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"Don't Forget the Fraud" (Monday, January 26, 2026, Hour 4) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 3: Let her be you, Joe, thank you for letting me
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Speaker 3: be of service to you. And now a word from
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Speaker 3: the President.
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Speaker 4: All Americans, not only in the states most heavily affected,
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Speaker 4: but in every place in this country, are rightly disturbed
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Speaker 4: by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country.
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Speaker 4: The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens
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Speaker 4: or legal immigrants. The public service they use impost burdens
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Speaker 4: on our taxpayers. That's why our administration has moved to
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Speaker 4: aggressively to secure our borders more by hiring a record
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Speaker 4: number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many
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Speaker 4: criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring,
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Speaker 4: by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens.
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Speaker 3: Oh you thought I meant the current president of the
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Speaker 3: United States? You know at That must have been a
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Speaker 3: campaign speech, wasn't it. No, It was the State of
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Speaker 3: the Union address at which the President also said do.
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Speaker 4: More to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who a
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Speaker 4: arrested for crimes, to better identify illegal aliens in the workface,
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Speaker 4: as recommended by the commission headed by a former Congresswoman
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Speaker 4: Barbara Jordan. We are a nation of immigrants, but we
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Speaker 4: are also a nation of laws.
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Speaker 3: Tisk I bring this up. I subject you to Slick
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Speaker 3: Willie because he was in Newsweek yesterday. Actually he's been reported.
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Speaker 3: He was actually on X yesterday and Newsweek is reporting
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Speaker 3: on his appearance on X in which he issued this statement.
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Speaker 3: All of this is unacceptable and should have been avoided.
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Speaker 3: To make matters even worse, at every turn, the people
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Speaker 3: in charge have lied to us, told us not to
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Speaker 3: believe what we've seen with our own eyes, and pushed
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Speaker 3: increasingly aggressive and antagonistic tactics, including impeding investigations by local authorities.
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Speaker 3: Hold it, Bill, are you talking about the nurse that
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Speaker 3: was impeding an investigation by ICE or it is all
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Speaker 3: I mean? It is up to all of us. Huh oh,
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Speaker 3: I'm sorry. It is up to all of us who
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Speaker 3: believe in the promise of American democracy to stand up,
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Speaker 3: speak out, and show that our nation still belongs to
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Speaker 3: we the people. That from William Jefferson Clinton of Arkansas,
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Speaker 3: the statement posted to his ex account yesterday afternoon. So
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Speaker 3: now enforcing these laws that he told us he was
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Speaker 3: going to do so aggressively back in the nineties is
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Speaker 3: a threat to American democracy. So having a permanent underclass
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Speaker 3: of servants whose only role in our society or to
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Speaker 3: clean up our dishes and look after our children while
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Speaker 3: we're out doing work I presume or whatever. We aren't
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Speaker 3: going to be home, so that Abuela can raise our
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Speaker 3: kids to cut our grass and to clean our shirts.
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Speaker 3: This permanent underclass of just slightly less brown people than
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Speaker 3: the last permanent underclass that Bill's party supported. I mean,
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Speaker 3: I just I'm just asking, maybe you're not somewhere to
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Speaker 3: states in a frigid blast has canceled ten thousand plus
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Speaker 3: Federal Border Patrol A jens that were involved in Saturday's
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Speaker 3: fatal shooting of counter protester Alex Predi have been reassigned
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Speaker 3: outside of the city but remain on duty. According to
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Speaker 3: Border Patrol Commander at Large Greg Bovino said, all agents
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Speaker 3: that were involved in that scene are working not in
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Speaker 3: Minneapolis but other locations for their safety. In the midst
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Speaker 3: But I want to hear how it's impacting you where
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Speaker 3: you are on this frigid Monday morning. Good morning, Who says,
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Speaker 3: hey Joe, This is Terry again in Portland. How are
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Speaker 3: you today? Good Terry, how are you doing this morning?
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Speaker 17: Oh?
