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"Sacrifice" (Friday, Apri 3, 2026, Hour 2) · First Thing Today with Joe Thomas

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Speaker 6: But if you missed last hour, we were talking about
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Speaker 6: going into Easter weekend and the fact that it's now
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Speaker 6: called Resurrection Sunday by many folks, and I think it's
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Speaker 6: a more accurate term. And I understand why this text message, though,
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Speaker 6: I'm actually not because East especially Good Friday. I mean,
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Speaker 6: we can match this up to the historical events built
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Speaker 6: around Passover. So passover in and of itself. But let's
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Speaker 6: get you the first things and then we can discuss
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Speaker 6: whatever is on your mind. President Trump confirmed yesterday evening
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Speaker 6: that Pam Bondy has been fired from the post of
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Speaker 6: Attorney General. I think he said that she's going to
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Speaker 6: take a lucrative and important position in the private sector.
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Speaker 6: Trump said Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche will serve as
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Speaker 6: her replacement for now. Bondi said in her statement after
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Speaker 6: the ouster that she will work the next month to
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Speaker 6: ensure a smooth handoff to Blanche as she departs. She
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Speaker 6: described her tenure as quote the honor of a lifetime. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 6: rumblings that lee Zelden will leave the Environmental Protection Agency
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Speaker 6: to take over the Attorney General Roll's office. Congressom and
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Speaker 6: Nancy Mace seeing an opportunity to get the news programs
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Speaker 6: to mention Congressmoman Nancy Mace If the reports that lee
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Speaker 6: Zelden will be replacing Pambondi as Attorney General are true,
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Speaker 6: I welcome it, she posted to social medium. Iran is
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Speaker 6: increasing its military preparations as tensions rise over the possibility
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Speaker 6: of a US ground invasion. This not being anything that
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Speaker 6: the President or the War Department has announced, but the
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Speaker 6: Wall Street Journal has asked Iranian leadership. I guess they
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Speaker 6: go to the press briefings and they said, yes, they're
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Speaker 6: building up their military around oil infrastructure and particularly strategically
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Speaker 6: important islands. I presume they mean Karg. The UN Security
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Speaker 6: Council will vote on Friday on a draft resolution brought
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Speaker 6: by Bahrain to authorize the use of defensive force to
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Speaker 6: protect shipping in the Strait of Horror Moves from Iranian attacks.
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Speaker 6: The US Embassy in Baghdad on Thursday warned American citizens
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Speaker 6: militias and central Baghdad that they say could happen anywhere
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Speaker 6: That on this good Friday morning, an email came in earlier.
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Speaker 6: We were talking about sacrifice. What are you willing to
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Speaker 6: give up to get more?
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Speaker 20: To be more?
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Speaker 6: from Palm Sunday through Good Friday is Jesus's anger with
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Speaker 6: the money changers the corruption within that government. And I
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Speaker 6: draw a line that draws some controversy, some eyebrows, because
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Speaker 6: in our world, of the tools that are being made
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Speaker 6: for us to behave right over wrong, starting with Moses
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Speaker 6: and the Ten Commandments, then you have Jesus comes to
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Speaker 6: save us as that had become corrupted. Then Martin Luther
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Speaker 6: because the church that was built in Jesus's name had
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Speaker 6: become corrupted. Then you have Jefferson comes along, not starting
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Speaker 6: We need to have that underpinning of right and wrong,
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Speaker 6: and that understanding that thou shalt not bear false witness
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Speaker 6: against your neighbor.
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Speaker 20: All the laws we.
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Speaker 6: Were talking about Pambondi in the Attorney General's office. And
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Speaker 6: what has to happen with Strack and Page and Comy
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Speaker 6: and all these folks who developed a political operation to
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Speaker 6: keep one person from becoming president. Why because they were
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Speaker 6: all tied to the other person winning the presidency. All
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Speaker 6: things that the Jefferson Madison construct would never have allowed
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Speaker 6: for this kind of thing, because it didn't have it
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Speaker 6: baked into the cake. This wasn't the purview of the
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Speaker 6: federal government in Congress and the presidency certainly. So we
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Speaker 6: have this timeline of people who keep trying to protect
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Speaker 6: us in our faith, save us, and this weekend the
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Speaker 6: sacrifice of life into the grandeur of godliness. Hamp writes
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Speaker 6: in From the Treasure Coast, Todd Blanche no better than
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Speaker 6: Pammy Hope his tenure is short lived. Well, this is
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Speaker 6: you know, this is again. What is the age's job?
