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Congressman Warren Davidson joins Brian Thomas this morning · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Seven oh five at fifty five Caro City Talk Station.
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  Speaker 1: I'm very happy Friday, EPA, Happy opening Day, go Reds.
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  Speaker 1: Be careful down there for the opening day parade in
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  Speaker 1: the game. Welcome back to the fifty five carssee morning show,
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  Speaker 1: Congressman Warren Davidson. Great to have you on the program
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  Speaker 1: here this opening day. Congressman Davidson, welcome back.
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  Speaker 2: So he's an honor to join you.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks, Brian, Appreciate everything you do, sir, Appreciate the time
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  Speaker 1: you saw with my listeners and me. And can you
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  Speaker 1: answer the question the government is still shut down last
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  Speaker 1: time I checked, Congressman Davidson. Of course, my friend Maureen
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  Speaker 1: didn't have to deal with the line in Florida for
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  Speaker 1: her airplane, but that's not always the case. Some lines
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  Speaker 1: four and a half hours long. That's obviously a lot
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  Speaker 1: of pain, people missing flights. It's a security problem I've heard,
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  Speaker 1: and you might comment on that though, but I guess
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  Speaker 1: me first just to ask a question, do you even
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  Speaker 1: know what it is that the Democrats want? Because last
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  Speaker 1: time I checked, ICE is fully funded for several years
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  Speaker 1: under the One Big Beautiful Bill, so they're going to
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  Speaker 1: continue to do their work. This is all about what
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  Speaker 1: practices on the ground dealing with the the removal of
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  Speaker 1: illegal immigrants subject to a detention order.
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  Speaker 2: Congressman Davidson, Yeah, I mean, pundamentally, they're trying to leverage
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  Speaker 2: funding for Homeland Security. So obviously not the hole governor shutdown,
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  Speaker 2: but everyone at Homeland Security is working without a paycheck
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  Speaker 2: or they're not at work, and you know, obviously that
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  Speaker 2: has big implications for day to day things. But the
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  Speaker 2: thing that is easiest to see is the TSA. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I was, I was down. I was asked to speak
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  Speaker 2: on a panel down it south by Southwest in Austin,
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  Speaker 2: Texas about two weeks ago, I guess, And yeah, we
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  Speaker 2: got there before six in the morning to leave for
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  Speaker 2: a flight, and the line was wrapped all through the
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  Speaker 2: building on the inside, out the door down the building
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  Speaker 2: on the outside. I mean, it was crazy. And this
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  Speaker 2: is this is one hundred percent fixable if they just say, okay,
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  Speaker 2: we want to fund ice, we want to fund the
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  Speaker 2: all of Homeland Security. And then they even said, well
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  Speaker 2: we funded except without ICE, and so they said fine,
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  Speaker 2: and then they realized, oh wait, they'll still have all
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  Speaker 2: the ice. They said, okay, we'll fund it. And even
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  Speaker 2: though we fund it with no funding for ICE, we
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  Speaker 2: want conditions on the money going to ICE. And you're like, well, like,
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  Speaker 2: there's no money going to ICE, and you're playing, well, okay,
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  Speaker 2: but you still have to do these things to Ice.
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  Speaker 2: So really what they want to do is say, as
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  Speaker 2: long as you stop deporting the millions of people that
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  Speaker 2: we brought into the country illegally, then we'll pay the
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  Speaker 2: people of our work today, which is just offensive. So
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  Speaker 2: there's a bunch of us that have tried to pass
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  Speaker 2: this shutdown Fairness Actor on Ron Johnson Center from Wisconsin
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  Speaker 2: introduced it, and it's just common sense. It's like, if
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  Speaker 2: you're essential enough to be at work, the payroll clerk
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  Speaker 2: is essential enough to pay you this week. You know,
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  Speaker 2: in the private sector, if you had people showing up
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  Speaker 2: to work and you don't pay them, that's payroll theft.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you can go to jail for that. So
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  Speaker 2: it is just wrong what they're doing by having everybody
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  Speaker 2: get to work, and they need to be at work.
