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MAGA Republicans Targeted by the FBI, Crime In America Effecting Democrats, plus Questions on the Minds of Young Voters the Week In Review · The 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson

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  Speaker 1: Welcome.
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  Speaker 2: It is a Verdict with Ted Cruz Weekend Review. Ben
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  Speaker 2: Ferguson with you. And these are the big stories that
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  Speaker 2: you may have missed that we talked about this week.
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  Speaker 2: Number one the big story of the week, Donald Trump
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  Speaker 2: voters and those that consider themselves MAGA supporters are now
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  Speaker 2: going to be targeted by the FBI in a shocking
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  Speaker 2: new minimum. The federal government believes that the quote threat
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  Speaker 2: of violence and major civil disturbances from MAGA supporters is
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  Speaker 2: so great that they have created a new category of
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  Speaker 2: extremists that it seeks to quote track and counter. Who
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  Speaker 2: are they tracking?
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  Speaker 3: You?
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  Speaker 2: And Donald Trump's army of MAGA followers. Number two Crime
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  Speaker 2: in America out of control, but this time it's affecting Democrats,
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  Speaker 2: including one congressman that was carjacked. And finally, we had
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  Speaker 2: a very interesting Q and a Senator Ted Cruz at
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  Speaker 2: the Texas Youth Summit. I want you to hear some
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  Speaker 2: of the brilliant questions that were asked of the senator.
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  Speaker 2: It is the Weekend Review with Ted Cruz and it
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  Speaker 2: starts right now. There is now intel that shows that
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  Speaker 2: MAGA Republicans, Donald Trump's supporters will be targeted by the FBI.
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  Speaker 2: As the twenty twenty four election nears, Newsweek is now
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  Speaker 2: reporting on this and Biden to go back tweeted in
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  Speaker 2: September of last year quote Donald Trump and maga Republicans
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  Speaker 2: are a threat to the very soul of this country.
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  Speaker 2: The very soul of this country, Chris. FBI director chrispher
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  Speaker 2: Ray and sworn testimony said it's not just Trump supporters.
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  Speaker 2: Early this year, he said, House Republicans say the FBI
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  Speaker 2: document that they've obtained proved that several field offices contributed
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  Speaker 2: to a memo that targeted traditional Catholics. We talked about
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  Speaker 2: this extensively on this show as potential tarists and tried
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  Speaker 2: to turn and parishioners on their fellow church goers. So,
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  Speaker 2: if you just look at the last year, parents who
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  Speaker 2: show up at school board meetings are to be labeled
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  Speaker 2: domestic terrorists. The FBI was spending time recruiting people in
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  Speaker 2: the Catholic church to spy on their friends and family.
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  Speaker 2: And now we are being told that heading into the
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four election, that if you are a Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump follower supporter, that you may be now monitored or
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  Speaker 2: targeted by the FBI.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's exactly right, and part of the challenge s
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  Speaker 3: heare like, for example, you focused on the FBI's targeting
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  Speaker 3: of traditional Catholics, which they rightly got enormous grief because
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  Speaker 3: they were talking about infiltrating Catholic churches and trying to
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  Speaker 3: get priests to spy on their parishioners and become FBI
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  Speaker 3: informants to inform on the members of their church. So
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  Speaker 3: initially the FBI said, oh, that was a rogue office
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  Speaker 3: down in Richmond, Virginia, it's not a broader problem.
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  Speaker 4: Now that they've admitted that it.
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  Speaker 3: Was multiple offices that participated in that this was a
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  Speaker 3: much broader effort to target traditional Catholics. And the same
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  Speaker 3: is true with the targeting of Donald Trump's supporters. You know,
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  Speaker 3: even this language, so you can tell someone did a
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  Speaker 3: focus group on the Democrat side and they discovered the
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  Speaker 3: phrase maga Republican. They're going to brand that that like
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  Speaker 3: magi by the way, Maga republican, and their definition they
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  Speaker 3: mean everybody. They literally mean every Republican is a maga Republican.
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  Speaker 3: And then they just think the word maga is really
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  Speaker 3: scary and they claim that if you are a maga
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  Speaker 3: Republican is defined as a Republican who voted for Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, seventy five to eighty million Americans are defined,
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  Speaker 3: according to this White House potential terrorists as threats to democracy.
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  Speaker 4: And this is how Democrats have become radicalized.
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  Speaker 3: They now say, if you dare vote against Democrats, you
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  Speaker 3: are a threat to democracy. Just understand, every time Democrats
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  Speaker 3: use the word democracy, what they mean is me, I'm
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  Speaker 3: a Democrat. I want to get elected, and anything that
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  Speaker 3: stands in my way is a quote threat to democracy.
