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FTTxJT 062726 Engaging in 'Congress' · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 4: of everything in your world there your congressman, your senator,
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Speaker 4: your Attorney general, never mind all the other characters that
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Speaker 4: you'll find popping up and like that's cousin. Never mind?
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Speaker 4: Why is it? I ask, knowing full well that I
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Speaker 4: have a pretty good idea of the answer, But I'm
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Speaker 4: asking you four three four eight eight two four two
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Speaker 4: one seven. Under the banner of the Religious Liberty Panel,
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Speaker 4: we needed a panel. Lieutenant Governor of Texas, probably to
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Speaker 4: keep him from running for governor of Texas. Doctor Ben Carson.
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Speaker 4: By the way, my wife and I just became members
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Speaker 4: And it's not a political biopic. It's about some of
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Speaker 4: go Angel Studios. If you don't do anything else, if
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Speaker 4: you're not watching mel Brooks movies tonight, which I get
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Speaker 4: and I'm fine with it, but at some point you
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Speaker 4: got to watch this. Cuba Gooding Junior does a great
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Speaker 4: job as a young Ben Carson doing this incredible separating
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Speaker 4: of co joined twins co joined at the skull. But anyway,
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Speaker 4: so Ben Carson part of this along with Dan Patrick,
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Speaker 4: not the sports talk host. But how do we allow
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Speaker 4: things like religious liberty to become controversy? I mean, I
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Speaker 4: think it's because we have allowed the government to get
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Speaker 4: into the endorsement business. So let me read to you
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Speaker 4: the entirety of what the Founding Fathers say regarding religion.
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Speaker 4: Now there are the books, Thomas Jefferson's Letter to the
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Speaker 4: Connecticut People, and as you know, separation of church and
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Speaker 4: state and all these things that have no appearance in
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Speaker 4: any actual governing documents. This is it. It's barely two sentences,
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Speaker 4: maybe a sentence and a sentence fragment. M Yeah, what
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Speaker 4: the thravel here? Okay, Congress shall make no law respecting
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Speaker 4: an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,
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Speaker 4: or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press,
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Speaker 4: or of the right of the people peaceably to assemble
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Speaker 4: and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
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Speaker 4: That's it. That's the extent to which the Founding Fathers
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Speaker 4: had to say about religion, based off of the most
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Speaker 4: important word in American history, which probably two hundred and
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Speaker 4: fifty years ago, was being debated. I know. John Adams
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Speaker 4: queried it, we know this from history. That upon being
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Speaker 4: presented with Thomas Jefferson's first draft of the Declaration of Independence,
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Speaker 4: not having a problem with the eloquent Treatise against Slavery,
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Speaker 4: Adams said at Tom tom at Eh said he misspelled
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Speaker 4: the Creator. Made it look like it said their creator,
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Speaker 4: And Jefferson said, no, I mean their Creator. We're saying
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Speaker 4: this to a person they have a god. Oh no,
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Speaker 4: it's the God. It's the Creator. It's the Christian king.
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Speaker 4: Is that no? And this was Jefferson's point was that
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Speaker 4: if we were going to be a free country, we
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Speaker 4: needed to be a country free to have your own
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Speaker 4: view of the creator, your creator. And then after that
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Speaker 4: it's the first Amendment. So how do we wind up
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Speaker 4: into a place where we need the president to sit
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Speaker 4: a commission on religious liberty? And I think that the
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Speaker 4: mission creep begins when the government starts endorsing things, and
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Speaker 4: some of it is for all the best reasons. We
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Speaker 4: endorse not smoking because too many people are going to
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Speaker 4: lung cancer. We endorse people getting automobile insurance so that
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Speaker 4: people aren't left holding the bag if somebody blows a
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Speaker 4: stop sign and t bones their car. And we start
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Speaker 4: endorsing little things. Ah, I can you argue of that, Joe?
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Speaker 5: Oh?
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Speaker 4: Yeah? But this idea that the government, by its endorsement,
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Speaker 4: much like a star quarterback, can move the needle on something.
