that this community needed. And what I reminded my colleagues
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: on the Senate floor was that there are people back
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: home that the kids back home are hanging in there
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: like a crack head's last tooth. That is not calling
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: the kids.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: A crack That's what the parents thought.
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: I said that in there like a crackhead's last tooth,
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: or like a hair and a biscuit. And uh we
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: we ultimately came back and passed that.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Way all right to another Southern saying, here, will that
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: dog hunt State Representative Warner?
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: Which dog?
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: Well, I'll just tell you, well, I'll tell you about
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: the dog. The dog in the room is Brett Taylor
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: was behind today in the polls. I don't know what
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: they'll show after President Trump's endorsement. We polled this race
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: three times, and he's been begging Marshall Blackburn and the
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: folks that are in the higher up to help him
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: get this endorsement. And President Trumps, I've been giving some
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: bad All.
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  Speaker 2: Right, guys, we've got to take a quick break here
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  Speaker 2: so everybody catch their breath. We're taking numbers nine oh
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  Speaker 2: one two six zero five, nine two six. That's nine
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  Speaker 2: o one two six zero five nine two six. We
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  Speaker 2: will be right back.
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  Speaker 1: Now back to the ninth Congressional District Radio Quorum on
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  Speaker 1: the mighty nine nineteenth with your host to Todd Starns.
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  Speaker 2: All right, and welcome back everybody. It has been a
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: little fiery here, a little spicy in the mighty nine
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  Speaker 2: ninety studios our ninth Congressional District debate. It's been a
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  Speaker 2: great conversation, sort of a rollicking conversation we're honored to
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  Speaker 2: have with the state Representative Todd Warner, Charlotte Bergman Brent Taylor,
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: and State Senator Brent Taylor and Jeremy Thompson. Before the break, guys,
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: we were having a pretty spirited conversation about these vouchers
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: and the fact that that students are able to use
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: these to attend Muslim schools. Representative Warner, we left it
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: off with you go ahead, and then Jeremy, you jump in.
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  Speaker 5: Well, as I was saying, I want to go. We
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: cooked this up under a special session. We gabbled out
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: of a session, went into a special session to pass
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: these vouchers. That's the only way they could do it.
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: And I've been attacked the last three weeks, probably had
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: eight or ten mailers mailed into the district attacking me
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: for voting a gifted I'm sure with the help of
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: mister Taylor over here and these folks or they're they're
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: doing it for him, but consistently attacked. But the reason
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: there's a difference in the school choice and the school voucher.
• 25:07
  Speaker 5: And I'd be glad to explain that to you, as
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: the true conservative, why I voted against it, if you
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: would allow me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, go ahead, Yeah, I'll be real quick, real quick here.
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  Speaker 5: So in Williamson County, we have a public school district
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: called the Franklin Special School District run by the City
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: of Franklin. If I wanted to take my child, which
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: I'm just south of there down in Marshall County into
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: that City of Franklin Special School District, that child, that
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: child would not qualify for the voucher. The city charges
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: you four thousand dollars to bring an out of county
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: student into the UH into the into the city school
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: with a voucher that we passed in Tennessee. Will not
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: pay for that. To me, that's not true school choice.
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: You can't go to public school to public school. But
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: what you can do is go to public school. I mean, yeah,
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: the public school to a Muslim school.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: Jeremy, I want you to weigh in. And then we
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: have State Representative Mark White, who's owning in, who wants
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: to weigh in on this, and we'll see what he has.
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: Hold on.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: He's well, he's a constituent here. Let's Jeremy go ahead.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, hey, all is fair in love and war. Right,
• 26:10
  Speaker 7: We're all running for the same position on August sixth.
• 26:12
  Speaker 7: We're all on the same team. But between now and then,
• 26:14
  Speaker 7: the Tennesseeans, I would encourage Tennesseeans to get involved in
• 26:17
  Speaker 7: this process and energize the Republican Party the conservative way
• 26:21
  Speaker 7: of life that's gotten us two hundred and fifty years
• 26:23
  Speaker 7: in this country. We just celebrated that, and I think
• 26:25
  Speaker 7: we need to continue it, and we can't do it
• 26:27
  Speaker 7: if we continue to beat each other's throats. However, we
• 26:30
  Speaker 7: can be different differently aligned on federal intent and state implementation.
• 26:35
  Speaker 7: And I think there's a lot of work that has
• 26:36
  Speaker 7: to be done at the state level to make sure
• 26:38
  Speaker 7: that we get federal level initiatives.
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  Speaker 2: Correct, All right, to put a bow on this, I
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: think let's bring in a state representative, Mark White, Chair
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: of the Education Committee. Representative, why good to have you
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  Speaker 2: with us on the debate. What's on your mind?
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  Speaker 9: Thank you, Todd, appreciate it a very interesting show. Appreciate
• 26:56
  Speaker 9: all four that running for that office.
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  Speaker 8: I'm a citizen of this nine and I just wanted
• 27:01
  Speaker 8: to add to the conversation on the scholarships vouchers. When
• 27:05
  Speaker 8: we passed that, there was a lot of debate on
• 27:07
  Speaker 8: money to do money going to buzz and schools. We
• 27:09
  Speaker 8: did put in the legislation you could not teach you
• 27:11
  Speaker 8: real law, and I believe it also included you couldn't
• 27:14
  Speaker 8: teach anything anti US Constitution and receive voucher dollars. So
• 27:18
  Speaker 8: I just wanted to add that to the conference conversation.
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  Speaker 9: I also voted for the scholarship legislation because parents need choy,
• 27:26
  Speaker 9: especially living here in Memphis where we have parents that
• 27:29
  Speaker 9: need options for the children in the family school system.
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  Speaker 2: Representative Warner jump in here.
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  Speaker 5: We didn't have no debate. They weren't they We didn't
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: have no debate on it. No one single question was
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: asking committee because they were told by the speaker not
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: to ask any questions. They stripped me from the committees,
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: and no US true conservatives that vote against this bill
• 27:50
  Speaker 5: did not get to speak on the House floor. They
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: kept a list of who they was going to let
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: speak on the House floor. I don't know what they
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: did in the Senate, but we didn't get to speak
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: on the House floor.
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  Speaker 6: Well, we did debate it robustly in the Senate. I
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: don't know what the House did, but I appreciate the
• 28:05
  Speaker 6: fact that mister Warner saying that the true conservatives voted
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: against it. The Democrats voted against it, So I'm not
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: sure how Democrats are true conservatives.
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: There was there was twenty two of us true conservatives,
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: people like Jody Barrett, Monti, Frieth, Michelle Renault, that voted
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: against this bill.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, this is a hot topic and representative what we
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: appreciate you phoning in, but we do have a lot
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: more to get to and I just want to say,
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: right out of the gate, if I forget this sometime
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: during the evening, I think the voters in the ninth
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: district greatly appreciate the fact that all of you are here,
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: that you are willing to sit across from each other
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: and have those conversations. I will tell you that not
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: every major race is doing that right now, and I
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: think that's really sad. I think if you're running for office,
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: you to be able to have the courage to man
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: up or woman up and sit across from your opponents
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: and talk about the big issues of the day. Just
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  Speaker 2: want to say thank y'all for doing that.
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: Are you talking about the governor's race, which I am.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: Talking about the governor's race. So and again, I've been
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: pretty open and clear that I believe that every single
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: person running for office needs to debate. I mean it
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: just it makes for a strong, vibrant Republican party.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: I want to move on because Jeremy, when I saw
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: this story, I immediately jotted down I wanted you to
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: respond to it. There has been a lot of controversy
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: over Shelby County District Attorney Steve Moulroy. He had an
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: op ed published in USA today and it has been
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: widely condemned by the Tennessee Attorney's General Conference, the Collierville
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: Police Police Chief Dale Lane. And here's what Moulroy said
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: that really set everybody off. And I'd like for you know,
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: if anybody else wants to weigh in. But Jeremy to
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: you first. Our district attorney here said one thing I
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: learned was a DA can't prevent police killings if the
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: police are trained to kill. What say you, yeah?