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  Speaker 3: They don't actually want that. They don't actually want real
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  Speaker 3: democracy if it elects Republicans. What they want is Democrats
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  Speaker 3: to be in power forever. And by the way, this
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  Speaker 3: is intimately connected to their lawlessness on the southern border,
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  Speaker 3: because the reason they've allowed seven point six million illegal
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  Speaker 3: immigrants into the country is because they want to subvert
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  Speaker 3: democracy by getting them to vote for Democrats and keep
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  Speaker 3: Democrats in power.
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  Speaker 2: Sinri I also think we should bring up in the
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  Speaker 2: Newsweek article it says that if you voted for Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 2: the government will track you.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's right, and in June of this year, the
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  Speaker 3: FBI and the Department of Homeland Security filed a joint
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  Speaker 3: report with Congress, and what they say in that joint
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  Speaker 3: report is they say, quote threats from domestic violent extremists
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  Speaker 3: have increased in the last two years, and any further
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  Speaker 3: increases in threats likely will correspond to potential flash points
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  Speaker 3: such as high profile elections and campaigns or contentious current events.
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  Speaker 3: So they're saying terrorists are associated with high profile elections.
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  Speaker 3: And just to make sure there's no ambiguity that they're
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  Speaker 3: not talking about Antifa, they're not talking about left wing terrorists.
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  Speaker 3: They are focused on Republicans. Here's what the report concludes.
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  Speaker 3: Quote socio political developments such as narratives of fraud in
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  Speaker 3: the recent general election, conditions related to the COVID nineteen pandemic,
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  Speaker 3: and conspiracy theories promoting violence will almost certainly spur some
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  Speaker 3: domestic terrorists to try to engage in violence. Now, everything
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  Speaker 3: they list there they associate with Republicans. And notice they
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  Speaker 3: say COVID. So if you don't like lockdowns, you're a terrorist.
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  Speaker 3: If you don't like forced maskings, you're a terrorist. If
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  Speaker 3: you don't like vaccine mandates, you're a terrorist. If you're
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  Speaker 3: concerned about the potential health negative effects of forced vaccines
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  Speaker 3: of the COVID vaccines. You're a terrorist. That is the narrative.
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  Speaker 3: Anyone that disagrees with the regime they now define as
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  Speaker 3: a violent extremist, And amazingly enough, left wing violence in
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  Speaker 3: their narrative doesn't exist. So black lives matter, not a
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  Speaker 3: word about that. Antifa, not a word about them, the
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  Speaker 3: efforts targeting. Look, we've got now violent riots that are
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  Speaker 3: playing out right now in cities like Philadelphia, where they're
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  Speaker 3: ransacking and looting stores, where they're attacking police officers. That
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  Speaker 3: is not violent extremism. If you're a leftist, that's okay,
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  Speaker 3: that's that's wonderful. That is beautiful social protest to burn
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  Speaker 3: American cities. But yet, if if you're if you don't
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  Speaker 3: want to see America locked down again on COVID, clearly
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  Speaker 3: you're a terrorist.
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  Speaker 2: Final question to you, I think we should give it
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  Speaker 2: A quick update on that speakership and the House vote
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  Speaker 2: kind of risen to the top at this point. He
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  Speaker 2: said he's willing to be the speaker that would be.
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  Speaker 2: And if you missed our interview with him, a two
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  Speaker 2: part series on the Hunter Byden Investigation, go back and
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  Speaker 2: listen to it. He's phenomenal on this issue. Talk about
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  Speaker 2: the timeline now of when we expect the House side
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  Speaker 2: to take this up, of deciding again who's going to
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  Speaker 2: be the speaker.
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  Speaker 3: Well, my understanding is the House is going to vote
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  Speaker 3: on speaker next week and then I expect it to
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  Speaker 3: be a roller coaster ride.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you remember back in January we had a roller.
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  Speaker 3: Coaster ride of over a dozen different ballots before Kevin
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  Speaker 3: McCarthy was elected Speaker, and it was very narrow. It
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  Speaker 3: may well be a similar battle at this point. There
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  Speaker 3: are several contenders that are talking about running. Two have
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  Speaker 3: announced publicly. One is Steve Scalise. Steve Scalise is the
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  Speaker 3: Majority leader, was Kevin McCarthy's number two. Steve is generally
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  Speaker 3: perceived to be more conservative than McCarthy, and so Steve
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  Speaker 3: is running as the candidate that can unify both the
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  Speaker 3: moderates in the Republican Conference and all so some of
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  Speaker 3: the conservatives. A second candidate who's running, as you noted
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  Speaker 3: as Jim Jordan. Jim Jordan was one of the original
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  Speaker 3: founders of the Freedom Caucus. He is a prominent and
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  Speaker 3: well known conservative. The media is deeply skeptical of Jim Jordan,
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  Speaker 3: and they say he's too conservative to get elected and
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  Speaker 3: the moderates will never support him.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if that's true or not.