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Speaker 6: Is it to be the top cop the elliot ness
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Speaker 6: of America, kicking indoors and arresting the people. The president
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Speaker 6: doesn't like. And this is why I think Lee Zelden
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Speaker 6: is going to be particularly well qualified, because he is
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Speaker 6: very good at coming out and saying this is I
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Speaker 6: found the law. Here is the thing that says. So
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Speaker 6: when he overturns the endangerment filing, rather than just as
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Speaker 6: many EPA chiefs of conservative bent before have just sort
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Speaker 6: of lived with it, he came out and said, see this,
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Speaker 6: this is what the problem is, and we need to
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Speaker 6: get rid of this. And I feel that he would
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Speaker 6: administer the office of Attorney General in the same way
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Speaker 6: that if stock page Comy et cetera, et cetera, don't
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Speaker 6: do a purp walk, he will be able to point
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Speaker 6: to the congress people and the Senators as to who
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Speaker 6: is responsible and why and what needs to be done
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Speaker 6: to change it. Only have a few years of this.
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Speaker 6: So now the feeding frenzy has begun. Now Pambondi is out.
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Speaker 6: Who's next, Tulsy Gabbard? The sharks are in the water
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Speaker 6: around her. Because of her testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee,
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Speaker 6: many say, you know she was ill prepared, so say
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Speaker 6: you know the body language so that she was uncomfortable
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Speaker 6: taking the position that she knew she was going to
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Speaker 6: have to regarding Iran, she said nothing but supportive things
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Speaker 6: of the administration's action in Iran. But you know, going
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Speaker 6: back to Joe Kent, does she share the administration And
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Speaker 6: at the end of the day, intelligence is just that,
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Speaker 6: it's not the rule by which the President said. If
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Speaker 6: there is intelligence the President wants to work off of,
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Speaker 6: he should do it. And interestingly, the DNI during the
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Speaker 6: Komi Struck page, you know, they oh, well, he's steal dossier.
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Speaker 6: Trump's got to be corrupt and he's in Putin's pocket.
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Speaker 2: D and I.
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Speaker 6: Says, I think there are threats, they may not be imminent,
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Speaker 6: and there are words that have such legal importance that
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Speaker 6: when you hear the Joe Kent story, in the Tolsy
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Speaker 6: Gabbard story, and you hear people say things like imminent
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Speaker 6: threat to the continental United States, or there were threats,
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Speaker 6: and Tolsy Gabbart has said this, there were threats to
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Speaker 6: Americans all over the place, and they have actually acted
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Speaker 6: against Americans. What guys like Mark Warner we're asking in
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Speaker 6: the Senate hearings, is an Iranian missile going to land
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Speaker 6: in Washington, DC. That's not the extent of where Americans
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Speaker 6: are or American interests are, whether you add those to
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Speaker 6: the mix or not. But there are American citizens, many
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Speaker 6: of them in fatigues right now, marching a post in
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Speaker 6: places that are well within the range of what remains
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Speaker 6: of the Iranian missile program. And so that whole argument
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Speaker 6: that she doesn't back the president up in Iran is
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Speaker 6: just I think part of the free feeding frenzy. Who's next?
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Speaker 6: Who's next to Bobby Kenny gonna go? Is this the
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Speaker 6: Trump purge? Is he getting rid of the yes men?
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Speaker 6: Or is he Polsey Gabbard was never a yes man.
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Speaker 6: So if Trump's getting rid of the yes men and
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Speaker 6: bringing in, you know, the people he should have in
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Speaker 6: the first place, I don't see that. I think he
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Speaker 6: truly thought that Matt Gates would make a great attorney
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Speaker 6: Oh that's right. You forgot that whole bet too. Pam
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Speaker 6: Bondy was not supposed to be the attorney general under
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Speaker 6: President Trump. That was supposed to be Matt Gates. You
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Speaker 6: forgot that one. As a matter of fact, everyone has
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Speaker 6: forgotten that one. Oh he's you know, she was a
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Speaker 9: First thing Today, Hi, wait.
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Speaker 6: Now, thank you for letting us be of service to
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Speaker 6: you doing this morning.
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Speaker 11: Sir.
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Speaker 1: James.
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Speaker 6: Maybe it's a maybe he wasn't there.
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 6: We'll try to reconnect with him. But that being said,
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Speaker 6: eighty dollars, a little bit more than eighty dollars since
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Speaker 6: yesterday forty six, seventy seven and two cents. Silver's down
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Speaker 6: all their shops and grafts. They I don't know if
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Speaker 6: for Good Friday, but they might have the day off.
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Speaker 6: Four to three four at nine seven nine two six
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Speaker 6: four six is their number. If they be there, we'll
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Speaker 6: uh and find out for sure. But if if they
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Speaker 6: four nine seventy nine coin. That's two six four six.
30:48
Speaker 6: A couple of stories that I think are indicative. So
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Speaker 6: We'll get into a second. We have found James this
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Speaker 1: You, sir?