• 29:56
  Speaker 7: So, I've carried a gun in Lincoln County, failed Tennessee
• 29:58
  Speaker 7: as a reserve deputy sheriff since somewhere around two thousand
• 30:01
  Speaker 7: and six. I started ou as a corrections officer in
• 30:02
  Speaker 7: nineteen ninety eight. I've served under five different sheriffs. We
• 30:05
  Speaker 7: believe in the rule of law in the state of Tennessee,
• 30:08
  Speaker 7: and if the district Attorney in Memphis, Tennessee does not,
• 30:11
  Speaker 7: he needs to find another line of work. That's where
• 30:13
  Speaker 7: I'm at on that. And the people have to understand
• 30:16
  Speaker 7: that it's their responsibility to get out and make sure
• 30:18
  Speaker 7: that people like him never see those offices again.
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: Charlotte Berg, I believe in the rule of law.
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: I too carry, and I feel safe carrying. But I'll
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: tell you what Moreroy, I'm concerned. I was in a parade,
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: the Bartlet Parade, and State Senator Taylor was on the
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: float with me. More Roy was standing on this side
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: of the street they started engaging with each other like
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: they were best of friends, and I started thinking.
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: What's going on here?
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: I mean, Taylor comes across like he's hard on crime
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: in public, but then get him in a social environment.
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: What's going on? What were you thinking?
• 30:59
  Speaker 6: I was taught to him and telling him Merry Christmas.
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: It was more than that.
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: Thank you, Thank you, Todd. I carry a gun every
• 31:09
  Speaker 5: day too, because it's my Second Amendment right, not because
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: I'm a deputy or reserve deputy or whatnot. I'm going
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: to carry a gun. But I if I think I'm
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: correct on this, the General Assembly can impeach this guy.
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: The governor needs to call a special session and let's
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: go in and do some real business instead of passing
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: of Bapter scam under under a special session.
• 31:30
  Speaker 7: Jeremy, I would I would like to tell her addressed,
• 31:33
  Speaker 7: just for a second. As a law enforcement officer, we
• 31:35
  Speaker 7: have a high and great responsibility to protect those around us.
• 31:38
  Speaker 7: Every tennessee in, every American has the right and deserves
• 31:42
  Speaker 7: to feel protected and safe anywhere they travel in the
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: United States. As a sitting elected official, unfortunately, I just
• 31:50
  Speaker 7: don't see where we have room to taunt those that
• 31:53
  Speaker 7: are in front of us while we have, while we
• 31:54
  Speaker 7: have tasked law enforcement officials, the National Guard, and other
• 31:58
  Speaker 7: people in protective services. You're talking to Justin Pearson, I'm
• 32:01
  Speaker 7: talking well, Unfortunately, taunting them as a Republican or a
• 32:05
  Speaker 7: Democrat is equally unworthy of the positions. What do you
• 32:08
  Speaker 7: mean by servant, Well, we were just talking about Senator
• 32:12
  Speaker 7: Taylor taunting those who were protesting and using ice and
• 32:16
  Speaker 7: other metrics to taunt the crowd in front of law enforcement.
• 32:20
  Speaker 7: You do not have the right, as a sitting state senator,
• 32:24
  Speaker 7: a state representative, or anybody at the federal level to
• 32:27
  Speaker 7: taunt an already hyperbolic crowd and make it more dangerous
• 32:30
  Speaker 7: for those that are there for your protection.
• 32:32
  Speaker 6: Senator Yeah, I'm glad you brought up D. A. Moroy
• 32:34
  Speaker 6: because no one has fought D. A. Molroy more than
• 32:37
  Speaker 6: I have. I have fought and did it back down,
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: and I fought in one against D. A. Molroy. We
• 32:44
  Speaker 6: actually passed this last session, we passed legislation that provides
• 32:48
  Speaker 6: state oversight over the DA's office. We now have someone
• 32:52
  Speaker 6: in the Attorney General's office that has to is doing
• 32:56
  Speaker 6: a deep dive a review of his office, particularly in
• 32:59
  Speaker 6: grant funding because I believe there are issues with the
• 33:02
  Speaker 6: grants that are being awarded to his particular office. The
• 33:06
  Speaker 6: other thing we did, we have had a lot of
• 33:08
  Speaker 6: arrest with the Memphis Safe Task Force. Have been a
• 33:10
  Speaker 6: lot of treasure and blood and sweat that has gone
• 33:15
  Speaker 6: into reducing crime in Memphis and Shelby County by fifty
• 33:18
  Speaker 6: percent Todd. And what I did, I was able to
• 33:21
  Speaker 6: pass legislation that says when the DA downgrades otherwise refuses
• 33:26
  Speaker 6: to charge people who've been arrested under the Memphis Safe
• 33:29
  Speaker 6: Task Force, he has to document that in writing and
• 33:32
  Speaker 6: provide that to the United States Attorney as well as
• 33:35
  Speaker 6: the Attorney General, so that people who are serious about
• 33:38
  Speaker 6: prosecution will actually prosecute those crimes. And so I've said before,
• 33:45
  Speaker 6: Steve Moulroy wants to try to save people. I would
• 33:48
  Speaker 6: encourage him to resign, join the seminary and he can
• 33:51
  Speaker 6: save souls like all the other pastors, but leave prosecution
• 33:55
  Speaker 6: to the serious people who are serious about reducing crime
• 33:58
  Speaker 6: and putting people in prison.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: If you have a question that you would like to ask,
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: all you have to do is pick up your phone
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: and give us a call nine oh one two six
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: zero five nine two six. That number nine oh one
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: two six zero five nine two six will be taking
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: your calls momentarily. Charlotte, you live in the ninth Congressional district.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: You live in Memphis, and I'm just wondering about this
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: Memphis State Task Force. Was that the right decision President
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: Trump made to send in the task force? And has
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: it worked?
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: You know, the decision that President Trump made was great
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: and I applaud when he did the problem is the
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: Memphis Safe Task Force personnel are doing their jobs.
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  Speaker 4: They are arresting criminals.
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: Morroy, it's still releasing them, it's still setting low bond,
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: So we're still.
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  Speaker 4: Having a problem.
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: Guys, everybody's talking about crime has gone down in Memphis.
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: The fact of the matter is this when President Trump
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: was here, yes it was low around fifty percent, but
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: now it's gone back up, especially since you know it's
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: gotten warm outside. People are out. There are still people
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: in my neighborhood that are shooting guns, that are dead
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: away with crimes. The people are safer to an extent,
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: but the problem has not been solved. And nobody has
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: a right to pat themselves on the back and say
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: I've got the job done because it hasn't been done.
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: God. Yeah, I think what President Trump done was the
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: right thing to do. But we didn't have to wait
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: on President Trump. The governor has that authority to send
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: the National Guard over crew, and we didn't act. Should
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: have went the special session for that, but no, what
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: do we do? We passed vouchers. We weighed five hundred
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: million of your tax dollars on vouchers instead of sending
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: the National Guard.
• 35:43
  Speaker 6: Well, ty, let me also say we passed other things.
• 35:46
  Speaker 6: We passed a lot of Baill reform, I passed a
• 35:49
  Speaker 6: lot of bills. We ended Tennessee's version of cashless bill.
