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"Save Our States" (Saturday, March 28, 2026, Hour 1) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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  Speaker 1: We'll do it making mornings great again. Well, do the
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  Speaker 3: You want to know why we do this? I want
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  Speaker 5: Good morning, Happy Saturday. Yet, Oh, don't poke the radio.
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  Speaker 5: Committee for Constructive Tomorrow. So here's why we do these
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  Speaker 5: Saturday programs. Number One, there's a whole bunch of news
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  Speaker 5: that happened yesterday that they were hoping, you know, nobody
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  Speaker 5: First thing, I noticed, not a whole lot of folks
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  Speaker 5: this morning. But when they when they had shut all
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  Speaker 5: the functionality of radio, I knew this is what radio
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  Speaker 5: is like, first thing on a Saturday morning. And that's
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  Speaker 5: why we do this for you here along the talk
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  Speaker 5: media network, and here are the first things we're covering
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  Speaker 5: for you this morning. President Trump, on his way here
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  Speaker 5: to Seapak, was in Miami at a Saudi Bank financial
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  Speaker 5: conference and said US military has about thirty five hundred
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  Speaker 5: targets remaining in their operation against Iran and expects that
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  Speaker 5: part of the campaign to conclude quote pretty quickly. However,
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  Speaker 5: an Iranian missile and drone attack wounded several US service
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  Speaker 5: members and damaged an aircraft at Prince Sultan Air Base
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  Speaker 5: in Saudi Arabia on Friday. A US official from the
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  Speaker 5: Department of War said, speaking on the condition of anonymity
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  Speaker 5: to discuss sensitive matters, said the attack damaged several US
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  Speaker 5: refueling planes. Trump administration is warning allies that weapons shipments
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  Speaker 5: to Ukraine could be interrupted as the US seeks to
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  Speaker 5: bolster its stockpiles for the conflict with Iran. The State
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  Speaker 5: Department told allies that deliveries of munitions, including Patriot Air
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  Speaker 5: Defense interceptors could also be interrupted. Hamas could be required
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  Speaker 5: to allow the destruction of its vast Gaza tunnel network
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  Speaker 5: as it lays down its arms in the next stages
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  Speaker 5: over an eight month This armament plan, the President announced talking.
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  Speaker 3: To his Board of Peace.
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  Speaker 5: The plan follows a timeline that begins with US back
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  Speaker 5: Committee of Palestinian Technocrants taking security control of Gaza and
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  Speaker 5: concludes with Israeli forces withdrawing completely upon quote verification that
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  Speaker 5: Gaza is free of weapons. The Department of Education is
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  Speaker 5: moving It's leaving its headquarters to a smaller Washington office
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  Speaker 5: as part of the administration's efforts to scale down the agency.
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  Speaker 5: The department has reduced its workforce through layoffs since the
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  Speaker 5: President took office, and its headquarters had been seventy percent vacant.
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  Speaker 5: The Department of Energy will be moving in to take
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  Speaker 5: over the building's lease, and US stocks tumbled Friday, weakness
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  Speaker 5: in megacap stocks sending each of the three major US
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  Speaker 5: indices to their lowest closing levels in six whole months.
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  Speaker 3: As the month along Middle East.
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  Speaker 5: War continues to wage on, markets took little solace from
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  Speaker 5: US President Trump's announcement that he gave around another ten
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  Speaker 5: days to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and Gulf Superstar
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  Speaker 1: From the home of the first amend first Thing Today.
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  Speaker 19: Food SEAPAC twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 5: Thankstorre friends at the Heritage Foundation Heritage dot org. And
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  Speaker 5: of course, amongst all the great stuff they're doing their
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  Speaker 5: guide to historic Sites and what has been horribly done
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  Speaker 5: in the name of some of these historical sites, including
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  Speaker 5: friends who have been a part of this program so often,
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  Speaker 5: Sarah Ross, not as much as Trent England, who have
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  Speaker 5: been leading the charge at Save our States first, because
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  Speaker 5: he's a veteran. At this Trent, it's good to see.
