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The "Smither-vent" - Episode 128 - Another shooting. Another Weak Response · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: If I have Karosite talks today it's Monday. It's that
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  Speaker 1: time we get to hear from the former Vice mayor
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  Speaker 1: of the City of Cincinnati, Christopher smith Man. We'll call
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  Speaker 1: this smither vad Christopher. Welcome back, my friends. Great hearing
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  Speaker 1: from you today as always, and of course good hearing
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  Speaker 1: from you over the weekend about the shooting that happened
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  Speaker 1: at Riverfront Live.
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  Speaker 2: I have to tell you, Brian, my first my heart
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  Speaker 2: goes out to the victim. Yes, you know, like yours
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  Speaker 2: and your listening audience, and it's so unfortunate that you know,
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  Speaker 2: you and I are going to have this conversation over
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  Speaker 2: and over again, you know, throughout the summer. That's my prediction,
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  Speaker 2: and for a lot of different reasons. But the problem
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  Speaker 2: with this for me is there are things that we
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  Speaker 2: can do. And so for example, you know, I'm glad
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  Speaker 2: the mayor held a press conference. We had a mass
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  Speaker 2: shooting in Cincinnati. Nine people were shot Signal ninety nine.
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  Speaker 2: Actually I got my information originally from Signal ninety nine.
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  Speaker 2: In the chaos, they thought thirteen people were shot, and
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  Speaker 2: now it went to nine and now and one person
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  Speaker 2: is still in critical condition. That is incredibly serious. And
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  Speaker 2: I also want to say before I get into this
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  Speaker 2: direct rant about our leadership locally, is that my hats
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  Speaker 2: go off to the UC medical teams, our medical teams
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  Speaker 2: across our region, because if they're not doing what they're doing,
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  Speaker 2: more people would die, meaning people are being shot. But
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  Speaker 2: we have some of the best medical operations in our
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  Speaker 2: emergency rooms in this region, and every single weekend they
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  Speaker 2: are saving lives. It's like an all out war on
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  Speaker 2: our streets and they're in there putting people back together.
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  Speaker 2: So my hats go off to every one of those
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  Speaker 2: emergency rooms that took the nine people that were shot,
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  Speaker 2: because more we did, or more would be in a
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  Speaker 2: worse situation if we didn't have them in place. That's
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  Speaker 2: important to say.
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  Speaker 1: It is, Christopher, and I'm glad you brought that up
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  Speaker 1: because I have a dear friend, retired Colonel Bob Kattyre,
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  Speaker 1: who does wound immediate emergency care wound training for folks.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you're involved in an active shooter situation. He does
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  Speaker 1: training to deal with the active shooter. But the critical
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  Speaker 1: thing is in need is someone right there ready to
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  Speaker 1: take care of the wounds, because you end up with
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  Speaker 1: more casualties because people there aren't tending to the people
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  Speaker 1: who are bleeding. So we could do society a grade
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  Speaker 1: service if we all collectively learn how to deal with
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  Speaker 1: emergency wound care. And there are ways to learn and
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  Speaker 1: do that, so we can be part of the solution
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  Speaker 1: to an otherwise I mean, should never happen problem, Christopher.
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  Speaker 1: I still every time this kind of thing happens, people
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  Speaker 1: randomly shooting into innocent people that they have no connection with,
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  Speaker 1: I am totally baffled. I don't get it. I really
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  Speaker 1: don't pauseibly in Christopher back. I know he's got a
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  Speaker 1: whole lot more to talk about this, but I want
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  Speaker 1: to mention foreign exchange. I had another, as always terrific
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  Speaker 1: foreign exchange experience talk Station seven nine on a Monday,
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  Speaker 1: right time US from Christopher Smitheman doing the smither vent.
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  Speaker 1: Back over to you, Christopher Smitheman, we.
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  Speaker 2: Are we are in a situation where we need a
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  Speaker 2: strong mayor that comes up to that podium and not
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  Speaker 2: not just apologize this for the mass shooting, but tells
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  Speaker 2: the community what is his plan. That's what's missing. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I can go to my pastor, I can go to
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  Speaker 2: my priest. You know, I'm Catholic and I can go
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  Speaker 2: get a homily, go there and pray. What we need
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  Speaker 2: from our local leaders is a plan. That's what's missing.