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Speaker 4: And this past ten years it's been about who's your
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Speaker 4: government anointed religion, Who's got the government seal of approval
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Speaker 4: us DA approved religion? Well it better be Islam because
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Speaker 4: they're marginalized. I mean, yeah, they blow people up. There's
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Speaker 4: a wonderful Babylon b headline and study shows that Americans
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Speaker 4: Islamophobia may be connected to Islamists blowing people up with
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Speaker 4: pipe bombs, and it's not all of them. And that's
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Speaker 4: but in a zeal to make clear that the one
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Speaker 4: to of the Muslim population that are Islamists, that are
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Speaker 4: terrorists that are out there trying to kill people for political,
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Speaker 4: not religious, but political gain, are not the same as
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Speaker 4: the majority of Muslims that live in the United States
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Speaker 4: and just go about their day's travails. We have tried
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Speaker 4: to indorse their religion, and I guess because we can't
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Speaker 4: have it both ways, unindorse all the others. We're going
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Speaker 4: to give special treatment to this religion or that religion
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Speaker 4: because it and it all roots in reparations because somebody,
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Speaker 4: you know, fifty years ago or one hundred years ago,
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Speaker 4: did something wrong. We want reparations now for it. And
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Speaker 4: it's a crazy idea. And we let it in the
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Speaker 4: room and we fed it and we gave it saucers
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Speaker 4: of milk, and now we can't get it to leave.
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Speaker 4: So we wind up with this Religious Liberty Commission. We
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Speaker 4: dealt with this. We just decided we were lazy sacks
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Speaker 4: and we just decided we would rather have the government endorse,
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Speaker 4: and then it became a derby to get the government
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Speaker 4: to endorse our religions.
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Speaker 4: three four eight A two four two one seven. As
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Speaker 4: we get ready for mel Brooks one hundredth birthday, I
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Speaker 4: want to tie into this Religious Liberty Commission and a
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Speaker 4: couple of their suggestions. They want to eliminate the Johnson Amendment,
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Speaker 4: which I think mel Brooks alone could do a whole
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Speaker 4: half of a movie on eliminating the Johnson Amendment. Is
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Speaker 4: it Gabby Johnson? Is it Howard Johnson? Is it? You know?
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Speaker 4: They should have the signing of the Elimination of the
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Speaker 4: Johnson Amendment in Rock Ridge. President should wear a waistcoat
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Speaker 4: with the white letters PR e Z on the back.
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Speaker 4: The Johnson Amendment eliminates forbids political activities by tax exempt
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Speaker 4: religious groups. For those who were thinking that that sort
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Speaker 4: of behavior existed in the constitution, no, this is something
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Speaker 4: that came along in the sixties. The Commission also said
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Speaker 4: the government should allow more religious expression in the public square.
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Speaker 4: How if there's an example, if there's an exploding bank
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Speaker 4: back showing you how bad things have gotten. We need
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Speaker 4: a commission to tell us what the first freaking Amendment
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Speaker 4: to the US Constitution said seventeen eighty nine. We've had this.
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Speaker 4: Congress shall make no law. I mean, what part of
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Speaker 4: that phrase is hard to understand? Congress shall make no
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Speaker 4: law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free
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Speaker 4: exercise thereof. As I said, this is about endorsing my religion,
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Speaker 4: not allowing for religious freedom. The argument, of course being well,
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Speaker 4: there's so many of you Christians around that the rest
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Speaker 4: of us need all government help to subsidize us. You
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Speaker 4: want to make your religion more expensive, subsidize it. But wait,
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Speaker 4: there's more. Commission says there should be more access to
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Speaker 4: public money for religion based agencies. I'm sorry, Am I
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Speaker 4: the only one that sees the unintended consequence of some
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Speaker 4: madrasa somewhere teaching kids how to make pipe bombs and
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Speaker 4: car bombs with US government money because they filled out
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Speaker 4: the paperwork correctly. Am I the only one who sees that.
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Speaker 4: I get what they're going for, but I greater access
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Speaker 4: to public money for religious based agencies. Sure, all well
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Speaker 4: and good when Trump's president. What happens when Abigail Spanberger
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Speaker 4: is president? What happens when Congresswoman Jayapol becomes president? What
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Speaker 4: happens when Keith Ellison becomes president? I mean, lord knows,
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Speaker 4: he's probably skimmed enough of the fraud off the top
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Speaker 4: in Minnesota Fund, at least the Exploratory committee. Am I
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Speaker 4: the only one who says that, I know what you're
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Speaker 4: gonna say. It's Trump. It's okay, it's Trump doing it.