• 35:52
  Speaker 6: Matter of fact, there was a bill in the legislature
• 35:54
  Speaker 6: that says that you cannot offer cashless bill to anyone
• 35:58
  Speaker 6: who uses a fire arm or displays a firearm in
• 36:01
  Speaker 6: the commission of a crime. And Representative Warner voted against that.
• 36:04
  Speaker 6: And so we were doing a lot to reduce crime
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: before the President ever sent to Memphis.
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: And when to respond to that, Yeah, I think that
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: you're right to you know, VERI I mean keeping bar
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: of firearms certain crimes. You know, if a firearms present
• 36:17
  Speaker 5: don't mean that you're a dangerous criminal. But the way
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: that the bill was structured, was terrible. It was no.
• 36:23
  Speaker 6: It said if you if you displayed or use a
• 36:25
  Speaker 6: firearm in the commission of a crime. It's not just
• 36:27
  Speaker 6: walking down the street with a firearm, that's perfectly legal,
• 36:30
  Speaker 6: but when you commit a crime and use a firearm
• 36:34
  Speaker 6: or display it. He voted against requiring bill for that
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: person to be released from jail.
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: I don't think. I don't remember how I exactly voted,
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: but it shouldn't be a crime for carrying a firearm
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: when you get you know, when you run a stoplight
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: or you do something, it's not a serious crime.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: I see Jeremy scribbling furiously over here on the paper,
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: Jeremy wad Hey.
• 36:55
  Speaker 7: I think I think we're missing a lot here in
• 36:57
  Speaker 7: honoring those who are serving on that mephis safety force.
• 37:00
  Speaker 7: I mean, I was in the National Guard for twenty
• 37:02
  Speaker 7: two years. As I said, I'm a previous law enforcement officer,
• 37:05
  Speaker 7: and when elected officials start making decisions to put those
• 37:09
  Speaker 7: men and women in harm's way, they have responsibility to
• 37:11
  Speaker 7: support them to the fullest. So one of the things
• 37:14
  Speaker 7: that has bothered me a lot during this process is
• 37:17
  Speaker 7: you can't be the person responsible for that and make
• 37:20
  Speaker 7: a major claim to fame for the Memphis State Safe
• 37:22
  Speaker 7: Task Force and then go out and put those same
• 37:24
  Speaker 7: men and women in harm's way and make their job
• 37:27
  Speaker 7: that much harder by your physical presence and the way
• 37:30
  Speaker 7: you present yourself to those who oppose them.
• 37:33
  Speaker 6: Senator I have no idea what he's talking about.
• 37:35
  Speaker 7: When I'm talking about taunting crowds that are already ready
• 37:39
  Speaker 7: to fight. You don't go out and taunt crowds when
• 37:41
  Speaker 7: they're already ready to fight when you have uniformed protection
• 37:46
  Speaker 7: between you and that crowd. Don't be tough. Don't be
• 37:49
  Speaker 7: tough when law enforcement officials and the National Guard are there,
• 37:52
  Speaker 7: if you're not going to be tough outside their presence.
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: I experienced it when Senator Tail State Senator Taylor open
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: his mouths that's something derogatory toward Pearance, and they wanted
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: to attack me, and they never wanted to attack me because.
• 38:06
  Speaker 7: Justin Pearson's behavior is no different and no better, and
• 38:09
  Speaker 7: we have a responsibility to be.
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: Better than Todd.
• 38:12
  Speaker 6: I have never gotten up off the house floor and
• 38:14
  Speaker 6: gone to the gallery and stood nose to nose with
• 38:17
  Speaker 6: with law enforcement and called him an MF boy. Justin
• 38:21
  Speaker 6: Pearson did that what did you want to hold that accountable?
• 38:24
  Speaker 6: He's I'll tell you exactly what I'm gonna do hold
• 38:26
  Speaker 6: him accountable. He's likely to be the Democrat nominee, and
• 38:28
  Speaker 6: I'm going to take the fight to him when I
• 38:30
  Speaker 6: win the nomination.
• 38:31
  Speaker 7: We're all going to take the fight.
• 38:32
  Speaker 6: And I'm going to take the fight to him. And
• 38:33
  Speaker 6: I'm going to ensure Todd that the only way he
• 38:36
  Speaker 6: ever sees the inside of the United States capitalist through
• 38:40
  Speaker 6: the visitor center on a guided tour and not through
• 38:42
  Speaker 6: the members only door. And as it relates to the
• 38:45
  Speaker 6: the tawny crowds, these crowds show up at Republican events
• 38:49
  Speaker 6: when we are when we are welcoming the National Guard.
• 38:53
  Speaker 6: The weathered, purple haired hippies show up on a counter protest,
• 38:57
  Speaker 6: and I'm not afraid of him, whether the law enforcement
• 39:00
  Speaker 6: officers are there or not. You you can't fight these
• 39:03
  Speaker 6: socialists by being the nice guy and saying, well, I
• 39:06
  Speaker 6: wish you would please not do that. You can't fight
• 39:08
  Speaker 6: a sorrow's funded da who gives people a warm, hot
• 39:12
  Speaker 6: cocoat a hug and ask them not to do again.
• 39:15
  Speaker 6: You have to take the fight to them, and I've demonstrated.
• 39:17
  Speaker 7: Nobody's suggesting being soft on the issue. What he's suggesting
• 39:21
  Speaker 7: is you don't make an already bad situation worse when
• 39:24
  Speaker 7: you've got men and women there trying to do their job.
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: Charl I just want to say, I've seen him be
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: surrounded by protection he has to because he opens his
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: mouth and puts his foot in his mouth in an offense,
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: offends very much to keeep in the community. And they
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: just don't like you.
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: They call you racist.
• 39:43
  Speaker 6: That's because I don't really give a damn what they
• 39:45
  Speaker 6: call me. They can't call me rac want to. I'm
• 39:47
  Speaker 6: not afraid of that.
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: Against itself.
• 39:53
  Speaker 6: I will tell okay, I will take that's cute. I
• 39:56
  Speaker 6: will take the fight to them. I've already demonstrated them
• 39:59
  Speaker 6: to I'm not afraid to stand up to these.
• 40:06
  Speaker 7: Form in Savannah, Tennessee with the Farm Bureau. And he's
• 40:09
  Speaker 7: got a story that he's very proud of that he
• 40:11
  Speaker 7: tells all the time about the grit of David Crockett
• 40:15
  Speaker 7: and how he told people to go to hell and
• 40:17
  Speaker 7: he was going to go give the Democrats hell. Well,
• 40:19
  Speaker 7: we didn't tell the same story when we were on
• 40:21
  Speaker 7: the stage with the two running for the same position.
• 40:23
  Speaker 7: And I wondered why. It's because sometimes we find ourselves
• 40:27
  Speaker 7: very tough in protected situations, and that we're not so
• 40:30
  Speaker 7: tough when we're not so protected.
• 40:32
  Speaker 6: Brent, I tell that story all the time. And by
• 40:35
  Speaker 6: the way, District nine is David Crockett's old district, and
• 40:39
  Speaker 6: I tell the story that when he lost his last
• 40:42
  Speaker 6: re election, he's still in the courthouse. Steps said, I'm
• 40:44
  Speaker 6: going to Texas. All you folks can go to hell,
• 40:47
  Speaker 6: and I remind people I've got the same Tennessee grit
• 40:49
  Speaker 6: that David Crockett has. And I would say it a
• 40:51
  Speaker 6: little bit differently, Todd. I would say it that I'm
• 40:54
  Speaker 6: going to Congress and I'm going to give the Democrats hell. Yeah,
• 40:56
  Speaker 6: David Democrat that I'm going to get when justin Pearson
• 41:02
  Speaker 6: and data sure that he never gets an opportunity to
• 41:05
  Speaker 6: see the inside the United States Capital unless it's only
• 41:07
  Speaker 6: guided to it.