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  Speaker 2: And for the city manager to blame guns unacceptable. I
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  Speaker 2: get the idea that it's easy to say, Wow, man,
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  Speaker 2: we've got all these guns out here, blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 2: But they're legal gun owners like myself. Who you know,
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  Speaker 2: I've gone through the training, I have a license to carry.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there are a lot of other Americans in
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  Speaker 2: the state of Ohio who have that. Like, who is
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  Speaker 2: she talking about? Right? So obviously we the people who
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  Speaker 2: have a legal gun. And and and obviously the person
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  Speaker 2: here shooting randomly into a crowd of people and shooting
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  Speaker 2: nine people, that's unacceptable. But speak to that, not talking
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  Speaker 2: about it's the gun. It's the person who has the
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  Speaker 2: gun and their finger on the trigger. People and ChRI
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  Speaker 2: that is the problem.
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  Speaker 1: What typically turns out to be the case. And it's
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  Speaker 1: too early because I don't think they found the person
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  Speaker 1: or persons responsible for this ridiculous behavior in these in
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  Speaker 1: these four people getting shot nine times out of ten,
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  Speaker 1: it turns out they have a they have acquired a
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  Speaker 1: firearm unlawfully. The gun itself shouldn't be held by them
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  Speaker 1: because they're under disability from prior convictions or whatever, or
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  Speaker 1: they're under age, and yet they've acquired a firearm. They're
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  Speaker 1: not looking to the reality that they have not only
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  Speaker 1: engaged in murderous activity, but all so have violated the
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  Speaker 1: law on dooing. So so what are we going to do?
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  Speaker 1: Their response, basically, if they got their way, is to
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  Speaker 1: try to eliminate all the guns, which you'll never happen,
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  Speaker 1: never correct never.
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  Speaker 2: And so there speaking into the wind when they hold
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  Speaker 2: press conferences and they say things like that I was
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  Speaker 2: the former vice mayor somebody who might not know that
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  Speaker 2: I served as the chair of Law and Public Safety.
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  Speaker 2: And here's what a healthy council would do. Number One,
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  Speaker 2: you would have your legal department right the owner and
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  Speaker 2: say I'd like to have a discussion in a meeting
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  Speaker 2: with you immediately like today. Number two, you'd hold an
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  Speaker 2: open meeting on the floor of council where you bring
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  Speaker 2: the owner in with your legal team sitting to your right,
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  Speaker 2: and you say to the owner, listen, guy, on this day,
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  Speaker 2: you had control of the door. You were the person responsible.
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  Speaker 2: You had this group come and per form or have
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  Speaker 2: the party in our city. Ultimately, dude, you are responsible.
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  Speaker 2: Nine people were shot. What is your plan to tell
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  Speaker 2: the city of Cincinnati this will never happen again. I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to turn on CNN and see another mass
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  Speaker 2: shooting at your location. So, like what you're trying to
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  Speaker 2: do is get the owner to come up with a plan. Now,
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  Speaker 2: if the owner fails to do that, you shut them down. Dude,
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  Speaker 2: you say, GHI, you can't operate in my city. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not gonna turn on the national news. All the money
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  Speaker 2: that our corporation spends to brand Cincinnati as a good place,
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  Speaker 2: We're not gonna let you ruin it because you can't
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  Speaker 2: control the activities. That's your location. Your job is to
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  Speaker 2: make sure that guns don't get into the operation. And
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  Speaker 2: if you can't do that, dude, we're gonna shut you down.
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  Speaker 2: My point is that this mayor and this council, they
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  Speaker 2: will be passing resolutions this week on what's going on
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  Speaker 2: in Iran. Guarantee it just like they were passing residents
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  Speaker 2: on what was going on in Israel and what was
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  Speaker 2: happening with the Palestinians or what they should have been
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  Speaker 2: talking about. It's the mods. We mean they packed the
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  Speaker 2: chambers for these nonsensical things, but they won't introduce a
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  Speaker 2: resolution that says, we are very concerned about this shooting,
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  Speaker 2: we are concerned about the violence in our urban core,
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  Speaker 2: and here are the things we're going to do about it.
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  Speaker 2: Because guess what, public, that's what they actually have control over.
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  Speaker 2: That's what we've elected them to do. But they would
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  Speaker 2: rather talk about stuff they have no control over that
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  Speaker 2: they should not be discussing. That's not the city's business.