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  Speaker 3: How are you doing.
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  Speaker 18: Yeah, it's great to be here and to have Tara
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  Speaker 18: Ross at our booth signing books. And it's so important
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  Speaker 18: for the work that we do at Save our States
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  Speaker 18: to be educating activists educating leaders about the importance of
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  Speaker 18: the electoral college our constitution. And we've been doing that
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  Speaker 18: for the last day and look forward to the next
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  Speaker 18: couple of days.
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  Speaker 5: Here, Tara, you have a book signing going on, and
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  Speaker 5: she's taken time away from a book signing. I don't
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  Speaker 5: have time for a book reading, so God bless you
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  Speaker 5: for it. Tell us about the book you've just pinned.
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  Speaker 3: It's a It's a children's book, right, the children's book.
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  Speaker 20: It's coming out next month. It's called We Created a Country,
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  Speaker 20: The Story of Our Constitution.
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  Speaker 5: And my I don't know some of these kids. I
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  Speaker 5: don't want to give them any ideas that they get
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  Speaker 5: is created. No, I'm hoping they all get it.
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  Speaker 3: So got it.
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  Speaker 20: The goal of the book is to make difficult concepts
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  Speaker 20: really easy and accessible, even for very young children. So
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  Speaker 20: it is a It goes through the cost user convention
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  Speaker 20: sequentially in a series of double page spreads. There are
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  Speaker 20: eleven double page spreads, and you hit each of the
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  Speaker 20: big topics separation of powers, federalism, big state, small state,
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  Speaker 20: great compromise. But I do it in a story like fashion.
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  Speaker 20: And because it's a double page spread, you can just
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  Speaker 20: with your young child do it one at a time,
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  Speaker 20: they're not. That way, they can get the whole thing
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  Speaker 20: and hopefully get some difficult concepts that they're not getting
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  Speaker 20: in school.
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  Speaker 3: So it's it's almost like a work book.
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  Speaker 5: If I'm, you know, doing a homeschool sociology program, I
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  Speaker 5: could take your book and make that the Well, not
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  Speaker 5: for a high school kid maybe, but what is the
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  Speaker 5: age group of these that you're shooting for.
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  Speaker 20: Well, the main text is aimed at elementary and it's
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  Speaker 20: it's very easy, you know. I use words like bully
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  Speaker 20: instead of tyrant, you know, and that kind of thing,
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  Speaker 20: so I make it very very easy and accessible for
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  Speaker 20: the little kids. There are call out sections with harder
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  Speaker 20: information for like I say, middle school, and then there's
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  Speaker 20: an appendix in the back that would be just aimed
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  Speaker 20: at an adult really, and it's just any more information
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  Speaker 20: that you want to know about something that I said
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  Speaker 20: in there, so you can explain it to your kid
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  Speaker 20: a little bit better.
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  Speaker 11: It'll be back there.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm telling anyone who's planning on running any Turning
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  Speaker 5: Point USA chapters and say, oh, eight to seven, eight
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  Speaker 5: to nine years, you'll have a whole flock of people
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  Speaker 5: already predisposed to the Movement Tower hangout and saying, Trent,
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  Speaker 5: we were so close in Virginia and here in Texas
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  Speaker 5: they loved their football. Virginia, I feel like we were
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  Speaker 5: that cornerback who started showboating right before he got his
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  Speaker 5: interception back into the end zone and fumbled the ball
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  Speaker 5: right there. Not only were we so close to you know,
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  Speaker 5: protecting ourselves again and things like teachers' unions, but now
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  Speaker 5: while we're in the midst of this insanity of over
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  Speaker 5: suspending our Virginia Constitution to redraw our congressional districts. Very quietly,
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  Speaker 5: while everyone was talking about that, they passed the act
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  Speaker 5: that would put Virginia in the National Popular Vote Compact.