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Speaker 3: I'm doing all right, doing all right? So what can
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Speaker 3: I do for you? Sir?
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Speaker 18: Well, you know, so this is you know, And I
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Speaker 18: just want to tell you this anyway. I don't need
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Speaker 18: to be on the air sometimes I just like to
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Speaker 18: say somebody, you know this whole thing with this, with
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Speaker 18: this Minneapolis, this is a ramp up because of fraud there.
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Speaker 18: If we don't focus on the fraud, then we don't
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Speaker 18: remember the fraud for the midterms, right, So the kicking
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Speaker 18: and screaming, the kicking and screaming is taking us off
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Speaker 18: of our own narrative for really what should be recognized
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Speaker 18: as the fraud. And I'm sick of it, Joey, and
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Speaker 18: I'm saying, I love you. I love all my radio guys,
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Speaker 18: whether they're here still or not, I love them all.
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Speaker 18: But you know what, a lot of times we miss
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Speaker 18: the mark on the swing, when we're when the pitch,
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Speaker 18: we are missing this. They are in control. And as
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Speaker 18: long as people are dying and getting shot, people are
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Speaker 18: not talking about the fraud.
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Speaker 3: Well, I think we're still talking about the fraud. It's
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Speaker 3: just you know, I'm you know, yeah, But we have.
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Speaker 18: To really push for it to be in the media
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Speaker 18: is not talking about it, and that means we need
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Speaker 18: to long knife it into the into the spotlight.
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Speaker 3: No, you're not wrong, I'm just saying that. I think here,
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Speaker 3: what we're trying to do for this particular moment in
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Speaker 3: time is to counter position this idea that this is
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Speaker 3: just some poor soul who happened to be walking along
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Speaker 3: a street in Minneapolis where a bunch of police officers
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Speaker 3: gunned him down. Uh, this wasn't the case. This was
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Speaker 3: a very coordinated, very intentional uh set up by a
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Speaker 3: group that is designed to escalate police confrontations. Ye right, right,
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Speaker 3: And so.
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Speaker 18: That's why you can't really blame the police if they
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Speaker 18: if they found what they thought was another gun, because
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Speaker 18: they're so wrapped up in what's going on, it wouldn't
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Speaker 18: be off the mark for another person or for a
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Speaker 18: one to have another gun on them when they just
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Speaker 18: found it.
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Speaker 3: I mean, well especially when one goes off, I mean
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Speaker 3: when when gunshots start being fired. This is the whole
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Speaker 3: point of the protest that Preddie was participating in. So no,
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Speaker 3: you know, and maybe Jacob Fry and the rest of
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Speaker 3: the supporters of this kind of activity should be held
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Speaker 3: to account for not making it clearer to these people
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Speaker 3: what what the intention of their efforts are, which is
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Speaker 3: to get the police to start shooting at them, because yeah.
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Speaker 18: That's that's my point is that is that they would
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Speaker 18: rather have the violence in their society rather than rather
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Speaker 18: than people talking about the crime and the fraud, yep.
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Speaker 18: And also sacrifice the innocent people, even on their own side,
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Speaker 18: they will sacrifice them just to keep the real big
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Speaker 18: story the protest isn't the protests in the media.
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Speaker 3: Will lose us to November. In the media will win
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Speaker 3: us November. Well, and I'm well, let me ask you
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Speaker 3: this about November and the mid terms, because I truly
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Speaker 3: believe in Actually the Washington Examiner, you know, about twelve
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Speaker 3: hours after I said it the first time, the behavior
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Speaker 3: of some of the Democrats that won office is specifically
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Speaker 3: Abigail Spanberger and Zorhan Mamdani, I think is going to
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Speaker 3: screw this whole midterm for the Democrats. They needed to
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Speaker 3: catfish a little bit longer to keep that that middle
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Speaker 3: ground conservative, the one who uh just wants law and order,
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Speaker 3: wants to wants lower taxes, and just wants to get
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Speaker 3: on with their day and isn't paying ardent attention to
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Speaker 3: everything they're hearing about, you know, a doubling of income
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Speaker 3: taxes in Virginia. They're hearing about, uh, you know, open
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Speaker 3: borders and sanctuary cities and encampments and and all of this,
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Speaker 3: and it's riling them up to mid terms. And I
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Speaker 3: think you're right. As longly as we keep things like
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Speaker 3: the fraud at the foreground, that'll stay there as well.