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  Speaker 2: Look for them to introduce resolutions about Trump his war powers,
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  Speaker 2: what's happening in Iran, and nothing about what is happening
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  Speaker 2: specifically with the Riverfront lie active shooter, which is in
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  Speaker 2: their jurisdiction.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess I'm wondering what they could actually do
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  Speaker 1: about it. I mean, other than scream and cry and
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  Speaker 1: will and nashties about the existence of firearms. Generally speaking,
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  Speaker 1: the question is, how is it that some person comes
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  Speaker 1: to the conclusion they're going to take their perhaps lawfully
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  Speaker 1: on firearm and start squeezing it off randomly into a crowd.
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  Speaker 1: To do about it, how do you deal with someone
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  Speaker 1: who would engage in that kind of behavior. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have the cooperation. Brother, if I'm standing, if
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  Speaker 2: I'm the strong mayor, I'm trying to find the shooter.
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  Speaker 2: So number one, I've got it. I've got a a
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  Speaker 2: something on the line financially for information about who was
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  Speaker 2: doing the shooting, meaning there's got to be video, there's
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  Speaker 2: gotta be takes. We are continually looking for people to
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  Speaker 2: cooperate with our police department. This is something that we
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  Speaker 2: should have heard from the mayor and the city manager.
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  Speaker 2: The reason they don't do that right is because they're
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  Speaker 2: soft on crime. Because then and that's in their head,
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  Speaker 2: it's in their culture. Like if we find the person
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  Speaker 2: right and we arrest a person, how many of us
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  Speaker 2: believe that they won't be let out, Like they'll come
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  Speaker 2: right in and out the door the next day. Meaning
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  Speaker 2: were they seem to have this I'm gonna coddle the
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  Speaker 2: criminal kind of mentality. And that's why they did not
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  Speaker 2: speak to that. They spoke to our emotion about how
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  Speaker 2: we feel. I'm sorry about what happened. Look Strong mayor,
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  Speaker 2: your staff, city manager, cities listener, if you're listening to
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  Speaker 2: this broadcast this morning, you are the leaders of the city.
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  Speaker 2: Your job is to bring the owner into compliance right.
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  Speaker 2: If he cannot run an establishment where nine people are shot,
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  Speaker 2: shut him down, don't give up a permit, make it
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  Speaker 2: difficult for him to do business in the city of Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 2: But don't scream about you love black people, black lives matter,
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  Speaker 2: putting murals on the front of city Hall. But when
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  Speaker 2: it counts, when we need you, when we need you
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  Speaker 2: to show that you actually care, you do nothing. You
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  Speaker 2: don't empower our police department to do their job. You
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  Speaker 2: don't say I love my police and we need you
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  Speaker 2: now to do every everything you can to find the
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  Speaker 2: people that shot nine people. If that was one of
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  Speaker 2: my babies right now, I would be going nuts on
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  Speaker 2: this mayor. I would be going nuts on this city manager.
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  Speaker 2: I would be going nuts on the city solicitor, all
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  Speaker 2: nine members of council because they are not showing the
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  Speaker 2: leadership for this not to happen again.
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  Speaker 1: Brian Thomas, well, thank god your daughter wasn't implicated, because
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  Speaker 1: you are already going nuts on the administration. I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: She wouldn't be at it. She would not be at
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  Speaker 2: an event like that, brother, because I'm a dad that
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  Speaker 2: is absolutely on it. Even into her twenties. She understands
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  Speaker 2: what the boundaries are. They're great parents out there, single
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  Speaker 2: moms every day who wake up and do everything they
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  Speaker 2: can for their families. Ninety nine percent of the people
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  Speaker 2: that went to that event, law abiding citizens, had nothing
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  Speaker 2: to do with it. But guess what happened. We had
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  Speaker 2: a owner who did not control that. Listen, you can say, oh,
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  Speaker 2: he's snuck it in. Don't bring these groups, Brian. No
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  Speaker 2: one told him to bring this particular DJ to the
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  Speaker 2: city of Cincinnati. If he cannot handle the crowd, don't
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  Speaker 2: bring them here. That's what I'm trying to say, Brian.