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  Speaker 5: And I blew my stop because that was the ultimate
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  Speaker 5: catfish legislation. Nobody knew that was being discussed. I'm sure
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  Speaker 5: it only passed on partisan level, but talk about what
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  Speaker 5: that national Compact really is about.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 18: I mean there there were actually plenty of Democrats, particularly
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  Speaker 18: in the state Senate in Virginia, who opposed it, but
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  Speaker 18: they wouldn't vote against it because party leadership has gotten
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  Speaker 18: you know, has gone so far to the left that
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  Speaker 18: they you know, they basically trapped these people, and the
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  Speaker 18: National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is a scheme to force
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  Speaker 18: the Electoral College to rubber stamp the popular vote results.
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  Speaker 18: Very clever, right, states would give away their electoral votes
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  Speaker 18: based on the national popular vote if enough states do that,
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  Speaker 18: and it has a trigger. It's an interstate compact, which
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  Speaker 18: is state legislation that in this case has a trigger
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  Speaker 18: that says if enough states pass it, that they control
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  Speaker 18: a majority of electoral votes, then they'll all do this.
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  Speaker 18: And again they all attempt to force the Electoral College
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  Speaker 18: to rubber stamp the popular vote results so that candidates
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  Speaker 18: like Al Gore and Hillary Clinton.
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  Speaker 11: Never lose again.
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  Speaker 18: As you said, there was never any talk about doing
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  Speaker 18: this in the during the campaign. And it's so ironic
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  Speaker 18: because you have you know, I think in both cases,
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  Speaker 18: with redistricting and national Popular Vote, the folks who are
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  Speaker 18: pushing this talk all about fairness, but in this case
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  Speaker 18: they're giving up Virginia's voice and presidential elections.
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  Speaker 12: Right.
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  Speaker 18: They are silencing Virginia's voters in favor of voters in
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  Speaker 18: New York, voters in California, voters in the biggest states,
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  Speaker 18: the biggest cities. And we see this with redistricting. Right,
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  Speaker 18: they're shifting power in Virginia where toward the big city,
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  Speaker 18: toward the DC area. Right, it's it's gonna be the
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  Speaker 18: you know, it's gonna be Fairfax County that outvotes people
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  Speaker 18: who live in small towns in rural Virginia. It's really outrageous.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if you've seen my social media, Trent,
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  Speaker 5: but Fairfax County alone is the home of five congressional districts.
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  Speaker 5: That's how bad the redistricting got there. Like, Okay, we'll
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  Speaker 5: divvy Fairfax County up into five and we'll use all
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  Speaker 5: that blueness and will streak it down the side of Virginia.
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  Speaker 20: Well, I think the founders really appreciated some things that
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  Speaker 11: Then they knew that they get to the Constitutional Convention.
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  Speaker 20: What they also remembered is that even if they had
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  Speaker 20: would have been outvoted time and time again by the
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  Speaker 20: And so they knew that they needed to create a
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  Speaker 20: or unreasonable majorities just running rough shot over the.
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  Speaker 5: Tara, you've touched on something and I bring this up
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  Speaker 11: It's about everything I think.
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• 21:50
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  Speaker 12: No's that's right.
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  Speaker 18: And this is a point that gets missed in a
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  Speaker 18: lot of debates about the Constitution, about electoral practices, even
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  Speaker 18: about things like campaign finance restrictions.
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  Speaker 7: Is it?
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  Speaker 18: You know, elections work differently and they produce different kinds
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  Speaker 18: It's the last one, that's the last election I won.
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  Speaker 18: You know, that system doesn't work at a city level,
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  Speaker 18: And so yeah, I think you're you raise exactly the
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  Speaker 18: right point. If we want better representation, we have to
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  Speaker 18: ask ourselves about these giant districts because when you have
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  Speaker 18: a huge congressional district, let alone you know, running for
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  Speaker 18: US Senate. Uh, it winds up being much more about
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  Speaker 18: who looks good on TV. You go up to a
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  Speaker 18: state like Vermont, where the legislative districts are very small,
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  Speaker 18: a couple thousand people, what you find is political parties
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  Speaker 5: Or is New Hampshire the one with four hundred members
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  Speaker 5: of their house?