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  Speaker 3: There is also discussion that Kevin Hearn, who is a
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  Speaker 3: Republican from Oklahoma, that he may run.
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  Speaker 4: Kevin is a good man.
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  Speaker 3: It's not clear if he will, although there have been
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  Speaker 3: reports that he's telling other Republicans he's looking at the
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  Speaker 3: race seriously. And then there's been some chatter that Chip
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  Speaker 3: Roy might run. I don't know if Chip will run
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  Speaker 3: or not. At this point, neither Kevin nor Chip are
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  Speaker 3: in the race, but next week they might both be
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  Speaker 3: in the race, and and I don't know if yet
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  Speaker 3: another Republican might jump in. So I think it will
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  Speaker 3: be vigorously contested. I'm sure there's there is. There's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of horse trading going on right now. There's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of negotiations going on right now. What's striking is
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  Speaker 3: that each of the potential candidates went and met with
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  Speaker 3: the Texas delegation. The reason they met with the Texas
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  Speaker 3: delegation is Texas is the largest contingent of House Republicans,
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  Speaker 3: and so you've got the biggest block of votes, Particularly
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  Speaker 3: if the Texas delegation votes together. It's not clear that
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  Speaker 3: they will, but they might, and so at this point
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what will happen. My intention is to
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  Speaker 3: stay out of it and to leave leadership elections to
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  Speaker 3: House Republicans.
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  Speaker 4: But the answer as to who comes.
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  Speaker 3: Out of it is going to matter quite a bit,
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  Speaker 3: and so we will certainly watch with interest and continue
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  Speaker 3: to provide the best analysis we can.
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  Speaker 2: Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation,
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  Speaker 2: you can go back and listen to the full podcast
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  Speaker 2: from earlier this week.
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  Speaker 1: Now onto story number.
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  Speaker 2: Two, I want to move to something else that obviously
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  Speaker 2: got pushed back in the headlines, but it still is important.
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  Speaker 2: The crime wave that we're seeing is not just sweeping
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  Speaker 2: the nation, but now it's affecting democratic leaders and leaders
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  Speaker 2: in the liberal movement like we haven't seen before, and
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  Speaker 2: it's happening way more often. I'll give you an example.
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  Speaker 2: You have a Democratic representative, Henry Queller, who was carjacked
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  Speaker 2: at gunpoint in DC. This comes as in just the past,
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  Speaker 2: well it was in a twenty four hour period. You
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  Speaker 2: had a liberal gay reporter that was shot and killed
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  Speaker 2: in his home in Philly. You had a far left
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  Speaker 2: activist that was stabbed to death by a deranged stranger
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  Speaker 2: in Brooklyn in front of his girlfriend. You had this
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  Speaker 2: Democratic congressman who was carjacked at gunpoint in DC by
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  Speaker 2: four African American men. And yet we have Democrats who
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  Speaker 2: have a soft on crime policies that aren't just hurting
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  Speaker 2: their neighborhoods that I mentioned these different spots, but it's
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  Speaker 2: hurting people in Texas as well. And almost every House
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  Speaker 2: Democrat voted against the Republican efforts to stop the DC
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  Speaker 2: Week on Crime bill, which specifically would have reduced carjacking penalties.
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  Speaker 2: This is something that the Democrats, I mean they voted
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  Speaker 2: for its. Aldred for example, voted with the Dems on
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  Speaker 2: this one. It's shocking to me.
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  Speaker 3: Well, listen, crime is out of control in this country,
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  Speaker 3: and it's an issue that has people understandably very concerned.
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  Speaker 3: I watched tonight the video of the liberal activist in
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  Speaker 3: New York at four the morning being stabbed to death
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  Speaker 3: on the streets of New York by a guy that
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  Speaker 3: certainly appears deranged.
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  Speaker 4: It was horrific to watch.
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  Speaker 3: You're right, the news of the left wing journalist in
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  Speaker 3: Philadelphia who was shot. I think seven times in his
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  Speaker 3: own home and killed in the past few days. And
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  Speaker 3: Henry Quaar. Look, Henry Quayar is a Democrat congressman from Texas.
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  Speaker 3: I know Henry well. Henry represents Laredo up to San Antonio.
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  Speaker 3: Henry is the most conservative of the Texas Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: I worked hand in.