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  Speaker 2: It is really important. But if the government should be funded,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, granted I would fund a way less government,
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  Speaker 2: I'd be happy with a major cuts in a lot
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  Speaker 2: of areas, but not to securing our border and undoing
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  Speaker 2: this invasion. So that is the crux of what they're
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  Speaker 2: trying to preserve, is the total ignoring of our law
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  Speaker 2: to flood the country with illegals.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you mentioned things they want, it's things they want
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  Speaker 1: from ICE agents. Generally speaking, I suppose that they admitted
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  Speaker 1: and said the real part out loud to be we
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  Speaker 1: don't want anybody deported, period, end of the story. But
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  Speaker 1: no one's going to capitulate to that, and that's not
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  Speaker 1: a popular thing among their own constituents. So my understanding
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  Speaker 1: of the way this is unfolded the Trump administration and
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  Speaker 1: most people generally accept it. Fine, ICE wearing cameras, that's
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  Speaker 1: actually a good thing for the agents themselves. We'll do
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  Speaker 1: with that, and other maybe conceding even on the judicial
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  Speaker 1: warr component. If you're going to kick in a somebody's
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  Speaker 1: front door at their home, I certainly can appreciate the
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  Speaker 1: argument that the Fourth Amendment still applies, But so okay,
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  Speaker 1: we'll get judicial warrns for those we need to go
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  Speaker 1: into homes to get, but we can still pick them
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  Speaker 1: up if they're on the street, hanging out, maybe going
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  Speaker 1: over to vote, or maybe even going into the airport
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  Speaker 1: to get a flight. All those are open game, and
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  Speaker 1: we'll go ahead and just get people that way. But
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  Speaker 1: the Republicans at least have conceded some of the points
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  Speaker 1: and are willing to make some changes to ICE's enforcement efforts.
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  Speaker 1: But what more do they want? What is the big
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  Speaker 1: holdout here?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I was talking with a few senators last night.
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  Speaker 2: The Senator Rick Scott hosts a regular gathering of conservatives
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  Speaker 2: in the House and Senate. We were meeting last night,
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  Speaker 2: and I guess, you know, late in the day yesterday,
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  Speaker 2: Senator Schumer finally put his list of demands in writing.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think they've made that list public, but they
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  Speaker 2: at least have something on paper to negotiate over, you know,
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  Speaker 2: this time to see where it is. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: some of what you're talking about, Yeah, they've been very
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  Speaker 2: public and saying we want no masks on ICE agents.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, the reality is is they've got a
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  Speaker 2: very organized effort to the and sanctuary cities where ICE
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  Speaker 2: would do the work to, you know, so not just
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  Speaker 2: a place where we don't we're welcoming. They're not talking
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  Speaker 2: about that. They've they've actually said we're going to actively
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  Speaker 2: work to, you know, keep you safe from federal enforcement.
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  Speaker 2: It's open rebellion against the federal government. Uh in these
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  Speaker 2: cities because they're saying, no, we will decide who who
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  Speaker 2: determines the lawful presence of foreign nationals in our country.
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  Speaker 1: Federal law, Congress and Davis law.
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  Speaker 2: And it has to because every city in the country
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  Speaker 2: deciding I know who's lawfully present or not. And and
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  Speaker 2: that's it is open rebellion. I mean, he cannot tolerate
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  Speaker 2: that and remain a sovereign country.
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  Speaker 1: No, you can't. I mean that it's a supremacy clause.
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  Speaker 1: I don't well choose to ignore the Constitution the realities.
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  Speaker 1: It is going to be a tragic, tragic things. But
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  Speaker 1: you know that the Trump administration sort of backed off
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  Speaker 1: on the real solid heart knows, let's kick everybody out
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  Speaker 1: approach they were taking. That led to all these protests. Honestly,
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  Speaker 1: Congressman Davidson and I may miss something because there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of news in the world, but I haven't seen
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  Speaker 1: the sort of concerted out in the streets, angry protesters
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  Speaker 1: going after Ice of late ever since the two Americans
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  Speaker 1: got killed, who were in fact protesting and causing some
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  Speaker 1: disruptions there, and that will resolve itself down the road.