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: All Right, Well, i think we've said all that needs
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: to be said there, and we've got a lot of
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: other topics I'm hoping that we can get to. We're
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: going to try to work in one the top of
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: the hour, folks, WI watch to take a quick break
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: for the news then coming back with more of more
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: of our conversation and your calls. Nine oh one two
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: six zero five nine two six. That's nine oh one
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: two six zero five, nine two six. I want to
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: switch gears here and talk about the economy for just
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: a moment. Memphis has been pretty hard hit. Layoffs are
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: are increasing across the entire area. Businesses are shutting down
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: and leaving. We have seen a mass exodus of citizens.
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: We are the largest county in Tennessee to see a
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: mass exodus of citizens. And I want to start with you, Todd.
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: What can you do in Congress to help fix what
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: is in Memphis.
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  Speaker 5: First of all, what we got to do is stop
• 42:04
  Speaker 5: growing our government. We need to cut regulations. We need
• 42:07
  Speaker 5: to cut business, I mean cut cut taxes for small business,
• 42:12
  Speaker 5: cut regulations, and we need to drill, drill, drill. We
• 42:15
  Speaker 5: need to produce as much oil in this country as
• 42:17
  Speaker 5: we can and be energy sufficient without relying on any
• 42:22
  Speaker 5: other countries.
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: Charlotte, what about yourself?
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: Listen with the socialists coming to town. They want to
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: make sure that people do not have jobs, business owners
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: do not own businesses.
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: When they reject every.
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: Attempt that President Trump tries to implement in the Congress
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: behind him in order to make things much more feasible
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: and want much more prosperous in this community. As long
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: as they're able to get away with doing that, we
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: will not have investment in the Memphis area.
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: But I'm positive. I feel like things will.
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: Be changing because, as has been stated, District nine is
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: going to be a Republican district. It's just a matter
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: of which one of us would be the last man standing,
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: because Justin Peterson will not win, but he is going
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: to cause so much chaos and trouble and get people
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: out up and want to come out to a tag.
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: But when the smoke clears, it's going to be a
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: Republican would be able to work with President Trump and
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: the fellow legislators in order to pass bills comparable to
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: the Big New Beautiful Bill in order to make things
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: more prosperous in Memphis.
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: Senator Taylor, Yes, I will.
• 43:35
  Speaker 6: As Congressman. I believe the question was how this would
• 43:38
  Speaker 6: benefit Memphis and keep people from moving out, and that
• 43:42
  Speaker 6: is that I will continue to work with President Trump
• 43:44
  Speaker 6: as and I demonstrated that as evidenced by his endorsement
• 43:47
  Speaker 6: of me today. What I want to do is to
• 43:50
  Speaker 6: make sure that we have federal resources in place we
• 43:53
  Speaker 6: can lock in the gains made by the Memphis Safe
• 43:56
  Speaker 6: Task Force. And I think that includes continuing to fight
• 43:59
  Speaker 6: violent crime to ensure that it does not spread out
• 44:01
  Speaker 6: of these cities into these rural communities. To fight illegal
• 44:05
  Speaker 6: immigration because illegal immigrants that are here are driving down wages,
• 44:09
  Speaker 6: they're driving up housing costs, and they're using benefits they're
• 44:13
  Speaker 6: intended safety net benefits, they're intended for Tennesseeans. And then lastly,
• 44:18
  Speaker 6: I want to fight China, just like I've done in
• 44:20
  Speaker 6: the state legislature, to keep them from robbing intellectual property
• 44:25
  Speaker 6: and trade secrets, from proprietary information through the funding of
• 44:28
  Speaker 6: lawsuits and then counterfeiting our products and flooding the market
• 44:31
  Speaker 6: with our businesses, products and services and flooding the market
• 44:35
  Speaker 6: with And I'm going to help put a stop for
• 44:36
  Speaker 6: that in Congress.
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Todd.
• 44:38
  Speaker 5: What Brent failed to mention he was on the city
• 44:42
  Speaker 5: council here, what for fifteen years?
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: He was part of the problem for a long time.
• 44:48
  Speaker 6: If I could. In nineteen ninety five through two thousand
• 44:51
  Speaker 6: and seven, when I was on the city council, crime
• 44:54
  Speaker 6: was at its lowest until now crime was at his lowest,
• 44:57
  Speaker 6: and we hired more police officers with the highest compliment
• 44:59
  Speaker 6: of police officers at any time during that period of
• 45:03
  Speaker 6: time when I was on the city all right.
• 45:04
  Speaker 5: Todd, Yeah, quick, I'm not sure that's exactly correg but
• 45:08
  Speaker 5: we had to pass a bill in the state House
• 45:10
  Speaker 5: to allow your police officers and county deputies to live
• 45:13
  Speaker 5: outside the county because it was so dangerous inside the
• 45:16
  Speaker 5: city that they don't they don't want to live here.
• 45:18
  Speaker 6: And I actually sponsored that same legislation on the City
• 45:21
  Speaker 6: Council and County Commission when I was on there.
• 45:23
  Speaker 7: Jeremy so Justin Pearson has a thing going right now
• 45:26
  Speaker 7: about stop the occupation. This is not an occupation. This
• 45:29
  Speaker 7: is a law enforcement presence to reduce crime. And that's
• 45:33
  Speaker 7: exactly what they've done. The men and women in law
• 45:35
  Speaker 7: enforcement and the US Army National Guard Tennessee National Guard
• 45:38
  Speaker 7: has done their job. They've reduced crime by half. The
• 45:40
  Speaker 7: statistics are amazing, and I think it should be the
• 45:42
  Speaker 7: model set for the rest of the country, places like Chicago,
• 45:45
  Speaker 7: New York, places in California. But what will a congressman
• 45:49
  Speaker 7: do to affect this and make it better? Memphis and
• 45:53
  Speaker 7: the ninth district all the way around to Nashville has
• 45:56
  Speaker 7: great companies and employers. But we have to reduce the
• 45:59
  Speaker 7: tax burd and start to deregulate. Deregulation has to be
• 46:02
  Speaker 7: the theme for anybody who gets elected into this office.
• 46:05
  Speaker 7: And we have to make energy and groceries more affordable
• 46:08
  Speaker 7: while serving manufacturing, agriculture, and logistical networks.
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: And again, you know, say what you will about about
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: Congressman Cohen, but we're finally getting a brand new bridge
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: across the Mississippi River to repair the Dilapiday one. That's
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: not even you know, God for we have an earthquake
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: that's one of the first thing that goes into the river.
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: So I think it is.
• 46:26
  Speaker 6: And I might also add, as Vice Chairman of the
• 46:28
  Speaker 6: Transportation Committee in the Senate, I secured two hundred and
• 46:30
  Speaker 6: fifty million dollars in matching funds from the state to
• 46:33
  Speaker 6: go with the federal funds to get that bridge built.
• 46:35
  Speaker 5: Listen, I won't correct the senator on that. I don't
• 46:38
  Speaker 5: do nothing down to that day. It takes fifty House members,
• 46:41
  Speaker 5: seventeen Centate members, and a governor and a bunch of
• 46:44
  Speaker 5: taxpayers across this great state to get something done.
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: All right, gentlemen, hang tight, lady, hang tight, We're gonna
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: have to get ready to take a quick break here.
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: When we come back, we're gonna be hitting on some
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: of the national issues, including H one B visas, also
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: the Save America Act, which is on the President's agenda
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: at the top of the agenda, and we want to
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: talk about what would happen, what would that look like
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: if in fact you are elected to Congress. We're also
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: going to be taking your calls. We have Mike and Memphis.
