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Trump commutes sentace of George Santos · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: Got a little pushback, not a lot, but a little
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  Speaker 1: pushback on the social media over the weekend. And I'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you what, We've We've had a couple of days,
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  Speaker 1: what almost three days now to digest this, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: still I'm still trying to come to terms with this
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  Speaker 1: commutation of Santos. You know, as a general rule, I'm
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  Speaker 1: pretty supportive of what our president does. I think that
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  Speaker 1: it's a bit bombasting sometimes some people who I'm crude, rude, i'mnoxious, whatever,
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  Speaker 1: But I believe he's got a uh, he's got a
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  Speaker 1: vision for where he believes he wants to take us,
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  Speaker 1: and he stays focused on that vision, and sometimes he
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  Speaker 1: ruffles some feathers, obviously. So I'm now one of these,
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  Speaker 1: you know, anti Donald Trump. Everything he does is miserable
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  Speaker 1: type of people. But I'm having trouble accepting the commutation
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  Speaker 1: of George Santos. The guy lied about everything. He made
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  Speaker 1: a mockery of us. He lied about employment, he lied
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  Speaker 1: about education, he lied about campaign finance, He lied about
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  Speaker 1: money he was collecting for a animal charity or something.
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  Speaker 1: He lied, He lied, he lied, he lied. He almost seems,
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  Speaker 1: honestly like like he's got some kind of major psychological
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  Speaker 1: issues to me, and I had a couple of people
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  Speaker 1: come back on me on the Facebook page, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, well, other people have done far worth. I
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  Speaker 1: don't care about that. You know, justifying your bad acts
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  Speaker 1: by somebody else being more bad than you has never
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  Speaker 1: worked for me.
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  Speaker 2: I always thought deflections were the worst arguments ever.
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  Speaker 1: They really are. Always whatever anybody else has done and
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  Speaker 1: has been sentenced to or not sentenced to for what
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  Speaker 1: they have done is irrelevant.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're basically going, I got caught rob in a bank,
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  Speaker 2: but judge, this other guy did too, so.
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  Speaker 1: He took more money than me, right right, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Like, it's just it always frustrates me when I hear
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  Speaker 2: that kind of argument anyway.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm willing to listen. I mean, I am willing
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  Speaker 1: to listen, but it's I just I don't know that
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that it's possible to convince me that
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  Speaker 1: this was a good thing at the very least. The optics,
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  Speaker 1: as they say, are are terrible. We're talking about being
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  Speaker 1: a law and order country and restore Well, you know
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  Speaker 1: that that applies to everybody, and the same thing every
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  Speaker 1: time I have somebody from from the left side of
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  Speaker 1: the political spectrum. In a conversation about the illegal immigration,
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  Speaker 1: it eventually comes to me saying the same thing. If
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  Speaker 1: this is okay with you, if this illegal immigration coming
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  Speaker 1: into this country for whatever reasons you might have, if
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  Speaker 1: this is okay with you, please tell me, by your standards,
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  Speaker 1: what federal law may I break with no repercussions. And
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  Speaker 1: that usually brings us to a conclusion. You cannot you
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  Speaker 1: cannot talk about being a land of laws, and uh,
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  Speaker 1: can you tell I'm really bothered by this? And again
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  Speaker 1: I'll listen to you A two one nine eight eighty six,
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  Speaker 1: A two one WTV and eight hundred and six to
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  Speaker 1: ten double UTV, And I'm I'm, I am a tempting
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  Speaker 1: to be absolutely and completely reasonable, but I just I
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  Speaker 1: swear to you, I think this was absolutely the wrong
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  Speaker 1: move to make. I also, you know, think that we're
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  Speaker 1: going after a little fish. You know, the big news
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  Speaker 1: last week, the Komy indictment. I will not forget the
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  Speaker 1: chance of lock her up, lock her up. And Hillary
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  Speaker 1: has been allowed and able to and apparently inclined to
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  Speaker 1: fly under the radar for the majority of this term.
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  Speaker 1: Every now and then she'll stick her head out so
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  Speaker 1: she can run her mouth and then she ducks back.
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  Speaker 1: Let's not forget the illegal server. Let's not forget the
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  Speaker 1: thirty three thousand deleted emails. While mar A Lago is
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  Speaker 1: getting raided, she's she's walking away with thirty three thousand
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  Speaker 1: deleted emails, covering her tracks and being just as obnoxious
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  Speaker 1: as you want to be. When she was questioned about it,
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  Speaker 1: missus Clinton, did you wipe your servant? Do you mean
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  Speaker 1: with a cloth or something? How ignorant does she think
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  Speaker 1: we are? Well? Apparently we are, because she's still walking around.