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Speaker 18: Two weeks ago they were losing ground because every single
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Speaker 18: thing in the media was even them talking.
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Speaker 3: About us, talking about the fraud.
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Speaker 18: Yeah, now they've beaten that, and now the fraud's not
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Speaker 18: in the in the media anymore.
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Speaker 3: Well, you've helped remind us, Terry. I appreciate it, sir.
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Speaker 3: You have a good morning.
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Speaker 18: That's what I need to thank you, sir, you have
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Speaker 18: a great day.
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Speaker 3: Four three, four eight eight two four to two one seven.
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Speaker 3: Jessica Anderson, I want to share that word, that name
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Speaker 3: with you. Jessica Anderson fancies herself maybe a senator or
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Speaker 3: congressoman at some point. Right now, she's a member of
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Speaker 3: the Virginia House of Delegates. Jessica Anderson right after and
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Speaker 3: when I say, right after the fraud became well known,
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Speaker 3: maybe a week after the fraud became well known out
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Speaker 3: of the Minneapolis on Documented community, she proposed House Bill
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Speaker 3: thirteen sixty nine into Virginia's General Assembly. No state agency
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Speaker 3: responsible for the administration of federal funds shall impose a
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Speaker 3: requirement on a non profit charitable organization providing a federal
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Speaker 3: public benefit to determine, verify, or otherwise require proof of
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Speaker 3: eligibility of any applicant for such benefits. The Democratic Party
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Speaker 3: in Virginia's House of Delegates has a fourteen seat majority
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Speaker 3: out of one hundred, and in the Senate they have
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Speaker 3: one seat majority plus even if you got to Attie
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Speaker 3: the Lieutenant governor cast the tybre vote, and she's a Democrat.
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Speaker 3: She's so much a Democrat. I think she makes Rashid
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Speaker 3: Talib seem conservative. So this is going to pass, and
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Speaker 3: it is going to wind up on Governor Spanberger's desk,
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Speaker 3: and I'm still not one hundred percent sure. We've reached
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Speaker 3: out to see if the governor would come on, and yeah,
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Speaker 3: I'm going to cat fish her a little bit. I'm
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Speaker 3: not going to tell her exactly the tenor. I'll tell
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Speaker 3: her some questions that I want to ask, and I'll
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Speaker 3: ask them, and then I'm going to hit her with
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Speaker 3: this one. How many of these crazy ass bills. I'll
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Speaker 3: probably phrase it differently. Are you planning on vetoing especially
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Speaker 3: like this one specifically saying what happened in Minnesota with
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Speaker 3: the fraud that Terry was just talking about will become
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Speaker 3: sanctioned by Virginia law. And I checked there's about a
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Speaker 3: half a dozen other states with similar legislation. Think about that,
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Speaker 3: Think about writing a law, passing a law, inserting that
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Speaker 3: law into the code of your state that says nobody
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Speaker 3: can check to make sure the taxpayer money that is
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Speaker 3: being given to other people is going to people who
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Speaker 3: actually deserve it. Wrap your head around a world where
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Speaker 3: that that is actually a proposed piece of legislation, and
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Speaker 3: how tone deaf one can wonder. But I don't believe
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Speaker 3: it was tone deaf. I believe that Virginia, knowing that
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Speaker 3: it's committing just as much fraud as Minnesota is not
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Speaker 27: One of our constituents shooting him to death? How many
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Speaker 3: I don't know, Jacob, how many more are you going
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Speaker 3: But these protests are specifically designed to escalate. Now, I'm
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Speaker 21: Hey, Joe, what do you know? I'm calling from Corveallis, Oregon.