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  Speaker 3: Hand with Henry, for example, on the Texas Bridges. We've
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  Speaker 3: talked on this podcast before about four bridges from Texas
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  Speaker 3: to Mexico that Henry and I teamed up in and
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  Speaker 3: won big legislative victories to build new bridges to Mexico
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  Speaker 3: for legal commerce, to expand bridges. Henry, as I said,
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  Speaker 3: is by far the most conservative of the Texas Democrats.
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  Speaker 1: Well, in the.
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  Speaker 3: Last couple of days, Henry was coming to his apartment
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  Speaker 3: in DC. It was nine thirty at night and he
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  Speaker 3: was getting out of his car and it was carjacked.
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  Speaker 3: He was carjacked by four individuals. They put a gun
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  Speaker 3: in his face, they stole the car, they stole his luggage.
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  Speaker 3: Presumably I haven't spoken to Henry since it happened, but
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  Speaker 3: you have to assume that with a gun in his face,
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  Speaker 3: he was afraid for his life. I mean, that is frightening.
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  Speaker 3: My understanding is Henry lives at an apartment building where
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  Speaker 3: there were multiple members of Congress who lived there. That
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  Speaker 3: there are apparently multiple members of congressional leadership who live there,
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  Speaker 3: which means there are a lot of Capitol police around there.
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  Speaker 3: And at nine to thirty at night, he was carjacked
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  Speaker 3: on the streets of DC, and then that reflects the
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  Speaker 3: crime wave that is sweeping this country. Now, the DC
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  Speaker 3: City Council, which is populated by left wing Democrats, they
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  Speaker 3: voted to lower the penalties for violent crimes, including carjackings.
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  Speaker 3: In particular, they voted to lower the sentence from twenty
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  Speaker 3: one years to seven years, and they voted to lower
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  Speaker 3: the sentence from forty years if armed to fifteen years.
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  Speaker 3: And under the revised code, carjacking is now divided into
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  Speaker 3: three gradations dependent on severity, with the lowest penalties for
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  Speaker 3: an unarmed defense ranging from four to eighteen years and
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  Speaker 3: the highest penalties from an armed defense ranging from twelve
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  Speaker 3: to twenty four years. Now in the Congress, thankfully, the
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  Speaker 3: Congress has the ability to rescind any legislation in the
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  Speaker 3: District of Columbia. The reason for that is the Constitution
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  Speaker 3: gives Congress total authority over DC. Unlike a state. We
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  Speaker 3: can't rescind laws in Texas or any other state. But
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  Speaker 3: d C is a federal district in Congress has plenary
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  Speaker 3: authority over it. And so in Congress we voted to
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  Speaker 3: rescind these softened crime laws that lessen the penalties for
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  Speaker 3: violent crimes. And the results are horrific, as we're seeing carjacking, murders,
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  Speaker 3: crime rates skyrocketing in d C and all across the country.
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  Speaker 2: You also have the White House, who was asked about
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  Speaker 2: part of this, and I want to play that for everybody.
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  Speaker 2: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 5: If a member of Congress is not safe on the
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  Speaker 5: streets of the nation's capital, who is.
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  Speaker 6: Look, we're grateful and relieved that the congressman is unharmed.
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  Speaker 6: We understand what communities are going through across the country,
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  Speaker 6: not just in DC. That's why the President took action
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  Speaker 6: very early on in his administration to get the American
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  Speaker 6: Rescue Plan done without the help of Republicans. That's why
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  Speaker 6: every time he puts forward his budget, make sure there
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  Speaker 6: are billions of dollars to deal with crime.
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  Speaker 4: That's just a fact.
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  Speaker 6: All you got to look is what the president has
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  Speaker 6: been able to do this past two years. There's always
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  Speaker 6: going to be work, more work to be done, But
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  Speaker 6: the fact is the president has taken action.
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  Speaker 2: He hasn't taken action, He's done the opposite of that.
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  Speaker 1: She didn't have an answer to that. Holy crap.
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  Speaker 3: If a Democrat congressman is getting carjacked on the streets
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  Speaker 3: of DC at nine thirty pm, what the heck is
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  Speaker 3: the answer? And she's like, no, no, no, no, no, I'm not
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  Speaker 3: going to answer that. And what was her answer? Well,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Joe Biden spending a ton of money, mind you,
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  Speaker 3: not actually putting criminals in jail, not supporting police, not
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  Speaker 3: doing anything to stop crime. But he's shoveling a whole
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  Speaker 3: lot of cash at Democrat special interest groups. He's shoveling
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  Speaker 3: a whole lot of cash at deficit spending that's causing
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  Speaker 3: rampant inflation. That is her answer. It's an utter non sequitur.