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  Speaker 1: It's annoying to me to say the least, that we
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  Speaker 1: have one set of legal standards that are applied so unevenly,
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  Speaker 1: even by you know what hour. I'm going to talk
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  Speaker 1: to you like we're in the same club here our
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  Speaker 1: side of the fence. I just don't get it now,
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  Speaker 1: I know, Zach you or not? Are you? Were you?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, when the whole Santo's thing was happening, before
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  Speaker 1: he went to court, before he was charged before did
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  Speaker 1: you have any opinions on the guy? Did you want
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  Speaker 1: a conviction? Did were you surprised he got? What was it?
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  Speaker 1: Eight years total?
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  Speaker 2: I don't I don't know what the sentencing guidelines were
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  Speaker 2: for something like that, but obviously he lied. He got
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  Speaker 2: caught for it. So when he went to jail, I
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  Speaker 2: was like, well, you went to jail, you got caught.
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  Speaker 2: You were lying profusely. The thing about Trump getting him
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  Speaker 2: out of jail, it just seemed to come out of nowhere.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't understand where it came from or why
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  Speaker 2: he decided to do it now, or if it just
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  Speaker 2: doesn't mean anything. I don't know. I don't know, but no,
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  Speaker 2: he should. He should definitely pay for what he did
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  Speaker 2: because he broke the law.
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  Speaker 1: But getting the optics of it, how does this look
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  Speaker 1: to people when you're preaching law and order and sending
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  Speaker 1: I used to these cities and sending in the National
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  Speaker 1: Guard to cities. You're you're talking about law and order
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  Speaker 1: to release someone from their They're just sentenced, whether you
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  Speaker 1: know what. If you think it was too long, that's
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  Speaker 1: up to him and his lawyers to appeal, not for
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  Speaker 1: someone in power to wipe clean for him. And I
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  Speaker 1: had people say that too, well, he was sentenced to
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  Speaker 1: the maximum amount. You've got people out here who should
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  Speaker 1: have been in prison longer for what they did. That
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  Speaker 1: didn't even get close to that. Yeah, that's true. That's true.
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  Speaker 1: And if you want to stand by that argument, then
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  Speaker 1: you need to stand by the argument of every black
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  Speaker 1: drug dealer that was convicted in the nineties for selling,
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  Speaker 1: you know, five grams of crack and getting twenty years
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  Speaker 1: in prison when the white guy in the sports car
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  Speaker 1: was selling five kilos of powdered cocaine and getting two years.
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  Speaker 1: Because we went through that period of time too, justice
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  Speaker 1: is not always balanced, and that is frustrating, I admit that,
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  Speaker 1: but we can't go back and rewrite things. He went
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  Speaker 1: to court, he was charged, he was convicted, he was sentenced,
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  Speaker 1: and to have him not held accountable, especially since he
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  Speaker 1: deceived the American electorate, I mean, Donald Trump running on
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  Speaker 1: integrity and elections was a big deal. To spring this
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  Speaker 1: guy early when he misled the voting public. That that
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  Speaker 1: is pretty outrageous to at least as far as I'm concerned.
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  Speaker 1: But again, I'm open to to your thoughts. A two
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  Speaker 1: one nine eight eight six A two one WTV and
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  Speaker 1: let's get a few in here before we go to
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  Speaker 1: our first break. Rick, you are on six to ten DOUBLETV.
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  Speaker 3: And hight Ty there, No, I'm with you. I couldn't
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  Speaker 3: believe it either, But I think he did more than live.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't he misappropriate or I guess, to put it more bluntly,
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  Speaker 3: steal money and use it for the you know, more
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  Speaker 3: than avery pologist life.
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  Speaker 1: Yet political funds, charitable funds for some animal charity that
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  Speaker 1: ended up going into his pocket, and yeah, all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of ridiculous stuff.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm you know, it's been years now, but when
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  Speaker 3: he was first running, I think that he was. He
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  Speaker 3: was a nut job. But I think they needed a
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  Speaker 3: Republican so they everybody look the other way. They needed
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  Speaker 3: a Republican and you know, so they're letting you know,
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  Speaker 3: essentially the Republican establishment somehow or another guy been there.
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  Speaker 1: You know that. Rick, That's an excellent point too. And
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  Speaker 1: now your opinion, let me ask you this. Let's say
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  Speaker 1: you are the you know, the Grand Pooba of the
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  Speaker 1: Republican Party. Is it better to have a bad Republican
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  Speaker 1: candidate than to have no Republican candidate on the ballot.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think so, but I don't either. But we're
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  Speaker 3: on the wrong side obviously.
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  Speaker 1: If you're not going to do the job with the
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  Speaker 1: integrity that we claim to represent. That I don't. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think you should have the backing. No, I agree.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate you, Rick, thanks very much for the call.