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Speaker 4: It's Ben Carson. We trust that you just said you
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Speaker 4: love the Ben Carson movie. Come on, Joe, it's it's
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Speaker 4: Dan Patrick, not the sports talk host. Yeah, but they're
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Speaker 4: not always going to be there. Keep that in mind.
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Speaker 4: It's one sentence. Congress shall make no law. Put that
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Speaker 4: on a T shirt. Doctor Clark is on the line
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Speaker 4: with us at four three four eight eight two four
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Speaker 4: two one seven. Am I wrong to be concerned about
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Speaker 4: suggestions that more public money go to religious based agencies?
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Speaker 5: Well, let's see Congress now. Is were they referring to
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Speaker 5: Congress with the federal governm.
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Speaker 4: I certainly don't think they were referring to the Kami
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Speaker 4: Sutra reference of Congress.
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Speaker 5: But okay, Now, did every state that ratified that document
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Speaker 5: have a state religion?
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Speaker 4: Some of them did. Maryland.
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Speaker 9: Maryland was Catholic, Virginia was Episcopalian. So Congress shall pass
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Speaker 9: no law. Didn't say anything at all about the states,
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Speaker 9: So it wasn't separation a church and state. They just
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Speaker 9: didn't want a federal religion.
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Speaker 4: Well, but also understand that there are things that can
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Speaker 4: happen within a state that are not allowed to violate
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Speaker 4: the constitutional protections. So if there's a constitutional protection making
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Speaker 4: sure that you can and practice your religion and publicly,
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Speaker 4: that rules whether there's a state endorsed religion or not.
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Speaker 5: Right, Well, the whole point is that it's supposed to
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Speaker 5: be protection of, not protection from.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's one of the biggest perversions in American society
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Speaker 4: is that it is stopped being a separation of church
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Speaker 4: and state, and it's become a confrontation of church and state,
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Speaker 4: and the state is picking and choosing winners based on
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Speaker 4: who they want to tweak the fringe groups with.
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Speaker 5: Yes, Now, a couple of things that you've touched on
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Speaker 5: virtually this morning. The Sean Bolton guilty plea.
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Speaker 4: Huh, I was.
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Speaker 5: Working on a tree farm last night listening to allegedly
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Speaker 5: conservative talk.
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Speaker 9: Radio, but it was on on an ABC affiliate, so
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Speaker 9: I had the always been communist propaganda reader doing the
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Speaker 9: top and bottom of the hour news breaks, and they
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Speaker 9: talk about John moulton guilty plea, and you know what,
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Speaker 9: the aside after his guilty plea was Joe, this is
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Speaker 9: this is Donald Trump's first successful prosecution in his war
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Speaker 9: against his political enemies.
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Speaker 4: Of course it is, of course it is.
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Speaker 10: Well, you know, you and I and probably at least
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Speaker 10: half the listers are ultra news geeks and we follow
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Speaker 10: all the stuff that's going on, whereas the vast majority
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Speaker 10: of the people are unaware. But I would say that
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Speaker 10: as of this very moment, plenty of evidence has been
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Speaker 10: really east the convict Clapper, Comy Brennan, Clinton, probably Mary Garland,
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Speaker 10: Jack Smith, Latuccia, James et cetera, et cetera.
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Speaker 4: You left off, Tony, take the shot, leave the Canoli's fouc.
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Speaker 5: I was getting to him.
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Speaker 8: I was getting it.
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Speaker 4: Well, hang on, we're getting to the news here. My
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Speaker 4: own newsreader is going to have to read something, and
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Speaker 4: Andy will write me some notes saying, well, did you
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Speaker 4: hear what your newsreader said, and it's not mine, it's
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Speaker 4: a network but but yeah, hey, they're on my flagship.
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Speaker 4: But but here's here's the thing as we head to
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Speaker 4: the news and stick a pin in this, is that
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Speaker 4: the idea is that John Bolton didn't break any laws.