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, it's not just Henry quaar Angie Craig,
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  Speaker 3: who is a Democrat Member of Congress from Minnesota, was
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  Speaker 3: assaulted in the apartment of her DC her DC apartment
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  Speaker 3: in February of this year.
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  Speaker 1: And this is a.
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  Speaker 3: Pattern that is happening over and over and over again.
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  Speaker 3: Let me give you some stats. Carjackings in DC are
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  Speaker 3: up one hundred and nine percent, robberies are up sixty
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  Speaker 3: eight percent, theft is up twenty two percent, homicides are
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  Speaker 3: up thirty eight percent, and the city is on pace
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  Speaker 3: for the deadliest year in two decades. Not only that,
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  Speaker 3: nine of the top ten cities with the highest homicide
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  Speaker 3: rights are run by Democrats. Twenty seven of the top
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  Speaker 3: thirty cities with the highest murder rates are run by Democrats.
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  Speaker 3: This is a pattern, and you're saying Kareem John Pierre
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  Speaker 3: and the Biden White House utterly dodging responsibilities for their
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  Speaker 3: soft on crime policies that are endangering people all across
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  Speaker 3: the country.
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  Speaker 2: One to ask question for you, will Democrats move on this?
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  Speaker 2: Because even the White House Presidenttery was asked a question
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  Speaker 2: of follow up where she could have kind of gotten
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  Speaker 2: a redo. I got to play it. It's too good,
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  Speaker 2: not too If.
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  Speaker 5: President Biden's policies are helping bring crime down, would he
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  Speaker 5: be comfortable with somebody borrowing his corvette and parking it
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  Speaker 5: on the street overnight in Southeast DC.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not gonna get into hypotheticals. I'm just gonna get
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  Speaker 6: into the facts about what this president has done.
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  Speaker 4: In this president, I mean, she's still screwed it up.
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  Speaker 3: Look, of course not nobody. Would you park your corvette
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  Speaker 3: on the street. It's gonna get robbed, it's gonna get
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  Speaker 3: broken into, it's gonna get keyed, it's gonna get vandalized.
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  Speaker 3: She can't answer that question, and so you know what
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  Speaker 3: she's counting on. Look, that was a question from Fox News,
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  Speaker 3: So Fox'll cover it. Ben, you worked for years at CNN.
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  Speaker 3: Did CNN cover that exchange?
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  Speaker 7: Hell?
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  Speaker 3: No, MSNBC, no, ABC, NBCCBS, Nope.
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  Speaker 1: They know that.
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  Speaker 3: The corporate media, they are the puppets for the administration.
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  Speaker 3: They are the propagandists for the administration. They will repeat
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  Speaker 3: the regime line. And so look, any sane person would
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  Speaker 3: say no to the question would you be happy with
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  Speaker 3: your your classic corvette parked on the streets of DC?
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  Speaker 3: Of course not, because crime is out of control and
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  Speaker 3: the problem is Look, let me underscore that again. When
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  Speaker 3: the DC City Council looked at skyrocketing crime rates and said,
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  Speaker 3: you know what, the answer here is, let's lower the
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  Speaker 3: penalties on violent crime. That's the best solution. We've got
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  Speaker 3: too many murderers, too many murders, too many carjackings. Let's
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: send people to jail for shorter times for murder and carjacking.
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: That's a great idea. In Congress, thankfully we overturn that.
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: In the House. Every single House Democrat except two, the
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: Saint DII Gonzalez, a Texan and Henry quay are at Ti, Texan,
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: who was just carjacked in the last forty eight hours,
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: are the only two who voted no. That means every
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: other House Democrat, if you can think of a House Democrat,
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: they voted in favor of lessening the penalties on carjackers
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: and on murderers. Why do you think crime is out
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: of control?
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a Democratic party and this is certainly going
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: to be an issue with the presidential election.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: Dark for Ben ben hold On. Before we wrap up,
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: I want to ask you a final question.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: I'm ready.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: If you're standing by a doorway and you see a
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: little red box that is three inches by four inches
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: and it says the word fire on it and it
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: says pull this for the fire alarm. My question to
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: you is is that a doorknob.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: That is not a doorknob, and that is not a
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: way to exit the building.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: But how do you know, how do you know? Ben?
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: Seriously?
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: I mean, look, it's not like.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: That insurrectionism one oh one, right, Like, don't you immediately
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: lock that person up forever?