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: Thank you for holding on. We're going to get to
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: your calls. Nine oh one two six zero five nine
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: two six is our telephone number. That's nine oh one
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: two six zero five nine two six. Now we're monitoring
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: the clock here, so we're going to go around real click,
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: real quick, and just give your website address where people
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: can go if they want to get more information. Charlotte
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: will start with you and just kind of do a
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: round robin.
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: Thank you for that opportunity, Todd. My website is Bergman
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: for Congress dot com and that's two ends on Bergman
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  Speaker 3: and the four is not a number. Bergman four Congress
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: dot com.
• 47:48
  Speaker 6: I would encourage everyone to go to Brent Taylor for Congress.
• 47:51
  Speaker 6: But I would also encourage everyone to follow me on
• 47:52
  Speaker 6: social media. They can follow our campaign chronicles including ant
• 47:56
  Speaker 6: b and the sign Manager side Quest with kaylor put
• 48:01
  Speaker 6: Now signs.
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: All right, good stuff, Tod Todd Vote Warner dot com, all.
• 48:04
  Speaker 7: Right, Jeremy Thompson dot com, and Jeremy Thompson for Congress
• 48:08
  Speaker 7: on Facebook.
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: All right, Todd gets the award for being the most
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: pithy there of the shortest of all the commentators. All right,
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: hang tight, everybody, We're gonna take a quick break. We're
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: gonna give our candidates a chance to stretch their legs,
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: grab some water. That music means we've got to take
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: a quick break again. Our telephone number nine oh one
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  Speaker 2: two six zero five nine two six. That's nine oh
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: one two six zero five, nine two six. This is
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: the ninth Congressional District GOP debate on Kwham.
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: A Mighty Wham exclusive, the ninth Congressional District radio forum
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: hosted by Todd Starns.
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: Yes that is me. Hello, everybody, Welcome back to our
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: very special debate. We have had a wild, wild evening
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: so far, and we're just honored to have with us
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: four of our great Republican candidates, all wanting to be
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: the Republican nominee for the ninth Congression listric taking on
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: more than likely justin Pearson. We're honored to have Charlotte Bergman,
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: Brent Taylor, Jeremy Thompson, and Todd Warner with us. Guys.
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: Before while in the break, we were talking about food,
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: and there does seem to be a thing. I know,
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: everybody's got their differences of opinion, but when it comes
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: to food, there is some commonality here. Charlotte, I understand that,
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: and I actually saw pictures Judge Joe Brown, how you
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: corralled this guy to man the grill at one of
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: your big campaign events.
• 49:32
  Speaker 5: The other day.
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: Judge Joe Brown is a superb griller. He actually has
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: the Judge Joe Brown bobbecue sauce. I don't know what
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: do you did with hot elks, but it was so delicious,
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: really good.
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: So in other words, it was not like Chuck Schumer, right,
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: who had the everybody remembers that debacle. Oh that was good. Now,
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: Brent Taylor, you're driving a lot of people say ant b.
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: They know they've learned, they've come to know Ant b
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: and this thing that you guys had with chicken livers,
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: and you got to help me understand that.
• 50:04
  Speaker 6: One.
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: I'm not a big chicken liver guy.
• 50:06
  Speaker 6: Well neither are most people they're in the campaign car
• 50:09
  Speaker 6: with us. But but Aunt Bee likes chicken livers, and
• 50:11
  Speaker 6: she bought them at a service station and she eats
• 50:15
  Speaker 6: about half of them, covers some salt, eats about half
• 50:17
  Speaker 6: of them, and then leaves them in the hot car.
• 50:20
  Speaker 6: And so by the time we make that long drive
• 50:22
  Speaker 6: back home, the car is pretty rank. I make them
• 50:25
  Speaker 6: try to roll the windows down, and she likes chicken.
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: So we need to get you some fabreeze.
• 50:29
  Speaker 6: Is we needed that? We need a lot of fabreeze
• 50:31
  Speaker 6: to get rid of that.
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: You can over all right now, Representative Warner, I understand
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: now you're a you're a farmer, and we were talking
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: about farming before the Star of the show. But you
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: you've got this great tour that you're on called Catfish
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: and common Sense. How does that work out?
• 50:45
  Speaker 5: Well? As you know, this district runs along with the
• 50:47
  Speaker 5: Tennessee River, the Duck River, the Buffalo River, and some
• 50:51
  Speaker 5: of my staff came up with that and just you know,
• 50:53
  Speaker 5: we've been making stops in these small towns and providing
• 50:56
  Speaker 5: a little bit of catfish and listening to some common sense.
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: Nothing nothing like good catfish and some hush puppies.
• 51:02
  Speaker 5: That's exactly rights'll go with.
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: Oh I'm there, I'm there, give me some charter sauce. Yeah,
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: all right, Jeremy, we got to talk about this. You
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: actually own the Revolutionary Tavern and I was checking out
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: your website, so it's like a it's a Revolutionary War
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: themed pub.
• 51:18
  Speaker 7: Yes, sir, So, Lincoln County Fayetvil was named after Benjamin Lincoln,
• 51:23
  Speaker 7: who was served in second in command under George Washington,
• 51:26
  Speaker 7: and Marquis de la Fiete was a nineteen year old
• 51:28
  Speaker 7: Frenchman that came over and fought in the Revolutionary War.
• 51:30
  Speaker 7: So we honor both of those as long as well
• 51:33
  Speaker 7: as other influencers and writers of the Declaration and Constitution.
• 51:37
  Speaker 7: But yeah, everything on our menu is framed around either
• 51:39
  Speaker 7: a previous Revolutionary War general or a Revolutionary War battle.
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: Freedom rings, freedom, yes, sir, I love that, yea. And
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: the founder's smash burger do you recommend that?
• 51:51
  Speaker 7: Absolutely? Yeah, Yeah, they've done a phenomenal job. We have
• 51:53
  Speaker 7: a chef Joe Albergo that came in from some upper
• 51:56
  Speaker 7: class cooking, and he does this us a really good job.
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: I was trying to figure out how you guys keep
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: your figures on the campaign trail with all the great
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: food and all the places that you guys go. But
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: I think it's because y'all are out there putting your
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: signs out everywhere Representative Order, and you're all over.
• 52:11
  Speaker 5: The place, all over the place. And we've also noted
• 52:13
  Speaker 5: twenty five thousand dollars. Is that twenty five and thirty? Wow?
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: And Bergman here, she's got the RV. Now, so and
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: you're heading out what to Williamson County.
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: We're starting out in Williamson County, Frankfort, Tennessee. We're going
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: to hit Muffisburg, Muffisburg and various other counties along the route,
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: and we're going to do this for approximately two weeks.
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: Can I ask you guys just a just a general
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: question about the awesomeness of the ninth Congressional District. I mean,
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: what do you guys see out there?
• 52:42
  Speaker 6: Love it? Senator Yeah, I enjoyed. I tell a lot
• 52:47
  Speaker 6: of people that you know, the since we did the
• 52:50
  Speaker 6: redistrict and there's a lot of complaints from particularly the Democrats,
• 52:54
  Speaker 6: that we did this, but all of these districts now
• 52:57
  Speaker 6: look like Tennessee and District nine, for example, it's got
• 52:59
  Speaker 6: a Herb, it's got two suburban communities and Shelby and
• 53:03
  Speaker 6: Fed and then up again up up in Williamson County
• 53:06
  Speaker 6: and then a lot of rural area in between. So
• 53:08
  Speaker 6: I think it forces the next congressman to really be
• 53:12
  Speaker 6: attuned to Tennessee issues Tennessee values, because we have to
• 53:15
  Speaker 6: work to ensure that we represent everyone across the district
• 53:18
  Speaker 6: where they live in an urban area, suburban area, or
• 53:21
  Speaker 6: a rural area.
