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DONKEY: U.S. Education Secretary Flubs Basic Math & Facts During Senate Hearing · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 3: The practice club bitches, Surichnning, Please tell me why was
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  Speaker 3: I your donkey of the day.
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  Speaker 5: Well, donkey today for Thursday, June fifth goes to Education
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  Speaker 5: Secretary Linda McMahon.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Linda McMahon, former.
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  Speaker 5: CEO of WWE, is the United States Secretary of Education.
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  Speaker 2: What is this Secretary of Education?
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  Speaker 5: Well, the Secretary is responsible for the overall direction, supervision,
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  Speaker 5: and coordination of all activities of the deport Partment of Education,
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  Speaker 5: and she is the principal advisor to the President on
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  Speaker 5: federal policies, programs, and activities related to education in America. Now,
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  Speaker 5: what qualifications does Linda McMahon have to be in this role?
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  Speaker 5: Some would say that her qualifications are thinner than my hairline.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: She has had two years on Connecticut State Board of Education,
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  Speaker 5: many years on the board of trustees of Sacred Heart
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  Speaker 5: University in Fairfield, and two years as chief of the
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  Speaker 5: US Small Business Administration. And she's run two unsuccessful campaigns
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  Speaker 5: for US Senator. And during that campaign she.
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  Speaker 2: Proved that she didn't know much about government.
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  Speaker 5: So when she got the role of Secretary of Education,
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  Speaker 5: plenty people knew she wouldn't be mistaken for a great educator.
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  Speaker 2: So what ended up getting.
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  Speaker 5: Her the job as education secretary, Well, her one main
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  Speaker 5: qualification was she was kicked up.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, she had that brand.
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  Speaker 5: She made a lot of money by being the CEO
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  Speaker 5: of WWE. She was married to Bench McMahon for fifty
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  Speaker 5: eight years, so you know, having that kind of money
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  Speaker 5: got her close.
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  Speaker 2: To people like Donald Trump. And now Trump is president.
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  Speaker 5: So he said, hey, Linda, come run this department that
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  Speaker 5: I'm talking about shutting down our dismantling ate. Now, I
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  Speaker 5: had to give you a little backstory on Linda, so
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  Speaker 5: you understand why she is getting donk here today today.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: In a recent Senate hearing, Linda McMahon was tasked with
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  Speaker 5: defending the Trump administration's twenty twenty six education budget. Now,
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  Speaker 5: keep in mind, like a lot of people in Trump's administration,
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  Speaker 5: folks have said Linda is not qualified for the role
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  Speaker 5: she is in.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. People have said she's out.
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  Speaker 5: Of her death and ill informed about the Department of Education,
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  Speaker 5: the department she is currently leading. Well, this Senate hearing
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  Speaker 5: didn't help, okay, with a lot of math mishaps and
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  Speaker 5: historical hiccups.
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  Speaker 2: Would you like to hear it? Let's start with some
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  Speaker 2: of the math mishaps.
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  Speaker 3: First Secretary McMahon, of course, testified before the Senate today,
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  Speaker 3: and Republican senators kind of did their level best to
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  Speaker 3: lob her softball questions and make it look like she
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  Speaker 3: kind of knows what she's doing.
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  Speaker 4: What was we ranked nationally in math and reading in
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  Speaker 4: nineteen seventy nine?
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  Speaker 2: We were very very low on the time polls.
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  Speaker 1: We're number one in nineteen seventy nine.
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  Speaker 3: Jesus, we were very very low on the totem pole.
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  Speaker 3: Actually we were number one. Very awkward, that's a Secretary
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  Speaker 3: of education.
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  Speaker 5: Everyone, simple question you asked where we were ranked in
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  Speaker 5: math in nineteen seventy nine, We were number one. That's
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  Speaker 5: not hard to understand. Okay, all right, let's stay on
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  Speaker 5: the math. There was a math problem in there, right.
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  Speaker 5: Let's listen.
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  Speaker 4: We spend one point eight five eight billion dollars a
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  Speaker 4: year on trio. Yes, that's one thousand, five hundred and
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  Speaker 4: eighty million dollars a year, so my math, right, sir?
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  Speaker 4: And how long have we been spending one thousand, five
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  Speaker 4: hundred and eighty million dollars a year on this problem?
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  Speaker 4: More than ten years? Yes, so that's over a trillion dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I understand that we was not ranked number one in
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  Speaker 3: math recently either, but something there seems off right. Don't
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  Speaker 3: have to be a mathematician. Maybe there's a Democrat on
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  Speaker 3: this committee who can help them out a little bit.
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  Speaker 6: I'm secretary, and I'm not a great mathematician, but I
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  Speaker 6: think you were talking about a trellion dollars. I believe
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  Speaker 6: one point five billion times ten is fifteen billion dollars.
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  Speaker 6: That's a little bit off from a tree and dollars.
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  Speaker 3: But I think the budget catch one point two billion, well.
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  Speaker 6: One point two that would be twelve billion dollars, not
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  Speaker 6: a trillion dollars.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, Jesus Christ can we do some historical hiccups while
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  Speaker 5: we're here, Let's do some historical hiccups.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know what the Tulsa race massacre is?