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Speaker 21: Yeah, well, okay, so let me get this straight. We've
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Speaker 3: You know, you're you're hired as mayor of Minneapolish they're
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Speaker 3: because you know. But that's the the reason I told
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Speaker 3: billions of dollars in federal money disappearing it to their homelands,
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Speaker 3: That's you know, just us drop in the bucket to
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Speaker 3: here in Charlottesville. We have encampments by two riverfronts here,
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Speaker 21: Last summer in Corvallis, I wasn't aware of it. They
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Speaker 3: Well, bless you, bless you for actually clearing the matter
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Speaker 3: first the city so poorly managed, and I mean there
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Speaker 3: are signs in Washington, DC homeless shelters saying go to Charlottesville,
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Speaker 3: they treat you better. There was such an overwhelming homeless
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Speaker 3: population in Charlottesville the city actually removed all the benches
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Speaker 3: from our downtown shopping district so that people wouldn't sleep
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Speaker 3: on it. And then they started harassing patrons at these
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Speaker 3: outdoor cafes. I'm sure you have out you know, like
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Speaker 3: a downtown, you know area the outdoor cafes all are
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Speaker 3: you know, maybe it's near the university. I don't know,
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Speaker 3: but there were these outdoor cafes and the homeless would
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Speaker 3: come up and walk right up to a patron and say, yo, man,
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Speaker 3: can you give me money? And if they didn't, they
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Speaker 3: would launch into these profanity laced arias in front of kids,
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Speaker 3: in front of you know, who knows what, and you
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Speaker 3: know what. The city attorney said that was protected speech.
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Speaker 3: That was their first Amendment right. Even though they were
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Speaker 3: charging the restaurants a premium to have the space outdoors
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Speaker 3: in front of their restaurant, the restaurant owners couldn't do
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Speaker 3: anything about removing these indigence from harassing their customers. Is
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Speaker 3: that an amazing well, if.
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Speaker 21: They were out on the sidewalk. Right, they were on
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Speaker 21: the other side of the enclosed dining area, so I'm
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Speaker 21: assuming that the sidewalk would be like a public right
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Speaker 21: and they're having their free speech, but still it's harassing.
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Speaker 21: I just want to tell you one thing. I'm a
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Speaker 21: relatively new listener, maybe thank you six months or so,
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Speaker 21: and I just love you because I think you're so
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Speaker 21: quirky and I understand. I understand quirky. Quirky works.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh absolutely, quirky wins is what it is.
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Speaker 3: And if we can't be ourselves, so can we be
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Speaker 3: d D. Thank you so much for the call. I
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Speaker 3: appreciate it.
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Speaker 21: Right, it was fun, all right?
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Speaker 3: Thank you God bless four three four eight eight two
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Speaker 3: four to two one seven wherever you join in progress
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Speaker 3: this morning, please, you know, help help out. I know
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Speaker 3: that the mayor of Stanton, Virginia is trying to rally
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Speaker 3: the troops to help out in homeless shelters there as
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Speaker 3: well until tomorrow morning. So long and thanks for all
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Speaker 3: the fish. Oh I'm sorry that was premature jubilation on
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Speaker 3: my part. It's not like I'm trying to leave you.
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Speaker 3: I misread the clock and you know it's not one
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Speaker 3: of those old school analog clocks. It actually says it's
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Speaker 3: only fifty eight oh seven and we still have a
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Speaker 3: few minutes. But please help out those facilities if you can,
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Speaker 3: you know, serve food, whatever set up cons whatever you
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Speaker 3: can do, because right now we do have a problem
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Speaker 3: with people who don't have a place to live, and
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Speaker 3: it's a municipal problem set up by public policy. But
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Speaker 3: that doesn't mean we can't help those who are out
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Speaker 3: of doors. Please, if you can find a place to
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Speaker 3: help Salvation Army, that'd be a great spot. Thank you
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Speaker 3: for reminding. Now I can say adele tomorrow, so long
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Speaker 3: and thanks for all the fish.
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