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Speaker 4: He just made Donald Trump mad and that's why he
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Speaker 4: got convicted. And that's a very important thing for the
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Speaker 4: As we draw out of the close tearfully of Pride month.
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Speaker 4: Here on First Thing Today, what are to shed some
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Speaker 4: reality well? First off, the concept of senatorial filibuster is
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Speaker 4: not anywhere in the US Constitution. It was a parliamentary
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Speaker 4: procedure invented in eighteen oh six, and it was remarkable
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Speaker 4: in and of the fact that It was enacted in
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Speaker 4: order to make sure that the minority could be heard
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Speaker 4: regarding legislation, so it would it take about twenty years
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Speaker 4: the house in the US Senate became it became obvious
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Speaker 4: that people like Virginia's delegation were just dominating. The tactic
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Speaker 4: of speaking at length to delay legislation first appeared in
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Speaker 4: the Senate's earliest sixth sessions September twenty second, seventeen eighty nine.
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Speaker 4: Senator William McLay noted that Virginians aimed to talk away
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Speaker 4: the time so that we could not get the bill
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Speaker 4: passed because you were allowed to speak until somebody voted
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Speaker 4: to make you shut up, or if you left, you
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Speaker 4: couldn't leave, you couldn't stop, you can't go to the bathroom,
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Speaker 4: anything like that. And this is before adult diapers existed.
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Speaker 4: Philibuster actually comes from the word pirate, by the way,
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Speaker 4: it's a Dutch Spanish word meaning pirate. The first real
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Speaker 4: use of the filibuster and the Senate was used to
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Speaker 4: block the National Bank Bill of eighteen forty one. So
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Speaker 4: there have been good uses of philibuster as well. Of course,
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Speaker 4: we wound up losing that one. However, in instances where
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Speaker 4: it could have been handy to, I don't know, push
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Speaker 4: against anti civil rights legislation. As we approached the Civil War. Funny,
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Speaker 4: the filibuster became less and less used. Then it became
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Speaker 4: a tactic after reconstruction as we got back into the
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Speaker 4: business of trying to govern this country. The Southern pardon me,
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Speaker 4: the Southern representatives were given wide birth to filibuster out
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Speaker 4: of reparational behavior of the chairs, figuring, well, kind of
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Speaker 4: just burned their states, sound so, pardon me. So the
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Speaker 4: they came up with a way that you could vote
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Speaker 4: to stop a filibuster cloture. Now, what we have, and
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Speaker 4: this is what Mike Lee has been trying to do
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Speaker 4: with the Save America Act, is saying, fine, we have
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Speaker 4: the rules, not going to change the rules, just going
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Speaker 4: to get rid of the allowance for a non talking filibuster.
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Speaker 4: So all you have to do is, if you're the
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Speaker 4: Minority Party, Chuck Schumer, as soon as a bill is filed,
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Speaker 4: all you have to do, it's just paperwork. You file
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Speaker 4: a filibuster document documenting that you are filibustering this. Nobody
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Speaker 4: has to go to the floor. Nobody actually has to
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Speaker 4: get horse, Nobody has to go through their supply of altoids,
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Speaker 4: and then because the minority party has filed this document
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Speaker 4: regarding filibuster, the majority party now has to come up
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Speaker 4: with sixty votes to end the filibuster. So all Mike
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Speaker 4: Lee is saying, so fine, you want to have a
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Speaker 4: filibuster or filibuster, I want to see your asses up
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Speaker 4: behind a podium talking, and when you stop, we vote.
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Speaker 4: Because there is no Senate rule that says you have
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Speaker 4: to get sixty votes to pass legislation. Again, sloppy reporting
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Speaker 4: on this leads you to believe that in the Senate
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Speaker 4: you need to There are things that require higher bars,
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Speaker 4: constitutional amendments, things like that, but just something like the
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Speaker 4: same act, it's need fifty one out of one hundred,
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Speaker 4: that's all, but you need sixty to get it to
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Speaker 4: the floor. Just like in the House, you need the
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Speaker 4: House speaker to bring it to the floor. Doesn't matter
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Speaker 4: how many times a bill gets supported out of committees.