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  Speaker 1: Nine eight eight six A two one WTV. Yeah. I
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  Speaker 1: mean when you when you lied about absolutely everything, and
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  Speaker 1: he did to be able to walk away after after
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  Speaker 1: deceiving the public and getting the votes and getting the position,
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  Speaker 1: just ridiculous. And yes he ran as a Republican, which
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  Speaker 1: the President pointed out, well, what do you have that
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  Speaker 1: quote by chance in front of you, Zach, where he
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  Speaker 1: said at least he did some bad things, but at
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  Speaker 1: least he had the good sense to run as a Republican.
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  Speaker 1: I just thought that was a bad thing because so
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  Speaker 1: many people questioned Donald Trump, who had been a registered
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  Speaker 1: registered Democrat at one point, although he's we've got him
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  Speaker 1: on video back to the early eighties saying that if
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  Speaker 1: he ever ran for president, he would run as a Republican.
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  Speaker 1: But the optics combined with that, that kind of flippant
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  Speaker 1: response to the situation, that's a little annoying to people too,
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  Speaker 1: because they don't want you to say yeah nah. They
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  Speaker 1: wanted very serious at least I believe they do a
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  Speaker 1: serious response to something like this, and flippant doesn't work,
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  Speaker 1: at least not for me. A two one nine eight
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  Speaker 1: married on the Legacy Retirement Group dot com fine line
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  Speaker 1: phone lines marry Europe. How are you?
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  Speaker 4: I thinks good? How are you?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? The frustrated but fine?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I just turned it on. So I don't
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  Speaker 4: know how much you discussed this. And I saw that
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  Speaker 4: headline and I shook my head. I couldn't believe it's
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  Speaker 4: just like you. But you know what, I think we
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  Speaker 4: put up with this. This is the problem we you know,
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  Speaker 4: even the fact that politicians lie to us. We have
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  Speaker 4: allowed it to happen, you know, over many years. And
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  Speaker 4: you know, this is why we're in the place we're in.
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  Speaker 4: We can't lie to Congress, but oh they can lie
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  Speaker 4: to us, you know, because we keep re electing them.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, it's just even the fact that these
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  Speaker 4: congressmen are receiving a paycheck when they shut the government
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  Speaker 4: down and everyone else doesn't get one. Is this this problematic?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? It's it is. And I had John hough staid
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  Speaker 1: on with me last week. He is one of two
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  Speaker 1: that I know. If you're in the state of Ohio
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  Speaker 1: that have actually made formal recrets to not be paid
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  Speaker 1: until this is over with. And I was I was
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  Speaker 1: very happy to see that because I haven't seen haven't
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  Speaker 1: seen any other members of the legislature around the country
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  Speaker 1: do that except what's what's our guy from Bowling Green Zach.
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  Speaker 1: I can't call his name off at the top of
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  Speaker 1: my head, but he.
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  Speaker 4: There's a woman. There's a woman who also did it.
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  Speaker 4: I forget I heard her. I think she was on
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  Speaker 4: Sean Hannity. I think it. I I'm not sure what
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  Speaker 4: state she's from, but it begins with l e t
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  Speaker 4: is her her name let Low or something like that.
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  Speaker 4: I think she was going to do the same thing.
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  Speaker 4: But again, why aren't people promoting this and let and
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  Speaker 4: and kind of shaming the Democrats about this and everyone else?
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's it's again, we have we have allowed this.
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  Speaker 4: I I I worked with the guy from Iowa, and
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  Speaker 4: I was all frustrated. This was back in eighth nine.
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  Speaker 4: You know, why did they lie about Obamacare? Why did
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  Speaker 4: they lie about this?
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  Speaker 1: He's like, why are you.
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  Speaker 4: Getting so upset the politicians? They lie? I said, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: since when are we okay with that? You know what
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's just like it's it's really just a
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  Speaker 4: shame and and and with this whole thing with Santos,
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  Speaker 4: they should be held to a higher standard. Anyone who
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  Speaker 4: works in the government should be held to a hired standard.
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  Speaker 4: They should get a worse punishment than the rest of us.
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  Speaker 1: I'm in my opinion, I'm with you, Mary, thank you
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  Speaker 1: very much for the Oh, I appreciate you. A two
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  Speaker 1: one nine eight eighty six A two one WTV. And
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  Speaker 1: it's uh uh, it is a frustration. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 1: that's that's all I can say without sounding like I'm angry,
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  Speaker 1: and I I am angry, but it's a controlled anger,
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  Speaker 1: if you will. The idea that we claim as a party,
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  Speaker 1: as a group of humans, we claim to stand for
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  Speaker 1: integrity in government, in in legislation, in elections and uh
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  Speaker 1: and then someone like this is is allowed to walk
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  Speaker 1: away from their their duly acute, adjudicated sentence. It just
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  Speaker 1: it really bugs me.