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  Speaker 2: And if you've got a strong mayor, you've got nine
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  Speaker 2: members of council, you've got a city solicitor, Please don't
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  Speaker 2: get on the mic and act like you don't have
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  Speaker 2: any power to do anything while you have a neural
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  Speaker 2: at the front of your city hall that says black
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  Speaker 2: lives matter.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it was just two days after DJ fresh Day
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  Speaker 1: Proclamation from twenty twenty five. Interesting that maybe you can
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  Speaker 1: comment on that as well. More with Christopher Smithman a
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  Speaker 1: true smith event. Yes it is deep talk station.
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  Speaker 2: I'm brag as hell, but I'm not gonna take this anymore.
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  Speaker 1: That's Christopher Smithman today and every Monday with a smith
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  Speaker 1: Event's feven forty two right now. But you about KCD
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  Speaker 1: talk station, Christopher, you suggested that DJ Fresh one of
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  Speaker 1: the performers at the nightclub over the weekend. Perhaps one
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  Speaker 1: of the reasons you went did he draw an unsavory
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  Speaker 1: crowd or something was was he? Is he known to
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  Speaker 1: draw audiences that engage in I don't know. We'll call
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  Speaker 1: it criminal behavior to boil it down. What's the story
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  Speaker 1: on that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know. I just all I can say
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  Speaker 2: is that, Yeah, all I can say is that the
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  Speaker 2: owner hosted the party and it's his house. And at
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  Speaker 2: the same time, he admitted that he was responsible for
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  Speaker 2: controlling the door, meaning he's clearly right, and he had
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  Speaker 2: the metal detectors their conversations about whether they were working
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  Speaker 2: or not. I don't know, but he was responsible for that.
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  Speaker 2: And at the end of the day, the buck stops
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  Speaker 2: with him, and so he didn't turn that over to
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  Speaker 2: the producers. Are the people that were coming there to party.
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  Speaker 2: He remained or retained control of his facility, which makes
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  Speaker 2: him responsible. Look, Brian, I want to say one other
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  Speaker 2: thing here, because I know our time. I want to
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  Speaker 2: send my big hats off to our troops. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I have a son who has served and is serving.
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  Speaker 2: He's back, he served active duties back as you know,
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  Speaker 2: and he's doing National Guard stuff. But we got troops
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  Speaker 2: all over the world, parents, you know, who are supporting
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  Speaker 2: their families. They've got husbands and wives and daughters and
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  Speaker 2: sons who are serving. My hat goes off to them.
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  Speaker 2: My prayers go off to them. The servicemen that lost
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  Speaker 2: their life, you know, and who were injured, my hats
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  Speaker 2: go off to them. I want to be very clear
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  Speaker 2: that I am pro America. So if you're listening to me,
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  Speaker 2: I love the United States of America. I love our flag,
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  Speaker 2: and that this is not me saying that America is perfect.
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  Speaker 2: We are an experiment, but that doesn't mean that I
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  Speaker 2: don't love this country and the benefits that I get
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  Speaker 2: from this country. We have a president who made a
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  Speaker 2: decision that lots of other presidents had not made. Right.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have enough information. I'm not the CIA to know, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: was this the right decision? This is when you say
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  Speaker 2: I support my country, I support the president to do nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Congress that always sits out there over the next week,
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  Speaker 2: and says, oh man, we've got to convene. You didn't
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  Speaker 2: come tell me we're gonna take a vote. Go take
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  Speaker 2: your votes, Go do what you're gonna do, whatever you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna do, which is gonna be nothing. And so that
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  Speaker 2: is why we don't make progress in this country and
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  Speaker 2: in this world. Bottom line is, this is a country
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  Speaker 2: that has been screaming death to America for forty seven years.
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  Speaker 2: We finally have a president that believes them, and so
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  Speaker 2: stop saying it around the world. I would say over
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  Speaker 2: the next three years. That's the lesson. Don't convene all
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  Speaker 2: your generals and your leaders in one room while you
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  Speaker 2: are saying death to America. You might want to spread
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  Speaker 2: out two on two. Two on two, maybe fifty targets
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  Speaker 2: are the zoo con But it was a bad idea
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  Speaker 2: to say death to America and then everybody get together
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  Speaker 2: for a meeting. Less and learned. But at the end
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  Speaker 2: of the day, we have to be about the business
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  Speaker 2: of supporting our leaders when they are making decisions like this,
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  Speaker 2: and most importantly, supporting our troops. I'm tired of all
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  Speaker 2: this anti American stuff coming from our Congress and our
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  Speaker 2: leaders about what they would do if they want to
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  Speaker 2: be the president, run for president of the United States
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  Speaker 2: of America in the next three years. Put your name
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  Speaker 2: on the ballot, and let's see if Americans choose you.