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Speaker 4: If the House, the Speaker of the House doesn't want
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Speaker 4: to bring it to the floor, it don't get to
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Speaker 4: the floor unless you file a discharge petition, at which
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Speaker 4: point they already have a primary opponent for you. A
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Speaker 4: couple of folks with some knowledge of the situation in
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Speaker 4: Congress first parliamentary procedures being put forth by Chip Roy
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Speaker 4: and Annapolina Luna. Bob Good knows a little bit about
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Speaker 4: that told us.
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Speaker 12: Well to save ACT as you know, Save America Act.
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Speaker 12: I guess right, fold down accomplished two primary things. One
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Speaker 12: proof of citizenship to registered to vote. Imagine that that
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Speaker 12: only American citizens on the vote in our legend.
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Speaker 4: How controversial.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, that should be supported by everybody, even Democrats.
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Speaker 4: And that's where I want to jump in on that,
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Speaker 4: because it is and here's where Mike Lee, this is
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Speaker 4: why they don't want Mike Lee. So that there's like
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Speaker 4: because there are and this is where John Cornyn and
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Speaker 4: some of these peoples are. Well, you just it will
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Speaker 4: never pass, the idea that because Lisa Murkowski and Bill
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Speaker 4: Cassidy don't want to pass it for their various reasons.
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Speaker 4: It discounts the fact that wins surveyed on the question
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Speaker 4: should only American citizens be allowed to vote in an
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Speaker 4: American election? Seventy percent of a very interesting demographic supports this.
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Speaker 4: Do you know what demographic supports the idea that only
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Speaker 4: American citizens vote in American elections? Members of the Democratic Party.
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Speaker 4: Seventy seventy percent of Democratic Party members support the idea
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Speaker 4: that only American citizens vote in American elections. So here's
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Speaker 4: the question, what are you afraid of? Are you afraid
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Speaker 4: that somebody might break ranks a John in you know,
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Speaker 4: somebody else that we haven't even heard of yet, Some
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Speaker 4: senator from some purple state like Virginia might And I'm
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Speaker 4: not saying Virginia because look at Tim Kane and Mark Warner,
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Speaker 4: they're not going to do it. But some state that
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Speaker 4: could teeter on going red anytime soon, Hick and Looper Kelly,
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Speaker 4: somebody from a state that isn't as Indigo blue as
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Speaker 4: you would think, all of a sudden says, you know,
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Speaker 4: most of my voters agree with us, so I'm going
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Speaker 4: to vote with it. That's what they're afraid of, is
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Speaker 4: that you'd get to fifty one votes, but not all
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Speaker 4: of them would be Republicans, because if you actually got
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Speaker 4: the vote to the floor, then we'd be able to see.
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Speaker 4: And that's all Mike Lee is trying to get done
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Speaker 4: with the Save America Act is saying, listen, let's have
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Speaker 4: a talking filibuster. Tell us why you opposed this Bill
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Speaker 4: and see where these senators are.
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Speaker 2: From the home of the First Amendment. First thing today.
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Speaker 4: Well, that was a mess, wasn't it. That wasn't you
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Speaker 4: know you didn't have any time for that, did you.
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Speaker 4: That was ugly?
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Speaker 8: Uh?
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Speaker 4: Joining the four three four eight A two four two
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Speaker 4: one seven, Bob in Moscow, we were talking about, you know,
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Speaker 4: the the the populism that's run among this this religious
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Speaker 4: zelotree and the President's Religious Commission that has you know,
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Speaker 4: now found itself with you know, its first port saying hey,
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Speaker 4: we should find a way to make sure there's more
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Speaker 4: religious freedom in the town square. And that's the part
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Speaker 4: that I just I laugh about because it's like, really,
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Speaker 4: did we need to give these folks a copy of
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Speaker 4: the Bill of Rights before they sat down? It seems
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Speaker 4: like it because we should have some rule that says
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Speaker 4: Congress shall make no law respect because you know, that
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Speaker 4: was baked into the cake. That was the second most
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Speaker 4: important thing in George Mason's mind, right after small congressional districts.
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Speaker 4: They didn't get that, how are you doing this morning?