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  Speaker 1: I personally don't think that was appropriate action on part
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  Speaker 1: of ICE agents, but you know, the cooler heads will
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  Speaker 1: prevail and that'll be resolved presumably in litigation. But the tactics,
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  Speaker 1: generally speaking, seem to have mellowed. I think the administration
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  Speaker 1: seems to have gotten the message that listen, the America
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  Speaker 1: is a little uncomfortable with these very draconian tactics. Just
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  Speaker 1: go after the hardcore bad guys and we're all going
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  Speaker 1: to be happy. Am I right on that?
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  Speaker 2: Congressman, Well, yeah, I think that's true, and that's not
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  Speaker 2: necessarily uniformly supported. I mean, the message is there's no sanctuary, right.
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  Speaker 2: You can't just be oh well. I mean when they
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  Speaker 2: say we're going out after the criminal illegal aliens, the
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  Speaker 2: average person thinks, well, that would be all of them,
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  Speaker 2: because if you're an illegal alien, you're a criminal. You've
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  Speaker 2: broken the law to be in the country. And I
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  Speaker 2: will say, yes, the priority should be the people that
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  Speaker 2: you know didn't come here to work, right, So there
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  Speaker 2: should be ways to hunt those folks down and deport them.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, there's a saying in law enforcement ask
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  Speaker 2: tell make right. They've been asked to leave. They've even
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  Speaker 2: been incentivized to leave. There's like a twenty six hundred
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  Speaker 2: dollars payment plus your travel to leave. You know you're
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  Speaker 2: here illegally. You've been asked to leave, so please leave.
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  Speaker 2: You've been told to leave, and that was really the
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  Speaker 2: point of the election. The country told you, if you're
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  Speaker 2: here illegally, it's time for you to go, and Ice
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  Speaker 2: and everyone else has made it very clear you need
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  Speaker 2: to leave. And then periodically, yeah, you're going to find
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  Speaker 2: these people and you're going to make them leave. Is
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  Speaker 2: not a mean thing. You've asked them, You've told them,
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  Speaker 2: and now the only thing is to make them And
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  Speaker 2: the real is you could have some rational dialogue about well,
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  Speaker 2: what are we going to do about the people that
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  Speaker 2: you know are here to be productive members of society.
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  Speaker 2: They're not, you know, committing welfare fraud, they're not flooding
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  Speaker 2: the country with just you know, an effort to undermine
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  Speaker 2: our culture. They want to come here for the opportunity. Great,
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  Speaker 2: you should have come legally. Let's figure out how we
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  Speaker 2: deal with that. But we're not talking about that. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: Democrats don't want to talk about anything except blanket amnesty,
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  Speaker 2: there are no illegal people, and they want to perfect
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  Speaker 2: the system. And here's the here's the next thing. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they don't want to They say, oh, well, it's already
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  Speaker 2: illegal for non citizens to vote, so it doesn't happen. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how many things are illegal that do happen,
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  Speaker 2: right And the way that you find out is there's
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  Speaker 2: a detection method. So you don't have a detection method
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  Speaker 2: right now. So they say, oh, it doesn't occur, No,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't get detected. And so you know, they've subpoened
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  Speaker 2: all of the voter registration files from states. Guess what,
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  Speaker 2: the blue states, the sanctuary states have not complied. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: even in red straight states. They've found that there are
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  Speaker 2: illegals that have been registered to vote. And part of
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  Speaker 2: why is you go do motor voter and they just
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  Speaker 2: register everybody. They don't screen it at the Bureau Motor Vehicles.