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  Speaker 18: So that's New Hampshire. They have They have similar sized districts,
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  Speaker 18: but New Hampshire has more people and so it has
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  Speaker 18: a much bigger it has It has the biggest house
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  Speaker 18: of representatives in the country. But yeah, Vermont, New Hampshire,
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  Speaker 18: main all have very small districts. And I think, you know,
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  Speaker 18: do they get quirky stuff, Do they get weird politics
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  Speaker 18: like the rest of us?
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  Speaker 12: Sure, but I think.
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  Speaker 3: They get a lot better representation.
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  Speaker 5: And the schools are open, the police get paid the
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  Speaker 3: See you know what.
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  Speaker 5: But first off, as you said, political parties don't mean
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  Speaker 5: other parts. The senators aren't supposed to be chasing our votes.
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  Speaker 5: They're supposed to be looking out for the state.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 20: Originally, when the Constitution was first passed, the senators were
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  Speaker 20: chosen by state legislatures and that is very important. It's
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  Speaker 20: something that has gotten lost over the court in the
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  Speaker 20: past hundred years. But the reason for that is because
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  Speaker 20: again it's another kind of check and balance. Like you said,
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  Speaker 20: there's multiple kinds of checks and balances. This was supposed
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  Speaker 20: to be a check on the House in the sense
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  Speaker 20: that states could be represented in the federal government.
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  Speaker 11: So, for instance, if.
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  Speaker 20: You've got a House that wants to pass some unfunded
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  Speaker 20: state mandate, and then they send it over to the
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  Speaker 11: Look at it and say, no, thank you.
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  Speaker 20: The Mastha state legislature that elected me is going to
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  Speaker 20: be very mad that they have to figure out how
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  Speaker 20: to deal with that.
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  Speaker 5: Well, they were also supposed to, pardon the phrase, be
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  Speaker 5: Because the Senators were supposed to be the ones that said, no,
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  Speaker 5: Trent, we need to get you guys down to Virginia
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  Speaker 5: because I cannot believe you know. Luckily, it's not a
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  Speaker 5: constitutional amendment. Although the Democrats are holding a master's class
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  Speaker 5: on how to circumvent constitutional amendment protections to hopefully win
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  Speaker 5: back the control and get rid of this compact. How
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  Speaker 5: close if Virginia signs itself into this National Popular Vote Compact,
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: how close is it to becoming the law of the land.
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  Speaker 18: Yeah, they'll be at two hundred and twenty two electoral votes.
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  Speaker 18: Pretty much all of the blue states have signed on
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  Speaker 18: to this, and they need two hundred and seventy, so,
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  Speaker 18: you know, more than eighty percent of the way there.
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  Speaker 18: We're watching the elections in the fall to see what happens,
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  Speaker 18: very concerned about you know, legislatures potentially flipping towards the
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  Speaker 18: So we're gonna be fighting this every way that we
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  Speaker 18: can and save our states. But it is uncomfortably close.
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  Speaker 5: And the last point about you know, the electoral College
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  Speaker 3: We're doing in the crowd. But that's a different matter.
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  Speaker 5: What they did afterwards, Tara really is an abomination where
• 35:49
  Speaker 5: they just voted procedurally that January sixth is no longer
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  Speaker 5: a time where you can get up and challenge.
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  Speaker 3: A state's vote. It is purely perfunctory. You just come in.
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  Speaker 3: And I think it's one.
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  Speaker 5: Of the darkest moments in our history, is that the
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  Speaker 5: Senate gave up this position where you could actually challenge
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  Speaker 5: electoral results.
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  Speaker 20: Well, I'm going to take it a step further, though,
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  Speaker 20: and I'm going to say the real problem that year
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  Speaker 20: was the states, because the state legislatures were in charge
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  Speaker 20: of their votes and they needed to make it clear
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  Speaker 20: so that there was never any question before before the
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• 36:40
  Speaker 20: pass a law that says, if we are out of
• 36:42
  Speaker 20: session when there is an election and there is a
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  Speaker 20: This is automatic. This happens automatically. The state legislature will meet,
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  Speaker 11: Their own votes.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you guys so much.