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  Speaker 3: I like to look into it more and get back
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  Speaker 3: to you on it.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so I'll look forward at that.
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  Speaker 5: How about the book through my Eyes about ruby bridges?
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  Speaker 4: For instance?
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  Speaker 2: I haven't read that. Have you learned about ruby bridges?
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  Speaker 2: If you have specific examples you like that was a
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  Speaker 2: specific example, I'll be very happy. It was an incredibly specific.
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  Speaker 4: Question, and I will look into it and get back
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  Speaker 4: to you.
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  Speaker 2: Lord have merc What about uh?
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  Speaker 5: When she was questioned about DEI programs, that's the Holocaust one.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think that Holocaust education in our schools is
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  Speaker 1: a DEI program? There's no card for that. That's just
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  Speaker 1: yes or no.
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  Speaker 3: I can look at it.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever cardal Holocaust education? Is it a d You can
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  Speaker 1: have a press conference to say whatever you want. I
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  Speaker 1: just need a quick answer to this is Holocaust because
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  Speaker 1: this is my time. Is Holocaust education a DEI program?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 1: Is African American studies a DEI program?
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  Speaker 2: Think I answered?
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  Speaker 1: I'm asking it again, yes or no?
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  Speaker 3: We could be able to teach ques.
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  Speaker 1: My point is They are DEI programs, both of them,
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  Speaker 1: because students need diversity, equity, and inclusion to understand their environments.
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  Speaker 1: You're talking out of both sides of your mouth. You
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  Speaker 1: can't support one without supporting the other.
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  Speaker 5: Now, I'm not the highest grade weed in the dispensary,
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  Speaker 5: but it's safe to say she has no idea what
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  Speaker 5: she's talking about, and she's the Secretary of Education.
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  Speaker 2: These aren't isolated incidents, Ladies in Ghettleman.
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  Speaker 5: Linda McMahon has previously referred to artificial intelligence as a one. Okay,
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  Speaker 5: A one is a delicious state sauce. Okay, not AI.
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  Speaker 5: All right, and listen. One thing that Trump administration has
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  Speaker 5: not done yet and its second term is proved people wrong. Okay,
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  Speaker 5: Linda McMahon is not qualified to be Department of Education.
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  Speaker 2: But we know this as soon as it was announced.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, I don't understand the attack on DEI. The basis
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  Speaker 5: of it is people aren't qualified for their jobs. They
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  Speaker 5: are just getting them because of their identity. Hello, what's
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  Speaker 5: the difference here? Okay, Linda got this job because she's
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  Speaker 5: friends with Donald Trump. If you identify as a loyalist
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  Speaker 5: to Trump, you get these kinds of positions. So what
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  Speaker 5: I really hate is when people say things like this
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  Speaker 5: Senate hearing is casting doubt on her ability to lead
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  Speaker 5: the Department of Education, effectively casting doubt. Listen, having Linda
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  Speaker 5: McMahon as Secretary of Education. That's like giving DJ academics
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  Speaker 5: to bottles of Hennessy and asking him to run a
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  Speaker 5: quiet meditation retreat.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Linda, you can't.
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  Speaker 5: Go in front of the Senate and get put in
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  Speaker 5: a crippler crossface by basic math. Okay, Linda can script
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  Speaker 5: the Undertaker coming back from the dead, but can't script
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  Speaker 5: the coherent answer to how numbers work. I'm not saying
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  Speaker 5: everybody in government needs to be a genius, but if
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  Speaker 5: you're gonna run education, you should probably know how to
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  Speaker 5: count and maybe just maybe understand a little.
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  Speaker 2: Bit of America's history.
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  Speaker 5: I know that Linda McMahon being Secretary of Education is
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  Speaker 5: fantastic content for you know, late night talk show hosts
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  Speaker 5: and morning show radio hosts. With America, the implications for
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  Speaker 5: the nation's education system.
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  Speaker 2: Are no laughing matter.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, perhaps it's time to consider whether the role of
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  Speaker 5: Education secretary should require, at the very least a firm grasp.
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  Speaker 2: On elementary math.
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  Speaker 5: Please let Chelsea Handler give the Secretary of Education, Linda
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  Speaker 5: McMahon the biggest he huh hee haw hee haw.
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  Speaker 2: That is way too much.
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  Speaker 5: Dan maynaies, all right, first it was the head of
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  Speaker 5: FEMA not knowing that America had a hurricane season. Now
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  Speaker 5: it's Clynda McMahon not knowing basic math and what should
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  Speaker 5: be basic history.
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  Speaker 2: That lady was on her as though, what what?
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: No, they was eating her up. They was eating her up.
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  Speaker 5: Representative of Johanna Hayes and Representative Summer Lee.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, they was on our head. She tried to hit
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  Speaker 2: him with that. I don't recall. I have to do
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  Speaker 2: some research to get back at you. I'm asking again again.
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  Speaker 5: But they were just proving a point. They were just
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  Speaker 5: spiking the football. They know that woman is not qualified
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  Speaker 5: to be in that role. They were just proving it
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  Speaker 5: in that moment.
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