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: Jeremy, you want to wait over.
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 53:24
  Speaker 7: Absolutely. So We've been all over the ninth District, the
• 53:26
  Speaker 7: fifteen counties, and the five parcels, so we encounter no
• 53:31
  Speaker 7: one who is not good Tennessee and is are just
• 53:34
  Speaker 7: naturally good. We've been embraced fully and I tell people
• 53:37
  Speaker 7: all the time, you know, I'm either getting lied to
• 53:39
  Speaker 7: in some cases or people just feel like they have
• 53:42
  Speaker 7: to tiptoe the political spectrum. But we are working every
• 53:45
  Speaker 7: day to earn votes.
• 53:46
  Speaker 5: They're good people. I mean, it's hard working, salt of
• 53:48
  Speaker 5: the earth people, absolutely great people. It's small town Tennessee,
• 53:52
  Speaker 5: yet it's best for the majority of it.
• 53:54
  Speaker 6: And I'll say this to Jeremy about people lying. The
• 53:57
  Speaker 6: only people that aren't lying to you sometimes are the
• 54:00
  Speaker 6: ones who said, I'm not going to vote for you, right,
• 54:03
  Speaker 6: They'll be the ones.
• 54:04
  Speaker 7: Yeah, in that person. I had to tell the deputy
• 54:07
  Speaker 7: sheriff that ran for sheriff in our county one time
• 54:09
  Speaker 7: that I wasn't voting for him. It didn't go very well.
• 54:10
  Speaker 7: You told him the truth, absolutely, all right.
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: I want to work in some calls here if we can.
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: Let's go to Mike and Memphis. Mike, what is your question?
• 54:21
  Speaker 10: Greetings all It was about a year ago I called
• 54:23
  Speaker 10: into your radio show and I asked the question to
• 54:26
  Speaker 10: Senator Brent Taylor why this so called Christian conservative Republican
• 54:30
  Speaker 10: supermajority legislature in Nashville can't seem to figure out how
• 54:34
  Speaker 10: to eliminate unconstitutional statutes, specifically the ones that infringe on
• 54:39
  Speaker 10: our god given the right to bear arms. And I
• 54:42
  Speaker 10: didn't get an answer, not not a direct answer, but
• 54:46
  Speaker 10: again tonight I will ask now that it's Brent effectively
• 54:50
  Speaker 10: the Trump toolman, Taylor, the candidate for Congress, if you
• 54:54
  Speaker 10: will be elected. And this is for everybody too on
• 54:57
  Speaker 10: the on the panel. If elected, will you pledge allegiance
• 55:01
  Speaker 10: to the Constitution, not as you would have it, but
• 55:04
  Speaker 10: as it is written, and for all the people in Tennessee.
• 55:07
  Speaker 10: Will you pledge allegiance to us, not any person, not
• 55:11
  Speaker 10: any political party, not any foreign country, or any globalist corporation.
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: Okay, that's thank you for that call, Mike Sonat.
• 55:19
  Speaker 6: Yeah, thank you Mike for that question. And I thought
• 55:23
  Speaker 6: I had answered your question when some time ago when
• 55:25
  Speaker 6: we were on the show. Look, it's important to remember
• 55:29
  Speaker 6: these rights that are enumerated in the Constitution, those are
• 55:31
  Speaker 6: not given to us by government. Those are rights given
• 55:34
  Speaker 6: to us by God. The Constitution is there to protect
• 55:36
  Speaker 6: the rights that are given to us by God. And
• 55:39
  Speaker 6: that's why I support the Second Amendment. Every bill that
• 55:44
  Speaker 6: has come before the legislature I have voted for, and
• 55:50
  Speaker 6: I think that's why I got an A rating from
• 55:52
  Speaker 6: the NRA. So I'm as strong as Second Amendment as
• 55:55
  Speaker 6: anyone here in this studio, and we'll continue to do
• 55:59
  Speaker 6: so in Congress, just as I have in the legislature.
• 56:03
  Speaker 6: And look, this is not something new found for me.
• 56:06
  Speaker 6: When I was on the city council. I passed an
• 56:08
  Speaker 6: ordinance that opened up hunting on President's Island. I actually
• 56:12
  Speaker 6: there was a Myron Lowry, who's a former councilman, did
• 56:14
  Speaker 6: a gas for guns thing where you could turn in guns.
• 56:17
  Speaker 6: I actually raised money and allowed people to go and
• 56:21
  Speaker 6: get their conceal career permit. This was in the early
• 56:23
  Speaker 6: two thousands. Go get their conceal care permit and we
• 56:26
  Speaker 6: paid for it. And we had over three hundred and
• 56:28
  Speaker 6: fifty people taken advantage of that, and it was twice
• 56:31
  Speaker 6: as popular as the people who turned in their guns
• 56:34
  Speaker 6: just to get free gas.
• 56:35
  Speaker 5: Ton Again, the Senator's week on the sack of Amendment
• 56:39
  Speaker 5: very weak on the sack of Amendment. I can't sit
• 56:41
  Speaker 5: here and let him get away with saying that he's
• 56:43
  Speaker 5: strong on it. As you know in Hugh versus Lee,
• 56:47
  Speaker 5: I'd say conservative second Amendment folks got to win. Our
• 56:50
  Speaker 5: governor and Attorney General tried to take that to the
• 56:54
  Speaker 5: next court and get it overturned. They failed. Again. There
• 56:57
  Speaker 5: were some of US House members and maybe a few
• 57:00
  Speaker 5: Senate members that send a letter to the governor asking
• 57:03
  Speaker 5: him to drop that case and let's take that win
• 57:05
  Speaker 5: into the House. The Senator didn't sign that letter.
• 57:08
  Speaker 6: That's not true. I sent a letter. I was the
• 57:10
  Speaker 6: first legislator. You should talk to Richard Archie about this.
• 57:14
  Speaker 6: I sent the first I sent the first letter to
• 57:18
  Speaker 6: the governor and to the Attorney General, and I'm happy
• 57:20
  Speaker 6: to provide copies of it to the governor and the
• 57:23
  Speaker 6: Attorney General asking them not to appeal that decision. They
• 57:26
  Speaker 6: did it anyway, but I was the first legislator to
• 57:29
  Speaker 6: send a letter asking them not to or asking them
• 57:33
  Speaker 6: to not appeal that decision.
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: I want to get some more calls in if we can.
• 57:39
  Speaker 7: We all address amendment, because I think that's incredibly important.
• 57:43
  Speaker 7: We talk about God given rights and being enumerated by
• 57:45
  Speaker 7: the Constitution, but time after time after time, we make
• 57:49
  Speaker 7: laws after law after law. So we talked about permits,
• 57:53
  Speaker 7: we talked about legislation. Constitutional carry is a Trump initiative
• 57:57
  Speaker 7: at the federal level right now. That gets us back
• 58:00
  Speaker 7: to the original intent of the United States Constitution. We
• 58:03
  Speaker 7: have the right to protect ourselves against those who had
• 58:06
  Speaker 7: threatened us. We have the right to protect our country
• 58:08
  Speaker 7: against those who had invade us. And that's what the
• 58:10
  Speaker 7: Second Amendment exists for. And it does not require conversation
• 58:15
  Speaker 7: or legislation outside the original intent.
• 58:17
  Speaker 6: Sure, I agree, and let me just say this.
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: Let me let me get Charlotte to wage in it.