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  Speaker 5: And you know, the point of the size of Congress
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  Speaker 5: was to make sure that po dunk wasn't told what
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  Speaker 5: to do by New York City. And trust me, I
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  Speaker 5: grew up in New York City. There are parts of
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  Speaker 5: New York City that are po dunk as well. But
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  Speaker 5: you're all supposed to have a voice in the process.
• 44:47
  Speaker 5: That's how a representative republic works. And I think it
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  Speaker 5: is one of the essential corruptions in there, the size
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  Speaker 5: of Congress.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, I know, if we went back.
• 44:57
  Speaker 5: To George Mason's idea, you know your your town regardless.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, if you're in Salem, Oregon, or in Mastic Beach,
• 45:09
  Speaker 5: Long Island, you'd have a congressman of your own. I know,
• 45:14
  Speaker 5: look around, look around, you probably know a couple hundred people.
• 45:18
  Speaker 5: Imagine any of your friends actually serving in the US House.
• 45:22
  Speaker 5: We might even be able to get it to a
• 45:23
  Speaker 5: point where serving in the US House could be like
• 45:26
  Speaker 5: serving jury duty. You get the letter in the mail,
• 45:29
  Speaker 5: you open it up and says, you know, us House
• 45:32
  Speaker 5: of Representatives are like, oh, Marge, I gotta serve Congress
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  Speaker 5: next month.
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  Speaker 3: Oh man, I wonder if I can get out of it.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, that's that's a fanciful thing that I'll have
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  Speaker 5: to be saved for the first science fiction book I write.
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  Speaker 5: Kareem is hanging on the line with us this Saturday
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  Speaker 5: morning at four three four eight eight two four two
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  Speaker 5: one seven. Good morning, Kareem, how are you, sir?
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  Speaker 31: Good More and Joe Dune, Well, I'm s certain the
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  Speaker 31: edge of Richmond, headed on West sixty four.
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  Speaker 12: I'm enjoying your show.
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  Speaker 31: I'll tend to fortunately the early morning, so most of
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  Speaker 31: the Yaho's are still sleeping.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I appreciate you tuning in what's on your mind?
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  Speaker 31: Well again, rich topics galore every time I'm drive by
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  Speaker 31: the Greenbrier. Also on I sixty four in West Virginia,
• 46:19
  Speaker 31: I'm reminded about how small Congress actually is and how
• 46:23
  Speaker 31: structured and layered the protections are not for the people
• 46:27
  Speaker 31: but for the government itself. Now, yeah, and looking at
• 46:32
  Speaker 31: Continuitia government cog okay, well there's government. Well there may
• 46:36
  Speaker 31: also be a shadow government unelected that in case of
• 46:39
  Speaker 31: war instead of maintaining power and just releasing power back
• 46:43
  Speaker 31: to the people, it's not just controlled but hidden.
• 46:48
  Speaker 12: Using your run as a sample, they've.
• 46:50
  Speaker 31: Been preparing for this conflict for decades and apparently there's
• 46:56
  Speaker 31: like fourteen different districts to where if something happened to
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  Speaker 31: top orders were automatically drawn up years ago for what
• 47:04
  Speaker 31: the response would be. And so you look at fifty thousand,
• 47:08
  Speaker 31: let's say, one representative for fifty thousand people. I would
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  Speaker 31: love for a stadium to be the Congressional House where
• 47:15
  Speaker 31: it'd be open and airtight, diure type and open, and
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  Speaker 31: suddenly it where everybody could see and watch.
• 47:20
  Speaker 12: Because for example, when the people.
• 47:21
  Speaker 31: Protest, let's we can say during those peak hat riots.
• 47:25
  Speaker 31: Once Trump got elected or Wayne Kavanaugh was protested during
• 47:32
  Speaker 31: at those hearings, the Congress didn't flee.