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Speaker 4: So that's that's the issue that they're they're they're facing, Bob,
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Speaker 4: how are you doing this morning? It's scary, it's scary,
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Speaker 4: But there's we were supposed to be immune to this
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Speaker 4: based on the Constitution. But we got too smart for
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Speaker 4: our own bridges. We started playing around with well, we'll
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Speaker 4: endorse this. Yeah, we feel bad. We burned Atlanta, so
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Speaker 4: we're going to throw some federal funding at Atlanta because
31:07
Speaker 4: we burned it down. Then then it's you know, then
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Speaker 4: it's the black community, and we never really dealt with,
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Speaker 4: you know, what to do with them when they were freed.
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Speaker 4: So now we're going to talk reparations. Now this religious
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Speaker 4: group says we were marginalized, So we we don't want reparations.
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Speaker 4: We just want to be the official religion of the
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Speaker 4: United States for the next twenty years.
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Speaker 1: Right. And what's actually happened is the Supreme Court has
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Speaker 1: not become has become political. It's not a judicial court anymore.
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Speaker 1: On the fact, it's an opinions court. And that's what
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Speaker 1: the downfall of the United States is. It's not in Congress,
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Speaker 1: it's not the Center, it's not the President, it's the
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Speaker 1: Supreme Court. Because they are they are in a political
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Speaker 1: entity now and they're making decisions in the Supreme Court
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Speaker 1: and the federal district courts based on their own personal beliefs,
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Speaker 1: not based on the.
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Speaker 4: Fact well, I'm going to push back on that just
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Speaker 4: a little bit. And here's why. It's not because I
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Speaker 4: just wanted to disagree with you. But that's what you're getting,
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Speaker 4: is what the press says the ruling was. And so
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Speaker 4: what you have to do is you have to read
32:22
Speaker 4: the opinions. You have to read the majority opinion. You
32:25
Speaker 4: have to read the minority opinion, because quite honestly, ten
32:28
Speaker 4: years from now, somebody who's going to come up or
32:32
Speaker 4: pull up the minority opinion and base some new case
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Speaker 4: on the minority opinion. Look at what happened in the
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Speaker 4: minority opinion. I think it was Scalia who wrote the
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Speaker 4: minority opinion in Kilo, and in it maybe it was Thomas,
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Speaker 4: but they said, clearly, this is a fact based reading
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Speaker 4: of the law of Connecticut. If you want laws like
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Speaker 4: this to be held to be constitutional, you have to
33:02
Speaker 4: change the wording in the law. Because the law in
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Speaker 4: the New London Connecticut said you could take the housing
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Speaker 4: for the public benefit, and the argument was higher tax
33:14
Speaker 4: revenue for more expensive housing would create a public benefit.
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Speaker 4: And across the country, that dissenting opinion changed all the laws,
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Speaker 4: including Virginia's Constitution, was changed to say no, it has
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Speaker 4: to be for a public use. So often. I mean,
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Speaker 4: that's the thing the press says, Oh, the Supreme Court
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Speaker 4: issued its opinion, and that's sloppy broadcasting. They issued their ruling,
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Speaker 4: not their opinion. That's true.
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Speaker 1: But did you see so do my ears just sense
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Speaker 1: that she made public and what Chelseaphalito said, She has
33:55
Speaker 1: no idea what grammar is. If she's not well, she said,
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Speaker 1: she said, a conductor can say that the train is
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Speaker 1: arriving in New York City. It wasn't New York City,
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Speaker 1: but or Penn stations, but it has to arrive for
34:12
Speaker 1: another thirty minutes. She doesn't know grammar. She doesn't know
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Speaker 1: past ten President.
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Speaker 4: Well, it's okay because Justice Jackson doesn't know man or
34:22
Speaker 4: woman either, so I know.
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Speaker 1: But that's what that's what I'm saying. Our Supreme Court
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Speaker 1: has lost its way. We have activist judges, yes, in
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Speaker 1: the whole courses on both sides.
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Speaker 4: Yes we do, yes, we do. But part of it
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Speaker 4: is because we allow this idea that they're issuing opinions
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Speaker 4: and not rulings, and and that's you know, and we
34:47
Speaker 4: have to tighten up our language. We have to reward
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Speaker 4: the reporters that say it was a Supreme Court ruling,
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Speaker 4: not in a Supreme Court opinion. And I'm sure there's
34:57
Speaker 4: some pedantic, you know, jockey out there that will argue
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Speaker 4: with me. But well well thought and well stated.