• 58:21
  Speaker 6: Right after I say this, it's important. We've got too
• 58:24
  Speaker 6: many gun free zones in this state. That's why no
• 58:28
  Speaker 6: one ever goes and shoots up a gun range. Nobody
• 58:30
  Speaker 6: ever goes and shoots up a police station. They go
• 58:32
  Speaker 6: to places where there are soft targets. Because we have
• 58:35
  Speaker 6: too many places there are gun free zones. I'm for
• 58:38
  Speaker 6: eliminating those gun free zone.
• 58:39
  Speaker 5: And that was my point earlier. When they let the
• 58:41
  Speaker 5: fifteen bills die in the Senate? Did they let die?
• 58:44
  Speaker 5: He sit there on that committee and let those bills die.
• 58:46
  Speaker 5: And one of those bills was Moni Fritz that would
• 58:48
  Speaker 5: have done away with gun free zones. And he sit
• 58:51
  Speaker 5: there on the committee and let the chairman close the committee.
• 58:53
  Speaker 4: My gosh, the truth comes out. Listen.
• 58:55
  Speaker 3: I appreciate the fact that our rights Second Amendment rights
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: come from God. I also think it's imperative that we
• 59:04
  Speaker 3: as individuals are able to protect ourselves, not necessarily against
• 59:08
  Speaker 3: people who come to our home to try to harm us,
• 59:11
  Speaker 3: but even against a radical government. We need to be
• 59:14
  Speaker 3: able to protect ourselves. In addition, I look forward to
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: having an opportunity to have a national reciprocity laws such
• 59:23
  Speaker 3: that if we leave our states and we're traveling all
• 59:26
  Speaker 3: the time, we should still be allowed to protect ourselves.
• 59:30
  Speaker 7: It's stated in the Constitution. It's very simple, shall not
• 59:33
  Speaker 7: be infringed.
• 59:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but you've had legislators that have changed things, so
• 59:37
  Speaker 3: we've got to get back to the original.
• 59:39
  Speaker 7: Have to do it. We are over legislating this country
• 59:42
  Speaker 7: to absolute death. We're over legislating the state of Tennessee
• 59:45
  Speaker 7: to death. In the last three years, we have passed
• 59:48
  Speaker 7: over five to six hundred new laws every year. Why
• 59:51
  Speaker 7: can we not go into these legislative offices and get
• 59:54
  Speaker 7: back to our founding documents and stop adding to the
• 59:58
  Speaker 7: original seven articles In the twenty seven amendments, we now
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 7: have over two hundred and twenty five thousand laws and
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 7: and we're really getting in a bad spot right now.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 7: With that, with with respect, this is.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: Your super majority Republican.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 6: And I will just say this, you know. Uh, the
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 6: NRA came out with their ratings today. Uh. And I
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 6: received an A rating and Todd received an A rating. Uh.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 6: Charlotte received a Q which means that a based on
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 6: the questionnaire, Jeremy did not even fill out the the
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 6: the questionnaire, and that's a missed opportunity to let people.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 7: Know absolutely filled it out and submitted it. I'm interested
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 7: in what your TFA rating is.
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 6: Well. NRA rating is the one I've looked. I don't
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 6: know what TFA rating is, but I have supported every
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 6: piece of legislation that has come to a vote. I
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 6: have supported it with TFA and n R and that's
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 6: why I got a ye.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 7: Anyone who knows me knows that I am a one
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 7: hundred percent constitutionalist on the Second Amendment. There are no
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 7: discussions outside that.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 2: So thank you.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 6: Should you should have filled out the questionnaire.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 7: It's a questionnaire is not going to let you get
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 7: you any any points here.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: Accidentally, I want to bring into the conversation Marie, who's
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: listening to us in Pulaski, Tennessee. Marie, you're on the air.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: What's your question?
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 9: Hi?
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 11: This is a issue that is very near and dear
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 11: to me, and I the reason why I ask it,
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 11: so I'll have the question first and then I'll get
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 11: some background. Is the plus funds for Congress when someone
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 11: sexually harasses someone. I have a good friend who was
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 11: actually has been a victim of sexual assault by the
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 11: senator on a conference in Oklahoma. And so how do
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 11: we have confidence in someone that we're sending to Congress
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 11: that has been on a legislative conference, paid for, you know,
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 11: by taxpayer dollars and it's sexually harassed or assaulted a
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 11: woman before. And so are our taxpayer dollars going to
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 11: fund a man who has already taken advantage of.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: A Well, Marie, let me I'm not sure what you're
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 2: talking about. I'm not sure what you're talking about here.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 11: I'm not at liberty to say the person's name, the
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 11: victims name, or anything.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: We need a protective well, just let me say this, Marie.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: All right, Yeah, Marie, I think I got the gist
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 2: of your question here. And this is something we've talked
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: a lot about, guys, Thank you. We've talked a lot
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: about this on the national radio show that Congress, which
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: they have certainly done away with that slush fund for
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: all the victims of these alleged sex crimes and whatever
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 2: was going on up on Capital Health. But the issue
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: is should we be holding these people accountable? Should the
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: lawmakers should those names of those who committed those offenses
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: be made public?
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 7: Yeah, there should be no exemptions for a United States
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 7: congressman or anybody else for that matter. If you commit
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 7: a crime, a heinous crime that's sexually oriented, especially rape
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 7: or sexual assault, you should be charged, prosecuted, and convicted
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 7: to the fullest extent of the law. There should be
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 7: no exception.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 5: Everybody agree with that, Yes, absolutely, And the slush fund
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 5: needs to go away. And I don't know who she
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 5: was referring to here, but do there need to be
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 5: some discussion about that.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: Or I think it was in general terms. I have
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 2: no earthly idea, but I.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 6: Agree in a matter of fact, it shouldn't even be
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 6: whether or not a crime is being committed. If it
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 6: was just a sexual harassment where there was actually a
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 6: civil a civil settlement, that should not be done with
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 6: tax dollars either. And if it is, it certainly should
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 6: be made available to the public.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 5: And there's been a sexual harassment, should that person have
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 5: to step down? Senator?
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 6: If there's been a sexual harassment or a sexual assault, absolutely,
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 6: they certainly should not be receiving any taxpayer funds to
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 6: pay or settle a lawsuit.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 7: Their expulsion criteria in the House, in the Senate, and
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 7: it appears that we have nobody with the backbone standing
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 7: the gap and hold people accountable. That may be that
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 7: will change if I go to Congress.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: I'm just like good to hear. I want to move
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: on because one of the big issues on President Trump's
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: agenda is in fact, the Save America Act. And uh
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: clear the Senate does not have much interest in moving
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: this legislation forward. Charlotte, I want to start with you.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: You're elected to Congress. Where do you stand on the
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: Save America Act?