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: Well, let me ask you this. It's not like you
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: were a high school principal. It's not like you were
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: a high school principal in a high school that had
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: fire alarms. It's not like you were a high school
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: principal in a high school that had fire alarms, that
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: had a policy that said, if you a student pulls
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: the fire alarm, you will be expelled. Jamal Bowman, the
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: Democrat congressman, was a principal at a high school that
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: had a policy that if you, Ben Ferguson, a student
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: in his high school, pulled the fire alarm, you would
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: be expelled. And yet what did Jamal Bowman do, Oh,
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna pull the fire alarm because I want to
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: stop the Republican vote. And why is it? His claim?
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: If you believe him, his defense is, I'm dumber than
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: a box of rocks, and I think a fire alarm
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: is a doorknob. That is his defense. And that's the
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: best interpretation he can hope for.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: By the way, I have to ask now, because you
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: brought it up, if a Republican would have done that,
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: how fast would they have been kicked out of Congress?
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: And would they have a mug shot at this point?
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: To be honest, I don't think they'd be kicked out
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: of Congress, but I think they might have a mug shot.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: And my guess is, look, kicking people out of Congress
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: is pretty severe. My guess is the votes won't be
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: there for that. My prediction is they will censure him.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: I think the votes will be there for censuring him.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: But it is a criminal offense in the district of
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: Columbia to pull a fire alarm fraudulently, and he is
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: on video doing that, But he is counting on the
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: corporate media to ignore the fact that he was willing
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: to pull a fire alarm to try to stop the
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: Congress from voting on a provision that he didn't like, which,
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: mind you, was a provision to fund the government, and
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: he wanted to force a government shut down, so he
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: pulled a fire alarm to cause it to happen. But again,
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: he knew the corporate media would cover for him.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: And they're doing it right now as before.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: If you want to hear the rest of this conversation
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: on this topic, you can go back and dow the
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: podcast from earlier this week to hear the entire thing.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: I want to get back to the big story number
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  Speaker 7: Hello, Senator Cruz. My name is Jenna. I go to
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: U of H here and I work at a tax
• 23:14
  Speaker 7: from as a tax consultant, and the tax deadline is
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: coming up October eighteenth, and I was wondering how the
• 23:20
  Speaker 7: government shutdown is going to affect the IRS and the
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: accounting industry regarding that deadline that's coming up, and if
• 23:27
  Speaker 7: you could explain kind of what's going to have.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, look, that's a very good question, and I expect
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: that if the shutdown goes long and it could easily
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: go a month. The last one was thirty five days
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: and twenty nineteen, the Schumer shutdown, it could easily go
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: a month. What it would mean as a practical matter,
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: is that much of the manpower at the IRS that
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: would be available to assist you, that would be available
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: to process returns, that would be available to answer questions,
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: much of that man power is not going to be there.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: They will keep essential workers, and it's up to eat
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: each agency to decide who is essential. But things like
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: customer service almost always get deemed non essential, and you
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: end up with a significantly reduced workforce.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: And so you're.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: Working at a private firm, that that's going to mean
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: that your clients are going to need your advice more
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: significantly because the IRS is going to be less available
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: to be responsive, even less than they normally are.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Let's take a question from over here.
• 24:31
  Speaker 7: Hi, Senator Cruz, my name is Helen and I'm from
• 24:34
  Speaker 7: the Woodlands. My question to you is are you in
• 24:37
  Speaker 7: favor of the age and term limits to be elected
• 24:40
  Speaker 7: for Senate and Congress?
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Helen, Thank you for that question. So let
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: me break them down one at a time. You asked
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: about age limits and term limits. On age limits, the
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: only age limit we have for the Senate is the Constitution.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: So the Constitution.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: Provides that you have to be twenty five years old
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: to be elected to the House Representatives. You have to
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: be thirty years old to be elected to the Senate,
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: and you have to be thirty five years old to
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: be elected president. Other than that, there are currently no
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: limits when it comes to serving in federal elected office,
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: and it's one of the reasons why you see so
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: many people in the Senate who are one hundred and
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: forty two years old. I have joked, if you ever
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: want to feel young, come work in the US Senate,
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: because the median age is such that I have colleagues
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: reminiscing about Eisenhower. I mean, it's you know, I feel
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: like a sprightly young lad in the body in which
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: I serve. Term limits is something that I emphatically support,
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: and so I have repeatedly introduced in the Senate a
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: constitutional amendment to mandate term limits, to limit senators, each
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: senator to two terms, to limit each House member to
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: three terms.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Term limits was something I supported before I got to
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: the Senate, but having seen this place firsthand, now I
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: support it a thousand times more because this place is
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: the swamp. It is corrupt, and the people who are
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: here a long time are the worst. You get drawn
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: in and corrupted by the swamp. And it's both parties. Look,
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: the Democrats are bad, but for much of this spending
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: that is bankrupting the country, we have a uniparty. We
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: have Republican career politicians who jump in bed with the
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: Democrats and eagerly spend trillions of dollars. And so term
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: limits would be a major step to reducing that power
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: and reducing that corruption. And it's an amazing thing. If
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: you look at term limits nationally, over seventy percent of
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: American support term limits. That's true among Republicans, among Democrats,
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: and among independents. You see massive majorities supporting term limits.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: The one group that doesn't is career politicians. In Washington,
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: in the Senate, I have zero Democrats who support my
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: term limits amendment.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Every one of the Democrats is opposed to it.