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  Speaker 2: If not, go take a vote, Go do something. But
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  Speaker 2: stop condemning every move that's coming out of the White House.
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  Speaker 2: From what I've seen, the people in Iran are very
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  Speaker 2: happy about the outcome. Right now, they're in the streets,
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  Speaker 2: they're saying, I want change. This probably will go down
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  Speaker 2: as a game changer for the Middle East for a
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  Speaker 2: lot of reasons. But at the end, here's what I
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  Speaker 2: want to say. This is a country that has killed
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  Speaker 2: a lot of Americans. That's a fact. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: how many they killed, but they've killed a lot of Americans.
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  Speaker 2: Let's at least give this White House the room right
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  Speaker 2: to see where this thing plays out before we start
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  Speaker 2: condemning them. And we don't even have enough information to
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  Speaker 2: know where this thing is going.
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  Speaker 1: No, we do not. And the other interesting thing is
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  Speaker 1: that I've been commenting about this, I'm not the only one.
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  Speaker 1: All of the different Arab nations that the Iranians launched
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  Speaker 1: missiles into, I think they thought the expectation was that
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  Speaker 1: would bring about pressure on the United States to back off,
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  Speaker 1: to enter into a pause so more discussions and more
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  Speaker 1: peace discussions and negotiation could take place. But they came
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  Speaker 1: out and criticized the run for the response. They didn't
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  Speaker 1: criticize the United States. I think they all are looking
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  Speaker 1: for future stability in the region, a stability that is
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  Speaker 1: made impossible because of the Iranians. Thus far, one.
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  Speaker 2: Hundred percent Americans out here listening to the two of
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  Speaker 2: us right, have to understand that there are times that
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  Speaker 2: things are happening in other countries that are the interests
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  Speaker 2: of America. Meaning this is a sponsor. This country sponsors
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  Speaker 2: terrorism around the world. Earl right. They are responsible for
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  Speaker 2: the murder of lots of Americans, our soldiers. And so
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  Speaker 2: this president just said, listen, I'm trying to negotiate with
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  Speaker 2: you about your nuclear your desire to get a nuclear weapon.
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  Speaker 2: If Iran gets a nuclear weapon, they're saying death to America.
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  Speaker 2: We should all assume that they're gonna point their missiles
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  Speaker 2: towards us, all of them. You heard the President say, listen,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna clean this up for many generations coming after me,
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  Speaker 2: meaning I'm gonna make the Middle East a more stable place.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna make sure that Iran stops doing what they're doing.
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  Speaker 2: And all I ask, if I would say anything, if
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  Speaker 2: I could talk to the White House, which I can't,
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  Speaker 2: is to say, let's get it done right the first time,
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  Speaker 2: so that we're not coming back, no troops on the ground,
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  Speaker 2: and let's let Israel do their work and let the
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  Speaker 2: people of Iran rise up, which is what it looks
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  Speaker 2: like they're doing, and take their country back and have
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  Speaker 2: their own self determination. But let's not forget that this
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  Speaker 2: is a country that has been saying deft to America
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  Speaker 2: for forty seven years. This president said, I believe them.
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  Speaker 2: I believe that that's what they feel. They're killing us
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: from time to time with these terrorists attacks. And all
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: I'm saying is I'm not a person for war. I'm
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: not a person that wants violence. That's not where my
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: head is. But I also understand that times war is
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: a necessary part of the work that we do in
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: this country, and at this time we should all be
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: unifying around the right House. I don't care who the
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: president is. If it's Obama, if it's Bush, if it's Clinton,
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: it doesn't matter if it's Reagan. We get behind our
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: president and we see this through.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: That's what elections are about well, and I will acknowledge
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: and point out up front unexpected comments. This not just
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: the Arab nations supporting us in our actions. Germany, France
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: and UK, which of course didn't participate in the strikes,
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: said yesterday they will take teps to the steps to
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: defend their interest and those of our allies in the region,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: potentially through enabling necessary and proportionate defensive action to destroy
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Iran's capability to fire missiles and drones at their source.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Sounds to me like the EE or the NATO countries
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: are also on board the suggestion we need to emasculate
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: Iran now while we have the chance. Let's take care
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: of business.