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 3: Well, you know, the House has passed the Save America
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 3: Act over and over multiple times.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 4: In the Senate has not done their jobs.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 3: I certainly think it's imperative that whoever is elected that
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 3: they will bring attention to this matter, to get our
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 3: senators to do their job, to have press conferences and
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 3: just present it. But when you have a situation whereby
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 3: you have elections that you cannot trust, that's not good.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 3: Our state Senator Taylor was the chairman of the twenty
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 3: twenty election when President Trump quote unquote lost that election
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 3: to Joe Biden. I have some numbers here. I won't
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 3: go over the numbers, but there definitely are a number
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 3: of reasons why that election should not have been certified. Now,
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 3: Tina Peters did the right thing, and she was only
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 3: a clerk. This guy was the chairman of the Election Commission.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 3: He allowed that election which appeared to be fraudulent. I've
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 3: done numbers and did calculations, and I can see that
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 3: there were some discrepancies.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 4: This has gone to be resolved.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 3: If even one fraudulent vote is cast, that messes up
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 3: the election for everybody. Everybody, and people's voices need to
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 3: be heard. Thune needs to do his job in terms
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 3: of the American Save American Act. But our president has
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 3: something up his sleeve. He has his executive orders and
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 3: he's going to work hard to make sure that our
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 3: elections are trustworthy.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 2: Senator Taylor, do you want to respond to that.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 6: Yeah. So, I was chairman of the Election Commission dre
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 6: in the twenty twenty election, and Tennessee in the twenty
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 6: twenty election cast more of votes for president or the
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 6: spread was the largest vote spread in terms of raw
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 6: votes of any state in the Union. I think it
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 6: was like eight hundred thousand votes more that Trump got
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 6: than Biden. And if you remember the Trump legal team,
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 6: they were going all over the country trying to hold
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 6: up the certifications in the states where there had irregularities,
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 6: like Arizona. Tennessee, there were no reported irregularities, and in
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 6: order to lock in President Trump's eleven electoral votes, and
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 6: the state of Tennessee needed to certify the election to
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 6: lock in those eleven electoral votes, and you could not
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 6: do that unless each county certified their elections. And we
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 6: did exactly what the Trump administration asked us to do,
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 6: and that was certified the election results in each county
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 6: so that Tennessee could certify its election results, which gave
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 6: Tennessee or President Trump the eleven electoral votes from Tennessee.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: I want to give our other two candidates, You're a
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: chance to respond, Jeremy.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 7: I think Tennessee should be the model around the country
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 7: for election integrity. I think I've had to produce an
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 7: ID and a registration to vote since I was eighteen
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 7: years old in every election I participated in, and I
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 7: think that it should be no different for anybody else
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 7: in the country. You have to show an ID to
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 7: purchase basic items at a grocery store or to get
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 7: into some venues like concerts, but we can't show an
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  Speaker 7: ID to vote for who's going to lead this country.
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  Speaker 7: I think that's disastrously broken and it deserves attention immediately
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  Speaker 7: on all forms of government, local, state, and.
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  Speaker 5: Federal Representative Warner, Yeah, I agree. I support to say
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  Speaker 5: you at one hundred percent. And I think it's a
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  Speaker 5: shame in Tennessee. With a super majority in Nashville, I've
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  Speaker 5: carried the bill as my fellow conservatives that we cannot
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  Speaker 5: get the primaries closed in this state. Again. It goes
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  Speaker 5: to Rhino leadership in this state, and it's got to
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  Speaker 5: stop at some point in time. And I also, we're
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  Speaker 5: talking about President Trump. I'm not sure, but I think
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  Speaker 5: I'm correct on this, and I stand to be corrected
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  Speaker 5: if i'm not. But I think the center here was
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  Speaker 5: a Rubio delegate back in twenty sixteen, so I don't
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  Speaker 5: know how deep he runs.
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  Speaker 4: With Trump, but I was a Trump delegate.
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  Speaker 5: I think my friend here was the rudeo delegate. I'm
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  Speaker 5: not sure the secretary.
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  Speaker 6: Of that's right, President Trump secretary of State. I did
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  Speaker 6: support him in twenty sixteen, and I actually had that
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  Speaker 6: conversation with the White House and they were actually fine
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  Speaker 6: with that and endorse me.
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  Speaker 5: I bet regardless, I bet they. I don't know about that, Senator.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's try to work at one quick call here,
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  Speaker 2: Robert from Collierville, Tennessee. Robert, what's your question.
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  Speaker 7: I've just discussed the DA and the crime issues and in.
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  Speaker 8: Memphis and what.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what's your question?
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  Speaker 8: Did you?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah?
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  Speaker 11: I did want to discuss it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we yeah, we discussed it earlier today. And I
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  Speaker 2: think everybody is of the opinion that our DA is
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  Speaker 2: not so he.
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  Speaker 6: Is nuttier than a portopol had a peanut.
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  Speaker 7: The people of Memphis have to get rid of and
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  Speaker 7: that's what it amounts to you. You gotta vote him out.
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  Speaker 5: General sim can do it.
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  Speaker 2: All right. As we're wrapping up our time here, guys
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  Speaker 2: and Robert, thank you for that call. There is a
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  Speaker 2: report out from CNBC. They collected data from all fifty
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  Speaker 2: states and CNBC named named Tennessee as the worst state
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  Speaker 2: to live in. And personally, I'm actually okay with that
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  Speaker 2: because I don't want any more liberals from up north
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  Speaker 2: coming down to our beloved volunteer state. But I'm curious,
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  Speaker 2: Charlotte Bergman will start with you and go around the
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  Speaker 2: table here real quick your reaction to that report.
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  Speaker 4: Tennessee. I love you. I was born and raised here.
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  Speaker 3: As I travel around the ninth Congressional District and I'm
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  Speaker 3: in God's country. It is so comfortable, comfortable and so tranquil,
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  Speaker 3: and so wonderful to be able to run into people
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  Speaker 3: who love this state. So if you don't like Tennessee,
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  Speaker 3: still away.
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  Speaker 2: We don't need to hear Senator Taylor. That was CNBC CNBC.
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  Speaker 6: CNBC, Well, I think they're the worst TV station on cable.
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  Speaker 6: Look Tennessee. If Tennessee were as bad as they said is,
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  Speaker 6: they would not people would not be moving here in droves.
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  Speaker 6: And obviously most of those folks are moving to Middle Tennessee.
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  Speaker 6: But once we improve education, with this intervention that I
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  Speaker 6: was able to get through the legislature, and with the
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  Speaker 6: Memphis State Task Force reducing crime, we if we fix
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  Speaker 6: those two things West Tennessee and Memphis, there'll be no
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  Speaker 6: stopping it and be no stopping Tennessee, and we can
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  Speaker 6: take Tennessee to the top.
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  Speaker 5: Representative Warner, Yeah, Tennessee is the greatest place in the state.
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  Speaker 5: Has been home for my family since the late seventeen hundreds,
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  Speaker 5: and I'd say, CNBC don't know their but from a
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  Speaker 5: hole in the ground.
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  Speaker 2: You can say that, Yeah it's out a r. Yeah
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  Speaker 2: it's not NPR.
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  Speaker 5: You're good. You're good.
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  Speaker 7: Jeremy, I have lived my entire life in Tennessee. I'm
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  Speaker 7: raising my family in Tennessee, and we watch every day
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  Speaker 7: come in to Tennessee like they are into the United States.
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  Speaker 7: Tennessee is a fantastic place to live and raise a family.
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  Speaker 7: And I'll just stand with that narrative, CNBC. I don't
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  Speaker 7: even know why we're discussing it. It's not really worth
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  Speaker 7: the response.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know what, I think. We all love our state,
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  Speaker 2: we all love the ninth Congressional District, and we want
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  Speaker 2: the very very best for our people. And I just
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  Speaker 2: want to say, as a small business owner and as
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  Speaker 2: a citizen or resident, say thank you all so very
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  Speaker 2: much for taking time to join us here on KWHAM
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  Speaker 2: and talk to our listeners and have a spirited debate.
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  Speaker 2: We really appreciate that.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you Todd for having Thank you Todd. I appreciate
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  Speaker 6: Jeremy Todd and Charlotte for doing this. This is the
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  Speaker 6: voters will benefit.
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  Speaker 2: From the bigger question, are you going to give them
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  Speaker 2: discounts if they come to the revolutionary time for.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, just let me know ahead of time. I don't
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  Speaker 7: want you standing out on the.
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  Speaker 2: Sidewalk when you get there, There you go. Well, guys, again,
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