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  Speaker 2: It goes in and then it's up to the Secretary
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  Speaker 2: of State to screen it. Well, in places like Ohio,
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  Speaker 2: we do that, but in places like Illinois and New Jersey, California,
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  Speaker 2: et cetera, they don't. And so what's the means of
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  Speaker 2: purging them if you don't purge them, how do you
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  Speaker 2: know whether they vote or not, especially when you don't
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  Speaker 2: have voter ID, so you can't even tell. In a
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  Speaker 2: state with no voter, I D who voted, you know,
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know how you can say you have
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  Speaker 2: an honest selection. This is where these two things come
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  Speaker 2: to a head in the Senate, and they've all passed
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  Speaker 2: the House. I mean, they're like, well, what are you
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  Speaker 2: guys doing in the House, Like, well, we're going to
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  Speaker 2: vote again this week for like the third or fourth
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  Speaker 2: at time. I don't know how many times we've voted
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  Speaker 2: to fund homeland security, just to keep proving we can.
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  Speaker 2: And then we're going to look over there at the
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  Speaker 2: Senate going what are you guys doing? And I think
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  Speaker 2: they've finally gotten the message. They worked through the weekend
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  Speaker 2: last weekend, and I think they're going to continue to
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  Speaker 2: work into this you know, Easter break, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: in general back home, you know, we'll meet with some
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  Speaker 2: people this next week when I'm back in Ohio, but
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  Speaker 2: as things go closer to Eastern nobody wants to meet.
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  Speaker 2: They want to get together with their own families and stuff, right, well, Soda,
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  Speaker 2: Members of Congress so do the senators. But if they
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  Speaker 2: haven't done this, I hope they do their duty and
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  Speaker 2: stick around and exact job done.
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  Speaker 1: Yet no sympathy for them complaining about missing out on
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  Speaker 1: Easter when they can't get this job done. I agree
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  Speaker 1: with you completely on that. We'll pause, We'll bring Congressman
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  Speaker 1: Warren Davidson back, and we'll get some insight into.
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  Speaker 2: The station.
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  Speaker 1: It is or sevent twenty fIF fifty about arcity toxication,
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  Speaker 1: brand times the Congressman Warren Davidson, who war America's uniform,
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  Speaker 1: served his country proudly in the American Armed Forces. Congressman Davidson,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for that, but also your perception about troop deployment.
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump putting more and more troops in the area.
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  Speaker 1: Not deployed on the ground yet, but it suggests that
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  Speaker 1: maybe that's the next step. Iran still not playing ball.
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  Speaker 1: According to Press TV, the running TV, they rejected the
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  Speaker 1: fifteen point plan. They came up with five conditions of
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  Speaker 1: their own, which seemed like a large and ridiculous ask themselves,
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  Speaker 1: where are we on this? Almo. The part of me
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  Speaker 1: wants to say that the Iranians are maybe trying to
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  Speaker 1: call President Trump's bluff and maybe get him to deploy
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  Speaker 1: ground forces. Do they take into account the political landscape
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  Speaker 1: here in America, because that's not a popular thing here
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  Speaker 1: in the United States, Congressman Davidson.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, they've got a sophisticated system for intel.
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  Speaker 2: I think they are aware of America, American culture, and
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  Speaker 2: they frankly they engage in and in Internet based information
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  Speaker 2: wars as well. So you know, Iran's not you know,
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  Speaker 2: the Taliban in the hills of Afghanistan. They're a much
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  Speaker 2: more sophisticated adversary. Nevertheless, you know, the the war in
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  Speaker 2: the sense of the goals that the President Trump, I'd
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  Speaker 2: say it really Marco Rubio. President Trump stated like a
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  Speaker 2: lot of variations on goals, but you know, Secretary State
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  Speaker 2: Rubio laid out three things that they wanted to accomplish
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  Speaker 2: when they started this is eliminate the missile threat from
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  Speaker 2: Iran and the missile production capability, eliminate the navy, and
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  Speaker 2: and then cut off the ability for Iran to keep
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  Speaker 2: funding their proxies. And so they've really done a lot
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  Speaker 2: of They've had a major effect on those three goals. So,
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  Speaker 2: but of course they've also stated lots of other goals,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, and part of that is, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 2: to create a whole information war there too, and to
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  Speaker 2: escalate you to drive negotiations. But it's also even within
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  Speaker 2: our own country. So what exactly is our mission there?
