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Sen McCormick exposes the hidden threat facing America's next 50 years · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: As America marks her two hundred and fiftieth birthday, it's
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  Speaker 2: a chance to ask what defines this country. President Trump
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  Speaker 2: offered his answer last night during the America two fifty
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  Speaker 2: celebration at Mount Rushmore.
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  Speaker 3: Americans honor excellence, We admire boldness, We respect ambition. We
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  Speaker 3: are a nation of dreamers and believers, warriors and explorers,
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  Speaker 3: doers and fighters at every human endeavor, Americans see an
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  Speaker 3: unfinished competition. What is strong can be made stronger, What
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  Speaker 3: is fast can be made faster. What is great can
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  Speaker 3: be made greater than ever before. And that's what's happening
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  Speaker 3: with America. Show us a mountain and Whe'll just climate.
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  Speaker 3: Show us an ocean and Whe'll just cross it. Americans
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  Speaker 3: are strong and always ready to stand firm for a
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  Speaker 3: good cause. We treasure justice, fairness, family, honesty, and human dignity.
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  Speaker 2: Warriors and explorers and doers. And if you understand what
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  Speaker 2: makes America unique, Ronald Reagan said, you have to understand
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  Speaker 2: what makes something common. To him, nothing stood in sharper contrast,
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  Speaker 2: and nothing is more common as sitting and juxtaposed against
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  Speaker 2: American freedom than communism.
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  Speaker 4: Ours was the first revolution in the history of mankind
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  Speaker 4: that truly reversed the course of government. And with three
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  Speaker 4: little words, we the people. We the people tell the
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  Speaker 4: government what to do. It doesn't tell us. We the
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  Speaker 4: people are the driver. The government is the car, and
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  Speaker 4: we decide where it should go and by what route
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  Speaker 4: and how fast. And I hope we have once again
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  Speaker 4: reminded people, but man is not free unless government is limited.
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  Speaker 4: There's a clear cause and effect here that is as
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  Speaker 4: neat and predictable as a law of physics. As government expands,
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  Speaker 4: liberty ranks, I think is less free than.
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  Speaker 2: Pure communist nineteen forty six, nineteen eighty six, twenty twenty six,
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  Speaker 2: Again we face that debate communism against the American character.
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  Speaker 2: Pennsylvania Senator Dave McCormick, who served in I Rock during
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  Speaker 2: the First Gulf War, joins me now, Senator, thanks for
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  Speaker 2: being here. How you doing good? What do you think
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  Speaker 2: is the answer to that question, Senator? What defines America?
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  Speaker 5: Well, you know, Ronald Reagan, who you just mentioned, in
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  Speaker 5: his inaugural address said we have the right to dream,
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  Speaker 5: heroic dreams.
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  Speaker 1: That's the spirit of America.
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  Speaker 5: We have ambition for our country and it has become
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  Speaker 5: the most exceptional country in the world. But we also
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  Speaker 5: have a place where each person can realize their dreams.
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  Speaker 1: That's the American dream. There's no other country in the
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  Speaker 1: world like it.
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  Speaker 5: On this two hundred and fiftieth birthday, I was here
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  Speaker 5: fifty years ago.
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  Speaker 1: With my dad for the two hundredth I was ten
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  Speaker 1: years old. What a country.
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  Speaker 5: And as much as America was magical as two hundredth birthday,
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  Speaker 5: the things that have happened since then, the progress has
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  Speaker 5: been made, it's remarkable.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me about that progress. All of us can scroll
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  Speaker 2: through our Instagram reels and we can play into nostalgia
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  Speaker 2: and we can see the pictures from nineteen seventy six.
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  Speaker 2: We can see that two hundredth birthday. Tell me what
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  Speaker 2: you see has changed in the past fifty years, as
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  Speaker 2: we are now in our two hundred and fiftieth birthday
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  Speaker 2: in America.
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  Speaker 5: Well, what was unique about America and there always has been,
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  Speaker 5: is its commitment to liberty and freedom and opportunity for all.
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  Speaker 5: In the last fifty years, we have shown that capitalism
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  Speaker 5: has the capacity to bring people out of poverty. We
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  Speaker 5: have shown that we have the ability to innovate in
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  Speaker 5: ways that make America the most significant technological power in
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  Speaker 5: the world.
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  Speaker 1: America is an.
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  Speaker 5: Imperfect country on an imperfect journey. That's not to say
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  Speaker 5: we don't have problems. What it is to say we're
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  Speaker 5: on a constant path of self improvement. And we see
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  Speaker 5: that every day in American That is what makes it
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  Speaker 5: so special, as.
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  Speaker 2: Is every human being right, as is a country. We
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  Speaker 2: are all imperfect, but we're all on the path to progress.
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  Speaker 2: But what defines us, I believe, is the character, the
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  Speaker 2: through line, the backbone underneath that imperfection. It keeps us
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  Speaker 2: driving forward. But that character today is again being put
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  Speaker 2: to the test. We're being called into question who we
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  Speaker 2: are as a country and who we are as individuals.
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  Speaker 2: And as we have this debate once again over communism,
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  Speaker 2: it's going to define the next fifty years of American character.
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  Speaker 5: When I was a soldier in the Cold War, I
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  Speaker 5: would have never imagined that fifty years later, as the
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  Speaker 5: Soviet Union collapse, that we would be defending, or have
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  Speaker 5: to defend against the ideas of communism, socialism, anti Semitism.
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  Speaker 5: I thought those ideas were in the dust bin of history.
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  Speaker 5: They've had a reemergence. They have shown to be failed.
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  Speaker 5: They are anti American. We have the Grand Platinir Party,
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  Speaker 5: where we have a movement in the Democratic Party that's
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  Speaker 5: embracing anti law enforcement, anti military, anti business, anti Semitism.
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  Speaker 5: Those ideas are failed ideas and they're not right for
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  Speaker 5: America and in fact anti American.
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  Speaker 1: Senator.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you the state of Pennsylvania. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: to the city of Philadelphia for welcoming this Texas boy
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  Speaker 2: into the birthplace of democracy, the birthplace of America. This
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  Speaker 2: has been wonderful. Even if I have to do it
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  Speaker 2: from the home of the Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 1: Eagles, this has been welcome. Welcome from Pennsylvania.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Sam.
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  Speaker 1: Great great to be with you. Thank you. Happy fourth
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  Speaker 1: to July. Fourth of July.
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