• 47:36
  Speaker 12: But once January sixth, twenty twenty one happened, they fled.
• 47:39
  Speaker 31: They ran, and in fact, Mark Wayne Mullin shook the
• 47:43
  Speaker 31: hand of Michael Byrd, the guy that murdered Ashley Babbitt,
• 47:47
  Speaker 31: and said thank you for doing your job, and we
• 47:50
  Speaker 31: have it on video what actually happened. That wasn't a
• 47:54
  Speaker 31: None of that was should have been. You don't run
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  Speaker 31: away from your constituents if.
• 47:57
  Speaker 12: They're angry, you stand and you listen. But that's different topic.
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  Speaker 31: But I want to go to, is I agree it
• 48:02
  Speaker 31: should be more representatives, not less?
• 48:05
  Speaker 12: Right, Well, it's so powerful that go ahead.
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  Speaker 5: Well, And one of the things that people get hung
• 48:09
  Speaker 5: up and is that conservatives and because the media, conservatives
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  Speaker 5: work in this world of one and zeros and there's
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  Speaker 5: no nuance. Yes, that means there would be more congress people,
• 48:22
  Speaker 5: but no, that doesn't mean government is bigger. As a
• 48:25
  Speaker 5: matter of fact, I think it's an inverse equation when
• 48:28
  Speaker 5: you look at the size and the restricted size of
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  Speaker 5: the House of Representatives to the explosion in the size
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  Speaker 5: of that. And I don't even call it a shadow government.
• 48:38
  Speaker 5: I'm talking about the unelected bureaucracy that has been up
• 48:42
  Speaker 5: until the Lower v Bright ruling just basically handed a
• 48:47
  Speaker 5: key to the candy shop and said, yeah, whatever you
• 48:50
  Speaker 5: need to do. We want the Chesapeake Bay cleaned up,
• 48:53
  Speaker 5: whatever you need to do it, take people's farms, take
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  Speaker 5: away their property rights, go ahead, whatever, as longly as
• 48:58
  Speaker 5: I can have a press conference later. And these unelected
• 49:01
  Speaker 5: bureaucracies were handed the keys to the candy shop and
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  Speaker 5: let run rampant across the country.
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: We never voted for them.
• 49:09
  Speaker 5: Who's the irs administrator, Who's the Department of Education sub
• 49:14
  Speaker 5: secretary in charge of anti racism protocols or you know,
• 49:19
  Speaker 5: in all these positions that we never had a say in.
• 49:23
  Speaker 5: We hoped our congress people did. But there's so few
• 49:26
  Speaker 5: of them. How can somebody sit there and say, oh, yeah,
• 49:29
  Speaker 5: I saw the guy's name, I saw his resume, like
• 49:31
  Speaker 5: the mark Wayne Mullen. It came up on radio, but
• 49:35
  Speaker 5: it never came up in his hearings about January sixth
• 49:38
  Speaker 5: because January sixth is subject non grata. Oh, we don't
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  Speaker 5: talk about that anymore. You gave up your rights to
• 49:45
  Speaker 5: actually challenge state's electoral results, which had been a tradition.
• 49:51
  Speaker 5: Ask Maxine Waters how many times she challenged the results
• 49:55
  Speaker 5: of a Republican win in a presidential election. I've abdicated
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  Speaker 5: one of your constitutional responsibilities, which is to make sure
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  Speaker 5: the electoral count works. You have abdicated most oversight on
• 50:10
  Speaker 5: the things we're supposed to do. And there's eight hundred
• 50:13
  Speaker 5: thousand of us to each one of you, So good
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  Speaker 5: luck if any of us ever does anything more than
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  Speaker 5: see you on TV once every couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 31: Joe, I'm glad that you're able to get back on
• 50:25
  Speaker 31: the air after that dsl kerfluffle.
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  Speaker 12: Keep having a great show. I have a great day.
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: We never were off the air, you know. That's the thing.