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  Speaker 2: What are we trying to do? What are we still
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  Speaker 2: trying to do? And so it's created a lot of uncertainty.
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  Speaker 2: It's supposed to create uncertainty for Iran, but you know,
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  Speaker 2: that's the real question for a lot of folks. We
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  Speaker 2: are sending ground troops over that way, people that could
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  Speaker 2: could enter the ground, and then you know, we just
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  Speaker 2: you know, my my continual thing when I look at
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  Speaker 2: Lindsay Graham as well, I hope President Trump isn't listening
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  Speaker 2: to him. But that's that's unlimited. You know, if President
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  Speaker 2: Trump was listening less to Lindsay Graham, I'm not sure
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  Speaker 2: we would even be at war in Iran right now.
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  Speaker 2: Containment has worked. I believe containment could have continued to work.
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  Speaker 2: And frankly, Iran is vulnerable. Their only real source of
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  Speaker 2: revenue is oil, and you know, and have to control
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  Speaker 2: the straight Offoor moves to control Iran's oil. We have
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  Speaker 2: a navy big enough that you can just sit down
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  Speaker 2: at the mouth of that gulf there and catch every
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  Speaker 2: Iranian flagship you want to catch with our navy.
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  Speaker 1: That would that would go a long way toward interrupting
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  Speaker 1: the proxy funding, don't.
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  Speaker 2: You think it would go a long way to controlling
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  Speaker 2: everything about Iran? All right? So you could have done
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  Speaker 2: that with you know, not as many highlight reels with
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  Speaker 2: the bombings and everything, but the leverage would have been there,
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  Speaker 2: and maximum pressure worked very well the first first Trump
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  Speaker 2: administration by not even doing that, by choking off, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the market for them, but you know, China's soaked up
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  Speaker 2: a lot of that market, and that's one of the
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  Speaker 2: things that has been going China's payment for oil and
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  Speaker 2: Chinese money R and B on their their payment. Undermining
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  Speaker 2: the dollar is one of the things that is really
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  Speaker 2: at play in this you know, military operation here, and
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  Speaker 2: it's it's to counter China's influence in the region and
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  Speaker 2: to cut off Iran's flow of cash. Because even if
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the other people were cooperative and most
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  Speaker 2: of the Europeans aren't, Frankly, then you know, as that
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  Speaker 2: makes the sanctions regime hard to do. China is pouring
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  Speaker 2: enough cash in there alone that it kind of props
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  Speaker 2: up the government of Iran. So that's where maybe a
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  Speaker 2: navy blockade would have worked and could still work, so
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  Speaker 2: you don't necessarily have to control every ship out of there.
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  Speaker 2: But without a normal flow of oil coming out of that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, you know waterway, you're going to continue to
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  Speaker 2: have major disruptions in the oil and energy markets well.
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  Speaker 1: And a lot of countries waken up to the reality
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  Speaker 1: that their dream of green aspirations is going to kill
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  Speaker 1: them economically if they don't have a backup plan to
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  Speaker 1: deal with interruptions which are logical and reasonable to conclude
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  Speaker 1: as a consequence of any sort of military activity going
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  Speaker 1: on through that region. Straight hohorror moves. Boy, we've all
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  Speaker 1: learned a lot about that. When Congressman Warren Dave soon,
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  Speaker 1: thank you so much for your time today, spending it
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  Speaker 1: with my listeners and me appreciate it. I hope you
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  Speaker 1: have a wonderful opening day and I look forward to
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  Speaker 1: having back on the show very soon, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks, Brian, always an honor. Yeah, bless you and
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  Speaker 2: all your listeners.
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