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: And I've chaired I used to be chairman of the
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: Constitution's Subcommittee, the Senate Judiciary Committee. I chaired a hearing
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: on term limits, brought in witnesses to talk about term limits.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: And the reality is in the Senate, the young guys
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: support my term limits amendments, and none of the longtime
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: career politicians do.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: And that's why neither.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: Chuck Schumer nor Mitch McConnell wants term limits to get
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: a vote on the Senate floor because they oppose it
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: that much. So I've been fighting, but I have not
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: been able to get it on the floor because Schumer
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: and McConnell control what gets on the floor.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Let's get a question on this set over here.
• 27:43
  Speaker 8: How do you My name is Chad. I' miss sophomore
• 27:46
  Speaker 8: in Houston, and I wanted to ask how Congress can
• 27:49
  Speaker 8: get back some tenth moment rights to the Satan people
• 27:51
  Speaker 8: after events like nine to eleven and COVID have taken
• 27:54
  Speaker 8: it away and given it to the federal government.
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: Look, that is a fantastic question if you look at
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: the Bill of Rights and you asked about the tenth Amendment.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: When I was in college, I wrote my senior thesis
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: on the ninth and tenth Amendments to the Constitution.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: And I'll tell you a little bit.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: Of the history of why they're written, and then I
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: will get straight to your question. But originally the Constitution
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: was written, there was no Bill of Rights.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: It was just the Constitution itself.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: And then there was a debate over whether to ratify
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: the Constitution, and the two groups there were the federalists
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: and the anti federalists. And the federalists were advocating, the
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: Constitution's a good idea, we should ratify it, we should
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: have it be the organic document forming our government. The
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: anti federalists, we're arguing against it. And one of the
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: big arguments the anti federalists had is they said, well,
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: there's no bill of rights. This is a flawed document
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: because there's no provision in it protecting our fundamental liberties.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Now, the federalists came.
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: Back and they said, no, no, no, we don't need a
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: bill of rights. And the reason the federalists gave is
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: they said, this is a government of enumerated powers.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: If you look at Article one, section.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: Eight of the Constitution, Article one establishes the Congress the
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: legislative function, an Article one, section eight specifies it enumerates
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: eighteen specific powers that Congress has. And the argument the
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: federalists said is, look, we don't need to say that
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: the federal government cannot violate your free speech, cannot violate
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: your religious liberty, cannot violate your right to keep in
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: bear arms, because there's nothing in the enumerated powers that
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: gives the federal government the power to violate those rights.
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: And so we've already done that by limiting the federal
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: government's authority initially. Now, the anti federalists came back and
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: they had lots of arguments, one of which was, well,
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: there's nothing to stop them from violating those rights within
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: the enumerated power.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: So, for example, one of the enumerated.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: Powers is the power to create and maintain post offices.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: Under the original Constitution, without a Bill of rights, a government,
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: it could say, the Biden administration will say, we will
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: only transport letters from Democrats all Republicans. We've decided we
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: don't want Republicans speaking anymore, so we won't transfer there.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: We won't transport their letters. Now, if the government tried
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: to do that today, that would obviously be an unconstitutional
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: violation of free speech. Without a Bill of rights, it
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: would be permissible. I think the anti federalist won that debate.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: So we now have a Bill of rights. The first
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: ten amendments to the Constitution are the Bill of Rights,
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: and the first eight are protecting specific rights, and then
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: amendments nine to ten both say Amendment nine says the
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: enumeration of certain rights in the Bill of Rights shall
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: not be construed to deny or to disparage other rights.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Retained by the people.
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: The Tenth Amendment says the powers not given to the
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: federal government are reserved to the states and to the people. Basically,
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: the ninth and tenth Amendments restate that the Constitution is
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: a constitution of enumerated powers. In other words, they say,
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: even though we just listed these eight Bill of Rights,
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: we agree that the federal government probably couldn't have done
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: any of this anyway, but we want Belton suspenders.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: And so the question.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: I think the Tenth Amendment solves an enormous number of
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: problems in our country. I think federalism having states decide,
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: and I would actually advise you to take a look
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: at a center at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. It's
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: called the Center for Tenth Amendment Studies. I started it.