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Speaker 1: And that's and that's just scary for me. What what's happening?
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Speaker 1: Because it's a big problem in my eyes.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, No, it's a big problem in most because that's
35:15
Speaker 4: you know, if you want to say, what's the there?
35:20
Speaker 4: This used to be a thing when you know, you
35:22
Speaker 4: go to marketing class and things like that, Uh, come
35:26
Speaker 4: up with a way that a Big Mac Happy Meal
35:28
Speaker 4: could be listed in a news story as health food,
35:33
Speaker 4: and and so the marketing skin, you know, the marketing
35:38
Speaker 4: example would be to go find something that's predominantly unhealthy.
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Speaker 4: Eating eating bovine excrement is you know, is less healthy
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Speaker 4: than eating McDonald's Big Mac Happy Meal. Therefore, Uh, in
35:54
Speaker 4: this case, if if judged against bovine excrement, McDonald's can
35:59
Speaker 4: be considered health food. Therefore, we can now call McDonald's.
36:03
Speaker 4: And we watched this happen at the EPA endorsements and
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Speaker 4: the Food and Drug Administration endorsements. Well, it's safe and
36:10
Speaker 4: effective compared to what, well, not doing anything at all?
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Speaker 4: You know, all right, is it really still? You know?
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Speaker 4: That was one of the issues with the COVID was
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Speaker 4: is it safe and effective compared to not doing anything
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Speaker 4: at all? Was it better than not, you know, than
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Speaker 4: taking ivermectin or remdesivir or anything like that, And and
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Speaker 4: what were you coming up with these phrases off.
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Speaker 1: Of absolutely not? But yeah, I mean, like with McDonald's
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Speaker 1: as it can say, Hey, French fries are really nutritionists
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Speaker 1: because it's a vegetable, so your kids should eat more.
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Speaker 4: Exactly. That's it. That's marketing one O one and government
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Speaker 4: marketing too. Thank you, Thank you, Bob. You have a
36:51
Speaker 4: gray afternoon. Yep, by first thing this afternoon in Moscow. Oh,
36:58
Speaker 4: shoot man, good question. Kare Kareem sent me the story
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Speaker 4: about NATO taking a shot at Russian airfields. NATO reports
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Speaker 4: have an initiative. They're offering two hundred and fifty thousand
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Speaker 4: euros for solutions to permanently disable Russian airfields beyond Ukraine's
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Speaker 4: current strike capabilities. I saw that story and it kind
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Speaker 4: of made me chuckle a little bit because of the
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Speaker 4: way it was written. Kareem, it's Okay, you guys, how
37:36
Speaker 4: much money have we given you for missiles and things
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Speaker 4: like that and jets and things, and you're asking for
37:43
Speaker 4: what a TikTok? Pull something out on Facebook? Are you
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Speaker 4: using your x account? Maybe Blue Sky? I have a
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Speaker 4: feeling NATO's on Blue Sky a lot. I just I
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Speaker 4: did see that story. I just thought it was goofy
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Speaker 4: in the fact that this is what NATO's Defense ministry
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Speaker 4: has come to is saying, hey, can somebody tell us
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Speaker 4: how to stop an airfield from working? Only what did
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Speaker 4: the Yakov Samaranov used to say? What the country? What
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Speaker 4: the country? And not always was he doing it to say,
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Speaker 4: you guys are great. Sometimes he was making fun of
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Speaker 4: us in case he didn't get the gag. There this
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Speaker 4: text message on philibuster. So she said. So Carrie said
38:39
Speaker 4: that she had heard somebody saying the filibuster wasn't an
38:43
Speaker 4: American invention in the Constitution, a constitutional invention. She said,
38:49
Speaker 4: I was hearing somebody say that it was really invented
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Speaker 4: in the nineteen thirties by the folks who wanted to
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Speaker 4: stop all the Jim Ro laws. No, No, the filibuster
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Speaker 4: has always been there in the Senate. I mean it's
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Speaker 4: been a parliamentary procedure that has been used to keep
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Speaker 4: the minority voice heard