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Speaker 26: I'm doing well, Joe, how are you?
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Speaker 6: Excellent? So I did what everyone should do if they're
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Speaker 6: bit more than two dollars this morning. But going to
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Speaker 6: that website isn't simply enough. They need to talk to
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Speaker 6: a family that so, because I don't know what those
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Speaker 20: Correct.
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Speaker 26: Yeah, that's exactly right. And you know a good point
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Speaker 26: silver closed yesterday. Because the golden silver market is closed today.
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Speaker 26: So those prices won't move, you know, any any further,
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Speaker 26: and they actually held up pretty strongest day and try
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Speaker 26: at four thousand, six hundred and seventy six dollars and
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Speaker 26: above seventy is where it opened yesterday morning when we talked,
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Speaker 26: and so really tried to reclaim a lot of that position.
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Speaker 26: So was great to see. But yeah, those prices will
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33:34
Speaker 6: And so they can call you and ask. And the
33:38
Speaker 6: reason I say this is your family's been doing this
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33:52
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33:54
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Speaker 26: Absolutely same to you, Joe and your family. We appreciate
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Speaker 26: all that you do. Thank you very much.
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Speaker 6: So we were talking about this voting privately in public
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Speaker 6: and it's a concept that obviously Democrats don't grasp. And
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Speaker 6: Two states permit counties to opt for conducting elections by mail.
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Speaker 6: They be Nebraska and North Dakota. Nine states allow specific
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Speaker 6: small elections to be conducted by mail, those being Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Kansas, Maryland, Missouri, Montana,
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Speaker 6: New Mexico, and Wyoming. And four states permit mostly male
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Speaker 6: elections for certain small jurisdictions Idaho, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico.
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Speaker 6: Here in the Commune Wealth of Virginia, we have a
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Speaker 6: thing called no excuse mail in ballots now because COVID.
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Speaker 20: Will kill you.
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Speaker 6: Don't want to go around people. So in the hypocrisy,
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Speaker 6: the hipocrisy that was Virginia's law was that they were
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Speaker 6: trying to protect their state employees at the Board of
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Speaker 6: Elections while the liquor stores that the state runs were
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Speaker 6: kept open. So apparently not all state employees are equal,
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Speaker 6: or some are more equal than others. Allergy season here
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Speaker 6: in central Central Virginia, and I have another cup of
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Speaker 6: first free in the morning coffee on the brew right now.
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Speaker 6: But pardon the allergy sufferings. It was worse last year.
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Speaker 6: If you were listening to us last year, you know
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Speaker 6: my allergy hit was much worse than it is today.
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Speaker 6: But the idea of being able to hide in your
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Speaker 6: home and vote on your own is in and of itself,
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Speaker 6: not just the fatal flaw. Then you have things like
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Speaker 6: the ERIC database, and ERIC is a database of states
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Speaker 6: that share voter information and they're designed to well, it
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Speaker 6: was sold to conservatives, and it was sold under the
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Speaker 6: idea that, oh, well, this will help us clean up
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Speaker 6: our voter roles because so many people in Maryland are
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Speaker 6: registered in West Virginia are also still registered in Ohio,
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Speaker 6: and Virginia got out of it when it was discovered
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Speaker 6: that ERIC was being used to vote harvest ballot harvest
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Speaker 6: ERIC stands for the Electronic Registration Information Center, by the way,
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Speaker 6: and Virginia just rejoined it. But there are twenty three
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Speaker 6: other states in ERIC. And what we discovered was that
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Speaker 6: ERIC is used to identify eligible but unregistered voters. So
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Speaker 6: now what you do is you send your ballot harvesters
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Speaker 6: out to the home of this eligible but unregistered voter,
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Speaker 6: tell them that I want to help you register to vote.
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Speaker 6: I'm just here to register you. You're not getting your
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Speaker 6: Come on, you can register to vote. Oh and by
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Speaker 6: the way, you can mail in that ballot right now,
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Speaker 6: here's a ballot for you. I can give that to
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Speaker 6: you if you want. I can even deliver it for
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Speaker 6: you because we have dropboxes now because COVID is scary.
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Speaker 6: So we've gone from a democraticly protected process of citizens
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Speaker 6: voting in secret but publicly where we all can see
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Speaker 6: to Lord only knows where these ballots are coming from,
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Speaker 6: and were just a few steps of allowing for this
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Speaker 6: to wind up in a place where, once the vote
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Speaker 6: is cast, if we find people who didn't cast a
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Speaker 6: vote on our laws. We can proxy vote for them all,
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Speaker 6: part of the Liquid Democracy program developed by Charles Dodgson
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Speaker 6: in the late eighteen hundreds early nineteen hundreds. He also
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Speaker 6: wrote a little bit under the nom de guerre Lewis Carroll.
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