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: I was the first director, the first leader of the
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: Center for Tenth Amendment Studies at TPPF, and it's continued
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: and is ongoing. I agree that at we should put
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: as much decision making, as much authority as possible at
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: the state level, or even better at the local level,
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: because it's more likely to meet the needs of the
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: people that are being affected, and it's also more accountable.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: You the citizen, are much more able to express your
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: views and hold accountable local officials and state officials than
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: some bureaucrat in a windowless office in Washington.
• 32:17
  Speaker 5: D C.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: Let's get a couple more questions in here on this side.
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  Speaker 9: Go ahead, Hello, Senator Cruz. My name is Mary melvied.
• 32:25
  Speaker 9: I am eighteen and from Magnolia, Texas. It appears that
• 32:32
  Speaker 9: Democrats have control of the elections illegally through mules and
• 32:37
  Speaker 9: in counting ballots. How is our vote even going to matter?
• 32:42
  Speaker 9: Is there a plate a plan in place for actually
• 32:45
  Speaker 9: having our votes count?
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Well? Mary, thank you for that question. It's a hugely
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: important question.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: You were right that voter fraud is a real problem,
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: and it is a persistent problem. It's a problem that
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: has been round since the dawn of time, since the
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: very first elections. I'm convinced that when the caveman sat
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: got together to vote on who was going to be
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: Grand Poobah.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Somebody stuffed the ballot box.
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: That's just human nature that we have crooks, and crooks
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: try to steal things. So we need to fight against
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: voter fraud. We need to fight to preserve voter integrity. Now,
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: the good news is we're in Texas, and Texas the
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: Texas Legislature has passed legislation, strong legislation designed to prevent
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: voter fraud. It's not perfect, it still exists, but we
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: have tools in place to prevent voter fraud. There are
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: things like requiring photo ID, which we do in Texas,
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: that reduces fraud. There are things like prohibiting ballot harvesting,
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: prohibiting paid political operatives from handling someone else's ballot that
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: reduces voter fraud significantly. Ballot harvesting invites voter fraud, things
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: like limiting mail in ballots in Texas. We do so
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: only unlimited circumstances, typically seniors or people with significant disabilities,
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: but for the vast majority of Texans. The way you
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: vote as you go vote in person. We have a
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: two week period of early voting, so it's actually pretty
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: easy to vote, but you vote in person. In person
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: voting reduces the chances of voter fraud. I think we
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: need to be vigilant fighting against voter fraud. I've spent
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: twenty plus years fighting against voter fraud at the same time,
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: if you look nationally, they're blue states, they're purple states
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: that they're not going to pass legislation to protect election
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: integrity because the Democrats have decided they support voter fraud.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: It helps them, and it's the way the world's changed.
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: Ten years ago, there were Democrats who would work with
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: you on something like photo ID. There are none today
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: because they've decided voter fraud is good for them. In
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: blue states and purple states, they're not going to change
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: their laws to stop voter fraud. The good news historically,
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: voter fraud typically only matters at the margins.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: It matters in a close election.
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: So the answer is, in those blue states and purple states,
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: we got to win by a big enough margin.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: They can't steal the race from us.
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: Now that's not fair, it's frustrating, But the alternative is
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: give up on our country. And I got to tell
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: you there are a lot of Democrats, that a lot
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: of people of the corporate media that want all of
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: us to give up on our country. They want conservatives
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: to say, well, voter fraud is still there.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: So I'm not going to vote to hell with it.
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: And I'll tell you what if we do that that
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: becomes a self fulfilling prophecy. Then our country truly is lost.
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: And I'll point as a moment of encouragement, look no
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: further than the state of Virginia. Virginia went for Joe
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: Biden by ten points. Virginia has been blue for the
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: past decade. Biden won Virginia by ten points. One year later,
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: in twenty twenty one, Glen Youngkin, who's a good friend
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: of mine, I campaigned with Glenn Youngkin all over Virginia.
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: Spent two days barnstorming the state of Virginia with Glenn.
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: One year after Biden was elected, Glen Youngkin was elected
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: as a Republican in Virginia. Now, Virginia had not changed
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: a single voter integrity law. They had the same lousy
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: election laws they had the year before.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: But a whole bunch of moms, moms.
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: Who had voted for Joe Biden, got ticked off at
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: what the schools were doing to our kids, and they
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: flipped over and voted Republican. That gives us a roadmap
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: to what we can and I think what we have to.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: Do is in this next election.
• 36:42
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