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  Speaker 5: I have redundant processes. Your cream was the one who
• 50:35
  Speaker 5: asked what do you do without the Internet? Well, I
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  Speaker 5: have actually ways to make my own because we go
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  Speaker 5: places where sometimes it don't work so well, sometimes it's
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  Speaker 5: not available.
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: Sometimes you go to these conference centers. You go to these.
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  Speaker 5: Conventions and if you get there and they say, oh,
• 50:53
  Speaker 5: if you want internet service, that's two hundred dollars a day.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it's not cheap in these places, these conference centers.
• 50:59
  Speaker 5: When if your hometown says we need to build a
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  Speaker 5: convention center, there's a reason for it. It is a
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  Speaker 5: lucrative business if you can get into it. If you're
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  Speaker 5: in a small let's say you're in on the Treasure
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  Speaker 5: Coast and somebody says, hey, let's take that electric power
• 51:16
  Speaker 5: plant and turn it into a convention center. Just saying,
• 51:20
  Speaker 5: John and hamp and all the folks who listen down
• 51:22
  Speaker 5: on WTTB, who's going to be coming? There is CPAC coming,
• 51:27
  Speaker 5: there is Freedom Fast coming there? Or are they going
• 51:30
  Speaker 5: to go to Miami or Palm Beach. They have a
• 51:35
  Speaker 5: convention center there called marri Lango. We've gone through this
• 51:40
  Speaker 5: before because it's one of those conceits in economic development. Oh,
• 51:45
  Speaker 5: we need to build a football stadium, we need to
• 51:47
  Speaker 5: build a baseball stadium, we need to build a convention
• 51:49
  Speaker 5: center because it's a pretty good cash generating business. Let
• 51:54
  Speaker 5: me get Clark is hanging on the line here. Let's
• 51:56
  Speaker 5: at least find out what Clark has on his mind
• 51:58
  Speaker 5: before we have to add to the news at the top.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning, Clark, how are you, sir.
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  Speaker 31: I'm doing great, Joe, I'm a bit perplexed.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, you are going to go with the national popular vote?
• 52:10
  Speaker 5: Huh, Well, that's what the Democrats in Virginia. Snuck that
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  Speaker 5: one through the alley when when everyone was focused on
• 52:18
  Speaker 5: the redistrict thing, They're like, oh, by the way, we
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  Speaker 5: pass this national Popular Vote compact.
• 52:24
  Speaker 12: So let's think about that for just a second.
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: The House of.
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  Speaker 31: Representatives, your state representatives have voted that your state doesn't
• 52:38
  Speaker 31: need to be represented.
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  Speaker 5: Joe, yep, no more calls police.
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  Speaker 3: We have a winner. Hang on to that thought.
• 52:46
  Speaker 5: That's a dangling participle for us, and we will undangle
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  Speaker 5: it in a little bit here. On first thing today.
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  Speaker 4: My name is Bobby.
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  Speaker 23: I'm a veteran and lost my leg to a roadside bomb.
• 52:56
  Speaker 23: My victory was going from a wheelchair to becoming a
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  Speaker 23: weightlifting champion.
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  Speaker 4: I'm Sam I'm a veteran.
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  Speaker 2: My victory was finding a career I can be proud
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  Speaker 2: of and supporting my family.
• 53:06
  Speaker 26: America's veterans are on their most important tour, the tour
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  Speaker 26: of their lives.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a veteran.
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  Speaker 4: My victory was going from homeless to all.
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  Speaker 26: At DAV, we're on a mission to help veterans get
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  Speaker 21: I'm a veteran, and my victory was finishing my education.
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  Speaker 26: DAV offers veterans of all generations a lifetime of support
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  Speaker 26: for victories great and small.
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  Speaker 24: My victory was proving that disability is not a limitation.
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  Speaker 28: My victory was getting my service dog and new best friend.
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  Speaker 26: We help more than a million veterans every year as
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  Speaker 26: they face and conquer their challenges.
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  Speaker 3: My victory is being able to be there for my family.
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  Speaker 4: When America's veterans win, we all win. Help us support
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